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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, February 11, 1969

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes tuesday february 11, 1969 debut Boeing s 747, the largest commercial plane cruises Over puget sound near Everett wash., As an f86chase plane follows. Its Maiden flight was Cut from 2 hours to 1 1a because of difficulty with the ailerons. The Takeoff and Landing of the 490-Passon-Ger Jet were flawless. A photo Germany has Winter once More Frankfurt a Winter returned full blast to West Ger Many sunday night and several villages in the bavarian Alps re ported their lowest temperature this year. Monday morning there were readings of 6 degrees from Var ious areas and in major place temperatures got no higher than 15 during the Day. Snow fell throughout Germany and the weather Bureau predicted More for the next two new York locked in by snowstorm continued from Page 1 workers members of the stars and stripes new York Burea staff had a rough time meeting their deadlines. The news trans missions to the stars and stripes office in Darmstadt Germany were considerably delayed be cause of the difficulty the Newyork staffers had in getting to work. The storm brought the great est accumulation of Snow since feb. 3, 1961, when 17.4 inches fell on the City. During the night temperature around new York fell into the 20s and at times wind gusts approached 50 Miles an hour Caus ing deep  airline spokesman at Ken Nedy Airport said sunday night that about 6,000 people were stranded there. This is one hell of a mess the spokesman said. They re sleeping everywhere on conveyor belts tables desk and counter tops on the floor on the baggage platforms where Ever there s any  to the Airport were blocked by stalled vehicles. One giant message Craft aloft Grafe Woehr Germany is three inches of Snow Here hampered preparations of units of the 24th inf div who Are going Back to it. Riley,kans., but an air Force spokes Man said reformer 1 flight from Nuernberg remained on schedule. Days. Roads throughout Bavari were Snow covered and for drive inc in the Mountain regions the automobile clubs suggested Tak ing chains along. Most resorts reported Good to excellent Winter sport conditions by there was danger of Ava Lanches at some of the higher altitudes. Traffic in most Northern an Western parts of the country remained Normal most of the  in West Berlin were quickly cleared of Snow but remained Slippery in parts of the City. Day temperatures in the Cit hovered around the freezing Point most of the  kept warning Drivers throughout the country and no major accidents had been re ported by late afternoon. Mcnamara in Senegal Dakar Senegal up Robert s. Mcnamara was Here sunday on a three Day visit Parton his first tour of French speak ing african nations As president of the world Bank. Cape Kennedy Fla. A the Western world s largest communications spacecraft Success fully rocketed into a lofty Pacific outpost sunday to become the forerunner of a satellite network that could Speed messages be tween military units on the front lines in aircraft and at sea. Called tac Comsat for tac tical communications satellite the $30 million experimental Craft May be used by . Com Bat forces in Southeast Asia if i successfully passes a testing program expected to take sever Al months. The 1,600-Pound payload blasted off from Cape Kennedy at 4 09 . Est. Flying a space acrobatic act its Titan 3c boost or rocket s Maneu Merable upper stage shifted orbits two times before finally kicking Saccom sat into a stationary outpost 22,300 Miles above the equatorb1/ hours later. Everything looks real Good an air Force spokesman said after the payload settled on Sta Tion off the West coast of South America almost directly Over the Galapagos islands. At the 22,300 mile Altitude the Craft Orbital Speed matches Earth s rotation so it appears in a seemingly stationary position. This is one of the most significant payloads we have launched in unmanned Satel Lites said it. Gen. John w. O Neill commander of the air Force space and missile sys tems organization which Man aged the development of Titan 3c and tac Comsat. It s the most powerful communication satellite and will provide the basis for a real capability to communicate in tactical  packing a Cluster of antennas top a soup can shaped body the two Story tall Saccom fatwas built to test the feasibility of a satellite system that Mili tary units could use to communicate Over great  pay Load s Large size permit Ted it to be powerful enough so ground troops could use easy to carry receiving antennas a Small As one foot in diameter. Russo makes 1 change in testimony on Shaw new Orleans a Perry Raymond Russo testified monday that he overheard Clay Shaw Lee Harvey Oswald and David w. Ferric discuss killing presi Dent John f. Kennedy. Shaw a 55-year-old Bachelor is charged with conspiring with Oswald and Ferrie both no dead to assassinate Kennedy. Russo 27, a witness with a hypnotically refreshed memory told roughly the same Story he gave at Shaw s 1967 preliminary hearing but with on change. At the preliminary hearing Russo testified he overheard the plotting during a party at Fer Rie s apartment in september 1963. He said he had taken a girl named Sandra Moffett with him to the  an assistant District at Torney James a. Alcock asked him monday if anyone had accompanied him Russo a new Orleans Salesman replied i am testifying i Don t know if anyone accompanied me on that  miss Moffett now mrs. Harol Mcmains of Des Moines has said she never attended such party he defense wanted her As a witness but said she went int hiding to avoid their subpoena because she was afraid of new Orleans dist. Atty. Jim Garri son. Russo pointed out Shaw As theman introduced to him at Fer Rie s party As Clem  said Oswald had been introduced to him earlier As Leo Oswald and was Ferrie s apart ment  said Oswald Shaw and Ferrie discussed the assassination at length including plans for triangulation of fire and Fly ing the assassins to safety. After testifying that he had gone to Ferrie s apartment on Louisiana Parkway in the up town area Russo said he saw Oswald there cleaning or polish ing a Rifle. Teller sought in $21,000 Amelco shortage \xn"i3gtt a tt71wt /  to to. 1  1 m. At a i.  _ _. Wiesbaden is inter National police have spread dragnet for Ernesto Bellomo a 27-year-old Teller at the Ameri can express Bank at Hainer Berg shopping Center Here who disappeared Jan. 31, leaving a $21,000  Malone District Man Ager for american express i Frankfurt said it bad been Learned that Bellomo an italia citizen flew that night to Milan. He had been on the Job the someday cashing . Treasury checks because it was military payday. Lie reported a certain amount of checks cashed but the actual amount that he cashed was about $21,000 less Malone said. Head been working As one of about 14 or 15 tellers at  last june and he had an outstanding record until  said Bellomo s wife and Small child Are in wies Baden. His wife told the Bank she had not seen him since Jan. 30, Bellomo was born in Grotte Italy and had lived in Canicati Sicily the Bank District manage said. Educated at Palermo Sicily he had Eom to american express with a better than average educational background and Good references Malone  said the Teller s performance had been fantastic and that he had had Only one discrepancy of $24, in his accounts before the shortage and that had occurred during the Early learning stage. Bellomo was supposed to Workon saturday morning feb. 1, but no one thought much about it when he did t show up Malone said because he had told fellow employees that his father was passing through on a trip from Denmark to Sicily. Everyone thought he was tied up with his father Malone said. Also Bellomo s wife came tothe Bank saturday morning to ask where he was. She had no been around much and no one knew her. When they told Hertha Bellomo was seeing his father she  morning the big discrepancy came to  said a Teller is not Al Lowed to keep More than about12,000 in his cashbox overnight and the amazing thing is tha Bellomo turned in an excess of 18,700 in Cash before he left Workman. 31. 4 jetliner with 39 passengers was snowbound on a runway for nine hours sunday before plows could free it. Thirteen of new York City s15 inches fell sunday a record for a single  and temperatures complicated the Snow removal prob Lem As City officials declared a Snow emergency and urge motorists to stay at Home. Upstate new York escape the Brunt of the storm and air liners were diverted from Ken Nedy to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Northern new Jersey was equally crippled but three com Muter train lines into new Yor City were reported in operation. The Erie Lackawanna Railroad said its electric powered trains were operating normally but diesel service was subject to do lays. Public schools in seven North Ern new Jersey counties won closed and Many other area reported partial closings. The new Jersey Turnpike was shut from new Brunswick to Newark and other Parkway were plagued by deserted autos. Arteries leading to new Yor City were jammed. The state Legislatures in Tren ton n.j., and Albany n.y., can celeb monday s session. Connecticut commuters had into better As sections of the Turnpike were closed and Man secondary roads were impassable. A stalled train on the no Haven Railroad further delayed the irregular , in Northwestern Connecticut reported 35 inches of Snow. One victim of the storm Sun Day was the Northeast ski jump championship scheduled for Salisbury conn., which was can celeb because or excessive Snow and wind. The storm Center moved into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket mass., at 3 30 a.m., the weather Bureau said. Nixon continued from Page 1  Powers Are pander ing to the Brazen claims of Bon leaders who reject the status of West Berlin As an Independent political unit having nothing in common with West Germany an this can t help causing bewilder ment Izvestia said. In their Bonn statement the Western allies told the soviet Union they would hold it responsible for any East German harassment of Berlin  allies said it is up to the russians to see to it Chat the Western right of free and unhindered Access to the isolate Western outpost is observed. East German Border guard monday imposed Clow checks on motorists driving from West Ber Lin to the West  
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