European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the Star and stripes wednesday february 12, 1969 air hops slowed by . Storm by Amis Nixon is staff writer Rhein main a Germany is snowstorms on the East Ern Seaboard of the United state shave slowed space available traffic from this Aerial port , Michael n. Donley Ter Minal reservation counter try Coic said tuesday. There Are presently 27 peo ple Here in emergency leave Sta Tus authorized space available travel. Some have been waiting since feb. 8," said Donley. In addition to these people there Are 61 people in category 3 Ordinary leave and retire personnel of the space Avail Able group he pointed out. Both numbers were listed on huge blackboard with category 2, in which students Are placed Blank. Emergency leaves Are category 1. These space available categories do not affect space required categories of which there Are 12. Highest priority servicemen department of defense civilian employees and non appropriated fund civilian employees who have properly documented emergency leave or Ders Are placed in category 1 Al of the space required take the highest priority. Personnel travelling on Tempo Rary duty orders try Are category 2, while Ordinary Perma nent change of station pcs personnel Are in category 3.these Are space required travel ers. Categories 4 through 12 of the space required group include american red Cross pcs Andody Public health service personnel travelling on official Dod business other Dod contract technical services employees Onrod business and entertainers travelling for Dod. Personnel travelling As space available passengers Are accommodated on a first in first out basis regardless of rank or Grade. There is no guarantee space for such passengers. Space available travel fro the United states has been cur tailed drastically in the interest of the Gold flow problem. Snowed in these Are some of the thousands trapped at Mew York s Kea Don t water Beer bar patrons snap Chicago up patrons atthe red Garter Saloon continued drinking their Beer As fire men fought a Blaze three floors above them and water dripped from the ceiling. The red Garter s Dixieland and blasted out a hot time in the old town tonight an patrons hunched Over their steins. I Don t mind the water unless it gets into Ray Beer said one Patrun. Airlift feeds 6,000 delayed at . Airport Kennedy Airport . A helicopters carried food monday to 6,000 people Snow bound in this sprawling Airport. Grounded jetliners were used a dormitories by night and movie Heaters by Day. The fancy terminal building looked like Plush refugee Camps. A helicopter chartered by National airlines brought Sand Wiches Coffee Rolls and soft drinks from the line s catering facility at la Guardia Airport to hundreds of people in the National terminal and at the East Ern airlines building. Two other helicopters on supplied by the new York police and the other by pan american world airways brought food from a restaurant about 13 Miles away. Hundreds slept sunday Nighton the floor of a trans world airlines hangar. By noon monday Twa Snow plows bad cleared a path link ing its hangar passenger Termi Nal and commissary and delivered food blankets and pillows to 1,700 people in the terminal and 1,500 in the hangar. The airline also loaded 100people at a time into parked Boeing 707 jetliners and showed full length color movies. Nedy Airport by deep Snow. Grounded jetliners were wed As dormitories by strike tied in ships Fig act Tad rim Heaters by Day As Pas sen ers waited for release. A photo 61s ready to with backlog of mail new York a the first contingent of american soldiers has arrived to unload a tremendous backlog of Loose bulk mail from about 45 vessels stranded in Harbor because of the 53-Day Dock strike on the East and Gulf coasts. The mail includes Many Christ Mas packages meant for service men that were aboard ships when the walkout began dec. 20 at the end of a Taft Hartley 80-Day Cool ing off period. The 315 soldiers arrived Mon Day after having been marooned overnight near Woodbridge n.j.,when their buses bogged Down i he snowstorm. They were billeted in Brooklyn and Staten Island awaiting arrival of other a Ops tuesday from it. Eustis a. The mail removing operations expected to Start wednesday. Negotiations continued betwee shipping firms and represent Ives of the 75,000-member inter National longshoremen s association in Philadelphia Galveston wife divorces Billy May los Angeles a the wife of bandleader Billy May after contending her husband became abusive and was granted an interlocutory divorce monday. Tex., new Orleans Boston. Tentative agreements have been reached in new York and ports from More Bead City. Jst.c.,to puerto Rico but Union leaders have decreed that settlements breached in All ports before a rank and i Ile membership tentative agreements Call for a $1.60 pay arrangement that would boost hourly pay to 4.80 in the final year of a three Yea contract. In addition to local issues Anda guaranteed annual wage restrictions on the use of containerized cargo by shippers remain a Point of Contention. H l28 14 Albany 00 24 albuquarqu66 26 Atlanta 54 43 birmingham33 08 Bismarck 33 28 Boston 34 28 chicago40 18 Cincinnati 31 10 cleveland53 26 Denver 30 12 detroit31 13 Duluth 68 24 Al pas88 12 far Flo n 36 port Worth 8 68 Honolulu 07 60 Houston 40 80 indianapolis69 37 Jacksonville 60 30 Kamat city64 43 Tat a a temperatures h u 66 47 pm anmlta48 21 Loul Svall 52 27 Memph i w 63 Miami bach36 20 my Wauke 15 20 mpls.4t. Paul04 46 new Orten 66 38 Owa. City30 m Omaha 36 82 philadelphia7t37 Phoenix 37 17 plttttoutoh6614 in m n to uuia40 is Salt Lake atty 037 san Antonio 41 Tan Diego 64 63 pran61 40 Eattle 73 40 tuna i m Wmk Leaton Wilson denies Churchill Hod general killed London up prime min ister Harold Wilson said tuesday that there is no evidence that exiled polish army chief Wladi Siaw Siko Sld was killed deliberately in a plane crash ordered by the British government in 1943.Wilson refused to order a new official inquiry into these allegations which should be Dis missed and brushed aside wit the contempt they Gen. Sikorski exiled polish army commander in chief in world War ii was killed in 1943when a Liberator bomber in which be was flying crashed a Gibraltar. A controversial play by Ger Man author Rolf Hochhuth has charged that the bomber was sabotaged on orders of the late sir Winston Churchill in order toll Sikorski. The play has caused i political juror. The allegations have been fiercely denied by the Churchill parliamentary questions Wilson said i know of no evidence to imply that the crash of the Liberator at Gibraltar was other than a genuine Yves s boutique robbed Paris a burglars broken to one of fashion magnate Yves Saint Laurent s boutiques Mon Day night and left with half the Stock valued at about 990,000. Reds bombard . Infantry base on guerrilla invasion route Carfl Rulu St edit a mama no Sann Iii a . Saigon up enemy Rock ets bombarded a . Infantry base on a Mam guerrilla inva Sion route from Cambodia to Saigon monday night and tues Day wounding 19 people including 14 american soldiers. Military spokesmen said 300u.s. Troops and helicopter gun ships counterattacked after the second attack but the guerrilla gunners escaped amid a barrage of 600 Allied mortar the first attack eight 107mm rockets slammed into the Camp smashing a mess Hall and wound ing the americans. The second onslaught wounded two filipino soldiers and three vietnamese civilians. The Camp lies 57 Miles North West of Saigon three Miles West of Tay Ninh and near the Cam Bodian Border. The twin strike rare hire cent weeks came As Allied intelligence reported the communists building up for a major offensive later this month. The Sai gon area is expected to be the main target. Far to the North enemy gun ners inside the demilitarized zone Doz fired on a . Scout plane monday. . Marine artillery just below the Doz fired Back. The plane was not hit. The enemy guns were knocked o u tand Supply dumps blown up. . Commander describe the incident As the 57th significant communist violation of the Doz since the american stopped bombing North of Csc Nam nov. L. They said there also have been 2,496 lesser indications of enemy action in the Doz 268 occurring the past nov. 1 . Forces have fired 873 times into the. Doz All but seven times Only into the South vietnamese half of thesis mile wide zone spokesmen said the . Force hit the North Ern half technically North vietnamese territory Only when the communists fired first
