European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 2, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Airliner Pilot leads rescuers to ditched plane Ormond Beach to. Up a Veteran airline Pilot jockeying a big passenger Jet with its Landing spotlights on enabled two men to walk away from a Small plane they ditched in a Mars before Dawn tuesday without getting their feet airlines Pilot capt. George p. Walden of Miami said the Pilot of the Small plane must have had god sitting beside him when he ditched his pipe Cherokee into the Tomoka slate Park Basin North of this Northeast Florida coastal town at about 2 20 Cherokee Pilot. Gordon Lester Sims 49, was flying William herring 33, of fort Lauderdale from Savannah ga., to the bedside of his Mother critically ill in a fort Lauderdale Hospital when the plane s single engine conked out. Sims flying in Pale Moonlight set his plane Down wheels up. Onto the i mile Long Basin and skipped it up into High standing Reeds of a bordering Marsh. Neither Man was Hurt. He made a very difficult Landing in the dark and was real Lucky to miss All the mangroves lining the Shore Walden said. Sims radioed controller John Schmidt in the Dity Tona Beach Airport Tower that he was ditching the plane. Schmidt contacted Walden aboard Eal flight 447 from Atlanta to Daytona Beach requesting him to look for the wreckage of the Light plane. The 53-year-old Walden who has flown 21 Yean for Eastern spotted Sims plane with the Landing spotlights of his 727 Jet. It he he then circled the area at Low Alti tude for about 30 minutes to guide rescuers to the scene. I explained to our 19 passengers what was happening that it was Neces sary to attempt to save lives and the would be a Little late arriving at Daytona Walden said. We had them look ing out the windows trying to help us spot the wreckage. Everybody was Happy when we landed that we found the Only difficulty we had was i communications he said. I had to radio the Tower controller who had to Telephone a police station which then had to relay my messages by radio to. The Rescue men in the Field. They kept overshooting the site because they could t see Over the mangroves and Reeds on toe ground. I washed i had act although Park employees and Volusia county sheriffs deputies were searching the actual re covery of Sims and herring was made by a five Man Rescue unit of the Halifax fire department in a Eastern Pilot really helped us. He kept narrowing the area Down until we got right on top of it said fireman. Leonard Stemmerman. The two men stepped right into our boat without even getting their pipeline gets last Spike pump station three. Alaska a after nearly a decade of controversy and construction the last Section of the Alaska pipeline has been welded into Little of the hoopla that accompanied the driving of the last Spike in the transcontinental Railroad last Century quiet ceremony monday near this site North of the Brooks Range marked the completion of the 800-mile system. June 20 is the target Date for the first testing with Oil and the actual Start of the pipeline is expected about july 1. Within 45 Days after that the first of the Oil deposits discovered at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Circle in 1968 should reach the Valdez Ter minus in the South. Plans for the pipeline were announce Din March 1969. Following that an application Tor right of Way was submitted in june 1969. Then began a series of court Battles with environmentalists eventually resulting in tight controls to fight the possibility of an Oil spill Over the delicate Alaska Tundra. Alyeska pipeline service co., the consortium of eight Oil companies building the $8 billion line began construction in april1974. The first mainline pipe was installed in March 197s. Peter Demay charged with overseeing construction on the line said monday that the system could be called the Rolls Royce of would have to walk away with the feeling that there was an Over abundance of inspection he said. And therefore the Quality of the project should certainly be better than any other project Ever nevertheless reports of duplicated an falsified Weld x rays surfaced last year and the department of transportation instill investigating. On saturday rep. Harold Runnels d-n.m., chairman of the House Interior and insular affairs committee said the whole thing is very after visiting various pipeline Points with four other panel members he said they be tried to make every precaution Ary measure that s possible. Only time and the Good lord will Tel whether they be thought of lament for the dearth of mirth come on and Grin if Ain t no sin new York a George q Lewis thinks America should laugh More. And he s dead serious about it. We re trying to get equal time for Hap piness he said tuesday at a 90-Mmute news conference called to lament the mirth of the nation. We want to turn grim government into Grin government said Lewis unabashed. Lewis who holds a weekly class in humor creation at the new school for social research and is executive director of the humor societies of America said of time june 2.1947 the Senate armed serv ice committee published a nearly completed draft of its armed forces unification Bill which would establish co equal branches of the army Navy and air Force under a new department of National Security beaded by a Secretary of National Security with Cabinet rank. June to 1k7 u. S. Army under Secretary Charles c. Finucane said american forces will remain in Korea until toe Strug Gle Between communism and be wed subsides or is june 2, 167 Fri director j. Edgar Hoover protested that statements by civil rights Leaden pinpointing cities where riots May occur this summer Are open invitations to Hothead and Trabue risen to move into too much attention today is focused on the unhappy is so complicated he said. People say unless you pay $1,000 to make yourself feel Good you re in trouble. You have to go to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist All he does is say feel Good. Why can t you get up in the morning look in the Mirror and say to yourself gee you re a wonderful Guy your eyes will Light up. Your spirit will Light up. It will carry you through a part of the Lewis said you can smile yourself into a happier state of mind. The important thing is to activate it. You can t just say of make me Happy i say you do it to re trying to form a smile club. When you see somebody coming along smile at them said Lewis who Bills him self As the evangelist of he said we re trying to make people radio announcer Ben Grauer Dies new York a Ben Grauer a Pio Neer Abc radio announcer who was hailed As one of the greatest died tuesday in his sleep after suffering a major heart attack a Hospital spokesman said. He would have been 69 on thursday. Grauer was admitted to new York University medical Center for treatment of a heart ailment and suffered a major Coro nary attack last weekend. A versatile radio and television reporter Grauer s Range of coverage included such diverse events As the Berkshire music festival and the 1948 israeli Arab War. He joined the National broadcasting co. In 1930, when the network was Only four Yean old. Aware that they can utilize a sense of humor 24 hours a Day. It s not just a night time thing where you sit at Home turn on the to see someone funny and Start to Job Outlook for grads up 23% Over 76 Evanston Iii. A june College graduates can expect a 23 per cent in crease in jobs Over those available for the class of 1976, a National Job Market Survey showed tuesday. The 31st annual Endicott report also predicts hiring will be up 17 per cent for graduates with master s degrees. Figures for both master s and Bachelor degree students represented increases Over projections made from a november 1976 poll of employers by Frank s. Endi Cou retired director of placement for Northwestern University. In that poll 215 of the nation s largest firms estimated they would hire 16 per cent More graduate sin both categories. The Survey for june graduates shows that 42 per cent of the firms will hire More graduates than they predicted in novem Ber. Reflects business upswing this Good news is a direct correlation with the general improvement in business trends for these companies Endicott said. He noted that 49 per cent of the 118 firms in the May Survey said business conditions for their companies were clearly improved or Semi improved 47 per cent said conditions were about the same and Only 4 per cent report business moving also polled employers in May about the summer Job Market for College students. He said companies Are hiring More students than last year but the com petition for jobs is extremely High. The firms received an average of five applications for each summer Job Avail Able. The trend is the up Side Endicott said. But there is not a great surge to hire College students in the costs a Factor he said Many students were looking for summer jobs because of the increasing Cost of Victor r. Linquist current director of the placement Center at Northwestern said his own experience was in line with Endicott s Survey. Linquist reported that employers were making More offers at higher salaries than in the previous four years. The economic upturn is influencing Blue Chip employers who have already been on Campus More than once to now Call Back to see if . Has any graduates available Linquist said. Foot Tappin fiddling qua
