European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 26, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7. Windows remain As forgotten memorial Chicopee mass a the Silv. Erwin a and Blue sky still glow from the stained Glass erected by the men and women who served at Westover air Force base but he Chape windows have become a forgotten memorial. When the Chapel was declared surplus and we got ithe military came and took out the pews and the altar and everything else but they did t take the windows said Joan Beaudry manager of the Chaco pee child development Center. Maybe it was because no Federal Money was spent on them. The win Dows were paid for by the servicemen at the base and their families and the families of the men who  the private non profit Day care Comer acquired die Chapel in 1979, live years after the strategic air come pulled out. Much of he old world War ii bomber base once the largest air Force base in he Northeast was declared surplus. Many have tried o Salvage the nine windows which Are partly covered i h plywood sheets the air Force lacked up when it left. A surge and s wife raised $5,000 to move the windows but it was not enough and the Money is silting in a Bank account. A general wangled a fed eral appropriation but when he retired the Effort stalled it got so that whenever anyone in uni form came in i d just Point toward the windows and say of " Beaudry said. And they would Pooh and a and vow to return la their base or Headquarters and gel them moved to an air Force Chapel and nothing More Ever came of it thelast estimate we had for moving and re placing the windows was 140,000 in 19b3.vf so Many efforts have failed she said that i think we have gotten to the Point where we have gone he extra mile for he windows and we have to Start thinking of  the 30-year-old building needs Exten Sive repairs and one of the few resources the Day care Center has Are the windows. We would Hale to do it but the Board is considering getting hem appraised and auctioning hem off she said. Even in a darkened room used for storage and littered with toys the win Dows created by the artisans of Serpentino stained and leaded Glass co. Of Needham have he Power to inspire. One of two military scenes shows two airmen standing on a tree lined path leading to a Little while Steeple new England Church As a Squadron of bombers Flics overhead. The Center window depicting a winged Chrisl holding a sword and Scales is dedicated to Brig. Gen. Don Ald a Saunders his Crew and 14 National newsmen who were killed june21, 1958, when their plane crashed while taking off on a night to England. Other windows show Daniel in the lion s Den and Moses on he mount and depict George Washington an Christopher Columbus. Plaques list the units that commissioned the windows and the men and women who were loss. One plaque reads from the Chil Dren of Westover air Force base 1965." i sometimes come in Here and Pic Ture them going door to door Selling Candy and saving their pennies Sai Beaudry and All the weddings and christenings and of course the Many Many funerals that were held  English actress Hermione Gingold Dies at 89 new York. A Hermione Gingold the deep voiced English bom actress whose memorable performances included a duct of i remember it Well with Maurice Chevalier in Gigi died sunday morning at Lena Hill Hospital at the age of 89. Gingold. Who lived in Manhattan had been admitted to he Hospital on april 3d. Hospital adminis Trator Sophie Penni said the cause of death was pneumonia complicated by heart disease. Gingold made her stage debut in London where she was born dec 12, 1897, As Cardinal Wolsey in a kindergarten production of Henry Viii by the age of14, she had appeared with Noel Coward in where the Rainbow  she appeared in shakespearean plays at the old Viand starred in British revues and on bbl radio and tie vision. During world War ii Gingold became known to american soldiers As a comedian in the Long running London revue Sweel and  her career in the United states was launched in March 1951, in the Brattle theater production of it about time in Cambridge mass. She won the Don Aldson award in 1954 for her performance As a caricaturist in the Broadway production of John Murra Anderson s  Hermione Gingold in music Man role. Wants stamp to Honor slain marines grandmother battling bureaucracy Durham Conn. Up a grandmother is vowing to Battle he . Postal service until it bends the rules and issues a stamp honouring the 241 marines killed in the 1983 terrorist bombing in Beirut Lebanon. They get a stamp out for a stupid tree or a seashell says Betty Dougherty. I think the men who fight for heir country and protect you Are More Impo Iani than a tree Dougherty 61, president of the Southington Conn., chapter of the Marine corps league auxiliary said she had been thinking about a proper memorial since an explosives Laden truck rammed a Marine battalion Headquarters oct. 13, 1983, killing 241 marines and wounding scores of others a few months ago Dougherty decided a postage Tump was the Best Way to Honor the slain marines and remember All who ought for their country. And then she came up against one of the nation s oldest bureaucracies. The Festal service has a Maze of rules regulating the Way it handles the 12,000 to 15,000 requests it receives each year for commemorative Stamps. One Rule broken Only for presi dents said a person must be dead at least 10 years before a stamp can be issued in Nis memory. Lougherty says she won t Watt until 10 years Are up. What if our service men wailed 10 years to protect us where would that leave us she says. Dougherty said she wrote twice to president Reagan who forwarded her idea to the postmaster general. He passed he Buck said Doug Herty who recently retired from her Job at a state psychiatric Hospital and now works part Lime at a grocery in Durham. Dickey Hustin manager of he stamp information Branch of the Post Al service said the 10-year Rule is considered inviolable both to gauge historical significance and avoid a Avalanche of vanity  As for Trees seashells Birds and other popular wildlife and Scenic Stamps Ruslin said we tend to Honor life More than death to promote the positive As much As  Dougherty has begun a petition drive and is collecting signatures at the Market where she works and if rough the Marine corps league. She has about 300 names including signers from new Hampshire Massachusetts and North Carolina and  Gejdenson d-Conn., has pledged his support. You ask somebody you want to sign a petition for a memorial Day stamp of course they la sign it said Belmont paries of Clifton vs., who deals with Lew of thousands of re quests As chairman of the citizens stamp advisory committee. The is member committee meet six times a year to consider suggestions. Only the postmaster general can authorize a commemorative stamp but he usually follows the panel s recommendation. Paries and Ruslin encouraged Doug Herty to keep fighting but offered Little Hope on easing the 10-year Rule. Go ahead arid keep bugging us fanes advised Dougherty. We re nol suggesting in the slightest this is not worthwhile subject. Obviously in is but there Are hundreds of thousands of  the postal service can count on hearing More from Dougherty. We Don t want to forget those Fel lows who were killed says Dougherty who has sold afghans and raffle tickets and hosted branches to provide seeing Eye dogs for veterans. Besides it keeps me out of  in 1955, she was signed by lbs to and appear Don the de Sullivan show " the Jack Paar show omnibus and person to  her film appearances included around the world in 80 Days in 195fi Gigi in 195s, in which she co starred with Leslie Caron Louis Jourdan and Cheva Lier and the music Man in 1962, in which she portrayed the mayor s wife. Her English films included Mary goes to town somebody at the door cosh boy and  on the new York stage she was seen As Madame Rosc Pettle in of dad poor dad Mamma s Hun you in the closet and i m feeling so sad in 1963 and 1964 and As Madame Almfeldt in a Little night music in i 973. Gingold wrote Magazine articles and an autobiography the world is Square and co wrote plays an revues. She was married twice with both ending in divorce. She and her first husband the late British publisher and author Michael Joseph had two sons director Stephen Joseph and businessman Leslie Joseph he second husband was author Eric Maschwitz family of 3 killed in crash of Small plane Ritzville Wash. A two Small planes carrying three generations of the same family collided sunday killing a father Mother and daughter after one of the aircraft crashed authorities said the second plane a Cherokee Archer landed safety at lie Ritzville municipal Airport said Adams county sheriffs so like Kline three other family members aboard that plane were unhurt Kline identified the dead aboard a Cessna 172, As Kenneth Lavem Sager about 41, his wife Gloria about 40, and their daughter Karla about 15, of i z Ville the occupants of the second plane were mrs. Sager s parents or. And or. Earl Moriz of Ephrata and their Sun Kirk about 19, said Kline with two families til being a it Al it s a sad situation he said. At Lea Stone was Able to make it Hock. It s a Small Community and everybody knows everybody soil will a big Impact to a lot of folks added Kline himself a neighbor of the Sagers. The Accident occurred 14 Miles North East of Ritzville shortly after noon and was a Pond after he second plane landed Kline  was unclear Why the planes collided Kline said. The Federal aviation administration and the National transportation safely Board sent investigator to he scene