European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 1990 the stars and stripes i Page 3 his words live on 7 decades later by Ron staff writer the paper written by the the service should speak the though of the new american army and the american people from whom the army has been drawn. It is your paper. Good Luck to those words from Gen. John j. Per shag. Commander of the american expeditionary forces greeted readers of the first edition of the stars and stripes produced this Century. It was feb. 8. 1918. And the news paper rolled off the presses in Paris and went directly to the doughboy who had recently arrived on the battlefields of world War i. The top Story was headlined army men build an Over seas Pittsburgh and told How warehouses rail Yards fac tories and the like were being constructed to Supply inc War fort. Another Story told of the tooth banking car. A Mobile dental clinic operated by the red Cross. Men leave not to be led Rouni by hand blared another headline the Story below assured i Haj a ices that they were on the twin while on leave. It the Siars tra stripes had a Brief history in tie american civil War so the Jeorld War i version was not groundbreaking. But the stars and stripes struck a chord with soldiers who contributed cartoons stories and poems. It also Voll acc Civco in journalistic Cir Tuter for the new York Globe said the t a a american novel was being the stars and stripes rolled and some of the produce it went on to j61iflmli�tic Fame. Grantland Rice became famous as7" a sportswriter with the new York Tribune. The name of Alexand Woollcott is known As a new times drama critic. Aut Tmur play Wright wit actor and a 1925. For mrs strips reporter Harold Rosset Mcd the new yorker the armistice. Frank Lin Pill radars returned to the new his byline eventually. Pc Rcd in the new York world the new York Herald Tribune and the new York Post. The world War i version lasted for 71 weeks coming out every Friday from feb. 8. 1918. To june 13, 1919. Those 71 editions set the tone for the world War ii version of the stars and stripes that began in 1942. It is that newspaper that continues today. Mis Nunin ii but u. In i --.-. Rain Lyttik. The army s Mommandi r wished stripes Well in its first Issue in 1918. Mild California quake triggers nuclear Plant Alert san Luis Obispo. Calif. A a mild earthquake off California s coast prompted a routine Alert at the Diablo Canyon nuclear Power Plant tuesday but few people Felt it and no damage or injuries were reported. The . Geological Survey in Menlo Park said the quake at 10 14 . Measured 4.1 on the Richter scale. However the California Institute of technology seismology Laboratory in Pasadena said the magnitude was .1.6. The agencies gave about the same location for the epicentre with the geological Survey placing it 33 Miles Southwest of san Luis Obispo and Cal tech putting it 40 Miles West of Santa Maria. We did t feel it and we did t get one Call from anybody outside Diablo san Luis Obispo county sheriffs sgt. Leon Cole said. As is routine for earthquakes detected at the twin reactor nuclear Plant the quake triggered an unusual the lowest Grade emergency declaration said Brad Thomas spokesman for Pacific Gas and electric co. Which runs the Plant. Both reactors kept operating at full Power How Cvar. One person reported Here at the Plant they Felt it Thomas said. That requires us to declare an unusual event. We do a Plant Wal Down and make sure there was no damage of any the a Ichter scale is an indirect gauge of the Energy released by an earthquake As measured by the ground motion re corded on a Seismograph. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area while 4 can cause moderate dam age. Light shines on a storm taking shape a tin1 Sun hurts hut the Cloud formations of tropical storm Sam in the Eastern Indian Oleun. The photograph us taken h astronauts in the space shuttle Columbia during their flight in january
