VIRUS HITS VISITOR; STORHEILLS FETED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240032-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 17, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200240032-7
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1111. SERVICE SCENE
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Virus Hits Visitor;
Storheills Feted
By L.. VAUGHAN
Star staff-Vyr.iter'
An:.unexpected.factOr crept
Into' the red-carpet Velcome
given by this countrys
miii-
taty Yesterhajr, for` India's '
Army Chief of Staff, Fen.
i.'S. Thimayya -when. the
:ilistinguiShed - visitor became
ill with -a virus.: ." ?
Gen. Thim'aVy.a :wag wel- '
tomed at MATS terminal and
immediately whisked off, to
- Fort. Myer ''where he - was
greeted ..by United States
.Army Chief of Staff Gen,
Maxwell Taylor and .accorded
full Army honors.
:After Checking into the
Shoreham'. Hotel,. the visitor
was visited by clactors but'
insiSted upon going on to the
late afternoon recePtion
given for him in the Fort
Myer Officers-club when Gen.
and. Mrs: Taylor. were hosts.
Few of the , guests were
aware of his illness as he re-
mained for-20 minutes before
. returning to*the hotel to.rest ?
before the dinner the Taylors
gave in his honor. After din-
ner, however,: he was taken
to Walter Reed Hospital..
'The planned 12-day sched-
- tile of events for Gen. Thi-
' mayya Will go on without him
while he is in' Walter Reed.
Staff Officers
Filling in. for him' at of-
ficial functions will be his
two staff officers who ac-
companied him on the -trip
?' Gen. Daulet Singh,
India's Quartermaster Gen-
eral, and Brigadier B. D.
Kama, Chief Controller, Re-'
search and; Development, I
Indian Ministry of Defense.
? Mrs. Tayler greeted guests
at' the reception wearing a
_sheath dress of pale violet
?
GEN. TH I MAYYA
set off by a deep violet slel,
a gift brought back -from
Hawaii by Army Secretary
and Mrs. Wilber M. Brucker,
w(livo returned Monday. from
their Far' East trip.
Gen. Thimayya and Gen.
Taylor care almost old friends,
having met' when the latter
visited India a year ago. Also
renewing an ragmaintance-
ship with thettonor?i gues
was Maj. Gen. Rbbert Schow
who attended' With:
Schow... - ? 4, t- ,-
Others present included the
Under Secretary of the::ArmY
and Mri'i'bliarles,T.inueitne,
Maj. Gen. and .1/1rstrP'..' W.
Caraway, the Deputy Direc-
`tror of CIA, LtrGen: Charles
CabellAn_d Mrs. Cabell,? and
many --ificiar-lineltiditie." a'
large contingent cif officials
and ;their' sari-clad wives
from ttie Indian Embassy.
Among the latter were
Brigadier and Mrs. -R.'
Batra, she the object of con-
gratulations on the birth of
their 18-da:y-Old "child. The
Batras will entertain this
afternoon .at a reception' in
the Indian Embassy at which
Gen. Thimayya will be rep-'
resented by his two staff of-
ficers. ?
Norwegian Party
Also on the sirvice scene'
Yesterday was the farewell
party honoring the Norwegian
Naval Attache, Rear Admiral
Skule V. Storheill and Mine.
Storheill, who are leaving for
their homeland after four
yeas in Washington. ,
Their reception in the
Norwelian Embassy, was at-
tendqlky hundreds wishing
the pcipular couple well in his
new pasti?as Task Force Com-
mand,North Norwaylin the
"Land of' the Midnight Sun,"
north of the Arctic Circle.
I
In the receiving line-With
NorWegian Ambassador and
Mme. Khot were the Stor-
heilis and the new Naval'At:
tache, Rear i Admiral D. E. ,
Kjeholt and Mme. Kjeholt,
who. arrived here, only ',three
? week's ago.
' Many goodbys were being
regretfully exchanged at 'the
, Party. Mine Van Hover, wife
' of the Belgian Assistant Mill-
itary, Naval and Air Attache,
said they will be returning to
their ,homelarid early in No-
vember. Also leaving Wash-
ington for ;their ,home soon
will be Lc Col. Curt Heinden-
reich of the Getman NATO
Military Mission and Mit.
Heindenreich. ,
It was a ? 'welcome back,
howevehr, for one couple, the
former; Netherlands, Military
Attache Maj. Gen. W. Th.
Carp and his wife, who spent
'the summer in Holland.
Arlington was the scene of
still another military party
yesterday afternoon when
Vice Admiral and Mrs. Mur-
rey welcomed their
friends. at a Cocktail party in
the garden ,of their Ives
street home.
Guests were nearly all
o in the military, including
Vice Admiral and Mrs.
311komas Combs, the Chinese
Naval Attache and Mrs. Tsen,
Rear Admiral and M.S. Irwin
Norman. 'and many more.
Nonmilitary' conhected
guests included the' R,oyars'
neighbors, Dr. ancl,Mrs. Nor-
man Trahos, and Mr., and"
Mrs. Frank Erskine, as well
as their ?-...?son-in-law and
daughter, Capt. and Mrs.' R.
A. Schelling, and Mr. and
Mrs, Edgar Morris.
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