European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday november 18, 1958 jewish Leader says incidents in South fail to mar Good will new York a the presi Dent of b Nai b says Funda mental Good relations Between the South s jews and their neighbors have not changed despite bomb Ings of jewish houses of worship and other anti jewish incidents m. Klut Nick of Park Forest 111., added there is no Reul rupture in the religious har Mony and interaction of the South Ern Community that have made it comfortable for jews to live to addressed the 1113th annual meeting of the jewish organi action boy to lose legs at the Waldorf Astoria Hole. Klut Nick said it was predict Able that southerners would share with their jewish neighbors the same contempt and sense of out rage Over the recent wave of anti semitic warned however the South Ern atmosphere will be clouded with anti semitic tensions so Long As organi de jew baiting move ments Are free to exploit the South s dilemma Over dese Grega t hit Nick said much of the hate literature now being distributed throughout the South is carpet bagging stuff Northern in origin and trying to disguise itself with a Southern he added that the anti semitic movements by themselves Are of Little consequence. The danger lies in their ability to spread distrust and religious dissension in the right setting. That Selling exists today in Many parts of the South. It will not blow away hurriedly not so Long As resistance to desegregation remains and it can be distorted by hate schools teach More russian . Begins remedying foreign language ills Anthony Wayne Taylor 20 months clutching a Teddy Bear faces life without legs. The Clarksville ark., child s legs have been so badly deformed since birth that surgeons have decided it will he better to amputate Uick and fit the boy with artificial limbs. A photo missing girl found dead Preston Conn. Up tin body of 11-year-old Diana Duffy of Alton r. 1., who had been missing for eight Days was found in a Cove where Tate police said she apparently had drowned. Two state policemen found Diana who vanished from her grand Mother s Home where she lived during the week. The girl spent weekends with her parents at Cove ironically called Duffy s Cove is not far from Diana s grandmother s Home. Her body was entangled in a Branch about 50 feet from Short the body was under the Branch and beneath the autopsy will be performed police said they could not Tell at this time if Diana had been the victim of foul play. She was clothed. By Louis Washington up the . Has made a Start toward remedying one of its worst educational weak Nesses. From coast to coast High schools and colleges Are putting new emphasis on the Long neglected study of foreign languages. Lawyer disputes threat to world of overpopulation Washington up Andrew. Haley Washington lawyer who is president of the International astronautical federation firmly disagrees with recent warnings that the world faces dangerous overpopulation. Haley believes the Earth alone can take care of All the people it is Likely to produce in the next to centuries even if populations double several times to total 100 Lillion against the present 3 billion. And at the end of those two Cen uries he visualizes space ships Ach carrying As Many As 10,000 passengers leaving the Earth pos Sibly in hundreds of trips a Day to populate other planets. These ships he said May travel at a third the Speed of Light. In that Case they could reach the planets Mars or Venus in a few hours even counting Takeoff and acceleration delays and could travel to the nearest Star in about 12 expressed his views in an interview rejecting the warnings of h r i t i s h philosopher Bertrand Russell who called overpopulation a greater threat than nuclear War and sir Charles Darwin whose article in the current bulletin of the atomic scientists takes an equally gloomy position. No definite scientific limitation an be pieced on the number of people the Earth can support Haley said but it s already in the billions and it can easily be demonstrated in the hundreds of Bil second Point is that Many of us desire to open the universe for emigration from the Earth to afford adventurous people an Opportunity to Start new on Distant gambling crackdown starts at City Hall Springfield mass. A mayor Thomas j. O Connor. Or. Recently ordered police to crack Down on gambling activities. One of the first men arrested was Pasquale c. , 25, City Constable who was convicted in District court of registering and accepting bets and sentenced to a month in the House of correction went we Hind math eign ounces of prevention Cassils for example i year ago there j were Only 10 High schools and 173 colleges in i to country at which students could study the russian language. Today russian is taught in More than 100 High schools and 200 colleges. Hundreds of additional High schools and colleges plan to add courses in russian As soon As they can obtain qualified teachers extremely scarce and textbooks none intent except for a mimeographed syllabus prepared by the University of Minnesota sputnik induced the upsurge of interest in for eign languages can be traced to the National Shock which Ameri cans sustained when sputnik i into orbit last year Learned that we were be the russians not Only in and science but. Also in for languages. There Are 10 Mil lion russians learning our Lan Guage but fewer than 10,000 americans learning russian. Every russian College student is required to study in addition to a Western language at least one language native to Asia or Africa. The . By contrast has extreme difficulty finding diplomats engineers and Point four technicians who can work abroad with out the help of interpreters. Two languages of the 24 major languages of the world Only two French and Span ish Are studied by an appreciable number of americans. Although the tide has now turned it will take time and a sustained National Effort to Over come America s linguistic illiteracy. The first problem is to overcome the present acute shortage of Quali fied language teachers. Congress took note of this Situa Tion in passing the defense Educa Tion act this year. The new Law authorizes government financial Aid to set up foreign language study centers and teacher training institutes at colleges and univer also Federal Grants to improve a language teaching in Public schools and to set up fellow ships for talented individuals who want to p r e p a r e for language teaching careers. Typhoid and polio shots Are Given to 480 students of the Center Point Birmingham ala., grammar school after the school s water Supply was accidentally contaminated. Associated press photo bigger cig Aret filters tobacco dealers Washington a tobacco growers Are complaining that filter lip Cigar ets have too much tip and not enough tobacco the Only ones to profit they say Are cig Aret manufacturers. The amount of tobacco dropped from 3.1 pounds to pounds farm sales weight 1,000 Cigar ets says Arthur Lloyd executive Secretary of has 2.8 per y. The Hurley and dark Leaf tobacco Export the 195k-57 marketing year1, it is estimated that 11 per cent less tobacco flue cured Hurley and Maryland was used than in 1952-53." longer filter according to or. C. 1. Hendrick son of the agriculture department the Quantity of tobacco in filter Cigar ets has been reduced since they were first sold. They i the manufacturers made the filter longer and reduced the diameter of the cig Aret he said. The re has not been any new reduction this one reason for this aside from the obvious saving in reducing tobacco Content was the new flip top cardboard Box used for pack aging filter , who made a study of the matter for the department s marketing service said the boxes made the reduction in filter tip size necessary for two reasons 1boxes big enough to hold the first filter tips were too Bulky for machinery used in most states to stamp conveniently with the cig Aret tax.2most vending machines would not hold the big cig Aret boxes. 1,550 Gallons of Gas go Down the Ledger Dallas a l. F. Hammond a filling station operator told police someone had been stealing Gaso line from his pumps. There were 1,550 Gallons missing he said. Sheriff s deputies staked out the station for a week trying to catch the thief. Then Hamond discovered a bookkeeping error that explained the lost gasoline. Blind dose aids in Rescue of Milkman Houston Tex. A Taffy s a Mutt and not much to look at tailless the a legged and so nearly Blind that he has his own seeing Eye dog but he is a hero. Mrs. Lamar Parish wondered when she heard the a year old dog s excited barks in front of her House. Taffy can bark but he d never sounded off in such a High keyed tone before. She looked out and saw the animal standing be Side the Milkman s truck. The Milkman was no where to be seen. But Taffy kept yelping and mrs. Parish walked out to the closed Ruck. Then she heard a voice. She opened the Back door and Driver James a. Kirkpartick 59, stumbled out. Locked in the sub freezing compartment Kirkpatrick said he had been Yelling and beatini1i the door for 10 minutes. Lady i m sure i you were Home he gasped. Taffy who belongs to the parishes 16-year-old son Joel is so nearly Blind that he does t venture far from Home unless accompanied by rebel a much younger dog who belongs to the parishes daughter Karen 15. Insurance tax quiz to oven Washington up the first round in a Battle Over taxation of life insurance companies opens this week before a House ways and Means subcommittee. The final outcome could have some effect on the prices Ameri cans have to pay for insurance in the future. It also could have a major Impact on the Market prices of Stock in Many life insurance Stock companies. The subcommittee headed by rep. Wilbur d. Mills dark will consider during week Long hearings conflicting administration and Industry proposals for a permanent new formula for taxing life insurance firms. The Industry itself is split Over the Issue. In general Stock companies Are lined up against Mutual insurance firms in a Battle Over allocation of the tax Load. About the Only Point on which there is widespread Industry agree ment is that there should be no Overall increase in administration had proposed that All income of life insurance companies be subjected to taxation instead of Only investment income As at present. But it has not spelled out details of its recommendations or indicated How much Revenue it wants to collect from its new formula
