European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Teg 6 the stars and strikes monday february 23, 1959 i ii Oti Zens called 6indifferent to . Budget Cincinnati a budget director Maurice ii. Stuns complained that americans show Gen eral indifference to the Federal in hard to find Many average persons who have a working knowledge of the government s budget or enough average Citi Zens who Are willing to take sides vocally on How it should come out stans for support of the administration s efforts to balance the budget in the fiscal year be ginning july 1, he said in a speech to the commercial club of Cincinnati if we can Sharpen the issues i believe Public opinion will make itself attuned to St a salons stans said so Many established ideas and practices have b e e overthrown in recent years that people May be losing sight of Basic Complex and some times conflicting developments he said have a tendency to confuse rather than Sharpen our he said people arc so attuned to sensations that perhaps they Don t react to anything said one reason for mass indifference to the budget May Bethe very magnitude of the figures involved. He added this is one reason for the administration s repealed proposals that some Federal program be shifted to state and local governments where the dimensions might be More manageable. Sex marshal Given 3 years Indianapolis a a former town marshal who went to Church regularly was sent to prison for three years for a Bonk i can say is that i am deeply ashamed said Henry r. Per Singer 37. Ill probably be criticized for it said . District judge Wil Liam e. Stickier As he gave per Singer the Light sentence. It was the lightest Bank Rob Bery sentence in the history of the local Federal court. Fifteen friends appeared to ask leniency for per Singer father of three who has been in financial trouble since leg became crippled in an Accident he will be eligible for parole in a formerly was Marsha at Jamestown Northwest of Indianapolis. He admitted robbing the Ladoga state Bank at ladoga12 Miles from Jamestown last dec 29. Sex senator May get Post Washington up an in terror department spokesman Sal former Republican sen. Arthur v Watkins of Utah soon May be come a special assistant to score tary of Interior Fred a. Seaton Watkins Defeated for reelection last november probably would be come a consultant on reclamation matters. Office salaries Range from $4,000 to $12,500 6 new congressmen hire wives Washington a at least six of the 82 new House members were disclosed today to have put heir wives on their office pay Rolls. Rep. Leonard g. Wolf a Iowa for example has his wife Marilyn Down for $1,037.91 a month and maintains that she fully earns the have always been a team he disclosures were similar to what happens each year. Nepotism or employment of relatives is a government practice going Back to the Days of ancient Rome. Some relatives Are known to be hard workers others prove to be drones. 19-year-old soothe current interest in nepotism arose from the disclosure that rep. Steven v. Carter another new democratic representative from Iowa has put his 19-year-old son on the office payroll at .$11,000 a year. Both Carters said the taxpayers will be getting their Money s addition to the cases of Young Carter and mrs. Wolf these others turned up rep. Robert w. Levering d Ohio wife Eileen $12,527 a year. Rep. Denver d. Burgis a Kan wife Charlee $8,192. Rep. Ralph Rivers Dalaska wife Martha $4,800.rep. Randall s. Harmon d in wife Mary $4,424. Rep. William h. Meyer Dou wife Bertha $4,047. No doubt there Are other cases of nepotism not apparent a daughter May use her married name a wife her Maiden name. And in the Senate there is no telling at All since it is a tight official secret How much senators pay to anybody. Each House member is authorized to hire eight clerks paying them a total of about $35,000 a year. The top allowed for any one is $13,344. Young Carter told a reporter he is confident that he can handle the Job Hia father assigned to him. If i could t do it he said i quit. My resignation was attached to my rep. Steven v. Carter a Iowa and his 19-year-old son Steven Check files in the congressman s Washington office. Young Carter is employed there at a salary of about $11,000 a year. A photo he said if a congressman per forms his duties and provides first rate service to his District i Don t see what difference it makes whole i look at it this Way Young Carter added mothers and fathers have never hesitated to put a gun in the hands of their children 17 or 18 years of age to defend this country. They seem to have done a fair Job since the country is still free. Future his of infant said shaped during pregnancy new York a an infant May be destined for disorders such As cerebral palsy epilepsy or men Tal deficiency while still in his Mother s womb a psychiatrist said. The Mother s insufficient diet Orother pregnancy problems such As disease while she is carrying he baby May do the harm. In some cases it Means death to the Newborn. In others it May mean disability. The evidence is Strong enough to suggest the need for preventive programs during pregnancy and preferably before Conception said or. Benjamin Pasamanick of Ohio state University. Traffic school to hypnotize chicagoan into Safe Drivers Chicago up a local hypnotist says he can make Chicago Drivers safer by training them in Large groups to stay Calm and keep their tempers. The hypnotist George Walton said he is starting a school on a citywide la get the group All relaxed then into a Light stage of Hyp Nosis Walton director of the hypnosis Institute of America la make them More relaxed Tell them not to suffer fatigue suggest that they judge their Dis Tance for braking take another minute or two to reach their Desti he said a hypnotist could handle50 to 500 persons at a session that police might try the technique with Accident prone Drivers and that the Day will come when radio stations will conduct mass hypnosis to Calm persons caught in Rush hour traffic. His studies Are not Complete he explained but already they Indi Cate a forerunner to mental prob lems exists in the complications of pregnancy and premature birth. There Are five disorders which studies have closely associated with those complications cerebral palsy epilepsy mental deficiency behaviour disorders and Reading Dis ability. The study is based on close sur Veys of population groups in Balti More Pasamanick told a meeting of the american Psychopathological society. Other finding abnormalities during pregnancy Are much higher among negroes than among Whites Pasamanick said. He also said the abnormalities were higher among poorer Whites than among those of a higher social economic group. The abnormalities seem to in crease the lower you go on the social economic scale with poorer living conditions education and other factors. Very Young mothers and older women have assign if cantly higher risk of having children with men Tal deficiency he added. The studies he said Are measuring birth rate differences against time of year geographical location and social economic groups. If there is enough Confidence i them to defend the country i certainly think this age should be no restriction in an office he added i m actually working and Don t give the Money Back to him rep. Carter. It s All mine and i plan to use it to Complete my the Young Man is taking nine hours of study at George washing ton University about half a Normal Load. He said he attends classes inthe morning then reports to the office. Under this arrangement Young Carter said he is Able to be in the office during the afternoon and also attends meetings and functions in the evening As a representative of his father. When he s supposed to be in two places at once he said i go to the other scout chief Romulo get . Awards Valley forge a. A a foreign Diplomat and the nation s no. 1 boy scout were among 694 persons organizations and schools honoured by freedoms foundation for boosting the american Way of life and Freedom during 1958. The top award winners gathered for the 10th annual ceremonies in a converted colonial bar Overlook ing historic Valley forge where the soldiers of the american revolution spent the Winter of 1777-78. The barn was draped with flags to commemorate the 227th birthday of George Washington. The nonprofit nonpolitical foun Dation whose Credo is to main Tain the american Way of life and pass it intact to succeeding generations singled out for chief Hon ors or. Arthur a. Schuck chief executive of the boy scouts of America and Carlos p. Romulo philippine ambassador to the . Forthright patriotism Schuck was cited for his Forth right patriotism skilled administrative work and leadership by example in character building which have made scouting a beloved word in every Home in previous recipients of this award the foundation s highest Honor were former president Hoover and Fri director j. Edgar Hoover. Romulo former president of the United nations general Assembly was presented the foundation s Spe Cial Freedom leadership award for his unfailing articulate exemplary Devotion to the cause of All in All freedoms foundation awarded $34,950 in Cash including a $5,000 Check to Schuck plus medals Valley forge pilgrimages and Freedom libraries to schools Worth $15,000 More. Jury of 31 among the winners selected by the 31-member awards jury headed by or. Gaylord p. Harnwell presi Dent of the University of Pennsyl Vania were 153 schools. In other categories awards we remade for Community programs col lege Campus programs the Best sermons or Public addresses out standing essays editorials car Toons photographs advertising campaigns motion pictures radio and television scripts capitalistic economic education and letters by servicemen. Each award was made for things said or written about America and its Way of life. . To get Europe color film new York a european producers of color film plan to enter the american Market soon Industry sources said Here. Perutz of West Germany is expected to be marketing its film in the . Later this year at prices competitive with american film. Serrania of Italy will enter the american Market next year. Woman crawls 4 hours in cold with fractures Clinton Mich. A a 55 year old woman her hip and wrist broken crawled in near Zero weather for nearly four hours along a deserted ice covered Rural Road before she reached Cook fell on the ice near her Rural Clinton Home where she lives alone. Unable to regain her feet she decided to try to drag herself to the Home of her nearest neighbor lj/6 Miles away. She wag 150 feet from the House when her neighbor spotted her. Secretary is indicted in hiring of Man to slay wife of Boss Philadelphia a a grand jury has indicted Secretary Pauline Weiss on a charge of solicitation to commit murder in an alleged plot against her employer s wife. At the same time the grand jury threw out a charge of attempted murder against the 48-year-old miss Weiss. Police said miss Weiss confessed trying to hire a professional killer to slay mrs. Muriel Griffin 53, of suburban Devon. She told police she was in love with and hoped to marry mrs. Griffin s husband Willard 58-year-old, publishing firm executive. Miss Weiss already had made payments of $225 toward the j60q be for a hired killer when she was arrested feb. 5 by a detective posing As the hired gun. The indictment count is a mis Demeanour punishable by not Morf than two years imprisonment $500 Fine or Bot i
