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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 11, 1959" the stars and stripes Page 7 they la fill it with curds and weigh workers in Denmark wis., fill a huge tub with curds while fashioning what is believed to be the world s largest cheese. The vast Victual which will be shipped to California for display requires150,000 pounds of milk will weigh 14,316 pounds will stand seven feet High. Up photo stewardesses demand Jet pay scale Washington a a Union official said that pan american world airways Paa including its operation at the Cape canaveral missile base faces a shutdown after july 16 unless wage demands of Jet flight stewardesses Are  f. Horst director of the air transport division of the trans port workers Union said 1,200 stewardesses have been seeking a15 per cent increase for Jet flights. He said pan american had refuse to offer More than 5 per cent. Horst noted that 8,000 Mechanic Sand other ground personnel at pan american bases including Cape canaveral in Florida Are members of the transport workers air transport division. Pan american employees Man the firing Range at Cape canaveral and missile track Arfst stations under contract wit the air Force. While these % b r k e t s have. Separate contract a spokesman said they would respect picket lines in event of a strike. The p resent wage scale for stewardesses on pan american Piston aircraft starts at $262.50 month Horst said and goes to a top of $380.50 after three  stewardesses Are understood to have rejected a previous com Pany offer and voted to authorize a strike. July 16 Marks the end Ofa government ordered Cooling off period the spokesman said. Auto shopper borrows portable Down payment High Point . Up police said Harvey Briles 25, took a used 1949-Model car out on an inspection drive and traded it Inas a Down payment on a 1955 Ford at a car lot in Lexington . After taking the first car police said Briles telephoned the lot to say he liked it and would buy it but never showed up to Complete the Deal. The next time the 1949car was heard from was when police found it at the Lexington lot. Badger tune made official Madison wis. Up on Wisconsin the tune originally written for Minnesota has Bee made the official Wisconsin state song of red hot record soda pop sales soar to match the Mercury new York a the weather no matter what you think of it is just Dandy for the soft drink Industry. So is the general recovery in business. More parched throats Are being quenched this year and oftener. Everyone s excited about the first six months results says one spokesman and the summer lookalike a record for  the american bottlers of carbonated beverages estimates that its part of the Industry sold 32.5 California court awards divorce to Deborah Kerr Santa Monica Calif. A actress Deborah Kerr 37, divorced British television producer ton Bartley charging that he up braided and ignored  Bartley 39, who is in England did not contest the divorce. Miss Kerr an Bartley were married in Lon Don nov. 28, 1945. They separated March 27, 1958.after the separation  writer Peter Viertel of winning his wife s affections. Replaced the children in custody of the court. Miss Kerr and Viertel Are expected to marry when her divorce becomes final in a year. Council again ignores Egan s Choice for chief Aurora 111, up mayor Paul Egan named another police chief during a City Council meeting but the Council As it has in the past took coldly to the  refused to confirm Egan s appointment of John Kramoski Schief. Kramoski operates a Small tool and die shop Here. Egan has tried to remove Donn . Curran As chief of police for about a Yea Rand a half. Billion bottles in 1958, off a tenth of 1 per cent from 1957. But be cause of higher prices value of the bottles Rose from slightly More than $1.25 billion in 1957 to nearly$1.5 billion in 1958. Consumption per person slipped to 187 bottles in 1958 from 189 4 the previous year. Booming Sale so far this year make the bottlers confident that both per capita con sumption and Dollar value will Rise  Solf drink producers have been widening their bottle size selections. Coca cola now has 12 and 26-ounce bottles As Well Ashe traditional 6-ounce. Pepsi cola has added 6 and 26-ounce bottles to its older 8 and 12-ounce ones. Some bottlers like Royal Crown and double cola now have 16 ounce bottles in the food  can manufacturers Institute estimates that 400 million cans of soft drinks were sold in 1958, a 5 per cent gain Over 1957. It says that the first four months of this year found soft drink sales in cans up 43 per cent Over the like period of 1958. Battle for space bottlers and canners Battle hard for shelf space in supermarkets bottlers have big investments in bottles and equipment and have been loathe to turn to cans. But the can makers stress to the super markets the Chance to rid them selves of deposits bottle returns breakage and storage of empties. Saving even More shelf space Are the soft drink powders. And now there is the even newer effervescent soft drink Tablet. Sen. Green in letter blasts Butler s attack on demo leaders Washington a sen. Theodore f. Green . Has called on democratic National chairman Paul m. Butler to Stop making his office a gun pit from which to fire on his own party members. He told Butler it would be both in your own interest and that 6tour fellow  Green wrote Butler that the chairman s broadcast sunday criticizing the party s congressional Leader Sas not being sufficiently Progress Grain storage abroad urged to Aid hungry Washington a Cheste Bowles former . Ambassador to India advocates shipping Hal of America s surplus Grain abroad and storing it there As a guarantee against famine. Bowles now democratic member of the House of representatives said he would like to see . Food surpluses stored at designated spots overseas. Bowles testified be fore the Senate foreign relations committee in support of the International food for peace Bill sponsored by sen. Hubert  a Minn Bowles said such action would be a vivid and reliable guarantee against famine and disease and an Earnest demonstration of the desire of the american people to see tit that no one starves while have food to  we fiber bearings used 50,000 Miles in greaseless test Wilmington Del. Up six taxicabs equipped with new fiber bearings were run 50,000 Miles the equivalent of four to five years of driving by the average Motorist without a Chassis lubrication the Dupont co. Has reported. Other cars in the test Fleet wit conventional bearings had to be greased 36 times each during the test. Some Drivers referred to the bearings As the poor Man s Power steering and said they were much less tired at the end of the work ing Day on cabs so equipped Dupont said. The Ball joint suspension bearing and steering linkage bearing in the cabs were lined with a Woven fabric of Teflon or Tel flu Roar Bon a Dupont product describe Das More Slippery than  the company said Drivers of the cabs commented repeatedly on the improved ride and handling performance of the taxis equipped with the fiber  tests also brought out that the non lubricated fiber bearings did t squeak when wet and did t chatter the company  tests were conducted on a Fleet of taxicabs owned by the White top cab co. Of Baltimore. It was undertaken jointly by Dupont and the Inland manufacturing division of general motors. Kin at 1812 . Naval hero christens guided missile ship Quincy mass. Up a great granddaughter of a naval hero who Defeated the British at Pittsburgh Bay in 1814, has christened a guided missile class . Agnes Wilson of Mansfield Center conn., christened the Frig ate Macro rough a conventionally powered Craft named for commo Dore Thomas Macdonough hero Ofa decisive naval Victory that forced the British army to Retreat in Ocanada and closed the great lakes to British  frigate one of three under construction Here is the . Navy vessel to Bear the name Macdonough. One was a torpedo boat destroyer and the other two were destroyers which compiled outstanding War  frigate 512 feet in length is equipped with the latest in missile firepower to provide antiaircraft and Antisubmarine Protection for larger ships. Green Sive is most unusual and i be Lieve completely without p r e c e , 91, who has been act vein politics since Young manhood recalled that head served the party for Many years and said he had seen Many situations arise involving trained relations. But he declared Butler s Broad cast had created a situation which he did not believe had occurred before. Green listed the measures passerby the present Congress and said it has been one of the hardest working and most productive ses Sions of any i have known during my 22 years in the  but now Green said demo cratic members of the Senate and of the House Are confronted with a dilemma. They Are finding them selves attacked not from without by republicans but from within by a fellow Democrat and on standing High in the party organization. As you Well know my service in the democratic party goes Backmann decades. During this time i have known senators who renounced our party and joined an other one and i have known governors who have campaigned against candidates of their own and our party. None of these acts has met with favor of men of party loyalty but this is the first time i history so far As i know that a National committee chairman has opened fire on senators of his own party on the committee chairmen of his party in the Congress and so in fact upon All democratic members of both houses of the Congress. If the excuse is Given that twill help new democratic Candi dates for Congress at the next election to be confronted by their Republican opponents with  by the democratic National chairman believe  i simply do not stunting kills swimmer 15 Seattle a a boy who leaped into the Lake Washington ship canal with his hands and feet tied in what was to have been a. Demonstration of his swimming prowess drowned Here. Robert Waugh 15, was swim Ming with two companions from Alog Boom in the canal when according to police he suggested to his friends that they tie his handstand feet he told his companions he would untie himself while underwater. With his hands and feet tied he jumped into the water. He did t come up. His body was not re covered. Fisher makes costly catch Jacksonville Fla. Up a. C. Christopher a shrimp Fisher Man said the owner May have the10-hp outboard motor he caught if hell pay the $75 damage it did this nets  
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