European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday july 16, 1959 it steel stalemate hinges on contract leeway dispute new York a a major stumbling Block in the steel negotiations is the Industry s demands for greater leeway under its labor contracts in promoting More economical operations. The charge of Feather bedding raised in steel negotiations is one heard More and More frequently these Days As employers seek to keep Down production costs and encourage operating efficiency. The Railroad Industry for example has charged in connection with its coming contract negotiations that outmoded work rules in its Union agreements Cost an estimated half billion dollars a year. The steel Industry has put no such estimate on what allegedly unnecessary work practices Cost the steel firms nor have the companies spelled out precisely the present work practices they want changed. David j. Mcdonald head of the United steelworkers Union says the steel companies Feather bed Ding charges Are As phony As a $7  flatly denies present con tracts Sanction Job loafing or Block realization on economies when production processes Are improved. The Union chief says this cannot be much of a problem because total steel labor costs Are lower than two years ago although production is  the Industry insists that wasteful work practices do exist launching test for Dummy Polaris a Geyser of water follows a full scale Dummy Polaris missile aloft As it is ejected from a launcher below the surface of the Pacific of san Clemente Island Calif. The 186-foot-High Crane suspends the mock missile from an attached Cable preventing the Dummy from falling Back into the water and being damaged. The Navy s under water test program permits repeated use of the same Dummy Polaris and so is credited with saving millions of  photo of identifies dead airmail Wiesbaden Germany special air Force officials have identifieda/2c John d. L. Whitt of Kop Perston w.va., As the airman whose body was recovered from a water filled gravel pit near Rhine main air base Early tuesday. An autopsy performed at the Usan Hospital in Wiesbaden attributed death to drowning and aspiration of  what and two companions were reported to have been swimming in the pit an unauthorized swim Ming area dearly saturday. When Whitt became separated from his friends they reported him missing to air police. Alleged killer of 7 found hiding in Canada pig pen Bashaw Canada up a four Day manhunt for Robert Ray mond Cook 22, alleged mass killer ended with his capture in a Pigpen Here. Cook the object of one of the largest dragnet in the history of Western Canada since he escaped from a mental Hospital surrendered without a struggle a few Miles from Here. Cook escaped from the Ponoka mental Hospital where he was being held for observation after being charged with the murder of his father Ray Cook and six other members of the family. And they Are without recourse under existing labor contracts. The companies say that remedial Lan Guage must be negotiated As necessary ingredient of any labor settlement. Mcdonald in refusing to give ground on this Issue has indicated something of the nature of what the Industry is talking about in the negotiations in a letter he wrote the companies and later made  existing agreements we be Lieve Mcdonald said in the letter do not prevent or interfere wit the introduction of technological changes automation changes in methods of production mechanical improvements in the interest of improved methods or products changes in equipment manufacturing processes or method mate rials processed Quality of manufacturing standards or the introduction of  existing language rebuts the notion that Feather bedding has been protected or that manage ment has been obstructed in improving productivity or efficiency. This language likewise makes it Clear that in the absence of changes of the kind referred to above conditions such As overtime distribution systems Relief periods spell arrangements Washup arrangements safety precautions lunch periods Crew size and similar items Are protected from unilateral  you know the Union does not oppose technological change or the has to make Money stretch steelworker9s wife anxious about strike Pittsburgh a take it from mrs. James Moucheron Al steelworkers wives Don to agree with their husbands about a strike. Sure the husband goes to work and earns the m o n e a  said but it s the House wife who has got to make every thing  she hastily added but Jim s the working Man and he makes the decisions. He feels like most steelworkers. They want better benefits and More  Moucheron live in a modest six room House Only a Stone s throw from the Jones & Laughlin steel corp. Plant on Pittsburgh s South Side where Jim Moucheron is employed As a brakeman and pit Man. They share the Home with their3-year-old., son Jimmy and mrs. Moucheron s Mother. They have a dog  has worked in a steel Jelke s wife files suit for divorce from Oleo heir Miami a a divorce petition has been filed in court against Minot Mickey j e 1 k a Oleo Margarine heir who was a Centra figure in a 1953 new York trial involving a Call girl ring. Mrs. Sylvia Eder Jelke s com plaint alleged cruelty. She said he stayed out  asked support for herself the couple s son John 15 months and another child she said she expected to be born in about six weeks. Jelke will inherit a $5 million Fortune when he becomes 30 years of age next november. In 1955, after a Long and lurid trial Jelke was convicted in new York on a charge of inducing Pat Ward into a life of prostitution. He was sentenced to prison for two to three years and was re leased from Green Haven prison in april 1957 after serving 21months. They re playing our song Charleston w. A. A Homer Scruggs 36, and Robert Eugene Combs 27, were arrested on forgery charges. Police said the evidence against them included a Check passed at a music store for the Purchase of a record the prisoner s  Rock school Board challenges Faubus Little Rock Ark. Up the to ittle Rock school Board has adopted by a 4-1 vote a statement challenging gov. Orval Faubus to come up with a plan which will allow the City s High schools to open Jar september on a segregated basis. The statement cited the fact bus was quoted recently As aay he has a plan whereby the four High schools May be operated legally on a segregated basis. It said to Date neither governor Fau bus nor anyone else has come for Ward with any method whereby we May maintain compulsory segregation and still operate our Public High schools. If governor Faubus j ,