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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday july 17, 1959 congressman raps jailing of picketing son Washington a rep. Wil Liam a. Meyer Dot denounced As jul decal dictatorship the jailing of his son by a Federal judge i connection with demonstrations against construction of a missile base in Nebraska. Federal judge Richard e. Rob Inson last Friday ordered the congressman s son Karl h. Meyer to jail for six months for parole  Meyer had been arrested the week before charged with trespassing along with other while demonstrating against the building of the Atlas base at Mead neb. The judge fined him $500 and sentenced him to a jail term. The sentence and Fine were sus Pended on condition Meyer stay away from the Mead site. Defies judge but Young Meyer went Back again was rearrested for tres passing and ordered to jail by  congressman in a letter to his son in the Douglas count jail at Omaha said Robinson s condition which you did not accept that you stay away from the Vicinity of military Sites was in my opinion an example of judicial dictatorship 7"he does not own the american land and he is not god Meyer  actions May be excused on the grounds that he did not know what to do. Probably he is a Good Inan confused by conflicting re  offer everything from bonuses to club memberships Short handed firms put out lures for secretaries new York up a secretarial shortage has hit the White Collar world so severely that employers Are wooing business school graduates with offers of country club memberships Freedom to re decorate offices and  of finding husbands on the Job. Guaranteed annual vacations an daily Coffee Breaks air conditioning and bargain lunches also Are being offered to lure girls to the secretarial Field which has been deserted by Many in recent years for More glamorous sounding jobs. Married secretaries Are being promised maternity leaves. Older women Are being hired or told they can stay on beyond the usual retirement Ages. Young receptionists and promising stockroom girls Are being sent to secretarial schools by their Bosses. Bonuses profit sharing Stock in the company free insurance and Charm school courses also Are being held out As bait. Most employers Are offering higher salaries but secretaries say More Money is not the most in Portan incentive the National secretaries Assn., which is campaigning relentlessly to put across the idea that being Secretary is a profession not just a Job is becoming increasingly concerned Over the shortage of skilled  official of the association said secretaries have come a Long Way since the first demure girl typewriter As they were called then timidly walked into an of fice in the late 19th Century and began pecking out letters on a crude typewriter for $10 a week. Now the army of secretaries needed in offices across the nation must know not Only shorthand and typing and How to run various business machines. They must know How to shop wisely for the Boss figure his income tax and keep the wrong persons from Sec ing him and give appointments tothe right ones. Among the association s 20,000members Are some who make As much As $10,000 a year. A few have risen to become officers of the companies they work for. Some secretaries even have secretaries of their own. There Are shortages because the fact has never been considered before that secretarial work can be a career unto itself an association official said. An important thing to remember is that automation will never replace secretaries. A Good Secre tary can never be replaced by a  coming a Long Way in shipbuilding a committee explains pact Washington a the sen ate House atomic Energy co Niit tee has explained Why it  proposed atomic agreements with seven North Atlantic treaty organization nato allies Are in the Best interests of the  group issued a formal report setting Forth its reasons for reject ing resolutions introduced by Sevenhouse members to disapprove the  does not have to vote on the pacts but they must lie before legislators for 60  could be killed during that period by a Resolution of disapproval passed by both House and  agreements Are with Britain France West Germany Turkey the Netherlands Canada and Greece. In general they provide for the . To furnish those nations with nuclear information and in therase of some to give them nuclear materials for weapons and non. Nuclear parts of weapons and weapons systems. The committee in its report said the . And Britain already have benefited extensively from an Exchange of information under a agreement reached last year. Terry Timmins 18, of Long Beach Calif., who last year bicycled across nation to see keel laying of the atomic Cruiser i mgr Beach looks Over the Bow of the finished vessel before christening Cere monies in Quincy  residents paid Timmins expenses to attend the christening with out having to bicycle to Quincy. The ship was not launched but floated in a  photo Way found to deep freeze knowledge firm ignores objections to Lincoln Book Chicago up the president of a publishing House said he has notified a Chicago attorney who had objected to passages in a boo about Mary Todd Lincoln that Tho publishers have no intention of withdrawing the Book from stores. The Book in question is Tho trial of Todd,Lincoln." it describes the trial of mrs. Lincoln the widow of Abraham Lincoln and her commitment to a mental institution and says that Robert Todd Lincoln her son signed the complaint which led to her confinement. In a statement issued through Public relations office Here m. Hughes Miller president of the Bobbs Merrill co., said he had been assured by co authors James , Ohio state auditor and Dean Jauchius that nothing in Chebook presents any cause for Crimi Nal  Miller said he had received a suggestion from Harry j. Dunbaugh member of the Chicago Law firm of Isham Lincoln and Beale that if any of the material in the Book be televised or made into a movie or a stage play the action might subject the publishers producers and authors to possible action. Drinkers dip drinking up envoy to Tunisia named Washington a Walter m. Walmsley a  foreign service officer hag been nominated by president Eisenhower ambassador to Tunisia. To be by North american Newi paper Alliance United nations . Frozen instant knowledge is on the Way scientists predict. According to the United nations educational scientific and cultural organization Enesco the scientists foresee the storing of All the world s knowledge in High Speed electronic computers. They say it can now be done  the storage problem has been solved with a process embodying a deep freeze As cold As 518 degrees fahrenheit below Zero. As reported to a Paris International conference on information processing and explained by Unes co Here an amount of information equivalent to that contained in the human memory can be stored on a piece of Glass 5-by-6 inches. Electric circuits would be Sten filed on the Glass with a Fine film Indium scowl Over bid to make Godfrey chief " Petoskey  Michi Gan s Ottawa Indian tribe is burned up Over a gesture by the Petoskey chamber of Commerce. Arthur Godfrey is involved but Only incidentally. Tribal Pride is the Issue t on its own the chamber invited a television personality to adept adoption As an honorary " chief at the annual Nort a Michigan Ottawa Assn. Pageant. The Ottawa resented this. Lead ers called it a mockery of their sacred ritual. The association comprising 4,000. Ottawa had adopted Only one White Man in its history. He i James Fitzharris Escanaba at Torney who represents them in claims suits against the . Gov  Dominic association pres ident said Tho chamber had no More right to invite a White Man to become an honorary chief than the indians would have in1 appoint ing an honorary member of  the chamber pageant co sponsor Tiad no  Godfrey did t accept the invitation anyway. He sent word it was not possible in View of his recent illness and convalescence from cancer operation., \ of Metal. This would serve As a pattern of electric wires. When Frozen it would become a super conductor through which electric currents would flow indefinitely without any loss. Such Glass plates can solve the size problem. Only a few years ago a total knowledge machine was ruled out because of the huge Stor age space believed necessary. Now that the scientists have figured out a Way of putting the knowledge on ice they must figure out How to organize it so it will come Back in useful form. They say the entire development will require a number of years. Hospital gets $25,000 new York up the new York chapter of the knights of Columbus presented a $25,000 Check to Francis Cardinal Spellman for the new York foundling Hospital. The funds were raised through the chapter s 59th annual Charity Ball. Loma Linda Calif. Up fewer persons today Are drinking alcoholic beverages in the .than 13 years ago but More alcohol is being consumed annually. That s what Andrew c. Ivy physiologist arid head of clinical sciences at the University of Illi Nois told delegates at the 10th anniversary session of the Institute of scientific studies for the prevention of alcoholism meeting at the College of medical evangelists Campus Here. Ivy said the answer was s Nile the drinkers Are consuming More. He said recent figures show that55 per cent of the adults in the . Drink alcoholic beverages and 45 per cent Don to a drop of about 12 per cent since 1946.to illustrate the amount of Alco hol annually consumed by the drinkers Ivy said if All the adults of voting age were to Divide the 30 billion ounces of absolute alcohol produced in the nation annually into even doses there would be enough to keep All the voters staggering drunk for 40  said he believed the decrease in drinkers indicated a wave of  will s. Weep the coun try Between 1965 and 1970  
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