European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Or Riff of a a l or to " v. " 1 f t x. Jul 1 _ -. Wednesday july 29, 1959 the stars and stripes Page ? f a a stores i -. Set to reopen in new York new York up striking a a warehousemen have voted to accept a new contract ending a strike which began june 15 and shut Down ,400 of the Chain s Foo stores in the metropolitan area. A spokesman said clerks would Start reporting Back at once to shelves. The stores will reopen thursday. The stores were forced to close idling some 20,000 other workers after supplies ran out june 20. The strike affected 1,400 members of local852 of the teamsters Union. _ " the new twp year contract Rati fied by the strikers Calls for a 5? a week wage package double. Pay for sunday work and other fringe benefits for the first year. In the second year the. Workers will get a $3 a week Var the pre strike wage for the employees was about $104 a week House boosts its allow w0? Washington up the House has approved legislation to boost the stationery allowances fits members from $1,200 to $1,800 a year. The action came on a Resolution offered by rep. Samuel n. Friedel did chairman of a House administration  Money can be drawn out in Cash if desired or used to pay for paper and other office  said recently that Many congressmen probably would draw the increased allowance. In Cash and use it to help pay their Tele phone and Telegraph  said the increasing popularity of newsletters to the folks Back Home was one reason for the need of a higher allowance for stationery. The salary of a congressman is$22,000 a year taxable. He also is eligible to receive the following an income tax deduction of up to $3,000 a year for living expenses away from Home. $17,500 for salaries of employ Esin his office. .$1,200 for District office rental.$600 for expenses of running those offices. $400 for air mail and special de livery Stamps. Free mailing privileges for Reg ular postage. Six thousand minutes of free Long distance  thousand words of free telegrams. Travel pay of 20 cents a mile in going to and returning from each regular session of Congress. N june Export total higher than 1958 Washington up the value of june exports totalled $1,-409,000,000, a bit higher than in june 1958, the Commerce depart ment reports. It was the first time since no vember 1957 that the nation s Export total for one month topped the level of the previous year. But report shows staggering traffic toll safest of roads in 1958 Chicago a the nation s Turnpike achieved a shining record last year. Despite the relatively High speeds permitted on such expressways they were nearly twice As Safe another roads and,., highways. Deaths on the turnpikes averaged 1.3 of reach Loo million passenger Miles compared with.2.3 on other highways and roads. Allowing for fatalities to passengers other than the Driver that Means the average turn Pike Motorist could expect to Coyer about 50millioni Miles before becoming. Involved in an Accident in. Which someone was killed. The National safety Council Csc which made the study for its statistical yearbook Accident facts said that 270 Auto passengers and Drivers were killed of turnpikes in 1958more than 24,000 such deaths occurred in cars and taxis elsewhere. A Highway collision a slip and fall Down a stairway or a drowning usually Don t make screaming headlines. But their combined total has mounted much higher than the toll from the nation s wars and other great catastrophes. Motor vehicle accidents alone have killed 1,265,000 in the . This Century. This is twice the toll of 604,773 killed in Battle or dead of wounds in All principal conflicts from the revolutionary War through the korean War. Three famous disasters the Chicago fire the san Francisco earthquake and the titanic sinking took a combined toll of 2,169. More than 40 times that Many . Residents died in accidents last year the study  the Overall total of accidental deaths is taking an actual drop despite the surge i population in the last 35 years. A total of 91,000 met death from accidents fall types in 1958, or 1,100 less than the 1923-32 average of 92,100. The Csc study showed that saturday Isth week s worst Day for traffic accidents followed by sunday. And teen agers As a group have been wars Drivers than the average. The 7 per cent of Drivers under 20 have caused More than 12 per cent of Auto accidents in recent years. Autographed by an artist pianist Van Cliburn Center autographs copies of his latest recording for two admirers soviet athletes Taisya Chenchik left and Vasili Kuznet Sov at a new York Airport where the russian track team was boarding a plane for Home after a meet with . Athletes in Philadelphia. Up photo 24-hour nationwide net Ito radio alerts Washington a a National network of weather Bureau radio broadcast stations to putdown on storm deaths and dam age has been proposed by sen. Theodore Francis Green . Green would have the Burea install and maintain radio stations which would broadcast forecast Sand warnings at All hours. In cases of National emergency the stations would broadcast civil defense announcements in addition to weather information. Manufacturers have told Green that portable transistor radio re Brooklyn Ite found near death in desert Hunt for Gold mine Brawley Calif. Aan easterner who set out afoot to search for a legendary lost mine in the scorching desert was found near death. I searchers found Joseph Pend Ginski 42, of brooklyn., n.y., unconscious and dehydrated in an abandoned mine Shaft. He is in  in a Hospital Here. Pedginski left Niland a Small town North of Here Friday. A note \ to a hotel owner said he was headed for the chocolate mountains to look for the Peg leg Gold mine sup Posedly a Rich producer in the"1880s Pedginski took Only a Small canteen of water and two cans of Tomato juice. The temperature hit 130 degrees in the area he was  he failed to return Sher Iff s deputies and Border patrolmen began a Hunt. Seivers As Small As cig Aret pack Ages might be produced in Large numbers and at Low Cost for pub Lic reception of the weather Broad casts. Green has asked the Federal communications commission about procedures involved in assigning the weather Bureau necessary wave lengths. The proposed continuous night and Day weather broadcast sys tem would give thousands of communities instantaneous automatic weather forecast service similar to that now available to Telephone subscribers in some Large cities. Operators of Small boats equipped with receivers would be Able to get up to the minute storm in formation which might prove vital. The system would use frequency modulation radio instead of stand Ard audio modulation transmission. Static has less effect on pm than on am. In heavy storm Static Snake coils Way onto to program As unwanted guest Asheville . Up announcer Arthur Whiteside of Sta Tion Wlos to was on camera for the station s late show when he spotted something wiggling on his microphone Cord. Whiteside then made what later was described As the quickest introduction in the history of the program. A second after the camera swung away he grabbed a wastepaper Basket and slammed it Down atop Small Copperhead Snake that had tangled itself around the Cord Lead Rig to his Chest. . Growth cited in study of fund plan Washington up the nation s economic growth has been materially greater Over the past 10 years than previously believed chairman William m. Martin of the Federal Reserve Board said. Martin said this was shown in a revision of the Board s Industrial production Index. He told the joint economic com Mittee that the new Index will show a level of about 160 at mid 1959 10 Points higher than reflected by the unrevised Index for june. Martin made the statement in explaining his opposition to Ahouse proposal which in effect would instruct the Federal Reserve system to buy Long term govern ment Bonds As a Means of increasing the Money Supply inflationary under present conditions he said he believed such action would be inflationary and might put the Federal Reserve system in a Frozen position As far As holdings Are concerned. He denied that his stand represents arrogance or Defiance of  rather he said it was & question of principle in manage ment of our Money  the Federal Reserve Index of Industrial production is a traditional yardstick of economic growth. Martin said the revised Index results from digesting the last full census and re appraising Indus trial data in that Light. Some of the improved position he said re sults from including More fuel and Energy production figures which were not previously represented inthe Index. But he said More than half the increase results from improvement sin measurement of presently included industries. The main effect of the revision in the total he said is to tilt upward this Meas ure of Industrial growth Over the past  Benson Tours Buss exhibit new York up Secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benso toured the soviet exhibit in the coliseum Here. During the tour he talked with soviet officials about soil Banks and farm Relief. 2 students to walk to school so so it 3,238 Miles away Miami up Dick Bailey 22, and Jack hink 23, started walking to school More than 3,238 Miles away. The two hiked out of Miami bound for san Jose Calif. They expected to Hoof it across the continent and arrive in time to Reg ister for the Spring semester i february at san Jose state College. On the Way they planned to swim the Mississippi trudge through death Valley off the land. And live they wore heavy walking shoes and shorts. Each carried a 30 Pound pack stuffed with sleeping bags fishing gear pots pans and snakebite kit. Bailey also carried a guitar. In Case the pair gets thin living off the land he Hopes to Swap a song for a Sandwich. If we have to mooch a meal now and then we will he said. The two san Jose natives had $150.between them