European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                P Fik i 1 i i i Foge 4 the stars and stripes thursday july 30, 1959 i m i steel strike starting to Pinch 500,000 As pay backlog used  a the economic squeeze is turning into a Pinch for striking steel workers. Most of the 500,000 strikers have drawn their last full pay Check Sand now can look Forward to Little or no income until their nationwide labor dispute with the steel companies is settled. The strike began july 15, but most of the workers had two weeks plus a few Days of pay coming when they put Down their tools. Practically All of that backlog pay has been passed out in the past new Days. At mercy of savings from Here on most of the strikers will be at the mercy of their Sav Ings accounts. So will be Many of the 78,000 workers furloughed in industries Allied to Basic steel. When savings accounts Are gone and hardship cases develop committees within local unions will step in and quietly arrange credit with shops Banks landlords and other creditors. " the United steelworkers Union has no strike pay As such a Union spokesman said. But locals of the Union have thoroughly trained committees of eight to 10 member who work in secret trying to help 6r to relieve  some of the locals have funds of their own which Are available in hardship cases he  speaking there Are no state or Federal funds for strikers but arrangements vary from state to state. In some there is Money available for destitute cases. Side effects costly for weeks before the strike be Gan stores and shops in Many states advertised widely to get the goods now Don t worry about the Money pay when the strike  moratoriums were voluntarily declared for the duration of the strike on other lines of credit. Automobile Salesman told steel workers to resume payments two weeks after the strike ended. The strike thus far has Cost tax payers very Little but Side effects of the strike can become costly i the dispute goes on. In Pennsylvania alone 18,500 your i a. Debt is Siml i new York up the . Has the world s highest per capita government debt currency expert Frank pick reported. It stands at $1,611. The . Is closely followed by Britain which owes $1,511 forever Man woman and child in that Domain. Governments of English speaking countries pick said Are More prone to borrow. New zealand Canada and Australia comprised the top five nations. Tiny Belgium is  the major Western euro Pean countries France is 10th with $350, Italy 18th with $166, Spain 20th with $138,.and West Germany 28th with $87. Pick called government Bonds certificates of guaranteed confiscation and said private citizens insurance companies and Bankers rooftop Duel with escaped mental patient armed with a Pitchfork a a Jama Clad mental patient in London defies policemen who Are closing in on him atop Hospital roof. The patient who had escaped from Ward and sought Refuge on 15-Foothigh roof held off police two hours. Keystone workers in industries Allied to steel Are Idle As an indirect result of the strike. Most of them Are eligible for the maximum of $35 weekly compensation from the state government. Strikers Are not eligible for the compensation. Navy planning 2d sign photos Washington plans to take More the Navy pictures of charging Bear blinds alaskan 17 Juneau Alaska a a teen age Sharpshooter fired at a charging Bear but the animal knocked jigs Rifle aside and clawed him so severely a doctor said he would be  Hagmeier 17, of Auke Bay Alaska was reported in fair Condi Tion at a Juneau Hospital after two hours of surgery. A doctor said 4he Bear slashed the boy s optic nerves Hagmeier who recently won honors for marksmanship did thave time to take careful aim at the charging Bear. Atmospheric disturbances on the Sun with a 12-Inch telescopic Cam Era Riding High in the stratosphere on a giant plastic balloon. The. First lift was july 11. A spokesman said the balloon will make its second flight aug. 5, if All goes Well. The flights Are made near St. Paul Minn. He said the flights originally were set six weeks apart but the schedule was seeded because tremendous explosions on the snare continuing. Four flights set a series of four flights is planned this summer in an Effort to learn How Long Gas spots remain hot and to obtain a comparison of Sun spots in magnetic and nonmagnetic areas. On its first flight the balloon soared More than 15 Miles above the Earth. The camera operated by Remote control both photo graphed and televised the Sun. The camera was developed by Martin Schwarzschil " Princeton University astronomer who is director of the Navy project. Us free health service Cost $1.7 billion in 1958 London up Britain got a staggering Bill for its free National health service during 1958.the nation s doctor Bill totalled 626 milion pounds $1,752,800,000 the ministry of health s report for1958 revealed. Of this amount National health service contributions from the patients themselves personal charges the National insurance fund and local taxes paid less than 24 per cent. The balance a total of $1,344, 000,000 was paid by the govern ment. Notable victories the ministry said last year s health Bill Rose by More than on third from the 1949-50 year. In creased costs and pay during the 10 years of the health service Slife accounted for 70 per cent of the increased Cost of the service. But this increased National health Cost has won some notable victories the ministry said. Hospitals treat a million More patients a year than they did in 1949, yet waiting lists for medical attention Are about half As Long. The 10 years of the health serv ice have seen remarkable Success revolt expected if stalinist Rule returns Cambrage mass up two Harvard social scientists say soviet of citizens have adopted the Western goals of personal Success and Security and might rebel if their rulers tried to re impose stalinist austerity. The analysis appeared in a new Book the soviet citizen by profs Alex Inkeles and Raymond a. Tj3auer, published by the Harvard University press. It is based on hundreds of interviews with per sons who have left Russia and on numerous other sources. Stalinist Rule created a deep and Long lasting impression in the Sov Iet people wrote the authors and left a residue of bitterness and resentment against arbitrary violent and despotic patterns of governing with which All subsequent govern ments must  the same deprivations unless the people genuinely saw them As necessitated by external threat would not again be accepted with out Large scale passive resistance and the generation of tensions which would threaten to become explosive they said in their Book. The idea of following tradition Al family pursuits has been replaced with the value of Success or of Security where Success is not pos sible they said in summing up. The authors said the West can not expect Russia to move toward the democratic constitutional  any pressure for change within the soviet regime will be couched in terms of improvement of the existing system rather than in terms of changing the system they concluded. With tuberculosis with a spectacular decrease in mortality from the disease. And great improve ment in the care of the mentally ill the ministry report said. In 1948, 21,993 britons died from tuberculosis with 52,576 cases re ported. In 1958, Only 4,480 persons died from the disease and Only 29, 838 cases were reported the report said. Who regard them As a sound in vestment Are naive in View of the lessons of history. Inflation devaluations and planned debasement of Purchas ing Power without Legal devaluation have made a tragic joke out of such debt certificates pick wrote in the current Issue of pick s cur Rency yearbook. He suggested that governments abolish Public Bonds and meet in creased costs with higher taxes or if they have to borrow in the form of guaranteed purchasing Power of such debt certificates an their  Only two have no debt 1?ick stressed in his tabulation of National debts of 61 countries that the figures Are minimums. Man governments have hidden debts in addition to those they report he said. He said that the dominican re Public and Ghana for All practical purposes have no Public debt. Pick s tabulation of National debts per capita United states $1,611, b r i t Ai n $1,511, new zealand $1,071, Canada $991, Australia $957, Belgium $766, Uruguay $529, Sweden $462, the Netherlands $429,.France $350 Ireland $332, Israel $322, Norway $317, Switzerland $284, Denmark $276, Iceland $258, South africa$225, Italy $166, Greece $142, Spain $138 $90 in Austria Turkey $122, Finland $122, Cuba $120, Rhodesia and Nyasa land $109, Argentina $106, Venezuela $102, Austria $90, West Germany $87, Costa Rica $74, Panama $65 Portugal $54, Ceylon $43, Malaya $41, Philippines $41, Egypt $40, Colombia $40, Japan $33, South Korea $31, Indonesia $29, ecuador$27 Suriname $26, India $26, Vietnam $24, Peru $24, Brazil $22, Guate Mala $20, Thailand $18, Liberia $18, Salvador $17, Haiti $15 Mexico $15, Chile $13, honduras$9, Pakistan $7, Burma $6, Hong Kong $4, Nicaragua $4, Sudan $3, Iran $1.50, and Ethiopia 68 cents. 21 mommies Hurt i truck Nicosia up Twenty one British soldiers were injured Many seriously when a truck in which they were Riding plunged Down a 150-foot precipice on a Mountain Road West of Here. 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