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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of m 1 the stars and stripes saturday August 1, 1959 steel strike biting taxpayers As Idle men seek Relief Pittsburgh a the nationwide steel strike has sent hungry hand into the taxpayers pocketbook As the walkout moved through its third  costs to the Federal govern  alone was expected to reach $45 million a week if the strike of 500,000 steel workers goes on much  and unemployment Bureau officials in Many states  the strike noted outside their doors lengthening lines of strik ers and other workers Laid off be cause of the  for flour Corn meal powdered milk and Rice from fed eral stocks of surplus food were on the increase in several states. Pennsylvania where the strike has hit the hardest has about 20,000 no striking workers who temporarily Are Laid off their jobs in industries Allied with steel. Each is eligible for $35 weekly i compensation. Relief costs to Pennsylvania Are estimated at $50,000. By aug. 15 the Cost will be about $300,000 and if the strike continues to ept. 15, the costs to Pennsylvania in compensation will reach $1.5 million. Accrued vacation pay by thou Sands of strikers has helped to hold Down unemployment and re Lief costs but most of that Back log has. Now been eaten away bythe strike. New Jersey officials anticipated pile up in Relief requests in the next few Days As vacation time issued up. The Utah employment office has applications for unemployment insurance from 800 to 900 Iron and Coal miners who Are out of work because of the strike. Payments on claims has begun and the Cost to the state at the present rate i about $6,500 per month. About 2,000 applications Are expected in Missouri for surplus food. V benefits available for strikers vary. In some states strikers get Little or no help while in others a striker is simply a Man out of work. He gets As Many benefits As a Man Laid off for other Rea sons. Many of the half million strikers and the 87,000 other workers Laid off As an indirect result of the strike Are turning to other jobs. Much of their Par time work is minor and. Produces far less pay than work in a Busy steel Mill. But Little As it is the pay is More acceptable than Relief Money and better than no pay at All. Par time work has tended to hold Down on compensation costs. In several states most heavily affected by the strike there Are studies under Way on How to com Bat  National metalwork weekly Magazine the Iron age quote Secretary of Treasury Robert b. Anderson As saying he feared a Long strike could ,pu1, the govern ment s fiscal year budget in the  estimated that a Long strike could Cost the government$30 million a week in revenues from steel company profits $10 million weekly from taxes on steel workers wages and $5 million in Revenue from taxes on profits and wages in industries crippled by the steel walkout. Mac Millum tries Rock n Roll British prune minister Harold Macmillan rocks the Carriage of his grandson Timothy Heath in Birch Grove South of London. A space unit starts study to fire Moon Seismograph Washington a the fed eral space Agency has announced contracts to develop an instruments Ith which it might attempt to probe the surface of the Moon fiver six years from now. The lunar Seismograph might weigh up to 20 pounds and would in ploy reverse thrust rockets to 2d Tot in family. J Dies in plunge St. Louis a Linda Nelson 2, was killed when she fell 100 feet from the 10th Story of a apartment. Police making up the Accident report on Linda s death recalled that a Young boy recently had Bee killed in the same manner. Police files were checked. The dead boy turned out to be Linda brother Bernard 3. Soften the Impact upon the Moon. Once on the lunar surface the Moon quake detection system would gather information As to the co3h position of the Moon s crust and the activity or motion of the crust. It would relay to Earth data on the types of Rock encountered whether molten or solid and de tails As to the size and velocity of meteorites. To finance the first year of development work the National aeronautics and space administration awarded contracts of $130,000 each to Columbia University and California Institute of technology. The two schools will collaborate. Selling Point Carmi 111. Up sheriff nor Wood Proctor begged White county residents to be on their Best be Havior for the next week. His jail was full up. Renewal of violence feared Makarios Grywa rift perils Cyprus Nicosia a less than six months after settlement of the Cyprus problem the protagonists in the greek cypriot struggle for Independence a re h Bishop Makarios and Oka chief Gen George Theodorou Grivas have fallen out and their rift May. Yet Lead to renewed violence on the Island.  London agreement was reached last february Makarios has been working locally to implement its terms. Grivas on the other hand retired to Athens Asan honoured National hero to be wooed by. Greek opposition parties badly in need of a Strong popular personality against Premier Constantine Karamanlis. Grivas had made it Clear he would like to emulate France s Gen Charles de Gaulle if called on to serve his country. He has b e chief Klemyk shooting9 Asheville . A Here Are the facts As police chief a.  reported them a boy was shooting a Rifle Neara Golf course. Suddenly he turned and fired directly at another boy standing nearby. Bystanders gasped As the second lad clutched his stomach and red stain oozed along his shirt front. A third youth hustled up helped the boy into a car and sped off. The bystanders telephoned  room attendants at a Hospital were notified to stand  says he s looking into the Law to determine whether the  . And added the chief those Shell the first boy was firing were Blanks that red stuff on the Sec Ond boy s shirt was Tomato Catsup and that third Young Rascal was inon the plan too. Alaska senator wins Flag Battle Washington a sen. Ern est Gruening Dalaska told the Senate he had won his Battle to have a 49-Star Flag placed behind the presiding officer s chair. He Cimpl ined against the us of what he called an obsolete 48 Star Flag that does not include astar for Alaska. V Gruening told his colleagues sergeant at arms Joseph c. Duke has agreed to replace it speedily. 79 France deaths since 56 Laid to algerians t5 a to dec / a a \ . A,.u.1_1 i i i a a a a 1jparis a the 4%-year-old algerian nationalist rebellion is1 be no fought not Only in the Hills 1 of a Algeria but along the peaceful streets of metropolitan France. & to few French news Agency re there have been 8,194 acts of Sabo Tage or terrorism in France that have resulted in 61 civilians being killed and 300 wounded. There were also 18 policemen killed during the same period. The persons and interned at one timer another 2,000 moslem suspects. Most of the Biff Titan dead were moslem members of rival rebel organizations or algerians who re fused to contribute funds to the rebel underground or take part in come increasingly critical of Arch Bishop Makarios. Last monday he indirectly denounce the Zurich and London agreements which he accepted be fore leaving the Island he told a group of cypriots his dream was Makarios Grivas and continues to be to see the greek Flag Over Cyprus. He spoke of dark forces in Cyprus trying to perpetuate the enslavement of the Cyprus people. Makarios in turn after keeping silent for some time hit out against his athenian detractors accusing them of being motivated by selfish political ambitions an making use of the Cyprus struggle for their own ends. Greek cypriot reaction to the Makarios Grivas rift so far has been wholehearted support for Makarios. Since it has been proved How Ever that arms Are still being smuggled into Cyprus local observers do not discount the possibility that even a Small minority of disgruntled former Oka me May resort to violence again. Karamanlis came out against Grivas thursday when he said Grivas s statements on the Zurich and London accords on Cyprus constituted a threat to the peace an Unity of the cypriot people. The Premier said that for the past month Grivas has been at tacking the government Makarios and the political leaders of the country. So far i had ignored these at tacks because whether the general wished to enter politics was a matter that concerned the greek people Karamanlis said. But his declaration of wednesday referring to the Zurich and London agree ments Over Cyprus cannot leave me  Grivas said then that he would fight to the last to thwart at tempts at subjugating the cypriot  he said the Zurich and London agreements were signed without him being consulted. The greek government is re solved to respect fully the Zurich and London agreements and to ensure their faithful application so that the Independent state of Cyprus May be formed within a few months Karamanlis said. Christener misses pursues Navy ship Bay City Mich. A mrs. Lillian Mccormick missed the boat with a Champagne bottle. The sponsoring party had to Board a tug and follow the destroyer Lynda Mccormick into the Harbor for the christening. The 4,500-ton, vessel is named after mrs. Mccormick s late Hus band an Admiral. 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