European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 4, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 Norb setup jurisdictional Rule on hotels Washington a the National Labo relations Board has decided 3-2 that it will assert Federal jurisdiction Over labor cases involving hotels and motels Only if they do an annual Gross business of $500,000. Earlier the Board had tentatively set the figure at $100,000 or More. The decision was made in a Cas involving the floridan hotel of Tampa flu. Since the hotel did a business of almost $1 million last year the Norb ordered an election Hel among its 130 employees within 30 Days to determine whether the want Union bargaining rights. First time it was the first time the boar Dever has Federal labor Laws to any part of the hotel Busi Ness in the states. It previously has handed hotel cases in the Dis strict of Columbia and offshore possessions. The Union involved in the Florida hotel Case. The hotel workers Union appealed an ear Lier Norb denial of jurisdiction in a Union organizing drive involving Miami Beach fla., hotels. That Case went to the supreme court which ordered the Norb to end. A traditional Blanket exemption fall hotels. In the new ruling Board Mem Ber 4 Joh n h. F a h n i n g said he thought a $100,000 jurisdiction Standard would be More appropriate. Dissenter s stand the other Norb member Dis agreeing with the $500,000 Standard was Josepha. Jenkins. He said the Norb should decide whether to assert jurisdiction on the circumstances in each Case. The majority said the $500,000 Standard would bring Well Over 60 per cent of hotel Industry workers under Norb jurisdiction. It noted that where smaller hotels Are part of a Chain or handle their labor relations on a group basis they also would come within Norb jurisdiction. Flood stalls car Driver escapes Philadelphia cup Joseph Watts 75, narrowly escaped drowning when a violent Thunder storm stalled his automobile under a Railroad overpass and filled it with five feet of found Watts perched on the Back of the front seat of the Auto with Only a few inches of air space Edward Williamson and John Mason who swam to the Rescue said Watts could not swim and they were forced to Duck him under the water to get him out of the Auto. Wasp sting fatal to Alabama woman Birmingham Ala. Up Mcwillie 48,. Died shortly after she was stung by a husband said she complained o f a stomach pain after the was stung her on the head. Then she collapsed. Manhattan Spires in a sea of fog shrouded in fog the skyscrapers of Manhattan loom gloomily beyond the web he rigging of the Brooklyn Bridge. High humidity High tempera Tures and fog have made new yorkers feel like they re wrapped in a giant wet Blanket lately but Clear Days Are ahead. Up photo exhibits finish second in popularity russians favor guides at us. Fair Washington top at traction at the american National exhibition in Moscow is turning out to be the Young american guides. Paul Conroy . Information Agency Trainer for the guides has reported that thousands of rus sians show More interest in quiz zing the russian speaking Ameri cans than in the glittering hard Ware the guides Are supposed to show off. The russians ask a b o u t the american Way of living unemployment wages and prices about .bases overseas and Whethe. Americans Walit peace. Few questions hostile Conroy said few of. The questions Are hostile. Most of them he said reflect friendliness and a vast curiosity by the russians about the . Conroy shepherded 75 of the specially picked guides by ship and train to Moscow. About five other joined the group in Moscow. Mostly Young men and women in their20s, the guides Are . Students and teachers with a Good knowl Edge of russian. Negroes Surprise their pay is travel expenses and a living allowance during their six weeks in Moscow. One Surprise to the russians Conroy said Are the four negroes on the guide Force the visitors tothe fair frequently ask about racial. Exclusive club s Rolls hit 100 As general flies at Mack 2 fort Worth Tex. A exactly 100 persons now hold membership in the exclusive Mach 2 club that Means All of them have flown More than twice the Speed of sound or something Over 1,300 Mph. The Conyar division of general dynamics corp., which builds the four Jet b58 bomber brought the club Rolls up to Date. It reported of Gen Mark e. Brad Ley jr., air Force Deputy chief of staff for Materiel was the 100thindividual to travel twice the Speed of sound in. A Delta Wing b58, which Novair Calls the Hustler. No Date was Given for Bradley s started b58 test flights in 1956, it established the honorary Mach 2 club last year. Discrimination in the . Re propaganda portrays the negro As practically in slave status in this country. Say something in your own language is one question that has been addressed to negro guides by russians under the impression that american negroes have been freshly abducted from Africa the negroes speak English an russian but no african languages. Their obvious advanced education amazes the russians As Well As the equal treatment Given them Amon the guides Conroy said. Librarian rejects attack restores racial books Shreveport. La. Up the chief librarian at Shreve memo rial Library Here said two Chil Dren s books attacked by a local newspaper As promoting racial integration have been put Back into general Boone placed the books on the restricted shelf for a time explaining they would be available to children Only with parental per Mission. Later she put them Back in the open Book a fairy tale called Black and White was called insidious interracial propaganda by the Shreveport journal. The other the first Book of fishing con Jailer to quit Job so needy Man can have it Benton 111. Up Franklin county Jailer Charley Molesky has announced he is quitting his $200-a-month Job so an unemployed Man with a wife and two children can have it Moleski a Veteran of 30 years inthe Marine corps said i m not in bad shape with my government pension and besides this Man really needs the $3 million estate Newport . A Henry t. Fletcher former Republican National chairman and career Diplo mat has left a personal estate estimated at $3 million to his two Sisters and various nephews an nieces trained interracial overtones the paper said. It called for a statewide investigation of All Public libraries for similar material. I would prefer to close the Library said miss Boone rather than Bow to censorship of that sort which would never the fairy tale concerns a Blackman and a White lady who get married. The fishing Book contain pictures of White and negro Chil Dren picnicking together but has no reference to race in the tie Wake of the journal s attack the Library Board of control held a special meeting to Dis cuss the problem of Public censor ship and to formulate a policy statement regarding statement said in part the Board is confident that the librarian and Library staff Are Ca Pable of selecting books to meet the needs of individuals an groups represented among patrons and we will support them in Tow away zone signs a farce police admit new York up police admitted sheepishly that Tow away zone signs on Midtown no Park ing Street Are Only Good to intimidate the City closed Down its impounding Yards and stopped Tow ing cars away from no parking zones a year ago. To save Money. Anti-. Talk discounted by filipino chief Washington up presi Dent Carlos p. Garcia says that the Philippines Are still the Best Friend of the United states despite Sev eral irritants in the two nations relations. Garcia refused to comment on the dispute Over jurisdiction on cases involving american military personnel stationed in the Philip Pines. He also refused comment on the controversy Over a statement by filipino prosecutor Union c. Kay Anan that filipino guards stationed at America s Clark air base were guilty of the Wanton killing of Petty thieves. Foreign office disturbed the philippine foreign office was reported disturbed Over the alleged refusal by Clark officials to hand Over information concern ing the killing of pilfer ers by guards. Garcia said there were some Lead ers particularly in the filipino Congress who criticized . Policy but that they did not reflect the general sentiment. On another Point the president expressed his annoyance with a gloomy picture of the philippine Economy painted by currency Franz pick in the latest Issue of pick s currency yearbook. I do not think it is worthy of my attention he said. Four tripped by Hatch act Washington up the civil service commission has found four Indiana state officials guilty of improper political activity an called for removal of two of them from office. The commission said the four officials violated the Hatch act by coercing and soliciting political contributions from employees in the Indiana department of conserva Tion. The contributions allegedly were for the Republican stat Central committee. The Hatch act restricts political activity by Federal workers and also by state government employees whose jobs Are financed partly with Federal funds. The commission said the activities of Doxie Moore former head of the department of conserva Tion and Ralph f. Wilcox the state forester warranted their commission noted however that Moore had left the top conservation Post in 1954 and had become an administrative assistant to the governor of Indiana. The commission said that Henry a. Beadell and Warren Palmer both of the forestry division had violated the Hatch act but that the violations were not sufficient to in stiff loss of their jobs. The commission said the four men solicited funds for the gop in 1953 and 1954. A meow in the night cuts cat s ride Short St. John., Kun. A the cat s meow put Joseph g. Lewis in a Hospital. The Wichita Man got put of his car in the darkness to stretch his Leafs. Through the open door cat hopped into the car with out Lewis seeing it. A Lewis drove on the cat leaped onto the Back of the Driver s seat rubbed its whiskers against Lewis and Jet out a loud meow. State trooper Tony Bendel re ported the startled Lewis lost control of the car. It rolled into Field and was badly damaged Lewis was hospitalized in with cuts bruises and Shock. / 0, to t is i by a a a
