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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday August 20, Bouse approves Bill to exempt newscast from equal time Rule Washington a the House passed legislation clarifying existing Law requiring equal radio television program opportunities for. Political candidates. A. One sided voice vote sent the measure to the Senate which has passed a companion measure. The Senate May accept the House ver Sion or Send the two Bills to a Compromise committee to work out differences in the  legislation would exempt from the equal time requirement any appearance of a legally Quali fied candidate on a. Bonda fid newscast or on an on the spot coverage of news events if the candidate s appearance was Inci dental to presentation of the  program arranged primarily to promote a candidate would not be exempt under the  necessity for the legislation stems from a Federal communications commission ruling last june. Under this the appearance of legally qualified candidate in the course of a newscast must be considered use of a broadcasting Sta Tion s facilities and requires that equal facilities be provided for other candidates who request it Al " i mini 11111111. Rockefeller meets Ike tests political feeling but is silent on plans Washington a acting like a Man trying hard to Malc Eup his mind about 1960, gov Nel son a. Rockefeller tested the capital s political Waters with bit revealing any future plans. The new York governor few in for a whirlwind round of Ferencek including a 45-minutesession with president Eisenhower at the White House on civil de sense matters. Although Rockefeller told a Nevra conference that nothing of a serious character bearing on the 1960 Republican presidential Nom joint group oks labor Emoi rights9 Washington up a sen ate House conference committee trying to Hammer out a Compromise labor Reform Bill quickly agreed on a Bill of rights provision for rank and file Union members. Taking up noncontroversial is sues first the seven senators an seven House members also agreed on reporting requirements for labor  reporting Section would re quire unions to file Public report son their administrative Organiza Tion and their finances. Bight to speak the Bill of rights was designed to guarantee Union members the right to speak freely at Union meeting and to participate in Union  Graham a. Barden d "n.c. Of the House labor commit tee the head of the House conferees said he hoped the commit tee could reach agreement on a Compromise by the end of the week. The committee will face its mos difficult task in trying to resolve differences on organization or blackmail picketing and second Ary Boycotts. The House Landrum Griffin Bill would impose far More stringent curbs on unions in these Fields than would the Senate measure. Al Cio views at Unity House pa., where Thea jul Cio executive Council was meeting Al Cio president George Meany told newsmen the Labo federation hoped the less Detri mental provisions of both Meas ures would be adopted but added we Are not  the Council and Meany himself entered most of their fire on the Landrum Griffin Bill. Meany termed Jijita Juller Bill authored by Theta is. Chamber of Commerce and the National Assn. Of manufacturers to weaken unions. A w hearings open to Public Washington a the sen ate rackets committee has decide to make its investigation of the United Auto workers Law Union Public. Fun a Surprise move the commit tee reversed itself and announced at transcripts of testimony Al ready taken will be released to the Public and that future hearings would be  committee has been questioning witnesses in secret and Only last week voted to keep the hearings closed. Walter Reuther president of the Law had demanded Public  Law inquiry is believed to 1 Center around some business Deal Ings Between Richard t. Gosser of Toledo Ohio a Law vice presi Dent and the Union s local 12 in Toledo Many of the matters being testified to in the current hearing were investigated Jay the Union a fetal absolved Gosser of any Rescue worker Aid mashup survivors see Lioto on Page if injured survivors of an autobahn bus truck mashup near Darmstadt Germany Are carried from the bus by Rescue workers. Six were killed in the crash five of them belgian boys returning Home from vacation and 25 others were injured. Bus Driver was yield for arraignment. _ Ufi 6 killed 25 injured in autobahn bus truck crash Darmstadt Germany a six belgians five of them boys aged 12 to 18, were killed on the autobahn near Here when their bus crashed into a truck police re ported. Josef Vos the belgian Driver of the bus was put under arrest. He was to be arraigned  to police reports 25 persons were injured 11 of the seriously. They were rushed in German and . Army ambulances to hospitals in Mannheim and Heidelberg. The injured include done woman. The co Driver of the bus was killed. 53 students on bus of the 62 occupants of the bus,53 were Young belgian boys from the technical school of Antwerp. They were on their Way Home froma vacation in Tyrol Austria. Headed by Rev Johan Boon of Brus Sels and Jack Cuppen of Nee Roe Teren they All belonged to a Cath Olic youth organization. Police said the bus had tried to pass a German trailer truck from bochum which the bus Driver apparently had seen Only split seconds before As he came up behind it in the righthand Lane. The bus in attempting to  shit a Corner of the trailer slitting open the right Side of the bus fro the front to the Middle. All five boys and the co Driver who were killed had been sitting on the right Side in the bus. Buenos a ires prelate named Vatican City Lap Pope John Xxiii Lias appointed Antonio Cardinal a Fuggiano As archbishop of Buenos Aims succeeding msgr Beroun Fitte who died a & billion housing Bill sent to House by Senate Washington a the sen ate passed a new $1,050,000,000housing Bill after refusing to make any substantial concessions on the floor to president Eisenhower s objections. Passage was on a Roll Call vote of 71-24.the measure now goes to the House which reportedly will not Bein a hurry to act on it. There seemed to be a Good Chance i would not reach the president s desk until close to adjournment Day. Warren Tours East Berlin Berlin up chief Justice Earl Warren wednesday toured the soviet sector of Berlin for a hour. He was accompanied by his wife and a  state department of Cial. The Warrens Rode in a stat department station Wagon with . Forces License plates. Communist Border guards waved the Auto Mobile in and out of East Berlin. Several senators raised theory however that the Bill Likely would be vetoed just As its predecessor was. As it passed the Senate the Compromise measure was Cut Well below the $1,375,000,000 total in the measure which or. Eisenhower killed last month. He rejected that one As inflationary and a Senate attempt to override the veto failed. Same authorization the new Bill still contained authorizations for All of the government backed housing programs in the earlier Bill. It also carried liberalization of the Cha Home insurance program and other provisions designed Toad the private housing Industry. Gop senators joined by som Southern democrats made eight unsuccessful efforts to Knock out of the Bill items to which they said or. Eisenhower objected  of the hardest fights Cen tired around a provision to Starta new program of Federal Aid for College classroom construction with a $50 million loan fund. But republicans were beaten twice in efforts to scuttle this. Nation came up in the talk wit the president he conceded he had discussed the new Hampshire primary Outlook with sen. Style Bridges . It is in new Hampshire s Pri Mary next March that Rockefeller s friends believe he must con test vice president Richard m. Nixon if he intends to bid for the party nomination. Corridors crowded in Between meetings with the president and Secretary of the Treasury Robert b. Anderson Rockefeller created a stir when Betook time out for lunch in the Senate restaurant with new York s gop Sens. Jacob k. Javits an Kenneth b. Keating. I secretaries and tourists crowded the corridors for a glimpse of the personable governor. Republican and democratic senators trooped to his table to shake  the heavily scheduled Day Rockefeller appeared Tobe cautiously feeling out the poli tical situation in anticipation of a decision probably some Tome this fall on whether he will seek the  said or. Eisenhower neither encouraged nor discouraged him inthe matter of trying for the prize. Or. Eisenhower has indicated Hewill not choose Between Nixon and  chairman of a governors con Ference committee on civil defense matters Rockefeller said he urge Der. Eisenhower to act on a con Ference Resolution for a program of erecting individual shelters and providing survival kits for Protection against nuclear fallout. He said or. Eisenhower was co operative and agreed to take the initiative in arranging for a con Ference to launch the program. Ike sets to talk in Battle to lower High wheat props Gettysburg a. A presi Dent Eisenhower has decided to make a radio to Appeal in Advance of the next session of Congress for legislation to reduce the Cost of the wheat Price support program. Word that the president will carry his Campaign for wheat legislation to the people came after or. Eisenhower conferred Here wednesday with Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson. White House press Secretary James c. Hagerty who sat in on a news conference held by Ben son said or. Eisenhower definitely will make a radio to speech Well ahead of the next session which starts in january Benson pictured or. Eisenhower As deeply concerned Over mounting costs and wheat surpluses under the present program. Khrushchev to visit six ties farm Washington up official said plans now Call for soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev to visit six cities and an Iowa Corn farm on his . Tour sept. 15to sept 27. The six cities now on the list Are Washington new Vork. San Francisco to Angeles Pittsburg hand Des Mot neg the Des Moines Stop will be Pri Marily for a visit to the farm of Roswell Garst at Coon rapids Iowa Garst who has visited the soviet Union to advise on Corn production invited Khrushchev when he Learned the soviet Leader was visiting the Tom official said the list was still tentative but fairly  addition of Pittsburgh to the schedule was. Agreed to by the russians after . Officials urged it Chicago which Khrushchev originally mentioned As a City he would like to visit Lias been dropped from the schedule officials gave no explanation  
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