European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 24, 1959 the stars and stripes Freedom gets the once Over workmen inspect the statue of Freedom atop the Capitol in Washington . The structural examination of the dome was the first since it was built Between 1856 and 1863. The dome is also getting a new coat of paint. United press International photo civil defense office plans control Center in Texas washing ton up the office of civil and defense mobilization ocum announced it will construct an underground Region control Center in Denton Tex. Congress approved $2.4 million for the project earlier laser week. Ocum director Leo a. Hoegh said the Center would insure de centralized Federal guidance for the ocum Region which covers Texas new Mexico Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana in the event of enemy attack. Boa in the bag beats Hunting lost snakes Ionia Mich. A John Kimball a sideshow entertainer would t let go of a Large Canvas bag while he was being taken from a fair Here to a Hospital for treatment of a leg injury. Police later found out Why theban contained an eight foot Boa Constrictor and seven smaller snakes Kimball used in his act. The Denton facilities also would serve As an alternate National control Center for civil defense should the ocum establishments at Washington ., and Battle Creek Mich., be destroyed Hoegh said. Describing plans for the under group Al Structure at Denton As austere Hoegh said they would replace surface facilities now Inuse there. Ocum plans Call for a Structure that will accommodate a staff of 200 but could be expanded to House some 500 workers in an emergency. Hoegh said the facilities would be completely self contained and permit sustained operations unde Adverse conditions of radioactive fallout chemical or biological War fare  in addition they will have a High degree of Protection against blast he said. He said that similar structures Are envisioned for the other seve nocum regions if the Denton installation proves successful. Living Cost Rise Means pay Cut if steel wages Frozen Union says new York a . Steelworkers Union president David a Mcdonald says the new record Cost of living Index shows thai the steel Industry by asking workers to freeze wages was actually asking them to take a pay  several rumours of settlement it appeared both sides weren t much closer together than when the strike began july 15. Mcdonald who has been out of negotiations for two weeks comes Back on wednesday. At that time the strike will be 43 Days old the second longest since world War ii. The longest steel strike on record was for 14 months in 1909, since world War ii there have been six stoppages in steel the longest in 1952, for 59 Days. The second longest was for 42 Days in 1949. The steel Industry claims that in refusing to Grant wage demands of the steel Union it is holding the line against inflation. The Union claims wage in creases for steelworkers have traditionally followed inflation not caused it. Mcdonald who has been out of the steel talks be cause he said he Felt they weren t making any Progress cited the announcement of a record Cost of living Index it is significant he said that the Peak figure made Public. Has come after a full year period when regular steel worked wage rates have not increased in the slightest. This is a typical example he continued of the steel Industry s Complete Lack of concern for the welfare of its employees and their  in Pittsburgh a Union statement said that the Cost of living increase in just the past few months would require an increase of 2 cents an hour just to restore steel wages to last year s Levels interns of purchasing Power. The Union seeks a 15-cent hourly package in crease for each year of any new contract. Wage rates before the strike averaged $3.11 an hour. New Survey of walkout damage due Washington a Secretary of labor James p. Mitchell has announced a special Survey will be Gin this week on what effects the steel strike is having on employ ment in construction mining and the Metal working sector in manufacturing. Mitchell president Eisenhower s fact finder in the strike made this announcement in releasing what he called additional facts on the Impact of the shutdown now in its sixth week. An indication that he does not anticipate any immediate Settle ment came in these words Impact severe while general economic activity continues at a High level the Impact upon he steel Industry and closely Allied activities and upon their employees has been severe and is expected to be Felt increasingly in the weeks to come Mitchell last week. Released a mass of statistics on the steel strike. He reported the largest number of layoffs caused by the strike is in railroads and Coal mining. Other industries affected include construction work connected with the steel plants Iron Ore shipping Brick factories and trucking. Penn Sylvania accounts for most of the secondary layoffs locked Iii trim hoax  on horse bets Buffalo . A cabbie Orval Pollard 29, found locked in the trunk of his cab in a deserted lot claimed two men robbed him of $372 and left him there. Later he admitted it was a hoax. The truth was he told police that he lost the Morley part of i belonging to friends at Batavia Downs race track and locked him self in the trunk. It was nine heirs before he was found. Finds people Good skates Newspaperman Rolls across Texas h o b b a . A Jim Cortese the roller skating news Man from Memphis tenn., arrived Here pooped but proud. I would t Trade it for a million dollars but i would to it again for five million he said. I never had so much fun in my  his main objective now Cor Tese said is to get Home and see my wife and All my  Cortese changed his sixth pair of roller skates for a pair of moccasins soon after he crossed the new Mexico Texas Una and Rode in an automobile into Hobbs he had been towed up some Hills by car too but figured he had accomplished his goal of roller skating across the second largest state in the Union. Hobbs is 1,000 Miles from his starting Point near Shreveport , but elated Cortese explained that he undertook the trip just to break the sheer Monotony of  to break that Monotony he has in the past swum the Mississippi River spent some time in a nudist Camp and in a Trappist monastery and climbed the stairs of the Empire state building. Skating across Texas i Haven t set any record but i be had  wonderful time. I met literally hundreds of people and they were All Friendly. If there is any moral to it it s that in this Swift Pace of civilization most people would like to break away and do some thing silly just like i be done. Vicariously they Are getting As much fun out of it As i am Cortese said. He started his roller skating trek in Texas across from Shreveport la., aug. 15. Airliner emergency just a tight squeeze Atlanta up Delta air lines flight 743 was in route from Chicago to Atlanta. The stewardess informed the Pilot a woman passenger was ill with Strong symptoms of an appendicitis attack. The Pilot sent an immediate radio request to Atlanta for a doctor. After a 23-Minule delay be cause of the emergency the flight took off again for Miami and the physician filed his  woman s Girdle was too tight. Pickets halt freight train during strike san Francisco a a freight train was stopped Here by striking teamster  stood on the tracks and halted a 12-car Santa be train bringing supplies to the american can co. The Engineer then backed the train into a nearby freight  teamsters strike of local 85 in san Francisco and san Mateo counties began aug. 7 when rank and file members protested a three year contract recommended by Union  contract would have provided $10 weekly increases each year Over the next three years. Scales of the expired contract ranged from $19.80 to $21.80 a  6,000 teamsters Are involved in the two counties. Some Independent truckers have signed one year contracts providing a $2.75 daily package increase. 4 die in collision 2 More in 2d crash Swansboro . A two cars crashed head on near Here killing four persons. While authorities still were at , two other cars collided a mile away and two More persons died. Killed in the first Accident were Henry Van Patterson of near by Camp Lejeune and Springfield Ohio and thu be new Bern women mrs. Lilma Norman Whitford 48 mrs. Cathleen Chadwick Powell 53, and mrs. Eva in Motley Miller 60.the Hig Liway patrol said Patter son s car apparently went out of control and veered into the Pathol a car occupied by five women. Killed in the second wreck were Richard r. Martin 26, and Vin cent j. Cosetta 23, Navy Hospital men third class stationed at the Camp Lejeune Marine base. The Highway patrol said the car driven by Martin ran off the Road on the right Side then returned to the Highway and skidded across the Center line into another car records found in . Stock swindle Case Doylestown a. A fed eral investigators seized 20 filing cabinets jammed with the papers and records of Lowell m. Birrell the financial wizard indicted in new York on a $14 million fraud  Phelan assistant . At Torney said the papers and records might Tell the Story of Birrell complicated Stock manipulation by which he allegedly gained control of and swindled several companies. The filing cabinets were found Ina barn on Jonathan d. Dunn s farm in Furlong two Miles from this Bucks county seat. Stored on farm Dunn once one of Birrell s attorneys said a business associate of Birrell had moved the filing cabinets to the farm last Winter and had paid him for storage. Birrell who formerly lived i Bucks county was found to be hiding in Brazil after new York s District attorney Frank Hogen initiated a worldwide search for him. The 52-year-old Birrell was indicted july 7. Authorities Are still trying to extradite him. 2 children die in Home fire Kansas City a two Small children died in a fire in a three room basement apartment Here. The victims were William Sher Wood Muller 18 months and his sister Deborah Lynn 2i years. Firemen said the fire apparently started on an ironing Board. The Mother mrs. Donna Muller 23,told detectives Deborah Lynn previously had plugged in the electric ii on without . Muller said she was asleep when awakened by heat from the Blaze. She said she dashed out calling for her brother Robert Pope 19, who lives with the family but he was unable to get through the flames to the  father of the children Wil Liam Muller is reported on the Way Home from military service . Navy to add spice to South pole menu Providence . Up -. The Navy apparently thinks the appetites of its men at South pole stations Nuiya be jaded. Turco Navy Cooks have Bee assigned to u Large hotel Here to learn How to prepare More exciting dishes for men on lonely duty in the wastelands. The Cooks will head for the South pole when their course the Sheraton Btl Tiore u finished