European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 26, 1959 the stars and stripes Are americans getting too soft Leisure lovers spending $17 billion a year for fun new York a you have too much Leisure you Don t work hard enough presidential fact finding committee says that s Why american with their eyes 6n the better life could be in danger of falling behind the russians in a race for survival More work and less Leisure will be hard to sell to most americans. But the fact i that their Leisure time has increased notably in the last generation. The sum they will spend this year on fun will run to about $17 billion depending on How much you include As recreation and Leisure time activities. The sum i strikingly above what it was 10 years ago. Products tuned to this latter Day Leisure time add up to a sizable part of total manufacturing. Defenders of Leisure time and fun and that s almost everyone except those who can t have either say the practice is healthy both physically and mentally and therefore a National asset not a liability. In the Long run they say the results will produce just As much tax Money forthe government to spend along the lines in which the presidential committee fears we Are falling behind the russians for defense and military Aid to our allies. Some of the ways americans spend their Money for fun two billion dollars for boating and the same amount on photography. Bell & Howell Breaks the latter figure Down to $585 million in Amateur photographic equipment last year film Flash bulbs chemicals and commercial equipment makes up the rest. Bowling is said to total $1 billion year. Brunswick Balke Collender officials say this includes what bowlers spend at the Bowling centers and on equipment and what the proprietors spend each year. Admissions to Spectator amusements a Dup to $1% billion. A business research firm Sindlinger & co., of Ridley Park pa., says movie attendance is higher this sum Mer than at any Lime since 1948, with two thirds of it at drive ins. Spending for radios and to sets records musical instruments phonographs tape recorders and repairs Are put at $5 billion. Americans Are putting $600 million int swimming pools this year and $300 million into Power , a Leisure time activity that May or May not be fun. Flower seeds and potted plants take nearly $1billion. Bell & Howell figures club and fraternal organizations and parimutuel machines get about $500 million each. Add in $1 billion for books and maps and $2 billion for non durable toys and sports supplies and you re up to $17 billion. Climbers die As rescuers reach them Franconia . A two inexperienced climbers died on pro file Mountain near Here just As rescuers reached them. They had been trapped More than 24 hours on a ledge Halfway up an almost perpendicular Cliff. Near freezing overnight tempera Tures and driving  like sleet sapped their strength. Rescuers clambering up the treacherous Rock face were within 25 feet of the 475-foot High ledge when they heard please hurry come  but the warm cloth ing and food brought by the rescuers came too late. The dead climbers were Alfred Whipple jr., 20, of gales ferry conn., a Sophomore at Brown University Providence r.i., and Sid Ney Crouch 21, of Ledyard conn., a student at Export a Bible Institute. Most of their knowledge of climbing had been gained fro books. Treacherous route the route they undertook to climb profile Mountain an Arm of 4,060-foot it. Cannon in the White mountains has Long been shunned by experienced mountaineers. John s. Taylor 29, of Princeton mass., who led a group of seven appalachian Mountain club climb ers following the Trail the Connecticut pair left 475 feet nearly straight up talked with one of them before he died. Taylor was not sure which  were dressed inadequately in Light Cotton trousers and shirts. Taylor said one of them was alive enough to speak but the other was slumped Over and either was Al ready dead or died shortly after Ward. Tack lost they had tied themselves to the ledge. But their pack had dropped Over the Cliff. The climbing party saw it on the Way up but did not attempt to retrieve  Sanderson of Portsmouth ., climbed to the ledge and lowered the youth most alive to Robert Collins of Brookline mass.,standing 25 feet below. Collins dressed the youth in warm cloth ing but at that Point he died. An appalachian Mountain club official said that Given fair weather a fresh group of climbers would Start up to bring Down the bodies. But if it Rains the attempt will be postponed he said let women fight peacemaker learns Venice Calif. Up Albort a. Tammora 31, Learned the hard Way that when women Are involved it s sometimes the hotter part of valor not to try to break up a , n dishwasher told police that when lie tried to act As a peacemaker two scuffling women beat him into Selcon so loudness and took his cig Aret lighter and his Wallet containing$5. A break in the Day s routine a building Porter at Idlewild Airport eavesdrop during a press conference held by Adlai Steven on Center. The reporter right whose question evoked the Grin from Stevenson is unidentified. The democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956 was return ing from a vacation in Europe. United press International photo bystander loses his leg trying to Aid patrolman Odessa Tex. A Billy Joe Barker 28, just happened to be standing near a tavern when High Way patrolman Jimmy Nail at tempted to arrest three drunks. One of the men took Nail s pistol away from him fired a random shot and held the officer at gun Point while the other two beat him. Then the three jumped into a car occupied by two women an drove away. Nail got his 30-30 Rifle but passing car prevented him from firing at the fleeing automobile. The officer then called to Barkert help him give Chase. As earlier leaped into the patrol car Nail s Rifle discharged the Bullet strik ing Barker in the leg. Doctors amputated the leg below the knee. Captured later the five were ordered held in jail in lieu of Bonds and fines totalling $33,900.they wore trolley Victor Forb 46, charged with assault with intent to Mur Der robbery by assault resisting arrest drunkenness and disturbing the peace total Bonds $13,200. Euland Ford 38, his wife re sisting arrest disturbing the peace and drunkenness fines to taling $208,50. Billy James seals 27, assault to murder and robbery by assault Bonds totalling $12,000 interfering with an officer and resisting arrest $239 in fines. William Robert Rich 29, accessory to assault to murder and re sisting arrest Bonds totalling $7,900 driving on wrong Side of Highway fined $219.50. Mildred Louise Rich 28, his wife resisting arrest and Drunken Ness fined $13. Mickey Cohen lectures attorneys seminar on courtroom experience9 Miami Beach up half pint mobster Mickey Cohen who lectured unsuspecting lawyers As & professor of income tax Savoured his joke afterwards at the expense of the embarrassed american bar Assn. Yeah i gave them some Export advice chuckled Cohen who once served five years in prison for income tax evasion. He said he went to jail because i did t have theban Assn. Acts to discipline attorneys Miami Beach Fla. Up the american bar Assn. Has revealed that arrangements have been completed for a Broad pro Gram to discipline attorneys for  Ross l. Malone said attorney general William p. Rogers has agreed to help implement a plan covering misconduct unearthed in Washington through congressional investigating com  said such misconduct often involves lawyers not Affili ated with the bar association i Washington and in the past has not come to the attention of state associations  the plan the department of Justice would provide the bar association with evidence of mis conduct and the National association would pass along this information to the proper state associations for possible action. To begin in 3 week Malone estimated that 30 to 50 attorneys might have been subject to disciplinary action in the  six years if the proposed program had been in operation. He said the arrangement should begin function ing in about three weeks. The american bar Assn. Was opening its 82d annual meeting Here with an estimated 11,000 Law yers judges and wives expected to attend. Sheriff gets new Deputy Friendship wis up the sheriff of Adams county gave birth to a son. She is mrs. Lily series who was elected to office in1958 succeeding her husband Frank who had served his two term limit. He is now undersheriff. Advice i gave out to the bar  the affair which shocked the dignified proceedings of the Aba convention Here was a practical joke cooked up by Cohen and Melvin Belli san Francisco trial lawyer and Cohen s attorney. The association did t think twas so funny. This obviously is an attempt to use the Aba for a private pro motion an association spokesman said. I wish now he Cohen had never went sic Here and you can quote me on that Bell laughed. Never  wearing a $285 suit Cohen strode onto the speaker s platform before 100 to 200 lawyers attend ing the Belli trial lawyers seminar at the . It was a private seminar sponsored by Belli and was not apart of the Aba convention. Belli introduced Cohen As pro Fessor o Brien and the Short mobster climbed up on a tall bar Stool behind the speaker s lectern. He Hart to Crane his neck to pee Rover the lectern. I probably got More courtroom experience than any of you Guys the sex convict said by Way of introduction. The 25 to 30 lawyers in on the joke guffawed. The rest wondered what was going on. With a straight face Belli asked him if a person should  his income tax by Check or Cash. It Don t make no difference As Long As you  it Cohen said. Asked How he got out of paying his own tax Cohen mumbled ill take the  he advised the lawyers that the Only Way to meet the income tax problem is to borrow Money from your  the whole thing was Over in less than five minutes with most of the audience still in the dark As to the identity of the  . Entry in London Brighton run Loc Mobile wins right to race new York up automobile fanciers who like their cars without Tail fins got together Here and took practice runs up fifth ave. Then they chose an american car to compete in the London to Brighton race in England nov. 1, with All expenses paid by a whisky firm. The american entry is 60 years old. Twenty seven Vintage horseless carriages competed in the contest Here sponsored by the antique automobile club of America. An 1899 Loc Mobile owned and driven by Warren Weiant won the right to represent this country in Britain s annual 50-mile run commemorating the repeal of a Law that required someone to walk in front of an automobile waving a red Flag. No car built after 1904 can compete in the London Brighton , the entries had to drive from Washington Square up fifth ave. To Central Park. Then those that made it without breaking Down were judged for authentic  All of the entries unfortunately made it up the Avenue