European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Auguil 31, the star5 and soft lots with ground floor amateurs proves costly rooftop cafeteria hit by eaters9 Boycott los Angeles a on the roof of the new los Angeles county courthouse there s a $600,000 cafeteria which has Al most everything. It has a Beautiful View of the los Angeles civic Center. It has a Dis Wash ing machine that can Wash 10,000 diners dirty dishes a Day. It has seats for 720 customers. It even has Good food. What it needs is customers. The cafeteria is the victim of a Boycott by the people it was built to feed. It Dan handle 6,000 customers a Day. Opening Day aug. 10it fed 3,000. Then because of the Boycott attendance dropped off. One Day last week it was Down to 400," it would appear said county super visor Kenneth Hahn that the operator got off on the wrong  Here s what happened on opening Day Leonard Glaser who operates the cafeteria on rental from the county noticed a Good luncheon Trade. But few people showed up for Coffee Breaks. He nosed around the big new court House and found out Why on the first floor there was an employee operated siesta club that was setting Coffee and doughnuts by the Gallons and thousands at half the Price charged in the handsome Penthouse facility. Glaser batted out a strongly worded letter to the Board of supervisors. Recharged his business venture on the roof was being undermined by amateurs on the first floor. He had to pay rent it s 13% per cent of his Gross and the siesta club did t. Jle had to pay his help and the siesta club used file clerks on the county payroll to serve refreshments almost Al the time. The county turned Over operation of the snack bar to Glaser too. He promptly raised the prices from 5 to 8 cents. And the customers began to stay away in droves. Many employees complained Glaser was  i m Only serving 400 meals a Day Glaser complained a Little later. I must sell 600 to break  even the snack bar was virtually deserted. Everyone agrees the Boycott was unofficial but effective. Supervisor Hahn suggested that if it did t ease by labor Day the county should take the cafeteria operation away from Glaser. To try to Patch things up with his customers the 5,000 county workers in the civic Center Glaser gave away free Coffee and doughnuts for three hours last tues Day. Business in free items was brisk. 3 men admit taking victim to death site Coachella Calif. A three men who witnessed the strange Highway death of a Young woman Early wednesday say they drove her to the spot where she died. They told Deputy Coroner Art Wilson that they let the woman off on the desert because she be came obnoxious while intoxicated. Jean Elizabeth Wood 26, died when she stood on route 99, some20 Miles South of Here As a truck bore Down upon her. It was not known before How she happened to be at the deserted spot so latest night. Wilson said the three witnesses changed their earlier account an gave him signed statements. They Are James Frye. 25, Torrance Duane la Rue 24, Hawthorne and John a o Keefe 21, los Angeles. No charges were filed against them. Wilson said they told this Story they met mrs. Wood in a hotel bar in Indio and left with he shortly after 2 am wednesday. They headed toward a resort at the Salton sea in their car. When she became obnoxious they stopped Theca and she got out. The men went on to the res6rt. Later their consciences bothering them they drove Back to get her and pulled up just As the truck hit her. Frye said earlier that his car nearly struck mrs. Wood. He said he yelled a warning but she made no attempt to get out of the truck Sway. Escaped Gas kills Workman at Plant Buffalo . Up deadly Hydrogen Suli Ide Gas killed one Workman and felled eight others at the National aniline Plant i South Buffalo. Dead of the escaping fumes was Knox Robinson 48. He was alive when dragged from the floor of the Plant s vat Dye department but died shortly after being taken to the dispensary. Two of the others effected George Hollister 48, and Nicholas Weir 53, were reported in critical condition in mercy Hospital. Six other workmen had to be treated with oxygen but quickly recovered. Potential millionaires air Force t sgt Thomas i Howlett and his wife Nova Are Cal though they May soon be millionaires. Their claim to an Alaska Mercury Ore mine is in dispute however. Associated press photo California queries right Ofa sgt to Alaska mine Merced Calif. Apr Merced county wants a share of an alas Kan mining claim an air Force sergeant says was left to him by a prospector s widow. Kenneth l. Riggs county administrator filed a petition ask ing that the property of the late mrs. Cora Dinsmore be surren dered to the department of Wel fare. He said mrs. Dinsmore and her husband James received More than $20,000 in old age assistance benefits Between 1939 and 1958. T sgt Thomas Howlett a Jet bomber Tail gunner at nearby Castle air Force base had estimated the claim to a cinnabar Mercury Ore Deposit at being Worth potentially $40 million. He said that when she died mrs. Dins More had left it to him and his wife. The sergeant said he went to the area near cold Bay in South Western Alaska to retake the claim in May. He plans to return to recheck it. He had told newsmen that geologists whom he did not name had estimated its Worth at the figure he gave. Riggs contends it s up to a court to determine whether the claim constitutes  he added that state Law entitles the welfare department to recover benefits paid if a recipient s estate includes any assets. Howlett said he and his wife befriended the widow who resided in a trailer at nearby Livingston. Disputed bust of Lincoln in demand los Angeles a that Bronze bust of Lincoln the lawyer removed from the new los an Geles county courthouse is now a National cause celebre. Or Emil Seletz Beverly Hills neurosurgeon who sculptured it said he has received Between 250and 300 communications since a Story on the bust was published week ago. A the letters and wires were from persons wanting the head. Most of the writers referred to the bust As famous or a distinctive work of  Sample requests Republican congressman fre Schwengel of Iowa wants it for the state Capitol in Des Moines. The Lincoln club of Kentucky promised permanent enshrine ment in the Halls of our  Gary r. Planck of Pekin 111., thinks it should be in the Tazewell county courthouse because Abraham Lincoln s Legal practice often took him to Pekin. Les Sheridan of Lincoln 111., would like to see the head in Lincoln City Park. Howard Rundle of Virginia City Mont put in a plug for the Madi son county courthouse damaged in the recent earthquake. Seletz is studying All requests for the 2%-foot-High head he value sat More than $40,000. The bust was removed from the courthouse after representatives of the bar the Bench and the Board of supervisors concluded it might be used to. Influence juries in cases on which Seletz testified Asan expert witness in its place a new image of Lin Coln quietly appeared. It was the work of Merrelt Gage former pro Fessor of Fine arts at the University of Southern California. 46,480,000 students enrolled in . Schools to set Mark in 59-60 Washington a a record 46,480,000 students will enrol in the nation s schools and colleges during the 1959-60 school year and even higher enrolments Are still to come the . Office of education has reported. An increase of 1,750,000 in school enrolment to ,42,700,000 from 40,950,000 in 1958-59, will mean an even worse teacher shortage than last year. The deficit of qualified teachers for the coming year is estimated at 195,000, compared with a shortage of 182,000 in 1958-59. Lawrence Derthick commissioner of education said 1959-60 will be the 15th consecutive year in which enrolment has increased. He added this trend with attendant prob lems such As the teacher shortage is Likely to continue for Man years. Earlier this month the office made Public estimates that there will be a shortage of at least 130,000 Public school classroom when the schools open. Derthick cited statistics estimating the school age p o p u 1 a to i o n made up of children aged 5 through 17, at 43,347,000 in 1959 for Continental ., excluding Alaska and at 48,815,000 by 1963. He did not project enrolment i schools and colleges four years from now but a spokesman said it would reach 52,769,000 for the 1963-64 school year. There has been a steady increase in the proportion of children aged 14 through 17, who attend schools accounting for some of the enrol ment increase. Last october 89.2 per cent of the boys and girls in that age group were in schools and colleges. Ten years ago 81.8 percent were enrolled. The 1959-60 enrolment figure of46,480,000 is 1,940,000 higher than last year s 44,540,000. By compari son the .1929-30 total was 29,653,000,in 1939-40 it was 29,751,000, and in 1949-50 it was 31,319,000. Derthick estimated that 1,563,000 teachers will be needed in Public and nonpublic schools during the coming year with Only 1,368,000 qualified teachers presently Avail Able. 28 aboard cd 19 Safe in 1-engine Landing Zanesville Ohio up a crippled air Force c119 flying Boxcar carrying 28 reservists fro the Washington d.c., area made a forced Landing with Only one engine operating at the Zanesville municipal Airport. The big two engine cargo plan developed trouble Between wheel ing w.va., and Here. It had taken off from Andrews air Force base md., with members of the 459th troop air we from Camp Springs md., in route to it. Campbell ky., for two weeks training. Fine slows speedy Speed Bloomington 111. Up air Force officer Donald Speed was fined $12 for speeding . Payroll sets record Washington up the Federal payroll climbed to a record of More than $1 billion a month last year chairman Harry f. Byrd a of the Senate finance committee has reported. Byrd said the government paid civilian employees $12.330,000,000 in the fiscal year that ended july 1.it was the first time the Federal payroll has averaged More than$1 billion a month. The total included $6564,000,000 to employees of civilian agencies and $5,766,000,000 to civilians working for military agencies. In addition foreign nationals not on the regu Lar payroll collected $287,000,000. The Federal salary outlay was $875 million above the $11,455,000,-000 paid in the previous fiscal year. Byrd said the number of govern ment workers averaged 2,352,242 in the latest fiscal year compare with 2.347,000 in the previous 12 months. Official s 1st words downgrade Post Madison wis. Up Frank Dionesopulos 24, who has been appointed Milwaukee county Coroner by gov. Gaylord Nelson thinks the Coroner s office should be abolished. Under our present system i Milwaukee county where we have a qualified medical examiner there really is no need for the office of Coroner and it has Long been recognized As an office that could and should be abolished he asserted. But Dionesopulos said he had conferred with the governor and recognized that this is a constitutional office which must be filled. And another Guy says he s Napoleon Winston Salem . A when police reporter Larry Queen of the Winston Salem journal finished interviewing prisoner he found himself locked in Jau. I m Larry Queen from the journal the reporter shouted out a barred window hoping to attract the Jailer. Yes i know Caine the reply from Down below. We have an other fellow up there who thin she s Luther Hodges North Caro Una s governor