European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and swes unions manage met on example sacrifice and sense save brewery fobs of 1,21. V ". A new York up a 95-year old business about to close us door and put 100 men and women out of work was saved bunion and management working together. The company is the Ruppert brewery founded by Jacob rap. Pen two years after the civil War when massive horses trundled thebe a barrels on wagons through the streets of new York. The unions Are locals of the Oft criticized teamsters headed nationally by James r. Hoffa Al though he played no role in the drama. The method was sacrifice an common sense. Executives took 10 per cent wage cuts the company president from $50,000 to $35,000 a year. Brewery workers and Drivers accepted five week rotational Lay offs. And the oldest workers were persuaded to retire of pensions plus an incentive Bonus. Now a Little Over a year has passed. The company s recent an Nual report showed a 1961 profit of s6ia 723 compared to a 9&5 Mil lion loss in 1960. Out of this share the work Experiment May come a lesson and a precedent for other companies encountering the squeeze of High labor costs and for unions gravely concerned by unemployment particularly that resulting from Auto mation. Overall sales dropped in 1959 audit developed into a situation when Ruppert simply had too Many employees for the amount of Beer to could sell. \ what happened then is told by John j. Waldron vice president of Ruppert and its chief executive officer for the past year. Rep. Arends harpoons grading of Navy wives Washington up Are naval officers hereafter to be picked and promoted As fighting tigers or social Lions rep. Leslie c Arends Riu wants the answer and As the senior Republican member of the Bouse armed services committee he is in position to get it. Arends raised the question in a statement blasting he Navy s announcement that officers wives mow will be graded along with the of flyers themselves when it comes time to Pas out the promotions. Contrary to interest Arends said it is none of the Navy s business whether an officers wife is Good looking smart and Rich and that giving her Small talk a Large place on his fitness report would be contrary to the Navy s Best interests. The Navy announcement was Freak $1 Bills not so Freak new Haven. Conn. A those Al Bills imprinted with the portrait of George Washington onba4h Side appear to be becoming less of a rarity in Connecticut two resident of the state one in new Haven and another in fair Field Cay they Are in Possession of the misprinted Bill. Similar Bills have been found out Aid the state. Both Pasquale Acompora an assistant Foreman in the mail room of the new Haven Register and George Poidomani a tree repair Man from Fairfield. Say they received their Bills As change. Both say they have received High offers for the Bills but that the would like to wait for better bids. Acompora says he heard he can it $500, and Poidomani says he been offered $150. The . Treasury says a Sheet of 18 of the Freak Bill May have slipped by inspectors and reached the Public. Virginia Blue Law gets updating. Richmond a. To Topi the Virginia Senate endorsed a proposal designed to Clear up the state s 180-year-old Blue Laws Bica permit Sale of Beer on Sun Day Bat not baby food. The Senate endorsed a Bill which would allow Sale of groceries on sunday. The proposal was passed after the Senate voted Down a Bill to authorize sunday sales by stores employing no More than three per father treats errant son just i lankan go in. Three Boston men were killed in an automobile which crashed into a Utility pole in the Brighton Section. Four other occupants of the car were injured. Police identified the dead As Paul o Neie 30 Francis Kelly. 22, an William a. Moore. 23. Peter Beatty jr., 23, identified by police As the Driver was pinned inthe wreckage for about an hour. He and the other injured were taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital. In addition to Beatty they Are Eugene t. Richardson Richard , and Richard b. Sheridan All 21 and All residents of the Brighton alls ton districts of bos ton. Hot stuff when Arthur Williams says hot Coffee he mean hot the gloves Arim Case the paper Cap catches fire. A electrical splicer Williams of Flushing. , takes s pc Rad cram under Nunez repair for consolidate Edison in it tic Street Swier  . City councilman lose in recall vote Spartanburg . Up two City Cound men recently acquitted on bribery charges were removed from office by votes of almost 3-to-l in South Carolina s first recall election. T. Buck Amick and Shea West Thomas acquitted of charges the accepted $5,000 bribes of influence their votes on a subdivision Ordi Nance lost their seats to John a Smith Bank executive an Howard l. Harvey. Snake bite does t rattle curator of Oklahoma zoo Sweetwater Tex. A there Are 2,392 fewer rattlesnakes roaming the Rocky Countryside near Sweet water. Volunteers captured the rattlers in the annual three Day Hunt of the Sweetwater Junior chamber of Commerce. Bob Jenni reptile Cura Tor of Oklahoma City s Lincoln Park zoo is taking them Home with him. Jenni will keep some sell some to other zoo and extract and sell the venom of others. He was going through his act in the Snake pit when one of the reptiles struck him twice on the forearm. He gave himself Emer gency treatment and went on. The next night Jenni was Back in the pit performing. For s son to address gop Charlotte  John Roosevelt son of the late demo cratic president Franklin d. Roose velt la scheduled to address a re publican rally Here april 5. Cancer doomed Szilard May have won fight for life Washington a Pioneer physicist Leo Szilard. Who in i960 thought he might die of cancer within a year says he now looks Forward to continued battling for world peace. Szilard born in Hungary is one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He was a member of the University of Chicago group led by the late Enrico Fermi which achieved his Lory s first self sustaining nuclear Chain reaction dec. 2, 1942. Silt try. Now 64, was stricken some years ago with cancer of the bladder. He said that from 1959 to november i960, he was in the Sion Kettering cancer Center in new York. He said a Ray treatment was administered and. Since february i960, his symptoms have disappeared although his stay in the Hospital was prolonged beyond that Date because of Side effects. The symptoms could of  he told a newsman _. But he looks Forward to continued activity. It developed that of the brewery to Tion of a real estate was not feasible for sons one of them a i providing stiff h was then that told the Union it Relief in its labor asked How much. The10 per cent. The Union asked if 1would open its books for Santiate that figure agreed. Union conceives then the Union itself a detailed plan. It prov All its members we a five week Layoff wit during the year. That about 100 persons won each week. The rotation ignation of who was to Layoff when was work the Union largely on the of seniority. There is no retired the brewery business Union proposed that All 65 be urged to retire 7102-a-month pension. If so within three months Pany would give each Mait a Bonus. And As others they would be offered Bonus. The executive and us personnel would take pay at least 10 per cent. Neth p. Sinreich Accel 915.000 Cut Board Chat Ray Vernon took a de $50,000 to $25,000 a year. We had Only three with the Union on details said. I never heard anyone his voice at a single we said we need to number of dollars in a area they accepted it. Said there was a place wac simply could not give or accepted that Waldron says it is umbel How smoothly things have out. � weeks off the Ruppert employee sieved hour Day 35-hour beget four weeks vacation cases the layoffs were come before of after the so the workers had nine off. They became eligible employment compensation other cases got interim Waldron says he definitely recommend the plan to Otherl Nesses in similar trouble. When you have a sit where labor costs Are keeping steadily in the red he first reaction is to Lay men1 anyone with a moral hates to see men out of to and from a practical Vic you always meet greats stance. Say you definite to reduce a work Force by you will be Lucky if the agrees to 14  not Only did Ruppert i self into the Black during but it also gave All the a so weekly raise which eral to the Industry in the York area. W hold your nose it s ramp Cosby. Tenn. Up the ninth annual ramp eating festival next month at this great Smoky mountains Village should dispel forever the myth that North Carolina produces the smell est ramp in the world. Ramp eater Hollis Padgett Dis missed the claim by citizens of Haywood county n.c., that they live in the ramp Capitol of the  they just want some extra publicity Padgett said. I Don t want to downgrade the Nort Carolina festival but the last time there it had just about played out the ramp is a wild Mountain Root which looks like an onion and smells worse than Strong garlic even the lowly Stan Weed stays Clear of the ramp s moist Hill Home. This year s ramp festival at Cosby is scheduled april 29 and the1 state s politicians will be there enforce to prove they too enjoy the smelly Root. Former president Harry s. Truman came to one but refused to eat and Padgett of the Cosby Puritan club which sponsors the festival said Interior Secre tary Stewart Udall May be a Fea tured guest this year. Tennessee mountaineers were worried that the snows harm the ramp crop North carolinians. Snorted fully that Tennessee Doea grow , which sits just of great Smoky Mountain spark admits to a Hittle securing the 50 or Soj ramps necessity for it they grow Best inside and the Federal govern me not look with favor nets who by to dig them Padgitt admitted that festival has. At times been because of this  Cap. To buy ramps Carolina