European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 7, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 5 employment spirals to record . Peak Washington a employment in the United states climbed Over 70 million for the first time in history during june the labor depart ment reported. At the same time the seasonal surge of teenagers looking for jobs pushed unemployment up 800.000 to .4.8 million. The Bureau of labor statistics reported that total employment Dur ing june was 70.3 million reach ing this figure 15 years to the month after total employment first hit 60 million in june 1948. The unemployment rate season ally adjusted dropped from 5.9 per cent in May to 5.7 per cent in june. A department spokesman said the increase to 5.9 in May was due to an earlier than usual Impact of teen agers looking for summer jobs. From april to june he said the total number of teen agers seeking jobs was less than had been expected and the unemployment percentage dropped Back to the april figure. The spokesman said All of the 800,000 increase in the jobless total were teen agers. There Are now 1.9 million teens looking for work nearly 40 per cent of the total unemployment figure. Hair raising a lion is not in the streets despite appearances to the contrary. This fun Loving Shepherd dog is merely sporting a summer haircut Patch style. Rhino flex s Short maned friends Are Tom Albano left and Gary Derush both of grand Junction Colo. A photo quickly Back at play after ordeal Ricky sure was scared As hostage Smithville a. A life seemed to return quickly to nor Mal for 14-year-old Charles Richard Hale who escaped uninjured from a terrifying ordeal As hostage of an escaped Pris Oner who killed three men and wounded another before he was shot to death. But Ricky As his family Calls him was sure scared for a while. He went swim Ming this after noon with the Ricky neighbourhood kids Ricky s Uncle f. D. Knott said. He talks about it Only when someone asks him a question. He did t have any trouble getting to  Knott is Home on leave from Spartanburg s.c., where he is with an army advisory group. The prisoner m e 1 v i n Allen Weaver escaped from custody at a Hospital in Marianna fla., took a Young couple hostage and fled into Georgia. He released them unharmed and grabbed Ricky. Weaver 23, under life sentence for armed robbery killed two deputies and another Man at the Hospital where he was being treated for smoke inhalation from a cot fire in his cell. He wounded a policeman just before he was killed himself. After his ordeal Ricky said he was glad to be alive. I was sure scared he repeated several times. I was scared from the first min Ute that Man Weaver got hold of  the boy Small for his age and with Reddish hair is an orphan who lives with his grandmother mrs. C. C. Ansley. Ricky s father r. C. Hale 46, died of a heart at tack in april. Mrs. Hale died  eight months before and a year before her death Ricky s brother buddy 17, an Honor Stu Dent died of kidney failure. Ricky has two other Brothers and a sister. 1 the boy s terrifying experience began at the Smithville school baseball Field where he was play ing with his cousins Ronnie Knott 15, and David Moore 16.the convict Melvin Allen Weaver picked up Ricky As a hostage at the Ball Field. We had t been at the base Ball Field for Long before this Man Weaver came speeding around the come a Ricky said. The rear Windshield was All smashed up. He jumped out of the car and i thought he was going to beat us up. Then he pulled out two guns and said Don t move " two officers pursuing Weaver drove around the Corner and the convict warned them not to come any closer or he would kill the boys. Weaver made the policemen give him their guns ind then he took the boy away with him in the police car off Down the Highway. He was always talking about the police the boy said. He d say How stupid they were and he kept telling them on the police radio not to follow  Weaver stopped at a House and threatened to kill the boy unless someone inside opened the door. The convict fired through the door in an Effort to get inside. When we could t get in the Hause he took me to where there were a lot of Pecan Trees and that s where he shot the police Man Ricky said. He started digging a foxhole and he put Down All of the guns but one on the ground. When the policeman shot him i was sure scared. When the Bullet hit him he fell on his Knees and kind of hunched Over and he was still holding the gun on me. There was a pistol on the ground and i started shooting. I had never shot a pistol except one time before. I sure was scared after he had emptied the gun at the convict. Ricky said he fled in a Zigzag fashion across the Field. I thought Weaver was still alive he said. Ricky credited state patrolman Robert Benson who shot Weaver with a Rifle from 200 Yards away with saving his life. I know that if it had not been for that policeman i would have been killed for sure Ricky said. I was scared. But i m Okay  dept. Of welfare reports rises in deaths divorces Washington a births decreased but deaths marriages and divorces increased during april 1963, compared to april 1962, in reporting areas the department of health education and welfare said. There was an estimated 322,000 registered live births in april the smallest number for this month since 1956. The total was about 6,000 less than for april 1962. The death rate for april 1963, was 9.8 per 1,000 population higher than for april of any year since 1952. Although the influenza Epi Demic was subsiding elsewhere it reached the West coast in March and contributed to the relatively High level of mortality. April deaths totalled 151,000, compared to 147.00t in april 1962. During april of this year an estimated 119,000 marriages were reported 6.3 per cent More than during the same month of 1962. The number of divorces reported showed an increase of 9.2 per cent Over april 1962. Priest editor criticizes play on Pius Xii new York a the Deputy a play by German protestant dramatist Rolf Hochhuth of Hamburg has come under criticism from an associate editor of America a Jesuit Catholic weekly. The Rev. Robert a. Graham said a fair person. Would be quite indignant at this injustice to the memory of a Pope who by the playwright s own acknowledgement did a great Deal to save the jews of  Hochhuth s drama due to be produced Here by the year s end charges that Pope Pius Xii was remiss in not taking a firmer stand to prevent the extermination of 6,000,000 jews by the nazis. Its world premiere in West Berlin last february stirred much com ment. Father Graham author of Vati can diplomacy published in America returned in May after having spent a year in Europe to study Vatican policy during world War ii. The attack on Pope Pius Xii belongs to a literary genre which is deep rooted in Europe and particularly in Germany. It was characteristic of the nazi literature and also of pre nazi  producer Billy Rose said father Graham s comments would not deter his plans to stage the Deputy on Broadway late this year. Of b v i o  1 a Rose said everyone is at Liberty to com  police buffaloes but not their dog san Francisco a some one opened a Gate to the Golden Gate Park Buffalo paddock and eight Burly Bison took the Opportunity to head for Freedom. A posse of policemen in squad cars tried vainly to round them up. Then somebody thought of the police department s dog patrol. Sgt Gus Brume an and his dog Tonka were summoned. Within 20 minutes Tonka had the unruly critters Back in the paddock. Truman lauds american idea Independence to. Up former president Harry s. Tru Man lauded the american presi Dency Congress and courts saying it is great we can say All sorts of mean things about them stay out of jail and fight the whole world in their defense when  Truman addressed some 500 per sons on the Steps of the Truman Library. He told the crowd that All great american leaders have had to con tend with political controversy and jealousy in their times. But for All their jealousies quarrels and fights among them selves Truman said they succeeded in establishing the greatest government in the history of the  Truman said America has the oldest established government on Earth now and the american declaration of Independence has been the basis of revolutions All Over the world. It has been the basis Truman said of revolutions in France. South America the near East and and Asia and of Ven Russia Russia has debauched the idea but the Kerensky government was founded on constitutional at Noriann ideas. When i was 6 months old my folks gave me something i think they called  but with no Teeth what s a Feller Gonna do take the stuff to bed with him today says Richard Lee Smith of Fresno Calif., i m 7 years  and As you can see i be completely licked the whole Messy  a photos Pasadena Calif. Up or. Seth b. Nicholson noted solar astronomer and discoverer of 4 of Jupiter s 12 Moons died . He was 71. Nicholson was a Mem Ber of the it. Wilson and Palomar Observatory staffs for 42 years until his retirement in 1957