European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thur Idoy july 25, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 5 Kennedy urges easing of immigration restrictions Washington a presi Dent Kennedy has urged Congress to gradually scrap immigration quotas which put a Selling on the number of persons who May enter the United slates annually from particular  replace coun try by country quotas or. Kennedy recommended that immigrants be admitted on a basis that would give first priority to those with needed skills and second priority to those related to individuals living fit the United states. In both groups those who applied first would be the first to be admitted in identical letters to vice presi Dent Lyndon b. Johnson and House speaker John Mccormack d mass., or. Kennedy said that immigration quotas allotted by coun try Are without basis in either logic or  the president said the quotas Are unjust because they Are heavily weighted in favor of immigration from Northern Europe while putting strict limits on immigration from Southern an Eastern Europe and other purls of the  there a no heavy influx of immigrants from Northern Europe or. Kennedy said approximately 60,000 quota numbers Are wasted each year while thousands living elsewhere Are trying with out Success to enter the United  examples of what he termed the discriminatory aspects of present Law or. Kennedy said an american citizen with agree father or Mother must wait at least in months to bring his parents Here to join him. A citizen whose married son or daughter or brother or sister. Is italian cannot obtain a quota number for the for an even longer time in addition to calling for a drastic overhaul of the quota sys tem or. Kennedy recommended repeal of a provision which he said discriminates against Immi Gration by those who Trace their ancestry to an area called the Asia Pacific Triangle. This Are includes All countries from Paki Stan to Japan As Well at the Pacific islands North of Australia and new zealand the president also urged what he termed correction of a Legal provision putting strict curbs on immigration by natives of Jamaica Trinidad and  president said immigration Laws have not been changed substantially in More than 10 years while the quota system has Beeton the books since 1024. The present quota system per mits up to 250,700 immigrant to enter the United states Aach year. However the number allowed entry from any Given nation i based on the proportion of the 1920 Popup Nylon of the United states which traced its origin to that country. Or. Kennedy said use of the year 1920 for this Pur pose was arbitrary and discriminates among applicants for admission to the United Stales on the a Nils of Accident of  recommended that existing National quotas be reduced gradually at the role of 20 per cent Ayer. Quota numbers re Tensed in this fashion would be placed in a Reserve Pool to be distributed oni he revised priority basis he is proposing. Rails unions reported in fund hike bid Washington up rail Road and Union representatives have secretly agreed to ask con Gress to Levy millions of dollars in higher payroll tuxes on Rall Ronels and heir workers informants her reported. The extra Revenue is needed to help save the Railroad retirement fund from bankruptcy. Future benefits that the fund is required to pay out far exceed anticipated tax Revenue. Ironically Railroad labor an management quietly reached the reported agreement on the Payrol Luk legislation at the very time hat they were deadlocked Over the work rules Issue threatening a nationwide rail  main feature of the payroll proposal would boost to $450 month the earnings base to which the Railroad retirement tax and unemployment compensation Tab misapplied. Both taxes apply now Only to the first 900 in monthly earnings. The railroads and their employees con tribute equal amounts to the retirement fund but Only the rail roads pay into the jobless pay  funds Are in financial trouble. Mall for yearly one source said he had heard estimates that the proposal would provide 980 million a year in additional Revenue with railroads an their employees each paying 938 million More into the retirement fund and the railroads paying about 133 million More into the jobless pay  Bald the boost in the taxable earnings base along with other less significant changes inthe jobless pay program were agreed upon by representatives of All of the Railroad unions and representatives of the american rail Road  retirement fund tax rate which both employees and employer must pay. U currently 716 per cent a a result employee earning Smuch at $400 monthly or $4,800 a year now pay $348 a year into the fund with the Railroad employer Matching this contribution. Raising the taxable earning base by $90 a month or $600 a year would increase the annual control Bullon of those employees earning As much As $450 a month to $391.50ma increase of $43401 grand prix in swamp oversize vehicle Paoli to tear Troy Over a Slimy course in America dirt lit ran .1 Naplin Fla. Trail Ora Ilind by Rauly to Eit pirate or Arnild vat Lelm. After Frai destroy Hli tiny Retreat catholics shelter lutheran Monk girl rescued from Pool by Blind father Temple c1t5t. Calif. A a3-year-old girl owes her life to her Blind father who rescued her fro the family swimming Pool. William Schmidt. 39. A teacher raced Down the stairs of his Home when he heard a commotion. He leaped into the Pool groped i Way around until he ran out of breath. He surfaced then went Down again in search of Little Peggy  the deep end of the Pool i fell her Jeff Schmidt related after he revived the child by Mouth to Mouth  May be surprised a Blind Man can move so quickly Schmidt told newsmen later. Buti know my Way around this House. I helped build those stairs an most of the rest of the  the father said his wife Mela had asked him to put their 9 month old son to bed upstairs."1 had just reached Mark s bed room when i heard Mela Tell neighbor that Peggy was upstairs too said Schmidt. I knew she was t with me. So i set Mark on the floor and ran downstairs to the Pool. My wife and already jumped in. So i dived in after  sold Schmidt undo led by saved the girl s life Peggy explained that she had simply decided to try the Pool by herself. Oxford Mich. A the Only lutheran Monk in the United states a the guest of a Horn an Catholic monastery Here wonder ing How he can rebuild the Lin Retreat he had hoped would be the Start of the nation s first lutheran monastery. Fires of unknown origin sunday and monday reduced St. Taurus Lintt s House the Lay lutheran re treat Center near Here to rubble. Only the Concrete Block Walls still stand. For. Arthur Koeln hider 57. A for Mer Navy submarine Chaser com Mander and Detroit department store merchandiser who was ordained a lutheran priest in Sweden in 1996, built the Retreat  St Benedict of Montesano monastery novitiate for Youngmen entering the roman Catholic Priesthood took him in when he first fire made him homeless. He was awakened Early monday by sirens. Fire again had broken out at his nearby Retreat completing its Rul Kitlan. Lost were his records and 1,500 books Many of hem irreplaceable he said. Also destroyed were the tools houses for gardening and keeping sheep. He professes to be the Only known lutheran who lives by the Benedictine Rule a Way of life for Rollf Louii  established St. Augustine s House in 1958. He identifies him self As the founder and sole Mem of of the congregation of he servants of Christ the nume of the monastic order he hop will  la build  he said. Discouragement can play no part in our location. 1 Don t know where i la get the funds to rebuild he sat. He said insurance on the re treat will cover Only a Small part of the . Arthur is american Secretary for the league for Evangelic Catholic reunion which seeks re something fishy Here eclipse fooled herring House that Jack built for Sale Peekskill. . A com Edlan Jackie Gleason s fabulous Roundhouse is Tor Sale. The asking Price of 1800,000 includes among other things two curved bars one enormous round bed one to set looking Down on the bed one movie Erven one Glass encased floor to Selling Cylinder tub toe stand up bathing a Marble danc floor has and Hera fireplaces a 400-record phonograph an electric Organ a grand piano a billiard table and 290 tons of Carrara Marble. The rotund comedian built his dream House in his own image in 1959. Almost everything is round. The Only rectangular objects except for the Pool table Are Tele vision acts which unexpectedly pop out at visitors from furniture and . Inc., the real estate firm handling the sole said in a news release that this Walden Pond of an electronic age Thoreau enabled Gleason to Reev Luale his career and plan new directions for his  Union of protestant and Catholic Alth. It was or an til my in Ger Many three years ago. His Chapel a government sur plus quonset hut Wax put up with Volunteer help in the neighbourhood a local Catholar Artisan built the Cross and lectern. Survey ships being built Jacksonville. Fla. Construction has started on the first of two special ships which should help erase America s Lagin d open rear re. The my Lex to be named oceanographer and discoverer will be the largest 1303 feet Long Ever built by this nation for this Pur pox. Rear adm James c. Tenon jr., Deputy director of the is. Boot Bay Harbor. Maine caul and geodetic Survey and the House on the Hudson River 40 Miles North of new York City is unusual from the outside Aswell As the inside. It has two Sploric of gleaming and polished Wood anchored in boosted Oul Rock and cent Levering Over a sloping Lawn toward a gentle flowing Brook and still  s Secretary said the com Edian decided to sell the House because he was spending so much time away making movies. He put is million into he property so said. Up saturday s dec Lupio of the Sun apparently fooled Ort her ring bul had no Eft eco on Green crabs. That a the report from Bernard Skud. Director of the  of commercial fisheries Laboratory Here. There is evidence that herring did behave somewhat differently but we must Muke a thorough an Alyxa Tat fore we come up wit anything do Fin Ilir Skud -ui.il. He Iid preliminary studies indicated some herring were affected by the false darkness that utom Puli d the a Clophe which Vul 95 to of per Cunt total  he ulna said Nome herring apparently were not offer led. The he normally Rise toward the birr Fiu of of the Ocean it night. Green crabs which normally hide in the Sand and in underwater crevasses during Daylight hours stayed there during the eclipse an did not emerge until True Nightfall Skud said. Son. Spessard Holland. A Fla. At tended keel laying ceremonies a Gibbs shipyard. Inc. We Haven t paid enough Atten Tion let our  Holland said. We arc behind France. Great Bri Tain Japan and Russia in this Field 1963-style rustlers gel tie cart not cows Okat . Mont. Ii i in Chr Tomyn of the old we the Montana rank her feared the rat Lin new Terr. But in iks the Farmer rancher Musit Glanara Over i should or to keep an Rye on i wheat  if qual left by farm near her the Oljar Day an when he returned he discovered he had in hit by outlet wheat nil Era. U r q u b t told coca of county of Talala thai Morone had harvested m Kewa of he wheat worthl.00o _ and hauled it away