European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes december 1964 plumbing of future could go Down the dram forme ii Ridot by Dick West Washington up not Long ago i filed a report on which is an inferiority Complex that Springs from having Only one bathroom in a single family noting the growth of Bath rooms As a status Symbol in this i suggested that if we failed to achieve president John sons dream of a great so we at least would have a that was Well i also pointed out that in creased emphasis on bathroom multiplicity was being accompanied by a rising interest in bathroom including jew eled faucets and High style fix that report was based More on my own impressions than on hard and cold but now i find my observations con firmed by no less an authority than the Supply House which is described As the pres Tige Magazine of the plumbing the times says that the big Gesl news for the Trade this year is the Boom in decorated plumb ing fixtures and ornate it credits this trend with help ing the Industry begin to emerge aptitude test brings ruling of racial Bias Tom the financial the Magazine manufacturers offered too Many products of the same general Type and size that performed the same maybe but i rather doubt that Gold Pauliny n few knobs and or chancing the Shuc of tubs and is going in solve the Industry main prob which is As the times Points the avenge Bathtub in the United states is 34 years assuming that the tub owners can be per Luud cd to remodel their Bath whats to keep them from Walling another m years before the next changeover it seems to me that the Way to Start the bathroom plumbing Industry really booming is to develop disposable such in innovation is not As unrealistic As some people might i read recently that hospitals Are switching More and More to disposable they arc finding it cheaper to replace cer Tain items after initial use than to prepare them for among the 50 or More disposal items presently Ival Lable arc hypodermic Una surgical transfusion tubes and if the Hospital Supply Industry can develop a disposable papier mache Bedpan that costs but 4 Why cant the bathroom plumbing Industry provide i with disposable basins and other after taking a for in we would pull the plug and the ruler would run Down the followed by the with disposal we could redecorate i he bathroom after every and Mono Bath room Sis would disappear Chicago a if oranges Cost 36 How much will five Cost that simple question and n others similar to it have involved in a Sharp Public controversy Over hiring practices with the Illinois fair employment practices commis Sion the dispute appears to have blossomed into a critical one for business big and Little in the at Issue is Motorola 28ques Uon general aptitude which u administered to All prospective employees As a routine part of the company hiring the Fec has ruled the test is unfair to culturally deprived and company officials backed up by All the manufacturers associations in Illinois claim the fecs ruling could mean the end of company control Over Hir ing and the beginning of a double hiring Standard aimed at giving negro Job Over White applicants an Edge the commission started from the beginning to outlaw Kenneth Motorola vice president for human relations without the objective aptitude he we have to rely dad indicted in kids death Baltimore a Kennan was charged by a Rand jury with arson and the of his seven the children died in a ire l their Home earlier this in speedy prosecutor the usual arraignment i lower municipal court and sough the indictment directly from the circuit court grand it was returned after six police Smiths wife and one of i sons who escaped from the Blaz ing House appeared before the Smith is scheduled to enter plea to the charges in Crimona court next Smith arrested police arrested Smith Abou five hours after a fire Swep through the House in which 11 o his children were sleeping inca four girls and three boys rang ing in age from one to 13 died o Carbon monoxide poisoning Fror inhaling the the fou other children aged 11 to i their Maria was staying with neighbor half a Block away be she of threats by he Smith already had been free o Bond on a charge of i was accused of fatally stabbing Helen on 2 he was released on a writ i Hareas Corpus in which Smi claimed self n the subjective appraisal of an which is More easily tacked by the what they the commission is have in Piper s the imposition of a state Elm cited philosophy of this is really the Issue the pc wants to control the hiring Piper we feel this is an infringe ment on the right of management o we want to select he Best employees we can regardless of the complicated dispute began n july when Leon my a took the he cored Only four Correct answers and was refused a the electronics company Holch Piper said has hundreds f negroes among its pm considers six a passing Myart promptly filed a charge f racial discrimination against Motorola with the five member commission members who Are were appointed in 1961 by Illinois gov to a firm ruled guilty after a examiner Rob Ert a ruled on March 5 that the firm was guilty of discriminatory Bryan ordered Motorola to hire Myar and to Slop giving the Genera ability Motorola appealed the ruling which gained National attention to the full ten Days ago the Fec issued its decision and ordered Motorola to pay o Myart As com in Sallon for his pm Larras Smunt and possible loss o by that time Myart had taken a Job As the commission did not re quire the firm to offer a Job t but it sidestepped the main Issue by not ruling Direll on the use of intelligence tests t screen out employment a Pulca Lions of Low it ordered however to stop1 discriminating in its employment Motorola Law yers said they would Appeal the Fec decision to the circus court of Cook county Chicago the firm also begun using the test commission members have re fused to comment on the Case sprucing up for Derrick holds a 60foot norwegian Spruce into position at new Yorks Rockefeller a six Story scaffold will he raised around the giant Evergreen to allow decorators to prepare u for a formal lighting ceremony next press photo us drafts demands in vew contract Pittsburgh Ltd the ecu love Board of the United i Eccl workers of America us Las drafted proposed contract i mands for the nations Basic Teel Industry and announced a in tatic Date of is for the Start of formal the Hoard Drew up the proposals at a two hour meeting and then placed them before the unions 170mcmbcr wage policy us president David Mcdonald said the demands would not be disclosed until after they Lave been approved by the wage policy he said the committee probably would not Complete its work for several the present contract has set next i As the Date for formal hut this Date can be advanced by Mutual i Hope we will be Able to negotiate new labor agree Mcdonald he said the steel Industry coordinating which bargains for the big 11 steel probably will meet jointly with the 11 chair men of the respective Union groups in Pittsburgh then i think we shall Start our joint meetings Here on he Mcdonald is embroiled in a Power struggle with us Secre tar treasurer Abel or control of the the Union elections take place formal negotiations on an entirely new labor contract with the Basic steel Industry Likely will still be in Progress at that lettuce cigarettes due on Market Oklahoma City 30year search for a Safe cig Arette that tastes like a Tobac co cigarette and is harmless has ended in a lettuce the president of a new cigarette company Perry Resnick of said his firm guardian smok ing Lias devel oped a cigarette made of lettuce his cigarettes Are satisfying both to the taste and the family Resnick they soon will be marketed us the Claret you can live Early testing in Eastern Hospi tals indicates the lettuce Cigar ettes have Little or no effect on the circulatory in con Trust with the effects of tobacco Resnick the recent surgeon generals report on cigarette smoking not Only pointed out the cancer Dan Gers in but also the in Jurious effect nicotine hns on the circulatory including the Resnick pics Nicks cigarettes Are cd to be an improvement Over tobacco cigarettes to give smokers a Way to continue enjoying the smoking habit with improved tastes and without the assault of nicotine on the he taunting arsonist warns hell set More fires Philadelphia when i have contributed significantly to the fire i will move on to another reads an Anonymous note from a taunting officials believe he is responsible for three Church fires in Philadelphia in the past five Days four recent fires in you will have no rest until i you will find one who knows what he is said one note from the boastful a who has ridiculed efforts to catch i derive great pleasure from combusting said a note found Afler a six alarm your Church Check was some what of a but you should keep a close watch on other Public meeting places and your alarm i was right under your noses and you failed to recognize the predawn fire destroyed the holy Trinity armenian Apos Tolic an Anonymous phone Call to the Philadelphia bulletin told of the note in a downtown after a Church fire last fire officials found a note that warned ill Burn three More churches like i did in Boston authorities said there had been tour Church fires there last All of a suspicious a fire commissioner George hink conferred with Boston authorities on the similarity of fires in both believed to have been started by the same police commissioner Howard Leary ordered patrol cars to make special Roundt Hemlock checks of All schools and churches until fur ther