European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Auml 196s the stars and stripes 13 business news steel negotiations nearing deadline by Jack Lefler new York a the steel Industry labor negotiations Are coming Down to the Only a Little More than a week remains before the 1 strike negotiators for the producers and the United steel workers of America were deadlocked last week Over terms of a new con tract a Federal mediator arrived on the scene of the Pittsburgh be he haunt been summoned by the opposing but his presence meant that they were still far apart indications were that neither Side would Budge from its stand until the last if it was generally Felt that if there is no presi Dent Johnson will step in and prod for a settlement the Union was understood to have scaled Down its original demands for annual wage and Benefit increases Worth cents an hour to close to the cents an hour in annual boosts it won from five aluminium producers earlier this the companies were reported holding close to the 2 per cent mediator meets with steel factions Pittsburgh up steel Industry under the impetus of the government top mediator and facing a 1 strike met saturday for the first time in William head of the Federal mediation and conciliation held separate meetings with each Side Satur Day and scheduled similar ses Slons for although Sam Ken denied ear her that a steel curtain sur rounded the he refused to divulge the time and place of any of the he had no comment on re ports that a settlement was for duration in All 1 will be Here for the duration unit september Sam Ken since arriving last wednes Sam Ken has met separately with United steel workers us president Abe and Conrad Cooper of s steel chief negotiator for the steel while there was no Ofalda word on the there have been scattered reports on each sides latest Iron age Magazine said Malor steel companies have offered a package which probably exceeds is cents an hour and an other source said the Union would Settle for 15 the us originally sough an i cent package while the companies refused to exceed i nine cent figure based on wha they claimed was a two be cent gain per year in products Mil on economic gains they a they will the alumni am settlement would amount per cent in the steel Indus steel production ast week dipped 1 per cent ram the previous weeks the level remained High As users continued to bolster inventories As a hedge against a possible strike As Well s to meet current booming de other developments in the Teel Industry steel the nations Argest announced lans to double its capital Tendl Tures to billion Over he next three years and to reorganize its steel was fined Aramco steel and Erie forge steel when they pleaded no contest in District court to an indict ment charging that they conspired illegally to fix prices on Bertaln automobile production fell to an estimated during the week As Auto makers continued with Model changeover opera the output the previous week was and a year ago t was for the year to output Rose to compared with at this time last Chrysler got the jump on other car makers in showing is 19h it put its Chrys Plymouth and Dodge mod Els on display at shipping strike on another labor Prog Ress was made toward Settle ment of the twee Kold Atlantic and Gulf coast shipping strike agreement was reached be Ween the key the Marine engineers beneficial Assoc la and the american Mer chant Marine representing eight shipping opera contract issues must still be ironed out with two other unions the mates and pilots Union and the Amerl can radio the nations industries production Rose sharply to a in the Federal re serve Board reported its Index a created Points to per cent of the 195759 average from per cent in rousing starts in july declined 7 per cent from june and were per cent below july 1104 the Commerce department re starts were at an Annua rate of compared with in the United states in the quor Ter ending june 10 attained its first balance payments sur plus in nearly eight Thi surplus amounted to an Annua rate of 1528 compared with the Defiol rate in the first Quarter and in the 1h4 final Quad mane peking says Tokyo a peking Radl Laid a pilotless recon nals Lance plane was shot Down a urday Over China southernmost it lie the Gulf of Tonkin from North Viet Al american kiss Paul gels a patriotic Buss from his granddaughter after he was sworn in As a citizen in Leso came from Czechoslovakia fire years ago to join us and was naturalized last week after it was Learned he Hast much longer to photo Ballet sets London program London the new York City Ballet americas ending Ballet appear in covent Garden 30 to the visit will be the company first to London in More than 12 the company of 66 dancers will present a program from their repertoire of in nearly All of which have been created or revised since the com Pany last appeared at covent Sarden in sixteen of the ballets Aro by George who was invited to the United states in 1933 by Lincoln Kirsten to form a purely american the program will contain one work by Jerome Robbins with music by Bella Man and a Ballet by Jacques gambol so with music by other works to be staged in clude the prodigal the last Ballet Balanchine created for russian producer Sergei Diahl lev symphony in with which he made his successful debut in Paris in 1047 la and others ranging from modern bal let and classical form to themes that Are purely such As Western stars and and the new York City Ballet is coming to London As part of the state departments cultural presentations program tour of the Middle East and russians report spread of cholera Geneva a the soviet Union has reported to the world health organization that cholera has spread into Border areas of soviet it the first official confirmation that the cholera out break in Afghanistan has spread Over the soviet afghan idiot site unusually hushed los Angeles a the volts where arsonists fires gunshots sounded and rioters looted stores a week was reported quieter than Normal saturday by still wary deputies and reinforced by National continued to work 12hour shifts in the negro with most Days off iut in the words of one its like the Calm after a great social and material recon a traction was starting slowly in he Wake of six Days violence that brought death to 36 per courts look a weekend recess rom the task of hearing charges against about of More than persons arrested during the John former Cen ral intelligence Agency said he will Call a meeting of an related Story on Page 4 eight Man investigative panel at the first prob ably Early this Mcconic was named by Edmund Brown to head the which will seek causes of he Roderick commander of the California National told a news conference saturday millions of dollars in damage would have been averted had the National guard been called in a Day the rioting broke out on wednesday the National guard was called out Friday asked about negroes repeated charges of police Hill said i personally saw no evidence of police police have repeatedly denied the Hill said about of the 000 National guard troops brought Here during the height of the riot will remain he said other troops could be up turned in hours if violence re police trucks continued to re cover Roods looted from some items were left on Side walks and some Resi dents of the Rio torn area were calling to report finding items in their Hack Ards or police divorce granted West Germany Marlene miss universe of received a divorce from actor to hardly in Miami and was Given custody of their miss Schmidt plans to marry a German a Cote Vazur is struck by torrential Rains Nice Early sunday turned Frances Cote Vazur into a virtual striking still another blow at the resort last month Forest fires drove Many campers to the the fires were followed by a severe water shortage that resulted in rationing at Many illness end lonely 130han voyage Pago american Samoa up a 24yearold californian arrived Here Hale and Hearty late Friday after Iso Days alone at sea in his 35foot David David had hoped to sail around the world when he left Pago Pago april but was forced to turn Back about Miles North of Here because of illness and storms which Tore up his deteriorated Nylon his return to his Home port in the trimaran extended adolescence ended a search which had been conducted throughout the South Pacific for the past four Harbor masters throughout the Pacific Basin had been megs lost about 25 pounds during his but was pronounced apparently All right by doctors who examined him when a More thorough Check was scheduled or Meigs took a Good Supply of food along with but to Ward the end of his he said he subsisted mainly on he caught one 70pound tuna and said that his search for food was made considerably easier by Little flying fish that storms threatened to Dis Mast the vessel he and about five weeks ago near Kingman i got extremely sick and really thought i was going to he there were periods when my Hopr were Low and periods when they were be con 1 was feeling Fine when 1 this sudden attack of something and was extremely v Pultro rate shot up 40 beats a minute at the slight est