European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday september 22, 1967 . Teachers agree to end 8-Day strike continued from Page tithe mayor s official residence Gracie  crowd of onlookers cheered but one passing youngster Cladin a sweaty football uniform said dejectedly i knew the strike was too Good to be True. But i Ain t going to school tomake up the lost time next  details of the proposed con tract were not made Public. Al Bert Shanker president of the49,000-member aft said the specifics were being withheld because it would not be Condu Cive to  however the package was re ported to provide $135.4 million in salary increases and other benefits Over a 26-month period from last july 1 to sept. 10,1969. The Union had turned Down a two year �125 million offer. Extension beyond the two year period suggested by Lind say was apparently the key to breaking the impasse that had developed in the talks. This reportedly enabled the City to sweeten the  at the outset of negotiation the aft sought an annual wage scale for teachers of $7,500 to$18,000 to replace the old scale of $5,400 to $11,950. The $125 Mil lion package recommended by a three Man mediation panel was scaled from $6,600 to $13,600. Other issues in the strike included Union demands for a reduction in class size More preparation time for teachers and greater Freedom for teachers i dealing with disruptive pupils in  latter Issue aroused considerable resentment Amon some negro and puerto rican groups which Felt it was aimed primarily at youngsters in slum schools. It was not immediately known How the Issue was re , weary and shirt sleeved prodded the negotiators on at the Gracie mansion session. Finally he appeared on the mansion Steps flanked by Shanker Board of education president Alfred a. Giardino and schools supt. Bernard  to announce the Tenta Tive  strike was the third by the aft in the past seven year but the first to last longer than one Day. As it grew in length attendance at the City s 900 schools fell off until there were 2o rescued on it. Blanc Chamonix France up an Avalanche roared Down Mont Blanc in the French Alps thurs Day onto 20 French Alpine guide trainees. Authorities said All the students were saved. Rescue workers said Many of the students were injured. Three helicopters were flown to the scene to evacuate the Stu dents trainees in the National French Alpine guide school. The students had been training on the 15,771-foot-High Mont Blanc Europe s highest Peak. Only some 278,000 pupils on Han wednesday Shanker who said i a very very Happy with the Oral agreement added that Bot sides were to meet thursday at the Board s Brooklyn Headquarters to tie up the Loose  Beulah leaves havoc continued from Page it land transportation. All Road leading in and out of the Rio Grande Valley also were closed. Beulah s winds which blew Atmore than 160 Miles per hour at her height had fallen below Hurricane strength. Her Center passed Over the famous million acre King ranch and raked the nearby uninhabited  storm s havoc continued to spread to the North mainly in a record number of tornadoes that hit As far As 250 Miles from Beulah s Eye late wednesday night. Gov. John Connally called up1,280 National guardsmen. The weather Bureau said Beulah was one of the worst Gulf hurricanes of the  president John son ordered full Federal assist Ance. Postage increase approved panel oks i7.s. Pay raise Washington a the House Post office committee approved thursday combined legislation raising postal rates across the Board and giving pay raises to More than two million Federal employees and postal workers. The v9te was 19 to 6.the Bill expected to be considered by the House in about two weeks would raise postage related Story on Page 4 for letters and postcards by one cent to six and five cents while raising air mail rates by two cents to 10 cents for letters and eight cents for cards. It provides three stage in creases for second class potage averaging about 21 per cent an would raise third class rates in january by about 30 per cent. The Bill would provide some$890 million in new Revenue once All of the increases take effect some $66 million More than the administration sought. Mostof these increases come from higher rates for air mail an single piece third class mail. The pay measure which had been added to the Bill earlier Franco oks top aide Madrid a Gen. Francis co Franco signed a decree thurs Day naming adm. Luis Carrer Blanco new vice president of the Spanish government. According to the decree car Zero Blanco will also continues minister under Secretary for the presidency of the govern ment a Post he has held since 1951. He will be installed As Vic president in a ceremony at Gen. Franco s Pardo Palace residence Friday noon. Carrero Blanco 64, replace Captain general Agustin Munoz Grandes who was removed by decree last july 28. This week would give postal workers a six per cent increase and other Federal employees a 4.5per cent boost As of oct. 1. Next july postal worker would get another five per cent hike while salaries of Federal employees would be brought up to comparable Levels with Pri vate Industry by april 1969.the administration had sought a 4.5 per cent boost Fornall workers including postal  pay increases Are expected to Cost $635.4 million this year $1.9 billion in fiscal 1969 and $2.6 billion in fiscal 1970. Newlyweds Secretary of state Dean Rusk s daughter Margaret Elizabeth Rusk 18, and Guy Gibson Smith 22, leave Stanford University memorial Chapel Palo Alto calif., after their marriage thursday. The Bride is a second year student at Stanford. The Groom works As a data processor at nearby Moffett Field s Ames research Laboratory. A photo though i was a goner9 Brownsville Tex. Up i thought i was a goner. And it did t feel  Robert Haylock groggy from injuries and sleepy from exhaustion told from his Hospital bed tuesday of being swept off the British Honduras ship veg Emere in near the Mouth of the Rio Grande by Hurricane Beulah s winds then of being swept Bac Konto the ship by the same wave. We had come around Yuca Tan and past Tampico and ran into the storm saturday Hay lock said. We try to outrun it. Eight knots was As fast As we could go. We were pitching in wave four Days and the engines were going full blast Day and night. Every Day the Waves werebigger20 feet and then 30 feet. We had battened everything Sun Day. When i tried to Start one of the engines this morning i go scared because the water came Down on my head through the holes in the decks. I came up to see How it  found out. A wave pitched me up and then it pitched me Back. Electrical Power was shut of to about one fourth of the huge  weather Bureau announced thursday that All Hurri Cane warnings were discontinued in Texas and that the storm highest winds had dropped to 65 . In gusts near the Center lower than Hurricane Force by 10 . Beulah s Center was near Longitude 98.4 West and latitude 27.8 North some 60miles West of Corpus Christi Tex., Drifting slowly West North West toward the Del Rio area. Forecasters said Rains of 10 to15 inches might fall in some parts of the storm area with the threat of serious floods. Beulah sent nearly 100,000 peo ple in Northeast Mexico and South Texas for shelter nearly Laid waste the town of port Isa Bel caused a conservatively Esti mated $50 million damage to the Texas Citrus crop and gave birth to More tornadoes than any other Hurricane in weather Burea history. By Early thursday the depart ment of Public safety had counted 31 tornadoes28 of them on wednesday and three More thursday. They were blamed for four of the Texas deaths. Some Gulf coast communities were devastated. A newsman who risked his life to View Beulah s devastation at port Isabel put it this Way the town looked As if there had been saturated  Hurricane spun off the tornadoes in South and Central Tex As and trampled Range country with winds and torrents of rain wednesday. Citrus loss great the Citrus crop loss was Esti mated at $50 million and there was damage to Homes streets and businesses running into Mil Lions. The department of Public safety said port Isabel a town jut Ting toward the Gulf at the South Ern tip of Texas and with a population around 10,000, was 85per cent destroyed. Laguna Heights had at least 75 per Centof its Homes damaged and some other smaller communities suffered severe damage. Hundreds of roofs in Browns Ville were damaged streets had chunks of pavement broken away by tides and winds and rain water Many car windows were pushed in and scores of Busi Nesses had structural damage mostly to roofs. Mountainous seas punished the Corpus Christi seawall. Hurri Cane winds were general through much of the Rio Grande Valley hours after Beulah s Eye  an unusual move the state department announced through Texas officials at Austin that the United states and Mexico had declared the Rio Grande a Dis Aster  . Immigration service is to open the International Bor Der and it is to remain open until further notice a spokesman said. Baseball thursday s baseball result by the associated press american league Kansas City 000 000 0000 2 2 Minnesota 000 003 lox4 7 0dobson, Lin Blacl 0krausse 7 and Duncan Merritt and Zimmerman. A Merritt 13-6. A Dobson 9-10. Home Runa Minnesota Killebrew 40oliva 17. It May not be great art9 but. Yummy continued from Page 1 commodity rather than an sex  we thought we would make these things and some of them Are really rather Beautiful then eat them up. It seem appropriate Cook explained. What was protest for the artists was fun for their guests. Many got Down on hands an Knees to lick at Manuel Nacri s Large purple ice sculpture Only to find it was just food coloured  b r o w n s Pate Ancl Cream cheese Relief of dog s head did not last Long. Neither did Bruce Conners Dagwood Sandwich wrapped in cellophane and mounted on White Pedestal. Perhaps the exhibits which lasted the longest were too bizarre or realistic for the Art Patron s appetite. The guests preferred to View rather than eat Jean Conner s realistic goldfish bowl filled with Clear Gelatin Parsley and Little goldfish carved from car rots. They seemed awed by Catho Lic mod a breadstick Cross rising from a mushroom. The Eye catching feature was a stuffed calf s heart entered Ona cheese Board made of ready to Cook biscuit dough an smoked oysters