European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 5, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 rockette Rock in rage Over music Hall and new York a the City s prettiest strikers the rockette singers and Ballet dancers of the radio City music Hall were also the angriest tuesday. Pretty mad furious and annoyed to say the least were among the picket Lin comments after the music Hall published a full Page newspaper advertisement to Tell its patrons what s going on in the 18-Daystrike. \ the and gives details of anew offer made last week and since rejected by the rockette Union the american Guild of variety artists. Under the proposal the Start ing pay for the dancers and singers would go from $99 to$125 a week plus a new $10-a-week rehearsal pay. Girl with one year of employment would get $135 instead of $110those with two years experience at the music Hal would go from the current $126.50 to $150.subsequent increases in the three year contract would raise one year pay to $145 and two year pay to $160.what made the shapely strik ers most aft Gry a spokesman said was the and s reference to the fact that the music Hall Tal ent would get a starting pay$820-a-year higher than the new salary won by the City s teach ers. Teachers work five Days week an Aga spokesman said and the girls work seven Days a week. Teachers get two months paid vacation the girl get one week after a year and sometimes have to wait 20months for it. Teachers get holi Days pensions  pay non of which Are in the music Hall  girls Are furious he added. They want to know Why the music Hall does t compare their pay with Broadway they do 28 shows a week for $99 while on Broadway a dancer does eight shows a week for $130 Orwith television$149 for a half hour  s Only comment to All this we re not going total about anything As silly As pensions for  music Hall although Tak ing the novel approach in Labo relations of stating that its employees need More Money also noted in its and that the music Hall is the Only theater inner York and one of the few in the world which offers 52 weeks of regular employment to in  the music Hall also noted the closing Over the years of the Roxy the Capitol the Para mount and others. It added today the music Hall stands alone the sole survivor of this great tradition of total entertainment. All the others have succumbed to the economic pressures that ended their stage  the Aga spokes Man the music Hall without the rockette and stage shows would be just another Movi theater with 6,000 seats to fill. It grosses from $150,000 to $230,000a week and it s not going to give this All  slender claim to Fame with a Grin As wide As she is British Model Twiggy left appears in the flesh so to speak next to a portrait of her on display in an exhibition called heroes live at Madame Tussaud s in London. A photo negro wins Likely mayor of Cleveland Cleveland up negro state rep. Carl b. Stokes winning unexpected White sep port As voters turned out in record numbers Defeated two term incumbent Ralph s. Locher for the hotly contested democratic mayoralty Nomina Tion tuesday night. The endorsement normally is Tanta mount to election. More than 210,000 voters cast ballots As Stokes 40, moved into position to become the first negro elected mayor of a major american  will face Seth Taft an at Torney and grandson of presi Dent William Howard Taft in the november general  was unopposed for the re publican  p. Celeste former mayor of suburban Lakewood ran a poor third in the race. With 878 of the City s 901 precincts reporting the vote was Locher 91,386stokes 103,511 Celeste 8,428there is doubt the party will Back Stokes next month against aft. Stokes has charged the democratic county committee with racism. Stokes lost to Locher in the1965 general election by 2,144  current Campaign was Long bitter and heavy wit charges of racism. Drug keeps cholesterol Way Down Chicago a a drug that May prevent or also re verse hardening of the Arter ies even if persons remain on the High fat diets sometimes blamed for causing the condition was reported by a Duke University researcher tuesday. Or. Robert Fuson a surgery resident at Duke who has been trying the drug on others and on himself for three years said his studies indicate you can have your cake and eat it  hardening of the arteries known medically As atherosclerosis is a major killer and crippler. The condition is believe caused by a combination of  factors As a High cholesterol or final Polaris sub goes on sea patrol Washington a the Navy s 41st and last Polaris missile firing submarine the will Rogers left tuesday for its first two month underwater patrol in the Atlantic. The will Rogers sailed from Charleston s.c., with 16 mis Siles in its tubes. Fat level in the blood High blood pressure obesity heavy smok ing stress and heredity. Fuson said in an interview and paper at the annual clinical Congress of the american col lege of surgeons that the drug is a powdered plastic know chemically As Choles Tramine. When mixed with water he said it becomes a Yellowish compound that tastes like Sod pop. Fuson said that when he started taking the drug his blood cholesterol count was 250 Milli Grams a level placing him in the danger bracket. For the last years he added his count has been below 75, almost the level of a Newborn baby that has not consumed any fatty foods. In trials on 65 other humans he said their cholesterol Levels have been reduced up to 60 percent. He said 32 of 36 patients suffering from symptoms of hardening of the arteries enjoyed significant Relief but that their symptoms gradually returned when the medication was stopped temporarily. He said this indicated the drug caused some recovery from atherosclerosis. Ford Siamis by pm Chrysler sales up sharply Detroit a general motors and Chrysler tuesday reported big sales gains i september while their strike bound chief competitor Ford stood by with its inventory dwindling and its production lines Idle. Despite its third Best showing Ever in september s last 10 Days Ford division of Ford motor co. Reported sales for the whole month totalled 93,389 car about 21,000 fewer than in sep tember 1966. Ford the nation s second biggest automaker was struck sept. 7 by 160,000 United autoworkers Union members just two weeks before the introduction of new models which annually sets off an autumn sales spurt. No Progress when struck Ford had about270,000 cars in the hands of its dealers but Only about 85,000 of these were 1968 models. A re port of no Progress came again from tuesday s negotiations Between Ford and theuay. Ford division sales for sept.21-30 were 49,292, a showing topped Only by 1964 and 1955 inform s history for the 10-Day period. The 49,292 compares with47,198 sold in the last 10 Days of september 1966. Acute shortage in View of the acute shortage of inventory caused by the strike the sales achievement inthe final 10 Days of september this year is especially gratify ing said m. S. Mclaughlin general manager of Ford Divi Sion. General motors reported it scar sales up 16 per cent and Chrysler said its sales were up14 per cent for september com pared to the month a year ear Lier. The percentages represent53,000 More pm car sales than in september 1966, with Chrys Ler s car sales up 13,000. Pm s total gain combined with truck sales was a hefty 61,000. The biggest chunk of the gains Casein the last 10 Days of september when with new models on the turn off Bubble machine London up a doctor who blew bubbles in Piccadilly circus to cheer people up los this Appeal tuesday against a conviction of insulting behaviour. You can go round Piccadilly in an old lorry truck and pour smoke Over everybody and getaway Scot free. If you go there and try to cheer people up you get arrested or. Robert George Blomfield told the inne London sessions appeals com  was convicted in aug. 18 and put on probation Fornix months. Upholding the conviction the Appeal committee chairman told Blomfield that he should have stopped blowing bubbles when ordered to do so by a  London doctor denied he was annoying passersby and said he Only wanted to cheer people  Day it is the same old scene same old traffic and the same old place. When something like this happens it livens the whole place up. I have found on previous occasions that if one blew bubbles around people seemed to cheer up he said. Market pm sold 206,532 car Sand 22,872 trucks compared to 118,753 cars and 20,151 trucks inthe last third of september 1966. Pm s top marketing executive h. E. Crawford said however that the two period were not comparable. More sales Days this year All general motors car divisions introduced 1968models on sept. 21, giving us nine Selling Days with new mod Els Crawford said. Last year Chevrolet Buick Oldsmobile and Pontiac introduced 1967 models on sept. 29, giving us Only two Days with new models in september 1966." Chrysler sold 49,382 cars inthe last 10 Days of september this year up four per cent fro the 47,618 sold in the last third of september a year earlier. American motors smallest of the nation s major automakers reported september sales of16,001, Down from 16,273 sold in september 1966. Home delivery gets stripes to you at breakfast time each and every Day the circulation office phone numbers Germany Berlin Civ 739368bremerhaven, Civ 453-11, Mil 7664 Frankfurt Civ 06108-2047, Mil Offenbach 755kaiseralautern, Civ 5117, Mil Vogel Weh 7050 Mannheim Civ 871402, Mil the Luau 618 Munich Civ 5165923, Mil 7356 Nuernberg Civ 776647, Mil 6513stuttgart, Civ 854225, Mil 7230 Wiesbaden Civ 420779, Mil 28595greece Athens Civ 985189 Italy leghorn Mil Camp Darby 1465 Spain Madrid Civ 2228290, ext 3011 United kingdom London Civ Ruislip 32264, ext 127 subscribe now government housing Only