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The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 20

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THE AMAMLLO GIOBE-TIMES. AMARILLO. TEXAS J8H KEEPING MUSICIANS HAPPY ART OF PETRILLO'S JOB BygAW-PBTT MEW YORK, Jan. 26 "Si -labor today, cays one of tflf country's most colorful labor leaders, has more trouble with labor than with management. ifames Caesar Petrillo, the historically blunt president of the Ajnerican Federation, of Musi- ciAnc, made the blunt point during a torrential monologue, which began as a two-way conversation.

jfcii interview with the "Czar of American music," it must lc explained, is like trying to ride the end of a whip on a skating rink. you ask a question and he takes Off, soaring. All you can do is 'For example. part of my job I like best? 3Jpu have to watch the membership more than the employers. I Kite to tell the members when wrong.

The members if Jfuy isn't working, he wants you to call a strike. If' he's working, he don't want you to strike. a guy is working, he don't you to split his job with an- guy. 11 he's working, he saints you to split the jobs up. Every union today has more rrou- bli from the members than from employers it's a switch on the oil trend.

a union is 100 per cent with ita membership and officers -it's never 100 per cent, I should uy 95 and the employers are faff, you will never have any trouble I enjoy negotiating ccBtract with the employers. have to maneuver and bat- tie. We get along all right. If a jpfcr gives you 10 per cent you tMhk if you stuck it out you could 15 per cent. II he gives you lB you think you could a got 20.

But after all, if I think it's a reasonable raise, ifs all right, why stiSke for another five? Every day yoil lose on strike, you don't get tt-baek. "Vlfi all aggravation and the members call you this, the bosses catt you that, and the press calls jijjj everything. master of breath control, Petrillo swung into his next subject 'Mhe revolt of his Los Angeles Ippal without dropping a stitch. jn fact, gravely voice, his Short, stumpy frame, his fiery voice gathered heat and momentum. heat was understandable.

Now serving his 17th consecutive one-year term as Federation president, Petrillo faces his most serious intramural fight in the Los Angeles situation. The musicians there recently elected an anti-Pet rilio slate of officers. also went to court seeking injunctions and $13.5 million in, damages against the national union. The fight revolves around the union's trust fund. As it.

stands now, the fund receives royalties from every musical record sold. It- also gets "reuse" royalties from every musical movie or filmed TV- show every time it is rerun on TV" or in a theater. This Petrillo demanded and won in.his abiding fight for compensation for technological unemployment amon-j musicians. Or, as he fair hearing at the national convention and voted down. "What am I going to do about the Los Angeles fight? I can't say until we get out of the courts.

I have this bunch of lawyers telling NEW VACCINE ISMMEDAT ENCEPHALITIS BALTIMORE (JB Discovery of vaccine to protect man from several forms of encephalitis as well as dengue fever was reported today by a Johns Hopkins scientist. Dr. Winston H. Price, its developer, said the vaccine is made from two strains of the West Nile virus, an organism which causes outbreaks of a minor illness in Egypt and Israel. He said it is the first time that a single vaccine has been found that offers protection from al viruses that produce ence-phali- has said often uihis battle: against brajn rfe on wMch mms canned music, ''why should musi- i sick- cians play foiling at their own funerals? Does Standard Oil! Hg sajd it vim protect make a gasoline economizer for against dengue iev which cars?" Petrillo says the fund is out of his hands since it is administered by a neutral referee.

The money is used to pay for free public con- Ime to keep quiet, and they are I not always right. The more lawyers you get the more damned trouble you got." Petrillo Is most unhappy about germs and greens, both of which make him nervous. Against germs he takes extraordinary precautions like shaking hands only with a brush of his little finger, like covering a door knob with a paper cup before turning it, like insisting that the waller carry a fresh glass in a clean cloth before he'll allow the beer to be poured. Against golf greens, he has a simple weapon. He passes them up and refuses to putt.

The charge has been made that Petrillo, who is now 65 and earns $26,000 a year as president of the Chicago local and J20.000 as national president, has mellowed with age and good living. True' "Naw. you just go along with the times. And with the laws, like the Taft-Hartley thing. I can't stop canned music completely.

You mean they are going to playing it because I say so? What am I going to fight them right Hotel Margaret Collins, BOISE CITY, Okla. JAMES PETRILLO Sammie Safety! Today Says I How eon pedestriani keep from literally "walking to The answer is not simple, we do know 'low past pedestrian accidents happened. Here is a rule to help you save your life: NEVER walk into the street from behind parked cars. sweep through a group and prostrate its victims with fever and fatigue, accompanied by aches and pains. certs or performances in hospitals The new vaccine, which Dr.

and charitable institutions by unemployed members of the union's 700 locals around the country. The Los Angeles musicians insist they ought to get the money since they performed most or much the "royalty" music in the first place. Petrillo says no- no)' fortissimo. "These guys out there ain't entitled to the money and they ain't going to get it unless they get it from, a judge! They say it belongs to them because they made the pic- hn-es tor the records). I say, why it belong to you? You got paid when you played the music packed up your fiddle and went home He points out that only a hand- Jul of musicians produce the canned music and it is their mtisic that taites jobs away from The money, he insists should not go to the performers conned music, but to its victims.

Petrillo says if the union hao not, won the fund arrangement that money would not have gone to flie recording musicians as pay raises. There would have been no potat, he says, in getting higher wage scales since 90 per cent of recording musicians already well above existing scales. Now from a dear sky, My want the money. no the. fund is goins very good.

We HI tow million bucks. We're to have five million, six mil- seven million, eight million. beauty part of the fund is the don't give us any money they make money, eh?" denied bring a dictator, out hil i one of the tew tioiwl uiiw- vjn- fray year. He denies hnv- tried muash UK rebellion unndiHiti Ktta proccMeK, ki- says is still in the experimental stage, has major implications for the health of populations in Asia, Africa, Russia, the Mediterranean area and South Ameria. Occasional outbreaks of encephalitis occur in this country.

One epidemic in Kentucky last summer and fall struck down 142 persons, killing 17. Dr. Price says the new vaccine would have given protection from the virus responsible. In a technical paper just published in the "Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences," Dr. Price recommends a continued search for a better strain of the West Nile virus before vaccine is adopted on a worldwide scale.

However, he said human tests ho conducted have proved the vaccine will work. Aged Man Flunks Test With a Bang LOS ANGELES W-When examiners for the Department of Motor Vehicles asked 81-year-old John Rigby to show up for a driving test they didn't imagine he'd drive right up on their lawn. Police said he struck three cars before Ms auto smashed into fence near a branch office of th department during part of the ex amination. Examiners said Rigby dida' come back to finish the test. with? 'You think I'm going to tell NBC they can't stop canned music completely.

You mean are going to stop playing? they "You flunk I'm going to tell NBC they can't feed their 600 or 700 affilates? then Taft-Hartley comes in and says, 'secondary I used to be able to use NBC to beat down its station, say, in New Orleans when they threw the men out and wouldn't negotiate but Taft-Hartley says I can't do that any more. I can't run this organization on ideas I had 20 or 10 years ago. But still there's a guy comes in here. looking lor a fight he'll get it." HOSPITAL NEWS Mt Texas. Richard Bivins, 1510 Bonham E.

G. Bockman, 4353 Tyler Herman Boyd, 316 N. Bryan Julio Calderon, 1800 N.E, Spring Melvin Collier, Gath- Davis, 1601 W. 18th Hair, 1618 N. Wilson B.

L. Juanita J. S. Hall, HEDLEY Sally Harris, Seneca, N.M. 3515 Lometa PANHANDLE.

1710 Taylor 4301 Polk SPEARMAN han, 2416 NW Fern Hobson, Louise Howell, Annie Ledford, Wayne Linney, R. L. McCIellan, Dwain McMa- 9th Doris Mathis, 1941 Marrs Reardon, A A Teague, BORGER Elam, 3512 Lewis L. B. Burl Marjorie George Rice, BOISE CITY, Okla.

Verlane Cat.es, 4204 Crouch C. W. Rousseau, 35M A. J. Johnson, CHILDRESS.

St. Anthony Belinda Terry, Bard, N.M. James Coppedge, MEMPHIS Janet Warren, BORGER Joe Fielding, 1303 Washington Noel Beagles, Bryan Rogers, E. L. Smith, 1313 Fillmore William S.

Gray, 727 N. Taylor Mrs. Mary Flores, 2106 Buchanan Richard E. Haines, 504 N. Taylor Carrie Nesselroad, 1604 Tyler William C.

Bollard, GRUVER 921 Dahlia 1514 Broadmoor Mrs. Lizzie Freeman, WHITE DEER Paul Preall, MORRIS Dan Shrader, GRUVER Estus Ward, Rt. 2 Mrs. Vonda Laundry, 704 Madison Mrs. Susan Wilbanks, 2218 Taylor Mrs.

Kidia Halliburton, VEGA Grady Odom, 2344 NW 14th Mrs. Uhma Rose, 721 Short Mrs. Ollie Goodwin, 713 N. Pierce. Amarillo Osteopathic Lucille Mosley, 4311-A Lipscomb E.

F. Reinisch, Rt. 1 Wllla Mac McCanxlfclf, 304 W. 8th, At AMARILLO AIR FOKOE BASE S. Sgt.

and Mrs. Glen Blslock, Pantex, a boy, Feb. 5. A. 2.

C. and Mrs. Anthony Stark, Army Teck a girl, Feb. 6. S.

Sgt. and Mrs. Alvin Hart, J815 NE 19th, a boy. Feb. 6.

1st Lt. and Mrs. William Martz, 3800 NE 8th, a girl, Feb. 7. 1st Lt.

and Mrs. William Harris, 1912B Brazos, a girl, Feb. 8. A. 2.

C. and Mrs. Carl Kitscher, Pantex, a boy, Feb. 8. A.

2. C. and Mrs. William Cunningham, 903-A N. Johnson, a girl.

Feb. 10. A. 1. C.

and Mrs. Maynard Steenberg, 4208 NE 14th, a boy, Feb. 10. A. 1.

C. and Mrs. William Garcia, 1003 N. Buchanan, a girl, Feb. 11.

A. 1. C. and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson, -107 Massey a boy, Feb.

12. AT NORTHWEST TEXAS Mr. and Mrs. Howard Heath, 3702 E. 13th, a boy, Feb.

12. Mr. and Mrs. D. C.

Wateon, 3512 Milam, a boy, Feb. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin, 1004 N.

Louisiana, a boy, Feb. 13. Mr. and Mrs. B.

G. Sinclair, 1026 Sunset, a girl, Feb. 13. Mr. and Mrs.

J. J. Casper, 3404 Hickory, a boy, Feb. 13. No Tatars to AauiMt? MONACO (UP)-In honor of his newborn daughter, Prince Rainier announced a full amnesty Wednesday all M'wgaeques jailed tor misdenviaaors.

No one benefited from the amnesty, because there were no petty offenders in jail. So two longer term prisoners had two three months cut Irom their sentences. GROWTH EXPECTED NEW YORK --United Nations experts predict Central America's population will double in the next 30 years. More than 130,000 trucks are engaged each day in delivering milk throughout the United States. Artificial Limbs and Beds "Wheel Chain I.

M. OOFF CO. Tyler Dial DKJ1K1 Concern 51 Yean UJHE, Japan (UP)- ToWitrt) Fukushima, 72, was in jail today charged with threatening Musu Kuroda, 75, with a Samurai for "breach of promise." Fukishima accused the widow of breaking their engagement and eloping with another man 50 years ago. BARREL CAPACITY WASHINGTON A standard required by Hit United Stetes must hftv; a capacity of cubic inches. EMTLOVEE WEUAKE FLASH ALFRED SpeclM Representative JOHN HANCOCK Mutul Llln liumnani BartleM Kit.

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