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THE PLAIN SPEAKER, Hazleton, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1960 Voters Service And UN Work Discussed By Women Voters DonH Compare Our School System With That Of European Nations, Dr. Conant methods and general content Projects Underway Bv Theta Sigma Pi Soonsorship of the Bloodmobile and supporting the United Nations Children's Fund with a baVe oIp Kin It juH tiiifinTT immmiAiOTiiTTi inr 1 lmw n' 'iwiMii nmrraiT nigi inti)iii 1 Submit Dispute To Commission WASHINGTON (AP) Railway management and operating brotherhoods agreed today to submit their dispute over work rules to a presidential commission. This removes a continuing threat of a nationwide strike over what railway management describes as "featherbedding," meaning forced use of unnecessary workers or payment of wages without a commensurate return in services. The operating brotherhoods are the unions of employes who operate trains.

Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell announced at a news conference that the presidential commission will make a detailed study of the dispute over work, rules and practices and have its recommendations ready next December. The 15 members of the commission will be named by President Eisenhower. Five will be nomi- nated by railway management and five by the operating broth- erhoods. The remaining five members will be designated as public members.

Mitchell said the public members will be named without consultation with either side in the dispute. Qfxwm mvi ton wroMwe rr hazleton CltANlNS PKt SSI NO TAILOXIHQ Tilin wc lint Tuxcatot i nn. in Must lie Satisfied With County Jail SHELBY, N. C. (AP) Stough Greene, 53, who likes the treat-; ment accorded prisoners in fed-; eral institutions, will have to settle for another 30 days in Cleve land County jail.

Federal Judge Wilson Warlick continued judgment for 30 days against Greene, on charges of tossing blazing cotton into three1 mail boxes. When arrested in Sep-, tember, Greene said he wanted to get back into federal prison because "they treat you good." He-once served a term in a federal' prison camp. Greene previously broke glass panels in the door of a post office, but a judge held it was public property and not federal property and he had to spend a time on the: roads rather than go to federal prison. Judge Warlick said after the 30, days are up he may dismiss! charges in the mail box incident since Greene will have been in jail two months by then. EPIDEMIC OF WILDE NEW YORK (JP) The Oscar, Wilde theatrical epidemic contin ues.

Two recent movies concern the, life of the exotic author and off-Broadway musicals have been based on two of his plays. Now Sol Hurok, international im-j presario, has scheduled a Broad-j way run this season for a one-man show, "The Importance of Being Oscar." The entertainment is the work of Michael MacLiammofr. The actor's performance highlighted the recent Dublin Theater Festival. Mnrlpl built for study Proiect at New VlOUei VIUbMUUHl York Vniversity illustrates Conant's belief that "it is the very nature of the American educa-tionaf system to experiment. FOR THE FIRST TIME! No Alterations Necessary! To Mechanize Coastal Ports SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-IIarry Bridges' longshore union and the Pacific Maritime Association announced agreement Tuesday night on full mechanizing of West Coast ports.

Under the six-year agreement, employers will pay $5 million annually into a workers benefit fund. In exchange, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gives up all work rule restrictions on cargo handling. A joint ILWU-PMA statement called the agreement an epochal achievement in industrial relations. The agreement applies to all union workers presently in the industry. The regular collective bargaining agreement on wages, due to expire in 1962, was extended to! 1966 along with the mechanization agreement.

Negotiations on wages can be reopened annually. The mechanization pact assures the dock workers there will be no layoff, a guarantee of minimum weekly earnings, early retirement or a lump benefit at normal retirement at 65 plus additional death and disability benefits. The weekly wage guarantee, on a 35-hour week basis, will become effective when labor-saving devices and changed methods reduce work opportunity. The wage guarantee will not apply when tonnage drops because of a decline in economic activity. Container shipping- has been the major form of dock mechanization under recent development.

Truck tractors deliver preloaded containers in the form -of trailer vans and massive cranes load the containers directly into specially designed holds. flv? The Voters Service, and the United Nations were the two main discussions at last night's meeting of the League of Women Voters held on the Hazleton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Mrs. Philip Snyder. Voters Service chairman, distributed a new publication.

"The Pennsylvania Voting Manual" to the membership. The publication which will bo made available to interested persons on request, contains compact information on election, absentee ballot, registration, qualifications, with complete listing of all elective offices on national, state, county and municipal levels. Snyder also reported that the Voters Guide is being prepared and will be out in the near future. The Voters Service of the league also is offering speakers to several groups and will have a tape recording on the local radio station Friday at 1:30 p. m.

Posters urging people to vote have been placed in a number of public places by the league. In reporting on the United Nations, Mrs. James Green, chairman, spoke of the U. N. accomplishments since 1945, and what actions the U.N.

took in different areas of the world. She said that row the U.N. has established a reliable reputation so that nations feel they can appeal to it. Printed prograjns for the year were distributed to the membership and the various groups worked on their programs for the year. An invitation was received to hear Prof.

Leroy Bugbee of Wyoming Seminary, at the Beth Israel Temple, November 1, at 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Martin Cohn, membership chairman, made her report, and Mrs. Howard Deis was hospitality chairman.

Medical Kits Circie 4 Circle four, Presbyterian Women's Organization, at a meeting yesterday at the church made plans for the annual bazaar Wednesday, October 26, and for assembling medieal kits for distribution in overseas developing areas which lack medical services. These kits will be distributed to women in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Chile, and Burma. Basic training will be given to women for care of minor medical needs. Mrs. Kenneth Althouse and Mrs.

Walter Benninger were hostesses yesterday. Mrs. Charles Laufer, circle leader, presided and Mrs Benninger led devotions. Mrs. Laufer presented chapter 8, Songs we Remember, from Hymn-book of the Ages; and Mrs.

Alt-house gave chapter 2, Being Together, from Conversations on Ecumenical Missions. Mrs. William L. Dyson and Mrs. John R.

Dershuck will be in charge of the next meeting, November 15, at the church. Auxiliary To Hold Rummage Sale At a mce'ing last evening, the Ladies Auxiliary of the International Typographical Union discu.i cc arrangements for a rummage sale November 1, the place to be an nounced. President Helen Hudock presided for the meeting, Mary Longenbor-fer was named chairman, and Sadie Nochton co-chairman for the sale. A Christmas party was discussed, the date and place to be deter mined. The next meeting is scheduled for November 15, at Alter street.

A social session followed last night's meeting. President To Visit Drake-Wear Ladies District President Elsie Sipko, Dupont, will visit this evening's meeting of the Drake-Wear VFW Ladies Auxiliary, to be held at the post home at' 7:30 o'clock. President Dorothy Sweda will preside for the meeting, and Lorna Baker asks for a report on the current project. Following the meeting a covered dish supper will be served by Irene Callahan and her committee. i It was James Ellis who observed: "Better an ugly face than an ugly mind." i By GABE KAIMOWITZ Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

NEW YORK "Why don't we import that European system of education?" Dr. James B. Conant, former president of Harvard University, says that he heard that question often from laymen while conducting his studies of American junior and senior high schools. To answer it and others, Dr. Conant intends to publish "A Laymen's Guide to Public Education," in late 1961 or 1962.

His first two studies have been aimed at the professionals, school boards and others closely involved in education. "Only a person who was ill-informed about the European system could ask that question. Systems cannot be compared in that way. "That's why I'm strongly opposed to a competitive race in education with the Soviet Union. Unless you are talking about the number of engineers or scientists each turns And then there would be no way of knowing how good the educational system was that produced them.

"First of all, in comparing systems, you couldn't get your runners properly matched. For example, the Soviet version of social studies concentrates in Marxist and Leninist doctrines. Ours, of course, does nothing of the kind. "You see, we have our system, the Italians theirs, the English theirs and the Russians theirs. I would not change any solely on the basis of what is happening elsewhere." He cites, as one example, the fact that Europeans generally separate girls and boys in schools "while we are wed to the co-ed form of education." Conant also deplores the use of comparisons and such specifics as the first Soviet satellite when considering the need for more or less emphasis in a particular subject such as science.

He says: "For one thing, that makes you overlook areas which could be more critical. To illustrate: there is no field in which content and new ideas need to be examined in this country as much as social studies, in my opinion." But laymen, Dr. Conant says, should avoid trying to change the content in a school curriculum. To decide which subjects should be stressed or whether three or four years of a foreign language should be offered is one thing. "But what is taught in social studies or science, and how it is taught, is.

another. This is strictly the province of the professional. "That primarily is the reason I will not do a separate study on elementary schools. They particularly involve teaching rather than curriculum and administration, the points I have emphasized irt my studies on the junior high school and the high school." As for the layman's fear that if we 'do not compare systems our education will not advance, he says: "I do not worry on that ground. It is the very nature of the American educational system to experiment.

I need only point to the present studies on teaching machines, teams of teachers and television in the classroom. "But let the professionals worry about that. Laymen have many school problems to concern themselves with outside the area of content." Swinsin' Along With Mitch: M. A. At 20 'CHICAGO (JP) Education comes easy for Michael J.

Sweig, who at 20, has received a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He took a scholarship test in 1954 when he was a high school sophomore. He was a winner but the test tks open only to those who had finished two years of high school. The university withheld the award until he had completed the require ment. He entered the university In 1955, and received his degree in June, 1959.

Now he begins his doctorate work in October. Soviet Paper Raps Susskind MOSCOW (AP)-The military paper Red Star today published a front-page open letter to television producer David Susskind of New York calling him uncultured because of his behavior in a TV interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. A film of the Oct. 9 interview, which took place during Khrushchev's visit to the United Nations, was broadcast Tuesday night for the second time on Soviet TV, confirming that officials here feel Khrushchev won the oral battle. Red Star printed a letter from a Col.

Sakovsky which said Suss-kind's "lack, of culture became apparent almost from the very beginning of the interview. He apparently did what he did to please his bosses." The letter accused Susskind of "conscientiously distorting the actual state of affairs, putting himself in the position of a backward, uncultured person." The word uncultured is a common epithet here, used to express the height of bad manners, boorish-ness and lack of self-control. BOTTLCO CINCINNATI. 0- Bl.EHKI WHISK FOR THE 5'1 GIRL AND UNDER I scheduled for November were dis-j cussed by coeds of Theta Sigma Pi on tne Hazleton Campus of The Pennsylvania State University. Twenty-eight girls attended the evening meeting with Connie A.

Belletiere, medical technology sophomore, presiding. The group also made final plans for the hay-ride which will be held this month Installation At Delta Mu Chaoter Fete Delta Mu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority had an installation banquet last evening in Genetti's Rose Room, North Laurel street. The following rushees received their pledge to the sorority and after eight months probation are eligible for the Ritual of Jewels. Frances Smith, Mary Evancho, Jcannie Ritz, Lillian Parrell, Nancy King, Judy Morotta, Marie Per: ini. Girls who received their Ritual cf Jewels are Margaret Bakifh Ann Dona, Alma Launikonis and Betty Petrole.

During a brief business meeting arrangements were made for the Halloween party to be held Friday evening, October 28, at the ISDA Club, beginning at 10:30 p. Members and guests will attend in costume. Plans were discussed for the combined baby shower for Anna Mae Wegener and Alma Launi konis, to be held November 8, at 7 p. at Gabe Kennedy's. B'nai B'rith Women's Tea B'nai B'rith Women had a membership tea yesterday at the Jewish Community Center, when a hat show was presented with the millinery from the Leader Store.

Mrs. Lefkowitz was piano accompanist for the show. Committee reports were given by various chairmen, and Mrs. Martin Apfelbaum, president, presided for the meeting. A rummage sale will be held October 26 and 27.

Refreshments were served by the hoard members, with Mrs. Martin Apfelbaum as chairman. She was assisted by Mesdames Samuel Klapper, Jack Eisenberg, Leon Margolis, Philip Herbert, Harry Komisarof, Ida Gildenberg, Morns Lefkowitz, Leon Gildenberg, Ben Katz, Ray Levey, Miss Ann Baum and Miss Sarah Levine. Women Making Kits For Overseas West Hazleton Trinity United Lutheran Church Women, met last evening and assembled medical kits for World Community Day services to be held in that church November 4. Mrs.

Violet Young and Mrs. Anna jLorah led devotions, and Mrs. Bertha Foose, president, had the topic Ion the 23rd Psalm. Final arrangements were made for the World Community Day service, and plans were completed for the rummage sale today and tomorrow at the church. 150 At GOP Ladies Candidates' Night About 150 members and guests attended the Candidates Night program of Hazleton Council of Republican Women at Gus Genetti's Town and Country Room.

Atty Louis G. Feldmann was main speaker for the affair. Mrs. Ann McNelis, city vice chairman, was toastmaster, and Willard Ziegler, city chairman, introduced the group of speakers and city and county officials who were present for the function. Mrs.

Charles Warwick gave the invocation, and vocal solos were by Mrs. George Lenhardt with Mrs. Gertrude Opfer as piano accompanist. A buffet lunch was served following the program. emotions! Advises Agreement Is Reached In 1,583 Damage Case Settlement was announced in Luzerne County Common Pleas Court yesterday in the suit of Thomas J.

Stoffa, 608 Cedar street, Freeland, against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, formerly Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Columbus, Ohio. Stoffa brought suit May 24, 1956. to recover $1,583 and damages. He claimed defendant company issued a liability and property damage policy to him June 25, 1953, on his automobile. The car figured in a collision December 3, 1953, with an automobile owned and operated by Joseph E.

Segilia, Lofty, Schuylkill County, at Church and Button- wod streets, Hazleton. The Segilia car was likewise covered by a liability and collision policy by defendant company. Segilia brought suit against Stoffa and recovered judgment for $1,583 which Stoffa paid. He in turn sued the insurance firm. President Judge John J.

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