Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 26

i Portland (Ms) Sunday Telegram Dae 15 1957 1 Employes Ask Union Poll On Charge Against BIW y- itf 'iTv siyrt v'i 1 i -J? -V A VV Mr rr ijw? A i' -Al) uf7 'V ns independent group regarding a membership meeting to vote on withdrawal Lebel said tonight that In addition Local 6 will file another unfair labor practices charge against BZW because the company refuses to meet "and negotiate in good faith with the Loud 6 negotiating BIW Vice President Omar King declared tonight that the company has not refused to meet did not refuse to meet but we question and have under study the propriety of a meeting in view of the representation conflict that exists between Local 6 IUMSWA and the Kennebec Brotherhood of Shipbuilders" Big Concern Herman Coombs a national organiser for IUMSWA charged tonight that his union opposed by a union labor group When a group claiming to represent any minority or 1 majority makes demands such as the1 self-styled Kennebec Brotherhood of Shipbuild By Staff Photographer Jim Moore MEET COUNTRYMEN AT ROCKLAND Mr Marla Hurkos left and husband Peter i Hurkos second right nationally known telepathist were interviewed Friday by news people manager Miss Louise Huhne and photographer Frits Oerretsen Ger--retaen won fame in Eiuope for hty first pictures of Hungqrtan revolution BATH Dec 14 More than 375 Bath Iron Work employes today petitioned their union to poll Its members on possible withdrawal of an unfair labor practices djprge against BIW to dear the way for an election But a union-official declared the charge will not be withdrawn Arthur- Lebel AFL-CIO organizer said for the National Union can say that the unfair labor charge now pending will not be withdrawn It is a valid Fjbd By Local The charge was filed by Local 6 Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the start of a 28-day strike which kept up to 2000 men out of work until they began to cross picket lines The strike for a new contract with higher pay and other benefits came to a halt when members of Local 6 voted two to one last Sunday to return to work -without an agreement s' i The petition calling for withdrawal was sent by registered mail to Local 8 headquarters this weekend Paul Merry East Brunswick shlpfltter and temporary: president of the newly-organized Kennebec Brotherhood 6T Shipbuilders said '-i Wimd Open Way 1 The petition said an election choose a proper bargaining agent which will act in accordance with the instructions of the could be made possible if the charge is withdrawn The petitioners asked for a a special membership meeting next Wednesday to vote by secret ballot on withdrawal of the charge They requested that the voting and counting be supervised by representatives of Local 6 and the newly-formed Brotherhood three persons designated by the Maine State commissioner of labor and Industry and newspaper radio and television reporters who request tope present Ne Contract i Eugene McCabe New England representative of the national union said tonight that Local 6 "as yet has received no from i the Dutch Editor In Rockland For By Staff Photographer Jim Moore 1 A CHRISTMAS CENTERPIECE An angelic orchestra in straw accompanies straw organ-playing In the Christmas table decorations by Mrs Ella Webel of Warred who lights candles as a finishing touch to her unique art wort Arigel Orchestra Forms Warren ule Centerpiece i Workboat Lost' In Heavy Seas Oft Saco Bay Retired Warden Tells How Prisoners Rehabilitated 1 I i 1 i A 1 fc If i 1 WARREN Dec One of the coastal most unusual Christmas an eight-piece angel orchestra centered with a double keyboard organ now decorates the home of Mrs Fled Webel Using rye straw off the farm for the base of the arrange-men Mrs- Webel spent uncounted hours as she does each Christmastime in arranging this eye-catching decoration The organ placed on' a red and white dais is made of straw as the basic material has 42 tapered pipes and a double keybbard which originally wa edged from a gift box cover Mrs Webel has drawn the keys on lt The music score on the rack made from a discarded Christmas card Is of Came Upon A Midnight Clear" The organist figurine also of straw has a strikingly natural posture with the hands on the keys She sits upon a miniature stool legs of which are straw-reinforced with pipe cleanen which support a button seat Seven musicians flank the organ and face outward There are two trumpeters two flut v- 4a- flt Vrrs'srarr i Family Of 7 Homeless In Hallowell Fire HALLOWELL Dec 14 A Hallowell family of seven wits left homeless tonight when fire swept its story-and-a-half home on Granite hill here Loss was placed at 82000 Firemen from two departments battled the blaze which destroyed the building occupied by Mr and Mrs Earle Shields and their five children Gregory 8 Mark 6 John 5 Dawn 2 and Decora 1 The house was owned by Mrs Blanche Bolduc Hill St Augusta according to the occupants -All members of the Shields family escaped the late evening blaze and with the help of neighbors managed to save most of their clothing and fur nishlngs located on the first floor Acting Hallowell Fire Chief Alfred Masciadrie said the blaze broke out in the back section of the house Mascla drie said cause had not been determined' Shields uid that he his wife and children had Just returned from an Augusta Christmas shopping trip when they entered the kitchen -and found the room' filled with smoke He stepped out back to insert the chimney and found the entire back part of the ilames Assisting Hallowell firemen were members: of the Manchester volunteer Fire Department Hie Shields family who only moved into the house last June was (Hanning to spend the night with relatives at Pittsfield ears ort Corner road and Welch overshot' It He backed up turned Into Simonton road and continued the chase The car left the road on a curve and rolled over four times landing In an alder thicket' The driver apparently unhurt ran into woqds and had not been found today Welch raid 20 bottles of beer were strewn around the wreck Library To Hold Yule Story IIoui( TOPSHAM Dec 14 A Christmas Story Hour for children up to 10 years of age is to be featured at the Topsham Public Library at 11 aro Saturday arranged by Mrs James Storer librarian The story teller will be Mrs Ralph Allen For the entertainment of the older residents and shut-ins the sixth seventh and eighth graders jst the John A Cone School will go out caroling from 7 to 9 pro Tuesday accompanied by Mri Alvin Wil son and Mrs Robot Kirkland faculty members A group of mothers will serve hot chocolate and cookies at' the school for the carolers Mrs Herbert Cary is heading tills group $2500 Grossed In Camden Sale -CAMDEN Dec 14 The sixth annual Greens Sale produced and staged by the Cam' den Community Hospital Aux liiarr at the First Congrega tional Church Thursday grossed 82400 Mrs Langdon Halter-mann and Miss Doris Schirmer cochalrmen for the sale extend the auxiliary's thanks to those who worked to make the event a success and the patrons who supported the activity which benefits Camden Community Hospital OES To Hold Family Party BRUNSWICK Dec 147 Hawthorn Chapter OES will hold its annual Christmas family party Monday evening at the Masonic Kan families are invited for a covered dish supper at 5:30 pro I Committee chairmen are Mrs Theresa Hunt soliciting Mrs Margaret Stanwood tree and Mrs Barbara Barton dining room Wax jeandles were luxuries In woo 'V V' 1 1 And Lensman Interview yetumed to Holland and managed a Job on a magazine art assistant editor World War tl came and she became editor-in-chief when her boss was called up for service The magazine was called land was very in flavor something that went greatly against the grain of the Invading Germans They stopped the: presses Miss Huhne wouldn't swear allegiance to the Germans so allowed a writing Job agalnJ But she got one as a translator on' a daily paper She and other workers pulled a trick in copying the news wire reports coming in from England and other free countriea while supposedly translating other stories into Dutch These copies were dlstribu ted to Dutch underground newspapers to keep the people informed After" the war Miss Huhne worked for a woman's weekly after getting her certificate of loyalty Shifts In paper ownership and a disinterest by the owners in the press syndication end of the business gave her the chance to decide 10 years ago to! form her own company Their visit to Rockland gave the Dutch pair something else to take memories of estlng lobster Lobster is a luxury- in Holland Miss Huhne quickly made notes when informed that a Dutchman and a Belgian had only last month showed the Maine lobster dealers a brand new way of shipping the shellfish ih lightweight shaving Main lobster might soon be eaten in quantity la Holland if air shipment experiments are as successful as they first appear ROCEPORT Dec 14 The Knock County department and Camden police were looking1 today for a driver of a sedan who skipped out apparently uninjured in a crash during jm 80 mile an hour chase here early today The wrecked car was registered to Bruno Peterson of 49 Brewster St Rockland Camden police Officer Robert Welch Mid chase pf the car started- in Camden when it raced through streets at high speed unilluminated Welch chased the darkened car on Elm street to Free street and back to Route 1 as far as the Helm Diner At that point the Car slewed: around: onto the Simon ton's Pomona Grange To Give Degree TOPSHAM Dee 14 Sagadahoc Pomona will hold Its annual Christmas program Wednesday evening at West Bath Grange Hall Supper will be served by the host grange members Hie fifth degree will be conferred The 'program will Include musical numbers by the host grange) a paper on Christmas Mrs Ethel MacDonald a Christmas tableau arranged by Mrs Petals MiQer question discussion can we build world brotherhoodf Mason Wright land Cleveland Curtis: and a review of the year's accomplishments by the master James RoyaL Thursday evening the West Bath members of the Past Masters Association and Lecturers Council of Sagadahoc Pomona will be hosts at a meeting and Christmas party for the two groups Gifts will be exchanged Committee members re Alex Burgess'WUliam 8mall and Alton Collins Of Plans Christmas Party BRUNSWICK Dee 8e-ktnger Council Knights of Columbus! will hold Its annual Christmas party for the chll dren of members 10 years and younger from 2 to 4 pro Sunday Dec 22 at the Hall Henry Caouette heads the committee of arrangements Hie council will confer the first degree ning made of the the teenage this week to BIDDEPORD POOL Dee 14 32-foot workboat wu lost -in stormy seas off Saco Bay early thla morning and a crane barge was washed-from It tow line The barge and boat were be-' ing towed by the Andre Ward a tug from Portsmouth NJH and were on the way to Portland No one wu aboard either vessel UJS Coast Guard officials reported A second barge attached to the towline remained' It was brought to Portland by the Portland Marine Construe- Clan Co Chief Weston Gamtge in charge of the Fletcher's Neck' Coast Guard station here uid his patrol found the barge with crane Untact about five miles southeast of here It was moored later today In the Wood Island -Hartwr off Blddeford Pool The tug reported lt lost the boat and barge about 5 am after a snow storm worked up heavy sea- An air and sea search was made today by the Coast Guard in an effort to locate the work-' boat By dusk lt jru called off and the craft is presumed sunk oficlals uid With Chief Gamage on thft station's rescue craft were Eng Harrison Parker and Flo Bruce CressweU 'I 1 The lost boat and thq barge are owned by William" Clark: Cape Elizabeth Iran Quake Death Toll Hits 1287 ers has set forth it gives man possessed of common any un ion knowledge- a great deil of concern Big question is Who doeg the Kennebec Brotherhood seek to represent labor or Coombs added The strike began when the local rejected BTW's offer of 7-14 cent hourly pay raises for workers now getting tl-75 to 8245 saying thla would still leave its members 7-10 cents Wlow fellow workers In other east coast yards Jive naval vessels currently are under construction at BIW Earlier tills month the hew brotherhood petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a representation election to pit its strength against the national uhion It was blocked by NLRB trules requiring disposition first of the unfair labor practices charge against BIW Hie brotherhood then asked Local 8 to agree to a consent election Failure of that effort brought the current petition for 'an expression of membership opinion that might dear the way lor an election wu rejected Ignored and ridiculed he would turn to destructive forms of activity but inevitably he would do one or the other there wu no Brown said i Brown Mid that through all the years he had worked with (Crossman Photo) Paul Brown thousands of people and he still liked people Brown began his career as a welfare officer at Westchester 27 years ago and 13 months later became warden of the Institution He never returned to social work but applied Its principles to every case he handled both in New York and later in Detroit: -He was Introduced by Vinal-haven Development Association President Sam Slaughter in the OAR rooms of Memorial Hall Lincoln County Orchestra To Give Concert DAMARISCOTTA Dec An annual Christmas gift to the community is a concert of Christmas music by the Lin coin County Orchestra This year the wncert will be held at 8 p-ro' Wednesday in the DamaiscotU Baptist Church Ernest LTppman win direct and the feature will be "Piano played by Mrs Bess Batty Gowdy of Rockland with full orchestra accompaniment Mrs Ethel Durant of Portland will accompany the orchestra numbers on the pltno 1 The Lincoln County Orches tra is made up of musicians from the towns in Lincoln County with some members outside of the county from Bath Rockland and Camden AL Auxiliary To Hold Party BRUNSWICK Dec 14 Membera of the George Files Auxiliary American- Legion Post (rill participate in a Christmas party and tupper Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs Mary Brown Mrs Brown and Mrs Clara Hennessey are In charge of the supper menu Members planning to attend will notify the supper committee in advance Mrs Marie Lachance is chairman of the tree 1 The Auxiliary is collecting items far a family Christmas basket A ROCKLAND Dec 14 A young Dutch photographer who brought out soipe of the first films of the Hungarian Revolution and his boss the woman manager of a feature syndic cate stopped in Rockland this weekend as part of a 10000 mile trip around the United States Frits Gerrltseh and Universal News 'Editor Miss Louise of Amsterdam are looking-1) up Dutch people lh this country while doing stories for various European clients1: 1 Their swing into Rockland was for i an interview with world-famous Dutch telepathist i Peter Hurkos and his wife Maria who have beexi at the Round Table Foundation Lab- oratory! for the study of extrasensory perception at Glen They will travel to Toronto Canada to the west coast to Mexico into Texas to New Orleans and Florida before re turning to New York and home Miss Huhne came to this country three year ago to publicize her news syndicate agency and sign up several American photographers as an outlet for their work iln Europe as well! as finding I outlets in America She took tome pic-i turn but decided to have her own cameraman another time 'Gerritsen- is a 32 year Old affable blond dedicated to his camera so much that a family matter HU wife despite the fact they have three sons 5 2 and 10 months old parries out the entire darkroom work on Frits films Mrs Leny Gerritsen sees many of the places her husband but only through Frits' lens Perhaps Frits is best known in the European photo-journal world for his work in revolution He was in Amsterdam when he heard the first rumbles of revolution on Oct 29 and drove his little Flat car 1400 miles to Hungary At the border his passport was stamped with customs seals from which the Hungarians had effaced the Russian ham- mer and sickle A student guided him into Budapest for three days and brought him to the resistance leaden Gerritsen made around-1000 negatives of street fighting food distribution Russian tanks in the dty wrecked buildings a funeral and the awesome and Inspiring aspect of Souls Eve" Oct 31 when from almost every unwrecked1 win' dow in the beleaguered tlty a i candle burned -ahjowlhg wonderful splirt of the Hun garian people" -''Gerritsen drove back to Vienna with the films: they went by air to Holland and Leriy Gerritsen processed and print-: ed them rushing them to the press syndicate for distribution Mlsg career was one she always wanted but it start right outJ She began Work as a clerk at 20 for an Amert can insulating materials firm in Finland In 1938 the Rus sian war took over the business Grange Arranges Christmas Party TOPSHaW I Dec' Tops-ham Juvepile Grange will hold a Christmas party and dance fridar evening at the Grange jHXu A program will be fol- lowed by the gift exchange and dancing Assisting the Juvenile patron and matron Mr and Mrs Ronald Rlendeau as chaperones will be Mrs vflle Gordon Mrs Herman Douglas Aiigustine Ponzianl and Mr and Mrs Wilson Ry- det The young people will spon sar a public New Tear's Dance The planning committee Is composed of Timothy Priestly Joanne Curtis JEQen Greig and Nancy KaehlnskL 't Topsham Extension To Hold Party iTOPSHAM Dec The annual planning meeting of Tcpsham Extension Service win be combined with a Christmas party at 7:30 pm Tuesday at the Whitten Memorial library Gifts will be exchanged The hostesses will be the officers for 195S Mrs Florence Graver Mrs Florence Elms Mrs Marjorie Randall Mrs Doris Edgeeomb Mrs Beatrice Adame Mrs Dorothy White Mrs Lucy Shulman Mrs Marion Stevens Mrs Marretta Wilson and Dorothy Smith AF Space Flight Gag Order ouse Probers ists tw6 harpists and one drummer in action Hie straw harps are strung with gilt 'thread The trumpets flutes and drum are covered with silver foil 1 Each figurine six and a half inches tall has folded angel wings Juniper and pine in a low brass container form the background and the bright Star of Bethlehem is at the left high over the organ: Red tapers flank the arrangement over-all measure' ments of which are 30 Inches long 13 Inches wide and 24 Inches high The accompanying place cards are a music staff lines of which are straw Hie treble clef is a pipe cleaner wound with red nylon thread Gold beads form the quarter notes on the MrsWeMl wu unable to give any estimate of time involved in the creation since she also made a duplicate which will be sent to her grandchildren Betsey Auto 12 May Ella All to and John All to 9 children of Mr and Mrs Wilho Alitor In Westminster Mass The children will probably exhibit lt at their school space space technology space vehicles statements can be made which might in any way cause the rational news media to describe valid air force projects as efforts to quote fly to the moon unquote Signed By Tostl in doubt as to the propriety of a speech or release submit it to this headquarters for The message went oat underthe name of Lt Col Carlo Tostl director of Information services Some post-Sputnlk military orders figured in a Moss committee Inquiry last month One wu a message from the deputy director of Information at the Baltimore headquarters Harold Helfman which said President Elsenhower wanted Air Force personnel to refrain from public comment about UJS and foreign satellite programs Asst Secretary of Defense Snyder testified that he knew of no such Eisenhower instructions and that he hoped action would be censured He said other orders by the three services not to discuss MteUlte programs for the time befog were only precautions against misunderstanding of UA views here abroad Producer Isaacs Quitting Gisele MacKenzie Show HOLLYWOOD Dec 14 National Broadcasting Co said today that Producer Charles bases lias given notice that be Is quitting the Gisele Mackenzie television show because of kibitzing by one of the sponsors (Scott Paper) and the advertising agency (J Wat ter Thomson) lutes also accused Miss agency (Music Corp of America) of not properly protecting her Interests and said that at though the dlsutisfied elements obJecM to the type of show that wu being presented they did not cone bp with any constructive ideas for a substitute I Isaacs agreed to remain with the show until Jan 11 to enable the network to find a suitable VINALHAVEN Dec Paul Brown retired prisop warden told of his experiences at a meeting of the Vlnalhiven Development Association Friday night i -Brown la social worker turned warden and he retired to this island his summer retreat for 20 years after a long period as warden and former welfare officer at Westchester County Penitentiary Eastvlew NX" i-: Brown said that in his experience only 20 per cent or leu of prison inmates are psychopathic personalities beyond hopeless reclamation Brown Mid that a of pride" was the first thing he looked for in a man and if some vestige of it remained there wu hope for eventual restoration to society a useful citizen 1 -r Self respect Brown said rose from a sense of belonging being needed and of doing a worthwhile piece of work -He looked upon aetivlty as a prime necessity of life and said it was up to society whether an activity would be constructive or destructive If the man wu accepted liked and praised his work would be constructive If he Camden Class Elects CAMDEN I Dec 14 Hie Good Cheer Class elected new officers Friday Mrs David Brown of Hope was named president: Mrs Robert McLain first vice president Mrs' George Boynton Jr second vice president Mrs Mill Parks secretary Miss Edith Arey treasurer and Mrs Adelbert French financial secretary The group was voted to give $200 to the carillon fund of the First Congregational Church Hostesses for the Wednesday meeting will be Mrs George Thomas assisted- by Mrs John May and Mrs Orton Wadsworth Christmas baskets will be packed at the meeting and members should be at the parish house at 8:30 pro to allow time for completion of the work Airbase To Give Party TOPSHAM Dec 14 A Christmas party will be field at 3 pro Saturday at the Tops ham Air Force Station for the children of the military personnel and the contracting groups Rand American Telephone and Telegraph New England Telephone and Tele graph Western Electric and RCA Hie party will be held at the motor pool where there will be a program gift distributed by Santa Claus and refresh ments The Rev Arthur Samuelson of the First Parish Church has been invited to bring a Christmas message to the children Lt Roy I Reed Jr la gener-al chairman Assisting are the NCO Wives-Club and a committee of members from the participating groups The children will be accompanied by their parents WASHINGTON Dec! 4 (A House Investigators have uncovered a pre-Sputnlk Air Force order damping down on talk about apace flight projects especially anything that might be considered an effort to to the The directive said news stories about space projects caused at the Pentagon and in Congress which controls the purse string Apparently the fear was that Congress might consider such ideas visionary if not crackpot The order waa Issued July 29 a little over two months before Russia launched its first Sputnik Oct 3 A spokesman for the Government Information subcommittee beaded by Rep Moss (DCallft said today be knew of no cancellation of the order In practice it now seems lost in the rush to catch up with Russia in the satellite art and beat her to the moon May Cite Order Only yesterday William Holiday the Defense Department's mlsaUe boss suggested the' Air Force bad tried to "grab the by setting up an Astronautics Directorate for space weapons research ahead of the depart-ment'i new agency in the rame field The Air Force rescinded its action There were prospects the Mom committee would cite the July 29 directive in a report now being prepared The committee which has challenged what if calls excessive government sdcrecy is expected to contend that no-talk orders on new developments actually retard needed congressional and public support for such projects To All Commanders The directive went from Air Force Research and Development Command headquarter at Baltimore to in its research and development units said: news stories which have described certain Air Force research and development projects as space flight projects have resulted in unfavorable reaction at Air Force and Department of Defense and congressional levels is suggested that any speeches or public releases planned by you or your staff avoid the mention or discussion of TEHRAN Iran Dec 14 The death toll in west dls- sstroua earthquake reached 1487 today including 1190 inhabitants of a single village near the center The flgurea were announced by the Ministry of Post and Telegraph ts rescue workers dug through the snqw covered ruins of towns and villages for more victim yesterday's great earth shock One village Parang became an immense tomb the ministry said Farsang lies near Sehneh the epicenter 240 miles Southwest of Tehran on 7440-foot Shah Pass The ministry uid 210 bodies bad been recovered and that the rest of the villagers were buried therefore considered Sehneh itself was reported hard hit and concern wu expressed for the fate of 32 other villages in the immediate vicinity of the quake's center Dr Hussein Khatlbl director of the Red Lion Charity Society aiding In relief stresseed the remoteness of the scattered villages Hq said quick compilation of casual! i ties was difficulty A ministry' of Interior spokesman said twag believed at lust 100000 persons had suffered from the quake including the dud -th injured and the homeless In the Utter mountain cold The Shah preparing fo leave Monday for a state visit to Lebanon sent bis condolences to the victims and ordered a regular supply of food and medical aid sent to the stricken Villages The Androscoggin Camera Club will have its ChristmM party with exchange of gifts and luncheon at 7:30 pro Tuesday tn the Anderson Studio Lewiston -i IKi -T -It- -MkA-.