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By Students and Teachers Strikes Often Close Down Italian Schools By ENRICO JACCMINI Iper ceni of the stale budget, high schools, making school is iii trnuhlri mandatory to the ace of 14. and rAPi it's a fimnv ROME, (AP) I a umnj is in trouble. Rome, 90 per thing about Italian schools: lschoo i are force i to a lwo very often no teaching goes on in them. Sometimes the schools a "occupied" by demonstrating students. Sometimes there are strikes--by fitudmts and quite often by teachers.

Classes sometimes are empty for days. Italian primary and secondary education, which absorbs 9.5 million young people and 20 classes in the same room each day--one in the i and one -in the afternoon. In many oases there are three shifts-the third in the evening. a are overcrowded, with over 30 pupils instead of a maximum of 25 set by the Jaw. SKETCHY Legislation on schools has been sketcy.

A reform of ju- Northwwt Arkantai TtMES, 9, mi Nixon Said Disappointed Over Aluminum Workers Settlement WASHINGTON (AP) White AFL-CIO United Steelworkers Shaggy Parade Story Three spectators sit along sidewalk at Avoca, a town near Scranlon, Pa. and watch women In long dress march In the town's centennial parade. The watchers are, from left, girl, dog and hoy. (AP Wlrephofo) Electricity Coming Civilization Creeping Up On Aran Islands House disappointment over a three-year, 30 per cent wage settlement for aluminum workers could grow progressively deeper if contracts for 1.2 million workers in other key industries follow a similar pattern. Union demands for wage as big or larger already been promised by union leaders in steel, coal, copper and telephone industries where contracts expire over the next few months.

White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler expressing President Nixon's unhappiness over the aluminum wage agreement. Tuesday issued the administration's second tough warning that a big settlement in the much larger steel industry could hurt companies, workers and the economy. NO JAWBONING Nixon started oft his administration saying he would not use "jawboning" tactics to try curbing wage or price hikes, but coming up presidential By ANDREW TORCHIA 1N1SHMORE, Aran Ireland (AP) ClTflizalion is catching up with the A a Islands population 1,700 per- 30 cars, some cattle and a former movie star. Electric lights the way.

There is talk of a big fish processing plant plus handicraft Industries to cash in on the tourists. You can see ft miniskirt or two in the village lanes, and a half dozen cottages boast television sets. But the islanders still speak Gaelic among although they use English to strangers, cherish a that a a much since the Middle Ages. Inishmore, Irishman and In- Jsheer the islands of Aran -are strung across the mouth of Galway Bay like flat rock chips flung from a giant hand. Miles of waist-high stone walls subdivide sheep pastures a vegetable farms.

The natives solemnly say it was easier to build the walls than to throw all that stone into the sea. 25,000 TOURISTS About 25,000 tourists a year the islands, most on twice- a week boats from Galway. 30 miles away. But stormy weath- er can interrupt the sea service for weeks at a time; so a light plane has started flying daily to a grass strip on Inishmore. The pilot sometimes has to chase the donkeys away before he takes off again.

The tourists buy Aran sweaters hand knit to individual patterns, so the story goes, to help women identify the bodies of fishermen washed up on shore. The visitors climb prehistoric stone ports, try on pampooties. the local rawhide shoes, a marvel at currachs, seagoing canvas dinghies so sensitive that "you've got to keep your tongue straight in your mouth to balance them." The Rev. Timothy Moran is chairman of a cooperative be ing set up to modernize the islands. The first project is ai electricity system, still being set up, to replace bottled-ga lights, oil lamps and a handfu of private windmill generators "After 20 years of pressing the islanders have gotten th government to spend $192,000 put generating stations on In islands," Father Moran saic "We'll take care of the day-to day operations ourselves." CHANGE EXPKCTED "Sure, this is going to chang the peaceful life on the islands, Business Notes Jim Robertson, president and manager of the local CM Agency was elected president of the National CM Owners Association at a meeting held in Mobile, in May.

RoberlROn and his wife were In Mobile to attend a Seminar and Owners Council Meeting of CM Worldwide Personnel Consultants, Co. The local CM office at 205 N. College received the top performance award in its division at the meeting for volume of business done. Robertson, active in business here for the past 10 years, is owner of the OM of Tulsa. He, his wife, Judy and their three children live at 1793 Applebury PI.

Brueggeman said Coley Hernon, 48, white lifeboat coxswain a secretary of the cooperative "But we're between the dev and the deep blue sea. Eithe we get industry or we face com plete depopulation." The population is steady but the Arans have lost two thirds of their people over th past 100 years largely Irish communities in America Until industry arrives in a bi way, Moran said, Aran men wi go on "doing a little bit of a awful lot for a living." Ther are 60 fishermen, one doclo and three policemen. The policemen spend moi lime taking the census and i vestigating insurance claim than fighting crime. The occ the big disputes could loosen the onal Saturday night distur- ance is cleared up before a agistrate who visits me to time. Some 200 children attend iree primary schools and a ocational Teen-agers ho want an academic educa- on live in Galway and come ome for vacations.

The islands have no hippies, women's lib movement and inhabitants say ho Pfotes- ants since the Irish threw out heir British rulers 50 years go. The two Aran priests are Ionian Catholic. OPENS ONE DAY A bank branch opens one day a week in Kilronan, an Inish- nore village that also has a public library. You can buy gro- eries there but you go to Limerick or Galway for clothes, or else make them yourself. When the cold must swirls in off the Atlantic, you get warm over a pint of stout in O'Brien's jar, one of five Inishmore pubs.

A photograph of the late president John F. Kennedy over the ireplace surveys the brown Benches and tables. The local movie star is Maggie Dirrane, a fisherman's widow about 70 and a celebrity on Inishmore nearly 40 years af- she was the leading lady in rloberlFlaherty's classic movie of Aran." "I use to get tired of the island when 1 was younger," said Maggie, who had a taste of aig-cily ways in New York and London after movie a made. "But I knew it was my home and I had to slay." Another pulled hack by the island life is McDara Flaherty, an Aran man who returned to Inishmore last year after 40 years in the United States. He last worked in a machine shop in Quincy.

Mass. "The young people here -once Ihey go away they don't come back," Flaherty said. "But I don't miss the bright lights I've finally gotten away from it all." jawbone. But Ziegler said, for now, "That's all we can do." The President did not comment on the issue at his Tuesday night news conference. President I.W.

Abel of the i which negotiated the aluminum contract and Is bargaining agent for nearly 500,000 workers in the crucial big steel talks, already has accused Nixon of intervening on the industry side. Abel also has said Nixon may plan such stiff action as attempting to impose compulsory arbitration on the union. Aluminum workers averaged $3.60 per hour before the new wage pact, and steel workers now average $3.45. Politically, it would be difficult for Abel's union to take a lesser wage settlement for Steelworkers than for aluminum workers. The Steelworkers union also is dominant among unions that will negotiate new agreements for more than 100,000 workers in mining, refining and fabricating copper, lead and zinc.

The average wage now, reached after a nine-month industry-wide strike three years ago, is $3.25. PHONE STRIKE Another major set of negotiations coming to a head involve Ihe Communications Workers and the nationwide Bell Telephone System, covering nearly 500,00 workers. mandatory to the age of 14, and voted into law dn 1966, already is considered antiquated. Reform legislation has been lagging in Parliament for nearly two years with no indication when the bills might come up for debate. Projects to reform a and high schools are put into effect piecemeal.

One result is that the country lacks adequately prepared technical graduates. Because of a chaos in universities, there is a crowd of unemployed liberal arts graduates. In Rome lasl autumn, 12,000 candidates turned up for an examination for 554 jobs as grade school teachers. Students demand changes of programs according to reform projects not yet a Some teachers back the students, who often are urged on by political parlies or workers in demonstrations. Hundreds of principals and high school teachers have gone into early retirement in the past Department Store Error Caused By The Computer two years.

Those left behing have their Hands full. AGITATORS Students have brought In political agitators to occupy classes with them. Principals in dozens of kschools have called in police to clear the buildings, statistics showed some 500 secondary schools were closed or occupied by students haflway through the 1970-1971 year. antiquated programs, the lack of space and 'bans on assemblies in the schools, the students iiave been protesting what they say is inadequate heating, poor hygiene flnd the lack of gymnasiums. Classes are held in Javalories and corridors of some schools The teachers are frustrated by the often violent agitation, and the uncertainty of frequently contradictory instructions from, the Education Ministry.

The teachers themselves have struck for better pay and career opportunities. By LOUISE COOK NEW YORK (AP) Dear Department Store: You do not owe me $18.55. I know you think you do, but it's all a computer error. The trouble started six months ago with an order for five pair of stockings--to be charged and sent, please. Three weeks after the order date the stockings hadn't arrived and I spoke to your kind representatives in the hosiery department, the shipping department and the adjustments department.

They didn't know what had happened to the stockings either, but they rejected a suggestion that they simply pack up five more them out again. It seems there's a 10-day period during which the adjustments department adjusts to the idea that it's lost an order and tries to track it down. Eight on schedule, 10 days later, you called me and reported that, yes indeed, the stockings had vanished. You'd send another order. In the interim, however, a bill had -arrived.

You said: "Pay the bill and we'll credit you later." I said: "Send me the stockings and I'll pay you later." Your representative and I agreed to maintain the status quo and a week later the new order of five pair of stockings arrived. So did the old order In dus course I mailed you a check for said amount. Several months went by. I made several more purchases-this time in person. I paid several more bills.

Then your monthly statement for May arrived. There in that impersonal sort of message reserved for bills was a notics that I had a credit of price of five pair of stockings. five more pair and ship which, seemed from the mailing labels, had been misaddressed and traveled all over she five boroughs of New York before arriving at my homeless than 30 blocks from your main store. Unwilling to try to unravel Communications Workers Hussein Charges Rebels Planning Breakaway Stale AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -King Hussein charged today that Arab guerrilla leaders are to set up a breakaway Palestinian state in Jordan and vowed to launch a "final crack- President Joseph A. Beirne has demanded an immediate wage like of at least 25 per cent compared with company offers of 11 per cent.

Beirne's demand of 25 per cent for the initial year of a new contract far ex- the trend of 30 per cent for three years. Telephone wages now average $3.28 per Many telephone contracts have expired and a nationwide mail strike vote, now underway, is expected to be approved and announced at the Communications Workers' convention in Kansas City June 14 I shouldn't have that credit, dear department store. We're even. I don't owe you 'anything and you don't owe me anything. But if you don't straighten it all out, I'm going to spend the $18.55.

Try explaining that losi to your stockholders next year, Fischer Holding Slrong Lead In Chess Tourney VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) -The sixth game in the series to select a challenger for the World Chess Championship adjourned here Tuesday with U.S. Grandmaster Bobby Fischer holding a strong lead. At adjournment on the 43rd move. Fischer was two pawns ahead of Soviet Grandmaster Mark Taimanov and It appeared only the formality of Taimanov's resignation was needed Wednesday.

The victory would give Fischer a 6-0 iweep in the best-of-ten-game match. PRINCIPAL'S WOES Recently one principal was openly criticized by an education official after calling police to clear his high school, which had 'been closed by political agitators. In another case, the ministry opened an investigation -against a Rome principal and the board of teachers for having suspended for five days two students accused of insulting the principal and demanding he i them all passing marks. ministry termed the punishment too lenient. Teachers have said they were sometimes forced to promote students at the end of the year to avoid constroversy.

the confusion I decided to keep all 10 pair. They way they're making stockings these days it wouldn't take long before the first ones wore out. In due course, I was billed for 10 pairs of stockings-- Winner of the quarter-final elimination match will meet Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen in a semi-final game of the challengers' playoff. The winner of the challenger series will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title. Kilby Appointed I ROCK Dr.

Michael W. Kilby -has been appointed Extension horticulturist, C. A. Vines, director. Agricultural Extension Service, lias announced.

The appointment, effective June 1, is a joint effort of the Extension Service 'and the agricultural experiment station to improve the pecan industry in the slate. Lawsuit Filed LITTLE ROOK (AP)--A suit alleging that Publix Circulation. Service of Little' Rock violated provisions of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of was filed Tuesday by the U.S. Labor Department. The suit filed in federal District Court 'here said Publix published advertisements four times indicating a preference based on age.

down" against them. Hussein ordered Prime Minister Wasfi Tell to -take "bold, against the handful of profes- mando movement their treasonable plots." want no hesitation, tolerance or compromise said the king in a letter to Tell, broadcast by Am- their most implacable We shall chop off the hands which are reaching out to dismantle Jordan's national unity and integrity," Tell pledged. Residential Spraying Roaches Spiders 442-7298 ADMIRAL PEST CONTROL Swom In FLORSHGIM LITTLE ROCK (AP)-Harold W. Brueggeman of Hot Springs was sworn in Tuesday as director of the new Department of Public Safety. Brueggeman, who rclired to Hot Springs in 1970 after 27 years with the FBI, will head department that consists of the Stale Police, the State Militta, the Arkansas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the slate Law Enforcement Training Academy the Enforcement Division of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.

Brueggeman was appointed April 29 by Gov. Dale Bumpers to head the agency, one of the 13 principal departments created by the governmental reor ganization plan. The 50-year-old Brueggeman told newsmen that he antici paled making no sweeping changes immediately in Ihe Stute Police. "A sweeping change initially is a mistake," said. SINGER PRESENTS THE 50 RETIREMENT PLAN.

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