Record Employment In
December Attributed To
Ending of Steel Strike
WASHINGTON, UR — Employ
ment hit a record 65,000,000 for
the month in December as the
nation’s economy rebounded from
the steel strike, i
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell said the December em
ployment situation reflected a
marked improvement from No
vember with these results:
Employment — Up 59,000 to
65,699,000, a racord for the month.
This was the first December since
World War II that showed no job
downturn. Usually the December
drop runs around 700,000.
Unemployment — Down 93,000
to 3,577,000. The seasonally ad
justed ratio of idle workers to
the total work force declined
from 5.6 per cent in November
to 5.2 per cent in December. Nor
mally unemployment increases
by about 100,000 in December.
A modest decline in the over
all labor force accounted for a
decline in unemployment greater
than the increase in employment.
Seymour Wolfbein, Deputy As
sistant Secretary of Labor, said
the employment situation in De
cember climbed back to its pre
strike levels with indications the
improvement will continue as
workers laid off because of steel
shortages are recalled to their
jobs.
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I Department Store Robber
Blasts Attendants, Felled
By Intrepid Customer
PARAMUS, N J, UP*—A masked
gunman killed a salesman and
wounded two other employes
Friday night when he bungled a
holdup at a big department store
and tried to shoot his way out.
He was captured by the store’s
security officers after a plucky
customer landed a blow on the
gunman’s head with a can of
cleaning fluid..
The gunman Edward Lehman,
30, was charged with murder and
held without bail.
Vaulting over the credit counter
with a handkerchief tied across
his nose and mouth, Lehman
waved a pistol and said: “This is
a holdup. Nobody move.’’
John Blanch, 49, credit man
ager, grappled with the bandit.
The gunman fired. Blanch fell
with bullets in the chest and
shoulder.
Leo Zaritsky, 47, a parttime
salesman, rushed over. The gun
man fired a single shot into Za
ritsky’s head. The salesman died
where he fell.
Then a customer swung the can
of cleaning fluid down hard on
Lehman’s skull. Security guards
and other salesmen jumped on the
bandit, knocked him to the floor
and grabbed his half-empty Ger
man automatic.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
The dense atmosphere on Venus
causes it to reflect light most
beautifully, but it also obscures
its surface, so that it is very diffi
cult to see any markings. From
time to time, when Venus passes
between the sun and ourselves, it
approaches to within 25 million
miles of the earth, and even less.
This is about 10 million miles
closer than Mars comes at its
nearest approach. We can clearly
see the surface of Mars, for its
atmosphere is very thin, while
the surface of Venus is almost
completely hidden under thick,
white clouds. At such a time,
Venus is also a slender crescent,
while Mars shows a full round
face.
The spectroscope, combined
with observations made upon such
surface markings, has enabled us
to determine that Venus rotates
so slowly upon its axis that one
face is always turned toward the
sun. The day on Venus must last
forever, and its night side has one
long night.
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‘Bomb’ Label Sets
Off Search At
Florida Airport
TAMPA, Fla., W)—A passenger
carried a box of tangerines
labeled “■bomb” aboard a Nation
al Airlines plane Friday night
and threw Tampa International
Airport into a two-hour turmoil.
The bomb scare delayed de
parture of the Tampa-New York
flight. When the plane finally
left, Emil G. Switzer, 46, of Me
tuchen, N.J., was left behind for
questioning by police and FBI
agents. Switzer, a project engi
neer, boarded the four-engine
plane carrying the box with the
words “Tic, tic, tic, bomb,” and
“I am a mad bomber” printed
in bright red letters.
A flight attendant spotted the
package and called Flight Capt.
Wes Raymond of Miami. Switzer
was asked- to leave the plane
while the contents were checked.
“I’m not a jokester,” Switzer
told the Associated Press. “It was
the work of one of the come
dians at the plant.”
Switzer was taken into cus
tody but released after two
hours of questioning.
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NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska, has, at its regular
meeting of December 28, 1859.
fixed the time and place for a
hearing upon proposed light and
power rate changes of the Nome
Light and Power Utilities.
Such time and place are as
follows:
Monday. January 25, 1960,
Council Chambers, Nome City
Hall, 9 p.m., or as soon thereafter
as the matter may be properly
heard.
All persons wishing to be heard
may appear at the time and place
aforesaid.
ROBERT F. SCOTT.
City Clerk.
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