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Movement To Close Stores on Sunday Gaining Momentum Throughout Nation
Friday. June IS, 1958
Labor Unions,
Churches Join
Merchant Groups
Washington (U.R) Churches,
labor unions and merchants' as
sociations in many parts of the
country are joining forces in an
effort to curb the growing tend
ency of retail stores to conduct
"business as usual" on Sunday.
Sunday selling, once confined
largely to drug stores and deli
catessens, has been spreading
rapidly into other lines of busi
ness during the past few years.
In many communities, the "Open
On Sunday" sign is now . com
mon place in automobile
agencies, appliance, hardware
' and furniture stores, and even
supermarkets.
Leaders Alarmed
Both Protestant and Catholic
. leaders are alarmed by this new
i challenge to the already-battered
j tradition of Sabbath observance.
They consider it a far more fund-
amental threat to the church's
, teal-mugs man ounaay movies
. and baseball games, against
j wnicn some religious groups
fought a losing battle half a gen-
eration ago.
Sunday amusements could be
defended on the grounds that
they were a form of rest, at
i least for the audience. But lib-
i eral as well as conservative theo-
j logians can see no such justifi-
s cauon ior me seven oay retail
j business week.
J CUarcut Denial
I It is, they feel, a clearcut de-
i nial of the ancient insight, in-
; corporated In the Third Com
i mandment and strongly support-
1 ed by the findings of modern
! psychology, that man needs to
set aside one day a week to re
; fresh his spirit with worship and
; rest.
j Church crusades against Sun
; day selling are getting powerful
; support in some areas from labor
; unions and from businessmen
I who are suffering from "open
: on Sunday" competition.
' Such a three-way alliance was
formed in Minneapolis, Minn.,
; recently when some large food
. stores tried to remove from
: union contracts provisions which
: prohibit Sunday work. Union
' resistance to the demand was
backed up by the Retail Grocers
association. Then the churches
got Into the fight. The coordin
ating council of the Methodist
church issued a strong statement
calling on "the members of our
churches in particular and so
ciety in general to refrain from
all unnecessary business activ
ity on Sunday." Lutheran and
Presbyterian churches followed
suit, and Minneapolis Baptists
went even further by urging
their members to boycott any
store that remained open on Sun
day. .
Storm of Protest
Confronted with this storm of
protest, the food stores which
had proposed Sunday operation
backed down, at least temporar
ily, and dropped their demand
for a change in union rules.
In New Jersey, Catholics, Pro
testants and merchants are wag
ing a common fight. The Catho
lic Press association recently
presented a special service award
to the Newark Advocate for
"arousing public opinion
throughout the state of New
Jersey by its effective crusade
against Sunday selling." Pro
.testant groups, including the
Lord's Day Alliance of New
Jersey, have also been roundly
condemning the rapid spread of
Sunday retailing. Lately a group
of some 500 businessmen, called
the New Jersey Association for
the Sunday Closing of Non
essential Industries, has thrown
its support to the cause.
Other Reports
Reports from other areas show
that the issue is being joined
all over the country:
In Toledo, Ohio, Catholic
churches urged their members
to "withhold patronage" from
grocery stores that stay open on
Sunday.
In Indianapolis, the Automo
bile Dealers association voted at
its annual convention to seek a
state law making it mandatory
for automobile dealers to close
on Sunday.
The Florida Furniture Dealers'
association c o n a e mnea "non
essential" Sunday business.
In Dayton. Ohio., where many
chain groceries began opening on
Sunday last fall, some unions
have served notice they will
strike, if necessary, to get a "no
Sunday work" clause inserted in
their next contracts.
Nationally - circulated church
Harriman Heads West in First
Acknowledged Quest for Votes
New York U.F New York's
Gov. Averell Harriman, his hat
still bouncing from its toss Into
the presidential ring, flies west
to the mountains Saturday on
his first acknowledged hunt for
convention votes.
Harriman supporters from 11
western states convene at Den
ver Saturday morning to form
a regional Harriman for Presi
dent Committee they hope to
bonfire into a national organiza
tion. Harriman toured the area
shortly before he declared his
candidacy with a literal hat toss
at a hatters' convention last
Saturday. He will arrive on a
flying round-trip in time to ad
dress the closing lunch and head
back for New York 24 hours
later.
His New York backers will be
conspicuously absent from the
flight to the wide open spaces.
Both Tammany professional
Carmine De Sapio and the big
wheels of the governor's busy
but still undeclared New York
campaign headquarters are stay
ing home.
Look To West
The Denver meeting is sched
uled to stress Harriman's par
ticular appeals to the West his
lifetime Union Pacific Railroad
association with the region, his
views on development of West
ern resources and on agricul
tural income which Western sup
porters claim are generally pop
ular in the area.
Maj. Gen. John Russell Deane
(Ret.), who headed the U.S. mil
itary mission to Moscow while
Harriman was ambassador
there, will come from Orinda
Calif., with first-hand praise of
Harriman's competency in for
eign affairs. Another speaker
will be Gov. Raymond D. Gary
of Oklahoma, who'll take 28
unit votes to Chicago for Harri
man.
Altogether the 11 states
Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Ne
va, Arizona, New Mexico, Okla
homa and Kansas command
200 votes in the Democratic na
tional convention. That many
could put Harriman, with some
90 of New York's 98 votes al
ready in hand, in second place
and within shouting distance of
front-runner Adlai E. Steven
son on the first ballot. But he
won't, and can't, get them all. '
Votes Committed , -
Montana's 16 votes are com
mitted to Sen. Estes Kefauver
by its primary vote. Harriman
forces say only that they expect
to have "most" of the votes from
the other 10 states. Oklahoma's
28 are sure. A United Press tab
ulation shows delegates of the
other involved states either un
selected as yet or unofficially
expressing scattered preferences
for Harriman and four other
candidates. The 11 states gave
Harriman 19M of his 1231
votes at the 1952 convention.
With large blocks already
commited to Stevenson and Ke
fauver and others reserved for
favorite sons, Harriman support
ers are generally refraining
from the first ballot numbers
game, however.
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Population of Dogs Figured at 23,000,000
Chicago U.R) Population-
wise, America seems to be going
to the dogs.
The last census figures put the
human population at 167,000,000.
A dog food manufacturer esti
mates the dog population at 23,
000,000 and says it's increasing
four times as fast as the human
population.
Almost every other household
has one dog; (according to Quak
er Oats Co.), and nearly 15 per
cent of all American homes
boast two or more canines.
This means big business for
the dog food industry, with sales
last year totaling a quarter of a
billion dollars.
Like their masters, dogs are
enjoying a higher standard of
living than ever before. Dogs are
larger, they eat better and they
live longer, the study showed.
ONE-THIRD PLYMOUTH
Plymouth, Mass. (U.R)
Tourists who think they have
seen Plymouth Rock actually
have seen only one-third of
America's birthstone. That part
of the rock visible above ground
weighs 6,997 pounds. But the
other two-thirds of the rock lies
directly beneath. The huge
boulder broke while efforts
were being made to move it
back in 1774.
Dutch Government
Denies Rumor of
Royal Divorce
Amsterdam OJ.R) The
Dutch government took the un
precedented step Thursday night
of denying rumors of . a divorce
between Queen Juliana and
Prince Bernhard because of the
queen's trust in a faith healer.
And the faith healer. Miss
Greet Hofmans, a 61-year-old
spinster, told the United Press
today she exercises no influence
over the queen and that her sole
mission in life was to dedicate
people to Christ.
Strict Rule Broken
The governments official
denial broke a strict govern
ment rule that no statesments
are made concerning the per
sonal affairs of the royal family.
Dutch newspapers already had
departed from tradition by re
printing fhe foreign rumors
about the queen.
Both developments indicated
that the reports of a rift between
Queen Juliana and Prince Bern
hard had deeply shocked the
nation.
A Dutch government spokes
man said the government was
issuing the denial "notwith
standing the silliness of these
rumors" that the queen was con
templating a divorce. The brief
statement was telephoned to cor
respondents here:
"A government spokesman
emphatically denies any rumors
which have been circulating in
the foreign press relating to di
vorce proceedings having been
planned on initiated."
Reports Reprinted
The reports originated in the
West German weekly news
magazine Der Spiegel and were
reprinted throughout the world.
They were not published in
newspapers in Holland until
Thursday, one day after the
Dutch parliamentary elections.
The reports said the queen had
gone to Miss Hofmans in hopes
of restoring the sight of her half
blind daughter, Princess Mari
jka, nine, and that Prince Bern
hard had broken with the queen
over the issue. It also said Miss
Hofmans' influence extended to
matters of state.
NINE TIMES FIFTY
Royal, Neb. (U.R) When Mr.
and Mrs. William Kess observed
their 50th weding anniversary
with a party here, their guests
included eight couples who had
been married 50 years or more.
Retired Man Has Over
8,00 License Plates
Bella ire, Mich. U.R Charles
Sextno, 80, a retired railway
worker, may. have the largest
automobile license collection in
the world.
Sexton began collecting li
cense plates in 1909 and today
has more than 8.000 of them
from all parts of the world.
A few years ago Sexton built
a shack behind his home here
to house his license plates and
other odds and ends he collects.
License plates are everywhere
in the shack. The floors are cov
ered with them and so is the
roof and outside of the small
building. , ,
In addition to license' plates,
Sexton collects advertising signs,
beer caps, ball-and-cap shotguns,
mounted moose and deer heads,
old pictures, ancient carpenter's
tools and scores of other items.
publications meanwhile are re
minding their readers that there
is one simple thing that every
Christian can do to check the
spread of Sunday selling: Quit
buying on Sunday. ;
"They won't stay open on Sun
day very long if they don't tj
any business on Sunday," said
the Christian Herald in a recent
editorial. '
"For this infringement of the
Sabbath, the buyer shares the
blame," said the Catholic Week
ly of America. "It takes two to
make a Sunday sale."
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