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MAN BEHIND THE SERVICE The hostesses and stewardesses may get the credit, but it's the purser who has to make everything run smoothly and efficiently on TWA international flights. Here George Michael Haag of Levittown, N.Y., serves passengers on New York-London-Frankfort run. UPI Telephoto Airline Purser Holds Key Position, Must Be Master Of Many Trades WASHINGTON (UPD George Michael Haag goes to work every Thursday morning at 7 o'clock, doesn't get home again until 3 p.m. Saturday, and is at leisure until the fol lowing Thursday. This schedule may seem about as fatiguing as testing mattresses in a bed factory. Rut . Mike Haag works for his money. In his three days of duty, he travels about 6,000 miles and walks most of them. Mr. Haag is a purser for Trans World Airlines, currently flying a New York-London - Frankfurt route. A purser on an international air route is one of these ele ments of commercial aviation usually taken for granted, like an engine which is expected to run smoothly and efficiently without getting any credit. The glamor of air cabin service goes to the pretty hostesses and stewardesses. Few passengers realize that the single purser aboard an overseas flight is more responsible for good cab in service tiian the six hostess es he supervises. TWA has about 80 pursers flying its international routes, i They are not used on domestic flights). Each is a member of a rare breed. He is a combination- nuitre -DV. head, waiter, chef, wine steward, bartender, hostess supervisor and diplo mat. Purser Qualification! TWA's qualifications for a new purser underline the im portance the airline attaches to his job. Age limits are 22 to 37. Height is 5'S" to 5' 11". He must he proficient in at least one of four foreign languages French, German, Italian or Spanish plus two years of college or equivalent business experience. Before he is accepted, he goes through a battery of intelli gence and psychology tests that TV LESSON Children in a Santa Ana, Calif., school get their instructions from tele vision in auditorium. Nearly 4,300 Santa Ana students are learning by television under a system begun this year. Education TV Invades Lunchroom SANTA ANA. Calif. UPI - The function of a school is to teach, not feed." With that comment. top school administrator for the Santa Ana unified school dis trict answered parents who com. plained about the schools' cafe terias being remodeled into television classrooms. Nearly 4.300 Santa Ana stu dents are learning by television under system begun this year. This system could become the largest closed-circuit instruction program in the world if it is carried out under present plans. The National Education Serv ices has planned a four -stage program which eventually will include six closed-circuit chan nels. They will be used about nine hours day by the elemen tary grades, plus adult educa are hardly less tough than the ones required for new pilots. About half of TWA's purser force is married with families. The average seniority is 16 years and, unlike the hostess corps, there is virtually no turnover. A senior purser will make about five round trips over the Atlantic a month for which he can earn as much as $900. Mike Haag has been with TWA since 1948. He is a slim, handsome man of S3. Only the streaks of gray in his black, curly hair give any hint of his real age. He is married with four children and owns his own home in Levittown, Long Island. Like many of his colleagues, he has a seaman's background. He worked on freighters and as a cabin boy and steward on ocean liners in his youth. The son of a German father and an English mother, he started fly ing in 1945 with American Ex port Airlines when it was oper ating flying boats across the Atlantic. "It was a lot different in those days." Haag recalled. "My first interview for an air purser's job consisted of a sin gle sentence. The chief purser took me into a kitchen and said 'make me an omelet for four persons.' If i hadn't been able to do it, they wouldn't have hired me. Primarily, a purser just had to be a good cook." No Language Requirement Language wasn't a require ment in the early days, either. Today, TWA has one purser who speaks, six languages flu ently and Haag himself is adept at French and German as well as English. Until the modern electronic airborne gal leys came along, Haag literally was just an aerial chef. "The first cooking unit I used on TWA was a Dutch oven off a submarine." Mike chuckled. tion in the evenings. Charles Klasek. television di rector for the school district, said the availability of funds and success of the instruction will determine whether the sys tem will be developed fully. Klasek believes the cost of television will he offset during the first year through more ef ficent use of classroom spare, less expense for visual aids and fewer teachers. The cost of the system for the first year is $375,000, ex eluding supplies and .salaries for Klasek and his five -member staff. The children in grades three through seven receive instruc tion on such subjects as science, social studies, music and Span ish. The fifth and six graders "I don't remember taking any safety training until I came with TWA. either, and we didn't have any kind of an emergency procedures manual. Actually, we didn't need them as we do today. We didn't carry many passengers and most of us were ex-seamen who had a pretty good idea of what to do if we had to come down in the ocean. "The passengers have changed, loo. We used to have just VIP's and government of ficials. Now you put 150 persons on a jet and it's pretty much of a cross-section of America." Haag's first salary as a purs er was $175 per month. There were not set hours. He might fly as much as 120 hours a month but he still had to work at the terminal in between flights, servicing planes and setting up bar service for ar riving and departing passen gers. Today, he gets a basic salary of $576 monthly for a minimum 65 hours of flight duty. He gets another $8.70 for every hour above the 65 - hour minimum plus 50 cents an hour as the senior cabin attendant. TWA also pays per diem layover ex penses plus $1.75 for every day absent from home this sum for laundry, baggage-and tips. "The average purser saves money from his per diem in come," Haag said. "Some of them sock away as much as $100 a month." Haag and the other crew members have a 34-hour lay over in Frankfurt.. They get their rest in first and invaria bly join up later for sightseeing and shopping. "It's a wonderful life," Mike added. "I doubt if there's a sin gle TWA purser or hostess who hasn't seen every art gallery or other cultural highlights in Europe." watch two 15 each day. - minute programs Several classes use the multi - purpose class rooms together under the gui dance of two special teachers who expand and explain the day's lessons after they have come over the monitors. Then the children return to their own classrooms and spend the rest of the day in conven tional education with their own teacher. After school, teachers receive two hours of television instruc tion each week in economics for which they are given col lege credit. Few parents have any com plaints about the system taking over the cafeterias now that they have seen the results of this new concept of teaching in the Santa Ana schools. I 1 I WORLD HORIZONS Thursday. October 31. 1963 PAGE-ID HERALD AND NEWS, Klaniath Falls. Oregon New York Tovn Battles Tax Hike COPIAGUE, N.Y. (UPD-Si-lently, without fanfare or appar ent leadership, the residents of tlis moderate - income residen tial community on Long lslaad's south shore have revolted against rising school taxes. In effect, they said "no" when the local board of educa tion called on them to ante up a lew more dollars per house hold to meet the rising costs of operating an up-to-date school system. On Oct. 1, voters re jected for the third time the school board's proposed budget which would have hiked taxes 79 cents per $100 of assessed valuation over last year's rate of $8.57. The rejection of the proposed $4,187,000 budget, which school Superintendent Dr. Jerome Bot winit'k declared was a rock-bottom, no-fat estimate, caused the 5,400-student school system to begin the year on an "aus terity" program. Under state rules, austerity means elimination of interscho lastic athletics and hot lunches in school cafeterias, parents are assessed rentals for books and charged for workbooks, paper and supplies, school bus service is curtailed, use of school facili ties by scouts, service clubs or other civic interests is disal lowed and adult education pro grams are prohibited. Vote Once More With the school system about to enter its third month under austerity, the district's voters will be given a fourth and pre sumably last opportunity to reconsider. The board of educa tion voted last week to submit a revised budget to another vote on Nov. 13. The new budg et will call for a tax increase of 23 cents per $100 less than the previous estimate, the sav ing resulting from reduced ex penditures during the austerity period. The budget crisis in Copiague apparently , is symptomatic of Little Book Explores Men's Fashion History NEW YORK I UPI I Did you , know that legislation against "improper exposure" started the Bermuda short? Did you know that a lie originated as a "protection for the heart?" Did you know that the buttons on men's coat sleeves got there because Napoleon didn't want his soldiers wiping their noses on . . . well, not using a hand kerchief? These and other facts on nu merous facets of men's fashions are compiled in a neat little booklet called "A Fashion His tory for Men Only," compiled by the British Woollens indus try on what it calls the "bland assumption that a little miscel laneous information always will come in handy." The booklet leads off with ar mor and works through to worsted What? No X, Y, or Z in men's wear? Armor started as a metal covering the body, formerly used as protection in battle. Av erage weight then 65 pounds, for a small man, said the pub lication. Other information: Bermuda shorts. A fashion begun by men, named because women, as is their way, at tempted to corrupt it. Gover nors of Bermuda, unable to keep women from wearing shorts, rushed through legisla tion to control the length, pro vided Hamilton bobbies with rulers so they could measure improper exposure. If shorts were more than two inches above the knee, the guilty worn, an was fined. (And sent to Ja maica?" Blazer. Credited to the cap lain of H. M. S. Blazer. In or der to spruce up hia motley, un kempt crew, the ' skipper equipped the men with metal- buttoned blue serge jackets. Modern blazers are often brightly striped, but to this day, they always have metal but tons. Bootstrap. Something to pull yourself up by. More peo ple should use it. Bowler. Designed by a horseman who lost his hat once too often. In 1850, William Coke, great hunter from Norfolk, invented round, low-crowned hard felt hat which would May on and also provide a certain amount of protection. The hat was first called a "billycock" increased taxpayer dissatisfac tion with soaring school costs across the nation. Although di rect voting on school budgets is peculiar to New York State, the National Education Association reports an apparent national trend toward rougher sledding for proposed bond issues to fi nance school capital improve ments. Where a few years ago 85 to 90 per cent of the bond issues submitted to voters were ap proved, the nationwide percent age now has declined to about 65 per cent, an NEA spokesman said. Dotroitcrs Rebel In a major city example of tax resistance, Detrcit voters last April turned down a bond tax proposal the school district advanced. After the defeat, the school administration announced it would go on half-day sessions in the first, fourth and seventh grades, but it rescinded the plan after a lawsuit. Instead a second vote is scheduled for next month on a lower millage proposal. Copiague, like thousands of other communities on Long Is land and elsewhere in the na tion, for years has been caught in the squeeze between the need Sot expanding and improving its school facilities and steadily rising costs. The result has been tax increases modest but frequent. Seven times in the last 11 years the voters have turned down a school budget, some yeari more than once. But al ways before the new school term opened, or within a few weeks after opening day, a new and larger budget was okayed and normal school services, ex tra - curricular activities and the athletic program were con' tinned. This year, however, a record number of voters turned out for a third vote Oct. 1 and rejected the hudgel, 1,558-1,245. - in honor of Billy Coke, but sub sequently became known as a bowler, thus immortalizing Beaulieu, the hatler who exe cuted the original design. Chausses. Tight - fitting breeches, often of linked mail, for hips, legs and feet. Be glad you don't have to wear them. Collar. A status symbol. At one time, clean Linen at the neck indicated that the wearer performed no menial tasks. Cravat. You wear a tic as "protection for the heart." This health habit is attributed to a mercenary regiment of Croa tians serving with the French Army in Paris in the middle of the 17th century. The Croats or Cravates, as the French called them wore long strips of muslin or lace lied at the throat and rippling down their chests as magical protection for the heart and the stylo is supposed to have been popular ized by Louis XIV. Fedora. A soft felt hat with the crown creased lengthwise originally with a high roll on the side. "Fedora" was the her oine of a drama by Sardou first play in England in 1884, but her name stuck to a man's hat. Gauntlet. Something you take up or fling down. (See Webster I. Habit. There are 'good ones and bad ones. Good ones are worn hy monks and by well dressed equestriennes. Hatband bow. A survival of the fighting man's plume, worn for love of a lady. He wore it on the left to keep it out of the way of a rapier thrust. Men still wear the bow on the left today, Pea jacket. The short, jaun ty sailor's reefer popularized in the 19th century by Count D'Or say, a famous dandy of the day. He got caught in the rain without a coat, purchased the jacket from a passing sailor and by the IBM's, the style was a favorite in both Britain and the United States. Name comes from the Dutch word PiJ, de scribing the rough, warm wool len fabric. Sleeve buttons. Not a pretty story but you'll have to admit Napoleon was practical. 'He added sleeve buttons to the French Army uniform to keep his men from wiping their noses on their sleeves. ' Wanted List Of Nazi War Criminals Still Long After Nearly Two Decades FRANKFURT (UPI -Find ing the wrong bones in the Ber lin grave of Gestapo chief Hein rich Mueller is the latest dead end in the hunt for Adolf Hit ler's missing lieutenants. When they recently dug under the tombstone marked "To our beloved father, Heinrich Muel ler," West Berlin authorities hoped to find proof to lay the ghost of one of those top Nazis who may have escaped when the Third Reich crumbled 18 years ago. Instead, lliey found bones from three skeletons and none identified as those of Mueller, the shadowy ex-Munich detec tive who became the late Adolf Eichmann's boss in the slaugh ter of 7 million persons. Their findings disappointed but did not surprise the diggers. Hangman Eichman was run to ground in Argentina 15 years after Nazi Germany fell. Later Richard Baer, final com mandant of the Auschwitz death camp in which 2 million per sons perished in gas ovens, was uncovered working as a wood- chopper in a north German for est. Walter Rauff, the former SS (elite guard) general who in vented the mobile gas chamber and who directed Nazi security police terror in Italy, has been tracked down in Chile. SS Chief Heinrich Himmlcr himself lasted only 16 days be fore British troops caught him dressed in a private's uniform and eyepatch after war's end. But the most-wanted list of maj or Nazi offenders still is long, despite nearly two decades of a world wide game of hide and seek. The list includes: Dr. Josef Mengele, who be Miss America EVANSTON, III. (UPIl '-The slim. 21-ycar-old coed slipped quietly from the college dorm. In white tennis shoes, sweater kTJ. sTs OJV-fi ll! i' (Ml - r; x. . a - V (Vf-sXi.ht 'i : . J . i . iti -flNr if Ues, .'-;, ., .. -tw v j - T . . : :V j i " ' ? TT v-' CAMPUS QUEEN Jacqueline Jean Meyer, 21, Miss America in 1963, gives camoraman a bright smile as she pauses en route to classes at Northwestern University recently. UPI Telephoto Trying To Make Fast Buck Can Prove Fatal In Russia MOSCOW (UPI During the past two years more than 020 persons have been executed by firing squads in the Soviet Union for trying to make a fast buck. Many of those who died would be criminals In any country embezzlers, forgers, swindlers, bribers and bribe-takers. But others have been shot for simply doing what comes na turally to businessmen in the United States and other West ern countries. In the West, the go-getter who knows how to make money because of a shrewd business head, resourcefulness or the right contacts often becomes a rags-to-riches success. He builds a house, buys one or more cars, takes a Caribbean or Riviera vacation, perhaps becomes president of his local Rotary Club. In the Soviet Union the same go-getter businessman may be (and has been) convicted as a criminal and put to death. Trials Doom F.tevea The Soviet government an nounced Oct. II that 11 Rus sians were sentenced In death came known as Auschwitz's "angel of death" because of his round-the-clock work in devis ing new "scientific" methods of killing Jews. He is especially remembered for a chemical in jection he used to kill Jewish children. The onetime family doctor was last said to be wear ing a goatee and ministering to primitive head hunters in the malaria-infested Matlo Grosso district of Brazil. There Is a $5. 000 price on his head. Alois Brunner, the former Eichmann aide who bossed much of the shipping of Eu rope's Jews lo the death camps. German authorities report him ilfFfiW'f kaVr JHT HUNT FAILS Despite a hunt of almost two decades, the most-wanted list of major Nazis is still long. Latest deadend in the hunt for Hitler's missing lieutenants was find ing the wrona bones in the alleged grave of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Mueller (shown I in SS uniform during the war), tombstone is shown at left. Goes Back To School and dark skirt, she walked slow ly to her first class. Jacqueline Jean Mayer, five fool, Jive-inch beauty (36-22-36) in two separate trials for op crating private businesses with in two government-owned textile plants. The doomed men were offi cials of the plants who diverted for huge profits, according to the Soviet press. Private enterprise Is strictly illegal in the Soviet Union ex cept for a few minor exceptions notably farmers who in ad dition to working on collectives or state farms sometimes have private plots and are permitted to sell the produce, usually a small-scale operation. Anybody who employs his ta lents for making money for himself instead of the state is considered a criminal menace to society w ho must be ruthless ly stamped out. Small Minority The Soviet Union long has been plagued by a minority and it is a small minority of "capitalist types" who make or try to make private fortunes. In May, 1061, the government decided to lake extreme meas ures to get rid of them and dis courage Imitators. The de;h penalty, was insli- i hiding somewhere in the Middle East. Dr. Hoist Schumann, who carried out the Nazi program of "purifying the Aryan race" by killing thousands of mentally and physically handicapped persons. He last was reported performing some sort of tropi cal pennance, doctoring natives in the backwoods of Ghana. Brunner and the two "devil doctors" rank above such newly found and imprisoned Nazis as Wilhelm Boger, reputed inves tor of torture devices, Oswald Kaduk, who allegedly picked out 40 concentration camp chil dren and burned them alive, 'Nt'1 MKT r from Sandusky, Ohio, was back in glory to a school she had left 28 months before, after losing three separate campus beauty pageants. ' Jackie was (Miss America in 1963. ' 1 ' Early this month, when Jackie registered for fall quarter class es at Northwestern- University here, a school photographer fol lowed her briefly, snapping pic tures as she went. , That was the end of all the "fuss." In the year of her reign, the 115-pound former Miss Ohio criss-crossed the country, bitch visiting four to seven cities dur ing a seven-day work week, tak ing in veterans hospitals and doing commercial stints on tele vision. Once she flew to Lon don for an international fashion show, and during the entire 02 months there were only 40 days she could really call "free." Now, Jackie is back on a dif ferent swing of studying hard as a sophomore major ing in television at Northwest crn'S' speech school. Miss Amer ica has shunned her sorority house to live with two close campus friends, Carol Zook of Wichita, Kan., and (Liz Ohlson of Wilmcttc, III. Not all of the pageant glam our is gone, however, Jackie travels to Ohio every weekend for personal appearances and speeches her father is her business agent land she also tapes commercials for a tele phone company. Jarkie admitted she was a hit "envious" of the girls who competed for the '64 title. But, fur the time being at least, she's going to settle on being a 'status symbol." At Northwestern, you really "rank" if she's in one of your classes. tulcd for speculation in state property, and two months later speculation in currency also be came punishable by death be fore a firing squad. A year la ter bribery was added to the official kist of capital offenses. The figure of more than 220 persons executed since May, 1901, is obtained by counting the cases reported to date in the Soviet press. The actual fig ure could be much higher. No statistics on economic crimes are published. JOIN I.N PLEA WASHINGTON (UPIl i For mer President Dwight D. Eisen hower and retired Gen. Alfred M. Grucnther, American Red Cross president, joined Monday in a pica for everyone to be come a "personal diplomat" In the fight for peace by joining the I'oople-to-People Program. Grucnther gave progress report on the program at a news conference here In connec tion with an article Eisenhower wrote for the November Issue of Reader's Digest. and Auschwitz official Frank Hoffman, accused of trampling -a captured general to death and 1 drowning a priest by holding . the cleric's head under water. But the three still rank below the biggest names on the list of the ones who possibly got away Mueller and Martin Bormann, the scar-faced last deputy to Hitler. ' Muller'and Bormann, Hitler's do-it-all chief assistant,' joined the missing at the same place and almost at the same time; They were with Der Fuehrer in , Hitler's fantastic underground bunker in embattled Berlin at the end of April, 1945. f " r? .A UPI Telephoto Klan Still Manages To Survive! ' :. , X ATLANTA fltPn Th Km iKIux . Klan, like the mythical nyara wnose nine severed heads .kept growing back, refuses to die. Ever since its founding as a secret social club in Pulaski, Tpnn.. in Hia ilncinr A-Ttf ,r tu v-ivu war, ine Klan has had peri lous or relative feast and famine. m nearly a century since the war, the hood-wearind. oroKs .tinminn order almost faded into extinction. 1 numocr ot limes. But though Is numbers and militanw t. clined, the Klan survived. Klan membershiD and action camaaiens nirronflv Bra .n ;r o . - mi Progress in nnrlh Flnrisla Louisiana. A new Wan klavern, (chapter) was eslahltchoH In cent weeks in Winston - Salem! N.C.. and tWfl mn arrneU Connection With tha knmlmfl f Church in Rirmlnnhntn 1 which killed four Negro girls, were linked to the Klan at least as former members. Accurate memhjirvhin rirti,MB for the Klan are elusive because officials of the order tend to gross ly exaggerate their numbers. It is believed, however, that there are now icwer man 10,000 Klansmen in sharp contrast to the eight million the organization once claimed. , Kiss Of Death Whereas it once was nolitirallv expedient for political office-seekers to carry Klan cards, particu larly in the Deep South, it now would oe a political kiss of dtnth to admit membership in all but nanmui 01 places. The White Citizens Conneil newer, better organized southern segregationist organization, nub.' licly opposes the Klan. But an: outspoken opponent of the coun cil, editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat- Times, still calls it "the uptown. Klan." -: Though the Klan's terror -In-' duced power and influence have waned since its post-World War I heyday, it stubbornly refuses to' told and, In fact, appears to be attempting a comeback In some places. Confirms New Chapter Just last week, a Klan leader confirmed the establishment of. the new klavern in Winston-Salem but he proniscd the group would use legislative pressure rather than violence to fight racial in tegration. 'We are not troublemakers or bombers," said R. L. Mabc, 33," exalted cyclops (president) of the . klavern. "I can honestly say it is a fine organization and we don't go for violence. We hope to achieve our goals through legis lation." Mabe, a self-employed home builder, said the klavern was ev- tablishd about a month ago and chartered by the state as an af filiate of the United Klans of: An-Rrica, Knights of the KKK;I which he described as a nation . al organization with headquarter;!; at Tuscaloosa, Ala." Membership; is resiricteo w wnue iTotcstantSt; Mabe said. Australia has an average o'. only 3 6 persons per square mile I; compared to 349 in India, re ports the National Geographic! .1
