Friend Says
R. Baker
Not Worried
WASHINGTON' (L'PI' - For
mer Senate official Robert G.
c Bobby i Baker target of a
wide-ranging investigation of
his "outside activities," was
said today to feel he is going
to come out "all right" when
the dust settles.
This was reported in a dis
patch by Kenneth Srhetbel,
Washington correspondent for
the Puerto Rican newspaper.
El Mundo, who interviewed one
of Baker's close friends.
The friend, who asked not to
be identified, told of a chat he
had with Baker. It concerned
the current investigation into
Baker's outside business inter
ests while he held the $19,600-a-year
post of Senate Demo
cratic secretary.
Baker resigned under fire
Oct. 7. Since that time he has
refused to comment publicly on
the reports of his many activi
ties other than to file a formal
deniel in a law suit and to en
ter a disclaimer in an action in
volving his alleged non-payment
of District of Columbia in
come taxes.
"I'm in good shape on in
come taxes," Baker was quot
ed as saying. "They can't get
me there." Baker has claimed
he was an official of the feder
al government thus he did not
have to pay D.C. taxes. Dis
trict tax officials said Baker
was a federal employe, not an
official, and owed the taxes.
Tlie friend said Baker be
lieves "the press is not doing
me justice some of the stor
ies are unnecessary." Baker
was quoted as saying that
"some vicious stories. . .make
me sick." He said his lawyers
had advised him against com
menting directly on any of the
reports, however.
Baker gave no clue as to
whether he might "name some
names" when he is called to
testify before Senate investigat
ors, but he did tell his friend,
"when things unravel, I'll be
all right." He also expressed
the hope that he could remain
in Washington.
The friend said that if Baker
had lost any sleep over his
problems lie did not show it. He
appeared calm and self-assured
as usual and spoke quietly.
The widow of Baker's one
time partner in a plush $1.2
million Maryland motel testi
fied before a closed-door ses
sion of the Senate Hulcs Com
mittee Thursday and was said
to have opened up "certain
avenues" of information for the
senators.
Sen. B. Everett Jordan, D
N.C., chairman of the commit
tee, passed that word to news
men after the committee ques
tioned the widow, Mrs. Ger
trude C. Novak, for three
hours. Mrs. Novak also partici
pated in some Baker transactions.
British Officer
Gets His Bull
MANCHESTER, England
(UPD A policeman became
a matador and got his bull on
the rainy streets of Manchester
Thursday.
Policeman Johnny Oliver won
the bullfight by bringing the
bull to its knees with a lieadon
tackle.
The bull had escaped from a
local slaughter house, charged
through three miles of streets,
knocked down and injured a
woman and terrified women and
children.
The 500-pound bull was corn
ered between a truck and a po
lice car. Oliver moved in and
grabbed it, tw isting its head un
til it dropped to its knees.
The bull, which had been hit
by a truck, died before humane
officers could get to the scene
to destroy it.
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon
Friday, November il, 1963
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AT IT, AGAIN The Flying Wallendas performed their human pyramid act in public
for the first time since they fell while performing 22 months ago, killing two members
of the troupe. i During their current stand in Fort Worth, Tex., they are using a net for
me iiiii nine. un elephOtO
Lady Union Official Asks
Vage Law For 'Bunnies'
WASHINGTON lUPI'-Alady
union official has told congress
men that tlie scantily clad wait
resses in the bunny clubs
should be covered by the min
imum wage law.
Myra Wolfgang, of Detroit,
Mich., vice president of the
AFL-CIO Hotel and Restaurant
Employes Union, gave a House
labor subcommittee a descrip
tion of the problem that ran
that gamut from A-cup to G-,
string.
The subcommittee opened
hearings this week on legisla
tion that would bring restaurant
workers under the $1.23 an hour
minimum wage if the bulk of
their income is in wages. Mrs.
Wolfgang urged further exten
sion of the proposed new cov
erage to employes whose pay
is mostly in the form of tips.
"Your proposed exclusion of
tipped employes will give legal
ized impetus to a most danger
ous trend in our industry," she
said.
"I am referring to tlie evil,
evil wage practices of the bun
ny clubs, the key clubs and
even some posh cocktail lounges
whose owners require wait
resses to work for no wages at
all, for gratuities alone.
"If you exclude tipped
employes from the umbrella of
minimum wage provisions, you
are helping to foster this im
morality, you are lending au
thenticity to a no-wage policy.
"You will be as guilty as tlie
erstwhile magazine publisher
who insists that applicants au
dition for waitress jobs in
swimsuits and leotards and
when lie hires them (says'
there will be no weekly pay
check. "I also object to this practice
as a spokesman for thousands
of competent, experienced wait
resses. The employer who hires
an attractive girl and pays no
wages does not ask the appli
cants if they know the differ
ence between a manhattan and
a martini he asks them for
their bust and hip measure
ments. "The criteria is not experi
ence and politeness, but wheth
er the applicant wears an A
cup. a B-cup or how she looks
in a G-string.
"Evidently the wages of sin
arc not always death, but in
this case, only exclusion from
the fair Labor Standards Act."
Chairman James Roosevelt,
D-Calif., told Mrs. Wolfiang that
while her testimony was "pro
vocative," he did not "intend
to allow these hearings to be
come an investigation of bunny
clubs and key clubs and the
like."
Mothers-To-Be
Snub Pickles
Pickles are passe for preg
nancy, a noted anthropologist
said today.
Speaking before a meeting of
the American Anthropological
Assn. which is holding its
62nd annual conference in San
Francisco Dr. Steven Polgar
of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America said that
in a study he conducted in the
Bay area into the eating habits
of pregnant women only nine
per cent named pickles as their
favorite food.
Polgar told the group that 30
per cent of the women inter
viewed named fruit juices as
their most popular food while
expecting. Meat and fish polled
a close second place.
He said on a national level
pickles ranked in fifth place as
the food most craved by preg
nant women.
Wallendas
Perform
Act Twice
FORT WORTH I L'PI - The
audience fell silent: the aging
man barked commands, and
the "Flying Wallendas" dclicd
death again in their famous
"human pyramid."
Twice Wednesday seven
members of the German troupe
mounted the high wire and
piled gingerly atop each other
until the three-level stunt was
completed. They plan 21 per
formances here.
The pyramid crumbled just
22 months ago in Detroit and
two Wallendas were killed. A
safety net hangs mutely be
neath the performers here a
new innovation.
The Wallendas' act was origi
nated by Karl, 58, in 1954 in
Germany. After the Detroit tra
gedy, the performers fell dur
ing rehearsals at Sarasota. Fla.
During a runthrough here Tues
day night, someone accidentally
switched off the lights while
they were on the wire. The
Wallendas froze.
The lights were quickly re
stored, and the aerialists
climbed down from their 35
foot high perch.
Karl said the "human pyra
mid" will be discarded after
this circus.
An estimated 5(52.000 private
dwellings in the U.S. were hit
by fires during 10(i2.
Average length of life in the
U.S. has increased about 29
years since the middle of the
19th Ccnturv.
Alabama Jury Wants
RJK As First Witness
By United I'rrn International
A Washington-bound Alabama
grand jury looking into Justice
Department participation in the
slate's racial troubles wants
U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert Kenne
dy to be its first witness.
The Dallas County (Selma)
grand jury said Thursday it
hoped to question Kennedy first
when it opens hearings Monday
in Washington on the question
of whether Justice Department
officials encouraged improper
and unlawful integration activi
ty in tlie Deep South state.
The hearing was moved to
Washington alter Justice De
partment officials offered to
talk with "representatives" of
the panel. Earlier tlie depart
ment got a court order to halt
subpoenas for a hearing in Ala
bama issued by tlie grand jury
to several attorneys in tlie de
partment's civil rights division.
In a related development, a
federal grand jury in Birming
ham said Thursday it would in
vestigate the controversial ride
given integration leader Slartin
Luther King Jr. in a Justice
Department automobile. This
incident touched off the Dallas
County investigation.
Federal District Court Judge
Clarence W. Allgood issued a
statement saying that Justice
Department authorities had
agreed to appear before the
panel to explain the incident.
Other developments:
New York: About 500 persons
gathered on Manhattan's West
Side Thursday night to protest
alleged police brutality and en
gaged in a shoving match with
policemen. Sticks and stones
also were hurled from nearby
apartment house rooftops.
Syracuse, N.Y.: student
civil rights group called on Syr
a c u s e University officials
Thursday to refrain from sched
uling athletic events with seg
regated schools.
Council Okays Modern Languages
VATICAN CITY I L'PI '-The
Ecumenical Council, in the first
final action on any major issue
since it was convened more
than a year ago, today over
whelmingly approved tlie use of
modern languages instead of
Latin in most forms of Roman
Catholic worship.
Tlie council fathers voted
2.158 to 19 in a final vote pre-
Porcupine Bounty Noted
Some $300 in bounty money
is still available to porcupine
hunters who present tlie noses
of their quarry at the county
clerk's office, the Klamath
County Treasurer's Office re
ported today.
The amount is all that re
mains of $2,000 which was al
located for tlie special fund
earlier this year. Tlie county
will set aside another $2,000 as
bounty money next spring.
The county pays 50 cents for
each porcupine nose presented
at (he clerk's office. An eradi
cation program of tlie mammal
was started here some years
ago because such animals de
stroy large numbers of valu
able timber annuallv.
ceding promulgation of the dog
matic constitution by Pope Paul
VI in a ceremony expected next
week.
Tlie pontiff will act on tlie
document at public session. An
open volo at that time by the
council fathers is considered a
formality.
Last week tlie council con
cluded a document on social
communications, but compared
to tlie dogmatic constitution on
tlie liturgy, that is considered
a secondary decree.
Tlie document on liturgy has
seven chapters. Its general aim
is to modernize the forms of
One of the chapters allows for
the use of modern languages to
replace Latin in baptisms, con
firmations, confessions, com
munions, marriages, holy or
ders (ordaining of priests) and
extreme unction.
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