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Recoil Pads 3.25 Carrying Cases xCuamng f(a4 ft - m. 53 , mr-M svuf-w let IS w rtx Ciptt( Mf CUT lint - AMCHCA S FINEST OU'IOAHDJ - t SILVERS are still RUNNING Salmon Reels Salmon Rods Pfleuger, Penn, Ocean Richardson. True Temper, City Union and Montague 5.50 to 17.50 10.00 to 35.50 Spinners 0 Gaffs Tockle Boxes Lines UMPQUA VALLEY A Home-Owned and Operated Store 202 N. Jackson Phone 73 Lewis Wins Much For Miners But Coal er Pn. Rap ran. F hiom, "Dirty" N. Y. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21 UP Loses Ground To Competing Fuels By BRUCE BIOSSAT Since 1M0 there have been 17 strikes in the coal Industry. As many as four have occurred in one year. What has been the overall effect of this series of walkouts? John L. Lewis claims that in that span miners' wage rates have risen from 88 cents an hour to $195 an hour. He points also to a take-home pay of $73 week this year as compared with $24.71 In im In addition, miners are now promised $100 a month retire ment pensions and are entitlei to health and hospital benefits. They get paid vacations that add about $100 to their individual an nual Income. Unquestionably the miners have outstripped other industrial workers in benefits gained dur ing this interval. For example, the average hourly pay boost for all factory employes from 1940 to 1949 is about 30" cents less than the hike won by miners. But there's another side to the story. Both the Wall Street Jour nal and the United Slates News recently have analyzed what is happening to the coal business as result of its labor difficulties. That coal has long been losing ground to competing fuels like oil and natural gas has of course long been known. Probably a con siderable part of this market loss was inevitable. Yet much of coal's decline in the fuel market especially In re cent years can be attributed di rectly to the powerful Impact of the United Mine Workers on the industry. The price of coal to the consumer is now double that of 1940. The labor cost that goes into the mining of coal is nearly twice that of 1942. Although price rises have been general in the war and postwar period, coal has tended to race ahead of other products. Thus hitherto more expensive compet ing fuels have come to look stead ily more attractive. There is more to it, however, than Just higher costs. The Wall Street Journal finds the big fac tor these days is uncertainty over coal supplies. Utilities, railroads, big industrial users simply don't wish to risk any more the pros pect that their fuel will suddenly be shut off. The constant refrain: "I'm fed up with the uncertainty of de pending on a fuel the flow of which John L. Lewis turns on and off like a water faucet." One industrialist says 90 per cent of today's big construction jobs call for installation of oil burner equipment, as against 30 percent in 1939. Coal men say oil electric diesel locomotives have killed a market for 25.000.000 tons of coal a year. Oil use by utilities, though still far below coal. Jump ed 73 peroent in the past yar. Gas and oil are heavy favorites as home fuels. Coal still furnishes roughly half the energy requirements of the U.S. economy. But the deep In roads of other fuels have slashed demand for coal seriously. Lewis found that even dropping to a three-day work week did not cut sharply into stockpiles. Only now that he has gone onto a "no day" work week are Industries begin ning to feel a pinch. No one is likely to suggest that minets should have been denied reasonable benefits while other segments of labor were gaining. But the facts raise the question whether Lewis may not have act ed from too narrow motives without due regard for the future of the industry that must support his men. He has tried to move fast, to lead the pack. In so doing, he may have so harmed the coal business com petitively that the miners in the end may not realize the full value of the benefits they have gained. McNary Dam Workers Learn Russian Speech McNARY. Ore. (.f The work ers on McNary dam are prepar ing for any eventuality. Even Russians. The General Extension divi sion, In cooperation with the corps of engineers, has started a Russian class, under the tutelage of Agu Ounapuu, Salem, a Rus sian refugee. It's the only college class being taught here, too. YEGG SCHOOL FOR COPS TACOMA. Oct. 21 (.P The Tacoma police school will oper ate behind closed doors next week and students will be care fully scrutinized before admit tance. , The subject: How to pick locks and work safe combinations. Arthur Duncan, a Spokane ex pert, will teach the local policemen. Paris fashions, spinster opera stars and New York City took a beating Thursday from Lily Pons, tiny coloratura soprano. In almost the same breath, she adopted San Francisco as her own. "This is my pet city," she said. Then In lovely fashion she gave out with these other observa tions: "New York City Is a crowded, dlrtv madhouse! "Paris fash ions zut! First they are too long now they are too short! I theenk the American women wear them best. They have the most beautiful shapes Me. I'm too petite, always in Uie middle." Killer Of Brother Weepi Ar Inquest, Then Faints LOS ANGELES. Oct. 21-t.B-A coroner's jury couldn't decide whether the "mercy shot" killing of 10-year-old Robert Elliott by his brother Richard, 15, was ac cidental or homicidal. The Jury recommended that Richard be held for further in vestigation. Richard, who didn't testify, wept through the inquest and fainted as he-left the room, tum bling partway down a staircase. He was revived by his father, Dr. Harold M. Elliott. Juvenile officer Kenneth ar pernor related the story Richard frl Oct. 21, 1949 Trie Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 7 ENERGETIC BAPTISTS BLOOMING GROVE, Tex.-f.P) Jack Gillen, businessman-farmer, offered the First Baptist church a bale of cotton if the members would pick it. They did. A bale is worth ap proximately $115. had told him eailier: that Rich ard shot his brother accidentally while showing him a pistol and then said: "He was moaning. I lust couldn't stand It, so I shot him again to end his agony." - Carpenter added that West Los Annelps boys are selling and buy ing guns "like hotcakos." Smashes AA Window Because Denied Loan TORONTO, Oct. 21 UPt Wil liam Selig. 40, was charged vith malicious damage after police said he threw a rock through a window in the downtown office of Alcoholics Anonymous. 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