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Lumber Workers Vote
Authority For Strike
Union Seeks
5 Cts. Hour
Wage Boost
Negotiations Planned
Soon With Roseburg
Lumber Co. Officials
Union negotiators will meet with
Roseburg Lumber Co. officials
soon, armed with authorization lor
a strike from a vote Saturday.
About 700 members of Lumber
and Sawmill Workers Local 2949
who work at the plant voted 2 to L
to authorize the strike if negotia
tions fail. No deadline has been
set.
The union presented its request
for a 5-cent-per-hour increase about
two months ago, according to Hen
ry Weber, business agent. The un
ion wants the increase retroactive
to June 1 and wants a 15 cent per
hour increase if they have to go
on strike.
The raise would bring the mini
mum wage at Roseburg Lumber to
$2.03 per hour. About 1,000 work
ers would be affected. The raise
would amount to about $100,000 per
year in the payroll, according to
Weber.
No Counter Offer Madt
The union committee plans to
meet today with the company ne
gotiators when Kenneth Ford, man
ager, returns to Roseburg, Weber
said. However, Cliff Pearson, mem
. ber of the company negotiating
committee, said that no meeting is
scheduled.
The company has made no counter-offer,
according to Weber. He
said that Pacific Plywood Co. has
been paying the new wage rate
for about two months and that two
other companies have agreed to
the rate but are not paying it now.
Harold McKenzie, representative
of the union's western council from
Rogue River, was present at the
strike vote and indicated that the
' strike is authorized by the council.
The union negotiating committee
includes James Cooper, Ed Car
diff; D. T. Mill, B. E. Ballou,
Claude Rhoades, Ray Rauch, and
Frank Vance. The company is re
resented by Ford, Pearson, and
Eugene Card.
Canyonville Men Held
In Fruit Stand Burglary
Burglarv of the Riddle Junction
Fruit Stand on Aug. 1 was appar
ently solved Saturday with the ar
rest of two Canyonville men.
Charged with burglary not in a
dwelling are Leroy Graves Jr., 21,
and Roland J. Thiess, 18. They
were arrested by Canyonville po
lice and are being held in the
county jail with bail set at $1,500
each.
Officers say Thiess has confessed
to the burglary in which owner
Leonard French said a large num
ber of watermelons, cantaloupes,
oranges, fryers, soda pop, pota
toes and $14.70 in cash were taken.
Thiess denies that any money or
potatoes were taken.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The sales tax, as it is generally
understood in these days, is 36
vears old. It got its start back in
West Virginia in 1921. It has spread
now to 33 stales and somewhat
more than 1000 cities.
In this modern day, when Uncle
Sam takes about 75 cents out of ev
erv dollar of taxes paid by the
people (the old boy used to take
onlv 25 cents out of the total tax
doliar, leaving the other 75 cents
to the cities, states counties, school
districts, etc.) the cities are as
hard up for money as anybody, and
have found the sales tax an an
swer to their prayers for more
dough.
When West Virginia started It
off, the take of the sales tax was
infinitesimal. In 1956, it produced
more than three billion dollars.
Percentagewise, collections from
the sales tax represented 18 per
cent of total state tax collections
ten years ago. Today sales taxes
represent 23 per cent of tortl state
tax collections.
Here is an interesting fact:
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The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Tuts
day. Not much tamparaturt
changa.
Highat tamp, last 24 hours 79
Lowtst tamp, last 24 hours 45
Highest tamp, any Auguit ..... 106
Lowtit tamp, any August 39
Pracip. last 24 hours , 0
Pracip. from Auguit 1 .30
Pracip. from Sapt. 1 30.05
Dafic. from Sapt. 1 20
Sumat tonight, 7:20 p.m.
Sunrisa tomorrow, 5:16 a.m.
Kire Weather Low fire danger
in Coast Ranue and Northwest
ern Oregon through Sunday. Mod
erate hazard elsewhere in itatc.
Conference Dated Here
By Jehovah's Witnesses
Between 800 and 900 delegates
from 20 congregations of Jehovah's
Witnesses will be in Roseburg next
weekend for a three-day circuit as
sembly. The conference will be in the
auditorium of Central Junior High
School Friday, Saturday and Sun
day. Delegates will be from South
ern Oregon and Northern Califor
nia points.
Theme of the assembly will be
"Qualified to Teach," following the
object of the Witnesses of develop
ing each believer into a preacher.
The sessions will begin Friday
night and continue through Satur
day. A public Bible lecture, "What
Are the Prospects for a Lasting
Peace?" will be delivered Sunday
at 3 p.m.
Presiding will be C. A. Stoer
mer, supervisor of Oregon Circuit
No. 2. He has been a minister of
Jehovah's Witnesses since 1944 and
in circuit work for the past 10
years.
Locally in charge of arranging
for the assembly is C. V. Stefa
nich, presiding minister of the
Roseburg congregation.
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Log Handlers Quit
In Wage Demand
TACOMA, I Picket lines
formed Monday around the St.
Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co.
and Foss Launch and Tug Co. as
members of Local 11-120 of the
Boommen and Rafters Union
struck for higher wages.
Pickets were also scheduled to
appear later at three other log
handling companies.
Negotiations between the approx
imately 80 men of the local and
the five employers represented by
the Industrial Conference Board
broke down last week despite ef
forts of W. B. Toner of the Fed
eral Mediation and Conciliation
Service to effect a settlement.
The union reportedly is seeking
a 7'4-cent an hour wage increase.
M. J. Muckey, Industrial Con
ference Board manager said that
employers want to maintain the
present contract as it stands. The
bosrd is an employer bargaining
organization representing some
450 Seattle-Tacoma area employ
ers. Muckey said rafters and boom
men have been earning $17.93 for
a six-to-eight hour shift.
If prolonged, the strike would
cripple logging operations in the
Morton - Mineral area and ev
entually affect the entire lumber
and plywood industry here.
Youth Held In Larceny
From Church Academy
Charged with burglary of the
Seventh-day Adventist Academy,
W. Umpqua Street and W. Military
Avenue, is Gary Lee Williams, 18,
Fresno, Calif.
Roseburg police arrested Wil
liams Saturday while he was al
legedly trying to sell a tape re
corder and record player to a
downtown music store. The ma
chines, identified as property of
the academy, were taken from the
building about 1 p.m.
When a plain-clothes officer ask
ed Williams about the tape record
er, according to the police report,
he was told it had been bought in
Los Angeles about two years ago.
The officer said Williams could not
operate it, however.
THIEVES TRY SAFE
An attempted safe crackine at
the Wooley Logging Co., Drain,
was investigated by the sheriff's
office Saturday. According to the
report of the incident, the office
had been entered Friday night and
the safe had been hacked with an
axe in an attempt to open it. Ap
parently nothing was taken.
To Ease 'Economic Stress'
Senator Dimick States
Plans Laid For Bringing
New Industries To State
"As a result of little or no plan
mng, uregon s economy nas goi- j
ten out of kilter and we now find !
ourselves in a condition of econom-
ic stress," Senator Dan Dimick j
told persons gathered for the:
Douglas County Timber Days
queen's banquet Saturday night.
The banquet was held in the i
Sutherlin Odd Fellows Hall. A
street and square dance followed
I the banquet. During his speech,
I the senator explained the newly or
ganized Department of Planning
! and Development.
Recently, Dimick served as
chairman of the Interim Commit
i tee on Executive Appointments
which considered and confirmed
the appointment of Julius Jensen
to head .the new department. Jen
sen appeared before the committee
and outlined his plans as director
in the undertaking.
! "We learned that 46 of the 48
j states have specialists working for
their states in a similar capacity.
Thrse states recognized the need
' sooner than Oregon. A a result of
, little or no planning, we now find
Council Action
Due On Urban
Renewal Plan
Discussion Slated
At Tonight's Session;
$8,000 Cost Estimated
Proposed participation by the
City of Roseburg in the federal
urban renewal program will be a
major topic of discussion tonight
by the City Council.
The city has budgeted $8,000 for
the participation, and the council
tonight probably will act to put
the money into use.
The money will be used for a
planning study contributing to an
overall program for future com
munity development, preservation
I conditions tending to cause urban
'flight and the promotion of the
general health, salety and welfare
of Roseburg citizens.
Those aims are contained in a
proposed resolution which will be
submitted to the council tonight.
Financial Aid Available
Planning assistance may be pro
vided by the Bureau of Municipal
Research and Service at the Uni
versity of Oregon under authority
of state law. The bureau acts as
agent of the State Board of Higher
Education.
Financial assistance may be re
ceived from the Urban Renewal
Administration, which was author
ized in the Housing Act of 1954.
The proposed resolution would
authorize: (1) Payment to the
State Board of Higher Education
of up to $3,700 for planning assist
ance, and (2) use of personnel of
the city for technical assistance at
an estimated $300 a month.
Total estimated cost to the city
Is $8,000.
Other items on the agenda in
clude a public hearing on the pro
posed rezoning of the south side of
Harvard Avenue between Pilger
and Kenwood streets from resi
dential to business, bids on police
cars ana estimates on sewer con
struction. The meeting will start in the
council chambers of the city hall
at 7:30 p.m.
Officers Clear Story
Of 'Assault-Robbery'
Roseburg police Saturday wrote
off as cleared a case of reported
car theft and attempted assault.
Early that morning Eugene Cav
er, 855 SE Pine St., reported he
had been forced out of his car
by two young men, one of whom
threatened to hit him with a
crutch. He said he had been drink
ing and had asked the two to drive
him to their home.
A different story was told by
Delbert D. Huntley, 1715 Diamond
Lake Blvd. He said he had sent
a nephew and another young man
to the Turn-Around Inn to get his
car which had been left there.
They found a man sleeping in the
car, Huntley said, and took him to
the Huntley home where he was
invited in for coffee. After consid
erable time had elapsed the man
declined to leave and was put out
of the house, Huntley stated.
The police report notes that an
officer checked at Caver's home
and found his car, a 1947 Plymouth
which he had claimed was stolen)
parked in the driveway.
HOSE WHACKED
Another case of a garden hose
being cut was reported to the sher
iff's office Saturday. Mrs. Ray Art,
2074 SE Austin Rd., told deputies
her hose had been cut about 10:30
p.m. Friday.
ourselves in a condition of eco
nomic stress," Dimick said.
Survay of Stata Planntd
He went on to say that "Gover
nor Holmes and Jensen will make
a rapid survey of various areas
throughout the state. They will
analyze the needs of the commun
ities and work with the citizens of
the various localities to develop
and utilize their potentials."
"Following the survey and be
ginning about October, Jensen will
go throughout the United States to
attract appropriate industry into
Oregon," he added. "This will
bring new business, new payrolls
and a more stable and healthful
economy to Oregon. Oregon is a
slate of great opportunity. We have
only to develop our natural re
sources, expand our markets and
utilize fully what we have here in
a relatively undeveloped area."
lie concluded by saying that
Sutherlin can be very proud of its
Timber Days queen 16 year-old
Carolyn Hardin.
Established 187316 PagesROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY,
Joy w "
TIMBER DAYS Queen Carolyn Hardin and her princesses, Margie Haught and Donna
Kern, at top, were attractive in the annual parade in Sutherlin Saturday. They reigned
over the three-day Douglas County Timber Days. At bottom, the power saw elimination
was held Saturday. Billie Joe Polley, Glide, and Thomas Weathers, Camas Valley, were
winners. (Paul Jenkins photos)
Parades, Logging Skills
Feature Sutherlin Fete
Further Time To Plead
Given Mrs. Edith Ott
Jlrs. Edith Ott, 46, Roseburg,
was granted three days additional
before entering a plea when she
was arraigned today before Cir
cuit Judge Carl E. Wimbcrly on
a second-degree murder charge.
Mrs. Ott is under indictment,
charged with the death of her 22-
mon'.h-old adopted Korean daugh
ter, Wendy Kay, Jure 14.
Hail was continued at $5,000.
Mrs. Ott is charged with striking
the child, leading to its death.
Khe was indicted by the grand
m y July 23. I he indictment was
relcrred back to the grand jury by
Wimberly on July 31, and a cor
rected charge was returned Dy the
jury Aug. 5.
Jlrs. Ott has been free on ball.
Mrs. Ott's plea will be heard
Thursday at 10 a.m.
Cornel' In Northwest1
Visible To Naked Eye
The comet Markos has been seen
on clear evenings the past couple
of days, according to Ionard He
dine, V. S. weather observer here.
He said the comet, which now
is moving away from the sun, can
he seen best about 8:45 p.m. It ap
pears about 10 degrees above the
horizon in the northwest sky.
Hedine said the comet is visible
to the naked eye if the viewer
stays away from other strong
lights. He said the comets tail is
visible.
Stratojet Sets Record
On 11.450 Mile Trip
ORLANDO, Fla. A B17
Stratojet flew nonstop from Guam
to Morocco in 22 hours 50 min
utes, ending the 11,450-mile trip
just before midnight, I'inecastle
Air Force Base said Monday.
The public Informalion office
said the flight was a record for
a R47 hut it did not have informa
tion on a previous record.
The office said the route was
over Japan and Alaska and
across the North American con
tinent. Multiple aerial rcfuclings were
used,
Th plane had no special equip
ment and carried a crew of four.
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Shell Kills Four Boys
Playing Game Of War
YORK, Pa. I A playful
game of "war" became real
tragedy when a souvenir bazooka
shell exploded near here killing
four boys two sets of brothers.
Killed in the blast Saturday
were Gary, 15, and Joseph Weav
er, 10, and Lynn, 10, and Stephen
Baker, 9.
Police said the blast occurred
when Gary climbed a tree near
the Weaver home and dropped the
shell to the ground from a height
of about 12 feet. The other three
youngsters were killed instantly
and Gary died at a hospital.
The Weaver boys were believed
to have brought the shell home
from a visit paid to their brother,
Donald, at Ft. Bragg, N.C. sev
eral weeks ago.
Thieves Prowl Tavern
On North Umpqua Road
Burglars who broke into the Roy
al Coachman Tavern on the North
Umpqua Road early Sunday morn
ing completely ransacked the place
searching for money.
, According to Mrs. Arthur Selhy,
News-Review correspondent, t h
tavern was entered sometime be
tween 1 a.m., when it was closed,
and 10 a.m., when the owner, Miss
Mignon McCormick, opened it. The
thieves had broken a pane of glass
in a door at one end of the building
to gain entry.
Deputies who investigated said
that as near as can be learned,
about $150 was taken from the
cash register, $4 or $5 in pennies
from a jar, and an undetermined
amount from tha coin box of a
shuffleboard.
Several cartons of cigarettes had
been set aside, apparently to bs
taken, but were left behind.
i Cool, Clear Weather
jTo Stay Through Week
Continued cool, clear weather is
I in store for Western Oregon the
remainder of the week, the U. a.
Weather Bureau office at Rose
burg airport said today.
Temperatures will average be
low normal for this time of year
through Saturday, but there will b j
little or no precipitation.
High temperatures will range
between 72 and 82 degrees and
lows will ha between 48 and 56.
AUGUST 12. 1957 188-57
SAW, -
Sea pictures paga 3.
Douglas County Timber Days at
Sutherlin were climaxed Sunday
afternoon with the awarding of $1,
1)85 in logger's contests. Highlights
of the three-day event was a par
ade Saturday morning and a
queen's banquet that evening.
Mrs. Olga Bielman, parade chair
man, described the parade as the
largest and best in the 11-year
history of the Timber Days cele
bration. The parade consisted of
12 floats, 34 marching units and 2
mounted groups. Winning floats
and themes were: First, St. John's
Lutheran Church, Hock of Ages;
second, Easlsidc PTA, In an Old
Dutch Garden By An Old Dutch
Lebanon Logger Coast
Handbucking Champion
QUINCY, Calif, ifl Ben
Lentz, Lebanon, Ore., won tha
hand bucking contest at the
Pacific Coast Loggers' cham
pionship competition hcra Sat
urday night,
In the contest entrants cut
through a thick log with a
cross cut saw.
.Mill; third, Assembly of God
Church, We Have An Anchor.
Theme for the parado was Tim
ber Days in Melody, A children's
parade preceded the main parade.
The children's parade, which had
five divisions, consisted of children
riding floats and bicycles. AIos. of
the youths were dressed in cos
tumes and some had their pets
with them.
Coronation And Ball ,
Residenli of Sullierlin started tho
celebration Aug. 3, when thfy start
ed wearing jeans, plaid shirts and
western dress. Friday night, 10
year-old Carolyn Hardin, a junior
at Sutherlin High School, was
named queen of the event. Girls
named princesses were Donna
Kern, 16, of Sutherlin, and Margie
Haught, 16, of Oakland. Carolyn
was crowned at a coronation ball
Saturday night.
Senator Dan Dimick spoke on
Oregon's new Department of Plan
ning and Development at a queen's
banquet Saturday night. The ban
quet was followed by a dance at
(he Veterans Memorial Building
and a square dance at the West
if'iile Elementary School.
Pat's Shoppe and Fountain
Lunch won a trophy for the best
decorated window depicting timber
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Canadian War Veterans,
Families, Returning From
Vacation, Tragedy Victims
ISSOUDUN, Que. W) The fuselage of a wrecked Can
adian airliner began sinking slowly into a deep, watery
swamp Monday, complicating the task for an investigating
team and the searchers going after the bodies of the 79
dead.
The four-engine DC4 plunged into the swamp during a
summer thunderstorm Sunday 15 miles south of Quebec
City. The death toll made it Canada's worst air disaster.
Oregon Accidents
Claim Four Lives
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Violent death claimed four per
sona in Oregon over the weekend.
Three of them died on the high
ways. Cyrus C. Pratt, 61, Burns,
drowned in a small pond a few
miles east of Burns Saturday af
ternoon. He had gone to the water,
filled gravel pit to test an out
board motor boat. His son, Lloyd,
and two companions were along.
The boat overturned. Young
Pratt and William Mulvancy,
Burns, helped the older man to
shore, but he did not revive.
An automobile crashed off a
Beaver Creek Road curve, two
miles southeast of Oregon City,
Sunday. The driver, Jack Duane
Stalkup, 30, Oregon City, died in a
hospital later.
Lloyd Murpny, 15, Grants Pass,
was walking along the Pacilic
Highway at Grants Pass Saturday
when he was killed by a truck.
A truck left the road on a curve
in the Alsea River Highway 25
miles east of Waldport Saturday
and killed Willard C. Wallen, 20,
Swisshome, the driver.
Heavy Damage Results
In Oakland House Fire
The home of Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Watts of east Oakland wa3
damaged by fire about 10 p.m. Sat
urday. The Oakland Volunteer Fire
Dopartmont answered the call.
No one was at home when the
blaze broke out. The fire was
through the roof when the fire do
parlment arrived, Mrs. Edith
Dunn, News-lteview correspondent,
said. Cause of the blaze in the
three-bedroom home is undeter
mined. Damage to furniture and appli
ances was estimated to be between
$5,000 and $0,000, Mrs. Dunn re
ported. Mr. and Mrs. Walls are
in Arizona, but their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Thornton, were staying in t h c
home.
Winslon-DilMrd rural firemen put
out a two-acre grass and sawdust
fire about 2:30 p.m. Saturoay. The
fire was located on the property of
Hank Weber, approximately six
miles south of Dillard on Highway
90.
The department was called hack
to the location about 10 a.m. Sun
day when it was reported that a
tree was smoldering, the fire is
believed to have been caused by
a cigarette thrown from a passing
automobile.
Repeat $100,000 Gem
Robbery Hits Salesman
MEMPHIS, (ifl A Pittsburgh,
Pa., diamond salesman said he
was seized when he opened his
hotel room door Sunday night and
robbed of "about $100,000" worth
of gems.
Jacob Davis, 50. told officers
one of the bandits held a pistol at
his back while the other snatched
the two brown paper bags that
held the precious stones. He of
fered no resistance.
Davis was robbed of $100,000 in
diamonds in N;Jshville, Tenn., on
March 1, 1950. Three gunmen
forced his taxicab to the curb and
fired a shot but no one was in
jured. All three later surrendered and
were given long prison terms.
"At my age and with my bad
heart, I didn't want to give them
an excuse to rough mo up," h
said Sunday night.
Davis said the two men left
him hound and gagged with neck
ties taken from his luggage.
Barbershop Warblers'
Picnic Scheduled Here
Barbershoppera from several cit
ies in Southern Oregon will con
vene next Sunday at Umpqua
Park in Roseburg.
A picnic is planned there at 1
p.m. Expected are SPEBSQSA
members from Roseburg. Klamath
Falls, Mcdford, Grants Pass, Coos
Bay and Eugene. Tha Roseburg
chapter will bo host.
The picnio is an annual affair.
Tha dinner will be potluck. Cof
fee and soft drinks will be furnish
ed by tha host chapter.
Four Die In Dynamiting
Sequel To Family Rift
YREKA, Calif. (tf-A part-time
gold miner, just out of jail on a
wife-heating charge, sought to blast
1 his wife out of existence yester-
iday.
He ended, said the sheriff! of
fice, by blowing himself to bits
and killing his son, daughter and
son-in-law with a homemade dyna
mite bomb.
Wilbur Smith, 47, died instantly
as his 16 -year-old son. Ted, his
daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Sturgis,
20, and her husband Doug, 25,
: sought to wrest the bomb from
him. They too died in the blast.
Mrs. Smith was hospitalized for
'shock and hysteria.
lhere were no survivors.
Available nvMe
bghtning as one possible cause of
the midafternoon tragedy. The
chartered airliner was carrying
veterans and their families back
to Canada from a vacation with
their folks m Britain.
ine main portion of the nlano-.
passenger section, tha fuselage,
was believed stuck in a 25-foot
water-f.Ued hole. Dr. Jean-P a u i
Pouhot, coroner of Lotbiniere
County said the army was being
the bOBBV crash cono ......
sealed off from photographers and
souvenir hunters.
the first body found Sunday
night was that of an infant.
i', ,o 33 men- 41 women
and 5 children, including 6 crew
members, surpassed Canada's pre
vious casualty high of 62 persons
aboard a plane that crashed last
December in the Rockies
The pilot, 37-year-old Norman
Ramsey of Montreal, whose flv
uig license had once been suspend
ed on a charge of negligence in a
plane crash, stopped in Iceland on
the way home.
He brought the plane up the St
Lawrence Biver valley in sunny
weather, makine tho ni.ocnii,.i .
io checks. At 2:07 n m h r. .
ed passing over Quebec.
J. , , ,n,3 P'n- ratli0 re
port to Montreal, the next check
point along the plane's route. For
..y...a. muuis me piane was list
ed as missing.
Cause Undetermined
Then the pilot of a plane opcr-
, . 7ua subsid'ary of Maritime
sighted burning wreckage. A Roval
Canadian Air Force plane from
1 renlon, Out., dropped three para
rescue men at the scene. Thev
messaged: .
"There are no survivors." Mari-
une oiuciais said thev had "ab
solutely no idea of What caused
the plane to crash."
Ramsay had been with Mari
time two years. A Canadian Trans
port Department inquiry board
suspended his licenso for six
months late in 1954 afler blaming
him for negligence in the crash of
a Trans-Canada Super-Constella-lion
near Brampton, Ont.
The Canadian Air r.ino Piiic'
Assn. said pilot's fatigue was re
sponsible for that nonfatal crash
Maritime officials described Ram
say as a "Kood. well . iminnrf
puoi.
Father, Son Die When
Plane Crashes, Explodes
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho Lfi -
Spokane man and his 11-year-old
son died Saturday night when
their light plane crashed and ex
ploded at Moose Creek, deep in
North Central Idaho's primitive
area.
Killed were Charles D. McNeill,
43, and his son, James, who were
en route to the Selway River area
on a weekend fishing trip.
Witnesses said McNeill's plane
apparently was caught in a cross
wind as he came in for a landing
at the isolated field, 100 miles casl
of here.
Crash Of Dutch Seaplane
Snuffs Out Eight Lives
THE HAGUE Wi - Eight per
sons were killed Monday when a
Martin Mariner seaplane of the
Royal Dutch Navy crashed short
ly after takeoff from Merauko Air
field on Dutch New Guinea, the
Navy Information Service said.
The dead included six crewmen
and two passengers. A seventh
crewman was critically injured.
The aircraft was engaged m
supplying an airfield now under
construction in tho New Guinea
jungle to serve as a center for
exploration.
Washington Plumbers
Cet Wage Increase OK
TACOMA 11 Tho efnlo o..
live board of tho Plumbers and
Pipefitters Union approved a
statewide agreement with employ
ers Saturday. It calls for waga
increases totaling 30 cents an hour
by next July 1.
The agreement, which erased
the threat of a statewide strike,
calls for a 22-cent hourly pay hike
Jan. 1, 1958, and an additional
eight cents an hour next Julv 1,
Journeymen plumbers and pipe
fitters now receive $3.40 an hour.
Included in the agreement was
a provision for 25 cents an hour
of premium pay for all work done
at heights over 35 feet.
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
President Eiienhower't for
mula for combatting inflation
and paving the woy to cutting
taxes can be lummariied in
just two words that the aver
age man in the street can
understand and endorse:
Cut spending!
All power to the poised voto
axe, ;