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Price-Fix Indie tmenfs Hit
Northwesf Insulation Firms
SEATTLE (UPI) A federal
grand jury here Tuesday indicted
five insulation contracting firms
doing business in the Pacific
Northwest and four of their ex
ecutives on charges of conspiring
to fix prices and rig bids.
The U.S. attorney's office said
the alleged conspiracy forced the
government to pay more for con
struction of military installations,
including missile bases.
Defendants named included: .
Associated Asbestos, Inc., Seat
tle, and Clarence Ball, vice pres
ident of the firm; E. J. Bartells
Co., Seattle, and its president,
James W. Amis; the Brower Co.,
Seattle, and its president, Edward
Saberhagen; Owen-Coming Fiber
glass Corp., Toledo, Ohio, and
K. J. Barnett, former manager
of the Seattle branch of the com
pany's engineering and supply di
vision; Armstrong Contracting &
Supply Corp., Lancaster, P a.,
which has a large Seattle branch
office.
Three Spokane firms, .Curtiss
Insulating Co., Mechanical Insu
lations, and Insulations Inc., were
named as coconspirators but were
not indicted.
The indictment charged the de
fendants and coconspirators had
Solon Doesn't Approve Pay
For Appearance On 'Voice'
WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep.
John J. Rooney, D-N.Y., does not
approve of paying such promi
nent Americans as Helen Hayes
and Pearl Buck for appearances
on Voice of America .(VOA) pro
grams. He thinks they should do it for
nothing.
Rooney'i feelings on the subject
were disclosed Tuesday when the
Appropriations Subcommittee he
heads released the transcript of
closed-door hearings. The sub-
GOP Solon Asks
Medicare Comment
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A Re
publican Congressman from Ore
gon has asked his constituents for
comments on his own medicare
proposal,
Walter Norblad, R-Ore., invited
the comments in a letter to con
stituents. He said his plan would be vol
untary, non - socialistic, that it
would result in a saving on old
age assistance, and would save
millions now deducted from in
come tax for medical expenses.
Norblad proposed that single
persons over 65 receive a certifi
cate worth $125, and, couples re
ceive $250, for those who owe no
income tax.
The certificates would be used
to buy health Insurance with guar
anteed renewability.
Under Norblad's plan, patients
would have the choice of care
based on "average need" of an
elderly person, or more extensive
care in which they would share
expenses.
Norblad said the King-Anderson
bill does not provide for surgeons
or doctors bills, while his certifi
cate system would.
He said that if persons receiv
ing the certificates owned income
tax, it could be deducted from
the amount of the certificate.
Railroads Tackle
New Wage Dispute
CHICAGO (UPI) The nation's
railroads, with one wage dispute
out of the way, tackled another
today.
Railroad negotiators were re
opening contract talks with the
Switchmen's Union of North Amer
ica following agreement with the
3.500-member American Train Dis
patchers Association (AFL-CIO).
Agreement to resume negotia
tions with the switchmen came
after the U.S. Supreme Court up
held the union's right to strike if
talks fail. Bargaining between the
railroads and the SUNA had been
stalled for three years by an in
junction issued by a federal court
at Buffalo, N.Y.
However.talks with five oper
ating brotherhoods remained
stalled, pending action by the
National Mediation Board.
The contract settlement with the
train dispatchers announced Tues
day provided for a wage boost of
4 cents an hour retroactive to Feb.
1 and a 2Wi per cent increase ret
roactive to May 1. It was similar
to the recent agreement with 11
unions representing 450,000 other
non-operating employes.
Two Matson Freighters
Put hi Mothball Fleet
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Mat
son Lines announced Tuesday it
pbns to put two of its freighters
in mothballs and add a modern
ize cargo vessel to its Hawaiian
service.
Matson said the Hawaiian Tour
ist, a victory ship, and the C-2
freighter,, Hawaiian pilot were
being laid up. J
The shipping firm currently is
negotiating with the Federal Mari
time Administration for purchase
of the former Coastwise Line C-4
Coast Progress, a 12,800-ttfn ship
for which) Matson was tlieti sole
bidder. n O
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DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI)-The
loiva Conservation Commission
q hrs appealed (o parents to stop
using life guards at state park
beaches as unpaid "baby sitters"
for imsll children.
gross sales totaling more than
S5 million in Washington, Idaho,
Montana and Alaska in 1961. The
materials included asbestos sheet
ing, fiberglass and various plas
tics to provide insulation against
either hot or cold conditions.
The indictment also charged the
defendants conspired from 1956 to
the present to raise and fix bid
prices, . divide jobs among them
selves and submit rigged bids to
contractors in violation of the
Sherman . Anti-Trust Act.
The indictment said (he de
fendants and alleged coconspira
tors arranged a system of con
spiracy at various meetings where
they agreed on uniform proce
dures for computation of labor
and materials, costs and profits.
The government charged the de
fendants also decided which firm
would submit low bids on par
ticular projects.
The case was presented to the
grand jury by U.S. Attorney
Brock Adams and Lyle L. Jones,
Don H. Banks and Edward Shiver,
attorneys of the Anti-Trust Divi
sion, San Francisco field office.
If convicted the defendants
could be given a maximum fine
of $50,000 each and be sentenced
to one year each in prison.
committee oversees appropria
tions for the State Department
and the U.S. Information Service,
the parent agency of the VOA.
Rooney said that he was
"shocked" to learn that Miss
Hayes recei-ed $800 for eight ap
pearances and Miss Buck, the No
bel Prize winning author, was
paid $700 for seven VOA appear
ances. ;
VOA officials replied that Miss
Buck and Miss Hayes were guest
editors on its "question and an
swer program."
"We try to use prominent well
known Americans on this pro
gram answering listeners' ques
tions from all sources," said VOA
Director Henry Loomis. "We use
other ladies on this program,
such as Sen. Margaret Chase
Smith of Maine and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt...
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Smith
were i not paid for their appear
ances. Rooney also criticized VOA
payments made to columnists
Marquis Childs, Roscoe Drum
mond and Ernest K. Lindley and
NBC commentator Pauline Fred
erick. -
Childs, Drummond and Lindley
expressed surprise at Rooney's
criticism of their acceptance- of
$50 for each appearance on an
unrehearsed panel program. Each
said he regarded the payment as
only a nominal fee, which was of
fered and accepted.
A spokesman for Miss Hayes
said in Nyack, N.Y., that the VOA
automatically paid the actress and
"Miss Hayes did not negotiate"
for the money.
Miss Buck's New York publish
ing representative said it ought
to be "obvious to the public that
the time of such people should
warrant some payment."
Student Jostling
Perturbs Kennedy
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi
dent Kennedy was pushed, shoved,
and overwhelmed in his own back
yard today by an enthusiastic
crowd of more than 2,000 foreign
students.
The President has moved into
many mobs before but witnesses
to the scene said it was the first
time he seemed to be perturbed
and somewhat annoyed by being
engulfed.
At least one girl fainted. Others
were nearly trampled upon. And
hundreds were jammed together
in a suffocating mass when the
President, in a friendly gesture,
moved toward the roped off crowd
of admiring students.
The students sat on the lawn
in disciplined fashion during a
speech delivered by the President
from a wooden platform. They
gave him roaring applause at in
tervals. The mob scene broke out and
the ropes went down when Ken
nedy walked toward them after
the speech.
Several students were hurt
slightly in the melee.
After the bedlam, the students
were herded into their buses for
their next stop. Their visit was
i the wind-up of a three-week tour
Detore departing for their homes
in 50 countries.
In his speech, Kennedy told the
students he hoped they would at
tempt to understand the Ameri
can people and their ideals
"where we arc, where we have
been and where we want to be."
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Strike Factions
Resume Talks
By United Prats International
Striking iron workers and con
tractors gathered in Seattle for
more talks today after a negoti
ating session with a federal me
diation panel Tuesday failed to
produce any agreement.
The federal mediation office
called the session unproductive.
Although it concerned the Wash
ington strike, union spokesmen
from Portland also attended.
The strike situation in Oregon
and Washington remained un
changed. In recent developments, con
tractors have declined to join a
fact-finding committee proposed
by Govs. Mark Hatfield of Ore
gon and Albert Rosellini of Wash,
ington, because such methods
have no binding provisions for
work-resumption or arbitration.
The union has declined to sub
mit the dispute over wages to a
National Joint Appeals Board.
Gov. Mark Hatfield said the in
vitation he has made several
times to, meet with union and
management still stands.
Oregon iron workers and con
tractors ha"e not met in negotia
tions since June 29, however, de
spite efforts by a federal mediator
to brine the Darties together Rut
a mediation spokesman said a
meeting m i-oruand will probably
be held in a few days.
Meanwhile, most hiiiMim .
struction in the two - state area
was halted, including construction
on state institutions.
Road Construction
Under Full Steam
In Douglas County
Construction on Douglas County
state highways is going at full
steam, but the wppirU- i-onnf nt
highway conditions from the de-
paiuiieni indicate traffic is only
uemg siowca siigmiy.
The bieest inh 1c fho nnnt;.,n
Hon of work on the widening of
me racuic ingnway nice Hill
North Oakland Junction section.
The lob jnVOlvPR fTrnHn unrloninn.
and surfacing of seven miles of
uie streicn. construction speed is
35 miles per hour, and traffic, con
trolled bv a flacman. mnv ho clft,.,.
ed by equipment crossing the road
ai iui-Key nui. a one-half mile
detour is being used at Turkey
am.
To the north, on the Cottage
Grove-Divide section of the high
way, construction speed is also set,
and nossihla minnr rinlnvn mo.,
cur because of equipment in t h e
roaoway.
Meanwhile, no delays are occur
in? dnrincr rnnvfritf.finn nn u -
Elkton - Sutherlin Highway. Con
struction worK includes grading
and oiline nf 1 l.miln ctt-nti. nt
the road six miles south of Elkton.
1 raffic is still being routed on the
countv road from Tvoo in Vol.
logg while work goes on to build
a new bridge.
At least two delays are possible
on the North Umpqua Highway.
Traffic is controlled by a flagman
and pilot car on a stretch of paving
from a point about 80 miles east
oi Koseourg to tne junction with
the Cascade Lakes Highway. The
joo involves paving of 6.8 miles.
And traffic is still being detour
ed over the old rmitp in iha Ru.
reau of Pllhlip Rnnric nrnipnt an.
ing east from Bounder Creek. A
streicn oi ii.a miles , is Deing
ffraded nn the npw rnnfp FTvpn tho
detour is affected by construction
for about a mile starling five
miles east of Boulder Creek. De
lays, however, should only be
minor.
Lumber Council
Seeks Import Cut
PORTLAND (UPI)- The Lum
bermen's Economic Survival
Committee says formal applica
tion for help in reducing Canadian
lumber imports will be sent to
the U.S. 'Tariff Commission next
week.
The committee wired the com
mission earlier for help.
It said supporting data will be
submitted along with the formal
application for a temporary tariff
on Canadian lumber.
May Call Council
OSLO, Norway (UPI) United
Nations 'Acting Secretary General
Thant said today he may call the
Security Council into special ses
sion to review the Congo situation.
Thant told a news conference
on the last day of his two-day of
ficial visit to Norway he might
then ask the mandate on the Con
go extended or clarified!
TODAY!
RECEIVING AN AWARD for outstanding and unselfish
devotion to others from 'Mrs. Woymon Schmidt, president
of the Camas Volley Garden Club, is Mrs. Giiy Moore.
Presentation of the award was made at the second annual
Veteran's Administration Hospital patients picnic Tuesday
at the Comas Valley wayside. It hod previously been
given to the president for presentation to Mrs. Moore,
by'the president of the state Federation of Garden Clubs,
Mrs. A. H. Mason, at the state convention. The annual
picnic is part of the club's garden therapy for patients.
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Hawk-Nosed Dr. Torre Is Again
Storm Center Of Peru Politics
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyit
The situation was nothing new
for Dr. Victor Raul Haya de la
Torre, a hawk-nosed, burly man
who for 40 years has been a storm
center of Peruvian politics.
In 1931, he ran for president in
Peru and, according to his follow
ers, gained the greatest number
of votes. But Luiz Sanchez Ccrro,
a military man, was declared the
winner.
Frogman Completes
Channel Crossing
LONDON (UPI) American
frogman Fred Baldasare early to
day became the first person to
swim the English Channel under
water. Ho was in the water a little
over 20 hours. ,
Baldasare stayed two feet below
the water's surface and fought a
two knot flood tide, early this
morning. He left from Cap Gris,
France, at 1 p.m. Tuesday and
arrived at Pogwell Bay, southwest
of Ramsgate, at about 8:15 a.m.
The 38-year-old frogman said he
felt fit enough "to do a round."
The official Ohannel Swimming
Association observer, Sam Nor
bury, said, "it was the greatest
display of fortitude and determi
nation I have ever seen.
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In the current political crisis in
Peru, he again is the storm ren
ter. Returns from the June 10 elec
tions gave Haya de la Torre a
slim margin over his two princi
pal opponents, Fernando Bolaundc
Terry and Gen. Manuel A. Odria.
who served as president from 1948
to 1956.
Congress to Decidt
Since no candidate received a
third of the votes cast, the de
cision now must be made by the
Peruvian Congress, selecting one
from among the three leaders.
Opposition to Haya de la Torre
springs from an unlikely combina
nation of right and left.
On the right is the army.
"Even if Haya de la Torre is
Lincoln's Boyhood Home
Belongs To All America
LINCOLN CITY, Ind. (UPD
The beloved boyhood home of one
of America's greatest men today
belonged to all Americans.
The old Thomas Lincoln farm
in the quiet countryside of Spen
cer County where Abraham
Lincoln grew into manhood be
came a national shrine Tuesday.
Secretary of the Interior Stew
art L. Udall, who accepted the
shrine on behalf of the federal
government, reminded those as
sembled that "The Lincoln story
is ever fresh and this will keep
it so."
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elected, he never will sit in the
presidential palace," remarked
one general two months before the
elections ever were held.
The army has brought charges
of fraud against Haya de la Tor
re's American Popular Revolution
ary Alliance and has demanded
he withdraw from the race.
On the left are the Castroitea
and Marxists who polled only
40,000 votes but who believe the
three-way tie enhanced their
cause. They hope for a weak
government whose internal dissen
sion might promote their hopes
for revolution.
Belaunda Favored
Forced to make a choice, they
probably would select Fernando
Belaunde.
They believe that under Be
launde there would be less chance
of harsh repressive measures to
ward them and that he would
withhold the government support
that now exists for APRA's hold
on the Peruvian labor movement
which they seek to take over.
With the army against him,
there seems little likelihood that
Haya de la Torre can take over.
In 1918, he seemed on his way
to power but was balked by a
coup led by one of his present
rivals, General Odria.
Haya de la Torre took refuge
in the Colombian embassy and re
mained in it for five years. Ia
1954, he was allowed to leave the
country and to return again in
1958 when President Manuel Pra
do took over and made the APRA
party legal.
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