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It lad out one in the National (iuard Armory here which not one cham pion driver in 10 can get in or out of without creasing a tail fin. President Kohert II. Clark Jr. of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce finally wedged a black '59 1'lyniouth sedan into this sim ulated fenderbender. But he gave up trying to get it back out until somebody tore down a wall. Frank Grinnell, a safety expert for Liberty Mutual, said he built bobby-traps into the garage to separate the good drivers, like Clark, from the real exnerts, like some of the teen-agers here this week for a national safe driving contest. Built of Stanchions The garage, fortunately built not of brick but of stanchions and roc, was one of four "problems" set up to help judge driving champs from 4H states and the District of Columbia. They had outdriven 4112,932 other youngsters in 2.207 contests to win the right to compete in the 8th Annual Safe Driving Hoad-K-0 sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Com merce. A cheer went up from the har- Britain, U.S. And Russia Work On Test Ban Plan By JONATHAN C. RADAL UPI Staff Writtr GENEVA i UPI) The United States, Britain und Russia have labored more than nine months in hopes , of giving birth to a treaty which would ban nuclear weapons tests and quiet the world's fears of deadly radioac tive fallout. But radicallyopposed East-West methods of midwifery still make agieemeiit opiear faraway. Nonetheless, the nuclear confer ence has made more progress than any other East-West disar mament negotiations since World War II, and has at least nar rowed its differences to a few if extremely crucial issues. This is no small accomplish ment. Success in Geneva would repre sent the first step towards con trolled disarmament. Success would also create the optimistic basis needed to allow the discus sions on wide disarmament ques tionswhich the big four foreign ministers recently ordered re sumed to bear fruit. Recently, there have been rum blings in Washington complaining that not enough progress has been made here. Prtdictt Renewed A-Testt Sen. Clinton I'. Anderson iD N.M.I chairman of the Congres sional Atomic Energy Commit tee, even predicted the United States will resume nuclear test ing after the one-year moratorium expires Oct. 31. Were the United Stales to re sume nuclear testing unilaterully few observers doubt that world public opinion would be shocked and that the present negotiations would break up. Official U.S. policy dictated solely by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian A. Herlor still favors trying to reach agreement at Geneva. Part of guarded American op timism here stems from the dif fieullies already overcome since lust Octolwr. When the conference opened, it apjea'ed doomed from the out set. Favorite Red Maneuver Then, using their favorite man euver, the Russians arrived with a draft treaty and asked the United States and Britain to sign on the doited line. Agreement in principle was the only thing necessary the details could be worked out later, the Soviets said. The West said it would never never sign a treaty without mak ing sure it provided for a worka ble control system against any Mssible Soviet cheating. Mutual concessions have al lowed the conference to adopt 18 articles of an estimated 24-part treaty. The Hussians have moved towards acceptance of more con trols than the wildest Western op timist would have dared suggest only n year ago. The most, important draft arti cle accepted so far stipulates thai the treaty shall remain in force indefinitely, subject to the right of any party to withdraw if it feels the treaty is being violated. De Gaulle And Eisenhower To Meet In Paris Sept. 2 By ARTHUR HIGBEE UPI Staff Writer PARIS (ITU Gen. Chnrles de Gaulle and President Eisen hower will meet here on Sept. J. It will be their first meeting since 1951 when Eisenhower was supreme commander of the allied powers in Kurone. It will mean more to De Gaulle than an opportunity to discuss what ' Eisenhower plans to talk about with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. For it also will give the French President a chance to sound out the American president on how the U.S. will vote in the Algeria debate in 'the United Nations this fall. U should huvo .been simple enough for De Gaulle to put his Algeria date forward or back to accommodate Eisen hower. i Insists en Trip But he insisted 01 going to Al geria first. Eisenhower readily agreed. Reports Immediately blossomed that De Gaulle wns going (o do something spectacular. One rumor was that France would explode her first atomic bomb in the Sa hara Desert during De Gaulle's Algerian trip The French govern ment took pains to deny that any such test was planned. The more persistent word has been that De Gaulle may come out with a new plan lor Algeria either a new appeal to the Algeri an rebels to lay down (heir arms, or an enlargement of his "Con stnntlne" plan for Algeria's eco nomic regeneration However, the present Constan tino plan is already an economic mouthful. De Gaulle himself is understood to feel that it is too nieh for France to chew as long as the wnr drags on. As to any cease fire appeal, the potent "French Algeria bloc is as opposed to any concessions to the rebels. Yet if IH' Gnulle offers no con cessions, the reliels are extreme ly unlikely to heed any new ap peal until alter the U.N. debate is finished. ussod contestants when it was an nounced over the public add-ess system that Clark would run the Road-E-0 course on which so many of the teen agers already had been humbled. Clark is a 3:1-yeor-old lawyer from Des Moines, Iowa, and considers himself a competent driver. "I'm operating under a handi cap." he alibied in advance. "My wife ordinarily would be sitting by me telling me what to do." Contestants Applaud Failure He overshot the stop line at the first intersection, then worried his way, in a couple of tries, around a corner engineered for Volks wagens by elves. It took him sev eral attempts and a few bumped stanchions to park parallel in a space just about right for a Fiat. At the garage, fiendishly offset from on alley, he failed ignomini- ously. There was applause from the assembled contestants, most of whom also had muffed it. After officials removed a cou ple of stanchions to let him get out Clark rolled confidently and inaccurately through a path of paired rubber balls, each pair spaced wide enough to clear a 7:5(1x14 tire with a couple of inches to spare. Clark knocked down six sets of bulls out of seven. Contest officials gave him a score of 85 points out of a possi ble 200. That wasn't bad. Although individual scores of contestants aren't announced, at least one of the stale champs was understood to have blown each test of the four, for a grand score of zero .One of Six Events The test of driving skill was one of six events in the contest and counted one fifth toward a total possible score of 1.000. Contest ants also were graded on person ality, appearance, poise, attitudes, and knowledge of driving, as well as on actual performance In Washington traffic. Charles A. Goodwin, a Liberty Mutual traffic engineer, said his and other interested firms helped underwrite costs of the contest on the theory that it's too late to teach anything to us adults. Goodwin said technically young sters tend to be better drivers t'han adults. It's lack of judge ment that runs up their accident toll. Insurance rates for drivers under 25 are generally about 60 per cent above those for the rest of us. Sometimes even a slate cham pion will come in here as a wise guv. Goodwin som, as tne tires screeched on waxed wooden floors. "This, cools him off." MARKETS PORTLAND GRAIN White wheat 1.89. Soft while, hard applicable 1.89. White club l.8. Hard red winter, ordinary 1.98. Hard white baart, ordinary 2.01. Oats no Ii''). Barley 42.00. PORTLAND DAIRY PORTLAND i UPI i Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: Grade AA extra large, 50-53c doz.; AA large, 47-50c; A large, 44-47c; AA me dium, 37 - 40c; AA small, 26 - 28c; cartons 1 3c additional. Butler To retailers: AA and grade A prints, C7c lb.; carton, lc higher; B prints, 65c. Cheese medium cured) To retailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 41-51c; processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43C. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND (UPI i lUSDAl livestock : Cattle f$0; active, steady: load good and low choice 825 lb. fed heifers 27.25; canncr-cutter cows 13-14.50; few light earners' down to 10; utility slaughter heifers 19 20: common and medium feeder steers 18-21. i Calves 25; slow; few good and low choice vealers 27-29; utility standard 19-25. Hogs 200; strong to 25c higher; sows steady; couple lots 1 and 2 butchers 190-225 lb. 17.50- 17.75: mixed 1, 2 and 3 mostly 17; 2 and 3 grade sows 330 - 550 lb. 11.50 13.50. Sheep 150; few slaughter lambs steady; high good - choice spring lambs 19 - 19.50: few 20; good spring lambs down to 18; good choice feeder lambs 75 lb. up at 15-16; medium lightweights down to 13: cull-good ewes 2-4. Ccntinued From Front Page oppuge h a threat to the na tional health and safety. New York Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finncgai arranged to meet privately today with the two top negotiators in the steel strike but said the outlook still was "gloomy." ' i It was reported from Unity House, Pa., where the AFL-CIO Executive Council is meeting, that the council is considering a plai to raise cash co.nt'ibutions from nearly every union member in the country to aid th? stel strikers Coeper Cites Wages R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus try negotiator at the stalemated talks in New York City, said the report showed that steelworkers were at the top of the list in wages and that "increases in em ployment costs have been far in excess of increases in output per man hour, tneroby forcing up steel prices. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union had a differing view. Mitchell's booklet of statistics provided this key information: Wages: The average hourly earnings of steel workers are "higher than those in most other industries." In May the average was $3.10, compared with $2.23 in manufacturing as a whole and $2.68 in the auto industry. On a yearly basis, steelworkers aver aged $5,350 in 1957. but this fell to $4,840 in the recession year o. 1958. Profits: Steel profits after taxes as measured by the rale of re turn on net worth averaged 16 1 oer cent for the first half of this year, compared with 14.1 per cent of the composite of the nation's 25 largest industrial firms. But the amount of profits which must be used for capital invest ment is about 25 per cent higher in the steel industry than in manu facturing as a whole, the booklet said. It also noted that net profits as a rate of return on stockhold ers' equity has been lower in the steel industry than in all manu facturing during most of the post war years. . Prices: Prices of basic steel products are at peak levels. Dur ing the first half of this year, they averaged 138 per cent above 1940. They have climbed in every year since World War II. includ ing periods of economic recession. They have risen faster and high er than wholesale prices in gen eral and "much more" than re tail prices. Productivity: The amount of steel produced per man-hour has risen- as the result of improved worker performance, more and better equipment, improved man agement, etc. Output per wage employee man-hour increased by about 74 per cent from 1940 to June, 1959. During 1947-57 this output measurement increased by an average of 3 per cent a year, compared with 3.7 per cent for the economy as a whole. NEW YORK STOCKS NEW YORK UPI '-Hopes for a settlement of the steel strike brought demand into steels, rails and aluminum stocks today and sent the market sharply higher. The steels sported gains run ning to around 3 points at the highs in Youngstown, Lukens and Wheeling. Other steel leaders gained 1 to 2 points. Aluminum issues rose around 2 points. The rails, hard hit by the strike scored gains running to around a point or more in Baltimore & Ohio. 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