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A qalek jump by one-lerced Vcenneth Bjtllwebcr, 4145 Glenwood Dr Wednesday noon saved him from
possible death in an ante accident at South 12th and Howard Streets. Ballweber. a newspaper carrier,
was reaching Into his parked car for cratches when a Dairy Cooperative track driven by Simpson Ham
rick Jt Marqnam, skidded Into his car. Ballweber lumped to the rear of his ear as the truck hit. He
was treated at Salem General Hospital for broken flnrer. Phillip Schindler, 11, of 1355 Fan-mount
Ave., a passenger with him, was uninjured. Shown riving emergency treatment to Ballweber are left
Allen Merquier and Gerald Hall, both members of the Salem first aid crew.
Jobless Pay
Checks for
Year Increase
Payments to Oregon's unem
ployed workers for the benefit
year Just ended were $13,889,242,
an increase of 33.2 per cent over
the previous 12 -month period but
8 per cent under the average for
the past four years, the State Un
employment Compensation Com
mission announced Wednesday.
Despite the $3,464,490 increase
In payments combined with lower
tax rates, reserves of $74,762,530
In the state unemployment com
pensation fund were slightly above
a year ago. Collections from em
ployees dropped $262,000 to $12,
616,000, but interest paid by the
federal government climbed to
$1,654,597.
The number of those filing
claims increased from 86,046 in
1950-51 to 92,166 during the past
year while first payments went
from 58,103 to 66,196. Only 10,624
persons exhausted annual bene
fits as compared with 13,110 In
1950-51. Both figures are the low
est of the post-war period, al
though 1947-48 had fewer claim
ants. For the first half of 1951-52,
?iayments ran slightly behind those
or the previous benefit year, but
layoffs during the winter season
resulted in outgo of $9,911,641
during the past, six months, nearly
58 per cent more than the corre
sponding period of 1950-51. An
increase in the average weekly
Check from $20.37 to $21.76 as
authorized by the 1951 legislature
helped account for the uptrend.
Payments were $513,224 in June,
65.3 per cent more than a year
ago. New claims for the 1952-53
benefit period, starting this week,
also were somewhat higher than
last year, 5969 against 4560.
Coast Guard's
Recruiters Busy
An intensified drive is now on
for enlisting young men in the
regular Coast Guard and Coast
Guard reserve, the Coast Guard
recruiting office in Portland an
nounced Wednesday.
Men 17 to 25 can enlist for four
years and be. assigned to duty at
the Coast Guard Training Station,
Alameda, Calif., for 12 weeks basic
training. After completion of the
basic training the new coast
guardsman is given 10 days leave
en rOute to his first assignment
ashore or afloat.
Information may be obtained
from the Coast Guard recruiters in
room 205, U. S. Court House,
Broadway and Main Sts., Portland.
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Allies Burn
Red Troops
From Holes
SEOUL (JP) - Allied raiders
blasted and burned Communist
troops from hillside bunkers on
Wednesday near the Panmunjom
truce site an Western Korea.
The infantrymen used flame
throwers and threw explosive
charges in the assault north of
Korangpo, less than 10 miles north
east of Panmunjom. Red resist
ance was described as feeble.
Communist mortars opened up
with a heavy barrage and the raid
ers withdrew after 30 minutes.
The raiders said they left many
Communist dead in collapsed and
sealed bunkers.
Slightly to the east, Communist
attackers forced Allied troops off
two forward hilltop positions
Wednesday night but United Na
tions troops poured down a rain
of artillery fire and regained the
heights early Thursday.
The see-saw action, northwest of
Yonchon, Involved only small
troop units.
Fog, haze and rain covered most
of the 155-mile battle front until
dawn.
YOUNGSTER GETS LOST
DETROIT iff- Little Michael
Arvon, 2, apaprently awoke from
a nap, unhooked the screen door
with a broomstick and just went
for a walk. Everything went along
fine until he got scared of a dog.
Nearby residents reported he
jumped Into a parked car. When
picked up by police tile youngster
was clutching a doll he had picked
up in his travels.
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Steel Industry
Decides to Keep
United Front
PITTSBURGH (JP) - A source
close to several major steel com
panies said Wednesday night they
have decided at a secret meeting
to maintain their solid front
against the CIO United Steel
workers demands for a union
shop.
The source, who refused to al
low his name to be used, declared:
"The meeting was held in
Cleveland Tuesday.
"The executives of several
major steel companies took a unit
ed stand on the union shop issue.
They decided they can not and
must not back down in their in
sistence that their workers must
be allowed to work whether they
are members of the union or
whether they are not members."
It was learned -several compan
ies in addition to "Big Six" com
panies were represented at the
meeting. The "Big Six," making
up a major part of the industry,
is composed of U.S. Steel, Beth
lehem, Republic, Jones. & Laugh
lin, Youngs town Sheet and Tube
and Inland.
German POW
Secrets Found
MONTEITH. Canada (JP)- In
mates of the Monteith Jail Farm
found many surprises as they tore
down the barracks constructed
here for a German prisoner-of-war
camp during World War II.
So far they have found two
home-made radios, numerous
maps and a box filled with con
traband materials hidden in the
walls of the buildings. The radios,
about 4 inches square, were built
from scrap Including parts of
combs, cigarette papers, nails,
wire, flash-light bulbs for tubes
and small batteries.
The walls of one of the build
ings demolished recently were
found plugged with earth, obvi
ously removed from a tunnel. Al
though the barracks buildings sat
on posts and the ground under
them was floodlighted, several
escape tunnels were discovered by
guards. ,
VOLUNTEERS WORK FAST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (-Volunteer
workers started and almost
completed in a single day an edu
cational unit for the First Baptist
Church. The church suddenly
found its facilities were inade
quate due to the addition of more
than 130 members in the last few
months. Part of the new structure
will be used for Sunday School
purposes.
Gvil Defense
Stressed at
Police Meet
VANCOUVER, B.C. 0P)-Pacific
Coast policemen heard speeches
dealing with civil defense, dime
novels and traffic fatalities Wed
nesday, i
The speeches were made at the
annual convention of the Pacific
Coast International Association of
Law Enforcement Officers here.
More than 200 delegates are at
tending from Canada, the United
States and Mexico.
The civil defense speech was
made by L. F. Mariels, U. S. fed
eral police co-ordinator for region
nine, which embraces Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
He said his region is making
tremendous progress in organiza
tion and is keeping, a close watch
on civil defense development in
British Columbia, and in particu
lar, in Vancouver, which we re
gard as one of the most Import
ant focal points for civil defense
organization on this continent."
Justice A. M. Manson of Van
couver lashed out against purvey
ors of dime novel literature and
parents who permitted their chil
dren to read them, saying the
The Statesman, Scdra, Oregon, Thundery, July S, 1952-0
ensen said, "the population of a
city comparable to Everett, Wash,
"parents of Canada and the U. S.
are the delinquents."
Leslie J. Sorenson, city traffic
engineer of Chicago and former
vice president of the Traffic and
Transportation National Safety
Council, hit at the highway acci
den death toll.
"Every year in the U5," Sor
ts wiped out on our highways.
He said 37,300 persons
killed in traffic accidents in the
U.S. last year and 1,300,000 were
injured.
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