10 Th Statesman, Salem,
Oregon's Industrial Accident
Benefits Double in 10 Years
As Premiums Rate Declines
Although benefits paid to injured workmen and their depend
ents under the Oregon workmen's compensation law have doubled
since 1943 the premium rates during the same period have de
creased 28 per cent, the State Industrial Accident Commission
reported here Sunday.
The commission said workmen had been further benefitted by
the-addition of occupational dis
ease coverage without any in
crease in rates. Oregon is the
only state in the union, omciais
said, which has not increased its
rates during this period. It also
was pointed out that the base
rates charged major industries
are the lowest of comparable
states.
Aggressive accident prevent
ion work, careful screening of
claims, psyhotherapy and re
' habilitation, have been important
factors in the commission's oper
ations. Officials said this pro
cram had saved covered em
ployers more than $15,000,000.
The commission reported that
every month during the current
biennium showed an increase
over the corresponding month in
the previous biennium in both
the number of claims received
and the number of employer
accounts on record.
Accounts Increase
There were aorojrimately 120,'
000 claims filed in the 1950-52
biennium, an increase of 24 per
cent over the previous penoa
while claim costs increased a
record of 42 per cent to a high
of $240,000,000. Number of active
accounts increased to 39,000 as
as of June, 1952, with a 25.5
per cent increase in employers
contributions over the previous
two year period.
During the last biennium the
administrative cost " of the com
mission's industrial program in
creased only 14. per cent despite
the marked increase in the vol
ume of business. Cost of the ad
ministrative activities was 8.56
per cent of income as compared
to 9.3 percent during the pre
vious biennium.
Accident Prevention
Special mention was made of
the commission's accident pre
vention program launched in
1943. In that year the law pro
vided that 2.5 per cent of the
premium income could be used
far accident prevention activi
ties." The 1947 legislature in
creased this allowance to four
per cent and the 1951 legisla
ture to five per cent The 1953
legislature continued the pro
gram. During the last 10 years, 1943
to 1953, there has been an in
crease in state insured industries
from 20,306, to 39,784. During
the same period the accident fre
quency rate was decreased from
72-28 per cent to 55.55 percent or
23.14 percent This compilation
was based on the number of
disabling accidents per million
man hours worked. Officials said
this record was made possible by
complete support and cooperation
of management and labor.
To further decrease the acci
dent frequency rate the accident
commission, with the suport of
labor and management has es
tablished a program whereby
benefits from safer working con
ditions can be presented to
every employe in Oregon indus
tries and to the community.
Vocational Rehabilitation1
Probably the most humanitar
ian project of the accident com
mission is the vocational rehab
ilitation program. The Oregon
law provides a fund of not less
than $75,000 for the vocational
retraining of injured workmen
who, due to injuries, are unable
to return to their former em
ployment During the retraining
period of the disabled worker
'the commission pays for main
tenance, transportation, tuition
and supplies.
Upon completion of the train
ing the commission furnishes
equipment necessary in the use
of the new skill in an amount
not to exceed $250. These expen
ditures are in addition to all
other benefits of the workman's
compensation law.
Responsibility of the commis
sion does not end until the re
trainee has been placed in a
gainful occupation.
In the past 'eight years 2,630
cases have been reviewed and
1,048 referred to the division for
vocational rehabilitation. In the
fiscal year of 1952 approximately
606 cases were reviewed and 190
referred for rehabilitation.
, The commission said Oregon's
program for retraining injured
workmen has received national
recognition.
Members of the commission
are T. Morris Dunne, L. O. Arens
and Paul E. Gurske.
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Freed POWs
Angry Over
'Red Label'
PHOENIXVIIXE. Pa. ( A
group of former American prison
ers of war Sunday expressed deep
bitterness over the "Red label"
they said had been hung on them L
on their return to vauey f orge
Military Hospital for special treat
ment The men were among a group of
20 flown back to Valley Forge Mil
itary Hospital last Friday night
in a secrecy-shrouded trip from
Tokyo.
The Air Force said the Penta
gon imposed security measures in
connection with the flight "be
cause of the position taken by the
Army and others that these men
maj have been misled under con
ditions of duress and hardship dur
ing the period of their captivity."
Of the 20, ten agreed to take
part in a news conference Sunday,
two at a time, to "try to remove
some of the false stigma that has
come our way."
Four of the 20 refused to take
part in the conference and a hos
pital spokesman said their action
was oased on their "bitterness
ovei the whole situation."
The remainder were either bed
ridden too weak to undergo ques
tioning, or did cot care to
take part because they wanted to
be with their recently arrived
families.
Feel Like Criminals''
All those interviewed expressed
surprise over the idea that any
of the members of their group
should be considered pro-Communist.
One of the POWs, CpL James
L. Ball, 21, of Bellvurn, W. Va.,
said "this Red label makes us feel
like criminals. We are all com
pletely innocent" And then he add
ed in response to a question about
Communist brainwashing tech
niques:
"I never even heard the term
'brain-wash' before I got back
home."
A member of the hospital medi
cal staff, who asked that his name
no be used, added:
"I don't know where this idea
started, but there's one thing for
sure we're not running a damned
Laundromat here.
Given "Dirty Deal"
Another of the interviewed
groups said they had been given a
dirty deal in the form of a Red
label" on their return to the U.S.
They were Pfc. Roger Herhdon,
20, of, Jacksonville, Fla., and CpL
Vernon L. Warren, 22. of St Louis.
Herndon, who lost his right arm
because of a machine-gun would
suffered at the time of his cap
ture in Nov., 1950, said he was
perfectly willing to go back to
Korei. for "another crack at the
Reds" despite bis wound which
would prevent any return to com
bs1 duty.
Asked if he had seen anything
or been told anything that might
have made him sympathetic to
Communism, Herndon said:
"They showed us the best they
had and it wa nothing."
The Jacksonville soldier said he
felt "a few" of the Allied prison
ers of 'war may have succumbed
to Communist propaganda but
hastened to add he knew of no
specific American cases.
Both Herndon and Warren said
neither was subjected to any ill
treatment or torture but were giv
en "the fulltreatment" by Commu
nist propaganda officers.
Proposal for
Tunnel Under
Channel Heard
PARIS (A About once a dec
ade during the last 100 years,
someone latches onto a change
in world events to. revive the
idea of digging a tunnel under
neath the English channel. West
ern Europe's defense buildup has
again brought the age-old plan
to link France and England out
of dusty archives.
Ernest Thurtle, a British M.P.,
and French Architect Andre Bas-
devant approached top-ranking
officers at Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers in Europe not long
ago with a scheme for such
tunneL
It called for constructing
double-decked, 35-miIe-long tun
nel connecting Bazinghen near
Cailais, France, with Folkestone
in Kent England. One deck would
be for automotive traffic, the
other for a double-track rail
road.
In 1934. the liner Olympic fol
lowed the radio beam sent out
by the Nantucket lightship and
collided with the lightship, sink'
tog it
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business manager at Oregon
Legislature abolished position of superintend en t The former man
in that job, George Alexander retired. With Wonderly at prison
office above is file clerk Mrs. Gertrude Beale. (Statesman Photo.)
Hemingway Wins Pulitzer
Prize for 'Old Man and Sea9
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NEW YORK LP Ernest Hem
ingway won the first Pulitzer prize
in his 30-year career as a rugged,
outdoor novelist Monday for his
vivid short novel, "The Old Man
and the Sea."
The 1953 Pulitzer drama award
went to William Inge, Kansas-born
playwright for his Broadway hit
"Picnic," a play with i Mid-West
setting. It opened here Feb. 19 and
previously had won the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award and
others as the season's best play.
There were two repeat winners
in this year's lists of awards made
by the trustees of coiumnia uni
versity. They were Archibald MacLeish
in the field of poetry, and Don
Whitehead of The Associated Press
in the realm of national reporting.
MacLeish last was honored in 1933,
and Whitehead in 1951.
Second Citation
The New York Times won its
second special Pulitzer citation,
this time for its Sunday edition
section, "Review of the Week.
Other Pulitzer awards announced
late Monday were given for:
Meritorious public service by a
Artie Shaw
Pictured as
'Just Red Dupe'
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK Iff) Bandleader
Artie Shaw, humbly contrite, told
a House committee Monday be at
tended Communist meetings but
never joined the party. Commit
tee members agreed he was an in
nocent Red ' dupe.
The 42-year-old clarinetist admit
ted he became a Communist cats
paw in 1946 after wartime Navy
service left him with a chip on his
shoulder against black marketeer
ing and other social injustices. But
he insisted:
"I have never in my life done
anything disloyal to this country."
The House Committee on Un
American Activities listened sym
pathetically as Shaw asserted:
"I hate to admit that I was a
dupe, but I guess I was."
Never Signed Card
He said he attended about four
Communist meetings in Hollywood,
but never signed a membership
card or paid any dues. As for be
ing a Red, he added:
"It Vat never my intention to be
one and to the best of my know
ledge I have never been one."
Shaw has been rumored a Com
minist sympathizer in the past
However, Rep. Doyle (D-Calif.) re
assured him and declared:
"I don't want you to be discour
aged because you found yourself
used by the Comiminists. But' as
a young American, you should use
your art and other abilities to fight
for the true Americanism x x x."
First of 45 Witnesses
Shav was the first of" an esti
mated 43 witnesses as the com
mittee opened a week of hearings
here into Communist efforts to
bore into the fields of education
and entertainment Rep. Velde (R
I1L) is chairman.
. The first day's hearings were
televised.
Shaw testified he attended three
meetings and one lecture during a
mcnth to six weeks ic Hollywood
in 1946. He said he quickly got fed
up with the "cops and robbers"
attitude of the Reds and finally
demanded of himself:
"Look. What am I doing here?"
The witness said he led a Navy
band throughout the Southwest Pa
cific during the var and came out
mentally and physically upset
"I was in pretty bad shape for
a while," he continued. " x x x
I was ready to explore anything."
While in that moo. in 1946, Shaw
saic. he was invited by telephone
to join the Communist Party. La
ter, the caller visited bis office,
he testified.
Shaw said he was willing to at
tend Communist Jieetings but did
compromise, he said, he signed a
which was sort of his clearance
to attend meetings as a non-member.
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i State Prison
Wonderly (right). Just hired as
State Penitentiary after the recent
newspaper The White ville, N. C,
News Reporter and The Tabor City
N. C, Tribune for their successful
campaign against the Ku Klux
Klan.
International reporting Austin
Wehrwein of The Milwaukee, Wis.,
Journal for a series of articles on
Canada.
For Repotting
Local reporting Staff report
ers and photographers if The Pro
vidence, R. I., Journal and Eve
ning Bulletin for their coverage of
a bank robbery; ard Edward J.
Mowery of The New York World
Telegram and Sun for his reporting
of facts that led to vindication
and freeoom for a man falsely
imprisoned for life as a murderer.
Cartoon Edward D. Kuekes of
the Cleveland, O., Plain Dealer,
for his sketch of two soldiers in
Korea, commenting on the fact
that their fallen buddy was old
enough to die but too young to
vote.
Wall Street Journal
Editorials Vermont Connecticut
Royster of the Wall Street Jour
nal, for his regular editorial series
that ranged from prize fights to
politics and religion;
News photographer William
M. Gallagher of the Flint Mich.,
Journal for his human interest pic
ture of Adlai E. Stevenson, Demo
cratic candidate for President,
campaigning with a hole in the
bottom of his shoe.
Biography David J. Mays for
his book on Edmund Pendleton,
the American lawyer and states
man who guided the state of Vir
ginia in its advocacy of American
independence in 1776.
History George Dangerfield,
British-born historian, for his "The
Era of Good Feelings," a study of
a little known period of American
history . the administrations of
James Monroe and John Quincy
Adams.
Robert Donat.
Actor, Marries
LONDON un Robert Donat,
48. British stage and film star,
married Renee Asherson, 33, Lon
don actress, Monday.
Their marriage came as a sur
prise to members of the Old Vic
company where on Saturday night
Donat finished a triumphant come
back as the star of T. S. Eliot's
Murder in the Cathedral."
This was her first marriage.
Dcnat's first marriage in 1929
ended in divorce in December.
1948. He has three children.
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