State Jobless Pay Tax Rate to Rise: as Reserves Fall Coast Route
Wreck Fatal
Oregon's unemployment re
serve J fell below $53,500,000 at
the ena of June, the state Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion reported Wednesday.
. Officials said this woudl set in
motion administrative machinery
that would increase nearly all
employer tax rates by 0.3 per
cent on the 1956 payroll.'-
This action comes as the it
suit of an amendment agreed to
by the recent LegL lature. Sched
ules of the new tax provision
goes into effect because reserves
have dropped to less than -6 per
cent of the average annual tax
able' payrolls. '
Actually employers with re
serves of more than 100 per cent
of their annual payrolls will con
tinue at their current rate, while
those with-less than 2 per cent
also will' be unchanged.- Those
wjth minus reserve ratio will pay
penalty rates of 3 per cent for
the first time since the third
quarter of 1941.
Uaemploymeit Off
; During the first month of the
Partial Opening Possible This
Fall for Expressway Section
A continuance of favorable con
struction conditions during the
next few weeks , may make it
possible to open two lanes of
the four lane Salem-Portland ex
pressway from the Wilsonville
bridge toHayesvQle to light traf
fic this fall, state highway en-
Ike Criticized
On Polio, Bomb
Fallout Stands
WASHINGTON (UP) A spokes
man for the American Society of
Newspaper Editors has criticized
the Eisenhower administration for
holding back information on the
Salk polio vaccine and the danger
of "fallout" from H-bomb explo
sions. '
The criticism was made by J.
Russell Wiggins, executive editor
of the Washington Post and Times
Herald, and chairman of the
ASNE's Freedom of Information
Committee, in a nationwide inter
view. .
Wiggins said any administration
should give "all relevant material
bearing upon great national is
sues' to the public.
He said public confidence in the
Salk polio vaccine program was
shaken because the government
failed to tell the public some of
the disadvantages and defects
early enough.-
.Wiggins referred specifically to
the fact that some earlier meet
ings of scientists with officials of
the U. S. Public Health Service
on the Salk program were held
here in secret
"... It was only after a very
energetic protest, - led by Lyle
Wilson of the United Press, , that
some of the subsequent, meetings
were opened up. he said. This
referred to disnatches- on the
closed-door meetings written by
Lyle C wnson. vice president and
Washington manager for the Uni
ted Press Associations.
Wiggins also said that a long
bottling up ef information "on
the extent tf "radioactive fallout
from hydrogen bomb tests ."de
layed the information of public
opinion (and) interfered with the
development of sound defensive
policies . . . ' t
jrineer R. H. Baldock reported
Wednesday.
'He declared the outlook for
completion of this $7,500,000 'sec-
boa of the expressway this fall
was not satisfactory. He said, how
ever, that in event of good weather
it probably would be possible to
place the base course pavement
on the northern nine miles and
the southern V.i miles on two
lanes of highway.
. Baldock said it probably would
not be possible to place-any pave
ment on the 6 miles center
section. This section probably will
be oiled, he said.
The contractors, Baldock aver
red, have a gigantic job before
them because of the 1,000,000 yards
of gravel to be placed. Only 150,-
ooo cubic yards or 15 per cent.
are now in place.
Baldock said the Barbour Boule
vard by-pass at the northern end
of the highway is under construc
tion and he hoped this section
could be completed late this fall.
Future plans of the highway com
mission call for construction of
a' connection between Barbour
Boulevard and Harbor Drive in
Portland.
When mis section is completed
Baldock said, it would be possible
for a motorist to . drive from
Salem through Portland on a
continuous four-lane divided highway.
1955-56 benefit year, which offic
ially opens this week, provisions
for unemployment compensation
will remain unchanged. Initial
claims, taken during the past
two weeks at local employment
offices, indicate fewer without
jobs than at any time in three
years.
Higher benefit schedules 'and
higher minimum qualifying wages
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Airlift to Build
Raflar Line
OTTAWA (Jl Royal Canadian
air force helicopters have started
an airlift of personnel and equip
ment for construction of a mid-
Canada radar warning line.
RCAF headquarters said the hel
icopters are being used to carry en
gineers and survey parties into the
sites along the 55th Parallel be
cause the terrain is too rugged
for ground parties.
Japanese Go U.S. ,
Drivers One Better
TOKYO Tokyo's traffic,
perhaps as wild as any in the
world, has produced a new twist
to the old American habit of honk
ing when the light turns green.
Here they honk BEFORE the
light changes. The boys in the
back row want their say too.
Cottonvoods
July 7
Thurs
LumberFirm
Claims Strike
Violates Law
PORTLAND (UP) The presi
dent of the M and M Woodworking
Company charged here Wednesday
a strike against five of the firm s
plants was "unlawful and in direct
violation of the Taft-Hartley act."
Clay Brown, in a public state
ment of the company s position.
said there bad been no warning
of a strike and that M and M did
not even know that a strike vote
was contemplated or that walk'
out had been authorized. ,
Claude A. McCulky, secretary of
the striking local 2531 of the AFL
Plywood and Veneer Workers
union, refused to comment on
Brown's charges.
Brown asserted that the Taft
Hartley law restricted both r the
union's right to strike and the
company's right ' to lock out its
workers. f
He said the company. was pre
pared to negotiate the dispute and
to continue work "under the iden
tical terms and working conditions
in effect" at the beginning of the
strike. J
The union's contract expired last
Thursday. Falling renewal, crews
walked out at plywood plants in
Portland. Albany, Lyons, Eureka,
and at the green veneer mill at
Idanha, .Ore. ;
Sulmbnetti to
Take Oath
PORTLAND in Alfred Sul
moneUi will be sworn in Thursday
as Multnomha County circuit
Judge. , . .
SulmonetU fills a vacancy ere -
ated by the death of Circuit Judge
Lowell Mundorff June 24.
Leading members of Oregon's
bench and bar will take part in
the swearing-in ceremony at 9:30
ajn. in the late Judge Mundorff s
courtroom.
Coon Accepts
Debate Dates
WASHINGTON tf) Rep. Coon
(R-Ore) said Wednesday he has
accepted invitations to debate Sen.
Neuberger (D-Ore) at John Day
ana condon, ore.
,R brings to 14 the number of
Oregon communities at which the
two lawmakers will argue the
merits of Coon's bill for joint local
federal construction of -John Day
Dam on the Columbia River.
The debates will be held this fall.
John Day otel Sold
To' Eugene Couple
JOHN DAY Ul Owners of the
John Day hotel have announced
sale of the building to a Eugene
couple for about 190,000.
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Smith
of Eugene . purchased the hotel
from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Naldrette.
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win start Jan. 1 next, but new
disqualification and other limit
ing features go. into effect Aug.
3, which is 99 days after the Leg
islature adjourned.
Claimants discharged for mis
conduct or failing to apply for
or accept suitable work will be
liable next month to a forfeiture
of benefits in addition to a maxi
mum eight-week disqualification
period.
Host Report
The forfeiture clause will not
apply to those leaving jobs with
out good cause, but they may be
disqualified up to eight weeks
and they must report to local of
fices each week or receive wages
in excess of their weekly benefit
amount Instead of starting dis
qualifications when the ' act oc
curred, the Jew law operates only
during the period when the claim
ant otherwise is eligible for bene
fits. -
Court convictions of fraud will
cancel all prior wage credits and
will make the claimant ineligible
until the unemployment fund is
reimbursed. The current dis
qualification period up to 26
weeks will remain.
Workers who receive vacation
pay, dismissal allowances, guar
anteed wages, old age insurance,
or other retirement pay, will be
entitled to benefits only on a pro
rata basis. Certain retired em
ployes will have to prove attach
ment to the labor market
Children's Reading j
Said Improving
TORONTO 11 An Ontario ed
ucator says most children read
better than their parents did.
Clare B. Routley, assistant sup
erintendent of elementary educa
tion for Ontario, told the first Ca
nadian conference of reading that
his statement is supported by the
findings of scientific studies in a
number of cities.
Statesman, Salem, Ore., .Thursday, July 7, 1955 (Sec 1 3
GOLD BEACH, Ore. UP)
Berthe Perigot 65-year-old Blue
Lake, Calif., woman, was injured
fatally Tuesday night when the car
in which she was riding plunged
off Highway 101 about 2 miles
north of Pistol River, state police
reported.
The woman died in a local hos
pital about 3: 30 a.m.
Pasquale - Cicchetu, who was
driving in the other direction, said
he saw the headlights of a car
approaching and then disappear
around a curve last night When
he failed to meet the car he in
vestigated and found it had left
the highway. . I
. State police said the dead
woman was riding in a car driven
by Emile Gibouret, 71, Los "An
geles. Two other passengers were
in the car, Pierre Perigot, a cousin
of the dead woman, and Fernan.de
Anne Gibouret. There was no re
port of injuries to other occupants
of the car. .
Cove Orchard .
Blaze Burns
Man to Death
McMXINVILLE, Ore. '(UP)
Roy Riggs, 23, was burned to death
in his bed at Cove Orchard north
of here Wednesday- as his horri
fied wife and relatives stood out
side the flaming house.
Coroner Glen Macy said the
small house was "reduced to ashes
in a matter of minutes' and the
Yamhill fire department- four
miles away, arrived too late, to
save Riggs.
Riggs was a night worker at the
Birdseye Frozen Foods plant at
Hillsboro. His wife and her father
were across the street when the
fire started and were unable to
rescue Riggs. She was taken to a
McMinnville hospital in a state of
shock. The couple had, been mar
ried less than a year and had
moved to Cove Orchard two
months ago from Jay, Okla.
Granddaughter of
DeMiUeWeds :
. SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A
granddaughter of Hollywood pro
ducer Cecil B. DeMille was mar
ried to an Egyptian cavalry officer
Wednesday is a quiet Moslem cere
mony that was as plain as De
Mifle's movies are spectacular.
Instead of a "cast of thousands.'
as the "deMiSe name has come
to symbolize, only 14 close rela
tives and friends witnessed the
marriage of 19-year-old Cecilia De
Mille Harper to Maj. Abbas
El Boughdadly, 33.
The ceremony was performed b
the mahogany, leather -chaired of
fices of Egyptian Consul General
Abdel Moneim Khedry who said
he was acting in the capacity of
a "ship's' captain on the high
Lseas. ,
Cows on lush pasture tend to
give large amounts of milk, but
to lose weight unless they are fed
grain and hay supplements.
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Pinball Hearing
Nearly Complete
PORTLAND tf! Arguments In
the Portland pinball case neared
completion Wednesday as the Pert
land Amusement Co. continued its
fight to prevent seizure of non
coin-in-slot pinball machines.
Marian G. Rushing, deputy city
attorney, asked that a restraining
order issued by . Circuit , Judge
Alfred Dobson be vacated.
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