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John L. Lewis Wins $2-a-Day Hike for Miners, Report Says By MAUREEN GOTH LIN t'altrd Pres Staff Correspeadent WASHINGTON iUP)-John L. Lewis has won a hefty $2-a-day pay bike for his soft coal miners in a secret agreement with North ern ' coal producers, informed sources said Saturday. These sources said the agree ment was reached between Lewis and top-level officials of the Bitu- Colleges Offer Installment Plan Tuition By UNITED PRESS If you're sending a youngster to college this fall you may be able to pay the tuition on the install ment plan. Many schools permit install ment payments, a survey showed, and some have their own private ly endowed loan funds for deserv ing students. About 300 schools belong to Tui tion Plan, Inc., oldest and biggest institution in college installment financing. The trend toward time-payment tuition was reflected in a recent announcement by Queens College and Che Union National Bank at Charlotte, N.C. Two Different Contracts Under a plan adopted jointly by the two institutions, a student's education may be financed at the rate, of $50 or $65 a month under two different contracts. Under one plan, the parents be gin depositing $50 a month in the bank 24 months before the stu dent's registration. The deposits continue for two years and eigh months after graduation. The bank will pay $1200 to th college each year the student is enrolled. . Under the second plan monthly deposits of $65 begin ne year be fore registration and continue one year and three months after grad uation. Carl C. McGraw, president of the bank, said most middle-income families would not be able to own homes or automobiles without installment credit, and that time payments for college tu ition is a logical extension of the installment system. Tuition Plan, Inc., with head quarters in New York, was ac quired last ' June by C.I.T Finan cial Corp. Arthur O. Diett. C.I.T president, -said the acquisition guarantees Tuition Plan increased - financial support whenever more resources are needed. Fan Cost Paid Under the plan, the company pays the full amount, including the tuition, board, books and other fees, at the start of. each term Parents who contract to use the plan pay 4 per cent interest, usually in eight monthly install ments for the academic year. A company spokesman ' said from 10 to 20 per cent of the stu dents in schools subscribing to the program take advantage of the time1 payment plan. Of those .who use it, far less than one per cent default, the company said. One of the biggest subscribing institutions is Seton Hall College at South Orange, NJ. A spokesman for First National City Bank of New York said the bank makes "as many as 50 to 100 loans a day" to students cr parents for the purpose of financ ing college education. V New Chairman Named for State Education Group EUGENE 11 New executive secretary of the Oregon System of Higher Education committee cn high school-college relations is Francis Nickerson, westhr. He succeeds E. Dean Anderson who has accepted a position at Portland State College. The ap pointment was announced Satur day by Earl M. Pallett, committee chairman. Nickerson attended Oregon State College, University of Oregon and University of Chicago, and last year taught at Westfir. Because headquarters of the high school-college relations com mittee is being moved from Port land to Eugene. Nickerson will also headquarter there. minous Coal Operators Assn. which bargains for the major seg ment of the soft coal industry, in cluding the so-called "captive" mines owned by the big steel com panies. Officials of both sides, however, refused to comment on the report. . j Informed sources said Let's might be expected in the near fu ture to serve a similar pay in crease . demand on the Southern Coal Operators Assn., which bar gains' for most Southern coal pro ducers. The sources said the new agree ment provides for a $1.20-per-day increase on Sept. 1 and another 80 cents on April 1, 1956, boosting the UMW basic wage to $20.25 a day. Th agreement, they, said, also provides other " contract improve ments. Spectacular Comeback The increase would mean a spec tacular comeback on the wage front for Lewis and his United Mine Workers. Their last wage increase was in 1952 $1.90 but their pay still ranks with wage rates in the auto and steel industries. ' The $1.20 increase alone would be the equivalent of the 15-cent hourly pay increase won by the CIO Steelworkers in a pace - setting settlement last July 1. The agreement also was said to call for improved vacation pay and for overtime pay for Saturday work and double time pay for Sunday work-. It was said to run to Aug.- 31, 1956. Same Strategy The sources said Lewis appar ently is using the same strategy he succeeded with in 1951. That year, he also secretly negotiated an agreement with the Northern pro ducers and then used it to get Southern producers to fall in line. The UMW contract has been sub ject to re-opening since Aug. 1, 1953. But neither side mads any public move to do so. Lewis "sat out" the round of wage increases in , 1953 and 1954, apparently be cause of the coal industry depres sion. But soft coal production has picked up this year, particularly in the captive mines which feed the nation's steel mills. In the first IVx months of this year, total pro duction was 21 per cent above that for the same period last year. Coal industry officials have maintained, however, that prospec tive production for the whole of 1955 still will not be high enough to put the industry back into a "sound" financial condition. Blasts Wreck Cars at Home Of Patrolman BURLINGTON, Wash. (UP) Mysterious explosions wrecked two automobiles parked in front of the home of a state patrolman near here early Saturday and officials believed the blasts were the work of someone who opposes the opera tion of a truck weighing station in this area. The explosions, which came about 15 seconds apart, ruined a state police car and the private automobile of Patrolman J. Arley Harrison, 26. No one was injured. A door from Harrison's car was blasted 50 feet and struck the home of a neighbor, Joe Fagan. The car; were parked side by side on the driveway leading into the garage of Harrison's ranch style home. Investigators said the cars were a total loss. Capt Roy Carlson, executive of ficer of the patrol, linked the blasts with the operation of the truck scales east of Sedro Woolley. The weighing station was dynamited July 30 after the patrol was warned it never would be permit ted to operate the scales Since then the station has been manned 24 hours a day. Harrison, however, does not work at the station. Ex-Counselor Questioned in Scout's Death MUSKEGON, Mich. (Jfi A for mer counselor for the Boy Scout camp'attended by slain Peter Gor ham underwent intensive question ing by state police Saturday. State Police Capt. LeRoy Hunt said the .onetime counselor was held without charge at Traverse City after he gave "extremely er ratic" responses to. lie detector tests Friday. Hunt did not name the man. : Peter, 12, disappeared July S from Camp Wabaningo at Duck Lake, 12 miles north of Muskegon. His body, shot through the head. was found last Sunday in woodland five miles south of the camp. The former counselor being questioned, police said, attended the camp as a boy and later worked there. He was picked up in a roundup of all present and for mer camp employes and held for investigation when he could not account for his whereabouts the day Peter vanished. Capt Hunt said police were checking to "determine if the man had a record as a morals offender. The officer indicated that police will decide after additional ques tioning whether to bring the man to Muskegon to be viewed by Mrs. Elsie Ferrill. She had reported seeing a man in a blue car talking to a Boy Scout near the camp the day Peter disappeared. First Journey Of Woman, 65, Real Important GREENVILLE, S C (AP) The Travelers Aid gave help to a 65-year-old woman who said she had never been out of South ( Carolina and had never ridden on a bus. i "Whom are you going to visit?" the society official asked. I "Oh, do you have to know (that?" the woman asked, j "It's just a preliminary in case anything should happen on your trip, the case worker replied. "Well, in that case, I'm going to the Old Soldier's Home in Ala bama to visit my boy friend." Son Spoils Davy's Name NEBO, I1L (AP) Davy Crockett, on his way west with his twin brother, Donald, stopped here for a few days. Sons of Mr. and Mrs. David Crockett, they are home on leave after completing their nine weeks of basic training at the Great Lakes Navy Training Center. They are headed for duty in the Pacific. ( Davy says he was happy with his name until ."that song got started." Since the Crockett craze, he wishes his name was John Doe. He hopes they haven't heard the song yet in the Pacific. Statesman, SaUm, Of., Sunday, Aug. 21, 1955-Sc. 2)-5 Plant Checked by Video Circuits WAUSAU, Wis. (UP) The) A closed circuit TV picture is television Droerams seen in th f availahl at all timo n h.i. Weston power plant near here the power house. 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