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.
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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. The pictures
wuujci dc preuy auu ior me av
erage TV fan, but plant engi
neers like them.
on the screen are of the work.
ings of the machinery, even to
readings on remote water gauges.
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