Reports on Al Sarena, Inquiry
) Divided Along Political Lines
WASHINGTON I - In nart
line split, Democrats on i House
comtriittee Wednesday blasted the
Interior Department tor granting
mining rights to a company they
said cut twa million board-feet of
lumber from national forest land
while Republicans defended the
grants a proper and in accord
with law.
Separate reports were filed by
the Democratic majority and the
Republican minority of the House
Government Operations Commit-
Russ Troops
Start Moving
From Reicl
1
By TOM STONE
, BR.W'DK.NBl'RG. Kast Ger
many The Russians began
their advertised withdrawal of 33.
50() Soviet servicemen from Ger
man soil Wednesday with a propa
ganda show aimed at the West.
"We challenge fhe Western pow
ers to lollow the example of the
Soviet I'nion and disarm." was the
theme of Communist speeches and
banners at a ceremony marking
the departure of the 200th air di
vision from Brandenburg.
About 125.000 persons, including
factory workers, school children,
farmers and housewhes. marched
or rode in truck convoys to the
airfield to witness the farewell.
The Reds injected a bit of mys
tery in an air show that followed
the speeches.
Mystery Plane
After 28 MIGITs flew by in for
mation, an unidentified. Russian
jet buzzed the reviewing stand in
a whooshing dip that seemed to
be at supersonic speed. Russian
olficers only smiled when corre
spondents asked them what type
plane it was.
Ground troops are scheduled Jo
begin departing tomorrow from
Soviet army bases at Magdeburg
and Weimar.
No F.stlmate Made
Neither Russian nor Kast Ger
man speakers at the Brandenburg
rally said how many airmen were
leaving today.
But exactly 87 11.10 Starmovik
propeller-driven fighter-bombers
took off from Brandenburg field
and winged eastward.
In each were a pilot and a me
chanic a total of 174 persons.
A Russian officer told newsmen
that other personnel in the division
technicians and engineers left
two or three weeks aso hv train
with their wives and lamilies.
A Western Allied observer com
mented the II. 10s were of World
War II vintage and obsolete and
"in all probability arc headed lor
the junk pile."
Cyprus Plan
Said Readied
By British
LONDON An authoritative
source said Wednesday night the
British government will announce
a four point program soon aimed
at settling the boiling dispute over
Cyprus.
The source close to the govern
ment said the program will in
clude 1 A new constitution giving wide
measures of self-government to
the Mediterranean fortress island.
2. A statement on self-determination
for the half million t'ypriots.
Th Greek-speaking population, in
the majority, want the island
merged with Greece.
3. A possible amnesty for per
sons found guilty of terrorist acts
4. Guarantees for the rights of
the Turkish minority.
The sources said the statement
will be presented to the House ol
Commons within the next few
days.
the program reportedly was fi
nalised at talks today between
Cyprus Gov. Sir .lohn Harding and
Colonial" Secretary Alan Lennox
Boyd. Harding has been in London
nearly three weeks talking with
Prime Minister Kden and other
top officials including Sir Gerald
Templrr. chief of the imperial
general staff
tee which looked into the mining
natnt in Orreim franted to Al
Sarena Mines; Inc.
' The Democrats called for the at
torney general to seek cancella
tion of the IS patents, ami hit at
what they termed "illegal action"
by Clarence A Davis. I'ndcrsec
retary of the Interior, in the grant
ing of them.
Subpart Davit
The Republicans, in their report,
accused the Democrats of "head
long political bias " They sup
ported Davis testimony that he
acted properly and as required by
law.
The GOP minority said the pat
ents covered real mining possibil
ities, and that they would welcome !
a review by the Justice Depart
ment "From innocent beginnings the
case has been adroitly manipu
lated into a 'giveaway' cause ce
lebre." the Republicans said. They
acded:
"When the emotionalism, the
unwarranted accusations, the dis
tortions of fact and the inverted
logic of the perpetrators of this
attack are stripped away the case
remains as it was at the outset
a question of law.
Law Cited
"The mining law is clear A mi
ner with a valid mining claim con
taining mineral deposits is en
titled to a patent. It is that sim
ple ."
The report climaxes stormy
hearings begun last fall which
were marked by opposing cries
of "timber grab'' and "political
smear." The hearings were held
jointly by House and Senate sub
committees. The 15 patents granted to Al
Sarena on Feb. 13 1954, involve
475 acres of the Rogue River Na
tional Forest in Oregon.
The Democratic majority of the
House committee said Al Safena
sought "political backing" for its
1 patent applications but failed to
j get them approved during Secre
tary Oscar Chapman's administra
tion of the Interior Department un
der President Truman,
Approval Gives
But, the Democrats said, after
Douglas McKay took office as Sec
retary of the Interior and Davis
as the department's solicitor under
the Kisenhower administration in
I ilia Davis ."worked out with Rep
F.llsworth iR-Ore' on behalf of the
Al Sarena Co.. a novel procedure
for reappraisal of the company's
claims outside of the record pre
viously made under normal ad
ministration procedures. "
Al Saren's application for the 15
patents had previously been de
nied by the Bureau of Land Man
agement i BLM ' after a protest by
the Forest Service that, the land
contained insufficient minerals to
Embezzlement
Scheme Fails
NEW YORK W-Police said Wed
nesday a 2-year-oW Western I'nion
office manager had been arrested
on a charge of embezzling from the
company by sending fake money
orders to other cities where ne
collected the cash
Police said John Nichols of Man
hattan was arrested at Chicago on
June 12 while awaiting a plane to
Las Vegas where he had sent an
$1,800 money order. En route to
m 1 I I i. - J i un
Lnicagci nc nau picneu up h.whf in
Baltimore and $1,500 in Washing
ton, police said.
warrant mining. The company's
appeal from that adverse ruling
was still pending when the Eisen
hower administration took over.
New Away Take
Solicitor Davis later issued in
structions that new mineral sam
ples, be taken by the Bureau of
Mines and a company -epresenta-1
live, and be assayed by a firm
acceptable both to the bureau and
.... "1.1KUJ. .
j Cnder these instructions, the
samples were sent to A. W. Wil-I
liams Inspection Co. of Mobile. I
; Ala , where the Al Sarena Co has
j its headquarters. The assay was
: reported favorably and Da is
j thereupon issued the patents i
Mrs.Lyngstad
Rites Friday
Funeral services Vfor Mrs. Bertha
Lyngstad. 2S N. 23rd St., will be
held Friday at 1 30 p m. In the W.
T. Rigdon chapel, the Rev. Wayne
Greene officiating.
Concluding services will be held
at Belcrest Memorial Park.
Mrs. Lyngstad died fuesday at
a Salem hospital. She was 75.
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., June 21, 56 (Sec Il19
Scots Irate, Queen Plans to Spend Only
Ten Minutes at Bobbie Burns Birthplace
CORVALLIS PLANT BOUGHT
BERLIN. Nil f - Purchase
of the Blacfiber Pipe Co.'s fiber
pipe manufacturing plant at Cor
vallis. Ore., was announced Tues
day by the Brown Co . one of New
England's largest producers of
pulp, paper and other products.
Price was not disclosed.
GLASGOW, Scotland if A
group of ardent Scots, their dan
der up. declared Wednesday if
Queen Elizabeth hasn't the time
to pay a proper tribute to Poet
i Bobbie Burns she'd better not
j bother at all
' What set the Scots' blood boil
ing was a recent announcement
the Queen planned t spend 10
j minutes at the w hitew ashed cot
tage birthplace of Scotland s na-;
tional poet at Alloway during a
tour of Ayrshire July 3.
"Only 10 minutes for Bobbie!"
snorted the Scots. "Why that's not
enough time to get the full tang
of Ayrshire air
The Greenotk branch of the
Scottish National Congress said in
an official statement:
"In our opinion it is impossible
for anyone to approach that cot
tage in the proper frame of mind
and leave it in so short a time.!
Unless one does intend to pay
homage to the Baird in the true
spirit it is tvttrr not 'o go tu his
birthplace at all "
Added Sam Shields, secretary of
the Greenock group:
HI Summer School Eiul at OSC Today
CORVALLIS Lfl Nearly 1.S00 The youths participated in varied
boys and girls will head home programs and heard speakers.
Friday at the conclusion of the including Gov. Elmo Smith and
annual 4-H summer school at Mrs. Cleo Maletis. Portland. re
Oregon State College. cenlly named Mrs America.
"We all felt that it was making
a mockery of the thing and she
would be better to skip it alto
gether "
The Greenock men didn't say
so. but when former Soviet Pre
mier Georgi Malenkov visited
Scotland in March he spent nearly
an hour at the cottage shrine. The
chubby Russian said Burns was
his favorite poet and exchanged
quotes with the curator.
The Queen, meantime, was at
Windsor Castle way south of the
border and there was no com
ment from her aides.
Court Studies
SP Offer for
Track Work
Marioa County Court took B
der advisement Wednesday as
offer from the Southern Pacific
Company to improve its tracks
at the McGilchrist Street cross
ing south of Salem if the count
paves the crossing at its aw es
pense.
A complaint about the rough
ness of the crossing reached th
court recently. The street, to-
j cated two blocks south ol Hoyt
Street just outside the south
easerly city limits. Is used extent
ively by gravel trucks.
Court Denies
Rehearing in
Death Penalt
i Petition or convicted murderer
James Norman Jensen fur rehear
ing was denied Wednesday by Die
State Supreme Court ithout opin
1 ion.
Jensen was convicted of the first
degree murder of Medford house
wife Mrs. Fern Hilc. Mrs. Hile
was slain April 24. 1954. when Jen-
jsen broke into her home to steal
, money and car keys.
Now in the state penitentiary
here awaiting execution. Jensen
I claimed he couldn't har recened
a fair trial in Jackson county.
More than 10 million people are
members of I S. Parent Teacher
societies.
Husbands Die Young Due to
Household Tasks, Wife Says
LEVITTOWN. Ta IP - An out
spoken woman with the iron ol
self-reliance in her blood says that
'many a modern American husband
dies too soon because his wile
saddles him with endless house
hold tasks.
"Young wives are killing their
husbands by expecting them to do
too much work when they get home
from their jobs," asserted 78-year-old
Mrs. Agnes Ferguson Mur
doch. 1
"And it's all done in the name
of cooperation!
"All this talk you hear these
days about cooperation. Which
, really means things like the hus
band taking over the children as
soon as he walks in the door,
pitching in on a lot of housework,
and all the rest of it. Oh. it's all
so familiar, as the men know "
Six Children
Mrs. Murdoch reared six children
of her own an I had a big hand in
the iiporinging of three stepchild
ren besides. For most of the 44
years of her married life she took
care of a 15-room house with
precious little outside help.
What's more, she thrived on it.
Not many would guess that she's
crowding 80, nor question her
proud boast of "grand" health.'
Husband Alexander has dons til
right, too. A sunny, pink cheeked,
eye-twinkling 1. he could easily
knock off several years without
rousing so much as a ripple of dis
belief. for no reason at all except that
it was a line summer day and
that she was in high spirits. Mr?
Murdoch got to talking Tuesday
about men and marriage.
Needs to Relax
"I think a husband deserves a
chance to relax when he gets home
after working all day. And I be
lieve wives are pushing their hus
bands into heart attacks by de
manding too much of them ."
As Mrs. Murdoch sees it. too
many modern women fall victim
to self-pity, and self-pity leads to
general flabbiness of mind and
spirit.
Mrs. Murdoch said she wouldn't
dream of suggesting "that I have
the right answers lor everything
or that my advice to young wives
would be best."
"I just know how well things
have worked out for us," she said.
If Murdoch, himsell. contributed
little to the conversation other
than wise and appreciative assents,
it was not, the couple made it
clear, becsu.se he lacked ideas.
This was simply .time for him
to let the wife do the talkinf ,
A Raise Every Year .
for Five Years is
0
Offered Steelworkers
i
Five Year Package will increase companies
employment costs 65 cents per hour worked
--172h cents in First Year
The undersigned steel companies have offered the United
Steelworkers of America the largest single pay package in
the history of the industry.
The companies' offer covers wage increases and addition
a! fringe benefits for workers over the next five years, am
ounting, by the end of that period, to a total increase of em
ployment costs of 65 cents per hour worked. Of this sum,
17 cents will be incurred in the first year.
Some important features of the companies' offer follow:
A Raise Every Year for Five Years
The offer provides for on increase in hourly wage rates overoging
7.3 ':ents on July 1 of each year for five years; ranging from 6
cents an hour to 12 cents on hour in each year, and totaling
from 30 cents to 60 cents by the end of five years.
Protection Against Increased Living Costs
The offer provides, additionally, compensation for cost of living
increases that may occur during the life of the contract.
52-Week Unemployment Pay
The offer provides for a 52-week Supplemental Unemployment
Benefit plan for the protection of eligible employees and their
families in case of layoff.
Premium Pay lor Sunday Work
The offer provides a premium for Sunday work for the first time
in the nece'orily continuous-process steel plants of the compa
nies. It olso would increase premium pay for work on the afternoon
ond night shifts.
Improved Insurance Plan
The offer provides substantial increases in life, sickness, accident
insurance, ond in hospitalization benefits. Sickness ond Occident
disability benefits would be increosed from a flat $40 to a ronge
of $42 to $57 a week. Life insurance would provide maximum
basic coverage of $6,000 per employee Hospitalization benefits
would be improved and maximum allowances for surgical fees
would be increased by 50 per cent. The cost of this program
would continue to be shared equally by the companies and the
employees.
Improved Pension Plan
The offer provides for higher minimum pension payment tol
employees retiring offer October 31, 1957. v
An Additional Paid Holiday and
Liberalized Vacations
The offer provides for a seventh paid holiday ond moke$ provision
' for liberalized vacation pay.
Effective Dates for Proposed Improvements
1956 ,
July 1-A direct wage increase
averaging 7.3 cents an hour.
July 1-Advance all job class 1
employees to job class 2 with
a consequent additional in
crease of 6 centj an hour for
these employees.
July 1 Establish Supplemental Un
employment Benefit fund with
company contributions of 5
cents an hour per employee per
hour worked, to provide up to
52 weeks of layoff benefits for
workers with 3 or more yean
of service.
November 1-Establish improved
insurance program.
1957
July 1-A direct wage increase
averaging 7.3 rents an hour.
July 1-Arld a seventh paid holiday.
Novemhnr 1 Increase minimum
pension', (or employees retiring
on or after this date.
1953
January 1 -Increase vacation pay
of employees with 3 to 5 years
of service to I'j weeks end in
crease vacation pay of employ
ees with 1 0 to 1 5 years of serv
ice to 2Vt weeks.
July 1-A direct wage increase ave
raging 7.3 -cents an hour.
July 1 - Increase shift premiums to
7 cents for afternoon shift and
10 cents for night shift.
1959
July 1 A direct wage increase ave
raging 7.3 cents an hour.
July 1 Establish new premium for
Sunday work., equal to night
shift premium.
July 1 Make up pay lost due to
ury service.
I960
July I - A direct wage increase ave
raging 7.3 cents an hour.
July I Increase shift premiums to
8 cents for afternoon shift and
1 2 cents for night shift.
July 1 Increase premium for Sun
day work accordingly.
In addition, the propose! would provide com
pensation for cost of living increasts which
fflflv nrrur dur'tna the lit tfi rnnttnrt
These proposals reflect our desire to assure steelworkers a continuous, progressive program toward ever-higher standards of
living . . . We believe these proposals are as fair to the workers as they could possibly be without being unfair to all other Amer
icans, who also have a stake in the outcome of the negotiations.
These proposals were rejected by the United Steelworkers of America. We hope that in the national interest, and in the interest
of the steelworkers themselves, the union will reconsider its decision.
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION BETHLEHEM PACIFIC COAST STEEL CORPORATION
JONES I LAUCHLIN STEEL CORPORATION Y0UNGST0WN SHEET AND TUBE COMPANY
CREAT LAKES STEEL CORPORATION ' WHEELING STEEL CORPORATION PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY
REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION
INLAND STEEL COMPANY
ALLEGHENY LUDLUM STEEL CORPORATION