Copter Spins Into
Gulf; Four Perish
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 1 0-A
helicopter (pun into choppy waters
or th Gulf of Mexico off Grand
Ma today shortly after taking oft
from an offshore oil rif. The pilot
and three other men perished.
Seven men survived the wreck
Hoffa Prevents
AFL-CIO Seat
For Teamsters
MIAMI BEACH, ria., Feb. 1
AFL CIO leaders said today
the expelled Teamsters Union
won't be taken' back into the
federation even under a court
monitor system so lonf as Jimmy
Hoffa heads the truckers.
This was the word among top
AFL-CIO chiefs gathering here
for winter meeting of the feder
ation's policymaking Executive
Council opening Monday,
The Teamsters were ousted
from the AFL-CIO in December
on charges the 1.400,000-member
union the nation's largest single
labor organization was cor
ruptly dominated.
The charges were based on dis
closures against Teamsters bosses
including Hoffa brought out In
lengthy hearings before the Sen
ate Rackets Investigating Com
mittee headed by Sen. McClellan
(D-Ark.
Hoffa's election at the union
convention here last October as
Teamsters president succeeding
Dave Beck, who was also involved
in the committee disclosures, was
challenged in Teamsters mem
bers court suit.
They claimed convention dele
sates were chosen in a manner
to rig the union elections for
Hoffa.
But the case was compromised
and Hoffa permitted to take over
the union presidency under an
agreement that established a
three-man board of monitors to
advise Hoffa on how to run the
union in an honest and democratic
way. .
Hoffa is not bound under the
arrangement to take the advice
of the monitors but he has pledged
as part of the court settlement to
handle Teamsters -funds and prop
erty with all the responsibilities
of a legal trustee.
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after a two-hour struggle In cold
water.. One was burned by-fumes
from high octane gas.
John .Hall Jr., 32. of Golden
Meadow, La., one of the survivors,
said the helicopter began swirling
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jaiuuiiu juai aucr iaroit ana n
cuminuea 10 spin until we SiruCK
the water."
Hall said the pilot, E. E. Esk
ridge, guided the craft away from
the rig and set -it down with the
door side up to make it easier to
escape. The helicopter sank min
utes later.
Flrk as Sarvlvera
A Humble Oil Co. tugboat from
a nearby rig picked up the sur
vivors and the dead.
Toe 14 place Sikorsky helicopter
waa on a routine return flight
from an oil-drilling rig nine miles
off Grand Isle, island center of
J Tidelands oil-drilling operations
about SO miles south of New Or
leans.
Eskridge, formerly of Ventura,
Calif., worked for Rotor Aids, Inc.
which operated the Humble Oil
Co., helicopter, and lived in a
camp at Grand Isle.
The other dead were listed as
B. F. Wiley of Grand Isle, a geolo
gist for Humble Oil. and J. A.
Led ft on Larose and. Frank V.
Bergeron, of Cut Off. botn em
ployes of Rowan Drilling Co.
Officials said it had not been
determined what caused the heli
copter to. start spinning.
All Had Life Jackets
"It all happened so fast I'm not
sure what really happened," Hall
said.
"When we first climbed from
the helicopter." he said,-"everybody
was together. All had life
Jackets.
"The pilot kept reassuring us.
telling us to stay calm . . . then
we began to drift away from each
other.
"I guess I was In the water
about an hour and a half or two
hours. If we hadn't kept seeing
lights, I don't think I could have
made it," he added.
Hall apparently was referring
to the lights from the oil rig.
Business Activity In
PORTLAND. Feb. 1 - The
signs of business activity in the
Portland area last month were
mixed.
Building activity was up but
bank clearings down.
The building permits were for
construction totaling slightly more
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Trains Collide
In Oklahoma;
Three Succumb
BOKOSHE, Okla., Feb. )
Two Midland freight trains
collided and the engines burst Into
flames here today, killing three
crewmen and for a time threaten
ing this eastern Oklahoma com
munity, with a dangerous gasoline
explosion.
The head-on crash occurred
about 11 a.m. The wreckage
burned more than three, hours and
it was feared for a time the flames
would spread to several gasoline
filled tank cars making up one of
the freights.
- However, the flames were
brought under control -without
reaching the gasoline, some of
which spilled over the right-of-way
in the crash.
1 Chemical Tracks
Chemical trucks were brought
; from Ft. Smith, Ark., to extinguish
I the fire.
I Bodies of two of those killed
were removed from the wreckage
a short time after the crash, but
a third man was trapped in the
flames and his body was not re
covered until several hours later.
oevcn oiner meniuers Dl ine irain
crews were injured, five of them
seriously. The two conductors ex
caned unhurt.
The crash was about two blocks
north of the business section of
Bokoshe. population 500. A dozen
homes are within about a one
block area near the crash.
Those killed wyre identified as
O. B. Skinner, an engineer: R. K.
Ferrell, a brakeman; and D. A.
Hammons, a fireman.
la Serleea CaadltlMS
Injured and taken to a Poteau
hospital were Wayne Cox, Floyd
Williams. Walter Grover, R. W.
Parks and Cecil dark. Parks, Cox
and Grover all were reported in
serious condition. .
Suffering only slight injuries
were J. A. Brown and O. B. Gray. !
The conductors who escaped in-
jury were J. E. Wilkerson and
H. E. Gruenwald.
Portland Mixed
than four million dollars, nearly
double the December total, but
more than a half-million under the
previous January.
Bank clearings totaled M31.71I.
140, mere than nine million dol
lars under December and nearly
47 million under January. 1957.
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Indian Stand ...
Disturbing to
Neuberger
WASHINGTON, 'Feb. 1 (
Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) said Fri
day be was "extremely disturbed"
to learn that the Klamath County
Republican Central Commit
tee had declined to indorse the
bill for federal purchase of Klam
ath Indian resources.
He said he learned through the
press that the Committee "does
not feel that Indian problems be
long in politics."
"It is my understanding." Neu
berger said, "that Thomas B. Wal
ters, chairman of the Manage
ment Specialists and an appointee
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OTHER DAYSi
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NW Power Unit'
Still Interested
In Snake Work
SPOKANE, Feb. 1 t - D
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terest in development of the Mid-' Bargaining unie Dy auiomo-
die Snake River but made no anoi, manufacturers and union lead-
nouncement on immediate plane. , - . , . ,
The directors were meeting for Tet,monSr before, the Senate
the first time since the Federal " , " u ., ,Tn..i7 h r ' T " 00 "
Power Cemmiasion denied PNP s i?J"t!L
application for licenses to build ; Z JVm Wided
ufm". S?S!Pr LTJIl1 Th witnesses, each on for' two1 Under this plan. 25 per cent of
h i. V.rZZ dy. Rwther. prei-!all profiU above IS per cent be
2 "iw-T .2-'d f th n'11 Automobile fore taxes would be divided smong
JSL.ivi vnJ?m Workers, snd Harlow H. Curtice, salaried and wage employes and
oT'snak? River tK 11 General Motors. another 15 per cent would be re
rv.. ll uuL The contrast between them waa turned to car buyers is a rebate
Oregon and Idaho. ... , n,Mi. - ik. . u... '
The FPC said a dam at Nex
Perce, below the conHiience of the Asking Reuthef a question Is
Sa mon. would be better adapted. Jike th vv, M , water
John J. Burxe. Butte Moid ..,mtini jy worti now and flow,
was reflected president of Pacific cunice is sparing in his use of
Northwest Power, which ismade words and frw,Uently had to be
up of Wishinron Water Power icoaxed int0 eUborating on his
Pacific Power k Light. Portland ; brie( ,Mwtn
General Electric and Montana 1
Power. I First Twa Wltaesaes
J"i:'.CTrt,f5Bui,'.?j'n-
a w. ueiieu ana raui a. Mcnee.
now fortiana. were reuinea s
vice presidents.
Renamed directors were Mar- j
naii l. dii i. opokane: Bam n.
Chase Jr.. Butte; Donald R. Mc-
I Clung. Portland, and Frank M.
i Warren Jr. Portland.
of ex-Secretary of Interior McKay4,
suggested thai both major politi
cal party central committees in
Klamath County support federal
purchase legislation."
Neuberger said, he understood
the Democratic committee did so.
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Hearings Provide Public
Of Auto Leaders-Union
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 I Aithe auto industry hearings that
Senate hearing this week provided 1 subcommittee's purpose was
a public preview of some of the
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Reuther and Curtice were thefe V"0!?!' "Pl"
firgt ,w, witnesses called in the
subcommittees) inquiry into
pricing pice, ta automo-i
bile industry. Too executives of
Ford. Chrysler and American Mo-if?
tors will testify in the week ahead,
The hearings are part of a gen
eral study of what Chairman
Kefauver (D-Tenni has called ad
ministered; prices. These have
been described as prices that, in-1 found it somewhat difficult - to
stead of fluctuating on (he basis j reconcile Reuther's "professed
of supply snd demand, are deer- concern over inflation with his
mined by companies in concen- announced 1951 collective bargain
trated industries. ing program.)'
Kefauver said at the outset of ' Curtice told the subcommittee .
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Mail and phone orders I
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tween the VAW and the ma mtf.c
hirers.
However, Reuther. tbe first wit-
P' hrd for the profit-
sharing plan that the I'AW has
vh fui viihk n II ..
Reuther'a basic contention was
that productive capacity has out
run purchasing power and that
this imbalance in the economy
is responsible for the current busi
ness downturn.
He said the Big Three auto
makers account tor tl per cent
of car sales, adding this gives
"
prices In defiance of the law of
,uf,)Iy 'nd dem,Bd-
He ' ltfttd. that the wages
" workers have fallen be-
ninu run onij me increawo proauc-
tivity in the industry but ia the
economy as a whole.
An entirely different picture was
painted by Curtice, who Mid he
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that "increased wage costs have
been the largest single element in
uk. vw,u, i.u ui lite
tags on . General
Motor !95l car. fall short of the
increased cost of producing them.
"For every dollar of increase in
our own costs." he jald , "Price
has Increased only to cents."
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