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CITY EDITION FAIR (Weather Report, Page 1-C) LANE COUNTYS HOME NEWSPAWEB. m 89th Yea?? No. 164 - " .- Eugene, Oregon, Monday, Juneol3 4y55 r. ?:' TTJO SECTIONS 22PAGES PHONE 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents vAutbtlnioriy: Elderly Man Survives mi r vlVl Approve 4 Days in Wilderness ? 3-Year Pact DETROIT CP) The CIO Unite Auto Workers Monday nailed do'wn at General Motors Corp. the same guaranteed wage plan it won a week ago from Ford. Walter Reuther, UAW president, thus firmly estab lished the controversial employer-paid supplemental unem ployment benefit system in the auto industry, an important beachhead from which he hopes to launch it into other industries. The three-year agreement was hammered out in a pre dawn settlement after more than 37 hours of bargaining broken only by brief.recesses. More than 40 of GM's 119 plants across the nation were hit by walkouts as the negotiations dragged on hours after ; 1 the union's midnight strike Trucks Roll v In Far West LOS ANGELES W Long-haul trucking has been resumed throughout the West after settle ment of a strike and lockout which lasted 24 days. A three-year agreement rati fied Saturday by truckers and Back in Gear Local freight companies were back in gear Monday morning. The long haul firms reported a back log of busi ness which accumulated dur ing the strike would keep them busy for several days. AFL Teamsters will give drivers an increase of 8 cents an hour this year. 8 in 1956 and 7 in 1957. The company also agreed to contribute $8.65 a month per driver to a pension fund. The raise this year boosts the drivers' hourly rate to S2.22. Also agreed on was a Vt cent per year increase in mileage pay which has been 7Vi cents per mile. The drivers are paid by cither the mile or the hour, whichever is greater. r The California Trucking Assn. estimated the strike cost the in dustry a gross revenue of 15 mil lion dollars. An industry spokesman said the strike idled 100,000 workers throughout the 11 Western states, but Frank Brewster of Seattle, president of the AFL Western Conference of Teamsters, said only 20,000 were affected in the West and 5,000 in the Midwest. Soviets Okay Big 4 Parley In Switzerland MOSCOW W The Soviet gov ernment Monday agreed to the Western powers' proposal that the Big Four open their top level meeting in Geneva on July 18. At the same time, the Foreign Ministry issued a press statement Officials Pleased WASHINGTON W U. S. officials expressed themselves as well pleased Monday at word of Russia's acceptance of the time and place for a Big Four meeting. repeating charges that' U. S. Sec retary of State Dulles was at tempting to set up preconditions which would handicap the confer ence. The acceptance was made in notes delivered -to the United States, Britain and France. The Russian note was made public at a news conference in the Soviet Foreign Ministry Mon day night. As the news conference was held. U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen was en route to Wash f ington for discussions with Presi dent Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles on conference arrange ments. . The Russians also apparently . timed their reply to the Western Divers with the trip of West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the United Stages, where ne will confer with the U ., British and French forcigi ministers this ..Mr The Russians havenvited Me- naur to come to Moscow for dis missions ort"normalization at rs- ' l.ikins with Ihe USSR. Adej rauer wants tneg talki'to wjit until after th Big Four si'iit Ij.$. Denouoced 0 o PARJS vV-Benoit Fractal, head of ,"ofiounist-lca French oaGcnerai J ederation ot worxey H ilia hi? Anion's 3rh na tion:4 ronvenSon ftindayiit a spcOh depicting thejiteftfitate:. as coOitry with frte rnilln unemployed ei1c4e those SVd have jobioire being "paclpcri:!. deadline. The strikers were expected to return to their jobs quickly with little loss in auto production. The GM pact closely followed the recent Ford Motor Co. con tract in nearly every respect. It calls for improvements in pay, pensions, vacations and holidays similar to those worked out at Ford. FULL UNION SHOP In addition, it grants the UAW full union shop for the first time, meaning that GM's relative ly few nonunion production work ers must now join the union to keep their jobs. An additional 35,000 GM em ployes represented by the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers were given the same economic benefits under an agree ment reached an hour after the UAW settlement was announced. The electrical workers had threat ened to join the auto workers in any strike action. Reuther called the GM settle ment "an extremely significant and far-reaching contract" costing the corporation 600 million dollars over the three-year period. Reuth er said it was worth better than 20 cents an hour per employe, like the Ford contract. GM Presi dent Harlow H. Curtice said it assured the vast GM auto empire of three more years of labor peace. NOT ENTHUSIASTIC Curtice, however, was less than enthusiastic about the guaranteed wage plan won by the union. He intimated that GM agreed to it only because Ford had first given in. Curtice said the guaranteed wage plan was "exceedingly com plicated and will require some time to fully appraise," but GM nevertheless had accepted it. GM like Ford agreed to guar antee laid-off workers 60 to 65 per cent of regular tane-nome pay including state unemployment compensation benefits, for a max imum of 26 weeks. GM wm con tribute 5 cents an hour per work er toward a 150-million-dollar trust to finance the plan over the next three years. Curtice said that GM, while agreeing to the guaranteed wage plan, still "earnestly" believes that the responsibility for de termining the amount and dura tion of unemployment benefits rests with the legislatures of the various states. GM Vice President Harry W. Anderson, top company negotia- STRIKE AVERTED ( Continued on Page 7 A) Convicted Reds' Appeal Rejected PHILADELPHIA an The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld the con viction of Steve Nelson and four other Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Communist leaders sentenced to five year prison terms for conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the govern ment. The conviction was sustained by a 5 to 2 decision of the appellate court. The opinion was handed down in the case argued June 9, 1954, appealing the convictions of Net son, William Albertson, a Com munist party secretary, Benjamin L. Carreathers. nartv treasurer: James Hulse DMsen" party writer, ana Irving weissman, former West Virginia party lfader. . TrMmar to Speak At y.tf. Ceremony UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. Former President Truman has agreed to speak at the10h anr?lthe current courfKouse and wrld 'versary sessin f le UniteiTlie partly if the'clod street Vatinnc in San Fr5nrUif A lfc-W Cltv hall. fbon "U.N. Se'etary General Dag! Hammskjoldo announced last nirhf ttiat&iAan'will srak June ?4 The former PrPiidcnt did noP a?ep? a jrevirfls bid frofli thtaft Department to apcear at U Jun 20-26 tymi vcftary fycygram. v . o lAP Wirephoioj BUICK WORKERS HAIL NEW CONTRACT Workers of General Motors' Flint, Mich., Buick division tear up picket signs they didn't get a chance to use Monday as General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced a new three-year contract covering 375,000 wage earners. Peron Calls Cabinet To Study Riot Crisis BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Iffi New street fighting flared Monday in the Plaza de Mayo before the Metropolitan Ca thedral where 23 persons were Injured in weekend rioting be tween government and Cath olic Church supporters. No one on either side was hurt seriously in Monday's clash. BUENOS AIRES 0PI President Juan D. Fcron and his Cabinet met for 90 minutes Monday in a special session to review the weekend Catholic riots in which at least 22 persons were shot or otherwise injured and more than 400 persons were arrested. It was announced that Peron will make a broadcast to the na tion Monday night on the events of the weekend. In addition to the injuries and arrests, the repeated clashes be tween Catholics and supporters High of 73 Due Tuesday Sunny days and partly cloudy evenings are in store for the Eu gene area Monday night and Tuesday, according to the weath erman. He predicted the high tempera ture for both days would be 73 degrees, rather chilly as com pared to the hot 90's of last week. The mercury is slated to fall to 42 Monday night. Although the sun did shine Sunday, the day was not very warm, with a high temperature of 71 degrees. It dropped to 39 degrees early Monday morning. With the lower temperatures, the humidity problem has les sened in the forests. It was ex pected to be 40 per cent Monday, following 45 per cent Sunday. Western Oregon residents will have to put up with cloudy skies through Tuesday. Highs Monday and Tuesday are expected to be 70-80, except 60-65 along the coast, and lows, 42-52. Revised Civic Center Proposal' Cleared by County Commission A revised civic center proposal which would place a new Eu gene City Hall cast of. the court house rather than north of it had the support Monday of the Lane County Board of Commis sioners. The plan, developed by Plan ning Consultant Howard Buford, has not yet received formal at tention hjr eounty or city officials. H.AX EXPLAINED Commissioner K(Sineh Niekcn explained the tentative proposal this, way: 8th Ave. between Park( Ave. and Oak St. a one-Mock notch would be closed to trafc lie. A Hf w county corthoTlse would be built Birectly south of jTulde bilt east of the OsfjurnT Hotel at 8th and Pearl. The Dres- efft civic center lan t9lls for 'jty hallonstruction4et'?cn0o and 7th Ay. at OaO ffi $elsen said undT ihe new plan the county is "noP unwill ing yr a new city library to be of the Peron regime left a wast train of broken windows and tar- smeared public monuments and buildings through this capital city. The disturbances caused inter national incidents involving Yu goslavia, Peru and Israel. It was announced officially that police arrested 428 men when they entered the Curia Eclesias tica, adjoining the cathedral in national flag. Most of those arrested were said to have been under 25 years of age. They are being held at the Central Police Department It was reported that other ar rests might bring Ihe total to as many as 600 persons. Peron called Parliament into special session to take new re pressive measures against Catho lics accused of destroying the national flag. Minister of Interior Angel Bor lenghi Monday prohibited all fu turc street processions and other outdoor Catholic Church cere monies anywhere in Argentina Newspapers Monday indicated that official anger is concentrated on the burning of the Argentine flag near the Congress Saturday nignt. Homage to the nation's flag was the theme of scheduled official ceremonies. Monday the Senate, Chamber of Deputies and all Army units and schools were to renew their allegiance to the na tional banner. The desecration of the flag also is expected to be the main point of Peron's ad dress Monday night. , A communique issued by the Federal Police announced the ar rests of persons who took refuge in the Archbishopric, next door to the Metropolitan Cathedral, and of "other elements" which the government identified as belong ing to the Argentine Catholic Action." BASEBALL NATIONAL I.EAGUB Milwaukee at Cincinnati, night. Only game scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE No games scheduled. located on the west park block. He said, however, the city would have to purchase property due north of the present courthouse to trade to the county for the library site. The new'civic center plants expected 'to "be discuswd fhurs day -evening during panel dis cussion at the CongregatioiVI ithurch, at 13th and. Ferry. The INSIDE TODAY- Scclba ces vote of con fidflice. Page . Race tightens vn American Leagi. Page2B. Women's Neva 8 tA Editorials .". 10A OTial; I Ne ,oca ews . li? Sports 2-3B (mics - 4B Thr-ifies 11 A BA 5B. RS TV .J O Markets . Classiiied .... 5-9B Q Loyal Support Promised By Adenauer Chancellor Arrives For Talk With Ike WASHINGTON (JP West German. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer assured the United States Monday his country will maintain a "close and loyal partnership" with the West despite the wooing of MOSCOW. "My countrymen are con vinced," Adenauer said on his ar rival here for talks with Presi dent Eisenhower, "that a close and loyal partnership with the peoples of the free world on the basis of the treaties which have recently come into force is the best means of maintaining peace ana trecdom." BEST MEANS' "They also consider it the best metnsiof obtaining the peaceful reunification of Germany in free dom." X Adenauer did 'not directly re fer to the pending Russian invi tation for him to visit Moscow, But his reference to reunifying his country in "freedom" was a way of rejecting any suggestion that he or the West German peo ple would consider unifying it under the conditions of the Com munists. Adenauer's plane landed at Na tional airport at 8:55 a.m. (EDT) LUNCH WITH IKE He was greeted on his arrival by Undersecretary of State Her bert Hoover Jr., and a group ot high American officials as well as Ambassador Heinz Krckclcr, German envoy to Washington, and Ambassador Herbert Blankcn horn, Germany's NATO repre sentative. Adenauer will meet with Ei senhower at lunch Tuesday. Later in the week, tho German chancellor is to receive on hon orary degree from Harvard Uni versity. Adenauer came to Washington by special plane of Lufthansa, fhe German civil airlines now just resuming transatlantic oper ations. Senate Expected To Extend Draft WASHINGTON Wl Chairnfan Russell (D-Ga) predicted Monday the Senate Armed Services Com mittee will approve extensions of the draft law and the separate doctor draft act "without major changes." Russell called his committee in to closed session for indicated speedy action which would clear the two bills for Senate action later this week. Russell rejected a Pentagon re quest to tack the Eisenhower ad ministration's new reserve pro gram, which is bogged down in Ihe House, onto the draft meas ure and any unexpected Senate effort to do this appeared doomed. meeting, sponsored by the Eu gene League of Women Voters, will start at 8 p.m. MEMBERS. LISTED . Panel members will be Willis Warren, the Eugene library board; Paul Bogen, Architects Collaborative; Larry Watson! Eu gene City Council, and Nielsen. Charles'Duncan, associal profes sor of 'journalism at thc Uni versity of Oregon, will be mod erator. - The iaij topic of the meetia,"; will conccmAthe subject f a library ite, but Nielsen said Mnrftlay Jhere willljofte discus sion, on the new civ "tpnti plan,' which Is tied in with liiry sit consideration Rebels Surrender SAIftflN. Sou nfcNa "fc Nam. of Ho? VH iT-w mA Tattalinn Ha Gen. Tran Van Soai"! rcB forces have surrJsjk'Icrcd to the n.itiiS.il ,3 my, Pgfmicr Ngo Dinh Dice's 'government announced Monday. . Meclal Arrives 40 Years Late LOS ANGELES A medal came to John W: Long Just 40 years late but it really Wasn't unusual for him. The medal was the Army's Mexican Border Service Med al for duty from 1913 to 1917. Long, 68, said Monday, "The adjutant general's of fice notified me of the award last March 14. I guess they had confused me with a lot of other Longs in the Army and that's why it took this long to send me the medal." ?ul Mr i AJ i IS? P tit, 4 1; 4 A - fi:rhr Iif km "V U X$&:1 '.. J HIS BEST FRIEND In this case it's a gas mask as a scout dog and his handler participate in a mock gas at tack during maneuvers somewhere in Germany. The Army's highly trained dogs are so important in combat that they have their own gas masks to be worn in event of enemy attack. (Department of Defense photo) Commissioners Rap Cut in Welfare Aid ! Lane ' County Commissioners said Monday the state has cut back the county 1955-56 'welfare budget' "below what we consider is an absolute minimum." Lane County last week received an allocation of $1,501,000 from the state welfare commission for the next fiscal year, about $30,000 less than for 1954-55. The county commissioners said if this alloca tion isn't revised, the county will be forced to reduce general as sistance funds to insure sufficient money for federally-subsidized categories of old age assistance, aid to dependent children and Three Killed In Accidents By Associated Press Three persons died in separate traffic accidents in Oregon last weak end. Earl H. Imhausen, 25, of Med ford,.was killed Saturday night when an automobile he was rid ing in plunged off a highway.and struck a power pole near Mcd ford. The driver of the car, J. C. Skaggs, 38, Mcdford, was injured. Phyllis J. Blair, 10, of Port land, died Sunday night from in juries suffered a few hours ear lier in a Portland crash. She was a passcngcf in & car which rammed 11 utihtv pole. The driver of the car, Ronald H. StentpeJ If), a Lewis and Clark CAIIcgc athlete, suffered mInor injuries. Mjss Blair was Portland's 22nd Js.ti'ic v'-tim this year. Mrs. Riley Batey was killed and ?jx persons, all fiom 1,'ort- 'iind. were iitjuyd in a two-ca Highway Bcar ForcJl Grove Sun day. a I w oSolons Visit Quemoy I TAIPEI, Formosa i -? U. Sens. ClcmOits (D-Kyj and Dili nO (R-III), in &c Orient to- study Amerrcan military and economic aid programs? visitciOjffUcmoy IslawjgjMonday. Bloodhounds Lead Searchers to Hibbs A search party discovered 78-year-old Leo Hibbs still alive Monday afternoon in the was reported in "remarkably The elderly fisherman had rugged country near Lintor McKenzie Bridee. Bloodhounds led a search'party to him after spending nearly 24 hours following a trail discovered Sunday afternoon. . A state policeman in the search party reported the dis covery of the missing man at 12:40 p.m. He made the re aid to the permanently and totally disabled. Max Dudley, county welfare ad ministrator, said Monday the flew budget allocation means that starting July 1 the average rate of expenditure for many of the welfare categories will be less than the June rate. TIGHTEN MORE "To , make the money stretch through the year," he said, "we will have to tighten up still more. We will have to dig out all possi ble revenue sources. This will mean more strict plans for de termining eligibility of appli cants." Dudley said tho county has now proposed a revised budget to the state totaling about $1,590, 000 and that this amount would enable the county to provide "minimum" standards for the next fiscal year. Dudley said that the state wel fare commission cut back the budget requests of all counties, basing the reduction on an equal percentage of each county's ex penditures during JB54-55. The county commissioners, how ever, have notified the state wel fare commission that this basis for appropriating public assist ance funds "iS working an injus tice on Lane Cotinty." 'WORKS HARDSHIP' . I a letter to the state, the commissioners sajd: "Because of the variance is administering the program, we feel that a straight across the boara cut works W.Wship on those counties which have tried the hardest n".-idmifi isfc-r tie public wertare program lirmle, The commissioners said Jhe ijatc c owTi records will verify t'jit Lane County has bgon "very strifft'O ine the admiiflstration of its wclfarf p)g(m. Stating they are opposed to waste, luxury, fr loosPness" fii thff welfare programthe commis sioners, howoer?saddcd "we arc equally opposed to allowing pub- Ikowelfare benefits to be redticecblhough there aro still substantial below whatQe consider to be a difficulties in the way ot the set humane minimum." q thjment," he said. Sisters Wilderness Area. He good" condition. been lost since Thursday In Lake, about 15 miles east of port over walkie-talkie radio to a patrol car at the Alder Springs base camp, head quarters for the search group. The announcement was relayed to Eugene by way of state polica headquarters at Bend, which. picked up the radio message from the patrol car. An ambulance was immediately dispatched from Eu gene, i ' Forest Service Clerk James Drury. said at 2 p.m. he had re ceived a radio report that Hibbi was in 'remarkably good" condi tion and had walked part of the way out of the woods unaided after being located. Gary Hubbe and Ken Mays of Blue River were the first persons to see the elder ly man. He was following Ob sidian Creek back toward Linton Lake when he was discovered. An early Indication that the missing man had survived his four-day ordeal came at 8:10 a.m. Monday, when searchers reported finding a fresh trail In snow that had fallen in the area during the night. At noon Monday, Sheriff Ed Elder said part of the search party had returned to the base camp at Alder Springs and a small group of woodsmen and police were continuing to follow the trail with the bloodhounds. Elder said melting snow was complicating the dogs' efforts to keep on the trail. They had been following the tracks for almost 24 hours when the last report was received. The sheriff flew over the area in a small plane Monday morning MAN FOUND (Continued on Page 7-A) Four Burned In Explosion At Harrisburg Burns from a gas explosion in a Harrisburg motel sent four por sons to Sacred Heart Hospital early Sunday. One of them, Den nis Wayne Beck, 56, was in criti cal condition Monday. ' Beck's wife, Flossie Fay, 24, told state police tho blast oc curred when she awoke during the night and lit a cigarette. An investigation later showed that four burners on a gas range in the motel had been left on, fill ing the room with gas. Mrs. Beck's two children, four-year-old Mary Alice and 18-month-old John Ray, were also sleeping in the room when the gas burst into flame. The children and their mother suffered 30 per cent burns. Beck was burned on about 75 per cent of his body. State police said the family re cently came to Oregon from Al ton, III., and had been planning to settle here. Beck had been looking for work in Harrisburg. They were staying at Moore's Motel, just north of the Harcis burg's city limits, when the ex plosion occurred. An occupant of a neighboring cabin -at the motel carried them from the Charred room after the explosion. They wene taken to the hospital by Eugene Ambulance. State police said Monday they, had noi determined who had' opened the gas burners in the room. They said the gas ra'tga was located under an open win- t dew. British Rail Talks f In Critjcal Stage LONDON tin Labor Minister Sir Wjltcr Monckton said Mon day talks to end Britain's, 16-day raTlroiffl stnko are at a critical stage, o Mcoicktou appealed to the House of Commons to refrain from even debating the matter at this time? The talks are continuing, al- o
