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RATE CATEGORIES NOT COMPETITIVE EWEB Almost, But Not Quite, Lifts Subur.E)an.'Surcharge Eugene Water arid Electric f Board directors Monday noon al X'most, bait not quite, gfcve a third at-of their electricity customers a ? J0 per cent cut in rates. The engineerings staff brought tp the subject by showing that EWEB has some rate categories ; that are not competitive with surrounding power agencies. J Theft Board Member Earl Mc- Nutt moved to back the engi- J neers by removing the 10 per -cent surcharge fof customers outside the city "if that's what they want. Buit his motion Widn't get a seconS. Board (Member Calvin Smith said "I'm not ready to do that Are we going to throw over a policy of 20 yeajs" standing in three minutes?" 'I LEAN THAT WAY . When asked .how he felt about it. Chairman Lionel Trommlitz commented about a suburban rate reduction this way: "I -lean that way, yes." But he indicated Plywood Meeting Spotlights New Officers, Ideas in Design 7 PORTLAND (Special) Election ..of new officers, the story behind 'SO new architectural ideas and -an entirely new design and deco ' rative concept took the spotlight ' ; "in the 50th anniversary celebra ' tion of the West Coast fir plywood industry here Monday. Arlene Francis, NBC television star, was guest of honor at a ladies' luncheon in the Rose Bowl ifl'.of the Multnomah, Hotel. Miss v-Francis' "home" show will be .telecast live from the "Exposi- 'tion of 50 Golden Ideas" Tuesday morning. w, A men's luncheon of nearly 800 -"-jilywood officials and guests heard Ben Hazen, president of Benja : min Franklin Savings and Loan " Assn. of Portland and a past e, president of the United States s Police Alerted For Robbers . NAPLES, Italy Wi Naples po- lice were on the lookout Tuesday j. for four men and a woman wanted for questioning in con 2 nection with the record $305,000 n robbery of a Chase Manhattan 2 Bank branch in New York last v April. The International Police Or- ganization (Interpol), in a mes sage to police headquarters throughout Italy, said the quintet x may have crossed into Italy from Switzerland trying to reach S small south Italian port. ' e The message identified the five as John Timothy O'Connell, t.. 35; Daniel William MacGuire, 28; and John Michael di Tacco, 37 M all believed to be from New York City; Peter Jerome Kidam, 34, of 'f Manchester, England; and Jean- n ette Forest, 27, of Montreal. One officer said if the five 2 were in Italy, they probably were trying to get aboard a ship bound lor Africa. Savings and Loan League, pro pose changes In financing of home loans which would virtually take Uncle Sam out of the nous ing business.' The second day of the three day golden jubilee celebration brought 1,200 plywood people, their friends and families to Port land, birth city of the industry. The first plywood panels ever made were manufactured at Portland mill in 1905 for showing at the Lewis and Clark Centen nial Exposition. The new officers, elected at forenoon closed session of the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn., are: President Howard B. Garrison, vice-president and general man ager of Evans Products Co., West ern Division, Coos Bay, ore.; vice-president A. W. Agnew, vice-president of the Pacific Coast Co., Sonoma, Calif.; secretary Monford Orloff, general manager of Mt. Baker Plywood, Inc., Bel lingham, Wash., and trustees Martin N. Deggeller, president of Harbor Plywood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash.; Fay L. Foval, assistant general sales manager, the Long- Bell Lumber Co., Longvicw, Wash.; Corydon Wagner Sr., vice- president and treasurer, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash.; and Robert N. Kelly, gen eral sales manager, M and M Wood Working Co., 2301 North Columbia Blvd., Portland,-Ore his thinking is not final and thai he is not ready to push for IS "I euess I'll have to wait un til Wengert gets back to get my secona," McNiKt commented af ter considerable discussion. He referred, to E. S. Wcngert wko will be out Of thfc state all sum mer. Te fifth board member, Oluf Houglum, also was absent from, the meeting. Because a tnird of EWEBs power customers are outside the city, abandonment of the 10 per cent surcharge in the suburbs would reduce the gross electrical revenue to EWEB by one third of 10 per cent or 3'4 per cent. Actually, should mis rate re duction be approved, EWEB's gross revenue for the coming year would be down by 614 per cent from estimates. 6 PER CENT TO CITY The reason is that EWEB just agreed to pay the city an addi tional 3 per cent in lieu of taxes to help make up a city budget STILL AT RACES LOUISVILLE, Ky. IW Take Wing, who earned $167,820 in his 12 years of racing, is still going to the post at the age of 17, helping keep the "youngsters" in line. Trainer Clyde Troutt uses Take Wing as his personal stable pony in conditioning the thor oughbreds of Eugene Constantin Jr. Troutt claimed the gelding in 1942 and raced him through his season as a 12-year-old in 1950. Negro-White Conference Threatened deficit. EWES over the yejrs has paid 3 per cent to the city, nd this coming year will pay a.roal of 6 per cent. Another thing tlte directors probably will consider when they discuss the reduction again is that they want to build Beaver Marsh power project at a cost of more than '7 million dollars and par ticipate with the federal govern ment in construction of Ceusar Dam, at a cost of 'about 11 mil lion dollars. McNutt said In making his mo tion that he sees no good reason why suburban customers should be penalized by paying the city rate plus 10 per cent. He said that e city boundaries in this, by supplying the credit standing casta are rather meaningless and that actually "e all live 'to gether." . He stated that the contention ?Id by several boyd membfrs jn uie past that the added 10 per ccnt.js ail inducement for sub urbs to annex to theyty its fal lacious, wnat slight inducement this may supply is. more than overcome by the special rate's ef fect upon public relations, he said. CITY TAXPAYER Smith said he's not too sure of this. He also noted that city dwellers participate directly in Ihe financial life of the utility Assured of Big SteeJ, Union Sounding Out 2 Other Firms WADLEY, Ala. wi A con ference on international relations attended by Negro and white members of the Congregational Christian Church was broken up by hoodlums Monday night. Pres ident Clyde C. Flanncry of South ern Union College reported. Flanncry said delegates had just completed a U.S. foreign policy and were at tending a brief worship service in Elder Hall chapel when four white men rushed in. The president of the white co educational junior college said the leader of the group shouted: "We'll give you 30 minutes to get those niggers out of there." Then the men left. Flanncry Said he called the state patrol and that a sheriff's deputy arrived just as the 25 Negro delegates were leaving and saw them safely out. Then, Flanncry said, the hood lums returned in a pickup truck followed by three or four motor cars. The caravan drove around the campus, but did not take any further action, he said. The Congregational Christian Church's Convention of the South sent 25 Negro delegates to the conference and the Southeast Convention send 25 white dele gates. Segregation was not discussed at the conference, said Flannery, 35, a native of Letcher County, Ky. PITTSBURGH (P Already as sured of a wage boost by U. S. Steel Corn., the CIO United Steel- workers hoped Tuesday to find out how other big basic steel pro ducers feel about a pay increase. U. S. Steel says it will offer an increase but the big question is how much. That question may be answered when Big Steel and the union resume negotiations, prob ably Thursday or Friday. SIMILAR MEETINGS Basic steelworkers now aver age $2.33 an hour. Slated to negotiate with the union Tuesday were Bethlehem Minimum Wage discuon, ofiBoost Ordered SALEM un-The Oregon Wage and Hour Commission ordered higher standards Monday for women and minors in the fruit and vegetable packing industry. The chance is effective Aug. 13 The order sets a 6C cent hourly vage minimum, and piovides lor time and a half overtime pay after 10 hours, and double time after 12 hours daily. Minor em ployes will be limited to 10 hours of work a day. Overtime now is paid af!cr 1: hours. The new order also calls for 10-minule rest periods after three consecutive work hours, and weight-lifting restrictions. Meat processors also i brought' under the order. Seeks U.N. Seat LONDON W A broadcast by Tirana radio heard here reported that Albania had again requested admission to the United Nations Previous requests have been. voted down. f Why do U. S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Helicopters use TCP. . . What does this mean to your car? 4. behind the general obligation bonds EJ,VEB sells to finance larger improvements. The city taxpayer would be name for pay ments on thre bonds should the utility default, he painted out. The suburbanite is free of this responsibility, he said, and plained that this is one of the factors responsible for the pres ent surcharge policy. Smith, however, said that he wants to think more about it That apparently is what all three board members are going ts do. The discussion was drop ped without action of any kind as the board went into an executive session, presumably to discuss a personnel matter. Rabbit Attacks Plane GRAND FORKS, N.D. l Farmer Leo Mondry was buzzing along in a plane about three feet above the ground dusting crops when a jackrabbit leapt up and hit the plane. He was forced to land with a damaged propeller and spraying mechanism. Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. rues., June zi, 1955 5A Without a Doubt S Strout HOME . RANCH BUSINESS Remember IT'S HIRONS. Everybody's Drug WUlimettt For the BEST IN VITAMINS Steel Corp. and Republic Steel, bimilar meetings are scheduled Wednesday with Jones & Laugh- lin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel Co. As U. S. Steel resumed nego tiations Monday, Vice President John A. Stephens declared flatly wage increase is in the works. But he declined to say what the offer will be. He declared it will take into 1 consideration such things as the "cooperation, loyal ty and productivity of workers." David J. McDonald, president of the union, has not made public the union demand. He said Mon day he hopes U.S. Steel's offer will be one "we can submit to the Wage Policy Committee and one which it can accept." Top union officials have pre dicted U.S. Steel will offer a 7V4-ccnt hourly wage hike. They have also said that would not be acceptable. 12 to 15 CENTS Most observers believe the union will get an increase of be tween 12 and 15 cents. A reopening clause in USW contracts permits . negotiations only on wages this year. The con tract expires June 30, 1956. The deadline for successfully completing the wage talks is June 30. After that, the union would be free to strike. 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