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.
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Why do U. S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force
Helicopters use TCP. . .
What does this mean to your car?
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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
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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.
The union, which has 600,000
members, is negotiating with 96
basic steel producing firms and
iron ore mining contpanies
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