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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
96th Year, No. 141
FOUR SECTIONS 40 FACES
Eugene, Oregon, Wednesday, March 13, 1963
Second Ctiss PoMrr
Paid at Eugene, Oregon
Price, 5 Cents
Work
Talks
Operating Unions, Carriers
Break Off Negotiations
CHICAGO W Negotiations between the railroads
and the operating unions on their dispute over work
rules broke down Wednesday less than VA hours after
they began.
It was the third time in the three-year dispute that
negotiations collapsed.
The railroads announced they will move as soon as
possible to make changes in the work rules.
The five unions have served notice that such action
by the rail lines would touch off a nationwide strike.
James E. Wolfe, chief spokesman for the carriers,
said the collapse should lead to the appointment of a
SP, Clerks
Get Request
From JFK
WASHINGTON WV-Prcsident
Kennedy asked the Southern Pa
cific Railroad and the Railway
Clerks Union Wednesday to let
a three-man panel arbitrate is
sues remaining in dispute be
tween them.
Kennedy asked for immediate
action on his proposal but said
that while it is under considera
tion he is asking the union to
refrain from calling a strike.
Kennedy used the words "re
frain from authorizing any with
drawal from service."
The Railway Clerks Union is
affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
50,000 Workers
A strike on the Southern Pa
cific would idle about 50,000
workers in seven Western states
along 8,000 miles of track.
The Southern Pacific and the
union have been negotiating and
arguing over the carriers' plans
to cut manpower further.
Kennedy, in a telegram to D.
J. Russell, Southern Pacific
president, and George M. Har
rison, president of the union,
taid that he understood tenta
tive agreement had been reached
on all but about five issues.
"An agreement so close to set
tlement," he said, "should not
be jeopardized by failure to re
solve these open issues. Nor
would an interruption of rail
road service be in the public in
terest." Final Determination
Accordingly, he urged the
two sides to put in writing an
agreement on points already
subject to tentative settlement
and to turn over other issues
for final determination to a
panel of three persons. He pro
posed that the panel have au
thority to hand down a final
and binding award on unre
solved problems.
The chief issue is over the
right of the railroad to dis
charge workers as the manage
ment finds them no longer
needed because of mechaniza
tion of clerical duties.
The union, representing about
11,000 SP clerks, claims 4,500
other clerical jobs have been
eliminated in the past five
years. It has been seeking a job
freeze.
The negotiations have been
complicated by court litigation,
which resulted last week in the
union's withdrawing a formal
strike call "subject to renewal
on 72 hour notice."
Only Two Days
Troops
By ASSOCMTKI) PRESS
U.S. sources said Wednesday
Soviet troops are leaving Cuba
at a relatively slow pace with
only two days to go for Premier
Khrushchev to honor his pledge
to President Kennedy that "sev
eral thousand" would depart by
mid-March.
In Moscow, the Communist
party newspaper Pravda said
four ships carrying troops had
nailed and a fifth was loading.
It said the fourth, the 11.030
ton Black Sea cruise ship Gru
Tia (Gcurgia). left Sunday car
rying specialists who had been
training Cubans in "powerful
iin-to-date Soviet military tech
niques."
The New York Times news
service sairj in a yi aninsion
dupatch that the Gruia carried
860 Soviet servicemen.
Rules
Halted
tact-tincling hoard by Prcsi-
cicnt .Kennedy, n such a
board is named and that
seemed the logical next step
it would delay a walkout
for at least 60 days.
Wolfe said the conference
broke down on the fireman is
sue the railroads demand that
40,000 firemen be eliminated
gradually from diesel locomo
tives in road and yard service.
Other issues also were in
volved in the dispute that has
gone unresolved for more than
three years.
Before the session began, both
sides had expressed optimism
over the possibility of a settle
ment. But there appeared to be
a basic division on the scope of
the discussions.
65,000 Jobs Involved
The dispute involves the jobs
of some 65.000 men who handle
trains on the road and in yards.
The railroads propose to over
haul long-standing work rules
which they say provide unnec
essary work, a practice known
as "fealherbcdding." This, the
railroads claim, costs the indus
try $600 million a year.
About 200,000 workers engi
neers, firemen, trainmen, brake
men and switchmen are in
volved in the work rules dispute
which started in 1059.
A commission appointed by
former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower investigated the dis
pute and on Feb. 28, 1962, made
recommendations for its solu
tion. The commission recommended
the elimination of 40,000 fire
men on diesel locomotives in
freight or yard service.
The railroads say the firemen
are not needed on diesel locomo
tives. Two-Step Plan
Under the commission's rec
ommendations 13,000 firemen
with less than 10 years senior
ity would be dismissed with 3
to 12 months notice and with
severance pay.
The other 27,000 firemen with
10 or more years of service
would be kept on the payroll
until they arc eliminated
through resignations, retire
ment or death.
The brotherhoods said their
proposals to modernize the wage
and rules structure were ig
nored. High Court Ruling
They carried the dispute to the
courts in an effort to prevent
the railroads from putting into
effect sweeping rule changes
without agreement of the bro
therhoods. On March 4 the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled the rail
roads have a right to overhaul
the work rules.
While a number of issues are
involved in the rules dispute,
the railroads insist on disposing
of the firemen issues before
taking up the other questions,
i
to Go
Trickling Out
Pravda said the 15,000-ton
Nakhimov, the former Berlin,
taken over from Germany after
World War II, was in Havana
loading troops. It might take as
many as 4,500.
U.S. experts in Washington
estimated there were 17,500 So
viet military personnel in Cuba
when the withdrawals began.
This was 5.000 fewer than be
lieved slationcd there at the
heicht of the Cuban crisis last
October.
The Soviet liner Ballika,
which brought Khrushchev to
New York in 1960. sailed Feb.
21 with an unspecified number
of soldiers and airmen ahoard.
I Havana dispatches said 2.000
, sailed on a ship which reporters
; werp lorDinoen in larni nr
; March 1. Washington was skep -
j tical of the figure, but U.S. of -
.
DIES Bishop G. Brom
ley Oxnam, 71, retired
Methodist Bishop, died
Tuesdav night in White
Plains, N. Y. A Methodist
Church spokesman said
death followed complica
tions from surgery last
December. (See Page 3A.)
3 Lumber Firms
Anti-Trust
Conspiracy
Suit Filed
NEW YORK W A competitor
filed suit in federal court
Wednesday against three cor
porations and their officers,
charging an anti-trust conspir
acy in the plywood industry.
The suit by General Plywood
Corp. asks for treble damages
amounting to $150 million.
Named as defendants were
United States Plywood Corp.,
Georgia-Pacific Plywood Corp.
and Minnesota Mining and Man
ufacturing Co.
The suit claimed the defend
ants have conspired since 1931
to . monopolize interstate and
foreign trade in various product
lines, including coated abrasives
such as sandpaper.
U.S. Plywood and Georgia Pa
cific were said to be the nation's
largest manufacturers of ply
wood products, doing an annual
business of $2 billion and $2.2
billion respectively.
General Plywood contended it
learned of the alleged conspir
acy through a federal grand
jury indictment Dec. 13, 1961,
in Illinois against Minnesota
Mining, which disclosed "a pat
tern of predatory conduct . , .
by Minnesota."
General Plywood said U.S.
Plywood and Georgia-Pacific
infringed on its patent pertain
ing to coated abrasives and used
confidential information con
cerning its microscal process
for making plywood.
Minnesota Mining obtained
the microseal process informa
tion in confidence and improp
erly passed it along to the co
defendant firms, the suit
claimed, and since 1956 U.S.
Plywood used the process with
out a license for payment of
royalty.
K Invited
To Peking
MOSCOW tffl Communist
China has invited Premier
Khrushchev to a summit
meeting in Peking to discuss
ideological differences, the
Soviet news agency Tass re
ported late Wednesday.
The Chinese invitation in a
letter to the Soviet Commu
nist parly central committee
suggested Khrushchev stop
over in Peking en route to
Cambodia. Khrushchev is ex
pected to make a stale visit to
Cambodia this spring.
! ficials said it is difficult to
count men aboard by aerial ,
reconnaissance. This ship prob-
ably was the Kalinin, another
cruise vessel.
President Kennedy told his
news conference March 6 he
was not satisfied with tne wun-
drawal rate, but this apparently
has been stepped up.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
said Tuesday the united States
will continue to press for more
troop withdrawals. He sain a
I "complete report" w-ill not be
I issued until after the middle of
the month.
i Rusk also told the National
Advertising Council there arc
still "some highly dangerous ele
mrnts in the Cuba situation."
tip iwrri inrm as.
1 The possibility the Soviets
1 would lend offensive weapons
Reds
Savage Floods Abate
Five States
Seek Aid
Br Vnltrd Press International
Hungry flood waters fell
back Wednesday from cities
and towns in five states
where 12 persons had died
and more than 40,000 had
been made homeless.
The worst of the savage flood
onslaught which hit parts of
Alabama. Tennessee. Kentucky,
West Virginia and Virginia
Tuesday appeared over. Thun
dcrshowcrs still rumbled and
there were threats of more rain
but not enough to start th
floods rolling again.
Aid Rushed In
The Red Cross rushed emer
gency workers into the stricken
areas and pleas went out for
more assistance. The latest
came from Virginia's Gov. Al
bertis S. Harrison, who said he
would ask President Kennedy to
declare six counties federal dis
aster areas.
High waters, landslides and
washed-out bridges hampered
efforts to got federal food into
Kentucky, the worst stricken
state. Some National Guard
trucks were able to get through
to Prestonburg and Paintsville,
but officials said they would
have to resort to helicopters to
make food drops to isolated
towns.
One of the helicopter targets
was Hindman; Ky., where 100
families were homeless. In
West Virginia, Army "ducks"
brought food to Logan and
Williamson, where 1,200 per
sons were out of their homes.
Sun Breaks Out
The sun broke through the
rain clouds over the South and
shone on splintered homes and
devastated communities. Dam
age was sure to run into the
millions of dollars, but the
floods were not as bad as the
disastrous torrents which swept
the area in 1H57.
Flood waters Wednesday were
falling as fast as they had risen
in many areas.
Three Southern Railroad pas
senger trains were stranded in
east Tennessee by flood waters
Fadeley Amendment
Wins Pearson OK
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR,
Of the Associated Press
SALEM The idea of cre
ating a legislative committee
with power to suspend rules of
state boards and commissions
appeared to have died Wednes
day. Sen. Edward N. Fadeley, D
Eugcnc, offered an amendment
that would remove the proposed
committee's power to suspend
the rules, thus taking the teeth
out of it.
Then Sen. Walter J. Tcarson.
chief sponsor of the bill, agreed
to Fadeley's proposal.
The bill to set up the special
committee was passed 22-7 by
the Senate. Wednesday's action
took place before the House
of Cuba
back to Cuba. This, he said,
would bring on a new crisis far
greater than last October's.
Any interference with the
daily U.S. surveillance of Cuba.
Any Soviet military action
against Cubans.
Any forays from Cuba
against neighboring countries,
Rusk indicated that economic
pressure would be one of the
most potent means of ridding
Cuba of communism. He said it
is costing the Soviet Union at
least SI million a day to prop
up the C astro regime.
Declaring that non-Communist
countries are rutting hack on
trade and shipping with Cuba
because of U.S. persuasion, he
predicted that "1963 will almost
; surely result in almost complete
isolation of Cuba from the free
world in such transactions."
Protest Sea Incident
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Water
Line
and mud slides during the
night. ,
A tornado ripped through two
small south - central Alabama
communities late Tuesday, dam
aging buildings. No injuries
were reported. The twister came
at the tail end of a rash of
tornadoes that swept through
the South Alonday and earlier
Tuesday, killing at least five
and leaving millions of dollars
of property damage behind.
Task Force Due
A federal task force was due
in eastern Kcniucky today to
survey flood damage. President
Kennedy was expected to name
20 Kentucky counties as major
disaster areas.
The Appalachian floods ripped
houses apart, swept cars into
swollen streams, uprooted trees
and covered highways with tons
of mud.
Judiciary and the State and
Federal Affairs Committees.
All that would be left of the
bill would be to set up a per
manent committee to merely in
vestigate rules of state agencies.
Then this committee would re
port to the Legislature.
Under the original proposal,
the committee would have pow
er tv suspend a rule until the
Legislature meets.
Wednesday's action followed
an opinion by Atty. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton that the bill, with
the suspension power, probably
is unconstitutional. Thornton
said it would be a legislative in
vasion of the executive and ju
dicial branches of the govern
ment.
Pearson told the legislative
groups Wednesday that he feels
the bill is constitutional be
cause the attorney general opin
ions usually arc wrong."
Pearson said that the slate
agencies arc making laws, thus i
invading the Legislature's pow -
ers. He said thev often don't
carry out the Legislature's in
tent.
Ex Gov. Charles A. Sprsgue,
Salem publisher, opposed the
bill.
Sprague said that to give a
legislative group oversight of
an administrative agency "re
minds me of big brother watch
ing over you.
"The majority of rules of
stale agencies are carefully
prepared slier hearings. The
Legislature must learn it has to
cut the umbilical cord of agen
cies it creates and let them
brralhc on their own."
Sprague said Pearson's theory
could be extended to giving the
Legislature power over the state
Supreme Court. And he coun
tered that state agencies repre-
I sent the people just at mucn a
tha Legislature does.
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(AP Wlrcphoto)
The flooding North Fork of the Kentucky River flows near top of
school buses parked near Hazard, Ky., jail, as eastern Kentucky ex
perienced one of its worst floods Tuesday. The flood hit quickly
and left just as quickly. So far, 17 were counted dead and six miss
ing from floods and tornadoes in the South.
The Cumberland and Guyan-
dotte, the Tug and Tennessee,
Big Sandy and Sequatchie were
just a lew of the rampaging
rivers which caused millions of
dollars of damage across the
flood belt.
At least 12 deaths were at
tributed to torrential rains,
floods and near-blizzard snow
storms Tuesday. Five persons
died in West Virginia alone,
three suffering heart attacks
while battling surging flood wa
lers. A family of four drowned
when their home was swept into
the Sequatchie River near Jas
per, Tcnn.
Kansas, Alabama, Kentucky
and Virginia reported one death
each Tuesday. Three persons
were missing and presumed
drowned in a canoe accident on
the swollen Jackson River near
Covington, Va.
G-P Plant
In California
Hit by Strike
No pickets appeared at Georgia-Pacific
Timber Co. opera
lions in Springfield Wednesday
morning in spite of a Eureka,
Calif., union leader's statement
that he would request that pick
ets be set up there.
Leonard Cahill, executive sec
retary of the Lumber and Saw
mill Workers Union (LSWU) at
Eureka, was quoted as saying he
was trying to get roving pickets
to establish lines at Georgia
Pacific plants in Coos Bay and
Springfield.
Cahill's own local is on strike
against the Eureka C P plant in
a dispute over grievance proce
dures.
Rnllin Pitkins, business agent
of the Springfield local of
LSWU, said no pickets were out
at the Springfield plant and no
request had been received from
F.urcka to send pickets out. Pit
kins said any such request
would have to go through the
Willamette V a 1 1 ey District
Council of LSWU.
A secretary in the LSWU of-
1 " n coos nay sam me o-l'
P'"i -""' "ay "ruanizen
by the International Woodwork
ers of America, not the LSWU,
However, there is LSWU repre
sentation in a G-P plant at Cn
quille and she was uncertain
whether there were plans to
picket it. The local business
agent was not available.,
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Neuberger,
Udall Tour
Dunes Area
FLORENCE Secretary of
the Interior Stewart L. Udall
and Sen. Maurine Neuberger,
D-Ore., toured the Oregon Dunes
I area south of here Wednesday
morning.
Udall told reporters he thinks
the prospects for a National
Seashore Park in the area are
"very good."
Udall and Airs. Neuberger
were taken over the rolling
sand dunes in two jeep "dunes
buggies" provided by Don
Wells, of Woahink Lake.
Udall said he wishes critics
of the national seashore pro
posal could see what has been
accomplished through a similar
action at Cape Cod, on the east
ern seashore.
He said establishing a na
tional seashore would "put the
area on the map," provide zon
ing stability, and assure the
area protection against commer
cialization. We would like a combination
of forest, lake and seashore
area," Udall said, "but the
boundaries will be worked out
by Senator Neuberger and Con
gressman Duncan,"
Rep. Robert Duncan, D-Mcd-ford,
supports the idea of a
dunes park hut is opposed to
acquisition of private properties
cast of Highway 99.
Airs. Neuberger said Wednes
day she plans to introduce her
bill to create the national sea
shore next week but declined to
disclose details of her proposal.
She said the boundaries still
have to be worked out with Dun
can. She reportedly favors a
"scenic corridor" of national
park land along both sides of
the highway.
The two officials flew from
Portland Wednesday morning.
Udall returned to Portland to
give a speech later in the day
and Mrs. Neuberger planned to
go to Salem to confer with Gov,
Mark Hatfield.
Bavaria Expected to Insist
Bidault Halt Political Action
AtUNICH, Germany WV-For-
mer French Premier Georges
Bidault was reported Wednes
day trying to get the right to
carry on limited political activ
ity along with asylum in West
Germany.
Bavarian authorities, who will
decide whether Bidault stays in
West Germany, were expected
to rebuff his maneuver and give
him the choice of staying on
their terms or being expelled.
Even limited political activity
would mean Bidault would con
tinue to work to overthrow a
close ally of West Germany,
French President Charles de
Gaulle.
Bavarian officials hav de
Charge U.S.
With Firing
On Trawler
MOSCOW (UN) The So
viet Union charged Wednes
day mat a group of three
Unitv-1 States Navy warships
fired on a Soviet fishing
trawler with dummy war
heads about 70 miles east of
Norfolk, Va., five days aco.
The charge was made in a
note to the United States pub
lished Wednesday night in the
government newspaper Izvcstia,
The newspaper said the note
was handed to the State Depart
ment in Washington. Tuesday.
(In Washington, the State Dc-
partment acknowledged that "we
received this note Tuesday from
the Soviet Embassy." A spokes
man added, "We are investigat
ing as we always do when we
receive such charges.")
The note said the incident
took place Alarch 8, last Friday.t
It said the ships involved were
two "Boston" type cruisers and
one "Franks" type destroyer.
The Izvcstia version of the
note said the American ships
approached within five miles of
the Soviet vessel, which was
identified as SRTR 9007, and
fired two volleys from their
guns, using dummy warheads.
Two More Volleys
It said the volleys landed ap
proximately 130 meters (426
feet) from the Soviet vessel,
which the Russians claimed was
fishing in the open sea.
The note sain the first volleys
were f ired at 12:15 p.m., but did
not specify what time was being
used. Th American ships then
moved to within one kilometer
(slightly more than half a mile)
from the Soviet vessel and fired
two more dummy warhead vol
leys that landed 60 meters from
the trawler, the note claimed.
"By such actions American
warships endangered the Soviet
trawler and its crew," the note
said. "The Soviet government
looks upon the shooting at the
fishing trawler of the Soviet
Union by American Navy ships
as a rude violation of generally
accepted norms of international
law, of priclples of freedom of
navigation on the open sea and
as an act of arbitrary rule which
can lead to serloui conse
quences. Punishment Asked
"The Soviet government slates
to the American government its
protest connected with the above
state provocative actions of
American warships and expects
that those guilty will be pun
ished and that necessary meas
ures will be undertaken not to
allow such actions in future."
The Soviet reference to dum
my shells caused speculation
that the Soviet vessel might
have become involved in a fir
ing exercise by U.S. ships.
(In Norfolk, Va., a spokesman
for U.S. Atlantic Fleet Head
quarters said both live and inert
ammunition are used in gun
nery practice over an extensiva
area off the Virginia Capes.)
manded that Bidault, 63, politi
cal leader of the terrorist Secret
Army, renounce all political ac
tivity in return for asylum.
A Bavarian official announced
Tuesday night that Bidault had
decided to make the necessary
written request for asylum. But
Oscar Stammlcr, the German
journalist acting as Bidault's
spokesman, said Wednesday the
French underground chief had
made no decision on the Ger
man terms.
German papers reported from
Paris that Do Gaulle's govern
ment has no objection to Ger
man asylum for Bidault pro
vided he refrains completely
from polltlci.
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