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West Salem Fire
Station Going Up
The new fire itation provid
ing protection for West Salem
will be completed In about six
weeks, J. L. Franzen, Salem city
manager, told a meeting of the
Wert Salem Lions club Wed
nesday night.
The station, at Glenn Creek
road and Parkway drive, will
be manned on a contract basis
and will also serve the newly
annexed Salem territory which
surrounds West Salem.
Franzen said he will study the
feasibility of enlarging the pres
ent reservoirs and also possibili
ty that a 100,000 gallon water
tower be erected on the heights
above the city.
The next pipe line from Sa
lem's water supply probably
will be placed under the Wil
lamette river, Franzen said.
This will be necessary as doubt
exists that the state of Oregon
would permit laying a second
line under the inter-city bridge.
If the merger is perfected
West Salem will be served by
a local water office, maintained
as a sub-station of the Salem
Fairest of the Fair Wearing a rose tiara, Marianne De
mereckis (above), 18, of Chicago, smiles after being chosen
"Miss Railroad Fair, 1949," at Chicago Railroad fair. Misa -Demereckis,
representing the Pullman company, competing
against 11 other aspirants entered by railroads exhibiting at
the fair. Contest was open only to regular railroad employes,
(AP Wirephoto)
REASON FOR RAIL TROUBLES
Railroad Labor Dealings '
Bog Down on Quantity
By NORMAN WALKER
Washington, Sept IS VPi For 13 years a aore spot has been fes
tering In labor relations on the railroads. It's getting worse all the
time.
It's the main reason for the present strike on the big Missouri
Pacific railroad. It's rankling labor dealings on practically every
otner railroad In tne country.
What's it all about?
Not wages, nor hours, nor the
usual reasons you read every
day for atrlkea or threats of
strikes In other industries.
The railroad fuss is simply
this: A growing batch of argu
ments between the operating un
ions and rail managers over the
terms of their contracts.
The unions say some contract
clause means one thing. The
managers say it mean another.
These grievances pile up, unset
tled, until one day there is a
strike threat.
, This has been going on, and
" getting worse, ever since 1934.
Then congress, as asked by the
railroads and rail unions, set up
an agency called the national
railroad adjustment board. It
has panels composed of equal
numbers of union and manage
ment men, supposed to settle
such grievances.
There are four panels, all bas
ed at Chicago. All have been
getting along okay except one.
That one deals with grievances
brought by rail-operating em
ployes such as engineers, fire
men, trainmen, conductors.
Things went bad with the op
erating workers' panel from the
start. Because labor contracts
covering these workers are so
complicated, it now has a back
log of more than 3000 grievan
ces. Officials estimate it will take
four or five years to settle them.
This doesn't leave much room
for new ones.
So the unions representing the
engineers and other operating
employes have Just about put a
boycott on the adjustment board.
They won't take their cases
there any more.
A few months ago railroad
managements and the unions got
together to try to clear a way
through this blockade. They
agreed to set up two more panels
to work along with the over
7 burdened one. The idea was to
make a prompt settlement of
grievances possible.
A good idea but congress
hasn't appropriated the money
yet to put the new panels into
operation.
The unsettled disputes are
rattling around until the unions
get tired of waiting and call a
strike.
A threatened stop in rail serv
ice makes a problem for the
national mediation board. This
is a separate agency, charged
with helping the carriers and
their unions write new contracts
without strikes.
These threatened strikes have
often caused the White House
to name special fact-finding
boards to look into the trouble
and attempt to avoid a strike.
Lately these boards have all
recommended the same thing:
Take the grievances to the ad
Justment board because that's its
job. ...
But, as we've seen, the adjust
ment board if bogged down.
The unions are sore about - it,
and the railroads are facing
strikes which they feel are un
justified and unnecessary.'
'
In a number of cases rail
roads have proposed letting an
outsider come in to make a
final ruling of pending griev
ances. That's arbitration. -
But the unions don't want
that. They say the - cases are
too complicated for a layman-
that the railroad men them
selves have to work them out,
either through the adjustment
board once it gets working right,
or in collective bargaining.
Haughey Paintings
On Exhibit Sept. 18
On exhibit from September 18
to October 1, at the "Galley by
the Sea" the Lincoln County
Art Center, will be 25 paintings
of James M. Haughey. The
gallery will be open every day
except Monday from 1:30 to 5
p.m.
In the exhibit will be a num
ber of paintings of Oregon, done
by the artist when he was in
Oregon last summer and some
pictures of Montana. The largest
group, however, will be those
painted at Cape Cod this year.
Haughey, who by profession
is a lawyer, was r student .of
Albert Block, Karl Mattern and
Raymond Eastwood at the Uni
versity of Kansas School of Fine
Arts from 1932 to 1934. Later
he studied with LeRoy Greene.
Haughey is a member of the
Cape Cod Art association and
the Montana Institute of the
Arts and is president of the
Yellowstone Art Center. He has
exhibited in the midwest, Mon
tana, Oregon and Massachu
setts. ,
Douglas Fir Orders
Jump Up Sharply .
Portland, Sept. IS () Orders
for Douglas fir lumber jumped
sharply last month.
The West Coast Lumbermen s
association reported an average
of 182,709,000 board feet was
ordered each week. It was the
highest average since August of
a year ago.
Production averaged 187,280,
000 a week, highest since May,
and shipments averaged 182,-
927,000 despite a late summer
freight car shortage.
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"Red Ryder," as portrayed by Jim Bannon, teaches an out
law respect in '"Ride, Ryder. Ride." an Eagle-Lion release
with Little Beaver, at the State tomorrow with "Reign of
Terror."
Third Generation
Attends Law School
Entering the law school at
Willamette university this fall
is Harry H. Savage, recently of
Yankton, South Dakota, and he
is the third generation in his
family to attend the law school
here.
His father, H. H. Savage at
tended the law school as did his
grandfather, Henry H. Savage;
also two of his uncles, brothers
of H. H. Savage. Young Sav
age was graduated from Yank
ton college in South Dakota this
year. He was married August
28 to Marlys Whelpley of Davis.
S.D., also a graduate of Yank
ton, who is to teach at Molalla
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 15, 1949 19
this year, the couple to reside
at Molalla. They came west by
way of Yellowstone National
park.
Mercator, the man who in
vented the term "atlas" for a
book of maps, said it derived
from a mythical astronomer
King Atlas of Libia and not th
god Atlas, formerly supposed te
support the world on his shoulders.
Motorcycle Kills Minister
Portland. Sept. 15 W Death
of a pedestrian minister and a
motor-scooter rider yesterdSy
raised the city's traffic toll for
the year to 14 deaths, half the
total for the same period last
year. The Rev. Charles R. Rod
man, 72, an Apostolic Faith pas
tor, was struck by a motorcycle.
Michael Pistorest, 34, died of in
juries suffered last month.
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