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2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, November 1, 1949
Bethlehem Firing Up
To Resume Operations
Cleveland, Nov. 1 UP) Bethlehem Steel Corp. left a wide hole
In the once solid ranks of the strike-closed steel industry today
and started firing up for business as usual.
Shattering a well-worn precedent of waiting to see what the
nation's No. 1 producer U. S. Steel Corp. would do, Bethlehem,
Wage Freeze
H In Washington
OlvmDla Nov. 1 VPl A wage
freeze for 7000 Washington state
emnlnvei was ordered bv Cover-
nor Lanelie yesterday as the
tate'n chief executive continued
to battle the state financial cri
sjs
fmninvi hit hv h tnd-not
S order are those in departments1
controlled by the governor. An
other 3000 persons may be af
fected If the order can be ex
tended to departments under
the merit system the depart
ments of health, fisheries, em
ployment security and social se
curity. H. P. (Dick) Everest, Lang
lie's assistant, said the governor
still is considering the possibil
ity of a special legislative ses
sion. The financial situation has
become more critical, the gover
nor's assistant said, as a result
of last week's court order re
straining the social security de
partment from putting into effect
an estimated $850,000 monthly
cut in public welfare grants.
I Policy Meeting
I Called by Lewis
Sf Washington. Nov. 1 MV-John
is L. Lewis today called a miners'
Si! union policy committee meeting
for next Monday In Chicano to
' consider coal strike develop
ments. The United Mine Workers'
chief said the meeting will con
j alder all aspects of the 43-day
coal strike situation,
u The Chicago location of the
Jj meeting was considered signifl
m cant. There have been recur
J ring rumors of a possible early
m settlement with Illinois coal
J producers.
t Several prominent Illinois
5J operators have been reported
oi Impatient for a settlement.
Le Negotiations for a new coal
9 contract have been going on for
- six months without a hint of any
nw,l break.
" A settlement with the Illinois
" segment of the Industry would
" set up In coal a situation similar
to the one In steel where Beth-
K lehem, the second biggest pro-
u
' workrs.
? Doctor Barred
- From Society
It Portland, Nov. 1 Wi A Port-
land physician testified today
that he had been twice turned
J down for state and county medi-
cal society membership because
he took hospital associations'
tickets for payment.
The physician, Dr. Marion V.
e Klinglcr, said that In one mect-
ing with Multnomah County
Medical society members, he
was told the society "frowned
" on" the National and the Indus-
gf trial Hospital association. He
, said he was told not to expect
BT favorable action on his member
n ship application until he dlscon
J tinued taking the association's
payment slips.
His testimony was In the
closing part of the government's
t suit charging Oregon's organii
t ed medicine with attempting to
' monopolize pre-paid care with
its Oregon Physicians' Service.
e The government is expected
"" to summarize its case tomorrow
, A recess then is planned until
Dec. 13 when the defense will
I present Its case.
' Among today's government
witnesses were Arle J. Taylor.
I employe of Youngs Bay Lumber
" company at Roseburg, and Ralph
E. Kooier, manager of Bagleyi television programs, the compa
Cannlng company, Ashland. jnv announced last night.
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"No. 2. came to terms last night
with Philip Murray and his CIO-
United Steelworkers
Murray, here for the CIO's na
tional convention, made no ef
fort to conceal his lubiliation
He cried at a rally:
"American Industry might as
well recognize this fact, that It
will be required in the future
t maintain lis eineny womers
on a reasonably decent basis
I without their going to the poor
- lhouse, public charity or relatives
or irienas lor neip.
"How much was expended In
1948 on ,he war and ,ear 0'lhe
human machine? Five million
dollars.
"That is the issue, that is what
we're fighting about."
A few hours later, at midnight
the first of Bethlehem's 80.000
workers gleefully started back.
It will take about a week to get
the plants Into full operation.
The main feature of Bethle
hem's terms was a minimum
$100 monthly pension for all em
ployes with 25 years' service
reaching the age of 65 or over.
Those with 20 years will receive
$85. After 15 years, $65.
borne, said Murray, will re
ceive as much as $250 a month.
With the exception of em
ploye payments to federal social
security, the company will pay
all about nine cents per work
er hourly of the pension costs.
Unlike the other steel firms,
Bethlehem has been financing a
pension system for 26 years but
at a lower rate providing for
around $50 a month.
Medford Talks
On Tax Danger
Prefacing his remarks with
the statement that he had been
criticized by letter and by tele
phone for previous addresses,
Ted Medford, president of the
Kiwanis club and district mana
ger for Safeway, Tuesday noon
gave his talk concerning the dan
gers that confront this country
before Kiwanians at the Marion.
Medford said ha spoke as an
individual and not as a member
of any political party or group.
"I am one who is proud of his
country but one who feels that
we are straying from the course
that made America great," he
stated. He then went on to show
how taxation is throttling indus
try and crushing private enter
prise. Thirty-one cents out of
every dollar earned goes for the
operation of a "spendthrift gov
ernment," he declared.
Don Bassctt, Salem high gra
duate and a Sllverton road resi
dent was presented with a third
place award by the Portland Ki
wanis club in connection with
the "better farming contest" of
Future Farmers of America for
the upper Willamette district.
The project has the backing of
Portland Kiwanians.
Moore Still Is Held
For Speakership
Rep. Ralph T. Moore of Coos
Bay is not actively supporting
any of the current candidates for
speaker of the house during the
lil.Tl session.
This word was received from
Rep. Moore Tuesday who has
not actually withdrawn from the
speakership race himself.
"I would like to have it un
derstood," Moore wrote, "that
I have not yet abandoned the
idea of being a candidate my
self if I should later deem It
expedient."
John F. Steelhammcr of Sa
lem and Giles French of Moro
county are the two avowed can
didates, at present, for the
speakership post.
New York,' Nov. 1 (Ti Al Jol
son has signed a three-year
agreement with the Columbia
Broadcasting System to appear
exclusively on CBS radio and
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El Panama, being built in Panama City, Canal Zone, at a
cost of $5,000,000, will open next September.
Jobless Aid
At Top Notch
State unemployment benefits
during October were more than
three times the highest previous
October figure in the 12-year
history of the state unemploy
ment compensation commission.
The October total was $1,389,-
715 and unemployment is ex
pected to increase even more.
More than 60,000 Jobless wor
kers filed claims for benefits
during the past four months,
compared with 27.400 in the si
milar period of last year.
The commission blamed the
big increase on slowdowns in
the food processing, construction
and lumber Industries. More
than one-fourth of those getting
benefits last week were from the
lumber industry.
The commission predicted that
the unemployment benefits for
all of this year would set a new
record. Payments during the
first 10 months of the year to
taled $14,618,968. The all-time
record for a whole year was
$16,669,748 in 1946.
Public Ufilifies
Worth $451 Million
Public utilities in Oregon are
worth $451,500,000. the state
tax commission said today.
Their assessed value, which is
for tax purposes, is $246,600,-
000, or $24,500,000 more than
last year.
The railroads have the biggest
value, $185,732,000. Every one
of the 36 counties has at least a
little piece of railroad track ex
cept Curry.
Second largest are the electric
companies, worth $145,900,000.
Then come the telephone and
gas companies, worth $81,000,
000 and $19,000,000.
Other utilities included in the
total are air lines, express, tele
graph, water, heating and bridge
companies.
Barkley Plans for
Quiet Wedding
St. Louis, Nov. 1 ipi Vice
President Alben W. Barkley and
Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley an
nounced today their wedding
November 18 will be a quiet and
simple one.
It will be performed in the
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chapel of St. John's Methodist
church at noon.
Only members of their imme
diate families will be present,
the couple said. There will be no
formal Invitations.
Qarkley's best man will be his
son, David M. Barkley o( Padu
cah, Ky. Mrs. Hadley was not
ready to say who will stand with
her.
The 71 -year-old vice president
and the 38-year-old bride-to-be
disclosed their wedding plans to
reporters in Barkley s hotel
suite here.
Burglars Get
$298 at Top Hat
Salem police were called Tues
day to Investigate a burglary at
the Top Hat restaurant at 1275
State street In which a total of
$298 was reported taken from a
hiding place.
The money, including some
checks, was taken from a can in
the rear of the establishment. It
was in two sacks $193 In a pa-
per bag and the remainder in a
canvas Ladd and Bush bank
sack.
. Apparently it was a regular
practice of employes of the Top
Hat to hide the cash in one of
the cans in the rear room, and
detectives presumed that this
practice had become known to
the burglars.
Monday night at closing time,
the waitress was apparently
watched through a window as
she hid the cash. An empty milk
bottle case was found near the
window, and it was assumed that
it had been used for the criminal
to stand on to observe the hid
ing process.
All windows and doors of the
building were found locked, but
a rear screen door was un
latched. A piece of cardboard, slit so
that a person could peer through
it without being observed, was
also found near the window.
Television network programs
are carried both by microwave
radio relay and by special tele
phone cable known as coaxial.
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Oct. Permits
Over Million
A recent $300,000 building
permit for the Lee apartments
to be built at North Winter and
Union streets show the total in
October permits above the mil
lion-dollar mark, for a total of
$1,020,859.
It was the second highest
month of the year so far, April
having shown a higher total by
about a quarter million dollars.
Some other major items on
the October list of the permits
were the Boncsteele warehouse
at 1620 North Front, $91,000;
the Owl Drug building in the
Capitol Shopping Center,
$80,000; and the Don Young law
office building on Court street
between the YMCA and the
Court apartments, $24,000.
All of the October permits
were for new construction but
$50,494, and 25 permits were for
new homes. The total for the
year at the end of October was
$4,864,354.
Building permits for Septem
bcr were $342,217.
One 'No Trespass'
Sign Held Sufficient
Portland. Nov. 1 IIP) Only
one "no trespassing" sign Is
needed to protect property. Cir
cuit Judge John R. Mears ruled
today in finding six duck hunt
ers guilty of trespass.
The hunters, each fined $10,
contended that farmer Paul R.
Martin of Troutdale had not put
up enough "no trespassing
signs and further that because of
darkness and fog they could not
see them.
Judge Mears said, "The law
does not require more than one
sign to mark such a trespasser
guilty of a misdemeanor, and It
occurs to the court that If the
visual conditions were so faulty
at the time and place that It
would certainly be unsafe for a
hunter to attempt to hunt."
The compaint said he had lost
50 head of cattle last year to
hunters' gunfire.
Dennis O'Keofe "Cover Up"
and "Dead Don't Dream"
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TOMORROW!
Auxiliary Buys
Hospital Units
Action to buy immediately an
anesthesia apparatus for use at
the hospital was voted by the Sa
lem General Hospital auxiliary
in its monthly meeting, Tuesday
morning. The apparatus will be
used for gas anesthetic and will
replace a machine that has been
in use for more than 20 years.
Also, the auxiliary voted to
purchase a sterilizing unit for
use in the laboratory.
Funds for these articles of
equipment for the hospital were
partially raised through the re
cent silver tea sponsored by the
group. The equipment also will
be moved for use in the new hos
pital building.
Officers and chairmen ex
pressed appreciation Tuesday to
all who contributed and assist
ed at the recent silver tea, one
of the largest crowds in years at
tending.
At the Tuesday meeting, Mrs.
Emery Hobbs resigned as a
member of the board and Mrs.
Robert Brownell has been ap
pointed to fill the one-year term.
Plans were made for the an
nual rummage sale of the group,
to be held in March this year
with Mrs. Edgar T. Pierce and
Mrs. L. V. Benson as co-chair
men.
Marine Rifle
Team Competes
Salem's organized marine
corps reserve unit, which last
year took the championship In
the Northwestern company pis
tol league contest and was sec
ond with its rifle team is again
entering competition this year.
At the meeting of the unit
Monday night the teams for the
competition this year were
formed for the contest, a postal
one. Firing for the first meet
will be November 14 when the
Salem teams will compete
against the VMF 216 fighter
squadron of the marine reserves
in Seattle.
Captain of the rifle team will
be Tech Sgt. Herman M. Doney
and captain of the pistol team
is Sgt. Joseph W. Marcroft, Jr.
Other members of the unit
making up the teams are First
Lt. Willis D. Sims, Sgt. William
T. Baldwin, Cpl. George B.
Crump, Cpl. Melvin D. Goode,
Pfc. Jack L. Harris, Pfc. Duane
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At the Monday night meeting
which was also pay day for the
unit with $2,900 in pay checksj
given out for the quarter ending
September 30, two new men
were also enlisted in the unit.
Enlisted were Pfc. Bobbie R.
Barker, who has been a mem-!
ber of 216th fighter squadron of
the marine reserves in Seattle
and Pvt. Richard M. Copeland of
Salem, a first enlistment.
October Rain
Below Normal
Both rainfall and temperature
for October were below normal
in the month just passed with
the precipitation .60 below and
the temperature 5.5 degrees less
than usual.
Rainfall last month was 2.31
inches with the greatest amount
in any 24 hour period .63 on the
27th and 28th, according to rec
ords of the U.S. weather bureau
at McNary field.
Temperatures had an unusu
ally wide spread, hitting a high
of 72 degrees October 30 (Sun
day) for a new all time warm
for the day and dropping to 28
degrees on the 20th. Several
days of freezing or a little be
low that point helped to bring
the wide difference.
There were only six clear
days in the month with eight
partly cloudy and the remaining
17 cloudy.
Greatest October rainfall was
8.30 inches in 1924 with the
other extremely wet months be
ing in 1893 with 7.49 inches and
1943 with 6.31 inches.
Only twice has the month
passed without any recorded
rainfall there being none in
1893 or 1917. Other Octobers
with extremely light precipita
tion, less than an inch, were 1907
with .86 inches; 1911 with .81
inches; 1936 with .21 inches and
1925 with .03 inches.
Stayton Members of the San-
tiam Farmers Co-operative are
to hold a general meeting Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock in
the new civic building, accord
ing to M. J. Martin, manager.
Put parsley (unwashed) In a
shallow, wide-mouthed Jar with
a tightly fitting cover and store
in the refrigerator.
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Upward Trend of
P. 0. Receipts Halted
The upward trend In receipts
of the Salem postofflce which
has been in effect for a number
of years struck a snag during
the month of October, Postmas
ter Albert C. Gragg reported
Tuesday '
Receipts for October were
$66,956.17. For the same month
in 1948 they were $73,740.01 or
$6,783.84 greater
Gragg has an explanation for
the falling off. Last year there
was a general election in No
vember which meant that quan
tities of voters' pamphlets at
well as candidates' literature
were sent through the mail
A slight decline was noted in
September, 1948, over previous
Septembers although in this In
stance the loss was but a few
hundred dollars.
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