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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1950)
j bix MEDrOBD OHEOOH) MAIL THIBPNg rrlday, April 21. 1950 Bus Walkout on Greyhound Lines Off Indefinitely Portland, Ore., Apr. 21 (U.R) A four-state bu strike that was to have begun this morning on the Union Pacific's overland Greyhound lines was put off In definitely last night as Federal Mediator I. I. Pickett announced tentative agreement between the company and AFL Motor Coach Employees' union members. An estimated 250 drivers, tick et agents and shopmen in Ore gon. Washington, Idaho and northern Utah were involved in the threatened strike over 1950 contract negotiations. Later strike action would be contin gent on whether union members accept or refuse the agreement, Pickett said. No Details Released The strike by union members would have started at 12:01 this morning. Details of the agree ment can not be released until union members have voted on them sometime in the near fu ture. Pickett said. Chief dispute in new contract miHnllnllnni tarn, tho nninn Hp- mand for a pension program to be partially financed by em ployee contributions, similar to those maintained on other Grey hound operations. The company had offered to pay for a $50 monthly pension. Other union demands centered on wages and working condi tions. Pine Production Figures Increase, Association Says Portland. Ore., April 21 'U.R) Orders, shipments and produc tion on Idaho white pine, pon . derosa pine, sugar pine and asso ciated species were higher for the week ending April 15 than for the preceding week, the Western Pine association report ed here today. Orders totaled 67.353,000 feet for the week, compared with 62, 374.000 feet for the previous week, and 62, 710,000 for the cor responding week last year. Similar comparisons of ship ments were 68,451.000 feet, 62. 239.000 feet and 66,371,000 feet. Orders Increase Production figures were 60, 648,000 feet. 56,129,000 feet and 61,035.000 feet. For the year to date, orders are up 24 per cent over the same period of 1949, shipments show an Increase of 29 per cent and production an Increase of 16 per, Weekly averages for April during the three preceding years were oraers, oi.roi.uuu reel; shipments, 66.814.000 feet, and production, 60.695G00 feet. Western Thrift Sfore Sold to Wayne Welty Announcement has been made of the recent sale of the West ern Thrift store, 30 North Cen tral avenue, to Wayne R. Welty. Welty, who has managed the tore for about the past two years, made the purchase from Mrs. Goldie Hauer. Meriford, and F. J. and J. B. Craft, Eugene, former co-owners. Welty stated that policies of the store would be maintained. In line with the progressive trend in Medford, extensive re modeling of the store is planned for the future. No changes In personnel are planned. Flying Disk Photo Being Displayed At Art Gallery Salem Ore., Apr. 21 Al.fi Well, finally, a photo of a flying saucer! Or so it says on a photo being displayed at Elfstrom's art gal lery here. Amateur Photographer Rand Herrman of Pasco, Wash., a for mer resident of Salem, gave the ohnto to Larry Boulier, director of the art gallery. Taken March 21 Herrman said he took the pho to March 12 at Pacific City. Ore. He said he was lust ready to shoot a picture of his wife, Zel ma, high-Jumping on the be8ch, when he heard a swooshing sound, looked up to see a vapor trailed or exhaust-trailed object, and snapped the object with his camera set at 11.000 of a second. The photo, said Herrman, was taken on a murky day in light rain in the late afternoon with a 45 R. R. Graflex equipped with a Cooke F3-5 lens. Herrman said the object ap peared to have some sort of win dows and holes in the edges and appeared to be only about 2,000 feet away. Negative Destroyed Boulier quoted Herrman say- ng he destroyed me negative on the advice of friends, after sav ing three enlargements. He did not go into the reasons for tak ing this step. Rand also was quoted as say ing that by the time his wile had centered her attention toward the object, it had disap ocared. although a vaporous trail was still visible. The photo, which Herrman has coDvrichted. shows a dim. apparently elliptical object above a point where breakers are meet ing the shore. Schooner, Passengers Freed by China Reds Hons Kong. Apr. 21 (U.R) The 50-ton Amercan schooner Volador and the 15 persons aboard have been released by Chinese communist authorities after lentsthy detention, a report IMIIllllUlliai-llllI W t 11 V said today. The schoonpr was driven into enmniimiil nnrt nnnarentlv Kwangchowwan when it ran into a siorm wnue en rouie nom Manila to Hong Kong. U. S. air and naval units from the Philippines conducted a week-long search for it without results. It was believed the commun ists suspected the vessel carried spies because they then were prparing in Kwangchowwan for the invasion oi juuna nisninn, m the southeastern tip of the China mainland. Thn Vf.lnInF ia nrnmnnHcil hv former Naval Lt. Cmdr. Gordon n n Tlia nlhnr nirnnnpl ahnnrri are mostly Californians. It wa Drestimed that the schooner would head for Hong Kong, its original destination. Timber Sale Slated In Ashland Monday Ashland, Apr. 21 Three oral auction timber sales, the first such sales ever held in Ashland, will be conducted at the city hall here Monday, it was an nounced today by Harold Thom as, ranger for this district. A discussion of the timber to be sold and terms of sale will be held at 8:30 a. m. before the sale, scheduled for 10 a. m. 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