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TWO WEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday Ociobtr 24. 1984 Atomic Workers Reject Wage Boost for Third Time; Free To Walk Out Oct. 30 ! Oak Ridge, Tenn. U.R) r Some 4,420 workers who pro duce the nation's entire supply of uranlum-235 for atomic bombs Friday night overwhelm ingly rejected for the third tme a pay raise otter and were free to strike Oct. 80. The total vote by workers at ' plants here and at Paducah, Ky.( was 8,657 to 863 against accept ance of the six cents an hour in crease. : ' '!- ' "", " Wide Margin The 3.500 workers at the huge Oak Ridge plant voted down i thu nrooosal 2.747 to 616. The Paducah worhers rejected it 733 120. .'-" ' i 7 They will be authorized to . ' triir Oct. 30 when an 80-day "cooling off" period, enforced by an injunction obtained under .the Taft-Hartley law, expires. . Thm SO-dav no-strike injunc tion was obtained through Jus tice department attorney ai ine request of President Eisenhower, who said an atomic plant was one place where a strike cculd not be tolerated. : ; Third Rejection 1 , . - It was the third time the mem bers of the Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union (CIO) had turned down the offer by the Carbide and Carbon Chemi cal Corp., which operates the plants for the Atomic Energy commission. J The union, which is seeking a 15-cent increase, had urged its members to reject the wage of fer. Present pay scale for pro duction workers averages $1.58 an hour. Before the vote results were announced Friday night, com pany and union officials had agreed to meet Monday with Federal Mediator E. F. Hitch cock in a new series of bargain ing sessions. Small Tornado Hits Tualatin Valley; No Damage Report HUlsbofo (U.R) A small tornado hit a section of the Tual atin valley near here Friday afternoon but apparently blew it self out before causing any dam age. '''V.'f ' V''V':; State police and Washington county sheriff's office said sev eral persons reporting seeing the minor twister funneling through a sparsely-populated section be tween Orenco and Hlllsboro, but there was no report of damage or Injuries. ' .. Small Tornado At Portland, Ed Nelson, the weather bureau's supervising forecaster, said the description of the formation definitely made it tornado, although it obvious ly was a small one. ' He said tornadoes seldom ait strong in the Pacific Northwest because the extremes of cold and warm air which produce the disastrous twisters in the Mid west are not present in this area. However, two years ago a tor nado hit Corvallis, causing con siderable damage to the down town area. ,. ' Oregonians enjoyed mostly fair weather Saturday, but ap parently it was only the calm after the storm and before the . cold. .' ; Small craft warnings were up Saturday from Newport to Cape v Blanco for up to 88 mile-per-hour winds, with gusty breezes also predicted for eastern Ore- , gon. There was considerable fog in western Oregon yester day morning. , ' , The only precipitation forecast during the week end was for some snow showers over eastern Oregon mountains Saturday. But the weather man warned it would get cold last night, with lows of 28 and frost predicted wwt of the Cascades and tem peratures down to 22 east of ' the mountains. Oil Industry Refuses To Close Refineries As 'Smog' Continues Los Anfieles (U.R) Gov, Goodwin J. Knight, rebuffed by the oil industry in his peal to close down temporarily all refin eries here, Saturday allocated $100,000 in ' state emergency fund3 to determine what effect the "smog menace" has on health. Knight allocated the funds for immediate use by the State De partment of Public Health under the direction of State Director of Public Health Dr. Malcolm H. Merrill. . Knight ordered the state health agency to seek "the best scientific talent in the state and nation" to work with it in de termining wha t needs to be done to attack the. smog problem. As the area underwent its 17th straight day of smog, . Knight moved to quiet a rising storm of indignation over the eye ir ritant. Yesterday he asked the huge Southern California oil in dustry to shut down in . a test period to determine how much of the air pollutants they are re sponsible for. The industry's major companies rejected the re quest for the voluntary shut down ' Five companies rejected the governor's request for a volun tary shutdown. Request Said Unreu?nabls Reese H. Taylor, Union Oil president, said the request was unreasonable, not based on the facts and actually is not in the public interest." Shell Oil saH It had spent about $4,000,000 in anti-smog controls. ' "Smog Is a community prob lem originating from ' many sources," S. F. Bowlby, Shell vice-president, said. Dr. A. J. Haagen Smlt, a smog specialist o the California In stitute of Technology in nearby Pasadena; one of the hardest hit areas, said the oil industry shut down "wouldn t mean much any. way unless automobile traffic is also shut down." 18th Smoggy- Day ' Knight's plea came on the 16th day of a smog seige that has aroused angry citizens to join in Most "northerly point in the U.S. is Minnesota's Angle coun try; most southerly is Cape Sable, Fla. mass meetings and politicians to berate each other about air pollu tion control, Los Angeles U.R) Secre tary of Defense Charles E. Wil son says he will take the Los Angeles smog problem to Detroit where changes in motor fuels and motor design may be incor porated. Los Angeles County SuDer- visor jnoger jessup said he was assured the former automobile company executive would ask General Motors' research denart- ment to look into the air pollu tants which come from auto ex hausts. 91 ' W v V X A ...1 in 71 Philbrick Says Progressives Controlled bv Reds in 1948 Washington U.ra form-; Progressive party Wallace Is a er FBI informant in the orrne X'ior" the-seat Communist party has testified 'r j"?" CB0!iw.nPratie Sen- TO SING HERE The Evergreen quartet, Yakima, Wash., (above) first place winners in this year's Pacific Northwest' re gional singing contest, will be among singing groups appearing here next Saturday evening at the annual Barbershop Quartet concert, sponsored by the Rogue Valley chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quar tet Singing in America. The concert will be at the Medford High school auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at Karl's Shoe store, 230 East Main st. FOA Denounces, McCarthy's Charge of 'Feet Dragging1 On Help for Guatemalans that the Reds controlled the 1948 Progressive party cam paign of Henry A. 'Wallace and Glen H, Taylor, it was disclosed Friday. '. The Senate Internal Security subcommittee . released testi mony, that former FBI under cover agent , Herbert A. Phil brick of Boston gave at a hear ing conducted Oct. 14 by Sen. Herman Welker , (R-Ida.), Mrs. Mary Stalcup Markward, an other former FBI informant, also testified at the secret ses sion. Reds In Control Philbrick said that when "the Progressive party was formed in 1948 the Communists were in complete control of every single move and every single policy made and carried out, not only by the organization but also by its candidates both local and national." It was the second time this week' that the subcommittee has released testimony by former Communists that Reds ran the Washington (U.R) The Foreign Operations Administra tion has denounced as "entirely untrue" Sen. Joseph . R. Mc Carthy's charge that it is "drag ging its feet" oh aid to the anti- National Celebration of UN Day Centered in New York DOESN'T LIKE IT Boston, Mass. (U.R) A Boston FBI agent testified In U. S. Dis trict Court Friday that when he asked jail escapee Martin Feeney why he broke out of Norfolk Prison last summer, Feeney re plied;" "I'm allergic to' confinement." United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) More than 300,000 persons will celebrate United Nations Day to day at the world headquarters building on the bank of the East river. . . At the same time, cities around the world will observe the ninth anniversary of the peace organi zation. Conceit Planned A concert - conducted bv Charles Muench in the U.N. As sembly hall will feature the headquarters celebration. The City of New York and the Amer ican Association for the U.N. also will take part. similar celebrations will be staged by cities throughout the United States except in Utah where 600 proclaimed Saturday as 'United States day." Speakers taking part in to day's program here include Sec retary General Dag Hammars- kjold, General Assembly Presi dent Eclco Van Kleffens of the Netherlands, Mayor Robert Wag ner of New York; V. J. Skutt, National Chairman for U. N. week, and Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, chairman of the board of governors of the American As sociation for the U.N. Broadcasts Slated The concern will be televised and broadcast in the United States by the National Broad casting Company and in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. . Muench's symphony program will include Beethoven's Over ture to Corlolanus, Shostako- vitch's hymn to the United Na tions, Copland's setting for the preamble to the U. N. Charter and the final movement of Bee thoven's Ninth Symphony. Hugh Ross will conduct the . Schola Cantorum in the choral. sections. San Francisco (U.R) Gov ernor Goodwin J. Knight of Cali fornia has decided to stay out of the controversy over whether today should be proclaimed "United Nations Day" or "United States Day." The day will re main just Sunday,' Oct. 24 in California. Sheppard Defense May Remove Jurors Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) A prosecution attorney said Sat urday he. was certain defense counsel for Dr. Samuel H. Shep pard would exercise its privilege and remove six members of the jury selected to try the 30-year-old osteopath on charges he murdered his wife. The five-day-old trial was Jn recess until Monday, when, if they wish, each side may use their six peremptory challenges to unseat any member of the jury, completed Friday, to whom they object. v "We intend to use as many of our challenges as seem neces sary," Prosecutor John J. Ma lum said. "I'm sure the defense will use all of theirs, since their demand for a change of venue will fall flat if they don t." Communist government of Guate mala, William J. Caldwell, FOA director of reports, said : the agency has increased technical aid to Guatemala "almost 1000 per cent" since the pro-Commun 1st government was overthrown in June. Asks for Report McCarthy (R-Wis.) fired a tele gram to Foreign Aid Chief Har old E. Stassen Friday asking for a report on "any aid given to Guatemala in any form since the new anti-Communist govern ment took over." McCarthy also asked, for figures on U.S. aid before the pro-Communist gov ernment was overthrown. Caldwell, answering for Stas sen who is abroad, declared that "the United States has moved promptly in extending additional aid to the new non-Communist government of Guatemala." McCarthy, who has clashed frequently with . Stassen in the past two years, said "recent de velopments and information indi cate the possible re-establish ment of Communist control Guatemala." Delay Charged "While FOA has been spend ing a great deal of money in various,, parts of the world, it appears. that your organization has been dragging its feet -in Guatemala since the revolution in June which dispossessed the Communists,'! the Senator told Stassen. . "I am sure you are aware of the urgent immediate need for aid to Guatemala if the new anti Communist regime is to suc ceed." ' McCarthy sent the telegram upon returning to his office after a 10-day rest at the home of friends. He had-previously been hospitalized here for sinus treat of An average U.S. automobile travels 9,500 miles per year. If You're Hot Trading at the Groceteria You're Paying Too Much! SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS OPEN 7 DAYS A f WEEK UNTIL V P.M. ffinJMIDoUjff TT7TC? TC? JVC SAVINGS On The World's )y JUll JJlj JJ BEST KNOWN BRANDS! 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' "We recognize that calling the review conference might arouse false hopes and might stimulate efforts to rewrite the charter which could seriously endanger the United Nations," Wainhouse said in an address prepared for delivery before the Bay Area Citizens committee for U. N. Charter Review. Wainhouse stressed that the United States had not taken any decision on what amendments, if any, the United States would seek at the conference. He said the major questions would in elude U. N. membership, secur ity, and armaments. he once held as Democratic Sen ator from Idaho. Denied Charges After Welker released earlier testimony that Wallace and Tay lor knowingly sought and ac cepted Communist support In 1948, the two men oeniea me charges. The earlier testimony was given by Matthew Cvetic and John Lautner. . r.lon H. Tavlor Insisted Sat urday that he was unaware of any Influence the Communist party may have exerted on the Progressive party m ib He had no further comment on the testimony released by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee and quoting Her bert A. Philbrick, former FBI undercover agent, as saying the Communists were In complete control of the Progressive party when it was formed in 1948, Tavlor To Get Chance . Meanwhile, the Democratic candidate for the Senate re ceived another telegram from Sen. Herman Welker. The Idaho Republican confirmed that his Internal Security subcommittee task force would meet in Boise prior to Nov. 2 to give Taylor a chance to refute testimony that the Progressive party collabor ated with Communists". 1 The Senator said subcom mittee investltfator would arrive in Boise Monday. Welker asked Taylor to "prepare to get ar rangements started on the hear ing you politically asked for." : "Of course we are. going to i hold a hearing in Boise as re quested by you. You know of this or you wouldn't have an-; swered in the press as you did hours before the time of your : telegram," Welker said. The Senator reierrea to a telegram he received from Tay lor last night asking Welker to confirm newspaper and radio reports that such a hearing would be held. "I want no more moaning as to shortness of time because as you know you forced this al most impossible task upon the committee," Welker told Taylor. ELECT BILL TUCKER CITY COUNCIL FIRST WARD Tucker for Council Committee, Ken Cook, Chairman. ' The Nation's most important deposits of chromite are in Still water and Sweeigrass counties, in Montana, according to the U.S. bureau of mines. I 1 SAMSON'S FEED PRICES Watch for this ad each Sunday for Samion'a ' ' monty-llYlng Faad Prlcet Hen Scratch cwr. $4.50 Grd. 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