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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday," January 9. 1955 Northwest Shingle Mill Owners Charge Slowdowns, Strikes Portland (U.R) Shingle mill operators in Oregon and south western Washington Saturday charged employees with a de liberate slowdown and "hit-and- run EiriKe, program ib ciuuiw wage demands. The oDerators reported that Oregon's major shingle produc ing mills have Deen ciosea Dy the workers tactics, although an AFL Shingle Weavers Union of ficial in Portland denied there is any slowdown. , Portland Mills Down All shingle mills in the Port land area were reported down as well as the New Era plant at Canby and the Rainier mill at T?inir Rnm seven mills in ihm Rmi Harbor area in Wash ington also were reported shut down or about to close. -Operators said that on Wednes day workers laiiea 10 repun iujt work at Grays Harbor mills and held similar "quickie" strikes in the Portland area Friday. In Portland, an operator said the union was concentrating on slowdowns in few areas at a time. He said mills at Gari ialdi, Tillamook, Astoria, Eu gene, Lebanon, Wheeler, Ver nonia and Sweet Home were op erating. Secretary Denies Slowdowns Secretary , Ray Thompson of the Portland union local said there was no slowdown. "We are willing to work and want to work. We are taking the IVi cents they have offered, but we want a raise," he said. The operators offered the IVi cents an hour recommended by the governors fact-finding panel for the Northwest lumber indus try, but the union is reported asking a total of 35 cents an hour boost with a 45 cents raise in the, Eugene area... - Negotiations are scheduled to begin next month for new con tracts. The current agreements expire April 1. Business Census Form Mailing Due Throughout Oregon Census report forms for 1954 are . being mailed to business establishments throughout Ore gon, according to the Bureau of the. Census. : ' The forms are going to retail, wholesale and service businesses, theaters and other amusement : places, hotels, and tourist courts. Aif estimated. 3,000,000 business places throughout the United ' A lit wmtgj niu nuc uio mux forms. . . The report forms are adapted to the various kinds of business, and smaller firms need answer only a minimum of basic in quiries. Information collected in the census is confidential and will be used by the Bureau of the Census in compiling new statistics on business activities for the nation, states, and small er areas. First Since 1948 The census is the first con ducted since the 1948 census of business. Results of that cen sus showed Oregon had 17.538 retail stores with $1,597,300,000 sales for the year and a $156, 755,000 annual payroll. Figures for wholesale trade in the 1948 census were 2,561 establishments, with yearly sales of $1,891,251,000, and yearly payroll of $94,418,000. low Fat Diet Termed Aid to MS Sufferers In Report by UO Man Portland U.R) A Uni versity of Oregon medical school researcher Saturday revealed a low-fat diet treatment which could prove beneficial to many sufferers of multiple sclerosis, one of mankind's most myster ious diseases. Dr. Roy L. Swank, professor of neurology, said he had recent ly completed a five and one-half year study of treating the dis ease with a low fat diet . -: The doctor said many patients particularly those in the early Peach Leaf Curl Spray Advised by Horticulturalist Spray to combat peacb leaf curl ; in Jackson county . peach orchards should be applied as soon as weather permits, accord ing, to Don Berry, county agent for horticulture. Peach leaf curl causes a dis tortion of leaves, which turn a yeUow or - reddish color and drop. Later the twigs and fruit may be attacked, and in severe cases large trees are nearly de foliated and small trees some times are killed. The spores which produce the disease are present on the sur face of the tree during winter months, becoming active and producing infection when growth starts in the spring. Spraying Helpful . Spraying during January is very helpful in preventing the disease from f becoming estab lished, Berry said. He recom mended use of bordeaux mix ture 10-10-100, or Ferbam, three pounds to 100 gallons of water, or fixed copper as suggested on the package. Use of two quar ters of summer oil or one-third pint of spreader depositor - per 100 gallons of water was recom mended as a sticker. Berry warned that flowering peach trees are susceptable to peach leaf curl, and also should be sprayed. , ; Regional Conclave TWO CATS Buffalo, N.Y. U.R) City Judge Arthur J. CosgroveToiled , here recently that two cats are plenty for a single household. He instructed Miss Christine Gearhart to dispose of all her cats except two. A health inspec tor said the woman had 20 feline pets. . -: '". -.. . . Ashland A regional confer ence on teacher education and professional standards on . the theme "Professional Standards for Better . Education'' will . be held at Southern Oregon college Feb. 25 and 26. Shildrick A. Kendrick, direc tor of publications of the Na tional Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Stan dards of the National Education association will be the principal speaker.. -. .., Teacher Supply The conference, which will in clude teachers, parents, school board members, and other work ers in education, will consider problems of supply and demand for teachers and the role of teachers and their associations providing a satisfactory corps of instructors. The conference will draw delegates from Douglas, Josephine, Jackson,: Klamath, and Lake counties, and some rep resentatives from Siskiyou and Modoc counties in California. - Others in addition to Ken rick expected to speak include Dr. John Richards, vice-chancel lor, Oregon State System of Higher Education, and Charles Hamilton, executive secretary, California Commission for TEPS. stages of the disease of the cen tral nervous system, had bene fited from a reduction in sev erity and frequency, of MS at tacks after eating a diet low in meat and milk. Most Patients Improved ' i Dr. Swank said more than 150 patients at the Montreal neur ological Institute at McGill Un iversity had received the treat ment since 1949, and that most of the patients had improved. The doctor has been head of the University of Oregon medical school's "division ' of neurology for more than a year, but he said he had continued to remain in close contact with his Canadian patients." ' , He said the five and one-half year period of observation of the treatment was sufficiently long "to suggest the diet may be use ful." But, he said the. average duration of multiple sclerosis is from 20 to 25 years and conclu sions must hence remain tenta tive." - :.. ' ; Discovered in Norway . , Dr.: Swank said his theory of treatment evolved from a trip fo Norway, where he -found that fishing communities with diets containing little milk and meat had a low MS incidence. On the other hand. Dr. Swank found that inland dairying areas were subject to a higher disease incidence. A review of medical literature showed that a simil ar correlation was world-wide. Dr. Swank said multiple scler osis caused attacks of numbness, paralysis, tingling, double-vision, blindness and staggering in its early stages. Young adults are most susceptible. , Auto Accidents in Oregon Take Four Lives; GIs Killed FROM UNITED PRESS Four traffic accident deaths were reported in Oregon Friday and Saturday. . - Two soldiers from the mid west, stationed at : Fort Lewis, Wash., died Saturday when their car was involved in a collision with a truck six miles north of Ontario",.: in eastern . Oregon?, on U. S. Highway 30. -: . - Soldiers Dead v State police said Pfc. Ray A. Wiebausch, Greenville, O., was killed instantly, and that Pvt. J ohn A. Diehr, Hazel Park, Mich., died in a Payette, Ida., hospital about an hour after the accident. Both were In their early 20's. The truck driver, William M. Mindis, - . 37, - Lakewood, ' Colo., was . unhurt. , '. Joyce Adele Ball, 8, Portland, was injured fatally Friday night when the car in which she was riding swerved to avoid an on coming car and struck a house. It was Portland's third traffic death this year. r j- The girl was dead on arrival at Emanuel hospital. Doctors said broken glass severed the child's jugular vein. Car Struck House The mother, Bernice Olson, 35, told police she swerved to avoid an oncoming car, struck a parked auto and then swerved across the road into the house. Mrs. Olson suffered light cuts. Portland registered its 42nd traffic fatality of 1954, Friday with the death of Mrs. Connie Massey, 32, who succumbed to injuries suffered in an automo bile plunge from a Portland via duct last month. The victim's husband, Curley, 42. injured in the same accident was paralyzed from the waist down. He had occupied a hos pital bed adjacent to his wife's. to the Officers and Directors of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK The New Medford Branch adds a Modern New look to our downtown shopping district. GLASS and MILLWORK by Padgham Glass & Millvork Co. 1309 Court Street Phone 3-4545 r4l .... . mil $mwmq ,r I . r BIG CHRISTMAS CARD One of the longest Christmas cards ever seen in this area was delivered during the Holiday season to Mr. and Mrs. E. K. "'Bicker, of Camp White. He is manager of the Veterans Administration domiciliary center, and the card was prepared by members of the center, and signed by 746 of them, all who were on thd station during the holidays. Sixty Court Actions Filed During Yea r by Ag r ic u 1 1 u re B urea u Salem (U;R) Sixty court actions, including the first arrest in 12 years under the state seed act, were filed against Violators of agricultural laws last year, a year-end summary of the State Department of Agriculture shows. In complaints filed by the de partment, 50. defendants pleaded guilty;' four f orf eited ' bail total ing $125; one case was dismissed; one defendant . stood trial and was found guilty; and four pleas ine Permit Cancelled by U.S. Portland (U.R) .The Un ited States Forest service has cancelled the permit of Charles W. Slaney to operate Timberline lodge and the Mt. Hood, chair- lift. - The " cancellation notice was contained in a letter to .Slaney Friday, citing specific . incidents of . mismanagement and; unsafe operation of the Mt. Hood facil ities. : V . ' L- . '. The Forest service said it would try. to find another oper ator for the lodge and the chair lift: The State Corporation com mission ordered dissolution of the Timberline Lodge Corpora tion Jan. 3 for failure to comply with state 'laws requiring regu lar reports and payment of corp oration fees. The Forest service said, how ever, the state's action was only secondary to its decision to re voke Slaney's license. ;.; Slaney obtained control of the Timberline , odge corporation in January, 1954, from Elston Ire land and John and Carl McFad den. : . ..; . - Inquiry into Oregon Real Estate Board's Policies Requested Portland 0J.R)-Portland at torney . Gerald H. Robinson asked - Gov. - Paul L. Patterson and Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton to Investigate the pol icies and practices of the State Real Estate Board. Hearing Denied Robinson, in identical com munications to the two state of ficials, said he asked for "a sweeping investigation" , after Real Estate . Commissioner 1 Rag- nor O. Johnson "denied a hear ing whether to revoke" real es tate licenses of Ward Cook, Port land realtor, and his agent, Ray Logan.', The request ' for the hearing preceded filing by John L. Lang of Portland of a civil suit for damages against Cook and Lo gan. . The complaint charges "carelessness" and "negligence" in representations to a prosptec tice buyer of property Lanf listed with Ward's firm, Robin son said he represents Lang la the action. Johnson, ' after the hearing plea had been investigated, " in formed Robinson that he felt justified in denying the request for hearing on the basis of a Real Estate Board rule which provides that the commissioner may refuse to accept jurisdiction in a dispute in which "the com plaining party may obtain ade quate relief through the courts." Robinson said "the practical result of this policy it that the real estate law of Oregon is not continuously and equitably en forced and the industry is not properly and fairly regulated. were pending at the end of the year. ":.;. Bulk of the cases involved vio; lation of Oregon food laws and fines were assessed by the courts on these' charges amountingv to nearly $1100. Basis of the other complaints were larceny of live stock, 9; selling milk while the state license was suspended 4; misrepresenting weight of a com modity, 1; operating without a meat dealer's license, 3 ; " mis branding onions, 1; operating without a -produce dealer's li cense,. 3. ' " - In the livestock larceny cases, three men drew penitentiary sen tences : aggregating nine years; two got three months each in county jail; two others are wait ing sentence, and two have not entered pleas. Both; violations of the seed law were charged to the same man, a farmer who admitted failure to label agricultural seed and. also failure to label mixed seed.; Official tests showed that screenings were 1 being sold for seed in this scase. I: ; ' t The summary showed district attorneys issued 18 warnings on other hamburger violations two on frozen desserts and two on mislabeled milk. - The . depart ment handed out 22 regulatory warnings to produce and seed dealers. ' ' :" In the dairy field, investiga tion uncovered 18 dairies selling milk without state license' and sanitary inspection,' and two sell ing milk from herds not tested. Dairy suspensions during the year wer&f or these reasons: Bac teria count excessive, 119; sani tation violations," 18; sediment, 1: temoerature violations. 2. cases of canned whole milk, later released for pet food sales; and 30 dozen eggs released after being correctly labeled. It also ordered dumped Vi cans of whole egg meats. . Oregon Payrolls Near Record Mark . ... t - During Pas) Year Salem (U.R) Payrolls of nearly 18,000 employees cover ed by Oregon's unemployment compensation law in 1954 are ex pected to be only about 2V& per cent less than the all-time high of $1,298,828,548 established in 1953, the State Unemployment Compensation commission said Saturday. The prediction is based on pre liminary tabulations of reports for the first three quarters of 1954 and estimates for the final three" months of the year. Despite the labor dispute shutdown of a big part of the logging and lumber industry dur ing the summer months and a late crop season that t delayed food processing, third quarter wages were only about $21,000,- 000 below the $350,768,092 rec ord set in the previous year Payrolls for the final three months may exceed the $325,- 405,581 reported a year ago. . : - Indications are, the commis sion said, that covered employ ment 'will average considerably lower for 1954 than the figure of about 330,000 that prevailed for 19U through 1953. ffifE ARE of our part in providing an dttracHvo now homo for fho Medford Branch o? Tho First National Bank of Portland. Wo congratulate tho officers and diroctorc : Outdoor Shrubbsry Planting s Southern Oregon llureary Center Complete line 'of Conifers, Evergreens and Flowering Shrubs 2922 SO. 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