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Vandenburg Releases Man Held 11 Months Klamath Falls U.R) An drew Joseph Bushman, 51, who had been held in Klamath coun- Three Fori Dix Soldiers Hit by Meningitis Attack Fort Dix, N.J. U.R) A third soldier was stricken with meningitis of the blood stream at Fort Dix Saturday, and au thorities immediately took pre cautionary measures to check the spread of the dangerous dis ease among the 40,000 merr and women on the post. One man died of meningococ- cemia and another was flown to Walter Reed hospital in Wash ington for emergency treatment Friday night. The third man be came ill Saturday (morning and was reported in critical condi tion. . - The latest to be stricken with the blood infection was Pvt. Mi chael T. Danza. 18, New York. Died Last Month . Pvt. Irwin Weinrib, the first man stricken, died last month The second was Pvt. Richard A. Robinson, 21, Norwell, Mass., who was taken to Washington in critical condition ,Friday night. Capt. Tom Hamrick, Fort Dix public relations officer, said that as soon as Danza's case was di agnosed, post doctors began dis tributing sulfa diozene among all the personnel and their fami lies. Each soldier and civilian employee is getting four half- grain tablets of the drug within a 12-hour period. All unmarried 'troops were re stricted on the post until they had taken the prescribed dos age of the drug. Married men were allowed to take their med icine to their homes off the post. West's Pine Mills ProduceOne-Fourlh 0! U.S. Soft Woods San Francisco U.R Mills In 12 western states belonging to the Western Pine association are credited with one-fourth of the nation's saft wood production, according to association presi dent U. R. Armstrong. Armstrong told the 25th an nual meeting of the association here Friday that member mills produced and shipped a record total of nearly 8,000,000,000 board feet of lumber last year. Mutt Meet Competition ' S. V. Fullaway Jr., secretary- treasurer of . the association, warned the group Friday that the industry must be prepared to meet stiff competition from materials making inroads in the lumber market. "This industry must be wil ling to change its methods and processes wherever ncessary to meet the needs and desires of the customers," Fullaway said. Increase Offset W. E. Griffee, assistant secretary-treasurer, said the western pine industry is shipping three times the volume it was five years ago into the south, but that has been partially offset by the loss of a considerable box business to other container ma terials. C. A. Gillett, managing di rector of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., told the meeting there is a growing interest in the forest industry among young people and that his organization is a clearing house of facts and information. ty jail here for the past 11 mont months, awaiting trial on a mor als charge, Friday was ordered released. by Circuit Judge Dav id R. Vandenberg. The action was taken after the district attorney's office en tered a motion to dismiss the third indictment against the Klamath Falls carpenter, for a lack of evidence. Second Dismissed The second indictment against Bushman had been dismissed for the same reason. Judge Vanden berg dismised the first one on the grounds that it was defec tive; Bushman, who was arrested last April, had become the cen tral figure in a complex legal maze. Judge Vandenberg twice,, was disqualified to sit on the case by motions filed by District At torney, Frank Alderson. Two other Circuit Court judges, Charles Foster of Lakeview and Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City, subsequently were assign ed the case. To Supreme Court Defense Attorney , George Proctor took the case to the State Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus. The Supreme Court declared as unconstitu tional the Oregon law permit ting the change of judge pet itions, and Judge Vandenberg was ordered to proceed with the case. Bushman said the 11 months "were like 11 years," and that he still didn't know "what it was all about." State Unemployed Total Down 6,100 During February Salem (U.R) Some 6100 Ore gonians found jobs during .Feb ruary, and the number of un employed dropped to 57,700, the State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission said Saturday. That was about 19 per cent fewer than a year ago. Some 70 per cent of the job pickup was concentrated around Portland, Salem and Eugene. Several areas, mostly in eastern Oregon, found unemployment conditions no better than a month or a year before." More Job Seekers Baker, Bend, Lakeview and Milton-Freewater counted more jobseekers than a year ago. La Grande and Roseburg found more without work than a month ago. The number of insured claim ants declined during the final week of February to 29,497, lowest since the final week of 1954 and 3486 below the sea sonal peak late in January. A mild winter and strong market held lumber and logging employment at least 5000 higher than last year. Construction also was improving. Merger of Unions Not Final Answer, Bridges Declares San Francisco U.R) Long shore leader Harry Bridges said Saturday AFL-CIO merger plans were a "step in the right direc tion" but would not guarantee better wages, hours and work ing conditions unless the labor rank and file works for them. Belonger lo CIO, AFL Bridges is president of the In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union (Ind.). He pointed out in an address to the annual constitutional and contract convention of Ware housemen's local 6 that ILWU at one time belonged to both the CIO and AFL. "It cannot be said that we left theAFL or CIO," he said. "They left us when they began to jettison the principles that had made them great the right of the rank and file to debate all issues before the union and the nation and to make its own decisions without dictation." He said the ILWU favored the merger, but there was no likeli hood at this time that the West Coast union would affiliate with the new organization Approve Wage Demands The 600 delegates represent ing 12,000 San Francisco Bay area warehousemen and women approved wage demands to be made when new contract nego tiations open April 1 with the distributors association of Nor thern California and Independ ent warehouses. The delegates voted to ask for a 15-cent across- theboard hour ly, increase; a 10 per cent in crease on the swing shift; a . 15 per cent increase on the grave yard shift, and a narrowing of the women's wage differential by 5 cents an hour. Base pay for warehousemen now is $1.85 an hour, for wo men 1.671z. Nixon Returns to U.S. With Pleas for Mutual Aid Among West Hemisphere Nations Sunday March 6, 1955 Washington (U.PJ-Vice-Presi- dent Richard M. Nixon returned Saturday from a Central Amer ica tour and urged a mutual "help one help all" good neigh bor economic program to protect hemispheric security. Tanned and slimmer after a flying 7,500-mile tour of 10 re publics, the vice-president said the United States must explore ways to reduce trade barriers with the friendly neighbors he visited. ' "They need additional invest ments both from inside and from outside," Nixon said. "We are often asked why the United States should be interested in the economic progress of those countries. Distress Harmful "The answer is simple. If their economic conditions improve, economic conditions will be bet ter in the United States. What helps one helps all. Distress in those areas would be harmful to us. Tnese countries are our friends. Mrs. Nixon and I saw that at first hand, in our talks with chiefs of state and on the faces of thousands of people. We must not take good friends for granted. We have not and will not." Nixon and his urettv wife. Pat, received a warm recention when they returned as warm as those received in the nations they visited. Diplomats, congressional lead ers and other officials were on hand when the vice-nresiripnt'R four-engine Constellation touch- ea down at National airport and most important of all to the JNixons their two little girls, ratncia and Julie. ' They leaned over and embrac ed the children as they joyfully ran to them. After shakine hands with Lat. in American diplomats and with senators, including Republican leader William F. Knowland (Calif.), a group of House mem bers moved toward him. "Even the House?". Nixon ex claimed with a biff smile The vice-Dresident and Mrs. Nixon flew here from Port au Prince. Haiti, last ston on his tour of Cuba, Mexico, Guate mala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Panama the Dominican Republic, Haiti Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is lands. Whitman Collection Under Lock and Key Detroit (U.R) The Detroit public library locked the re mains of a priceless collection of Walt Whitman lore in a burglar-proof vault Saturday, and the director said the insti tution was "shamed" by the theft of the poet's most inti mate work his diary. But Charles E. Feinberg, owner of the collection, said, it was "a dirty shame' 'to re move the original manuscripts and books from public view. "Just because some dirty dog broke into a case and took one item is no reason to de prive the rest of the people of the work of a great man," Feinberg said. Whitman's diary, valued at bejkween $10,000 and $25,000, was reported stolen late Fri day. Whitman called his day-by-day dairy his "common place book." It covered the poet's life from 1876 to 1889. No one knew exactly when a glass exhibit case was pried open and the volume taken. Photographs of the collection taken two days before the theft was nf ted revealed that Union Studies Plans To Reopen Doernbecher Portland (U.R) The Port land local of the union which represented employees at the D o e r n b echer Manufacturing company's furniture plant here is attempting to help re-open the plant.' William Gilbert, western di rector of the CIO United Furni ture Workers' Union, said the Portland local decided to raise some money from among its membership to help finance the project after learning that lum ber interests are attempting to purchase the property. He said the plant's reputation of efficiency had aroused - the interest of the lumber and furni ture industries. Stockholders of the plant, once one of the largest furni ture producers in the United States, announced recently the dissolution of the company. Plant machinery has been sold, but not removed. the diary was not in its cus tomary place when the pic tures were made. Ralph A. Ulveling, library director, said he was sorry to have to dismantle the Whit man collection, which will be returned to Feinberg, but stated the library "can no longer be responsible for such priceless documents." Police worked throughout Friday night and late into the day Saturday questioning li brary employees. They admit ted they were "against a blank wall." George VV. Schumaker Services to fie Monday Portland (U.R) Funeral serv ices will be held here Monday for George W. Schumaker, prom inent local banker and business man who died Thursday in Eu gene after a brief illness. Schumaker, 53, was associated with the First National Bank of Portland, and was a part owner of the Scobert Building Mate rials company in Eugene. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE v I don't care what they say-Fm satisfied! . We've just got rid of our messy, old fashioned heating system and installed You don't have to be a teenager to keep up with the times. 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