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.
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