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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. March 16, 1955 Bi5! Equalizing Pay for Women Brings Objections at Hearing Salem OJ.PJ Three men ap peared here yesterday in a hear ing room filled with women to oppose a bill that would grant women equal pay with men if they perform the same work. The men, all members of the Portland Retail Trade Bureau, testified that they were not op posed to the principle of equal pay for equal work but ques tioned that the bill before the House Labor and Industries Committee as too difficult to administer. The bill has passed the Sen ate. Might Lower Men's Pay W. F. Lubersky said he feared such legislation might tend to lower men's pay to the female level. And he claimed women workers were not worth as much as men to their employers because their turnover and ab sentee rate was higher and the state has set up legal safeguards for women employees that men do not enjoy. He cited rest periods and lounging facilities as examples. G. J. Davis said it would be Impossible for an employer to decide what work is equal. And Kenneth Rogers said the bill might cost women their jobs in some businesses by making them more costly. Discrimination Pointed Out On the opposite side of the argument were large delega tions from business and profes sional women's clubs, the Amer ican Association of University Women and the Council of Re tail Clerks. They pointed to examples of discrimination in wages in sev eral Oregon industries and said the bill would end the "second- class citizenship" to which they had been relegated. Witham Firm Sets 520,000 Expansion H. C. Witham of Witham Parts and Equipment company has ob tained a $20,000 building permit from the city to construct a warehouse at 133 North River side ave. The new shop will adjoin the present company building, and will be used for an engine dyna mometer to test horsepower rat ings of engines in and out of truck chasses, and to build up exchange units on heavy duty truck motors, transmissions and rear ends of trucks. The firm also has the distribu torship for the White trucks and Autocar trucks. Irvin Honey ball, trucker for the Medford Plywood company from Crescent City to Medford, has just re turned from the factory in the east with a new White truck. This truck and another White truck and two Autocar models will be on display at Withams the remainder of the week. The trucks have been sold, but will be shown for those who want to see them. Man Jailed on Charge Of Traffic Violation Charles Wesley Eggert, 24, Lawrence, Kansas, is being held in the Jackson county jail on a traffic violation charge, accord ing to Deputy District Attorney Gene Piazza. Eggert was picked up late yesterday by state police while in company with a 14-year-old Spring Valley, 111., girl, who was turned over to county juve nile authorities. When picked up, Eggert and the girl were riding in a car which she said is owned by her brother. Three other men were held overnight in the county jail in an in-transit status for federal authorities. They were Joseph George Forcheaux, 25, Banning, Calif., Clyde Craig Samsill, 24, Loe Angeles, and Fort Unato Toschi, 44, Madera, Calif. USE FUEL FROM TIMBER PHONE 2-8086 For the Right Wood Fuel For Every Purpose Timber products Company X PAT WARD Favors Said Sold Pat Ward Names Society Playboys New York 4U.R) Pat Ward, calm and confident, returned to the witness stand today and named more of the cafe society playboys to whom she sold her favors for money, allegedly at the behest of oleo heir Minot (Mickey) F. Jelke. The names included a "Mr. Auerbach," "Jack Friedman," and "Bill Harrison." She testi fied that she had intimate rela tions with all three men and that they paid her money. The slim, black haired Miss Ward, dessed in a high neck aqua blue dress with a black collar, appeared much more sure of herself on the witness stand than she was late yester day when she collapsed in tears and forced Judge Francis L. Va lente to adjourn the session. Minnesota Decides To Legalize Vodka St. Paul, Minn. U.R) The Minnesota House has decided that vodka drinkers may fall, but not necessarily for the Com munist line. The House yesterday passed a bill legalizing the sale of vodka in the state, despite warnings that passage would serve as grist for the Russian propagan da mill. Four New Cadets Admitted to CAP Squadron in City At the Monday night meeting of the Medford squadron of the Civil Air patrol, membership cards were given to four new cadets. After meeting all require ments and standards set up by the CAP, Ted DeFord Jr., Ken neth R. Jueneman, Jerry Ross Conner and Barbara Ray Glenn were accepted into the national youth organization, and with the identification card were given the rights and privileges of cadets in the Medford squadron. Training Facilities Cadet members of CAP are given unlimited use of all train ing facilities available, from orientation flights in the 14 air craft and training time in the Link trainer to operation of the short wave radio transmitter on Monday and Friday nights. What the CAP has to offer each in dividual depends entirely on what he will put into the or ganization, officers report. Two training films, on radio operation in an emergceny, and what makes a plane fly, were shown Monday. The meeting was at the CAP building at the Med ford airport. TSgt. W. S. Kist ner, liaison airman with the 9091st Air Reserve group of Medford, showed the films. Log Truckers Seek More Liberal Laws On Size of Loads Salem (U.R) Truckers who haul logs from the forests to the mills filled a House hearing room here yesterday to plead for more liberal laws on the size of loads log trucks are permitted to carry. Phil Roth, former legislator and attorney for the truckers, told the House Highways Com mittee that present overload laws are "being enforced with ferocity" because they offer the courts no sliding scale of fines and no discretion in imposing sentences on violators. He urged passage of two bills he said would apply a "doctrine of rea sonableness" to laws regarding log truck loads. He warned that the present law would have to be relaxed to save a group of small business men in Oregon's principal indus try from liquidation and bank ruptcy. Jim Fox, a Myrtle Creek trucker, said his truck cost him 11,500 and that last year he grossed a little more than $16, 000. But expenses that included S3000 for fuel, $1000 for a li cense, $200 for repairs and $1800 for tires left him a net income for the year of something over $5000, he said. There was vigorous applause when Rep. Lloyd Haynes (R Grants Pass) asked whether truckers would support a plan to put the trucking Industry un der the public utilities commis sion which would then set rates. Truckers said they also would favor the weight laws adminis tered by the state police rather than the highway commission. President Receives Shamrock Shipment Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower won't be without a shamrock on St. Patrick's Day. He received a big shipment of them directly from Ireland to day. The shamrocks were presented to the President by Joseph D. Brennan, counsellor of the Irish Embassy. The same honor is in store for Chief Justice Earl Warren. His Irish ancestry may be in some doubt, like the Presidents, but this is only a technicality. He's going to be inducted into the Friendly Sons here Thursday night. From then on he'll be an official Irishman. It is the solemn duty of all members to dedicate their lives to promoting the traditions and culture of Ireland. - The thirty leading import commodities shipped through the San Francisco Customs dis trict in 1953 had a value of $367,377,266. OXYGEN TAXED Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Atty. Gen. J. P. Coleman ruled the state of Mississippi can tax oxy gen sold by the whiff from vend ing machines. "It's not the same as taxing the air we breathe," Coleman explained. TYPEWRITERS & ADDING, MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 Yon Cata Busy It KILlf aft... Dennis Day Bedded By Virus Pneumonia Hollywood U.R) Tenor Den is Day was hospitalized today with a bad case of virus pneu monia. His nhvsician. 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