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.
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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.
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is Day was hospitalized today
with a bad case of virus pneu
monia. His nhvsician. Dr. John Rey
nolds, reported the singer's con
dition was satisfactory, and pre
dicted he would be able to leave
St. Vincent's hospital in a week
or 10 days.
Brian DonJevy Pleads
Innocent To Drunkenness
Hollywood '(U.R) Actor
Brian Donlevy has pleaded in
nocent to a drunk driving charge
and faces a jury trial April 6 in
Beverly Hills Municipal court.
Donlevy entered his plea yes
terday. He was arrested after his
car allegedly jumped the curb
last Friday.
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