SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, March 25. 1955
THIS BASEBALL IS A TOUGH GRIND For the players, that is, who are sweating
through training drills at Phoenix, Ariz. Taking the tough grind with a grin are these
New York Giants' wives as they sun at a poolside. They are, left to right: Mesdames
Marv Grisscn, Johnny Antonelli, Dave Williams, Don Liddle, Billy Gradner and Al
Worthingtcn.
Measures in Oregon Legislature
Salem U.R) Oregon employ
ers will have to start paying
equal pay to women who do the
same work as men, if Gov. Pat
terson signs a bill passed in the
House. The measure had previ
ously passed the Senate.
Rep. Kay Meriwether (D- Port
land) told the House it was a
.proud moment for her when she
.was assigned to present the bill
on the floor. She recalled that
Oregon was the first state in the
nation to grant sufferage to wo
men in 1912 and that she was
only sorry that Oregon was so
late in passing a bill for equal
pay to equal jobs without regard
to sex.
Rep. Al Loucks (R-Salem) said
he objected only to legislation
on the state level ordering pri
vate business what wages it must
pay.
Rep. Walter Pearson (D-Port-land)
observed that the bill
might result in women being
fired in favor of male employees
if the wage rates were the same
and Mrs. Meriwether replied
that women would take their
chances. Violation of the new
law would be a misdemeanor.
Salem (U.R) A bill to appro
priate money for a new mental
College Bureau Aids
Dateless Students
Berea, O. (U.PJ The date
less swain at Baldwin - Wallace
College no longer calls the num
bers written on the walls of the
telephone booth. He calls Geor
ge H. Smith, Jr.
Smith is the founder and head
of the college-approved and student-operated
date and escort
service, catering to both male
and co-ed needs.
"The way our date-office is
set up, no B-W man needs be
without a girl for social engage
ments just because he'.s bashful,
timid or from out of town,"
Smith said when the service
opened recently.
He and his helpers passed out
questionnaires and got 1,000 ap
plications from the student body
of 609 women and 758 men. The
applicant had to give age,
height, weight and some indi
cations of his special interests.
He (or she) also had to mark
whether he was ((married, en
gaged, pinned, going steady,
available," although the bureau
did not suggest what it could do
for the first four categories.
Students who meet through
the bureau have casual contact
first to see whether they want
to date. That eliminates much
of the horror of the blind date,
as so many luckless freshmen
know it.
"Dating is a perennial concern
an ony campus." said John W.
Addley, dean of students. "The
B-W Student Council is to be
congratulated on tackling the
problem of the dateless Satur
day night.''
hospital in Portland is still laid
on the table in the joint ways
and means committee, despite a
move by Sen. John Merrifield
(R-Portland) to revive it.
The vote against Merrifield's
motion was the same 8 to 6 by
which the bill was table earlier
in the week.
Sen. Gene Brown (R-Grants
Pass), who lead the subcommit
tee action against the bill, told
the committee that he had been
subjected to terrific political
pressure to revive the bill. He
said he knew in the subcommit
tee that the hospital measure
could later be included in the
building program along with
other institutional buildings.
The joint committee deferred
action on a meat inspection bill,
resisting a move to table the
measure because of a requested
$400,000 appropriation to fi
nance the program. Members in
dicated they would withhold ac
tion to give proponents a chance
to submit within" a week a plan
that would make state meat in
spection self-supporting and not
require an. appropriation from
the general' fund.
Salem (U.R) Members of the
House Taxation Committee have
succeeded in persuading their
cplleagues on the floor to recon
sider the vote by which they
defeated a portion of the tax
revision package March 4.
The move for recommenda
tion required a two-thirds ma
jority to suspend the rules and
was easily obtained when com
mittee members who had orig
inally opposed the measure said
they had drafted amendments
which made it acceptable.
The bill will provide for con
tinuation of the property reap
praisal program by county as
sessors. It had been opposed and
beaten because of objections
there would be too much state
interference with nome rule.
Rep. Loran Stewart (R.Cottage
Gove) said assessors who op
posed the bill in its original
form now actually were urging
its passage with the amendments.
Salem U.R) The Senate has
adopted a minority report to re
tain marketing areas for timber.
Tillamook county mills, for
instance, would have priority on
Tillamook county timber, if the
county should be declared a mar
keting area; Clatsop county mills
would have priority on Clatsop
county timber, and so on
county timber, and so on
throughout the state.
- The majority report of, the
committee, on natural resources
would provide that timber in
any Oregon area could be sold
anywhere.
Salem 4U.R) A new concept
in taxation of public utilities in
Oregon has been settled by the
House Taxation committee when
its members voted to set the tax
at 4 per cent and put a two-year
limit on it.
Previously, public utilities had
paid only real property taxes.
Under a bill that will now go to
the floor of the House as part
of the revenue tax program, the
utilities will be charged a tax
on personal poperty at half the
8 per cent rate now charged
other corporations.
LIFE LINE OF ATTACK Communications are quickly
set up by the "friendly" force as they take control of San
Simeon, Cal., beach in mock hit-and-run attack. The "in
vasion" is designed to seize and destroy guided missile
launching base built up by the "aggressor" forces. Maneu
vers are part of "Operation Surfboard," largest joint Army
Navy war game held on the Pacific Coast since. World
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Police of Four Indian States Launch
All-Out Drive to Get Bandit Man Singh
New Delhi (U.R) They are
out to get Man Singh, dead or
alive, and the man who brings
him in gets S2000 reward, no
questions asked.
Police of four Indian states
have listed Man Singh as their
public enemy No. 1 and launched
an all out campaign to catch'
him. But for S2000 or 10 times
that much no one is really
anxious to have a run in with
the most extraordinary bandit
in Indian history.
Man Singh is a fright even to
think about. He is a stock char
acter with black pointed mous
tache. He is held responsible for
403 murders and more than 2000
robberies.
He has an "army" of 5600
men and an estimated 10,000
sympathizers. He holds undis
puted sway over 6000 square
miles of dense forest in north
Cat Travels 750 Miles
To Return to Mistress
Grafton, 111. (U.R) Fluffy, a
Persian cat, journeyed 750 miles
back to the mistress who had
given it away.
Miss Cora Lofton said she
gave the eight-year-old cat to a
relative in Roseau, Minn., last
August, but that Fluffy somehow
made its way home'.
Miss Lofton, who said she had
tried unsuccessfully once before
to give Fluffy away, said she
won't try again.
Russian Sailors Handle
Cargo During Strike
Reykjavik, Iceland U.R)
Russian sailors unloaded oil
from their American-built tank
er when longshoremen, partici
pating in the Icelandic transport
strike, refused to handle the
cargo.
Local Communists refrained
from yelling "strikebreakers" at
the Russian sailors although any
longshoreman would have been
taunted wtih the yell.
central India fom which he
strikes as a "Robin Hood" ban
dit, stealing from the rich to
give to the poor.
Prays Constantly
Man Singh is deeply religious,
for an outlaw. They say he car
ries Hindu prayer books with
him all the time. He risked ar
rest last year by traveling in dis
guise to Akkahabad for a cere
monial dip in the Ganges. The
police knew he was there, but
they couldn't find him in the
mass of humanity at the river
edge.
Man Singh invokes the protec
tion of the money god Hanuman.
He is an ardent devotee of Lord
Krishna, the guide, and of Kali,
the goddess of destruction.
The tale of Man Singh is be
coming a legend. He was born
the son of a respectable land
lord family of northern India.
He is a Thakur, a , member of
the warlike Rajput Caste.
Killed for Revenge
His career as a bandit started
after Tulfi Ram, a high caste
Bahmin priest, killed Man
Singh's son in a quarrel. In re
venge Man Singh killed Tulfi's
brother. For this he went to jail
for six years. When he got out
Judge's Question
Ends Case in Court
Fall River, Mass. (U.R)
Joseph Labrecque, 33, of Fall
River was hauled into district
court for throwing' snow . into
the street while shoveling out
a driveway.
A patrolman told trie court
he warned the defendant not to
pile the snow near parking me
ters, but when he returned an
hour later, Labrecque was still
pushing snow out as a furious
rate.
However, the police depart
ment dropped its case after a
searching query from Judge
Benjamin Cook.
"Where else is he going to
shovel it?" the judge asked.
he went to seek the pardon of
the priest. Tulfi refused to par
don him, and Man Singh slew
the priest.
Late last year police captured
Man Singh's third son, Taha
sildar Singh. Then Man Singh's
wife came forward with an offer
of compromise. She asked for
the release of her son and a gen
eral amnesty for the entire gang.
In return they would surrender
their weapons and keep the
peace.
But Home Minister Pandit
Govind Ballabh Pant turned
down the offer. "There cannot
be any compromise with crime,"
he said. "The menace will have
to be uprooted."
Man, 80, Believed
Oldest City Manager
Jasper, Ala. (U.R) J. S.
Freeman, 80, father of a retired
admiral, is believed to be the
nation's oldest active city man
ager. Freeman, who has been a
county commissioner, city com
missioner and a mining company
executive, became city manager
here in 1953.
' According to records of the In
ternational City Manager's Asso
ciation, Freeman has the edge in
age over all of his colleagues.
Freeman says he has no plans
for retirement, but probably will
stay on the job as long as the city
commission will let him.
What was probably the first
formal plan initiated by an em
ployer in the United States for
pensioning employees after the
age of 60, was launched in 1875.
Farm families devote just
about the same percentage of
their money expenditures to the
purchase of food as do non-farm
families.
Two powerhouses, Moccasin
Creek and Early Intake, utilize
the drop of water from higher
elevations in the mountains in
its course to San Francisco.
Prisoners Building
Streamlined Sports Car
Fort Madison, la. CU.R)
Prisoners in the automotive
school at the Iowa State Peni
tentiary here are building a
streamlined sports car from the
shell of a 1940 Hudson purchas
ed for $12.
Building the car became a
spare - time project a year ago
when prison officials decided
there wasn't enough regular
work to keep the inmates occu
pied. When finished late this spring,
the car will be cameo pink and
upholstered in imitation zebra
skin. Second-hand parts from 12
different cars have gone into its
makeup and prison officials said
the total cost will be about $500.
One-third of the average
American family budget goes
into the three categories of food,
liquor and tobacco, says a forth
coming study of the Twentieth
Century Fund.
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