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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 7, 19S5 State Department Said Considering Statement on leak' of Yalta Papers Ge neral Motors, CIO Union Open Talk on Guaranteed Annual Wage Detroit CU.P.) General Hlotors meet today with the CIO United Auto Workers union for the first full-scale 'talks about the union's demand for a guar anteed annual wage. Preliminary talks were held last month to clear the way for today's discussions but negotia tors dealt only with the agenda of the talks at that time. The current phase of the nego tions, unprecedented on any large scale in labor history, be gins discussions on issues which pose a possible threat to five years of labor peace in the auto industry. Could Affect Many Lines In one way or another the guaranteed annual wage propos al, principal issue in the negotia tions for a new contract between the company and the union, could affect the lives of almost every American. Unless the annual wage de mand is resolved, the union may call strikes which' could idle hundreds of thousands of work- Man Makes Mathematical Calculations With Beads Ogden, Utah (U.R) Did you like to play with beads when you were a child? Well, Joe T. Shimmamura did. And now he does it for a living. Only the beads ,Joe ''plays with" now are strung on a frame called an abacus, and the lightning fast mathematical cal culations he can do with this apparently simple device are far from child's play. Joe probably is the only bookkeeper in the nation who tabulates his accounts on an abacus, a device as old as the early civilizations of. ancient Greece and Rome. What's more, Joe and his "bead board" can figure ans wers to mathematical problems more rapidly than electrical computing machines. Rarely Uses Machines Joe has a battery of electri cal adding machines in his of fice at an Ogden jewelry firm, but he rarely uses them. They're too slow. Instead, Joe relies on his soro ban, the Japanese version of the abacus. He's so fast that he can come up an answer multiply ing, dividing, adding or sub tracting as soon as he gets the last number in a problem. Such rapidity is not unusual. In 1946, the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, conducted tests in Tokyo between abacus operators and operators of the most up-to-date electrical calcu lating machines. The abacus won easily. Shimamura said he uses the abacus because with it he is surer of himself and isn't under constant mental strain from worrying over possible mistakes on complicated electrical calcu lators. The bead-c o v e r e d boards, which sell for $1.50 to $5, are used widely in banks, account ing and other business firms throughout Japan. In fact, Shi mamura said, even Japanese grammar school students learn how to use the abacus. Learned in Japan Shimamura, himself, learned how to use the centuries-old de vice while a student in Japan. In 1924, he came to the United States and settled in California, where he went to work for an importing firm. Joe was a salesman, but he also had to figure the cost of foreign-made goods, o c e ? n freight, duty and other costs. Since the abacus is small and easy to carry, Joe used it to figure these costs while on the road as a salesman and the novel device fascinated his cus tomers so much that some of them gave him extra orders. That was good enough for Joe. Since then he's shunned electrical computers and stuck to the device that his ancestors were using in the 14th century. First Class BEAUTICIAN Wanted Immediately MODERN BEAUTY SALON 131 S. Central Phone 3-5379 Report Card Forgery Said Vanishing Art Bay City, Mich. (U.R) The fine art of forging dad's name to the report card is vanishing at the Baxman elementary school near here. School officials here have in augurated the '"talking report card." The Baxman educators have parents come to the school and talk over the children's pro gress with teachers. The educators feel this will give parents a better over-all picture of their children's ac complishments than the usual report card could. It permits parents and teachers to work together better in developing children. Students also benefit by the new system because they are marked on the basis of their own adequacies and not as they com pare with other students. Teachers say the old card was an instrument of mental tor ture for children. The thought of their parents' reactions was rough on their nervous systems. Discarded Mower Makes Toy Tractor Great Barrington, Mass. (U.R) Necessity is the mother of inven tion they say a n d Raymond J. Kotleski agrees. Because his young son wanted a toy tractor, Kotleski was con fronted with necessity. The in vention or adaptation t o o k shape out of a discarded lawn mower, scrap tnetal and a num ber of angle irons. The end result was a tractor, capable of carrying a 200-pound load at six miles per hour for about eight hours on a gallon of gas. The vehicle, built over a period of six weeks, is four feet long and 28 inches high. , It weighs 100 pounds and is pow ered by a lawnmower engine which is started by a rope and controlled by a throttle and clutch. The hood has been cut down from a 1940 auto and the wheels are of the stock wagon variety two in the rear and one in front. Dead line Sunaay Classified is at noon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. ers, including many who work for supplier firms. Ford Negotiations Next ' Ford Motor company will be gin similar discussions with the union next Tuesday. The negotiators will have less than two months to work out an agreement. General Mo tors' five-year contract with the union expires May 29 while a similar Ford contract expires June 1. Together the two auto in dustry giants employ 500,000 UAW workers and turn out three-fourths of aM cars made and sold in the United States. Contracts between the union and Chrysler Corp. and three smaller auto producers expire later this summer. The smaller companies are expected to fol low a lead established by the current negotiations. Both company and union rep resentatives said they hoped the issues, which also includes de mands for higher pay, bigger pensions and improved health benefits, could "be settled with out costly strikes. Building Strike Fund But the union is backing up it demands with a $25,000,000 strike fund approved by union members at a convention in Cleveland, O., since the prelim inary discussions. Although the union hasn't spelled out yet exactly how much more it wants, the annual wage proposal was considered the major stumbling block in the negotiations and some labor observers said it could cause strikes idling thousands. The, union is seeking the an nual wage to eliminate season al layoffs which long have plagued the auto industry. But industry leaders said it could wreck many small industries and other, lass drastic steps, are being taken to produce the same result. Orchestra Hired For Deaf Dancers Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) When Aaron Bluestein's orchestra plays at a banquet Saturday night the dancers won't hear a thing. The Society for the Deaf hired the orchestra so they can "feel" the rhythm vibrating through their sensitive hands and feet. SWIM MEET OPENS Daytona Beach, Fla.. (U.R) The three-day annual Women's National AAU indoor swimmine and diving championships get underway today, with 1954 triple title winner bhelley . Mann ' of Arlington, Va., back to defend one of her titles in the four events on tap for opening - day action. The 17-vear-old Miss Mann, a member of the Walter Reed hospital team which last year won the 400-yard freestyle relay and the 400-yard medley relay events, defends in the 400 yard individual medley today. GOES ALL OUT Richmond, Va. (U.R) No one will ever say Enos (Country Slaughter) doesn't go all out for his kinfolk. Slaughter's relatives traveled from Roxboro, N. C, to Lynchburg, Va., to see him perform Wednesday and he chip ped in with a homer, double and a pair of singles to lead the Yankees to a 19-2 massacre over Lynchburg of the Piedmont League. ARE YOUR SAVINGS INSURED AGAINST LOSS? INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ARE OUR SPECIALTY Investments made by the 10th of the month earn divi dend m of the Finf. Your funds, which we invest In First Mortgages en homes are further protected, by: Insurance up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insur ance Corporation. Our substania! dividends help, your savings grow. Combine this attractive return with .insured safety and you have an excellent investment. Open your insured savings account now. FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Hertford 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 4fr 7 Sparkman Claims Plan Being Made To Admit Role Washington (U.R) Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said today he understands the State Department is considering issu ing a public statement that it ' leaked" the papers of the World War II Yalta conference as part of a definite plan. Sparkman, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, said he had heard that the department is planning to ad mit its role in letting one news paper have the Yalta documents in advance. The department was pressured into making them pub lic before that newspaper could print them exclusively. Sparkman said such a state ment would make it clear that the "leak" was deliberate. Printed in Entirety The State Department gave the documents first, and for a while exclusively, to the New York Times. The Times received them on condition that it would print the lengthy texts in their en tirety. The State Department was ex pected to claim it favored the Times deliberately to be sure that all of the controversial documents were printed rather than only portions which might be lifted out of context. Sparkman's comment to news men came on the heels of pub lished reports that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is pre paring to tell the Foreign Rela tions Committee that his own top information official. Assistant Secretary of State Carl W Mc Cardle, handed the Yalta docu ments to the Times. Portland Hearing on Hells Canyon Dam Said Used by Morse To Reveal Reelection Issue Wall Street New York (U.R) Railroad shares pushed today to new high ground since April 10, 1930. Gains in the rails ranged to more than a point with a few stocks showing much wider gains. A few specialties also met demand. In the main list, im provements were limited to around a point. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 180 Anaconda .-. 61 Vz Chrysler 73 Curtiss Wright 22 General Electric 5034 General Motors' 95?s Montgomery Ward 77 12 Penn. R.tR 27 Penney, J. C. 93 Radio 43 34 Southern Co 20 Southern Pacific unquoted S. Oil of Calif 79 Texas Gulf Sulphur 40 Transamerica .'. 41 Tri-Continental 27 Vs United Aircraft 74 U. S. Rubber 43z U. S. Steel 81 Youngstown 79 Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle 100. Utility heifers $12.50-14.50; canner-cutter cows $9-11; utility cows $12.50-14: commercial grade $15; cutter-utility bulls $12-12.50; heavy Holstein bull $17.25. Calves 25. Good vealers $23-25: Good vealers $23-25; choice to S28 or above: utility-commercial S14-21.50. Hogs 150. Choice 180-235 lb. butch ers $19.25-20; one 267 lb. $18; choice 320-450 lb. sows $15.50-16.75; heavy medium grades $14-14.50. Sheep 200. Good-choice lambs $19 $21: good-choice feeder lambs $16.50 17.50; good-choice ewes S8-9. Portland Produce Portland fU.P.1 Eggs To retail ers Grade AA large. 51c doz.: A large 49-50c doz.; AA medium. 49c: A me dium 47-48c doz.; A small, 44c doz.; cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.: cartons. 61c: A prints, 66c: cartons. 67c: B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers A grade Ched dar Oregon singles. 42'i-45'2C: 5-lb, loaves. 46'2-491,2c. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39!,3-41c lb. Farm Market Northwest potatoes and dry onion prices held firm today, offerings at East Side Farmers' market were lim ited to 5 scattered lots of potatoes, turnips, onions anJ Zaster lillies. Poultry,' Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2i to 4 lbs., 30c lb., at farm 29c: roasters, ranch, light hens. 18c: heavy hens, all wts.. 21c lb.: old roosters, ll-12c lb. Dressed Chickens No. l dressed to retailers Fryers. New York style. 41 42c lb.: whole drawn. 51-53c. cut-up 56-58c lb.: roasters. N.Y. style. 42-43c; hens, light-type. New York style, 30 31c lb.:, cut-ups, 42-45c; hens, heavy type ,N.Y. style. 33-34c; whole-drawn. 44-46c lb. Turkeys To retailers. A grade hens, ready to cook. 48-50c: N. Y. dressed. 37-3Bc lb.; A grade toms. oven ready. 40-44c: N. Y. style. 34-35C lb. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 34-4 ',j lbs., 21-23c jip: 5-6 lbs.. 7-19c: colored pelts. 4c under: old does, 10-12c lb. a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to re tailers, 57-60c; cut up. 62-65c. Portland Cash Grain Portland Rrices as reported fcv the TJSDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 eoft white. $30.50 a ton bulk, prompt -delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats 38 lb. test Coast delivery S"4.50-55 ton: Portland delivery. $52 S53: No. 2 Western barley. $52.50 ton f ob. Portland Coast delivery; sov bean meal. $83-89 ton cars, orombt delivery Portland: standard millrun. S41. 50-42 ton cars, prompt delivery Portland: No. 2 yellow corn, $65 ton f.ob.. Portland. Wholesale hay prices No. 3 green alfalfa, baled, f ob. Portland. $38-40 ton, true or rail. Timothy mixed hay, $40 a ton. f.o.b. rail car. Seattle. Portland grain exchange: Wednes day's close Bid Soft white .$2.38 Soft white, no rex 2.33 White -dub 2.38 Portland (U.R) Sen. Henry Dworshak (R-Ida.), said today that the Portland phase of the Hells Canyon dam hearing was a "vehicle" for Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) to announce he would seek reelection on the Hells Canyon issue. Dworshak was the only Re publican congressman present yesterday as a Senate Interior Subcommittee wound up three days of hearings in the North west on a bill to authorize fed eral construction of a high dam on the deep canyon on the Oregon-Idaho border. Morse was allowed by his Democratic colleague, Sen. Rich ard Neuberger, who presided, to make a statement on his bill in which he charged the Federal Power Commission was "preju diced" against federal develop ment of the Snake river site. The FPC has under advisement appli cation by Idaho Power company to build three low dams at the site. Dworshak said the hearing served "as a vehicle for the senior senator of Oregon to for mally announce that he will seek reelection on the Hells Canyon issue." Morse attacked the stand of Republican Govs. Paul Patterson of Oregon and Arthur Langlie of Washington, who opposed the high dam bill, and indicated he would make it a campaign issue. "The place to fight his battle is on the floor of the Congress and next year at the crossroads of Oregon," he said. Langlie cited figures to show why he thought the three . low dams would be better. Patterson said he believed other projects Ashland Council To Limit Licenses Ashland The Ashland city council this week adopted a pol icy resolution against approving any new liquor outlets within 1,000 feet of any public school, including Southern Oregon col lege. The policy would not affect existing licenses, but in the fu ture would favor licenses in the central business district rather than in outlying areas. The council also considered the possibility of increasing rates for municipal electrical service, but the proposals will be given further study. W. E. Bartelt was named city recorder, effective April 18. He succeeds John Austin, who lost the job because, he was absent from work longer than statute permits. Bartelt will serve until after the general election of 1956. He has been manager of the insurance and loan depart ment of Selby Chevrolet comp any for the past five years. The section of the country with the largest proportion of older persons is New England, although many older people have settled in both California and Florida in recent years. should get priority. The governors and Morse were followed by a large number of witnesses for and against the project. Many who could not be heard left written statements with the subcommittee. The hearings started in Boise Monday, moved to Lewiston, Ida., that afternoon and to Pasco, Wash., Tuesday. Porland (U.R) Hells Canyon dam hearings were -halted here briefly yesterday afternoon when a witness collapsed and died shortly after he testified. Winford Thompson, 60, of Otis, was rushed to Emanuel hospital -where he was pro nounced dead on arrival. Thompson had just returned to his chair after testifying against the proposed federal 'dam on the Sriake river when he couapsea. ne was a past masici of the North Lincoln county Grange employed at Benson Ac counting Company, Oceanlake. Airport Manager Building Own Plane Paulus Valley, Okla. (U.R) Charley Davis, local airport man ager, is carrying the "do-it-yourself" craze a little farther than most men who like to tinker he's building his own airplane. Davis has designed a midget plane 14Vi feet long and weigh ing about as much as three average-sized men. He calls his pet "Little Monster." The project is a result of three years of spare time work. Davis said he can roll his tiny plane around with one hand and it rolls right under the wing of an average light plane. Its wing span is 17 feet and it is powered by a 75-horsepower en gine. "I've been building things all my life," the genial .manager said. "When I got into this fly ing business, I decided I would build an airplane." CLOSED ON SUNDAY Portland (U.R) The Port land Used Car Dealers Associa tion last night voted 18 to 10 in favor of remaining closed on Sunday. 50,000 Shares This new issue of Convertible Preferred Stock is being sold to the general oublic by the investment bankers listed below. The offering is made only by means of the Prospectus. California-Pacific Utilities Company 5 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock ($20 Par Value) Price $20.00 per share A prospectus describing these shares plus accrued dividends from March 15, 1955 and the company's business will gladly be furnished to you by any of the following underwriters qualified to do business in this state. First California Company Sutro & Co. Lester, Ryons & Co. Brush Slocumb & Co., Inc. McAndew & Co. Incorporated Bingham, Walter & Hurry, Inc. Davis, Skaggs & Co. Lawson, Levy & Williams Irving Lundborg & Co. Pacific Northwest Company J. S. Strauss & Co. Wagenseller & Durst, Inc. Wulff, Hansen & Co. April 7, 1955 Tm ILACIFIC IvlORTHWEST CoMPAp EDMUND HASS, Manager Medford Hotel Lobby. ' , Telephone 2-8379 SEATTLE . SPOKANE . PORTLAND . TACOMA . ABERDEEN ElllNGHAM . EUGENE MEDFORD WENATCHEE . YAKIMA Examples are SET. . . ...NOT SPOKEN Looks like his dad .. . Walks like his dad . . , . Acts like his dad... Chances are, he'll grow up to think like his dad. For Pop's the hero '. .'. and the way he does things, the way he acts, is "the right way. Think of that next time you're tired when it's tune to go to church or Light their life with faith synagogue ... and you'd like to grab forty extra winks. You can't blame him, years from now, if he hasn't faith in God ... in life ... in himself. . . if you haven't shown him where to look fork. IIINO f HEM TO WOlSHtf fMIS WIEK Contributed to the Religion In American Life Program by Medford Mail Triburn
