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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1955)
Strike Threatened At Firm Making Polio Vaccine Detroit UR Parke, Davis Co. and union officials met to day in an effort to head off a threatened strike which would cut off a major supply of Salk " vaccine. The talks were broken off last week when an official of Local 176 of the CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic "Workers union charged the company with refusing to bargain in good faith. Vaccine on Order The National foundation of In fantile Paralysis ordered 60 per cent of the 18,000,000 cubic cen timeters of the vaccine -needed for its "no charge" program this year from Parke, Davis and Eli, Lilly & Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., the firrns major producers among six firms licensed to manufac ture the vaccine. The union, which represents 2,000 Parke, Davis production workers, has filed a 60-day no tice of contract termination but has set no date for a strike vote. It seeks a 10-15 cent hourly pay increase and reclassification of jobs. Company officials said pro duction of the vaccine and other pharmaceuticals is proceeding without interruption but a strike would cut off the production. Proposal Discussed Representatives of both sides met with federal and state media tors to discuss a company pro posal which the union has term ed "unfair." Harold K. Daniels, director of personnel relations for. the firm, called the company offer, which included an improved pension plan and a three-and-a-half to four-and-a-half cent hourly wage increse, "the most liberal pro posal we've ever been able to offer our employees." Representatives of both the company and the union said they would seek a peaceful settlement of the issue in order to avoid any interruption of the vaccine production. PUBLISHER CRITICAL Rochester, N.'Y. U.R) Newspaper Publisher Frank E. Gannett, who suffered a broken vertebra in a fall recently, was reported in critical condition to day at Highland, Hospital. 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Churchill Ends Sicily Vacation London (U.R) Sir Winston Churchill impatient to return to the political wars, ended his Sicilian vacation today and headed, home to help out Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the impending British elections. The 80-year-old statesman left Cantania, Sicily, by private plane to fly back to London. On his way to Catania Air port, Churchill stopped over at a British military cemetery a mile from Syracuse to pay his respects to soldiers killed in the Allied landing in Sicily in 1943. ' Churchill,' accompanied by Lady Churchill, stood silent and bareheaded before the graves and then laid a laurel wreath on one of the tombs in the bright sunshine. Then he returned to his car to continue to Catania. With him were three pictures painted dur ing his vacation. They were a general yiew of the peninsula city of Syracuse, a view of rope makers at work in an ancient grotto and a characteristic old Sicilian farmhouse. Eden, who succeeded Chur chill three weeks ago, was fight ing what politicians concede will be a close contest. Brookings Accident Kills One, Hurts Four . Brookings, Ore. (U.R) Mrs. Mildred Molino, about 50, of Brookings, was killed and four other persons including her hus band, Roy, were seriously in jured in an auto crash two miles south of here Sunday. The injured included Emile Stienhauer- of Brookings and Ernest Ellis and Clay Vaughn of Crescent City, Calif. The two California men were in a sec ond car involved in the crash. Dead line for Sunday classified Is noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousdav 3 Like Harriet Nelson, you can depend on Hotpoint to guard your favorite foods, and to have them ready for you fresh, appetizing, delicious when you want them. This model quickly freezes 75 lbs.j safely stores up to 602 lbs. See it soon. Actress Susan Hay ward Fails In Suicide Attempt; To Recover Hollywood (U.P.) Actress Susan Hayward attempted sui cide early today by gulping sleeping pills and was taken un conscious to Cedar of Lebanon Hospital where attendants said she would recover. Detectives were summoned to the star's house after a frantic telephone call from the actress' mother, Mrs. Ellen Marrenner. They found Miss Hayward, 35, sprawled on her living room floor. A movie script, "I'll Cry Tomorrow," based on the life of singer Lillian Roth, was found by her side. Detective G. W. Wilkerson said, "If she hadn't gotten treat ment right away she would have been a goner. She was really out when we got to her." Divorced Last Year Valley Division Police Head quarters listed the incident as "attempted suicide" and said "there was no melodrama here; Investigating officers s a i d there was "no indication of do mestic strife" despite reports of friends that Miss Hayward and her ex-husband, actor Jess Bar ker, recently quarreled over cus tody arrangements of their twin sons. The couple was divorced last year. Friends said the two met last Sunday in an attempt to iron out differences over the children. Barker reportedly "blew up" at the session. Miss Hayward was quoted as saying, "We are two diametrically opposed people. In the past when we have been alone, violence has resulted." Detective Charles Glazer said he got Mrs. Marrenner's call at 2:30 a.m. (PST). She said she had received a call from her daughter, telling her she was taking her life. Glazer said Mrs. Marrenner said "My daughter is Susan Hay ward and I'm afraid she is going to commit suicide. She called me and told me 'Don't worry mother, you will be taken care ot:v Detectives Kenneth Browndell and Wilkerson sped to Miss Hay- ward's Coldwater Canyon home. When no' one answered, they broke in a patio door and found the actress in the living room, She was taken to North Holly wood Receiving Hospital and then transferred to ; Cedars of Lebanon. A doctor said her heart and pulse "are good" and that she would "sleep off" the effects soon. Attendants said Miss Hayward regained consciousness shortly before 7 a.m. "and is resting com fortably." Police said they found the ac tress curled on the floor, dressed in a . quilted white house coat and powder blue pajamas decor ated with red hearts. In the bath room were two empty bottles, one a prescription for a sedative and the other labeled "bellade nal." Her twin boys were asleep up stairs, as were three servants. She married the 35-year-old Barker in 1944, and separated from him several times before the marriage finally ended. Miss Hayward was born as Edith Marrenner, daughter of a wire chief with the Brooklyn Transit Company. 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