SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, May 25, 1955
Ford Prepares
'Package Offer'
In Wage Dispute
Detroit CU.R) Ford Motor
Co. faced with a possible strike
deadline in just one week, put
the final touches today on a
"package offer" to the CIO Un
ited Auto Workers.
The "offer" will be spread be
fore the union Thursday morn
ing after of a VA day recess in
talks to give the company time
to put it into writing.
The recess was requested by
the company to ready its "pack
age plan" for a new wage con
tract. The union is seeking a
guaranteed annual wage, a pay
boost of at least 10 cents an hour,
bigger pensions and a larger
health insurance program.
Neither company nor union
negotiators would discuss the
recess nor the offer under a
"silence pact" which has been
in effect since early April at
both Ford and General Motors
talks with the union.
With a possible strike dead
line drawing close, the silence
has produced jumpy nerves in
Detroit, a city that has been ac
customed to noisy automobile
talks,, fought in the open with
pithy quotes and full page ads.
The Ford contract runs out
at 12:01 a.m. June 1. The General
Motors contract ends six days
later. The union, which has said
it won't necessarily follow a
"no contract, no work" policy,
would be free to strike at any
time after those dates.
The union already has obtain
ed strike authorization from lo
cals at both Ford and General
Motors. But in calling for the
strike votes, the union said over
whelming approval would be
'the best insurance" against
strikes by "showing the comp
anies we mean business."
Union President Walter Reu
ther said less than a week ago
he saw no need for calling in
mediators. That statement, plus
the continued refusal of all par
ties to end the "silence" pledge
has been interpreted generally
as a sign progress is being made.
SALEM, OREGON Governor Paul Patterson tkis week signed into law the bill which makes an
Oregon Centennial Celebration in 1959 a fact. The last session of the legislature created an Oregon
Centennial Commission of nine members to be appointed by the governor and whose task it is to
work with non-profit organizations to stage a state-wide centennial or world's fair in 1959. Seated
with Governor Patterson at his left is James A. Mount, General Chairman of the Governor's Oregon
Centennial Committee who. spearheaded the drive for the legislation. Others standing left to right
are Charles Bollinger, State Senator John C. F. Merrifield, finance chairman Anthony Branden
thaler. Fred Packwood. Jack Flaucher and State Representative Fred Meek.
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1955 Version of Old Folks' Home Found
Doing Much To Help Aged To Enjoy Life
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) The men
and women who sat on the leath
er bar stools were white-haired
and not so young as they'd like
to be, but they were gay as they
sipped before-dinner cocktails.
The setting: An old folks
home, 1955 version.
The scene was the little bar
at the Mary Manning Walsh resi
dence for old people in Manhat
tan, operated by the Catholic
order of Carmelite Sisters.
The faces reflected in the mir
ror behind the bar were just a
few of the 750,000 men and wom
en in old age institutions who
have benefited from the spread
ing theory that a home for old
folks helps them enjoy life, not
just stay alive.
Many Departures Found
All across the nation equally
starting departures from rock
ing chair routines can be found.
Churches, lodges, labor unions,
local governments and private
citizens have built homes of all
sizes and designs in the past 10
years.
They ranged from those free
of charge or based on the ability
to pay to luxurious institutions
where a wealthy older person
may turn over $2a,000 in return
for a guarantee of complete care
the rest of his life.
The problems of aging have
become one of the nation's No.
1 concerns as the life span is
lengthened fjy science. There
are almost 15 million Americans
65 or over and the rate goes up
by 400,000 each year.
Poor Houses Change
Most of them are in their own
homes or living with children or
relatives. But an ever-increas
ing number are living in homes
for the aged that bear little re
semblance to the once dreaded
"poor house."
"The 'poor house' was the gate
way to oblivion for old people,"
says Dr. Murray Federber, assist
ant professor at the University of
Pittsburgh and a leader in plan
ning one of the nation's most
modern county homes for the
aged.
It is a $20,000,000 home and
hospital which will be complet
ed next summer. The building
is designed so that 1100 of the
2000 residents will have rooms
accessible directly to ground
Hope Dwindles
In Finding Little
Michigan Child
Kalamazoo, Mich. U.R)
Police said today hopes of find
ing 8-year-old Jeanie Singleton
alive "are fading with every
passing minute."
The lame, brown - haired
Jeanie disappeared while on her
way home from school Monday.
Her disappearance caused lit
tle alarm at first because she
makes friends easily and her
parents believed she had decid
ed to stay at the home of a new
found friend without calling
home.
Death Feared
But police said they " became
"really alarmed" when the girl
failed to show up for school on
Tuesday. They said they feared
she had accepted a ride from a
sex deviate and he had killed
her.
"I think the chances she is
dead are greater than those that
she is alive," Kalamazoo Police
Capt. Riley Stewart said after
state and local police, National
Guardsmen, volunteers and Civil
Air Patrol planes scouted the
area without success.
Full Force Turns Out
Only a handful of almost
1,000 persons who joined in the
air and land search for the 4
foot, 50-pound girl continued op
erations through the night. But
a ull force turned out again
this morning to search "every
inch" of Kalamazoo county if
necessary.
"We'll keep going until we
find her or at least until we're
satisfied she's not in this terri
tory," Stewart said. '
He said he was directing his
men to press the hunt on the
presumption - the child is the
victim of a sex fiend.
level. Those who aren't bad pa
tients will live in "colony" style
and have a solarium, snack bar,
shuffle board rooms, TV rooms,
beauty parlors and an auditor
ium. That huge project contrasts
with the 46 old timers living in a
Dne-story, ultra modern building
of glass and brick completed two
months ago in Bensenville, 111.,
by the evangelical Reform
Church.
Apartments Completed
In Portland, Ore., an eight
story building containing 240
apartments was completed six
months ago for tenants who aver
age 69 in age. The first ones paid
from $4,500 to $15,000 in ad
vance. They have a river view,
their own theater, a library and
horseshoe courts.
At the Walsh home here there
is careful attention to keeping
the senile or chronically ill from
the active men and women who
are encouraged to keep busy.
This week they gave a Gay
Nineties Review in their audi
torium. It was written, produced
and performed by the residents.
They have instructors in pastel
painting and needlework, a room
for carpentry, looms for weav
ing and weekly movies.
Performers from New York
night clubs entertain them. The
owner of the Copacabana sends
his performers to the home. Mar
tin and Lewis put on a skit in
the small auditorium. Joan
Weber sang two weeks ago. And
when the home's only 100-year-old
resident celebrated her birth
day, Dennis Day dropped by to
sing.
Grant High School Picks
Brownette as Princess
Portland (U.R) Leah Bart
cher, a pretty brownette from
Grants high school, was yester
day named by her student body
as the sixth princess in the court
of Rosaria.
The hazel-eyed girl, who mov
ed to Portland from Albany
when she was four, said she'd
"always wanted to be a Rose
Festival princess."
Her ambitions are to become
a professional model and work
in a florist shop.
Patterson Lists Good,
Bad Parts of Jobless
Compensation Measur
Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul
Patterson, who yesterday signed
Senate bill 465, making changes
in the unemployment compen
sation law, said the measure con
tains several features which are
"objectionable to me."
Worst of the objectionable
features, Patterson said, is the
provision for forfeiture of eight
weeks of a claimant's benefits
in the event that he shall be dis
charged for cause, quit without
cause, or shall refuse to take
suitable work.
The measure which the gov
ernor signed into law increases
maximum benefits from $25 a
week to $35.
Another objection the govern
or raised was:
"A further feature of the bill
is the new formula to deter
mine who are qualified under
the act. This has been increased
from $400 to $700 a year and,
in addition thereto, not more
than two thirds of the wages
may be earned in the calendar
quarter where the employee
earned his greatest amount of
wages. The alternative of 37
times the weekly benefit, in my
opinion, is so high it excludes
many cases that the law is de
signed to relieve."
Good Points Listed
"On the other hand," the gov
ernor said, "there are many fine
points in this bill." He listed
these as:
"1. The seasonability restric
tions, which have been the ob
ject of great objection and dis
pute, are removed.
"2. The maximum weekly
benefit is increased from $25 to
$35 which makes the amount
more closely approximate the 50
per cent of the weekly wage,
which is the aim of the federal
law.
"3. The benefits are now gear-
Heartbroken Father
Grieves for Child
Banning, Calif. (U.R) Heart
broken Roger Deason, 27, await
ing trial on a burglary charge,
asked permission to attend fun
eral services today for his nine-year-old
son, who committed
suicide after playmates taunted
that his father was a "jailbird."
Officials at county jail in Riv
erside, where Deason is being
held on charges he burglarized
a West Riverside market with
an accomplice, George Bell, of
$1587 in cash and $8100 in trav
elers checks said they were con
sidering his request.
Roger Jr., who idolized his
father, killed himself Monday
night with a 12 gauge shotgun,
using a piece of string to pull
the trigger. The coroner's office
ruled the death a suicide and
did not schedule an inquest.
Truman Dodges
Political Questions
Denver U.R) Former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman, here for
a $25 a plate dinner to raise
funds " for his archives library
at Independence, Mo., dodged
newsmen's attempts to pin him
down on political predictions for
the 1956 presidential election.
"I'm not here for a political
appearance," said , the former
President. "Besides I'm not in
a position to prophesy what'
either convention will do. I
would like to see the Democrats
win in '56."
ed to the quarter in which the,
worker has his best earnings.
"4. The base of the law is ex
tended to cover all employers
of two or more. Present law has
been four or more.
"5. The financing of the law
is strengthened to give it great
er solvency under varied econ
omic conditions.
"6. The person on unemploy
ment is now permitted to accept
some part-time work without
thereby losing his benefits, thus
adding a great incentive to
people to work and help them
selves as much as they can.
"7. Employers will be eligible
for an experience rating at the
end of 12 consecutive months,
which will put new employers
in a much better competitive po
sition at an earlier date.
"8. The provisions as to the
requirement for a beneficiary to
actively seek work during this
period of unemployment have
been strengthened.
"9. The tax base has been ex
tended to $3600 from $3000,
which, in my opinion, is justi
fiable iri view of the increased
wages and devaluation of the
dollar during the life of the act
in the past."
Governor Patterson conclud
ed: "Over all, the bill represents
constructive changes toward ac
complishing the - original ob
jectives of unemployment com
pensation. I haye concluded to
sign it, notwithstanding the
objectionable features thereof.
By careful administration and a
close study of the law, it is hop
ed that a complete picture can
be presented to the 1957 Legis
lature and the pbjectionable fea
tures proven and remedied."
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