DAMAGED CEILING is cited among other specifications in is
suance Dy New York authorities of warrant for arrest of Singer
Jeanette MacDonald on charge of failing to keep converted
rooming house in proper repair for tenants. (International)
Italian Teachers
Demand More Pay
Rome (U.R) Premier
Mario Sctlba threatened emer
gency measures today to end a
nationwide schoolteacher strike
in time for final examinations.
The strike, now in its fourth
day, left 1,500,000 intermediate
and high school students in doubt
as to their final grades.
Examinations are scheduled
to begin tomorrow, and accord
ing to the Italian constitution,
only teachers can make final
"classification" of students un
less Parliament changes the law.
Scelba's government has
threatened to use the last test
given as the basis of the final
grade or to run in school prin
cipals and other supervisory per
sonnel to give the final exams
to the students.
Scelba postponed his depar
ture for Sicily to join the cam
paign for Sunday's regional elec
tions so that he could confer
with members of his cabinet on
the school crisis.
They stood firm against the
demands of 91,600 teachers for
virtually doubled paychecks. The
teachers now average S80 a
month.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday lor
Monday, other davs 5:30 orevious dav
Butler-Shivers
Rift Continues
Washington (U.R) The new
found harmony between Demo
cratic National Chairman Paul
M. Butler and Texas Gov. Allan
Shivers may hit a sour note next
month.
Butler is going to Texas for a
series of fund-raising dinners and
party meetings June 14-18. But,
he won't see Shivers with whom
he had a harmony meeting here
recently.
According p the governor,
Butler will be running around
with the wrong crowd on his
Texas visit.
Butler will be there under the
auspices o fthe Democratic Ad
visory Council of Texas, Mrs.
Hilda Wienert, the national com
mitteewoman, and the Young
Democratic Clubs of Texas.
They are so-called '"Loyalists"
who stuck with the Stevenson
Sparkman ticket in the 1952
presidential race while Shivers
bolted to the Republican banner
of Eisenhower and Nixon.
The advisory council is a group
set up by former Democratic Na
tional Chairman Stephen A.
Mitchell to work in the state
after Shivers and Wright Mor
row, then the national commit
teeman, endorsed the Republican
ticket.
SCIENCE AT WORK
ly DCLOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) A scien
tific authority on nutrition con
fesses that science isn't doing
much to help America get thin
and stay thin he seems to think
America may be doomed to
getting fatter and fatter.
The trouble is in the way we
live. Now, take television. It is
getting so that no one looks at
television without eating or
drinking something at the same
time. It is a "conditioned re
flex." .
And more and more, we never
waich anything a movie, a
baseball game, or the splendors
of nature without adding to
our nutrition. We're acquiring
all sorts of reflexes conditioned
toward fat.
Dr. George H. Berryman, pro
fessor of nutrition at the Uni
versity of Illinois and director
of clinical investigation of the
Abbott Laboratories, suggests
that many fat people are victims
of a "spectator disease."
They watch other people do
things and eat at the same time.
If they themselves were doing
things, they couldn't eat at the
same time. But this is "the age
of ease, of avoidance of effort."
Exercise Needed
"Moving stairs, electrical
household gadgets, convenient
transportation, easy payment
plans (for automobiles in par
ticular) all favor the least ex
penditure of effort, he con
tinued. "In those who are middle-aged
nd beyond, the mis
taken belief that avoidance of
even slight exertion favors
intact coronaries contributes to
an ever-increasing physiologic
surplus of calories."
It is this "decreased activity"
which helps people get fatter
?nd fatter. And what helps a lot.
too, is that "eating and drink
ing are popular because we
'feel good' afterward.
"We are less fatigued, less
worried, ana more capable of
coping with problems after hav
ing eaten," he said. "Frustra
tions and disappointments are
less keen after satisfying the ap
petite. Food seems to provide re
lief from stress, and from dis
turbing emotions. Food is often
the means of transports from
reality."
But perhaps the biggest trou
ble is that America has a lot of
food and it is easy to get that,
and the fact that food has "an
apparent harmlessness."
Fat Alibi
"When food is difficult to ob
tain, obesity is not a major
problem," he said. "Besides
these factors which invite in
dulgence, the type of food used
for enjoyment, release or relax
ation purposes is all too fre
quently high in calories, low in
bulk, and, being highly refined,
low in protective and tissue
building nutrients. These fac-
Why aren't the
Trucks KolflBfig?
For the first time in 20 years the trucks of Oregon's motor freight industry
have ground to a halt. They have been stopped by the action of a few Team
ster Union officials.
The beleaguered trucking industry wants Oregon citizens including our em
ployees, with whom we have no quarrel, and our shippers, whose battle we
are fighting to know WHY we chose to stop in our tracks, stand and fight.
The demands which the Western Conference of Teamster officials have been
insisting that we "accept as presented" are 45 in number. Wages alone have
not been the main issue. Included are the deadly "hot cargo" and "picket
line" provisions that would turn every common carrier truck line into a union
tool against any business with which any union may have a dispute. The "hot
cargo" clause for example would mean that we would be unable to haul any
commodities that union officials chose to list as "unfair"!
Some not all of the other demands are:
26 cents per hour increase over a three year contract
10 cents per hour pension plan
33 13 increase in subsistence pay (from present $4.50
per day)
Increase in paid vacations
Increase in paid holidays (from 6 to 8)
Premium pay for city work before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m.
Premium pay for driving certain types and combinations
of vehicles
Putting an extra man on semi-trailers whether needed
or not
Etc., etc., etc.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g-h.
What does this mean to you?
Please bear in mind that from SO to 62 cents of every dollar of revenue re
ceived by motor carriers are paid out to their employees in wages. While the
effect of these demands would to some extent be different with each motor
carrier, it has been computed that the DIRECT cost to the employer would,
on the average, be over 80 cents an hour, with indirect costs adding to that
amount. This would mean, as a conservative estimate, that at least a 30
increase in motor freight rates would be needed to enable the industry to
absorb the cost of these demands. Please bear in mind also that the "picket
line" and "hot cargo" provisions would place Oregon businesses at the mercy
of the Teamster Union agents.
Because business cost increases are inevitably passed on to the consumer, en
your behalf we have an obligation to resist these demands with all our re
sources. And we feel an equal obligation to our employees. If we art to be .
able to continue to pay them a fair wage, run our companies in such a manner
that their future job security is assured in fact, if we are to stay in busi
ness we must resist these demands.
TRUCK OPERATORS
LEAGUE OF OREGON
Representing 44 Oregon Common Carriers who haul 95 of the
Common Carrier Freight in the state.
tors all favor a steadily posi
tive balance of energy input
over output."
All this forms our alibi for
getting fat and staying that way.
Dr. Berryman did not accept
the alibi, but he saw that weight
reducing was tough business.
"Long term reduction is al
most impossible in this the 20th
century without deliberate
pitching caloric intake at a low
er level than social custom and
unconscious motivation often
demand," he acknowledged.
There has to be a "negative
caloric balance" if people are to
reduce. To establish one, the re
ducing routine has to be "tolera
ble." This, he continued, is "im
portant not only to assure
weight reduction without irri
ability and personality change,
but also to avoid self defeat due
to physical weakness and con
sequent inactivity."
Therefore, he advised reduc
ing but reducing slowly to
choose "the long pull over the
short haul."
Investigators Probe
Alaska Barracks Ashes
Big Delta, Alaska tU.R)
Army investigators today probed
the ashes of an Alaska Commu
nications System barracks where
four soldiers died when flames
swept the structure early yes
terday. A military spokesman said
six other soldiers quartered in
the barracks escaped safely from
the fire. Bodies of all four dead
soldiers were recovered.
Names of the victims were be
ing withheld pending notifica
tion of next of kin.
All-Day Festival
Of Dairy Foods
Slated Tomorrow
Jackson county producers, dis
tributors and processors of dairy
products will open June Dairy
month with an all-day Dairy
Foods Festival at Hubbard-Wray
showroom, 25 South Riverside,
ave., tomorrow. The public is
invited.
Starting at 10 a.m. and until
9 p.m., there will be dozens of
foods made from local dairy
products shown, demonstrations"
of preparing various dishes, ex
hibits of antique and modern
dairy equipment, and color
slides of life on the modern
dairy farm.
Dairy products will be given
as prizes, and flavored milk will
be served visitors by Edith Her
ron, nutritionist of the Oregon
Dairy council, Portland.
Other Features
Included in exhibits will be
paintings of dairy farm scenes
by members of the Southern
Oregon Society of Artists, and
photographs. Entertainment will
be staged by Guillermo Domin
quez, South American exchange
student, and Jim Baker, well
known young Medford singer.
The South American student, a
native of Cali, Colombia, lives
with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Birds
eye and attends Crater High
school.
The Dairy Foods festival is
sponsored and arranged by the
auxiliary of the Milk Producers
league. Glenn Lay, executive
secretary for the State Dairy
commission, will act as host.
Tuesday, May 31, 19SS
MEDFORD (OKOOH) MAIL TRIBUNE SETHI
Missing Golf Ball Found;
Man Made Hole in One
Hongkong (U.R) A British
army officer in Hongkong re
cently shot the longest hole-in-one
ever scored in this colony.
Lt. S. M. Ireland of the Essex
Regiment belted his drive over
the brow of the fairway in the
direction of the green, which is
not visible from the tee.
When he and his opponent, a
fellow regiment officer -approached
the green they couldn't
find the ball.
Eventually they found it in
the cup, 305 yards from the tee.
Pamphlet Advises
Baby Sitters on Fire
Waterloo (U.R) Fire Chief
Ray Tiller stocks his stations
with pamphlets to instruct baby-sitters
what to do in case of
a fire.
Tiller said the first responsi
bility of the sitter is to get chil
dren to safety and then report
the fire.
He said that of the 11,000 per
sons who die in fires each year,
about 2,000 are children five
years old or younger. He said
the reason is the child's helpless
ness and also his inquisitiveness
and lack of fear.
The auxiliary plans to make
recipes of all foods served avail
able for visitors. Several 4-H
club girls under the direction of
Jean Brooks, will demonstrate
the preparation of various
dishes.
In conjunction with the festi
val, a short parade will be held
in Medford at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
US Farm Real Estate
Worth $91,300,000,000
Washington (U.R) The na
tion's farm real estate, land and
buildings, was worth an estimat
ed $91,300,000,000 on March 1,
the Agriculture department re
ported today.
The estimated figure, set by
the department, was $2,000,000.
000 greater than a year ago. But
the total market value was $2,
400.000,000 under the record
peak in March, 1952.
Alaska has maintained its own
National Guard since 1949.
REVISION
East Lansing, Mich. (U.R)
"Blind as a bat'" is not an apt
description, according to Donald
W. Hayne, Michigan State Col
lege zoologist and research spec
ialist on pests. He said bats have
keen vision.
BOW AND ARROW
Cheyenne, Wyo. (U.R) A spe
cial seven-day open season for
archers on deer and antelope has
been set in Wyoming to precede
the hunting season for those who
must do their stalking with a
gun.
Dead line for Sunday Classified to
at noon Saturday.
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