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In THe Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS ' Epochal news: . Th Ford Motor Company and the CIO United Auto Workers have reached agreement on a guaranteed annual wage plan along with other contract terms. This is why it's epochal: A guaranteed annual wage is a wage that is guaranteed for a year, regardless of layoffs. fPHE Ford guaranteed wage - plan will provide workers during LAYOFFS with 60 to 65 per cent of regular take-home pay. This will be in addition to state unemployment compen sation benefits. This is how it will work: Employees will be covered through a maximum of 26 weeks of idleness. Payments will be made from a jointly adminis tered trust that is, a trust that will be administered by both the employer and the union. The company will pay in five cents per hour per employee for each of the next three years, which is the period covered by the 'contract just agreed upon. This will build up a $55,000,000 fund during the life of the con tract. ' It is out of this fund that payments for layoff periods will be made. more cars in certain seasons than in others, and during seasons when sales have been smaller it has been the custom of the industry to lay off men. What the new Ford agreement adds up to is that hereafter when men are laid off they will re ceive during the layoff period (up to half a year) a certain per centage of the wage they would have received if they had been kept at work. KEEP in mind this word LAY OFF. It is important. It means layoffs ordered by the employer. It doesn't mean just any layoff the employee decides to take for reasons of his own. THE Ford Company's vice-president in charge of industrial relations, John Bugas, says the company agreed to go along with the guaranteed wage plans after considerable debate among Ford officials. He adds: "We think it is significant. -We think our plan will be par ticularly useful in the AUTO MOTIVE INDUSTRY." 1I7HAT he means is that the r . automobile industry has been a particularly seasonal in dustry. It has changed its models at frequent intervals, and while it has been tooling up for new models it has laid off large num bers of employees. People buy WHAT it will probably result in especially if General Motors and Chrysler come into the plan is more stabilized production in the automobile in dustry. That is to say, fewer layoffs. I THINK it will be generally conceded that the new Ford agreement especially if it is gone along with by the rest of the automobile industry is a good sign for the future. It is a good sign because in this modern world sensible agreement is better than war, and strikes are industrial war. Like that of shooting war, their cost is very great. i CJO far, we have dealt here with J the PRINCIPALS in the auto mobile industry that is, the employers and the workers. We mustn't forget that in this situa tion, as in every similar situa tion, there-is a THIRD PARTY. The third party is the general consuming public. I think the ordinary car-buying public is entitled to hope that the increased cost involved in this epochal settlement will be offset by INCREASED EF FICIENCY IN THE INDUSTRY and won't just be added to the price of cars. . Merely jacking up the price of the product to cover the in creased cost of the wage settle ment is INFLATION and in flation is BAD in any language. It does NOBODY any good. Davenport, la. (U.R) A woman rushed into the Daven port police station to pay a traf fic fine and an officer asked, "what's your hurry?" "I'm double parked outside," she replied. Forget-me-nots in , clusters make this the prettiest head and handbag fashion of summer! Simple to crochet bag is plain mesh. Flowers are crocheted all together in a string easy to attach! Crochet patterns 7351: Direc tions for headband, handbag, earrings. Send TWENTY - FIVE cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Department, P O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS and PATTERN NUMB- er. ORDER our 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue. Enjoy pages and pages of exciting new designs knitting, crochet, em broidery, iron-ons, toys and nov elties! Send 25 cents for your copy of this wonderful book now. You'll want to order every design in it! A NkhoVs Worth of 7 Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS Unit id Pratt Fatar Writar Washington (U.R) A cen tury ago, Washington was in a lather over the fact that the bal ance in xne Treasury had shrunk to $18, 500,000. One paper com mented with considera b 1 e alarm that this was "the fall ing off pf more than $10,000,-000." On t h e less Harman NichoU serious side, the Department of Navy was on 1he market for a lot of things. It advertised it would like to pur chase such items as scrubbing brushes, saving boxes, buttons, beeswax (1-4 pound cakes "pure"), combs "coarse and fine toothed," jackknives, thimbles, mustard seed, and corks for bot tles, "the best quality." A Mr. J. Thompson advertised that he had lost his wallet con taining a $30 promissory note and $14 in' cash. If the finder would please meet him at mid night, Thompson said, at the corner of M. and 24th sts., the finder could keep the $14, "and be entitled to my thanks for the promissory note." ' The Department of Agricul ture took advantage of the fact that . Congress was not in ses sion, and therefore taking up no space in the public prints, to plug, four "new varieties" of wheat. The. Hungarian, the Neo politan (south "too tender for the north") and the Saumer and Early Moe. The latter two, the depart mentment allowed, were right fine for the north. They would ripen in the land of the wheat a week or so ahead of the other varieties and would "surely se cure a good crop." Franklin Pierce, the President in 1855. was reported in the per sonal notes to be enjoying him self in "pleasant confines" in New England. The chief execu- Thuridsr June 9, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Girl Scouts tive wrote a personal note to one editor, who was "kind enough" to publish it. "I trust." said the chief executive, "that everything is all right down there. If it is not, it would please me if you would let me know by return post." The papers were great , hands in the old days to clip and print items from other papers. One sheet pilfered an item from Cali fornia, which reported that "a Col. Holly lately pulled a vege table out of his garden weighing 70 pounds which he calls a beet." The ugly mug of inflation was on the Washington scene, and the papers let the folks know about it in editorials. The fact also was magnified in ads. One landowner sort of apologized when he offered a 10-room house for rent near the Department of Treasury on F st. There also was room on the premises for a store or office, the owner said. The rental was $500 per year. A city ordinance was passed, reluctantly,, perhaps, allowing refund to B. F. Stewart in the amount of $50 for an unexpired license for keeping billiard ta bles. "Mr. Stewart," the ordi nance said, "is out of business and doesn't have any billiard tables in his place any more." Makers of Vaccine Get Confidence Vote White Sulphur Springs, W. Va U.R) The six drug firms pro ducing Salk polio vaccine had an. informal vote of confidence today from the American Phar maceutical Manufacturers Assn., which also selected Dr. Robert K. Cutter, Berkeley, Calif, as its next president. Cutter is the head of the Cut ter Laboratories, whose, vaccine was the first ordered withdrawn by the Public Health Service for rechecking last month. The manufacturers group, winding up its 48th annual meeting, said . it opposed "any V For A Fair And Cooler Summer Cotton Undies (Left) The Incomparable BRA-SLIP by GILEAD Free support without strain. Ideal for all-around wear. Sizes 32 to 38 A, B, C cup. $398 (Right) Sanforized Shadow Panel Cotton SLIPS More glamorized, more feminized. $298 & $398 pi 1 I " YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT INVITED . strapless $6$js 1 Be Carefree and Gay This Is the strapless bra for really secure allure. Cups are gently un derscored with wire. 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Parents were invited to at tend, and a potluck dinner was served prior to the ceremony. Piano solos were played by De vonne Prough, Marvi Wayburn, and Beth Wilcox. Julia Latham, Scribe Americans Divide on Pay-as-You-See TV Washington (U.R) The Am erican public, responding gener ously to an invitation to speak its mind, flooded the Federal Communications commission to day with nearly 16,000 separate "comments" on pay as you see television. Opponents and proponents of pay-TV expressed equally strong convictions. The commission's files contained thousands of postcards and letters from in dividual viewers who asserted, "we pay enough for television now. Don't make us pay more." On the other side of the arrgu ment, there were thousands, of individuals who said subscrip tion TV would bring better pro grams and should be given a fair trial. ; ' The FCC invited "all interest ed parties" to submit their views last Feb. 11. 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