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O 0 SIX 'MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, September 25. 195S Neuberger Suggests Car Lack Be Probed During Hearings Here Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) last week suggested that the shortage of lumber cars which has plagued western Ore gon this summer, be a subject of inquiry during hearings of a joint Congressional subcommit tee in this area 'in November. ' The Medford hearing will be held Nov. 16. It will be one of a series held by the House Govern-, mental Affairs subcommittee on natural resources and the Senate Interior subcommittee. Senator Neuberger is a member of the latter group. In a recent letter to Sen. James E. Murray of Montana, Senator Neuberger pointed out the extremely adverse effects of the car shortage on the lumber industry, and suggested that the car shortage be included on the agenda when the hearings are held in southern Oregon. He listed seven questions which he believed the commit tee should consider. They are: 1. How far short is the supply of cars from the demand? 2. How many new cars have been constructed by the South ern Pacific railroad in the past 10 years? 3. What is the ratio of new car construction to the increase in lumber shipping in recent Portland Doctor Sued for $100,000 San Francisco '(U.R) A south San Francisco business executive has sued a prominent Portland, Ore., physician-big game hunter for $100,000, charg ing his eight-year-old son was mauled by a cheetah owned by the physician. Harvey Lindsay, owner-pres-. ident of the Lindsay Can Co., filed the suit in Federal Court on behalf of his son, Timothy. It named Donald Nickelsen, chief surgeon of Portland Gen eral hospital and well - known as a big game hunter, as owner of the cheetah, a jungle cat re lated to the leopard. The suit charged Nickelsen was negligent in leading the cheetah on a six-foot leash onto Cannon Beach, Ore., Aug. 7. Lindsay alleged the boy suffer ed "deep wounds" when the an imal lashed out with its claws at group of onlookers. According to Lindsay, Nick elsen acquired the cat on a sa fari in Africa and used it for hunting purposes. years? Sees Legislation 4. How effective would legis lation be authorizing the Inter state Commerce Commission to establish a system of per diem charges against a railroad dur ing an emergency if it has not provided itself with an adequate number of cars or is pirating cars belonging to another road? 5. What kind of a program of construction should be instituted to meet the needs of an economy expanding at the rate of 3 per cent per year? 6. What competitive factors could be improved to stimulate those who have the responsibil ity of providing shipping facil ities? 7. Does this point to the need for an exhaustive study of Amer ican transportation problems and the obvious lack of integra tion in this field? The senator told Senator Mur ray his files contain letters from a number of lumbermen "who can offer cogent and pertinent testimony if the opportunity is presented to them." Deer Outrun Cops On 'Red Hat Day Salem (U.R) A footraee between two Salem policemen and two Salem deer ushered in Red Hat day here Friday, The deer won. - - The policemen reported they chased two full grown does from a cornfield on the north outskirts of Salem but the deer when last seen "were headed north over a fence." The policemen were fully armed, but then, you know, the deer hunting season does not open until Oct. 1. Seattle, Portland Coin Machine Men Clash in US Court Portland 4U.R) Seattle and Portland coin machine interests clashed in federal court here Friday when the American Shuffleboard Sales Company of Seattle filed suit charging the Portland coin machine and juke box distributors with conspir ing with the Teamsters Union to keep the Seattle company out of Portland. Clyde DeGraw, Portland tav ern owner, was named co-plaintiff in the -suit which charges that the union entered into an agreement with the coin mach ine men to prevent delivery : of the coin devices to places ownT ing and operating their own ma chines. Charged with owning and op erating virtually all the coin operated amusement devices in Portland were the Association of Coin Machine Men of Ore gon and W. M. Goble and Dan ny Matin who do business as the; General Amusement company. The union named in the suit was Local 223 of the Teamsters Union. Mineral Policies Conference Slated The 13 western states will be represented at a conference on mineral policies, to be held in Sacramento Nov. 7 and 8, it was reported here today. Any one interested in the mining in dustry can attend. The gathering, the "Western Governors' Mineral Policies Con ference," will deal with all phases of the mining industry, including such aspects as taxes. lands and- water, research, mm' eral economics and public in formation. Details and reservation forms can be obtained from the con ference co-chairman, . DeWitt .Nelson, at 315 State Office Build ing No. 1, Sacramento, Calif. Salem Man Heads Bar Association Baker (U.R) George A Rhoten of Salem Saturday was elected president of the Oregon State Bar association. Other officers named at the annual convention here were Moe Tonkin, Portland, vice- president; John Holloway, Port land, secretary, and Clarence D Phillips, Portland, treasurer. At Friday s session, the at torneys heard Melvin M. Belli, noted San Francisco trial law yer, hit out at judges who set aside- jury verdicts in personal injury cases. Belli said use of discretionary powers of the court as a device for reduction of . verdicts in such cases "is a form of tyranny which is re placing democracy in too many court? of our land. lease or rent their machines whereas the . Seattle company sells its shuffleboards to customers. , DeGraw claimed that when he bought a shuffleboard for his Portland tavern from the Seattle firm, Portland interests refused to remove the board he had been renting and the union put Portland coin machine men I picket on the tavern. Head of the Class! g Two Men Fined on Drunken Driving; Theft Charge Filed Two men were fined "in dis trict court Friday and Saturday on - charges of driving autos while under influence of intoxi cating liquor. Two others were bound over to the grand jury on larceny charges. Jack Dee Myers, 25, Shady Cove, was fined $350 and $5 costs Saturday on a driving while intoxicated charge, ac cording to court records. He was also given a 30-day suspend ed jail sentence. Myers was ar rested Friday night by state police on Highway 99 north of Medford. Fred McCann, Colonial hotel, Grants Pass, was fined $250 and $3 costs Friday on a similar charge. His driver's license was taken up for 90 days. McCann was stopped Wednesday by state police on Highway 99 north of Central Point. Car Theft Charged Richard Ray Smith, 19, Parks Air Force base, Oakland, Calif., was arraigned Friday on the grand larceny count and waived preliminary hearing. District court records disclosed that the case involved theft of an auto from Skinner's garage here. He was taken into custody at Santa Portland Engineers To Design Project Portland (U.R) Portland dis trict engineers have been assign ed to design North Hartland dam and reservoir in the Connecticut river basin. Col. Jackson Graham, new dis trict engineer, said Friday Port land was given the job because its engineers were expert at the type of dam required. . The North Hartland dam was part of a $9,650,000 flood con trol project envisioned in 1940 Rita, Calif., by a Jackson county sheriff's deputy. Cecil Robert Thompson, 50, ws arraigned' and waived pre liminary hearing on a larceny in a store charge involving a spinning reel at the Marshall Wells store in Ashland, court reports showed. Liquor Charges Bob Donald Sefarly, 19, of 903 West 11th st., and two other Medford youths, 16 and 17 years of age, were fined $20 and $5 costs in district court Saturday on charges of illegal possession of liquor. City police said they arrested the three at 12th and Cottage streets early yesterday. Police reported that John Ru dolph Alexandro, 21, also of 903 West 11th st., was fined the same amount as the others after being charged with furnishing beer to a minor. - but never built. But recent disastrous floods in the New England area caused congress to allocate money for the work. Two Portland engineers, Lewis E. 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