Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1955)
CIO Woodworkers Announce Goals For Vege Hib Portland U.B L :sing surprise at a wage a unce- mcnt in Seattle by the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, the CIO International Woodworkers of America today annunced its own goals for wage negotiations next year. The IWA said in a statement that it would aim for a pay boost of 12Vfe cents an hour across the board, plus various fringe bene fits and that it wants a contract running to June 1, 1953, with provisions for wage reopening. Plywood and door manufactur ers and the Puget Sound Dist rict Council, AFL, announced Saturday in Seattle that agree ment had been reached on a for mula for a pay increase which would run from Dec. 1, 1955, to April' 1, 1957. It called or a boost of from 5 to 15 cents and was believed to average about 8.5 cents. If all AFL locals and associations in the Northwest followed the pattern, some 100, 000 workers would be affected. The IWA regional negotiating committee met here over the week-end. In the statement is sued yesterday the IWA said, "Delegates to the convention evinced considerable surprise at the settlement because earlier conference reports showed the IWA and the Lumber and Saw mill Workers had held several meetings this year to coordinate negotiations of both unions with employer groups." Talkative Fish Fill Ocean Depths With Weird Sounds Washington In the not-so-silent depths of the sea, noisy fish often make quite a din. Some fish cackle. Others yowl. Still others wheeze, honk, bark, groan, or snore and oc casionally sound like coal slid ing down a chute or heavy chains being dragged over a wooden floor. Whether fish actually "talk" or merely make meaningless sounds, listeners are still unsure. But science pays increasing heed to what can be heard in the deep. Ocean Bedlam Marine biologists, lowering their hydrophones 100 miles off Bermuda, recorded an astound ing cacophony of moans, bleats, whistles and buzzes. Similar au ditions have been made all over the world. From the studies, many specific fish noises have been identified. Schools of snapping shrimp, by clicking their claws together, sound much like fat frying, twigs burning, or in large num bers like a loud buzzing snore. A deep booming may be the call of groupers. A drumfish's drum ming is more rapid, earning the nickname "thunder pumper" for the fresh-water drum. Toadfish growl a low but loud note much resembling a subdued steamboat whistle. "Various trig ger fishes hiss, rasp, grate, or almost bark. The grunts, to pro duce their distinctive sound, gnash their teeth together. Early in World War II, as submarine sound detectors first came into wide use, many a Science Using Teamwork To Get More Out of Money Columbus, O. OI.R) Dr. Clyde Williams, head of one of the world's largest independent re s e a r c h laboratories, says science is using teamwork to get more out of today's research dollar. The president and director of Battelle Memorial Institute here said that the team approach per fected in the past few decades, is the greatest step forward yet made in solving research prob lems. Teamwork brings together many different kinds of special ists to work on a single prob lem. Williams recalled one of his organization's own recent pro jects to make his point. Thomas Edison, he said, spent $140,000 working alone just to develop the first carbonized thread lamp filament and to find the best natural fiber for it. In contrast, Battelle chemists, metallurgists, physicists and en gineers, working in organized teams, solved the complex prob lem of breakage of oil well drill jipe with the expenditure of but S20,000. The problem, he said, had cost the industry millions of dollars annually and was long consid ered practically unsolvable. The entire cost of the Battelle re search, however, was recovered by drilling contractors in less depth charge was dropped on a hapless school of . fish or even on an occasional whale. It be came vital to find out what these sounds were that the sea normally holds. The Navy might well have looked into its own records. In 1824 a Lieutenant John White reported hearing underwater sounds in the River Cambodia (Mekong) in Cochin, China some like notes from a deep-toned organ, other of bells, croak ing frogs, or the twang of a huge harp. Science Listens to the Sea In more recent years, ichthy ologists found that Lt. White was definitely not hearing things. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish of the University of Rhode Is land's marine laboratory played underwater recordings before the august American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science a presentation that made headlines. Experts of the naval ordnance laboratory put together a library of fish noises from both Atlan tic and Pacific, after they found their new acoustic mines were being set off by the racket under the seas. Some of the noisiest ocean dis turbers, such as drumfish and croaker, vibrate special muscles against air bladders. The croak er can thus make a racket re sembling an air hammer beating on asphalt. Sea robins can sound Tuesday, Nerember 22, IS5S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUX S KWX . like a barnyard of squawking chickens. The hogfish simply grunts, but the black whale sounds like a ' cheering crowd and the sea catfish like someone beating on a hollow barrel. Another scientist described the sound of certain South Sea fish "as if an elephant were eat ing a wooden chest." Still an other, measuring the noise level of croakers in Chesapeake Bay, compared their drumming at sundown with the decibel level of a two-ensine airliner. OIL to BURN Low Cost Diesel in Our New H.C. Little Diesel Burning Stoves MEDFORD FUEL CO. Tel. 2-2111 Court & Mc Andrew 30 in. Space King RCA Estate RANGE "Super-size 24-in. oven Oven light, window .Clock control Super-speed unit Dispos-a-Bowls Electric No. E-174. 95 EASY TERMS OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHTS TIL 9 than one week of normal dril ling operations. Williams outlined the plans which research administrators have for increasing the efficiency of research in a recent talk be fore a group of investment of ficers of life insurance com panies. His study is scheduled to appear in the "Battelle Tech nical Review," a scientific journ al circulated to American and European scientists. Here's how research adminis trators expect to make research more efficient. Williams said: 1. Find ways to help research workers increase their produc tivity. 2. Make research even more effective in solving industrial problems. 3. Decrease the time interval between the starting of a pro ject and its completion. 4. Eliminate a large percent age of the projects that don't pay off in corporate profits. 5. Solve, incidentally, critical problems of manpower supply. Companies sometimes find the cost too high to set up their own research facilities for a particu lar problem, so they contract with organizations such as Bat telle to solve the problem. This is called "contract research" and is another recent development to step up research efficiency. Eliminate Deadwood Williams said the day is past when companies boasted that only one in 10 or 15 of their research projects paid off fi nancially. "The aim today is to eliminate, insofar as possible, the projects that don't pay off," he said. Research administrators use mathematical means to determ ine if a project will pay off, and they plan ahead to use only those projects best calculated to be successful. Administrators don't overlook the individual scientists them selves, Williams said. The scien tists are being provided with adequate technical, clerical and stenographic assistance. Psychologists are called upon to increase the efficiency of re search scientists, too, Williams said. "Creativity is a capacity that everyone has to some degree, al though few of us ever utilize more than a small fraction of our latent abilities," he ex plained. Williams told how Battelle tries to stimulate creativity among its staff by holding in- formal group meetings "merely for letting imaginations run wild." Williams said public accept ance of research "is creating pressure for increased research . . ." He credits the journalistic and advertising professions with doing "A good job of sellin science to the general public." Hal Krueger and Al Thompson RCA Radios Ranges TV 237 East Main PHONE 2-2456 We Carry Our Own Contracts Eisenhower Planning Family Thanksgiving Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) President Eisenhower plans to spend a "family Thanksgiving" at his farm. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced to day that the first family circle for the traditional turkey and trimmings dinner will include the President and Mrs. Eisen hower; their son, Maj. John S. Eisenhower; his wife, Barbara, and the three grandchildren. Hagerty said the President was looking forward to a quiet holi day week end with the family. 117 S. CENTRAL Open Tomorrow Night Until 9 PHONE 2-6241 Jp4 skfi yVj JwL.w& toADM WARDS HOLIDAY VALUES ARE SURE TO PLEASE HIM 98 PASTEL SHIRTS Oxford or broadcloth f models in popular solid colors as well as white, moose trom Tive popular coiiar styles. BROADCLOTH SHIRTS Handsome white styles in fused or slotted collars respective ly. Regular or French Cuffs. 3.98 FLANNEL PAJAMAS Fancy print or deeply J PQ toned solid color models in coat or middy 0t0JT styles. Elasticized waistband for sure fit. SKI PAJAMAS Better and deluxe quality 0 ftfl combed cotton knit styles. Also smart solid r color broadcloth coat styles in this range. wwww '-yv'. ' "r ' w - - - T RING IN STRETCH NYLON! RING OUT HIGH PRICES! immmmm V, WAS "gY - X 1 As S 3) 0 REG. 69c Looking for a Christmas gift to give him? Make it stretch nylon Socks so easy on your budget and, you don't have to know his size! They're available in a wonderful selection of rib, clock patterns. You're sure to please him with several pair of these in assorted colors. Reg.; lorga. (
