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Overall Economy Would Survive Short Strike in Steel Industry New York (U P) Busineis and financial experts said today small segments of American in dustry will feel the effects of a steel strike almost immediately but the nation's overall economy will survive a short strike and merge strong and healthy. The construction industry said st will suffer almost immediate ly, oil companies said they would be hurt by a shortage of steel pipe within a week X a strike lasts that long. Coal min ing concerns prepared for al most Immediate cutbacks in pro duction ut the fuel which goes to the steel industry. And rail roads reported revenues would be cut "within a week" if coal and steel shipments begin to lag. "The longer a strike lasts the more people it will hurt," said Paul Babson of United Business Service in Boston. "For the first week or two it will be like a REMODELING SALE Cameras Viewers Binoculars Tap Recorders ANDER'S PHOTO SHOP 212 I. Mi.n Phone 2-5646 glorified vacation. If it lasts two months a lot of people are going to feel the bite. "You can count us among Suez Canal Blockade Rapped by Israel United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Isreal told the United Nations today that Egypt's blockade of the Suez Canal has created an "Intolerable" situation. Members of the Security Council received a letter from Israeli delegate Mordecai R. Kidron charging that Egyptian authorities had officially Inform ed an Israel-bound Greek ship that it would not be permitted to pass through the canal whose custody recently was surrender ed to the Cairo government by Britain. Kidron's letter contained re- i ports that the Egyptians also had seized the cement cargo of the Greek vessel and had insti- 1 tuted prize court proceedings to seize the ship itself. The Israeli complaint asked no action by the council, but it was the most serious charge to ! be brought to the U.N. itself by ! any Middle East power since ! Secretary-General Dag Hammar- ! skiold's peace mission to the Holy Land in April. . Mf-TNE GOOFERS ptaTHC MYTH MOTES LOUIS JORDAN n H N - - I'f l- n.',iu lulv W i. than ioofli rtw -o- Th Exciting MARGARET WHITING r 1 1 Mime r.a wi ' . :. UTtSHOW tr. Nuht 1 ' m- UOU1S PRIMA Musical Trio Music by fUyHtrbeck Three Shows N'iMlf iK those who are going to be hurt," said A. Kingsley Ferguson, vice president of the McGraw Con struction Co. "We don't have a big steel inventory and bus iness is booming. Take away our supply of steel and we're really in the soup. Company Grabbing Steel Ferguson said his company was grabbing all the steel it could get. But he said a strike would start delaying building schedules within a couple of days. "If it lasts a week we may have to start laying off con struction workers. If they can't work bricklayers can't work And if bricklayers can't work electricians-can t work. Ferguson's analysis of the ef fects of a strike followed closely the pattern set in 1952 When steelworkers walked off their jobs on June 2 and steel pro duction stopped for S3 days. During that strike the 650 000 'members of the United Steelworkers of America lost an estimated $350,000,000 in wages and the cost to the nation's econ omy was more than $5,000,- 000.000 in lost production. - Some 1.400,000 workers were eventually furloughed from their jobs in the automobile, railroad, coal mining, and fabri cating industries. Giants of Industry Ready But the giants of industry such as General Motors and Gen eral Electric said they were better able to withstand a strike now than they were in 1952 "We are not fretful and we view the steel situation in very relaxed fashion," said a spokes man for General Electric. He said there would be no lay offs unless there is a long. hard strike. "But if steel prices go up we may have to boost prices on some appliances," he said "Right now our attitude is that we won't raise prices unless we have to. General Motors reported its steel inventories in "pretty good shape." "We don't have a shortage of anything and we don't forese any layoffs immediately," the company reported. GUARANTEED. DIESELS Wllk Tonrirc JlP Check These Exceptional Bargains! '53 GMC DIESEL TRACTOR. Conv. Cab 4 Chassis. 6-wheel 4-71 Diesel. 150 HP.. 5-speed synehro-mesh transmission, 6231 tux., 10:00 x 20 tires, si inch air brakes. This truck has been completely rebuilt in our new shop. It is in like new condition, is an ex eellent light highway tractor. Stock No. 4-497. GUARANTEED IN WRITING $4,950 '52 PETERBILT LOGGERS with Page trailers. 200 HP. Cummins engine. 8421 trans., 803 l-G aui., TimpkenD D rear end, 1 1:00 s 20 tires, reconditioned and guaran teed. We will paint them in your color choice. Two to choose from. Stock No. 6-579, 4-580. 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A rag ing fire, touched off by an ex plosion and fed by thousands of gallons of gasoline, heavily dam aged a pier and a machine shop on the San Francisco waterfront early today. Fire Chief Frank Kelly aeid he knew of no dead. He said damage "might be a million dol lars." ' At least five men were in jured in the .blaze. The fire broke out shortly be fore 11 p.m. Thursday when a gasoline barge pumping fuel into three Tidewater Associated stor age tanks at pier 64 exploded with a "whoosh." The barge and storage tanks caught fire. The flames destroy ed two Tidewater buildings on the pier, heavily damaged the Lorna Chapman is 4-H Club Member For Month o( June Hiss Lorna Chapman, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Chap- 5 LORNA CHAPMAN Member of Month man, route 1, box 268, Talent, has been named June's 4-H club member of the month. Miss Chapman, who graduated from Ashland High school this spring, has been active in 4-H club work for eight years, and and has participated in 28 proj ects, including dairy, sewing, cooking, forestry and rabbits. First Project . Her first project was a Jersey heifer when Henry Owens was leader of the Valley View 4-H Dairy project club. In 1949, Miss Chapman started beginning sew ing, her first home economics project under the leadership of Mrs. J. H. Lemely and Mrs. H. B. Chapman, her mother. The Chapmans live on a farm two miles east of Talent where Miss Chapman continues her Jersey heifer projects each year along with a rabbit project. This is the third year that Miss Chapman has had a rabbit proj ect for New Zealand whites. Sam James is leader of project. In 1954, she was the top Jackson county rabbit judge and was a member of the team which rep resented the county at the Ore gon State fair. She has two does, each with a litter, at the present time. Cooking. Clothing Miss Chapman has completed six years of cooking and clothing projects under the direction of Mrs. Lemely, Mrs. Pete Rosen baum and Mrs. Chapman. She has entered style revue contests, demonstration contests, and judg ing contests. In 1954,. she was a member of the champion cooking judging team at both the Jack son county fair and Oregon State fair. She is now vice president of the Sis-Q 4-H club, and has held several offices in both the pres ent club and the Valley View 4-H club, which became the Sis-Q club. Miss Chapman's four sisters are all club members and her brother, Steven, 9, plans to join a club next fall. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have been active as 4-H club leaden for several years. She plans to become a nurse. pier itself and the big Triple A machine shop on the pier. There were 75-men working the night shift at the machine shop and its drydock. It could not . be learned immediately whether any of them were miss ing. One man on the barge, Fred Witter, 55, Oakland, was hos pitalized with second degree burns. Police and fire officials were checking reports there were six men on the barge. Reports of the fire caused friends and relatives of men working at or. near the pier to rush to the scene. They clung together in anxious groups, hop ing for news of the workers' safety. Witter told fire officials some gasoline spilled onto the water as he was preparing to pump it into the lines. The gasoline ap parently was carried under the pier and to the other side, where welders were working on a small Navy gasoline tanker. The tanker was undamaged despite the fierceness of the blaze. Farther beyond was the Navy cargo ship Whiteside. Four Navy tugs pulled it to safety. , Hundreds Fight Blase Forty pieces of equipment and 162 firemen were sent to fight the flames, which shot 400 feet into the sky and were visible from many parts of the Bay Area. Several score policemen also went to the scene to control traffic. . Ruben Martinez, 30. foreman of the sheet metal section of the machine shop, said "we saw flames coming through the win dow and ran out." "The barge suddenly exploded with a whoosh and knocked me flat," he said. "I got to my feet and ran as fast as J could. The whole thing went up like an in ferno." Harry Edie. 40, another Triple A worker, said he was below decks when the explosion rocked the ship. He said he managed to escape before the pier was en veloped in flames. Two other workers, Al John son, 36, and Ken Simoni, 40, swam to safety. At first they were feared killed in the fire. Friday, Juna 29. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Columbia Runoff Said More Than 1948 Portland U.R) Although the Columbia river didn't get as high, the 1956 water runoff from the stream from April through June was more than that of 1948, it was reported today. The Department of Interior's geological survey said the total runoff would exceed every other year except 1894. Records were started in 1879. Observed runoff of the Colum bia near The Dalles was- about 43,500,000 cubic foot per second-days from April 1 to June 2S. The 1648 figure for the same period was 42,096.000. Col. Jackson Graham, Port land district engineer, wrote a letter of appreciation to em ployees of the Portland district pointing out that there was not one' failure of a major dike on the Columbia when the crest reached nearly 27 feet early this month. " "If you want an OK Used Car, why don't you come right out and say it?'' CARS "La If you're getting some heavy hints on how to go places, better get up to date in a dealer-warranted OK Used Car. The best of your Chevy dealer's trade-ins, they're always thoroughly inspected and reconditioned. Volume trading brings you extra savings and selection, too, at the used car lot with the OK sign. 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