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
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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.
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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.
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Hit by Raging Fire
San Francisco ftJ.P.) 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-
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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. "
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