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Steel Strike Results Alleviated by Large Stocks; Costs Listed w asrungton The seriousness of a steel strike in an election year is only slightly alleviated by the comfortably large inven tories in industry in general. The Department of Commerce al ready has ordered steel ware houses to ship certain types of the metal product only to defense contractors. Some 650,000 steel workers have been made idle, and the steel work stoppage has caused many lay-offs in other industries. The most recent prolonged strike was in the election year 1952. The 54-day walk-out in volved only 600,000 strikers, but another 1,400,000 workers in steel-using industries were thrown out of work. The strikers lost more than S350 million in wages. The total cost of the strike was estimated at $4 billion. Output Drops The total loss of steel was esti mated at 19 to 21 million tons. The Federal Reserve Board said that during the strike the nation s industrial output dropped to the lowest point since the Korean hostilities had begun. The strike settlement provided for a modified union shop. Work ed out at a White House confer ence, the agreement gave union members a wage increase of 16 cents an hour, plus fringe bene fits estimated at 5.4 cents hourly. The steel industry got a S5.65-a-ton increase, average, in steel ceiling prices. President Truman's seizure of the industry had been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Congress had refused to vote the President seizure power. Instead, Congress had urged the Presi dent to use the injunction pow ers of the Taft-Hartley Act, which Truman rejected. Cost Production On the eve of the 1956 strike, the editors of the weekly maga zine Steel predicted that steel making costs would go up about 40 cents a ton for every penny per hour in higher wage costs. Steel went up $7.35 a ton in 1955 after a 15 cents-an-hour wage boost gained in a 12-hour strike. The price rise in 1954 was $3 a ton, after a 12 cents-an-hour hike in wages. Steelmakers traditionally pass on increases in labor costs to users of steel. Until this year there have been seven major work stoppages in j steel since the turn of the cen-' tury. The unions failed to gain recognition in industry-wide strikes in 1901, 1919. and 1937. Strikes in 1943, 1946, and 1949 were for higher wages and other benefits. The key issue in the 1952 strike was the union shop. The Republican platform in 1952 urged "the retention of the Taft-Hartley Act'' with the "adoption of such amendments" as "time and experience show to be desirable, and which fur ther protect the rights of labor, management and the public." As for President Truman's action in the steel strike, the platform stated: "We condemn the Presi dent's seizure of plants and in dustries to force the settlement of labor disputes by claims of inherent Constitutional Powers." In Washington it is generally considered that the strike will not become acute to the extent of causing the government to re sort to Taft-Hartley until after 30 days. Attorney General Her bert Brownell Jr. on July 4 said that as far as he knew, nothing was being done toward invok ing the law. But the United Press on the same date quoted an "informed source" in Wash ington to the effect that a Taft- Hartley injunction had not been ruled out. Editorial Research Reports. Air Control System Blamed for Crash Grand Canyon Village, Ariz. 'U.R) The nation's air-traffic con trol system was under fire today in the wake of history's worst commercial plane disaster, now under congressional and Civil Aeronautics scrutiny. David Halperin, chairman of the TWA Central Air Safety Committee of the Airline Pilots association, said his group was "fully aware that the basic cause of this accident is directly at tributal to the completely inade quate and obsolete air traffic control system." The apparent collision between a TWA Super Constellation and a United Air Lines DC7 high above scenic rugged Grand Can yon June 30 cost 128 lives. Funeral services were sched uled today at Flagstaff, Ariz., for 67 of the 70 persons killed in the crash of the TWA plane. Judge Hulen's Death Under Investigation St. Louis U.R) An inquest opened today into the death of U.S. District Judge Rubey M. Hulen who presided at the re cent tax fraud trial of two Tru man administration officials. Hulen, 62, was mortally wounded while in the back yard of his home here Saturday. A coroner's jury was asked to decide whether the gunshot wound, inflicted by a .32 caliber revolver in the right temple, was an accident or intentional. A .32 caliber revolver was found near the body. Police in suburban Clayton said there was no evidence of foul play. . Hulen presided at the trial of Matthew J. Connelly, appoint ments secretary to former Presi dent Harry S. Truman, and T. Lamar Caudle, former chief of the Justice department's tax di vision. Both men were convicted of conspiring to defraud the government in a tax case. Interior To Sit in On Columbia Hearings Washington (U.R) Secre tary of the Interior Fred A. Sea ton has announced that four bu reaus of the department would participate in public hearings on Columbia river and tributar ies being held in the Pacific Northwest by the Army Corps of Engineers. The hearings were scheduled to open today at Mis soula, Mont. Principal contribution to the hearings by the Department of Interior will be made by Bureau of Reclamation officials. Other participating bureaus are the National Park service, Fish and Wildlife service, and Bonne ville Power administration. The hearings are scheduled for Missoula today, Spokane to morrow, then follow on succes sive dates at Lewiston, Ida., Boise, Ida., and Portland. Russians Plan Joint North Pole Venture Moscow (U.R) The Soviet Union is planning a joint ex pedition to the North Pole with scientists from Sweden and Norwary, Capt. Ivan Mann an nounced yesterday. Mann, commander of the USSR's Antarctic expendition flagship, newly returned to Leningrad, said the Soviet, Swedish, Norwegian expendition will leave for the North Pole Aug. 1. , If you're saving for your independence . . . p- Wf rr' ' I'-, 1 , . . .where you save does make a difference Every advantage counts when you're saving for your "Independence Day." That's why it pays to put your savings in an insured Savings and Loan Association. You benefit by many important advantages. Excellent returns from your money is one advantage. Efficient service from men who know how to make your dollars work harder for you is another. 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Not only do you get excellent returns here, but your money -works for your community and helps it to prosper. This sign identifies us as a member of The Savings' and Loan Foundation, Ini, a nationwide organization of insured Savings and Loan. Building and Loan and Homestead Associa tions which sponsors this message m Life. The Saturday Evening Post and U. S. News and World Report. Investments made by the 10th of the month earn dividends as of the First FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford lll 27 North Holly R. F. Kyle, President StV The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists ot a Judce. a psychiatrist, a newspaper editor, a women's page-editor and two newspaper writers. These consult with clergymen ot all faiths and denominations. All letters axa held In complete confidence. I Monday, July 9. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBU9TS ftXYK LAURA My husband is drift ing dangerously. PAUL I'm just not a con ventional person. LAURA My husband, Paul, har been drifting into a situa tion that is causing me great embarrassment and concern, but he refuses to admit that I have any cause for complaint. Several years ago we became friendly with another family that had recently moved into our neighborhood. We all seem ed to hit it off well, made a number of brief vacation trips together and soon fitted into each other's social circle. I thought that the two women and the two men would be close friends, but I was not at all pre pared for the turn that this re lationship appears to have taken. Gradually, I found that my hus band was doing little errands for the other lady, such as help ing her with some garden prob lems, while she was giving my husband lifts in her car. I am not jealous, because I know that my husband and this woman have real interests in common that would draw them together, such as gardening and stamp collecting. What bothers me most is that people are talk ing, and even saying things to me. My husband resents any sug gestions that I am embarrassed. He simply says that he has nev er been a conventional person and , that his and my friends know him too well to suspect him. I feel that this has gone so far as to destroy my social life and that it may reach tragic proportions, but my husband acts as if I am the only person being unreasonable. PAUL My wife has sudden ly turned conventional and small town one me. She has known that I have always made my friendships regardless of sex and that I am not a Don Juan char acter. I have, it is true, done some work in her garden. We are bofh very interested in garden ing and we have learned from each other. My wife is also a good gardener, and there is no reason except her own touch iness why she should not par ticipate in all this. THE COUNCIL: Paul's glib explanation that he is not a conventional person falls very far short of clearing up this scribed above, he should not problem. If he intends to be as unconventional as has been de scribed above, he should not live, as he does, in a conven tional neighborhood, but should, seek a bohemia, if such exists, where his behavior would not be considered noteworthy. Laura does not help matters when she says she is not jealous. A wife has every right to be jealous when a husband insists cn sharing his hobbies with another woman. By disavowing Honeymooning Pair To Fly To England Roxbury, Conn. (U.R) Ar thur Miller and Marilyn Monroe fly to England Friday on a com bined honeymoon and business trie. The newlyweds said Sunday they will live in a house on the outskirts of London while Miss Monroe films "The Sleeping Prince," costarring with Laur ence Olivier. Miller will work on a new three-act version of his play "A View From the Bridge," which appeared on Broadway last fall as a long one-act drama. Once they finish their work, Miller said, they plan to tour France and Italy. He was grant ed a six-month passport to make the trip, after the State depart- jealousy,' Laura has put herself in a weak position, denying her husband an innocent and per fectly proper association merely because a few tongues are wag ging. Laura has a right to be jeal ous of her husband's time and company, and should not con cede that everything goes, if only short of outright physical infidelity. Jealousy, of course, is a poor word for assertion of rights because it usualy denotes an irrational attitude. Irrational jealousy is a dangerous extreme, but so is an attitude that per mits a husband to choose anoth er woman for his best friend. (COPYRIGHT 1956, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) Read and Use Classified Ads ment held it up during a con-1 alleged past Communist associa gressional investigation of his tions. Open or odd to vow r sovingt occovnt by ----lf JULY 10 J torn interest from " --- "A JULY 1 J Save witfi . Bank T Safety. MEDFORD BRANCH MIMIII MDIKAt BIrOlIT iNSUKAMC! 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