Tuna Fish Industry Charged
With Conspiracy to Fix Price
Washington U.R" The Fed
eral Trade Commission charged
today that most of the West
Coast tuna fish industry is en
Caged in a conspiracy to fix tuna
prices and prevent competition
in the industry.
The FTC complaint named the
California Fish Canners Associa
tion, Inc., and 13 of its members;
one nonmember. Columbia River
Packers Association: three fish
ermen's unions and seven boat
owner associations.
The complaint named Calif
ornia Fish Canners Association
other associations of boat owners
as follows:
California Commercial Fisher
men's Association. Inc., Termi
nal Island.
Five Star Fish and Cold Stor
age. San Dicso.
Fishermen's Cooperative As
sociation, Seattle.
Salmon Trollers Marketing As
sociation. Inc.. Fort Bragg, Calif.
Unions Listed
The unions listed were:
CannTy Workers & Fisher
men's Union of the Pacific, an
affiliate of the AFL Seafarers
Inc.. Terminal Island. Calif., and j International Union of North
the following members: America, san Liiego.
Members Listed . Lora No- 33- Fh.""men & AI-
I nea turners uivisiun, imerna-lnc-
tional Longshoremen & Ware
housemen's Union. San Pedro.
F. E. Booth Company.
San Francisco.
California Marine Curing &
Packing Co.. Terminal Island.
Franco-Italian Packing Co.,
Inc., Terminal Island.
High Seas Tuna Packing Co.,
Inc., San Diego.
P a n-Pacific Fisheries, I n c.
Terminal Island.
The Quaker Oats Company,
Chicago, which operates Coast
Fisheries Division of Quaker
Oats Company at Wilmington,
Calif.
South Coast Fisheries, Inc.,
Terminal Island.
South Pacific Canning Co..
Inc.. West Shore Company, and
Carleton E. Byrne. Esther J.
Byrne. Robert C. Jackson. Lloyd
Melvin Smith, and Edith Lloyd
Smith, all partners trading as
South Pacific Canning Co., Long
Beach, Calif.
Star-Kist Foods. Inc., Terminal
Island.
Sun Harbor Packing Co., Ter
minal Island.
Van Camp Sea Foods Co.. Inc.,
Terminal Island.
Walter M. Longmoor. Jerrold
E. Spangler. and Thomas A.
Thomas, trading as Western Can
ners. Co.. Newport Beach, Calif.
W e 1 1 g a t e-California Tuna
Packing Co., San Diego.
Non Member
The one nonmember, Colum
bia River Packers Association,
Inc., has headquarters at Astoria.
Ore.
The following boat owners as
sociations were named in the
complaint:
American Tunaboat Associa
tion. San Diego.
Fishermen's Coperative Asso
ciation of San Pedro.
Seine and Line Fishermen's
Union of San Pedro, an affiliate
of Seafarers International Union
of North America.
The complaint allesed that the
boat owners associations "each
year in an unauthorized manner
negotiate with the canners to
I fix the prices Daid to their mem
bers for raw tuna." It said that
the unions "then enter into work
ing agreements with the boat
owners 'on the basis of the ille
gally fixed prices, with the
unions retaining the right to ap
prove or disapprove such prices."
Canners Charged
The canners were charged sep
arately with "conspiring among
themselves to maintain fixed
prices which they charge for
canned and frozen tuna and to
suppress competition among
themselves and with others."
Some of the canners and boat
owners also were charged with
conspiring to prevent competi
tion from the Japanese tuna in
dustry. "The result of these activi
ties," the FTC said, "is to hinder
catching tuna in Pacific waters
and in Japan and to restrain
competition in the purchase of
raw, canner and frozen tuna.
The ultimate result ... is that
the public must pay more for
tuna."
Those named in the complaint
are given 30 days to file an an
swer. The FTC said it has sched
uled an examiner's hearing at
Long Beach Nov. 19.
VFW Slates Meeting
At Shady Cove Sunday
Commander Dan F. Krotz II
and President Virginia L. Krotz
have announced Oregon Depart
ment District 7 of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and its ladies
auxiliary will have a fall meet
ing at Shady Cove Sunday after
noon. Sept. 16.
The meeting will be preceded
by a smorgasbord dinner served
by the ladies auxiliary to Steel
head Post 6881 at their post
home. This district is composed
of 10 VFW posts in Jackson,
Asso-1 Josephine and Curry counties
Federated Fishermen's
ciation. Inc., Terminal Island, a and nine ladies
cooperative association of four the same area.
auxiliaries in
FIRST CALL FOR FALL
September 24 FALL TERM September 24
New Classes Are Now Being Organized
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ACCOUNTING
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FILING & INDEXING
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Monday & Thursday
Rain, Cool Weather
Hits European Crops
London (u.PJ Rain and
summer-long cool weather has
damaged farm crops throughout
most of Western Europe, agri
cultural experts said today.
British farmers predicted the
worst harvest since 1912, and
some said it might be as bad as
the worst on record, that of 1879.
British minister of agriculture,
Heathcoat Amory, said condi
tions in Yorkshire may soon be
come "disastrous" while the Sur
rey National Farmers Union said
that country was "desperate"
and that "many farmers are talk
ing of plowing up their corn,
not even attempting to gather it."
Similar gloomy reports came
from Bedfordshire, Huntingdon
shire, Essex, Lancashire and
Wales.
In France, heavy summer rain
came too late to do either good
or harm. French crops suffered
irreparable damage during the
coldest spring months in history,
and the rains came too late to
help new plantings.
Discoverer of Drug
Dies in Hospital
Hamden, Conn. (U.R) Dr.
Benjamin M. Duggar, 8 dis
coverer of the drug; aureomycin,
died Monday in Grace-New Hav
en hospital.
Duggar died about five hours
after he was admitted to the hos
pital. He had been living here
with his daughter, Mrs. John
Adams.
He retired from college teach
ing at 70 and went on to discov
er the drug which was made av
ailable to doctors in 1948, three
years after he began his research.
Aureomycin has been found ef
fective against some infections
which fail to respond to penicil
lin and other drugs.
Duggar was a research con
sultant at the Lederle Labora
tories of Pearl River. N.Y.. for
the past 13 years. Lederle cred
ited Duggar with discovering au
reomycin, but Duggar always in
sisted it was the work of a team
of scientists and that "no one
man docs it."
Boston ;U.R! Arriving here
from Quebec with friends in his
1904 Reo. Robert Harrison ob
served: "Next time we come to
Boston we'll come in our 1918
Dodge. We got a terrible wind
burn in the Rio. No windshield,
you know."
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WANTA LICK? Judy Rifdjerge, 7, gets her nickel's
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taste of her lollipop to Adlai Stevenson as the Demo
cratic standard bearer arrives in San Francisco.
Tuesday. September 11. If Jt
MEDFORD (OltEGOH) MAIL TRIBUNE THRE
Goy. Smith Says
Mental Illness
Is Top Problem j
Portland UR) Putting an
end to the rapid population !
growth of Oregon's mental hos- j
pitals will require several bold j
steps, Gov. Elmo Smith said to- I
day.
Gov. Smith told a northwest
industrial health conference
luncheon here that mental ill
ness is Oregon's as well as the
nation's number one health
problem. He said more than one
half of the total hospital beds
in Oregon are occupied by men
tal patients whose treatment
costs the state nearly $1,000 an
hour.
Suggestions Made
The 5,000 patients in Oregon's
two mental hospitals plus the
1,900 in the home for the men
tally retarded cost the state
about $21,000 every day, the
governor said.
He suggested making addi
tional medical staff available
through a residency training
program, additional facilities to
eliminate overcrowding, cooper
a the research with other states
and the federal government, a
stepped-up social worker pro
gram for discharged patients
and an increased number of oc
cupational and industrial thera
pists. "We are still short of the goal
we must reach." the governor
said. "Each year the population
of our mental institutions in
creases by about 100 patients.
Admissions exceed discharges,"
the governor explained.
Jan Murray Ditches Established Show
In Favor of 'Treasure Hunt Program
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York U.R) What makes
a TV star ditch an established
show and start from scratch
again?
Jan Murray did it last Friday
with his "Dollar a Second" on
ABC-TV. He junked it in favor
of "Treasure Hunt," despite the
comfortable ratings that have
been notched by "Dollar a Sec
ond" (the latest Nielsen gave it
a 12, quite adequate for a sum
mer effort).
"It's something I've been
working on since last winter,"
explained Murray today. "And
I guess the primary reason was
the feeling that we would be in
for much stiffer competition on
Friday nights this season.
Faced Stiff Competition
"We heard that NBC was go
ing to put on big Friday spectac
ulars and that CBS was going to
put on a 90-minute drama show
on Friday nights. Well, it turns
out now that isn't exactly so,
but it was the talk at tha time.
"We tried to get a different
time slot, but no dice. So we had
this thing confronting us and we
decided to lick it with a new
show."
'Murray had some definite
ideas about what he wanted. For
one thing, he had a hankering
for another audience participa
tion show like "Dollar a Sec
ond." "It's the type of show I like
to do best," said Murray. "Peo
ple all by themselves can be
wonderfully funny."
For another thing. Murray
wanted a quiz show that would
be unlike some of the other new
ones.
"This quiz business has been
getting fantastic lately," said
Murray. "You know, it just
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on with a new program and try
to top everybody else with cash.
You can give away $200,000.
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is up?"
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The gimmick, Murray figured
that had been neglected in TV
quiz shows was the old grab
bag idea.
"It's been successful since the
beginning of time," said Mur-
Portland Man Killed
In Air Force Crash
Scott Air Force Base, 111. :U.R)
1st Lt. Dennis Kidd. 27, Port
land, was killed yesterday when
an Air Force T-33 jet trainer
crashed in a field about a mile
from here while on a routine
training flight.
Another officer, whose name
was withheld pending notifica
tion of next of kin, also was
killed.
Kidd was a graduate of Wash
ington high school and Portland
university and also attended the
University of Oregon.
Ten Communicable
Diseases Reported
Ten communicable diseases
were reported to the Jackson
county department of health for
the week ending Sept. 7. 1956.
according to A. Erin Merkel,
public health physician.
Cases reported were pneu
monia, Jacksonville one; strep
throat, Gold Hill and Ashland
both one: polio. Medford one;
measles. Medford two and Ash
land and Trail both one; and
chicken pox, Medford two.
Court Records
POLICE COURT
Fred L. Lentz. no operator'! license,
S5
Henry Alonrn Wilion, failure to stop
at stoo sign. 55.
Theodore Roosevelt Klein, failure
to stnn at stoo 31 En. 5.
Willie Delmer Brown, no operator's
license. S5.
Barney E. Burster, impeding traf
fic. S5.
U1STHICT COt.'RT
Maxine G. Huvinen. overwidth, $15;
failing to stop at red light. $15.
Max Dale Smith, passing with in
sufficient clearance. S15.
Arthur Jeff Kendrich. failing to stop
at stop sign. 510.
George Thomas Stout, overload
S14.T- nn oversize Dermit. $10.
Leslie Howard Morton, failing to
stoo at stoo sicn. MO. ,
Dennis James Walker, no operator's
license $10.
Leslie Irwin Kellow. failing to stop
at stop sign, $10.
Kenneth C. Sutherland, shooting
from public highway. 5J0-
LeRoy Vernon Fellows, falling to
ooerat in richt side of hishwav. $15.
Claude William Dean Jr., overload.
$61.
August Aldon Zundel, truck speed
ing. $12.50.
CIRCUIT COURT
Dorine Virginia Rock vs. Frederick
Jackson Rock.vdivorce' complaint.
Sarah Alvira Moffett vs.. C. Floyd
Moffett. divorce complaint.
Bertha M. Johnson vs. Herman
Johnson, divorce comolaint.
Kenneth R. Wilkinson vs. Bonnie
Lou Wilkinson, divorce complaint.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
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Maurice Lee Carlson. K03 West
Eleventh, and Bettv Carolyn Duncan.
41? Oak. Apt. 1. Medford.
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pick any one of the locked
chests as his prize. And it can
represent anything a mink
coat, an airplane, a cabin cruis
er, a trip around 'the world,
$23,000.
"Or it might contain a head
of cabbage, an ashtray, 1500
yards of dental floss or an in
vitation to a pizza festival in
Hoboken."
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