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eany Flans Challenge To Proposal To Hold Line on Wage Hikes Next Year Atlantic City, N. J. 1? AFL CIO President George Meany to day readied a challenge to a proposal to hold the line next year on wages of millions of construction, steel and other workers. Meany, briefed by AFL-CIO economists, was prepared to ar gue that high wages for union members benefited the entire na tion and bolstered the economy The surprising suggestion for a moratorium on pay boosts came from Richard J. Gray, president of the Building Trades departments the AFL-CIO. New Tax Problem Has Just Started Phil Lowry Says The problem ef curing., the ailments tax in Oregon has only started, according to Phil Lowry, state senator, before the Monday meeting of the chamber of com merce roundtable. Lory said he felt the special session of the state legislature had accomplished something but it did not get to the heart of the tax problem. He indicated overhall of the state tax system in Oregon was needed t put the state in leval competition with the rest of the states. He told the group before the special session of the legislature Oregon's overall tax system was the most severe income tax standard in the entire Unfted States. The sesssion was a con flict of philosophies of keeping a surplus and how large that surplus should be, he said. Session Not Justified Lowry said he felt the reason for calling the special session by the governor was not justi fied. He said the governor had asked first for a 6 per cent dis count on the income tax rate set during the regular session but raised this to 10 per cent when he heard there would be strong movements at the special session to raise above 10 per cent. 0 The house passed the bill as presented by the governor but the Republicans and a few Dem ocrats in the senate felt the discount should be larger and the tax rate itself needed re ducing. He hinted one of the major factors in delaying pas sage of a compromise bill was the fact the senate wanted a tax rate reduction while the house held out for a discount. Lowry said the session was called to reduce the projected surplus. He told the group the same men who in the regular session said 10 to 15 million dol lars was enough for a surplus had changed their minds and fel more than 50 million dol lars was necessary in the special session. The basic school fund was in creased from S95 to $105 per census child at the special ses sion, he said. The regular ses sion has already increased the amount from $80 to S95, he added. He also told of a bill which would permit the state to impose tbe property tax only toward reduction of the state debt or bonds held by the state. Up to this time, the state was author ized to place a property tax anytime the budget was not met, he said. The last time such a ta)was assessed was in 1941, Lowry added. Clare Booth Luce Hull Award Winner. New York rtPi Clare Boothe Luce, playwright, one-time Con gresswoman and former U.S. ambassador to Italy, was named today as the recipient of the third annual Cordell Hull award for leadership in building U.S. foreign economic policy. The award, to be presented at ' public rally Dec. 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, is spon sored by the Committee on For eign Trade Education. Inc. It commemorates former Secretary of State Cordell Hull who in 1934 introduced the Reciprocal Trades Agreements Program, de signed to expand this country's trade with other nations by the reciprocal reduction of high tar iffs and other barriers. Previous recipients of the award are Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) and Paul G. Hoffman, former administrator of the Eco nomic Cooperation Administration. Daily's U-Drive Medfn'd A!-nort The moratorium question pos ed an unexpected problem for Meany, who was busy attempt ing to line up support for ex pulsion of the Teamsters union on corruption charges. Gray also urged the building trades unions to vote against ousting the Teamsters. He said it would be "un-American" to expel the Teamsters on "unprov en charges." Would Aid Economy Gray said that if the building trades unions avoided demands for wage boosts next year they would help halt the rise in the cost of living and assure more jobs for their members. The construction industry, he said, was hard-hit by the admin istration's tight money policy and this led to unemployment of union craftsmen. Meany's answer to Gray's plan was expected to come in ap pearances before the union label or maritime trades department al conventions. The AFL-CIO president also planned to address the building trades group this afternoon but his aides said he planned to tackle its jurisdictional com plaints at that time. Resolutions calling for seces sion from the AFL-CIO are be fore the Building Trades con vention but there is little chance of their passage, informed sourc es said. Building Unions Angry The building unions are angry because Meany refused to take their side in a dispute with in dustrial unions over job rights in factory additions and alter ation. But few leaders of building trades unions showed enthusiasm for the wag5" boost moratorium. Painters President L. M. Raf tery called it "taking bread and butter away from building filth ?&fy3i2&ty&H6- oivt J&fci, STL j, J a. n Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS St. Louis The Rev. Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the Commission of Churches on International Affairs, said that in their reactions to the conquest of space both Russia and the United States are: , "Acting like spiritual adolescents at a time of scientific matur ity. . . . The danger lies not in fantastic scientific achievements but in fantastic human reactions." Quincy, Mass. Adm. Jerauld Wright, at the keel laying for ihe United Stales' first atom-powered cruiser: "We in America must insure that our defense perimeter re mains as it is overseas." United Nations Saudi Arabian Minister of State Ahmed Shu kairy, asking U.N. pressure to achieve independence for Algeria: "France has continued the war against the people of Algeria, yet it is a war devoid of the code of war and the traditions of war. It is a whole genocide intended to destroy a people simply because they strive to live their own way in their own homeland." Chicago Mrs. Hatiie Rice, 90, after being rescued after eight years imprisonment and starvation by a daughter who has been found insan:e "I'm hungry. I've prayed every day for a year that somebody would rescue me." tradesmen." Carpenters chief M. A. Huicheson and electricians' President Gordon Freeman point ed out many labor contracts in clude automatic wage hikes in 1958. Bricklayers' boss Harry C. Bates favored it "if we have a continuance of the tight money." Plumbers President Peter Schoe mann and lathers' leader Lloyd A. Mashburn agreed with Gray but excluded areas where "sub standard' wages are paid. New Leaflet Tells 01 Leasing Machines Many small industrial plants have found that leasing of new production equipment is a prac tical means of increasing output and profits, according to a new leaflet announced today by John G. Barnett, branch manager of the Small Business administra tion for this area. Barnett said this is particularly true in the case of owners of plants with worn or outmoded machinery "who do not have funds for the purchase of new equipment. The leaflet, Should Your Plant Lease Production Equipment, is available upon request from the Portland office at 520 SW Mor rison st., Portland 4. Portland Traction, Union Resume Talks Portland OP) Contract talks between Portland Traction company and local 757 on the Street Car Men's union resumed here today. The union seeks a 20-cent across-the-board pay hike. Business Agent M. E. Lien ard said a 70-6 vote favoring a strike was taken Nov. 18 but that a strike cannot be called urtil a 60-day "cooling off" per iod expires Jan. 18. REFUGEE FLOW INCREASES Berlin HP) The West Berlin Refugee office reported today that the largest number of East Germans in four years sought asylum in West Berlin during last week end. The refugees to taled 1,523 compared to the av erage week end figure of 700. The increase was attributed to reports that the Communists plan to tighten controls around West Berlin and attempt to halt the flow of refugees into the Western sector. SHOCK THERAPIST DIES New York OP) Dr. Manfred J. Sakel, 57, originator of insu lin shock therapy for schizophre nia, died of a heart attack at his home here Monday. Sakel first shocked a schizophrenic into a coma with sugar and brought him back to sanity in 1928 at Berlin's Lichtermelde hospital. The 30th anniversary of his earliest insulin experiments was marked by an international symposium in Vienna last September. GARDEN NOTE Pittsfield, Mass. (IP) Asked by police why he committed a S3 19 burglary, a nine-year-old boy replied: "I needed the lettuce." NAVY coach Erdelatz grins as his team scores against Army in annual classic at Philadelphia. (International) Drug Packages Are Being Dressed Up Chicago (IP! Consumer de mand is brightening up the once drab look of pharmaceutical packages. Today's drug items are being dressed up as fancy as a bottle of perfume, the result of a major upheaval on the drug product field according to a survey by the Folding Paper Box Assn. The major reasons given for the face lifting in drug pack ages, the survey shows, are: 1. Shifting distribution .su permarkets take larger chunks of drug store business every year; 2. An upswing in self - service through all outlets; 3. Shrinking brand loyalty, ag gravated by an avalanche of new products; 4. A retail trend in diversification. Tuesday, December 3, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE John Hancock Name Causes Trouble Columbus, Ohio (IP) An invi tation to "just put your John Hancock there" is enough to make a local man throw up his hands. His name is John E. Hancock. Hancock, who claims no rela tionship to the man whose signa ture on the Declaration of Inde pendence made the name famous, said he first became aware of the difficulties about his name when he entered high school. "I went to a' store where my father, whose name was William, had a charge account," Hancock recalled. "After I bought a few items, the clerk asked me to put my 'John Hancock' on the sales slip. "When I did what he told me to, he was very indignant." But Hancock's biggest frustra tion came in his negotiations with the John Hancock Life In surance Co. When he was mar ried three years ago," he took over payments on a policy his wife had with the company. 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