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
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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.
Every time he called the office
and identified himself.he said the
operator would hang up. The
payments he sent to the office by
mail were returned.
After considerable effort he
was able to get a phone call
through to the manager and
eventually clear up the confusion
with a personal visit.
Egypt's cotton exports dropped ;
off about 43 per cent in 1957
compared with 1956. Sharpest,
cuts were in exports to Czecho
slovakia, Red China, United
Kingdom, India, and France.
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Scientist Coins New
Word for Industry
Washington (IP) An agricul
tural scientist in private indus
try has coined a new phrase
Age of Agri-dynamics to de
scribe the link between farming
and scientific research.
J. Jerome Thompson, head of
the agricultural division of Chas.
Pfizer & Co., Inc., used the
Agricultural Research Institute
of the National Academy of Science-National
Research Council.
The institute, a non-partisan,
correlating agency for agricul
tural information, represents
public agencies, scientific socie
ties, and industries associated
with agriculture.
Such a phrase for agriculture,
he said, will help kill off the old
concept that farming merely
means plowing the back 40 or
milking the cows.
Fleetwood, England (IP) The
crewmen of a British trawler
reported after a fishing trip to
day that they caught a rocket
and threw it back. Edward Hood,
skipper of the trawler Gula, said
the plastic rocket was caught in
the nets. He said the rocket's
head fell off and displayed wires
and mechanism. He said they
threw it back because "we did
not risk making a close examination."
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