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t o o o O O o o o o O FOUWTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Truck Lines Cannot IHIonor 'EKiot Cargo' Clause To Public Detriment, DCC Mes v ashington U, The Inter state Commerce Commission ruled today that truck lines can not shirk their legal obligation to serve the public in order to honor a "hot cargo" cluse in a labor union contract. In a major rulinz. the ICC held that it has no authority to pass on the legality of the con- troversail "hot cargo" clausess EAGLE POINT School To Present Program O By LAURA A. McFALL Eagle Point The primary de partment of the Eagle Point ele mentary school will present its Christmas program at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19. in the ele mentary school gym. Q The theme of the program is 'Tmding Christmas." This is the story of two children in search of the meaning of Christmas. Eadcroom is portraying in pan Otomine and song, a different as pect of Christmas. The teachers expressed their gratitude to Mrs. Ray Chamber () lain, the accompanist and extend an invitation to everyone to at tend the program. Clarence Webster returned to his home Tuesday, Dec. 17, fol lowing confinement at the Sacred heart hospital for the past few days. He 'jives at the Lester Mc Fall home. The Eagle Point Community Bible church missionary Christ mas meeting will be held Dec. 19 at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Dave Kahl, 330 South B st. On Friday. Dec. 20, any wom en who wish should go to the home of Mrs. Edward Chamber lain to help prepare the treats for the Christmas gathering. They will meet at 1 p.m. The Eagle Point Community ible church Christmas program Sill be held Sunday night, Dec. $2. at 7:30 p.m. The public is in- ite. Rehersal for the Sunday school roram will be held on Wednes ity fct 3:15 p.m. and dress re tertal will be held Friday, Dec. $0, t t:45 p.m. h Pink and Blue shower was ,,iven in honor of Mrs. Joaquin Weding at her honje with the following guests attending. JSdesdames Herman Higday, Gus jU CLUB fl NEWS The Antelope 4-H Cooking club met at Nyla Murray's home on Dec. 7. The club members drew names Sbr the Christmas party to be held at Phyllis Jafferys on Dec. 17. Nyla Murray and Jo Ann (fclallory gave an interesting re port on spices and their dis covery. The leader. Mrs. Edyth Bo hnert, gave out assignments for .'Such club member for next meet ing. Th meeting is to be held at Donna Gerens home on Jan. 11. Reporter Paulette Anderson Citral Point Suarkplugi " The Central Point Sparkplugs iill meet on Saturday, Dec. ft 2 p.m. in the McCormick far Store, Biddle rd. Jim Frink, reporter. JED AIM FOR MOON London HP A Soviet scien tist has predicted that flights to the moon will be possible within the next 10 years, Moscow Radio reported today. The broadcast quoted an article in the maga zine Yunost by Prof. Yuri Pobed onostsev in wbich he said that "substantiated projects" for flights to the moon and even to other planets in the solar system already are in existence. He -said the two Soviet Sputniks had yielded more information about cosmic space in a few weeks than had been learned in the "whole of preceding history of man kind," the broadcast said. FILL YOUR STOCKING . . . with HOLIDAY CASH from Crater Finance Corp. 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 We Are Here To Serve You ... Until 9:00 p.m. Each Monday and Are Open ALL DAY Saturday, DECEMBER 14 and DECEMBER 21 as such. But it made clear that truck lines honoring such pro visions in a union contract at the expense of public service will be subject to penalties for violating the interstate com merce act. "Hot cargo" refers to goods : coming from a firm involved in a labor dispute. Some unions particularly the teamsters, have Olson, Ben Gardener and Benny, J. L. Duncan, Kenneth Dufour and children, C. J. Kelley, Joe Mynatt, Ralph Humphrey and children, Ronald Mathieson Fritz Carlson, Frank Powell, Mark Hoefft. The hostesses were Mrs. Del ton Stephenson, Mrs. Jack Shir ley and Mrs. Clifford Moore. Sending gifts but unable to attend were Mrs. Delbert Mon gold, Mrs. Lloyd Hughes, Mrs. Melvin Westfall, Mrs. Merle Mo Graw, Mrs. Donald Clark and Mrs. Pete Flury. New Withholding Tax Tables Being Sent to Employers Salem New state v itholding tables, reflecting the lower per sonal income tax rates imposed by the special session of the Legislature, have been printed and are now being mailed to Oregon's 52,000 employers. S. W. Horn, state tax commission chairman, said mailing will ' be completed this week in time for computing deductions on the first payroll in January. The new tables are based on an over-all tax reduction pver aging 18.7 per cent, Horn said. They have been computed for joint tax returns from all tax payers claiming two or more exemptions and single returns for zero or one exemption. The tables in use since Sept. 1 were figured on the basis of single re turns in all columns. This change will provide additional witholdmg benefi.s in some cases. Horn explained. Incorporated in Tables The tables have been com puted by the research section of the tax commission with the objective of closely approximat ing the actual tax liability under j the new laws. Several different pay periods, exemption claims, and salary difference, have been incorporated in the tables. In structions have also been, in cluded for handling irregular pay periods as well as bonuses commissions, and other applica tions. Most employers find that the use .of withholding tables pro vides the simplest method of withholding, but some employ ers using punch card equipment or other machine accounting will find it advantageous to use the percentage method permit ted by law. The tax commission has printed a separate percentage-method withholding form ula which is currently being mailed to employers using punch card equipment. Additional copies are available on request from the tax commission. The new tables are printed on green paper to distinguish them from those previously in use and will be enclosed with the em ployer's quarterly report, thus saving substantial postage while insuring that the forms get into proper hands as quickly as pos sible. Requests to the tax com mission for additional copies will be handled promptly, Horn said. GENEROSITY CURTAILED Compton, Calif. (IP) Tommy Perry, 4. got into the Christ mas spirit a little too much, his mother thought today. Mrs. Perry had set aside S80 for Christmas presents. Tommy found it in her purse, went for a stroll and handed the bills to pals and passers-by, wishing all a "Merry Christmas." Wednesday. December 18. 1357 lerms in their contract which permit them to refuse to handle such goods. The ICC ruled on a case brought by Galverston Truck Lines Corp. of Houston, Tex. This firm, headed by Desmond A. Earry, refused to sign a con tract with the teamsters before the union had been certified by the National Labor Relations Board as a bargaining agent for its employees. Action Called Unlawful As a result, Barry's firm ran into a '"boycott" by other South west truckers. These firms re fused to carry Galveston's cargo to its ultimate destination be cause the teamsters labelled it "hot." The commission held that the refusal of these truck lines to accept and transport shipments brought to Oklahoma City by Galveston Truck Lines was "un lawful." s The ICC order is effective Feb. 3, 1958. In its ruling the commission wpheld Examinier Frank R. Saltzman who had recommended a cease and desist order. Saltz man also had urged that the com mission consider revoking the operating permits of truck firms who refuse "hot cargo" a sec ond time. In holding that it had no juris diction to rule on the legality of hot cargo clauses, the com mission said that was a job for fettled under outhority of The mmmmm ''TC ''''''' ' 1 1 in yMiwiiri w" 'if ::-rre wMeeMM the NLRB. The hot cargo issue already is before the Supreme Court. It has accepted for review three such cases from New York, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City. Must Serve Public The NLRB has taken the posi tion that hot cargo agreements may be entered into but not en forced by labor unions because of the ban on secondary boycotts under the Taft-Hartley law. The ICC said it was concern ed "not with the legality of the hot cargo clauses as such, but with the actions of the defendant carriers in relation to their ob ligations under the interstate commerce act to the public, with out regard to the terms of any contract which they may have executed with a third party Clearly, a common carrier may not bargain away its statutory obligations to the public and thereby relieve itself of such obligations." The commission said the law imposes on truck lines under its jurisdiction a "clear and unmis takable" duty to provide ad equate service, equipment, and facilities for transportation of property in interstate commerce. ' "This duty is almost aA abso lute one; and, if the public is to be adequately protected" the commission said, "common car riers must be held strictly ac countable for their performance." So good to taste, in such good taste . . . Coke helps to make it v A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL! Coco-Cola Company by COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF Hagerty Boils Over New York Humorists' Parody of White House Press Briefing Pans (IP) Presidential Press Secretary James A. Hag erty got his Irish right up to the summit Tuesday and de manded equal space to reply to a newspaper humorist's parody of a White House press briefing. He got equal prominence, but the columnist, Art Buchwald of the New York Herald Tribune, refused to apologize and wrote another spoofing column of the incident today. The debate was at such dif ferent levels it could hardly be described as joined. The original column purport ed to be a transcript of a special briefing "held late at night for reporters who couldn't sleep," and was devoted to questions and answers on the President's retiring for the night. Sample: "Q. Jim, do you have any idea what the President is dreaming of this very moment? "A. No, the President has nev er revealed to me any of ' his dreams." The press briefer was not id entified, but "Jim" is what Hag erty is called by most White House reporters. At a really truly press brief ing Tuesday Hagerty denounced the tongue-in-cheek column as "unadulterated rot." Asks Equal Space "I think all of you ladies and gentlemen know all of my press conferences since I have started this have been mimeographed and handed to you ladies and gentlemen. At no time did the reports of the New York Herald Tribune even remotely resemble what I ever said at a public REGULAR briefing," Hagerty said I would assume that the New York Herald Tribune, being a fair and decent paper, would give these remarks equal play on the front page in their edi tion tomorrow, as they did with this unadulterated rot that was printed in the paper this mor ning." The Herald Tribune did. Alongside the story it ran Buchwald's column, headed "ad ulterated rot, yes unadulterat ed, never." It was another spoof ing press conference this time with Buchwald's secretary, Miss Jo Patrick. INDONESIAN army chief of staff General A. H. Nasu tion, was reported by Dutch sources as one of triumvirate to rule country. (International) KING FAMILY Slfi N MEDFORD Eisenhower Laughed Sample: "Q. Has Mr. Buch wald seen the attack by the reader? "A. He was there at the time. "Q. What was his reaction? "A. Shock, surprise and I think I could even say hurt. "Q. Someone said he cried. "A. He didn't cry. He bit his lips a few times but I was stand ing right next to him and he didn't cry." Buchwald, interviewed in Par is, said he had "no reason to apologize. I don't think I have done anything to hurt anybody. As a matter of fact, Mr. Hag erty's name was never mention ed in the column." The interviewer, Eldon Grif fiths, chief correspondent for Newsweek magazine in Europe during the NATO meetings, said that "when President Eisenhow er himself read that column he laughed like mad and his only comment to Jim Hagerty was-r-'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Griffiths didn't say who told him that. HOTEL OWNER DIES Southampton, N. Y. (IP) Ralph C. Frood, owner and man ager of resort hotels and clubs, died Tuesday at the Southampton Hospital. THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT Tuscola, 111. OP) The city council has ordered Christmas wrappings for the town's park ing meters. Each meter is cov ered by a paper bag bearing the words: "Free parking, Merry Christmas." ftF CHOn TAQTC to ... for Christina and year after! 2T Big Screen Gp with matchi "C Console k WAS $264.90 W $20.95 Down Just $11 per M. Free Indoor Antennt 14" G-I Portable TV $12425 EASY TERMS 'A Companion Everywhere" O Home ! APPLIANCE CO. 115 E. Main Medford u r
