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o o O SIX MEDFOF.D (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 13, 1957 Multnomah County Wage Boost Studied n Portland W Multnomah u county commissioners Tuesday promised to study a request for pay increases that would average O about $15 per month for county employees. Leo Butts, spokesman for the Oregon Public Employees, asked for one-range increases across the board. Cost to the county for six months would be $175,000. Butts asserted county wages were not keeping pace with the cost of living. Jane's Says Russia Ahead in Space Race London W Russia is "far in advance" of the West in the space-missile race, the authorita tive "Jane's All The World's Air craft" said Tuesday. The preface to the 1957-58 edi tion published today underlined the increasing emphasis of the world's major air powers and several of the smaller ones on guided missiles at the expense of manned combat planes. While the United States, "em barrassed by the astronomical costs" of developing and pro ducing modern weapons "has not yet gon so far as to condemn out of hand the combat airplane ... it is making concessions by slowdowns, cutbacks and, in some cases, cancellations of con tracts, while pursuing revised program calculated to get the best value for the money avail able," it said. o Inferior Officials See Higher Budget Washington W Interior Department officials indicated Tuesday their budget for fiscal 193!) wilnot be cut as severely (BSj had been expected. Officials refused to discuss for publication how much money Mhiy think the department will jgft. But one source said it "does (89em possible now" th reduc tion "will not be as bad as we Aought." He added that if the cut held to S7 million, as un officially reported, "it means the department will be getting off , lot easier than expected." Originally there was talk of Jj; 50 million reduction. This Srould have hit many major programs. 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It represents 50 manufacturers. Keynote of the collections is a "relaxed look" for greater comfort, said,. Mel Warshaw, president of the Miami-Florida Fashion Council. Most designers snub French potato-sack styles, which render the fair sex almost sexless. But they have "a little influence here and there," said Warshaw. More Bikinis Extremely tight-fitting dresses are out. So are full skirts that billow out when you sit down. Beachwear has gone nautical with lots of red, white and blue stripes, middy collars and sailor ties. Bikinis are more popular. They won't replace traditional swim suit styles, but more bikinis will be seen on beaches next summer. Backlines are plunging. Neck lines aren't getting any higher, either. Knee-length dresses are not shown, in spite of efforts of French designers to put the knobby-knee back in the lime light. Florida fashions feature hemlines 15 to 16 inches from the floor for daytime and bal lerina length for evening. Examples of the new "looks" that have sneaked into Florida fashions from Paris, Rome and New York are the "bubble skirt" and "cream puff" silhouette. They give the effect of a balloon inflated around the hips. "Released Sheath" There are furs on cocktail dresses, lots of barrel-shaped suit jackets and ribbon. One design er, L. Strom, used 110 yards of ribbon in horizontal bands to make a cocktail dress. The favorite silhouette of Flor ida designers is the "released sheath," a dress which hugs the natural curves. But it is not so tight as some of last year's styles. It permits ladies with not-so-perfect proportions to cover up what nature missed. New creations have a wider range of fabrics this year. Cot ton, the old stand-by, predomi nates. There also are many print ed silks, linen, satin, woolens and lace. Local manufacturers no long er confine themselves to warm weather styles, said Warshaw, Many designs are heavier and suitable for northern resort wear. Most popular colors fall into three categories: American neu trals, island brights and under water tints. Beige is the top neutral shade. Island brights include rich tropi cal shades of yellow, blue, green and pink, often used in dishing combinations. Underwater tints are shell tones of cool blue, green and white. Intervention Asked By Railway Clerks New York (IP) The AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has appealed to the Senate Armed Services Committee to intervene in a dispute with the Air Force that could lead to a strike at the Missile Testing Cen ter at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The appeal was made in a let ter to Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, (D-Tex.), chairman of the com mittee. O None of the others compete when you compare ... 1?. M o o o BEATS THE BEST OF THE LOW-PRICE THREE 1 70R LESS MONEY! Match this big, bold Chieftain against the top models of the "low-price three" and it takes them on all counts! O O IT'S bigger with a whopping 122 wheelbase cradling roomy stretch-out interiors, it's more owerfux they all fall far short of Pontiac's jeweled-action Tempest 395 power. it's mors advanced bringing to the low-price field the boldest engineering in history: Aero-Frame stability ... Quadra-Poise readability . . . Circles-of-Steel safety. And Pontiac provides color-coordinated interiors and wall-to-wall carpeting as standard equipment. it's more car with scores of ".extras" at no extra cost oversize tires, Safety Plate Glass all around, crank-operated ventipanes, to name a few. So why buy a smaller car when Pontiac gives you more for less? Check into it and see. fPil til I m llp hi 1 Nt , it JL i A-k-kJJL J JL41LIJLL 8i l JJLJ Holmes Seeks Aid On Plague of Mice Salem M Gov. Robert D. Holmes has contacted Federal officials in an effort to learn what advice top scientists had for eradication of southeastern Oregon mouse's plague. The action followed a meeting of Lakeview farmers with the Governor and State Agriculture Director Robert Steward. Steward said the farmers feared total destruction of their crops next year unless some thing is done to wipe out the mouse infestation which runs as high as 10,000 per acre Steward said that standard techniques were not proving ef fective against the mice and sug gested that increased chemical warfare or new methods of bio logical control might be em- pioyea. Seismograph Records Large Earthquake fasadena A large earth quake with a magnitude of 7.5 and centered some 6,000 miles to the southwest was recorded on seismographs at the California Institute of Technology at 6:02.43 a.m. (PST) Tuesday. Dr. Charles Richter said the quake could have caused consid erable damage in a populated area. '57 Corn Crop Fixed at 3,402,832,000 Bushels Washington (IP) The Agricul ture Department's final, produc tion report of the year has fixed the 1957 corn crop at 3.402.832,000 bushels and the wheat crop at 947,102,000 bushels. The final wheat estimate, ! made up of 707,201,000 bushels j of winter wheat and 239,901,OOU bushels of spring wheat, com pares with November estimates of a 927,324,000 bushel crop, 690,601,000 bushels of winter wheat and 236,723,000 bushels of spring wheat. Use Tribune Want Ads Hollywood iff! Sinew Frank Sinatra has abandoned a S2 mil lion plus libel suit against Look magazine but will seek damages for alleged invasion of privacy. ESS Asm Have You Seen OPEL? SK1NNER-BUICK CADILLAC 31 1 SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER FOR THE DEAL OF THE YEAR holiday ctie er' . 'd fNow at a lower price " a great holiday value I r Glittering and gay . . . wrapped M 1 HERMITAGE hi and ready to go right under the tree, Ws - J ill fjpia xttV f! 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