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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 27, 1953 Union Leaders Fear Business Slump May Hamper Bargaining Washington IF) Many union leaders are reported scared stiff that the business slump will seriously hurt their chances of negotiating wage increases this year. Union spokesmen admit the rising number of layoffs, fall ing income, and reduced sales may make it hard to attain at the bargaining table the AFL CIO goal of sizable pay hikes Gilkison Winner In Speech Round For Toasfmasters Ross Gilkison was the win ner in another elimination round of the Jackson Toast- masters No. 2319 speech con test held at a breakfast meet ing at Dad's Hideaway this morning. Gilkison with his Hospital dedication speech won over John C. Smith and Harry Mar shall. Smith spoke on the "Derivation of Words" and Marshall on "Your Toast master Club." Gilkison will compete again Feb. 17 in the semi-finals against George Trobough, Robert Harland, Larry Hor ton and two other contestants yet to be determined. The finals will be Feb. 22 in a joint meeting with Medford Toastmasters No. 67. William Prentiss was topic master during this morning. Norman Matteson, as topic master, asked all other mem bers to speak for two minutes on "Your Formula for Suc cess." Don Hansen won the beret with his logical topic presentation. Another award, the brush, was received by Jack Cummings for failure to follow the topic. Next week's program will include Norman Matteson, Harold Sabolle, Wilbur Fish and George Jennings, all com peting in the speech contest. Robert Harland will be toast master and Jack Cummings will handle the topics. Atomic Fuel Cut By British Fire London HP) A fire in a plutonium pile three months ago has cut off Britian's main supply of atomic bomb fuel and brought about a drastic reorganization of the atomic energy authority command, authoritative sources disclos ed Saturday. The fire destroyed the vast no. 1 plutonium pile at Wind scale, North England, last Oct. 10. The sources said that not only is the no. 1 pile consi dered a complete loss but its twin no. 2 pile still is shut down for safety's sake. in 1958. Labor observers expect more strikes in 1958 than in 1957 when union-management strife was at record post war low. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has said wage boost demands will meet stiff resistance. Federal mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan has told his 200 mediators to ex pect "a rugged year." Some wage boosts are, how ever, already in the cards. They will be received by the members of unions whose of ficers won't go near a bar gaining table in the next 11 months. The Labor department re ports that four million work ers will get "deferred raises" this year under long-term con tracts. About 600,000 steel workers, for example, are as sured of an increase of 14 cents an hour. As for new negotiations, the pattern-setting bargaining will be done this spring by the United Auto Workers, led by Walter P. Reuther, in con tract talks with the Big Three companies of the auto indus try. Reuther has publicly pro posed a profit-sharing plan and consumer rebates on new cars, and Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors already have said an emphastic no. Reuther also wants a big wage boost and more benefits for unem ployed. Aircraft and guided missile firms will kick off the year's major negotiations in a few weeks. The auto workers will join with the International Association of Machinists, the key union in the aircraft in dustry, i The unions want an in crease of 26 cents an hour for most workers. But they face rough going. Pre-sputnik cur tailment of some government missile programs cut deeply into the 800,000-man work force. Defense Spending May Help . Increased defense spending later this year may bolster the companies' financial po sitions but negotiations must get under way before then. Negotiations to replace ex piring contracts also are sche duled this summer in the plate glass industry, the East Coast maritime industry, in terstate trucking and leading textile plants. John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers, can ask for a wage increase any time this year. But coal in dustry sources said he's hold ing off because of a decline in coal sales last year. Because of the rising num ber of unemployed, many unions will seek increased benefits for laid-off workers. James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, will stress unemployment benefits in bargaining with General Electric. Poor Film Harmful To Faith Domergue By VERNON SCOTT UP Hollywood Writer Hollywood IIP) Filmtown success stories are as plentiful as "B" movies, but Faith Domergue is one beauty who was a national flop as a glamour girl. Sultry-eyed Faith received the full Howard Hughes glam our girl treatment billboard, newspaper and magazine ads complete with racy titles and plunging necklines. It worked for Jean Harlow and Jane Russell. Millionaire Hughes made stars of them both. But even Hughes' tremendous fortune couldn't turn the trick for Faith. Knifed by "Vendetta" Her undoing was "Vendet ta," one of the biggest turkeys in motion picture history. "We took two years to film the picture," Faith recalls. "There were four versions of it wth differents sets of sup porting actors. It had four dif ferent directors, two camera men, two separate scores and an unknown number of script writers. The results were dreadful. "The picture began in 1946 Algae Used Now In Atomic Work By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (IP) To compli cate further the atomic anxiety overhanging the world, two research scientists have demonstrated an extra ordinary attraction of algae for Cesium-137. Cesium-137 is a radioactive isotope of the rare metallic element and is one of the critical products in the fall out from atomic bomb ex plosions and of the waste pro ducts of atomic power re actors. It is critical because its half-life is 26.6 years and be cause it dissolves in water. Thus, water contaminated with Cesium-137 would be likely to remain contamin ated for a long time. Algae Cleans Water Louis G. Williams of Fur man University, Greenville, S C., and H. D. Swanson of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. tested the ability of the algae to decontaminate Cesium-137 contami nated water. The species of algae, Eu glena Intermedia, did this job spectacularly. In 34 days, the water was 96 per cent decon taminated. In only six days the degree of contamination was reduced by 69 per cent. They also experimented with the algae species, Chlor- ella Pyrenoidosa, and found it less effective but still quite effective. In 13 days it re duced contamination by 47 per cent. This indicated that some algae species are more attractive to Cesium-137 than others. The experiments were un der laboratory conditions, of course in the Oak Ridge National Atomic Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn. and at this stage are not related to chance meetings under natur al conditions of Cesium-137 and algae growing in streams and ponds. It would seem that this demonstration of algae's af finity for Cesium-137 should lessen the atomic anxiety of mankind. Where there is water there is algae and water is susceptible to contamina tion by Cesium-137 originat ing from fall-outs and the op eration of atomic power re actors. But algae is food for fish it is the base of the food pyramid of all the inhabitants of water, many of whom are prime food for mankind. So, rather than lessening atomic anxiety, the demonstration can only complicate it. Radio active Cesium-137 could get into the base of the pyramid and work its way upward through the bodies of water creatures and end up in man. and came out in 1952. I quit long before it was released. I decided a girl couldn't build her career around one movie." Money No Object Hughes figured differently. In 1951 his high-pressure cam paign to make Faith the world's top glamour girl went into high gear. He spared no money. "I was the most publicized girl in the world that year," Faith smiled. "But during the campaign I became pregnant with my second child and couldn't make personal ap pearances to capitalize on it. "Howard was quite disturb ed. After all, he'd spent a fortune on me. "I'll never forget the bill boards. There I was holding a dagger, gritting my teeth, and my bust was so promi nently displayed hardly any one noticed the dagger." Faded From View When the picture nose-dived and Faith failed to become a screen siren the campaign was called off. The dark-haired, green-eyed actress worked in a dozen unpretentious pictures and more or less dropped from sight. "My heart was never set on becoming a glamour girl," she says. "I wanted to be an ac tress, not a sideshow." Faith tests her acting talent Friday night on the "Schlitz Playhouse" when she stars in "No Boat for Four Months," after, which she will begin a new moviey A native ,of New Orleans, Faith is married to Director Hugo Fregonese and makes her home in Italy. The busty buildup for "Vendetta" never did reach Europe, and Faith's brief attempt at becoming a brunette Marilyn Monroe is unknown there. 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Issue Taken On -Acheson's Charge Washington W The state department took issue Saturday with former secre tary of state Dean Acheson's charge that Latin America has been neglected under the Ei senhower administration. It released figures showing that economic aid to the 20 republics in the past five years more than doubled the amount extended during the last five years of the Truman administration. The department said such aid from 1953 through 1957 totalled $2,016,300,000, com pared with 890 million in the 1948-52 period. The total included export import bank credits, techni cal aid, sales of agricultural surpluses and assistance for construction of the inter American highway. The comparative figures were released after Acheson said at a press conference that only more U. S. aid could correct the adminis tration's Latin American pol icy. He also said relations with Latin America will be come a major issue in this year's congressional election campaign. Fund Appropriated For Eradication of Mouse Infestation Salem W) The State Emergency board has appro priated 5110,000 for an imme diate program to eradicate Oregon's mouse infestation. Farmers in infested areas would still be required to pay half the cost of baiting their fields. The Emergency board deci sion came after a delegation from five infested counties presented its case. Leader of the group was Wiley Clwers, Madras, who said the mice had done mil lions of dollars of damage in Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Deschutes, Crook and other counties. Basic Research Funds Some $100,000 of the funds will be used by the Agricul tural Extension service to eradicate the mice and $10, 000 on basic research through agricultural experiment sta tions. Clowers told the Emergen cy board that poisoning of the rodents was absolutely essen tial on at least 110,000 acres. He said that if farmers had to wait for Federal aid, it would be too late to save any crops in those acres. Rebaiting might be required on an additional 10,000 acres later. Don Spencer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, Colo., told the board that there were about 1,000 mice peri acre in southern Oregon now. Spencer said that there was some evidence of the mice dying off now, but that the rodents ordinarily died off at the rate of about 50 per cent every winter. He said that poisoning would probably not effect the cyclical die-off of the mice which reach' peak numbers about every four years. Duncan Votes Against Ralph Beck, State Agricul tural Extension service repre sentative testified before the Emergency board along with President A. L. Strand of Oregon State college. Vote on making the emer- Syria, Egypt Plar New Single Stale Cairo (IP Syrian Premier Sabri Assali announced Sat urday that his cabinet has adopted all executive steps for joining Syria and Egypt into a single state. Formal proclamation of their federation is expected next week. It would coincide with the Baghdad Pact meet ing in Ankara, Turkey, which was called to tighten the pro Western front in the Middle East. Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatly will arrive here in the next few days for joint action with Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser pro claiming the creation of a un ified, neutralist state of 30 million people. ENDICOTT MONOPOLY Syracuse, N. Y. (ID The Syracuse university cross country track team elected Bob Osborne of Endicott as captain for 1958. He succeed ed Bryant Wood of Endicott. And Anthony Annese of Endi cott was elected to head the freshman cross-country squad. gency funds available was 7-2 with Reps. Robert Duncan, Medford, and Harry Wells, La Grande, voting against the measure. Duncan said he thought there should be further invss tigation of other possible sources of revenue for mouse eradication. He also felt the Emergency board should not commit the legislature to a long-range research project. 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