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53 rd year Medford Price 10 cents .TRIBUNE Third Section Terms of Conlracf Announced by A6C Portland (UPD Associ a t e d General Contractors nave announced terms of a new contract between the AGC and Operating Engineers which was basis for agree ment for ending a five-week strike last week. The contract provides a wage boost of 25 cents an hour retroactive to March 31 for all classifications existing at that time. It calls for anoth er 25 cents an hour starting on March 31 of next year and 15 cents more an hour on March 31, 1960 plus 10 cents for pensions. j In addition a number of new classifications were added to the contract. An AGC spokesman said the current top wage scale was $3.93 an hour. Wages range downward from that figure in more than 100 classi fications. The contract expires March 31, 1961. The strike had idled some 30,000 men and tied up 400 million dollars worth of con struction in Oregon and south west Washington. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Medford Man Fined On Traffic tharge . Harold Lution Burton, 1020 Ellendale dr., was found guilty Tuesday in district court, of driving a motor ve hicle while' under the influ ence of Intoxicating liquor. Judge James Main fined him $250 plus costs, sen tenced him' to 30 days in jail suspended when the fine is paid, and suspended his driv er's license for 90 days. Bur ton is being held in the coun ty jail pending payment of fine. In court action yesterday Judge Main ordered bail for William Christie Kennedy, Shady Cove, forfeited after Kennedy failed to appear for trial on charges of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The case involving Oliver Rubin Hodges, charged with assault and battery, was con tinued upon request. Hodges had pleaded guilty July 18 to the charge. WW EARLY MORNING CRASH Three persons were killed when this light plane crashed in a street of Pacoima, Calif., while trying for a landing at nearby Whitman Air Park. One of the victims was identified as James E. Hooker, 46, believed to be the pilot. The crash occurred in the early morning h ours, and the plane narrowly missed a home in which 10 persons were sleeping. ' . . , New Hope for Settlement of River Power Deadlock Is Seen By LEROY POPE United Press International New York (UPD New hope for an early settlement of the deadlock between Canada and the United States on Columbia river power and water rights was seen today by two Northwest senators. The senators were en couraged by a statement to a parliamentary committee at Ottawa by Gen. A. G. L. Mc Naughton, chairman of the Canadian section of the In ternational Commission. McNaughton told the Ex ternal Affairs Committee of the Canadian Parliament he would not say Canada could not be compensated for giv ing up the tremendous ad vantage it could enjoy by di verting the waters of the Kootenay in British Colum bia. Thus, Gen. McNaughton appeared for the first time to be receding from his de termination to press the Fras er river diversion to which the Americans so object. However, the general was as uncompromising as ever in defending Canada's right to divert waters into the Fraser. He also emphasized that Can ada and the United States still are far apart on the pro posed Libby Dam. He said the difference be tween American and Cana dian plans' for Columbia pow er amounted to 700,000 kijo watts for British Columbia "and that's a lot of power." Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) who is perhaps the leading American advocate of a swift solution of the Columbia dispute, told Unit ed Press International: "I was interested to learn that press sources quoted Gen. McNaughton as hinting to parliament in Ottawa of a decision to recede from plans for diversion of Columbia river waters into the Fraser river. If this is an accurate statement of Gen. McNaugh ton's views, then progress has been made toward continued protection of North Pacific salmon , fisheries. Damming the Fraser, of course, ; would cut off m a j o r spawning grounds. Sen. James Murray (D Mont.) said: "On the basis of press reports on Gen. Mc Naughton's speech, it -appears we may be moving off dead center. I have asked the Ca nadian Embassy to furnish me a text of the McNaughton statement. The Interior Com mittee, of which I am chair man, is extremely interested in the solution of this dispute, I am hopeful that the Inter national Joint Commission at its October meeting in' Otta wa will record further prog ress toward development of the Columbia, watershed for the mutual benefit of this country and our good neigh bor to the north." 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"I am grateful to you and the employees of Handicap ped Industries for your kind ness in sending me the first "X-Plorer Rocket" of the pro duction line. "Thank you for telling me of the development of Handi capped Industries. I wish all of you the greatest possible success." Nine handicapped persons are employed to assemble and package the products of the toy manufacturing firm which turns out about 1,200 units a day, according to its presi dent Eric A. Allen. The firm at 827 West Jack son st. was formed last Feb ruary by Allen and Die Walsh, vice president and company treasurer. The col orful package of - the "X Plorer. Rocket" was designed by Walsh. 1 On an average day about one-half million tons of silt are carried down the Colora do river to Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the Hoover dam. Australia is known as the flattest and also the driest of all continents. Congress Expresses Pleasure at Ike's Designation for Nautilus' Homecoming Washington (UPD Congress expressed pleasure Wednes day at President Eisenhow er's designation of Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover to be his personal representative at the nuclear submarine Nautilus' homecoming and at the Navy CHILD BRIDE Twelve-year-old Mrs. Edna Clary Stidham is shown at the home of her grandmother after her mother and bride groom were arrested in San Antonio, Tex., on charges of contributing to the delin quency of a minor. Her mother, Mrs. Merriam Clary, 33, approved Edna's mar riage to ex-convict Mackley Stidham, 25. secretary's pledge that the admiral will get his third star. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D Wash.), chairman of the con gressional Atomic Energy Committee's weapons subcom mittee, said he was in favor of Rickover's "appropriate recognition." "Likewise I'm happy to learn the Navy now recog nizes it will be possible to promote Admiral Rickover to vice admiral," Jackson said. "I earnestly hope the Navy will not long delay this move." Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Atomic Energy committee, said he was "very pleased by the President's extremely gen erous recognition of Admiral Rickover on the occasion of the return of the Nautilus." ALL IN THE FAMILY Louis. Edgar Campbell, Grants Pass, who yesterday reported the theft Monday night of a tool box containing $650 in tools from his car in an alley behind Front st., has since discovered the "thief" was his brother, who simply borrowed the tools without permission, police reported today. More than two-thirds of American households own one motor vehicle and about 8 per cent own two or more, according to current statistics. "I hope the Navy continues that recognition by making possible his appointment as vice admiral," added Ander son, referring to a statement by Navy Secretary Thomas S. 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