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S MAIL TRIBUNE, M4for4, OregM, Mwtdiy, January 1, 1W 1 : V v1 1 ' PRISONERS RELEASED Demonstrators fleck outside the Principe prison at Ha vana, Cuba, shortly before the 400 prisoners were released as the Batista regime crumbled. Among the prisoners were two Americans, Jonathan Graham, 30, of Hol lywood, Fla., and Dean Leon Gleaves, 23, of Portland, Ore, who said they spent months in the prison, undergoing daily beatings. Inflation May Be Driven Home With Bigger Thump in Reports By ELMER C. WALZER , UPI Financial Editor New York-OJPD-This infla tion you've been hearing so much about may be driven . home with a bigger thump in 1959 when the Department of Commerce issues its periodic reports. ' The department is going to show total national produc tion not only in current dol lars but also in figures ad justed for price changes. These figures might well demonstrate that we have been running fast to stand still. Inflation inflates almost everything-including the dol lar cost of inflation itself, says Prentice - Hall in a study of our current position, and "Who's getting the economic gravy." ' Looking at the 1958 infla tion impact, Prentice-Hall an alysts note the year began CoBumnostTaCtento JaBD-ffor Musing 0 HDiscflose Source New York -(DTD -Television , columnist Marie Torre, 34, was sent to the Hudson coun ty (N.J.) Women's prison for r 10 days today for contempt of ; court in refusing to disclose the sources of a news story. The newswoman, mother of ' two children, was placed in the custody of a U. S. marshal in federal court after a one minute proceeding in which' her attorney told Judge Syl vester J. Ryan that Miss Torre had not changed her mind about revealing the source of the disputed story. The Herald Tribune col umnist was accompanied to Farmers Asked To John Deere Films, Luncheon Rogue River Valley fann ers and their families will be guests of Hubbard-Wray com pany Tuesday at a luncheon and free moving picture show, included in the firm's annual observance of John : Deere Day. A buffet lunch will be served by the ladies of the West Side Extension Unit from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 pjn. at the Hubbard- . Wray showrooms, 25 South Riverside ave. in Medford. High spot . of the John Deere entertainment will be .the showing of specially pre pared color films at the Cra terian theatre starting at 1:30 pjn. Tom Gordon, farm charac ter long popular with John Deere Day audiences, stars in the film, "Too Young to Re tire." ; ' Harvesting Shown - Harvesting takes the spot light in "Oddities in Farm ing." This film will show a custom-built pea harvester in Wisconsin, a fieldgoing pack ing plant for sweet corn in Florida, and a big salt recov ery operation in the San Francisco area. A film, "What's New for 1959," will - introduce the portable, batch-type John Deere grain dryer. Details of controls and operation of the dryer will -be clearly shown, and principal steps in an op erating cycle will be demon strated. Besides the dryer, three new multi - purpose sprayers will be introduced, : and with a line-up of other new equipment. "Building the Big Ones," is the title of another section of the program. This film will take the audience "behind the scenes" to see how the giant 95 Combines are built at the John Deere Harvester plant. There will be plenty of mu sic and variety acts, too, with everything from barbershop harmony to Magician George Johnstone's "Max the Mag nificent" strait-jacket escape. , Every feature of John Deere Day will be free to all Rogue valley farmers and their families. court by her husband, tele vision producer Hal Fried man, who told newsmen: . "I am proud of her. We have never made a decision that we didn't take together. We talked this over." Miss Torre told fellow re porters: May Be Worthwhile "If by serving this term I have contributed to legisla tion protecting a newspaper man's sources, it will be worthwhile." She said her decision to go to jail rather than purge her- self of the contempt charge was a personal one, but "it would have been most diffi cult if my newspaper had not been behind me. They were." Judge Ryan told Miss Torre she still might purge herself after going to jail. "If you change your mind in the future, you may com municate with the court," he said. : Miss Torre did not speak during the brief court appear ance. . . Miss Torre said her mother and a housekeeper will' care for her children during her absence. r Refused Name , The, attractive brunette col umnist, described by Ryan as "The Joan of Arc of her pro fession," has refused to give the name of a television net work executive whom she quoted in a statement about singer Judy Garland. Miss Garland subsequently filed a $1,393,333 suit against the network (CBS) charging breach of contract and libel. Neither Miss Torre nor the Herald Tribune was named a defendant but the columnist was cited" for contempt when she refused at a pre-trial hear ing of the suit to disclose the name of the executive she quoted. The Herald Tribune sup ported Miss Torre in her de fense that she could protect a news source through the freedom of the press guar antees in the First Amend ment to the Constitution. When the U. S. Court of Appeals upheld her convic tion last Sept. 30, the case was taken to the United States Supreme Court.but the highest - tribunal in the land refused to review the case. Miss Torre is married to Hal Friedman, an independ ent television producer. They have two children, Adam Jef frey, 21 months, and Roma Kathryn, 8 months. with a sag but ended in an upsweep with fourth quarter national output running at a record rate of 453 billion dollars. "But if you correct for price inflation of more than 2 per cent," P-H says, "the 453 billion dollar figure is slashed by about 11 .billion in con stant 1957 dollars-to just a shade under the previous 1957 quarterly high." National Income Rising National income has been rising steadily in inflated dol lars. But some groups are get ting a much bigger share of it than others. Prentice-Hall has produced a table for the years from 1946 through 1958 showing the percentage of national in come represented by the ma jor groups. Wages, salaries and fringes take the bulk. In 1958 they took about $71 out of each $100 of national income, a record high, compared with $65 right after World War II, and $64 in the Korean war year of 1950. "Parts of this increase,' says P-H, is due to wage rates rising faster than na tional income, part to expan sion of social insurance and other fringe benefits, While wages, salaries and fringes have been in a sharp rise, the share of small busi ness and professionals has been in a steady decline since 1946, and now is the lowest proportion of total income since the great depression of 1929-32. Farm Income Slipping If you could separate pro fessional income from this to tal, the resulting figure would show an even more severe squeeze on small business, the firm states. Farmers in 1958 made their first real post-war comeback in their take of national in come with about 3.7 per cent of the total against 3.2 per cent in 1957. Farm income this year is expected to slip back, "so farmers will con tinue as the main laggards in the U.S. economic progress during the 1950s." Interest recipients increas ed their sharply-more than double since 1946 but still far below 1939 and 1929. The relative take of corpo rate profits before taxes in 1958 was the smallest in the post-war period, the table shoyrs. "And thanks to higher post war tax rates, you have to go all the way back to the de pression year of 1938 to find a smaller share for net-corporate profits," says Prentice- Hall. "The pinch has hit not only the small firms but also the giants." Prentice-Hall ventures that the limit of the squeeze on business may be approaching -particularly for many small firms. Otherwise, one can surmise the prospect of reduction in modernization and expansion of American industry. Crowds Jam Air, Rail, Bus Lines As Holiday Closes Chicago -UPD- The biggest crowds since World War U jammed air, rail and bus lines Sunday at the close of the Christmas-New Year holiday period. . Snow and ice packed high ways and frigid temperatures discouraged highway travel and apparently were respon sible for the crowds which staggered public transporta tion facilities. "It's our greatest rush since 1946," R. E. King, Rock Is land railroad general passen ger traffic manager said. He said extra sections were thrown on "all over the place" and one entire train filled with nothing but re turning students was sent out. J. P. Heffernan, Midwest regional manager for Grey hound Bus lines, called it "one o f the biggest rush days since the end of World War II. Everybody just seems to have taken a notion to travel at the same time." Drivers on Buses "Icy-slick roads are putting a lot of would-be drivers onto buses," Heffernan said. "Oth ers are taking trains." James D. Harrigan, TWA Midwest regional vice presi dent, said the grounding of American Airlines by a pilots' strike boosted Trans World Airlines loads. "Add to this the normal New Year's rush and bad wea ther causing delays and con fusion and you have one of the highest traveling days we have had in our history," Har rigan said. Andrew Henry, New York Central passenger agent, said the weather also delayed the trains. "When they come in late, they've got no choice but to go out late," Henry said. "So we have depots filled with people waiting for late trains to come in and others wait ing for even later trains to go out." Unusually Rushed A Santa Fe Railroad spokes man said the line was "un usually rushed." "They're coming in heavy and going out heavier," he said. "Trains are jamming up. rWe're having so much opera tional difficulty because of the weather and ' resulting heavier crowds that all we're doing is making the crowds even greater!" The Santa Fe's crack El Capitan returning from the West with Rose Bowl and California vacationers arrived in Chicago Sunday night nine hours late due to drifting snows and sub-zero cold. Railroads, airlines and bus companies added equipment in an effort to cope with the crowds. BANS COSMETICS ' New Delhi, India (CPU State Education Minister Sar dar Harbans Singh Azad has ordered that women teachers in Jammu and Kashmir states must not wear cosmetics in the classrooms. He called cos metics the growing menace of fashion. SIGN TRADE PACT London-(UPD-Russia and In donesia signed an economic and trade agreement Sunday providing for Soviet aid in construction of iron and steel plants, a sulphur - phosphate factory and two mechanized rice plantations, Moscow Radio reported. Russia will supply equipment and techni cal assistance on credit, the broadcast said. Fires Destroy Barn, Homes in Portland Portland - (UPD - Five fires in the Portland area Saturday night and Sunday destroyed three homes and damaged a fourth home and a barn. Chilled firemen battled the flames in below-freezing tem peratures. A three-story frame house at the Seventh Day Adventist camp at Gladstone was level ed early Sunday after a blaze from a trash burned ignited a gas line. A volunteer fire man, Jack Hidy, Gladstone, received chest injuries when he fell through a floor of the burning structure. A fire .believed caused by a defective flue caused about $7,500 damage to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Pinks- ton in Portland Sunday. The Pinkstons and their three children were not at home at the time. Two other fires early Sun day morning destroyed the two-bedroom house of Frank Galland of West Linn and burned all but the first floor of a barn owned by Alan Knox of Oswego. Saturday night, the one story home of P. T. Paulson west of Beaverton on Farm- ington road burned to the ground. EARLY START Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.- (DPD-George Maysonnave, 23, a graduate of the University of Caen, has been hired by the Board of Education here to conduct an experimental program in French conversa tion for pupils in the fifth through eighth grades. . 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