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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. .
MEASLES KILL INFANTS
Tehran, Iran (UPD More
than 2,000 infants have died
from a measles : epidemic
sweeping the Bam and Nar
mashi areas near Kerman, in
central Iran, the newspaper
Keihan reported Sunday.
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