In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
According to Clifford W.
Ferguson, Oregon director of
rail transportation, another
freight car shortage is loom
ing just beyond the horizon.
The trouble lies, he says,
with the Eastern railroads,
which are not building
enough new cars. They are
depending instead on holding
on THEIR lines rolling equip
ment from the Western rail
roads. Mr. Ferguson says he
has written officials of eight
Western rail systems asking
them to take steps to get their
cars back from the Eastern
lines.
He adds:
"If business continues at a
normal pace, there won't be
enough cars in the West. If
business INCREASES, there
will be a drastic shortage of
cars."
YITHAT cooks?
' Well, when one sees a
trillium beside the road when
one is out for a drive in the
woods, one says SPRING IS
ON THE WAY.
Similarly, when one begins
to hear of impending car
shortages, one says THE LUM
BER MARKET IS LOOKING
UP.
SO
lt Mr. Ferguson is right
Happy days are here again
-or, at least, just around the
corner.
IT'S an odd world. We seem
to be always in a state of
feast or a state of famine.
Never is everything just right.
In the newspaper world,
we have a phrase of our own
for this fe?st-or-famine busi
ness. We shrug out shoulders
and mutter cynically: "When
we can get it we can't set it
and when we can set .it we
can't get it."
SEARCHING question:
Is it the world that is
wrong?
Or is it PEOPLE that are
wrong?
MORE of this weird modern
world:
Down in Mill Valley, in
Marin county, the other eve
ning a fast-walking PEDES
TRIAN was seriously injured
when he collided with another
fast-walking pedestrian.
The dispatches tell us that
Otto Lindskog was taken to
Marin General hospital with
a -broken hip. The other party
to the collision, Vincent L.
Clemente, was not seriously
injured.
It isn't enough that a jet
plane, flying eastward with
the wind, should make it from
Los Angeles to Washington in
three hours and 36 minutes
and that the same plane, fly
ing westward against the
wind, should make it back
from Washington to Los An
geles in four hours and 58
minutes.
PEDESTRIANS have to get
into the speed whirl.
N conclusion:
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School officials in Mem
phis (Tennessee), concerned
about continuing night-time
mischief in and around school
buildings, announce that they
have decided to try out a jig
ger called the "tattler"-a de
vice that transmits radar
waves over a 50-foot radius.
When movement occurs with
in the monitored area this
gadget automatically:
Telephones the police.
Sets off a bright floodlight.
Triggers a siren.
TAKES A PHOTOGRAPH
of the intruder.
DAILY'S
Body & Paint
Southern Oregon's
Oldest and Finest
29 S. BARTLETT
Phone
SP 2-2395 .
Hmmmmm. It looks like
we're applying the prin
ciples of automation to crime
detection.
It sounds like a good idea.
If we could make it automat
ically CERTAIN that every
body who breaks the law
would GET CAUGHT, there
might be less law-breaking.
Chance To Avoid
Draft Said Better
Washington - (I'PI) - Mathe
matically, a young mans
chances of avoiding military
service are getting better
every year.
Nevertheless' if you're heal
thy and reasonably intelli
gent, the topheavy odds are
that you 11 spend part of your
life in uniform.
These conclusions " were
reached today from statistics
gathered during hearings by
the House Armed Services
committee on a bill to extend
the draft act for four more
years.
Currently 70 per cent of the
men who reach the top draft
age of 26 have been in mili
tary service. By mid-1963, this
will have dropped to 55 per
cent.
Labor Examiner
Enforcing Power
Said Essential
Salem -(UPD-Elections held
by the state labor examiner
under a section of the anti
picketing bill passed in 1953,
now threatened with repeal,
would be a fine thing if the
labor examiner were given en
forcement powers.
This was testimony given
by Labor Examiner Francis
Reagan who said that, under
the present law, he had no
way in which to enforce his
findings.
"But I think the labor elec
tions procedure would be ex
cellent if the Legislature
would invest the examiner
with some powers to enforce
his findings," Reagan said.
Behind in Cases
He told the Senate Labor
and Industries Committee,
which is considering a bill to
repeal the entire 1953 law,
that his predecessor in office
had 45 cases referred 'to him
over a four-year period.
"And since Aug. 1, 1957,
when I was appointed, to the
present time I am a little be
hind him in the number of
cases," Reagan said.
In reply to a question,
George Brown, educational di
rector for the state AFL-CIO,
testified that he did not favor
referring an anti-picketing law
to a vote of the people.
"All you have to do is look
at the experience of other
states where so called 'right-
to-work' laws have been on
the ballot and see the dissen-
tion such campaignscaused,"
Brown said. "If a bill such as
you talk of is referred to the
) people, you would break down
years of work done to build
up good labor - management
relations in Oregon."
James Marr, executive sec
retary of the Oregon AFL
CIO, said:
"Labor has made no at
tempt to influence the votes
of this committee or the Leg'
islature on this issue. We have
not flooded the members
desks with letters urging re
peal of the law. We feel it
is up to this legislature to
resolve the issue."
The Committee will con
sider the bill at its meeting
Wednesday.
Lesser Sentences
For Shoplifting
Gets House Approval
Washington - (UPD - Walter
Adams, a Michigan economist,
has suggested that tariffs
on foreign cars be abol
ished as a step to force U.S.
firms to produce smaller and I has been airborne since Ieav
cheaper autos. I ing Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 4.
Salem - (CPD - The Oregon
House has passed unanimous
ly a bill providing lesser sen
tences for the crime of shop
lifting. Under present law, shop
lifting outside of cities which
have shoplifting ordinances is
a felony punishable by a sen
tence of up to seven years in
the state prison.
The bill provides for substi
tution of a county jail term
instead of the prison sentence.
Rep. George Van Hoomis
sen (D-Portland) said the bill
corrected an "obvious inequi
ty" in the law. He said that
in the past, district attorneys
had had to resort to subter
fuge by having the shoplifter
West's Economy
Said Threatened
Portland -(UPD The presi
dent of the National Associa
tion of Wool Growers declar
ed today that a bill to pre
serve wilderness areas for re
creation threatened the econ
omy of the 11 western states.
Don Clyde, Heber City,
Utah, told the 94th annual
gathering of the sheep men
that the wilderness bill was
"special privilege" legislation
which was not for benefit of
the "whole people." He said
proposed wilderness areas
without roads or modern fa
cilities, would be reserved for
"less than one per cent of our
population."
He said the measure was
threat to food needs of
growing population and call
ed upon the association
work against it. He said if it
can't be defeated "then we
must amend it."
Endurance Fliers
Enter 54th Day
Blythe, Calif. (UPD Two
fliers, who have been up in
the air without landing longer
than anyone else, today
droned into the 54th day of
their record - setting endur
ance flight.
The pilots, Bob Timm and
Bill Cook, hoped to stay aloft
another week. They set a
world endurance record last
Friday in a light plane which
Disc Jockey Enters
7th Sleepless Day
New York-(UPD-Disc jockey
Peter Tripp, 32, neared the
end of his seventh day with
out sleep today with grim de
termination to stay awake for
200 hours-rbut he was weak
ening.
Dr. L. J. West, in charge of
the scientific ' experiment in
which Tripp is engaged, said
the disc jockey was "having
an extremely difficult time of
it" this morning.
"I don't know whether he'll
make it-I just don't want to
say," West said. "But I want
to assure the public that this
experiment should cause no
permanent injury to Tripp's
health."
West said Tripp was "fad
ing in and out of focus" as he
passed his 163rd hour of
wakefulness at 3:15 a.m. (pst),
For the man who is
fed up with paying too much
for look-alike cars
m EDSEL
made to be the most distinctive car on the
road -yet it's priced with Ford, Chevrolet
and Plymouth. And Edsel gives you many
"eye-opening" extras that the low-priced
field either forgets or charges extra for.
Look it this "Eye-Opening" Economy!
Extra Economy when you buy
you get more for your money
more size, room, comfort
Extra Economy when you drive
you choose from four engines,
including two V8's that give you
spirited performance on regular
gas, and a thrifty Six as well.
Look at these "Eye-Opening" Extras!
Extra built into every Edsel
self-adjustingbrakes, Diamond
Lustre finish that never needs
waxing, wall-to-wall carpeting,
electric clock, aluminized muf
flers that last twice as long as
ordinary ones, foam-rubber seat
cushioning, and many others.
If you want to hear real enthusiasmtalk to a 1959 Edsel owner
MEDFORD MOTORS, INC.
225 South Riverside
plead guilty to some other
charge rather than put a shop
lifter in prison.
Bills for Budgets
Five other bills for budgets
of boards of barber examin
ers, chiropractic examiners,
cosmetic therapy examiners
and dental examiners and for
a budget for the public em
ployers' retirement system
were approved.
Rep. Clarence Barton (D-
Coquille) said no general fund
appropriations were required
for the retirement system as
all agencies shared in paying
its costs. He said it was
"minimum budget."
A package of nine bille was
introduced at the request of
the Department of Agricul
ture.
One bill would authorize
brand inspections of livestock
tor prevention of disease as
well as theft. It would auth
orize police officers or others
not under the department to
mspect brands.
Rep. Ben Evick (D-Madras)
introaucea a Dili at tne re
quest of the Oregon Cattle
men's Association to include
horses in regulations govern
ing meat-food slaughtering
Property Assessment
Barton and others intro
duced a bill providing for
property assessment of motor
carriers by the State Tax Com
mission m tne same manner
as some other utilities are
now assessed.
The bill provides that the
real property of the carriers
would be on the county tax
rolls and all other property
taxed at the average tax rate
on personal property in the
state.
Revenue would be deposit
ed in the state highway fund
with 60 per cent apportioned
to the counties and 40 per
cent to cities for construction
of roads and streets
A resolution providing for
a constitutional amendment
to permit .the state legislature
by a two-thirds vote of both
Houses, to submit a revision
of the Oregon constitution to
the people at the next pri
mary election or at a special
election, was introduced
4-H Club News
The Happy Stitchers
Sewing Club
The meeting of the Happy
Stitchers Sewing club was
held Saturday at the borne of
our leader, Mrs. Arthur Beck
er.
Nine girls attended the
meeting. We worked on our
overall boy applique quilt.
Then our assistant leader,
Mrs. Van Calhoun, showed us
how to adjust the sewing ma
chine for so many stitches
per inch.
The announcement was
made that our next meeting
will be held Friday, Jan. 30,
after school when we will
make a visit to the Singer
Sewing Machine company for
a demonstration. After the
meeting was adjourned, we
had cookies, and our assistant
leader, Mrs. Van Calhoun,
took us home.
Cherylee Becker,
Reporter.
Funeral Conducted
For 'Alfalfa' Swfzer
Hollywood -0JPE- Carl (Alf
alfa) Switzer, former child ac
tor in the "Our Gang" movie
series, will be buried today
following a coroner's jury
ruling that the man who shot
him to death last week acted
in justifiable self defense.
The jury's ruling Monday
brought dismissal of a murder
complaint against Moses Sam
uel (Bud) Stiltz, 38, who fa
tally wounded Switzer, 32, in
an argument over a $50 debt
last Wednesday.
General Fund Budget
Approval Predicted
Portland-(UPD-The 1959 Ore
gon legislature will approve
a state general fund budget
of around $310 to $315 mil
lion, it was predicted Monday
by Walter W. R. May, editor
and publisher of the Oregon
Voter.
May told the Chamber of
Commerce he thought the fig
ure would be reached with
out a state bond issue, and
would include from $10 to $15
million in building funds.
Northern Oregon
Rivers Said Rising
Portland -(UPD- The weather
bureau said today light flood
ing was expected in the lower
Santiam river and in the
Mary's river near Philomath
because of continued rains.
Other streams will rise mod
erately to substantially in the
next two days.
T.R.'i BUGLER DIES
San Diego, Calif. 0IPD Maj.
Henry Frank Schroeder, 84-year-old
veteran credited with
sounding the bugle charge
which sent Teddy Roosevelt's
Rough Riders up San Juan
Hill, was buried Monday with
Lost Portlanders
Make Way To Safety
Portland-dTE-Tvvo 21 yeai
old youths feared lost in the
Larch mountain area east of
Portland during the week end
walked out Monday afternoon
and were picked up by a
Multnomah county deputy
sheriff. They were identified
as Jim Swain and Mervin Bal
lentine, both of northeast
Portland.
SPY TRIAL STARTS
Warsaw -0IPD- Leaders of
an alleged spy ring went on
trial Monday in the provincial
court at Katowice, the Polish
news agency PAP reported.
Coos Bay Pickels
Appear at Klamath
Klamath Falls -(UPD- Weyer
haeuser Timber company's
Klamath Falls operations
were shut down today when
pickets from the Coos Bay
area appeared at local points, i
company officials reported.
Last week pickets appeared
at the North Bend plant of
the firm because of a dispute
over the discharge of a truck
driver.
About 780 persons were
idled in the Coos Bay area and 1
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, January 27, 1959 5
about 1100 were affected
here.
J. B. Bishop, branch man
ager for the firm here, said
"there is no labor dispute at
Klamath Falls operations."
He added that the local plants
are open for work.
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