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o o o Q o o o o Kleainiy (Joges Hope Approval s Washington -41111)- The AFL- CIO urged the Home today to approve a stripped-down version of the Senatii-pasSed union reform bill. It said this would "get at the crooks" in the labor movement. AFlrCIO President George Meany made the appeal in testimony prepared for two House labor subcommittees now considering reform legis lation. Meany said the Senate bill in' its present form would do "grave and irreparable harm" Try and Sfoplo By Bennett cerf - mtTw -r.-r nr. ' I wawr was traveling salesman came home from his winter trip. "While you were away," he cackled, "I saw a tall, dark man kissing your wife."- The salesman q asKea, -uia ne wear glasses ' and white shoes,, and did he - have a, big mustache?" "That's the one," exulted the gossip. ' "Forget it," advised the salesman. "That was our , milkman. He'll kiss any body." , q w " George de Witt toloe, fel low thespian he kept seeing spots in fronrpf his eyes. " "Hsva-you seen an oculist ' yet?" mquired his worried t friend.: "Not yet," admitted ; oVWitt. "Just spot "I beg you," beseeched the junior miss wear buyer to the beautiful new model, "whisper those three little words that will have me walk ( tag on air The model obliged with, "Go hang yourself." C 1959, bjr Bennett Cert Diitributed by Kief Feature! Syndicate. Liberal Democrats In Clear Majority In Japan Election Tokyo -(CPU- The pro-west ern Liberal Democratic party swept to a clear majority in the upper house of the Jap anese Parliament today in tab ulation cf final returns from Tuesday's elections. I Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Liberal Democrats (conservatives) campaigned on a platform of close military ties with the United States and no recognition of the Chi nese Communist government. The socialists took the op posite stand and wanted a four-way peace pact with the U. S., Red China and Russia. There were 127 seats at stake of the 250 in the upper house. Seventy-five seats were decided by regional elections and 52 from nationwide bal loting. The latest unofficial count gave the Liberal Democratic party 49 regional seats and at least 16 seats in national bal- VALUE RATE the ROCKET The man who knbwf yalue goes Olds ! More and more mciGnra-pncc car buyers who want the most for their money are joining the swing 01d& Why? Because they figore op all the extra quality features and conveniences Olds has as standard equipment. They carefully con sider the economy of the Rocket Engine . . . the low-cost maintenance of an Olds ... ha higher resale value. But most of aH they ask themselves, " this the land of ear my family and , J toiS be proud to own . . one mot will give us the full measure of fun and comfort toe want . . . is this the ear whose style mQ stay in .' The oveiwhelming jes" can be found in the zooming sales success of the 59 Otde mobile. See your Oldsmobfle dealer today . . . Value-Rate the Rocketl O ' f FREE tfn.loB ii 9 A 'H a turn eo aM "59 OH far ytm. Al I iw I yoa bo to de hamm MINiATURB MOOD. J JJ luM WJUi appn)xml . ..aim DARRELL MILLER CO., 419 SOUTH BlVDnSIDO SEE THE GENERAL JVTORS EXHIBIT AT THE OREGON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IN PORTLAND, JUNE 10-SEPT. 17 to unions under thgjgiise of fighting corruption. He criticized major features of the Kennedy-Ervin bill which passed the Senate 90-1 April 25pgnd attacked a meas ure offered by Rep. Caroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.) as "victory anti-labor." O Meany accused leading bus iness organizations of trying to abolish unioifc, while they "pioWly pretend to be coig) cerned about racketeering. Corruption in Business The U. S. Chamber of Com- ... r-i fl waiung on me sioop Ven injames H Douglas hailed th G f ocket Ship X15 Due Free Flight Edwards AFB, Calif .-.(OPD - America's tirocket , ship X15 may undertake its first free flight Thursday. The stub-winged craft will be taken aloft on . its fifth captiye flight under a ($ant B52 plane to about 38,000 feet where, "provided every thing functions properly," it will be released to glide back to earth without fuel. Test pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, will be at the controls of the y&.5. The craft and its two sister ships are designed to become America's , first manned vehicles to invade the fringes of space about 100 miles above the earth at speeds of more than 4,000 miles an hour. loti; e labor-bacKea socialists won, 21 regional seats' and nine nationaXJeats. The Green Breeze party won five seats and the Independents five. . The (puling party had 66 seats at stake in the elections and could lose their majority if they dropped more than two. I 0 o you VALUC-IAIC p. n merce juid the National As sociation ; of Manufacture both oppose the Senate meas ure on the grounds it doesn't go far enough to curb union picketing pd boycott Activ ities. "The employer organug tions which have dorSbcact ly nothing about corruption in the ranks of employe fi fe-O Airjctrelgj? Hails 6mdaiitnia Classf .tttiSm Air Force Academy, Colo. - iuru - ait rorcw oecreiary -st graduating class of th new Air Force Academy (ft Colorado Springs today as g future bulwark) against Thg spread of Communism. ; He said the graduates wei being commissionedjin an ir Force which spans thf) Freft World and has g "major roig, in holding the Communist world in check." "As the first graduating) of the academy," he Mid in & commencement addredi) thf$ "may play a critical role in keeping the history of th western world ja history of ax ce xxicxx. - . w Campus Ineogplsje Four years of intensive training and study ended for 207 young men whoQyere part of the 306-man class thgjt entered the interim gcademy at Lowry Air Force Basfbin Denver July 11, 1955. Thd) academy was moved to this still incomplete 17,900-acr campus in the foothills north of Colorado Springs last sum mer, f At West Point, 494 cadStS) received their diplomas to day. -: " : : j At Annapolis, 797 midship men graduate. , $100,000 Paid In Railroad Death Olympia, Wash. - (UPD - A $100,000 court settlement to the estate of Kenneth A. Dil ley, killed when 15 Union Pa cific boxcars ran away here March 13, wasxlisclosed Tues day. Superior- Court (-Judgf) Charles T. Wright approved the offer made by the rail road in an action initiated by the widow, Mrs. Betty Lou Dilley. O Dilley, a telegrapher, was working in the Union Pacific depot in downtown Olympia when the string of unmanned cars crashed through the de pot, thundered across a busy thoroughfare and plowed into two cafes. Fifteen persons were in jured, and property damage was $226,000. ubbbssbq seitin ta convince this Ce- grSfe thft tb measure Widen pejssef tnaj 3nt was W fa&" Many iiii. -"Thty rg not interested in (ffttirax el corruption either in tnue ofrn ranks, i tna iftoa of tfi labor movement. "Aat matter of fact, all too mgny mjiloyr nave shown desira; for doing business ith thf eroDk Wh masqaer- at trad unioniata rather thfjn flef 1 With bona fide trad unioa ltAerg for the simple rea3n thftt tne crocks giva thin f batter deal." , l atkalefem steaa .. h AFL-CIO chief backed Hlbrm legislation based on ,p,ubli reporting of union t ngncas, control of union true teshy?ii regulation of union fliction, and federal encour gament o ethical praetiee codec He also advocated com pulsory diacloauro of employ ers' Spending en labor-man. element relations. Meany asked the House to knock out the "bill of rights" groftisione added to the Ken-nedy-jtrvin bill oa the Senate fjoor. He laid they "promise union kambert much but may eU get them very little end may giv fiieir enemies weep on frii Which to destroy their organizations." He said legislatioo guaran teeing rank and file members the: right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to sua lajsor leasers wouM ietd lawsuits and put unionft in e ftrait-jacket, , IEio'g Det-Gffii SCrongt'Eiens Hopes Fop SftrauGG 0 Wshingto - (Wf presi dent gisenhower'y determina tion to fight for Lewie L. Straus) ns commerce secre tary today strengthened Re publican hopes, for Senate ap proval ttt hiy coniesmo nomination. The President, ho passed word Tuesday that he hed no intention of Withdrawing the appointment, restated his posi tion in strbng terms at bis morning) news conference. Confirmation predicted Eisenhower auick dis avowal of the withdrawal talk caused or GOP leader to predict that StrauM would be confirmed even if finally opposed byo Senate) Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. John son. One intimate of Johnson in sisted that the Texan ru keenine "hands off" the Strauss fight an9, lik some other Democrats, 0a fJtill trying to decide how to vott on the former Atomic Energy Commisison chairman. It has been apparent for some time that the stand taken by the floor leader of WELqte VTHE MASS t'crihefn Coaslal IW ns 9f ttuaad Vaaas IaamatWaal Scattered sh evere were predicted for mueb of the West today in the wake of drenching nine, ever the northern coastal area, vetch lag el"1" pattern In the Bast-' . At least two tornado fun nels were sighted Tuesday ove North Carolina, en of which destroyed end damaged farm buildings at Old Sock. Rainfall amounts Tuesday renged from 1.8 to t inches at Boston, Philadelphia and Barrisburg, Pa., end Washing ton. Amounts of mora than one-half Inch were common from the North Carolina- and Virginia coasts to eouthera England CfcUdr Xalorad In Washington, e car skid ded on raiMlicked road and smashed into e school bue Tuesday, killing the driver of the car. Tha bus driver wee hospitalised and 86 children suffered minor injuries. In the West, hail storm battered Curry county in New Mexico Tuesday, flattening a big winter wheat crop .Damage was estimated at more than $1 million. The storm wee part of a quell lino which struck New Mexico end parts of Texas. Rain also doused western sections of Washington and Oregon during the night with the, Washington coast report ing amount up to ese-helf inch. nation the fit Senate Democrats might well determine the out come of the expected "close" vote. Senate GOP Leader Xveritt M. Dirksen, continuing to forecast approval of the nom ination, counted only on Re publican vote against Strauss -that of Sen. William .Langer (R-N.J.). ) "I have ao alarm about de fections on our side," he said. "I'm sure of my troops," Do Next Week The Senate plans to tele up the Strauss nomination this week, probably Thurs day, but there ia no assur ance of an early decision. Some Republicans think it can be disposed of by the end of next -week. Many Demo crats believe the fight could drag on for aeveral weeks; Jisenhowar eutherixid Dirksen Tuesday to announce thft he would not Withdraw the Strain appointment even if Strauss requested it Voys and Means VotesTo Continue WoitinieTaxes Washington - tlfl - Another year's extension of the war time tax rete on corporations and such items as cigarettes, liquor erad gutomobiles (Was approved today 1y , the House Ways gnd Means Committee. The Treasury would lose $2 billion a year if the rates were reduced. The bill would continue un til June 30, 1960, the 5k per cent levy on corporftion prof its, preventing' n automatic drop to the permanent 47 per cent rate. Also set aside are scheduled tax reductions of one cent e packofor cigarettes, $1.50 a gallon for distilled spirits, $1 per barrel for beer, and vary ing amounts for wine. The measure retains the present tax of 10 per' cent on the manufacturer's sale price of autos and 8 per cent on parts and accessories. These had been scheduled to go down to 7 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively.- Before acting, the commit tee heard Budget Director Maurice H. Stans testify that the federal deficit for the year ending June 30 is expected to total $12,400,000,000, about $500 million less than esti mated in January. This still would be the greatest deficit spending in peacetime history. MORE USED CARS " , . New York - (UPD - Ameri cans will buy more used cars than new cars in 1959 for the second straight year, accord ing to a survey by Business Week Magazine. It was the other way around in the three years prior to 1958. The study reports 9.8 per cent of the population will be in the used car market this year while 7.6 per cent will , be buying new cars. In the record auto sales year of 1955, 8.2 per cent bought new cars and 7.5 per BittearYilai 'HxxsagoiVfr Coots' In Fixing Piano Pricco Soi4 Uifcovered Washington3 - (UP- Comp troller General Joseph Camp bell told Congrfss today thgt his auditorSj nejve unearthed $30,g00,000 in "excessive coats" used in filing prices of 'Air lord glens$ q ' Campbell, financial "wajtcn dag" fo CongxtflG faid thai moat eases of "unreasonably high" price on coorgicts and subcontract tomm from faulty procedures) by thg)&ir Torce and ifj contrctoe Inks f Mere ction He said the Air Force has acted to improve these pro cedures but he called fbr more ection to "further strengthen" controls over pricing;" of con tract, as well ae subcontract. Campbell's report summar ised tha finding of 14 studies by hi auditors of contracts and subcontract for plnes, which heve bean submitted to Congress during the past 12 month. It wee prepared by hi staff tor presentation to g House ermed service! gubcom mittee. Ha said tht omf of the 14 eee showed thSt estimated eoet usad in AxingQ prices Here') $ gocgl lookiruj; utdoet chaia that gdjuitf esd your comfort fbldl ft. wbbin) is ffiflen green whiti. laimmiai ftfrno 6-FOOT NATUDAL MAfgMSf m ROLL-UPS Cool att& tmart . easy to clean "COSEQASfEQ DOSE UOZZIE WmjcwPmtoUGrip Control 1 r ntrvrffl MEDFORDJ5 BARGAIN corner Ly(Tgr o SIXTH AND CENTRAL J were "excessive by about 1.7 millicc which, unless ad justed, would boost govern ment costs by$6,340,000. ffithoul onsideraiion In other cases, Campbell said, prices were negotiated without enouEh consideration A i - , ui cusk uixuixuiiuon wmcQ was available. He gaid that in these oases the selling prices totaled $58,700,0000 about 3$00,000 or about 30 per cent above costs. ; ' Cgmpbell said all 14 reports dealt with "irfadequate use of cost da" in negotiating con tracts by the Air Force, ad in determining) subcontracts by thp prime contractors. ; Price) Important H sgid the subcontract prices are important because tine prices paid to the contrac tor by the Air Force usually include them. Contractors involved in the NO DRUG ON THE MARKET New York - (OPD - The drug industry figures that the aver age physician is responsible for dis tributing abogt $7,9)0 worth, of drugs a year. o ALUMINUM Regularly $11.88 ignd JO-ft. Id Natural bamboo matohstick roH-np blinds are smart emd cool for som mer. All 6-foot long; with hardware 3' wide A' wide . 9e 119 8' wide .. 5' wide...- 6 wide 2.49 49 Steld with money-back factory guarantee! Auto matic spray contrtJ saves water. Positive lock keeps nozzle adjusted for any type of spray. 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