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Steel Industry Banking Furnaces In Face of Shutdown Pittsburgh-flJPD-The nation's iteel industry became a crip pled giant today. Across the country, mills which a month ago had reached post-recession pro duction peaks1 were engaged in the tedious and costly proeess of shutting down. Only a break in deadlocked contract negotiations in New York could give steel makers a last-minute reprieve from a nation-wide strike sched uled for midnight. From Gary, Ind., East Chi cago, Morrisville, Pa., Birm ingham, Ala., as well as this steel capital, came reports of banking of blast furnaces, sealing of coke ovens and cooling of open hearths. ' The skip cars which norm ally dump ore, limestone and coke into the top of blast fur naces were dumping only coke today. The coke will smoulder under reduced heat until a contract settlement is reached. ; , , Shutdown Damage Possible A too-rapid shutdown could cost millions of dollars in damage. Too fast banking of blast furnaces-some of which cost as much as $45 million each-could cause the brick Steamfitter Local Strikes in Alaska ' Anchorage, Alaska - (UPD -Plumber and Steamfitters Lo cal 367 was still on strike today following Saturday's walkout in a dispute with the Master Plumbers Association. The strike, affecting some 340 plumbers, tied up work on all jobs south of the juris dictional boundary except on the emergency contract at the Army's Fort Richardson. Boston-TOPD-Except once for an 11-year period, Boston has had a Dr. Warren practicing medicine since 1775. At that time the physician was Dr. Joseph Warren, Revoltuionary leader who fell at the Battle of Bunker HilL linings to crack and crumble. Thousands of miners who work in the captive pits for steel companies or in inde pendent mines to supply the coal for coke were told to take "an extra week's vaca-tion"-without pay-or were furloughed. Trainmen- who man the small connecting railroads also came under the shutdown orders, as did seamen on Great Lakes ore boats. And with steel-the nation's economic lifeline-not flowing, practically all other business and industry sooner of later would be affected. The effects of the impend ing strike became evident on the faces of merchants and city officials in the steel-making districts and,' probably more than any others, the steel workers, themselves. Business Slack Noted Store owners and bartend ers throughout Gary, East Chicago and South Chicago reported that their business volume had begun to feel the impact. At the gates of U. S. Steel's Gary Works and South Works, Republica's South Chicago Works afid at Youngstown Sheet and Tube's Indiana Harbor Works at East Chica go, anger and depression were reflected in workers' faces. "What are we striking for?" one young worker asked. "We don't know what we're ask ing for and what, we'll get." He asked not to be identified. "Whatever the union asks for is all Tight with me," an older worker said. Frustration and disgust were voiced by another worker. "We just got back from a layoff and now we have to go out again," he said. "I'm finished with steel work. It's too unstable." "I got money in the bank," a worker said, "but we're go ing to eat hot dogs instead of steak and we're going to the beach for recreation." V Labor Council Protests Passes For Mickey Cohen Portland flJPD The Central Labor Council Monday night passed a resolution protesting the issuing of free Centennial passes to Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles gambler. Cohenw as in Portland last week end and attended the Don Jordan-Denny Moyer wel terweight title fight. Anthony McBride, a repre sentative of the Electrical Workers Union, asked that the resolution be sent to Chair man Anthony Brandenthaler, Gov. Mark Hatifeld and the Oregon Journal. Carried Picture The newspaper carried a picture of Brandenthaler and Cohen Sunday and said the chairman had given Cohen four free passes. Brandenthaler said today that "the passes I gave him will never be used.' He said Cohen bought five tickets to get in the gate the first time and I figured that as long as we had him on the grounds it would be easier for the four detectives to keep an eye on him." "He's not in jail. He's a citi zen," Brandenthaler said. British Columbia Strike Continues Vancouver, B.C. -UPD- The strike of 27,000 coast lumber workers entered its second week Monday with no settle ment in sight. Spokesmen for the com pany and the International Woodworkers of America said there was nothing new to re port, in the way of negotia tions. No meetings between the groups had been held since the strike began. Three, Reappointed To Engineering Board . Salem-fUPD-H. Loren Thomp son, Arnold L. Henny and W. Morgan Allen, all of Portland, were reappointed to the State Board of Engineering Exam iners Monday by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Expose Urged on 'National Fraud' Of TV Quiz Shows New York-OJPD-District At torney Frank S. Hogan urged a court Monday to make pub lic a grand jury presentment exposing "a national fraud" in the operation of television quiz shows. - "The public has a right to know the extent to which it has been duped and cheated .-' . . there can be little doubt that the national resentment Douglas McKay Has Heart Ailment Salem-(UPD-Douglas McKay, formerly interior secretary and former governor of Ore gon, was in an oxygen tent in Salem General hospital today, recovering from a heart ail ment and complications. Hos pital attendants said he spent a restful night and was in good condition. McKay, now chairman " of the U. S. section of the Inter national Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, was brought to the hospital here after spending the week end at his cabin at Neskowin on the Oregon coast. He had been bothered by a heart con dition for several months. McKay said the Internation al Joint Commission, which has been studying jpint devel opment of the Columbia river basin, was scheduled to meet in Portland, Ore., early in August. MOLLET ELECTED Paris - (UPD - The French Socialist Party has elect ed ex - premier Guy Mol let as its leader for the 14th consecutive time. The Con gress endorsed Mollet's line of "constructive opposition" to the De Gaulle government and called for new efforts to arrange a liberal cease fire solution in Algeria. Charlemagne was the first ruler 'of France, his reign last ing from 768 to 814. would lead to legislation and1 regulation designed to pre vent a recurrence or continua tion' of such fraud," Hogan said. . f To Enable House Cleaning He said the document also would be valuable to "televi sion itself' by presenting "facts enabling it to clean its own house." Hogan's argument was made in a 20-page brief pre sented to General Sessions Judge Mitchell D. Schweitzer, who impounded the present ment last month after the at torneys for producers of sev eral quiz shows no longer on the air objected to it. Schweitzer had asked the district attorney " to present arguments, and said he would make a ruling in' August. . Hogan -said it' could be as sumed the presentment ex poses "a national fraud where by television quiz shows have been- constantly misrepresent ed to millions of citizens as honest tests of the contestants' knowledge and skill." He said the "gigantic fraud and hoax" involved "a regu lar practice of informing 'con testants' whose, lengthy pres ence on the show is deemed profitable, of the questions to be asked and, frequently, of providing the correct answers as well. Constitutes Fraud "Misrepresentation of the entertainment offeed is mor- Tie Dalles Man Dies In Wreck Near Condon Condon-flJPD-Elmer Rash, 21, of The Dalles, was killed Mon day when his car veered off highway 206 about five miles west of here, plunged down a 30-foot bank and rolled over several times. The Gilliam county sher iff's office said the victim ap parently had fallen asleep at the wheel. A rancher discov ered the wreckage and noti fied the sheriffs office. A miSS iS aS gOOd aS a mile when you pick the wrong-size hat i...or the wrong grade of gasoline. Fortunately, with three new Chevrons, it's easy i to pick the gasoline that exactly fits your car (and pocketbook!) 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' He said the. grand jury deemed the operation of the programs "a large scale evil" and had asked that copJfes of its report be sent to "certain official agencies, the functions of which are relevant to the conditions discovered." The court's position in sup pressing the document has been supported by two bar associations, who agreed with the original objectors that a which offers no forum for I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, July 14, 1959 rebuttal of its charges, can be returned only against public officials. 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