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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1959)
' " w ' V ' " " tn "ttV"' ;&4lo''tt A -I I'll TRAIN NO OBSTACLE A fireman on a. men found it necessary to use aerial lad tall extension ladder sprays the smoulding ders oVer the busy main line track to fight remains of a Montbello, Calif., lumber yard the $50,000 blaze. as a passenger train passes beneath. Fire- (UP I Telephoto) Have Your Doctor Phone Your Prescription Tha van can pick it up while yen PARK It SHOP r we'll DELIVER IT FREE Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily CLOSED SUNDAYS Green Stamps Main and Central Hoover's Former Secretary Dies Washington -(UPB- Lawrence Richey, former secretary to President Herbert Hoover, died in his sleep on an airline flight Sunday fromtNew York where he had spent the Christ mas holidays with Hoover. He was 75. Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic En ergy Commission and also a former secretary to Hoover, said Richey dozed off on the plane "and never did wake up." In New York, Hoover paid tribute to Richey by calling him "a loyal friend and de voted public servant - a man who had the respect of thou sands of friends for his probi ty and his devotion to his country." Richey was' a native of Har risburg, Pa. Mediator To Seek Newspaper Talks Portland-OIPB-Federal Medi ator Elmer Williams said he would talk to both sides in Portland's seven -week old newspaper strike today to see when another joint negotiat ing session could be sched uled. The Stereotypers Union went on strike against - the Oregon Journal and the Ore gonian Nov. 10. The newspa pers have been publishing combined editions since in the Oregonian plant. Williams said he did not talk to either side over the Christmas week end. BIGGEST SEA The biggest inland sea is the Caspian with an area of 169,330 square miles. By com parison Lake Superior has an area of 31,810 square miles. 4-H NEWS Clothing and Cooking . The Antelope Clothing and Cooking club had a slumber party Dec. 4 at Jo Anna Mal loroy's house. After an evening of fun, everyone slept in sleeping bags. Cracker crumbs and de flating mattresses postponed sleep until 2 a.m. "' Thirteen girls and three leaders ' attended. Leaders were Mrs. Don Anderson, Mrs. E. A. Malloroy and Mrs. John Bohnert. . : Breakfast the next morning consisted of waffles, syrup, hot cocoa, orange juice and sausages. Food committee members were Paulette An derson, Alice Woolfolk, and Jo Anna Malloroy. The next day the December meeting of the club was held at the home of Jennifer Nevin. Mrs. John Bohnert, the cooking leader, gave the girls new books for this year. Jo Anna Malloroy, a junior cooking leader, gave the girls their cooking assignments to have completed by the next meeting. Each member was given a 1960 4-H calendar which was a gift from the Jackson Coun ty Federal Savings and Loan association. The club set up their goals for the . coming year. Due to such a busy season the members decided to have a Valentine party instead of a Christmas party. Song leader Lola Ackerman led the group in a song. The next regular meeting will be held Jan. 2 at Elaine and Gloria Meyer's house at 10 a.m. Each member . is to take a sack lunch. Judy Hill, Reporter. Commercial Fish Take Falls Off Portland - (DPD - The Oregon Fish Commission announced that commercial fish landings and fish runs on the Columbia river in 1959 were slightly below' the previous year. The Commission reported that Oregon and Washington caught 1,250,000 pounds of spring chinook salmon, the lowest commercial catch since St eelworker Poll Shows Final Offer' Turned EDown Washington -(UPfl- A union straw vote shows that 95 per cent of the steelworkers poll ed are against accepting man agement's "last offer" to settle the steel dispute, union Presi dent David J. McDonald said today. ; ' McDonald - said the latest count in a union survey shows 57,000 favor; rejecting of the offer and 2,800 voting to ac cept it.- The union leader said he assumed a government - run secret ballot vote among the Prospect Family Involved in Crash j i Salem (UPD Nine persons were involved in a head-on traffic crash at the top of Cot tage hill in Salem Sunday night and two persons re mained hospitalized today, '., Described in good condition at. Salem Memorial hospital were Mrs. Ruth Strange, 54, and her daughter, Roberta, 23, both of Lacomb. Hospital au thorities said the mother was suffering from nervous shock and the daughter had a frac tured right arm. - - V Also in their car . was the father, Jess Strange,' 61. He had a head cut and was treat ed and released. . . Three persons in the sec ond auto received non-serious injuries. They were Corbie P. Hartle, Salem, and his wife and son. Also in the Hartle car were Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Baker of Prospect, and a Har tle daughter, Kathy. ACTRESS' MOTHER DIES Barstow, Calif. (UPB Mrs. Connie Lupino, 72, mother of Actress Ida Lupino, died Sat urday night in Barstow Com munity hospital. She had been injured in a Christmas Eve auto accident near here. - 1947. The landings -consisted of 78,000 fish. Biologists said the spring chinook run totaled 140,000 fish, which . included , those caught and those observed passing over the Bonneville fish ladders. The run was the lowest since 1951. . . . . 500,000 steelworkers on the companies" final contract pro posal would "closely follow" the results of the postcard poll. Procedures Discussed McDonald spoke to report ers after discussing procedures for this afternoon's public hearing to be conducted by President .Eisenhower's fact finding board. The . board stepped back into the marathon dispute to day by meeting separately with union and management officials in advance of the hearing. Asked how separate nego tiations on ' a company by company basis were progress ing, McDonald replied: "They are getting no where." He said there seemed to be "a lot of acrimony" in the bargaining discussions. Both sides will present their position to the board of in quiry. This will include for mal presentation of manage ment's "last offer" which al ready ' has been rejected by the Steelworkers as inade quate. Another Futile Round The new sessions followed another futile round of bar gaining here Sunday, both on a company-by-company level and on an industry-wide basis. ..The fact-finders, after their new hearings, must report back to the President by Jan. 6 'on where management and union stand in the dispute. This will set in motion ma chinery under the Taft-Hartley law for the 500.0Q0 Steel workers to vote Jan. 11-13 on whether they want to accept the final -management offer. The steel companies claim their "lasj offer" would pro vide 30 cents an hour in extra benefits over three years. The union contends the package would be worth only 22 cents an hour. Could Resume Strike If union members reject the offer, they will be free to re sume their strike on Jan. 26 MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJfora', Oh C Monday, Dte. 28, 195t when the present 80-day in junction keeping the steel workers at their jobs runs out. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell has said that Eisen hower will recommend con gressional action if no settle ment is reached before the stay-at-work court order ex-, pires. Icy Spots Said Numerous in Oregon ' Salem -(UPD- Icy spots were numerous on Oregon high ways this morning and. there was packed snow at McKen zie pass. The Highway Department also said there was sanding at Government Camp, Warm Springs junction, West Dia mond Lake, Ochoco summit, Willamette pass, Meacham and Austin. 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