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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Dee. 29, 1959 Steel Industry Sources See Record Year of Production l Pittsburgh - (Trf) - Steel jji dustry sources pr?dict a record-breaking production year lor 1960 - but only if there 3s labor peace and if consum ers are not scared out of spending by inflation. ; A top market research man "Jot one of the nation's biggest teel producers put it this ;way: ' "I do not believe 1960 will be a middle-of-the-road-year, father, it will be a period of "leither record demand 'on a ; broad front, or a period of economic stagnation stem ming from continued business nd consumer uncertainty pver labor demands and in flation fears. 'Production Booming As 1959 drew to a close, steel production was boom ing - but there were only a Jew weeks left before time j-an out on the 80-day Taft Hartley injunction which had ended or interrupted a record 116-day strike by the JJnited Steelworkers Union. USW President David J McDonald will be free to call another work stoppage in the "nation's major steel mills on yan. 26, regardless of whether and how members of the USW vote on management's ?'final" offer for settling their jcontract dispute at that time. ; What that would mean can easily be told from what hapr -pened during the nearly six jnonths of the 1959 strike -:500 workers off the job and ;the nation's . steel output "slashed to 13 per cent of ca 'pacity. - - As for inflation the com panies insist they will have to raise prices by mid-year if they are forced to go be yond their proposal for a three-year . contract which management says would cost the industry 30 cents an hour per worker. ': Such a price boost would probably average out to $2.50 a ton for finished products. . Steel production was about 92 million tons in 1959 com pared with '79,700,000 tons in recession-ridden 1958. Out put reached a record 11,600, 000 tons in May when custom ers were hedging against the coming walkout. It resumed at a high rate soon after the strike was ended by court order on Nov. 7 as steel starved customers bought all they could. "What's asked for 1960? James L. Rich, assistant di rector of commercial research for U. S. Steel, the nation's biggest, said total ingot pro duction for the year could range from 105 million to 140 million tons although he ad mitted these were "extremes." Tom Campbell, editor-in-chief of the authoritative metal-working magazine Iron Age, forecast record steel pro duction of 127 to 130 million tons - 8.5 to 10 per cent more than the all-time high of 117 million tons in 1955. But he qualified his prediction on the absence of strikes not only in steel, but in the rail road industry, too. If these occur, he said, "all bets are off." Steel. Magazine also fore sees a record 1960 production -130 million tons - if the steel strike is not resumed in January. P IIJ.II. Ill UNpil I MMMMI'l"WIWWt'l!''IJJ..,WI, J 'HI.. j!,M 5 lif y - FREIGHT CARS PILED UP-A Louisville 25 cars side by side. Wrecking crews said it and Nashville Railroad freight train de- will take at least three days to clear the railed near DeMossville, Ky., sttacking up tracks. -(UPI Telephoto) Indian Discovers Variable Star Chicago - (Science Service) -Flicker, flicker, little star. Every three hours, back again to what you are. Such a paraphrase of the well-known jingle would de scribe the fifth short-period variable star ever discovered. Its light fades, then returns to normal every three hours, Dr. K. D. Abhyankar, now of the Kodaikanal Observatory, Ma dras State, India, has found.. His studies of the light changes in the new, ultrashort period variable star known as AD CMi, made while at the University of California, are reported in the current Astro physical Journal, SPECIAL $10 SAVINGS TODAY ONLY Last Day for FOR YOUR Pre-Publicotion Price of ENTIRE Brilliant New 1960 FAMILY WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA $169.00 $10 Down $10 Per Month Plus Tax and Postage ACT NOW - Phone rirst in Sales Quality Leadership Ashland MU 5-4771 Counterfeiter Gives Yule Gift To Uncle Sam Jacksonville, Fla. - (DPD Uncle Sam got a surprise Christmas present from con victed Pasquale Masi-a pair of genuine $25 checks. Masi was convicted here in 1948 of conspiring to counterfeit U.S. treasury notes. He began serving a 7-year sentence in 1950 and was released in 1957 with the parole condition that he make every effort to pay off a $5, 000 fine. First Payment: S5 Masi, now living in New ark, N.J., was out of prison 14 months before he made his first payment-A $5 money order. The money continued to trickle in at a snail's pace until last January when it stopped altogether. Thus fed eral court officials were pleasantly surprised last Sep tember to receive a whop ping $25 check from Masi. Off Books by 2021 Another $25 check arrived Dec. 3 and it didn't bounce either. And when Masi sent a third $25 check just before Christmas two checks in one month-the court clerk was beside himself. In two years, Masi has paid back the grand total of $70, leaving an unpaid bal ance of only $4,930. If he keeps up the good work, the debt should be cleared from the books by the year 2021. Coal was first found in West Virginia by John Peter Sally in 1742. POLITICIANS ON A RIDE-Constable-elect Buster Montague and State Senator-elect Hugh Bailey, both of Winoma, Miss., pause at Durant, Miss., on their trek by animal-back to the state capitol at Jackson. Montague, left, astride a bull, and Bailey, ridding a donkey, promised to ride the animals to the state capitol if they were elected. The voters took them up, -(UPI Telephoto) Cancer Reported Caused By Industrialization Chicago-(UPD-The winner of this year's Anne F r a n k e 1 Cancer Research award says cancer is a product of the world's industrialization. "With the industrialization of the West starting to hit its peak at the turn of the century," Dr. Wilhelm C Hueper told an American Association for the Advance ment of Science news confer ence, "along came the modern Floor and Warehouse Stock Must Go! APPLIANCE PRICES DRASTICALLY CUT This is the time of the year we reduce our stock for in ventory and for first of the year tax-paying. Television Sets Priced To Clear Now! 1 G-E Ranges PRICES SLASHED! . I ' Freezers BIG SAVINGS NOW! New G-E WASHERS Drastically Reduced! Radios All Types Now at Huge Savings Big Selection of DRYERS at Clearance Prices! Hi-Fi Stereo You Can't Buy Better! REFRIGERATORS at Tremendous Savings! 'V 115 E. ,1AM MEDFORD Vacuum Cleaners 1 Lowest Prices of the Year' upsurge of cancer." Hueper, 65, said after ac cepting the AAA's Frjankel Memorial award that indus trialization has filled the at mosphere with cancer produc ing agents that "not only are absorbed by the lungs but nearly every part of the body." Chemicals Over Cities "Chemicals hang over heav ily industrialized cities," Heu per said, "and eventually, get into the air, water and soil. "It is impossible to attrib ute the increasing incidence of lung cancer to cigarette smoking alone," Hueper said, "although it is definitely an important factor. "But you cannot say one single thing is ttie- cancer fac-tor-unless you say it is in dustrialization." Hueper, director- of the environmental cancer section at the national cancer insti tute in Bethesda, Md., said some industries are known to "create more cancer produc ing agents than others." Atmosphere Permeated He said industries con cerned with the production of chromate permeate the atmosphere with ,"a potent cancer producing agent" but that measures were being tak en to adapt safety devices. Hueper also said it is known that the ' causes of Leukemia, "which is alarm ingly on the uprise," are ra dioactive materials and ben zol but that "nobody is in a position to say which has the greatest influence." Lung Cancer Incidence The incidence of lung can cer, Hueper said, is "directly relative to the density of pop ulation but that is because there is also a direct relation ship between the density and the industrialization of the area." "London, England, and the British ; Midlands have the highest lung cancer incidence in the world," he said, "be cause they have the most pol luted and industrialized at mosphere." Asks More Research ' He said research should be increased into the theories of "a closed system of produc tion" where industries could not dispose of their wastes to the public's disadvantage. Hueper also1 said "the situa tion has gotten so bad in Eng land and other areas that the wearing of masks is being considered and enclosing in dustrial areas with hoods." Crater Lake Portland, Ore.Crater lake in Oregon is 6,329 feet above sea level and is believed to be formed by the crater of a for mer volcano, the name un EAGLE POINT Card Party Planned Br DOTTIE HARBISON The community card party will be .held at the Eagle Point Grange hall at 8 pan. New Year's Eve, -with games also provided for the young er people. All ladies are asked to bring either cookies or sandwiches for a midnight snack. ... Four- tables of people played cards Dec. 18 in spite of the soupy -fog and warn ings to stay home. Mrs. Clif ford Moore received first, and Mrs. Paul Force got the con solation prize in the women's division while Robert Meyer placed first and Clayton Sim mons received consolation in the men's division. .Thirteen women from the Eagle Point Community church' gathered at the Don Pulley home on North Main st. Dec. 18 to sack 135 treats for the church.- Mr. -.- and Mrs. Howard Belanger, West Los Angeles, and. Mrs. Ardra Pulley, moth er - of Don Pulley, arrived Dec. 19 at the Pulley home in Eagle Point for the ''holidays. Mrs. Pulley is from Van Nuys, Cal. The Belangers left for Canada to spend the hol idays and will stop for Mrs. Pulley on their return trip. The young people of the Eagle Point Community back of Carl Johnson's truck and made a tour of Eagle Point singing Christmas car ols following their church services Dec. 20. On Monday, evening, 25 Hotel in Bal Harbour. members of the ' church mo tored to Camp White and sang carols through the halls of the domociliary, then went to the Pulleys for refresh ments following the caroling. Connie, Vonnie, and Bon nie Goering, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. James Edge of Bro phy rd.,- were . invited to be guest musicians by the Mason ic Temple Lodge No. 37 of California at their installa tion of officers ceremonies Dec. 7. One their return trip the girls spent Sunday after noon playing for the Jackson County Horne on Highway 99 and for Mrs. Milledge's Convalescent home before re turning home. The girls played several selections for the lodge and have been in vited to return for a repeat performance in January and again next year for their installation ceremonies. The girls and their parents were given, an expense-paid trip by the lodge, and have played their accordians at several functions through the county and Southern Oregon to gain experience and practice. MISSOURI FLIES TO MIAMI Miami-OJPD-The University of Missouri football team ar rived by chartered plane Christmas Day for their Jan. 1 Orange Bowl date with Georgia. The playere were in troduced to Orange Bowl queen Nancy Wakefield and other bowl officials before being taken to the IVanhoe Divorce Rate Low Among 150 Birds Chicago - (Science Service) - Divorce rate among the chimney swifts appears to be very low, a -biology professor reported here. Some 150 birds that had been banded were studied for more than 10 years, Dr. Ralph W., Dexter of Kent State uni versity told scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meet ing here. The majority of the chimney swifts had only one or, at most, two mates for life. Nesting records range up to 13 years, he said. Few birds change mates each year or two, Dr. Dexter explained. Several swifts re mated with their former mates after nesting with . another bird in the interval. Only three birds had two mates in one season. 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