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Noxon's Chances Oncrease; Some CflaSm Phony iufly-HJp Washington -OJPU-Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon's po litical stock zoomed today as a result of his backstage role in settling the steel dispute. But some - Democrats - charged it was a phony build-up. Formidable Opponent Many other Democrats con ceded privately that Nixon's dramatic efforts to bring about a steel agreement made him a more formidable op ponent in the 1960 presiden tial race. The settlement also bright ened the political future of Labor Secretary - James P. Mitchell, Nixon's partner in the behind-the-scenes negoti ations. Mitchell often has been mentioned as a vice presi dential running mate fori Nixon. ' Chamber's By President at Roundtable The purpose of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce is to promote, encour age and build the economy in this area, Gerald Latham, new president of the chamber, told the chamber roundtable luncheon at the Jackson hotel Monday. Jackson county is growing and it is predicted that in 20 years, Medford will have a population of 50,000, Latham said. For every seven persons added to the county's popula tion by natural birth there are five immigrants. This is compared to a state-wide av erage of two immigrants to every 10 natural births, which means that Jackson county's adult population is growing faster than that in the rest of the state To meet this population growth there must be a grow ing and expanding economy and it is this latter with which the chamber is concerned, ac cording to Latham. The cham ber, he said, will attempt to foster the economic growth by encouraging outside indus try to move into the area and by facilitating and improving the means of transportation to and from this area to im prove the ease of marketing local products. Explains Plans Latham explained the chamber's plans and projects for the coming year. The chamber has a budget this year of $42,000 compared to last year's budget of 327,000 and it will attempt to increase its worth and services by that much, he said. The chamber is divided up into seven main divisions of study and under each of these are committees dealing with specific projects. I Carlos M orris 11 lj I I: 1 Managing partner of Conger H Morris to assist you at HI your time of need Conger-zMorrisi FUNERAL DIRECTORS . West Main at Sixth II Ashland Hillcrest III Mortuary Chapel . Illl 4th & C. Sts. North Phoenix Ashland Road I "Your TV WEATHERMAN" I KBES-TV. Monday thru Friday 5:00 p.m. I il er"ker tiona Selected Morticians by Invitation Republicans from President Eisenhower down h e a pe d troversy. Mitchell declared, "Without the vice-president we would not have had a set tlement." Worked as Team Nixon and Mitchell worked as a team in hammering out the agreement in a series of secret meetings with manage ment and union leaders. Some eight or 10 of the meetings were held at Nixon's home here. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Nixon initiated the delicate backstage discussions last July. Both sides approached him as an intermediary when he attended the All-Star base ball game in Pittsburgh. Rep. Roman C. Pucinski (D- Program The first main division is the commercial division which reflects the economy of the area. Under this are commit tees on retail sales, tourists, recreation and convention, ag riculture, forestry, and min ing. The study of retail sales in Jackson county shows that this area has exhibited an outstanding performance in presenting products of good quality and value. "This is shown by the fact" that al though Jackson county has a slightly lower per capita in come in comparison to the rest of the state, 51,491 to $1,601, it nevertheless has a higher per capita purchase of retail trade goods. The lesser amount of per capita income can be explained, Latham said, by the fact that this area is lacking in industrial productivity. The higher retail sales reflects the quality of goods available in the county. Purpose of Committee It will be the purpose of the committee on retail sales to promote a unified program which will help merchants in this area and business in general. Another committee deals with tourists. Latham said that Jackson county received an income of $5Ji million from tourists last year. This sum can be broken down to approximately $5.50 per tour ist who stays slightly more than three days. The commit tee will seek to attract more tourists, he added. The recreation and conven tion committee seeks to . at tract more and larger con ventions to the area, and to provide delegates and tourists with recreation facilities while they are here. The chamber praise on Nixon for ending the eight-month-old steel con Ill.) charged that the steel set tlement was arranged to give political advantage to Nixon, who apparently will get the GOP presidential nomination. Political Camouflage Rep. Ray J. Madden (D Ind.) said, "Nixon personally had as much to do with set tling the strike as I had." Madden, whose district in cludes the steel center of Gary, said any reports that Nixon arranged the steel agreement were "just politi cal camouflage to build him up" for the Republican presi dential nomination. Mitchell flatly denied that campaign politics had any thing to do with the agreement. Outlined served 19 conventions last year and the area realized an income of $275,000 from these. There are also committees on agriculture and forestry. Latham pointed out that the latter industry represents the greatest potential for expand ing the area's economy. Another committee deals with mining and is mainly concerned with the use of sand and gravel in the coun ty, although there are some prospects for other mining in this area which are being studied, according to Latham. Second Division The second division is the public relations division, which sponsors such activities as the roundtable and the greeters who welcome new businesses and help them to integrate into the community, and publicizes the chamber through television, radio and the press. : . A third division is the busi ness progress division which endeavors to attract new in dustries through the new in dustries committee. Any new industry of size demands to know facts about a prospec tive community in which it may establish a plant, Latham said. They want to know everything from the commu nity s political atmosphere to its labor-management rela tions, and it is these facts about Jackson county and Medford that the committee tries to provide. Other committees are the statistics and research com mittee, the miscellaneous en terprise committee, which as sists the service businesses, and the visitation of local businesses committee which seeks to make one . business man aware of what is going on in a neighboring or com petitive business. Public Affairs Another division is the pub lic affairs division. Under this comes a committee on gov ernment operations through which the chamber seeks to acquaint itself and make itself felt in taxation policies and other government programs. Under the same committee will come the businessmen's course in, "action in practical politics", which will start next Tuesday night at the Medford High school auditorium and will deal with industry in politics, political parties, cam paigns, precincts, businessmen in politics, and other related political subjects. Latham pointed out that the course is part of a National Cham ber of Commerce, program which seeks to acquaint busi nessmen with politics and government in which they have an interest. Also under the public af fairs division is the education committee which is responsi ble for the chamber's program in the schools and is working on the possibility of estab lishing a Junior Achievement organization in Medford. Water Resources Group Another committee is the water resources committee which looks to the develop ment of water in Jackson county. Water resources are the county's greatest natural asset along with lumber, La tham said. The committee makes itself aware of what the government is doing to wards developing the water resources in this area and is taking an active part in the Rogue Basin water resources development study being un dertaken by the government. There are also finance, transportation, and member ship divisions in the cham ber. Under the membership division is the award commit tee which gives achievement awards to persons doing some thing constructive in our com munity in the way of business, Latham said. Ken Baker, chairman of the chamber roundtable, encour aged each of the approximate ly 35 persons attending the luncheon to bring a friend next Monday, as the round table is embarking on a pro gram to solicit greater attend ance at the meetings. GLORY ROLE OVER Margarethe Bertel- Roses in Pasadena, Calif. Now she is just son, left, can be forgiven a small amount of one of the students who returned from daydreaming in her philosophy class at Christmas vacation. But she still has those Pasadena City College. Last Friday she was memories that linger on. Queen Margarethe of the Tournament of (UPI Telephoto) Medford Regional Edition Industrials Break Into High Ground New York -(UPD-The indus trial stock average broke into new high ground again during the first hour of trading to day. Support gathered from the opening with buyers center ing their attention on stocks included in the averages. The industrials moved over the 680-mark, topping the previ ous peak of 679.36 reached on the last day of 1959. However, in Wall Street, the only high that counts is the one that comes at the close. Steels dropped most of their opening gains during the first hour. Youngstown was off a point, and U.S. Steel and Re public lost fractions. Bethle hem was unchanged after a firm opening. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (LTD - Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 679.06, off 0.30; 20 railroads 157.18, up 3.13; 15 utilities 87.61; off Ohio Governor Vows Delegates To Back Kennedy Columbus, Ohio tUPD Ohio today became the first big state to back the presidential candidacy of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Democratic Gov. Michael V. DiSalle warmly endorsed Ken nedy. The governor said he would campaign in the Ohio primary, pledged to lead the 56-vote Buckeye delegation, the fourth largest, to the Democratic national conven tion behind the Kennedy can didacy. Others Invited - ; ; The governor invited other Democrats to compete in the May 3 primary, but none was expected to take him up on it. DiSalle, like Kennedy, a Catholic, said a DiSalle-Ken-nedy ticket was "a political impossibility for obvious rea sons." He said he would not ac cept a Washington job If Ken nedy becomes President. The former federal price ad ministrator said he doubted that religion would play an important role in the selection of a candidate or in the elec tion. But he conceded, "It can't help Kennedy." Expected in Primary The senator, who conferred with DiSalle a number of times and made several speak ing tours of the state in 1959, was expected to enter the Ohio primary even if DiSalle chose to compete against him as a favorite son. No other large state Demo cratic organization has an nounced its support for any candidate. Democrats in New York, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania all have said they are awaiting developments. FOR RENT OR SALE Adding Machines - Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES "Standard Portable Electric Ask About Our Rental Purchas Options UT'C Ma,"orc' Offics Equipment Co. VUlVjil 19 ;"Voight will giv you bettor d.al" 41 South Grape Phone SP 2-4100 . - EASY PARKING Tribune Page 2 0.22, and 65 stocks 220.24, up 0.72. Sales Monday were about 3,990,000 shares com pared with 3,810,000 shares Thursday. Monday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 1132 Alum Co. Am 1062 American Can .... . . 43 '.4 American Motors 83 3, AT&T 80i Anaconda Copper , 644 Armco Steel 75 ?s Bendix Aviation . 73 V2 Bethlehem Steel 563a Boeing Airi 31', '4 Caterpillar Corp 33 ','2 Chrysler Corp 69 Vt Firestone . 139 'x General Electric 965,8 General Foods 1033,i General Motors 54 'i Georgia Pacific 50's Graham Paige 258 Greyhound 203, Gulf Oil 35 Vx Homestake Mining 42 Idaho Power 48 8 I. B. M 437 Int. Paper 134 T'a Johns Manville 49 Katy 5i Kaiser Ind 16 'a Kennecott Copper .. 9o3 Lockheed Aircraft 318 Montana Power Co 22 ?i Montgomery Ward 52 V2 Nat'l Biscuit - 55 Va New York Central 30 i Pac Gas & Elec 63 3A Jenney. J. C. 121 'i Penn ER 16 i Radio Corporation ; '. 6838 Richfield Oil 77 Safeway 37 ; Sears i 50 i Shell Oil 85 Socony Mobil Oil - 415s Southern Co. : 39 58 Southern Pacific 23 i Standard California 49 'i Standard Indiana - 43 3i Standard N. 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LOW RESISTANCE Clinton, Iowa-OJPD - Robert Prodzinski, 29, was fined $100 Monday after he told the judge he didn't know a truck belonged to the dog pound when he let some. dogs out of it. He said he was taking a walk, heard dogs whining and couldn't resist freeing them. PARACHUTES TO SAFETY Elgin Air Force Base, Fla.-(DPD-Capt. James E. Myers of Grand Chain, 111., parachuted to safety Monday when his F-100 jet caught fire and crashed near Crestview, Fla. Nortlco Stennorett Steel Industry Plans To Hold Line on Prices Pittsburgh -(UPD- An assur ance by "big steel' to hold the line on prices for the pres ent appeared today to shelter the nation's economy from a new inflationary spiral. U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger M. Blough said his firm planned "to continue the gen eral level of its prices for the immediate future." Joseph P. Block, chairman of Inland Steel Co., announc ed in Chicago his firm "has no present plans to change its prices." U.S. Steel is the industry's traditional pace-setter in the price pattern. Abrupt settlement of the longest steel dispute in his tory Monday provides a half million steelworkers total hourly increases of 39 cents in wages and other benefits over a 2VS year period. ' It was estimated this boost would add $600 million a year to industry's labor costs in the 30 -month period. But Blough estimated the figure at "well over a billion dol lars." - The industrialist added, "if the development of competi tive and all other factors af fecting prices dictates a change in our situation, we will be necessarily required to take whatever steps are then indicated." Cost Increase Estimated Steel magazine, the metal working weekly, estimated steelmaking costs would go up $16 a ton over the period of the new contract. It said price increases likely would come on a selective basis in an attempt to prevent across the board increases. United Steelworkers Presi dent David J. McDonald hail ed the settlement as "non inflationary" in an address Monday night before a union rally in Buffalo, N.Y. . "It's good for the country and everybody is happy," he said. Cattle Nutrition School Planned ' Cattle nutrition will be dis cussed at a meeting in the breezeway auditorium on the third floer of the Jackson county courthouse Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m., according to Earle Jossy, county extension agent. : This will be a preliminary meeting to discuss plans for a three-day refresher course on cattle feeding given by Ore gon State college specialists in animal husbandry. There will be no charge for the school, Jossy said. Any one interested may attend both the preliminary meeting and the school. Mbard Bros. WILL CLOSED) (for Inventory WedL-Thurs. January 6 and 7 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CALL SP 2-6189 EocEieffeDDer Dindacates IDrafft At Convention Might I3e (TO Albany, N.Y. -IUPB- Gov.; Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the role of a stand-by candidate for the Republican presiden tial nomination, indicated Monday he might accept a convention draft. The New York governor, al though certain that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has the GOP nomination sew ed up at the present time, is standing by in the event con vention delegates have a change of heart at Chicago. Silent on Oregon Primary , After indicating at his news conference Monday that he might accept a convention draft if one were offered, he declined to say whether he would definitely withdraw from the Oregon state pri mary. He declined to reveal whether he would issue a "won't accept, won't run" statement. He declined to state wheth er he would attend the GOP convention as a favorite son candidate. When asked by a reporter Portland Police Seek To Solve Rash of Thefts Portland (UPD Portland police intensified their efforts today to solve a rash of bur glaries that has broken out in homes in the West Side hills area. Police said the same men may have perpetrated the thefts in which three couples who surprised burglars in their homes were robbed at gunpoint. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas .A. Motsyn were the latest to find gunmen in their home. They told police they returned home late Sunday to find an armed intruder in their liv ing room. He told them he hadn't taken anything, and only wanted out. Second Gunman After he left by the front door, Mrs. Motsyn discovered a second gunman in her kitch en while he was searching a small safe. She told police he threatened her with a revol ver, then backed out the kitch en door. An upstairs bedroom had been ransacked, but ap parently the only loot was about $25 taken from Mrs. Motsyn's purse. " - i Last week, gunmen con fronted two other couples in their homes in the West Port land hills. Several other bur glaries have been reported in the area. Eugene Woman Arrested in City Mildred Joan Tarbell, Eu gene, was arrested by city police Saturday about li:zo p.m. and confined to the city jail on a charge of driving under the influence of intox icating beverages. ' Witnesses told police a car operated by Mildred Tarbell struck a parked car register ed to Leo Vilarino, route 2, box 428A, Medford, in a park ing lot at "1909 North Pacific highway at 11:20 p.m. and drove away without stopping. Her car was clocked up to speeds of 85 miles per hour by city police and reportedly struck another parked car while traveling on Court st. A city police car succeeded in stopping her car and after what police report was a slight struggle, they took her to the city jail. DECLINES CANDIDACY Chicago-(UPD-Mayor Richard J. Daley Monday night de clined to become a candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for governor of Illinois because "I feel I can't leave unfinished the work I have started in Chicago." BE whether he could be drafted to help the GOP ticket, Rock efeller said: "There have been a lot of drafts in this country." Draft Not Aniicipated There was no immediate comment from Nixon. GOP National Chairman Thurston B. Morton said that although "anything is possible in the realm of politics," he did not anticipate a Rockefeller draft. But in Los Angeles a lead er of the "Californians for Rockefeller" organiza t i o n s Monday night said he was en couraged by the governor's statement. - Chairman Charles Lewsad der said the-group would con tinue to work toward Rocke JANUARY WOMEN'S ONLY O : REED CROSS BLACK BROWN BLU E PATENTS-RED CALF SUEDE MEDIUM HEELS, HI HEELS, PUMPS, STRAPS BROKEN LOTS GOOD SIZES ALL THESE SHOES ARE FROM OUR REGULAR STOCK An Opportunity to Save on 'These Famous Shoes. CADGES THESE ARE BROKEN LOTS IN CASUALS REAL VALUES, Regular to $12.95 SPECIAL GROUP RE0 (DROSS Broken Lots, Good Sizes. A Real Bargain SALE STARTS 9 A.M. WEDNESDAY ALL SALES FINAL NO EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS M ir if d I d SHOE "SO. OREGON'S OLDEST SHOE CONCERN" 221 E. Main feller's nomination. Lewsad der said he was "not anti- Nixon, but pro-Rockefeller." He said he did not feel Nixon could be elected to the presi dency and that Rockefeller could. Highly Unlikely But California Republican State Chairman George W. Milias said, "I think a draft would be highly unlikely with Dick Nixon so far ahead. However, there would be a great deal of support to draft Rockefeller for the vice presi dency if he could be budged. There never was much sup port for Rockefeller in Cali fornia, and I imagine there is less now than ever." CLEARANCE . CO. Phone SP 2-2123 Sole (O)
