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Hoff a Accused of 'Complete Dishonesty' in B aokets Report Washington- (LTD -The Sen ate Rackets Committee, clos ing its books on three years of investigation, accused Teamster President James R. Hoffa today o "complete dis honesty" and contempt for law and order. But the committee also charged that "lack of moral courage and sense of public responsibility 'on the part of employers" was one of the biggest contributing factors in labor-management corruption. The committee made its charges in the first part of a four-volume final report on its 1957-59 hearings. Hoffa will have an entire volume de voted to him. Today's volume encompass ed charges of: Underworld infiltration of wholesale newspaper and magazine distribution in New York which the committee described as a "shocking potential threat to freedom of the press." -"Labor peace" payments to teamster and longshoremen officials by the New York Times, New York Mirror, American Weekly, and the Neo-Gravure Printing Co., Weehawken, N. J., which printed their Sunday supple ments. -Secondary boycotts in which unions, particularly the teamsters, have "capricious use" of power against business firms which were not directly involved in disputes with them. - "Tribute" payments to sheet metal workers union of ficials in Chicago by contract ors and participation by union leaders in "rigging of bids on city contracting projects." The eight-member special committee said political spending by both unions' and management "should be thor oughly investigated." Today's volume was ap proved by all four Democrats and all four Republicans on the committee. There will be a separate Republican report later on the United Auto Workers. The remaining two volumes will deal with Hoffa, the Chi cago Taxicab Union, criminal syndicate cases, and coin ma chine and jukebox rackets. MEDFORD.. tJTRIBUNE Regional Edition Page 2A FILL-IN or replace NOW! Round Out Your Set broken items 21 Brands Represented in Our Large Dinnerware Dept. All Our Lines Are "Open Stock" f j I BOOKS. GIFTS RECQRDST Electronics Pace Advance in Stocks On Broad Front New York- (UPD - Stocks ad vanced on a broad front to day. Electronics paced the up turn with gains of around 3 in Motorola and more than a point in General Time, Am- pex, Litton and Texas Instru ments. Steels and autos also found support in initial trading. Steels continued to benefit from Thursday's forecast by Republic Steel that the com pany's earnings and produc tion will hit new peaks this year. Youngstown, U.S. Steel and Republic were all up a half or more. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York (BPD Dow Jonei final slock averages: 30 industrials 628.51, up 4.78; 20 railroads 151.48, up 0.61; 15 utilities 86.41, up 0.40, and 65 stocks 207. 91, up 1.29. Sales Thursday were about 3,600.000 shares compared with 2,740,000 shares Wednesday. Thursday's price on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 53 Alum Co. Am. 92 American Can 40 American Motors AT&T Anaconda Copper . Armco steel Bendix Aviation . Bethlehem Steel . Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp. 87 57, 66 i 72 49 1,2 27 30 "i 57 Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtis Wright Dow Chemical Du Font Eastman Kodak Firestone 44 47 - 23 - 89 232 General Electric General Foods General Motors , Georgia Pacific cranam aiee Greyhound (xd) uuu on . Homestake Mining . Idaho Power I. B. M. Int. Paper Johns Manville Katy Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Montgomery Ward man Biscuit New York Central . Pac Gas & Elec Penney. J. C. -101 - 42 1,'2 - 90 106 46 45,i . 2 21 29 41 47 421 114 50 ' 5 87 23 47 52 27 62 113 i.i Penn RR 15 Radio Corporation . Richfield Oil Safeway bears Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co Southern Pacific Standard California Standard Indiana Standard MJ. 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BuylAffi30gQau3V(B(2)...IP Q Only American car to raise its quality and lower its pricel Your Local Mercury Dealer Today I MEDFORD MOTORS, Inc. 225 South Riverside Harvey Aluminum Tax Hearing Goes Into Sixth Day Salem (DPD A State Tax Commission hearing on a 1958 tax wrangle with Harvey Aluminum Company of The Dalles entered its sixth day today. . The company contends that the true cash value of the plant at The Dalles is $19, 748,675 - and thus the basis for payable tax while the state figures it at $40,380, 945. The Wasco county assessor arrived at the larger total and Harvey appealed to the Wasco County Board of Equalization, which ruled that the lower figure was applicable. Lesser Tax Paid Harvey paid its tax, about $225,000, based on the lesser valuation and the Wasco as ssesor appealed the lower fig ure to the Commission. The near $20 million valua tion was determined by a pri vate appraisal firm, Marshall Stevens, using a theory of "economic obsolesence." The state insists that its own ap praisal is correct. Harvey completed its case Thursday, following testi mony by appraisal experts, and company and county of ficials. Will Evaluate Testimony Dean Ellis, chairman of the State Tax Commission, said he expects the hearing to last through the middle of next week. The Commission will then evaluate the testimony and issue a ruling in the case. Ellis said that due to length of the testimony, this might not be for many weeks. Harvey could appeal the final commission decision to Circuit Court. McKay Dam Bill Pending in House Washington -(UPD- A Senate passed bill to change the name of Detroit dam in Ore gon to Douglas McKay dam was pending before the House today. The House Public Works Committee approved the mea sure. The next step would be House approval and then Sen ate agreement on a change made by the House commit tee. The Senate last year passed a bill to name Green Peter dam after McKay, late inter ior secretary and Oregon gov ernor. Subsequently, sponsors of the measure decided to have McKay honored by re naming Detroit dam and asked to amend the bill ac cordingly in the House. RAILROAD MAN DIES New York -(DPI)- John M. Fitzgerald, 82, former vice chairman of the Eastern Rail road President's Conference in charge of public relations, died Thursday. . wf0 BUS WRECKED A Greyhound bus lies broken in half against the trunk of a large tree after plunging off. Highway 199 35 miles east of Crescent City Thursday. Eleven persons were injured, none of them criti cally. The driver blamed the accident on a faulty steering mechanism. The tree pre vented the bus from plunging into the Smith river. (UPI Telephoto) Dixie Bloc To Continue Against Civil Rights Bill Washington flJPD Southern senators vowed today to con tinue their talkathon against civil rights "for a lot . of weeks" despite the threat of 24-hour Senate sessions. Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) told United Press Internation al the Dixie bloc expected to get some unintentional help from civil rights backers in the South's effort to avoid a showdown. "You can't silence a sena tor," Ervin commented. "They might not debate this civil rights issue but they will want to talk on other sub jects." Can Keep Going , Ervin pointed out that some of the longest speeches in a 12-hour and 18 minute session that ended at 10:18 n.m. Thursday were made by sup porters of rights legislation who spoke on other matters. "As many people as are op posed to this legislation," Er vin added, "we can keep go ing for a lot of weeks." Sen. Strom Thurmond (D S.C.) who holds the Senate's filibuster record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, pledged that Southerners would "fight to the finish." BURIED AT SEA Portsmouth, Eng. (DPD Lady Edwina Mountbatten was buried at sea Thursday in a simple 15-minute cere mony conducted by Dr. Geof frey Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury. The countess died Sunday at Jesselton, North Borneo. rassenqers escape Serious Injury as Bus Leaves Highway Crescent City, Calif. - (DPD - Twelve persons escaped with only minor injuries Thursday when a Greyhound bus plung ed down a 50-foot embank ment and landed upside down Egg Classification Authority Lacking Salem (DPD The Oregon Department of Agriculture does not have the authority to classify incubated eggs as inferior or adulterated, ac cording to Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. The opinion was requested by the Department. Thornton said that the Legislature de creed that incubated eggs were suitable for eating though the eggs must be branded or stamped with the word "incubated." Petitions for Nixon Being Circulated Here Petitions to put Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon on the Oregon ballot are being dis tributed in the Medford area by O. M. Anderson, Mrs. James Ragland, Republican Central Committee chairman, has announced. Party members who are in terested in circulating a peti tion should call Anderson at SPring 2-4598. A deadline of March 7 has been set for com pletion of the petitions which aim at a total of 2,000 signa tures in the Medford area in support of Nixon, Mrs. Rag land said. against a pine tree a few feet above a stream. The bus was on a local shuttle run" between Crescent City and Grants Pass, Ore., when an apparent failure in the steering mechanism oc curred on a winding section of Highway 199. Driver Delray Marquez, 33, Clackamas, Ore., and Jack Schefer, 27, an Air Force medic, carried the injured pas sengers up the steep incline to the highway. Three of the passengers James Cleary of Fort Bragg, Nancy Collings of Eureka, and Amy Burton of Seattle remained at Seaside Hospital for observation. Treated and released, in addition to Mar quez and Schaefer, were: Hazel Hall, Fresno: Mable Downing, Lyons, Ore.; Mrs. Elva Smith, Dallas, Ore., and her three young grandchil dren, Carmen, Debbie and Kathey Smith; and Mrs. A. Schelenbaum, Grants Pass, Bargaining Rights May Be on Ballot Portland - (UPD - The Com mittee for Promoting Civil Employees Rights Thursday filed an initiative petition to place a charter amendment on the November ballot which would give city employees col lective bargaining. The petitioners will have to get 21,841 valid signatures by Aug. 19 to get the measure on the ballot. THE CROPPED JACKET SUIT Exceptional , 1595 at I J hanting young suits! Each with its own ghtfully short jacket, superbly tailored , . t, and the look of utter nonchalance t comes with perfect put-togetherness . in silky nub herringbone tweed. Beige mint. 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