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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960 10 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. Nationwide Rail Strike Possibility Appears Removed Washington - (DPI) - The Dos nihility of a nationwide rail- rnari strike before 1962 ao peared to have been removed today by a labor-management agreement to submit worK rules disputes to a 15-man presidential commission. The agreement to set up the commission was hammered out late Monday and made public Tuesday. Keprescnia lives of the major eastern southern and western rail roads and the five brother hoods of operating employees signed the agreement. The commission is sched nlprf to make its rcDort - wnicn will noi Dino. ciuicr side - bv Dec. 1. 1961. In thp meantime, while it is in vestigating labor-management differences over, work prac tices, it also will try to me diate the issues. Both Sides Accept Both sides accepted the commission as a temporary substitute for strike and lock out delay procedures in the Railway Labor Act. Conse quently, industry and union spokesmen said a nationwide strike before 1962 appeared to be impossible. The spokesmen also ruled out the chance of a work stoppage involving non-operating employees. These work ers earlier this year reached new contract terms which run until Nov. 1, 1961. That also Is the expiration dale for the present wage agreement cov ering the 250,000 operating employees. Procedures under the Rail way Labor Act would lake at least two months, putting off any work stoppage until 1962 at the earliest. Agreement to set up the commission was announced by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. To bring the com mission Into being, he had met four times with a 12-man committee representing both ides. Ike Appoints Five The study group will begin Its inquiry, possibly with pub lic hearings, between Jan. 1 and Jan. 15. President Eisen hower is to appoint the five public members of the com mission, one of whom will be the chairman. Management and labor each will appoint five members Various work rules arid pay practices are at issue. One major change the railroads have pressed for is elimination of firemen on diesel locomu tives on freight trains. The firemen have replied they are essential to safety even though they no longer are needed to shovel coal. While the commission's recommendations will not be binding, Mitchell said they "will have great weight." Hp emphasized "this is not com pulsory arbitration." Hailing the agreement as a "monumental step forward in one of our basic industries," Mitchell said it was "an indi cation of maturity in labor management relations which is unparallcd in American history." Three Killed in Oregon Traffic By United Press International Traffic accidents, two in Umatilla county, claimed the lives of three persons in Ore gon Tuesday. The victims were William R. Strother, 32, of Portland; Janet Ferris, 16, Pendleton, and . Clyde Mayer, 25, La Grande, all killed In single vehicle accidents.' Stale police said Strother was killed when his car went out of control and hit an open ditch north of Cedar . Hills. Strother was alone in the vehicle. Miss Ferris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fer ris of Pendleton, lost her life three miles west of Helix on a Umatilla county road when her auto failed to make a curve and flipped over. The girl, the only occupant of the car, was killed instantly. Mayer was killed In an ac cident on Highway 30 about miles cast of Meacham. State police said the gravel loader he was driving went off the highway, turned over and crushed him. ITCH r 2 WORTH TWO IN BUSH Little Michele Griffith, 2, believes that "a hummingbird in the hand is worth two in the bush" as she feeds "Susan" a liquid diet from an eye-dropper. Michele has had the unusual pet for about 10 days.. (UP! Telephoto) Coast Guard Finds Adventuresome Boys Sailing Pacific Long Beach, Calif. (UPD A 255-foot Coast Guard cutter with 120 men aboard today caught up with three adven turesome teen-agers sailing a stolen 30-foot ketch in the vast Pacific. The cutter Poncharlrain lo cated the Alpna I bobbing about 195 miles south of here and 100 miles off the Baja California coast near the Guadalupe Island, the appar ent destination of the youths. Although they had been at sea since Saturday night when they took the ship from Newport Beach near here, they all t appeared In good condition, the Coast Guard reported. They will be returned here aboard the Ponchartrain to face theft charges. The Alpha I will be towed back. The craft belonged to the uncle- iri-law of Larry Rcilz, 14, one of the three. The youths, Larry, Nick Brisseau, 15, and Mike Mas sei, 14, all of Newport Beach, had told friends before leav ing that they wanted to see the world and seek their "fortune." ! Only Larry had any sailing experience, said his father. Dr. M. J. Rcilz, master of the Alpha I. A Naval plane had circled the small sailing craft from late Tuesday until the Pon chartrain arrived, careful to keep out of rifle range be cause one of the boys pointed a rifle at a Coast Guard plane earlier.' . The rifle pointing incident in which no shots were fired occurred when a Coast Guard plane sighted the craft Tuesday ; afternoon and swooped over Its deck to drop Fulbright Claims Nixon Expressed Regret to Nikita Washington 0JPD - Sen. J. William Fulbright, (D-Ark.), says he has been reliably in formed that Vice President Richard M. Nixon expressed regret to Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev over the tim ing of a captive nations reso lution approved by Congress. Fulbright's statement ap peared designed to counter the GOP presidential nomi nee's repeated criticism of Sen. John F. Kennedy for say ing the United States should have expressed regrets to Khrushchev over the U2 flight if this would have saved the Paris summit meet ing. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Police Seek Man In Death of Girl Eugene-flJPI) - The sheriff's office sent out a state-wide bulletin Tuesday to locate a man it wants to question about the death of 7-year-old Alice Louise Lee. '., Sheriff Ed Elder said the man was one of the first per sons questioned in the case. He added there were several persons officers wanted to question again The little girl's body was found faced down and par tially buried with leaves sev eral days after she' vanished from a beanfield. Police said she had been strangled. a message ordering the boys to halt. They kept sailing for a short time, but- by 10 p'.m. they pulled along side a freighter, the Hurricane, . in the area and reported they were all right and dropping their sails to await the Coast Guard cutter Larry's mother, while re lieved that her son had been found safely, said: "They shouldn't be made but as heroes. This is a very serious thing they've done." The Coast Guard reported that lis extensive sea and air search for the boys cost an estimated $30,000; Committee, said his informant asserted that Nixon told Khru shchev during his visit to Rus sia last summer that neither he nor President Eisenhower would have chosen to have the resolution approved just before the trip. "Mr. Nixon added, 'After all, we are not that stupid'," Fulbright quoted his source as saying. The captive nations resolu tion, which was approved by Eisenhower, expressed hope that the Soviet satellite na tions would be liberated. Fulbright made his state ment Tuesday in a letter to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter renewing his de mand that the transcript of the 'Nixon-Khrushchev talks be made public. He made a similar request Oct. 10. -Release Important The senator said it was im portant that the entire tran script of the meeting be re leased. So far, he said, only parts of the transcript favor able to Njxon had been "leak ed", to reporter Earl Mazo of the New York Herald Trib une, author of a Nixon biog raphy. ; Fulbright said additional information about the Nixon Khrushchev conversations ap parently was "being released piecemeal to serve political purposes." Trial Starts For Accused Killer San Diego, Calif.-IUPD-The trial of a Lafayette,: La., man accused of murdering his brother-in-law opened Tues day in U. S. District Court with testimony from a dozen government witnesses. Percy J. Catalon, 23, an acting Marine Corp sergeant at Camp Pendleton, . was ac cused of fatally stabbing Gary Baum, 23, of Jefferson, Ore., April 30. ' The defendant's wife, Bev erly Ann Baum Catalon, 21, was not allowed to testify by the defense under the ruling a wife cannot testify against her. husband Authorities said Mrs. Catalon was present when the slaying occurred in the couple's trailer parked, at Camp Pendleton. 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