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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON IBUNK 'Evcryuue in SuuUiern Oregon Retell Tht MtlLTrlbunes frublKr.td Dally except Saturday b VEm-ORD PRINTING CO 33 N-vth Fir St . Ph SP 2-6141 ROBFRT W RUHL. Editor HIRE OREV AdvK-Uslna, Manafer OrPMJ) T LATHAM Bus Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR Mrm Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HA3KY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor mciiAKn IF.WF.TT Sooru Editor OLIvn STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation iwgr An Tnriinindent Newspaper nerrd as second class matter at Mertford. Oregon under Act ot March 3. 18(17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hy Mail In Advance. Copy 100 Dally and Sunday 1 vear SIS 00 Dallv and Sunday fl moa 800 Dallv and Sunday 3 mol 4.25 Knnrinv flnlv One vear 34.20 By Carrier- In Advance Mcd!rro Ashland Central Point Eaale Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shadv Cove RoRUe Rlv r Tnl.nl mid on tnnlor rnilf Dally and Sundav 1 vear I1B00 Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copv 10c All Terma Cash InAdvanc o?cTal Paper of city of MVdfnrd Official Paper of Jackson County Unl'ted"Preaa International Full Leased Wire O.PJ Telephoto Newnqlcturea "SSMBER OF AUDIT BimEAtT" OF CIRCULATIONS Xdverttslnsf 'Representative: . WEST HOLIDAY CC INC Of fices In New York Chicago De. trolt. San Franclnco Loa Angeles. Seallle. Portland St Louis At. larta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORI Al iKjnnisnEnmE Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30 40 and 50 vea'S ago. 10 YEARS AGO Doc. 21. 1950 (Thursday) The Mcdco logging train jumped off its tracks early yesterday when it hit a defec tive switch near the Biddle rd. railroad crossing. Leaders of the Jackson County Community Chest -which is still $18,000 short of Its goal - today made an ap peal for county residents to make Christmas, the occasion for gifts to complete the quota. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 21. 1940 (Saturday) Members of the Medtord Klwanls club and their wives will sponsor a Christmas par ty Monday for inmates of the Jackson county poor farm. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Emil Britt of J'vllle towned in mid' week, and was Ills old self." 30 YEARS AGO Doc. 21, 1930 (Sunday) Four persons were injured in an auto accident on the Pacific highway near here yesterday. A Jacksonville city council man has asked the county court to let Jacksonville law enforcement officers lodge their prisoners In the county jail. 0 YEARS AGO Doc. 21, 1920 (Monday) Six men were arrested last night In a raid by prohibition agents on illicit stills oper 1 atlng In the county. The Bodge home on Ross lane was destroyed by fire last night. 50 YEARS AGO Doc. 21, 1910 (Wednesday) According to Washington, D.C., sources it will be some time yet before a site for the proposed $200,000 federal building here is selected. In the Ashland city election yesterday, K. P. Nell was elected mayor and prohibition was endorsed. What's Your 1,0.7 Nina m Ian ,ji,m,I aiina.!. seven ol eight Is excellent; fivo oi is is aooa. 1. Correct the sentence: We have been to church." 2. Bible: Antiochus Epi phanes, who wrought suffer ing and cruelty upon the He brews, was king of what coun try? 3. Does the U.S. Constitu tion provide for the resigna tion of the President? 4. Is eiderdown gathered from the female or from both sexes of cider ducks? 5. Aliens may, or may not, acquire patents in the U.S.? 8. The first U.S. President to use the "pocket veto" was Lincoln, Monroe, or Madison? . 7. A place where coins are manufactured Is called a -what? 8. Is the goldfinch a bird, fish or signet ring? 9. Eugene Talmadge was governor of which Southern State? 10. Was Stalin, when alive, older or younger than Presi dent Truman? Answers: 1. "W have boon at church." 2. Syria. 3. Yes. (Article II. Section,- 1). 4. Only tht femslfl, 5. May. 8. Madison (for veto of a natural lialion law in July, 1812). 7. Mint. 8. Bird. 9. Georgia. 10. Older. ME WORD' Right? A letter arrived the other day, commenting on a Potluck paragraph which had commented in turn on an orchardist's suit against a sawmill for dirtying things up. The letter was from a man who arrived here a couple of months ago, and is now living in the Medford hotel waiting for Rogue Valley Manor to open. In part, he said : "... I have a very real complaint ... I have ref erence to the awful smudging my 'covered wagon' gels ('49 vintage but still sturdy and reliable Plymouth in which I followed my own 'Oregon Trail' all the way from Long Island), and also the other cars in the hotel's parking lot. One week in the lot and my car looks a sight-as bad as after crossing the range coun try. And that 'fall-out' doesn't do my clothes any good (only the cleaners benefit), nor my respiritory organs-nor anybody else's. "One or more of the public authorities concerned with such matters have a job to do here. Right?" DIGHT. Our correspondent, beintr a relative new comer, may be in for a season rolls around, and the awful black smoke rises from the orchards as the orchardists burn oil to save their pears from freezing. But he, and other newcomers to the valley, should know that something IS being done, even though it is being done v-e-r-y, v-e-r-y slowly. Both orchardists and sawmill owners are moving in the direction of air pollution control. CO is the city. And even the county court pays lip service to the idea that air pollution, both from mills and orchards in season, should be cleaned up (al though they tend to throw up their hands in hor ror when it is proposed that THEY should actu ally DO anything about it). Still another organization, the Jackson Coun ty Air Pollution Abatement League, has served a useful function in keeping alive pressure for better controls. (And we might be permitted to add, paren thetically and a bit wistfully, that the Mail Trib une has been yelling about enroaching air pol lution for lo these many years.) J70R the benefit of our nthpi npwcnmpi'a nnrl who tend to forget about smudging seasons, here I he orchardists for pots which burn oil directly in the air, and throw off tremendous amounts the process. More recently, there heating pots of a different type, which burn the oil more thoroughly, and as a result throw otf less smoke. But they are far more expensive than the simple open pots. And to convert thousands of acres from one to the other, all at once, is prohibitively expensive. DUT, under an ."grecment which is virtually industry-wide, they have consented to replace about 20 per cent each program. Thus, by 1964, the hope is that orchard heating will no longer be smudging in the old, dirty, oil-and-tire-burning sense. The mills, too, are making progress notably the Medford Corporation, Kogap, the three major ' several of these iirms have invested sub stantial amounts in reducing smoke and fly-ash and cinders from their operations. And, as the economy products become' more valuable, less and less of the "wastes such as mill-ends and sawdust and bark will go up in flames and more will be usable. (Examples are fireplace dust, and Multi-Bark THE city of Medford O ril'a'l 1 11 Va -. Iirll1s 1 1 T trolling air pollution within the city limits, and wmcn also would lurnish cooperation with the State ty tor control outside the A series of conferences with industries and firms and organizations in tne nope ot iinding widespread support. But the fact remains area will get just about control as tliey demand So we welcome our correspondent to the ranks ot those who believe dirt in the air is unnecessary, and undesirable, and that something can and should be done about it. And who are. willing to say so. b.A. Idle Wonder We may have a warned sense of the nronrie ties, but we can't avoid wonderinc what would be the reaction of Secretary jr. snouia ne receive a letter like this: Dear Mr. Appling: Thank you for your spirited response lo the critics ot (he Nativity scone on the Capitol Mall. Your devo tion to religious freedom Is commendable.. As a result, I am emboldened to request space on the Mall of a size similar to the Nativity scene for a display sponsored by a few civic organizations. It will consist simply of a sign saying "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet." Please address your letter of permission to the un dersigned. Thanking you in advance, I am, Sincerely yours, Abou Ben Adhem, Portland 1, Ore. Would he accent the loirical ennsHnin'npps nf his own position and grant permission? ur would ne arise in and deny the request because it did not come from a dominant religious group? vve wonder. t,.A. ! shock when the smudging correspondent, and for fni thnao o-nnrl fifi-zpna air pollution in between is a review of progress: years have used smudge of oily black smoke in , have been developed year, under a five-year Timber Products, and mills closest to town. advances and as wood logs of compressed saw for gardening purposes.) has under consideration M 1 1 rl IV f a It f I- f 114 rt r M the necessarv basis for Air Pollution Authori city limits.. concerned is being held, that the people of this as much air pollution and no more. to open their mouths of State Howell Annlintr pious se i-nirhtrousnpss Right! Dennis the Menace 'BO, IS tfAKQARBjMADSmk OAUS TOP HER HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN WcR.ZIIHeR' De Gaulle He's Right By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst It had been just 11 months ago that President Charles de Gaulle, wearing his -World War II briga dier general's uniform, ap p e a r e d on French tele vision to warn e b e 1 1 I o us French set- tiers barri caded in the streets of Al- Newsom filers: "Let everyone know and know well that I shall not go back on this decision. . . ." To bow to the settlers fight- IV JL i F t 'jTT m r Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Loiters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) In fact the contrary Is often the case. Gold and Prices ' To the Edilor: A radio com mentator recently announced the U.S. was in a cycle, or inflationary spiral, for the next 20 years. Also William J. Baxter's economic advisory report on gold stocks, antici pating our present crisis, said that the price o gold may reach to $75 or $100 an ounce. Any rise in price could de valuate our 40 cent present dollar value to 25t cents or even less. Not a very bright picture ahead. Remember, China's in flation a few years back; a pair ot men's leather boots sold at $100. What would be the incentive lo mine new gold only to promote a con tinuation of higher prices and Inflating markets. Is It not the truth that "some people have never had it so good," while others are struggling to exist, in a land of plenty? A well directed remark said: "How silly can we gel?" We saw a middle aged couple on a downtown street last Sunday begging for alms. Now, we could not get a very clear conception from their uninforniiitive talk, ex cept he was a discharged pa tient from the Walla Walla. Wash., veteran's hospital and would not be able to work agnin for at , least a year. Being strangers they did not appear to have any permanent place to reside. The man said his wife was seeking employ ment but they did not seem lo understand that there was not enough jobs In the winter months even for the local people out of work. There should be ho need of want and poverty in a land that could well produce for use. instead of inflation and penury. " Who said eight years ago that prices would level off? Bert Kissinger 520 Bourdman st. Medford. On Billboards To the Edilor: It was with pleasure I read your forth right and informative edi torial on billboard control. During the campaign the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon endorsed the billboard measure - as I believe did the Young Republicans - in the belief that billboard control would not hurt Oregon's sec ond major industry, recre ation and tourism, but that it would substantially help it by pro tocting scenic resources from defacement. Personally. I was very un happy that measure Number 15 did not pass, especially after seeing the deceitful, maliciously, distorted, omni present anti-billboard control literature and the decisive ex penditure of over $100,000 Still Determined in Algeria ing his decision for Algerian self determination would mean, he said, that "France would become no more than a poor, dislocated, toy on the sea of unknown peril." As the date neared for national referendum on his two-step plan for an "Alger ian Algeria," de Gaulle flew to Algeria to rally support of the French army, the one group that could assure fail ure for his plan, if not its success. Tragic Results The results left de Gaulle white-faced and grim. In the heavily European cities of Algiers, Bonn and Oran, European settlers pour- (more than the combined ex penditure of the Kennedy and Nixon groups) to defeat the measure,, In view of both (1) the ex treme power and lack of re straint demonstrated by the industry in their campaign to defeat Measure Number 15, and (2); the desirability of billboard control by itself, I for one am not going to pur chase any goods or articles being advertised by any bill boards which would have been outlawed by Measure Number 15 (all those outside of city limits on interstate highways except on-prcmise signs and brand name fa miliarity advertising on the major state highways). In some areas like in Ha waii, there aren't many bill boards at all on major coun try roads or on scenic routes. Lven though they were not made illegal, a difficult task in view of the well-financed unscrupulous attacks against billboard control measures, the people, when they went to the stores, just made the billboards, at best, economical ly marginal. Frequently I have heard It said that billboards and simi lar want-creation advertising make for the good life. Any school child could tell you that increased individual desires, without a correspond ing substantial increase in the national capacity to produce, will simply result in less hap py and more frustrated indi viduals. An additional danger, especially in America, is the possible overemphasis of ma terial and consumptive goals with those aesthetic, intellec tual, spiritual, and philan throp tending to melt into the background. One of the few very great men to come out of the Re publican party, Theodore Roosevelt, was fond of saying, "Too much rest is rust." James E. Harris College Coordinator Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon Box 187, Tualatin, Ore. Military Rites Held For Wyoming Senator Washington-IUPD - Sen.-elect Keith Thomson, (R-Wyo.), was buried with full military hon ors Tuesday at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. , Thomson, a member of the House who was elected to the Senate in November, died of a heart attack on Dec. 9. He was 41 years old. Thomson received the mili tary burial because of his World War II service in Eu rope, where he commanded an infantry battalion. Yule Cards, Women Over Coals by Scrooge-Like UPI Writer Washington-IUPD-The SACC didn't get anywhere, and I didn't think it would. It is an admirable so ciety, how ever, with noble objec tives. It should prosper. The SACC is the Society for the Abolition of Christmas Cards. Many per sons will consider the society to be subversive. Some of my neighbors will caution their children to come indoors when I pass by. Old friends may cut me dead. Neverthe less, the Christmas card must go. It is the costly vermiform appendix of the Christmas season. These cards annually cost almost as much as the com mon cold: more than a Po laris submarine. Moreover. this annual avalanche engulfs and entraps the regular mail, Crisis ed into the streets in violent demonstrations against de Gaulle. From the casbahs and the shanty towns, Moslems carrying hand-stitched green. white and red flags of the Moslem independence forces poured to meet them. Moslem cries of "Vive de Gaulle" soon turned to "Vive Abbas" - Ferhat Abbas, chief of the national liberation front. De Gaulle, shortening his tour, returned to Paris with the memory of at least 128 dead in the three-way clashes Involving the French army, the European settlers and the city Moslems. But his deter mination was undaunted. There is only one policy. he said, "and we have to fol low it because it is the right one. Lonely Splendor It was in keeping with the legend of de Gaulle, single- handedly guiding French des tinies, walking in lonely splendor under the Cross of Lorraine. But more than that, de Gaulle's tour, tragic as it was in loss of life, had brought to the surface drastic changes in what had been the accepted picture of Algeria. By their silence, it had been assumed that Algeria's city Moslems would' not oppose the European settlers' deter mination to keep Algeria French. That theory was dis posed of by the mass appear ance of rebel flags. As for the settlers, they had committed a seemingly fatal error in underestimating the army's loyalty to de Gaulle. The army, for the first lime, fired on both Moslem and settler. Roseburg Blast Appeal Will Be Heard Jan. 18 Salem-(UPD-The Oregon Su preme Court Tuesday set Jan. 18 as date for hearing argu ments in the state's appeal of its case against Pacific Pow der Co., Tenino, Wash, over the August, 1959 Roseburg ' disaster. A truck owned by the com pany laden with explosives blew up in downtown Rose burg. Fourteen persons died and much of the downtown section was destroyed. Douglas County District At torny Avery Thompson had the company indicted for man slaughter but the company was sulained by Circuit Court on its contention that a cor poration cannot be convicted of that charge. Thompson ap pealed, In another action in Port land, the Oregon National Guard and the State Highway Commission were dropped as party defendants In a suit brought by British Overseas Insurance Co. to determine liability and damages in the blast. The ruling was handed down in U.S. District Court by Judge John F. Kilkenny. The action is aimed pri marily at consolidating dam age actions and determing lia bility. Ice, Fog Hamper Travel in Oregon Salem - (UPD - Ice and fog were prevalent in Oregon to day the State Highway De partment reported. There was thick fog in the Willamette Valley and the Portland area. Icy spots were reported at Portland, Wilson River and Sunset Summits, Cascade Locks. Astoria. Tilla mook, Prospect, Bend San tiam Pass. Sisters. Ochoco Summit, Lapine. Willamette Pass and Meacham. causing more important mat ters such as letters contain ing checks to be lost in the shuffle for weeks or, even, for all time. Burden for Postmen Talk about waste! The stamp bill alone, would build a lot of schools. For printing, more is spent than for stamps. The patient postmen are hump-backed for lugging sacks of cards, and they suf fer fallen arches, corns and bunions by reason of the ex Dick West, Too, Has Plaint About Christmas Time By DICK WEST Washington (UPD Along about this time every year you can hear a lot of grum bling to the effect that the Christmas season is too long. To this I say "Bah!" and "Humbug!" The trouble with the Christ mas season is that it is too short. If I had my way, the "twelve days of Christmas" would be changed to the "six months of Christmas." But I don't mean that the way it might sound. In pro posing a stretch-out, I'm not thinking in terms of enjoy ment, but rather of survival. Most of us are old enough In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In a special bulletin, the National Safety Council esti mates that during the coming 78-hour Christmas week end - from 6 p.m. Friday to mid night Monday, local time -virtually EVERY ONE OF THE NATION'S 74 MILLION MOTOR VEHICLES will be in operation at some time during the holiday period. It adds: "During this 78-hour period Americans will drive SIX BILLION MILES." PRETTY rugged? Too dangerous to tackle? Better slay at home? WAIT a minute. Down toward the end of its bulletin, the Safety Coun cil adds: "The s i x billion miles American motorists will drive during the coming holiday period is (only) 200 MILLION miles more than is driven during a NORMAL Friday evening to Monday midnight period." Which is to say: The American motoring public is expected to drive 6,000,000,000 miles during the coming' holiday week end. The American motoring public NORMALLY drives 5,800,000,000 miles. MILLIONS and billions sound big. They teVid to scare us out of our boots. So let's break these figures down to something that will give us a more understandable comparison. Let's put it this way: People are expected to drive 60 miles during the coming Christmas week end. They normally drive 58 miles. Put that way, the CON GESTION hazard doesn't look so bad. 11HE American habit of gel- ting families together is a WONDERFUL habit. It's good for all of us. Whatever is good for all the people is good for the nation. If families are going to get together for the Christmas holiday period, it is going to take a lot of travel ing. And - it isn't so much the AMOUNT of driving that kills as the KIND oi driving. So In conclusion Let's offer a little advice. rON'T get in a hurry. Watch the approaching traffic. Watch intersecting traffic. Slow for curves. Keep an eye out for slick places. Keep your eye oh the ROAD and the TRAFFIC. Leave the scenery for some other time. Don't try to pass when there isn't room. .Where possible, stick to the safer outer lanes. Stay ALERT. Don't let your at tention wander. If you'll do this, you'll be pretty sure to arrive safely at your destination. Coolidge Appointee Dies in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh-IUPD-Retired Fed eral Judge Nelson McVicar, 89, an appointee of the late President Calvin Coolidge, died Tuesday night. Although he retired official ly Feb. 1, 1951, after 23 years on the bench, McVicar con tinued to sit in federal court here to aid in clearing a heavy backlog of cases in the West ern Pennsylvania district. En Masse, tra mileage our Christmas whimsy imposes on them. There are upright citizens (your correspondent is one) with the courage to chuck the shackles of Christmas cardery but who regularly receive cards in shoals. More in sor row than in anger we know that among our loving friends are some with the lint-picking habit of card indexing the whole Christmas card shambles so that during the days - immediately following to remember me time when the Christmas season started the day after Thanksgiving. That was the day the depart ment stores turned on the col ored lights, put a carol album on the record player and opened their Christmas sales that is, raised the prices. Weary of Crosby But few stores nowadays have the patience to wait un til after Thanksgiving. About the only merchants who both er with Thanksgiving are the food store operators. They have a vested interest in the holiday, it being one of the few times when they can un load pumpkins. It is this trend toward an early yuletide that the tradi tionalists decry. They con tend that by the time Christ mas itself rolls around people are tired of the whole thing and are eager to get on with New Year's. Now let me make clear that I am as weary as the next man of hearing Bing Crosby dream of a White Christmas. And isn't it a blessing that we don't have those blasted Chip munks with us as much this year? But In deploring the situa tion, the traditionalists over look a vital element which ne gates their argument-namely the population explosion. There simply are too many people trying to buy gifts at the same time. Snarled by Shoppers This point has been driven home every night this month as I have driven home from work. In order to reach my little nest, I have to pass two big suburban shopping centers. Maneuvering an automobile by these places is roughly comparable to driving a herd of elephants through a sheep dip. It is nothing uncommon to find traffic backed up for two or three miles behind noc turnal shoppers who are look ing for a place to park. By next Christmas I probably won't be able to get home at all. There is, of course, a way to avoid this ghastly entangle ment. All we have to do is start the Christmas season on the Fourth of July. I have worked out a plan under which people would shop in alphabetical order-A-through-E in July, F-through-J in August; K-through-O in September, P-through -T in October and U-through-Z in November. Note that I am leaving De cember open. That's when I intend to do my shopping. Titan Missile Shot Fails at Canaveral Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD-One of America's biggest mis siles, the Tiian ICBM failed in a test Tuesday because of a second stage malfunction. The test, planned for a 5,000-mile range, ended in the rocket's plunge into the At lantic less than 100 miles off the cape. , , Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A 9-YEAR-OLD LASS, golden-haired and blue-eyed, ported to her mother that Willie, the little boy i uuui, iiaa proposed marriage dowry," she pouted (ail, these kiddies weaned on TV!). "What exactly does he think he should get?" asked the amused mother. "Willie wrote it all down," said the de sired one, producing an ink-stained list. It read as follows: 1 bicycle, 1 air rifle, 2 box seats to Ringling's Circus, 2 LP Elvis Presley records, and an autographed picture of Elizabeth Taylor! Jean K?rr tells of a 5-year-old girl who came calling one day, and was delighted to b invited to stay for lunch. She had to phone her mother for per mission, whereupon all the excitement in her voice ebbed away, Tm sorry, lira. Kerr," she reported after she had hung up uio receiver, "but I had lunch." C1360, by Btnneu Cut. Siauilmtcd b; Slug future Syaiictta Raked Dec. 25 there occur in living rooms across the lands such scenes as this: The Little Woman: Oh, Frank, we got cards today from the Richerts, the Stones and the Eggers. The Stones' is real pretty. Frank: Yeah, they must have mailed 'em after they got ours. The L W: Look in the in--dex, dear, and see if they sent to us last year. Bet they didn't. Frank: Nope, nor the year before, either. I'll take 'em off the list. The L W: No, leave 'em on, but let's send a real cheap card next year and mail it after Christmas. Women Are to Blame ' It is the women, of course, who keep the Christmas card business going, wailing be fore, during and after ' the process of selecting and ad dressing their offerings that . it is an infernal chore. If women had the courage of their convictions and the slightest gift for collective ac tion among themselves, the Christmas card would be dead and gone. Perhaps women will gain the courage some day. But gain the gift of collective ac tion, never! It isn't m them, There are women the smart est of their sex who know and concede this lack among themselves and their sisters. Hence the popularity and . membership of another orga nization long well-established here, the SPWGIGMTT. The SPWGIGMTT is trans lated: The Sodality for Pre venting Women Gathering in Groups of More Than Three. In clubs, leagues and such, women do gather, of course, beyond the proper numbers. But the record of the journals and minutes of their meetings would demonstrate the futil-. Ity of feminine collectivity. Else, they would have squashed the Christmas card, . long since. Dock Workers Vote on Pact Wilmington, Calif. (Wit Balloting concludes today on a Pacific Coast mechanization and modernization agreement between the International Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union and the Pa cific Maritime Association. The voting began Monday, and 3,000 dock workers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach liar- . bor areas were expected to vote on the proposed agree- ment, worked out during the past four months. Workers in San Francisco voted 6-1 favoring the pact. Balloting was scheduled be fore the .first of next week at Portland and Seattle. The agreement calls for waterfront union workers to labor as directed and gangs could be reduced where safety factors were not involved. Labor saving devices also could be introduced where necessary. , Details of the contracts were explained to local work ers earlier this month by Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast longshoremen's leader. Ontario Lumber Firm Fined $100 Salem -(UPD- Western Stales Lumber Co. of Ontario has been fined $100 by Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill on a charge that the firm allegedly moved a load of pipe between Portland and On tario without proper authori ty. Hill said Western Stales had a private carrier permit but this only authorized it to move its own property. A hearing was conducted at Vale last Aug. 31 on tha charge. re- next to her. "But he wants a "iT cr rA ( wrotb it )