WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1960
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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."
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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.
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