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SUNDAY, MARCH 12. 1961 8 A the Week in California Negotiators Work to Settle Ship Cargo Handling Dispute MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, By United Press International Negotiators worKea to sei- tie a cargo handling dispute that tied ud freight operations on three of the West Coast's major ports and theralened to spread to other cities in an inter-union work wrangle. With about 4,000 long shoremen off the job in three cities, the dispute threatened to add to economic woes cre ated by 300,000 persons al ready out of work because of recession in the areas. The dispute broke out on the Los Angeles and Long Beach docks and developed into a virtual waterfront shut down in San Francisco. By week's end picketing had not yet spread to San Diego, al though officials there tea red a shutdown. Set Off Tieups Picket lines posted by the Teamsters' union set off the dock tieups. Members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union were observing the picket lines under a mutual agree ment pact, although the two unions appeared to be at cross purposes in the dispute. The teamsters posted pick ets after being ordered by their employers to stop mak ing up freight loads on the piers. Employers contended that under a mechanization agree ment between the Pacific Maritime association and the ILWU, longshoremen are sup posed to make up and take down stacks of cargo. The teamsters complained that the agreement was cost ing them work, File Unfair Charges The PMA filed unfair labor practice charges against the teamsters, charging that the pickets violated the Taft-Hartley act by trying to force PMA members to assign the work to the teamsters instead of to longshoremen. In response, the teamsters filed an unfair labor prac tices charge against the PMA and members. Ralph Kennedy of Los An geles, regional director of the national labor relations board, said investigators were as signed to determine facts in the case, but no hearing date has been set. Some trucking officials said they feared the whole West Coast would be Involved be fore the dispute was settled. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Fraternity: The Stanford university chapter of (he Al pha Tau Omega fraternity, with strong backing from uni versity president j. Wallace Sterling and the state of Cal ifornia, announced that it will become an independent local fraternity. The 71-yeur-oid chapter was ousted by the high council of the fraternity in Chicago for accepting four Jewish students as members Shortly after the announce ment from Chicago, the Cali fornia Attorney General's of fice said it would ask the Uni versity of California and the slate colleges to withdraw recognition of local ATO chapters. Gas: Independent service station operators met to map strategy for fighting the Los Angeles area gasoline price Tentative Plans For Division Oked 4-H Leaders Club Tentative plans for a 50-lot subdivision in north Medford were approved by the Med ford city planning commission at its meeting Thursday night. The subdivision is planned by Roy Wilkes and will be called the Brookhurst addi tion. Wilkes has already de veloped the Brookhurst sub division which lies to the north of the new area. Approval of the tentative plat means Wilkes is free to go ahead and develop the area, unless in his final plans he should depart from his pre liminary plans in the design of the subdivision. The Brookhurst addition will be located directly east of Corona ave., in an area be tween Morrow rd. and Grand ave. included in the subdivi sion will be an extension east of Johnson St., and two new streets - Miracle and Gala lanes. A planning commission ef fort to incjude the back por tion of a number of extra-long lots along Grand ave. in the new subdivision failed because several of the property own ers declined to go along with the idea. The commission had Hoped to keep the rear" por tion of these lots from being isolated by the new subdivision. war that saw prices drop by as much as seven cents. Ma jor brand gasoline was selling for as low as 22.9 cents a gal Ion for regular and 25.9 for premium. Some independent stations were selling regular grade gas for as low as 21.9 cents a gallon. The price war began spreading to other areas of the slate, including Sacra mento. Sandritter: Dr. G. Lee Sand ritter. newlv appointed su perintendent of Atascadero State hospital, prepared to take up his duties at the in stitution. His appointment although offered and accept ed last year - was announced just a week after Sandritter was summarily dismissed from his post as superintend ent of Eastern State Mental hospital in Washington Documents: California's Sec retary of State Frank M. Jor dan warned that many irre placeable documents of Caii forma s pioneer period are "now in an advanced stale of deterioration." Jordan called on "the friends of history throughout the state" to "be stir themselves" and support an Assembly bill which would establish a record preserva lion laboratory in his office. Among threatened documents Jordan said, ara the original enrollment of the constitution of 1849, records of the Indian wars and manuscript returns of the slate's first elections Voters: More than 800,000 Caiifornians who failed to cast, ballots in the presidential elec tion last November have been dropped from voting lists. Sec retary of Slate Jordan said this was done in accordance with a law passed in 1959. He said the state's new registered vole, as of the first of the year, was 6,603,226, a drop of 861,400 since the general election. Miss Matthews Named To College Dean's List Portland - Anne Matthews, 601 Dakota st., Medford, has been named to the dean's list of 31 women pledged by three Lewis and Clark college so rorities. Formal initiation will follow a six-week pledge pe riod. Miss Matthews is wearing the pledge pin of Delia Phi Gamma sorority. She is a freshmon liberal arts major and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Matthews. Clowns' Humour Ends in Lawsuit Ciarksdale, Miss. - IUPD - A woman who said she was em barrassed, humiliated and in jured by two grocery clowns filed a $90,000 damage suit against the grocery and two food manufacturing firms, it was announced Friday. Lucille Lewis, 43, said the clowns - hired by the store to promote certain products -chased her around the store while other shoppers laughed. She said she was hospitalized for aggravation of a heart ailment. LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT Canlon, III. - (UPD - Town officials learned Friday that their new regulation banning vehicles of more than 10 tons from city streets has one flaw. The town's fire trucks weigh more than 10 tons. if YOU can do this "Magic Step'.'.. If Try lt...lt'8 fun. then YOU can go dancing after 1 lesson at ARTHUR MURRAY'S! i , x i A HALF-HOUR PRIVATE LESSON WILL PROVE IT TO YOU $f00 If you can move your fect, as diagrammed above, then you can go dancing after one lesson at any Arthur Mtirruy Studio win ; you'n never tlanced before! We offer you a full half hour private lesson for only Jl.OO-so you can prove it for yourself. Guided by a courteous Arthur Murray expert, you'll soon be moving with (lie "Magic Step" smoothly and gracefully to d.incc music yes, within minutes! Sec for yourself how quick and c.isy it is, leirning to dance by the exclusive Arthur Murray method. Gay StuJio Parliet arc part of the fun. You . 1 dance with many different partners. 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