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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 20. 1962 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- pAGER TO MAKE good in his new job, Eustace Filligrew arrived at the office at eight-thirty sharp, only to find the curvy, blonde secretary sitting on the boss' lap. ine next morning he showed up at eight fif teen. The boss and the secretary were locked in a tight embrace. As Eus tace tiptoed out of the office, the boss looked up at the clock and hollered, "Filligrew, if you get in here tomorrow at eight you're fired!" They serve one dish at a five-star French restaurant on Third Avenue that isn't on the menu because it takes four hours to prepare. It s called Galantine of Duckling. "Why does it take so long to cook?" a customer rashly asked the French chef. "That ees be cause," explained the chef suavely, "we give ze duck an even chance to escape," There's a hanger-on at the Aqueduct Race Track who has a. positive mania for cleanliness. He's been sponging off his ac quaintances for years. 1962. by Bennett Cerf. Diitrlbuted by King- Features Syndicate I lyggXl I Cv Your Money's Family Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. WAGE INCREASES SMALLEST SINCE 1955 Wage increases so far in 1962 are running at the smal lest average since 1955. The "floor' under pay hikes is perceptibly weakening for the first time ill years. A "zero round" - meaning no cash pay increases whatsoever - is showing up in more and more contracts. The wage spiral which has been part of the American economic scene since World War II is slowing to a crawl, wage inflation is being brought under control - with all the good this implies to the trend of prices and your cosi of living in coming months, to the integrity and buying power of the U.S. dol lar, to our ability to meet BOLEX NIKON PENTAX MINOLTA HASSELBLAD Clip This Coupon... 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Here are the facts to be disclosed this week end by the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., a major Washington research organization in the labor market field. (1) The average cash pay hike in 868 settlements signed so far this year and analyzed by the BNA is down to 7.4 cents, compared with 8.1 cents in the comparable pe riod of last year and an aver age of 7.8 cents in 1961 as a whole. Not- since the mid- 1950s has the average been this small. (2) In wage contracts signed in manufacturing industries, the average wage increase has been even lower - 7 cents. down almost a cent from the same period in 1961. (3) In nine per cent of the contracts, there has been no wage boost, almost double the "zero" percentage in contracts settled in the first few months of 1961. (4) Not included in this nine per . cent is the basic steel wage settlement which also omils any wage raise in 1962. Says Donald F. Farwell of the BNA, "Although I doubt that the steel settlement will set off a widesprea.. 'zero round,' of course it means there'll be lots more zero settlements and probably a further de cline in the average settle ment level. The lack of a wage boost in stee. can't help but- have this effect on other bargaining situations." (5) Provisions for deferred pay hikes - under which workers are automatically guaranteed cash wage increas es in future years - are being undercut too. Deferred pay boosts have appeared in 48 per cent of the contracts signed in this year's first quarter against 53 per cent of the contracts signed In 1961's last quarter. The floor under future wage increases is weakening. In the steel con tract, deferred wage increas es have been eliminated for at least the next two years. The escalator clause was dropped as well, meaning there'll be no cost-of-living adjustments in steel for the next year or two either. . These facts shout a tale of major bread-and-butter im- Council CopvriRht, (irntnl t-ralurei Corp. Editor Note: The taimly Coun cil consist of a Judge, a psychia trist, a wunirn's editor, and two writers. Earh artlrlt Is a ktimtnary of an actual caht history. The Council report on problem thai have been dealt with by rekpon uble acenciet and coumrlort. ne0ed; Council Refuses You'll feel like the bumps took a holiday, too Get set for Fun and Sun at your Chevrolet dealer's. If yon aren't in a holiday mood already, his buys will quickly put you in one. Then the real fun begins when you aim a Jet-smooth beauty at vacation land. Bring on those choppy roads or rolling highways makes no difference because you've got a big cushiony Full Coil spring at each wheel to take the wrinkles out of the worst roads around. And a team of over ppgjBSjg' 700 insulators and absorbers to wall off sound and vibration. Add V8 sizzle or 6 savings, rich, t?1 roomy interiors, comfort-high seats for easy rubbernecking, a deep-well trunk, easy bumper- level loading, and Body by Fisher craftsmanship and you've got about all the car you could possibly want Jet-smooth Chevrolet William N.-Among friends, I have a right to exhibit my notebook. Elsie N. - Our friends are on the spot. They have to praise that nonsense. William N. - I'm a painting contractor, commonly known as a Boss Painter, and all day long I'm at the receiving end of kicks. I get them from landlords, tenants and the painters I hire. So when I get home I turn to the one thing that relaxes me - writ ing jingles and limericks in a big notebook. I write them about the events of the day. Even though some of my friends think they're good enough to be published, that's not why I write them. I do so as a hobby. I . want my wife to stop ridiculing me for this. When I pull the notebook out to show somebody, she looks at me as if I'm some kind of nut. bhe calls it a waste of time and nags me about using my spare time for what she calls better things, like painting our own house. But I enjoy saying things in rhyme. It unkinks me. And I know my friends like to look through my notebook. Elsie N. - What can our friends do? They have to be polite even if they're bored. We invite them for dinner and out comes the notebook. Bill forces them to listen. Then he makes them read it for themselves, too. I might as well be the hired girl for all the chance I get to talk to our guests. I cook and serve, and then he gets all the pleas ure. Just because no one walks out he thinks his stuff is good. ii ne d only spend more time iixing things around the house, or coming with me on a few family visits instead of working on that tripe, he'd be putting his time to better use. It seems a shame that he keeps writing things which aren't good enough to be published, and then inflicts them on anybody he can but tonhole. There must be better ways to relax. The Council: Bill is prompt ed by the same innocent mo tive that impels other men to i pass around snapshots. He I wants to regale, cheer, share j J the pleasures that are his. As. I with the snapshot-circulators, j he may misinterpret polite- j ness ior eninusiasm. . Neither Bill nor fcisie, How ever, show any interest in distinguishing between the j iwu on lilt? fni i u umtii mends. Me keeps ngnt on ae-; claiming, willynilly and ad infinitum, and she keeps right 1 on assuming all present, ex cept Bill, are writhing in agony. So the problem here is for him to choose his audi-1 ence more selectively, picking j one or two guests who really I enjoy word-building and who I may themselves be secret penmen (millions are). And for her, it's to concede that j some of the company may honestly relish Bill's novel method of recording his ex periences. As for those who don't, self-preservation is powerful Instinct and it sug gests ways from under, to make a with the dishes or fill the ice bucket. While we hesitate to pour cold water on Bill's literary efforts, we must remind him that they can't possibly be as chuckley or titillating to others as they are to him. So restraint in unloading them on good natured visitors is suggested. Also, he'd better not be so carried away with his June - moon . spoon knack that he hogs Elsie's share of attention from their mutual friends. That deprivation may be eating her more than the hobby itself. She's fed up with having her dinner par ties turn out to be mere ruses for enticing an audience to one of Bill's readings. One idea might be for a gathering at which Bill re cites poems about each one present. That would hold in terest. Another suggestion is for Bill to round up his own coterie, with each reciting to his heart's content, while Elsie skips off to the movies. Bill's hobby is innocent enough. His flair would be highly appreciated by frater nal organizations preparing luncheon programs, and by other would-be rhymesters DST Endorsement Lebanon -WH- The Leban on city council has rcfurd to make any "fast lime" recommendation. The council had been asked to vote on a measure recom mending the following of day light savings time, following the lead of the Albany city council last week. An informal poll of Leban on merchants showed that a majority were in favor of es tablishing early hours. A 5 SURVIVES SNOW BURIAL alive Thursday afctr being Mnrtigny, Switzerland -0JP1 . buried for 16 hours in 26 feet - Edy Bridy, 25, a Swiss bor-lof snow. He was rer-rted dor guard, was pulled outlonly slightly injure''. 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In the crucial iphere of manufacturing particularly, the wage spiral is disap pearing and this is helping to erase the background for a price upswing. The rea son is that the rise in the hourly output of the aver age factory worker is rang ing much higher than the rise in his hourly wage. In dustry's investments in mo dernisation of plants and equipment, its stricter po licing of costs, waste, meth ods of production are pay ing off in savings in the time employes have to j work .to turn out an item. 1 in short, while cash pay is still climbing and tring benefits are certainly be coming more expensive, these costs are being more than offset by the savings in production time. It's not a wage "freeze" but it's a pattern responsible in dustrialists running modern factories can tolerate and profit under. We're flashing the signal that we're into a period of relative wage and price sta bility and we Intend to stay 1 1 in it. 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