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Morttaest Forester To Testify Before Senate Committee Forest Service By ANN H. PEARSON Portland - lUPIl - The North west regional forester will be called to Washington to tell a U.S. Senate committee wheth er the U.S. Forest Service , is "aloof on cloud nine" to lum ber problems. Lumbermen made the agency their prime whipping boy here Monday at a Senate Commerce committee hearing on Northwest lumber industry ills. Sen. Vance Hartke (D Ind.), who chaired the hear ing, said Forester J. Herbert Stone of Portland will be asked to respond to the na tion's Capitol June 11-12. Rail Negotiators Delay Agreement On Wage Chicago - ItlPH - Negotiators for 450,000 off -train em ployees today delayed agree ment on a railroad offer of a 10.2-cent an hour wage in crease. Railroad and union negoti ators entered what had been billed as a possible showdown session on the roads' offer to go along with a presidential emergency board's recommen dations on wage increases. But the meeting In Chi cago's Union Station broke up after 25 minutes without agreement. J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the railroads, said "the unions want to talk among themselves and then they'll call us back." George Leighly, spokesman for the 11 n o n operating brotherhoods, said, "There were no proposals or requests. They haven't done any more than in the past." Second Delay ' It was the second time the unions had held off final set 1 1 e m e n t ot the dispute. Another meeting had been scheduled Monday night, but the brotherhoods decided at the last minute to cancel it. In another facet of the rail way union dispute, Federal Mediator Levcrett Edwards was to meet later today with representatives of the rail roads and of operating rail employees. The two sides are at loggerheads over another presidential board recommen dation which would result In wholesale dismissal of fire men. Wolfe announced Monday that the railroads had agreed reluctantly to grant the 10.2 cents an hour Increase to off train employees. He said the roads still felt the recom mended increase was Infla tionary and might lead to higher freight rales. Spokesmen for the 1 1 unions, which have demanded 25 cents an hour pay raises, said they "neither accepted nor rejected" the railroads' offer. Mo Alternative Wolfe said tile railroads agreed to the offer after re ceiving a message from Labor Secretary Arthur J. Gold berg that they had "no alter native but to accept the board's rccommcn d a t i o n s since the country could not tolerate a strike of key rail roads which was threatened by the unions. We therefore bow tn the public Interest." -s-iitu LAUNDROMAT -!s;&UWART Said Aloof to Lumber Problems Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Orc.) said Stone should be called. Nearly 100 witnesses, most ly lumbermen, testified on submitted statements. The lumbermen agreed that their problem lies in competi tion with Canadians who en joy production, trade and money advantages. Policies Said Backwards They said backward policies of the U.S. Forest service -guardians of millions of trees on which lumbermen depend for timber - are a main reason for making lumbermen in the United Stales the underdogs. The witnesses called on the Proposal The nonopcraling unions have been free to strike under the Railway Labor Act since early Sunday. Wolfe said the wage boost would cost the railroads $105 million a year. The presidential board recommended a 4 cents an hour pay hike retroactive to Feb. 1 and a 2'j per cent boost retroactive to May 1. Wolfe estimated the dual recommendations would add about 10.2 cents an hour to the wage of off-train em ployees, who now average $2.48 an hour. Porllanders Hear Medicare Rapped Porlland-IUHI-A substantial crowd filled the downstairs and part of the balcony of the Public Auditorium here Monday night to hoar de nunlcalions of the King-Anderson medicare bill, which is backed by President Ken nedy. Some 40 Democrats and pensioners picketed outside in support of the bill to put med ical care for the aged under Social Security. The rally m.jirie was spon sored by medical societies of Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties. Master of Ceremonies Har ry von Zcll, television and radio personality, said the King-Anderson bill makes its appeal lo the emotions, not to logic. He said it would be a step toward socialism. Rep. James Ult (R-Calif.) titled his talk against the bill "A Step Backward." Primafe Center Hepatitis Checked Portland-llll'll Oregon Pri male Center director Donald Pickering said Monday an out break of hepatitis at the cen ter is under control. Following a meeting Willi other doctors, Pickering said the disease apparently result ed from close handling of an imals at thecenli'r. He said hepatitis has not been identified in any ani mals, but about 100 monkeys. chimpanzees and apes have been quarantined lor study. Dr. Pickering said of the four men who caught hepati tis, three already have recov ered. He said no further cases have appeared. Forest Service for more cut table limber, lower stumpage prices, and more access roads at less cost to the lumberman. They said forest service scal ing, contract and appeals policies need overhauling. G. Cleveland Edgett of the West Coast Lumbermen's As sociation said the forest serv ice seems to be "fully occu pied with distributing Smokey the Bear commercials." He said lumbermen have waited for replies. Another witness said if the lumber industry acted like the Forest Service "Bobby Kennedy would be out here and we would all be put on McNeil Island." After the hearing, lumber man and Slate Rep. W. O. Kclsay of Roscburg predicted, "there will be some .vast changes in forest service prac tices as a result of this." Other Adjuiimentt The lumber witnesses also asked for other long range adjustments. They requested laws, tariffs, trade agree ments or subsidies to equalize the U.S. and Canadian lumber industries in water and rail shipping costs and in cur rency values. For immediate relief, the co-chairmen of the lumber men's economic survival com mittee wired the U.S. Tariff commission for a hearing on a proposed quarterly quota against Canadian softwood. They acted within hours on the advice of Morse and Hartke, who told them, "It is hard for us to seek new laws when you ignore existing ones that could bring relief." The senators said lumbermen also could seek agricultural quotas. The wire asked for a quota on Canadian softwood imports equal to the yearly average for the past decade. That would reduce present Cana dian imports about four per cent and give Canada about nine per cent of the present domestic market. Gov. Mark Hatfield keynot- cd the plight of his state's ma jor industry when ho said 7,- 400 lumber and sawmill jobs in the region have disap peared in two years, lie said 100 sawmills have closed down. Lumbermen cited sim ilar statistics, Union Leaden Testify The only major dissension lo the dark picture painted of tlie lumber industry came from the Northwest's two big timber unions both currently negotiating for wage in creases. A. F. llarlung of the Inter na t i o n a 1 Woodworkers of America and Earl Hartley of the Western Council of Lum ber and Sawmill Workers, said the situation is not as bad as lumbermen made it sound. Hartung, whose IWA has many members in Canada, said Canadian competition is not the main culprit. He and Hartley said the lumber in dustry must adjust to chang ing demands for wood prod ucts, tlie threat of wood sub stilutes and automation. Both union leader said they I want freer trade with Canada and other countries, rather than higher tariff protective walls. Hartley said, however, he would approve a tempo rary import quota. Foreign Briefs PORTUGESE STUDENTS HURT AT PROTEST MEETING Lisbon. Portugal-ll'I'-Scores of Portugese medical ttu- dents and two protestors were reported injured Monday night when approximately 2.000 students defied police and held a protest meeting on the campus ol the University of Lisbon. BRITONS FINED FOR DEMONSTRATION London-1 1'l-Eight persons were lined $5.60 each Mon day for talcing part in a ban-the-bomb sit-down demonstra tion at the U.S. Embassy here last Saturday. The defendants included five men and three women. SENEGAL PREMIER TO VISIT HUNGARY Budapest-1! I'l'-Premier Mamadou Die of Senegal will pay an oflicial state visit to Hungary beginning June 21, ac cording to the Hungarian news agency MTI. The news agency said Dia was invited by Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar. BRITAIN REPORTS LEPROSY INCREASE London-1H-There were 246 cases of leprosy in Britain in 1961, compared to only 46 cases in 1951, the government said today. AMERICAN HELD ON NARCOTICS CHARGE Munich, Germany - 'IPI' - American jail trumpeter Chet Baker, who was released last December after spending 16 months in an Italian prison lor narcotics smuggling, was ar rested Monday on suspicion of violating Germany's narcotics laws. A police spokesman said that Baker, who played at a Ian concert here Saturday night, was arrested Sunday lor alleg edly forging a prescription containing narcotics. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT LEADS IN BRAZIL La Pas, Bolivia-IN'-Early returns from Sunday's voting (or 38 congressmen and IS senators showed the governing national revolutionary movement leading the combined op position. The MNR had won 10 seats in I.a Pas lo 3 for the (right wing) Socialist Falange and 1 each lor the Social Christian and the Aulhenic Revolutionary party, a dissident MNR (action. Complete returns will not be available until laler In the week. First Refugee Family From Red China Under Kennedy's Emergency Program Reaches Chicago C h 1 c a g o (UPU The first refugee family from Red China to be admitted to the United Slates under the Presi dent's emergency program ar rived smiling and happy early Regional Edition MedfordJSWTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, Trading Picks Up As Stock Market Prices Show Drop New York - OiPIl - Trading activity picked up as stocks declined early today. Leading steels showed lit tle change but oils lost frac tions. Chemicals tended lower featuring Du Pont off 23 and trading exdividend. 'Most autos lost small amounts but Chrysler was down a full point. Rails and utilities shared in the decline along with most foods, stores, tobaccos, air craft, electronics, metals, rub bers, entertainments and spe cialties. Associates Investment man aged a 3 point rise but dips of 2 or more showed in Ever sharp, Gerber, Crown Cork, Newmont Mining, Macys and MCA. Polaroid fell more than 7 points to a new low. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-ilPtr-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 593.64. off 17.41; 20 railroads 125.72, off 3.18; 15 utilities 11.10 off 2.86; and 65 slocks 205.25, off 5.68. Sales Monday were about 5.38 million shares compared with 5.76 million shares Fridoy. 1 Monday'! prices on selected iocKh: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am American Air Lines ... American Can American Molor AT&T American Tobacco .... Anaconda Copper Armco Bcndix Corp Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Brunswick Caterpillar Corp Chrysler corp Coca Cola C. B. S Continental Can Crown Zcllerhach Crucible Steel Curtis Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont . Eastman Kodak Firestone Ford General Electric General rood General Motors Georgia Pacitic Grevhound Gulf Oil HomeslaKe Idaho Power T.B.M. lnt Paper Johns Manville 40' 4 18 , 404 2r u .. .14 .. Wn .. 44 U .. 1ft 'a IV i . 4 .. 209 '! ... 4-j, ... 37;, ... 82 ... (3 ... 71 i ... 4lia ... :ih' .. 211 Kennecoll topper Lockheed Aircraft Martin Co Merck Montana Power Montgomery Ward National Biscuit New York Central Northern Pacific Pac Gas Eire Pennev J. C Penn RR Perma Cement Phillips Procter & (.amide Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Sateway Scars ... 13 123i IV today at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 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