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mnniimni iiim nmji NEW YORK TOP CITY FOR OFFICE WORKERS The office worker in New York City stands at the top or Just below the top of the scale compared with the rest of the United States in terms of average weekly earnings, starting pay. hours worked per week, paid holidays, paid vacations, many fringe benefits. The office worker in Dallas stands at the bottom of the scale in terms of most of these bread-and-butter fundament alswith an average pay level not only far below that of New York City but also well below the national average. In between New York City and Dallas are other major cities of the nation. As an illustration, average earnings of office workers in Houston and Chicago are only slightly below New York City's peak while Baltimore and Phila delphia have the mixed distinction of nudging Dallas at the bottom of the scale. ("Mixed" because while this may be all bad from the employee's point of view, employers may consider a comparatively inexpensive office labor force a great advantage.) The U.S. Labor Department has just released its final report on wages and supplementary benefits of office em ployees in the home offices and regional head offices of life insurance companies across the nation. In addition to submitting a breakdown of wage-benefit patterns by regions, it gives detail on 12 top cities. Since the financial setup of a man or woman working in an in surance office is surely some indication of the financial set up of men and women in other white collar office jobs, here are the key facts. Average earnings: With the average pay level for the United States considered as a base of "100", here is how the cities rank. New York, 110; Houston, 109; Chicago, 109; Los Angeles-Long Beach, 107; Hartford, 106; Jacksonville, 98; Boston, 97; Des Moines, 95; Minneapolis-St. Paul, 93; Philadelphia, 91; Baltimore, 90; Dallas, 89. Earnings of women typists doing routine work range from an average of $50 a week in Minneapolis-St. Paul to $68 in Hartford and of women clerks doing routine filing, from an average of $48 in Dallas and Des Moines to $61.50 in Hartford. Starting pay: Beginning salaries go from $40 to $60. In New York City, the common starting pay for an inexperi enced typist is $5$ to $60 while in Minneapolis-St. Paul, it's $45 to $50. Weekly hours: In eight of the 12 cities, the majority are scheduled to work 37V4 hours. In Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia, the scheduled work week is shorter in the 36 hour range. Only in Dallas is the scheduled work week for the majority longer than 37V4 hours a week. Paid holidays: All the offices provide paid holidays but the variation is wide from five or six days a year in Dallas to 11V4 days in New York and 12 to 13 days in Philadelphia. Paid vacations: All also offer paid vacations. With the single exceptions of Balitmore, most receive two weeks' vacation after one year on the Job and most get three weeks' vacation after 10 or 15 years of service. The most liberal cities on four weeks' vacation after 20 years of employment are Boston, Houston, Jacksonville and New York City. Health, insurance and pension plans: These benefits are widespread but New York City doesn't appear to rank at the top here. A breakdown might be misleading, though for life insurance companies may not suggest practices of other offices on insurance benefits. Nonproduction bouses, typically paid at Crhistmas or year end: On this one point, the positions are reversed with Dallas showing up as the most generous and New York City as the least. Other cities in which bonuses are common are Chicago, Hartford and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Of course, this only takes on real meaning when it's placed against the background of living costs in these cities. Another study a while back of what it costs a typical family of four to maintain a "modest but adequate" living level disclosed that of 20 selected cities, Houston was the cheapest place to live, Chicago was the most expensive and New York was seventh from the bottom. (Houston, $5,370 a year; New York, $5,970; Chicago, $6,567.) With Houston close to New York on a number of scores, this could help throw the dollars-and-cents laurel to Texas after all but when all is added up and broken down, I'll wager the New York office worker still would come out at the top. Student Arrives From Turkey Ashland-A 16-year-old stu dent from Istanbul, Turkey, has arrived here to attend school under the auspices of the American Field service foreign exchange program. The teen-age boy, Ali Saner, will be a senior at Ashland High school this fall. He is living with Dr. and Mrs. Ar thur Kreisman and family, 455 Liberty st. Dr. Kreisman is a member of the Southern "Might as well go back to the barracks" Thtre's nothing lonelitr than wan dering among crowds of strangers . . . hearing Strang tongues . . . alien customs. As any Gl. Then think of what it means to thest young Americans so far from home to have USO nearby, where there is understanding, spiritual help . . . an atmosphere of home. In addition to its clubs. USO enter tainers bring laughtar to Gl's the world over. But there ere 2.750.000 Gl's today. Over half ara under 25. The USO wents to reach them ail . . . build more USO's. But it takes money. Yours. No matter where he is, no Gl should ever have to wonder , . . "Does anybody know I'm here?" Support the USO through United Fund or your Community Chest. USO isbflh4 Pvbhf ftrvtt ht C0prsren with Tt ArfC'imf C Ovarii 0r4 Arf"t''ing fjtcvtfftt Aite''n, Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. Oregon college faculty. Saner, who arrived late last week, is the second for eign exchange student to live with an Ashland family. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Fries Jr., 806 Harmony lane, hosted Yvonne Nicholson ot Pretoria, South Africa, last year. Dr. Kreisman said Saner is interested in math e m a t i c s, physics and chemistry. He also enjoys football, swim ming, basketball and ping pong. By religious affilation he is a Mussulman. Reports Awaited On Marilyn Monroe Hollywood - cure - The cor oner's office expects a toxi cologist's report early this week on the drugs that caused the death of screen star Mar ilyn Monroe, 36. Coroner Theodore Curphey also said he was waiting for the report of a suicide team which was trying to determine whether the beauty took her own life or died accidentally- Curphey said the toxicolo gist had determined the ac tress, who was found dead in her Brentwood home Aug. 5. died of a "lethal overdose'' of barbiturates, but had not rul ed out the possibility she may have taken more than one drug. Eddie Cantor Said To Be Improving Beverly Hills, Calif. - ItW - Comedian Eddie Cantor, grief stricken by the death of his wife, is much improved to day, according to his physi cian. Cantor collapsed upon hear ing of the death of his wife, I Ida. Aug. 8 and was in a state of shock with a nurse con stantly in attendance. He has I been under treatment a num- ber of years for a heart ail 1 ment. He was allowed out of bed ; Sunday for the first time. "His heart is doing all 'right now," explained the I physician, "but he is very sad i and depressed and will have to continue resting." Try and By BENNETT CERF- CHARLES DICKENS had a favorite after-dinner story that he trotted out for all occasions. It concerned a bit ter argument between an Englishman and a Frenchman who agreed to fight a . duel with pistols right where they were, with guests cleared from the room, and candles ex tinguished. The brave but humane Englishman (remember this is Dic kens' story!) was unwill ing to shed blood, so he groped his way to the fireplace, and discharged his weapon up the chim ney. Whom did he bring down but the craven Frenchman, who had crept there for safety! Dickens admitted that when he heard this story in Paris, it was the Englishman who climbed up the chimney). It is not unusual for an author to disdain his publishers, but William Makepeace Thackeray was more vociferous on the sub ject than most possibly because his master-piece, "Vanity Fair." had been turned down by eighteen publishers before one was found willing to take a chance on it. Thackeray found himself, with a friend, in the drawing room of a publisher's home, await ing the publisher, one morning. The carpet in the room was a gaudy design of red and white. When the publisher appeared, Thackeray announced, "We have been admiring your carpet, sir. It is most appropriate! You wade in the blood and brains of authors!" O 1X3. by Bennett Cert. DlatrlbuUd by King Features Syndic! Dennis the ' IF X5U 0IDWT 0U WE IT Milwaukie Teacher, Detroit, Ore. - (UPD - A long 21 hours in the rugged, chill Cascades ended Sunday after noon for a Milwaukie school teacher and her small son. Mrs. Gordon A. Clapp and Leonard, 3, were sighted by a search helicopter as they waved from a small field in Brietenbush canyon in the mountains northeast of Sa lem. The rescue ended a search by more than 70 Scouts and mountain rescue teams who had fanned out along the Skyline Trail area. The helicopter lifted Mrs. Clapp and her son with ropes and carried them to a forest ranger station. Both were in good shape. Mrs. Clapp and Leonard had roamed five miles during the night from the spot where they became separated from Monkeys, Hamsters Lost in Manitoba Sunnyvale, Calif. - IUPI) - A wide - area search was in progress today for two mon keys and four hamsters, lost over northeastern Manitoba when the giant research bal loon from which they were suspended in capsules drifted away from its tracking plane. Brad Evans, Information di rector of the Ames Research center, which directed the ex periment to test radiation ef fects on the animals, said planes were searching a wide area for the four capsules which contained the animals and other experiments. The balloon, part of a Na tional Aeronautics and Space administration e x perimont, was launched Thursday from Goose Bay, Labrador. It be came lost in a storm some time Saturday night. Evans said. HORSE TRADER Flamslead. Eng. - H.W -Stanley Morris said he was just another unsuccessful used car dealer until he came up with a new sales twist. Re cently he has traded cars and small trucks to farmers for cows, horses, and, in one case, 100 turkeys. AIRPLANE FOUND Kalhmandu, Nepal it'PIi -A Nepali airliner missing since Aug. 1 with 10 persons, in cluding two Americans, was j found at the foot of a moun tain with no survivors, un confirmed reports reaching here said Saturday. MLDIOHD MAIL '1 HldUiik;. MEDFORD. OREGON Stop Me Menace LIKE VOUR COCO, WHY OtDNT 6CK ID THE KITCHEN 7 Son Found in Wilds their party during a wilder ness outing Friday. Free Economy Said Defense Weapon Pendleton - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) told an audience of 100 persons at a Umatilla County Demo cratic rally Saturday night that the "greatest defense weapon the United States has is its free economy." Morse said the U.S. could do much to save areas such as Latin America from com munism if it built up eco nomic freedom in underlie vcloped nations. "People must have econom ic freedom of choice before they can have political free dom." he said. Morse stated there is a "crying need" ior land and tax reform in Lat in America before economic freedom can be realized. ANOTHER WERSHOW THURSDAY ANOTHER WERSHOW AUCTION NO LIMIT . NO RESERVE $198,000.00 EVALUATION FIR MILLING AND PLANING CO. ASHLAND, OREGON SAWMILL & PLANING MILL Bldgs. to move, Rolling Stock, Boiler, etc. HIGHLIGHTS OF SAWMILL: Cl't t ft. tini Hm K. 200 h p. ilip ring motor; 6" 54" Edr. Klimtth S" 24" R M. rjtr; S4" t 22 tl Cirnift. nr eptr'd tfot; A C Sit Worhi; 60 i 9 It. Ail SImI Lof Slip. Log Oonktjr: 3-Am Lo Stop and Uidii. Lof Ktktr tic. PILING ROOM: Amit'on 6 R M Bind S" rd 71 Cirr.lt St Stiifpn; Coil N. 8'R Bind Slw Shirpnr, St'tcer Rail. 15) Bind Hud " nc Bloci tic GRINDING ROOM: HO S'dt Htd Situ Stltd, Diihl S5 Sdt Mtid Gnndif. Ri(ei 33" Kmli G'indt'. Flint' Mttthtf Htldl tic COMVETOi 4 TRANSFER UNITS: Burnt. Sadutf md Ch'O Convtyo'l 200 H Grim Chun. j. 4 t J chtm Tfinidf Umli ROILING STOCK: Sumi Cm C'loU' C'int. Cil. D 13.000 tniini. 56 It rrMm: ID 18 Trictor with dotr, Cl Motor Pi trot 12, Gtrlmftr 16 000 fofkiifti. powtr ilttnnf. 1.1) 30 000 Lumbtr Cirft'i l?l tnt'l 10 WhMl lot Truck Lo( Tmltfi. t fVdt Hit Bed. Dump md Ftku T'wcii, Ff Truck, Stitioo Wife He SEND FOR FREE ILLUSTRATED BROCHURE MILTON J. WERSHOW CO 711 J ! A. Wl MUI Candidate Speaks! In Four Counties i During Week End "World peace, and the lib : erty of over half of the peo j pie of the world depends on : each individual citizen of the I United States; it depends on ( you and your neighbors," ' Robert B. Duncan, speaker of the Oregon House of repre sentatives and candidate for Congress for the Fourth dis trict, told an audience of In ternational Woodworkers of America and their families at a picnic at Coquille Sunday afternoon. Duncan pointed out that the entire world looks to the United Slates to provide the leadership and direction in our 24-hour a day struggle anainst the forces of Commu nist ideas and philosophy. And to provide that leader ship our country must re main strong, and continue to progress. "Citizenship is not a privi lege of birth, but it is a duty and obligation; to our selves, future generations, and our neighbors in other lands." Curry Audience Friday the candidate spoke before a Curry county audi ence at Harbor on the rela tionships of governmental agencies and legislative bodies. "Administrators of our vari ous agencies need to and should vigorously present the recommendations of their agencies to the Congress and other legislative bodies. It is then up to members of such legislative bodies to evaluate and weigh the demands and needs of that agency against all other programs and needs," Duncan said. Duncan spoke to Curry county audiences on Friday and Saturday, and continued his campaign in Coos, Linn and Lane counties on Sunday. Among the places visited were the Curry County fair, the IWA picnic in Coquille, Domcratic picnics in Eugene and Brownsville during the week end. Crane Falls Onto Train; Six Injured New York - IUPII - A high way construction crane top Died from an ovemass onto Long Island Railroad tracks today, badly damaging the first of a five-car train and injuring six passengers, five of them critically, police re ported. The injured were taken to St. John's hospital by police and hospital disaster units that were called to the scene in the Woodside section of Queens. All power was cut off on a major portion of the Long Island's Queens Line at the order of fire officials, but there was no fire. Police said the crane was being used in construction of the Brooklyn - Queens Ex pressway when it toppled from the overpass onto the railroad right of way. Residence Damaged Sunday by fire O. O. Hull residence, 1255 Hull rd., was damaged by fire Sunday morning. Firemen, summoned about 9:55 a.m., said that the blaze originated from an overheated flue. Clothing in a closet was ignited. The fire extended to the upper portion of the house and went through the roof. Walcr damage resulted to the lower floor. AUG. 16th STARTING 10 A.M. BY ORDER OF DIRECTORS THE EQUIPMENT PLANING MILL: Htwmn 5I? Oftubll Profit! 6" i II" PltntrMttcntr; Ntw min 30" 1 14 ft Firttipplt FurJ Tihli, McDonnouih 54" Bind Rtiiw, SO h.p. motor (4) COMPRESSORS: Wtitinhuti, IS h p.: Quincy Portiblt, im powind, ind '?) Tink Mounttd modi It LATHE DEPT.: 12" 4 Sin nd 4" 3 Stw Litrii Mi (hum; (2) It.m Sim, Stttl ?0 ff Belt Cofityor. tU MISC. t SHOP EQUIPMENT: Hi Prmura Port i f Pitmpt. SUtl Witir lint; Powtr Sprtur. All Still SO ft 70 ft. Burn if, GiUto'd Blow Pipe Cftlont. fiitorttEinl LiMv ImI Cnk md Shop flu pmtnt Suppl'ti. tc OILER: II ft. Wood Firtd toiltf, with H r. tubti OFFICE EQUIPMENT: Modtrn. lilt mttf. Cikulllori. IjpinritKt All Michmti. Sll Ouki, Chun, Flti, Inltrcoffim. '!' !c BUILDINGS TO IC MOVED: A.r ctnd. iontd 42 t 2S H, Offtci Bld , tltc hiitmf. nitroom itt . lb) Corrufttid Iron CowrirJ Wood Constructed Build I 133 ft i 140 ft ; Plmtf. Mll. G'ttfl Chun, Boiltr Buildinft, tie. HADING AVCTtOhftM ON Tilt fACinC COAST HHtW St CA. I-'' Prllfi 1, OrtfMi They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo State Police Check Accidents State police reported three minor accidents occurred on Highway 99 in the southern part of the county Saturday and Sunday. The first occurred about 4 p.m. south of Ashland when a northbound car driven by Howard Doyle Baker, 28, of Lahadra, Calif., stopped short behind another car, then skidded into the southbound car driven by Robert Joseph Sloan, 32, of Fremont, Calif., police said. Thirty minutes later, north of Phoenix, a two car acci dent occurred as Glen M ma rum Corbett, 20, of Portland, attempted to change lanes and was hit by a car driven by John Jacob Hamblin, 37, of 169 Lincoln st., Ashland. No injuries were reported and only minor damage resulted, state police said. About 2:30 p.m., Sunday cars driven by Harris Virgil Holsapple, 51, of box 107, Tal ent, and Gerald Raymond Reed, 26, of 175 Church St., Ashland, collided as Holsap ple atemptcd to make a left turn onto Fourth St., Phoenix according to police reports. Marriage-wait laws are in effect in 19 states. PICTURE OF MR. EXE SOAKING IN HIS OWN "FREEDOM OF CHOICE':.. ...toYOU and to US... that "Freedom of Choice" looks like an old-fashioned bathtub... certainly not sexy... but so surely satisfying HERE'S "IT CERTAINLY PAYS TO BE ADVERTISED AT" A rul'.IC SIIVICI AOVItmiMfNT MlfID IT A tIAOING NewsfAMI FUILISMIW ASSOCIATION AND FUIUSHI0 Russia Pressed for Four-Power Talks Washington - iUPU - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk to day pressed Russia for four power talks on reducing ten sion between East and West Berlin. This was the only concrete developments officials would discuss after Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Do brynin met for 23-minutes at the State department. The State department said the talk "produced no signifi cant change" in the over-all Berlin situation. The United States and oth er Western powers proposed June 25 that representatives of the United States, Britain, France and Russia meet to discuss ways of reducing the number of incidents of vio lence which have occurred at the Berlin wall and ways to ease the barriers to commerce and movement of people be tween the two sectors. Russia formally rejected the proposal July 14. Last Sat urday, the State department urged the Kremlin to "recon sider." to Mr. EXE... HIS OWN STORY... Sure-1 like to relax -the rest of our family like the stimulating sting of a shower in its shiny new stall but me I like to soak in my tub-soak in the news-and yes, I soak in what the "ads" say, too. You know-someday some manufacturer will come up with a more relaxing tub-with perhaps a headrest-a magazine or news paper holder for us soakers. It may be only that the new tub's bilges will conform more soothingly to my bulges the first I'll know of it will be in the advertisements-I'll see it probably buy it and love it as a better soaker than my present soaker! Yes, when you're looking for benefits or improvement Whether it's bathtubs or beauty aids; foods, fashions or furniture; motor cars or modern homes; anything in our lives that can be improved, bene fited, or time saved -you can be sure advertising will bring it. to you first. SO ISN'T IT GREAT TO MONDAY. AUGUST Water, water evervwhere-ano NOT A ETC. TkwUllOAUtf TIP toJACk BABBEN, ft? 6u7. 40 AVE.. SAN l-RANCISCO SV i, Placement Institute Four local teachers are at tending two advanced place ment institutes at the Univer sity of Oregon this month. Mrs. Roland D. Smith, John Smock, James J. Backen, and Mrs. Marjorie Miehoff Lining er are teachers of honors classes in the valley. The two week training institutes are In English and European his tory, and teachers participat ing will teach advanced classes in high schools. Mechanical Trades Bidding Depository JOSEPHINE GENERAL HOSPITAL Grants Pass, Oregon Bid Depository Closing Time: Mechanical & General Sheet Metal Aug, 15, 12 noon PST Mechanical Sheet Metal August 15, 10 a.m. PST Bids will be received from the following crafts: General Sheet Motal, Mechanical: i.e.. Plumbing, Heating, Mechanical Sheet Metal, Temperature Controls. Depository Location: Room No. 206, Josephine County Courthouse, Grants Pass, Oregon. Bid forms, envelopes may be obtained: INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN OREGON & VIC, Inc. 40 5. Fir St., Mfldtord, Oregon Telephone: 773 5327 or 773-5328 FRED MORLAN, Bid Custodian 7 Confidentially, Mr. Exe, our soaker is a sucker lor stereo-phonic hi-fi; but shrewd -so much so that he reads not only the display advertisements but also the classified advertisements to keep up on all the possible bargains everywhere . . . BE WELL-INFORMED.. .TO OKICON ADVKTISIN6 AOINCr AT THl IIOUfST OF THI OKfOON IT THIS NIWSFAFCt FOI YOU INFORMATION. B 5 THEY CAME FROM VEGAS Basildon, Eng. (UPD Five patrons of a pub here who were irritated at a house rule requiring the wearing of neck ties decided to do something about it. Last week end the five went in for a drink wear ing collars, vests and ties but no shirts. POWERFUL NEW PLUNGER CLEARS CLOGGED TOILETS in a jiffy! NEVER AGAIN that sick Fooling whtn Your tolUt overflow! TOILAFLEX Toilet Plunger Ordinary plungert jutt don't icat properly. They permit compreued air and water to splaih back. Thua you not only have meu, but you lose the very pressure you need to clear the obstruction, With "Toilaflei", expreuly designed for toilets, no air or water can es cape. The full pressure plows through the clogging; miu and swishea it down. Can't misat DOUaLC-SIZE CUP. OOUtLC-PftESSUIte DESIGNED TO FLI AT ANY ANOLt CENTERS ITSELF, CAN'T SKID AROUND TAPERED TAIL OIVES AIR-TIQHT FIT $2 65 fully Kuar.ntMd AT HARDWARE STORES EVERYWHERE BE ADVERTISED AT? 13. 1962
