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Chinese Claims of Everest Climb Not Believed by Yank Seattle -tUPD- The leader of a U.S. team planning to climb Mt. Everest said Tuesday he doesn't believe the Red Chi nese claim that three of their men climbed the 29,028-foot peak in the middle of the night, barefooted and without oxygen. But Norman G. Dyhren furth, documentary film pro ducer from Santa Monica, Calif., told a news conference here that he does believe in the existence of the Abomin able Snowman. Dyhrenfurth and 17 other members of the 20-man team gathered here to practice climbing together and test equipment on Mt. Rainier, less than half the height of Mt. Everest. The team hopes to scale Everest next spring. Dyhrenfurth said he was in the Himalayas earlier this year when the Chinese an nounced the scaling of Everest from the northern side. "They reported that three men scaled it in the middle of the night, without oxygen and going part of the way bare footed," he said. "There is sup posedly a bust of Mao Tse Chung on top." Dyhrenfurth said he dis agreed with Sir Edmund Hil ary, veteran of Everest expe ditions on the existence of the Abominable Snowman. Hilary believes the snowman does not exist. Snowman Exists "Neither of us are scientists and are not really qualified to make the statement," Dyhren furth said. "I am a film-maker and Sir Edmund is a former bee-keeper, bu I do believe that the snowman exists. It would be an anthropoid on a very high evolutionary scale." Another member of the team. Dr. William Sin, re search physicist at the Uni versity of California, said he doesn't expect to see the snowman, but "we wouldn't ignore it if it walked into our camp." Siri said the prime objec tive is to climb Mt. Everest but the team also will be con cerned with physiological, psychological and sociological observations. "Outside of conditions of actual combat, it is the best way to observe men under stress," Sin said. "These con ditions never could be repro duced in a laboratory." Dyhrenfurth said if the Everest ascent is successful, the team will also try to scale the nearby peaks of Lhotse and Nuptse. Mayors Ask Right To Intercede in Railroad Strike Chicago-IUPD-Mayors of sub urban communities along the Chicago and North Western Railway, closed down by a telegraphers strike, asked to day for a chance to intercede in the dispute and help bring about a quick settlement. The mayors' plans came to light as Federal Mediator Francis A. O'Neill Jr. pre pared to meet separately with both parties in an effort to settle the 7-day-old deadlock ed dispute. O'Neill was sched uled to meet with the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and later with railroad officials. Full Irr.pact With negotiations deadlock ed and no prospect of an early settlement, the full impact of the shutdown in the Midwest was becoming apparent. Con struction projects and grain shipments were delayed or halted. In northwest Iowa, one grain elevator closed and laid off four employees. C. O. Schlaver, president of suburban Mount Prospect, said at least 12 mayors and village presidents in his area would like to attend joint ses sions between the disputants. The joint sessions were brok en off Monday. O'Neill said President Ken nedy was "very concerned" about the strike, which the ORT staged to enforce its de mands that layoffs of telegra phers be subject to negotia tion. The carrier has contend ed the elimination of telegra phers jobs should be left to management. NLRB Asks Court To Rule in Favor Of Agency Shop Washington - IUPI1 - The Na tional Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has asked the Su preme Court to rule in favor of the "agency shop." An agency shop arrange ment requires that employees contribute to collective bar gaining costs but does not force them to join a union. The board appealed a test case on the subject involving a General Motors Corporation (GM) plant in Indiana. Refuted To Enforce The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the agency shop a violation of the Taft- Hartley labor law. The court therefore refused to enforce an NLRB order requiring GM to bargain on the issue with the United Automobile Work ers (AFL-CIO). After GM has a chance to reply, the court will decide whether it will hear the board's appeal and decide the case by written opinion. The NLRB told the court that the agency shop "has been gaining increasing ac ceptance as a solution to one of the most troublesome issues in collective bargaining - the extent to which membership andor financial support of the collective bargaining rep resentative should be a condi tion of employment in the shop." MedfordlWTribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEP! EMBER 5, 1962 PAGES 1 to 10 - el-,. mJ E - " - - ' No Wish ta Quibble, B ut . . . Senate Payroll List Should Also Tell How Employees Earn Salary Mi By DICK WEST United Pros International Washington -fflPU- At three month intervals, the U.S. Sen ate publishes a list of its of ficers and em ployees show ing how much was paid dur ing the quar t e rly period. Almost every one, except maybe the of ficers and em ployees, think wen tnis open door policy toward the payroll is a good thing. I certainly don't wish to quibble, but to me the list seems incomplete. I think it should reveal not only what the officers and employees earn, but what they do to earn it. The list, to be sure, includes brief job descriptions and in some cases these are self-explanatory. It's easy, for in stance, to guess what an "in serting machine operator" does. The Senate has seven in serting machine oper a t o r s who were paid $1,178.85 last quarter. At this time of year, there is always a lot of in serting to be done. Raises Questions In certain other cases, how ever, the job titles raise more questions than they answer, leaving a reader of the list feeling vaguely disquieted and unfulfilled. I have spent considerable time seeking to surmise how John M. Price earned his $1,421.88. Price is listed as the "laborer in charge of pri vate passage." During a congressional ses sion, many private bills come up for passage. But it seems unlikely there would be a laborer in charge of them. More likely it means Hint Price is in charge of a private passageway somewhere on the premises. Presumably, he la bors to keep it private and, if he does his job well, the pub lic will never know. According to the list, the ladies retiring room" has two "female attendants," each paid $1,118.10. One is listed as Mary E. Scroggins and the other is James A. Mullally. Mistake Obvious Obviously, there is a mis take there. Mary E. Scroggins should have been listed as the "male attendant" in the "gen- tleman's retiring room." I was likewise puzzled by the job titles of George Smith and Louis A. Queen. Smith is listed as "wagonmaster" and: Queen as "assistant wagon master." I have spent a lot of tima around the Capitol in recent years and I don't recall ever seeing a wagon on the grounds. 1 have often heard it said that certain senators are "still living in the horse and buggy days." Most of them, however, drive Cadillacs to work. The only thing I can figure out is that the wagons are kept in the private passage that Price is in charge of. HIGH PRESSURE HOSES - Students scat ter and try to hide as firemen turn high pressure hoses on them Saturday night in Seaside. About 1,000 students took part In the riot at the small resort community on the Oregon coast. (UPI) Hog Farmer Wins Calling Contest Salem (UPI) The Oregon State Fair's hog calling con test was won here Tuesday . . . by a hog farmer. Elmer Stangel of Wilson ville, who has exhibited prize winning hogs at the fair for 42 years, won over nine other contestants. Mrs. Robert Hurlis of Van couver, Wash., took second place and Gil Savage of Salem was third. Today's schedule included dairy, sheep and hog judging, horse racing, a talent show, cow calling contest, rodeo horse show, and the Gordon MacRae musical Revue. Cambodian Highway May Finally Cost Over S50 Million Washington - Oiri. - House investigators estimated today that the Cambodian-American Friendship Highway eventual ly may cost more than $50 million, three times its origin al price tag. President Kennedy has car marked another $7 million to pay for repairs on the road, which started to fall apart aft er its completion in 1959. Congress gave him $2.7 mil lion last year for the same purpose. These expenditures are in addition to the $34 million already spent on the Cambo dian road. The original cost estimate on the project, de- A True Western Galloping Horse! 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Dougherty Over seas Inc. of New York and Hammond, lnd., also wanted more money for its work on the 132-mile highway. A House watchdog subcom mittee, led by Rep. Porter Hardy Jr. (D-Va.) charged last November that the highway was "so badly bungled that it endangered our prestige, bur dened us witth costly repairs, and supplied the Communists with an effective source of anti-American propaganda." The House group strongly criticized the Dougherty firm, U. S. foreign aid officials and another American firm, Mich ael Baker Jr. Inc., of Ro chester, Pa., which did the engineering. ! The two American firms, however, strongly denied any j responsibility for the road's failure. Proper maintenance was not performed by the Cambodians they said, and heavy rains damaged portions i of the highway. Hoover Recovering From Tumor Surgery New York - tUPII - Former President Herbert Hoover, 08, recuperating from surgery for removal of a cancerous tumor in his large intr tine last week, continued to im prove today. Doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center dis closed Tuesday that tests showed the growth removed from Hoover was malignant. They said that in their opln ion, chances of a recurrence of cancer for Hoover was slight. Hoover was informed of the doctors' conscnus and said he was "delighted." As his condition steadily improved, he showed "a lively interest. S in newspapers," walked about unassisted, and took up pipe- smoking again, which doctors I called a "very favorable symbol." Morse, Ullman Not Happy Wiih BLM Range Plan Washington - luri) - Sen. Wayne Morse and Rep. Al Ull man, (D-Ore.) have expressed "great disappointment" at the range rehabilitation program submitted by the Bureau of Land Management for the Vale grazing project. They criticized the pro gram in a letter to Secretary of Interior Stewart L. Udall. Morse and Ullman said "the work plan submitted for the project is entirely made. quate." They said that "the work planned for range re seeding, brush control, fen cing, water facilities and gully plugs could be accomplished I at a cost of between $200,000 and $250,000." Acres Reseeded Morse and Ulman said, ac cording to the plan, only 18, 000 acres would be reseeded, 21,000 acres treated for brush control, 17 miles of fence con. structed and 68 water devel opments planned. this is not the program we envisioned nor docs it con form to what we believe was outlined to us or to the con servationists and range users," they told Udall. The Oregon congressmen said $1 million was available for the project and called for a new plan to be drawn up. Rogue Valley Firms Win Awards at Fair Salem - Two Rogue valley establishments won three awards in the beef and sheep classes at the Oregon Stale Fair in Salem. 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