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V i featherbedding Fight Is Brought to Legislature Br ANN H. PEARSON Salem UP1 In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court de cision, railroads brought their anti-featherbedding campaign before the Oregon Legislature Wednesday night with a plea for elimination of "an un needcd, unwanted, excess brakeman." They asked amendment of Oregon's full crew law to re duce from six to five the num ber of crewmen required on a freight train of more than 40 cars on a run of more than 15 miles. Spokesmen for Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Great Northern accused the railroad brotherhoods of per petuating a "make -work scheme." They said 163 surplus brakemen tn Oregon are cost ing the railroads $1,750,000 a year for "useless, meaning less, soft jobs" that contribute nothing to train safety. The unions, in a brief re buttal, insisted the six-man crew is needed for safety They disputed the railroads safety and revenue statistics. The safety theme was borne out by an audience of several hundred, filled with railway workers wearing name cards with the slogan, "Your safety is our job." Unions to Ttilify The unions will give their main testimony against the measure March 13 at a second hearing before the Senate Commerce and Utilities com mittee. The railroads will gel a brief rebuttal. The testimony came just a few days after the U. S. Su preme Court upheld the right of railroads to change work rules to eliminate jobs. Laws such as Oregon's, however, remain in force. Oglesby H. Young of South ern Pacific said even the term "brakeman" has become ob solete in the 50 years since Oregon's law was passed. He said brakemen no longer have anything to do with braking trains. Young said only six other states require a six-man crew, He said accident rates are the same whether six or five men are used. Young said other employers from ranchers to mill opep ators are free to determine their own crew numbers. He Horse Club Leaders Clinic Scheduled A 4-H horse club leaders' clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 pu. Saturday, March 16, on the Jackson county fairgrounds, according to Jackson County 4-H Agent Jerry Brog. Ed Mayficld, Double D Her. eford and Quartcrhorse ranch, will instruct. A talk on para site control will be given by Dean Frischknecht, animal science specialist, Oregon Stale university. Horsemanship classes will be held in the afternoon. Jack son, Josephine and Klamath county leaders have been invited. Medford Girl Found Fainted Along Street A 17-year-old Medford girl was found lying beside the street near the intersection of East 12th and Spencer sts., shortly after 8 p.m. Wednes day, according to . Medford police. The girl was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambulance. The girl's mother told officers she had had an argument with her daughter earlier in the evening and the girl left the house. A physi cian said the. girl, suffering from hypertension, started breathing rapidly, flooding her brain with oxygen, caus ing her to faint. The girl was released to her mother. Ice cream contains all the Important nutricms in milk, but in different proportions. said railroads should be al lowed to do the same. The railroad witnesses said the railroads cannot afford to keep rates competitive for farmers and lumbermen un less they can modernize to cut costs. Drain on Industry "The excess brakeman is an obvious drain on the railroad industry and ultimately on the people ... for it is they who pay the freight bills which pay his wages," said A. W. Kilborn of Southern Pacific. He said automation and radio equipment have vastly changed railroad safety fac tors in the last 60 years. The third brakeman is busy today, he said, only when he "as sumes tasks that can be per formed by one of the other men." ' Kilborn conceded the third brakeman could be a help in an emergency. But for the most part, he xald, the idle brakeman in fact becomes a hazard: "Horseplay and foolishness result out of sheer boredom." Kilborn said it was in the interests of the unions to help the railroads modernize in order to remain a competitive means of transportation. Oth erwise, he said, other rail road jobs could be lost, John T. Andrew of Great Northern stressed modern safety factors he said make the third brakeman obsolete. The rallfoads said some Oregon trains would retain six man crews through agree ments with the unions. Attorney Alex Parks of the Railroad Brotherhoods told the Senate committee it would be hasty to take action this session. He said a Presi dential Commission spent two years studying a similar situa tion in 1948-49. Parks also questioned the motivation of the railroads. He. said the way the bill was drafted could leave the full crew law in question for dicscl trains whether or not the legislature acted. 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FORMER TURKISH PRESIDENT ILL Istanbul, Turkey -U'Plu Foreign Turkish Preiident Celal Bayar, now serving a life prison term, is suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes and an intestinal infection, his doc tors said yesterday. Thirteen doctors who examined Bayar in his prison cell, recommended he be hospitalised, but Bayar is resisting the move, Bayer's government was overthrown in 1958 and he was sentenced subsequently to life imprisonment for anti-state activities. Stocks Ride Crest Of Closing Rally; Electronics Rise New York - (UPD - Stocks rode the crest of Wednesday's late rally today, moving high er. Electronics showed some of the best gains with Litton, Fairchild Camera, Burroughs, and IBM up large fractions to more than a point. Dow tack ed on nearly 2 in a firm chemical group and Chrysler added nearly a point in the motors. Steels were firm at best but rails weakened following word from the White House that both airline and railroad mergers are going to have a tougher time in winning gov ernment approval. Baltimore & Ohio featured the rail los ers, down more than a point. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York-ltlPll-Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 668.08, up 0.92; 20 railroads 152.15. off 0.90; IS utilities 133.09. off 0.10. and 65 stocks 237.80, off 0.15. Sales Wednesday were about 3.1 million shares compared with 3.28 million shares Tuesday. Wednesday', price, on Mocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am AmericHli Air Line , American Can American Motors , AT&T American Tobacco ...... Anaconda Copper . Armco American Standard Bendix Corp Bethlehem Steel Boeine Air ... Brun.wlck Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp Coca Cola CBS ... Columbia Gas Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Crucible Steel Curtis Wriuht Dow c hemic! Du Pont Eastman Kodak Kirestone rord . ... General Klectrlc elected 44 ' S3 IB'', 4J. 31 '4 12(1', .... 20 't 4J34 521. 13'. II !. 30', 38, 17 3-T. 8D4 I '4 53 27 '. 44 4'i 11'. 21 "'. 2.19 113', , .TO 3fl', 73' t Josephine County Starts Budget Work Grunts Pass-The Josephine county budget committee held its first meeting Wednesday night to start work on the 10H3-ti4 budget. The time was devoted to preliminary discussion of the overall budget and no esti male of any totals was re lea.scd by the group. It was staled thai early in dications are that the dispo sition of O and C funds will be considerably less than last year. The group elected Lewis Krauss, Jr., Selnia lumber man, chairman. Other mem bers are Cecil Johnson, chair man of last year's budget i committee, Molviir Leonard, and the three Josephine coun ty commissioners. General Food General Molon .... General Portland Cement Georgia Pacific Greyhound Gulf OH Homeitake , Irlaho Power IBM . Int Paper Johns Manvflle Kennccott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Martin Merck Montana Power Montgomery Ward National Biscuit New York Central Northern Natural Gas Northern Pacific Pac Can Elec Penney. J. C Pcnn RR Phillips Procter ft Gamble Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safcwa.v Santa Fe, Scars Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co Southern Pacific Sperr.v Rand Standard California ...... Standard Indiana Standard N. J Stokcly Van Camp Sun Mines Texas Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Texan Pac Land Trust .... Thiokol Trans America Trans World Air Tri Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific (xd) United Aircraft United Air Lines U.S. Plywood , U.S, riumier U.S. Steel West Bunk Corp .., WcBtinghouie Vocational School Building Plans Approved by Board of Education technical vocational school buildings were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education. The board also extended the operation of the Oregon City Technical Vocational school, approved teacher in ternship programs at two Ore gon colleges, and deferred ac tion on a curriculum lublica tion, "Understanding the Na ture of Communism." The board approved the de tailed plans for the construc tion of a building for the Sa lem Technical-Voc" a t i 0 n a 1 school. Plans for construction of Widowhood Totals Expected To Rise New York -WW- More than half a million wives are wid owed annually in the United States, according to statisti cians at Metropolitan Life In surance company. There now are well over 8 million widows in the country and it is expected their total will continue to rise rapidly, the statisticians said. a shop building and labora tory building at Southwestern Oregon College were also approved. The State Emergency Board has obligated $225,000 for each project. The board approved a re quest by Oregon City Supt. Edwin C. Ditto that the Ore gon City Vocational school continue' operation under the community college law through June 30, 1964. The internship programs approved by the board will involve students in teacher education programs at Ore gon State university and at Eastern Oregon college. The internship program is part of an organized five year program of teacher education. Action on the teachers re source unit oiwCommunism was delayed to the June meet. ing to give board members more time to study the docu ment. In other action today, the board approved: Appointment of John Maurice Adams as consultant for veterans' education and training and vocational school licensing in the State Depart ment of Education. Appointment of Robert William. Demers as vocation al rehabilitation counselor in Eugene. A contract with McMinn ville No. 40 in Yamhill coun ty to conduct a migrant edu cation program during the 1962-63 school year. Consolidation of school district 61-R, Stanfield, and school district 8-R, Hermiston. Candidate petitions for directors in central Douglas county area education district and recommended thai they be placed on the ballot. Regional Edition Medford Page 2A Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963 BEWARE Of IMITATIONS LOOK f OR THE HAPPY UTttf 006 TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE ... 79 'i ... 61 It ... 18 ... 44 ... 36 ... 40i ... 50 ...404 -i 2 ... 443 ... 30 ; ... 50 H ... 20i, . 81 ... 38', 31 ... 47 1 t' ... 4R 4 Mi J!'i 41'i - 16', ... 48 ... 71' ', ... 61 , ... 41'. ... 47'i ... 2H'i ... 78' 3 ti'k ... on j ... 55 ... ... 135. ... 62'. ... 53 ', ... 60 'i ... 20 , ... 8U ... 61 2 ... 14'i ' ... 20H ... 45 'a ... 12'. ... 43 V, ...104 ... 34 . 33 i ASTRONAUT MANUAL Minneapolis - HOT - It was bound to be written - a man ual (or would-be astronauts. A Honeywell engineer here hs come up with the fir;-t of an anticipated scries of such manuals, strictly lor professional scientific types. Bonk One is titled "Incrtial Guidance'' and instructs the space flyer in artronomy. geodesy, kenematics, gyro and acceleionicter theory, plus what the author, Richard II. Parvin, described as "useful mathematical techniques." GP School Board Announces Policy On Athletics, Pay Grants Pass - The Grants Pass school board has an nounced adoption of a new policy for athletics and coaches salaries. Under the new policy all activities pertaining to team practice will be carried on outside the regular school time except at the ninth grade level. The ninth graders are in the Junior High school and they will continue to practice during the last period of the school session as at present. Senior high school coaches will be limited to the coach ing of two sports in the fu ture. Some have been coach ing three sports in addition to their regular classroom assignments. This ruling also will have an exception. It will not apply to present assign ments, but to all future hir iiigs. The regular schedule of pay over and above the amount received for regular class room assignments is to range within prescribed limits with each case to be judged in dividually. The board is investigating the possibility of sponsoring a three weeks summer class in remedial reading on a tui tion basis, which will involve no cost to the district, it was also announced following the board meeting. British Stage Actor Jo Make Film Debut Madrid -ATP- British stage actor Erie Porter has been signed to make his film debut in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" being filmed here by Samuel Bionston production. The film slars Sophia Lor en. Stephen Boyd. Alec Guin ness, James Mason, and Chris topher Pluinmer. Anthony Mann is directing. 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