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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
THE city manager movement is spreading in
Oreeon.
Salem is to have a vote on a
proposal, and it is also com
ing up at Grants Pass. Eu
gene's new city manager gov
ernment is now well launched,
and Indications are that it is
producing constructive results.
Th" manager at Eugene re
cently proposed a proposed
ot civic development
covering a period of several
years, with the financing plans
included.
Several Oregon cities have
operated under the manage
ment plan for years.
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EPLEY
It is noteworthy that in
most cases, where cities have adopted a city
manager form of government, it succeeds so
well it is retained.
The best plan, as we sec it, is a council
manager form. Thus an elective council forms
policies and adopts legislation, and the trained,
experienced manager does the administrating.
This is very much like the school district
plan that has prevailed throughout the state.
Elective school boards control policy and trans
act the fundamental business of the district,
and the trained superintendent carries out
policies and generally administers district af
fairs. Management Merged
SEVERAL years ago, the local school boards
KUHS and elementary got together on
a management program. Jointly they employed
Arnold Gralapp as superintendent, and he has
done an excellent job handling the affairs of
both districts. Prior to this merger of manage
ment, affairs of the separate districts were
handled by. an elementary superintendent for
many years J. Percy Wells did the job well
and a high school principal.
Klamath county school district conducts its
business with an employed superintendent
Fred Peterson has done the job for years and
an elective school board.
The council-manager plan is, generally speak
ing, the school district plan applied to city
government.
Planning Pays
EARLY in the war, Klamath Union high
school district adopted a pre-financing plan
for post-war developments. Voters authorized
the raising of $60,000 a year for five years.
Two years' funds have now been levied,
and a third is coming up. This means that the
new vocational education wing to be added to
the high school building can now be provided
without further financing. ,
Long-term planning and good management
brought about this favorable state of affairs.
Briefs From The Pocket File
CAMP WHITE naval hospital is to be closed
May 1 . . . Camp Adair, the big former
army camp in the Willamette valley, is to be
sold . . . Mitchell Paige, Congressional Medal
of Honor winner and one-time provost marshal
for the Marine Barracks, is in town . . . The
Marine Barracks educational center proposal
can't move further until there are developments
in Washington, where the navy apparently has
not yet transferred the property to the war
assets corporation . . . R. C. Groesbeck, local
attorney and member of the state board of
higher education, may move to California in
the next year or so . . . Citizens have only a
few days left in which to register to vote in
the primary.
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, April 11 The mine
strike is easily explained. The miners'
houses had to be painted, their gardens dug and
morning glories planted around the sheds in
the back yard. Many are farmers on the side
and had to do extensive plowing and seeding.
They have long been accustomed to a vacation
strike every April to get these things done.
For the past five years, due to the war, they
have lost this traditional spring leave-taking.
To make sure they get it this year, the
union Boss John L. Lewis neglected to tell the
operators exactly what he wanted in the new
contract. He presented r.o specific list of de
mands, but left his wants rather vaguely or
indirectly stated. He took no chance that the
operators would accept.
This week Lewis began to get down to busi
ness, which fact has inspired all on the inside
to expect a settlement is near surely by next
week, they say, possibly before this gets into
print. No grave or impossible differences
exist. The coal bins are beginning to run low.
Some steel mills have shut down. So if the
operators are in the mood, the nation's biennial
fuel production comedy will end shortly and
pleasantly.
Own Social Security System
LEWIS is serious about one thing. He wants
to establish his own union social security
system to Dromote medical aid, safety and
health. If it works out right, this would put
the union in charge of handling vast funds
and establish a sort' of super government
within it, or at least make it a competitor
with the federal government in its health,
safety and social security notions and the
vast accumulated federal SS funds.
The only other current strike of importance
is one little noticed, at the Westinghouse Elec
trical Appliance Works in Pittsburgh. Its
issues are of greater public significance than
the publicized coal strike. This company has
had no labor troubles in the past. Its record
is superior. Yet 18,000 or more workers plus
55,000 in other Westinghouse plants, have
been out for weeks in a fully bitter struggle in
an industry which is vitally needed for peace
time production as the dearth of household
electrical appliances has hit the public hard.
The real trouble is the company granted
secret wage increases during the war in the
way of incentive pay and such devices, at the
private direction of the government, which was
then winking at its own ' little steel formula
in order to raise wages without announcing
it. Now the electrical union has come along
with a demand for the 18 cents an hour
increase which other industries are getting
without wiping out the incentive pay and other
wage-hiking devices of wartime.
The company has fairly well proved it can
not stand the proposed increase and do business
against its big competitor General Electric,
where the wartime incentive devices did not
go as high as at Westinghouse, and therefore
the general operating pay would be lower.
Trustworthy figures on production of electric
lamps particularly show this. I understand
Westinghouse has gone as high as Phil Murray,
head of the entire CIO, in its plea for fair
moderation of the union demands to meet com
petitive production. Murray sympathized, but
said he could do nothing. The company
says the strike will continue until the union
reaches a decision for moderation.
Strike Probe Rushed
P' ENNSYLVANIA'S political-boss type (boss
of what)? Senator Joe Guffey has tried
ineffectively to get the senate labor committee,
which is controlled by CIO, to conduct an in
vestigation of the strike, which would be
favorable to the union. He has been pushing
the Kilgore resolution for a senatorial investi
gation of strikes, with the Westinghouse case
in mind. But the idea of a political inquiry
into strikes has been a little too much for even
that strongest CIO committee in congress and
the Kilgore resolution is languishing.
Yet in general, the national strike situation
is clearing up. Greatest steal of the campaign
was one by the CIO political action Boss Sidney
Hillman without a strike in the Amalga
mated Clothing industry which he dominates.
Only a paragraph or so in the press recently
heralded the hold-up effected by CIO's smoothie,
who wrangled $60,000,000 more a year out of
the clothing makers (meaning the public) with
wage increases ranging from 18 cents to 30
cents an hour.
I have heard the best objective authority on
labor say privately and I think it is true:.
"It will take the unions until 1958 to win
back the solid ground they have lost in their
recent strikes campaign."
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C Of C Improvements
Discussed At Meet
Improvements at the Klamath
County chamber of commerce
were discussed Wednesday at
the board of directors meeting.
It was suggested to purchase
a new awning for the front of
the building or to eliminate the
awning entirely and purchase
Venetian blinds. The matter of
a new sign was also studied by
the group.
The state department, with
Thomas Jefferson as its head,
started with five employes.
A cow must eat 100 or more
pounds of grass to produce 20 to
25 pounds of milk.
Housewives Pick Up Phone;
Town's Fire Siren Shrieks
SUQUAMISH (Kitsap Coun
ty), Wash., April 11 (P) House
wives who heard the town's
new fire siren blow when they
picked up their telephones the
other day can relax now. The
volunteer fire department has
found the trouble.
"What a dav," muttered red-
Centennial Group
Formed At Meeting
A Centennial association was
formed at a meeting held last
night, to have charge of the cele
bration to take place this fall
commemorating the opening of
the south road into Oregon 100
years ago.
Constitution and by-laws were
adopted and it was agreed to in
corporate as a non-profit organi
zation. A nominating commit
tee was appointed to name per
sons to serve on the executive
committee. The next meeting
will be held April 17, when the
nominating committee's report
will be heard and election of the
executive committee held.
There were over 40 persons
present with representatives of
23 different organizations and
interested individuals attending.
faced Fire Commissioner Wal
ter Denton.
"Everytime somebody picked
up his telephone bang! Off
went the fire siren. And 12
of us roared off in our fire
truck down the Pulsbo road."
Fire Chief William Berbaur
ordered one of the volunteer
members, Fred King, to search
for the trouble. He found the
signal system wire and a tele
phone wire crossed up.
"It made us look foolish,"
the chief growled. "They might
have lost respect for our de
partment." Red Cross Drive
At $19,755.64
Latest figure released on the
Red Cross drive to date brings
the county total to $19,755.64,
still less than half of the $43,100
quota.
New members in the $100 club
are G. A. Krause, $100; North
west Theatres, donating $50 per
theatre, $250; Henry Semon,
$100, and the Tulana Farms,
$200.
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Only one traffic arrest was
mudu by city police In the past
24 hours. William H. Perrin,
U25 Pacific Terrace, stopped for
a violation of tin basic rule on
E. Main, was cited to appear in
court today.
Seven drunks and two persons
eharKcd with disorderly conduct
appealed in police court this
morning.
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