MONDAY, NOVF.MUKU 17, lOM
- HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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'Coal Miners, Industry In Last-Ditch Effort
To Win Reversal of VSB Pay Decrease Order
WArjlllNOTON l,fl John I.
Lewis mm ilig unit caul Industry
mucin Is it (Hull try today ill
getting the gnvrrnment to reverse
IK decision that BinniliiH lull
I. 0 per day pay talso to in Iritis
la inflationary.
1ha esse may Involvi lite whole
lillura ol III" wage control pro
lirnm. Aln at alaka in whether
Hit's; prices on coal boosted Bat.
urday to ollsrl a ft AO per day
pay Increase-will be hiked even
lurlher or whether coal miners
strike, ' ilhe coal miner should he approved. , the government approvea the re-
Over Hie week end the CIO I The, Wane Stabilisation Board , iialiiiiiar 40 centa per day, the mln-
en led II qu ia on wage comroia ruico . in inai anyimng more ers will gei mat retroactively.
..... ..... I.i . u Ihn ! Ml n- flV .,l,lj.,l ...U fr.. '11,1 I. tk. ..... '
and snld they mlKht aa well be
abandoned. A top AKL, leader alio
demanded that certain wu con
trols be dropped unless changes
are made,
Economic Blnblllrer noier Put
nam nuinmoned United Mine Woi It
em President Lewis and Industry
spokesman Harry M, Moses to A
hearing to Hive oral arguments ex
plnlmng why they believe the lull
I.M per day raise negotiated (or
'Space Islands' Win Backing
WASIIINUTON Ms Home tnv
tanking businessmen little Klven to
fnnlssy are no Iniiiicasril with
prospects ol man-made Islands cir
('linn In outer space thai many
today believe ulIi a project should
be financed lur defense puiposc.
Ueveral meiubera ol the Musi
hfa Advisory Council of Hie Com
merce Department, made up of
executives ol some 100 lame enrp
oratloni, aald at the council's clos
mi session at Kea Inland, .!.. yen
terrtay that a recent ofl-the-record
lepurt by an Army uulded mis
ailea expert had "excited a lot ul
interest,'
lime thai II wax printed ami sent
In council mi'mbeia, thua gaining
sumewhal wider circulation.
flobert T. Stevens, council rhulr
man, told a rrx)rler that although
aome labeled It "Duck Rrniera
atufl," others were Impressed.
One executive aald: "II I had
four billion dollars I'd live It to
him right now."
Von Rraun told the business
council that aupporlera of the pro
ject "are faced with far fewer
bsslc problems than were the men
who undertook the atom bomb de
velopment back In WO
than II. 40 per day added pay lor This la the same arrangement
tha mlnrra "would damage our na- under which about 68,000 anthra-
tlonal effort to halt inflation. ' Thin cite, miner are working. Beginning
meant the Industry couldn't pity
the lull Increane without facing
ponnlhly heavy financial penally.
The WHH'e ruling shaving 40
centn ofl their nay Increnne touched
oil an Immediate atrlke by the
nearly 3S0.000 soft coal miners. It
lasted a week until, on Oct. ?6,
I. ewla and Moses talked with Pres
ident Truman at the White House.
Truman promised that Putnam
would glva "serious and prompt
consideration" to an appeal for the
lull pay Increase.
Putnam fnred a real dilemma
The WMl's Industry members hate
warned Ihst approving the lull
II. 60 raise would mnko a mockery
of wage controls. Hut the WBD's
labor members argued that the
miners should be allowed more
money In wsge Increases because
other workers enjoy better vaca
tion end other privileges than co
the miners.
It was widely expected the mln
today, they are to get a temporar
ii.do per nay increase, on the
erage, and 40 cents per day more
If the remainder la approved by
thu WBB.
The CIO's call for sn end of
wage controls which expire nest
April 30 unless Congress extends
them came In a report released
over uie wee end. It was su
Ihored by CIO President Philip
Murray ociore nu aeatn a week
ago and said:
"We are compelled to face the
fact that there no longer Is a com-
prehenMve price control program.
Price controls and the price con
trol agency have been In the pro
cess of liquidation for the past few
rr.ontns,
"Hie facts a weak law, soft
markets In soma psrts of the econ
omy, and collapsing price and pro
duction controls are clear. Tha
banls for maintaining wage con
trols under these conditions at
Werhner Von Miami, the ord
lianre expert, told the group two , to the stations' site a little
months ago that a space station over I.OUO mil's irom earth Is
ul military value could be built , known, he snld. It would be an
within 10 years at a co.it ol lour enormous, three-stage rocket, aim
billion dollsrs or less. lur to. but larger than one el-
Von Uraun. project director of ; udy successfully tested.
Ilia Army Ordnance Uulded MK-j -he cargo needed for the spare
ilea Center at Bedstone Arsenal, p-tand would be left auspendrd In
Huntsvllie, Ala., went on to say , .pa,-, while rockets returned lor
thai the nation that controlled out-1 m0re payloads, landing Ilka any
apace couia acinevt w iu . airplane
era would null the pits again II ' Dresent no longer exists."
Putnam went along with the WIIH Murray's report uiged Congren
and didn't allow the lull pay III-; to legislate wage-price controls
crease, I "on a standby bssls. lor use t hen-
On nie other hnnd. granting th- ever new Inflationary pressures ap-
fuil increase wouio almost certain-i pear.
Tile lechnloue ol getting mater-Hi push the price nf conl up again
l ne unicc oi rrice oinuiiizauon
boosted celling pliers Friday an
high as 74 cents per ton on bitum
inous i soft i coal and 11.34 per Ion
on Pennsylvania auiliiacile (hard)
coal.
And OPS officials ssld If the
miners win the full SI. 90 Increase
they want, an additional celling
ueace,
Hut. he said. Hit United States
hsa "mighty little time to lose"
because II la known that Soviets
"art tbmktng along tile aaine line."
Tha oil . the record etluri-s
aroused ao much Interest at the
Uradually the materials would be
armblcd In space, creating an 1 peeled.
price boost ol around 14 cents per
ton for lierd coal and 31 to 43
cruia lor aoft coal may be ex-
arllflclal satellite In the shape of
a wheel.
It would rotate on Its axis and
circle tha earth at 16,000 mile am
hour.
The soft coal miners have been
woiklng since Oct. 37 it the 11.60
figure bringing their batlc pay to
17.83 per day with assurances
from the Industry that when and If
f isenhower To
Bypass Japan
TOKYO president-elect
Dflghl Elsenhower will not atop
uifpen en route to Korea, an j
stitherllatlve foreign olllce source .
lold Kyodo New a Bervlca Monday.
'Ik Informant aald an Informal
nntt to that effect waa received
from Mlklchl Arakl, Japanese am-1
bastador to the U. 8. j
There hsa been apeculetlon that
:inhor would bypaui Jspan
and fly dlretllv to Korea Irom
some mld-Pacilie air baie. The
irimerv reason Is security. The
Communists era much less apt to
know ol Klsenhomer'a movements
If he does not touch down In Jspan.
ItrD TIIIK I
TAMPA. KIs. its Fishing guides
In dull of Mexico waters off the
eouthwtst Florida coast renort j
I. aces of the leared Red Tide
which hsa killed lot of fish ait.
disappearing.
Evergreens
Fruit Trees
Shade Trees
Shrubbery
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President Anthony Vslente of the
Ar'l. United Textile Workers nf
America, hi a letter to WBB Chair
man Archibald Cox. demanded yes
terday that the government elth?r
nu. pt nd wsge controls In the tex
tile Industry or write a new regu
lation to allow pay Increases based
on productivity.
Valcntt aald price controls have
been suspended on textiles, and
added It was an "economic fallacy
to expect controls to work one
way."
Lefty Wild Eagle Sets Teepee A t Ft. Klamath
A colorful new characttr ha
been added to the Klamath actnt
with the coming to this country
of Lefty Wild Eagle, a Klamath
River Indian who bas made Klp
ley'a "Belleva It or Not," tha na
tional Klwante maaatlnt and a suc
cess at his business ladlaa show
manship. Lefty Wild Eagle whost legal
name Is Warren W, Wilder and
whose Indian rut me la Lo-Mole
Chtck-Cback la operating tha
service station at the Crater Lake
Bun Mountain Junction. However,
by next spring he promises his
plsce will be much mor thia the
service station It Is this winter.
The 42-year-old Karok (up-river
i Klamath River Indian was
born st Orleans, on the Klamath
half way between Yrtka and Eu
reka. He received his first school
ing there, and later went en to
Chemawa, near Bslrm, and tha
well-known Indian school there.
The Intervening years have seen
a lot of life pass by, and In set
ting up his business In the Klam
ath Country, wild Eagle plays tha
part of a showman.
He has long; black braids of an
Indian ne'e three-quarttr blood.
In Tslt. on tha Oregon Coast, ha
maintained a museum and shop
which attracted tourists traveling
Highway 101, and at the aame time
revived the traditions ef KIs native
race In Indian dance (hows and
ceremonials before the public.
When Spring comes to the Fart
Klamath Country, Wild Eagle and
his wife Jenla a member ef the
Asslbolne tribe of Montana) plan
to hsve bead and buckskin work,
aa well as other small crafts, rea
dy for tourist travel. They Have
three sons, aged I, I and 1-
Wlld Eagle gels his nickname
"Lefty" from tha fsct he lost bis
right arm In a ahootlnr accident
When but 10 years old. That loss,
tragic aa It may seem, has hin
dered him net a whit.
In IMS Chemawa's football squid
ts playing Washington High
School of Portland, one of the ma-
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LEPTT WILD EAGLE
Jer high schaols et the state. Lefty
played half back on that team, and
In that game snagged eight passes
-four of them consecutively.
With that he made Robert Rip
ley aad "Believe It or Not." but
Cbtmawa lost to Washington, 7 to
After completing high school
where he played basketball and
participated in other sports, Lelty
waa awarded a scholarship and
studied commercial are In Portland.
After completing the course, and
after a short stay In the big city
which he says didn't Impress hlin,
Lefty returned to Chemawa where
he Uught arts and crafts and
coached the school's athletic squad
for seven years. In 1933 he brought
a football team to Klamath Falls
and Modoc Field to face- a group
of ex-college players from this
area. His team lost then, too, he
ssys.
Klwanla Magazine featured Wild
Eagle a year or so ago. He has
been a member of the Taft Kl
wanla Club, and was active In civic
affaire in that community.
With many friends among the
Indian communities hero, Wild Ea
gle hopes to develop and revive
some Indian ceremonials. But he
plans first to spend the rest of
this winter making tha souvenirs
and novelties with which to make
his new business a auccesa.
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