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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1954)
mm Mfo)fo) In The Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS - .' In the world news of today this , . thought-provoking little item oc. : curs. It's worth reading and pon- ; tiering: ' "There was more violence today ' in the big strike of metal workers in the Bavarian section of West , Germany. . . . Many persons were Injured in Munich as 300 police ( with clubs fought with 1000 pickets who tried in vain to keep non- i strikers from going to work. . j The violence broke out after police arrested eight pickets. The strut- ' ers then charged police lines three times. ' ; What does it mean? Let's put it this way: The strike' disturbances in Ger- ' many, which are really serious, with thousands of workers in volved, are a part of a necessary ' process of readjustment to a new : world which was pioneered by . America. As of now, Germany is under cutting prices all over the globe. Wherever American manufacturing industry comes into free competi tion, unhampered by tariffs, "fair" trade agreements or other price upholding devices, with German , 'manufacturing Industry it is feel ing the bite of sharply lower Ger man prices. The German prices are enough lower that over the world the Germans are getting a LOT of the business and we are losing a lot of it. 1 The same is true in the 'case of the Japanese. Their prices are low very low. Wherever we come into free and unrestricted compe tition with them, they get tbe busi ness and we lose it. Both the Germans and the Jap anese are efficient producers. In . general, their products are well made and dependable. . ' In addition, they have a tremen dous advantage in the way of la bor costs. Because their wages are fabulously low in comparison with curs, they are getting the business wherever they come into free and unrestricted competition with us, The Germans and the Japanese understand the uses of power and machinery in modern production. We can't depend wholly upon our superior genius in the use of ma chinery and power in mass pror duction. .., So We face this situation: Either the wages of our foreign competitors will have to come .up to an approximation of our wage levels or our wage levels will have to COME DOWN to an approxima tion of those of our foreign com petitors. It's as simple as that. In Germany the workers, band ed together in their unions, are apparently determined to RAISE THE LEVEL OP THEIR WAGES. Something of the same sort ap pears to be going on in Japan. Let's watch it with interest. And considerable sympathy. It is a movement that must in evitably work out to our advant age if it succeeds. Workers Clash With Police FRANKFURT, Germany UP) Bitter clashes between police and striking Bavarian metal workers continued Friday - the fifth day of the walkout affecting 220,000 employes. Other Bavarian centers reported peaceful picketing, but in Munich brawls broke out when hundreds of police tried to protect nonstrik ers. Many persons were injured. At the big Siemens electrical plant, 300 club - wielding police tangled with 1,000 pickets who vainly tried to prevent 6,000 non strikers from going on the job. The strikers became enraged when eight pickets were arrested and charged police three times. Company officials said the num ber of strikers was dwindling. Employers, who had been claim ing that 60 per cent of the workers were on the Job, Friday said 65 per cent were back. The union stuck to its claim that the majority were still out. . Big Alaskan Fire Rages FAIRBANKS, Alaska I.TI An uncontrolled forest fire threatened homes and chased buffalo in a vast area Just south of the Big Delta junction on the Alaska Highway Thursday. More than 200 firefighters sue- ceeded in preventing destruction i ,i nth-. Installations VI IIUUIVS - in the area. The flames are burning in buf falo grazing range and many of the big animals transplanted to Alaska several years . ago fled ahead of the lire. All available men from the Ar my base at Big Delta, many cit izens residing in the area and 21 Division of Forestry firefighters were battling the fire. The blaze broke out Tuesday in the Jarvis Creek area southwest of Big Delta, which is southeast of Fairbanks. The fire was about 15 miles long and a mile wide Thursday on both ides of tha Alaska, Highway. - KLAMATH Price Five Cents IS Pages Pine Strike Reviewed By Employers Northern California members of Pine Idustrial Relations Commit tee, Inc., wood products employ- ers organization, met in Redding Wednesday to review the situation as they went into the eighth week of AFT, strike. The employers concluded ' that there was no change in the in dustry economic picture that would warrant a wage or cost in crease. There was unanimous agreement that the lumber buyer was refusing to pay higher prices. C. L. Irving, PIRC secretary and employer spokesman, said: "Only green fir dimension prices have reacted to the strike effects. Those prices have settled down to within $3 or $4 of pre strike levels and ending of the strike will quickly lower them. The Southern Pine and non-union production, plus Canadian im ports, took care of any serious shortage. Dry fir prices are up less than seasonally, despite the strike, and pine prices have main tained a downward trend." Gene Brewer, U.S. Plywood Corporation . general manager at Anderson, California, said: "The price story on green di mension can be applied to ply wood. Resumption of production will bring back pre-strike prices." Irving said today that of 36 companies who had originally given the employers committee authority to negotiate with the Northern California district coun cil, six companies, with about 1965 employes, have made settle ments with local unions in which there were no wage Increases. In addition, 10 companies are oper ating with full or partial crews working behind picket lines; five companies were not struck, and two companies have gone out of business. All other companies are expected to reach settlements without wage increases soon be cause such union offers are being admitted in various areas. One of the companies is working by rea son of a 5 cent interim arrange ment, and only seven companies are completely closed by strike. Irving said the NLRB has re ceived four decertification peti tions from employes seeking to unload the AFL, and some peti tions seeking to eliminate union authority to negotiate a union shop. He stated that independent unions had been formed at five operations, with several more in the formative stage. French Delay EDC Debate PARIS Wl The French Na tional Assembly's steering comit tee decided Friday to ask that debate on the European Defense Community treaty be put off until Aug. 28, four days later than previously scheduled. The committee, with Premier Pierre Mendes - France present, agreed to ask the Assembly to take up Tunisian and Moroccan policy Aug. 26 and 27 and EDC the following day. The schedule provides that if the Premier asks for a vote of con fidence on the Tunisian and Moroccan question, this vote will be held after the European army debate. FT3 in 1 ?rfTT-k 1 iK.J'l - Pin ft 1 fain g 'i MEDFORD GREETERS were hosts Thursday morning at the Fortune Service Statfon patio to Klamath businessmen and women.' Enjoying coffee and doughnuts at the goodwill get-together were, from left: W. S. tycBride, chairman of the Klamath Falls visitors committee of the chamber of commerce; Mrs. Bert Pree, chairman of the Medford Greeters; Mayor Diamond Flynn of Medford, and Walt Garner, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Com FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 13, 1954 BULLETIN SALEM W Oregon's cities were given 2,138,708 in state high way funds Friday. The amount was their 10 per cent share of the lunds for the first half of this year. - Amounts distributed include: Astoria $35,112, Bend $32,486, Corvallis $46,149, Eugene $102,164 Klamath Falls $45,203, Medford $49,275. Pendleton $34,998, Portland $709,264, Salem $123,990, Spring field $30,772, Baker $26,968, Coos Bay $17,719, Coqullle $11,287 Grants pass $23,110, Hood River $10,538, McMlnnville $18,893. New port $9,228, Oregon City $21,874, Lebanon $16,723, Tillamook $10,492 Roseburg $31,665. Reed Teacher Hearing Opens PORTLAND Wl A hearing on charges that Dr. Stanley Moore, a Reed College professor, refused to cooperate with trustees investigat ing communism opened here Fri day. Moore was one of three Reed in structors named? as having been Communists at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. The other two, Lloyd J. Reynolds and Leonard Marska, were ab solved by the trustees after an in vestigation. The trustees filed charges against Moore, contending thai he would not cooperate in the investigation. The charges were not made pub lic by the trustees but Moore said they listed accusations made by witnesses at the Velde Committee hearings and then stated: "You at tended the meeting of the commit tee (of Reed trustees) but even though the committee agreed that any information given by you with respect to your past or present connection with the Communist Party would be held in confidence, you refused to disclose any infor mation with respect thereto." Moore said the trustees never actually asked him if he was or had been a Communist. Roger Touhy Back In Prison JOLIET. 111. Wl His bid for freedom cut short by court action, Roger (The Terrible) Touhy was back at Stateville prison Friday. still insisting he was framed in the kidnaping of John (Jake The Bar ber) Factor, But Factor says he is willing to testify again against Touhy, who has served more than 20 years of 99-year sentence for kidnaping him in 1933. Touhy, 56-year-old Chicago gang leader in the prohibition era. was brought back to Stateville from Chicago Thursday after two days of liberty. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered his return to prison pending outcome of the state's appeal of a federal judge's decision releasing him. Federal Judge John P. Barnes Monday ordered Touhy's release, ruling that the kidnaping of Fac tor was a hoax and Touhy was convicted on perjured testimony. Touhy also Is serving 199 years for his part in a 1942 prison break at Stateville but Judge Barnes ruled he was convicted on the escape charge wider a statute which he said Is unconstitutional. &i r-vWLtiiw . A Telephone ' g Np. 1918 C,-rown fficPIan Meet Held Members of the State Highway Commission and the city adminis tration "laid it on the line" in a discussion of the state-submitted contract for a cross-town traffic program in the' city, and each group made a concession. The dis- E cusslon followed a dinner meeting Thursday evening at the Willard Hotel which about 50 interested persons attended. The state conceded the issue of one-way traffic on Main and Klam ath Avenue for the present; the city conceded one-way traffic on Sixth and Seventh Streets over its preference of one-way on Fifth and Sixth. The state assured the city that, if the city does its part, bids for a new viaduct over the South Sixth Street tracks could possibly be called for early next year (March or April probably). STATE CONTRACT In the contract received from the state last week no mention was made of the viaduct. State High way Commission Chairman Ben Chandler told the city that no writ ten agreement could be made; .however, if the people of Klam ath Falls get together and do their part, a two lane structure for south bound traffic could be built. Esti mated cost is $500,000. Questioned on the possibility of abandoning the present structure and building a new, four-lane via duct, Commission Engineer R. H. Baldock answered it would be too expensive to junk the present via duct, which is still usuable, and spend close to $400,000 more for a four-lane bridge. Baldock said it would be much cheaper to route all traffic over the new viaduct in wintertime emergencies or to clear the old bridge of snow and ice through electrical wiring. Greer Drew expressed the sent!. ment of a majority of merchants when he told commission members that the city Is not opposed to one-way traffic; it is opposed to one-way on Main and Klamath Avenue until something Is done to route trucks through town other than over Main, WARNING " Chandler warned the city not to depend on West Side Bv-pass to solve the problem since it was probably five or more years in the future. He further told the city not to consistently ask the state to help rqlve its problems if the city re fused to act on state advice. Ex tensive studies of Klamath Falls' problem show that, to handle traf fic properly, the city should nave one-way traffic on Main and Klam ath Avenue, he continued, and add ed that the new viaduct was ab solutely contingent on one-wav traffic on Sixth and Seventh (more feasible from both an engineering and an economic standpoint.) Although no action was taken at the meeting, the verbal agreements will be acted upon by the city as soon as a new contract is received. PROTEST BEIRUT, Lebanon Wl The Moslem brotherhood, a militant religious - political society active throughout the Middle East, pro tested Friday against the terms of 'the Brltish'Egyptian agreement for the withdrawal of British forces from the Suez. - 1' 4 'vi,. 3 StfS ill ' fN. WORKING ON DETAILS for a cross-town traffic program for Klamath Falls were members of the State Highway Commission and the city administration at a dinner Thursday evening at the Willard Hotel. Part of the large delegation from the highway commission were (seated, left to right ) Ben Chandler, Coos Bay, chairman of the highway commission; Mayor Paul Landry; R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer; (standing, same order) Charles Reynolds, La Grande, and Milo Mclver, Portland, highway commissioners. ' . Oregon Bird Season Set The Oregon State Game Com mission in special session selected dates, bag limits ' and hunting hours for waterfowl with in the framework of permissablc regulations announced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier in the week. Oregon waterfowlers will enjoy a season five days longer than last year with shooting starting at noon on October 16 and ending on January 3, Of particular interest is the hair limit regulation which allows nine ducks per day and 15 in possession. At least three of the dally bag and at least three of the possession bag must be widgeon or pintail. Bag and possession limits for geese remain at six per day and iu. possession of hich not more than three , may be dark geese, Cacklers are Included among the dark species this year. Hunting hours will be the same as last year; one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. The only ex ception to this is the Sauvie Is land shooting area where hunting will end at 4 p.m. Bag and possession limits on coot remain at 25. The season on Wilson's snipe or Jacksnipe will extend from Octo ber 16 to October 30 with a bag limit of eight birds per day and in possession. Brant hunting will be permitted from December 1 to February 10 with a bag and possession limit of three birds. Complete waterfowl regulations will be Included in the 1954 hunt ing regulations synopsis which will be available the early parr ot September. ANNOUNCED PARIS (PI Joe Louis is due in Europe next month to star in a German-produced film, his agent announced Thursday night. The retired heavyweight champion al so will make a six-week tour of music halls, Dick Edwards, a Pa ris night club operator who rep resents Louis here, said. Klamath County Residents Asked For Museum Material With the construction of the new county library and museum well under way, the museum com mission and curntor are busy with plans for the fall opening, tenta tively set for around November 1. The museum Is a tax-supported. permanent institution of the coun ty, the same as the county schools and library. It is therefore a safe and permanent repository for the antiques, heirlooms, and other data and material of our region, as well as general items of mu seum Interest. Seventeen large showcases are being made by the Aralum Win dow and Door Company of this city for the display of museum material, and more will be pur chased as needed. But It takes a lot of articles to fill even 17 cases, and to date these is not enough on hand to keep the displays ro tating, as planned by the museum personnel. Klamath County residents are urged to dig out those old an tiques, Indian relics, photographs, newspapers, letters anything pertaining to the early history of this region and other items of museum interest, for the muse um, either as gilts, long-term, or short-term loans. An acquisition book and gift and loan forms have been printed. Until the library and museum building is completed, articles will be stored in a fire-proof vault, where they can be catalogued and prepared for exhibition. Outright gifts are preferable, but loans will also be much appreciated. The Modoc Lava Beds National Monument, and the Crater Lake National park are prepejioa ex h- 1 -A Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly fair through Sat urday. Afternoon Thundershowers in mountains. IIIBh Saturday 83; low Friday night, 55. Low last night 44 High yesterday r. ................ 80 Prccip. last 24 hours T Since Oct. 1 14.56 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.54 Dorris Mill Strike Ended The Associated Lumber and Box Company of Dorris and Lum ber and Sawmill Workers local 774 have signed an agreement ending the strike which closed the plant July 26, according to an nouncement . Thursday afternoon by Pine Industrial Relations Com mittee. The plant resumed operation with a skeleton crew Thursday af ternoon and it is expected that it will be in full operation Monday. No wage increase was Involved in the settlement. The present contract was extended to April 1, 1956. One hundred and fifty-five employes are involved. The agreement was ratified by the local union and the picket line was immediately withdrawn. Under the terms of the agree ment, the company agreed to vol untary check-off of union dues and also agreed to furnish the union Willi an up-to-date wage scale schedule. The company agreed to hold further discussion in an effort to clarify the seniority clause and to have further discussion, before April 1, 1955, on paid holidays and an- improvement in the vacation clause. It was understood that the agreement to hold discussions in no way committed the company to any action: It was also agreed that the em ployes are to return to work not later than August 23,, with an agreement that the company will give special consideration to in dividuals who might not be able to get back by that date. hibits typifying those regions; the Klamath Nature Society Is pre paring an exhibit, as is also the Klamath Mineral Club. Mrs. B. T. McKlmens Is making figures for a diorama of Eulalona village by Mrs. Lois Scronce, Mrs. Maryana Kerr and Mr. Clayton Sharpc. Mrs. LcRoy Geinger, Chlloquin, has been out with elderly Indians collecting plants used In early days by the Klnmath and Modoc Indians for foods and medicines, and an Informative and interest ing display Is being planned. Mrs. Edith MnLeod, who hBS been consulting the older Indians on materials, dyes designs and uses of Indian basketry. And other collectors and hobbyists are being contacted for gifts and loans, but a great deal more material is needed before the opening of the museum. Residents of the county having articles that they are willing t give or loan are asked to contact the curator or any member of the museum commission, Hal Ogle, Carrol Howe, Judge U. E. Reedcr, Mrs. Mary Case, Mrs. LeRoy Oclnger, Jesse Smith, and Oliver Splker. It is the desire of the commis sion to avoid a atactic museum. Displays in the cases will be changed from time to time, and a number of smaller cases are being planned for weekly or monthly displays by collectors and hobbyists, so that there will al ways be new material on hand for repeat visitors. It is your museum and its success depends on your interest dig out those "old Umori' end other matenra pieces. .,.,, .... .committee Reclamation Bill Approved WASHINGTON Wl The Senate Interior Committee has approved, with some changes, a House passed bill to provide for federal aid to local Interests In building reclamation projects. The bill would authorize the gov ernment to assist state and local public agencies in Arizona, Cali fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota Oregon, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The state and. local agencies could construct projects costing not more than five million dollars and receive substantially the same benefits which would come if the projects were being constructed as federul reclamation projects. The government would pay for the portion of any project which Includes such general benefits as flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife conservation and water pollution. It would lend money for the remaining costs of the project. Hie Senate committee tacked on an amendment requiring that any project with an estimated cost of more than $200,000 would have to be authorized by Congress. The bill now goes to the Senate. Chairman Miller (R-Neb) of the House Interior Committee, who sponsored the bill, said he thought the amendment would be accep table to the House. Indian Bill Goes To Ike WASHINGTON Wl Bills author izing construction of an Indian school In the Klamath Falls area and appropriation and distribution of tribal funds for Oregon Indians were cleared for signature of the President Thursday. The bills call for; Distribution of tribal funds to Indians of the confederated bands of Umpqua and Calapooias of the Umpqua Valley and the Tillamook, Coqullle, Tootootoney, Chetco and Molalla tribes; and appropriation of $206, 880 for school construction on the Klnmath Reservation at Chlloquin :IT1 ; L ;; f . v l, 3 O'clock Spial 1 : ' :: . ..SJ. Imj ssssmisns 1i ' ' - -- . Xmss ' ' READY TO LOAN THOUSANDS were Nyla Uiiell, secretary, and Bob Mead, aisittant manager of Commercial Finance Company, 107 North Ninth Street, when the 9 o'clock photog rapher dropped in this morning. Backed By Two Unions By THG ASSOCIATED PRESS Two back-to-work moves were stopped by union action Thursday night as the Pacific Northwest lumber strike neared, tha end, of its eighth week. CIO Woodworkers voted unani mously at Vernonla, Ore., to com tlnue support ot their Northwest negotiating committee In its Joint effort with AFL Lumber and Saw- mill Workers to obtain a wage in crease. The Vernonla local repre sents some 400 workers at the Long! Bell plant there. At Coos Bay AFL workers voted 389-31 to turn down the Evans Co's offer of a two-year contract guaranteeing the present wage level. Evans employs ' some 600 workers. The two unions are seeking- ti 12 H cent hourly wage increase. CHAIRMAN NEEDED Meanwhile at Salem Oregon'' Gov, Paul L. Patterson had not yet ap pointed a chairman for the Stat) Board of '-Conciliation. He - said Thursday he would direct the board to try to settle the strike after & chairman Is selected. - Patterson; made the announcement after Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton had ruled tbe board has authority to Inter vene in the dispute. - Lumber operators' spokesmen were cool to the state conciliation proposal and indicated they might cnauenge Thornton's ruling. In another conciliation develops ment the Seattle mayor's Maritime ndvisosy Committee stepped Fri day into the picture as a would-be peacemaker. Mayor AHan Pomeroy called ft meeting of the committee for 10 a.m. Tuesday. Representatives of Industry and labor will be invited. Ho acted after contacting union and management leaders. CIVIC COMMITTEE Pomeroy said he decided to have the civic committee take a hand because of the serious effect of the strike on Seattle and other Puget Sound port operations. Letters sent to the union and management officials said tbe committee will not attempt to act "as Judge and arbiter," but will try to obtain all the facts In tbe dispute and pass them along to the public. Tne meeting win do closed and news releases will be Issued only after approval by both sides. Mayor Pomeroy said he had re. celved many . requests from busi ness leaders and others for a clari fication of the strike issues and why it has lasted so long, - Foreign Aid Bill Passed WASOTNnTON in senate pass age by voice vote Thursday night onmnlptprl r.nnirreflslonal action On a bill authorizing $3,064,568,000 in foreign eld for the fiscal year that began July 1. The measure sets It money cell in, fr.,. milllnrv nnri ftr.nnomla helD abroad and lays down the general terms of the program aosigneo. vo Knlatpr Amet-lea'H allies against the Communist threat. ThB nntiifii fimriit must be voted separately. So far the House has approved $2,895,944,000 in new lor eign aid appropriations and the sen nto nnnrnnrintions committee $2, 990,824,818. President Eisenhower asked for about 3 h billion dollars. The authorizing Din provmea iur nn onH 4n 4hn fnrpicm rmerntions administration, the foreign aid-dis bursing agency, no later man next June 30. It also reaffirms Congress" nnnnalHi-m in admitting Red China to the United Nations and colls for a special report from t.isennower if that happens.
