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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.
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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.
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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-
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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. -
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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
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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.
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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
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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.