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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
THURSDAY. JANUARY 1. 1959
Monitors Said Opposed
To Organizing Police
NEW YORK 'AP)-The court-
iDDoihted monitors of the Team
itera Union are reported opposed
to President James R. Hoffa s ef
forts to organize this city's police
force.
The drive also drew heated op
position Wednesday from Mayor
Robert F. Wagner.
"I want to make it clear to the
people of New York that we will
rot countenance any attempts at
unionization by the Teamsters or
any one else," the mayor said.
The New York Times, quoting
authoritative sources, said two of
the monitors agreed that the at
tempted unionization is "shock
ing." They are Martin F. O'Don
oghue of Washington and Godfrey
L. Schmidt of New York.
The third monitor. L. N. D.
Wells of Detroit, who sits on the
panel as the Teamsters' own rep
resentative, was reported as Indi
cating privately he considered the
attempted unionization "poor judg
ment." U. S. Dist. Judge F. Dickinson
Letts has warned that disregard
of recommendations by the moni
tors could result in the removal of
Hoffa and his entire executive
board.
He named the monitors to eradi
cate gangster influence and estab
lish democratic practices within
the much-investigated union. It
has been expelled from Ihe AFL
CIO on corruption charges.
Hoffa, himselt, seemed to be
toning down the unionization
drive. He said in a statement the
Union would lake in
"only If they come to us."
In a letter to O'Donoghue, who
acts as chairman of the monitors.
hcnmidt said he considered the at
tempted unionization a "piece of
unmitigated gall.
Hoffa has announced a nation
wide campaign to bring all police
men, firemen and other slate.
county and municipal workers into
the union.
Henry Feinstem, a New York
City employe, it leading the or
ganizatum drive.
Wagner told newsmen he in
tends to see if aisciplinary action
is in order for Fcinstein. He said
Feinstein's efforts to organize the
city's 24,000-man police force were
a disgrace and dastardly.
Feinstein is supervisor of trans
portation at $8,300 a year in the
office of the Manhattan Borough
president.
Nels Rockefeller
Assumes Office
ALBANY. N.Y. (AP) Nelson
A. Rockefeller, the big Republican
winner in a Democratic election
year, took office today as gover
nor of the nation's most populous
state.
The 50-ycar-old millionaire new
comer to politics was sworn in
late Wednesday night as successor
to Democrat Averell Harriman in
a private ceremony in the execu
tive mansion.
Governors-elect of New York
customarily are sworn in the night
policemen beiore tneir inauguration.
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year may see the California Legis
lature vote to raise the state speed
limit, abolish cross-filing, and set
up a Fair Employment Practices
commission.
But it is not likely to declare
a moratorium on capital punish
ment or repeal the death penalty
entirely. Nor is it likely to abolish
loyalty oaths or permit the Bible
to be read in public schools.
Those were some of the trends
to be found in results of a United
Press International poll of the 120
members of the Assembly and
Senate made a few days before
the 1959 general session slarts on
Jan. 5.
The Legislature will have a new
look next year, with Democrats
iirmjy m control of both houses
2nd guided by a Democratic gov
ernor, Edmund G. Brown.
As such, it is probable legisla
tion dealing with civil rights, par
ticularly FEPC. will be high on
Ihe priority list. So will be a pro
posal to repeal cross-filing which
Democrats long have favored and
most Republicans opposed.
The UPI asked the legislators if
ihey favored establishment of am
bt.rc and, if they did. if thev
would give the commission en
forcement powers and make it a
misdemeanor to violate an order
forbidding discrimination because
ot race, creed or color.
Almost 50 of the legislators who
replied to the poll said they fa
vored an FEPC and would vote
it enforcement powers. Fifteen
members said they will not vote
lor tbrv and 10 were undec ded
Most of Ihe opposition came from
ine senate.
On a proposal to abolish cross
ruing, an election procedure
whereby a Democrat can file for
ollice on both Republican and
Democratic primary ballots and
vice versa, returns showed 35
Democrats and 10 Republicans in
favor of repeal while 15 Republi
cans and only 2 Democrats were
against abolition.
More than 50 of the 70 legislators
who replied to the poll said the
present 55-mile an hour prima
lacie speed limit should be n-
creased. Most said they favored
a flat 65 mile an hour limit. Some
said it should be as high as 75
on tne irecways but held to 55 on
two or three-lane roads.
By a better than 2-1 margin, the
legislators said tney are against
any proposal to make a tail sen
tence mandatory on conviction for
the first time of drunk driving.
a moratorium on the death pen
alty, approved by the Assembly
in 1957 but voted down in the Sen
ate, likely will suffer the same
fale in 1959. By a 35-25 margin.
approve suspension of capital pun
ishment and a far greater num
ber said they would be against
outrignt repeal.
Loyalty oaths, opposed by most
Democrats when they were voted,
will stay on the statute books. By
about 2-1, legislators said they
would oppose repeal of all loyalty
oams aunougn Assemblyman John
A. u uonnell (D-San Francisco)
said he will introduce such a bill.
Legislation to permit selected
portions of the Bible to be read
in public schools was opposed bv
a 3-2 vote. Legislators were even
more emphatic in opposing an oft
defeated bill to make it a mis
demeanor to sell crime comic
books, to children. They also said
they would oppose bills to censor
girlie magazines.
In the field of narcotics enforce
ment, almost 50 legislators said
they feel stiffer penalties are need
ed. By a 5.1 vote, they said a
mandatory jail sentence should be
meted out to violators on the very
first offense. Sentiment was al
most evenly divided on a proposal
to exact the death penalty from
persons convicted repeatedly of
peddling narcotics to minors.
Series Of Fires, Blasts Claim Lives Of Eleven
By THE ASSOCIATED PHESS
A series of fires and explosions
across the United States took the
lives of 11 persons, including six
small children, Wednesday night
and today.
Six persons, including a family
of four,, perished in a fire that
swept a three-story building in
the northside of Rochester, N.Y.
Five others escaped. The dead in
cluded two five-month-old infants
and a girl, 2.
Three children, the oldest 7 and
the youngest 4. burned to death
when fire roared explosively
through a one-story frame house
in Quilcene, Wash., a small com
munity about 30 miles northwest
of Seattle.
An explosion in a missile orn.
pellant plant at Indian Head,
Md.. killed two workmen a half
hour before the new year started.
Two . other workmen suffered
third degree burns and other in-
lunes. The four were the only
ones in the building.
The explosion and subseauent
fire virtually destroyed the Navy
Propellant Plant 30 miles south
of Washington.
At Baltimore, fire swept through
a storage building at a state men
tal hospital, but was checked be
fore it could spread to patients'
quarters.
A spokesman for the institution.
Spring Grove State Hospital, said
35 patients were moved out of the
building three weeks ago because
the structure was considered a
firetrap. Two members of a vol-
unteen, fire department were injured.
A Japanese freighter collided
with a string or oil barges In the
Mississippi River south of New
Orleans. Explosions rocked the
area and the freighter and two
barges -were set aflame.
The fire was swiftly checked by
firefighling tugs. Two men aboard
the freighter were injured.
Thousands fled and scores of
homes went up in flames in two
devastating brush fires in the
hills ringing Los Angeles.
One fire, in a terrifying surge
to the sea, laid waste to a nine
mile stretch of Topanga Canyon,
destroying 80 homes.
The other raced through the
Hollywood hills to the outskirts of
the rich residential community of
Beverly Hills.
rbout 2,000 men battled the I touched off In th
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QUILCENE, Wash. (AP)-Fire
roared explosively through a one
story frame house here Wednes
day night, burning to death three
children; two girls and a boy.
The three victims, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, were
Jacqueline, 7; Gordon, 5, and Bil-
lie. 4.-
Smith, 33, a logger, suffered
first degree burns attempting to
rescue his children from the blaz
ing home.
Another Smith child, Bennie, 10,
was awakened by the flames and
was able to fight his way out of
the small house.
Smith and his wife, Ella, were
visiting neighbors about half a
block away when the fire broke
out.
Quilcene is a small unincorpo
rated community 30 miles north-
Iwest of Seattle.
May 1959 bring a full measure of good
luck, health, and prosperity to you and
your family, and to all those you hold
dear!
Our sincere thanks to all of you for mak
ing 1 958 such a fine year for all of us at
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FORT WORTH. Tex. (AP)Dr
John, B. Cummins, who at 100 was
the nation's oldest practicing phy
sician, died here Wednesday night.
Dr. Cummins kent regular nffiro
hours and made house calls day
or night until Sunday when he
fractured a hip and ribs in a fall.
Death was attributed to the fall
and old age.
A native of Tennessee. Dr. Cum
mins worked his way through col
lege and did not start practicing
medicine until he was 3a. He hplH
degrees from Britt College, Spen
cer, icnn., and Bowling Green
Normal in Kentucky. He later re
ceived medical degrees from the
University of Nashville, now Vnn.
derbilt University and the Univer
sity of the South (Scwance).
He began his practice in IB97
in Indian Territory, now Okla
homa. He had practiced in Fort
worth tor 55 years.
He was a member of Ihe Tar
rant County Medical Society. The
state group named him "general
practitioner of the year in 1950.
CONTROL REQUESTED
WASHINGTON (AP) - Control
of two Oregon radio stations was
requested in separate applications
filed with the Federal Communi
cations Commission Wednesday.
John A. Carroll liled for acqui
sition of control of station KUBE
in Pendleton, and an application
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