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By FRANK JENKINS
In a unanimous decision, the su
preme court of Oregon rules thai
Sir. Hatfield became governor
when he took the oath of office,
that by the same action and at
the same instant he ceased to be
secretary of state, and so he was
empowered under the constitution
to fill the ensuing vacancy in the
secretary of state's office.
In effect, (although, of course,
not in such rugged and down-to-'
earth language! the supreme court
says to the legislature, and over
the legislators' heads to the peo
ple of Oregon:
"Let's have done with these
monkeyshincs and get down to the
serious business of running our
state in such manner as to com
mand the admiration and the re
spect of people in other states in
stead of making a laughing-stock
Of ourselves."
' Comment?
. Well, again, as in the case of
the secretary of the navy, who re
cently knocked down the ears of
(he bureaucrats who were seeking
- to discipline a government girl in
Washington for answering the
phone A WHOLE MINUTE after
the clock said her shift had ond-ed-
' Let's give thanks to the good
Lord that somebody in authority
had some plain, common horse
sense.
: Turning from the home front to
foreign affairs, what of Castro and
his shootings in Cuba?
He took a straw vote yesterday.
That is to say, he organized a
demonstration before the presi
dential palace. The people gath
eredby the "hundreds of thous
ands," the news reports say. Cas
tro appeared a la Mussolini in
the bad old days in Rome on
the balcony. He asked the mum
tude, in effect:
"Shall we go on shooting the
wicked Batistas, who have ground
our faces into the dirt beneath
their heels placed upon our necks?
Or shall we knuckle under to the
Amerjcanos who call upon us to
QUIT shooting?"
. The correspondents report that
a forest of hands was thrust into
the air. Each two hands repre
sented a Cuban vote to go on
shooting.
So Castro, he says, will go on
shooting.
. What shall we do about it?
Let's put it this way:
Your neighbors frequently do
things of which you disapprove.
Every time you butt into their af
fairs, you come out of it all bruised
up and highly unpopular.
One more Cuban problem:
Foreigners have many invest
ments there big manufacturing
plants, employing many Cubans,
among other things. AMERICAN
investments of that sort are re
ported to run upwards of a billion
dollars. Castro intimates that he
may "expropriate" these proper
ties. If so, he will presumably
recompense their owners to some
extent.
What to do then?
Here's a suggestion:
Come to the State of Jefferson
and set up in business here. We
can use a lot of new industrial
1 development.
And-
We're quite sure
Investments here in our State of
Jefferson will over the long pull
prove more profitable than invest
ments in tne tar corners oi me
earth, where the likelihood Is great
that new dictators will arise and
confiscate the property of the for
eign devils.
PiJUL.1
STOCKING-MASK BANDIT'S LATEST appearance in the Klamath Falls area took place
Wednesday evening at this South Sixth Street grocery. The third instance in 1 1 days
of a holdup in which the bandit's head was covered with a mask made from woman's
silk stocking, the robbery netted the robber between $50 and $100.
Stocking Mask Bandit
Robs Idellu's Grocery
By LAMAR HOOVER
Klamath Falls third "stocking-
mask" holdup in 11 days yielded
between $50 and $100 to the bandit
who held up Mrs. Beulah Mae
Stevens Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Stevens was cutting meat
behind a counter to the rear of
Idella's Grocery, 2846 South Sixth
Street, where she works as a
clerk, when she heard the familiar
creak of the front door's opening:
it was about 7:4a.
Mrs. Stevens finished cutting the
piece she was working with, a
matter of seconds, before looking
up to greet her customer. When
she did look up she saw a person,
apparently a man, moving rapidly
toward her in a rather hunched
up posture. His head was covered
with a mask, seemingly made of
a woman s stocking.
This was all Mrs. Stevens got to
see of the intruder. This is a
holdup," he said, still coming for
ward. As she faced him he or
dered, "turn around."
Mrs. Stevens complied, and fol
lowed the bandit's instructions as
he directed her to move around
the end of the meat counter, at the
back of the store. He stayed near
her as he had her move toward
the front counter and the cash
register, jabbing her a couple of
times with his gun, to show it
was real.
When they reached the front
counter, the robber had Mrs.
Stevens open the cash register, as
if he did not know how. Once it
was open, he moved her to one
side, keeping her back to him
and scooped the money out of the
tray.
When the bandit had filled his
pockets, he had Mrs. Stevens
move to a small storeroom at the
back of the building, where he
ordered her to lie on the floor, on
her stomach.
"I'm going to put these boxes
on you, the bandit said, moving
two cases of groceries on her
back. Then, standing erect, he
fired a shot.
"Just to let you know it's load
ed," he said. "Stay there for five
minutes.
Mrs; Stevens was tying ill such
a position that she could see her
wrist watch: she gave the bandit
his five minutes and then raised
herself from the floor and gave
the alarm.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clara Gibson,
owner of the grocery, who was
working only a few feet away in
an adjoining storeroom, had heard
the shot and a man's voice. Sus
pecting that there was a holdup
going on, the terrified woman at
first moved toward the door con
necting the two storerooms, in or
der to lock It, but she stopped
midway when she heard no fur
ther noise, not moving until Mrs.
Stevens did.
When state police arrived, both
women told them that the shot
had not been very loud; officers
have not as yet recovered the bul
let despite a fairly thorough search
of the storeroom. The bandit's loot
consisted of "a lot" of one-dollar
bills, and "quite a few" coins.
Mrs. Stevens described the rob
ber as apparently young, and
"very calm." He didn't raise his
voice, and he seemed to be ex
perienced in what he was doing,"
she said. ,
The most remarkable aspect of
the crime, according to state po
lice, was the timing. The grocery
is a busy one; with customers
constantly coming in and out. Yet
the bandit was able to choose, or
stumble on, an interval of at least
eight minutes during which no one
apparently approached the store.
The state police have not been
able to locate any outside witness
es to the bandit s arrival or de
parture. However, one person liv
n tun . : ii, .
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 22. 1959
ing over a block from the grocery
did tell police he had heard some
one run by his house about the
time the bandit must have left.
This report ties in with one ob
servation made by both Mrs. Ste
vens and Mrs. Gibson, that there
was no sound of a car, either
when the bandit arrived or when
he left.
Uncertainty as to the bandit's
means of transport has character
ized the two other recent armed
robberies in which the bandit has
also worn a stocking-mask.
The first of these occurred on
Sunday, January 11, at Durrcll's
Flying A Station, 1130 Main Street,
at about 6:45 p.m. The bandit
forced Don Gelhardt, attendant at
the station, to open the till. Gel
hardt was then obliged to walk
behind the building where the ban
dit jumped a fence and took off
with $107.50.
Gelhardt described his assailant
as being a white male, 5 feet 10
inches in height, weight approxi
mately 170 pounds. His hair was
apparently sandy and his eyes
blue. He was clad in suntan pants
with a tan and rust plaid shirt,
of wool or flannel. He carried a
blue steel revolver, probably a .38,
with a barrel possibly six inches
long. Gelhardt said the chalk-brown
stocking had been made into a
neat mask, with rolled, possibly
sewn, edges around the eye slits.
The second victim was Roy
Francis Durbin, proprietor of
Fran's Grocery, 147 East Main
Street, who was held up in his
store last Thursday, at 6:17 p.m.
The bandit shut Durbin in a meat
cooler and opened the cash regis
ter himself by ringing up "$7.70."
His take was $169.29.
Durbin described the man as
white, about 5 feet 10 or 11, weigh
ing from 160 to 165 pounds, wear
ing a tan waist-length jacket, boots
and blue jeans. He said he thought
tne gun used was a .22 or a .38.
Water Board
Hears Spat
SACRAMENTO (UPI) - The
water battle between Monterey
and San Luis Obispo counties con
tinued today In a hearing by the
Water Rights Board.
Loran Bunte, a Monterey Coun
ty engineer, testified Wednesday
that while sea water intrusion,
caused by a lowered water table,
has not yet impaired the quality
ot Monterey Cojmty water, it
will reach such a point in the fu
ture, unless the table is raised.
Attorney Ralph Brody, represen
ting Monterey County in the long
standing dispute, said a great
number of protests have been re
ceived from Monterey County res
idents along Salinas River, object
ing to the taking of water by San
Luis Obispo County.
The hearing is expected to con
tinue through the week.
Woman Seeking
Son With Castro
OAKLAND (UPI) Mrs. Alleen
Heintz, Oakland, has asked the
State Department to help find her
son, Clarence, 25, who went to
Cuba last spring to join the rebel
forces of Fidel Castro.
Mrs. Heintz said her son wrote
last March that he had been cap
tured and jailed by officers of
ousted Cuban President Fulgen
cio Batista.
She said she received letters
regularly, but had not heard from
her son since Dec. 26. Batista fled
Havana Jan. 1.
Brown Asks Solons
To Start Water Slate
SACRAMENTO (UPI) - Gov.
Edmund G. Brown urged the Leg
islature today to cast aside sec
tional differences and spend 38
million dollars to launch a posi
tive program for statewide water
development.
In a special message delivered
in person to a joint meeting of the
Senate and Assembly, the Demo
cratic chief executive said the
Legislature must end the lengthy
north-south stalemate on water.
"If we take courage and put
our fears behind us, we can re
place narrow sectional differences
with confident, pioneering leader:
ship, Brown said.
"This the people of California
demand and deserve."
The governor outlined a water
development program that would
bring benefits to the mountain
counties as well as to heavily pop
ulated Southern California. He
said the state, with the help of
the federal government, must pro
vide storage dams, flood control
projects, develop electric power,
and build a statewide network of
aqueducts and canals to get water
from the surplus areas ot the
north to the thirsty lands in the
south.
But on one crucial point, Brown
made no recommendation.
Citing past demands by the
south for a constitutional amend
ment to guarantee southern rights
to water imported from the north
the governor said:
Rebel Continues Drive
To Justify
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - With
the shouted support of more than
half a million Cubans, Fidel Cas
tro continues today his campaign
to justify to the world the execu
tion of Batista henenmen, ,
The author of dictator Fulgencio
Batista's downfall appears before
hundreds of foreign newsmen,at
a news coherence. ;
Later today. Havana's first show
case trial of Batistans charged
with murder and atrocities opens.
The capital's first defendants are
three officers in the dictators
army, and the scene is the 17,000-
seat Sports Palace which Batista
built.
Nearly 1,000 witnesses wearing
the colorful clothes of their rural
areas were in town for the trials.
American newsmen wanted to
ask Castro at the news conference
about his statement to the big
throng Wednesday that "Cuba will
ask a revision and nullification of
onerous concessions given for
eign enterprises by. the govern
ment of Batista."
Castro singled out only the Cu
ban Telephone Co., part of the
estimated' billion-dollar American
investment in Cuba. The AT&T
affiliate got permission from Ba
tista to raise rates two years ago
to justify expansion investments.
Telephone rates are going to
be lowered," Castro said.
The rally in front of the Presi
dential Palace attracted a large
part of Havana's 1,200.000 resi
dents, plus many more from out
lying provinces of this island re
public of 6.410,000.
Castro referred to the mass a:
numbering a million. Unofficial
observers guessed between 500,000
and 750.000 lammed the park in
front of the palace and streets for
blocks on each side.
Castro asked last week for a
turnout of half a million to sup
port the executions, despite for
eign criticism, and to back de
mands for extradition of some
Batista followers.
'All those who demand that
gunmen be punished raise their
Track 'Force'
Against Small
KENILWORTH, N. J. (UPI)
The entire track maintenance
labor force of the Rahway Valley
Railroad was on strike and pick
eting the main line trackage to
day, but President George Clark
said he figured he could keep the
line running without them.
The striking workmen comprise
one-fifth of the total employes ot
the road. Three men are on
strike. Counting the president, the
line hires 15 men. Its main line
runs 7.2 miles. A branch runs
three miles. Counting all the sid
ings, the total trackage is 15.2
miles.
'Being here practically all my
life, and having learned railroad
ing from my daddy when I was
in knee britches, and knowing my
tracks are in good shape, I figure
we can keep operating, Clark
said. "We never operate more
than one train at a time and we
never operate faster than 15 miles
an hour. Anything goes wrong
with the track, supervisory em
ployesincluding me can pitch in
and fix It.
The president of the road stands
Bfeet-3, weighs 265 pounds, goes
to work in railroad work clothes
("I never dress up because If I
did nobody would recognize me"),
wears an old-time regulation rail-
Telephone TU 4-8111
No. 6299
"I have put to one side the
question of a constitutional amend
ment. After long thought 1 have
concluded that an amendment is
not necessary to an alternative
water program.
He said he had found no general
agreement in the Legislature on
the terms and conditions of a wa
ter rights amendment.
"1 am not hostile to an amend
ment and I am not closing the
door on one," he said. "But I
am convinced that our positive
program of water development
should not be delayed by further
frustrating debate over the terms
of a constitutional amendment
Key recommendations in the
governor's proposal for water de
velopment:
38 million dollars should be
appropriated immediately from
the investment fund to start on a
construction program.
The entire investment fund of
about 170 million dollars should
be committed to .water develop
ment. In I960, voters should be asked
to approve a 500 million dollar
general obligation bond issue to
complete the construction pro
gram. The federal government should
be encouraged to finance water
projects designed for navigation.
Hood control and irrigation and
specifically should be asked to
participate in partnership with
the stale in building the San
Luis reservoir in Merced County.
Executions
hands." Castro shouted. A sea of
arms waved back as the crowd
roared.
The revolutionary chief also told
the crowd that the new govern
ment would demand that the
United States return Batista asso
ciates who had fled there so they
could be tried for crimes ranging
friim torture to Wdrder. He added
Cuba is seeking to extradite Ba
tista whom he called "the Hitler
of Cuba" from his refuge in
dictator Rafael Trujillo's Domin
ican Republic.
Oil Industry
Mulls Strike
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-A count;
was expected to be finished today
of ballots which would authorize
a strike by 4,500 members of Lo
cal 1-128 of the Oil, Atomic &
Chemical Workers Union against
major oil firms.
The vote was taken against a
backdrop of a possible settlement
between the Richfield, Shell, Tide
water, Union, General Petroleum
and Texaco companies. The un
ion's Wage-Policy Committee re
cently agreed to accept a 5 per
cent wage boost offered by Sin
clair Oil Co.
The same boost was offered to
General Petroleum employes not
in the bargaining unit, and the
company said it would make a
similar offer to union personnel.
STRIKE COLLAPSES
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) The hard core of the gen
eral strike against President Ar
turo Frondizi's austerity program
collapsed 'Wednesday night.
Peronist leaders of 62 unions
voted in a secret meeting to send
their members back to work to
day. It was believed holdouts,
mostly industrial workers, would
return to their jobs in droves.
On Strike
Railroad
road pocket watch, and generally
putters around the engine before
it starts off in the morning. He
win De 58 in March.
The Rahway Valley started busi
ness in 1904. ' This is Its first
strike. The w a I k o ut began
Wednesday. The strikers, three re
cent Italian immigrants, are mem
bers of the United Railroad Op
erating Crafts, an independent un
ion, ihey are striking for higher
wages. The road's other union
members are the five-man engine
and train crew, who belong to the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men. Before the day was out the crew
union men had crossed the picket
line 13 times once when they
went to work and 12 times whn
they ran the train through it. The
pickets stepped aside.
The Rahway Valley Railroad
rolling stock consists of two diesel
locomotives and one caboose.
Only one diesel is used at time,
and the caboose hasn't been used
in several years. The tiny road's
business is hauling freight cars
from the Jersey Central and the
Lehigh Valley railroads on the
south, and the Lackawanna on
the north, to and from local in
dustrial plants. So it switches and
shuttles back and lorth.
Thousands Homeless
In Flood-Torn
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winter's worst storms eased off
today but intense cold added to
the suffering and shivering misery
ot millions ol Americans.
I'hnusands were homeless in
flooded areas in Ohio, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania and Indiana.
And 4!) deaths were reported in
the territory hit by heavy snow.
ice storms, slashing rains or tor-
nadic winds a territory that ex
tended from the Southwest to the
Atlantic Seaboard.
Arctic air spread south and
cast. It increased the misery of
residents of the storm zones, but
it checked the runoff of waters
ihto flooded streams.
Flood damage ran into many
millions.
The bitter cold checked Ohio's
worst flood in 25 years. Thousands
of evacuees began trickling back
to their homes. But thousands of
others stayed in schools and oth
er emergency quarters.
The crisis was over in Mount
Vernon, a city of 16,000 popula
tion that experienced the worst
Navy Weighs
School Plans
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The
Navy marked time today on plans
to put itsell in the school teaching
business amid mounting talk that
Virginia may try to set up a pri
vate education system to avoid
racial integration
The Navy announced Wednesday
night that plans are set to provide
schools for children of government
personnel living on military instal
lations in the Norfolk area.
These plans, the Navy said.
"will be put into effect if local
schools are not reopened within
reasonable time. The Navy
didn't say what it meant by
reasonable time. Six Norfolk sec
ondary schools have been closed
since being ordered last fall to
accept some Negro students.
In a tinned television program
Wednesday night, Virginia's Gov.
J. Lindsay Almond Jr. proposed
a system of private education for
localities that would not permit
racially mixed schools.
However, Almond said he saw
no alternative to limited Integra-
tion in some areas. And he
pledged that the state will try "as
lar as possioie to save punnc eau-
cation wherever it could be saved
Jit Virginia. ' V :f '
Almond expressed these views
in an interview with commentator
Edward R. Murrow on the CBS
television show, "The Lost Class
of '59."
The program was filmed Jan
11 days 'before the Slate Su
preme Court ' and a three-judge
federal panel in Norfolk struck
down the state's massive resist
ance laws.
Nine white public schools in
Norfolk, Charlottesville and War
ren County were shut in Septem
ber under the now unconstitution
al school closing law. There have
been no moves to reopen any of
the closed schools.
Ship Collision
Suit Filed
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)
California has filed a damage suit
in U. S. District Court for the col
lision last Dec. 31 of the American
steamship, Kaiman, with the An
tioch draw bridge.
The suit, filed Wednesday
through the Department of Public
Works, named as defendants
Trans-Pacific Company, owner of
the ship; Coastwise Line, which
had chartered it; Hawaiian Tex
tron, Inc., which had recharlered
it, and three John Docs.
The complaint charged that the
ship was operated "negligently
and carelessly" when it struck a
support pier of the bridge while
passing downstream from block
ton to San Francisco Bay.
The bridge was temporarily
closed, and damages were estima
ted at approximately $200,000.
Filed in admiralty, the suit was
entered under a California code
section which makes liable any
person who negligently injures any
state highway.
Wurlil News
In Ilricf
United Press International
CUBA Havana Forty two fol
lowers of Batista arc awaiting
execution in six cities.
SW1TZER North Hollywood
Carl (Alfalfa) Switzcr, the freckle-
faced star of the old "Our Gang"
comedies has been killed in an
argument over a debt.
MIKOVAN-Copenhagen - Ml
koyan wisecracked way through
forced landing.
WEATHER Undated Snow,
sleet, freezing rain, thunderstorms.
tornadoes and floods plague na
tion; death tolls mount.
JUPITER Cape Canaveral
Army fires Jupiter missile in an
other apparently successful nose
cone re-entry test.
FLOOD Columbus Three
drowned and thousand home
less as worst flood in recent Ohio
history strikes.
STRIKES Kenilworth. N.J. -President
of nation's smallest rail
road says he can keep line run
ning without striking labor force,
inundation ol central Ohio com-1.
munilies. Flood waters began to
recede in other sections.
The cold air mass moving in
iiu.ii intr ainu was a nicaK I
to the Hooded areas of w v-u I
stale.
Hundreds ot families were
forced from their homes in the
Buffalo section Wednesday night
and today. States of emergency
were declared in Salamanca and
Lackawanna. In South Bulfalo, an
ice jam in Cazenovia Creek broke
and sent a five-foot wall of water
through residential streets. Sever
al persons were injured.
Hie swirling Hoosac River un
dermined the supports of two
bridges in North Adams, Mass.,
and they tilted at dangerous an
gles. Rivers and creeks gushed out of
their beds in many parts of west
ern Pennsylvania. Hundreds lied
from their homes.
The Allegheny River was the
big troublemaker in Pennsylvania,
and the worst situations were
north of Pittsburgh.
The Shenango River spilled over
into Sharon. Most downtown bust
ness houses were closed because
of water in basements. Some in
dustrial plants shut down. Damage
in Sharon was estimated at two
million dollars.
Kittanning. a community of 10,-
noo that is 45 miles north of Pitts
burgh, was cut off for several
hours when an ice jam in the Al
legheny sent 5 feet of water cours
ing over 30 blocks.
Meadville, 90 miles north of
Pittsburgh, had the worst flood in
its history.
The 200 residents of Forksville.
Pa., got out of a strange watery
trap. An ice jam backed up the
water from Big Loyalsock Creek
which virtually surrounds the lit
tle town. Then rain broke the ice
jam and the water receded, leav
ing chunks of ice in streets and
yards.
Martial law was declared in
Pasternak
Eyes Tour
LONDON (AP) Boris Paster
nak, the Russian author called a
traitor by Soviet authorities after
winning the Nobel Prize tor Lit-
erature, reportedly is willing now
to mane a six-wecK lecture tour
of iho United States and Britain
Jose Vilallonga, noted Spanish
author, and Prof. Philip Hallie of
Vanderbilt University are seeking
to arrange the tour..
Vilallonga, who lives in Paris,
said Wednesday night he had
assurances through diplomatic
channels that Pasternak would be
willing to come."
The Soviet government warned
Pasternak last November that if
he left the Soviet Union to accept
the Nobel prize, he would not be
allowed to return. The 69-year-old
writer renounced the prize and
said he could not "imagine my
fate apart from Russia and out
side her. ... To go beyond the
frontier of my motherland is to
me equal to death.
Pasternak was designated last
October for the Nobel prize pri
marily because of his novel Doc
tor Zhivago," which paints a grim
picture of Russian life under com
munism. The Kremlin retaliated
by unleashing severe criticism of
the writer and his novel, which
has been published in 13 languages
abroad but is banned in the So
viet Union.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Mostly cloudy through
Friday with some rain Friday
Low tonight 28-35; high Friday
45-50.
High yesterday 35
l.ow last night 20
Precip. last 24 hours - .Trace
Since Oct. 1 2.21
Same period last year 8.52
Northern California Cloudy
through Friday with - occasional
rain, Little change in tempera
ture. Southerly coastal winds In
creasing to 25-50 miles an hour
with locally stronger gusts around
Cape Mendocino by early Friday,
CRATER LAKE
High yesterday . 34
Low last night 23
8 a.m. today 30
New snow . 34
Snow depth 34
Last year 102
Skiing Good
Highway 62 Is open with chains
advised. Chains required from
Annie Springs to the rim. Skies
were overcast during the forenoon
but It was a pleasant day with
no wind. .
Mt. Shasta Highway 99 and
Everett Highway: No chains re
quired with 70 Inches of snow at
9,300 feet. Skiing good, high clouds,
U.N. Demands
POW Accounting
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -
The U.N. Command today de
manded an accounting of 2,147 Al
lied prisoners still missing from
the Korean War.
The Communists promptly re
jected the demand and charged
that the Allies are detaining
742 Communist war prisoners.
The demands and charges were
made at a meeting of the Mill
tary Armistice Commission In the
demilitarized lone here.
States
Madison, Ind., where 100 families
were forced from their homes by
uveniows irom ine unio ltiver.
Disaster plans were put into cf
ct and National Guard troons
r,.i J v,; I .
, uu.nu iruops
joined civilian workers in some of
the inundated sections.
Small streams in the Wheeling,
W. Va., area were out of their
banks.
It was the wind that wroucht
the havoc in the South. Half the
size of baseballs shattered school
and church windows and damaged
automobiles in Hartsclle, Ala.
Skies cleared in the Midwest in
the wake of snows that reduced
traffic to a crawl and sleet that
snapped power and communica
tion lines and cut off many com
munities Irom the rest of the
world. .
The blockbuster snow storm.
which swept out of the Great
Plains and dumped up to a foot
of snow across the midlands, cur
tailed normal activities in hun
dreds of communities.
Shipmen, RR
Reach Pact
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The
San Francisco Port Authority and
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men reached an agreement Wed
nesday night that ended the 11
yoar dispute with the following
results:
James W. Brewster, 56. a for
mer switchman, was granted $48,
715.83 in back pay.
A threatened strike of the
State Belt Line Railroad on the
San Francisco waterfront was
averted.
A brotherhood spokesman said
the union spent nearly one million
dollars to press its claim against
tne autnority and the state.
The dispute began in M47 when
Brewster was fired from the rail
road. It ended Wednesday night in
a three-hour closed session called
hy Attorney General Stanley
Mosk.
Attending the meeting were
Brewster, who has since worked
as a taxi driver; Port Authority
President Cyril Magnin; Warnock
Walsh, Fort Authority member;
Ray H. McDonald, international
vice president of the union;
George Bodle, union attorney;
Herbert E. Wentg, assistant stale
attorney general; and Mosk. ...
Unions Meet;
Map Pay Hike
WASHINGTON (AP) - AFL-
CIO leaders, spurning President
Eisenhower's renewed plea to curb
wage increases, meet today to
chart a new drive for pay boosts.
Al G. Hayes, president of the
Machinists Union, said in advance
of a meeting of the AFL-CIO
Economic Policy Committee he
does not agree with the Presi
dent's wage-price policies.
Saying prices and overly high
profits are to blame for inflation,
Hayes added that "I don't agree
with the implication that decent
wage rates are responsible.
"It is misleading to the Ameri
can people."
Hayes is a member of the AFL
CIO policy group headed by Uni
ted Auto Workers chief Walter
Reuther. Its position has been that
wages are too low in relation to
costs and profits.
The President s annual econom
ic message to Congress Tuesday
said most indicators are pointing
upward but renewed inflation
could retard recovery prospects.
Eisenhower urged business to
keep down prices and labor to con
fine wage increases to improved
output.
Similar Eisenhower pleas for
moderation have fallen on deaf
ears in the past. Both consumer
prices and wages are now at rec
ord highs by the government's
measurements.
Labor already is hitting for hefty
new pay boosts in 1959. Sizeable
new coal wage increases went into
effect this month. Oil workers are
in the process of negotiating a
per cent raise, their first increase
in two years. Phone workers have
posed a strike threat next week
in six Midwestern states. .
After that come labor negotia
tions in a batch of key industries,
including steel, chemical, rubber,
aluminum, electrical manufactur
ing and railroads involving more
than three milion workers.
About three milion more work
ers are due to get automatic wage
raises averaging about eight cents
an hour under previously nego
tiated contracts. .
Star's Death
Fault Denied
VISALIA, Calif. (UPI) The
driver of a car involved in the
traffic death of actor James Dean
has denied the accident was his
fault. i
Donald Turnipseed, 26, Tulare,
Calif,, issued the denial in answer
to a $10,000 suit filed against him
by Pacific Indemnity Co. ' Th
firm is seeking the money for
workmen's compensation and
medical benefits paid to Roll
Wuctherich, 30, mechanic who
was injured In the crash.
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