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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or.
Wednesday, January 30, 1963
Hoffa Demands Probe Of 'Pressure
Tactics' That Halt Union Bonding
WASHINGTON (UPI) -r Team
sters President James R. lloffa
asked Congress today to investi
gate his charge that the Justice
Department used pressure tactics
to discourage insurance compan
ies from bonding teamster offi
cials. In a letter to the House and
Senate Labor committees, Hoffa
said the move was" designed to1
force teamster officials out of of
fice. UnHer tlic Landrum-Griffin
Labor Act, union officials must
be bonded to protect the rank and
file from misappropriation of
funds.
Hoffa said the Teamsters Union
has been turned down by 280 bond
ing companies because of what he
Dog Club Scholarship
Aids Deserving Youth
. John A. Schmitz, Mount Angel
Ore., is one lad who received a
scholarship at a time when he
needed it most.
Schmitz, the recipient ot a $350
idiolarship established by the
Klamath Dog Fancier's Club, re
lated his experience in a letter
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JOHN A. SCHMITZ
of appreciation . written to the
club in care of Mrs. Betty J. Al
len, treasurer.
The scholarship was awarded to
Schmitz last December on the
recommendation of Harry A.
Ionard, a local veterinarian, to
ward completion of his studios in
veterinary school at tlie Universi
ty of Colorado. It was the second
consecutive year a scholarship
was awarded to a veterinary stu
dent by the club.
In his letter to Mrs. Allen,
Schmitz wrote, "When Dr. Mor
gan showed me Die telegram (an
nouncing the awarding of t h c
scholarship) he had received from
you, I could scarcely believe it.
I even made him give llie
telegram to me so that I could
take it home and look nt it again.
At that time, I was literally on
my way to see . . . about a loan
for next term."
A third year student in veter
inary school, Schmitz is a gradu
ate of Mount Angel Preparatory
School, where ho served as stu
dent body president and w a s
named to the all-conference foot
ball squad.
Soon after he enrolled at Ore
gon State University, where he
remained before being admitted
to the veterinary college two
years later.
Schmitz is a member of the Phi
Zcla Veterinarian Scholastic Hon
or Society and was elected alb
letic chairman of the veterinary
school.
With luck, a lot of work and
a few prayers," Schmitz said he
will graduate in the spring of
next year. Then he intends to ful
fill his military obligation, after
which he will return to Oregon
and establish a veterinary prac
tice.
Passenger Lands Plane
Safely When Pilot Dies
CHEYENNE. Wyo. (UPI I -Three
men, all employes of the
American Bridge Company ot
Pittsburgh, Pa., met Monday at
Cheyenne Municipal Airport.
They were assigned to fly to a
Minuteman missile site 50 miles
northeast of Cheyenne, one of 210
under construction in the area for
w hich American Bridge is provid
ing steel.
The three steel executives were
Iler Peterson, 3R. a former Ma
rine. John Pawlack. 32. and Les
tr Laun. 34. all of Cheyenne. The
pilot of the small Cessna 180 was
Edgar Van' Keuren, 54, Rapid
City. S.D.
Tlie plane took off at 1:45 p.m.
Thirty minutes later it was plum
meting toward earth with a dead
pilot at the controls.
"I was sitting directly behind
t1 e pilot." Laun said Monday
Paisley High
Lists Students
P.MSl Dan Thompson head
H the honor roll at Paisley High
S.-hool (or the third six-week pe
riod vilh all Is.
Seniors listed were Linda Pen-iiu-tnn.
Terry Ann Foster, and Dell
Srarincen.
Juniors, Alire irern. Jean
Ceachler, Scott LaFranchi. and
Janice Foster.
Sophomores, Dan Thompson,
Theresa Murphy. Robert Barncks.
and David Rrattain.
Elaine- Morris was the only
freshman student on the honor
roll.
night. "Peterson was in front next
to the pilot. Pawlack was sitting
next to me.
"Suddenly the pilot slumped
over and we were headed toward
tlie ground at a sleep angle with
our air speed increasing.
'Pull up! Pull up! I hollered.
Les instinctively took over the
controls. He grabbed the wheel
and pulled It straight back. We
had enough air speed so that we
went right back up.
"We later estimated we missed
tlie. ground by alwut two feet. It
was very, very close."
Peterson, an assistant project
manager tor American bridge,
had never handled tlie controls of
an aircraft before
"I had full control of the air
plane alter 1 got it back in tlie
air." Peterson said. "I began to
exeriment with (tie plane and its
controls. Then I contacted our
mobile unit which acted as a go
lielwecn with as and loins Do-menico."
Domenico, owner of a Cheyenne
air service, then "talked in" Pe
terson to a safe landing.
termed pressure brought by both
tlie Justice Department and the
Labor Department.
Hoffa said tlie license of one
bonding company to do business
in tlie District of Columbia was
revoked after it agreed to insure
the teamsters. In another instance.
he said, representatives of tlie
Justice and Labor departments
called on a bonding company ne
gotiating with the teamsters in
an effort to get lliem to drop llie
business.
Hoffa urged that Congress
amend the Landrum-Griffin Law
to require insurance companies to
bond all officials eligible to hold
office as long as tlie union can
provide adequate collateral. He
said tlie bond now covering union
officials expires Feb. 8.
In urging the investigation, Hof
fa said it would give Congress a
chance to look into "what appears
to be improper interference exert
ed by tlie attorney general and
the Labor Department.
Hoffa said tlie pressure against
the bonding companies is a "sc
nous, abuse of congressional in
tent" in the Landrum - Griffin
Law.
In his list of alleged pressure
tactics. Hoffa said the union was
bonded by United Benefit of
Omaha, Neb., but the bond was
suddenly canceled in IflBl,
"This company's license was re
voked" in the District of Colum
bia, he said. After tlie company
dropped the Teamsters Union,
Hoffa said, the license was rein
stated.
The teamsters then took tlieir
business to tlie Resolute Insurance
Company of Providence, R.I. The
firm carried the bond for a year
and a half, then dropped tlie
agreement without explanation.
Hoffa said. This was the linn.
Hoffa said, that received a 'visit
from representatives of tlie Labor
and Justice departments.
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FAMED SCIENTIST DIES Dr. Jean Felix Piccard, famed scientist and balloonist,
died Monday et his Minneapolis, Minn., home on his 79th birthday. He had a heart
ailment for several years. Piccard is shown here looking into one of the gondolas
of his design for balloon flights. He and his wife made the first stratospheric ascent
in a balloon in 1934. UPI Telephoto
U Foresees
Test Pact
243,000 Vets Live In State
There are 243,000 living veter
ans in Oregon and 22,22b,000 in the
nation as the year l'Xi3 begins,
R. J. Novotny, manager of the
Portland Veterans Administration
Regional Office, rc)oitcd.
This compares with 22,735.000,
the all-time high in national vet
erans population, in March 1958.
It will be approximately the year
2008 before the total drops to 4,-
429,000, the population level figure
on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941,
Pearl Harbor Day. '
Looking ahead and barring fu
ture wars, Novotny said that VA
estimates show that the veterans'
population total will dip below
the 20 million mark in 1972 or 1973.
By '19B0, it is expected that
there will lie about I7.C41 ,000 vet
erans still alive and by 1990 the
number will be down to i:.689,0O0.
In 2000 there will be 8.657,000
veterans alive. They are expected
to consist of about 5,220.000 World
War II veterans, 3.4:15,000 Korean
Conflict veterans and 2,000 World
War I veterans.
Spanish-American War veterans,
now about 24,000 strong, will be
gone from the American scene by
1087 or r.ii, barring a handful
of exceptionally long-livod individ
uals. There may be some few
score World War I veterans still
alive by 2010. and World War II
and Korean Conflict veterans are
expected to be with us in small
numbers by 2010.
Some few Korean Conflict vet
erans may still lie alive neai
the mid-ccnlury mark in 2030.
Novotny explained that these
jobless
Claims Drop In January
SALEM Unemployment insur
ance claims and rates for week
ending Jan. 17 were do n in most
areas of the state compared to
mid-January last year, according
to J. Karl Corey, director of un
employment insurance.
A year ago there were 31,788
weeks of unemployment insurance
weeks claimed and the rate of in
sured unemployment w as 8 0 com
pared with 27,136 weeks and a rate
of 6.7 this year. Four weeks earn
er in mid-December there were
20.274 weeks claimed, a rate of 5.1
Only .area where the late slight
ly increased was at Medford
where it went up from 9.6 last
year to 9.8 this year in mid
January. Rates remained t h c
same this year as last at Corvallis
with 7.1 and Tillamook with 8.1
Highest insured unemployment
rate in tlie state was at Grants
Pass with IS. 4 and lowest was
at 'Portland with 4.2. Both were
greatly reduced from last year
at this time, however.
The resumption of mil! activi
ty aftci holiday closures, partial
ly offset by layoffs in trade, was
responsible for a reduction of 4.;
per cent of weeks claimed last
week compared to the week be
fore, Corey said.
Rates in the larger areas com
pared to last year in mid-Janu
ary showed: Corvallis unchanged
at 7.1; Eugene at 6.4, down 0.6;
Klamath Falls at 8 1. down 2.7;
Medford at 98. up 02; Pendle
ton and Milton-Frcewaiei at 9.6.
down 2.5; Portland at 4.2. down
08 and Salem at 8.1, down i.e.
Tlie Oregon unemployment in
surance trust fund on Jan. 21
contained $54,048,861 cgmpared to
$42,901,699 a year earlier.
Syrian sarafs. traditional money-lenders,
still flourish in com-
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to plan future workload programs
in administering the various bene
fits provided by Congress for
veterans. It aims to be accurate
in a general sense and not in
exact figures for any particular
period.
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JFK. Readies
Farm Speech
WASHINGTON ,fp - Presi
dent Kennedy will send a special
farm message to Congress Thurs
day, it was announced today.
Speaker John W. McCormack
made tlie disclosure following the
weekly meeting of lVmoeiatic
congressional leaders with llie
President. McCormack said no
other special messages aie in
prolct.
Administration farm officials
preuously hae disclosed that the
President would propn.se separate
farm legislation in throe areas
cotton, feed grains, anil dairy
products.
The administration's cotton plan
would provide a new subsidy pay
ment designed to equalize 111"
prices that domestic mills and for
eign mills must pay for American
cotton and to ease HW crop plan;-
ing restrictions. Recuse of Hi.-
way the price supixirt progriin
operates, American mills now
must pay more lor American cat
ten than do foreicn nulls
Tlie administiaiion (ailed l.i-i
year in its al tempt to impose man
datory printiu tlnll continls tn IkmI
down surplus output of corn and
other feed grains.
Revising its aiftoach. tlie ad
ministration tins rar is expected
to seek permanent cont.naau.m in
modified hum of the slnpcap vl
luitary program for cuib.ni s-ir-pluses
which has been applied '.n
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UNITED NATIONS, N Y. (UPI
Secretary General Thant of the
United Nations said today that
prospects for a nuclear test ban
agreement are "much higher than
nt any time in memory."
Thaul made the statement at a
news conference in which he ex
pressed tlie opinion that' reports
of a new Soviet build up in Cuba
and of U.S. forces in Viet Nam
should not be debated further.
Rut he said that the United
Nations should "explore means of
easing the tensions and bringing
about a belter understanding be
tween the powers principally in
volved."
Thant also praised U.S. Ambas
sador Adlai E. Stevenson as a
statesman of "mellow wisdom,
perceptive thinking and balanced
judiiment "
Thant injected his opinion into
tlie controversy centered on Stev
enson in res(ionse to a news con
terence request for Ins appraisal
of the U S. diplomat.
At Ins first pi-ess meeting since
Sept. 17. Thant also: ,
Endorsed aid, previously
Ichanneled entirely through t lie
Uni1ed Nations, to the Coin;o on
a bilateral basis if the l.eopoldvillo
government wants it.
Announced that the t'.N mili
tary lorce in the ton go will start
'scaling down at the end of March
!with an anticipated drop resulting
in the $10 million a month ex-.penses.
Escapees
Captured
BRECKENRIIXiE. Tex. (CPU
An off-duty policeman captured
one escaped convict and police
caught another one driving a
stolen automobile early today near
Rreckenridge. Another fugitive re
mained at large.
A 63-ycar-old woman kidnaped
by the men was found safe and
sound in Stephenvillc. Tex., where
they released her.
George Huffman, 34. a robber,
was caught just west of town,
hitch-hiking along a farm road.
Jesse Montague. 33, was captured
several hours later when police
ran him off a road six miles west
of town. He had stolen two cars.
police said.
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