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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1963)
HERALD AND NTWS, Klamath Falls, Orfgo, Sunday, July 21, 1961 PAGE J A s -a I Mlm SK INBOARD READY FOR RACE This SK drag boat owned by Evereft Leach, Klamath Falls, takes a few laps preparing for the big two-heat race on Upper Klamath Lake scheduled during the Basin Boat Club's Klamath Water Festival, Aug. 4. Several out-of-town and local entrants are already signed-up for the big event. Also included in the festival will be kite flying from skis,(sky diving into the lake and trick skiing. Sonny Clift, Klamath Falls is slated to give a bare foot ski demonstration. Editor's NMr: On Wrdnrs- da, the Herald and News pub lished portions of a letter from J. B. Bishop, manager of the Klamath Falls branch of Wey erhaeuser Company to em ployes outlining the position of the company in the present employment dispute. The fol lowing Is a reply to Bishop's letter from Otto E. Hall, busi ness agent for 1WA Local No. J 12. By OTTO E. HALL On July 15 the 1WA and the "Big Six" timber operators met in negotiations in an attempt to reach an agreement on the cur rent lumber dispute. According to Lowry Wyatt, "Big Six" spokes man, the association made an offer of 26 cents per hour spread over a three-year period In a letter to all of the em ployes dated July 16 from J. B Bishop, branch manager of the local Weyerhaeuser plant, he states that the increase offered was 27'4 cents per hour over the three-year period. Apparent ly, they cannot agree among themselves as to how much the offer amounted to. Bishop's letter went on to say. and I quote "the companies took this step in a serious attempt to end the strike-shutdown which has prevented this plant from operating for more than six weeks." We can only conclude from this statement that the Wey erhaeuser Company is deliber ately trying to seek public sym pathy for a situation which they themselves have created. Again, let me emphasize that the 1WA bears no responsibility for the Camp Fire Girls Set Pack Trip The Horizon Club of the Camp Fire Girls has planned a four-day . camping and horseback pack trip into the Cascade Mountains July 30 to Aug. 2. Girls now in the eighth grade through high school are eligible to sign up. The trip will include traveling to Diamond Lake by car and camping out there the first night. The two-day .pack trip into the mountains is scheduled Wednes day morning, with an overnight stop in Kelsey Valley and into Dog Prairie. The trip will con clude with a camp-out at Dia mond Lake before returning to Klamath Falls Friday morning. "Dusty" Farrier of the Dia mond Lake riding stable will lead the t r i p. Girls participating should have some experience in horseback riding. The cost will be $29.75 per girl, with nine girls and one adviser to a group; or $32.15 per girl for a group of five girls and one ad viser. Trips will be made in one of the two combinations, depend ing on the number participating. Non-members, girls and women will pay $3-1.75 or $37.15. The rate covers transportation, horse rental, and food up to $6. Reservations are now being taken at the Camp Fire office and require a deposit of $10. Final payment is due July 23. Clothing and menu will be planned at a meeting July 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Camp Fire office. Everyone signed up for the pack trip is requested to attend. Examiner Here People desiring assistance in filing their petitions for natural ization may call at the court house Monday, July 22, and con sult with naturalization examiner James R. Smith of the U.S. Im migration and Naturalization Service, who will be there for that day only. Notification of Smith's arrival came to the coun ty clerk's office from Alfred J. Urbano, district director of the immigration service. Meeting Set WASHINGTON tUPll - Am bassadors from West Germany and Italy will meet again next Thursday wilh Undersecretary of State George W. Ball for more discussion on creation of a multi lateral nuclear force for NATO. The two met with Ball Thurs day for a one-hour discussion about the plan to organize a NATO nuclear fleet of 25 surface ships with crews of mixed nationalities. Conley Selected For Course First Lt. Raymond P. Conlev has been selected by the Air Force Institute of Technology to take a 12-month course at the University of Colorado to study for his Master of Science degree in business administration, ac cording to the Information Office of Kingsley Field. His course of study will begin in September. Lt. Conley is a graduate of Honaker High School,. Honaker, Va., and a 1900 graduate of Vir g i n i a Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, of the same stale. He went on active duty De- I Wi ll HI TT-Tl'ii 'I ...j iir'lMI 1ST LT. RAYMOND CONLEY cember, 1960 and received a com mission in the regular Air Force in June, 1962. As an officer in the Medical Service Corps, he has served as administrative officer of the 408th USAF Dispensary at King slcy Field since his arrival here October, 1961. Previous to this assignment, he was registrar of the USAF Hospital, Turner AFB Ga. While attending VPI, Lt. Conley was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, Alpha Phi Omega, 4-H Alum ni Club, and the varsity rifle team. He has been active in the Boy Scouts program and the Linkville Kiwanis while stationed at the airfield. The lieutenant is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ford of Waynesboro, Penn. BITES THE DUST GAINESVILLE. Fla.-One half of the University of Florida's alli gator mascot couple is dead, but nobody's sure which half. Accounts of the death gave reaaers the choice: "Albert II (or Alberta I died near the Uni versity of Florida auditorium Sat urday after a brief illness." The two alligators replaced Albert I last summer. University officials figured the two could protect themselved better against prank sters, who often tormented the late Albert I in his campus cage. STAR GAZERv By CLAY K POLLAN ? 5-25-31-36 jf TAURUS APR. 21 MAV 21 Ol 1-40-52 63 66-74-77 01 MINI ry? MAY 22 .&--VJUN2! HlS-18-20-39 my 45-69 78 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 ,37-46-53-62 '68-73-85-90 ffS juir24 yfe- AUG. 23 r13-2V35-44 vy 35-75-79-891 VMCO AUG 24 StPT.22 0 3- 7-12-191 S30-38-76 M Your Daily Activity Guid M According lo Iht Ston. To develop message for Monday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth stgn 1 Bubbling 31 Precaution 61 And 2 0pn 3? New 62 Or 3 Put 33 Stubborn 63 Hospitolt A Exciting 34 Success 64 Going 5 Take 35 Dov 5 Pomontic 6 Your 36 Agamjt 66 Thrills 7 Your 37 An 67 0vr 8 Shm.ng 38 Use 6fl Relative 9Soc.oi 3P-rson 69S.ck 10. 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In another statement from the letter of Bishop, he states and 1 again quote "vie are extremely disappointed that the union ne gotiating committee has indi cated no change of position which would end the dispute and prevent any further hardships to our employes, as well as numer ous communities and the com panies involved.' Again, let me make it clear to all of you that these hardships, as referred to in Bishop's letter are not being created as a result of any action of the IWA, but are the results of needless and un necessary action taken by the Weyerhaeuser Company and the Big Six association by locking out our members and depriving them the right to earn a decent and respectable living. In the final paragraph of Bish op's letter he states "our propos al was made to end a controversy that already has gone too long, and we sincerely hope that there w ill be an early move to end his! dispute. Let me say that I agree with this last statement. We, of the IWA sincerely hope that there will be an early move to end this dispute and return our mem bers to work. But since the asso ciation has elected to create this unwholesome condition upon our membership and the community, it is up to them to get them selves out of the jackpot that they have gotten themselves into by withdrawing their unreason able demands in wanting to HAMBER OAAMENTS by GEORGE T. CALLISON Monogir KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE mission which today stands in the SANTA CLARA, Calif. - For four of the last five summers, it has 'been the privilege of this writer to attend the Western In stitute for Organization Manage ment at the University of Santa Clara. Attendance at such a manage ment seminar fulfills a number of needs. One of the principal ones, perhaps, is the need to gain perspective ... to get away from the trees to look at the for est. -At tlie same time, it offers the opportunity lo Jearn new tech niques, new theories and methods that develop so rapidly in to day's fast-moving and complex society . . . techniques, theories and methods which can be ap plied for the betterment of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce and, hopefully, for the betterment of Klamath County as a place to live and to make a living. The fact that it all takes place on the beautiful and serene cam pus of the University of Santa Clara is a bonus benefit. there are probably few univer sity campuses that lend them selves so perfectly to academic oursuits. And behind its archi tectural and landscaping beauty lies a rich and interesting re ligious and educational history It was 186 years ago that the Spanish Franciscans settled close bv the banks of the Guadalupe River and founded the eighth of their 21 California missions a wreck our contract and working conditions which have been in ef fect since 1942. They seek the right to estab lish work schedules as they see fit without regard to overtime pay on Saturday and Sunday. They seek the right to take away from the employe his right to refuse to work overtime and they ceek the right to place an employe on any job they so de sire without any regard to that employe's seniority rights or suit ability for the job, saving that "if you don't like it you can grieve about it later, thereby rendering the grievance proce dure in our contracts ineffective. Even if the "Big Six" had of fered three times the amount of money that they did we could not and would not sign an agree ment as long as they refused to drop their demands that we give up the provisions of our contract that we have fought so hard to gain over the last 20 years. Let us review for a moment the increases which we have had over the past few years; in lntil we received a one per cent in crease amounting lo 2'j cents in 1962 we received nothing. Now, assuming that we were to accept the "Big Six" association's last offer of 26 cents over a three year period, this would amount to 28'ic per hour over a five-year period or less than six cents per hour per year in crease for the Ust five years. This is in contrast to increases gained in other industries such as steel, auto, construction and others amounting to 15 cents, 20 cents and 25 cents per hour per year over the same period of time. We do not intend to con tinue to subsidize the lumber in dustry any longer. We feel that we are first class citizens doing first class work and should be paid first class wages for ouri labor. ' Once again, let me remind the citizens of Klamath Falls and the entire Klamath Basin that the IWA did not s t r i k e the Weyerhacus- PIGKONS KNOW COOD THING MIAMI, Fla-Mae Belle Cain loves birds, but enough is enough. A lame pigeon she nursed back to health last year spread the word all over town that she was good for a handout, end now she is beset by flocks of freeloaders. It is expensive feeding them and her neighbors complain they can't hang out their wash and get it back in wearable condition. Only a year after a guest stint on his brother Dick s comedy show, Jerry Van Dyke starts his own scries as host of "Picture This" on June 25. SIDE GLANCES center of the university campus Taken over by the Jesuit or der in 1851, the University of Santa Clara conferred the first Bachelor of Arts degree in the State of California in 1857. Eleven years earlier, in what is now a delapidated adobe close by the mission compound, the first American .public school m Cal ifornia was inaugurated. Even the landscaping or part of it has quite a history. The original adobe ,wall that lormed lone side of the old cloister gar den, is sheltered by a row olive trees still producing that were brought from Mexico m 1825. Two giant Phoenix palm trees were tiie gift of a San Jose doctor 100 years ago. To residents of Mamath coun ty, who have only a short drive into the forests or to a mountain lake or stream to find a retreat from the humdrum of everyday existence, the peace and quiet of the University of Santa Clara campus would be different, but not new. Tragically, many of the hun dreds of thousands of people who live in the San Jose metropolitan area, and sit at a standstill in their cars on the Santa Cruz freeway listening to the voice of an announcer from a helicopter above telling them that traffic is blocked for 2'i miles, don't even know that less than two miles from where they sit lies this spot of such great aesthetic ! beauty. 11 (M, ' 7-iO S mi h hu. ut.ru i:ot y,, otf. er Company. This company elect ed to close up their operations in sympathy with U.S. Plywood and St. Regis Paper Company who were stuck by the IWA and the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers on June 4. 1963. These giants of the lumber industry would like to have you believe that they are the brink of financial ruin despite the (act that by their own financial records they show prof its running into the millions of dollars after taxes. Weyerhaeuser net profit in 1961 amounted to $36.6 million and in 1962, the year that they were crying the blues that they were unable to grant the wrlrker any increase, the year in which the IWA settled their contracts with out one cent increase, made a net profit of $39.1 million. St. Re gis Puper Company's net profit (or 1961 atnounted to $17.3 mil lion and in 1982 their net profit rose to $21.3 million. In 1B61 Crown Zellerbach msde a net profit of $36.7 million and in 1962 their net profits rose to $38.8 mil lion, and so on down th lne. Yet, they plead poverty and inability to pay the worker a decent wage. These same companies arc try ing to make the public believe that their demands on the un ions are of a minor nature. If this is so, why are they so in sistent that they be made part of the contract? In a letter published in the Her ald and News Wednesday, July 17, 1963, the statement was made that the association has bar gained in good faith throughout all meetings with the union nego tiators. This is a matter of opin- I attended the meeting of June 4 in Portland between the "Big Six" and the union negotiators. At this meeling President Har vey Nelson, chairman of the West ern States Negotiating Commit tee summed up the union s posi tion stating why wo were en titled to a substantial wage in crease this year. Upon comple tion of his summary, the "Big Six" called a caucus. They re turned after about three hours and Lowry Wyatt, spokesman for the association, stated flatly that1 the companies had no proposal to make to the unions. It was then that negotiations were discontin ued, leaving the union with the only weapon they have left to use to bring about a settlement, that of economic action against the companies. . St. Regis Paper and U.S. Ply wood were struck at midnight June 4. On Thursday, June 6, IWA Local 3-12 received a letter from Bishop, branch manager of. the Weyerhaeuser operation here" id Klamath Falls stating that they were closing down the operation at the end of the day shift on Friday, June 7. This was done despite the fact that no picket line existed. The company's only excuse for clos ing down the plant was that they considered a strike against one was a strike against all. As a result of this action, today we have thousands of men and wom en out of work. Not only are the employes of the "Big Six" out of work, but many people not in volved in this lockout are being laid off from their jobs at stores, restaurants, service stations and other places of business. - The economy of the entire Ba sin is feeling the adverse effect of this needless and unnecessary action taken by the Weyerhaeuser Company. Many people are leav ing town and securing work and settling down in other commu nities. Our members are being discriminated against by other employers by their refusal to hire them because they work at Weyerhaeuser. This is not only true locally, but throughout the entire Northwest. This appears to be a concerted move on the part of the industry to starve us back to work by accepting their; terms and conditions. This.' we" do not intend to let happen. The morale of our people is high be cause they realize that to settle this dispute on the company terms would mean the end of the gains that we have fought so hard for over the years. We feel that our fight in this dispute is a just one and that we warrant the support of every citi zen in this Basin. Without the dollars from our labor every busi ness and professional man in this community is bound to suffer economically. Wlhout these earnings we cannot buy the goods and services which would normal ly be bought. These issues that we are now involved in must be settled and will be settled. 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