Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1959 — Page 8

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Railroads And Unions Readied For Big Battle CHICAGO (UPD— Management and unions readied today for one of the biggest battles in the history of the nation’s railroads. Conferences are underway or soon will be on contracts involving most of the 800,000 railroad workers. The procedures are complicated, but charges ringing out from both camps are quite clear. For example, the railroads claim "featherbedding” practices of the unions are costing the carriers 500 million dollars a year—money spent for work not performed or not needed. •Die unions retort that Management intends—"even if it provokes a strike”—to insist on changes in the working rules which labor has established by negotiations dating back as much *9 40 years to protect the public as weu as the workers. Ask Pay Haises The railroads say the unions this year have presented demands for wage and fringe gains which would amount to 750 million dollars annually, among them: —The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brakemen and Switchmen's Union of North America seek a 12 per cent pay increase. —The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and -Enginemen are asking for a 14 per cent pay increase. * —The 16 non-operating unions, composed of employes who do not man the trains, want a flat 25-cent-an-hour wage increase. The railroads' answer: A 15-cent-an-hour pay reduction, "the amount by which wage increases for railroad employes have exceeded those for workers in industry generally since 1953” plus elimination of all cost-of-living escalator provisions. Issues Under Mediation Because of the Railway Labor Act. any strike appeared unlikely right away. The issues, one way or another, are expected to wind up in the hands of mediators or, at last resort, a presidential factfinding board. Some of them already are under mediation. Representatives of the railroads and of the engineers, conductors and switchmen have been meeting here this week with mediators arguing about the 12 per cent demand. The trainmen and firemen are arguing separately against the carriers but their dispute is expected to enter mediation in a few weeks. The 16 non-operating unions will ask for changes in working rules, in addition to the 25-cent-an-hour increase, when a three-year mora-

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torium ends Sunday. Tlie railroads are waiting for Sunday, too. After Sunday the rail roads will be free to try to get the so-called featherbedding rules amended- The Issues thus will come to a head, the unions demanding more money and the rail roads demanding new rules. Roads Rerouted To Save Historic Spots WASHINGTON (UPD—The Bureau of Public Roads said today it is doing its best to prevent bulldozers from bowling over historic shrines to make way for new federal superhighways. Walt W. Osborne, chief of the bureau's special functions branch, said the potential historic significance of all sites is a "primary consideration” in determining road locations. Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. <DN.J.) and other congressmen have been critical of road building programs which they claim frequently mar historic or scenic areas. Thompson said he has introduced legislation designed to prevent "road-builders and the road lobbies from running hog wild wild over the prostrate forms of the American people." t Osborne said there have been hundreds of cases in which the bureau, with state cooperation, rerouted a highway to preserve an historic or scenic spot. "You only hear about the cases where they had to go down," he said. "You don’t hear about tie hundreds of times where they are saved as the result of a study and extra expenditures of public funds.” I Osborne said the bureau does not reject outright a proposed highway route which might scar an historic spot, but it does request the state to study possible alternatives. Chamber Os Commerce To Elect Directors • The annual election of new board of directors for the Chamber of Commerce will begin by mail in mid-November when Fred Kolter, execuive secretary, sends returnmail postal cards to the members of the organization. The nominating committee of Al Beavers, Fred Haugk, D. Burdette Custer, and Bob Bradtmiller submited the following names for the men who will serve three year terms: industrial division, Dan Tyndall, Max Gilpin, Harold Engle and Dale Myers (two will be elected); retail division, Wayne Price, Bob Sautbine. Dick Macklin and Bob Eitiug (two of the four will also be electee!); and professional and services, Art Helman and Dr. H. R. Frey. Kolter said that the cards must be returned by Dec. 1, according to the bylaws of the chamber. He will mail out the ballots in two *weeks to all members.

& ''■" Il 1 . MH FEHOWS WELL HAILED—Here is the resplendent dresa circle for the gala opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s 75th I and longest season in New York. Conductor Fausto Cleva (lower foreground) is about to raise his baton for "Il Trovatore,” to begin 25 weeks of opera.

—. ; — ! Former Bund Leader Sentenced To Prison i CHICAGO (UPI) — William B. Wernecke, 49, former Ger»nan- ' American Bund leader, was sen- ‘ tenced to one to five years in ' prison Wednesday for conspiring , to kill his former business partner. Wernecke was found guilty I Tuesday of hiring another man to . attack Dadisou Nicholas, 55. Wer- . necke, according to witnesses, sus- . pected Nicholas of courting Wernecke’s estranged wife, Ruth. Mexican West Coast Battered By Storm MEXICO CITY (UPD — Stormtriggered floods threatened in four Mexican gulf coast states today while rescue and relief efforts were intensified on the cyclonebattered Pacific Coast. Latest reports placed the death toll in Tuesday’s cyclone at 76 in the Manzanillo area alone. Navy department reports placed the number of injured at 710. The cyclone cut a crescentshaped path of death and destruction 150 miles wide and 400 miles long in three Pacific coast states. The navy department reported the entire town of Cuyutlan in Colima, with a population of 800, was wiped out. A new storm lashed the gulf coast Wednesday night, swelling rivers to flood stage. The “norther” threatened large areas of Vera Cruz, Campeche, Tabasco and Yucatan states which were still digging out from storms and floods 10 days ago. The navy closed the port of Vera Cruz and flashed storm warnings to shipping in the coast as far as the Yucatan peninsula. Search Abandoned For Three Miners TONOPAH, Nev. (UPI) — Search was abandoned for three, men buried 13 days ago by a cave-in at, the Silver Peak Mine No. 3, about 90 miles west of Tonopah. The miners, presumed dead, were Gene Roberson, 33, of Mina, Nev.jJSamuel Sickles, 45, of Tonopah; . and William Delorme, of Redding, Calif. Nevada Mine Inspector Mervin Gallagher halted rescue efforts “with reluctance" after meeting with 50 rescub porkers and Sam L. Levine, president of the U. S. Milling and Mineral Corp.

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Bomb Threat Delays Show For Half Hour KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — There was a switch Wednesday night and the audience walked out during a performance by soprano Maria Callas. But it came back. A bomb threat caused a packed > house that included former President Truman and two governors to leave the theater after Miss Callas’ first song. Miss Callas was told while the orchestra was tuning up that someone had called the theater and announced that a bomb had been planted there. Police Conduct Search She went on stage and sang the first of five arias. Then Missouri Gov. James T. Blair brdered the theater emptied while police searched for the bomb. None was found. The show was delayed 36 minutes. Then the blue ribbon audience, most in formal attire, filed' back into the theater and Miss Callas finished the concert by singing four more arias. In addition to Truman and Blair, Gov. George C. Docking of Kansas was in the audience. Miss Callas once threw all Italy into operatic turmoil by walking out on President Giovanni Gronchi and a full house ip Milan because she became ill in the first act. Miss Callas Unflustered < Only a night ago she stood up Blair and others who had-as-sembled at the Nelson Art Gallery at a reception in her honor. Her explanation was that she was too tired after flying from Italy to Kansas City with a brief stopover in New York But Wednesday night Miss CaJlas, whose temper is easily triggered, did not appear flusrerM by the bomb threat. <> “I had to go on,” Miss Callas told reporters later. "I knew that if I didn’t and the show was delayed before- it even started, the press would call it* just another show of my temper. I had to sing that first aria.” Woman Pedestrian Is Killed By Auto INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Mrs. Emma Lusher, 76, Indianapolis, died in General Hospital Wednesday of injuries received a few ■ hours earlier when she was struck by a car driven by* Herbert Phillips, 19, Indianapolis. Mrs. Lusher was hit when she tried to walk across a city street, police said. Over 2,500 Dally Democrats are sold and delivered in Decattn each day.

Need More Research Over Proposed Dam WASHINGTON (UPD—Two U. S. weather scientists said today more research is needed to determine whether a Soviet - proposed dam across the Z eri n g Strait between Alaska and. Siberia would do more harm than good. Another US. scientist expressed doubt that such a dam would do what the Russians think it would —warm the frozen Arctic area. But Sen. Ernest Gruening (DAlaska) urged this week that the United States give "prompt and sympathetic, consideration” to the Soviet proposal. He said he would ask Congress in January to approve a Soviet-American study of the dam and suggested that Canada be invited to participate. Soviet engineer A.I. Shumilln proposed some time ago that a 53-mile dam be built between Siberia and Alaska. With atomic power, he would pump water by the thousands of cubic miles from the warm Pacific side of the dam to the cold Arctic side. Another Russian engineer, Peter M. Borisov, came up with another dam proposal last week. Instead of pumping from the Pacific to the Arctic, he would draw cold water out of the Arctic. This, according to Borisoy, would pull warm Gulf Stream water into the Arctic from the Atlantic side and improve the climate of Alaska. Canada, and Siberia. Borisov suggested that the, United States and Russia bear jointly the cost of 17% billion dollars. Dr. Harry Wexler, the Weather Bureau’s chief of meteorological research, and Dr. Earl Doessle, pogram directo for atmospheric sciences of the National Science Foundations, said much more inI formation must be obtained before it would be possible to say whether the dam would be good or bad for humanity. Gordon Lail, head of the geophysics branch of the Office of Naval Research, doubted that the dam—assuming it could be built—would do the job assigned it by Borisov. Lili said for one thing that the Gull Stream, by the time it gets into the far north, doesn’t have the warming power Borisov appears to suppose. Lili does not believe that this current would have much effect on the Arctic climate .

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Motorist Is Killed While Changing Tire HAMMOND, Ind. (UPD —Frank Bruz, 66, Riverside, 111., was run over and killed by a small truck Wednesday while trying to change tires on his car. State Police said Bruz stopped his car along U. S. 41 in Lake county when he had a flat tire and was hit by a truck driven by Dale Irwin, 27, Lowell. Psychiatric! Exam To Valparaiso Coed VALPARAISO, Ind. (UPD — A popular, trusted coed-counselor who admitted setting eight dormitory fires will be given a psychiatric examination, Valparaiso University officials said today. No charges will be filed pending examination of Gertrude Martha Gorman, a 22-year-old senior physical education major and honor student from Chicago, the officials said. Miss Gorman broke down during a lie detector test Tuesday gnd confessed setting the fires “to see if "“anyone had faith in The fires broke out in Dau Hall. a girl's dormitory, during a six-<iiy period from Oct. 14 to Oct- WrNene caused serious damage. Miss Gorman confessed she set each fire bj dropping a match in a waste basket or touching off draperies, then hung around to help extinguish the blaze in her role as a dormitory counselor. A university spokesman said Miss Gorman’s counseling activities may have led to her brief career as an arsonist. “She is the kind of girl who listened to everyone else’s trials and tribulations and had no one to tell her own troubles to,” the spokesman said. The lie detector expert who heard her concession, Leonard H. Harrelson, sag! she lit the fires “to attract some attention.” “There was nothing malicious in her intent,” Harrelson said. “She | is a very decent, very nice kid.” i Harrelson said Miss Gorman, an 1 excellent student, told him she “knew I would eventually get I caught. I just wanted to see if anyone would stand by me. “I guess I was trying to prove to myself whether people had any real confidence in me," the coed< said.

To Dedicate School Sunday At Frankton FRANKTON, Ind. (UPD -Local citizens will dedicate a new $940,000 high school building Sunday and Monday. Officiate on hand for the ceremonies will include William S. Wilson, superintendent of public instruction, and L. V. PhiP lips, commissioner of the Indiana high school athletic association.

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