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The Republic from Columbus, Indiana • Page 5

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The Republici
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Columbus, Indiana
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PAGE FIVE THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, COLUMBUS, INDIANA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1959. illidmson to End CP. Congress May Find Steel Strike Tossed in Its Lap SO Years Ra ilr oading back-to-wprk injunction in the 15 times previously, the President may appoint a fact-finding board to determine the issues in a strike only when a walkout appears to threaten national welfare and safety. Stay Injunction Order After the board reports, the may sign a court order to send the strikers back to work for 80 days.

If the dispute is not settled during the 80 days, the strikers may walk out again. steel strike Wednesday. But a three-judge Philadelphia appeals court stayed the order Thursday pending a full airing of the! Steel-workers contention that the Taft-Hartley national emergency procedure is unconstitutional, i If the stay is lifted and the injunction takes effect soon, the 80-day no-strike period would 'expire early in January, soon after Congress reconvenes. A veteran railroader Jroiii-a long line of railroad men nd civil engineers is sporting a spark-ling new. 50-year Pennsylvania railroad service pin.

He's C. P. Williamson. 2530 Pearl street, who'll mark year of railroading Dec. 22 'then retire on Christmas Eve.

From there the 68-year-old veteran of the rails will be off Dec. 28 on a vacation trip to Honolulu with his wife, Jessie, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Booher, 411 Fifteenth street. I of Fourth street this week to receive the 50-year pin from C.

E. Leafgreen, Indfanapolis road foreman of engines, and Stuart Frushour, his assistant Recalls Accidents From his cab with the modern diesel control and a cord-activated horn, Mr. Williamson reminisced about his years on the road, about the wrecks he recalls including one for which he accepts blame and about his ancestors. Great-Grandfather Caleb Wit liamson, who came' from 'Scotland and settled in Alexandria, I -r i '-'V-- Pr.v- tv I A Pittsburgh judge granted a By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON (UPI) The government's Taft-Hartley' cool-ing-off timetable threatens to dump the steel" wage dispute into the lap of the returning Congress in January.

If the strike is not settled during an 80-day breather provided by a government-requested court injunction. Congress will move into the picture. Even if a settlement is reached, the bitterness produced by the dispute may bring congressional action. Many Suggestions In either event, Congress probably would try to write a new and improved national emergency section for the Taft-Hartley Act. There is no dearth -of suggestions for such a new clause.

President Eisenhower, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell and congressional labor experts all have come out in favor of. various proposals to modify the present national emergency procedures. Under these procedures, which were used in the steel strike and Mr. Williamson ground hisjyard diesel to a hah at.

the west end Winder whaf makes i aste so Last SAT. OCTOBER 24th of CARPENTER'S REXALL Oridinal Sale marched in the- procession with George-Washington to lay the cornerstone for the United States capitol building. He also was master of the first U.S. Masonic lodge. Grandfather Alexander Williamson was civil engineer on a subcontract to the tracks for the Pennsylvania railroad line up the Madison hill in 1837.

And he later worked on the road -to Scipio. -Father Conductor Mr. Williamson's father was a passenger conductor on the-railroad. He was John M. Williamson.

The family moved from 1021 Pearl street to NewAlbany after the boy completed the first grade in Miss Clark's room. He attended business college in Louisville but went to work as a yard fireman on the railroad at the age of 18. He became a road engineer in 1924. The veteran railroader blames himself for ramming the rear of a coal train south of Columbus in 1941. "It was my fault," he said, "I was supposed to run sow and watch out for trains ahead.

I cut the throttle and rounded a curve near the old refinery before I saw that caboose ahead. He'd left Seymour a half hour before I did. and we were just lucky to have time to jump. But as it was it smashed only the caboose." Another wreck Mr. Williamson recalls was in front of the depot in.

April, 1910. A double-header fast freight locomotive demolished the yard engine. The engineer and Mr. Williamson both jumped clear. "I landed on the station platform as they hit," he chuckled.

He termed other wrecks "minor affairs" but recalled the excitement of a "runaway" rolling down the Madison grade. "It's really something," he said, "with" the night and the dark and the fire flying." "That," he commented "happened lots of times." Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have been married 46 years. They have 50 YEARS ON RAILS Engineer C.

P. Williamson grips the klaxon cord on his diesel, posing after receiving his 50-year service pin this week from the Pennsylvania railroad. He lives at 2530 Pearl street. uu mmu Be Really Refreshed 2 for 1 Plus A Penny! HUNDREDS OF BUYS DON'T MISS IT! Stor Use our layaway for your Christmas Toys $1.00 will hold your toys. Shop now for best selection.

Catalogs available at our store. Sasseen's TOY GIFT SHOP 7th Chestnut Watch The Paper'For 1 Announcement Of Our 12th 3 CARPENTER'S Sweep a i stoii 1 Anniversary Sale. Midwest Jf A FRITCHIE'S COUNTRY MARKET Fight Seen over Actor's Will NEW YORK (UPI) A fight brewed today over the estate of actor Errol Flynn, whose will was filed for probate here Wednesday. The will, dated April 27, 1954, left most of his estate to his widow, Mrs. Patrice Wymore Flynn, with specific bequests to his children and parents.

In Hollywood, his former wife, Mrs. Nora Haymes, said Flynn had told her there was another will dated sometime in 1957 in which he left everything to his children and parents. She said she planned to consult an attorney td protect the interests of her two daughters by Flynn. Melvin Belli, San Francisco attorney representing Beverly Aad-land, Flynn's 17-yearold companion for the past year, said he was amazed that no provision had been made for his client. He said he knew Flynn wanted to provide for Beverly and Belli said he would do something about it.

Flynn and his widow had been separated for some time while he travelled to Europe and the Caribbean with Beverly. Walesboro MEET COMPLETELY RECONDITIONED Brief, heavy thunderstorms raged through the Midwest Thursday night, killing a young Wisconsin farmer and dropping nearly two inches of rain on some areas. Melvin Young, 32, rural Sun Prairie, was killed instantly when he was struck by lightning and knocked off his tractor into corn stalk chopper he was nulling. Milwaukee reported 1.76 inches of rain, Kansas City 1.20 and Lamoni, Iowa, .75 inch, but other cities received light showers. Rain also fell during the night from central Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico and from northern Florida into Pennsylvania and central New York, with Glynco, reporting .37 inch and inch falling at Hatteras, N.C., and Harrisburg, Pa.

1 Scattered showers fell from the Dakotas into Washington and Oregon. Forty m.p.h. winds whipped across Wyoming and Montana, and range ville, Idaho, received .20 inch of rain. Rising temperatures throughout the upper Great Lakes and New England raised the mercury 24 degrees in Saginaw, and Albany, N.Y. The U.S.

Weather Bureau forecast occasional drizzles today for Florida and the Carolinas into $795 and 84 Sets to i Choose From AB SCHUMAKER COUNCILMAN 1st DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC TICKET Ab a life long resident of Bartholomew County and now resides at 1 733 Washington St. He and his wife have a daughter, and son. He is part owner of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and is a member of St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church.

17-21-24 inch screens. Some with 60 day and 1 year -picture tube warranties. i I i lv MAYIIARD'S GARDEN MUMS 100 varieties blooming See the 1959 i Introductions Open Afternoons Highway SI, 3 miles with of Franklin near the Radio Television Uth Caifornia St. Store Ph. DR 2-3737 Open nights 'till 9 England, Pennsylvania and 7 New York.

Thundershowers were expected in the middle and upper Mississippi Valley and upper Great Lakes, with rain mixed with snow in the Montana mountains and northern Wyoming and Colorado. Protect your home with AB hinks, as the other Democratic candidates, that only qualified personnel should be appointed to departments of the City Government. BETTER GOVERNMENT LESS POLITICS VOTE StH'Sht Democratic Ticket Columbus Democratic Central Committee, Columbus, Ind. one daughter, Wanda, who is now Mrs. William Lawless of 3202 Sycamore drive.

She teaches at Columbus high school. Mr. Williamson is a member of the First Methodist church here, St John's lodge No. 20, and A.M., and member of the union of locomotive engineers. ANNIVERSARY Ci th on lyALTEX gives you all features Jm umm IMPORTANT SAVINGS in every department 729 N.

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