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Mexican Bracero Import Ball Given Committee GEv French Paratroopers Attack Tunisian Forces; UN Security Council Meeting To Be Demanded Southern Pacific Cites Possible Annual Savings nied the use of braceros un less they had made efforts to recruit domestic workers at wages and working conditions offered to Mexicans. ease pressure on the base after Tunisian forces attacked with light and heavy weapons. The Paris sources said at least one French soldier was killed and three wounded in "sorties against limited objectives" close to the edge of the big base. They said the French forces The subcommittee specified that no braceros were to be farms. These payments were limited Ho $15 a worker.

The old law had the same dollar limitation, but applied generally only to transportation and subsistence. Another amendment would require employers to hire "able, willing and qualified" domestic workers when such workers were referred to them by the local employment service. Farmers also would be de used on any power-driven ma chinery and could be used Tunis, Tunisia -TO- French paratroopers under an umbrella of fighter planes today attacked Tunisian forces besieging the Bizerte naval base. Tunisia charged the French hurled "bombs and rockets" into the battle. Tunisian President Habib Bcurguiba, accusing France of "premeditated aggres i announced he was severing diplomatic relations with France.

He said he would demand an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Bourguiba told a news conference at least 33 Tunisians had been killed in the two days of fighting that began Wednesday after 10,000 Tunisian troops and volunteers blockaded Bizerte in a drive to force the French out of the base. Bourguiba said 20 of the Tunisians were killed this morning in a battle at Bi-zerte's main armory. French government sources in Paris said French paratroopers struck back under cover of fighter planes to WOW! It's the BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR AT YOUR FAVORITE STORE WATCH FOR IT IN SUNDAY'S MAIL TRIBUNE San Francisco HOT Southern Pacific and Western Pacific would have some a year if SP were allowed to take over control of WP, according to officials of SP. The figure was presented at a hearing of the Interstate Commerce Commission on whether Southern Pacific or Santa Fe should be given permission to acquire stock control of Western Pacific.

The SP submitted an 18 project "co-ordination" plan listing how the money could only as seasonal or temporary help, unless the secretary of labor determined there were not sufficient domestic workers to fill the jobs. killed "several Tunisians and captured 50 others. The French Ministry of Information in Paris charged that the Tunisians advanced on the French base behind a group of women and children. Page 2A Regional Edition Medford LIMIT RIGHTS RESERVED IT" tk MEDFOUD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961 yi -fi Jul Washington -fflPU- The full Agriculture committee hat approved and sent to the Senate floor a bill to extend the Mexican Farm Labor (bracero) Import Bill for two years. The committee dodged the controversial subject of tightening the law so that domestic farm workers will not suffer from the wage competition by braceros.

But Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) said a fight on this point will be made on the floor. Houi. Bill Amended A committee spokesman said the bill may be ready for Senate action Thursday, but there was no indication as to when it might be called up for debate. The Senate subcommittee Tuesday amended the House-passed bill, which called for a simple extension for two years, to read: "No workers (braceros) shall be made available to any employer or permitted to remain in the employ of any employer unless the employer offers and pays both to domestic and foreign workers tile wage which has been determined by survey by the secretary of labor to be-the wage paid In the area for domestic workers engaged in similar work." To Pay Part of Costs The subcommittee also amended the bill to require farmers to pay part of the government costs Involved in recruiting and transporting the workers to American Special Situations Hold Spotlight on Cautious Market 0 0 MARKET SUPER- additional demand for the stock.

Ahead 1 after the an nouncement Wednesday, it Central Point 350 East Pine St. "A Good Place To Trade" jumped another 3 this morn ing. be saved. The far-reaching plan proposed that SP tear up hundreds of miles of track and plan coordinate operations so that Western Pacific and Southern Pacific could use each other's lines where desirable. WP Independence Southern Pacific stressed that it intended to keep Western Pacific as an independent organization in spite of the wholesale consolidations and tile fact that the railroads were in competition.

Some of the biggest proposed consolidations include combining of yards, maintenance and terminal facilities in Sacramento, Stockton, Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco. Another change would be the elimination of Western Pacific barges which now make nine trips across San Francisco Bay daily. Instead that traffic would be moved across San Francisco Bay on a Southern Pacific line over the Dumbarton Bridge, Monopoly Charged Consolidation of the railroads would permit abandonment of WP's main yard, its passenger terminal, a freight house and 24 miles of track here, nlus a reduction of more than 100 in the work force. The abandoned property New YorkUPll-A handful of special situations held the spotlight in generally narrow and cautious early dealings on the stock market today. News that the Justice Department is at odds with Congress on tax-easing proposals In Du Pont's spin off of General Motors stock sent the big chemical down to 2 points.

GM gained a small fraction. Certain-Teed's rights offering at $34 a share attracted DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York Itll'll Dow-Jonoi final stock averages: 30 industrials 682.74, up 3.44; 20 railroads 133.49, off 1.08; 15 utilities 113.21, off 0.37; 65 stocks 225.64, up 0.12. Sales Wednesday were about 2,940,000 shares compared with 3,010.000 shares Tuesday. Campaign Against Moonshiners Starts In North Carolina Greensboro, N.C. fUPU A meek, soft-spoken man has be could then be available for valuable property devel op-meat, the SP pointed out.

come the scourge of moon shiners in the hills of this city, Wednesday's prices atocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am American Air LineB American Can American Motora American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Armco Sfeel Benrilx Corp Bethlehem Steel Boolnft Air Brunswick Caterpillar Corp Chrysler Corp Coca Cola C.B.S Continental Can Crown Zollerbach Criiclble Sin I Curllss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone Ford General Electric General Foods General Motora Georgia Pacific Graham Paige Greyhound Gulf Oil Homeatake Mining Idaho Power 1 II once called the "moonshine on sctcclcd B3V, 71 83 42 17 120 li no ia sav, 62 Al) S2T, 43Ts fl7 35 52 si 21 Ill 7514 2I5 105 45 85 113 Is 3i fli 2 4(1 3314 4114 3(ll 62 The Southern Pacific said that under its plan some 500 capital of the world." Del Monte Fruit Coskfail 303 4 for $1.00 Del Monte Grapefruit Sections 303 4 for $1.00 Del Monte Chunk Pineapple 4 for 89c Del Monte Tidbit Pineapple 2H 1 for 89c Del Monte Crushed Pineapple m. 4fr89c Del Monte Cut Beans 303 4f.r$1.0Q Del Monte Cream Corn 303 5 $1.00 Del Monte Kernel Corn 303 Del Monte Peas 303 5 ft $1.00 Del Monte Mixed Vegetables 303 5 $1.00 Del Monte Stewed Tomatoes 303 4 fr 89c Del Monte Catsup 5 1 $1.00 Del Monte Tomato Sauce 8ounce, ...11 for $1.00 Del Monte Pineapple Juice 46ounce 3 for $1,00 Del Monte Orange Apricot 2 for 79c Del Monte Pineapple Apricot Juice 46oz. 3 for $1.00 Del Monte Tomato Jaice 46ounce 3 for $1.00 Del Monte Pineapple Grapefruit Juice 46oz. 4 $1.00 Del Monte Dill Spears i2.0 each 29c Del Monte Sweet Pickles 12 ounce each 39c Del Monte Sweet Hamburger Relish 12 oi each 29c Del Monte Lady Elberta Peaches 303 5 for $1.00 jobs would be cut at a saving of some $3,800,000 a year. Santa Fe Case Pending observer reports: "we got Then Mason and his men move in to where the pilot circles and dips the wings of his plane.

There is an exchange of shots, but the moonshiners soon disappear into the trees and the agents arrive at the still, in clear sight on a mountain top. Mason, who has devised a vest pocket size testing kit, at once tests the moonshine for Its lends salt content. A few minutes after he adds a chemi He Is Donald E. Mason, manager of the Greensboro Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, a municipal liquor Santa Fe, the "other party in the battle of giants and the railroad preferred by WP-has yet to present its case for seeking control of the small DEL MONTE (Tv wmwm )J I Zee King Size 70 Count fctk-E NAPKINS 2r.kgs. 29 NABISCO OREO-11 Ounce COOKIES ff tr 3 $100 BREAD Fluhrer's Potato or $11 00 Beck's Ranch Style 5 loaVCS I Large 15 ounce uJ -ii i immii ii 1,200 mile WP, a key link in transcontinental and Pacific I Northwest rail routes.

monopoly. His ire was aroused a number of months ago when 14 persons, al in the low come brackets, died after drinking poison moonshine in a nearby community. Contrary to what most people think, Mason said, the moonshiner is not a picturesque hillbilly whose favorite pastime is playing cat-and-mouse with revenoors. "He Is a murderer." cal, the while lightning turns Testimony of the 12,500 a bright red. "Pure poison," he says.

"It's loaded with lead sails. mile SP so far has hinged on the economics that could be achieved through SP control. The Santa Fe is He explnihs that lead salts remain within the human 31 Il7; 35 27's 7(1 1', I5H4 expected to argue that SP body for life. The effect is cu control would mean a western mulative, building little by Moonshiners, Mason said, produced an estimated 60 mil railroad monopoly. little until it kills the victim One of the agents removes Int Paper Johns Manvlllc Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Martin Co Merck Montann Power Montgomery Ward Nat'l Biscuit New York Central Northern Pacific Pac Gas Elcc.

Penney, J. I Pcnn RR Phllco Phllllpi Proctor A Gamble Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway Scars Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co. Southern Pacific Sperry Rand Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. Texas Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Texas Pac Land Trust Thloknl six sticks of dynamite from an old Army musette bag. The dynamite Is placed in the still and exploded.

Mason and his men move on -In search of another still. 44 12', 21 110 4 51! 34 411 71s 4(1 54 23 2(1 's 51 4fl''s 43 'i fill'', 23 lB'i 311, 37 I4k 411 33i 47 'ii 591', no'i, 35 1. 4 Hi and TILTONS OR MOORPARKS APH1COT5 Transamerlca Servicemen Show Interest in Religion New York ftJM The National Council of Churches has new evidence of rising Interest in religion among members of the armed services. Its Broadcasting and Film Commission reports that the Army and Air Force is requesting Increasing numbers of films and film strips with religious themes. Subjects in which the servicemen are interested range from pre-marital counseling to foreign missions, $89 lion gallons of white lightning last year, cheating the government out of about $650 million In excise taxes.

The moonshiner also is a cutthroat competitor of the licensed industry, and Mason, whose board has a legal monopoly on liquor in this city, won't brook competition from any source. Mason does not believe that enforcement at the local level Is sufficient. On the national level, he said, "the only realistic approach Is that proposed by the Schenlcy company-that 1 per cent of the revenue collected on tax-paid liquor be earmarked for a war of extermination on the moonshiner." -A typical day in Mason's life begins at 4.30 a.m. when he leaves home to keep a rendezvous at daybreak with his own staff and federal or local agents in mountains 100 or 200 miles to the west of here. Rolling over the bnckroads of the Piedmont range, Mason's motorcade of six unmarked cars and a truck heads into a small valley where it waits for Information to be radioed by an agent in a small airplane.

Shortly after noon, the air- Trans World Air Trl-Cotitlnental Union Carbide Union Pacific Untied Aircraft United Air Lines I). S. Ruhlxr II. S. Steel West Bank Corp Westlnghousc 28-lb.

lug Elberta Peaches 10c lb. Legal Documents Heeded for Vacationing Dogs New York -(UPU- If you are planning on taking the family dog along on your vacation this summer, here's a word of caution: while Rover can travel in 49 of the 50 states in relative, though leashed, freedom, a variety of documents will be needed to get him legally across state lines. The 50th state, Incidentally, is Hawaii, which, is out of bounds unless you are willing to have your pet spend 120 days in quarantine. The main consideration of the mainland states which allow transport of dogs is to regulate it only order to prevent outbreaks of rabies and communicable canine diseases such as distemper and hepatitis. Thirty-seven of these states have specific law- governing the entry of out-of-state dogs, according to a survey by Pitman-Moore company, a manufacturer of veterinary pharmaceuticals.

No Regulations The other 12 states have no specific regulations, although counties in two of them, Virginia and Kansas, have their own rules. But even where there are no formal rules, state veterinary officials rec Katanga May Seek Help of Russians Ellsabethville, Katanga, The mum Real Taste Congo (UPU The secessionist STI Katanga Province government Bell Peppers ,2.. 9C Cello Carrots 2 19c No. 1 Spuds 20 98c Rochester, N. Y.

IUPII -Karen Levin of Rochester may have been the most photographed woman of latiO. Mrs. Levin posed for more than 00,000 still shots and appeared in countless scenes on a quarter of a million feet of film as a color film test model for Eastman Kodak. announced today it hnd given up hope that the "free world" would settle the Congo crisis Waste Free and said it might turn to Russia for help. BEEF ROASTS Katanga Interior Minister Godofrold Munungo said his government planned to con LETTUCE tact Communist-backed An-toine Gizenga, leader of the KARL'S SHOES FOR ONE WEEK ONLY! WISCONSIN LONG HORN AGED Stanleyville regime, to "concert our points of view." He said that If the Katanga and Stanleyville factions could not work out a solution 15 CHEESE 2 LARGE HEADS CLOGS White, bone or black leather to the crisis, his government would "not hesitate" to request assistance front the Soviet Union.

Airfoam toe to.heel. Sizes 510. Hussia, he said, "seems to he the only country capable of giving effective help to its Swift Premium Center Cuts Lean or Bar-B-Q friends. Munungo made the an nouncement at a news confer ROUND ROUND ence in the absence of SWISS STEAK Katanga President Moise Tshombe who is ill. ommend that animals be "properly protected" before they are taken on a trip.

i Proper protection for a traveling dog includes as a i minimum a rabies shot and vaccina'ions against distemper and infectious hepatitis, the number one and number two disease killers of dogs. 1 Plttman-Moore points out that the reason for the 120-i day quarantine period in 11a- i wail is because that slate, like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and some other Island areas, has eradicated rabies and wants to slay free from the dueast STEAK ROUND ANDY'S 16th Anniversary Sab ALL MONTH 6 Mosquitoes do not acquire resistance to chemical insecticides; they are born with it. I aiTs 210 (ait Mild SI, 218 EAST MAIN Opn vry Monday Til p.r James Doolittle was the first to fly across the American continent in one day..

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