Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 2

2 The Casper Tribune-Herald Friday, May 16, 1952 Sinclair Makes Nationwide Settlement with Oil Union Mayor Urges Parents to Instruct Children to Drive Safely in City the general picture of settlement, however. In Denver, negotiations broke down over retroactive pay for 31 employes of the Wyco pipeline. It supplies the bulk of Denver's gasoline. A strike was called for this afternoon. Knight, leader of the union coalitioin which started its strikes 16 days ago, returned to Denver last night from a Washington meeting with WSB officials.

DENVER M' Agreement on the only nationwide oil industry contract was announced today as other negotiators scattered across the country resumed talks aimed at quick settlement of the crippling oil strike. O. A. Knight, president of the CIO Oil Workers, largest of 22 unions involved in the strike, said Sinclair Oid Corp. affered pay increases equalling the maximum amount the Wage Stabilization improvements and sewer cleaning.

"Jjet it not be said that I have tried to push the Utility Board out of city government. I have simply tried to focus public attention upon our needs, to cause people to think about our needs. "I have tried to bring the Utility Board into cooperation with government, and put the operation of the water and sewer systems under the City Superintendent of Public works where it belongs." GO AFTER REVENUE Board said it would approve. Knight said he recommended acceptance by the 10,000 workers Mr. Nicholas also reported that the city treasurer and city clerk are setting up new books on various covered in the contract.

The i proposition has been sent to the 30 1 locals having Sinclair workers. They Mayor Tom Nicholas, in his radio 1 address Thursday night appealed to the parents of children who drive cars, to establish a home training program of safe and sane driving, and he invited the cooperation of the people in the work of the Safety Council. In speaking about the traffic problem, Mr. Nicholas declared "that a number of citizens have suggested the placing of depressed ditches in a number of the roads to act as Epeed traps. It is hoped that such drastic means may be avoided, and that the cooperation of the public may be secured in making our roads and streets safer." Mr.

Nicholas also referred to the low water pressure in certain areas and also to the need for cleaning sewer lines in the city. NEED TO BE FACED "It is nearly two years since the Utility Board has been organized and they have neglected to face these problems realistically. "Throughout the years, and particularly since the city has grown so large, there has been an accumulation of sludge, silt and mud in the sewer pipes. The new garbage disposal units installed in kitchens, the new automatic washers and new detergents all add a new load to the city license fees. A number of tax pavers who have neglected these Standard Resume Negotiations Hen The bargaining committee of Local 124 of the Central States Petroleum union was scheduled to meet with officials of the Standard refinery here at 3:30 this afternoon to talk contracts for three separate groups of local company employes I will be forwarded to union head-: quarters in Denver for tabulation.

fees for some two years have been contacted, and proceedings may be taken if required, to bring In these The offer. Knight said, calls for a 15 cent boost in hourly wages averaging $2 to $2.10 and night shift differentials of 6 and 12 cents an hour, both effective May 1, plus retroactive pay of slightly more than revenues. 'The Ways and Means Committee of the Council expects to have a report ready for next Monday night, on means of securing additional revenue," he said. The mayor stated that there now exist three vacancies on the city's police force. He urged that young men, particularly those who have maintenance and operating, clerical, and professional.

The requested increase in wages will be negotiated under terms of the latest Wage Stabilization Board ruling, putting a ceiling of 15 cents an hour on oil industry pay hikes, fr'sdeotioin Fred Joelnr, president of the local, said that an agreement in the wage dispute is expected tonight or tomorrow morning at Standard's I a tenia an nuur iiuin oan. i 10 iviay 1. Although nearly all industry contracts are on a plant-by-plant basis, the one with Sinclair covers all production, pipeline and refinery employes of Sinclair and its operating subsidiaries. Included are refineries at Sinclair, Corpus Christi, Houston, East Chicago, Wellsville, N. and Marcus Hook, field production workers, principally in had war service, consider police work as a career.

Application blanks may be obtained at the city clerks of- complex chemistry of the sewer ice. lines. Mr. Nicholas reported excellent For a varietv of reasons, miles conditions in the parks and said Tribune-Herald Photo LIONS CLUB GETS SCOUT CHARTER: Earl Osborn, club president receives charter for Troop 48 from Robert Murphy, Boy Scout Representative of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the meeting held Wednesday night in the Crystal room of the Gladstone hotel at which the members of the troop and children of Lion members were guests. Jim Wade is Scout Master of the new troop.

of our sewer lines are operating at that the Ladies Progressive Guild only part capacity. In that condi-1 had donated a flag pole and flag tion thev are more likely to clog and for the North Casper Park. back sewage into basements. Thursday night's address was the I Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and pipeline workers from I the Texas Gulf Coast through the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. At least one dark note crept into Whiting, plant, wnere some 10.000 workers are off the job.

The settlement at the Whiting plant may have an effect in the resolution of the grievances here. According to Joelner. an agreement was reached at the Standard Sugar Creek, refinery, yesterday, granting an across-the-board increase of nine cents an hour from last Nov. 15 to yesterday, and 15 'Round Clock SHERIFF SELLS FREELAND CEMETERY So Pioneers Rest in Peace "Someone in Casper simply must! last for the summer the take the burden of pushing needed! mayor announced. TRADE SHOW GETS STARTED TONIGHT Sheridan Firms Win Contracts cents an hour increase starting yes Underwriters to Convene Friday The Wyoming Association of Life Underwriters will meet in Casper next Friday for the annual convention and sales congress.

About 100 men will be in attendance. The annual business meeting and election of officers will be held in the morning, and Fcrd Taft. Wyo Air Watch Is Postponed third of land and to keep it for this purpose the state was asked to sell this plot. The sale was held Friday morning and Mr. McGraugh, acting for the Freeland Cemetery Association, bid the sum of $20 for the plot.

There were no other bidders and Mr. Mc-Gragh will turn it over to the association. There are approximately 50 persons buried there, many of them pioneer residents, it was learned. It Sheriff Louis Cooper held an unusual sale on the court house steps Friday morning. He sold a cemetery.

Many years ago E. L. McGraugh, who homesteaded some land in the Bates Hole country, donated an acre or so of land which was to be used as a cemetery. Later it was discovered that it was on state land which Mr. McGraugh had leased.

In order to secure the acre and a taught to do handstands and acrobatics. Under his dad's tutelage he got his training on the ground and worked his way up to his current high tfapeze act which will have him hanging on the Armory rafters at the Trade Show. terday. Shift differential of six and 12 cents per hour was granted. The contract, binding until May 15, 1953, includes a clause allowing management and the union each one opportunity to reopen negotiations.

In the event that an agreement is reached here, Mr. Joelner said, members of the local will be asked to attend a meeting here next week to ratify it. Standard refinery employes here are working under a contract which runs until the end of this month. The contract includes a required 60-day notice in case of a strike. WASHINGTON Uf The Air Force today postponed plans for the civilian Ground Observer Corps to maintain an around-the-clock CHEYENNE (V-Four Sheridan constrostion firms had contracts today for five of eight Wyoming highway projects.

The State Highway Commission late yesterday awarded contracts to low bidders in yesterday's bidding, and the four Sheridan firms walked away with $619,104 worth of the total to be spent on the eight jobs. The Northwestern Engineering Co. of Denver with a bid of $451,694 was given a contract for building an ming state insurance commissioner, will speak. Grant Taggart, Cowley, will preside at the sales congress in the afternoon. Mr.

Tag is about 28 miles from Casper. watch on the skies for unidentified planes. Operation "skywatch" was originally scheduled to start tomorrow and continue for an indefinite period. It was postponed because of oppostioo by the defense directors in many of the 27 states involved. An Air Force announcement said that a number of state civil defense directors had requested the Air Force to reconsider its decision to start the operation on a full time basis.

70-Ounce Premature Infant From Lovell Has Operation overpass over the Union Pacific Railroad at Archer, east of Cheyenne on the new improved stretch of U.S. 30. Peter Kiewit Sons of Sheridan was awarded two contracts. One was for $317,546 for work on nearly 20 miles Shrine Circus Ticket Sale to Merchants Good Sale of Shrine Circus tickets to merchants of Casper is nearly completed, Stan DeVore. general chairman of the Circus Committee, said today.

An excellent response was Hefferin Case Given to Jury The damage suit filed by Jo Hefferin against the Scott Realty Co. and Northern Utilities was given to the jury late Friday morning. The case required two and a half days of testimony and Judge H. R. Christmas issued instructions late this morning, prior to the closing statements by the attorneys.

Mrs. Hefferin, former owner and operator of the Kopper Kettle, located in the Star building at Beech and A street, charged that faulty equipment had been detrimental to her health. Casper's 1952 Trade Show arena was assuming carnival aspects Friday afternoon as industrial firms and merchants worked feverishly to complete colorful exhibition booths at the National Guard Armory in preparation for the three-day annual event which opens at 7 tonight. Thousands of visitors from all parts of Central Wyoming who are expected to witness this year's commercial and industrial spectacle will see a series of more than 35 colorfully decorated booths prepared in connection with this city's most intensive general promotion program. LOTS OF SOUVENIRS They will receive souvenirs of all kinds, have chances to taste samples of foods prepared on modern electric and gas stoves, witness five sensational professional vodvil acts, and learn about merchandise and service values in Casper.

A huge red goose scheduled to appear at the show through an arrangement with Walt Wolfords Shoe Store, willBtroll all over the National Guard Arniory to make the acquaintance of guests. Wyoming Paint and Class Co. has a Kwaneer door which leads to a display of paints and varnishes at one booth, and an opaque glass shower door which leads to a house of mirrors at another booth. Spectators will see the famous Westridge Village miniature pylon at one booth, a Thurston Block interior at another, and a small Mor-gensen Nursery landscape at a third. Informed officials said 24 of the of road in Lincoln County and the other for $165,288 for work on five miles of the Garland-Deaver road in maturely to Mrs.

Jack Ingersalt of Lovell. The baby was brought to Billings in an incubator and was returned to the device following the long operation. The attending physician, who declined use of his name, said the operation was very rare and was successful. He cautioned, however, that chances for survival of a premature baby are not as good as those of a normal baby. BILLINGS i.T A 70-oiince premature baby from Lovell, was reported recovering today at a local hospital following an hour-long operation last night to place the infant's intestines in their proper place.

The girl was born Wednesday night in Lovell with her intestines outside her abdomen. She was born six weeks pre Park County. The Big Horn Construction Co. of 27 state directors had expressed concern that it would impose hardship up-n civilian volunteers in many arcs where lack of numbers would require some individuals to spend many hours weekly watching the skies Mr. DeVore expressed appreciation of the Casper Shrine Club to the merchants who have so generously cooperated in the enterprise.

The merchants have purchased Sheridan got a contract for for a bridge and work on nine miles of the Eight Mile road west of gart is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table and represents the California rn States Life Insurance Co. Three featured speakers will be introduced. Dr. Gale McGcc, professor. University of Wyoming history department, will speak on "The Good News from Foggy Frank H.

Devitt, agency manager. Capitol Life Insurance Denver, and candidate for trustee. National Assoication of Life Underwriters, will address the group on "There Is No Substitute for Life Robert Harper, agent. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Denver, and member of the Million Dollar Roung Table, will talk on "Prospecting." At the banquet meeting in the evening for underwriters and their guests, the principal address will be by Mr. Taggart, whose subject is, "Thirty -Seven Years with Dotted Lines." Life insurance underwriters from western Nebraska and northern Colorado will also attend the meeting.

Kenneth Craw, Cheyenne, is president of the state association; Ralph Blackledge, Sheridan, vice president, and J. C. Schuetz, Casper secretary-treasurer. J. Mason Henry of Casper is president of the Central Wyoming Association.

Riverton in Fremont County. fr 31, through the schools to all boys and a $16,58 contract for work on 13 miles of the Hulett-New Haven road I in fe dpe fiX in Crook County. hl: 252 Other contract winners, both low Purchased each block of tickets will bidders vesterdav. E. Bar- ft stainPed on the back so that the ling.

Inc of Mee'teetse. 176.501 for 13 JSSfS m3y 6trC miles of work on the Wood River and tneir nost' Greybull River roads in Park Coun- I Utility Board Is Launching Program for Sewer Cleaning tv. and Teton Construction Co. of fHrfluc pHrH. HHJ Cheyenne for improvement of high- piUyS DUIIlS UilU 10 Colleges to Vie In University Rodeo LARAMIE Teams from ten colleges and universities will compete here Saturday and Sunday weather permitting in the University of Wyoming's 11th Annual Rodeo.

Over 50 entries, the largest ever recorded, have been received. National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association teams competing in the two-day show include Colorado A Hardin Simmons University (Texas, Idaho State, Montana State, d. 9 1 Uillililg un lite LUU VI A continuous program for cleaning the city's sewers was instituted -at the regular meeting of the Board of Public Utilities held Thursday afternoon. The Board, which has been studying the problem for the past several weeks, authorized R. K.

Stratton, field superintendent, to engage a bringing of the addition into the city. The Board received a recommda-tion from the Garfield School P.T.A. that the city water be flouridized. The Board has previously been making a preliminary study of this matter and final action will await a detailed study to be made in the near future. Mr.

Stratton presented the board with a report from the Department of Health regarding the reported presence of selenium in the city water. The report stated that the city water was absolutely clear of selenium. Outhouses with D.D.T. The city sanitation department started Monday spryaing all barns, chicken houses, rabbit hutches and out-door toilets with DDT, it was announced today. The sprayers had started in North Casper and had completed their work to Kimball and Park Streets Wednesday night when they were compelled to postpone further spraying by the rain.

William Val Dez, sanitation superintendent, asks the cooperation of Casper citizens in notifying the sanitation office, telephone 5650. if they have been missed or if they have need for the sprayer. JacKson in Teton County. Blizzard Hits Southwestern Area of State DENVER Rain on the eastern plains and snow in the mountains was reported in Colorado today as blizzard conditions swept the Southern Wyoming areas near Rock Springs and Fort Bridger. The Weather Bureau, in a special advisory, said wet snow, driven by 25 to 30 mile an hour winds, would They will see model kitchens, rich looking lumber company wall air conditioning systems, office machinery, furnished rooms, garage doors, hardware, and childrens' gift items.

ENTERTAINMENT SET By mid-afternoon, professional entertainers who were at the arena told the Tribune-Herald they figured they were going to be able to see a terrific show between the acts. Ernie Smith, who presents a clever dog-act with his White German Shepherds Lobo and Timber said the hounds would not be distracted by all the other activities of the 1952 Trade Show. He said both animals are grand-standers, and really like to play to a New Mexico A Northeast Center at Sheridan, Oklahoma A Pierce College South Dakota State and the University of Wyoming. Events will include bareback riding, saddle bronc busting, calf roping, ribbon roping, bulldogging and bull riding. Major Robert A.

Preciado. commanding ofTIcer of the air defense filter center in Casper, said today that information reaching him emphasized that the postponement "does not come about as a result of improvement in the foreign situation, since that situation still retains characteristics of potential threat to the free world security, as it has for the past few years ground observer corps in Wyoming is still faced with the possibility of being alerted, should air defense radar stations, now conducting around-the-clock air surveillance, detect hostile aircraft approaching our northern border." Kefauver Leads In Washington SPOKANE. Wash. Backers of Sen. Estes Kefauver appeared to be dominant as 839 delegates to tomorrow's state Democratic convention gathered today for preliminary caucuses.

A rousing demonstration was being planned for the Tennessee senator who yesterday sent regrets that he would be unable to accept an invitation to address the convention. Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma is the only candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination to put in an appearance. A prediction that the convention will bind its 22 delegates to Kefauver was made yesterday by Harry Henson, state Democratic chairman. The national delegates to the July convention in Chicago already have been picked in district caucuses, and Henson said most of them appeared to favor Kefauver.

Although there probably will be an effort to send the Washington delegation uninstructed. Henson said he believes there is enough backing for Kefauver to override it. Feland Asks Change of Venue in Assault Case Underway in the district court room Friday afternoon was the request of Ernest Feland for a change of venue for the hearing of the charge that Mr. Feland had drawn a pistol on the person of Earl Guthrie, in August. 1950." Mr.

Feland was found guilty in Justice Ralph Gering's court and was fined $40 and S5.80 costs. He then appealed the case to the district court. In his application Mr. Feland stated he would be unable to obtain a fair trial in Natrona county. Three Pay for Parking sweep Southwestern Wyoming to- day.

The winds and snow were ex- pected to diminish toniht. In Batches of Tickets A number of parking tickets were paid in the police court Thursday afternoon by three Casper residents. Harland Brown paid $22 for 22 tickets, H. B. Haltom.

$16 for 16 tickets and Eva Perkins for 12 tickets, according to the court record. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Haltom had been cited into court for failure to pay the fines, the warrants having been signed by H. B.

Harden, police judge. crew oi men ana start woru immediately. The Board, some time ago, purchased a new modern-type sewer cleaning machine and after several tests have approved it and the program of cleaning sewers will get under way at once. The work of cleaning the sewers will be continued as long as possible during the favorable summer season. When the weather makes it impossible to continue the work will be stopped for the winter and commenced again next spring.

The work will be continued until all lines have been cleared and then started over again, it was stated. The board took under advisement and study, bids on 11,000 feet of water pipe which were opened at the meeting Thursday. It also replaced a well-used car In the water department for a Plymouth business coupe at a cost of $1,500. The old telemeter, which was placed in the reservoir in order to relay the depth of water in the reservoir to the pump house has been replaced with a new one which cost $600. The Board also authorized the calling of bids for 300 new curb boxes which are used in installing new water services.

It also approved the installation of a 6-inch water main on 18th and 19th streets on South Jackson, between 17th and 18th on South Con-well, in the fast growing southeast section of the city. A request of Boyd Sims, for the installation of water lines in the proposed new addition in the HY Park, formerly occupied by the Drop Hunt for Mother Of Abandoned Infant RAWLINS Iff Authorities have dropped their search for the mother of a baby boy abandoned here Wednesday. Police Chief Al Wilson said today the child, left with a Rawlins doctor by two women who said they found it in a box along the highway between Rawlins and Wam-sutter is in good health in the county hospital. Wilson said he did not believe the mother would be subject to criminal proceedings for abandoning the baby. Police are of the opinion the child was born to one of the two women and taken to the doctor instead of being left on th highway as the women reported.

Plans for the child's future are not known. However, it will be kept in the hospital maternity-ward for the next few days at least. Permit Issued for New Home and Remodeling A new home and the extensive remodeling of another home were included in the permits issued at the office of B. B. Lummis.

city engineer, Friday morning. Ray Ingersoll was issued a permit for the erection of a four-room, 30x34 dwelling at South McKm-ley which will cost $10,000. Victor W. Nickerson will add an addition to the dwelling at 258 South Kenwood at a cost of $7,000. H.

E. Maxon will erect a 21x24 garage at 825 East 18th street at a cost of $1,500. Chamber Host to Rural School Grads at Lunch The Casper Chamber of Commerce was host at a luncheon in the Henning hotel Friday noon for the rural school graduating class and teachers. The annual rural crowd. They will put on a mock dog fight which looks ferocious in one part of their act, and be ready to play with children when Mr.

Smith commands them to calm down. LONG IN BUSINESS He said in an interview that he began training dogs for Hollywood when he was 20 years old. "By working with good trainers and by a natural understanding of dogs, I have been able to utilize the quick intelligence of Timber and Lobo for work in Hollywood and for variety shows, television, and special events all over the Western United States. he said. Jimmy Troy, 31, trapeze and soft wire artist, told the Tribune-Herald he was born into show business.

He is another performer who has traveled a broad show circuit from coast to coast and from Canada to the tip of Florida. Jimmy's dad had a troupe when Jimmy was born on a showboat on the Ohio River. As a boy he was school program was held Friday I afternoon in the Willard school under the direction of Morgan D. Davis, county superintendent. Labor Assembly to Hear Plans for State Meeting The Casper Trades and Labor Assembly will meet tonight in the Union Labor Hall starting at 8.

A. J. deBacco, president, has announced. Included in the business session will be a report of the plans for the state convention of the Wyoming State Federation of Labor which will be held in Casper this fall, and reports of delegates which will be of FOR WATER AT ITS BEST Boyd and Herzeelle Go to Highway Parley The Casper Chamber of Commerce will be represented at the U. S.

Highway No. 20 meeting Chadron Sunday by Berlin Boyd and Vic Herzeelle, It was announced. Snow was general in Wyoming with falls reported from Cheyenne to the Utah border. Sheridan and Lander both recorded more than an inch of precipitation in a 24-hour period ending this morning. Continuing snow was reported on Loveland and Berthoud Passes In Colorado and at Leadville, while light rain fell at most stations on the Eastern Plains.

Only traces were recorded on the Western Slope. The forecaster said the snow and rain was brought to the area by a cold front from the Pacific Northwest. They predicted more rain in Eastern Colorado today and tonight Snow in the mountains and partly-cloudy skies with scattered showers in the west. Tomorrow was expected to be partly cloudy with rising temperatures in the north and east. SNOW AT LANDER Nine inches of snow covered the ground early this morning at Lander.

Snow mixed with rain fell during the morning at Cheyenne and Laramie. Amounts of precipitation in Wyo ming ranged from .25 of an inch at Laramie up to 1.79 of an inch at Lander up to 5:30 a.m. Sheridan measured 1.17 of an inch, Cheyenne .82, Moorcroft .64. Douglas .39. Casper .37, Cody .30 and Rawlins 29.

Low temperatures over Wyoming last night went from 32 to 43, and the Weather Bureau expects minimum readings tonight of 20 to 30 in the mountains and 30 to 40 elsewhere. High temperatures Thursday went from 51 at Cody to Sheridan to 50 at Cheyenne. High readings of to 65 are forecast for Saturday. Cloudy skies are predicted for tonight and Saturday with scattered showers and snow flurries in the south portion tonight. A light frost is expected along with tonight's freezing temperatures.

Sirens Sound Alert But Nothing Happens TAIPEIi Sirens sounded a half-hour air alert this afternoon but nothing happened. Large-scale military maneuvers are reported under way on this Chinese Nationalist island. much local interest will be given Distinctive FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS Following the business session Election of officers and plans for Veterans Housing, west of Poplar be- DRINK lunch and refreshments will served, Mr. deBacco stated. De tne coming tourist season will oe tween 18th and 20th streets, was held during this important meeting.

1 tentatively approved pending the For All Occasions PHONE 20 145 South Center St. OIL WORKERS WILL INSIST ON 15 CENTS, KNIGHT SAYS 45 on Casualty List WASHINGTON ID The Defense Department 4oday identified 45 additional battle casualties in Korea. The new list reported 10 killed, 34 wounded and one missing. Next A-Blast Set Saturday LAS VEGAS, Nev. next atomic test, delayed by heavy radioactivity from the most recent shot at Yucca Flat, is scheduled tentatively for Saturday morning.

Although the blast had been slated for last Monday, the abnormal radioactivity from the May 7 test prevents workmen from getting on the site. An AEC spokesman said: "Very strong and variable surface winds which developed a few hours after the last test scattered radioactive dust across Yucca Basin, contaminating other firing areas, including the one to be used for the next shot." The May 7 test was a tower detonation, which normally leaves greater residual radiation than an aerial burst. HILLCREST Water Delivered To Your Home 3 GaL 50c 1G GALLON At Our Station HILLCREST WATER CO. PHONE 1151 1638 South Poplar We wish to express our sincere thanks for the many acts of kindnesses shown to us during our recent bereavement, caused by yie loss of our beloved mother, Mrs. Carrie Noble.

Also the many beautiful floral offerings. This will always be held in grateful remembrance by her children. Mrs. Evelyn Anderson Emmett Noble Mrs. Bonnie Pope.

DENVER Settlement of the nationwide oil strike appeared close at hand today as bargaining sessions between union and oil company representatives across the country resumed. Union Chief O. A. Knight, leader of a coalition of unions which have been on strike for 16 days, returned to Denver last night from a meeting in Washington with Wage Stabilization Board officials. "We expect most of the men to be back on the job soon." Knight told reporters, "provided the oil companies agree to wage increases equal to the fall amount approved by the Wage Stabilization Board." He added, however, that "no strikers are expected to return to work unless and until they receive on strike, and negotiations were schedued today at Sinclair and Phillips plants In Sugar Creek.

The WSB formula said local contract agreements could provide no more than a 15-cent-an-hour wage increase, except in possibly a few unusual circumstances. But the unions have already announced they would accept the 15-cent ceiling, and companies employing a total of more than 20.000 workers had already offered that much before the WSB came up with its formula. The strike's cutback of aviation fuel had federal officials jumpy. But Cyrus S. Ching.

director of the Federal Conciliation Service, said he hoped the "crisis has been averted." such increases." Before the workers could return to their jobs the 22 unions and 90,000 strikers involved would have to sign hundreds of local bargaining agreements with more than 70 oil companies. Some tentative agreements, worked out on the basis of a Wage Stabilization formula, were being reported last night. Others were being awaited today. Some of the agreements involved 1,400 workers at the Standard Oil of Indiana plant in Sugar Creek, and 400 workers at Globe Refining Company's Lemon 111., facility. Settlement was reported near at the Contintental Oil plant in Denver, where 90 employes have been Saturday Officially Is 'Straw Hat Day' The wearing of straw hats will be official in Casper starting tomorrow.

That is the date designated as Straw Hat Day by local clothiers. The local stores are well stocked with straw hats of varied colors and shapes, from the sailor type to the ten-gallon size. Although a few have been worn for the past week or two (between snow and rain showers) most of the men have waited until Straw Hat Day was made official. FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION THE PALMS PHONE 600 SUB-ZERO 10 CUBIC FOOT FREEZER 10 CUBIC FOOT REFRIGERATOR All in One Unit with Only 29V 36" Floor Space DALLASON SERVICE 1234 East St. Phone 935 0'Keefe Merritt GAS RANGES DALLASON SERVICE 1234 East St.

Phona 935.