8 The Nawi-IUvitw, Roseburg, Orw Wf, Aug. 10, 1955
Navy Recruiter
Tells Plans For
All-Douglas Squad
Robert E, Lang, Navy recruit
er in Roseburg. has announced
plans for an all-Douglas County
recruit squad.
A group of enlistcei lo include
only uoueias county personnel
will be enlisted Aug. 22 and will
leave for recruit training in San
Diego, Calif., the same day, Chief
Lang savs.
Enlistees In this company will:
stav together to comolete recruit i
training together. Chief Lang re
ports that a number of men for
this group have already applied
for enlistment. He said, however,
that nlentv of openings arc still to
be filled by qualified men.
Hish school graduates who
qualifv may be enlisted directly
as electronics, aviation or hos
pital recruits, Lang said. They
are guaranteed specialized Navy
schools after completion of the re
cruit training. Applications for this
special group must be made be
fore Aug. 18 to insure completion
of all enlistment papers, Lang
said.
To apply men must contact
Chief Lang at the Navy recruit
ing office in the basement of the
Douglas County Courthouse. The
telephone number is OR 3-8384.
Mother Plan Drops
Rocket After Explosion
EDWARDS, Calif. W-An ex
plosion rocked the world's fastest
rocket plane seconds before a
mother ship was to release it high
above the Mojave Desert.
Research pilot Joseph A. Walk
er, 34, scrambled up into the moth
er plane, a B29, and Ihe rocket
plane the stub-winged Bell XIA
was dropped, pilotless, onto a
bombing range from 30,000 feet.
An Air Force spokesman said
that Ihe B29 was unable to land
with the damaged rocket plane
hanging from its belly for fear the
rocket, still carrying highly vola
tile fuel, might explode again.
The blast occurred Monday 70
seconds before the B29 was to re
lease the XIA on a test flight
above Edwards Air Force Base.
Business Holds Scorching Pace, As Administration Tightens Screws On Credit
NEW YORK I Business held
lo a scorching pace last week.
The administration, scenting an in
flationary threa., tightened the
screws on credit.
The new squeeze on credit means
that you'll find it harder and
COUPLE TAKES LIVES
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio W-An
ailing, pajama-clad man and his
wife walked arm in arm into the
oath of a speeding express train
Monday night and were killed.
In their car near the tracks was
found a suicide note saying, "We
can't stand it any longer."
Killed were William Martin, 63,
and his wife Louise, 61, of Dun-bridge.
Stock Market Set Back
In Strong Selling WaVe
NEW YORK Itf-Slock tumbled
Tuesday in a selling wave that
set the market back sharply.
Big name stocks were hit hardest,
and losses ran from 1 to around S
points in significant areas of the
list. Such heavy losses weren't uni
versal by any means. The list was
flecked with small plus signs.
Volume mounted swiftly as the
selling spread and came to an
estimated 2,200,000 shares. Mon
day's total, when the market also
was lower, was 1,730,000 shares.
The market opened moderately.
In the second hour, Chrysler and
General Motors came under selling
fire that gradually spread through
out the list.
Down along with the principal
motors were the steels, railroads,
oils, coppers, rubbers, chemicals,
aircrafls, airlines movies, and the
electronics issues.
Some higher priced stocks suf
fered heavily including U. S. Gyp
sum, International Business Ma
chines, Reynolds Metals, and Santa
Fe.
more expensive !o borrow mon
ey. That's the case whether you
plan to buy a car "on time," get
a mortgage on a house, or borrow
millions from the Lanks for in
ventory accumulation.
Announced intention of the credit
move: To keep the boom from
getting out of hand, and to fore
stall another postwar round of run
away price increses. One top ad
ministration official put it this
way:
"The business boom is getting
pretty exuberant. It's the consen
sus of the economic and financial
side of the administration that the
government should exert some ef
fort to keep it orderly."
The exuberance of the boom was
blatantly apparent almost any
where you wanted to loolr
The steel industry, whose payroll
hit the staggering record total of
nearly 298 Vi million dollars in
June, scheduled operations this
week at 94.4 per cent of capacity.
That should mean an outpouring
of 2,278,000 tons of steel.
Electric power output at latest
count was the highest for any week
in history; automobile production,
although down from the previous
week, was still a good 40 per cent
greater than a year ago.
Soft coal production in the latest
week was up nearly 28 per cent
from last year; freight carload-
iags were up 16 per cent. Dun &
Bradstreet said retail trade
smashed all mid-summer records.
There were other boom signals.
Chrysler reported record sales for
the first half-year and a four-fold
jump in profits. The nation's 126
biggest railroads disclosed that
their combined earnings for 'he
! first six months were up 79 per
cent from a year ago.
Army Officer Denies
Erwin Coerced Him
FORT LEWIS. Wash. - An
Army officer called by the prose
cution Friday testified in behalf of
the accused and denied one of the
Army accusations against Lt. Jef
ferson D. Erwin.
Lt. William H. WTiiteside, 33, Se
attle, told the nine-man court
martial trying Erwin, that Erwin
did not coerce him into signing one
of the Communist-sponsored "docu
ments while they were in a North
Korea prisoner of war camp.
He testified that Erwin ap
proached him after he had refused
to sign the peace appeal, but "I
was convinced Jeff had my welfare
at heart,"
One of the Army accusations
against Erwin is that he attempted
to coerce Whiteside into signing
one of the petitions by telling him
he might not get home alive if he
did not.
The First National City Bank of
New York toted up the first-half
profits of 734 major corporations.
The tally showed a 31 per cent
gain over their combined first-hall
earnings last year,
Construction boomed as never
before. The Commerce and Labor
Departments reported that build
ing activitiy in the first seven
months this year rocketed to an
all-time high of more than 23 bil
lion dollars. Highways, homes,
stores and office buildings set the
pace. -
Pressures generated by tne
stepped-up pace of business made
themselves felt in two familiar
forms: shortages and rising prices.
Appreciation Expressed
For Calm During Building
Appreciation for the forebear
ance of the public and of neigh
boring businessmen during the
months of construction of the new
Newberry store was expressed by
Manager Hap Linville.
He said: "We have regretted the
inconveniences to pedestrians and
to traffic, the noise and general
confusion. But it was unavoidable,
and now that the job is done, we
feel sure that Roseburg will agree
that the fine new store was worth
te trouble."
Price hikes were announced by
producers of aluminum, steel
scrap, auto tires, Canadian crude
oil.
Meanwhile you could find plenty
of exuberance among consumers
they were buying at a record clip,
and going Into hock to do it. The
Federal Reserve Board reported
that intallment debt skyrocketed
in June to an unprecedented high
of nearly 25 billions. On-the-cuff
buying of new automobiles ac
counted for most of the rise.
60 Determined Men Will
Try To Save San Marino
DETROIT UP Sixty determined
men set out Tuesday on a 3,000
mile trip across the Atlantic Ocean
to "save San Marino."
The rescue was intended by way
of the ballot box.
Time was short. The election is
Sunday.
San Marino is a tiny nation of
14,000 population in the heart of
the Italian Appenine mountains. It
is under Communist control.
Some 44 Detroiters, all immi
grants from San JIarino and still
citizens of the little country while
their U. S, citizenship applications
are pending, aim to try to vote
out the Communists. .
Sixteen other like-minded ' San
Marinoans of New York are to join
up with the Detroit group in New
York Tuesday night, and they'll fly
to Italy.
On Sunday, they'll all vote,
against the Communists and in
favor of the anti-Communist Chris
tian Democrats.
Humbart Mularoni, Detroit, a
backer of the expedition, reflected
the group's confidence.
Mularoni can't go. He's a citizen
of the United States. He came to
this country in 1919, enjoyed its
freedom and became successful in
business.
"Because there are so many vot
ers in America." Mularoni said,
"it is hard to believe that these
60 voters can turn the tide in San
Marino." f
However, he said, in the last
election in 1951 the Communists
had a majority of only 120 and
that now can be offset.
In addition, Mularoni said, the
"propaganda value" of the trip
may help bring out San Marino
voters who heretofore have accept
ed Communist control as "inevitable."
HLATO
We, the sub-contractors and suppliers of material, offer our sincere con
gratulations on the completion and grand opening of your beautiful and
spacious Roseburg store. We also wish to extend a most cordial welcome to
our community and wish you every success in the years to come.
ELECTRICAL WORK
AND LIGHTING
Trowbridge Electric
136 North Jackson
Ph. OR 3-5521
INSULATION AND
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING
SUPPLIES
Coen Supply Co.
Floed and Mill St.
Ph. OR 3-4461
PLUMBING, HEATING
AND VENTILATION
Harris Plumbing
& Heating
805 South Stephens Ph. OR 3-8173
EXCAVATION OF
BUILDING SITE
Henry H. Miller
Highway 99 South Ph. OR 3-4723
WINDOWS, STORE FRONT,
ALUMINUM ENTRANCES
Roseburg Glass Co.
MASONRY
Roswell L. Myers
729 Miller Street
Ph. OR 3-5178
746 South Main
Ph. OR 3-7545