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U. of C. Library Eugone, Oregon Comp ttroke Idles Lymnibeir C. sebyra Established 1873 12 Page. AFL-CIO Will Press Charges On Teamsters CHICAGO IM The AFL-CIO Ex ecutive Council decided Tuesday to complete action on charges of corruption against the huge Team sters Union before the Teamsters' j convention next month. I President George Meany of the AFL-CIO said the Ethical Prac tices Committee had set a final date Sept. S and 6 for a hearing of the charges. Then, he added, the executive council will make its recommen dations known about Sept. 23 or 24. That will be well in advance of the Sept. 30 starting date of the Teamsters' convention. Meany told newsmen he did not know whether or not the Team sters had been stalling in the case. Then, disclosing a get-tough pol icy, he stated: "The Ethical Practices Commit tee will conclude business on the Teamsters case irrespective of whether the Teamsters appear (at the Sept. 23-24 hearing)." Meany also spoke out strongly Monday in support of the AFL-CIO policy against use of the Fifth Amendment a position that is contrary to the stand taken on the issue by James K. Hoffa. Mid western chief of the powerful Teamsters Union. The charges were brought against the Teamsters Union after Dave Beck, president, repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. Beck was accused of misusing $400,000 in union funds. Hoffa, Midwest boss of the Team sters Union and a growing power in labor ranks, has declared him self against the AFL-CIO amend ment policy. Meany referred in his news con ference to testimony brought out in the current Senate Rackets Com mittee hearing in Washington. "Things that have been exposed are things that labor should not he proud of," he said. "I'm in terested in eradicating these things. . .There should not be any change in the policy of cooperating (Continued on Page 2 Col. 7) Governor's Group Slates Conference On Boxcars SALEM I The recently-appointed slate Emergency Trans portation Committee will meet here at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to try to head off a threatened box car shortage on Southern Pacific lines in Southwest Oregon. George Brown, chairman of the committee and legislative direct or for the state Labor Council, said shipping operations in the region would come to a standstill unless more cars are made avail able. This, he said, would force sawmills to close down. Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan said that five days ago, only 345 boxcars were available, or only half of a day's tunnlv. Morgan predicted that the de mand for cars would increase De cause of last week's order for a national freight rate increase. "It is logical," he said, "to as sume that shippers will rush lum ber cargoes to inventory yards prior to application of the in creased freight rates on lumber." In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Business note: Down in the Sacramento valley there is a little restaurant. The building in which it is located isn't a costly one. But it is attractive. It is located near a small city park containing a swimming pool. It is on one of the nation's big highways. The restaurant seats about 30 people, half of them at tables and the other half at a counter along the wall. It has been well design ed and is a cozy and pleasant little place. Its customers, for the most part, come off the highway. But it isn't of the restaurant that I want to speak in this piece. It is the people who run it that makes it interesting. There are three of them. Two work in the kitchen. The other waits on the tables. She works at (Continued on Page 4 Col. 1) The Weather Fair today, tonight end Wednes day, except for morning cloudineit. Not much temperature change. Highest temp, latt 74 hourt 14 Lowest temp, latt 24 heurt 41 Highest temp. ,eny Augutt 104 Lowest temp, any Augutt ..... 3? Precip. latt 54 hourt 0 Precip. from Augutt I 30 Precip. from Sept. 1 30.05 Defic. from Sept. 1 21 Suntet tonight, 7:1 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, S:17 e.m. Fire-weather Moderate and tlowly rising fire danger over Ore gon through Wednesday except along the coast. Humidity near or below 30 per cent in, northwest interior Wednesday afternoon. ROSEBURG, OREGON Youth Confesses Slaying Playmate Following Burglary KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. I Juvenile authorities held 13-year-old Bernie B. Kurtz in jail Tues day and Sheriff Murray Britton said he had admitted slaying a playmate because he was afraid the younger boy would snitch about a burglary they perpe- iraded. The victim was Johnny Morris, 12. The two boys lived in Henley, a southern Oregon village near Klamath Falls. , Sheriff Britton' said Bernie ad mitted he and Johnny broke into a home Saturday afternoon and took eight guns so they could go on a hunting trip. They took a pickup truck at Johnny's house, although neither had driven before, and headed for the Bly Mountain country, SS miles northeast of Klamath Falls. They shot a raccoon and ate it for dinner. The next morning Johnny got homesick and wanted to return to Henley. Searchers found Bernie in the truck Sunday afternoon and con tinued the hunt for Johnny. Sheriff Britton said Bernie finally led them to Johnny's body, hidden in a burned log. Johnny had been shot in the bck of the head. The sheriff said Bernie has a brilliant mind and has never been in trouble with the law before. Mud, Murky Water Conceals Bodies Of Crash Victims ISSOUDUN, Que. I Mud and murky water Tuesday concealed the bodies of 79 victims of Cana da's worst air disaster. It ham pered investigators trying to find out what caused the DC4 to crash. Policemen plodded through an' kle deep mud Monday collecting bits of clothing and personal ef fects and parts of the bodies of the 73 passengers and S crew members. The Maritime Central Airways plane, bound from London to To ronto, crashed Sunday afternoon near this community IS miles southwest of (juebec. Police were awaiting the arriv al of a pump to drain the crater dredged by the plane in its crash Delore continuing their search. Investigators said no definite reason for the crash can be de termined until the remnants of the plane are thoroughly checked The DC4 was last seen flying into tne thick clouds of a thunder storm that struck the area. Many residents said the plane was fly ing low and making a lot of noise just before it crashed. In Ottawa it was reported that a public inquiry probably will be held. The plane had been chartered by an Ontario veterans' associa tion, primarily to take former British servicemen now living in Ontario back to visit Britain. How ever, others were permitted to travel aboard the plane, one of three DC4s MCA operated on tne overseas charter runs. Dogs Killed, Sheep Stolen, Police Told Two of her sheep dogs were poisoned and two valuable rams stolen. Mrs. M. E. McCauley, Rt. 1 Box 404. Sutherlin, reported to the sheriff's office Monday. She said one of the dogs had died and the other was not expected to live. One of the missing rams, Mrs, McCauley told deputies, cost $90. Supersonic Jet Above Mohave By AP Aviation Editor't Note Vern Haugland htt logged many hundred! of hourt in the air at . Anociated Pres! aviation reporter. None of hit flights, however, quite com pares with the one he report! en here e luotrtonic ride above California'! Mojave Desert in an F100F Super Sabre. By VERN HAUGLAND AP Aviation Reporter PALMDALE, Calif., Aug. 13 tfl You an in a silver bullet SO feet long the newest Super Sabre, the two-man F100F streaking through the clean blue emptiness eight milei above the earth. You are inching closer and clos er to the speed of sound. Yet the sensation of speed is less than that within one of the automobile! on the smooth s'raight highway far below. The power thirsty sky horse surges faster and faster. The mach meter needle creeps up slowly 0 8. 0 85. 0 9. Nine tenths t h e speed of sound. There the needle halts as if glued, though you can feel the continued acceleration of the plane. This is the transonic rone, the outer edge of what they used to call the sonic barrier. Thit it the shock-wave will that wrecked ear ner planei and for a time wai con TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957 Newsaper Tale Of Becks Being At Party Faked GREENWICH, Conn. Wl A Greenwich society matron said Tuesday that reports that Dave Beck Sr. and Dave Beck Jr. were at a party attended by Mrs. Rob ert F. Kennedy, wife of the chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Rack- j ets Probe Committee, resulted I from a prank. I Mrs. Kennedy was at a party at her home Saturday night, Mrs. George Skakel Jr. said, but she didn't mean it when she told a reporter that the Becks were there. "All I can do is apologize," Mrs. Skakel said. "It was a prank just a prank. All of my 200 guests were in on it and went along with it." The senior Beck, Teamsters' Union boss, and his son have in voked the Fifth Amendment re peatedly, under questioning by Kennedy and others before the Senate committee investigating rackets in labor and management. One of the committee members is Kennedy's brother, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) Mrs. Robert Kennedy and Mrs. Skakel's husband,' a business ex ecutive in New York, are brother and sister. The Beck hoax started about C p.m. Saturday when Mrs. Clara Gildemeister, society editor of the Stamford Advocate, telephoned the Skakel home to check reports that a large party was to be held there that evening. Mrs. Skakel confirmed it, and added that "Dave Beck is com ing." The Advocate publishes no Sun-' day edition, and news of the parly did not become public until Mon day. By arrangement between Mrs. Skakel and Mrs. Gildemeister, an Advocate photographer went to the party where he took a picture of some of the guests including a couple identified for him as "Mr. and Mrs. Dave Beck Jr." The photographer was unaware that the younger Beck is unmar ried, but the Advocate learned shortly before it went to press with Monday's edition that there was some question as to the ac curacy of the identification. It pulled back the picture and did not print it. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Loughran of New York posed for the photo grapher as the Beck couple, Mrs. Skakel said. She identified Mrs. Loughran as the former Peggy Hague, daughter of the late Frank Hague, longtime Jersey City May or and Democratic boss of New Jersey. Camas Valley School Election Wednesday A third election on a levy to complete the Camas Valley school budget will be held from 2 to I p.m. Wednesday at the school auditorium. The levy It for $4,256.63 above the 4 per cent limitation. The election it being held te quiet pottible controversy about the legality of the last election, where the levy patted. The new vote wet authorized by the school board after new membert had been added te fill two vacanciet. The firtt election en the levy wat ruled Invalid became about half the ballot! carried the wrong figures. Plane Ride Desert Told Reporter sidered as invincible as it is in visible. The plane is going faster, faster vou know it is but still that nee dle holds back. Then suddenly it logs forward past the figure 1 as though it had coma sharply un stuck. Now we are 1.1 one and one tenth the speed of sound. The sonic wall? It just wasn't there for this plane. The thinness and sweep-hack of wing and tail, the tapered smoothness of the aluminum-alloy skin, the stream lined design together they ironed out the shock waves, blanked out the turbulence. So we are supersonic. From the front cockpit the pilot, 34-year-old Air Force Capt. E.M. (Mick) Jones, says over the intercom, Tm cut ting in the afterburner." There's a distinct push, a sharp acceleration. You know that new flames in the tailpipe are whip Ding the Pratt Jt Whitney J57 en gine well beyond the 10,000 pounds of thrust of its normal output. The machmcter needle climb! steadily-1.15-1.2-1.25. Jones says in distinctly something about a dive, and tilts the FIDO's nose forward, then gradually polls it up in a graceful arc. Instantly the world ii a crush- (Continued on Page 2 Col. 4) 189-57 PRICE 5 Council Rejects Rezoning Petition For Harvard Strip A petition to rezone a three- block-long area on the south side of Harvard Avenue between ril- ger and Kenwood streets in West Itoseburg Monday night was re jected 3-2 by the Roseburg City Council. ' It had been proposed to rezone the area trom residential to Dus iness. But Councilman Pete Serafin. pointing out that the city has plans in the offing to participate in the federal urban renewal program, led opposition to defeat the pro posal. Joining Serafin against t h e change were councilmen Robert Harris and Sidney C. Moon Jr. Councilmen James Knudtson and Kenneth Ellison voted for the change. Councilmen Ross Myers and William Adair are on vaca tion and Rudie Ritzman was ab sent from the meeting. In the same meeting, the council voted unanimously to start machin ery rolling for participation in the urban renewal program. The city is to put up $8,000 for technical as sistance from the Bureau of Mu nicipal Research and Service at the University of Oregon, acting for the Slate, Board of Higher Educa tion. Matching funds will be forthcom ing from the Urban Renewal Ad ministration, but City Manager George Far roll warned the council not to expect any funds for about six months. Serafin said that to change the zoning would be working against the program, which might turn up some other use of the area. He said it would be used best as a resi dential zone for the next few months. The $8,000 will be spent in this way: $3,700 to the State Board of Higher Education and $300 a month for technical planning as sistance by city employes, plus supplies, etc. Object of the planning study is community development and bet terment. Pre-Sentence Probe Set For Admitted Burglars Imposition of sentence for two young men who pleaded, guilty to burglary Monday was ordered de layed pending an investigation by the state parole officer. Circuit Judge Charles S. Wood rich ordered the pre-sentence in vestigation after a plea of leniency had been made in behalf of Leroy Graves, 21, and Roland J. Thiess, 18, both of Canyonville, by Robert Slults, court-appointed attorney. Judge Woodrich declared that perhaps the court had been too indulgent in the past in giving young men a chance to reform. He said he was going to be more strict in light of the number of cases of this type. Thiess and Graves admitted bur glarizing the Riddle Junction Fruit Stand on Aug. 1. Taken in the bur glary were watermelons, tomatoes, cantaloupes, fryers and soda pop. Both denied taking any money or potatoes as the original complaint stated as missing. Pending receipt of the pre-sentence report, Judge Woodrich or dered bail aet at $1,500. Preliminary Hearing Set For Alleged Thief Appearing in district court Mon day on a burglary charge, Gary Lee Williams, 18, Fresno, Calif., requested a preliminary hearing but did not ask for an attorney to represent linn. The hearing was set by Judge Warren A. Woodruff for 2:30 p.m., August 26. Williams is charged with steal ing a tape recorder and record player from the Seventh-day Ad ventist Academy on Saturday. He was arrested by Roseburg police. Pending his hearing, Williams is being held in the Douglas County jail with bail set at S5O0. Bruce Ceider Winner Of Truck Rodeo Contest Bruce Geidc of Sutherlin won first place in the truck rodeo at the Douglas County Timber Dayi celebration. Some results of the contests were received too late to be included in Monday's paper. Two other Sutherlin men came out on top at the truck rodeo. Keith Gcider won second with a time of 2 minutes, 9 seconds, and Carey Judge won third with a time of 2 minutes, 51 seconds. Bruce Geider's time was 1 minute and 56 seconds. Because of poor handwriting on an entry form il was reported that Malcolm Harper, speed climber winner, was from Chesthill. Ac tually, he is from Cheshire. Fight In Protest Over Postal Rate Increase WASHINGTON I Leaders of both parties predicted House pas sage today of a bill to raise mail ing charges, but a fight was in prospect over 1 4-cent letter itamp. Both Representatives McCor mack (D-Mass) and Martin ( R Masi), the majority and minority leaders, told newsmen they expect the House to approve the postal rate increases asked by President Eisenhower to help offset a postal ! operating deficit. I U -W ,1 si Ik I : M - . 7 "V I, SWT"-:.! PICKETS ware posted at the entrance to the Roseburg Lumber Co. plant south of Dil lard soon after o strike was called Monday night. They included, left to right: Eugene Carnes, 5291 SE Dillard Hwy., Roseburg; Lawrence Daye, James J. Coffman, C. H. Claveland and Richard Moore, all of Winston. (Staff photo) Mountain Ordeal's Lone Survivor Tells Of Plight INTERLAKEN. Switzerland I Claudio Corti, the only one of four Alpinists who survived a climb up Eiger Mountain, said Tuesday he had been without food for three days before he was rescued. Doctors said Corti, whose head was injured by falling rock in the ascent of the mountain's dread North face, would be released from the hospital within a few days. They said he had part of his feet frozen and sustained cuts on his face and hands. Officers Quoted him as saving his Italian companion, Steffano Longhi, who died, asked him to continue to climb alone to get help after Longhi had slipped 120 feet down and hung suspended in tne ropes. Corti said he was hit by the rock while on his way upward. The two Germans who climbed the north wall at the same time bandaged his head and shared their food with him. But, Corti related, the Germans' rucksack slipped from the ledge on which he was encamped Thurs day. The search for the two Germans who continued the ascent after tending to Corti, was abandoned Monday. They are presumed dead. Longhi's body is hanging on the wall, face down and covered by snow. Mountain guides explained that under Swiss federal law bodies lost in the mountains need not be recovered if the recovery involves tne risk oi otner lives. An exception to this is if the body is in full view and can cause grief or offense, they added. Longhi's body can be clearly seen by telescope and therefore will have to be removed eventually. If the rope should hold for a considerable period, the possibil ity is Doing considered here to cut it by shooting with a Swiss army howitzer, informed sources said. Three Cars Pile Up, Woman In Hospital One person was injured Monday in a three-car pile-up at E Main Street and Cass Avenue. The driv er of another was cited for having defective brakes. According to the report filed by Kosehurg police, Mrs. Charles Drew, 24, 787 NE Ramp Rd., had stopped her 1952 sedan at the stop sign on Main Street, and Mrs. Ilcl en L. Myers, 29 . 945 SE Terrace St., had stopped behind Mrs. Drew in her 1950 sedan. The Myers vehicle was struck from behind by a 1948 pickup truck driven by Carl Patrick Tallon, 45, 1941 NE Stephens St. Tallon was cited by police for having faulty brakes. Mrs. Myers was taken to Com munity Hospital hy Walts a mini lance and was treated for spinal injuries. She remained in the hos pital. Airs. Myers' car received I he most damage, an estimated $250 worth to the grill and trunk lid. The trunk of the Drew car will cost about $50 to repair according to police. No damages to the pick up were listed. Northwest Orient Plane Sets New Flight Record ANCHORAGE, Alaska Un A Northwest Orient Airlines DC-7C flying from Tokyo Monday set a new flight-time record for com mercial craft between the Japan ese capital and Anchorage. The plane, only recently put in to service, was piloted ly Lain. C. R. Allen of Believue, Wash. It made the flight across the isorth Pacific in 10 hours, 27 minutes The previous record fur the 3.600-mife non-stop hop was 10 hours. 35 minutes, set by an NWA Super Constellation on April 20, 1955. GUEST SPEAKER JEFFERSON, Ore. m Charles A. Spraxue. editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem will ha guest speaker August 18. at the annual summer nicnic of Ihe Oregon Farmers Union at 000; Shilshole Bay Seattle) $). Champoeg State Park, Harley 1 780,000; Willapa River and har ' I.thby, state president said Tues- bnr $555,000; John Day dam $1, iday. '000,000. -,. Umpqua Radio Asks Extension On Franchise Tax Umpaua Radio and Television Co. Monday night asked for an ex tension for payment of its city franchise tax because it's "unable" to pay it. Officers of the company asked for the extension. Mayor Arlo Jacklin appointed councilmen Kenneth Ellison, Pete Serafin and Sidney C. Moon Jr. to a special committee to study the request. City Manager George Farrcll said the company, whose coaxial cable system in the city streets brought first widespread TV serv ice to Roseburg, paid $400 tax last year. the company has been operat ing here for about three years, transferring television signals from Portland, Mcdtord and Eu gene through its community cable system to Roseburg homes. Woman Asks High Stake In Divorce A divorce complaint asking $35 000 alimony in addition to the Hi vision of property, child support payments, and legal costs was filed last week hy Mrs. Lois A. Walling, wife of Jesse D. Walling Jr. of Sutherlin. An amended court order was filed Tuesday based on the plain tiff's petition for the husband to show cause why he should not pay certain costs during the legal action. Hearing is set for Sept. 3 on the order. The Wallings were married at Salem on Sept. 3. 1938. They have two sons, ages is and 14, and a daughter, age 3. The complaint charges cruel and inhuman treat ment. In addition to the alimony the wife asks for custody of the chil dren and support payments of $100 per month for each of the two younger children. She also asks for an award of service stations in Springfield and North Bend, with a service station in Eugene to re main the property of the defend ant; for tho home and furnishings; and for a 1954 sedan. The de fendant is also asked to pay $2, (XX) attorney fees if the suit is uncon tested and an additional $1,500 in fees if the suit is contested. The plaintiff claims that Ihe de fendant also owns a sand and grav el company in Sutherlin and valu able mortgages, and that his prop erty is worth over a total of $100.- 000, and that his income is over $20,000 per year. The court order asks the defend ant to show cause why he should not he ordered to pay $200 per month alimony fees during the suit. House Okays Compromise Version Of Public Works Appropriations Measure WASHINGTON 11 The House approved Tuesday a compromise version of the public works ap propriations bill which carries $8.r8,04,323, mostly for water proj ects construction. It includes more than 74 million for Washington and Oregon projects. The compromise bill, worked out by a Senate-House conference committee, now goes to the Sen ate. Approval there would send the bill to President Eisenhower. The Pacific Northwest naviga tion and flood control projects in cluded: Construction Oregon Amazon Creek $446. 000; Chetco River $200,000; Colum bia River at mouth $1,150,000', Cougar Reservoir $0,570,000; Hills Creek Reservoir $4,800,000; Mult nomah Drainage District No. 1 $500,000; Pendleton $100,000; The Dalles $19,000,00; Willamette Riv er bank protection $150,000. Washington Bellingham har bor $1,078,000; Blaine harbor $355 000; Chief Joseph Dam $4,800,000; Columbia River at Baker Hay $531, 000; Eagle Gorge reservoir $8,000,000; Everett harbor and Snohomish Itiver $316,000; West Haven breakwater extension $291, 000; Bay City channel $125,000; ! Ice Harbor lock and dam $18,500, 1000: Port Angeles harbor $396.- 55) Criminal Charge Against Battle Ordered Dismissed Dismissal of a criminal charge against Duncan Battle, 38-year-old Canadian Indian, Monday was re ceived with a statement of censure filed in district court by his attor ney. George Luoma. court-appointed lawyer, stated that the blemish on his client's record "is not erased by this type of dismissal. Battle, also known as Bottle, was arrested and lodged in the Douglas County jail July 23 on a charge of alienipting to obtain money by false pretenses. Battle, a member of the Blackfoot tribe, allegedly had been going through the North west getting attorneys to represent him in his efforts to get a financial settlement from his claimed agree ment with the Canadian govern ment for oil and mineral rights. As part of his method of operation, Maine is supposed to have obtain ed cash loans from the lawyers Lawyers Contacted When he arrived in Roseburg. Battle contacted the firm of John Horn and Randolph Slocum. He went through his usual pattern and was given a $5 check and then arrested for vagrancy. The local lawyers had been warned by bulle tins of the State Bar Assn. Slocum signed a complaint charging Battle with the attempt to uilk and he was taken to the county jail. Monday. Bert Burgoyne, deputy district attorney, moved to have (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2) Logger Loses Equipment In Theft Over Weekend Theft of $500 worth of cnuinment from his logging operation was re ported to the sheriff's office Mon day by Herman Fugatc, Oakland. He said the items had been taken between Friday aflcrnoon and Mon day morning from the operation located one mile from Landers Tower in the Martin Brothers tim ber area. Listed as stolen were a hydraulic cable cutter, grease gun, choker, several bars, caulk shoes, hard hats, a half-case of outboard motor oil, two five-gallon cans of grease, axes, bulldozer tools, a pump can. sledge, power saw bars and first aid kit. ADVISERS TO MEET The Douglas County Water Re sources Advisory Board will meet next Monday at 7:45 p.m. in the county court auditorium in the court house, according to Ben B. Irving, chairman. Lower Columbia fish sanctuary program $1,600,000. Planning Oregon Blue River reservoir $100,000; Umatilla Itiver $16,000; (ireen Peter reservoir $225,000; llolley reservoir $100,000; Lower Columbia bank protection $40,000; Clnlskanie River area $15,000; Rogue River harbor $21,000; Mai heir River $25,000; Fall Creek $150,000. Washington Colfax $136,000; lower Cowliti River $10,000; lower Columbia. Washougal area $32, 000: Lower Monumental lock and dam $500,000. As agreed to bv the conference cnmmiltee the bill is $26,057,000 under the total voted by the Sen ale and $13,281,300 over the amount voted by the House. President Eisenhower had budg eted $876,453,000. Last year's ap propriation was $867,494,000. The hill thus winds up about 2 i , ,V "l '":'u" Most of the money in the bill is fur flood control, navigation and hydroelectric projects built and maintained hy the Army Engl neers and the Reclamation Bu reau. However, the money carries some funds for the Bonneville, Southeastern and Southwestern Power Administrations. The money is for use in the fiscal sear which started July 1. 1,000 Union Workers Out At Operations Work Stoppage Comes Immediately After Negotiations Fail Lumber and sawmill workers walked out of Roseburg Lumber Co. plants at 6 p.m. Monday in a strike which idled about 1,000 union wurners. uperauons at Douglas ve neer Co. which supplies veneer for the struck firm were closed by the management this morning put ting about another 100 union men out of work indefinitely. ine workers at Roseburg Lum ber left and pickets were set as soon as it was known that nego tiations with the company for a S cent per hour increase had broken down. Union officials said that the ' company flatly refused the in crease. The union, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Local 2949, now plans to hold out for an increase of 15 cents per hour, which would bring the minimum salary to $2.13 per nour. No date has been announced for further negotiations. Pickets Stationed Six pickets are on the strike line at Roseburg Lumber plants and shops at Dillard and two more are at the pond and dump at Douglas Veneer near Dixonville. The work ers at Roseburg Lumber walked out quietly last night and allowed some workers to remain to close down the plant. no strike was called against Douglas Veneer and the union ad vised employes there to seek state unemployment compensation. At a convention of the Willamette Val ley District Council of the union in session at Eugene Monday and to day, all 29 locals voted moral and financial support for the workers on strike. The strike was authorized by the local at an election Satur day. Negotiations after the strike vote started at 4:30 p.m. and last ed for an hour. Kenneth Ford, manager, parti cipated in the talks. He was not available for comment today. The union request was based on the increase in the cost of living, according to Henry Weber, union local business agent. There has been a 15 cent per hour increase in wages in other industries while the wages in mills here have re mained constant, Weber indicated. He said that the union felt justi fied in its action because it be lieves that the lumber industry is not depressed nearly is much "as they claim it is." Loggers Affected From 50 to 100 loggers supplying the struck firm would be directly affected by the shutdown, accord ing to Weber. Private log truck operators would also be put out of work, he assumed. Workers at about 15 other plants are represented by the local. Pac ific Fly wood Co. has been paying the 5 cent increase for about two months. Weber said negotiations are continuing for the increase with the Coon Creek Lumber Co. and the St. Helens Wood Products Co. Weber claimed that the level of income to lumber workers, not un employment, was what was "hurt ing" business in Roseburg. About $200,000 would be added to pay rolls in the Roseburg area by an increase of 5 cents per hour for the 1,900 members of the local, he estimated. Jail Term Imposed On Suspended Driver Jack Bert Golden. 44. Rt. 1 Box 952, Roseburg, received a double jolt in district court Monday. lie was fined $25 for being drunk on a public street and then was faced with an outstanding com plaint charging him with driving while his operators license was suspended. On this count, Judge Warren A. woodruff ordered Gold en jailed for 90 days. Ihe complaint on the driving charge was filed in May whiie Golden was on a three-year suspen sion imposed in January on a drunk driving conviction. Curtis L. Jams, 23, Rt. 1 Box 11, Sutherlin, was fined $15 after pleading guilty to being drunk on a public highway. Communism At Stake In British Guiana Vote GEORGETOWN, British Guiana W Forces on both sides of the Communist fence predicted vic tory today as the vote count got under way in British Guiana's first general election in four years. Results were expected to he an nounced tonight in the balloting for 14 Legislative Council seats that will determine the power of communism in this British crown colony on South America's coast. BEES DODGED, TRUCK KILLS SELINGSGROVE. Pa. tm -Ter- ry Schemck, 10, of Middlchurg, Pa., and three friends were play ing near a road 15 miles west of here when they turned over a bees' nest. Voting Schemck, in trying to escape the bees, ran into the street and was struck and killed by a car. Levity Fact Rant By L F. Reiienstaln Russia shies at open ikies. Instead the uses ineaky spies; They're en the job with prying yt. Playing hide-and-seek with FBIi. (
