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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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. (