4 The News-Review, Roieburg Ore. Tuet. Aug. 13, 1957
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PLYWOOD STRIKE
By Charles V. Stanton
Plywood workers employed by the Roseburif Lumber
Company have been called out on strike. The action fol
lows a strike vote last weekend and a meeting between
committees Monday.
A strike is something Roseburif "least needs the most!"
Many people are looking upon the strike as a fool
ish gesture on the part of the Union. What can the Union
hope to gain by striking at a time when mills are closing,
when hundreds of people already are unemploved, when the
market demand is down, and plywood production is at
slow bell? Employers barely hanging on, making little if
any profit, are not apt to be easily pressured into wage
increases, these people contend. Certainly, in the light of
existing circumstances, the prospect of a strike doesn't
frighten an employer nearly as much as it might in more
favorable and profitable times.
The State Employment Service reports that three small
mills closed in Douglas County last month, that job place
ment was down and unemployment was un. Obviously
such conditions are not favorable for use of an economic
lever upon an employer reluctant to meet demands for
wage increases.
Union Hat Problem
On the other hand, the Union has certain responsibili.
ties.
Plywood workers are organized industry wide. Al
though separate contracts are made with individual em
ployers, it is obvious that there must be uniformity in the
scale paid throughout the industry.
Several of the larger companies have settled with the
Union on a basis of an additional five cents per hour.
The Roseburg Lumber Company, with which negotia
tions now are in progress, is one of the large plywood op
erators of the Pacific Northwest. If the Roseburg Lum
ber Company can continue to operate with a lower wage
scale than its competitors, it will have a very substantial
advantage on a tight market.
Having won a wage increase from companies compet
ing with the Roseburg Lumber Company, the Union un
doubtedly feels a responsibility to protect employers who
have complied with wage demands against the competition
which a lower wage scale here would permit. .
Compromise Desirable
The companies granting wage increases are for the
most part large corporations with affiliates and subsidiar
ies manufacturing everything from charcoal briquets to
pullman cars. They are not dependent exclusively upon
lumber and plywood production. Because their operations
extend across the nation, they are not tied to the regional
economy as is the Roseburg Lumber Company, an inde
pendent operation which, while rapidly diversifying, still
is far more restricted in economic position than its competition.
For the sake of the community and the workmen who
will suffer from a prolonged strike, negotiators on both
sides, I hope, will seriously consider compromise.
Speaking entirely from ignorance of the intimate de
tails of demands and offers, I would suggest that the ne
gotiating committees strive to arrive at an agreement on
a "break even" point in the local operation. It should not
be difficult to determine then what wage increases, if
any, can be granted now or in the future, as market de
mand and prices improve. It could be stipulated that the
present demand for wages would be paid whenever prof
its advance to a specific level beyond the "break even''
point and that, as and if further gains are experienced in
demand and profits, retroactive payments would be made.
In other words, Labor would share with the employer
the preservation of local economy, precarious as it is, dur
ing the current depressed period, but would be assured of
its reward if and when conditions return to normal and
the industry once again is in a profitable position.
Under such scheme the local operator, it is true,
would have a slight advantage over his more diversified
competition, but, in the long run would pay on the same
basis as improvements in local economy justify.
"Don't Worry, I'll See That He Gets Them"
Mixed Prices Pictured
For Oregon Field Crops
Kidnaper Draws
Penitentiary
Term At Eugene
CORVALUS It's touch-and-go
(or Oregon field crops this year
with wheat and feed grains lean
ing heavily on government sup
ports while hay and seed crops
are strictly on their own.
Oregon State College agricul
tural economists believe Oregon
wheat farmers will realize a bet
ter price on their 1957 crop by
holding back part of the crop un
der the government loan program.
A wait-and-see sales approach
can practically assure prices at
least equal to the government's
minimum selling price, says M. D.
Thomas, agricultural economist.
EUGENE ( James Adam
Repp. 33, convicted kidnaper of
crops. Large supplies of feed j Mrs. Alda Lorene Wright and
smins are likelv to keen markets James Awbrey. both of Jasper,
from rising above support levels j Monday was sentenced to a state
this fall, believes Ray Teal, OSC
seed and grain marketing special
ist.
Price supports on 1957 barley
and oats crops run from about S3
to $3.75 a ton under last year.
The basic support rate on No. 2
western barley at Portland term
inals is SI .20 bushel or $50 a
ton $2.92 a ton less than last
year.
Harvest Af Record
A record feed grain harvest in
Oregon and the Northwest will run
The selling price is set at 5 per hoar! nn into buniDer crops else.
cent above the government support wnere. A prospective decrease in
of $2.22 at Portland terminals, plus tne nation'i corn production should
an allowance for carrying charges. De more (nan 0f(set by an increase
This totaled $2.34 a bushel on No. j corn carryover and larger crops
i son wnue wneai ai rurusnu m 0f other feed grains.
July
Market Glut Danger
If all the new Pacific Northwest
wheat crop were offered on the
market at harvest time, prices
might drop to support levels,
Thomas warns. Since the same
thing might happen if all the new
wheat were held off the market
until government stocks were gone,
orderly marketing seems to be the
best answer, he says.
The price picture is mixed for
Oregon feed grains, hay, and seed
NEW YORK (jf) Many young actresses who go to Holly
wood become trapped by "the cheesecake curse."
They never graduate above the leg-and bosom publicity
photos put out by their sjjjdios to build up public interest.
They become caught on a cheesecake treadmill, and go no
larther.
Jane Russell, who pioneered in
making the throe-fool tape meas
ure obsolete, feels now that at long
last she has busted that hex for
ever. "People used to expect me to
come in with three naked men
thrown over my shoulder," re
called Miss Russell, who looks
like a strapping, tall-stemmed
American Beauty rose.
This happened because of her
first piclure, "The Outlaw," (made
wncn Marilyn Monroe was in high
school and Jaync Mansfield was
still playing jacks). The camera
seemed intent on proving that
Miss Russell's heaving chest qual
ified her more for deep sea pearl
diving than acting.
Her promotional buildup made
Lana Turner, "The Sweater Girl,"
look like a fugitive from a kinder
garten. Discovered: She's Lad
'Whewl met women at a party,"
said Jano, "they'd talk to me for
a while and then say in real sur
prise. 'Why, my dear, you're a
lady!'
"This doesn't happen any more
and for this I'm grateful. There
have been so many blasts against
cheesecake art that now I'm al
lowed to be me."
"Me" as Jane sees herself
is a normal, wholesome young
career actress happily married to
Robert Waterfield, a former pro
football star. She is the proud
mother of three adopted children.
She and Bob head their own
film production firm and share a
joint enthusiasm for WAIF, an in
ternational adoption agency which
Miss Russell founded in 1954.
"So far WAIF has found new
homes for more than 4.000 chil
dren from 18 countries at a cost
of about $500 a child," she said.
"Not all have been brought to
America, but most have because
the demand is here We have
thousands of people who want to
adopt children.
IN THE DAY'S NEWS
By FRANK JENKINS
"We could bring many more
children over if Congress would
change the immigration laws and
we had more funds."
Views Old Fashioned
Miss Russell says she has old
fashioned views about family life.
"Bob is the boss in our house,"
she said, and added that she felt
much of the present juvenile de
linquency is the result of a lack of
parental discipline which leaves a
child feeling insecure
Jane, one of five children her
self, remembers that in her own
household as a girl each of the
kids had assigned chores. She did
the laundry and ironing.
"Most naughty children actual
ly want to be stopped from doing
mischief," she said.
"You lay the lavender down, and
then they're as good as gold.
"A child needs to know that it
is vitally loved, but that if it
breaks the law whammo!"
Turning to her professional prob
lems, Jane said she and her hus
band "read and read till our eye
balls fall out" looking for good
scripts.
17th Film Completed
"The real problem is to find
something you like and are proud
of and the public will like too.
But when you've got kids to raise
and send through college, you do
have to think of the market.
"You can spend a lot of money
making an artistic picture, then
see it wind up like a dead fish
on the highway."
Jane has just completed her 17lh
film. It's about two would-be crim
inals who kidnap a glamorous
movie star, who in turn ends up
by falling in love with one of her
captors just a nice, crazy mixed
up kidnaper. Curtain.
The title of the film is, "The
Fimy Pink Nightgown."
Hollywood moral: If a girl es
capes the cheesecake trap herself,
who cares if they put it in the
title?
J3ruce (SioAAat-
Title Of Early English
Scour Unit Corrected
To The Editor Please accept
a slight correction, which might
be of interest to Boy Scouts, con
cerning the article of (jarly day
English Scouts.
The Scout band, in which my
husband played a fife, was com
posed of fifes and drums and was
called the "Fife and Drum Corps."
ine me and Urum Corps was
also a regular military band or
ganization in this country as late
as Civil War days; used for march
ing and drilling. The fife is a
small instrument somewhat like a
flute.
Mrs. Ernest Wheeler
Camas Valley, Ore.
More Income Likely
For Fruit Growers
During Coming Year
Even so. demand for good malt-
ing-type Oregon, Hannchen barley
may be strong enough to bring
moderate premiums over feed bar
lev at harvest time, Teal says.
Oregon hav supplies now in sight
are also the largest on record.
With a few less hay-eating ani
mals in the state than in the last
two or three years, low hay prices
are almost certain unless the win
ter is unusually long and severe,
say the economists.
Large supplies of old hay car
ried over from the mild winter,
plus a bigger crop of new hay
this summer, have combined to
clip S8 to $10 a ton off last year's
harvest-time prices.
Competition Down
Market prospects for seeds seem
to be a "duke's mixture" of good
and bad, Teal reports. Oregon
cover crop seeds may find less
competition this year with reports
from the South of small crops of
crimson clover and lupine seed
along with weather damage to
hairy vetch. At the same time, bet
ter moisture conditions in the South
may encourage greater use of
cover crops this fall.
Teal believes ryegrass prices
have probably hit rock - bottom
and could stage a comeback with
smaller new crop ana less
penitentiary term of up to 15
years by Circuit Judge A. T.
Goodwin.
Deputy District Atty. Kenneth
Morrow asked for a maximum
sentence of 25 years.
Repp's court-appointed attor
ney, Douglas Spencer, appealed
for leniency. He said Repp had
eight years of honorable service
in the U. S. Navy behind him and
blamed drinking for the Avon, 111.
man's downfall.
Repp was accused of being one
of two men who held up a store
at Jasper operated by Mrs. Wright
on July 30 and then kidnaping her
and the elderly Awbrey who was
at the store.
William Harry Eckels, accused
of being Repp's companion is
being held in Tillamook on an
other charge.
RECORD HEAT MARK
HONOLULU Itfv The tempera
ture got up to 90 degrees in Hono
lulu Sunday and the weather bu
reau said it was the hottest ever
recorded in the city's history. The
previous high of 89 was recorded
on Aug. 15, 1941.
VOLKSWAGEN '56
Mutt 90 for caih this week. Would
consider old' cor port payment.
2 miles South on old Hiway
99, across from truck scales.
CORVALLIS Larger crops and
larger incomes than last year are
the midyear prospects for most
Oregon fruit and nut growers, Ro
land Groder, Oregon State College
fruit and vegetable marketing spe
cialist, reports.
Oregon apple, pear, cherry, fil
bert and walnut crops are all ex
pected to be larger than last year
when production was badly
fi-innlnH hv I llP frPP7.e.
Increased production this yeariryover on July 1 than earlier ex
should boost total income even pected.
though prices may be down some Turf seeds will have more com
for most fruit and nut crops, says , petition from Kentucky bluegrass
the specialist. Among the tree than last year. Also, fine fescue,
fruits, only peach and prune pro-1 bent, and Merion bluegrass crops
duction is expected to fall below I probably will be as large or larger
a year ago. I than last year, the specialist re-
Rains Help Price I ports.
Rains and heavy shipments of. Demands for dryland grasses
California berries to fresh mark- r may be delayed, Teal says, as
ets have held the strawberry pack Great Plains farmers turn their
down, bringing recent price im-1 moisture-filled land to cash crops
nrnvemenl But there is little ; hefore retiring them in the Soil
(Continued from paga one)
high speed, almost running most
of the lime. She not only waits on
the tables, taking the orders and
passing them on to the kitchen
crew and bringing the food out to
tho customers when it is ready.
She is the cashier as well, takuig
in the money and keeping it
straight.
She has her hands full. The
members of the kitchen crew must
have their hands full also. They
turn out the food as fast as the
waitress can deliver it. They are
?ood cooks. The food is excellent,
'ronaring excellent food requires
skill, and preparing it on time, so
that the customers will he kept
happy, calls for speed and ef
ficiency. Over the highway from the tilt le
restaurant is a motel. There are
many motels along this great high
way. Here in midsummer of the
year 1957, there are many va
cancy signs. Tourists are not quite
as numerous this ear as they
had been expected to be.
But there is seldom a vacancy
ign at this particular motel If
you ire going to arrive later than
mid-afternoon and want to gvt in,
you'd belter phono ahead for a
reservation.
Why?
Well, It'l nice. It Is relatively
new, and It ha been well kept
up. The service is good, and the
people who give the service are
pleasant and friendly.
It can he accurately Described
as the kind of place people like.
Why speak of this situation as
a note on American business in
this year when the boom isn't
quite as wild as it has been for
some time past?
Here's why:
When asked how their business
is going, the hard-working pro
prietors of the little restaurant
smile happily and reply:
"We never had it so good."
The motel owners give the same
answer.
There must be something to this
crack about building a better
mouselrnp and finding that cus
tomers will beat a rath to your
door.
Portland Police Ask
Elkins To Buy Tickets
PORTLAND 'f - Tin office of
Polire Chief William J. Ililbruner
recently sent a letter to Big Jim
K.lkins convicted last May on
wiretap charges
The letter asked Klkins to buv
two $t tickets to the policemen's
ball.
Ililbruner was appointed to his
position by Mayor Terry Schiunk.
In the trial in which Schrunk was
acquitted of a perjury charge, K.I
kins was a state witness.
Said K.lkins: "1 ought to buy
some tickets just to show them
1 appreciate their kind words."
The late Sen. Walter George was
the kind of lawmaker who makes
the American legislative system
workable and effective.
1 Inevitably, that svstem ilcncniU
(heavily upon a relatively few men
of character and intelligence.
This handful soberly guides the
I Congress on a generally sane
course, helps it to balance or can
cel us errors, keeps it moving to
ward objectives despite its great
inherent inertia.
For many years George headed
the important Senate Finance Com
mittee which frames the nation's
tax laws. In this post he was a
stalwart guardian of governmental
fiscal responsibility.
BASICALLY a conservative, his
opposition in the midl9:io's to
some of Franklin 1"). Roosevelt's
policies led the latter to attempt
to purge George at the polls in
1938. The effort failed and George
continued a Senate career that
lasted 34 years.
Despite F.l) R.'s action. George
led the late presidenfs campaign
to gain congressional approval of
the vital war time lend lease pro
gram through which we aided our
allies.
Later In life, the senator turned
his interest to foreign affairs and
look the leadership of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
As chairman he was a strong
advocate of bipartisanship in fot
cign policy. Il:s personal pronoun
cements often had important ef
fect both at 'he White House and
in foreign capitals,
i When he decided in 19.VI not to
j run again. President Eisenhower
gave recognition to his achieve
ments, in this field by making him
, a special ambassador to NATO.
Though for long years he was!
r.vi in me puoiic eye, Senator
George had the kind of sincerity
and intellectual honeslv that mark
ed the legislative career of the
ate Kpnntnr Tuft ,
I " miiu. in con-
! sequence he was held in high es
teem by members of both run-lina
George never shied from bear-1
iiik me neaviest Durdens a legis-l
lator could assume. In performing t
so wonderfully well the difficult I
tasks he undertook on behalf of
the American people, he earned'
their lasting respect and won fori
himself a place among the out-1
.-miuiiiiK i .v senators ot this or
any prior century.
Sierra Ordeal
Survivor Faces
Divorce Threat
FAIRFIELD, Conn, tft - Lt.
David Steeves, who survived 54
days in a California wilderness
after bailing out of his plane, may
be divorced by his wife, a lawyer
says.
Atty. Paul Cullinan told a re
porter Mrs. Rita Steeves has con
sulted him "about a problem of
long-standing which conceivably
could end in divorce."
"I have to analyze the problem
and make a recommendation to
her." he said. "Then it will be
up to her."
Mrs. Steeves, 21, would neither
confirm nor deny the report.
Lt. Steeves, 23, bailed out of
his Air Force plane May 9 into
the frozen wastes of the high Si
erras. He trudged back to civiliza
tion 54 days later, after he had
been officially declared dead and
all but his family had given up
hope. When she heard he was
alive, Rita commented:
"I don't think a wife, deep
down, ever really gives up hope."
Steeves and Rita were re-united
in New York before newspaper and
television cameras.
A week later, the couple went
to California, leaving their 15-month-old
daughter, l.eisa, with
Rita's mother. Two weeks after
that, Rita returned here alone.
promise that strawberry prices will
rise to . levels of other recent
years, Groder reports.
Filbert growers should fare
much better this year even though
prices may be down slightly. The
crop is estimated three times as
large as last year's small one. The
walnut crop is also much larger
in Oregon and slightly larger in
California, but California has few
er almonds.
Late spring rains delayed plant
ings of vegetables and have cloud
ed the canning and freezing pic
ture for these crops. Packs in oth
er states are likely to be short
on quality, reports the OSC spe
cialist, which may bring a break
to Oregon growers and packers.
Potatoes Coming Back
Effects of this spring's large po
tato supplies promise to linger on.
although potato prices are making
a gradual comeback. The nation's
late summer crop may be eight
per cent smaller than last year and
fall acreage is down slightly. Much
depends on the yield of late po
tatoes which is likely to be crip
pled by the drought on the east
ern seaboard.
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Speedboat1 Operator
Hits Cuy Wire, Killed
I NYSSA. Ore. ifl Gerald
Butcher. 17, Rt. 2. Parma, Idaho,
i was killed outright Monday night
I when he struck a guy wire while
I driving a speedboat on the Snake
River at Nyssa.
State police said he suffered a
broken neck when the boat went
! under the wire strung across the
' river at a bridge construction
I site.
Chest injuries were suffered by
Bruce Deliaven, 15, Rt. 1, Nyssa.
He was riding in the boat with
Butcher.
1 A water skiier who was being
, towed by the boat, John Smith,
19, was unhurt.
Prince Michael Seen
Driving Car At Age 15
LONDON wt British newspa
papcra today reported 15-vear-old
Prince Michael Queen Elita
beth's cousin Is driving around
without a license.
Newsmen at Cowes, fashionable
yachting center on the south coast,
told of seeing the young prince up
around town in a big black sedan
without a word of protest from po
lice Tnder-age prince takes out a
car," said the London Daily Her
ald in a pace one headline. "I
see Prince Michael go driving."
reported the Daily Sketch in an
eyewitness story bv columnist Si
mon Ward.
The Daily Mirror reported that
the prince, who is two years be
low the legal driving aie. made
quite a show "He can drive very
well." the Mirror quoted one eve-witnesi.
Tuna Industry Agrees
To Quit Price Fixing
WASHINGTON U - The Fed
eral Trade Commission said Sun
day "substantially all" of the
West Coast tuna industry has
agreed to stop fixing prices for
the tuna fish it produces.
Producers of more than half the
nation's tuna park agreed to an
FTC order to stop price fixing and
also preventing attempts to sup
press competition in the Industry,
the announcement said.
Named in the order were: Cali
fornia Fish Canners Assn., and
its canner-members accounting
for 70 per cent of the pack; six
associations of tuna boat owners
and three area unions of fisher
men and cannery workers.
Nuclear Test Explosion
Postponed Again Today
ATOMIC TEST SITE. New (JP
The nuclear test shot "Shasta,"
was postponed again Tuesday,
less than an hour before it was
lo have been detonated.
The oft-postponed shot was to
have been fired at 5 a.m. An
other try will be made in 24
hours.
The Atomic Energy Commission
said adverse winds and mechani
cal difficulties caused the post
ponement, 15th for "Shasta."
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Octogenarian Singer
Of Eugene Dies At 89
El'GENE Frank I. Terpin ,
who gained considerable loca)
fame by organizing and singing
with the octogenarian quartet,
died here Monday.
Terpin was 89. Several years
ago. he brought together three
other singers over 80 years old
and formed them into a quartet,
with himself s.nging bass.
The group, with its membership
changing as death took away the
originals, sang at anyone's request
and entertained thousands.
Terpin was also a baseball fan
Bobby Doerr, former big. league
ball player, was a relatie
Services will be held Wednesday
at Junction City.
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