4 The News-Review, Roieburg Ore. Tuet. Aug. 13, 1957 CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager ADDYI WRIGHT, A lit. Bui. Mgr. GEORGE CASTILLO, Ant. Editor Mtmbir or Iho Anociotid Pran, Oregon Nowipopor Publiihars Auoclation, Iho Audit (unau of Circulation! WftUI br WtST-nOLLlDAI CO., INC., aflleaa la Naw Tart, CtlMfa, Baa Vraaalava. Laa Aagalaa, Baattla. rarllaai. Daavar Fubliihed Doily lcpt Sunday by tho News-Review Company, Inc. UBSCRIPTION RATES In Onion Br Hall Par Taar, III.OOl ala nanlha, MM; Ibrai nonlhl, ll.IL Oaliloa Orafon ! Hall Par Taar, lis.a.i al aiaolho. ITMi Ihraa oianlha, ISM. Br Nawa-alaw Oarrlar Par Taar. HIM (In odYanoa). lata lhaa ana iw par manlh, ll.!!a. ntarai aa aaoand elaaa miliar Mar T, ml. al lha paal afflea at Raaabarff, Oraian, andar act af March t. U7S. 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. FIRE: OR 2-2644 POLICE: or MONEY: orsSms 664 S. E. Stephens, Roseburg Bank. ROAD OILING BY THE FOOT or BY THE GALLON Estimates Gladly Given Gerrefsen Building Supply Company Oak Ave. at R. R. Tracks Ph. OR 2-2636 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." TUNE-UP SPECIAL OFFER GOOD ON ANY FORD PICKUP OR PASSENGER CAR DURING AUGUST "... VI S. L L0CKW00D MOTORS Corntr of Oak and Rot OR 3-4486 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. TO BE HONORABLE Ije OJfjnpel of tlje j&titt ROSEBURG FUNERAL HOME FUNERALS Phone ORchord 3-4455 Oak and Kane Sf. Roseburg, Oregon Adequate Free Parking MMWM'""'I,IJL!I''W" '" R -I 1 kit i a an rtati MARIETTA POWERS Licensed Funtrol Director I