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BEFORE THE CROWDS stort coming, roustabouts at the Fairgrounds assemble the carni-.
val rides and concession booths. The fairgrounds were busy Tuesday as the carnival, the
rodeo, exhibitors and judges moved in and began getting the place ready for the opening
Thursday. (Paul Jenkins) I
County Fair Opening Set
Eisenhower Proposes
2-Year Nuclear Test
Suspension Program
WASHINGTON I President
Eisenhower Wednesday proposed
a two-year suspension of nuclear
test, provided Russia agrees to
an eventual permanent halt in
production of atomic weapons ma
terials. PARIS I The Western Al
lies Wednesday decided to propose
a Mo-year suspension of nuclear
tests as part of an overall dis
armament plan.
This was the , key point of a
new plan which Britain, France,
Canada and the United States cir
culated to their NATO allies here
Wednesday. . ... , .i.
The other members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization will
report their views on it to a spe
cial session of the NATO council
next Monday.
In London, meanwhile, the So
viet Union accused the West of
blocking agreement on nuclear
disarmament by advancing "arti
ficial" preconditions.
Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin
made a blistering attack on the
West before the United Nations
disarmament subcommittee meet
ing in London.
The four Western powers in
Paris will present to Zorin in Lon
don a proposal calling for sus
pension of nuclear tests beginning
in November, 1958.
It would continue for 12 months
and then, if all powers concerned
found it satisfactory, would be ex
tended for another 12 months.
PURSE LOST
Loss of her purse containing $18
was reported to Roseburg police
Tuesdav bv Mrs. Phyllis Zuber.
She said she had left the purse
on a bank counter "and had later
discovered her loss while shopping.
II was gone when "she returned,
she stated. The purse also con
tained her driver's license and
bank book, Mrs. Zuber said.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Three years ago the post office
department began keeping care-
lul satety recoras on iwu giuupn
of trucks - one group of 3500 1
painted red, white and blue and
another 3500 painted olive drab.
What the postal people wanted to
know was whether the brilliantly
painted ones had fewer accidents
than the drably painted ones that
were harder to see.
That turned out to be the case.
The drably painted (presumably
harder to sec) group had 849 ac
cidents in the test period. The red,
white and blue trucks had only 622
accidents. 227 less than the trucks
with duller colors.
The automobUe industry has
been working along somewhat the !
same lines, but has been more I
interested in what it calls "re
flectorized" paint that is, a type
of paint that will make a car eas
ily visible at night while still re
taining its beauty and durability
in the sunlight. j
Several manufacturers are con
sidering making this "reflector-1
ized" paint optional equipment on
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The Weather
Fir tonight and Thursday, es.jentne J those cases which
pt for patches of early morning i would Lu,ufr.. ?"y kind of "cUon
fog or low clouds. Possible Isolated i unler " Ml !e tas' Program
afternoon or evening thunder I opted early this year. That pro-
thow.n ever the southern maun.
taint. Little temperature change,
Highest temp, last 24 hours
Lowest temp, last 24 hours
Highest temp, any August
Lowest temp, any August
Prtcip. last 24 hours
Prtcip. from August 1
Precip. from Sept. 1
Defic. from Sept. 1
Sunset tonight, 7:07 p.m.
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Sunrise tomorrow, 5:2
Fire - Weather
hish hazard in interior
and central Oregon.
a.m.
Continued
southwest ,
.noaerate i
but increasing daneer alonE coast
and in interior northwest Oregon.
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Event Biggest
For Fair goers
The gates at the Douglas Coun
ty Fairgrounds open Thursday
morning at 9 on the biggest fair
in the county's history.
The annual Douglas County Fair
will offer more of everything to
every taste displayed by fairgoers.
For entertainment Thursday,
the Davis Shows carnival goes
into action when the gates open.
Meanwhile, clowns will rollick up
and down the midway between
hourly free shows.
At night, the preliminaries start
in the annual talent show sponsor
ed by the Douglas County Fair
Board and Ricketts' Music Store.
It is the first of nightly shows.
Actually, Thursday is only the
preliminary to action which snow
balls through the weekend.
Also on tap for the following
three days of the fair are such
major events as the fifth' annual
sheepdog trials and Oregon State
Square Dance Festival dances, a
free Saturday barbecue and two
sessions of the first Rodeo Cow
boys' Assn.-approved rodeo in the
fair's history.
For more information on the
cream of all Douglas County
Fairs, see today's second section
which is devoted entirely to the
event.
Drunk Driving Arrests
Leads To More Troubles
Troubles started piling up for
Paul Louis Peterson, 21, when he
ran into a rock wall with a car
Monday night.
The man, who gave his address
as 673 NE Channon St., was charg
ed with drunk driving. This netted
him a $100 fine and five-day jail
sentence handed out in Roseburg
municipal court.
However, instead of being lodged
in the city jail, Peterson was trans
ferred to the county lockup on a
charge of parole violation, lie had
been sentenced to three years in
the Oregon State penitentiary for
grand larceny.
Peterson was arrested bv Rose
burg police shortly after a reserve
officer reported seeing a car driv
en by Peterson traveling in a reck
less manner and then hearing a
crash. The car had struck a rock
wall at 1413 SE Kane St., officers
found, with about $100 damage to
.. .. .
lne vehicle.
SPEAKER TO SPEAK
ASTORIA i Speaker of the
House Pat Dooley will be one of
the speaker's at Sunday's formal
dedication of the Fort Stevens
State Park, west of Warrenton.
The park was opened two years
ago.
Eisenhower Says Russia
Bidding For Power In Syria
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON tfl President
Eisenhower said Wednesday the
ultimate aim of the pro-Communist
bid for power in Syria is So
viet control of the country.
He told a news conference,
however, the United States gov
ernment actually does not know
how far the process has gone.
And he added this is not at pres-
Kram. speuco oui in a congres
ional resolution, provides fur U.
S. economic aid and use of Amer
ican armed force if needed and
invited, to head off Red aggres-
sion in the Middle East. I they finally get hold of the situa-
Eisenhower's evaluation was thejtion then the people find that their
first high-level American summa- country is being run from some-
tion of the Syrian crisis since it where else.
began developing 10 days ago. Several times Eisenhower de
Althouch he did not say speci-1 clined to equate Syrian rule at
fically that he holds Moscow en-'the moment with rule by inlcrna
tirely responsible for what hasitional or Soviet controlled
happened, Eisenhower left no j communism. Once he told a aues-
doubt that he blames the Soviet
government.
The pattern of what is happen-1
ling in Syria, he said, is an oldihower hopes or thinks the situa
' ,vd' c sir".
State Hospital
Escape Foiled
SALEM, OR An overloaded
food elevator and a law-abiding
patient combined Tuesday night
to stop the break of four maximum
security prisoners from the Ore
gon State Hospital here.
The break started shortly be
fore patients in the maximum sec
urity ward on the hospital's third
floor were to be locked up for
the night.
One guard was overpowered as
he worked in a linen closet, and
two others were grabbed as they
walked down a hallway. All were
locked in a cell.
Dr. Dean Brooks, the hospital
superintendent, said the four in
mates were armed with a ham
mer and two screwdrivers, but
did not injure the guards.
With keys obtained from the
guards, the four inmates then
went to a food elevator on the
floor and unlocked its door.
They started downward, appar
ently toward the hospital base
ment, where the windows have no
Dars.
But the elevator, loaded far be
yond its capacity, stalled between
floors. The men were trapped.
Meanwhile, back on the third
floor, another patient who had
seen the guards subdued, smashed
the glass on a fire alarm box to
summon help. -
Guards who ran to answer the
fire alarm worked 25 minutes be
fore they could get the elevator
started. The trapped inmates of
fered no resistance when freed
and were locked up in their cells.
Dr. Brooks said the elevator
offered the men their only chance
of escape from the third floor,
where the windows are barred and
the doors to stairways can he
opened only from outside the
ward.
Brooks said the men apparently
had hoped to reacFi the basement
ol the building, where escape
would have been relatively easy.
The hospital has no wall or fence.
O&C Timber Tract Sold
At Appraisal Tuesday
A small tract of green timber
containing an estimated 158,000
board feet was purchased at the
appraised value of $2,263.20 at a
Bureau of Land Management sale
here Tuesday.
The tract, purchased by James
Watson, is along the Susan Creek
tributary to the North Umpqua
River.
On Sept. 6. the BLM will sell
four tracts of timber containing
some 9,014,000 board feet at
the
I Knights of Pythias Hall here.
one with the Soviets. First they
ofter economic and military aid,
he continued: then they penetrate
the receiving country with their
agents, and they find stooges to
take over the country for them.
How far this process has gone
in Syria, Eisenhower said he does
not know.
Asked specifically whether he
considers this a deliberate Soviet
effort to take over the strategical
ly located Middle Eastern coun
try. Eisenhower replied:
He thinks that is the ultimate
aim of what is happening. The
aim is kept under cover, of course,
as the situation develops. They
the Soviet Communists appeal
to the spirit of nationalism. When
tinner that one should always give
ms enemy a line of retreat if pos-
sible. This implied that Eison-
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$215,906,500
AEC Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON, I The House
Appropriations Committee Wed
nesday slashed $215,906,500 from
the Atomic Energy Commission's
request for $2,485,625,000 for op
erating expenses and construction
for the current nscal year.
Much of the building program
was authorized only Tuesday in a
352 million dollar AEC construc
tion bill. Some of the cash goes
into a new program of govern
ment-built power reactors opposed
by the administration.
The reduction of almost 9 per
cent did not affect the AEC's raw
materials, special nuclear mater
ials. weapons and community op
orations programs. More than
half of the cut was in the nature
of a bookkeeping transaction.
If the House sustains the com
mittee's recommendations during
consideration of the AEC money
bill later in the day, it will boost
beyond $5,400,000,000 the total of
House-voted cuts in regular ap
propriation bills this year. ' These
cuts were imposed on total ad
ministration requests for about 72
President Willing
To Sign Compromise
Civil Rights Bill
WASHINGTON, Mt President
Eisehnower said Wednesday he is
willing to accept a compromise
civil rights bill which includes ef
fective enforcement of voting
rights.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference he expects Republican
House leaders to offer a com
promise proposal Wednesday or
Thursday.
Eisenhower did not spell out
the terms of this proposal. But
he said it would represent a posi
tion between the one he took orig
inally and the Senate's version of
the civil rights bill.
The Senate stripped from a
measure recommended by the ad
ministration and passed by the
House a section under which the
attorney general would have been
empowered to seek federal court
orders to enforce eivu rights in
general.
In response to a question, Eis
enhower said he is not now advo
cating that any portion of that
section be put back into the bill.
The bill has been stalemated in
the House, with rival. Republi
can and Democratic groups play
ing a waiting game. Both groups
maintain they want some kind
of civil rights legislation, but they
disagree on what form it should
take.
Eisenhower's comment indicat
ed that some GOP move at ending
the deadlock is planned shortly
Roseburg School Board
Meeting Is Rescheduled
The Roseburg school board's
meeting originally scheduled
Thursday night to open bids on a
sewer line nas Dcen moved up lo
Thursday afternoon because of
other commitments of board mem
bers in the evening.
The meeting will be held at 2
p.m. at Central Junior High
school, rncy will open bids for ex
tension of a sewer on Northeast
Diamond Lake Boulevard. Supt,
M. C. Deller said the special meet'
ing would last about 30 minutes.
EIGHT MINERS KILLED
CALTANISSETTA, Italy I
Eight miners were killed and 11
injured in an explosion yesterday
deep in the Trahbie-Tallarita sul
phur mine here. Six of the injured
were in critical condition and not
expected to survive.
tion is not beyond recall from the
American point of view.
Eisenhower dealt also with
these other matters:
CIVIL RIGHTS Republican
congressional leaders Eisenhower
said, are ready with a proposal
designed to break the stalemate
over civil rights legislation. Ei
senhower made it clear the GOP
plan has his approval, but he de
clined to go into detail.
CONGRESS Eisenhower said
he is tremendously disappointed
in the record to date of the Democratic-controlled
85th Congress.
Asked whether he blames Dem
ocrats or Republicans for that si
tuation. Eisenhower simply re
plied that to the extent members
of Congress have voted against
his program, they are to blame
for what he considers Its disap
pointing performance.
Eisenhower also was asked
whether he blames the situation
on the constitutional ban against
a third presidential term. He re
plied he feels that was not the
decisive factor. As for whether he
regrets having run for a second
term, the answer on that is no,
the President said.
ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1957
Slashed From
billion 'dollars in new appropria
tions in 16 bills.
The Senate has passed 13 of
the bills, involving requests for
about 64 billion dollars, and has
imposed cuts totaling three bill
ion. The House committee made rel
atively small reductions in the
AEC request for new funds for
physical research, reactor devel
opment, biology and medicine pro
grams and program direction and
administration.
The biggest cut, 157 million dol
lars, was effected by reducing
from six to three months the pro
financing period for facility oper
ating contracts. In past years the
committee has permitted the
AEC to finance these operations
six months into the next fiscal
year. Wednesday it said the ad
vance financing should be held to
three months.
Another cut of 27 million dol
lars was made in the industry co
operative program for which the
commission had requested 30 mill
ion dollars. The committee said
projects in the third round of this
program have not been specifical
ly authorized. It emphasized that
it favors the program and is will
ing to approve appropriations as
soon as plans are more definite.
The committee refused 1V4 mill
ion dollars requested for the pow
er Reactor Development Lo. pro
ject near Detroit.
It approved 3 million as request
ed for planning and engineering
work on a natural uranium, gas
cooled power reactor in Idaho.
similar to the British plant at Cat
der Hall. It cut from 3 million to
2 million the authorization bill':
allotment for advance planning for
a large scale reactor lor the pro
duction of special nuclear mater
ials at Hanlord, Wash.
Also approved was 4 million dol
lars for premininary work on a
Plutonium recycling reactor at
Hanford.
The committee put its okay on
the program of AEC aid to co
operatives and other public power
groups in obtaining atomic power.
While the committee rejected
the proposal for 1V millions for
the Power Reactor Development
Co. project, it approved the use of
the same amount by the AEC for
fast breeder reactor research
work in its own facilities in con
nection with the Michigan opera
tion. For plant acquisition and equip
ment, the committee approved
$103,162,500, a cut of $11,462,500
which it said would not interfere
with progress.
It approved use of available
funds for transfer of the commis
sion's headquarters irom Washing
ton to its new offices in German
town, Md.
In consideration of the authori
zation bill, the big fight was over
the power reactors.
Glide Lumber
In Bankruptcy
Glide Lumber Co. took the first
steps toward filing for voluntary
bankruptcy this week, according
to James Evans, manager. The
company has asked Eugene attor
neys Luvaas and Cobb to preparo
the action.
"If the mill can be disposed of
at near its worth, creditors will
not be hurt," Evans said. The
company does not have enough li
quid assets to cover its obligations,
he reported.
The company has been losing
money lor several months, accord
ing to Evans. Last week the com
pany agreed to pay a 5 cent per
hour Increase to union workers.
Evans said the move was taken
to prevent the closure of opera
tions and to assure that the com
pany would be able to load and
ship lumber already produced,
Douglas Veneer Co.
Bids Appraised Price
Douglas Veneer Co. of Roseburg
hid the appraised price lo win a
tract of 4,400,000 hoard feet of
Umpqua National Forest timber
Tuesday in a sale at the Roseburg
supervisor's office.
The company paid $114,970 for
the tract 48 miles northeast of
Roseburg. It contains 2,950,000
board feet of Douglas fir appraised
at $21.30, 1,300,000 board feet of
sugar pine appraised at $31.20 and
150.000 hoard feet of western hem
lock and other species appraised
at $8.30. The timber is included in
123 acres. '
The next Umpqua National For
est sale is scheduled Aug. 26.
Pet Skunk Stolen Here,
Reports Indignant Owner
"The animal is black with
white stripes."
This is the description given by
I Roseburg policeman ol a stolen
pet further identified as a skunk.
The owner, Art I)e Ross, 1919 NE
Diamond Lake Blvd., said the ani
mal was taken from his front yard
either Monday night or Tuesdav
morning.
It had tj be stolen, he claimed,
because the stake to which it was
tied had been pulled from the
ground. The skunk was too small
to do this, De Ross said.
Beauchamp's Death
Declared Suicide;
Motive Mystery
LONDON A coroner de
cided Wednesday that Sir Winston
Churchill's son-in-law, Antony
Beauchamp, killed himself with
sleeping tablets.
After a 19-minute inquest into
tlie death of the 39-year-old so
ciety photographer early Sunday,
the motive still was a mystery.
Some friends had hinted he was
despondent over finances.
After hearing the brief evidence.
Coroner W. Bcntley Purchase
said:
"He died from barbiturate poi
soning and I think he killed him
self. I shall return a verdict oi
suicide."
Missing from the tiny court
room was the woman Beauchamp
telephoned a few minutes before
his death, beautiful Lady Jane
Vane-Tempest-Stcwart, 24-year -old
sister of the Marquess of Lon
donderry. A friend of Lady Jane told re
porters she had asked him to at
tend the inquest and tell her about
the proceedings.
Missing also was Beauchamp's
wife, Sarah Churchill, actress
daughter of Britain's World War
11 premier.
Beauchamp married Miss Chur
chill in 1949, four years after her
first marriage to comedian Vic
Oliver ended iij divorce. Beau
champ and his wife had been liv
ing apart for the last three years.
Sarah, who has been staying re
cently with her father at his
country house, came to her sis.
ter's London home Tuesday night.
She was reported to be deeply
shocked by Beauchamp's death.
Rainfall Lack
Causes Cutback
In Stream Flow
No rain was recorded at any of
16 precipitation recording stations
for 27 of the 31 days in July, ac
cording to the latest report from
the Douglas County Water Resourc
es Survey.
Only in mid-month for three days
was any precipitation recorded.
Then on July 21, the only record
was a irace at Kosenurg.
The biggest precipitation show
ing for the month was noted at
the Marial station on the West
fork of Cow Creek. It showed .66
of an inch, total rainfall for two
days. None of the other stations
showed more than .41.
The lack of rainfall in July and
August, of course, had its effect on
the county's streams. Last week at
Tiller, the South Umpqua had drop
ped to a reading of 73 cubic feet a
second. At Winston, the reading
this week was 114 cubic feet a sec
ond. It was a drop of 23 cubic feet
a second from the previous week.
On the North Umpqua at Brown's
Bridge, the last reading was 1,030
feet a second, a drop in a week of
more than 300 cubic feet per sec
ond. Woman Investigates
Theft, Finds Culprits
A bit of investigation around
her neighborhood solved the bur
glary of her house, Mrs.- John R.
Staley, Glengary Road, Rt. 1 Box
785, told sheriff's deputies Tues
day. Mrs. Staley reported that her
house had been entered by some
one who stood on, a tricycle and
climbed through a kitchen window.
Taken were a kitchen knife and
miscellaneous items of food. Lat
er, Mrs. Staley called the sheriff's
office and said three hoys had ad
mitted entering her house.
T Mr.,
HOSPITALIZED were four persons involved in a two-cor
collision Tuesday evening one-half mile north of Glendole
Junction on Highway 99. Tho driver of the 1953 Chrysler
pictured, Roy William Koch, 53, North Bend, was taken
to Forest Glen Clinic ot Canyonville suffering from shock
ond multiple bruises. His wife, Gladys, 53, received a
fractured leg and abrasions. Driver of the other vehicle,
a 1956 Ford, was Dorothy E, Case, 48, Burlington, Wash,
She suffered o fractured arm, A passenger in the Case cor,
Alvina Edling, Mt. Vernon, Wash., received lacerations
ond abrasions. State police said the driver of the Ford
applied her brakes when a car which had just passed her
suddenly slowed. Her car went onto the shoulder of the
road and then swerved across the 'highway and hit the
northbound Koch car. The impact turned the Ford com
pletely around. (Jim Burns)
196-57 PRICE 5c
Roving Pickets
Keep 2 Dillard
Mills Closed
Roving pickets kept two mills in
Dillard closed Tuesdav and one
mill closed again today.
Picket lines were manned Tues
day morning at Round Prairie
Lumber Co., which was closed by
the roving pickets one day last
week, and Paul B. Hult Lumber,
where they returned again this
morning. The pickets were not em
ployes of the companies where they
set up their lines, according to
company sources.
Henry Weber, business manager
of union Local 2949. threatened
Monday that small mill operators
could expect to be closed down if
they did not meet the union's de
mand for a 5 cent per hour pay
increase. The union, which repre
sents workers at the companies
where pickets appeared, denied be
ing responsible for the roving pick
ets or organizing them, according
to Weber.
Union Denies
Although the union local claims
that the pickets are acting as in
dividuals, union members are ex
pected to refuse to cross their
lines, Weber said. The union will
take disciplinary action if the rov
ing pickets are disorderly or do not
have a "just cause." he claimed.
The roving picket strategy has been
used widely in other parts of the
country, according to Weber.
Workers at both companies hon
ored the picket lines. About 30
mill employes lost a day's work
at the Round Prairie company and
110 men were out at the Hult mill.
The principle of roving pickets
was explained Tuesday to a meet
ing of union members from the
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Dog Shot For 'Rabies'
III With Distemper
A small collie dog was shot and
killed Tuesday night after police
were Informed It had rabies. Later
they learned the dog had been re
ceiving treatment lor distemper
Roseburg police reports state
(hat an officer was called to 1970
W. Harvard Ave., where he found
O. T. Baker with the animal cor
ralled under a cardboard box.
The policeman stated that Baker
told him the dog had rabies and it
was disposed of with a bullet.
According to the report, the of
ficer then contacted the dog's own
er, Mrs. Molly Ellegc, 1941 W.
Harvard Ave. She said her pet
had been treated for distemper a
week ago. the officer stated. This
was confirmed by Dr. Donald E.
Bailey, 248 NE Garden Valley
Blvd.. who treated the dog, and
by William Wheeler, 3388 W. Har
vard Ave., who said he had taken
it to the veterinarian.
Runaway Cirls Caught,
Returned To Parents .
Four runaway -girls from Wins-
Ion were apprehended in Canyon
ville Monday night by local po
lice after spending one night out
in the open.
Two sisters, 14 and 15, were
turned over to their parents. The
other two, also sisters and the
same ages, were turned over to
juvenile authorities because their
parents could not be located as
they were out searching for their
daughters. The elder girl was
lodged overnight in the Douglas
County jail, while the other was
placed in a foster home. They
were returned to their parents
Tuesday.
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3 Small Mills
Agree To 2! 2
Cent Increase
Three Dillard mills signed an
agreement at about noon today
to pay a 2V4 cent per hour raise
to workers from Aug, 1 te Oct. 1,
and to meet whatever pay scale
the industry settles for in the
meantime, according to Henry
Wtber, business agent of Local
2949. ..
Paul B. Hult Lumber Co.,
Round Prairie Lumber Co., and
Mt. Bttte Lumber Co. decided te
accept the new wage after a
meeting with the union earlier
this morning. The union mem
bers are expected te ratify the
agreement, union sources said.
The agreement also states that
the companies will pay any retro
active increase that might be In
cluded in an industry settlement,
Weber reported.
The Federal Mediation and Con
ciliation Service has been called
into the talks between Roseburg
Lumber Co. and union Local 2949,
which is on strike. A meeting is
tentatively set for next Tuesday
afternoon.
About 1,500 workers have been
Ollt since last Alnnrlav niffht ot-
the struck plant and Douglas .Ve
neer i-o., a auDsiaiary wnicn tne
company closed and has been un
able to re-open because of pickets.
"This meeting was called at the
request of the union," an official
nf the mprlinllnn Gai-vina q1 In.
day. The agency has been in con
tact with both union and manage
ment since me siruce Began. Com
missioner LeRoy Smith of the
Portland nffire will ho iho folAral
concilliator at the meeting.
Union representatives met this
morning with the management of
Paul R Hull I nmhor r Ml
Bettee Lumber Co., and Round
Prairie Lumber Co. Proposals for
a settlement were offered at the
mcctintf. . hut nn Hefinlln ncfrpo.
ment was reached, sources report-
ea. ine managers ot tne com
panies plan to meet again Uiis aft
ernoon. In talks with Rosehtire T.nmhAi
Co., the union plans to complain
of certain pressure for increased
production and work standards
and the use of efficiency experts
ana quaniy controls, according to
Henry Weber, union business
agent.
The union Hid nnt hrintr nn thpea
issues in previous negotiations with
the company, reported Eugene
Card, one of the members of the
company negotiation team.
Grass And Brush
Fires Burn Over
Big Area Tuesday
Big grass and brush fires at
opposite ends of the county whip
ped over 450 acres Tuesday be
fore they were controlled by
Douglas Forest Protective Assn.
crews and other fire fighters.
The biggest was at Hardscrab
ble Creek five miles west of Drain
on Highway 38. It covered some
250 acres before it was controlled
after four hours of fighting. The
uri-A crew at tne Elk Creek
station stopped it with the aid of
a crew of men who had been burn
ing under a permit. The fire es
caped while land was being burned
under the permit. The name
of the permittee was not imme
diately known.
1 lie fire was lined today and
was being mopped up by DFPA
crews. It had burned over grass,
brush and some slash. No tim
ber was threatened.
At about the same time, another
fire kept three fire fighting de
partments busy at the south city
limits of Myrtle Creek along High
way 99.
It was estimated about 200 acres
were burned over before crews
from the DFPA, Myrtle Creek
Fire Department and the Tri -City
Fire Department brought the
fire under Control late Tuesday
afternoon.
Only grass and brush was burn
ed, but the fire raced through a
prune orcnara witnoul setting the
trees afire.
Bruce Ferguson of the DFPA
said he thought the fire had start
ed in the prune orchard possibly
Dy youngsters wno were Known
to be picking blackberries in the
area. Ho told correspondent Ruth
M, Evans the fire could have
been serious had there been a
high wind.
Midget Racer Driver, 14,
Banned From City Streets
The 14-year-old driver of a home
made midget racing car was warn
ed by Roseburg police Tuesday
that he could not drive It on city
streets or alloys.
The warning came after a wom
an complained that boys were dis
turbing the quiet of the neighbor
hood with the racer. The drivei,
Gary L. Person, 1662 SE Jackson
St., said he and his dad had just
huilt the car and he was trying
it out.
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
Oregon hotels, lamenting a
heavy slump in business this
year, point an explanatory
ringer at motels, trailer
houses, and freeways. They
urge greater promotional
efforts, which, however would
n't hurt said competitors a bit
d long at the fish are biting.
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