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l The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Intercoast Flying Contest On After Challenge Accepted The inlcr-coasl flying contest is on. A telegram and telephone call were received today by radio sta tion KVES from Silver Springs, lid., station WGAY, accepting a challenge to stage a flying duel be!wcen representatives from both stations. The competition will determine which of the two men can learn to solo an airplane first. Confident In a telegram to KYES today, General Manager Joe Brechner of WGAY said he was confident his candidate would win. Johnny Hucldleston, KYES radio news director, will represent Rose burg, and Chuck Dulane, WGAY program director, will be the Maryland candidate. The challenge stakes suggested from Roscburg was a Tallamook cheese wheel against a brace of Maryland geese. Brechner said he would keep his eye peeled for geese flying south, but might have to settle for "Chesapeake Bay oy sters" if his man loses. Rulas Arranged John Cooley. publicity director of WGAY, today called KYES to set up the rules of the contest. It was decided that each man would take complete Civil Aeronautics Authority courses and actual time in the air as clocked by stop watches will determine the win ner. Cooley said the event was getting considerable newspaper recognition in the East. The contest will start at 7:30 a.m. Monday. Taking Huddleston through the paces will be Rose hurg Airport Manager Richard Beverly. The contest is designed to show the safety of flying, Huddleston said. It is being held in conjunc tion with National Air Safety Month. It was reported late this morn ing that State Sen. Daniel Dimick had issued a request to Gov. Rob ert Holmes to come to the airpo-t Monday to wish Huddleston luck. It was also reported that the event will be given coverage from Port land and Eugene. Girl Found Lodged Between Buildings PROVIDENCE, R.I. Wi Little Eileen Fancy, lodged all night in a tiny space between two build ings within a block of her home, was found Thurpday alive and ap parently unhurt. The 3H-year-oId child was first spotted by a neighbor from the second story of a nearby dwell ing. A crowd of more than 500, searchers and neighbors, cheered wildly when workmen broke through the last section ot a wall and freed the child. More than 200 searchers had hunted through the Fox Point ten ement district during the night for Eileen, who was reported missing Wednesday afternoon. Police theorized Eileen became lodged in the crack between a ga rage and a barbershop while fol lowing a cat. Neighbors reported seeing Ei leen with a cat shortly before her disappearance. The search was called by po lice the biggest in the city's his tory. More than 200 policemen were joined by hundreds of vol unteers. 12-Year-Old Boy Drowns At Junturi Reservoir JUNTURA, Ore. I Bill Lav engcr, 12, drowned Wednesday while his brother and a ranch foreman tried to reach him in a reservoir at his father's ranch 22 miles from Juntura. The boy's brother, Jerry, and Foreman Jess Smythe were build ing a fence nearby when they heard Bill's cries for help. They arrived at the scene ton late to help. The boy had been swimming alone. He was the son of Ross II. Lav enger. AGENT TRANSFERRED PORTLAND tfl Joseph San toiana Jr., agentin-charge of the Portland FBI office since 1954. has been transferred to Springfield, 111., the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation said Wednesday. Santoiana will replace W. G. Williams as head of the Spring field office. Williams will take Santoiana's place here. IT'S SO EASY RIDE THE Roseburg City Bus ram 3 TO Junk Batteries Rodiaton ' Brail Scrap Metal ROSEBURG See Now While the Price is High Cloud Saturday Optn Sundoy hind Cardinal Tlra en No. Srophini tiono ORchard 1 6341 Ore. Thuri. Aug. 22, 19S7 FESTIVAL GUESTS of the Oregon Federation of Square Dance Clubs include Clyde Charters of Salem, left, who will be master of ceremonies at the dance Friday night; and Mel Stricklett of Portland, right, who will be in charge Saturday night. Cost Of Living Goes Up 1 Per Cent During July WASHINGTON lPI - The cost of living rose 'a of 1 per cent during July, the government re ported Thursday. It was the 11th consecutive monthly advance. Food prices rose by 1 per cent, the Labor Department said, and carried the consumer price index to a new record at 120.8 per cent of the 1947-49 level. A department spokesman said about 1,300,000 workers will get wage increases of 1 to 6 cents, with the bulk of them getting a 3 cent an hour raise. These are workers whose pay contracts have an escalator clause tied to the index. Food prices went seven tenths of 1 per cent above the previous record peak of August, 1952, and 2.3 per cent above the lcyel of a vear aEo. Food makes up about 30 per cent of the government s con sumer price index. For all other items, the government noted a de cline of about one-tilth ot 1 per cent. Factory workers had more take home pay in July, the Labor Department said, but lost it to the higher cost of living. Average spendable earnings of factory production workers moved up by 15 per cent from June to July, the department said. These earnings are calculated on what a worker has after income, tax and social security payments. The July average was $75.46 for a worker with three dependents and $08.05 for a worker without de pendents. Senate Rejects Compromise Bill For Construction WASHINGTON lift The Sen ate rejected Thursday compro mise version of a $1,734,011,917 money bill carrying chiefly new funds for military construction in this country and overseas. The hill, passed by the House Wednesday, now goes back to a conference with the House for an other attempt to reach agreement on a second airport here and an other disputed item. The senate reiuscci io accepi a House allowance of 12'a million dollars to start work on an air port at Burke, Va., designed to relieve congestion at Washington National Airport. The House conferees now plan to suggest a compromise making the same allowance (or an air port without specifying a location for it. There is strong opposition in the Senate to the Burke site. The other item still in dispute involves $475,000 of public works money. This includes $125,000 to deepen the channel of the Colum bia Hiver between Vancouver and The Dalles and $50,000 for plan ning of Hathhun Dam on the Char iton Hiver in Iowa. The Senate twice has tried to ...... Rn..ni r.. it,, ciTr, nnn hut I Will I1I,1I l,,l I,".- V"". I ihn Haiku alwnvt has balked. TO SEE EDSEL Gordon Smith and Frank Murphy from l.ockwood Motors in Hose burg are in Seattle. Wash., today to attend the unveiling of the now Eilsel motor car. They left today. While in Seattle, they will sec the Pattei-soii-ltademacher world's heavyweight championship tight to night. LEAVES BY AIR PARIS, i.f French Foreign Minister Christian Pmeau left Thursday by air for a two-week tour of South American capitals to seek support for the French position in the Algerian crisis. BUY Copper Scrop Iron Car Bodies of All Kinds JUNK CO. WE PICK UP IiWifi8 Figured against the cost in creases, that left buying power down by three-tenths of 1 per cent from June but still about l'a per cent above the level of a year ago. Housing costs remained stable over the month and apparel prices dropped about one-tenth of 1 per cent. The latter decline was at tributed to clearance sales of men's summer suits. The Labor Department said the July rise in the cost of living had been anticipated. July is tradi tionally a peak month in food costs. Since 1941 the index has risen 15 times during July and dropped only twice. A Labor Department spokesman hinted strongly that the cost of living is likely to stay high. He said meat supplies are at gen erally low levels, although not markedly so. He predicted very little change in food prices over the next month. Syrians Reject Assertion Made By Eisenhower DAMASCUS, Syria Wi A Sy rian Foreign Ministry official said Thursday Syria is not swerving from its policy of positive neu tralism and nonalignment with any bloc. Salah Tarazi, secretary general of the foreign ministry, rejected President Eisenhower's assertion at his news conference Wednes day that Syria is taking a pro Soviet turn. At a special news conference Thursday, Tarazi also denied Ei senhower's charge that there is censorship In Syria. Press censor ship was halted in Damascus last April, he said, and in the rest of Syria a month ago. He said statements on Syria made by President Eisenhower Wednesday were not true. Tarazi also charged that Eisen hower's call for all the free world to watch the Syrian situation was interference in Syria's internal af fairs. American concern over Syria, he said, stemmed primarily from charges here of an American plot to overthrow the Syrian regime rather than from the events which followed. The President said the charges were a smokescreen behind which persons with Leftist leanings were trying to strengthen their power in Syria. Earlier, a Syrian spokesman said the President appeared to be "misinformed" about Syria. Surrounded Firefighters Escape In 'Fire Truck JOHN DAY, Ore. i.fi Six (ire men, surrounded by crackling (lames that leaped four feet high, raced to safety Wednesday in a fire truck and an automobile. Fire thief Slan Phillips, one ot the threatened men, said the trou ble started while they were fight ing a brush fire, set by lightning, at the edge of town. Suddenly a second lightning-set (ire spread out of a nearby canyon and forced the race for safety. Phillips said the fires came with in 100 yards of one house and within 200 yards o( another in the Crisp Heights area before being checked. About (wo square miles of grass and brush burned, l.e said. Mother Shoots Her Son In Mental Hospital MAXTK.NO. 111. UP - A dis traught mother was held in j.nl today in connection with the fatal shooting yvstcrday of her 14-year-old sun in a mental hospital after she had told him to "kiss me good by." The victim, William Durant. a deaf mute, died within a ( e w minutes after being shot in the head. Sheriff .1. W l.affey said the hoy's mother Mrs. Vera Durant, 46, a widow, was too hysterical to be questioned immediately. She was quoted byMhe sheriff as say ing "I couldn't stand to see him in here " HIGHWAY LINK APPROVED PORTLAND i A state pro posal to link the PortlandSalem Expressway with S. W. Harbor Drive here was approved Wednes day by the Portland City Council Six new under. ami-over passes will be constructed. ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL 37 tiy 44 inch THROW RUGS . 3.49 North Douglas County: Fair Slated Aug. 2? Through 31; Brenda Wilson To Be Queen The heavy round of Douglas County community celebrations for the summer comes to an end Aug. 29 through 31 with the stag ing of the annual North Douglas County Fair at Drain. Reigning over the big show dur ing the three days will be Queen Brenda Wilson, a 17-year-old se nior at Drain High School. Her court consists of princesses Phyl lis DeLaunay of Curtin, Gay Mc Donald of Elkton, Shirley Wertz of Drain and Susan Cowan of Yon calla. Reynolds To MC Red Reynolds, himself a North Douglas County product, will re turn as master of ceremonies. He was also master of ceremonies at the Yoncalla Rodeo July 4. Rey nolds is a western personality who appears daily on KVAL Eugene and KPIC Roseburg. Television promotion of the event on KPIC starts this week. Today, Laura Watson will be Rey nold's special guest The young girl will sing as well as report on the fair. Saturday selected personalities who will appear on a talent show at the fair will make their bows on the television station. These are merely preliminaries to the big weekend, starting Aug. 29. Beside the host of entries available for viewing at the fair, several special events have been scheduled. Pr Show Plsnned The Drain Lions have taken on one of the special projects, a pet show. Cash prizes will be award ed the biggest, smallest, best tamed, best of breed and most unusual pets, as well as those with the longest and shortest tails. This pet show gets under way Thornton Advises Gasoline Dealers To Take Case To DA SALEM ifl Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton advised Governor Holmes Thursday that retail gas oline dealers should direct their complaints against the major oil companies to the county district attorneys. The Oregon Gasoline Dealers Assn. has charged that the oil companies have started gasoline prrce wars that are ruining some independent dealers. Thornton advised the governor that there are two criminal stat utes that apply, but that only the district attorneys could bring suits under these laws. However, if the governor should ask Thornton to step in, then ho also would have power to sue the oil companies. One law prohibits cutting of gas oline prices when it lessens, in jures, hinders or destroys compe tition. The maximum penally is $5,0(10 fine and a year in jail. The other law prohibits all retail sales at less than cost when it hurts competition. The top penalty is $500 fine and six months in jail. The dealers association asked the governor Monday (or help. It said that the oil companies discrimin ate among dealers in the prices they charge. The association also said that many dealers will be forced out of business by current practices. Gov. Holmes agreed that either Thornton or he would telegraph the oil companies that they would be liable to prosecution if the charges were substantiated. The dealers told the governor that the price wars have reduced the retail margin o' profit to the point where they can't make money. Military Pay Change Proposed WASHINGTON W-Srn. Syming ton (D-Mo) said today congress ional approval of the new military pay plan proposed by Ralph J. Cordiner would "certainly end the peacetime draft." Cordiner. president of General Electric Co., testified Wednesday that an end of conscription and annual savings of five billion dollars could result from the dras tic overhaul o( present military pay. Cordiner headed a special pres idential commission winch has pro posed revising present scales to permit substantial pay increases for technicians and skilled per sonnel who have been quitting the armed services in large numbers. Secretary of Defense Wilson and other top administration leaders who originally asked for the study have deferred action on most of it. Cordiner told the subcommittee a key principle o( (he proposal would be to pay military men "(or what they (io and what they know, not for how long they have been around." Cordiner said the biggest waste now in the multihillion-dollar de fense outlays is the rapid loss o( trained technicians and junior of ficers who find better pay and a more attractive life as civilians. AJuIti y V - ii.'ti N i) Aug. 31 at 2 p.m. The show is Cpen to children up to 12 years old. A parade is also scheduled that day. Merchants and organizations wishing to enter floats in the pa rade may do so by contacting Richard Duncan at the Duncan Lumber Co. at Yoncalla. At least five dances are on tap. A dance has been slated for teen agers each of the three days the fair runs. Another dance will be highlighted by the crowning of Queen Brenda and the talent show. Music will be furnished for the last dance by the Timberjacks of Roseburg. The fifth dance will ring down the curtain on the fair Saturday night. Wayne Wagner's orchestra from Roseburg will play for this event. During the intermission of the final dance, a 500-pound baby beef and three turkeys will go to win ners of contests. Promotion Denied James Stewart In Air Force Reserve WASHINGTON I The Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday rejected the nomination of film actor James Stewart for promotion to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Chairman Russell (D-Ga) said the committee action is "without prejudice" and Stewart's name may be resubmitted next year. Stewart now is a reserve colonel. Also rejected was a similar pro motion from reserve coionel to brigadier general tor John B. Alontgomery, who resigned two years ago as a major general in the Strategic Air Command and became a reserve colonel. Promotions for nine other Air Force officers, including three brigadiers to major general ' and five colonels to brigadier, won ap proval. The nine nominations now go to (he Senate for expected confirma tion. Passed over by the committee Thursday was President Eisen hower's nomination of Dr. Paul D. Foote, 69-year-old retired Gulf Oil Company scientist, for assist ant secretary of Defense in charge of research and engineering. Foote told the committee he is unwilling to give up his oil com pany pension or to sell his -stocks in Gulf Oil and Standard Oil Co. of California. Russell said the committee will take no action on this nomination pending policy decisions on "con flicts of interests." Russell said Foote, frequently used as a consultant on defense projects, probably could be given a recess appointment after con gress quits. The committee approved the nomination of Richard D. Jackson of Medlord, Mass. for assistant secretary of the Navy in charge of manpower, personnel and re serves. The fight against the promotion of Stewart was led by Sen. Mar garet Chase Smith (R-Maine). She has held it up for months, con tending the actor, and some others on the list did not properly fulfill reserve training requirements. No Settlement In Arms Race Seen At Present WASHINGTON (jTr-U.S. officials expect Ihe London disarmament talks to recess in about two weeKs without agreement for ending the East-West arms race. President Eisenhower's new concession to Russia on suspend ing nuclear tests is regarded here as improving the Western posi tions for negotiating and propa ganda. But it does not appear to have broken the basic deadlock. A White House statement Wednesday announced Western readiness to accept conditionally a two-year-instead of a 10-month-sus-pension of tests. This statement implied thai the Soviet Union must now make concessions. There have been no indications the Soviet Union will make any important gesture soon. On the contrary, Soviet Dele gate Valerian Zonn told Ameri can, British, French and Canadian representatives Wednesday that i( (hey intend seriously to end nu clear tests they must renounce the link between that Issue and the Western demand (or an agreement to stop production ot atomic ex plosions (or military purposes. TYPHOON PASSES OVER SEOUL iji Typhoon Agnes, with much of its force spent, moved on toward Siberia today after battering the southern lip of Korea. The storm hit Korea yesterday and left at least 6 persons dead. 11 missing. 2.000 homeless and damages estimated at SfiOO.OOO. A U.S. military spokesman said there were no American casualties. RCA World't Championship RODEO SAT. & SUN. 2:30 P.M. Bigtimt Rodeo At It'l Beit! $1.00 KiJt S0 lot Sti $1.50 FAIR SWEEPSTAKES WINNER in Douglas County Fair, Mrs. receives a portable sewing from Gole Jakel, owner of Roseburg. Brewster Draws Year In Jail, $1,000 Fine (Continued from page one) linked by other witnesses with rackets in Portland, Ore., entered a general denial before the rack ets committee. Brewster was one of four per sons indicted on contempt of Con gress charges for refusing to testify before the investigations subcommittee. Nugent LaPoma, 48, 'secretary treasurer of Teamsters Local No. 174, Seattle, was convicted of con tempt July 31 by Federal District Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut. He received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and a S500 fine. LaPoma served notice of appeal to higher courts. Finer O. Mohn, a vice presi dent of the Teamsters, and Harry Reiss, an administrator of the wel fare trust fund of New York Lo cal No. 277 of the Allied Indus trial Workers, are awaiting trial on contempt charges. In asking probation for Brewster, Atty. John K. PicKens said that any obstructions Brewster might have placed in the way of investi gation were completely removed when he turned over all of the union records and answered ques tions put to him by the new spe cial rackets committee. Pickens said Brewster acted in absolute good faith and said his subsequent conduct before the Rackets Committee bore this out. Judge Sirica said, however, that in his opinion Brewster's conduct before the subcommittee was "a deliberate contempt on the part of the defendant." Wire Taps Link Hoffa, Johnny Dio In Cab Fix (Continued from page one) did get Teamsters charters in late 1935. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) tried without much luck to get Hoffa to explain some of the points in the recorded exchanges with Dio. For the most part, Hoffa said in response to point-by-point ques tions that he didn't quite recall what various portions o( the talks meant. "Well, there is a relationship there that gives this committee some concern," McClellan said. "Dio is not a very popular fellow in some circles." "He wasn't then." Hoffa replied. "But I could see no reason to he hesitant to be seen with Dio to work out a problem concerning the Teamsters Union." That prompted counsel Kenne dy tn rppl off n Innir licl nf primi. nal charges brought against Dio before that period. Louis Denies Being Paid To Be At Trial (Continued From Page One) were used to pay Louis an ap pearance fee. I Hof(a was charged in his recent , trial with seeking to bribe John Cye Cheasty. a lawyer-invesliga- j lor (or Ihe Senate committee, to steal committee secrets and pass them to Hoffa. Louis dropped into the court room during the trial to sec, as j he put it to reporters, "how my (riend Jimmy" was doing. It was developed in the com mittee's hearings Wednesday that boxer Louis' hotel expenses, while in Washington, had been charged to the Teamsters Union. Carmine Bellino, a committee accountant, read a long list of persons he said were here at some time during the ilolfa (rial and whose bills, amounting to a total of about $9,000, were charged to the Teamsters Union. BUSINESS TRAINING is a lifetime investment Start yours Today! ' ,l the textiles division at the Ray Wright of Days Creek, machine as a special prize the Necci Sewing Circle in Boy, 2, Rescued From Test Well After 5 Hours BIG RIVES. Sask. I-A 2-year-old boy playing on his grandmoth er's farm tumbled into a 17-foot well test hole at suppertime last night. Five hours later volunteer rescue workers brought him out through a hastily dug parallel ex cavation. Little Kimdale Smith was report ed bv doctors to be in "very good condition" after being pinned by the shoulders in the (ootwidc hole. His feet were free to move in two inches of water. Nurses said the lad was cheer ful despite the experience that kept him wailing while his mother talked to him from the lop of the hole. He was wearing only short pants and she told him to kick his legs to keep warm in the chill ing night air of west central Can ada. Approximately 100 volunteers with shovels and two digging ma chines answered police siren alarms and came to the (arm about a mile north of this lumbering and fishing town of 900 persons. The test hole was dug in prepar ation for sinking a well on the farm. Kim disappeared about sup pertime and his crying was heard half an hour later from the bottom of the well. Demonstrations Against Negro Family Subside LEVITTOWN, Pa. Iffi There were signs today that the week long demonstrations against the first Negro family in this eastern Pennsylvania housing develop ment were nearing an end. For the first time in nine nights, no crowds gathered last night to voice their protest over the pres ence of William E. Myers Jr. and his family. i State Police Maj. William Ruch I said violence might be at end, jbut his men will remain as long as necessary. DIANA CRAIG'S lt.rr vo l,v ,,, , love Ihe.f new nun k f 1. 1, ;.,, sleeve,! , It sleeved pullover or ran jean fllr.n. , 'all colors in n,r. tl i in colors in ,r 31 t0 .((), The Cardigan 3s-9 Church Activities Lutheran Churches Will Have Student Speaker Sunday Glen Olson, student of theology, will conduct both services of St! Paul's Lutheran Church Sunday while the pastor, Rev. Walter A, Sylwester, is on vacation. Olson will serve as discussion leader of the adult Bible class which meets at 9:45 a.m. and speak at the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services. He will also conduct the service of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church at Tri-City, about three miles south of Myrtle Creek. This service will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Veteran's Me morial Hall on highway 99. Air. Olson will leave next week for Springfield, 111., to enroll as a student of theology in Concordia Theological Seminary of the Luth eran Church Missouri Synod, to prepare himself for the ministry. While living in Roseburg he served as youth leader of St. Paul's, and also served on its Sunday school staff. Lookingglass Church Slates Guest Speaker Roy E. Allen of Glendale will be guest speaker at the Looking glass Church Sunday evening at 7:30. He is associated with the Wy elilfe Bible Translators and will show colored slides of the work in the jungle camp in Ecudor. Allen, his wife and small son, expect to go to Ecudor in the near future where he will have charge of the sawmill fo tile Translators in the establishment of their jun gle camp. He will also assist with the evangelistic work among the natives, reports correspondent Ha zel S. Marsh. Dio Pleads Innocent To Evasion Of Taxes NEW YORK t Johnny Dio, a central figure in the Senate in quiry into labor rackets, pleaded innocent in Federal District Court Thursday to a charge of evading $20,169 in income taxes. Theodore Ray. described by the prosecution as his bodyguard, also pleaded innocent to evading taxes of $407. Dio's court session came as James R. Hoffa, a Teamster Un ion vice president, appeared on the witness stand in Washington before a Senate committee inquir- ing into his relationship with Dio. I Dio. convicted last month of i bribery in a labor case, is con- ! lined to city prison awaiting sen tence on that charge Sept. 5. While no bail was set in Dio's income tax case. Ray was con- jlinued in $15,000 bail and was al lowed to remain free pendin; i trial. 643 S. E. Jackson St. Phone OR 3-7478 , J I i ' ,rln dealer, in short .n l n "lr- 1 lie vcrv newest The Pullover 29.9 - Out (II 1'T!-t MODERN Ve'Jsl V 71 h f J'.S I I. 0.1 C 11)1 ROSEBURG AUGUST 22 to 25 4
