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Urgent Defense Requests
Get Unanimous Senate Okay
WASHINGTON (AP) The Sen-,
ate has given unanimous support
to two of President Kennedy's ur
gent defense requests.
Party lines dissolved Friday as
the Senate passed in rapid succes
sion: Authorization for $975,570,000 for
quick delivery of new missiles,
ships and planes. The vote was
81-0.
Authority to hold fighting men
or units on duty an extra year
and to call up to 250,000 rcserv
ists to active duty. The vote was
75-0.
Senate Itcnublican Leader Ev
erett M. Dirkscn of Illinois had
County WCTU
To Raise Funds
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union of Douglas County is
making plans to help raise money
to rebuild the chapel at me cnu
dren's Farm Home at Corvallis,
It burned recently.
This was the ma jor action taken
at the 69th annual convention of
the county unit at Yoncalla this
WOtien Doors to Total Abstin
ence" was the theme of the meet
ing which was well attended at
Iho Church of Christ.
County President Mrs. C. N. Cur
rier of Florence and recently of
Roseburg, presided.
Rsnort Givan
Reports were given by each of
the four unions in the county, Yon
calla, Lookingglass, Roseburg Cen
tral and Wcstside itoscnurg.
A potluck luncheon was held dur
ins the noon hour.
The afternoon session was open
ed with a solo by Louise Gale.
The devotions were given by the
Rev. Valeria Cleveland, followed
by a duct by Mrs. Jeanctte Bou-
cock and Mrs. Clyde 1'owen.
Officers were all re-elected. They
Include: president, Mrs. C. N. Cur
rier; vice president, Mrs. A. L.
Wren; secretary, Rev. Valeria L.
Cleveland; treasurer, Mrs. Arthur
Marsh.
Magaiirw Ordered
It was voted to again order Tho
Young Crusader magazine sent to
all elementary schools in the coun
ty for the school year.
Because the recent loss of the
chapel by fire at the Children's
Farm Home at Corvallis, members
of each union will assist in the
financial program necessary to re
build this church building. A total
of 145 children are making their
home there at the present time.
Any member not present may call
the president of her union for
more information.
Greetings were sent from tho
rnnvention to Mrs. Ada Thompson,
who was quite ill and unable to
attend. 1 '
Accused Cow Stealer
Requests Court Hearing
' William Charles Smirl, 22, Drain,
has been committed to the Doug
las County jail, with bail set at
$3,000, to await a preliminary hear
ing Aug. 7 in the court of Justice
of Peace Warren Del.aVergne at
Drain. Smirl, charged with lar
ceny of a cow, asked for the hear
ing on arraignment.
Don Lewis Rhodes, 2.1, Disston,
has been committed to the county
jail after being bound over to tha
Grand Jury by ltccdsport Justice
of the Peace Orin B. Collier. He
is charRed with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
Thomas Joe Thrasher, 23, ol
Roseburg, has been committed to
the county jail for 10 days and
fined $50 on a charge of attempting
to commit larceny. He was sen
tenced by Justice of Peace waru
Watson at Sutherlin.
James Robert Burton, 19, Gres-
ham, is serving 10 days in the
county jail, committed from the
Justice of Peace court of Nina
Pietzold at Canyonvillc. He was
charged with vagrancy.
Deer Meat Proves Costly
Stale Police game enforcement
officers reported they found deer
meat hidden in a radio at the
homo of Donald Dean Pulley, 23, of
325 Gregory St. Winston.
Friday, District Judge Gerald It
Hayes sentenced Pulley to 30 days
in the Douglas County jail and
fined him $150 and $5 qosls on a
plea of guilty to illegal possession
of a game animal. Ho was ar
rested Friday.
GILBERT TO CALL
Ernie Gilbert will be guest call
er at the Ituckcroo's dance tonight
at 9 o'clock at the Buekoroo Barn
near Winchester. AU square danc
ers are invited.
Outside Directors Take
DETROIT (AP) - Outside di
rectorsmen who hold no man
agement positions with the com
pany have taken control of the
Chrysler Corp. for the first time
since the late Waller Chrysler
founded the auto firm in 1925.
Following a meeting in New
York recently the corporation
announced the resignation of L. L.
(Tex) Colbert as chairman, pres
ident, chief executive officer,
chief operating officer and di
rector. The directors installed Lynn A.
Townsend as president and abol
Ore. Sat, July 29, 1961
urged unanimous Senate votes on
'the bills "to show Soviet Premier
Khrushchev we mean business.
Earlier Friday the House Armed
Services Committee approved the
measures by a 37-0 vote. Chairman
Cal Vinson, D-Ga., said he would
ask House action early next week.
The additional $3,454,600,000 re
quested by Kennedy to strengthen
conventional fighting forces was
tacked onto the regular annual de
fense money bill by a Senate Ap
propriations subcommittee.
Sen. A. Willis Robertson, D-Va.,
manager for the money bill, said
senators had agreed to withold de
tails until the full Appropriations
Committee gives its approval Tues
day. But other senators said the com
mittee not only put in all of the
President's latest requests but also
tacked on $1 billion more of de
fense items.
Reported approved was $525 mil
lion to continue production of long
range B52 bombers and $448 mil
lion to push development of B70
supersonic bombers as a complete
weapon system.
Kennedy and Secretary of uc
fense Robert S. McNamara had
asked no funds to continue jet
bomber production and recom
mended that the B70 be limited to
an experimental prototype aircraft
rather than a complete weapons
svstcm
These extra funds would push the
current fiscal defense outlay up
above $47 billion.
Despite the unanimous senate
votes, there were sharp protests
that the European Allies Britain,
France and West Germany were
not carrying their share of the
added burdens.
"We must force our Allies to do
their share," Sen. Allen J. Ellen
der, D-La., a long-time foe of for
eign aid, said.
Sen. John Stcnnis, D-Miss., pro
Talking Parrot Shouts
'Hey, Baldy' At Judge
WIMBLEDON, England (AP)-
Smokey, a talking parrot, was
hauled Into court Friday as ex
hibit No. I. Gazing around the
august assembly, he shouted,
Hello, Baldy" at one or. the
magistrates.
Told to "shut up" by a red
faced court official, Smokey re
torted in strident cockney tones:
"cor blimey."
Still, he did have some respect
for the law and was reasonably
well behaved. But when his case
ended, he again burst into full
voice with a shrilled "Oh, I have
been a good boy" and gave a wolf
whistle at an attractive police
woman.
Tho narrot had been in police
custody for a week since Ken
neth Hoskyns, 17, was accused
of stealing it from his father.
The youth was ordered held in
custody for medical reports.
Smokey was returned to ins
owner.
Skunk Invades Stage
Gf Kansas City Show
KANSAS CITY (AP)-A skunk
Invaded the backstage at Kansas
City's Starlight Theater during a
rehearsal. Genevieve, me nery
night club and television singer
from France, said she'd walk out
of the show if he was harmed.
Tho outdoor theater in Swope
Park Is a favorite prowling area
for skunks after the nightly per
formances. This bold one ap
peared by daylight.
Genevieve arrived on the scene
as a man from an exterminating
company was ministering to the
skunk with a bottle that, nan a
skull and crossbnnes on its label.
Genevieve exploded in French
and her almost unintelligible Eng
lish. She calmed down when it
was explained that the skunk was
only being put to sleep for pur
poses of removal,
Local Men Plead Guilty
To Drunkenness Charges
Two Roseburg men pleaded guil
ty to drunkenness charges m Win
ston Municipal Court Friday, and
both were fined by Cily Judge 11.
J. Kieve.
Ernest Bilger of 1532 SW Austin
ltd. was charged with drunken
driving. Ho was found guilty and
fined $200.
Meanwhile, Denny Cox, 39, Rose
burg, was charged with being
drunk in an auto. He was fined
$25 and is being held in tho Doug
las County jail in lieu of payment
of the fine.
Both men were arrested by city
policeman Steve Mathews.
ished tho rest of Colbert's jobs,
even to reducing the number of
board members by one to 17.
For Colbert they created a new
post chairman of the board of
Chrysler of Canada, Ltd. This
will enable him to keep his stock
options (45.000 shares at $52 49 a
share, slightly above the present
market price) and to remain eli
gible for his Chrvsler pension
($92,250 a year when he retires
nine years hence.)
The action came exactly one
year after Chrysler disclosed it
hid fired its previous president,
tested that European partners
were spending relatively less' of
their incomes on defense than the
United States.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.,
agreed that European Allies must
contribute more.
Referring to the build-up of non
nuclear forces, Russell said he
doesn't "think we should give any
impression" that the United States
would limit itself to a convention
al weapons defense.
"We once said we wouldn't be
the first to use the atomic bomb,"
Russell said. That, he added, gives
the Russians an advantage.
The reserve call-up bill was pass
ed without a proposed "lump sum
incentive payment" sought by Sen.
Francis Case, R-S.D., for those
volunteering for 12 months duty.
Case, in his amendment, also pro
posed extra pay for all men called
up under the build up program,
whether they volunteered or not
It was shouted down.
Russell, floor manager for the
bill, said Case's proposal would
"clutter up the bill and would be
costly and cumbersome."
Pan-Am Jet Makes
Emergency Landing
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
A Pan American World Air
ways jet airliner with 174 per
sons aboard made a safe landing
Saturday after reporting that its
hydraulic brakes were not work
ing.
The plane came in for what
appeared to be a normal landing
after emergency equipment had
been called out. The Boeing 707
jet, Flight 2291, carried 167 pas
sengers and a crew of seven.
A Pan American spokesman
said in New York that the plane
took off from Idlewild Airport for
the nonstop flight and lost its
hydraulic pressure shortly after
take off. The airline identified the
pilot as Capt. Jess Trantor.
(The plane was ordered to con
tine to San Juan for the landing
because of rain and water on run
ways in New York.)
Friday night a huge Trans
World Airlines jetliner circled
Southern California airports for
three hours with a disabled nose
wheel landing gear before the
crew was able to rectify the
trouble.
One Killed, 28 Injured ,
In Crash Of Charter Bus
CANTON. Ohio (AP) One per
son was killed and 28 others in
jured early today in the head-on
collision of a chartered bus and
an automobile south of here at
the intersections of U.S. 62 and
Ohio 93.
Killed was the driver of the
car, Andrew Miller, 42, wincs
burg, Ohio.
Sara Fleckenstein, 21, Punxsu-
tawney, Pa., was taken to Mas
sillon City Hospital with a
sprained back and contusions ot
her spine. The other 26 passen
gers and the bus driver, EJwood
Garner, 36, Meadville, Pa., were
treated and released from the
hospital.
The Ohio Highway Patrol said
(he bus was returning from In
dianapolis to Greenville, Pa.,
when the crash occurred during
a rainstorm..
Marineland Whale Dies
Of Undetermined Cause
PALOS VERDF.S. Calif. (AP)
One of Marineland's performing
whales, Buttons, died Friday. She
was 4,
She died of undetermined
causes. A spokesman said she
had eaten poorly for two days,
but the death was unexpected.
Best known for her jumping
ability. Buttons could leap 18 feet
upward twice her nine-foot
length.
She was lured from the Cata
Una channel 15 months ago with
promises of a six-show a-day job.
She quickly 'earned how to mod
el bonnets, lift barbells and catch
fish in the air.
An autopsy will bo performed.
Kennedy Donation Aids
University In Formosa
TAIPEI, Formosa (API-Presi
dent Kennedy has donated $1,000
to the fund for the reactivation
in Formosa of the Roman Catho
lic Fu Jen University, formerly
located at Peiping.
Sites have been selected for the
university, but construction of
buildings nas not yet Deen Arthur M. Selby, Civil Defense di
started. I rector at the courthouse.
Control Of Chrysler Firm
William C. Newberg, because hejbert and the directors by dissi-1
owned half interests in two com-
panics whose sole business was
making parls for Chrysler. New-
berg had been Colbert's personal
choice and close friend.
Newberg was dismissed June
30, I960, but it was not until July
29 that the corporation spelled
out the reason.
After Newberg, Chrysler tried
without success to lure top men
from other auto companies as
president with Colbert to remain
as board chairman.
Meanwhile lawsuits against Col-
Multi-Billion Appropriations
Bill Considered In Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont..
told the Senate today he hopes
"the White House will put no
pressure on us" to cut back do
mestic spending programs to off
set the increased defense costs.
Mansfield's comments came in
a brisk exchange with Sen. Pres
cott Bush, R-Conn., as the Senate
was summoned into an unusual
Saturday session to consider two
multi billion dollar appropriation
bills.
Bush called attention to Presi
dent Kennedy's recent billion-dol
lar budget requests for strength
ening defense forces to deal with
the Soviet threat. He said he
hoped that Kennedy would put
pressure on Congress to stay with
in his budget limits. -
Teamster Pact
Parleys Bogged
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Team
ster negotiations with trucking
industries in 11 western states
were complicated Saturday be
cause a local union group rejected
what employers termed a final
wage offer.
The western negotiations, in
volving some 100.000 teamsters,
began last May, with President
James R. Holla as chief nego
tiator. Joint Council 7, with 10 locals,
decided, however, to conduct its
own negotiations.
The local employers finally of
fered a joint wage package of
about 20 cents an hour spread
over a three-year period.
Present wage scales for drivers
of big rigs are $3.12 Vi an hour in
San Francisco; $3.10 in Oakland
$2.66 in Sacramento and $2.60 Vj
in Los Angeles, plus fringe bene
fits worth 15 to 40 cents an hour.
A mail referendum, conducted
under the International Brother
hood of Teamsters' new constitu
tion, provided that a two-thirds
vote was required to reject the
local employers offer.
The vote was 3,715 to 1,581 to
reject the offer, or 185 more than
the required majority.
Officers of Joint Council 7 went
to work at once on new proposals
for membership approval within
the next few days.
A spokesman said members will
be asked to empower their com
mittee with authority to call a
strike if a satisfactory agreement
is not reached.
A spokesman for Hoffa said the
future of both negotiations local
and for the 11 western states
seemed to depend on how quickly
Joint Council 7 locals get another
employers offer as a basis for
another vote or resumption of ne
gotiations. Naval Enlistment
Ratings Reopened
U. S. Navy Recruiter Chief Bob
Lewis today announced the Doug
las County Navy recruiting office
is now prepared to accept re-enlistments
of "open" or "critical"
rates.
This program, he explained, is
one in which certain former
Navy personnel rates may re-enlist
without a reduction in their pre
vious rate and retain the same
benefits as if they had re-enlisted
within the normal three - month
time limit.
Regular Navy personnel who
have been discharged more than
three months but less than four
years and Naval Reserve person
nel discharged more than three
months but less than two years are
eligible for this program.
The new listing has been ex
panded to include 76 general serv
ice ratings and 31 submarine rat
ings. The normal re-enlistment
bonus, retirement programs and
other benefits are not altered by
this new program.
Other detailed information can
be obtained at the Navy recruiting
office in the Douglas County Court
house. Oregon Solons Give
Shelter Tax Exemption
The 1961 Oregon legislature has
provided for an exemption from
property taxes of fallout shelters
which comply with certain regula
tions, according to I. eland W. Svar
verud, Douglas county assessor.
Fallout shelters meeting specifi
cations and requirements contain
ed in civil and defense mobiliza
tion publications will qualify for
an exemption, if they're located
within 100 yards of the dwelling.
The exemption is limited to $1,500
true cash value. A claim for such
exemption must be filed with the
county assessor by April 1 of the
year in which the exemption is
to be claimed.
Fallout shelter construction In-
(formation may be obtained from
dent stockholders complaining of 1
the management began to pile up.
Last fall a committee of the
oulside directors set out to find
a new man. Townsend. a finan
cial expert who only joined the
company in 1957, was told early
this week he was their choice.
Townsend's elevation came con
currently with the company's an-
nouncement it had made a $6.2
million profit in the second quar-
ter of 1961. Chrysler lost $21.9
million in the first quarter.
Townsend, 42. who became ad-1
Bush offered amendments to
slash about $278 million in funds
from health, education and wel
fare programs which the Senate
Appropriations Committee added
above Kennedy requests.
Mansfield told Bush that the
amount of such funds "is the Sen
ate's business" as part of its duty
to look after the nation's welfare.
Bush insisted that Kennedy and
White House aides had not hesi
tated about applying pressure to
Congress on spending expansion,
such as housing.
"We also need help from the
White House if we are going to
exercise some economy," he add
ed. One of the money bills before
the Senate today carries funds for
increased effort to put a man on
the moon by 1970.
The $549 million asked by Pres
ident Kennedy to speed along the
moon project is included in a bill
appropriating $9.1 billion for the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and 19 other in
dependent federal agencies.
The other bill would provide
$5.16 billion for the Welfare and
Labor Departments, including
$835 million for research work at
the National Institutes of Health
at nearby Bethesda, Md.
The moonshot money marks
only a start on the outlays that
will be necessary to carry out the
program of landing a three-man
space team on the moon by 1970.
Kennedy has estimated the cost
will mount to $20 billion.
Altogether, the independent of
fices bill provides $1.7 billion for
the civilian space agency. The
$549 million included for the
moon project was not considered
by the House when it passed the
bill.
Sixth Victim Dies
In Shooting Spree
MIDLAND, Tex. (AP)-A 15-year-old
girl whose father shot
her three brothers, a sister and
then himself, died Friday night in
a hospital here of a gunshot
wound also dealt by her lather.
Fred Milton Kinsey and his
four other children died in the
shooting spree in the early morn
ing hours last Monday at their
farm home near here.
Vera Louise, critically wound
ed, ran 2'4 miles to tell neighbors
of the shootings. She was wound
ed in the abdomen.
The mother, Vera Kinsey, was
in F'ort Worth where she had giv
en birth to a baby and placed it
for adoption.
Mrs. Kinsey, 41, told police and
newsmen the father had filed for
divorce because she became preg
nant by another man.
Officers found a note which
said, in part, "The kids have to
go. They'll have a better home.
Mother is coming."
The other dead were J. D. Kin
sey, 17; Johnny, 13;' Jay, 8, and
Lilly, 7.
Public Hearing Set
On Riddle Crossing
A public hearing is scheduled
next Thursday at 9:30 in the Doug
las i.ouniy courthouse auditorium
on a proposal to build a grade
crossing over the Southern Pacific
tracks near Riddle.
The crossing is being proposed
by the county as part of its Riddle
bypass route. The 31-4-mile route
will stretch from the west end of
the Primer Bridge to the Monroe
Lumber Co. mill. The crossing in
question is just west of the bridge.
The hearing will be conducted by
the Public Utility Commission,
starting at 9:30 a.m.
County Engineer Al II. May said
no remonstrances to the crossing
have been indicated. He said the
bids will be let on the road as
soon as a favorable reply is re
ceived from the public utility com
missioner. Janice Callaway
Janice Marie Callaway of Myrtle
Creek died this morning at Forest
Glen Hospital in Canyonvillc
The infant was born March 21.
1961. She died at the age of 4
months 8 days.
She is survived by her father
and mother, Mr. and Xlrs. Fred
Callaway; sisters. Juanita Sue,
Barbara Ann, Lilyie Earline, Lin
da Faye, Mary Jo and Fern Rosi
etta; a brother, Raymond Allen,
all of Myrtle Creek; maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
llollingsworth of Eagle Town,
Okla.; paternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry D. Callaway of
Broken Bow, Okla., and an uncle,
Jack W. Brown of Myrtle Creek.
Funeral services are scheduled
in the chapel of Ganz Mortuary
in Myrtle Creek Monday at 10
a.m. The Rev. Noel Mills of the
Myrtle Creek Baptist Church will
officiate. Interment will follow in
the lOOF Cemetery in Myrtle
Creek.
For First Time
ministrative vice president last !
December, has been the chief
architect of a drastic cost-cutting
'program at Chrysler.
Both Colbert and Townsend re-
iuseu io eiaooraie on me meet-
in., in V.t.u V.trL- C rli f.i.t.a '
& II, " ..,n. . wiu
H. Love of Pittsburgh, who be
came chairman of the new exec
utive committee of the corpora
tion. In addition to Love its mora-
hers are R. E. McNeill of New
York, Neil McKlroy of Cincinnati
ti. L. F. McLollum of Houston;
and Townsend.
W hen the Chrysler board meets !
New Developments, But Utile' Progress
Seen In Month-Long Engineers' Strike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday saw several new de
velopments, but no signs of pro
gress, in the month-long dispute
between the Hoisting and Portable
Engineers Union, Local 701 and
the Associated General Contrac
tors. The dispute has closed most
major construction in Oregon and
Southwest Washington.
New pickets were posted Fri
day at a Coos Bay rock quarry
project, three Tigard area con
struction jobs, and a building job
on Portland's southeast outskirts,
an AGC spokesman said.
The AGC spokesman said unfair
labor practices charges were filed
against the union Friday by the
AGC's Portland chapter, accusing
Local 701 of five violations of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
Rural CD Topic
Of August Meet
Civil I defense directors from
Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson and
Josephine counties and the chair
men of their rural Civil Defense
and women's advisory committees
have been asked to meet with rep
resentatives of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture (USDA) and
the county extension services Aug.
17 in Roseburg.
They will discuss the rural Civil
Defense information program in
their areas.
The meeting, one of five sched
uled throughout the state during
August, is designed to acquaint Ci
vil Defense personnel, members of
the USDA County Emergency Plan
ning Committees and county
agents with the rural Civil Defense
information program. The pro
gram was recently assigned the
USDA by President Kennedy as a
part of the shift of responsibilities
from the Office of Civil and De
fense Mobilization (OCDM). Rep
resentatives of the state Civil De
fense Agency, the state Women's
Advisory Committee and the state
Rural Civil Defense Advisory Coun
cil will also be present.
Cooperative Venture
A recent memorandum of un
derstanding between the USDA
for Oregon and the state Civil
Defense Agency stated that all ru
ral Civil Defense information ac
tivities will be carried out with
the cooperation of county and local
Civil Defense. This is the same
pattern of responsibility that had
existed in Oregon when OCDM
was involved.
The state Extension Service will
lead the federal program in Ore
gon consistent with existing state
and county Civil Defense plans. Its
activities will be coordinated with
county civil defense directors.
Other meetings will be held in
Corvallis, Portland, Pendleton and
Redmond.
Plan To Boost U. S. Military Strength
Raises Questions For Nation's Economy
NEW YORK (AP) The United
States' economy was confronted
during the week with many vital
questions raised by President
Kennedy's program for beefing
up the country's military strength
to meet the Berlin crisis.
If the situation doesn't degener
ate into a shooting war, business
stands to reap vast benefits
through greater production of a
wide range of goods.
The additional $3.2 billion sought
by the President for the armed
forces in the current fiscal year
will span a great range of the
economy.
Obvious beneficiaries would be
industries such as steel, copper,
rubber, chemicals, railroads, air
craft and electronics.
While the President didn't ask
for tax increases at this time,
he said he would next January
if necessary. This left business
men wondering if additional pro
fits might not be wiped out by
higher taxes and other controls.
What the expanded defense ef
fort will mean in the way of man
power is another question.
Business and industry stand 10
lose many skilled workers, tech
nicians and executives when Na
tional Guard and reserve units
are called to active duty.
On the other hand, refilling
these workers' ranks and the ad
ditional demands of increased
production and higher draft quo
tas should put a sizame aent into
the total of unemployed.
The first immediate effect ot
the President's statement was to I
spur the stock market into its big
gest gain in more than two
months.
Financial experts felt the extra
defense spending would stimulate
the current steady rise in bus
iness conditions to an out-and-out
boom.
Love will preside. He said he will
resign as chairman of M. A. Han-
i na Co. and as director of Na
tional Steel Corp. to devote more
time to Chrysler.
From its inception until the
past April, mryslers Doard nas
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pioyes and controlled by the pres
ident or board chairman who had
the power to fire such employes.
In April the board offered a
revised slate of directors to the
annual meeting which for the first
time put the balance of power
with directors not warkw jar'
Chrysler.
The contractors' charges
against the union included at
tempting to force subcontractors
to fire employes who do not join
the union, and failing to bargain
in good faith because of insist
ence of bargaining for employes
not within their jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, P. R. Wages, busi
ness agent for Local 701, made a
union statement on the strike is
sues. He said the contract
demands were in line with terms
granted other locals of the union
on the West Coast.
Wages said the union wants a
hiring hall arrangement to give
union members first crack at
jobs that become available, and
said the engineers' membership
rejected an offer of a three-year
wage increase totaling 35 cents
an hour because: "Our wage
scale is lower than any other on
the coast."
Wages had this to say about
the activities of a group of union
members' wives who have been
critical of union leadership:
"They don't concern me too
much. In the first place they
aren't signing anybody on their
petitions."
Since the wives began their ef
fort, Wages said he has received
"a flood of telegrams and tele
phone calls from union members
telling those women to stay home
and run their washing machines."
Perhaps the most puzzling de
velopment in the dispute came
Friday night at Eugene. A meet
ing of union members had been
scheduled at the Lane County
Courthouse in Harris Hall.
Some 30 members of the union
arrived but no one could be
found who had called the gather-
'Bonanza' Actors
Due For Roundup
Pernell Roberts and Michael
Landon (Adam and Little Joe
Cartwright), stars of the top-rated
TV series, Bonanza, will be ar
riving in Eugene on Friday, Aug.
4, for their three-day appearance
at the Emerald Empire Round-Up,
Aug. 4-6.
The two western stars will be
arriving in Portland on an early
morning flight and will be driven
to Eugene by rodeo officials. Land
on and Roberts informed rodeo of
ficials by wire they will be leaving
the "Bonanza" set just in time to
catch a flight north.
In addition to the three rodeo
performances, the pair will be fea
tured at many other roundup acti
vities: Both buckaroo breakfasts,
grand marshals of the parade, and
at the roundup dance. They will
also be making numerous televi
sion appearances and a side trip
to the children's ward at Sacred
Heart hospital for those less for
tunate kids who won't be making
it to the roundup.
Stock volume during the week
totaled 17,360,360 shares com
pared with 13,552,340 in the pre
vious week and was the largest
since 19,721,550 shares were trad
ed in the week ended June 10.
Indications of business improve
ment were apparent in second
quarter earnings reports issued
by many corporations during the
week. While only a few exceeded
a year ago and the 1961 first
half figures were unimpressive
against the 1960 period, there
was ample evidence of a gain
over this year's first quarter.
"The improvement in general
business activity which began in
the first quarter gained momen
tum in the second quarter," said
Chairman Frederic G. Donner of
General Motors Corp. "The auto
mobile industry responded strong
ly to this improvement."
Roger M. Blough, chairman of
U.S. Steel Corp., said he expect
ed the steel industry to show im
provement during the balance of
the year. He predicted produc
tion in the second half would run
around 53 to 55 million tons, com
pared with 44.8 million in the
first half.
New passenger car sales in the
middle 10 days of June were Ihs
highest for any midmonth sales
period this year and for the mid
June period since 1955. Dealers
sold 177,400 American-made cars,
about 13 per cent more than a
year ago.
Production this week fell to an
estimated 79,000 cars from 102
875 last week as more plants
closed for model changeover.
Uncertainties arising from the
automobile industry's labor nego
tiations continued to cloud the
steel industry's immediate out
look. Steel sources said automak
ers were holding down their Au
gust orders.
Steel output during the week
totaled 1,858.000 tons, about 6$ per
cent of estimated capacity, and
almost the same as the previous
week's 1,860,000 tons.
The cost of living nudged up
to a new high in June, the Labor
Department reported. The con
sumer price index the average
costs of a typical city-dwelling
family advanced two-tenths of
one per cent to 127.6 per cent of
ne 1947.49 base period.
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ing, and none of the persons
present could venture an opinion
as to the reason for the meeting.
The wives' group said Friday
it had been asked to arrange a
meeting place by a man who iden
tified himself as a union member
but one of the wives told news
men they had nothing more than
that to do with the meeting.
Opinions both for and against
the action of the union leaden
were expressed informally by the
men present.
'Atoms In Action'
Scheduled At Fair
"Atoms in Action," one of the
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's
newest traveling exhibits, will be
shown at the Douglas County Fair,
August 24-27 in Roseburg. The free
exhibit, to which the public is in
vited will be on view throughout
the Fair.
"Atoms in Action" consists of
colorful panels and models design
ed to provide explanation of the
many peaceful uses of atomic en
ergy in a graphic, easy to under
stand manner. One panel describes
the principal components of the
atom the building blocks of the
universe. Another explains how
useful energy is obtained by atom
ic fission the splitting of atoms
of heavy elements such as uranium
and plutonium. Other panels show
how radioactive materials are
used in agriculture, medicine, and
industry.
Visitors will also see three "is
land" exhibits: an animated mod
el of an atomic power plant; an
illuminated explanation of the fu
sion process, where power is pro
duced by uniting atoms of light
elements at extremely high tem
peratures and pressures; and a
three foot model of the NS Savan
nah the nation's first nuclear
propelled merchant ship.
Like all of the Atomic Energy
Commission's free traveling exhib
its, "Atoms in Action" is operated
for the Commission by the Museum
Division of the Oak Ridge Insti
tute of Nuclear Studies, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee a non-profit
educational corporation of South
ern universities and colleges.
Fire Roars Over
40 Acres Of Land
Forty acres of brush and re
forested lands went up in smoke
Friday on Rattlesnake Creek just
off Mt. Rueben Rd. near Glendalc.
The blaze started about 4 p.m.
and by 8 p.m., 25 men from the
Quines Creek, South Douglas and
Roseburg stations of the Douglas
Forest Protective Association, had
it under control. A tractor was
also brought in from Roseburg.
There was no estimate as to
loss and cause was undetermined.
The increase resulted from
higher transportation and housing
costs and a seasonal rise in food
prices.
Machine tool orders, an im
portant business barometer, rose
in June to $60.6 million from $49.6
million in May and $55.1 million
in June 1960.
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For CHRISTMAS!
In Coquimbo, Chile, every boy in
the worst slum sectors of town
received a pair of blue jeans for
Christmas! These were the first,
clean, whole clothe many had
ever had in their lives! This
clothing was collected from
American churchgoers and sent
to Coquimbo. Lists of needy
children were, gathered from
public. Protectant and Catholic
schools and a Jewish refugee or
ganized the outfitting job. By
Christmas, 5.000 children were
dressed in clean clothing!
This is one example of Ameri
cans supporting the Overseas
Aid Programs of their faiths,
l hile this case is Protestant
all three faiths Protestant,
Catholic and JewUh maintain
programs that provide not only
clothing but job, tools, housing,
schooling and food for those in
need overseas! Next time an ap
peal is made give generously!
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