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Soldier in Hitler Army Finds Success As Salesman in U.S. New York-fCPD-Curt Thiele gets impatient with those who say the United States is no longer the land of opportuni ty. He should know. He came here from Germany as re cently as 1952, and he started behind a pretty big eight-ball. In just seven years, Thiele, 38,has become a star salesman for one of America's top in surance companies, earning an annual salary in five figures. "It couldn't have happened any place else in the world," Thiele says. The slightly built, energetic young German's personal eight-ball was the fact that he fought for the Nazis, as a cor poral in the German Afrika Corps. Before making the grade here, he had to live down his past. Thiele was captured twice by the British in North Afri ca. The first time he escaped and walked back through the British lines 180 miles, mas querading as an Arab. The second time he was shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in this country, and was held two years. It was as a prisoner that Thiele decided America was the place for him. Thiele, a promising young soccer star when he entered the German army in 1940, had studied English in school, so he had that much of an advantage when he was sent to the United States as a POW. But what particularly "as tonished and delighted" him was the informality and friendliness of the Americans he came up against. "Even the lieutenant called me Curt, which no German officer ever did," he recalls. By the time he was sent back to Germany in 1945, Thiele was thoroughly sold on the U.S. For seven years, he worked as an interpreter, chief clerk and professional soccer player In his home town of Ham burg "the pay was sufficient and there was much prestige," he says. But just before Christmas of 1952, he packed off to America with his wife and four-year-old daughter. A New York bank hired him as a clerk but he also had to work as a part-time janitor and a waiter to sup plement his $4-a-week salary. In 1953, he answered an ad in a German-language news paper for an insurance under writer. Now, although most of his customers are Germans "and Germans are not used to carrying insurance" (his fath er never carried any), Thiele sells more than 200 policies a year. His company says of him that he is 'one of the hardest - working and "best liked" underwriters in the firm. Twice he has made the company's honor list of top salesman. "I can greatly appreciate what it means to be an Ameri can," says Curt Thiele. "Most Americans do not appreciate this enough. I do." Head-on Collision Kills Roseburg Man Roseburg - (UPD - State high way department employee George Southman, 56, of Roseburg, head of the depart ment's maintenance office here, was killed instantly late Tuesday when his car collid ed head-on with another car on Highway 42 near Winston, State police said Southman was alone in his state vehicle. It collided with a car driven by John Wright Renard, 39, Winston, who was injured and taken to a Roseburg hospital. Congress Readies Public Works Bill; Ike May Be Tempted To Exercise Mo By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Con gress is set to send President Eisenhower a public works appropriations bill that is ex pected to tempt him to exercise his veto power once again in the current battle over the federal budget. The compromise bill work ed out between House and Senate last week runs about S30 million over the Presi dent's budget recommenda tions for the various water and power agencies Army lib A. Robe Smith Quotes From the News United Press International Ennis, Mont.-Mrs. Irene Bennett, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, describing the earthquake and collapse of a mountain top that killed her husband and three of her children: "Suddenly w all heard that terrible rumbling. I saw my husband yelling. He told me to grab a Irte. I saw him grab a tree, but I never saw him again." Little Rock, Ark.-Joe McCoy, a 15-year-old white student at Central High school, contradicting a report that there had been a fight between whites and a Negro student, Jefferson . Thomas: . "There has been absolutely no trouble at all. Some shout names at him as he walks down the hall, but I have never seen anyone hit him or molest him in any way." Santiago, Chile-Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, speaking at the close of the American foreign ministers conference that agreed on a declaration condemning dicta torships: "The Declaration of Santiago and accompanying docu ments are among the outstanding papers in the history of inter-American cooperation. The United States will do its part in translating them into action." Oconomowoc, Wis.-Clyde Pfeiffer, 32, promising to stand by his wife as she is tried on charges of plotting with her married lover to kill him: "We had nine wonderful years together. I am not going to throw that away for on bad one." Mrs. Rockefeller Guest in Home of Son's Bride-To-Be Sogne - (UPD - Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller Monday night en joyed an American-style lob ster dinner at the modest farm home of hei son Stev en's future Norwegian in laws.' ' ' She represented the ad vance party of the Rockefel ler family and friends who will attend Steven's wedding this Saturday to pretty Anne Marie Rasmussen, at one time a maid in the Rockefel ler home in New York. Governor to Attend New York Gov. ' Nelson LRockefeller announced that he and his daughter Anne would leave for Norway Thursday and that other members of the clan will have departed before then. Six places rere set in the Rasmussen home for Monday night's dinner. Anne Marie's parents and 19-year-old sister Torhild attended, as well as Mrs. Rockefeller and Steven. In Norway lobster usually is served cold, but the Ras mussen's served it hot-boiled with melted butter-as a spe cial gesture to their newly arrived guest. To Inspect Site Mrs. Rockefeller today planned to inspect the Kris- tianstad Klubben where the wedding reception is to be held. Her arrival by plane Mon day was treated as a national event by the. Nordic press. However, one newspaper, the Oslo Aften Posten, headlined that "wholesome human hap piness in the world has been shaken by reports of disas ter" in the form of uncom plete happiness at Sogne. The newspaper said Torb joerg Homme, a prospective bridesmaid and long time friend of Anne Marie, was ill with a kidney ailment that could keep her from the wedding. Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Bonneville Pow er Administration, etc. What may cause the presi dent to send the bill back without his approval is the fact that it contains funds to start construction of 52 new projects and to start planning over 30 other new projects none of which were listed for any money in his- budget rec ommendations. Dropped from the list of new projects earlier approved by the Senate was Green Pe ter dam (the project which three Oregon lawmakers want to rename Douglas McKay dam), which was listed for $1.5 million in the Senate bill. The conference compromise also dropped $18,000 for the Hood river boat basin and $23,000 for planning a navi gation channel on the Milli coma river above its conflu ence with the Coos river east of Coos Bay. Siuslaw Project Cut ' Another cut made by the conferees was in the deferred maintenance fund of the Corps of Engineers, from which the money was expect ed to come for channel dredg ing and south jetty repairs at Siuslaw harbor, near Flor ence. The engineers informed Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.) they would be unable to finance this work out of the $6,382,000 approved in the bill due to demands of higher priority projects elsewhere. Nothing short of about $15 million would have been enough to cover the Florence project, they estimated. New" projects left in the compromise bill included: 1. Redmond-to-Burns trans mission line - $1,055,000 was approved to build a Bonne ville power line to serve the Harney County REA co-op but it can't be started until the co-op has met conditions 'of a recent REA loan. 2. Yaquina Bay - $100,000 to start making this a deep water harbor. 3. Columbia river fishery research an undetermined portion of a $500,000 addition is to be used by the Fish and Wildlife Service for research in the fish vs. dam conflict. 4. Willow Creek flood con trol - $18,400 for resurvey of this project near Heppner. 5. Coyote-Spencer creek -$50,000 for planning this flood control project near Eugene. 6. Clatsop County Diking District No. 6 - $55,000; and Woodson Drainage District -$81,000. All of these are on the lower Columbia. 7. Malheur river - $250,000 for the Vale unit construction for flood control. Emphasis on Cost President Eisenhower hint ed that he might veto this appropriation bill in a letter to Rep. John Taber (R-N.Y.) July 20. He laid heavy empha sis on the eventual cost of the various new projects for which both houses had given token amounts .this year to get under construction. Congress, in the face of the administration's continu ing ban on listing new projects in its annual budget requests, has used this foot-in-the-door technique. It will grant small amounts in the year it adds a project to budget, virtually forcing the administration thereafter to include this proj ect in its budget in subsequent years because it would be un economic to stop construction. John Day dam was added as a new' project two years ago with a token appropriation of $1 million. This year the budg et recommended S20 million for John Day. In addition to $20 million for John Day dam, the com promise public works bill con tains "the following items as requested by the President's budget: Corps of Engineers Cougar dam, 59,000,000; Hills Creek dam, S8,300,000; The Dalles dam, $7,000,000; Columbia river channel from Vancouver to The Dalles, 27 feet deep, $1,611,000; Rogue river harbor at Gold Beach, $1,500,000; Willamette river bank protection, $500,000; in terstate bridge from Portland t o Vancouver, $1,130,000; Multnomah County Drainage District, $203,000; Blue river reservoir planning, $105,000; and Fall Creek dam planning, $202,000; Ice Harbor dam, $32,000,000; Lower Monumen tal dam planning, $800,000; Chief Joseph dam, 51,100,000. Bureau of Reclamation Rogue river basin, Talent division, $2,747,788; Crooked river project, $2,833,000; Klamath project, $522,000; Wapinitia project, Juniper di vision, $39,700; Columbia Ba sin project $8,000,000. Bonneville Power adminis tration - $22,000,000 as pro posed' by the Senate. The President has only once before vetoed an appropria tion bill. That was one last year covering various inde pendent federal agencies. He objected to one item for the Civil Service Commission. Congress rewrote the bill as he wished and he signed it. With his latest victory in the size of the housing bill (he vetoed the housing bill some two weeks ago, and the Senate tried but failed to mus ter a two-thirds vote to over ride the veto last week), Ei senhower has yet to have one of his many vetoes overridden by either house of Congress. Everywhere! Quality DAIRY FOODS MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1959 SLAM MARK BROKEN St. Louis - (UPD - George Crowe's pinch hit grand slam home run for St. Louis Thurs day night enabled the Na tional league to break a rec ord in that department, It was the fourth bases-loaded homer by a pinch-hitter this season. Mi W8 WWW The NEW Medford Shopping Center SAFEWAY at 699 E. 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