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.
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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.
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Unemployment in
Oregon Declines
Salem (LTD Although an
estimated 750 persons were
off their jobs due to the Rose
burg disaster, the Department
of 'Employment reported to
day that only' about 50 of
them had filed for unemploy
ment benefits.
The department said just
about everyone was kept busy
cleaning up the city.
Throughout Oregon last
week, 7,631 persons claimed
unemployment down five
per cent from the prior week.
Woods closures due to low
humidities and recent scat
tered hill fires resulted in
some layoffs.
Insured unemployment is
over 50 per cent below the
level of a year ago at this
time, the Department reported.
Jack Benny Slates
Charity Concerts
Hollywood -(UPD- Comedian
Jack Benny will haul out his
famous violin to appear as a
guest soloist in three charity
concerts this fall.
Benny's appearances, with
proceeds going to the sym
phony funds, will be in St.
Louis, Nov. 10; in Detroit,
Nov. 13, and in Rochester,
N.Y., Nov. 15.
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