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a U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Comp Clyde Brady Killed In Truck Upset The News Review 1873 14 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON- AUGUST 16, 1957 192-57 PRICE 5c Myrtle Creek Festival Opens Today Coronation, Rodeo Events Top Weekend PROGRAM Friday 1 p.m. Festival opens. p.m.

Contests and prizes. 8:30 p.m. Queen's coronation Saturday 10:30: Booths open. a.m. Parade assembly at school.

1 p.m. Rodeo. 9 p.m. Street Dance. Sunday 7:30 a.m.

Cowboy breakfast at rodeo grounds. 1 p.m.• Rodeo. The annual Myrtle Creek Chamber of Commerce's Fall Festival and the Myrtle Creek Saddle Pals Rodeo will provide a weekend full of entertainment for that city today, Saturday and Sunday. Three city blocks will be roped off for Fall Festival booths on Second and Oak streets, according to Ruth Evans, News-Review correspondent. Today starts a big round of contests for children and adults, with pie-eating and similar contests scheduled in the afternoon.

Prizes are to be awarded throughout the day. Today's festivities will be climaxed at 8:30 p.m. with the coronation of a queen of the festival. Nine girls from the Tri-City area of south Douglas County are in contention. They are: Sue Adist.

16, Riddle; Bernice Berge, 14, Riddle; Beverly Cockrell, 16, Riddle: Pat Graves, 17, Myrtle Creek; Peggy Hubbard, 15, Myrtle Creek; Barbara Humphrey, 17, Riddle: Eleanor McMunn, 16, Riddle: Betty Lou Paul, 15, Tri-City; and Janice Steinhauer, 15, Myrtle Creek. The festival queen will be one of two sovereigns reigning over the weekend festivities. Fourteen-year-old Donna Esselstrom, Roseburg, is queen of the rodeo, which starts at 1 p.m. Princesses are: Gerry Garrett, 14, Roseburg; Jenny Shelton, 14, Myrtle Creek: Roxanna Hanneman, 14, Myrtle Creek, and Betty Patrick, Riddle. The rodeo will continue at 1 p.m.

Sunday. Saturday's activities will include a parade at 10:30 a.m. A street dance will be held at 9 p.m. Mrs. Waite's Funeral Services Set Saturday Funeral services for Mrs.

Douglas (Eva Marie) Waite, 83, who died Wednesday at her home here, will be held in the chapel of Long and Orr Mortuary Saturday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Edmund Hyland of St. Joseph's Catholic Church will officiate. Following services here, the body will be taken to Portland for entombment at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum.

Mrs. Waite was the granddaughter of Gen. Joseph Lane, Oregon's first territorial governor. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A communist show of force appears to have broken a strike of Polish transport workers in Poland's second largest city. The street car workers had demanded a stiff increase in wages.

The communist government of Poland rejected the demand on grounds that the pay increase would strain inflation plagued economy of the country. The strikers holed up in the main downtown car station, and for a while it looked like a ruckus similar to that which occurred in Poznan a year ago (in which much blood was spilled) might be developing. But the workers threw in the sponge and back on their jobs when Poland's communist government rushed in military reinforcements from Warsaw and surrounded the station with armed troops and police. What of the strikers' demands? Were they unreasonable? According to American ideas, it (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) The Weather Fair with morning cloudiness day and Saturday.

Highest temp. last 24 hours 81 Lowest temp. last 24 hours 48 Highest temp. any August 106 Lowest temp. any August 39 Precip.

from August .30 Precip. last 24 hours, 0 Precip. from Sept. 1 30.05 Defic. from Sept.

.24 Sunset tonight, 7:14 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:21 a.m. Loggers Fire Weather Fire danger moderate in western Oregon through Friday with lowest humidities in interior of northwest Oregon 30 40 per cent. Danger increasing high south central to Oregon due to low humidities. Olalla Man 15th Traffic Death Of '57 Arthur Gilbert Pinned Under Vehicle, But Only Slightly Injured Douglas Veneer Employes Respect Picket Lines Of Roseburg Lumber Workers The Douglas Veneer Co.

plant ers that operation would open closure, but no workers crossed morning. Lumber and Sawmill Workers only picketing the pond and they consider to be part of the ber Co. where they are on The pickets are on the road which leads to both the pond and dump and to the plant. Union business manager Henry Weber said that the local did not "intend" to picket the Douglas Veneer plant itself, "but it just works out that way." Workers started to come to the Dixonville plant this morning, but turned back at the picket lines, according to local sources and the union. The company said that the were supposed to start at noon.

Compensation Expected The workers' respect of the line was not expected to prevent their collecting unemployment compensation, according to Weber. The union also planned to take action today against St. Helens Wood Products Co. and Coon Creek Lumber which they claim had agreed to pay a 5 cent per hour increase starting June 1. No decision had been made whether the action was to be at law or by a strike.

The union has taken a strike vote at St. Helens, said. Sources at St. Helens Wood Products claimed that the agreement was only to meet the wage level of the industry. Weber claimed that both plants had signed agreements to pay the 5 cent increase as well as meet the prevailing wage scale.

Round Prairie Lumber Co. south of Dillard was back in operation today after workers refused to cross a picket line there Thursday. Ralph Sandstede, one of the managers, said that the pickets were employes on strike from Roseburg Lumber Co. and not his employes. Round Prairie had received no new notice of union demands this week and no warning of the picketing, he said.

Glide Raise James Evans of Glide Lumber Co. which agreed to pay the 5-cent increase for Local 2949 this week, yesterday that he was "forced" to meet the union demands and that the raise "was not economically sound" for the company. Evans has lumber stored at the former Commercial Lumber Sales plant which must be moved by the end of the month to meet the terms of his lease which has expired. Union representatives told him that if he paid the raise there would be no picket line at plant today, he reported. The company was required to prevent a picket line at its operations in order to get the lumber at the Commercial Lumber Sales plant moved out, Evans stated.

"Business for several months not warranted any increase in costs." he said. New Principal Named At W. Sutherlin School Raymond Mullen has been appointed principal of West Elementary School in Sutherlin, Supt. Leland P. Linn announced.

The new principal's last assignment was at Shady Cove in Jackson County where he was principal of an eight-teacher school. Before going to Shady Cove he served as vice principal at Empire for two years. Mullen replaces Thomas Huebner, who is now serving as intendent of the Reedsport tary School District. Mullen has a master's degree from Southern Oregon College. He is married and has a boy 9 and a girl 8.

"I have know Mr. Mullen for several years and he is rated as an able administrator," Linn told the Sutherlin School Board. Mullen was elected to his position at a board meeting early this week. He will report for duty Monday. Hit And Run Driver Reported To Police A hit-and-run accident was reported to Roseburg police Thursday by Harry Duncan, Kohlhagen 911 SE Lane Ave.

He said a 1949 Ford sedan, reg. istered to A. E. Elliott, 546 NE Lincoln was damaged when another vehicle backed into it and departed without the driver leav. ing his name and address.

Police furnished with the license number of the which left the scene. at Dixonville notified worktoday after a three-day the picket lines during the Local 2949 claimed to be dump of the operation which operation of Roseburg Lumstrike. Knowland, Ike Hope To Restore Some Aid Funds WASHINGTON (A) Sen Knowland (R-Calif) session held with a last strategy President Eisenhower Friday and reported later they both hope to get back in the Senate a substantial part of the $809,650,000 the House cut out of foreign aid funds. The President and the Senate Republican leader held an hour long breakfast conference at the White House. It followed by only a few hours the House action on Mutual Security appropriation bill." Knowland told reporters he doubts Senate will be able to restore the entire sum the House knocked out but he said he and Eisenhower are hopeful the Senate will restore "a substantial part of the reductions made by the House." Knowland added he will have to "explore further on a bipartisan basis" among fellow senators before making any estimate of the amount by which the Senate might raise the figures.

As finally passed by the House last night the measure provides $2,524,760,000 in new money. Eisenhower had sought the full amount of a previously passed authorization measure 000. The cut of more than 809 million is a net figure taking account of some permanent authorizations needing no new law, a and some switching of carryovers from previous appropriations. Even the authorization figure is half a billion below what Eisenhower originally sought. The senator said, there was no discussion Friday Eisenhower's calling a special session of Congress in the fall, as he has said he may do if the foreign aid funds voted at this time are inadequate.

Knowland said he thinks there is "a fair chance" Congress can wind up the present session at the end of next week. Vacation Closure Set For County Library The Douglas County Library will be closed for two weeks starting Monday so employes can have a joint two-week vacation, Librarian Carol Trimble announces. library is closed Sunday, extend and from the vacation day through period Sept. 3. During that period there will be no service at the library headquarters in the courthouse, at the community libraries, through the bookmobile or mail.

'FATAL ACCIDENT Clyde Brady, 48-year-old Tenmile scoutmaster, lost his life Thursday afternoon when this pickup, driven by Arthur Gilbert, Winston, upset on Olalla Road. Brady's son, John, 15, is on a scout trip in Europe. (Winston Studio) Couple Rescued From Car Trunk In Convict's Auto KANSAS CITY (P) Attracted by a hand waving from a partially open auto trunk, police Friday stopped the car here and rescued a young Kansas couple from the compartment. The of the auto, identified as drivers Richard Essen, an escaped Ohio convict, was arrested. He was armed with a pistol, but did not resist Patrolman John Davis.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wagner of Salina, owners of the car, told Davis that they picked up Essen in St. Louis early Friday morning, and that he forced them into the trunk at gunpoint. Wagner and his wife were taken to General Hospital.

Wagner, 21, suffered a severe head wound. He said Essen hit him with the gun. Mrs. Wagner, 18, was treated for cuts. A stop at a safety checkpoint sponsored by the National Safety Council led to the arrest of Essen.

Davis said Wagner told him he heard a siren and realized they probably were in a city. He said he pried open the trunk lid enough to get his hand outside. An official at the checkpoint saw Wagner's waving hand after the car passed through and notified Patrolman Davis, who gave chase and stopped the auto. Wagner said he and his wife had been in the trunk about six hours. A policeman said were in pretty poor shape when we got them out of there." 3 Grass Fires Occur In Area Three grass fires within a mile of each other were put out by Douglas Forest Protective Assn.

crews Thursday about 1 p.m. It is believed the fires started from a passing train, DFPA Dis. patcher Wayne Miller said. The fires were near Divide next to the Lane County line. A one acre grass fire near Drain was put out by DFPA crews about the same time as the other three.

The Drain blaze is believed to have been caused by a child playing with matches. Roseburg rural firemen put out a grass fire which burned approximately a quarter of an acre Thursday about 1 p.m. The fire was on a lot at 244 NE Rifle Range Road. The lot is owned by Charles Miller. Children playing with matches are believed to have started this fire.

Kuykendall Gets Senate Approval; Paarlberg Named WASHINGTON (P) Two controversial nominees of President Eisenhower were confirmed by the Senate last night despite vigorous Democratic opposition. By a 50-25 vote, the Senate approved the reappointment of Jerome K. Kuykendall to the Federal Power Commission. Eisenhower is expected to rename him chairman of the agency. A few hours later, a 42-32 vote confirmed.

the nomination of Don Paarlberg as assistant secretary of agriculture. Underlying the fight against these two nominations sition to Eisenhower tion policies in the power and farm fields. Western Democratic senators accused Kuykendall, who hails from Washington state, of favoring private utilities and natural gas producers. Among those voting against Kuykendall were Democrats Magnuson and Jackson of Washington and Neuberger and Morse of Oregon. Sen.

Church, Idaho Democrat, was paired against confirmation. Sen. Dworshak, Idaho Republican, was the only Pacific Northwest senator to vote on the prevailing side. Defending Kuykendall, Republican senators said his foes were boy because have trying to use as a whipping able to put across, such power projects Hells federal yon Dam. Bartlett Pear Prices Dropped In Agreement A large carryover from last year's pack and a bumper crop of California pears this year have resulted in a 33 per cent drop in the price to growers of Bartlett pears.

The new price of $60 a ton for No. 1 pears and $40 for No. 2 was reached in an agreement with major canneries in the Northwest, it was announced this morning by Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Yakima, Wash. An additional allowance of $2.50 a ton will be paid for hauling. The price in 1956 was $90 a ton for No.

1 pears and $60 for No. 2. PROPERTY LOST H. R. Lestico, Rt.

2 Box 444, Roseburg, told Roseburg police he had lost a case containing his electrie razor and other toilet articles Thursday while moving. He said he had set the case down near the entrance of the Fairhaven 1645 W. Harvard Ave. and had driven off without it. Upon his return about an hour later, it was gone, Lestico stated.

Army Successfully Breaks Missile Heat Barrier WASHINGTON (P) The Army was reported Friday to have fired some 400 miles into the sky off Florida a missile whose nose returned to sea level without being consumed by heat. A solution to the problem of reentry of the atmosphere was said to have been tested successfully in a missile firing which took place in the pre-dawn hours last Thursday at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. The missile vehicle used for the test was a combination of several rockets and mechanisms involved in the Army's Jupiter missile. It reportedly had a nose cone structure based upon principles developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and which had been successfully tested previously by the Air Force. No one in the Army or in the Defense Department is permitted by regulations to release official information about the performance of new missles, but these facts were learned: The rocket-powered test missile reached an altitude of about 400 miles, attained a maximum speed of about 12.000 miles per hour and traveled about 1,200 miles southwest from Florida before landing within one-quarter pt Fair Exhibitors Reminded Deadline For Entries Near County exhibitors planning to compete for their work at the Douglas County, Fair, Aug.

22 through 25, are reminded of the approach of entry days for fair exhibits by Dick Turley, fair manager. All canned and frozen foods, textiles, art work, photographs, and hobby items must be entered by 6 p.m. Sunday to be eligible for competition. These exhibits are all non-perishable, and their early entry will enable the fair staff to judge and arrange them for display before the opening of the fair. All livestock, poultry and rabbits.

community exhibits, fruits vegetables, farm crops, and baking must be entered by 6 p.m. Wednesday. Entry deadline for flowers is 4 p.m. Wednesday. Exhibitors are instructed by Turley to report to the fair office in the community building for registration before making entry in the various departments.

Almost 000 in cash awards may be claimed by winners this year. Entries that cannot be made in person may be mailed to the fair at P.O. Box 750, Roseburg. They will be entered in the exhibitors name. Dr.

Hutchinson, Retired Dentist, Passes At 75 Dr. Harry William Hutchinson. 75, retired dentist, died at his home in Sutherlin Wednesday morning. He was the apparent victim of a heart attack. He was born at Leavenworth, Get.

16, 1881, and lived in Kansas the greater part of his life. He attended college at Kansas City, and practiced dentistry at Lawrence, for many years. Hutchinson retired about 20 years ago and came to Sutherlin to make his home in 1949. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 6 of Lawrence.

He is survived by one brother, James of Leavenworth. He seven nieces and nephews. The body is being sent to Leavenworth for funeral services and interment. Stearnsa is and in care Little of local Mortuary arrange- of ments. I Super Constellation Ditches In Atlantic BULLETIN NEW YORK Varig Airlines said one of its stellations ditched Friday in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of the Dominican Republic.

No passengers were aboard. The number of crewmen aboard was not known immediately. The line said the plane had left Ciudad Trujillo for Miami and developed engine trouble. The Coast Guard reported sighting wreckage of a plane 300 yards off shore near Gasper Hernandez. Vets Hospital Here Joined By New Dentist Dr.

Helmer Soderman of Liver. more, has joined the dental staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital here. He has been with the VA system since 1949. Dr. Soderman was graduated in 1935 with a degree from the University of Oregon dental school at Portland.

He served a8 a captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps from 1941 to 1945. At Livermore, the was on the of the hospital. doctor, Prior to going to work at Livermore, he was on the dental staff at the VA regional office in San Francisco. DANCE SCHEDULED A band will play for the weekly Roseburg Youth Center dance scheduled tonight from 8 to 11:30 p.m., Paul Fitzgerald, center president, announced.

Membership cards will be on sale door, he said. A car, which is to be given away, will be on display at the dance tonight. Douglas County logged its 15th fatal traffic accident Thursday with the death of Clyde Samuel Brady, 48, Olalla. Brady was killed when a pickup truck driven by Arthur James Gilbert, 53, Winston, skidded on a curve on the Olalla Road at the Cleveland Sawmill, struck an fice building and came to rest upside Gilbert was pinned in the wreckage and was removed and taken to Community Hospital by Mohr's Ambulance. His injuries were considered minor -a bruise over one eye he was to be released from the hospital this morning.

Brady was killed instantly, according to Coroner L. L. Powers, and died of multiple skull fractures. He was thrown clear of the wreck. Traffic Record Same The accident put the county exactly where it was a year ago in the number of traffic fatalities.

On Aug. 15, 1956, the 15th fatality of that year occurred. According to the report of state police, the accident occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m. while the pickup was travelling south on Olalla Road. 'In entering a left hand curve, the vehicle did not start turning until the right wheels were on the shoulder of the highway.

The report states that the pickup started to skid and came out of the ditch and went into a broad slide across road, hit a post then hit the sawmill office and came to rest behind the structure. Heavy damage was inflicted on the building. Brady, Here 5, Years Brady had been a resident of his community for five years. He on Page 2 Col. 1) W.

D. COUCH lecturer to be here C. A. STORMER circuit supervisor In Roseburg Today The first of an expected 900 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses began to arrive here today for a three-day assembly of the Second Oregon Circuit of the organization. The assembly, made up of about 20 congregations from Southern Oregon and Northern California, will be held today, and Sunday.

All sessions will be in CenJunior High School. The sessions will be today and Saturday. The conference will end Sunday p.m. with a public Bible lecture, "What are the Prospects for a Lasting Peace?" by W. D.

Couch, traveling lecturer and chairman of the assembly. The assembly program will open at 7 p.m. today when Couch will address delegates on the theme of the assembly, "Qualified To Saturday at 1:30 p.m., the leeturer will have "Dedication and Baptism" as his subject. A baptism will be held then. Couch also is to direct a theocratic ministry school starting at 7:15 p.m.

today. The program will consist of Bible talks and readings which he will counsel for improvement of presentation. Plans for the conference have been made by C. A. Stormer, circuit supervisor, and C.

V. Stefanich, presiding minister of the Roseburg congregation. Gary Bloom was the local man in charge of housing. Winston Model Market Sold To Roseburg Pair Model Market at Winston was sold this week to Mr. and Mrs.

George Kuhn of Roseburg by the former owner, I. J. Peterman of Winston. Kuhn has been a resident of the county since 1937 and is the former owner of Kuhn Distributors, a grocery jobbing firm. Kuhn purchased the market and buildings and a thouse from Peterman.

He plans the same store staff, policies, hours, and lines of merchandise. Peterman has operated the business three" years. Wilbur Area To Mull Rural Fire Department The possibility of forming a fire department to serve the Wilbur area will be discussed by Wilbur residents at a meeting scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday in the Wilbur recreation hall. Robert Nichols, former WinstonDillard Rural Fire Dept.

chief, will present information concerning the legal aspects of forming a fire department. WOMAN JAILED Sentenced in Canyonville municipal court Thursday to 21 days in jail for disturbing the peace, Gloris L. Powers, 20 of Canyonville, was brought to the county jail to serve her term. Sentence was imposed by Mrs. Laura Goodell, city judge.

Meany Advises Against Drastic Labor Regulations CHICAGO W--The president of the AFL-CIO Thursday said the Teamsters Union has failed to polish its tarnished record, but cautioned against any restrictive labor legislation that might result from Senate rackets investigations. In the closing session of the Your-day AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting, President George Meany told newsmen he doesn't think the Teamsters' linen is any cleaner now than it has been. Meany was critical of proposals for restrictive labor legislation in the wake of the Senate Rackets Committee hearings. "I feel a great many of things that have come before the committee are covered by laws now on the books," he said. been enforced, he said, "a lot of If laws against thievery, had these wouldn't be on the witness stand, but in the jail house." The Teamsters' executive board is expected to meet Aug.

26 to consider, possible of corrupt action on influences AFLagainst the union. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, biggest of the operating rail unions, has applied for AFL-CIO membership. Meany said it has 160,000 members. He said jurisdictional and constitutional adjustments are necessary on behalf of the large independent before it can be admitted. One of these is a ban on Negro membership in the brotherhood's constitution.

Before concluding business, the council also authorized the construction of an eight-story addition to the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. Roseburg Lumber Names Stobbe As Representative a mile of where military neers planned it to land. As an incidental part of the test, the missile's nose cone contained a letter whose delivery after the rocket-powered flight has been reported previously. A special mechanism released the part conhit the surface the ocean. The taining the letter, before the cone cylinder contaning the letter floated on the water and was retrieved.

A major problem facing longrange missile men has been develop materials that can withstand the tremendous friction heat that would be generated as the missile's nose plunged from altitudes where there is virtually no oxygen back into the heavier atmosphere of the earth. Scientific work over a period of years has greatly improved the heat resisting qualities of metals and other materials. But the ently accepted solution, proved by announced Air Force tests, is to flatten out the nose of the cone just enough so that it won't burn up in its last seconds of plunging descent. The New York Herald Tribune, a Washington dispatch, said the, technological Army had breakthrough scored a with major what the newspaper said was the first conquest of the re-entry problem. It continued: "That problem has centered on fabrication of a material which would survive the friction heat generated by a long-range missile in its roaring ascent to heights of over 600 miles and its gravitytugged descent to earth at speeds estimated at 15,000 miles an The heat caused by friction on materials traveling at the velocity has been thought to be destruetive, the story noted.

The Herald Tribune said it has learned that the major breakthrough was achieved last week when the Army fired a Jupiter Intermediate range ballistic missile and succeeded in bringing back to earth intact the missile's nose cone. "That means," the story continued, "the Army has fabricated a material which will withstand the fantastic heat caused by friction with air as the missile vaults beyond the atmosphere, and then planses, the back dispatch added, an atomic or hydrogen warhead can be encased in that material and fired the atmosphere with to surface without disthe certainty, that it will return integrating because of friction heat. Carl R. Stobbe has been appointed by Roseburg Lumber Co. to act as its field representative in the New England and East Coast states as far south as Virginia and West Virginia.

The appointment was made in line with the company's field representation expansion, which included the recent appointment of Dewey B. Nelson in the Midwest. They are in addition to P. D. (Doug) Kelly in the Southwest and Paul Cunningham in the Southeast.

Stobbe will have his, headquarters in Darien, Conn. Nelson is at Indianapolis, Kelly at Dallas Texas, and Cunningham in Shreveport, La. TO OPEN BRIDGE PORTLAND (A County Roadmaster Paul Northrup announced Thursday that the Hawthorne Boulevard approach to the Hawthorne Bridge will be opened to traffic Sept. 2. Levity Fact Rant By L.

F. Reizenstein Deer hunting dates are set, and outlying owners will soon be retrieving 'No Trespass' notices from the moth balls. In order also are heart examinations for intended hunters past middle age and having over-size waist lines..