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MRS. VIOLA CHEEK it elevator operator at the Pacific build
ing. Her job hat it tips and it hat iti downs. There. That's done.
I've been waiting -for a week in mortal fright to write this story,
knowing when I did I'd have to say that. It's always said when
an elevator job if mentioned. Someday somebody is going to
get shot for saying it and I've been afraid this would be the time.
Mrs. Cheek is a native lexan
about eight years ago, I believe.
a Junior High School student, in
Torrential Steamboat Creek
Takes Out Temporary Span;
Damages to Road Repaired
Rain-swollen waters of Steamboat Creek washed out a temporary
span on the North Umpqua Road
the road were closed by slides or
Service reported today.
Sn the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
ONE of the big questions that
will face the new congress Is
how much will we spend to re
build Europe in the second year
of the Marshall plan?
The congressional appropria
tion for the first year was a few
odd millions over five billion dol
lars. With six months of the first
year left to go, we've spent con
siderably more than half of the
money. It appears now that all
of It will be spent by April 2.
That will leave three months to
go before the new fiscal year be
gins. The chief of ECA (Econom
ic Cooperation Administration,
which spends the money) says
he will ask for about a billion and
a quarter to fill this three-month
gap. That would tot up to about
6i billions for the present' flo-ial
year. i
The talk In Washington Is that
next year's spending will run
around 41 billions or a grand
(Continued on Page Four)
Walsh, Engdahl in Tight
Contest to Head Senate
PORTLAND, Dec. 13 UP)
The Oregon Senate presidency
race between Senators Carl Eng
dahl of Pendleton and William
E. Walsh of Coos Bay, appears
destined for a vote.
Walsh claimed Saturday night
he had obtained the pledges of
Senators Frederick S. Lamport
of Salem and Elmo Smith of
Ontario, enough to give him 15
votes.
Engdahl declined yesterday to
concede to Walsh. Earlier the
two rivals for the top upper
qhamber position had claimed
"their pledges totaled 13 each.
Holdouts are Senators Austin
F. Flegcl Jr. and Richard L. Neu
berger, both Democrats. Neu
berger has said he would not
vote for either Wash or Enilahl,
but Flegel is not claimel bv
either candidate.
Debut From Bottomless Pit
Meet Li'l Abner of Dogpaich
News-Review readers will
page of today's edition.
And what a predicament he is in!
In the midst of the Sadie Hawkins race, that desperate time
in Dogpatch when all unwed men are chased by the maidens
ono ine penairy Tor capture is
marriage, Li'l Abner, our hero,
is trapped, clubbed and knock
ed out by the young lady who
looks and dresses like him.
Not even Li'l Abner's friendly
little boy shmoo is able to help
him now.
While toting her catch to
ward the finish line, however,
Li'l Abner's girl double and our
hero are hurled into the quicksand of "Bottomless Pit," when
lightning strikes a huge tree and snaps it in half.
Daisy Mae, who has been carrying the torch for Li'l Abner
for many years and is now trying frantically to catch him before
Y the Sadie Hawkins race is over, happens by Bottomless Pit witf
her little she-shmoo and hears the screams for help.
Now, turn to the comic page end learn what happens next
but came to Uouglas County
She lives with her son, Roland,
West Roseburg.
Saturday night, while sections of
covered by high water, the Forest
temporary span over
Steamboat Creek, 45 miles east
of Roseburg, was constructed to
replace a similar bridge wash
out which occurred during the
winter storms almost three years
ago, said M. M. Nelson, forest
supervisor.
The center section of the log
structure, which rested on con
crete piers, was taken out by the
ntgn waters of the creek. Nelson
said the span would he replaced
In aoout two weeks.
Meanwhile, persons enroute to
me cautornia-uregon Power Co,
construction .c a m p . 9 1. Toketee
Falls must use the suspension
loot bridge, located a few hun
dred yards upstream from the
vehicle bridge at Steamboat
Creek. There are a number of
vehicles on the other side of the
bridge which may be used to
transport passengers to the camp,
said Nelson.
H. C. Wells, manager of the
California-Oregon Power Co.
here, said there are sufficient
supplies at Toketee Falls to keep
tne camp mere in operation, ihe
company will not be greatly in
convenienced by the bridge wash
out.
Nelson said a Forest Service
Service road maintenance crew
had been dispatched Fridav aft
ernoon to clean out road culverts
above Steamboat Creek and to
repair damages caused by the
high level of the river.
Water covered portions of the
North Umpqua Road in the vi
cinity of Red Man Creek and
near Dry Creek Camp both a few
miles above Steamboat. The
water has since receded and four-
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Negro Concert Singer,
White Manager Marry
SEATTLE, Dec. 13 UP) The
marriage of a Negro concert
dancer and her Caucasian man
ager was announced here today.
They are Thelma Jonnson
Streat, a native of Portland, and
Edgar Kline of Tarrington. N. Y.
Miss Streat recently came to
Seattle from Hawaii, where she
presented 28 concerts of Negro
and Indian dances under the
sponsorship of the Honolulu
Board of Education.
They said they plan to leave
here Thursday by plane for Mex
ico City to open a children's film
studio. The bride's parents live
in Portland.
find Li'l Abner on
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Willamette
The Weather
Mostly cloudy with few
showers today and Tuesday.
Sunset today 4:38 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:38 a. m.
Established 1873
Jack J- Groat- Truck Driver, Killed
Wreck OcCUrss.P.Enginemen k0viet SfrPPfl I U. S. Prepares
On Road East
Of Sutherlin
Tragedy Attributed To
Failure of Brakes While
Descending Steep Grade
Jack Jay Groat, 41, of Rose
burg, was fatally Injured Satur
day morning, when he lost con
trol of the gravel truck he was
operating, and it overturned on
a newly-constructed logging road
about 12 miles east of Sutherlin,
County Coroner Harry C. Stearns
reported.
According to the coroner,
Groat's truck was at the end of
the new road, being constructed
near the Bonanza Mine by the
L. and S. Lumber Co. The ve
hicle's brakes apparently failed
and the truck started to go back
wards down a steep grade. Groat
put the gears In reverse, but
these did not hold and the truck
overturned.
The injured man was discov
ered at 9:30, about 15 minuter
after the accident, by another
truck driver, Roy Abene Jr., of
Sutherlin, who summoned an'
ambulance. Groat's Injuries in
cluded a fractured right leg and
a broken back, the coroner said.
Groat died In the ambulance
(Continued on Page Two)
Beautiful Girl
On Guam Victim
Of Sex Assault
GUAM, Dec. 23 UP) Raped
and left for dead, pretty Ruth
Farnsworth was found uncon
scious in the jungle today near
the small curio shop from which
she vanished mysteriously Satur
day night.
The 27-year-old San Francisco
beauty was found nude In a pool
of blood In dense bushes nbout
200 yards behinti the shop, where
she worked part time.
Hospital attaches reported 12
hours later she was clinging to
life. Last rites of the Mormon
church have been administered.
Guam authorities said she had
been seized by a gang of "sex
fiends," criminally assaulted and
beaten. They said she apparently
put up a terrific struggle.
A reward of $1,000 was offered
by the proprietor of the curio
shop for the arrest of Miss Farns
worth's attackers.
(In San Francisco, Miss Farns
worth's sister, Aline, 25, said she
planned to fly eo Ruth's bedside
if the navy will permit the trip.
(Aline returned from Guam
only recently. Both young women
worked on the navy-administered
island so they could send money
to a brother, Lawrence, 21, who Is
in Mexico in a Latter Day Saints
church mission. The Farnsworths
are Mormons.)
More than 200 marines, soldiers
and Island police had combed the
jungle for Miss Farnsworth one
of the most beautiful girls on
Guam.
Newfoundland Now 10th
Province of Canada
OTTAWA, Dec. 13 UP)
Canada and Newfoundland Sat
urday signed an agreement ad
mitting Newfoundland as the
tenth province of the Dominion
of Canada.
Under the agreement, Canada
assumes Newfoundland's $63,
000,000 national debt, and be
comes responsible for paying $42,
750.000 cash grants and millions
of dollars annually for services.
Newfoundland, Britain's old
est colony, has a population of
about 325,000. It had dominion
status until 1934, when It became
a crown colony under a sort of
bankruptcy arrangement with
Great Britain.
Greek Rebels Still Hold
American Engineer
ATHENS, Dec. 13 UP) Car!
A. Graessner, an American en
gineer kidnapped by Greek guer
rilas last Wednesday south of
Kozane, still is in rebel hands.
He was last reported seen Fri
day in guerrlla-controlled terri
tory near the point where he
was abducted.
Graessner, 45, a native of
Seattle and a resident of Port
land, Ore., was the second Amer
ican construction worker to be
so kidnaped.
trancis Mcbhane, who was em
ployed, like Graensner, by the
Atkinson, Drake and Park Con
struction Company of New York
Citv, was taken Nov. 10 and
released soon afterwards.
Record Consolidation
Of Airlines Launched
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 UP)
Pan-American World Airways
and American Overseas Airlines
have agreed to the biggest
merger in American commercial
aviation.
Plans for consolidation of
American Overseas' routes to 11
countries In Europe with Pan
American's trans-Atlantic serv
ices were announced by both
comaniei last night.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, I948
S. P. Enginemen
Postpone Strike
For Thirty Days
8AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.
UP) The strike against the
Southern Paclflo railroad In sev
en western states, set for 6 a. m.
Wednesday, was postponed to
day for at least 30 days.
Mediator William F. Mitchell
authorized the following state
ment: "I have been Informed by re
presentatives of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen that the strike
set for 6 a. m. Wednesday, De
cember 15, has been postponed
for at least 30 days."
Mitchell represents the Na
tional Mediation Board under
the Railway Labor act in hand
ling the dispute between the
brotherhood and the Southern
Pacifio Company.
The brotherhood had called
the strike In a controversy over
296 1 grievances on working
conditions.
Game Dept.
Heads to Meet
Sportsmen
Heads of the various depart
ments under the State Game
Commission will be in Roseburg
Tuesday to meet with sportsmen
of the community. Announcing
the meeting, which will be held
under sponsorship of the Rose
burg Rod and Gun Club at its
Winchester clubhouse at 8 o'clock,
Clark Walsh, director of the com
mission's public relations depart
ment, stated that this is one of a
series of similar meetings to be
held throughout the state to give
sportsmen an opportunity to
learn what the game department
Is doing and to advise the depart
ment concerning local needs.
Each meeting, he said, will fea
ture an' open forum 'In which
sportsmen will be Invited to ask
questions pertaining to activities
and policies and to discuss any
matters of interest relative to
fish and game.
Kenneth Gllkeson, president of
the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club,
announced that the meeting is
open to the general public and an
invitation Is extended to all inter
ested persons to be present.
Attending from the State Game
Department will be Charles Lock
wood, supervisor; Phil Schneider,
chief of the game division; Dr.
John Haynor, fisheries depart
ment; Robert Mace, chief of big
game; John McKean, chief of up
land birds; A. V. Meyers, chief
(Continued on Page Two)
Convicts Caught Digging
Tunnel in Freedom Effort
WALLA WALLA, Dec. 13
UP) Prison authorities are
questioning today two inmates
who were captured attempting to
dig their way out of the Wash
ington State penitentiary.
Guards caught the men Satur
day in a 70-foot tunnel carved
with spoons and crude shovels
fashioned from kitchen equip
ment. The two were Identified as
Amada Cadena, sentenced In
Yakima County to life for first
degree murder, and Harry Cal
ifs, sentenced in King County to
10 years for robbery.
Prison Supt. Tom Smith said
officials figured at least eight
men worked on the tunnel, but
Cadena and Callas refused to Im
plicate any others.
Portland Jail Escapee
Caught After 7 Years
SEATTLE, Dec. 13 UP)
The King County sheriff's office
said today it has arrested a man
who escaped from the Portland
jail seven years ago.
County Detective Bill Freeman
said the man admitted he fled
while serving as a trustle on a
berry farm. Records showed he
had served seven and a half
months of a year's sentence for
auto theft.
He was identified as Arthur
Bilyeu, 24. He said that since the
escape he had operated a cafe at
Sweet Home, Ore., worked in the
shipyard at Vancouver, Wash.,
and at the Boeing Airplane Co.
Five Killed, 12 Injured
In Chicago Hotel Fire
CHICAGO, Dec. 13 UP)- Five
persons died and 12 other? suf
fered injuries or burrra as a re
sult of a flash fire which raced
through the fifth floor of the
seven-story Victoria Hotel in the
Loop District early yesterday.
Otto Dahl, a deputy fire mar
shal, said that quick work by two
bellboys and the recent encase
ment of the hotel's atairwavs as
a fire prevention measure prob
ably prevented a much worse
disaster.
The bellboys, Sanders Davis
and Rudolph Taylor, groped
through the dense smoke to
sound alarms lor the sleeping
guests.
Cause of th blaze was un
known.
River
Soviet Screed
Hits Allies As
U.N. Folds Up
Vishinsky, Bitter Over
Defeats, Brands Britain,
U. S. as Peace Wreckers
PARIS. Dec. 13-t, Russia-
bitter over the drubbing she
has taken in the United Nations
general assembly dropped diplo
matic niceties last night to issue
a no-compromise warning to the
west.
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet
deputy foreign minister, attack
ed Britain and the United States
in the closing minutes of the
Paris assembly.
I hat part of the session usual
ly is reserved for expressions
of praise and hopeful thoughts
for the future.
John Foster Dulles, acting
chairmtn of the U. S. delega
tion, led off in traditional fa
shion. But Vishinsky strode to the
rostrum and reviewed every case
in which the Russians had fought
the west.
This is not the time, he said.
for "paeans of praise."
ne said tne Kiissinn delega
tion could not speak of any
affirmative results in Paris. He
declared the session would be
described In history as one which
took further steps toward a
policy of wrecking International
cooperation.
The assembly adjourned to
meet again In New York April
1, 1949 to complete its work.
Russians Lose Again
Vishinky's outburst came soon
after the Russian bloc had taken
a severe beating In the assembly.
The delegates voted 48 to six
with one abstention (Sweden) to
endorse the government of the
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Bids Asked For
Water System
At Roberts Creek
Bids for the construction of a
water supply system In the Rob
berts Creek Water District in
Douglas county will be received
until 7:30 p. m Jan. 3, R. L.
Preston, secretary, announced.
Bids will be opened by the district
at the Green school house, Green
Station at that time, the Port
land Journal of Commerce says.
ine project includes botn labor
and the furnishing of materials.
An alternate bid for laying pipe to
be furnished the District will also
be included.
The work to be done consists of
furnishing and laying 1400 feet
of 10-inch, 6000 feet of eight-inch,
11,000 feet of six-Inch and 6000
feet of four-inch pipe in highways
within the District. Also included
is the construction of a 300,000
gallon reinforced concrete reser
voir and a complete water filter
ing plant with a capacity of .300
g.p.m., a low lift and high lift
pump, and intake in tne boutn
Umnuaa river.
Plans and specifications can be
examined at Preston a residence.
Route 1. Box 275. Roseburg.
The nrenualiflcallon of bidders
is required.
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GOING BACK TO JAPAN Jacob Deihaier, who took part in
the Doolittls raid on Tokyo in th early parts of the war and
spent months in a Japanese prison, points to th Japanese island
where ha will return as a Methodist missionary. Looking on ar
his wife, Florence, and their 1 3-months-old ion, Paul, who will
sail with him. (AP Wirephoto)
Flood Receding
China as Complete Loss As
Chiang's Reign Faces Crash
Mme. Chiang's Appeal
For Further Aid Meets
With Cold Reception
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 UP)
-The United States prepared
to write off China as an al
most certain loss concentrated
today on securing a non-Communist
Western Europe.
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's extra
ordinary mission to Washington,
ner two appeals to secretary of
State Marshall and her one direct
plea to President Truman, ap
pear not to have changed any
important part of the American
attitude toward the global strug
gle with the Communists.
Her mission is widely regard
ed here as a failure; the govern
ment she represents, as a inning
regime.
Only a "military miracle"
seems capable of putting General
issimo Chiang In position to make
an effective bid for American
help in any way comparable to
the money and supplies being
poured into Europe.
While Mme. Chiang kept her
own counsel, and possibly looked
for a graceful means of exit.
official Washington generally
showed great Indifference to her
problem and diplomats mainly
concerned themselves with the
future of Europe.
New Alliance Depends
In this respect, representatives
(Continued on Page Two)
Springer Buys Out
His Partners In
Creamery Plant
Eugene -A. Springer has pur
chased the interests of his two
partners, Leonard W, Delaney
and Paul Shnnklln, in tne JJoug
las County Creamery, he annouc
ed today.
Springer came to Roseburg
four years ago after service In
the Army. Prior to the recent
war he lived at Davenport, la.
He became associated with the
creamery when he came here.
There will be no change In
the personnel or management of
the creamery and Delaney and
Shanklin will continue to be
associated with the business,
Springer said.
The Douglas County Creamery
was established in 1899, serving
local farmers by buying their
cream and manufacturing it into
butter. It was the first Ice cream
manufacturer in the county. The
creamery's productn are mark
eted under the trade name, Mel-O-Maid.
Japanese Wartime Mine
Found Near Florence
FLORENCE, Ore., Dec. 13
UP) A Japanese-made wartime
explosive washed ashore on a
beach near the mouth of Sutton
Creek and was discovered yester
day. Chief Boatswain's Mate J. O.
Woodworth, In charge of the Siu
slaw Coast Guard station, placed
a guard around the horn-type
mine until a disposal officer ar
rives today from Seattle.
292-48
in Upset
to Write Off
Communist Forces Near
Nanking After Further
Blows to Nationalists
"NANKING, Dec. 13. UP)
Chiang Kai-Shek's grim watch on
the Yangtze is coming sooner
than expected.
With a Chinese Communist at
tack reported only 50 miles north
west oi this capital, government
military sources said rted infiltra
tion and heavy Nationalist losses
may soon force abandonment of
the Hwal River defense line.
That would shove National de
fenses back to the Yangtze river.
These sources reported that
more than 50.000 troops of the
government's long encircled 121 h
Army group have been wiped out
southwest of Suhslen, about 145
miles northwest of Nanking.
The 12th, which originally num
bered 110,000 now has been com
pressed into an area of less thnn
four square miles. Its critical
shortage of supplies Is worsening.
Pilots report difficulty in drop
ping material Into the shrinking
target area.
The 12th has been trapped 17
days. The Chinese Communist
radio asserted Sunday night that
the government's Sixth Army had
been stopped In Its effort to
break through to the 12th. The
Sixth moved north from the Hwal
River line and Its anchor at Peng-
pu, and once was within 22 miles
of joining the 12th. Pengpu Is
53 miles south of Suhslen and
105 miles northwest of Nanking.
Reds Reoort Mopup
The Ked radio asserted mat
remnants of the 12th Armv group
are "being monned up." Neutral
observers said elimination of the
12th would free at least 80,000
Red troops for action against the
understrength Sixth and Eighth
Army groups.
Desnile uncertain weather, in
tensified air activity was noted at
Nanking s an rieid. Airnorne sup
nllos to the 12th and the trapped
Army groups souinwesr oi ou
chow were being stepped up.
There was no news of what is
hannenlne to the latter forces
except that they are suffering
heavy casualties.
(The darkening military pic
ture in North China was almost
equally bad. Associated Press Cor
respondent Spencer Moosa report
ed clashes only eight miles from
Peiping, China's ancient capital.
(He said It was reported with
out confirmation that the nation
alists had abandoned Chankping
and Nankou, only 20 and 2o
miles northwest of Peiping.
British Chancellor Gets
Sarcastic Yule Card
LONDON, Dec. 13 UP)
Christmas card from a govern
ment chRrwoman to Sir Stafford
Cripps, British chancellor of the
exchequer:
"A happy Christmas and New
Year
"I wish for you, Sir Stafford
dear,
"From one whose Christmas
couldn't be leaner,
"An Insulted government
woman cleaner.
She read It to a meeting of a
thousand of her sister mopper-'
uppers angry because Sir Staf
ford offered them a pay boost of
one farthing (four-tenths of a
cent) an hour instead of the
threepence, three farthings 17.2
cents) they sought.
Sleeping Tablets Fatal
To Ex-Broadway Beauty
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 13 UP)
Princess Lucv Cotton Eristavl-
Tchitcherine, live times married,
former toast of Broadway and
owner of the MacFadden-Deau-
ville Hotel, Miami Beach, died
last night from what police said
was an apparent overdose of
sleeping tablets.
Detective Sergeant John Deas,
chief of the Miami homicide bu
reau, said an empty bottle of
sleeping pills was found on her
bedroom dresser.
Bandit Takes Car Funds,
Refuses Driver's Cash
PORTLAND, Dec. 13 P) A
man and woman held up a Wil
lamette Heights street car last
night, but refused to take any
of me bus drivers money.
"I dont want any of your
money, only company money,
the armed robber told motorman
Wilbur C. Hayden, alone at the
end of the streetcar line.
The man and woman approach
ed as If they were passengers,
then demanded cash, llaytlen
handed over the money changer,
It had about $500.
Date Changed For Class
In Advanced First Aid
Change In meeting time of the
advanced first aid course offered
by the Douglas County Red Cross
chapter vas announced today by
Liiy Police sgt. William Burke
instructor. The class will meet
hereafter every Thursday
at 7 o'clock In the Red Cross
rooms at the Armory.
I
Damage Done
Not of Major
Proportions
Two Persons Die as Tree
Hits House, Two Others
Perish in Dam Collapse
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 13. UP)
Oregon's third flood within the
year swept down the Willamette
Valley today, blocking roads, lap
ping over doorsllls of lowland
houses, and forcing some 500 peo
ple to move to higher ground.
The Willamette River, swollen
by days of storms that have tak
en a death toll of four in Oregon,
crested here last night after driv
ing some sou trailer residents
from suburban Glenwood.
The storm victims were Mr.
arid Mrs. Clifford J. Kuhnke.
Portland, killed in a house at De
troit dam Saturday night when
a fir tree crashed into the house;
and Earl Miller and Al Roberts.
who perished when the upper
Coqullle River washed out a wing
of a logging dam.
The river which floods here
in December or January so regu
larly that the lowland populace
"just plan to go live with our
friends every year about this
time" had fallen four and a half
feet by this morning.
The residents who drove their
trailers yesterday into the high
Fairgrounds and the University
of Oregon campus expected to be
able to return by nightfall. The
water wnicn swept into ground
floors of stores, of the Glenwood
and Springfield Junction lowland
was seeping out again.
The damage here was not ex
pected to run nearly as high as
the $10,000,000 caused by the Wil
lamette's last flood In January.
And It was only a trickle com
pared to the disastrous Columbia
River flood of May and June,
which destroyed the city of Van-
port 12d miles norm of here, and .
still has left thousands of Van-
port residents with no permanent
homes.
Farmers Walt Out Flood
The Willamette River's crest
swept on toward Its confluence
with the Columbia, 125 miles
northward, and along the banks
a few score of lowland residents
started the annual evacuation.
The river measured four feet
above flood stage this morning
at Corvallis, about 50 miles r.orth
of here, and was still rising.
A few farmers living oehind
the blocked Albany-Corvallis
highway and on Kler Island came
Into Corvallis to wait out the
flood.
But Corvallte, Albany, Salem,
and Portland all on the lower ,
stretches of the Willamette suf
fered no major calamity from a
flood of these proportions. Live
stock has been moved from the
lowlands; equipment moved from
endangered docks.
The weather bureau said the
Willamette would crest at Cor
vallis this afternoon, Albany to
night, Salem tomorrow after
noon, and Portland Wednesday
morning. Headwaters were fall
ing, indicating the worst was
over.
The Pacific Highway was
blocked at Harrlsburg, and the
Willamette Highway was closed
by three slides, the worst about
10 miles north of Oak Ridge.
The old Albany-Corvallis High
way was closed, and some water
was expected to cover Highway
99 West south of Corvallis soon.
Traffic probably could continue
getting through 99, however. -,
Some 100 trailers drove from
flooded Glenwood to the Eugene
Fairgrounds, the campus, and
other trailer parks yesterday. An
other 200 Glenwood residents
were sheltered at a Veterans of
Foreign Wars post In Springfield.
iney nao lett nome yesieraay
morning, ana were unaoie to re
turn when state police closed a
flood-threatened bridge approach
to Glenwood.
Flood Washes Out Dam
Two Reported Missing I
C003 BAY, Deo. 11 P
Floods swept the Cooc Bay area
today, and reportedly washed
out a logging company dam
with the lose of two men.
The Coos Bay Lumber Com
pany said It had received
report its splash dam at 8lt
kum on the Coqullle river head
waters was swept away. The
company had an unverified re
port that two workmen named
Miller and Roberts were miss
ing. Heavy rainfall has sent all
streams in the area on a ram
page. The Roseburg Coqullle
Highway was blocked by the
flooding Coqullle River. The
Ei.egren Ferry on the Coos
River alio was out of opera
tion. Several secondary roads
were flooded.
DRIVER EXAMS 8ET
Driver's license examinations
will be given in Roseburg Thurs
day and Friday, Dec. 16 and 17,
at the City Hall between the
hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. All
original applications for licenses
should be made before 4 p. m.
evity pact flant
By L. F. lUlxanitaim
Jingle cash, jingle cash,
Jingle while you pay,
Oh what fun It Is to shop
When It rains and rains all day;
Jostling crowds, dodging
crowds.
Footwork must be snappy;
Despitt the mobs, what's the
odds
If everybody's happy?