U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COkP loin zn i Ell IT: AflAU Si o So Drilling Operations In Oil Quest Start On Leonard Lile Property Near Umpqua READYING OIL EXPLORATION with drilling operations scheduled to begin this afternoon near Umpqua is Santa Maria Drilling coropration of California. Ones started, drilling will continue on a round-the-clock basis. Equipment was hauled from California during past several days. (Picture by Paul Jenkins Roseburg Chest Goal For Five Agencies Fixed Final arrangements for the bud gets of the five local agencies participating in the Community Chest were made Wednesday noon in a special meeting. The year's goal for Roseburg was set up at $29,800. 4 The campaign runs from Oct. 11 through Oct. 26 this fall. .. A second series of budgets was advanced setting up a minimum goal of $24(500. However, this would ,result in severe curtailment of many vital services, explained Irv Pugh, publicity chairman of the campaign. The five participating agencies are: YMCA, Salvation Army,' Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts and Oregon Chest. The budgets were submitted in a meeting of agency representa tives and campaign officials at the Hotel Umpqua. Officials are confident that this year's drive will top the goal set for the first time in five years. The Community Chest orani?a tion is now gearing itself for the fund-raising campaign with an or ganizational meeting set for Sept. 28, when the Oregon Community Chest chairman will speak here. The fund-raising campaign has been worked out on a basis of each agency contributing one drive worker per $200 submitted in' its individual budget. The Rev. W. A. MacArthur is chest campaign chairman and John Todd is president. New Law Will Spring 10 Lifers From Prison WALLA WALLA. Wash. ;7P) The gales of the Washington State penitentiary will swing open this week for ten inmates serving life terms for murder. A now state law is springing them for their first taste of freedom in more than 20 years. The law, passed by the 1951 legislature, provides that men and women sentenced to life 'erms for first degree murder may be parold after 20 years. Volunteer Personnel Quota Fixed For Douglas County's Role In Civil Defense Job Douglas county now has a definite civil defense goal to shoot at. Assignments in terms of men and women needed in each of the services to be organized here were announced today by the state civil deferue office. The goals for this area are part of a comprehensive plon for operations in the face of dis askr anywhere in the state. The analysis was aimed at keep ing the assignments or goals within the capabilities of each area. State Civil Defense Director Jack A. Hayes describes it as "an essential minimum, rather than an elaborate maxi mum. Douglas county's volunteer quota for many of the civil defense serv ices will be: 136 police reserves; ?0 reserve firemen to man six pieces ol equipment; 10 mobile first aid tetms, in volving 820 persons; IVi emergency mobile med ical hospital teams, 94 persons'; ' J mob, welfare teams, 165 per sons; and 2 rescue units, 48 persons. The setting up of civil defense mobile teams works both ways. If the specific area has its own emer gency, it will not be expected to disptach rrources to outside (reas. And tnat city vl be aided TSy other cities. Mobility Plan gcluded The mobile first aid teams will be semCJmm e area In another if the need aifsefp setting up sta Charge Follows Jaunt Of Roseburg Youths Three youths and two girls from Roseburg have been returned to Roseburg after leaving school Sept. 11 and traveling to Califor nia, Arizona and New Mexico, the sheriff's office reported. They were picked up by police near San Francisco on the return trip. The youths reportedly told police they were on their way to Alaska to work in timber opera tions there. A complaint against one of t h e youths was issued Wednesday by District Judge A. J. Geddes charg ing a 15-year-okl boy with contrib uting to the delinquency of a mi nor. The youth was referred to juvenile authorities. Complaints against the others bad not been filed Wednesday. Names were withheld by the sher iff's office. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From the Hague (Holland): "Queen Juliana of The Nether lands warned her people" today to be prepared for new personal, fi nancial sacrifices because of the contribution Holland is expected to make to the defense of the West ern world." Juliana is a realistic thinker. Over here in the United Slates of America we've been told from time to time (usually by CON SERVATIVE -thinkers) that WE will have to make personal" sac rifices if we are to prepare in time to defend ourselves against the menace of communism. So far, we have refused rather generally to accept the thought of sacrifice. We have said, in effect: "WE JUST WON'T STAND FOR (Continued on Page 4) SCHOOL SUPT. ACCUSED COLVILLE, Wash. UP) - L. Thomas Utterhack, superinten dent of schools at Northport, Wash., was named in a grand lar ceny warrant issued here that claims "more than $25" is missing from student body funds. tions near the fringe of the dis aster area. The learns are made up of two.physicians, tkree nurses, three dentists, two pharmacists, eight first aiders, seven nurses aides, one clergyman, six clerical assistants, and 50 litter bearers. fmprovised emergency hospitals will be designated in all commu nities of Oregon. Emergency mo bile medical-hospital teams will be sent to tSese areas in time of need to help staff them. All existing hos pitals in these designated areas wiil evacuate those patients who can be safely moved to hospi tals in other communities, to nurs ing homes, or private homes. This will provide addA;onal beds in ex isting hospitals. i is planned to utilize the Oregon Slate Mental hospital at Salem for emotioly disturbed patients, and to desig nate Corvallis as a special center for radiation casualties. Venture Financed By Corporation Of Local Persons By KEN METZLER There may be black gold in them thar hills. So thinks geologist Les Childs in explaining why he believes there's a possibility of oil exist ing in Douglas county. Oil drilling opreations, financed by Oil Developers, Inc., a con cern of some 60 local stockhold ers, were scheduled to begin late this afternoon on the Leonard Lile property southwest of Umpqua. The determination of oil, ac cording to Childs, is through geo logic formations which had their beginning some 120 million years ago.. Geologically, . the -period is known as the eocene, the first principal subdivision of the ter tiary period. ' But to the layman, the tertiary period is better known as the age of mammals an age when now extinct monsters roamed the land. It was also an age when an an cient sea covered what is now Douglas county. . About 52 percent of all oil in the world comes out of the ter tiary period, Childs said. Rocks Look "Favorable" Exposed rocks around the Lile property may look like ordinary rocks to most of us. But the geol ogist identifies them as eocene formations and Childs says they "appear to be favorable to the accumulation of oil," The ancient sea that once cov ered Douglas county had a sub tropical climate and the marine animal and plant life was the same as in other ancient eocene seas that produce oil, Childs said. On the strength of that, some 60 enthusiastic local investors raised $100,000 to bring oil drilling equip ment to the Lile property, and entered a risky "wildcatting" busi ness. And risky it is, too, for the odds, based on the national av erage, are one in 16 of making a successful strike one in 40 of hitting a workable oil field. 8,500 Feet Can Be Reached The drilling is being done by the Santa Maria Drilling corpor ation of Santa Maria, Calif. A total of $484,092 worth of equip ment has been hauled to the site from Santa Maria. Included is a 122-fot derrick, two 380-horse-power drill motors, two 450-horse-power mud pumps and just in case a device to prevent the well from gushing in the event of a successful strike. The equipment is capable of reaching a depth of 8,500 feet. Ac tual cost of drilling cannot be de termined because the exact na ture of the ground underneath is not known. C. L. Slayton, superintendent of the drilling work, said operations would begin this afternoon. He expects the crews will have 200 feet of service pipe in place within 24 hours. Three five-man crews will be on the job to handle the 24-hour daily drilling work. FATAL 'FAG' SMOKE BOSTON lP) An oxygen lent exploded in city hospital here, kill ing Arthur Peltier. 57, who was being treated for pulmonary tuber culosis. e Deputy Fire Chief James Kane said a cigaret Peltier was smok ing in the tent apparently touched off the biast. The Weather Continutd fair and warm today and Friday. Hightst ttmp. for any Sept. ... 104 Lowest ttmp. for any Sept. 29 Highest tamp, yaittrdiy 9? Lowttt ttmp. tatt 24 hours 50 Prtcip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. from Sept. 1 T Defic. from Sept. 1. ,72 Sunset today, 7:1$ p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:59 a.m. i ' In I Established 1873 ROSEBUR0V ORECON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1951 " 222-51 Cross Mum, Causing Case Court Forced To Liberate 18 Policemen Both Prosecutors Weep; Balky Witness Handed Five Years For Contempt NEW YORK UP) Painstak 1 n g 1 y prepared graft charges against 18 Brooklyn policemen were dismissed Wednesday when ex - bookmaker Harry Gross counted on by the prosecution as its star witness flatly refused to testify at their trial. Gross, 35, was promptly sen tenced lo five years in jail for contempt. And he faces further penalty on his guilty pleas to gam bling charges. Two prosecutors both in tears threw in the sponge when Gross could not be forced into opening up on the witness stand. Collapse of the case left Brook lyn's graft-probing grand jury with an almost hopeless salvage task. Nevertheless, District Attorney Miles F. McDonald said he was going to try to "pick up the pieces." He didn't say what if anythin" the grand jury can do now that the biggest fish have escaped its net. Prosecutor Weeps But McDonald claimed informa tion from an official source that a $75,000 payoff to Gross made him refuse to testify a ma neuver that wrecked 20 months of work for McDonald and left him in tears. Brooklyn Judge Samuel S. Leib owitz, in bitter fury, threw the case out of court. He freed the IS cops after McDonald said it was futile to go on. The 18 were accused of sharing in $1,000,000 a year in bribes paid by Gross when he was riding high as kingpin of a $2O,000,OO0-a-year gambling ring. The specific charge was conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly protecting the bet ting syndicate.". , Gross was the stale's key wit (Continued on Page 2) Assault-Battery Charge Faced By Riddle Man Ira V. Orr, Riddle, was bound over to the grand jury Wednes day on an assault and battery charge in 1 Justice of the Peace Nina Pietzold's court in Canyon ville. Orr is accused of threatening the life of Jack Cater, special po lice deputy and nignt jailer at ihe county jail. Bail was fixed at $500 which has been posted by Orr. A charge of armed assault against Orr was dropped at t h e hearing. A complaint on this charge had been sworn out by Jack Markham, Riddle. Orr had been arrested Aug. 28 by Deputy Sheriff W. I. Worrall a day after the alleged threat against Cater occurred. Umpqua Basin Assn. Files Incorporation SALEM (PI The Umpqua Basin Improvement association, with headquarters in Roseburg, has filed articles of incorporation here. The incorporators ere George J. Halladav. Harold P. H o v t. Thomas C. Hartfiel and Anita C, Stark. 3ite U3CJl MV?U teIV NEW SUBSTATION Pictured above is the superstructure of the new distribution sub-station to be constructed on Corey Ave. in West Rosebur g. The California-Oregon Power Co. is inOalling the new station to handle the increased electrical load occasioned. by hospitals, schools and in creased population in that area. When the project is finished,, fne site will be landscaped. Switches, regulators and by-passes have arrived, end the work is expected to be completed by Oct. I. The new installation will cost between $ 25,000 and $30,000. (Picture by Paul Jenkins! Price Control - Handicapped Packers Refuse To Bid On Beef To Feed Army; Government Will Purchase Overseas WASHINGTON (AP) The' army said today it got offers of only 190,000 pounds of beef in response to its re quest for bids on lu.000,000 pounds. Only two of 212 packers solicited for bids made offers. This seemed to make certain that the army now would turn to overseas markets to get the boneless or carcass beef it needs for supplying the European command. , The packers have given govern ment price controls and a short age of high quality beef as rea sons for refusing to submit bids. Most of the large packers, a Chicago area marketing officer said, told him they could not bid on the "urgently needed" beef because they cannot buy enough cattle to slaughter without suffer ing losses. If foreign meat is purchased, the army said, it will be used to meet requirements of American forces in Europe, relieving a drain on west coast supply sources. The west coast sources normally ship to the Far East and to military installations in the United States. Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., two of the nation's largest pack ers, were among firms which ad vised army quartermaster market centers they could not bid on the beef order. Swift said that present market prices for grain fed cattle needed to produce the army beef were six to eight percent over celling lev els imposed by the Office of Price Stabilization. The company said its plants could not buy at these prices and sell at wholesale price ceilings without suffering "pro hibitive losses." Armour said that Its supply of choice beef cattle was small and that production of four-way bone less beef wanted by the army would be larger than on standard beef operations.' (The four-way boneless beef is processed into steaks, roasts, stewing meat and hamburger). Brownout Will Miss Roseburg Roseburg, served by California Oregon Power company, will not be affected by the brownout, which goes into effect In most of the Northwest about Oct. 1, a spokesman for the company said today. The brownout for cities served by the Northwest power pool will affect all of Washington state, northern Idaho and Oregon, ex cept' for southern and eastern parts, served by Copco and Utah Southern Idaho. Drain, however, is expected to be. affected, as its power is de rived from Bonneville. The Northwest power shortage in areas affected is expected to put football back lo pre-lighting days, and those who handle the money don't like it, the Associated Press reports. Attendance would fail off by two-thirds for high school games and that would put a crimp in other school activities. The same is true at some of the colleges. TWO-WAY TV START NEW YORK P) The first two-way coast-to-coast television program will be staged next Sun day. The program, at 11 a. m. (EST), will heln the Crusade for Free dom raise money to expand its European radio propaganda. 1 iBlBK X. fc l NEW S. P. AGENT HERE Paul Carbon (above) has assumed his new duties in Roseburg as Southern Pacific assistant dis trict freight and passenger ag ent, succeeding T. J, McCarry, who was promoted to general agent of the railroad at Spo kane. Carbon started with Southern Pacific in Portland in 1930. Hs rose to the post of eitv freight agent at Seattle before 1942," when he was in ducted into the armed forces. Serving four years, he was dis charged in 1946, then became traveling freight and passenger agent at Spokane, before com ing here. Lanza Buys Land In Medford Area MEDFORD OP) Singer Mario Lanza is going to raise chickens on an 80-acre ranch north of here on Elk creek. He had completed a stay at Gin ger Rogers' ranch, fishing and at tempting to take off weight, and returned to Hollywood before it De came known generally that he had bought the ranch In mountain coun try near Trail. Details were not available, but it was understood he planned to hire a manager for the ranch, which is located in excellent fish ing country, not far from the famed Rogue river. FIRE STATUS UNCHANGED There is very little change in the fire situation in Douglas county, reports the Douglas For est Protective association. The five burn areas, all under conlrnl, are in belter shape than yesterday, the spokesman said. To Fold New Postal Rates Await Compromise Prospective Increases Unlikely To Even Meet Workers' Pay Boosts WASHINGTON (VP) The penny postcard is going up to two cents but how much other postal rates may climb will be deter mined by a congressional com promise committee. The House Wednesday passed its version of a bill designed to raise more money for the Post Office department, now in the red about $500,000,000 a year. It dif fered sharply from a recently approved senate bill. Both measures must be alike before they can become law. A senate-house conference commit tee will meet to smooth out dif ferences. The senate and house bills agreed on the penny postcard hike and a few other points.' But this is how they differ in cents on some rates which affect the av erage American, Present II S Letters (1st class) 3 3 4 Airmail 6 6 8 Special Dlvry 15 23 20 The house bill would bring in an extra $126,000,000 a year, the senate $400,000,000. Whatever the compromise . committee does, the postal raises will not put the de partment in the black. They may not even offset the $252,000,000 annual pay raise Con gress plans to give postal work ers. This postal pay bill comes before the House today. Senate Expected To Yield The house bill would raise mail ing costs for newspapers and mag azines by 30 percent, spread over I three-year period. The Senate agrees on newspapers, wants a 60 percent increase for. magazines. The House refused to go along on rne J-cent leuer-raie increase to 4 cents since letter mail al ready returns a profit. House leaders predicted that the Senate would drop its original demand, too. This provision alone accounts for $200,000,000 of the extra revenue contemplated by the senate measure. There was a possibility, also, the Senate would bow to the wishes of the House on second class rates for newspapers and magazines. The Post Office department wanted the second-class rates dou bled over three years. Neither the senate nor the house bill changes present rates for publications circulated in the . (Continued on Page 2) Fall Flower Show Opens To Public The 1951 Fall Flower show started early today with judging at 10 a.m. and was opened to the public at noon In the Methodist church social hall. The show remains open until 9 tonight and continues Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Three main classifications for judging are: floral arrangements, novelty arrangements and minia ture arrangements. The floral arrangements can be made up of fresh flowers and foli age of any variety as follows: (A) low and flat arrangements, (B) medium height, (C) tall and wide spreading. Novelty arrangements include entries of materials such as fruits, berries, and dried materials, alone or in combination with fresh 1 low ers. Miniature arrangements are for materials fresh or dried in (A) 3 inch arrangements, or (B) 5-inch arrangements. All groups are competitive and first, second and third ribbon awards will be made in each di vision. Special features Include the Jun ior division for individual entries from any child or youth group; a special table setting A Child a Party," by the Junior Woman's club; and conversation pieces by the garden department of the Woman's club. The names of the exhibitors are supposed to be on the bottom, of the containers. BPW Will Observe Their National Week "Full Partnership for the Job Ahead" is the national slogan for Business and Professional Worn- ens week, Sept. 23 through Sept. 29. Mayor Albert G. Flecel has is sued a proclamation recognizing observance of Ihe week in Rose burg. A full program is planned by (he local BPW, starting with Mon day, which will be railed Women in Uniform day. It will honor 160.000 trained women in uniform in the United States, ready to do their part for their country, the local BPW members point out, Allied Force Without Loss In Two Days Ground Troops Meeting Desperate Resistance From Dug-ln Commies U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD. QUARTERS, Korea m Amer ican warplanes today damaged three Russian-made MIG-15 jets in a series of dogfights over north west Korea, Altogether, 49 Allied and 78 Red planes were engaged. The U. S. 'Fifth air force said there were no Allied losses. Red losses for two days of dog fights totaled one MIG destroyed and 8 damaged, For the first time in history, g. ant helicopters ferried battle-ready troops into action. The helicopters delivered a reinforced company of marines and their equipment to a rugged mountain summit in only four hours. By foot the' same job would have taken two days. Other United Nations troops faced withering Red mortar fire as they pushed off again in the bloody "battle of the hills" on the east-central front. Clearing weather gave them badly needed air support. Communist troops on command, ing high ground rained artillery and mortar fire at the attacking Allied infantrymen. Elsewhere on the east central ..urn, aillljr auiuiClH tUn- tinued local attacks against Redl dug-in on high ground. U. N. advances also were re ported on the western front. They were north of Yonchon and north west of Chorwon. U. N. infantrymen pulled them selves together for a drive to re gain Wednesday's losses. The final score for Wednesday no hills won, three lost, and seven Allied attacks turned back was re lieved only by the successful de fense of three other peaks against strong Communist at tacks. Warships Also In Action Allied warships were active Wednesday. Wonsan, the badly battered cast coast port, came in for its daily ration of Allied high explosives. The cruiser Toledo hammered the port with S and 8-inch shells. Rocket launchers poured more than 2,000 projectiles on troop and supply areas. ine destroyer Perkins gave front line support to South Korean troops south of Kosong on the east Coast. Under cover of the naval artillery, the South Koreans over ran dug-in Reds and captured a hill position. 'Australian ships ranged up and down .the east coast, hammering (Continued on Page 2) Teen-Age Boys, On Spree, Slay Nurse, Obtain $1 ANN ARBOR, Mich. UP) Three beer-drinking 'teen-age boys were held for murder today in nurse Pauline Campbell's slaying. All three one a college fresh man admitted the bludgeon kill ing Wednesday night. Nurse Campbell, 34, it de veloped, was killed for the paltry few cents in her purse, amount ing to about one dollar. Prosecutor Douglas K. Reading said confessions were made by Bill Morcy and Max Pell of Ypsil- anti and David Royal of Miland, Mich., each of whom is 18. A tin from a fourth 'teen-ager led to the solution of a gruesome killing which had terrorized this university city. Miss Campbell, a nurse at St. Joseph's hospital, was found beaten to death near her rooming house in the University of Michi gan campus vicinity early Sunday. She had been clubbed on her head. The actual blows which killed Miss Campbell were struck by Mo rey with a rubber mallet obtained from a garage, Reading said. With the small change from her purse the trio bought gasoline for their car, he said. Morev is registered as a begin ning freshman at Michigan Nor mal college In Ypstlantl. The three admitted plotting the attack and robbery after having had a case of beer, Reading said. The nrosecutor auotcd Morey as saying "I don't know why I did it. Just a little drunk, I guess." New Business Buildings -Scheduled In Roseburg Two new commercial establish ments will be built in Roseburg in the immediate future, reports City Inspector C. H. Boniols. A construction permit has been issued to John Runyan to build a $23,000 structure on north Stephens street across from Smith motors. An old house on the site is being torn down to make room. The second building, to he a drive-in finance company, will be constructed across the street Torn, the Junior high school on Wash ington street. Mr. Adair of Med ford has filed application to build. A house on the site is being torn down. L evity F act R ant By L. T. Reizenstein If gloomy forecasts o,n the btef situation come true," city consumers may ultimately have to attend rodeos to too what a I steer looks Ilk.