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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.