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2 Th Ntwi-Rytw, Hoieburg, Or. .Tuei., June 17, 1952 Vital Statistics Marrlag UceniM OFTERDAHL - HARPER -Wayne Edward Ofterdahl and Joan Ruth Harper, both of Rose burg. ROACH-EMBURN - Jack P Roach, KalUpell, Mont., and Jessie Viola Emburn, Loi Angeles. MURPHY-FICKES William G. Murphy and Shirley Jean Fickes, both of Sutherlin. BONEBRAKE BENTLEY Richard Duane Bonebrake, Rose burg, and Jeannlne Bernice Bent ley, Lyons, Ore. . Divorce Suit! Filed VAN HORN Verna L. v Ger aid Lloyd Van Horn. Cruelty charged. Plaintiff asks custody of one minor child, $200 gross ali mony, $100 monthly support and property disposition. CARLSON v. LARSON Dor othy Carlson vs. Don Larson. (An. nulment;. Plaintiff contends she was married to defendant before a divorce decree to a former hus band was final. PLUMBER FILES SUIT John Eckwall, 6on business as John's Plumbing and Heating, fil ed suit Monday against Carl and Bernice Wolf in Circuit Court for recovery of $251.40. The plaintiff charges the de fendants with failure to pay for material! and labor for alteration and. repair of a building in Myrtle " Creek. The plaintiff also asks for a prior lien over claims of Ump qua Savings and Loan Assocla. tion and Jerry ,and Edith Bum garner. Mitchell Moore has filed suit against the Tire Service Co. for $1,061.19 allegedly owed on ac count., LOCAL NEWS Knit Club To Meet The Suth erlin Knitting Club will meet to 'day at the home of Mrs. Alan Tulhill for a one-thirty dessert luncheon. All members are urg ed to attend. All-Day Meeting Planned The Melrose Friendly Hour Club will meet today for an all-day session PICKERS WANTED SALEM Wl The shortage of strawberry pickers is acute in the Salem area. Appeals were made Tuesday for 2,000 more pickers. , ways to 6e a -friendly -telephone neigi6or If yours is a party-line, your telephone neighbors will consider vou a real friend if you'll keep these simple points in mind: Try not to tie up the line with lengthy conversations. That way you won't miss important incoming calls. Ask the youngsters to be considerate, too. When they remember that others may be waiting to use the line they're being good party-line neighbors. Always be sure you hang up properly after calling. These simple suggestions mean still better service . . . because they give every one a better chance to receive and make calls. time out J ' others you make busy Impending Loss Of Fund For Marksmen Topic Set Merrit A. Edson, editor and ex ecutive director of the National Rifle Association of America, will discuss the proposed disconlin marksmanship training at a meet uance of an appropriation for ing at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Roseburg Armory, sponsored by the Roseburg mile Club. The appropriations for the direc- lion of civilian marksmanship for the training of junior and seniors in shooting and safe handling of firearms are now under study and may be discontinued, it was point ed out. If Ihis appropriation is not pass ed, it will do away with 2,600 junior rifle clubs and 1.8O0 senior clubs, Robert S. Kirk, vice presi dent of the Oregon Slate Rifle and Pistol Club, disclosed. An invitation bas been extend ed to ail Trap Clubs and Rifle and Conservation Clubs, to attend the meeting. Fire Dept. Alters Plan Of Burning Off Lots The Roseburg Fire Department has shifted its policy of burning off vacant lots during the dry summer months. It has been the custom of the Department to burn off vacant lots at the owner's expense. But because this proved unsatisfact ory, Chief W. E. Mills reports the ion will be burned off without charge by the Department force Thfl grass must be cut before it will be burned. with one reservation. The grass must be cut before it will be burn ed. After the Krass has been cut and dried, the Dcoartment can be Informed of lis readiness to he burned by calling 3-3226, Mills announced. SERVICE STATION RISING One of the most modern type Associated service stations is be ing built at Lone Rock on the North Umpqua River at Ihis time according to an announcement by C. M. McDermott, distributor for Tide Water Associated Oil Com pany. The new station, which will open July 1, is for Paul Amann, well-known resident of that com munity for many years. Mr. Amann Is at present attending an Associated Oil Company School, taking instruction in the care of automobiles. between calk .. especially when von h;ive a series of rhetn to IlllLe . mnm lirftir rvu' When vou space calls vou giv a chance to vise the line, ami sure your friends won't hear only signal when they try to call you. Sutherlin Grad Highest In Honors At University SEATTLE I A lanky young man from Oregon, one of five children, was bored in high school where bis grades averaged C plus. Saturday he graduated from Ihe University of Washington with highest scholastic honors only .02 of I point from a perfect 4.0. James Robb Grover, 23, Suther lin, Ore., was announced at grad uation exercises as winner of the President's medal, given annually to the top scholar of the senior class. The only grade below A he re ceived in, his four-year college ca reer was a B in English composi tion as a freshman. . "Never was much good at Eng lish," he said modestly. His course of study was top-heavy with sci ence and mathematics. Young Grover, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Richard Grover, Suth erlin, was born in Klamath Falls attended high school there for three years and graduated from Sutherlin high. Why were his high school grades only average? "High school bored me." he ex plained. "Three or four science courses and you've had it." He will go from here to the Univer sity of California where he will be a teaching assistant in chemistry and enter the graduate school. Sutton Infant Passes Away At Tri-City Graveside services for the in fant son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sutton of Tri-City, who died June IS, will be held Wednesday, June 8, at 2 p.m.. DST, at the IOOF Cemetery, Myrtle Creek. Ganz Mortuary is In charge. Survivors are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sutton; a brother, Car roll Lee; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Weston of Corning, Calif., and a paternal ramlfother, Lee Sutton of Klam ath Falls. The officiating minister Is to be announced later. FUND TRANSFERRED The County Court Monday or dered $40,000 transferred from the county's emergency fund to the general road fund. Unusual heavy hauling during the 1951-52 season caused bridge damage "beyond normal expecta tions," the court explained. If tyy l., i the 1 SSJ m Pacific Telephone Steel Strike Cutting Deeper Into War Jobs (Continued from Page One) specific way of achieving this out put, although it said a plan had been worked out to transport steel weapons manufacturers, stored In struck warehouses to The union and the Industry have been unable to agree, not only on contract terms, but also on just where they are in disagreement. Charges Exchanged Murray claims the companies meet Wage Stabilization Board have failed in many respects to recommendations which, among other things, call for a 26-cent hourly "package" wage boost and a union shop. The industry says the union shop, which would re. quire ail steel workers to join the union, is the only bone of conten tion. The industry, which wants a higher price for steel to help cover any salary increase, says its final offer was l 24.6-cent-an-hour pack age deal which would cost it 400 million dollars a year. Murray says the offer was not that high. Camas Valley , School District Names Director Miles Standley was elected to the Camas Valley District School Board at the annual school meet ing Monday night. He replaced Oran Standley, a brother, who was nominated as a candidate but declined to run for re-election. Standley received 56 voles. Or mand Standley, another brother, an opposing candidate, received 25 votes while a third candidate, Lee Halloran, got 20 votes. Voters also passed the school budget by a 57 to 43 vote. Earlier, Supt. Marlin Yoder lead a dis cussion at the Camas Valley School on the budget. Accidents Take Lives Of Two Oregon Loggers By The Associated Press Logging accidents in Oregon Monday claimed the lives of two men. Lester Burkholder, about 50, died in an Oregon City hospital a few hours after he .was pinned against a stack of logs by a tractor. Thomas McAuIiffe, also about 50, was killed outright near Pals ley in Lake County, when he was crushed under logs which rolled off a truck. emergency calls mav arise while vou're on the line. a telephone neighlW breaks m ami explains mc cuicrgcm-v, e - . ',s 'wavs thoughtful complete your call later. Benefit Skating Party Scheduled A benefit skating party, featur ing performances by champion roller skaters Mary Butler and Larry Archer, will be held June 27 at the Rolletta Rink. Mrs. George Pankey, chairman of the affair, said the party would be held to help finance the $400 trip to Denver the pair will take to represent the Northwest in na tional akating competition. Also slated to make the trip will be Mrs. Ernest Erickson as chaperone. Mary and Larry, both 14-year-old Roseburg High School stu dents, took Northwest honors in skating competition last May at Burlington, Wash. Mrs. Pankey aaid tickets are being sold throughout the area. Included tn the benefit party is a 45-minute show featuring the pair. The couple is expected to leave with Mrs. Erickson by July 2 for the national competition at which they will compete against 20 other couples from throughout the na tion. The competition will be held July 7 to 13. Liquor Store Cashier Faces Theft Charge PORTLAND m A reported shortage of $28,192 from a liquor store cashier's accounts has brought a tightening of the Oregon Liquor Commission's bookkeeping practices. Harold Strawn, controller, told the commission Monday that new accounting procedures had been put into effect after Cashier Fred J. Clemo, Portland, was arrested on a charge of stealing public money. Strawn said that Ciemo's books showed evidence of having been manipulated for five years. Department Stores Get Nod To Increase Prices WASHINGTON Wl Department stores now may boost prices on most of their goods starting next Monday. The increases allowed range from a penny or two on small items to a dollar or more on furni ture, radio and television sets. But the Office of Price Stabiliza tion (OPS) doesn't expect most -f - ,) he upped. It said many products now are selling be low ceilings and the actual prices are determined by competition. OPS authorized the increases Monday to offset a rise In freight and parcel post rates since May, 1951. Right jj M 'af at) Wi e e MOM '?.i1fftW 7 inrm -In trade on a new And look what you Dazzling Array of New Spring Colors! Famous Oriflow Ride that smoothes bumpiest roads! Watehtower" Visibility or greater safety! More head room, leg room, hip room I Money-Saving Dodge Dependability! MAKI SI DILLARD State Evidence Opens In Trial Of D. W. Smith (Continued from Page One) and fight in front of his place," the officer testified. "He said that was why he didn't know who the man was." Officer Haystead said numerous searches had been made for the death weapon, a 16-gauge shotgun. The defendant, he said, told him he believed he had thrown it down, but didn't remember where. Drunkenness Told State's witnesses testifying Mon day afternoon traced the move ments of Smith following the shoot ing. Madge Standley, who lives across a creek from Smith's house on Upper Camas Road, declared the defendant waa "the drunkest I've ever seen him" on the after noon of May 12 the day of the shooting. She said she had heard a shot "it sounded like it came from Dan's (the defendant's) place" about 2 p.m. that afternoon. Later Smith came to her house, the witness testified, talked about his new calf and asked for the paper, but didn't mention a shoot ing. "My main aim." Mrs. Standley said, "when he Is Intoxicated, is to run him off. . . when he's intoxi cated be'f quite talkative." He returned a second time, the witness testified, and again asked for the paper. "I told him it just shows how drunk you are," she declared. "You asked for the paper before." Smith left her place and a little later returned for a third time. This time, she said, the defendant told her there was a dead man on his yard. 'Definitely Drunk' Another neighbor, Mrs. Frances Pasco, who lives a quarter mile from Smith's place, testified the defendant came to her house about 6:30 p.m. May 12. She said Smith was "definitely" drunk. She said she could tell from his walk, talk and odor. "It didn't smsll much like beer," she added. "Dan blurps a lot when he s drinking beer and it didn t smell like beer." Also testifying Monday after noon was Mrs. Orley Weist, who, with her husband, runs a store and tavern in Camas Valley. She said Jenkins and Smith had come into the tavern the morning of May 12 and had purchased four or five beers. She added that she didn't think they were "drunk." An earlier witness, James Rus said he had drunk a stubby with Smith and Jenkins that morn ing and answered cross examina- Come in for a now your present car is probably ID CREDIT RESTRICTIONS ARE LIFTED... MONTHLY PAYMENTS ARE LOWER I COME IN. ..FIND OUT HOW EASV fefcJ jet! YOUS A TKOUHl-Ffttl VACATION IN A DEFENDAIIE DODCI MOTOR CO. . 340 N. Stephens St. Elkton Notes Two Funerals By MRS. GRACE SAWYERS Two funeral services were held In Ihis area recently. Services of the late Dick Wealh erly were held at Scottsburg Cemetery, the family burial grounds. A profusion of floral of ferings covered the grave. Dr. Guy Wright of NCC of Eugene of ficiated. Newton Henderer, who died Tuesday, was buried Friday in Ihe family burial grounds near Elk ton. Like the Weatherly funeral, flowers were profuse. The church was crowded to capacity. The fu neral waa held in the Christian Church, where he has been a member for many years. Inter ment was in the family burial grounds. Dr. Guy Wright of NCC of Eugene preached from the Bible text, the Twenty-Third Psalm. Mrs. Marcella Henderer re turned Wednesday to attend the funeral services of a relative, Dick Weatherly. Mrs. Dorothy Binder and son, Larry, and Mrs. Grace Sawyers were Drain business visitors Wed nesday. Mrs. Grace Sawyers left Satur day, June 14, to attend the Ore gon College of Education sum mer session at Monmoulh. She ex pects to be gone two months. While in school, Mrs. Sawyers ex pects to review her profession of primary teaching. tion with the comment, "they seemed to be full of fun." "They were a little 'teed up' as they say," Russell said. In opening statements early Mon day afternoon. Defenss Attorney Geddes said the defense will try to prove that Smith "doesn't re member" because of the effects of intoxication what happened after he separated Jenkins and an other man in a pool table fight at the Weist tavern. Others testifying Monday wore Engineer Ben B. Irving, Lloyd Roberts, Glen Pasco, 16, Wilson Roberts, 18, all of Camas Valley, Slate Tatrolman Austin J. Murray, and George Wright, Long and Orr funeral director. Members of the jury trying fhe case are: Pricilla Darby. Argos Fisher, Sasha Garrison, Ray B. Banning, Ezra W. Tigner and Zelma Ful lerton, all of Roseburg; R. L. Bridges, Drain; Edward Joyce. Camas Valley; Gladys Johns'on, Brockway; Doris Bacon, Umpqua; Agnes B. Wilcox, Oakland; and Harry A. Cool Jr., Brain. Alter nate is Calno M. Gilbreth, of Ump qua, (51 3 Drunk Coses Heard In Municipal Court Three cases involving drunken ness were on the Municipal Court calendar today. Judge Ira B. Riddle reported the following fines and sentences were ordered. Armor Arthur Aur dal Medford, $20 ball forfeited; Flmer Leon Mills, Roseburg, 10 davs in jail in lieu of a $20 fine; Charles DeRoss, Umpqua Pirk, 15 days in jail in Neu ot 1 '30 ine- Pilot, 3 Women Die In Alaska Plane Crash FAIRBANKS, Alaska Ul Three women passengers two of them Army nurses died with a civilian pilot in the crash of a small plane north of here Sunday. The wreckage and bodies were found near the summit of i moun tain Monday. The pilot was Mor ris A. Weiner. The third woman was an Air Force base librarian. The lrtentlties of the three were not disclosed, pending notification of their families. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis. tration reported the plane appar ently crashed when a wing hit Ihr mountainside on a turn. Second High School Gets Salem Bond Vote SALEM Ml Salem will have a second high school by the fall of 1954. Voters of the school district ap proved Monday a $4,280,000 bond issue to build the new building. The vote was 1,397 to 1,014. LETTER CARRIERS DATED The state convention of . the As sociation of Letter Carriers will take place in Corvallis June 21-22. The national president of the NACL Auxiliary. Dola Carson, of Waco, Texas, will be present. Delegates from Roseburg will be Doris Long and Phyllis Devitt. The past state president, Ethel Bailey, of Roseburg will also be present. An Interesting pro gram has been planned for the two-day convention. ERROR CORRECTED Mollie Fullerton, Epsilon Sigma Alpha candidate In the Umpqua i Cavalcade contest, scored 15, 1555 votes, according to final tab ulation. A previous s'ory erron eously indicated that she received only 1,555 voles. Lightning has struck the Empire ,' ate Building in New York City as many as 12 times In 20 minutes without doing damage. FREE PROOF Dodge Gives Mere for Yor Money Com in foe your fir "Show Dowa" booklet ttiot Uti yo compare Dodg., (eatf by Uo tuc, with cart cotrlng hundredi of dollan mof
