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2 The News-Review, Hoseburrj, Ore frl., June 27, 1952 Hospital Director Vote Deadline Cited By Head Douglas Community Hospital Manager J. W. McAlvin calls at tention to the deadline for voting on directors for the hospital staff. Threa directors are to be elected for a 3-year term. The candidates are Incumbents Kenneth Eord, Dr. Morris Roach and Frank Ashely. Othrs nomin ated are Jeff Jefferis, Gordon Bev an and Harold McKay. The official ballot states that to be valid, the ballot must be in closed in the self-addressed offi cial ballot envelope and mailed or taken in person to the office of the hospital, 1200 Harvard Ave. However, McAlvin said, some letters were mistakingly mailed out without return evolopcs, so re turns may be sent in an ordinary envelope. Ballots must be In the office by 5 p.m. June 30. eas aw ai" tsme, m r MS Drain Plunge Attracts Many A broad recreation program is underway this summer in the Drain area. Residents of the area have been urged to take advantage of the swimming program. Softball and picnic grounds near the pool are also attracting many persons, of ficials said. Swimming lessons are being of fered almost daily to both children and adults. West Coast Airlines Gets 5th Safety Award West Coast Airlines, receiving its fifth consecutive award, today was cited by the National Safety Council along with forty other II. S. scheduled air lines in recogni tion of their contribution to safe air transportation in 1951. West Coast was among IS local service airlines which have had a perfect safety record since their establishment, and was one of these to receive a five-year award. In the five and one-half yearr. since December, 1946, WCA has carried 375,000 passengers nearly 50-million passenger miles. Only two other local service carriers have a longer span of safe opera tion, Empire Air Lines, which be gan three months earlier in Sep tember, 1946, and Frontier Air lines, which began in November, 1946. '"; tf '' '-. ., . , i THIS MODERNISTIC new service station being built one block east of the Ook Street bridge will open shortly after July 1 with Verden "Bo" Boucock as station manager. A $30,000 project, it will have double islands with a total of four gasoline pumps. It will also have double lubrication bays. C. M. McDermott, Roseburg distributor for Tide Water Asso ciated Oil Co., said ground will be broken this week on a duplicate station of the one above at a site on Garden Valley road across from Rjverside School, where the Church of God was formerly located. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) Father-Son Meet Set For 'Y' Indian Guides YMCA Indian Guides will hold a father-and-son meeting tonight at 7 o'clock at the Myron Lehne home. To reach the place, go out Garden Valley Road to end of the pavement, turn left at the first road to Lehne's Nursery, said "V" Director Merlin Donaldson. ENTER THE """Sis IKS' 3 PRIZES FOR EVIRY WINNER! V 1st prize 5-rt 0 roots ( Cmlv Sperts ( . lira Py i Otfyhlomla .....V ORANGE Ht. Get Your Mission Orange and Entry Blanks at Your Favorite Dealer's. BIRTHS AT MERCY Births listed in Thursday's News-Review, page 2, section 2, occurred at Mercy Hospital, in stead of Douglas Community Hos pital as stated. The births listed included the Martin, Frederick- i .-j m.... r"t;r sun, annum, aiiaimcii, ndiiuu, - 1h. hm h Woodrich, Miffitt, Hamilfon, Rob are guests at the home of Mr. and . 2 Californians Visit Sutherlin MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Peaker, Lin- Mrs. Murray Welch, east of Suth erlin. Mrs. Gilbert Butler of Winston, and Mrs. Darlene Sims of Myrtle C'resk, spent the day in Sutherlin Monday with their mother, Mrs. A. L. Wade, and attended the fun eral of their aunt, Mrs. Mattie llogan, at Oakland In the after noon. Mrs. Butler, returned to her home that evening and Mrs. Sims remained in Sutherlin to spend a week with her mother. Mrs. II. V. Church returned to Sutherlin Tuesday from Richland, Wash., where she was called by the serious Illness of her son, Vern on. Mrs. Church spent a week with her daughter-in-law and son, Dav ey, and reports that her son is' getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. Jack Denley, who was In jured in a car accident Sunday evening and taken to a Roseburg hospital, was brought home Mon day evening, but is still confined to her bed. Sutherlin fire department was called out Wednesday evening to what looked like a fire in the Suth erlin hogging Supply building. The room was filled with smoke that had settled down after closing from a motor that had been run ning before closing time, and from the outside appeared to be a fire. A green door with a lion's head knocker is the entrance to No. 10 Downing St., home of Britain's prime minister. crts and McKinney babies. Stag Party Set Tonight For U. Of O. Alumni A stag party for Oregon alumni, sponsored by the Oregon Athletic Department, Is scheduled for to night from 8 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hotel Umpqua, announced Ted K. Reed, local chairman. The University's athletic direc tor will be present to discuss the Grant & Aid program. Coaches representing all sports will also be present for informal discussion of the 1052-3 season. Civil Defense Head To Be Absent In July Col. M. Crawford, director of Civil Defrn.se for Roseburg, will be out of the city during July. During his absence J. F. Dillard will act as director. 10-DAY SENTENCES GIVEN Judge Ira B. Riddle today sen tenced Francis W. Thompson, Coos Bay, and Forrest Woodland Beam er, Sutherlin, to 10 days in jail on charges of drunkenness, according to Municipal Court records. -t FALLS FROM HORSE; HURT Mrs. Mable Grubbe of Wilbur was treated at Mercy Hospital late Thursday for an iniured el bow suffered when she fell from a horse. USED CARS USED CARS -fr USED CARS GIGANTIC CLEARANCE SALE NOW'S YOUR CHANCE... WHY MISS THAT 4th OF JULY TRIP ANY OF THESE CARS CAN BE YOURS ' . 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STEPHENS Wilbur Car Stays Out Of Garage Only Hour Mr. and Mrs. Everett Thomas had the misfortune to have their car back in the garage within an hour after repairs had been made following a recent collision with a train at a Wilbur crossing. Taking it out of the garage Sat urday, Mrs. Thomas was involvid in a four-car collision in which the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yraguen was injured. Mrs. Thomas was halted In a line of traffic on the highway where workmen were making re pairs and was struck from the rear by a car which was unabie to stop. All the passengers were badly shaken up. Myrtle Creek Lowers Cost Of New Building Construction will start July 7 on a new building to house the Myrtle Creek Police Station and Library, it was announced today. Original plans were revised by the common council to pare down cost of the building to $18,605, the maximum amount the city can ob tain for the project. Todd Building Co. of Roseburg will build the structure. It is ex pected to be ready for occupancy in October when the library and police statipn will be shifted from present cramped quarters in the old Myrtle Creek City Hall. Lions Club Seats Staff Of Officers Al McBee took the oatb of office as president of the Roseburg Lions Club at Thursday night's meeting in the Hotel Umpqua. McBee suc ceeds Allen Clute. Other new officers Installed In clude: George Foster, first vice president; Vic Bakala, second vice-president; Roy Hebard, third vice president; Edell Bryant, sec retary; Charles Collins, treasurer; Zeke Walton, Liontamer; I. J. Bean, tailtwister, and Cloyd Riffe and Charles Thomas, directors fur two years. Holdover directors are Bud Parsons and Perry Ashcreft. Bruce Elliott, a charter member of the club, served as installing officer. Reports were made by Don Hell iwell and McBee on the state Lions convention which they at tended recently in Salem. They announced the next convention site will be Klamath Falls. The Lions will hold a special work night Tuesday at 7 p.m. for final cleanup of the club's conces sion at the Fairground's stadium. Reports were made that the club had a very successful year with its concession, in which hamburg ers, hot dogs and cold drinks were made available to the rodeo crowd. The receipts are used by the club for its welfare work, of which ;fght conservation is its principal project. Glasses are pro vided for a number of children who would otherwise be unable to buy them. A final work party Is scheduled for Sunday at Camp Tyee, for completion of the counsellor's cab in. This project has been under way since spring. Some of the members are also going out to work on the cabin tonight. Road Agenda Affecting Douglas Up For Bids (Continued from Page One) structing the three bridges needed for spaning the North Umpqua Riv er at Winchester and the South Umpqua twice at Roseburg. Even tual plans call for continuing the highway south over or through Roberts Mountain to Myrtle Creek and thence south to connect with new construction north of Canyon ville, thus completing Oregon's longest stretch of Highway 99 that has become antiquated compared with modern travel means. The commission will also let a contract for grading and tempor ary surfacing of 3.99 miles of the Divide-Rice Hill section. This, ac cording to the local highway oT fice, is largely for access roads to serve the residents living along the new-limited access highway. Contract is also to be let on a 90-foot viaduct on the Comstock I and Lawrence access Road grade (separation structures on the Di- vide-Anlauf sections. Access Jo the Draln Reedsport highway will be constructed near An'auf at the point where the new , highway swings slightly to the : east, and then continues south. Other bid calls announced by the commission include; construct 1 332-foot concrete bridge over Cala Ipooia Creek on the Elkton-Suther- fin Highway; grading and surfac ing 2.15 miles of Reedsport Dean Creek section of Umpqua High way, and grading and paving .52 ' miles of city streets in Riddle and Glendale. IDskorf I Allen 1 Of Yoncalla Dies Robert Lee Allen, lifii-long resi dent of Douglas County, died at his home Thursday in Hayhurst district west of Yoncalla after a long illness. He was born In Oakland on Sept. 1, 1867. He was married to Martha Jones in Yoncalla on Juno 2, 1895. Surviving are his widow, Mar- ,tba; four sons, Everett, Ernest, Robert and Dt'lton; two daugh ters, Mrs. Mable Nelson and Mrs. Mary Baldwin; eight grandchil dren; three brothers, Fred Allen of Portland, Mack and Homer Al len of Yoncalla and two sisters, Susan Hansen of California and Eugenia Kenney of Portland. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. PST Sunday at the Methodist Church in Yoncalla. Interment in the Yoncalla cemetery under the direction of Stearn3 Mortuary in Oakland. Hope For Platypuses' Romance Unfulfilled NEW YORK l.fl The way Pen elope and Cecil are ac'ing, there may never be any duck - billed platypuses born in America. Bronx Zoo curators have been trying for two years to breed the sm.ill aquatic animals from Aus tralia. Thursday they gave up for the summer season, but promised one last try in the fall. Last year the platypuses seemed quite friendly. But this year Penelope turned up her bill at Cecil's advances by rolling over and over in the water a sign, said a curator, of platy pus annoyance. MULLER LEADING AGENT Carl W. Muller will depart this weekend as a result of a special invitation he has received from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to attend a meeting and vacalion at Lake Tahoe, Calif., the week of June 30. Muller is one of the leading agents for the company in the State of Oregon for the year of 1951. 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