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Mates Harbisons' Bodies Taken From Lake Doublt Funeral Dated For Roseburg Pair Who ' Died On Fishing Jamt TV bodies of John Reed Harbi on. 39. ind hi wife, Mildred P leen, 3.1, of Roseburg, Route 3, Box 1110, Melrose, were recover ed from Tenmile Lake Thurs day afternoon. No details of the recovery is available, but the bod ies are being brought to Roseburg by the Roseburg Funeral Home. Mr. and Mrs. Harbison, mem bers of an evening catfishing party on the lake, were drowned Saturday when they fail ed to make shore after their boat filled with water. Time of their death was established at 1:45 p.m. Standard time. With the Harbisons were Mr. and Mrs. KiLane Miller Matthews of 1293 Ballf St, Roseburg, who managed to awim ashore. The couples reportedly were returning from fishing when the boat filled with water. Both coup lea jumped into the water, hold ing air cushions. The Matthews began to swim in one direction and the Harbisons in another. The Matthews were in the water about two hours, swimming clear across the lake in the darkness to the opposite shore. Funeral Services Set Double funeral services will be held in the Chapel of The Rosas, Roseburg Funeral Home, Sunday, Aug. 3, at 2 p.m., DST, with-the Rev.. Raymond Schaeffer of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow in the Ma sonic Cemetery. Request of friends has been made that persons who wish con tribute money gifts for the three daughters of the Harbisons rath er than to bring floral offerings. The gifts may be sent to Mrs. K. L. Matthews. 1293 Ballf St., Mrs. Kenneth Ellison, 450 Ella, or the Roseburg Funeral Home. John Reed Harbison was born May 20, 1913. in Lexington, Okla., and came with his family to Rose- (Contlnued on Page Two) Dr. Jets Hution Joins Dr. Munroe In Practice Dr. Jess Hution, formerly of Portland, has moved to Rose burg and has become associated in practice with Dr. A. B. Munroe at 301 Pacific Building. He will . engage in general medical prac tice. Dr. Hutson is a native of Hood : River, Oregon where he obtained his elementary and high school, ing. He did his college work at Walla Walla, Wash., and then took his medical training at the Col lege of Medical Evangelists at Los Angeles, Calif. He spent 34 years in the Army Medical Corps during the war. His wife is a graduate nurse. With their two daughters, Cheryl, 7, and Janel, 2, they are making their home at 1.111 Berdine St. Gasoline Fire Burns Man Lighting Cigaret Ike E. Allen, 60. a Glide logger, was burned seriously at 2 - p.m. Thursday when gasoline on. his clothing flared up when he lighted a cigaret. Attendants at Community Hos pital reported Allen suffered burns on the hand and lower part of his body. Apparently gasoline leaking from a power saw had soaked part of the logger's shirt, witnesses said. He was working on Cavitt Creek for the E. R. Swift Logging Co. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall pre diets in Washington that the new steel price boost ($5.20 per ton) will touch off a new round of in flation that will cost the average American family about $100 a year in higher prices. The stock market agrees with him. When the big New York ex change opened this morning, the teletype informs us, "the market with most price changes on the HIGHER side." The big Question: Does anybody gain anything out of the long and bitter steel strike? Yes. I think so. Smart SPECULATORS will prob ably make quite a killing. Price Boss Arnall puts the blame for the inflation that fol (Continued on page Four) The Weather Mostly cloudy with a few scat, tertd showers in the mountains today. Fair Saturday. Highest temp, for any Aug. . . 104 Lowest ttmp. for any August .. 39 Hiahott temp, last 34 hours 75 Lowe it temp, last 14 hours 41 Precip. last 14 hours .01 Precip. from August 1 .. 0 Proeip. from Sept. 1 - 31.11 veeti .$ Sunaot today, 1:15 p.m. tunrla tomorrow, :M a.m. DST Dispute Settled At Fir Mfg. Mill At Myrtle Creek The plywood plant of Fir Manu facturing Co. at . Myrtle Creek, closed since July 24 by a labor dispute, will resume operations Sunday, it was announced today. Spokesmen for Myrtle Creek Lo cal 2713, Lumber, and Sawmill Workers (AKL). and the manage ment announced that "misunder standings had been cleared up." About 350 workers in the ply wood plant were idled by the dis pute over working conditions. The plywood division will re open at 11 p.m., Sunday, when the graveyard shift goes to work. Settlement of union claims that tie grievance clause in their con tract had been violated followed lengthy negotiation sessions in which the union called ita top inter national officers from Portland headquarters. The shutdown was touched off July 24 by a dispute over patch cutting operations. It climaxed a long series of union and manage ment differences over working conditions. Dowager Queen Entrants Filed Nominations have been made for seven ladies for Dowager Queen of the Douglas County Cen tennial, it was announced today. Names of the candidates will be announced later. Deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. today. Members of the Centennial Par ade Committee and section chair men will meet Monday noon at the Umpqua Hotel to discuss the forthcoming Centennial Parade Aug. 30, Chairman Robert Bellows announced today. Kids' Dance Group Planned Elementary school-age young sters will meet Monday at 11 a.m. at the Junior High School in the first meeting to organise a chil dren's dance group for the Cen tennial Pageant. Ralph Patterson dance director for the Umpqua Cavalcade, said he needs some 250 to 300 young sters for the dance scene in the "Indian Episode" and other sec tions of the five-part cavalcade. The meeting Monday will oe lor youngsters, both boys and girls, who had signed up earlier to take part in the dance scene. Other grammar school age children in terested in participating in the dance scenes were also asxea to attend Monday's meeting. Some of the youngsters will also - participate as pioneer chil dren in dances in other episodes of the pageant. They will portray pioneer children. ' - Tire Blowout Causes Collision; Man Hurt Blowout of a rear tire on the panel delivery truck of J. S. Mor berg, operator of the Little River Store, forced his vehicle into the path of another operated by Mrs. Crystal Freeman, owner of the Red Barn. Thursday morning. Bill Johnson, a cook; at the Ked Barn and a passenger with Mrs. Freeman, suffered a cut below the knee. The others were not in jured. Morberg's vehicle was badly damaged, according to the report. After striking the Freeman auto mobile, his car went into the ditch and turned over. Mr. Freeman's car, a panel delivery, was dam aged to a lesser degree. With Morberg was nis son J. s. Jr. The accident occurred at 11 a.m.. five miles west ot ouoe on the North Umpqua Highway. U.S. May Pay Farmers For Killing Diseased Hogs WASHINGTON iffl The govern ment may nay farmers for hogs slaughtered in the campaign to wipe out the disease Vesicular Ex anthema. This disease is similar 'to foot and mouth disease but does not af fect cattle, sheep or humans. Its spread has resulted in a quaran tine being clamped on all of Cali fornia and parts of 15 olher states. An Agriculture Department spokesman said late Thursday the matter of indemnities was under consideration but a decision may be a long way off. The spokesman said such a pro gram would have to be carried out in cooperation with the states affected. Department experts said there is no known treatment or cure for the virus. Underway now Is a pro gram to halt spread of the disease. Ship Radio Operators Strike Is Settled SAN FRANCISCO I Peace settled over Pacific Coast ports Friday in the wake of a short lived strike by CIO radio opera tors Thursday. Pickets were removed from In front of about 14 West Coast-owned ships after the American Radio Association and the companies reached a tentative agreement in a dispute over operation of radio telephone equipment aboard. The radio operators had demand ed either they be given full work ing control of the phones or that the equipment be taken off ves sels. TWO DENY DRUNK DRIVING Two men Thursday pleaded in nocent in district court to drunk driving charges. They are James Russell Fox, 28, and George Allingham True man, 44, Portland. Bail was set at $600 on each man. Ms. Established 1S73 Roseburg Mother Seeks Lost Girl Disappears From Camp At Gladstone Margaret Salyer, 14, Feared Tragedy Victim In Suspected Attack Search continued today for the 13-year-old daughter of a Roseburg woman who has been missing since Saturday from a Seventh-Day Ad ventist camp meeting at Glad stone near Oregon City. Gladstone Police Chief Clarence Moore identified the missing girl as Margaret Salyer, daughter of Mrs. Mildred Rucker, 1808 Ellen Ave., Roseburg. Recently the girl has been mak ing her home with her grandmoth er, Lula Curtis, at Grants Pass. An alarm for the girl has been widely broadcast through police networks of the state. The girl's mother arrived at Gladstone Thursday to assist in the search. Miss Salyer was last seen talk ing to two young men at the camp grounds, according to a news dis patch. Elder Lloyd Biggs, president of the Seventh-Day Adventist confer ence, said the case of the missing girl was "extremely serious'' and that he fears foul play. "I'm afraid she's been possibly murdered in resisting an attack," said Police Chief Moore. Law enforcement officials said the hunt for the girl would be inten sified today. Another incident, the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl, which occurred during the camp session, may not be related to the case of the missing girl, said Clackamas County District Attorney Winston Bradshaw. Sheriff's deputies left Oregon Citv this morning to go to Walla Walla, Wash., to pick up two youths for questioning in the rape case. Warrants for the arrest of Paul Luttz, 18. Pullman, Wash., and Dale Taylor, 19. Dallas, Ore., were issued by Bradshaw. Liquor Store Prowler Gets Two Years In Prison A 52-year-old Bend man who police arrested July 8 just after he broke into the liquor store in Roseburg, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly Thursday to two years in the State Penitentiary. He is James Arthur Wallas who had previously pleaded guilty to burglary not in a dwelling. Harry Oscar Chrisco, 26, Can yonville, was given probation on his one-year-sentence imposed af ter he pleaded guilty to larceny by bailee. Roy Cox Of State Police Resigns For Store Job Roy Cox, a member of the State Police force in Roseburg for the last year and a half, has resigned to accept a job as manager of the camera department of JC Sport ing Goods, it was announced to day. Replacing Cox here will be Robert Cooley, who recently com pleted the State Police training course at Corvallis. Mel Venter Gang Arrives To Boost Centennial With Melody, Mirth, Broadcast The Breakfast Club Gang with Mel Venter arrived in Roseburg: this morning: by chartered bus - too late for breakfast but in time for the special Centennial show this afternoon at 2 :30. Venter and h''s group have been scheduled to appear officially at three Centennial functions, known as Queen's Events. They are holding today's broad cast, at the Junior High School; the princess talent and beauty contest this evening at 8 in the Junior High School; and the Queen's Ball Saturday night start ing at 9 at Kennedy's Dutch Mill. Here with Mel Venter's group of some 15 persons are several famil iar to regular Breakfast Club ra dio listeners. Pretty Polly, the show's singing star and her moth er, known to Breakfast Club lis teners as Aimee, are both here, along with Sweeney, the club's sound-gag-recipe man all in one. The group will put on a special Veterans Hospital show shortly after this afternoon's Centennial show at the Junior High School. Individual members of the Ven ter group have accepted a number rv n n n v fisiljNjoPiipiiasi ROSUURG, Pastors Launch Efforts To Save Wilson Brothers SEATTLE Of) Two Oregon ministers who say they have wit nesses who can confirm the story told by condemned slayers Utah and Turman Wilson have launched a new campaign to save the Cam as, Wash., brothers from the gal lows. The Rev. Allen C. Lambert of Portland, chairman of the Com mittee for the Commutation of the Wilson Brothers' Sentences, and the Rev. Harold W. Black of Salem came here Thursday to enlist sup port for their fight. The two Methodist ministers said they will make a personal pleu to Gov. Langlie. The Wilson brothers are slated to hang Aug. 15 for the kidnap slaying of Jo Ann Dewey at Van couver, Wash., in March, 1950. The brothers have had several stays of execution and have made two un successful appeals to the U.S. Su preme Court. The latest stay was revoked by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Ran Francisco last month and the death sentence was pronounced for the third time. Rev. Lambert said four witnesses were brought to the Clark County prosecutor's office this week. Two contend the Wilsons were In a Portland theater at the time Miss Dewey was abducted, he said. He added the other two partially con firm the brothers' story that their car broke down after they left the show. 4-H Achievement Day Scheduled At Drain It'll be 4-H "Achievement Day" in Drain Monday and Tuesday. Exhibitors irom the North Doug las area Drain, Elktori, Curtin, Gunther, Scotts Valley and Yon calla will show projects in cook ing, knitting, sewing, electricity, woodworking, camp cookery, can ning and health posters. Projects will be displayed In the Drain fair buildings, Monday will be for judging only. Exhibits will be open for public inspection from 8:30 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Four "Achievement Days" arc held in the County each year, with one in each of the four 4-H dis tricts coastal, north, south and central. The other three were held in May this year. Purpose of the "Day" is to pre pare for the Douglas County Fair, Max Kumler, 4-H agent, says. Sug gestions are made which enable Club members to improve their exhibits for the large fair. Nash Auto Agency Sold By Ted Reed Motors Sale of Ted Reed Motors and Nash auto agency at 321 W. Oak St. to E. A. Pearson, Roseburg nil and gasoline distributor, was an nounced today. The sale includes the garage and auto repair service, body shop, used car lot, Nash agency and the lease on the building. Pearson has been General Petro leum Products distributor in the Roseburg area for the last 12 years and was associated with Union Oil Co. here for five years prior to obtaining the distributorship. He resides at 565 Reservoir ave. Reed, who obtained the auto agency here a year ago, said he plans to move to Eugene to devote his full time to his interests there, which include another Nash agency. of Saturday afternoon and Sun day invitations to visit private citizens. The Breakfast Gang is slated to leave Sunday. Contest Collowt Shew Tonight's show, arranged by Iris Helliwell, will include several numbers of entertainment in ad dition to the talent and beauty con test. Jad and Jessica Paul will per form and then Jad will combine his banjo with the Gene Smith ac; cordion group for a special num ber. The Sons of the Prairie will also be heard. The talent and beauty contest will feature the seven Centennial princesses each introduced by (Continued on Page Two) .. U. of 0. Eugene, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST HUMAN DECOY Marine Pfc. Henry Friday (left) of Nekoosa, Wis., walks down a trench at a forward observation post of the 1 st Marine Division on Korean western front while T-Sgt. John W. Boitnott, who grew up in hills of Kentucky, a Leatherneck sniper, prepares to fire at an enemy sniper. This was Friday's last run as decoy to allow Boitnott to pick off enemy snipers. Their company commander, hearing of the system, put a stop to it shortly after this picture was made. (U.S. Navy Photo via AP Wirephoto) Solons To Tour Foreign Bases To 'Save Money' WASHINGTON IB Sens. Long (D.-La.) and Morse (R.-Ore.) plan to leave next Tuesday on a 25,000 mile tour of U. S. overseas air bases. Their goal Is to find ways of saving the taxpayers millions of dollars on costs of foreign bases. "I'm convinced from testimony taken by congressional committees that we are spending too much on some of these bases," Long told a reporter Thursday. Long and Morse are members of a Senate Preparedness subcom mittee which criticized wastes and extravagance in the construction of multi - million dollar airbases in North Africa and Greenland during tne recent session ol congress. Long was chairman of a Senate subcommittee which handled the defense construction bill and got the Senate to cut nearly 700 mil lion dollars from a three billion dollar defense projects appropria tion. ' The two Senators, with small staff of experts, plan to be gone a month to six weeks with stops at Greenland, North Africa, Iceland, European bases and other loca tions still listed as top secret. Long said most of the trip would be made in military airplanes. Four Vehicles Collide Following Truck Skid Four vehicles collided Thursday afternoon when a gas truck skid ded on wet pavement into the path of an oncoming Pacific Grey hound bus carrying 27 passengers. No one was injured. State police said the accident occurred about 4:15 p.m. one and one-half miles south of Sutherlin. The truck, driven by Wesley Jen nings Ashworth, 1115 Wharton St., skidded on the slippery paVcment as it was rounding a curve. This placed it in the path of the bus, operated by Donald Lee Bryan, Medford. The two vehicles collid ed. When the bus stopped a second gas truck behind it halted and was struck from the rear by a car operated by LeRoy Sifers, Oak land. The second truck was driven by Edgar Hugh Vieselmcger, Roseburg. Worker's Death Bases $125,000 Damage Suit Damages of $125,000 are asked of Upco Logging Co. in the cater pillar accident that brought death to George Ihorn of Myrtle Creek last Dec. 1. The suit, one of the largest of its kind locally, was filed in Cir cuit Court by the widow, Barbara Ihorn, and her three children, George Jr., Barbara Penny and John. Six counts of negligence are charged against the company. The accident occurred, the com plaint states, when Ihorn was un loading a caterpillar from a low boy truck and the car rolled over on top of him. He died later that morning of injuries received in the accident, which occurred on log ging operations at Rocky Butte, some 40 miles east ot Myrtle Creek. Pet Snake In His Auto Costs Motorist $119 NORTH KINGSTON, R.I. Thomas E. Hurley's pet snake stuck his head nut of the glove compartment of his car and it cost Hurley $119. Hurley was so startled he lost control of his car and hit another owned by Robert If. Ellen. Ellen in district court Thursday was awarded $119 damages in his negligence suit against Hurley. Library 0rogaw nicom 1, 1952 New Petitions Filed To Recall Drain J.P. New petitions for the recall of Clarence Leonard, Drain Jus tice of Peace, have been pre sented to the office of County Clerk Roy Agee. Agee said today that he is in the process of checking names on the petitions. If sufficient names are obtained and if the district attorney passed on their legality, the petitions will be filed, he said. Total of 182 qualified names are required to put th measure on the ballot for the November election. Petitions previously presented were declared illegal as they had not been propery notarized, the district attorney ruled. Christian Men's Group Organized An organizational meeting will be held tonight for the Christian Businessmen's Committee being formed in Roseburg. Julian DeRock of Portland, na tional chairman of the organiza tion, will attend a dinner meeting of the group at 6:30 p.m. at Carl's Haven to help the Roseburg com mittee with organizational details. Sixteen Roseburg businessmen and pastors are expected to attend the session. The Christian Businessmen's Committee has been organized to help combat juvenile crime and to promote other worthy causes. It is a non-denominational group and all businessmen in the Rose burg area are welcome to join, it was announced. St. George's Episcopal Church Gets New Cross A hew cross now stands on the top of St. George's Episcopal Church at Main and Cass streets. Purchased by the congregation, the new cross is covered with gold leaf. It replaces an older one, which was painted gold. Workmen replaced the old cross with the new one Wednesday. NOTED BUILDER DIES NEW ORLEANS OB Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65 famed build er of beach landing craft during World War II, died Friday. Douglas Landmarks Greet Public In Art Exhibition At Roseburg Library Park You don't need a car to see old Douglas County land marks today and Saturday. Library Park was turned into an art gallery for three days Thursday by the Roseburg Art Association. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, and until 5 :30 p.m. tomorrow passersby can see work done by Association members in the open-air gallery. Besides paintings, ceramics and weaving are on dis play. River scenes, landscapes, well- known landmarks and native flow ers line benches bordering three sides of the park. Portraits of old time residents are there too. Visitor to the Centennial - en dorsed showing see the Rochester Bridge, the first one in Douglas County, which was destroyed in the 1933 flood; the Canyonville grist mill, made of hand-hewn tim bers and wood pegs; the Melrose Church and cemetery; the Wilbur academy; and many other scenes familiar to old residents. The County's scenic spots are there too. There are paintings of Winchester Bay, Diamond Peak, Lava Lake, and the Umpqua Riv er, to name a few. Work on exhibition, the majority of it completed within the past 0) 0) "7-52 Old Baldy Crest Retaken; Three Red Jets Bagged SEOUL. Korea I The U.S. Fifth Air Force said United Na tions pilots shot down three Com munist jets and damaged two over North Korea Friday as clearing weather brought renewed intensity to the war. The U. S. Eighth Army said bay onet - wielding Allied infantrymen recaptured the crest of Old Baldv hill in a bloody eight-hour fight on tne western Front. Planes from a flight of 32 U.S Sabre jets battled elements of more than 60 MIGs for more than 10 minutes near the Korea-Manchuria border, i Allied losses,.-!!, any ..were not reporren. In Tokyo, Gen. O. P. Weyland, commanding general of the U.S. Far East Air Forces, announced the addition of about 75 sleek F-84 Tliunderjct fighter-bombers to UN air strength for action over Korea. A monthly Air Force summary reported that the Communists lost 32 planes in July, the United Na tions, 19. Supported by fighter bombers and artillery fire, Allied doughboys stormed Old Baldv from two sides Thursday night. By dawn Fridav, they had forced an estimated 200 Chinese Reds down its mud-caked slopes end immediately began digging in. Controls Ending Hikes Installment Buying WASHINCTfW in Th. li(l,-n. of controls on installment buying last may j nas pusned credit busi ness to a new high. The biggest time payment boom was in autos. The Federal Reserve Rnnrrt tin. nounced Thursday that installment buying during June jumped 593 minion dollars on top of a 447 million rise in May. The total deht nf installment knv. ers on June 30 stood at $13,767,- 000,000, better than the previous record ot $13,510,000,000 set dur ing the heavy Christmas buying last December. AUTO LARCENY CHARGED John C. Neal, 27, Sutherlin, was lodged in the county jail on a lar ceny of auto charge. Sheriff O. T. Carter reported today. year, is done in oil, water color, pen and ink. and crayon. A few lithographs done by Leonard Kim brell are on display. Weaving demonstrations are giv en throughout the day by Aaah Brown. Thursday afternoon she was working on a shoulder-piece called a "hugmeshrug" in white and gold. Shawls, place mats and pothold ers of hers are on display. A skirt and baby blanket woven by Rose Pavlov are also displayed. Ceramics plates, bowls, yases and clocks are included in the showing of Eleanore Welborn, who is doing official ceramic work for the Centennial. Youngest exhibitor is Mrs. Wei- (Continued on Page Two) Ezra Stagg, Worker, Gets Severe Jolt Knocked Unconscious As Electricity Returns To Battery After Blast Blasting operations in the solid rock atrip above Idleyld park. where Funderburk Construction Co. is pushing road building oper ations on the North Umpqua Road. were temporarily halted Thursday until high tension power linea could be moved as a safety meas ure, said H. E. Roadman, resident engineer for the State Highway Department. The precaution is being taken, laid Roadman, to eliminate pos sible further accidents, such as the one which sent Ezra Stagg, 27, of idieym rark, to Douglas commu nity Hospital, suffering from se vere electrical bums. Stagg set off i blast at 5 a.m. Thursday and the explosion threw nis lean wire extending irom nis battery set to the dynamite charge, into the air onto the 11,000-voit transmission line of the Califor nia Oregon Power Company. The direct voltage came back through the line to the battery set, striking Stagg. Brother To Rascuo Presence of mind of Stagg'i brother, Floyd, who served two yeara in the Army Medical Corps, is credited with saving Ezra's life. Floyd, standing nearby, knock ed Ezra from the aet, and, al- -though he was reportedly not breathing, applied artificial res piration. He was rushed,, uncon scious, to Douglas Community Hospital where examination re vealed his right hand was severely burned, and he had numerous burns over other parts of the body. Roadman reported that Copes engineers were at work today pre paring to remove high tension wires to a safe distance. Mean while, road work is being continu ed above this rocky point in other construction. The particular section in ques tion involves removal of nearly 40,000 yards of almost solid rock for a 40-foot cut extending about 200 feet, and has presented num. erous obstacles to the contractor. The lower two miles of the Lone Rock-to-Rock Creek highway sec tion has been graded, rocked and surfaced, out considerable wort remains beyond Idleyld, where the work is largely in rocky forma tipn. According to reports received here,' Funderburk 'was preparing; for a massive blast about 9 a.m. Thursday. Residents of the area had been notified to open their doors and windows, and to go out side at the time of the blast, " firevent injury from possible col apse of buildings from the con cussion. However, after the injury of Stagg earlier in the day, the big blast was postponed. Umpqua Forest : Fires Subdued The forest fire threat In. the Umpqua National Forest was eas ed today as scattered showers and ' cool moist air helped forestry crews douse several small blazes started by lightning wednescay. Robert Aufderheide. district for ester, reported all but one of the fires in tne umpqua ioresi waa under control. ... ,' A fire fighting crew was hiking In to Spring . Mountain in the North Umpqua River arainag , district this morning to the scene of a small blaze spotted Thurs day in the wake of the lightning storm. r-nni moist lr following Thurs day's showers was credited wi'h easing a serious forest fire threat in the national ioresi. "Smoke jumpers" from C ave Junction who were dropped into fire areas Thursday morning were expected to return to ineir nesa quarters tonight. Stete Hospitals' Cost For Patients Boosted SALEM W - The charge for care in the state hospitala at Salem. i n mA al- FairvlOW ana .riruuiciuii - r Home for Feeble-Minded Persons boosted Thursday from ST a month to I7Z. The Board of Control, which made the increase, said the $72 a month is what it actually costs the slate for care ot the patients at the institutions. The charge 11 made against, pa tients' relativea who can afford to pay. , , The law requires the board to fix the charges each year. JAIL TERM METED Wesley H. Strong. 48, Reedsport. was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $50 by Reedsport Jus tice Fred M. Wright on a charge that he violated terms of proba tion, the sheriff's office reported. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Roseburg folks ere becoming so accustomed to the shriek of the fire elarm that they would probably never Viotice the toot of President Truman's train if it headed here for a whittle 1 stop telk.
