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2 Tha News-Review, Roseburg, Ore-Fri., Mar. 13, 1953 Pjne Grove Schedules Guest Speaker Sunday Raymond P. Tarsart, district sup erintendent of tile Pacific Norm- west district of the American Sun day School Union will be the guest speaker at the Sunday evening service at Pine urove. The evening service starts at 6:30 p.m. and the program is by the young people of the Pine Grove and Kiversoaie sunuay scnoois The public is invited' to attend. Sunday morning Tarsart will speak at the Umpqua Union Sun day School at 10 a.m. and at 11:30 a.m. at the Melrose union Sunday School. , The UmDd'ja Sunday School meets In the community building and the Melr.'se Sunday benool meets in the Melrose chapel. Res idents of these areas are invited to attend these services. Roseburg Native Dies In Klamath Falls Home George F. Lenox, 83, died Thurs day at the Klamath Falls Hospital. He was born on a farm near Rose burg Feb. 16, 1870. He spent 30 years in San Francisco working for a large meat company, be fore retiring and going to Klamath Falls to reside with two sisters, the late Mrs. Charlotte Agee, who ran the Touriit Hotel there, and Mrs. Edith Ream. Only living survivor Is Mrs. George Morin of Roseburg. He was a brother of the late E. H. Lenox and D. II. Lenox, Mrs. L, Kohlhagen Sr., and Sam Bolsingcr, all of Roseburg. Funeral services will be held in Klamath Falls Monday. Rites For Sam R. Cole Scheduled On Monday Funeral services fr Sam Rus sell Cole, 67, who died Wednesday, will be held in Tnc Chapel of the Roses, Roseburg Funeral Home, Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Meredith Grovos of the First , Methodist Church officiating. surviving are nis widow, Myr tle, Camas Valley; two sons: Harold and Bill Cole, both of Los Angeles; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Chappel. Los Angeles, and two grandchildren. The body will be shipped Mon day night to Kansas City, Mo., for graveside services and Interment in tne Mt. Maria cemetery. Camp Fire Organization Geti Assist From Drain The Camp r'lre Girls organiza tion faces a budget cut of $2,000 because the Community Chest ac complished only 62 percent of its goal, according to Camp Fire of ficials. At a recent meeting members' discussed ways rind means of ob taining other aid for the group and Mrs. Ernie Whipple of Drain, said her community which has a regis tered membership of 93 girls, would contribute $500 as the area's share of opcralion funds. FLOOR FINISHING EQUIPMENT SANDERS WAX POLISHERS, Larga and Small VACUUM CLEANERS STEEL WOOL PADS LINOLEUM ROLLERS ' LANSING -OLIVER TOOL RENTALS S47 S. Steehaai Phona 1-6002 Open Ail Day Sunday SAWDUST SCREENED and CLEAN DENN-GERRETSEN CO. 402 W. OAK . 13(1' Ml?! a. FINCBEER. f) )V gffc SINCE 1656 V J rs$5 . Ly Roseburg Rates High In List Of NW Building Roseburg has had the highest percentage increase in 47 North west cities of building activities in February 1053 over the same month in 1952, according to stat istics provided by the Equitable Savings and Loan Association, which keeps tracu ol sucn wings. Roseburg's February 1953 build ing has increased 993 percent over the same period in 1052, the stat istics show. The increase' over January, 1953, 1 listed at 1081 percent, according to the com. pany's figures. Ellensberg, Wash., with a 2094-per:ont increase, is higher. Major projects that Brought Roseburg s increase were the re modeling of the F. W. Woolworth store, and construction of the Senior High ocnnol gymnasium. Pacific Northwest building for 1953 Is experiencing a fast start compared to last year for the total value of i,3t3..I74 already per mitted. This compares to $26,844,- 378 for the first two months of 1952, the loan association's stat istical department reported. The better than $4,000,000 lead over Jan-Feb. 1052 placed an op timism on building in the Pacific Northwest's 47 largest cities, which had not been evident in December. In February the figure for the 47 communities was 6 percent be low February of last year, but 10 percent over January's total as follows: Feb. 1953 Jan. 1953 $14,944,788 Feb. 1952 $18.469.872 Dwelling construction in Febru ary declined 21 percent below last year but rose 17 percent over Jan. uary with a total of $7,595,548 for the month. County Irrigation, Pasture Meets Set Next Week Two Oregon State College exten sion specialists will hold meetings on irrigation and pasture manage ment three lays next week. The meetings are to be held in Rose burg. Canyonville and Elkton on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day. Marvin Shearer, irrigation spe cialist from CSC. is to outline planning procedures for irrigation systems, efficient use of irrigatirn and use of 'ertilizers for maxi mum production. Irrigated pasture management will be discussed by H. A. Lind gren. animal husbandry specialist. He will examine how to secure the maximum carrying capacity and best results from the forage pro duced. Irrigation practices are being rapidly expanded in Douglas Coun ty, J. Roland Parker, county ex tension agent says. Installation of systems nearly uoubled between 1950 and 1953. During tile three-year period, use of fertilizers and soil amendments jumped 167 percent. New management problems now confront farmers from the increas ed use of irrigation and fertiliz ers and the meetings have been schduled to assist them in mak ing the best use of the newer methods. The Roseburg meeting will be held in the Knights of Pythias Hall, the one in Canyonville at the Ma sonic Hall, and it Elkton in the IOOF Hall. All meetings begin at 10 a.m. Dial 2-2636 Blitz wiinuabp company eoariAND ,orooN I r kCryxl v Y MISSIONARY VISITORS Re 1 ,. . ( -, "- a ary team scheduled to appear at Green Community Church ore Ethel Smith and Harold D. Amstutz, pictured above. The party will conduct meetings for the remainder of the week for the Western District of Missionary Churches. Pacific Highway Will Be Second To None (Continued from Page One) and thence to Canyonville. He said the Highway Commission hopes to be able to let contracts for this portion of work before fall, as well as for the Winchester-Rosebur; and Fairgrounds-Shady Point sec lions. Money is provided in the new $35 million bond issue, IP- proved by the legislature. The oth er work is airev.ly contracted. A cut of learly 200 feet over Robert s Mountain is planed, ra (her than a Minnel as first con sidered. The highway department doesn t like tunne.s. said towards because they ire too costly to con struct for four lanes, and if built with two lanes, widening in the future is almost an impossibility. Principal obstacles to highway construction are, ne stated, first, cost; second, engineering cost and juslifiation of the expenditure for a particular mule: surveys, en gineering, rights-of-way, and after a highway ;'s completed, there is often the problem of slides. Slides are considered calculated risks, but nevv studies of soils and geologic formation are aiding in this problem. Sutherlin Man Returm After Service In Army Edgar W. Stovall, son of Mrs. Ethel Stovall of Sutherlin, has re turned after two years Army serv ice. He served with the Army occu pation forces in Germany for 18 months and returned last Feb. 1. He was dishcarged at Ft. Lewis Feb. 28, and has returned to his job at Martin Brothers Box Co. EVANGELIST TO SPEAK Reverend C. R. Brewer of Mill City will speak it a scries of spe; cial evangelistic meetings at the Calanooia Free Methodist Church. j 44 miles west of Sutherlin, begin ning March 1.1 and continuing through March 29. Services will be conducted c.ich evening at 7:45, . with the gtneral public invited. Glen dale Woman Becomes Realtor By MRS. G. B. FOX Mrs. Ella Mie Irving, Farmers' . Insurance agent, who has her office at the Glendale Variety Store, received her permit last week far selling real estate and would appreciate listings. She will be working as a salesman through the Grants Pass Realty, but will continue her on office here. Housliw Shuffle A general housing shuffle took place wnen Mr. ana airs. iariana Moms moved into their new home on Starveout the last week in Feb ruary. Mr. and Mrs. Finley Mil ler moved Into tie property for. merlv occupied bv the Morrises. and the Lloyd Peggs moved into the .Miller s nouse. The Glendale Assembly of God Church is holding a two-week se ries of prayer services with a Youth Revival to be held the third week. The prayer services, which were begun on Monday night of this week, will be con ducted by various members of the congregation. Plans are .lot y;t completed for the revival serv ices, but young people from the Canyonville Bible Academy, and a speaker from Grants Pass are expected for two of the services. Mr. and Mrs. u. a. rox ana children returned last Thursday from Centralia, Wash, where his mother. Mrs. J. J Fox. has been critically ill. Tho seven living chil dren were called home when it was feared that Mrs. Fox, suffer ing with pneumonia and a bad heart, might not live. However, bv the middle of the week, she had rallied onough that hospital attendants believed she bad a good chance of recovery. The F. L. Goddards of Ashland visited Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Mar tin of Glendale on Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Claude Hal! from Salem is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Worley, and family at Quines Creek. She arrived on Saturday and expected to return home on Thursday of this ween. Building Continues Work is continuing on a tem porary home for the Azalea Com munity Church in a building on the Clarence Worley properly at Quines Creek. Members ana friends are working in the eve n.ngs and on Saturday. Miss Linniban, who has been on leave from the Glendale School syste m because of illness, re turned here on Monday of last week and took up her teaching duties again on Wednesday. Dur ing her absence, Mrs. Howard Hutlo taught !:er class. Mrs. Wagoner returned from Kansas recently. Flying back because of the illness of her moth er, she arrived the day before her mother's death and remained there for sevsral days. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brooks and baby daughter ol Corvallis are visiting his brother, Ronald Brooks, here in Glendale. Mr. and Mrs. Izaac Rose from Prinevilie visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ronald -irooks Friday. Dr. Howard Ferguson was ill over the weekend. Mrs Hatty Xichter, who has several times visited her daugh ter, Mrs. Ruth Hyland at the Glen dale Junction, Is reported still in San Diego hospital gaining strength from a recent operation Hi Hyland injured his back at the Muitnomah Plywood Company late last week. He received treat ment at Canyonville and has no: had to lose any time from work. Mr. and Mrs. Al Caswell and daughter, Lana, drove to Portland j last wceK to a. 'end the wedding of Mr. Caswell's nephew, James Shaefer. The new Mrs. Shaefer relative of Mrs. Caswell. ! LOCAL NEWS Sal Social Club of Eastern Star will hold a rummage sai Saturday in the basement of the Methodist Church begining at 8 a.m. DRUNK DRIVING CHARGED Keneth Wayne Larson, 21. Grants Pass, was lodged in the county jail Thursday on a charge of driving while under the influ ence of intoxicant. state police re ported today. New Assignments Listed For School Principals (Continued from Page One) (hit can be given by the council. He is married and has two daughters, Patricia 1 and Bar bara, 11. Crain has been principal of Ben son School for five' years. He re ceived his Bachelor ol arts degree from Colorado State College 1939, and added a master's degree from University of Iowa last year. He taught in Colorado ' before coming here, and also is active in Boy Scout work. Currently, he is training chairman of the Doug las District of the Oregon Trail Council of Boy Scouts, McKee attended Salem schools and received his bachelor of science degree from Oregon Col lege of Education In 1949 after having served In the Air .Corps during world war n. He taught sixth grade and coach ed at Rose School for two years before going to his present position in the Junior High School, where h. has been for two years. He is married and has three chil dren. .., British Term Russian Act Involved Murder (Continued from Page One) carried no ammunition and was flying without the breech-blocks of its machine tuns. These, the statement said, had been left in England for servicing wnen - tne piano iook on tor me routine training trip that ended in tragedy. The statement replied to Soviet charges mat the Royal Air Force bomber fired on is MIG pursuers. Answering Russian charges that the bomber had penetrated Soviet controlled territory, the spokes man added: "We have no reason to think that this British aircraft had deviated from the corridor in any materia! way. A warning would have been fair enough, put outrages of this kind against an aircraft which showed no sign of aggression are unpardonable. "If the Russian airmen paid a little less attention to gunery and a little more to navigation these regrettable and deplorable inci dents would lie less frequent." Vital Statistics Marriage License JENNINGS-BROWN William Lester Jennings and June Brown, both of Reedsport. Filing for Divorce MARCELL Margaret L. vs. Victor C. Marcel!. Married at Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 25, 1948. Deser. tion charged. Plaintiff asks cus tody and support of two minor children. MRS. MCKAY DIES Mrs. Ethel McKav of 809 Micelli St., Roseburg, died this morning at the home of ler son, Marlow Mc Kay, funeral arrangements will be anounced Inter To wish m INSTRUCTOR Leonard I. Lindas, assistant state attor ney general, is in Roseburg to day as the fourth instructor in the Advanced Police Training School being conducted for Douglas County officers this month. His class dealt with confessions, signed statements and interrogation. The school is sponsored by the Qregon Association of City Police Of ficers and the Oregon State Sheriffs Association. Crabb Murder Trial Recordings To Be Aired (Continued from Page One) stages of the trial, while Coffield was on me stand ior aimosi inai long. Listener interest in the forthcom ing trial broadcasts has run at a hieh pitch. Grant reports. Post cards and letters have come in dailv voicing opinions either for or against the broadcast. The ratio of comments has been about IS to 1 in favor of releasing the tape. Grant said he has also received a communication from the secre tary of the Oregon Broadcasters Association for information about the experiment, and a congratu latory message from Ray Hearst, a court reporter in Eugene. School Reorganization To Eliminate Complexity (Continued from Page One) Pacific University and member of the Education committee) as to the goal of the committee, he stated it quite jlearl", "What we are trying to do in the Education Com mittee is to get out a law, which if passed by a majority of the pe ple in any one area, county or district, would give those people the right to bring into being the kind of school system they want under the general standards set uo by the state." What could be fairer? It is our firm belief that much of the credit for the final sucess of the New City Drive In Market build ing resulted from the wonderful co-operation and un derstanding of those involved in the project. The willingness to accept new ideas must be first acknowledged of the owners, Charles Tidwell, Harold Davidson and Henry Crowdis. Their eagerness "to go along" with many of the ideas we had wished to use, was the first step in achieving the final results. To Todd Building Company and the many sub-contractors and suppliers, who worked so diligently to translate our drawings into the final building, must go an equal measure of our appreciation. One man to whom extra general foreman, Johnny To all of these gentlemen, our thanks our client, the New City Drive-In Market, our sincerest for success in your new building. T H. Glazer and Associates, Designers . . Eugene, Oregon Dougan and Heims, A. I. A.,. Architects Portland, Oregon County Receives CD Rescue Quota The . Oregon Stale Civil De ton.. Anencv h.u suggested a quota of two 24-man rescue units for Douglas County to save uves w case of disaster Each unit would' be formed . . -!,a cimllnf, tn around rescue iruviu, one delivered to the state agency. The truck would contain apparatus used in heavy rescue work: tackle block, power winch, ladders, cross ut saw, portable floodlights and generator, wrecking bars, gas masks, chain saw. snoveis aim va rious hand tools, m,. in nnuilni County units would be part of 80 being formed by counties inrougnum u,. according to the' State CD Agency. State nignway qauueu ance crews hava been organized into 30 Z4-man crews, m auumvu. Th suBsest! auotas were set ofi.r ih. 1951 forest civil defense exercised in Oregon, when i mock bombing attaik occurred in Port land. Trained men belonging to highly mobile rescue teams can save the lives of many persons who might otherwise die from injuries, shock and other causes following an air raid, according to Oscar Cutler of the State Civil Defense Engineering and Heavy Rescue Service. NAM! ASSUMED The business name of Pine Ridge Logging Co. has been assumed by Franklin D. Herriges and Earl S. Herriges, according to a filing in the county clerk's office. CORRECTION Due to a typographical error, incorrect prices appeared in our Thursday ad an Prince Albert and Velvet Tobacco, and Assorted Garden Tools. These Items should have read: Prince Albert or Velvet ; . TOBACCO, Mb. 95c Assorted GARDEN TOOLS 24c Fred Meyer . : 112 N. Jackson ' credit must be given is Weber. Two Men Are Arrested On Non-Support Charges Two men were arrested Thurs-' day by sheriff's deputies on non support charges, according to ShWerCBUB.f.aw;8, 20tT Winter st was lodged in the county jail on a Twin Falls, Ida., warrant charging failure.o provide. He Is held here for Uaho authorities Donald Cummings, 42, of Oak land was arrested Thursday night on a charge of non-support. Arrested on a charge of contempt of court was Dilton W. Rankin, 42, general delivery, Roseburg. The charge involves, alleged non-compliance with Circuit Court di vorce decree. Roseburq Girl's Dress Judged Display's Best Shirley Tonole's dress being ex hihiti In the J. C. Penney win dow has been adjudged best in the 4-H sewing display there, iccord ing to Betty Wieman, county 4-H extension agent. The window has been decorated in observance of 4-H Club Week. Miss Tonole is from Roseburg. ' Others displayed in tne winaow were constructed by LaVonne Marks, Reedsport; Dixie Woolen,. Elgarose; Shirley Krantz, Riddle, and Annalee Kmtfsen, Reedsport. Small Boy Drowns In Water-Filled Pit Mm.At.r.A in Francis Scott Key, 6, drowned Tphursday in a water-filled pit which his stepfath er had dug near their farm borne two miles west of here. Coroner Ray Rilance said the boy's mother, Mrs. Pearl Wright, told him the child disappeared aft er she had seen him playing near the six-foot-deep, rain-filled pit. Neighbors found the Dody. the
