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U. of 0. Library Jiusone, uregoa Comp , mm o) D) DGfl ' t SQUARE DANCE CALLER H. shown above testing his vocal chords for the biggest square dance in Oregon history to be held in Portland Jan. 22 and 23. He will be one of the callers in the gigan tic affair at the Fred Meier warehouse on Swan Island on Saturday of the two-day session. Some 80 dancers from Roseburg are expected to participate in the Shrine Hos pital benefit. Shown giving Reynolds some moral support is Marcel Johnson, one of the Roseburg dancers. (Paul Jenkins Picture). Atom Powered Sub Nautilus Christened At Ceremonies By Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower GROTON, Conn. UP) The world's first atom powered vessel the submarine Nautilus was launched Thurs day, opening a new era in sea power. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, wife of the President, swung a bottle of champagne across the bow to send the sleek craft sliding down the ways into the Thames River at Coroner States Broken Neck Caused Death Coroner L. L. Powers reported officially today that Douglas Coun ty's fourth traffic fatality in 1954, Ambrose Joseph Heilman died Tuesday evening of a broken neck rather than from a severed jugular vein as previously report ed. Heilman, a 40-year-old boiler imaker and nicked smelter from Portland, was fatally injured when the car in which he was riding spun' off Highway 99 near Curtin and crashed into a tree. The car was driven by Ridhard Spoone imore, 30, also of Portland. Spoone imore was in Cottage Grove Hos pital suffering from a broken arm and shock. He was Charged with drunken driving. He will be re turned here for arraignment, state police say. Heilman's body will be shipped to New Rockford, N. D. His moth er and brother are enroute to Ore gon from New Rockford to claim the body. The Roseburg Funeral Home is in charge of arrange ments. The accident occurred at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS With its new hardboard plant at Klamath Falls, Weyerhaueser in augurates a new era of lumber ing in the State of Jefferson the era of WOOD PROCESSING as distinguished from merely cutting down trees and sawing them up into lumber. It is a revolutionary develop ment. With the advent of this new era, two things will happen: 1. The lumber industry will no longer cut out and move on. Its raw material supply will become permanent. 2 Every tree cut on our sus tained vield timber lands will pro duce MORE MAN HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT. What is hardboard? How is it made? .l - ....... in itmcA mmetinng is interesting This new plant which ! " just going into production liter-! alii takes a tree apart and re-1 . ' i .uhnio-umnH i fibers The"e fibers are then hot- ftners. i nee iiuc. dcT-'72 presstd into board,, of a i de..r (Continued on page Fourl The Weather Mostly cloudy anr warmer with a faw showers tonight and Fri day. Windy today anq rarajm. -r. i, 11 hnun 46 nigneil I ' ...... in I awett amp, it hwwi lowci i viMr. , u.h.t TifliD. any Jan. Lowtst Tamp, any Jan. Preeip. last 24 houra . Precip. from Jan. 1 .- -4 traca j 1.13 ... JI.7J 5.29 I Pracip. from Sept. I Excass from Sep. 1 Sonsat today, 5:10 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:31 m R. (Curley) Reynolds is 10:57 a.m. (EST). A crowd of about 12,000 persons including a number of notables cheered as the Nautilus entered the water under a bright sunlit sky. Speakers hailed the nuclear driven vessel as not only a power ful new sea weapon but as a harbinger of peaceful use of a torn lie engines. As Mrs. Eisenhower moved for ward on the gaily decorated launching platform to christen the vessel, a masculine voice called out: "Hit it hard." She took a few practice swings and then hit the hull sharply. The bottle crashed and champagne splashed. The crowd roared and whistles blew. The nation's first lady stood watching silently and bit her lower lip as the Nautilus slid into the river. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said during the launching cere monies the craft simbolized both the "atomic thunderbolts" of de fense and of a peaceful boon of nuclear power, And NiWi ta mmmJnrf.r Adm. Robert B. Carney, saw the historic occasion as an unfolding of "new vistas of American sea Pwer'" . . .. , , , Strauss praised the teamwork of industry and of the government agencies, AEC and the Navy, j which he said made possible crea- tion of this first atom sub. He singled out, with the only mention of a specific name, Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, tolling the admiral this was a job "well done" and noting this must be an occasion of "supreme gratifica tion" for him. BICYCLE STOLEN His son's bicycle was stolen Tuesday afternoon from in front of his residence, Bruce Elliott, 1314 Madrone St., complained to city police. State Highway Commission Will LetS31 Million Worth Of Contracts During 1954 By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM W The Oregon High way Commission will award 31 muiion nonars worm oi contracts this year to improve 425 miles of roads, and then it will have to come down to earth again. since ,9i1'the commission, with million dollars worth of highway . has been c J emergency construction program to eliminate the worst bottlenecks on the highwiys. This whole program will be un der contract by next July 1, except for a few small jobs to be awarded Idte this year. After th:s year, the commission v.ih have to So hack to its no-mil ...pnitino rato of 15 In 1H minions r , - ............ -n-.iPIIi Tk.r. ill the money that is cvailable from normal revenues. Last year, the commission award- cd 38 million dollars worth of con- tract, hut this year, it is tapering oil to 31 minions. This bond program, with federal Estobliihed 1873 - 20 Pagei Defense' Takes Owens Claims His Wife Had Threatened Him Defense attorneys for Bert Ow ens began presenting their case on his behalf Thursday morning, calling eight persons to the stand Deiore 11 a.m Most of the testimony offered said m his return bere some eye S U'nr e(.ifT"yiS witnesses put the total killed or consisted of Irvine to establish whether Mrs. Betty Owens had threatened to Kill her husband. The Riddle man has been charg ed with first degree murder in Ihe shooting last Aug. 25 of his wife, Betty. . Testifying Thursday morning were Mrs. Flossie Boyd, half sister of the defendant: Albert Blankensliip and Vernon Chees man, neighbors: William Bovd. Owens' brother-in-law; Aaron Ow ens, son of the defendant by a previous marriage: Bruce Wvnter. relief ambulance driver for Ganz Morturary, Myrtle Creek; Sam Winship, an acquaintance of the defendant and the victim, and Leo Demon, an acquaintance ot Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Bovd and Win. ship testified Mrs. Owens had threatened to kill her husband. Winship said she also threatened to "drill" him one time. A gun allegedly used bv Bettv Owens in firing three shots at her nusoana on Aug. 16 was intro duced as evidence, as was a punc tured tare and photographs of Owens' car. He reportedly was in in car when his wife tired three shots from a .22 pistol. (Additional Details Page 9.) x 3 BLM Tracts Sold At Auction Three small parcels of Bureau of band Management Umber were sold at auction Wednesday in the BLM offices in Roseburg, according K James watts, dis trict forester. Only one of the traots was sold for more than the appraised price. A 34,000-board-foot parcel was purchased lor $342.30 by Dumont Logging Co., Roseburg. Appraised price was $198. The only compe tition in bidding came in this par cel, located on Little River. Allen and Dawson Logging Co. entered a bid. A tract containing 171,000-board feet on Smith River was sold at the appraised price of J1312 to South Fork Lumber Co., Drain. Another containing 17,000 board feet on Little River went to Hub Lumber Co., Roseburg, at the appraised price of $85. Friday Is Deadline To Buy Banquet Tickets Friday is the deadline for the purchase of tickets to the Junioi :nln,tr 01 iommerce s annual 'nS. J. "qUrt' tWe?" w, B ocordn. ,to an Woodruf. banquet chair- The tickets are avaHahle from Jaycee members. Speaker at the banquet will be Dain Domich. Sac ramento, president of the U.S. Ju- nior Chamber of. Commerce, ! Foreign Ministers Get Creen Light For Meet BERLIN im Tne Big Four foreign ministers got a final green light Thursday from the arrange ments committee for their historic conference opening here Monday. Technical experts of the four na tionsthe United States the Soviet Union, Britain and. France an nounced they have reachd "basic agreement on the questions of ad ministration security, comnnunica- I tions and the press." matching funds, is enabling the commission to spend a total of 150 millions for the emergency pro gram. When it is completed, Ore gon still will need around 250 mil lion dollars worth of road building to get a modern system. No more bonds can be issued, because the state is virtually at its bonding limit. Much of the bond money has been used to modernize the Colum bia River and Pacific Highways. But all of the highways are getting some benefit from this source. ' During the first six months of this year, the commission will award 29 million dollars worth of contracts, of which 17 millions is bond money. This will improve 375 miles of roads. In the last half of the year, the total contracts will be only two millions, of which half will come from the bonds. This will improve 50 miles of highways. After all these contracts are (Continued on Page Two) ROSEBURC, OREGON Pakistan Train Crash Dead May Run Up To 300 KARACHI. Pakistan W The Pakistan Mail, this country's crack passenger train, tripped at 60 miles an hour into a freight train early Thursday 75 miles north of here. Foreign Minister Sir Zafrullah Khan, who escaped unscathed. injured at around 300. The train was roaring through the desolate Sind desert from La hore to Karachi when it crashed into the train of oil tank cars. The first two passenser coaches were - reported "completely' burned," although the oil freight did not explode. A number of foreigners, includ ing Americans and Britons, were aboard the train. Zafrullch Khan walked to the nearest road, where his own car picked him up and brought htm to Karachi. He said snmp vp. witnesses estimated casualties at a top of 300, but that he personally would not put the toll at more than 100. 28 U.S. Marines Drown In Upset INCHON, Korea I Twenty eight U.S. Marines were dead or missing Thursday after a troop ship loaded with Chinese war prisoners collided with and cap sized a small landing craft. The toll was surpassed by that of only one other naval disaster in the Korean theater. Maj. Gen. William S. I.awton, commanding general ot the Ko rean communication zone, said 22 survivors 3rd Uivtsion Marines and crewmen were rescued from the chill waters of lnchon Harbor minutes after the collision be tween a big Formosa-bound LST (landing ship, tank) and an LCM (landing craft, medium). They were not seriously hurt. The Ma rines were weighted down with heavy equipment. Six bodies were recovered and 22 others were presumed dead when the search was called off at dusk. The small ship had car ried 50 men, Lawton said. The Marine helmsman of the IiOM. Pfc. John D. Gates Jr.. 22. of Pensacola, Fla., said he was approaching the LST to put a Ma rine .guard aboard before the ship sailed for Formosa. The LST car ried 1,000 Chinese POWs returned to U.N. custody by Indian cus todian troops in the Korean neu tral zone. Gates, formerly a commercial fisherman added: "The current was against my boat. It forced me against the LST. It was so strong it capsized my boat before I could move." Attorney General To Talk With DA ROBERT Y. THORNTON . . . back to Douglas Atty. Gen.' Robert Y. Thorton will be in Roseburg today to con fer with Dist. Atty. Robert M. Stults. This is one of the conferences Thornton is having with district attorneys of the five Southwestern Oregon counties as part of a pro gram begun last year to learn about local law enforcement prob lems throughout the state. Friday, Thornton will move on to Grants Pass for a joint meeting with Dist. Atty. Waltex D. Nunlty of Jackson County and Dist. Atty. Max L. McMillin of Josephine County. Saturday he will be in Coquille for a joint meeting with Disty. Atty. Samuel A. Hall of Curry County and Dist. Atty. John F. Pickett of Coos County. His last official visit in Douglas County was for the 1953 investiga tion by his office of the shooting death of Claire D. Burgoyne. THURSDAY, JANUARY Over Indians Will Free Pro-Reds If Not Taken PANMUNJOM WV-If the Com munists do not take back 349 pro Red war prisoners including 21 Americans Indian guards will open the gates of their neutral zone stockade and walk away at midnight Friday, an Indian gen eral said today. "First we will have to tell the prisoners that their owners re fuse to take them back," said Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya. "Then we will open the gate and we will tell our men to go back to their line " The Indian chairman of th Neu tral Nations Repatriation Com mission conceded that if the pris oners refuse to leave their com pound it would create a problem since neither Allied nor Red troops are permitted to enter Korea's de militarized zone. Thimayya told a news confer ence he planned to send another letter to the Communist high com mand asking the Reds to accept the return of the 21 Americans, 1 Briton and 327 South Koreans who chose to stay with the Commu nists. The Indian command returned 21,809 anti-Communist Chinese and Korean war prisoners to U. N. custody in a smooth operation yes terday and today. Access Roads Get Lift From Budget Of Eisenhower By A. ROBERT SMITH Nows-Raviow Washington - Correspondent WASHINGTON President Ei senhower's budget message Thurs day called for increased govern ment expenditures lor access roads into federal forests of West ern Oregon both the national for ests and 0 & C grant lands. "Increased funds are recom mended to complete construction of access roads needed to salvage timber in beetle-infested and wind. blown forest areas of Oregon and Washington," the President de clared. . Eisenhower backed tjp this dec laration with the requests of $3, 000.000 for O it C access roads 'and $16,000,000 for national forest roads and trails. Both represented substantial increases over the S2, 000.000 for O 4 C roads and $14, 500.000 for Forest Service roads during the current year. The funds for O & C roads are subject to repayment by the 18 O 4 C counties of Western Ore gon from their share of timber sale revenue. Otherwise, the budget message asked for no "new starts" in the river development program of the Pacific Northwest, lt asked S38.- 782.000 for The Dalles danv-not enough to keep that project on schedule. Instead of Nov. 1957, the first generator will be delayed until 1958 unless Congress substan tially increases this amount. Howard Herriclc Held On Larceny Charge A 34-year-old Roseburg man Wednesday pleaded innocent to a charge of larceny of personal property over $75 after his arrest in the afternoon by Roseburg po lice, according to District Judge A. J. Ceddes. Howard Edward Herrick, 421 S. Pine St., wa released after pay ing $200 cash bail. Police said he was arrested on a warrant signed by Charles Glade complaining of theft of house hold goods. , Driving With License Revoked Draws $50 Fine William Charles Keafilc, 40, 2443 N. Stephens St., Thursday was fined $50 when he pleaded guilty to driving while his li cense whs suspended, according to Municipal Judge Randolph Slo cum. His driver's license also was suspended for an additional year. He was arrested early Thurs day morning at Harvard Avenue anil Wharton Street, city police aid. Innocent Plea Entered To Contributing Charge A Yoncalla man, Homer Gra ham, Wednesday pleaded innocent to a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a 13-ycar-old girl after his arrest by the sheriff's office according to District Judge A. J. Gedues. Graham asked a preliminary hearing. He was lodged in the county jail when he was unahle to post $2500 bond let by Judge Geddcs. 17-54 In Trial MORRIS C. BOWKER ... antors assessor ract Morris Bowker Files Candidacy For Assessor Morris C. Bowker, one - time Douglas county judge. Wednesday became the first candidate on the Republican ticket for county as sessor in the May primaries, ac cording to County Clerk Charles Doerner. Bowker, a longtime resident of Douglas County, now is a deputy in the assessor's office. He will run for the office to be left va cant by Ned Dixon, who has in dicated he wiU not run for re election. He has had a long tenure in the county government. From 1925 until 1938 he was a deputy and as - siMmiL w me i-uumy engineer. io 1939, he was elected county judge, serving in mat ouice until 1941, when he was called up for serv ice witn tne Army as a reserve officer. He entered service be fore completing his term as coun ty judge. Bowker was discharged in April 1946 after hospitalization. In his service, he had risen to as sistant chief of staff of the Ninth Coroa ya n rnlnnp). He was named deputv. assessor in 1949 and has served in that capacity until now. Bowker is a 1922 graduate of Oregon State Couege, and is a member of Elks, Masons, the American Legion and Disabled' American Veterans. He also is a licensed registered land surveyor. He was born in Minnesota in 1899, but moved here at an early age, graduating Irom Roseburg High hciiocu James Chadd Arrested On Charge Of Assault James Jefferson Chadd. 55. Myr tle Creek, was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday by Justice of the Peace Nina Pietzold, Canyon ville, after his arrest Monday on a charge of assault with a dan gerous weapon. He was released the same day from the county jail when he posted $500 bond. Justice Mrs. Pietzold said that Lawrence Montgomery of Myrtle Creek complained Chadd had hit him over the head with a metal ash can, causing hospitalization. The fracas, she said occurred Sat urday night. i - SPY TO BE SHOT SEOUL ( South Korean ed itor Chung Kook Gun, J8, convict ed as a Communist spy, will be executed publicly By an Army firing squad Saturday, the Defense Ministry announced today. Chung, former editor of the newspaper Yun - Hap Shinmoon was sentenced to death last! month by a military court. Woman Freed Which Wasn't CARSON CITY, Nev. I Dark- haired Emma Jo Johnson is "not angry at anyone" for sending her to prison for murder a murder which the Nevada Board of Par dons now says never was com mitted. Emma Jo. 35, was ordered freed yesterday after 2 years, S months and 28 days behind bars as a re sult of a year-long, $15,000 inves tigation by mystery story author Erie Stanley Gardner ind others. The board accepted doctors' findings that Mrs. Jane Jones, 72, of Las Vegas died of a brain tu mor not as a result of an as serted attack by Emma Jo. Em ma Jo's troubles started in early May 1951 when she called at the home of her former landlady, Mrs. Jones, for mail. At th" trial, the slate said the j two women got into a fight nd Emma Jo beat Mrs. Jones so se verely that a resulting blood clot caused the older woman's death two weeks later. Emma Jo testified she only grabbed Mrs. Jones by her braids 1 in self-defense and Mrs. Jones 21, 1954 Reduced Military Spending; Higher Debt Limit Asked In Budget Sent To Congress Broad Tax Law Program Changes Proposed By President, But No -Further Cuts Suggested For Now : By FRANK O'BRIEN ' WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower laid a 65 V2-billion-dollar budget before Congress today, slashing 5 billion dollars from total spending but proposing record out lays for atomic energy, continental defense and overseas . . , , . , , 1 Ike's Military Budget Set At ZVi Billion WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower recommended today a $37,575,000,000. military outlay for the next fiscal year, with a shift in emphasis from foot soldiery to a "full exploitation of air power and modern weapons." The spending Tmdact he nronos- cd to Congress for the Defense Department is about four billion dollars loss than that estimated for the current year, which ends June 30. Eisenhower said the budget is based on a "new concept tor. . . our national security program." A substantial part of the sav ings obviously would come in man power, particularly Army man power. The budget Iigures reflect an over-all reduction of about 8.7 per cent in manpower for all the armed forces. Army personnel would be reduced by 17.3 per cent. dropped from the present 20. Among the cutback in strength warning and reaction to attack, of the Army, in which Eisenhower Military aid would rise by 75 was a five-star general, there was million dollars, he said, to a new the President's emphatic advocacy peak of $4,275,000,000 for round of greater power in the air. the-world assistance to friendly na- He said the Air Force, Navy and Marine r.nnm nniv haui. 1 among them, about 33,000 planes. iuruvg me next tnree years, ne said, this will be increased to 40 000, more than halt of them jets. Twenty-two per cent of defense ex penditures In the new fiscal year wouia go to airplane procurement. rne ma tiscal year program. tne President wrote, "calls for im. poving combat effectiveness by tne application ot new weapons and new techniques, including full realization of our nuclear capabil ities, and provides for the rapid and orderly phasing of programs to improve continental defense against possible enemy attack." 21 Americans To Be Declared 'Undesirable' WASHINGTON Wl The 21 American soldiers who have re fused to come home from Commu nist Korea will be declared "un desirable" and discharged tomor row. The undesirable discharge pa pers for the prisoners of war who declined to be returned have been completed by the Army after weeks of consultation with the De fense and State departments. The action will convert the soldiers in to civilians "under conditions oth er than honorable." The Pentagon chose this middle course in dealing with the 21 to avoid possible legal difficulties in the way of sterner action, and to leave a loophole for the men to clear themselves, should any of thorn get back to the United Slates. One month ago the Defense De partment said that it had narrow ed the Army's choices of action against the men to three: (1) Keep them on Army rolls and defer a division for the in definite future; (2) give them un desirable discharges by adminis trative action of the Army secre tary and (3) drop thorn from the Army's rolls as deserters. The first course would have per- mitted the men to accumulate and perhaps some day draw their pay. Of Murder Committed slumped to the Door unconscious. The jury convicted Emma Jo of second degre murder; sentence, 10 to 12 years. Author Gardner, who also is a successful attorney, went to work on the case about a year ago as a result of a letter from Jack Wen- gert, 44, Emma Jo's Fiance. Gardner, pathologist Le Moyne Snyder of Michigan and Dr. R. B. H. Gradwohl of St. Louis became convinced that Mrs. Junes was not murdered, but died of a brain tumor. In the long, expensive investi gation, they found Dr. T. V. Nen dick, Las Vegas physiotherapist, to whom Mrs. Jones had gone the day bofore the altercation. Dr. Nendick said Mrs. Jones was dy ing of the brain tumor and need ed immediate surgery. He was not called to testify at Emma Jo's trial, although he said he scnl the defense attorney an anony mous letter. The lawyer said tne letter came on the final day of the trial ana ne was unaoie io suiisian - tiate it. The case was not appeal- ed. military aid. Despite a 7V4 .Dercent cut under estimated spending this y ear also lowered Eisenhower told Congress the government will wind up the 1955 fiscal year nearly three billion dollars in ths red. Fiscal 1355 starts July 1. Although he proposed a broad program of tax law changes, he told Congress no further general tax cuts are justified at present. His message said the budget was based on a "new concept" of se curity planning which places re liance on "the full exploitation of modern air power" and on "new weapons" to justify manpower and dollar defense cuts. . He proposed spending $2,425,000,. 000 next year for atomic energy. A darallad raport an ' Eisen hower's budsat message to Con gress appears on editorial paga. This increase of 225 millions over this year would bring atomic spending to "the highest point in our history," he said. He also said that since most atomic energy plant construction is complete, spending now - would concentrate on "operations." ... He set no figure for continental defense, but said outlays would be "greater than ever before ia our history" to provide early (ions. 1 The President told Ooneresa I "there will be no way of operat- wiuun cne present aem umn - of 275 billion dollars in the last six months of this year. There fore, he said, he was renewing, his request, stymied jn. the Sen- ate last summer, for a higher ced ing. -Secretary of the Treasury Hum phrey told newsmen the adminis tration would again ask for 2M (Continued on Page Two) I I wJIMCIII fUn Tax Revision ' WASHINGTON UPl President Eisenhower today urged upon Con gress a big tax revision project that would reduce revenue about $1,215,000,000 net year and then drew a line against further cuts now. The revision program, he said in his budget message, would re write a tax structure he termed 'haphazaid. easing burdens for millions of persons and promoting business expansion to push Ameri ca "to ever higher standards of living." But Eisenhower said this pro- ' gram and the five billion dollars in annual tax cuts which took ef fect Jan. 1 are all the reductions 'our national security and well- being wiU permit" right now. lie thus raised a barrier against growing talk by some Congress members in this election year lor (1) a further general cut m in dividual income taxes and (2) a lowering of all excise or sales taxes which are above 10 per cent to that level. The President reiterated his re quest, first made last May and re newed in his stale ot tne union message, for extension of presnt rates of excise and corporation in come taxes. They are due' to drop Aoril 1 to their ore-Korea levels. three billion dollars under present levels. The revision program would re duce taxes an estimated two bil lion dollars annually when it reaches full effect in later years. MOTHER, SONS DROWN COLUMBIA, Tenn. W A young mother, carrying two tiuy sons, slipped on a rain-soaked foot bridge and toppled into a swollen creek near here yesterday. All three drowned. Victims were Mrs. James Sims, 21; Larry 2; and David, 2 months. A third son, James Jr., who also fell in, was rescued by, his father. Levity Fact Rant By L. P. Reizenstein The nursery rhyme eow that jumped over the moon was just cheap potential ham burger compared with the Junction City, Ore., raised bossy sold this week at the Denver Livestock show. The Hereford heifer brought a price of $4700, a sum that , few yeort qo would have i. .., .- .,.. i b.M" enough to start a good sized cattle herd. .-w.'-
