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Newspaper Page Text' U. of 0. "Library augene, uregon Comp Is Reached I : : Agreement ARBA FAY. STEARNS, a native of Douglas County, Sun- doV re ehrnfe. hi- 1 nn.L. Ul-.L.--.. i j, ' - t 'L n , 7 Ulru,uay in a ainner ana recep- rw Z ,aflndDhl? ,home' He was born t Scott-burg Oct. 24, 1854. Paul Jenkins photo). A. F. Stearns Of Oakland Will Reach Century Mark On Sunday; Dinner Planned --i, x-ajf oumriis, oeuevea r"8'""; me -emury -.v.. pbou iunuu .years. Stearns, Douglas County judge between " 1904-08, walks " on C- ?u " 18 wiT tV. 7u n , ifi I i.",' week in the Oakland hardware Schools Begin Magazine Sale The two junior high schools In Roseburg today embark on their annual magazine subscription sales campaign, according to R.' R. Brand, principal. The sales this year will benefit student bodies of both Central and Joseph Line student bodies. Brand said. Curtis Circulation Co. has made about 90 popular magazines avail able for the promotion, -which will continue through Nov. 3. New and renewal subscriptions will be' taken, with a commission on sales going toward student projects in the two schools. The DTOiept ann-lialtv has ntvuM ed junior high school students with funds necessary to carry on their T-i , i . . ', , i.vivuitf iu saia. it nas maae possible purchase of numerous items of equipment for school, in cluding choir robes, musical in atruments and athletic equipment. This is tile 18th consecutive year in wnicn tne campaign has been neia, arena pointed out. FLOODS TAKE SEVEN CARACAS, -Venezuela 1 Flood caused by unusually heavy ra-iu.M claimed anomer seven lives Wednesday night, bringing the death toll in the past week to at least 14. Most of the deaths were caused by landslides or the collapse of houses built alongside rjooaea drainage canals, i PORTER ON RAOIO"- A recorded interview featuring congressional candidate Charles 0. Porter will be heard Thursday night at 7:45 p.m. The 15-minute interview will be broadcast over radio station KRXL. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS India's prime -linister Nehru ar rived in PeiDine . Tuesdav for a state visit to red China. As h stepped from his plane at the air port, he was welcomed by vast ana cneenng crowas (of commu nists.) He was personally greeted by old Chou En Lai Wherever he goes in Perping, the red carpet U rolled out for him. Ordinary people know that when you set a trap for a mouse you bait it heavily with luscious cheese. But Nehru, I suppose, being a do gooder with his head up in the rosy clouds, never stops to think of such low and practical things. In Vienna, which Is still occu pied partly by the Russians and partly by our side, a Russian Ql deserts his unit, climbs a high barbed wire fence surrounding an American radio station, and turns himself over to the Americans, A (Continued on Pag 4) The Weather Intermittent rain today and to? night. Friday mostly cloudy with a few showers. Highest temp, tart 24 hours ...Til Lowtst tomp. last 24 hours 54 Highest tomp. any Oct. H Lowest tomp. any Oct. 12 Procip. lost 24 hours T Procip. from Oct. I 1.15 Procip. from Sept. 1 . 2.21 Deficiency from Sept. 1 ....- M Sunset tonight, 5:21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4: 35 a.m. - . V' ' - ' """" 2"-" HOSHUHCOHECOX-THUHSDAY, OCTO.i. 11, 14 1.54 , ,,,;, D..-. Is- :: '---- ,..,,. i : ; r . WM roimcai war Keverlierates i v-Tv; -A Hoor L, Upset Throughout Oregon Country p ( 0 1 - y U. N. Rulings . ; , i.." 7 -1 -J; l :V '1 . C' I . . . . . A AklJkJkJ I If !. - . .. t f to De the oldest living native mane Sunday in Oakland, his 8,516 10 see and hear 88 well as tte stl" sPends Part of each store which he ran for more i -nan bu years. He is the second Oaklander to me age ot iou. A, F. Brown, rounder of the nrioinail t;t i u town, dtea several years ago just ire u au reacneo. mat age. Stearns is a native of Douglas County, having been born Oct. 24, 1854, to Daniel and Akmlra Fay Stearns at Sootts-burg. His par ents had arrived in the territory after their marriaae in New Ham, shire, a mule ride across, the Is thmus of Panama and '', short residence In San Francisco. . His father had owned a ranch a- -coasourg. Later, the family moved to Roseburg (part of the A birthday dinner honoring Stearns will be served to the Steams family Sunday at the Veterans Memorial Building in Oakland by women of the Oak land Proibytorian Church. A ro coption will be hold there be tween 2:30 and 4 p.m. property in Rosebud was the site on which the Rosebure Hotel was built), then left for EJkton, where his father again ranched. When Steams was 20, he relat ed, his father, worried about his son's bachelorhood, staked him to ISO head of cattle and horses-and ordered him off ' to Steens Moun tain in the southeastern part of the state. (Stearns said his father thought he was too interested in girls). In that remote part of the coun try, Steams settled down for a couple of years to ranching. He recalled a rainy night the first night out when he' tnucht- ahnli for himself at , a farmhouse in (Continued on Page 2 Col. 4) - FIRE BURNS BUILDING PORTLAND Wl Fire destroyed the interior of a twn.ctn-v hriob- building occupied by the La Tosh Manufacturing Co. early Thursdajy. The firm makes brushes and processes rags for industrial . use. The fire which broke through the roof at the height of a heavy rain apparently . started, in . t h e laundry room.- Loss estimate was not avauaoie. - C O. Porter Again Pushes Al Serena Case In Speech; Would Admit China In U.N. With the Nov. 9 aeneral ele-i;-- Is than two weeks away, anoth er political candidate was stir ring coal in the central Douglas area this week. (Vin (froi-m in nan. didate Charles 0. Porter was busy u-iuug eii.ecnes ana uiKing to TUIV1 At a Werlneatav nnh-n I. Roseburg, he took about so min. utes to lash out against his jo. ponent Cong. Harris Ellsworth. Porter charged the incumbent with insufficient inveatiiralinn nt thm li Sejnea mining matter. He later switched to an international sub ject and challenged the congress- iu.u - mm ciear nis stand on Red China. Candidate Porter ht I,;. small Democratic audience in the Umpqua Hotel a letter and aesay roundup on the mining claim he received Oct. 13 from In r.ahri.i. son. Gabrielson is president of tne nuains management Institute in Washington, D. C. . In reading from the letter Ps-. er quoted: "These claims (on the property) had been assayed an. sampled on three different occa sions prior to the snerial ordered by the Department of In- ierir usv jau. none of the three Russia sought the General Assent- v """r roaay in a last-ditch at- lemDt TO lineAt film TT XT involving her ally, . 'contmunist The Soviets Uar awti.At.J i. ask a special Aum.r.iv caB;nr, override: w 1. The Stearin- :i 'j, . vyviiiwibun: s rifl ing w ueiay aeoate on two explo sive Russian charffes f n s ag gression against Red China unftl me crucial disarmament deht VV, - . The nreHent al r.lu t- , . , -"""i VllllllLl accept wauonalist Chi na s qualifications as a U. N. mem ber. The Russians had faint twnne reversing either decision. But ob- S asla rooays special As semlbly meeting to receive the re. Port Of thexe mmimiHa. nu i r- ..... garc uic Soviets a chance to air their views ag-ill. In challenging the rulin cept Nationalist China's creden tials, the Russians were expected to demand a roll rail vnt t-. : w UUU out how many powers now favor "mging communist China into the U.N. Over the oast t h r . . ears, the Russian representatives lave never been able tn m,ier more than seven votes in favor of the Chinese Reds. Powers Becoming Adept At Serving Legal Complaints Coroner L. L. Power. v. coming an expert at a duty today which is considered fairly unusual or a coroner. Involved in the suit, Coroner Pow- , ,a --ea on v serve 13 com plaints Werineiut,. -i-w . ' j Thursday. ' na action came as a result of aui L iiiea nv Kfl rd this - s-uisi. cne is to enjoin them from holding themselves nut rnnro. sentatives of the nnnodn. r,.. -muiixur s m-moers oi tne Doug, las Countv Sheriff'. -Puns 'i Baird explained, that the 13 are men wiiose mmmiuiAni he ..,,1. ed July 14. . This was the second taste of of ficial servins of Wat m k- Powers this year. Earlier, Powers was called on by Eugene Attorney Charles O. Porter tn serve . -tt of habeas corpus on the sheriff's office in the case of TVin.M (Punchy) Bailey. Firsr Grader Unhappy At Missing School Richard Brinkman missed his first day at school today. AM be cause of some cows. - Richard, 6, is a first grader at Melrose School. He told his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brinkman of Melrose, that he liked school, too. Wednesday afternoon. ' as the youngster was running in the pas ture to bring the cows in, he fell and broke his left leg. Richard was iaKen to community Hospital, He's reported in eood condition there, but his mother says he's wurriea. tie u be in the hospital for about three weeks, she said, and he hates to fall behind the other children In school work. So, today, Mrs. Brinkman was getting ready to call school authorities to find out how Richard could keep -p Willi uis wurK, i, previous assays showed more than a trace of mineral on any of the .uiucsieu claims. Gabrielson said In the letter that the samples were shipped to ni.nama ror uie tourtn assay Nov. 17, . 1953,-He said they were given numbers by the Williams Com pany in Motile on Nov. 25, mi. The assay report was returned to the Al Serena home office in Mo bile on Dec. 17, 1953. According w --auiicisua, ie aecision was made to allow the patents on Jan. , 1954. Porter said the final assay which showed definite mineral content wai the basis of the de cision to grant the mineral claim to the McDonald Brothers. The candidate invited hit au dience to examine the assay round up. It listed findings on all assays. According to roundup, the three earlier tests Indicated nothing, t trace or no more than .175 dollars per ton. The fourth assay indicat ed n. less than .75 dollars per ton and up to 4.20 dollars per ton. the reason for Cong. Ellsworth's "not taking further action to check the extraordinary assay taken bv a company from the hometown of (Continued ga Pig 2 Col. S) . , . BY THE ASSOCIATE! prwscj n,n,liUCn?I 8pechea we heurd in nearly every section of days Thursd8y aa the fa, camPa'-n entered its final 13 The top contest, between Sen. Guy Cordon and his Demo cratic challeneer. Richard I NnW.. " ' !mo cipals in Western Oregon. Lwraon, speaking at Gresha.m Wednesday night, linked himself to tne Eisenhower nmn-im in fo-,-. and domestic matters and urged Kuuiuuc Americans ot ail parties vote to give the President a chance to make good on his promises." Neuberger, speaking at Salem, and Sen. Albert Gore, Tennessee Democrat who spoke at Portland, attacked Cordon's record. Both Fuuium out uiai ioraon voted for the controversial Dixon-Yates util ity contract in the Tennessee Val ley. Gore said this was "a move to establish a private power beach head in TVA," and asserted the contract would cost the unvern. ment 140 million dollars more than at TVA built a steam-generation plant. . Gore also described the Elsen hower power "Dartnershin" nr gram as a "clever phrase." Actu ally, he said, "it is a political partnership between Republican Party leaders and -the nriv.ie util ities." Howard Morgan, state Democrat ic chairman, also entered the de bate to answer Republican charges that "left-wingers" in New York held a party to raise ias.ooo tVw Neuberger. Morgan said it was no left-wino- group but the National Committee for an Effective Congress, which iso supported Hepublican Sen. margarei unase smith of Maine, tie added that the amount of money will be "a few hundred dol lars- instead ot itts.ow. - .1 , In the second eongrsssional die. trtct race, Rep. Sam Coon said at Bend that he had nothimr -tn An with, the charges .-ecently filed by me iM)ai xunare loimrnssion agaimr. nis Democratic opponent, Albert Ullman of Baker. Loon said Oiat in fairness to uiiman an early bearing should be arranged "so that if he is innocent ne Will nave a chanre tn tHAnr himself before the election." Xhe hearing is set for Oct. 27, (Continued on Page 2 Col. 5) Good Weather Speeds Drilling Of Oil Well Aided by eood driHins weather. workmen with the Santa Maria Drilling Co. reached a denth of 680 feet in Melrose Thursday morn ing. Well pusher Arkie Siayton said the men would average between 100 and 150 feet per day. At the present depth the dritlin. k in hard, conglomerate rock. The oil drilling venture got un derway Saturday. .. u ' HUNTERS FINED Two men received S25 fines. with 510 suspended, when they p I e a d ed guilty before District Judge Elmer G. Baldwin Wednes day on charges of hunting in a closed area. The men, arrested by state police, are George Doug las Hetherington and Raymond Clarence Kieier. i Ninth Juror REMAINS CALM Dr. Somuel H. Sheppard presents o calm outword appearance as he sits in Cleveland, O , courtroom waiting, for the court to open for his trial. The osteopathic physician Is accused of the slaying of his wife, Marilyn last July.. At right is William H.' Corrigon, son ' of defense attorney William J. Corrigon. (AP WIREPH0T0 . '. committee yyiii Probe Oakland's Water Problem committee of six Oakland men was appointed this week by tne Oakland City Council to ln- Yoaiigaie means of settling . the city's water problem, according . -juiui vmm, news-ne- view correspondent, The appointments came after two representatives of the Oregon W l!r ??rp- A- R- Andrews ind O. P. Newman, told councilmeii cost of installation of filters or sediment tanks would have to be wrne throuzh a raise in wi- tn Mrs ITlifU i " rales. The SIX men na.med . Tnk 'Kdwards, James Cummings, Cal Iifs' u5'd Ptt, Harry Smith and Paul Sohulze. The city wa V suPP,ied through the Ore- "i-r -rp., nas come under recent criticism because of al leged impurities. The council also niit-rmi-i.nd i.J crease of maximum speed through the city from 25 to 35 mUes per bow on request of the State High way Commission. Other matters acted . on were the apnrovaJ nt a -.;- . . uic .uuiity nu oKayinz Ijquorjlispensers licenses to Oak land Tavern and Adama' .Apple. YMCA Council Croups To Meet Church m,m. ln,en- i. .A Ing part in an inteivhnrvh . a nart in C"-T atton program for both youth and iag of the YMOAhureh Recre- vuuuoii meeung Monday. The meetine it seheHnlaH in m Roseburg Armorv ymjca office . 7:30 p.m. . Kenneth Simon, a churchman and a teacher at Roseburg High School will moderate the meeting. He reports that the primary pur pose of the meeting is to explore ways and means of helping church es strengthen their present oro-grama-..- At present, churches with YMCA help have conducted the following programs: High school boys' church leagues in basketball, vol leyball and -softball, girls' volley ball and adult leagues in basket ball and Softball. , Members of the c un.il will also discuss the need for serving boy and girls 9 years and older in youth recreation programs, Simon said. Any church people Interested In this kind af program for young people are urged to contact their pastors and attend the meeting. Selected In Sheppard Trial t -j MISS EILEEN PLUMB , . ... Camp Fir. Advisor Camp Fire Advisor To Visit Roseburg The northwest's regional field advisor for Camp Fire, Inc. will be in Douglas County next week. Miss Eileen Plumb will visit the Rosebure roiinril rw &. She will meet, with many groups' wiwcrueu wim uie . weal uamp Fire Girl's program, according to Council President Mona Hult. Dur ing her visit she will spend some time in Drain. A regional field advisor, Miss Plumb works in Idaho, JHontana, Oregon and Washington w - home office It in Spokane, .Wash. Joining Camp Fire in June 1953, the advisor has had experience on a voluntary basis with many youth programs. She has graduate col lege work In counseling and 'JuiU- Another $94,000 Will Be Spent On Bullock Bridge Another 194.000 will he .n.nt tiili winter in brhvffW we - nii-v Bridge near Tyee up to . condition required for its -heavy traffic, ae-1 ' o '' . fording to amrnmksioaafE! 1 Elmer R. Metzger. ! I , Mettaer said heavv frante 'In i ' ' ' ' - - ? uie IUUire maicea artrfltlnnal nmplr on me nriflge necessary. Earlier " " 7St .sleel Pco was insusiiea on tne east end of the bridee. Now a new aooroacJi will he In. stalled on. the west end, and the wiiuie anage 1-04 ieetj win he re decked with steel. But Hie work won't be done until wet weather tv. ouces tne log truck traffic, Metx gar pointed out. Except for the Beckley Bridge near Elkton. the Bullock Bridee ia wo ouiy m a .fur onoge in uie county which has not been reno vated. The Beckley Bridge retains its wooden deck because people in uie area prerer it, Metzger said. The Bullock Bridtre erosaea the Umpqua River, just off Highway - wen ot sutnerun. SERVICE EXPANDED Announcement of the recent se lection of Roseburg Transfer & Storage Co., 321 W. Oak St., as local agent for Allied Van Lines, Inc. has been made by the local firm. Owner and Manager Cliff Bras field said the company would act as agent for the lines which serve this country and Canada. Alaska and Mexico. Brasfield said the service includes household moving, packing and storing. CLEVELAND im The ninth member of the Sheppard murder trial jury was selected Thursday as the trial began moving along at a swifter pace. Two housewives were named to the panel Thursday. The latest chosen was Mrs. Margaret E. Adams, wife of a vice president of a metal parts firm. At that point, five women and four men had been selected. Continuing the pattern of the first three days, defense attorneys hammered at the jurors' views on sex as attempts were pressed to select a panel to try Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard on a charge of beat ing to death bis pretty wife, Mari lyn, 31, last July 4. Defense Counsel William J. Cor rigan and Fred W. Garmone robed the sex angle repeatedly I questioning prospective jurors. They wanted to know if the ven iremen would be prejudiced against a person who might have engaged in illicit love. The name of curvaceous Susan Hayes, 24-year-old hospital techni cian, came up with increasing fre quency. The auburn-haired beauty, ex pected to be a main prosecution witness, admitted to police she had an Intimate romance with 30-year-okd Dr. Sheppard when he was in California last March L0D0ED IN JAIL Mark Gem Huckins, 43, Albany, has been lodged in the county jail after his return here by a deputy Sheriff to face a charge of obtain ing money under false pretenses, according to Sheriff Cat R.irH Huckins was arrested in Salem on a Douglas County waraant, lves Election Is Important Says President NEW YORK un - President El- -.uuuvrcr rata state Republican campaign workers Thursday prior to a whirlwind tour of New York cy It . was "tremendously - im portant" that U. S. Sen. Irving M. Ives be elected governor to carry on the GOP program.. Newsmen traveling with the President said it was the most , - ...n,.v ma i, uiacu flower has given to any individual vuuuiil nnor. am an r that' e --miKiaie m we present political campaign. , The President's visit (a 'the n. publican headquarters in the Ho- mu nuuseveii came at a time when ; newspaper polls indicated that " -railing Avereu Harrlman, the Democratic-Liberal candidate for governor. The tour of the city, which be gan immediately after the brief talk to campaign workers, came as a surprise. It was reminiscent of the fa mous motorcade of President Franklin D. 'Roosevelt, who, seek ing a fourth term, toured the city bareheaded in a heavy rain dur. mg. the ; 1944 . presidential cam paign. Eisenhower's motorcade was scheduled to tOUr thrOlIDh Man. hattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. Accompanying him - was , Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Ives . riug to tne current politi cal carnnaien In the -t4- tri.- hower said: .. , ' ... One indispensable ingredient in any victory is heart." He said that in the -nim.-- service this was known as morale aiKi esuru ae enrrur . . The former mmmandee t4. American militarv forfpa tn IT.n. imv 3 a a wi ne ini.nt he .. jxiuo.11118 amut patuei and said ne never . knew anyone to win when' thev kwked WVe " I putting his hand, to bit tace and Employes Assim Joins UF Drive For the first Dm. mrl to the Roseburg area have join- uie irroeon ?tr.aie ninvn-vu a ot -u tviL.a ui UH-Llf lDtllfs in llniruwf The different offices represent ed in tiie- association ar busy the lines suggested by Central -SOU-IBS united Fnnri ttni.M Chairman of the mittee is Roy Waters of the Doug- a ii-ii rrutre U-UCe. Waters said the agencies Includ ed are welfare, eneineers. hlvh. way department,' employment of fice pins several smaller state of fices. A 100 per cent coal h heen set. Waters said contributions to UF were being made with this In mind: Contribute what you feel your neighbor might need In dis tress ii ne snonia need to take advantage of a UF agency. More than 60 per cent participation has already been reported, he added. Herry Devisier Fined. Placed . On Probation Harry Busene Deva.ier. at win. ston, was fined $250, given a 180 day suspended sentence and placed on probation for one year by District Judge Elmer G. Bald win when he pleaded guilty Wed nesday to a Charve nf fiirnlohln , - . - - n" . . i i.uiuk liquor to a minor. Devasier was arrested by a re serve deputy sheriff last weekend. aiong wicn a 17-year-old boy and two 15-year-old sirla. IT. . . charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but the charge was reduced Thursday, The boy received a jail sentence and f-00 fine. The girls were remanded to juvenile authorities. Devasier was releaed under 1500 bail Monday, under the old charge. Drowning Victim's Name Erroneously Spelled The name of William Ahei i who drowned TnesHav in 'tul South Umpqua River, was errone ously spoiled in Wednesday's News-Review. The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ahel 733 Micelli St. Funeral services for the boy will be held in Rugby, N.D. He is sur- vrvea oy . grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schaan. there. Other grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. An- roine scneer, live in Balta, N.D. Mrs. Earl West Named Diana-Craig Manager inn. ari west has been named manager of Diana-Grain's ahnn 131 Jackson St., according to Mel ureenspan, district supervisor. Mrs. West was promoted to the position last week, replacing Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kosel, who plan to engage in private business. A four-year resident of Roseburg, Mrs. West has been with the local branch of the firm for a year. Her background in women's ready-to-wear is extensive prior to her employment here, Four Statesman' Put ' Finishing Touches On Lengthy Document By JOSEPH E. DYNAN - PARIS W The three WesterU powers and the Bonn Republic Thursday reached complete agree ment on steps to end the Allied occupation of West Germany and restore virtually all sovereignty ia the West Germans The foreign ministers of th United States, Britain and Franc took the action Thursday afternoon in a brief session with West Ger man Chancellor-Foreign Mlnistw Konrad Adenauer. ; "The four statesmen put the fin ishing touches nn a aerie, v lengthy, detailed documents which are ro replace tne two-year-old treaty of Bonn, never completely ratified. - Tha.se documents set forth the conditions under, which the West Germans will recover -sovereignty-after almost a decade of occupa- . tlon. , , . ' These documents, along with a series of annexes covering- Wni Germany's future relatione with the West and the status of Allied armed forces in West Germany, are to be signed in a formal e. sion Saturday afternoon in the French foreign ministry. : Thursday's action cleared the way for West Germany's incoroor. ation into a seven-power West Eu-" ropean Union and membership in the North Atlantic Treatv Ori.nl. zation. .. . i Treaties embodying' these steoa . are to be signed Saturday after noon at the seme time, nendin. successful conclusion of additional talks to be held here. The three Western nowem ro. Uined a few strings od West Ger man sovereignty to enable them to negotiate with the Soviet Union on German reunification and on 4 (Continued on Page 2 Col. I) . Roseburg Building Over $lv Million At Quarter End , . Building coMtrucUen in Itoae burk climbed over the l millioa mark daring the third quarter f 1954 and wu lO ner een Ahe first three period ot 1063 in dollar volume, j ,m .-, : , . . ' The rebort was' made h ... table Savm ' Tian Aaan.'a afai.. Istical ; department today.. '.One of the biggest reasons for Hie increase was the 91 per cent increase of dwelMn- coiutmiotin-,' over the same first nine months ' last ' year, , . Total Construction rletermln- k the dollar volume of dwelling per mits through September was Si.. 371,142. At the same time lajt year, It was $1,241,464. - . - During Julv. August anH . tetiiber, total permits totaled $4OT, ivo, .-, DweKIni eonstruetlon for1 ' three motrths was $132,000. This raised the dwelling construction total for the first nine months to ting Rjta - r; ..... M - . riwi - us v yKL cow above the same first nine monthi the year before. It waa the high est percentage increase In Ore gon. Over the Northwest, 't waa second highest dollar volume year in construction history. At the end or nine months, a total ot $246,1 942,773 had been spent. Dwelling construction totaled $104,5.9,008. Allowing for the . increased strength of the dollar' this year's recora to aate, ny comparison la even better than it seems, the ' report from Equitable says. Tree-Marking Field Day Scheduled For Monday A tree-marklnz field dav will ha held in Douglas County Monday. -According to county extension forester Ed Gilden. it will take place In Roy Fisher's woodland at . Kellogg, starting at 1 p.m. Demonstrations of tree thinning and falling will be given, Gilden said. Persons present will have an opportunity to participate in a tree marxing contest. Contestants will mark on a sneei of paper whether previously num- oereo. trees in tne stand should be "cut" or "leave" trees. No Drires will be awarded, Gilden said, but a discussion will follow the mark ing. All loggers, farmers and in terested persons are invited. Glide Man Suffers From Chest Injuries A Glide man was reoorted In good condition at Douglai Commu nity Hospital today. Orville M. Louth, 40, received chest injuries and fractured rib Wednesday when he fell, between some logs. Louth told hospital at- tenaanis ne was working for J. G. Watts at Glide where he ia rtrll. tor. Levity F0ct Rant - By L. F. Reiienstein In view of o recent river disaster, programs of popular muiie should be charitably considerate by omittlna "Beau tiful Ohio." " .