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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. library Eugene, Oregon omp (? n n a io) a uj AVE C. C. Laurance Tops Prize Winners At Lamb Display ! " -V,r I fc .1 W J iJ rr ft ; rji f I 'j t's tins-: . JJf&rw CHAMPION FAT LAMB of the 16th Annual Douglas County Fat Lomb Show held ot the fair grounds Satur day is the 4'2-months-old cross bred Southdown-Romney ewe owned by Custer C. Laurance, Rt. 2, Roseburg. Lourance's entry in the pen of five category also nabbed first place. Owner Laurance has some 80 ewes on his 133-acre ranch ir Riversdale. (Paul Jenkins photo) Riversdale farmer C. C. (Custer) Laurance made a clean sweep of the Douglas County Fat Lamb Show Satur day with his Southdown-Romney ewe entries. He toted up $90 in prize money. His 95-pound February ewe nab bod first in the single fat lamb (open class) competition, then won over Joan Marie Sellick's junior class fat lamb winner to be "cham pion fat lamb" of the 16th annual show. Saturday afternoon Laurance's pen-of-five entry was named best by show judge Floyd Fox, Silver Inn. Last year the winner's entry placed eighth in the single lamb category. A total of 34 entries competed for more than $500 in urizes. 11 was a considerable decrease under 1M. ine enu ics compnsea ju sin- gles and S pens-of-fivc Winner Laurance walked home with $50 for his five-sheep show ing; $15 for best fat lamb: $12.50 for champ of the show; and a like amount for the champion pen. The latter two awards were provided by the Willamette Valley Ram Sale Committee. Other prizes were awarded by the Douglas County Livestock Assn., sponsors of the show. WINNERS Open Class, sinjle fat lamb: 1st. (Continued on Page 2 Col, 3) Diana Barrymore's Husband Found Dead ROCHESTER, NY. - Actor Robert Wilcox, 44, husband of Di ane Barrymore, was found dead in a Pullman berth Saturday. A porter discovered Wilcox was dead when he tried to muse him for the Rochester station stop. Wil cox was on his way from New York lo visit his mother here. A coroner's phfittcian said death apparently was caused by a heart attack. Wilcox' most recent stage ap pearance was opposite Miss Bar rymore in the "Pajama Tons" road show. Ho formerly was married to Florence Rice, daughter of the late sports writer. Grantland Rice. This marriage ended in divorce. He had. appeared in 26 movies In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's turn our eyes today to ward Ixmdon, where as this was written Queen Elizabeth formally opened the Bri:i.h parliament whh the traditional stv e;h from the throne ' This opening of the parliament i is a rather unusual one. it got un der wav FIVE DAYS AHEAD OF THE TRADITIONAL SCHEDULE so thai the lawmakers may act promptly, as is required by law. on the national emergency proc lamation issued by the queen be cause of the railroad strike. The customary pageantry of a parliamentary opening was influ-1 enced on this occasion by the! strike that caused the lawmaking body to assemble five days early.! Elizabeth rode from BiKkmeham ; palace to the parliament build-, ings which, incidenlallv. are an i ancient roal palace - ,a an auto-, mobile instead of the l:aditonal slow horse-drawn coach. The reason for that wa that the (Continued on Page 4 Col. 6) The Weather Fair tonight, nets Tuesday, ihcreaiing cloudi Cloudy Tueidey night. Highest ttmp. last 74 hours Lowest temp, last 24 hours Highest ttmp. any June . Lowest temp, any June Precip. last 24 hours . Precip. from June 1 Prteip. from Sept. 1 Deficiency from Sept. 1 . Sunset tonight, 7: 54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:32 a.m. ... 73 . 40. 1M - 34 : 0 1 22.03 7.38 j ! i I Anti-Polio Shots Given First Group In Douglas County The first 80 first and second grad- ftre in Dnnnlaa f'n.mft r nu Imnn inocillalPii with ihi Sail: aiiH-nnlin I vaccine, and another gro"p will be inm-uiat'orf t,,. ,. d...i,..,. iv,i,,c r'nt n.,.,i.', n..i,u v,,,,. Neva SilU ha ; -..nnrt.H t,at 80 Reedsport area children were inoculated Friday. Dr. Donald Courtney and Dr. R. W McLean, liecdsnort. physicians, administered Lite shots. A clinic to complete the tecond phase of the series at Recdsporl is scheduled June 29. .Meanwhile, Dr. E. J. Vainscotl. county health officer, retained clin ics for central Douglas County would start Tuesday. Vr.e clinic will start at 9 a.m. and continue to 4:30 p.m. in the health office at Ihe county courthouse in Roseburg. It is open to any childixn in the county, whose parents nave al ready given written permission. It that permission had been icscind cd, il may be reinstated to make the children eligible for shots. Children who may receive shots are those who have just completed first and second grades in county schools. A second clinic for administration of the initial shots is scheduled June 21 and a third Jun 28. The inoculations in the second phase (booster) will be administered about a month after the f.rsl shots, Wainscott said. TRAINING DATES SET Teacher's in-service training will get underway with a two-day ses sion for District 4 instructors Aug. 29-30. according to Supt. M C. Del lcr. Regular classes begin Sept. 6. Singer Stripped, Drugged, Husband, Mother'Beaten By Invaders Of Residence XORTH HOLLYWOD, Calif. (Pi Police are nearchuifc Inrlnv fnr tlirpo man i-hn Im-aflurl (ho linino ,,f itirpr Airrt 1 1 ' i v. u. mm, nui)Jt:ij net, puuiu;i itpnpu Iter, uiiiKKeu net Hi"i uu- J' t,e" ner lamny xo a nijrnt. Miss Lon. 27, sings with the Lawrence Welk orchestra and is billed as the "Champagne Lady." She arrived at her home early yesterday morning after singin wiin me nann 10 ne mei oy wree - police. However, the children, Bob men, masked with stockings and ,),Vi 8, (;jnt, e. and Larrv, 5, slept wearing surgical gloves. Police throuch the night and were not said she was slugged in the ab-1 harmed. domen. hound with torn sheets and Waterman suffered multiple her face completely covered wilb'hruises over his body and face. adhesive tape. men, sne told police, ner cloth mg was forcibly removed and the inliwlnr- tnnl, nlnt..- 1 ..,-.. ,v,'i untiM en ui net in Ihp nl.flo Vficc I nn'r k,.r-kn,l Dnt...t W Waterman si rf,rM.ir nf . P... - dena community settlement house for Latin-Americans. wa dozing In front of his television set shortly! alter midnight wailing for his wife tl'-e of them to take sleeping pills i ELECTRA, Tex.' Police to come home when the three men-and again warned them against hoped today to leain w.-.y a Wag burst into the house. J notifying oolice. Then Waterman oner Ranch cowboy and his wom Waterman told detectives lhat he ; and Mrs. Wiche dozed off hut Miss an companion were drivinu their and his mother-in-law Mrs. MaryjLon managed to stay awake and car down the Fort Worth jnd Don Wyche. who had been asleep, were; free herself and the other two. i ver Railroad when a train hit them bound and sagsed with torn sheets Detectives said the house was Sunday. and adhesive tape. ranacked but nnlv some costume j The pair, 38-year-old John L. Beaten and Kicked je-elry was taken. : Lovejoy and Mrs. Rose Helton, 41. He said the men demanded mnn-! The victims said the intruder : were in lured when the .--wine nf ey and when told there was none in the house, one replied: "We're going to wait until Alice get; nnm". i ne orcnesrra plays to z and she doesn't come home until 3:30." Waterman said that during a i'x - hour ordeal, until the aailant left at daybreak, he and Mrs. Established 1873 Russia Consents To Geneva Acceptance Offers No Hope Of Big 4 Pact Dulles' Declared Plan To Raise Red Problem Seen As Accord Snag MOSCOW Wl The Soviet gov ernment Monday agre;d to the Western powers' proposal that the Big Four open their top lave! meet ing in Geneva on July 13. At the same time, lit'. Foreign Ministry issued a press statement repeating charges that j. S. Sec retary of State Dulles was at tempting to set up precondition which would handicap tl'.L confer ence. The Russians also apparently limed their reply to the Western powers with the trip of West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenaue to the United Sta'.cs, whsra he will confer with the U. S. B.itish and French foreign ministers -,l.is week The Russians have inv'ted Ade nauer to come to Moscow for dis cussions on "normalization" of re- lalins with the U.S.S.R. Adenauer wants these talks to wail .t.itil after the Big Four summit pmiev Soviet acceptance of the invita tion for Premier Nikolai Bulganin to' meet President Ei-.ar.liowcr, Prime Minister Eden ant French Premier Faure was cor-uned in short identical notes sent lo the (Continued on Page 2 Col. 5) Myrtle Creek Soldier Killed In Traffic Mishap Ward wn rcivd hr 5t iirday of the violtnt dth of Wtynt Pllrd, 20, a Myrtlt Cretk strviceman in England. Pollard was killed Friday vhn h w apparently struck by an Army truck about SO miles from London. Ht died from skull frae turtt. It was reported by corrf spondtnt Ruth M. Evans. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen A. Pollard of .Mvrtle Creek, The family received a telegram from the War Dept. Saturday aft ernoon. informing it of the death. The body will he shipped to Myr lle Creek for funeral services and interment. Ganz Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. Pollard was a' private first class in the Army Engineers. He is sur vived by his mother and father; two brothers, Dean, a private in the Army stationed at Ft. Old, Calif., and Leonard, recently (lis .chained from the Navy: and a sis ter, Mrs. Juanita Gross of Myrtle Creek. No other details of the accident were available. SISTERS SCORE TIE DENVER l Two supers each gave birth to a daughter the first child -for each on the .-tame day. they learned Sunday. The girls were born Saturday to Mis. Gor don Tririp at Denver and Mrs. Ronald- Rusyn at Neosho, Mo. i i ,i ...t'l i ',..u oi i error anu toruirc. Wyche were frequently hit and kicked. He said threats were made to injure the three Waterman chil Hron if the mattrr was reoorted to 'possible rib fractures and. possible I -; perforation of the left car drum at; Ithe hands of the hoodlums, poire j i possible rib fractures and possible , - 11- L I . Ul A .. am. ..us. 1111.11c suiniiru iiiuiivjv nna .n,! Kr ,ie t lit. ,rm nA ! TU. J U.. . 1 rt..M,n Home Ransacked i Tie family said that shortly he- fore Intruders left they forced the i threatened that the pictures of Mm Lon would be "turned over to the : newspaners." A veteran singer on radio and j television programs, Miss Iin l! ' from Kilcnre. Tex. She won the: singing ioh with the Welk band in i a national contest. ' 14 Paget New Candidate For 'School -Post DUDLEY WALTON Two candidates have filed for t's'i I M f ' the upcoming 5-ycar vacancy onjpared.) District 4 School Board. P He listed the fnllnwinu reasnns Latest filing came Saturday when petitions for Dudley Walton, 2032 Catherine Ave., were present ed School Clerk V. J. Micelli. Earlier in the week current board member Arthur W. Lamka Jr. filed for office. Candidate Wallop. 35, has lived in Roseburg since 1948. He and his wife Alice have three children: Ann, 9; Sara, 8; and Duke, 4.. A Naval Air Corps veteran of WW 11, Walton is an attorney. He received his law degree at the University of Oregon. Walton is past commander of the Local American Legion, L'mpqua Post 16. He is a director of the Rosehurg Chamber ot Commerce, and a member of the BPOE. 'Immodesty' In Dress Launches Church Drive BARTELSO, III. ift Campaigns bv two Roman Catholic groups in ! Illinois against such women's fa- i shions as tne strapless evening ! Sown and the bared midriff are ;g'ning momentum inrougnoui -tit nation, their leaders reported Mon day. the Rev. Bernard A. Kunkel. who two years ago started one. ol the drives, named "the purity crusade uf Mary Immaculate," said it's now possible for women to buy modest formats "in a ma jority of the states in the nation." The campaigns are conducted largely by mail. Father Kunkel said he .started his campaign because "it was al most impossible to purchase for mals or bridal gowns with any sort of top to them." He is pastor ot inc (.atnolic cnurcn in this soul hern Illinois town of 300. The Rev. Francis J. Lawler, moderator of the Chicago Inter sludenLCatholic Action, said some 40.000 lc'aflets have been mailed monthly Ihe past six months to Catholic groups under the SDS crusade. The leaflets state: "A growing wave of immodesty and . drest which degrades womanhood and leads to a breakdown ot public morals has been sweeping over the entire 'nation. No level of society is immune from its influence." Injunction Against Reedsport Union Denied PORTLAND W Fede -al Judge Gus Solomon Friday turned down a National Labor Relations Board request for an injunction. The NLRB is considering an un fair labor practices charge against the CIO Woodworkers. It had asked thl workers at the I,ong Bell Lum ber Co.'j Reedsport plant he or dered Jo stop refusing to handle logs cut by Firchau Bros. Logging Co., Lebanon, Ore. But Solomon mid that J clause in (he union's contract stipulates that workers should not be forced to work with products which they consiocr uniair, Ti!.e x?,n!,r5ct "I"! uPhp,d tha VI OR tnri htr flu. An,.,.l , '.''" "J 7". .T" "i'l,r,u . ,he NI'TU J?-v. '.u6 ,c?ul',, "m,n ,')"IH' "l",' 'V now up lo the board to determine ,t. v: I WhftthPf the V IfChaU IS 1 VIO whether the Firch lation of the law. Train Hits Auto Driven On Tracks; Two Injured : the westbound Zephyr knocked I their auto more than 10 'eet Both I were hospitalized. investigation snowed ihe cai drove onto the tracks about seven miles east nf Klectra, and had gone about 'i mile along them when hit by the train. ROSEBURG OKECON MONDAY, County Budget Receives Okay Of Tax League One Addition To School Supr.'s Staff Favored; Glide Area Seeks Bridge By LAURA OLSON Staff Writer, News-Review The proposed 1955-56 Douglas County budget was approved by the Douglas County Taxpayers League Saturday in all categories except ' one. League members requested Ihe County Court consider adding one member to the county school su perintendent's staff. Their action followed appearance before them by Supt. Kenneth F. Barneburg. Barneburg said there was need for the new staffer. (His original re quest lo the court had been de nied when the budget was Die- for his request: (l Increased of fice work keeping the superintend ent and his assistant in the office more: (2) inability to run a school system without proper ficldwork: (3) expanded school laws which require constant checking of the county's schools. Barneburg asked Ihe sum of $4. 800 in salary with an additional $1,000 increase for travel expens es. Clide Alkt For Bridge Considerable discussion also cen tered on a request from a delega tion from Glide. The Glide men favor building a bridge nest of Lone Rock, to avert construction of the Wilbur-Sulherlin road cut- of extension on the north side of Ihe North UmDaua River. T h e v maintain .the extension' would cut up veluante" farm -lands. Delegates were Bob Murray, Phil Stradcr and Adrian standley. Stradcr contended Ihe road could not he built for Ihe estimated sum. adding "we don't want the road Continued on Pa2e 2 Col. 5) All-Nation Red Hat Day Advocated By Ellsworth WASHINGTON ii - R.'p. Ells worth (R-Ore) told the House recently that he thought other stales should adopt Oregon's Red nai uay program. The program, originated b y the romana cnapier in tne Izaak Walton League, calls for sports men lo wear red hats on a certain day to encourage better sportsman ship, call attention lo forest fire danger", promote caution and safety in hunting, and forter observance of game laws. Ellsworth said: "Oregon recognizes the need for such an effort in view of the fact that during Ihe pas year 13 were killed and 37 wounded as a result of hunting accidents and careless ness in Ihe handling of firearms "More than 200 fires on forest and range lands were credited lo hunters. Substantial unasscssen damages accrued to both public and private property throughout tne state. . . "Preservation of rccieational values depends upon the success with which citizens conserve and protect the outdoor resources and faculties for recreation. City's Building Permits During May Show Drop The total of building construc tion permits lor Rosckurg in May took a 21 oer cent dip, according to a report from the Equitable Sav ings & mn Assn s. sta'istiral de partment. Totals dropped off to from April's SI 17.445. It was 26 per cent below the May 1954 total of $124. 775. The Pacific NorthwcV area s ' however. Dollar volume moved up .... however, uollar volume mov 21 pe: cent over May of last I A figure of S3M1S.142 for al year. II con strurtion was reached riming the month for Ihe combined 4 largest cities in Idaho, Oregon Washing ton and British Column. a. Oregon was up 28 per cent over tne same month in 1954 with a volume nf $7,812,728. NON-STOP RECORD SEATTLE Northwest Orient Airlines set a nonstop commerical flight record of S hours and 48 minutes between Chicago and Se attle Friday. The record was set by a Boeing Stratorruiser piloted by Lap!. K. K. Nelson. Scheduled flight time for the 1.780-mile trip is 7 hours 25 minutes. The previous mark, also set with I Stratocrun- er last April, was i hours, 50 minutes- Northwest the nn tne flu. ing nonstop between the two citieiJ JUNE 13, 1955 As Meeting Place Fire Chiefs Arriving Here For Convention Welcomed By Mayor, Senator Geddes By CHUCK GRELL ' Staff writer. News-Review Nearly 180 visiting firemen had arrived in Roseburg this morning for the annual joint convention of the Oregon Fire Chiefs Assn. and the Oregon Rural Fire Protection Dis tricts Assn. Registration began Sunday evening at the Hotel limp- qua headquarters of the two session was called to order . ' " . , . , i k x . X w rc Traffic Device Fire Engine Aid LOS ANGELES lift A new elec tronic device tor turning traffic signals red, automatically, as fire engines approach was demonstrat ed here. Fire tnickshad repeatedly roared through the intersection of Western and Florence avenues to show that sirens weren't neces sary because electronic gear automatically halted traffic by changing the signals to red. Then, before cameramen had a chance to leave, there came the sound of a siren. A real fire had. been reported. Trucks and pump ers sped toward the intersection, the traffic lights turned red, and all traffic halted. The fire equip ment rolled through as cameras clicked Thc first authentic tests of the N'orth American Traffic Emergen cy Control System had been a suc cess. Long Haul Trucking Rolfs Again Under 3-Year Agreement LOS ANGELES UTt Lung-haul trucking has been resumed through out the West after settlement of a strike and lockout which .asted 24 days. A three-year agreemei.' raUfied Saturday by truckers and tne AFL Teamsters will give drive. s an in crease of 8 cents an hour this year. 8 in 1058 and 7 in .957. The com pany also pgreed lo contribute $8.5 a month per driver lo a pen sion fund. The raise this year boosts the drivers' hourly rate to 52.22. Also agreed on was i U cent per year increase in mileage nay which has been 7 Vt cents per mile. The drivers are paid by euher the mile or the hour, whichever Is greater. The California Trucking Assns, estimated the strike cost the in dustry a gross revenue of 15 mil lion dollars. An industry spokesman said the strike idled 100,000 worke. s through out the 11 Western s'.iies, but Frank Brewster of Seattle, presi dent of the AFL Wcstei-t Confer ence of Teamsters, said only 20.- 000 were affecled in the West and 5,000 in the Midwest. Thousands Of Ban-Defying Catholics Battle Peron's . baCKerS In Argentine KlOtS Bl'KS'OS A IRKS P) Supporters of President I'ernn, shouting; "Down with the Pope," clashed last night with Catholics chanting- "Long; live Christ the kinjr." At least eight persons were in jured by flying stones, a dozen others roughed up and some 250 rested. The rioting piunged Ar- gentina Into its pavesc political crisis in two years, Peron supporters surged against a group of Catholics gua.'.ling the steps oit Buenos Aires' huge Metro politan Cathedral. Shots rang out hut apparently no one wis hit by bullets as the mob advmced on the adjoining archbishoo'i palace The demonstrators smashed pal ace windows with stones and burned a priest's car bclore police rushed in'o the city's central square and scattered th-j Mob with tear gas and chemical loam. Later the pro-Catholics re grouped and started to march back lo the cathedral, but liy were dispersed by police and firemen. Interior Wrecked After order had been restored, newsmen entered the Lutsropal Palace, where more nan 2,000 persons had taken refuse The interior of the cithedral it- self was strewn with hciicr.es, la- bles and desks which had been pushed against the doors as bar- riers. i ne turmoil raised tension to us highest pitch since Ihe church-stale flisniite hrnV mil set-es tsnnlhi ago after Peron'l chatge that 138 55 PRICE 5c organizations, and a business this morning. Prospect! that the convention would draw 300 oersons to 1 h e city were bright. E. L. omith. Sa lem, secretary of the fire chiefs, said 17 firemen had .egistered by mid-morning today. Nt-d'.ly 100 also registered their wives. Smith said he expected to so several late-comers yet today. The convention-goers were wel comed Is the city this m-vning by Mayor Ernest Barker Jr. a if d State Sen. Paul E. Gcdrlen who was representing Gov. Paul Pat terson. ' Other city officials we.e Intro duced and a memorial service held before noon. Equipment displays were moved into place in the Armor; as the convention began. The firemen will remain here until Wednesday evening. Public demonstrations of fire - lighun methods will be. featured on all three days. Summary Of Agenda This afternoon, after separate business meetings are finished, an electrical safely demonstration will be made at Elks Lod-.e. Tucs- day, at 1:30 p.m., a rural fire demonstration will be put on bv the StcMinnville Rural F.re Dept., and Wednesday morning, control of petroleum and gas Iiivs will he made. .- ; The delegates will have their busiest day Tuesday. Tin sessions start at' breakfast when Charles Roth, fire chief at The Dalles and (Continued on Page 2 Col. 7) B. L. Yeager Heads State Wildlife Federation Three Roseburg men c&me home with offices in ihe Oro;on Wild life Federation after .1 weekend meeting at Bend. Bruce L. Yeager was elected president of Ihe fdc-iation: Charles S, Collins was "e-cleclcd secretary; and Ken Gilkeson is vice president for thj Douglas County district. State Rep. John Amacuer, Win chester, was featured speaker at a Saturday night banquet. As chair man of the House Game and Fish Committee in the recent Oregon Legislature, he described some of the changes in wildlife and con servation laws during tne assem bly. He also stressed importance of preserving the state's niiural re sources, and compared methods with those used in Europe. He said sportsman can play an important part in their preservation. Attending the meeting from Douglas County were: Amarher, Yeager and Collins, all lrm Rose burg, and Arley Marsh, Lllrton. . . . ' church element were plotting to nndermine his regime. Cmuch of ficials have denied the marge. The women'i Peronisu party summoned its members tu a meet ing today to voice suopoft lor gov- jernment charges that prrcssion of thousands or Catholics attempted Saturday to destroy the ilaque on the front of the capital commemo rating the president's 'ate wife Eva Peron. Catholic Clergy Accused The running dispute came to a head Saturday night when church followers held a Corpus thristt parade in , Buenos Aires streets despite a government ban. The government charged the Catholic clergy incited Ihe mr'chcrs lo burn Ihe Argentine Hag. slone newspaper offices and public build ings and attack several foreign embassies. In recent months the Paron gov- lernment has pushed though leg- lation authorizing divorce dropped traditional tax exemptions on church properties and linanctal support for catholic sciocis. I also proposes, mruuxn nniiiiu i tional convention, in tate away Ihe rhliren I COnsllU l oni DOSlllon as the state religion. 1 Auto Union Wins Copy Of Ford Pact Electrical Workers ' Share In Plan; Next Demand Due Chrysler DETROIT GP-The CIO United Auto Workers today nailed down , at General Motors Corp. the same guaranteed wage plan it woo a week ago from Ford. Walter Reuther, UAW- iresident, thus firmly established the. con troversial employer-paid supple mental unemployment bitielit sys tem in the auto industry, an im portant beachhead from which he hopes to launch it into other" in- . dustries. The three-year agreement was hammered out in a predawn settle ment after more than 37 hours of bargaining broken only by brief recesses. More than 40 of GM'j 119 plants across the nation were ait by walkouts as the negotiations ' dragged on hours after the union's midnight strike deadline. The strikers were expected o return to their jobs quickly with little losa in auto production. The GM pact closely folowed the recent Ford' Motor Co contract in nearly every respect. It calls for improvements in pay, pensions, vacations and holidays -similar to those worked out at Ford. In addition, it grants the HAW a full union shop for the iiist time, meaning that GM's relatively few nonunion production workers must now join the union to keep their Jobs Electrical Union Included An additional 35,000 GM employ es represented by the OO Inter national Union of Electrical Work ers were given the samo econom ic benefits under an agreement (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2) Girl Sacrifices Polio -Crippled Leg To Win Boy PORTSMOUTH, Engliud tfS Dawn McFarland, 17, had her leg cut off to win her boy friend's love. Dawn had polio when she was a baby. As a result, her left leg as shorter lhanhrhgircl . ? was shorter than her right., ' She .couldn't danoc, run or; so cycling things that 20-year-old'' Gerald Manlcy liked to do. Last year Gerald went 1 1 Malaya with the British army. "Soon afterwards," Dawn lold a reporter, "I decided to do some thing about my leg. "1 went to hospital and persuad ed the doctors to amputate it. It'a wonderful now I have an artifi cial leg from the knee down and can walk miles and dance and do anything other girls do,'' When she knew the operation was a success, Dawn wrote uer aid. His reply an engagement ring and a letter saying, "We'll be mar ried as soon as 1 get home." Small Forest Fires Under Control, Report Fire fich'.ers Monday had a 10- acre timber fire on the old Beaver Creek burn under cont.ol. Th blaze jumped fire lines Saturday. U was considered polen'i.itiv dan gerous by Umpqua National For est personnel because the area waa covered with snags. Sunday, they locates anouicr small timber fire in tne South Umpqua Ranger Distric. II wa reported under control Monday. Other small hies set earlier in in week are cither out or n-jarly so, they said. Douglas Forest Protective Assn. personnel reported one sipall light ning-set fire on Cold Creek, near ' Ihe North Umpqua River bunday. It has been extinguished, tnty saw. i Dr. Salk Urges Stiffer Standards For V.ceine WASHINGTON t Dr .lunas F.. Salk says the U.S. Public Health, Service's new and stiffer manu facturing standards for his poll vaccine "will preclude deviation from the procedures originally m- j (ended Earlier troubles with some com mercial lots of the vaccine may have developed, he said, "because the phrasing of the minimum "government" requirements al lowed for differing inlerprota- ( tions." COLDEST JUNE SINCE '07 Central Douglas County resi dents experienced the coldest June 13 since 1707 today. The early morning tempera ture dropped to chilly 40 de grees. The same recording was made In 1906 and 1880, accord ing to the weatherman. He said It looked like the he spell wis broken. I c Levity l oct 'lVmt By U f. Relienjte f . .l . -,,'. I "u" ,n U-egon I , lumber and groin prl dueeri uiwish trior available elght - : or, werc at Hiick 04 the t r wmmMtr aan m the) I . . . ' ' highways.