The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, June 14, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2 Tht News-Review, Roseburg, Temporary Log Bridge Rising Over Slide Creek Workers today were putting in a temporary log bridge over Slide Creek in the North UmDO.ua water shed, where an accident Friday afternoon dropped a steel bridge into the creek. The nrFEe, owned by California Oregon Power Co., -and a track and oquinment dripped into Slide Creek after a loss ng arch oa- a lowboy behind the truck struck a support. The driver of the Morrison-Knud-sen Construction Co. truck was only slightly' injured, reoorts Glide correspondent Mrs. Arthur Selby. Mrs. Selby also reported that the Slide Creek Trailer Camp was without water, because a water pine across the bridge was broken. The bridge, about 125 feet long, crosses the creek at a point about 7() miles east of Itoseburg near , where M-K workers are doing con struction. !n Roscburg, H.C. Wells, district manigcr lor Copco, said the route would be re-opened in about two days, after completion of the tem porary log structure. Woman Injured fn another mishap near Glide Saturday, Mrs. Monte McCready. Idlayld Park, received cuts and bvuiFes and possible back injuries vhen the car she was driving back ed over a steep bank near the new Lou Rock Br!d'-s. She was taken to Community Hospital later in the cvrning. . Mrs. Selby said Mrs. VtcCready drove onto the approach of the new Lor.e Rock Bridqe. then backed out because of painting being done IV'T. Apparent!' the ear's brakes did not hold as Mrs. McCready at tempted to turn the car around. The car rolled down the bank al most to the river and was badly damaged. Only a tree kept the car from reaching the river, Mrs. Sel by said. County Negotiates Oil Leases With Three Firms (Continued from Page One) vclopment must begin within two years. Each of the companies must post a surety bond equal to the amount It will pay in annual rental. The annual rental for Oil Devel opers and Coos Bay Oil & Gas will be 10 cents an acre and will raise to 25 cents a year for the four succeeding years. Sinclair will pay 25 cents an acre all five years. Reason for the lower rates the first year for Oil Developers and Coos Bay Oil & Gas is because each is owned primarily by local people.- Should oil or gas be struck, the county will receive one-eighth ol all commercial material taken from the ground. In addition, the annual rental will be jacked uo to an cents an acre for the lucky firm. The terms aro similar to those re served by the federal government and many states. When, Inside the two years, a well is started by. a company, the firm must post a $50,000 surety bond with the county within six months. If natural gas is struck and tho well capped, an annual the county. In tho first year, the county will receive about $6,600 in land rentals, ipW . . and cucumbari are just one of the inviting fresh fruits and vegetables featured this week in the At Roduce Brade at Sway All your money fcackon any item that doesn't please yw. Ora.Tue., June 14, 1WS and the second year rentals will jump to about $11,750. Coos Bay Oil & Gas Co. already has a well started in the Camas Valley area, but on private land. Backers of the venture have re leased little information on the pro. ject, Sinclair Oil has other holdings on private land in the Lower Ump qua area, and Oil Developers had leased several thousand acres of private land. The State of Oregon has some control over production of oil though a comprehensive code nev er has been adopted. The state has a right to set production quo tas in the interest of conservation. All the lease contracts signed Monday are to be filed in the coun ty deed records. Summer School For 4-Hers Opens On OSC Campus Oregon youths, some 1,800 of them, are eriroute to Corvaliis to day to attend 4-H summer school at Oregon State College. The ten day session ends June 24. Fifty-nine students from Douglas County will attend. One 4-H leaner. Mrs. Bessie Keelcr, Yoncalla, will accompany county 4-H agents Miss Jane Hates and Frank von Borstel who have charge of the delegation. All delegates will attend regular class periods. Morning periods in clude classes in agriculture and home economics, taught by OSC instructors-, 4-H agents and some nusincss people. Afternoons will begin with as scmblies featuring guest speakers, followed by organized recreation periods. Von Borstel said special entertainment was planned for eacn evening. The delegates are sponsored by county Dusiness firms, uranges PTAs, etc. Roseburg To Host Oregon Newspaper Publishers (Continued from Page One) through the 3-mi!lion-dolIar Han na works at Riddle. On' the business agenda Friday, ONPA members have six Dane! discussions docketed. Subjects and moderators are: Advertising, c. L. McKinley, Junction City Times; circulation, Ed Coman, Woodburn Independent: commercial printing. Hal Schiltz, Myrtle Creek Mail; management, Fred Weybret. La Grande Evening Observer; news and editorials, Bill Robinson, Ma dras Pioneer; and production, Phil madine, McMinnvule Daily News Register. Fuller Johnson, News -Review circulation manager, will be a pan el member in the discussion on circulation. Further panels will be held Sat urday morning, with publishers of daily and weekly newspapers split ting into two groupB. Later Satur day morning, the annual ONPA business meeting will be held and new officers elected. President this year is Lucian P. Arant, publish er of the Baker Domocrat-Herald. Thursday evening, the convention will be preceded by a board of di rectors meeting. Saturday night, The News-Review will host pub lishers at a recoption and dinner in the Civic Room of the Hotel Umpqua. J Britain's 17-Day-0ld Railroad Strike Ends LONDON I Britain's 17-day old railway strike ene'ed Tuesday. Jim Campbell, leader of the non striking National Union of Rail waymen, who took part in all-day conferences at the Ministry of La bor. told newsmen: "A settlement has now . been reached. Bus Boy Admirer Quizzed On Attack Against Singer NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. m A bus boy admirer of band voca list Alice Lon may be subjected to a lie detector test today in connection with the sadistic attack on the singer, her husband and her motlier. Police booked Joseph M. Cannon, 25, on suspicion of robbery. Miss Lon, 27, identified him as one of her fan club members who has taken pictures of her at the ball room where she sings with Law rence Welk's orchestra. But officers said a camera roll found in Cannon's room contained no pictures of the singer. The hooded three-man gang, breaking into her home Sunday, took 102 pieces of costume jewelry and forced her to pose nude while they photographed her. Woman Agrees To Face Bank Robbery Charge PORTLAND Ufi A 46-year-old woman agreed Tuesday to go to Alabama to face a charge she participated in an $86,000 - bank roBoery mere last montn. Federal Judge Claude McColloch signed a removal order against Mrs. Ellen M. Martin, whose home town was listed as Idaho Falls, Idaho. She had been held under $50,000 bond following her arrest at Roseburg, last week. Three other persons also have been charged with participating in the robbery at Jacksonville, Ala. Two were arrested at Clearwater, Fla., the other at Las Vegas, Nev. Charles Sorenson Goes On Trial Here Thursday Charles Lowell Sorenson, 23, Roscburg, is scheduled to go to trial Thursday afternoon in district court on charges of reckless driv ing and operating a motor vehicle while his license was susociicled. The trial date was set Monday by Judge Warren A. Woodruff. Sorenson pleaded innocent to both charges at arraignment. He was released on $100 bail for each. Sor enson was arrested by stale po lice, on warrants, Saturday. PICNIC SCHEDULED A picnic and swim party for members of the DixonviUe Deer Slayers 4-H Club and tho Classy Country Canners 4-11 Club will be held tomorrow at Umpqua Park, announced Mrs. Jean Radcliffe, ad visor. All membtrs and friends of the group are invited to. attend. They will moot at the Pine Grove Church at 12 noon, Those attending are asked to bring a sack lunrh. Pop and ice cream will be furnish ed at the park, Mrs. Radcliffe said. FINE PAID Marvin Carl Brewer. 43. Yoncal la, was released after payment of a fa line, imposed Monday by Dist, Judge Warren A. Woodruff. Brew er, arrested by state notice Satur day, pleaded guilty to being drunk on a public Highway. HioroH 'Vukes" at 57 are perky and flavorful, crisp-meated as a new apple. Chosen in the field by Saieway buyers, inese cucumbers are cooled during shipment by air hot Fire Chief Te Prebe Training Funds Statu (Continued from Page One) tary. James Boynton, North Bend, is outgoing president and win dc como president of the board of trustees. Mills formerly was sec ond vice president. Pearson and Smith , were re-eieotea. Fire districts: All officers were re-elected with the exception of A. E. LaBranche, Salem, wnom Pfaff replaced, otners . are: Charles Billesoie. Portland, presi dent; Harry Ray, Eugene, first vice president; ana Mrs. rvorma H. Pfeiffer, Eugene, secretary treasurer. At a morning breakfast, Charles Roth, The Dalles fire chief, re nortcd on a League of Oregon Cit ies conference. The fire chiefs are contemplating joining the league. In a demonstration on electrical safety Monday afternoon. C. C. Haggard, safety engineer for Cali fornia Oregon Power Co., sent a current through his own body to illustrate the effect of electricity on a man. Wetting his hands first. Haggard placed one hand on a metal plate and switched on a faulty electric drill with the other while an as sistant controlled the current pass ing through him. He showed that a small amount of current can "freeze a man. He also showed, with models, how contacts to burn or kill a man are made in the vicinity of high tension lines. One phase struck close to home the electrocution of two men within 10 days of each other recently in Douglas County when cranes thev were standing near came in contact with high- voltage lines. Haggard emphasized that state law requires that the boom of a crane 6tay at least eight Icet Irom transmission lines. Haggard explained that though electricity is almost universally used in the nation, less than 1 per cent of all fatalities can be traced to electrocution. Delegates also heard reports by State Fire Marshal KoDerl B. Tay lor and reports of officers and com mittees as the fire chiefs and fire districts groups split for separate nusiness sessions Monday aner noon. ' In the evening, a good turnout was at a smorgasbord held in the Armorv. This evening, Dr. Elmo N. Stev enson, president of Southern Ore gon College, Ashland, will address delegates at 7 o clock at tlks Lodge. At 7 a.m. Wednesday, E. L. Smith. Salem fire chief, will sneak on his observations of the "Survival City A-bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nev., a Civil Defense demonstra tion which he witnessed. Later in the morning. Standard Oil Co. of California, at the re quest of the Douglas County Oil information Committee, will per form a demonstration with oil and gas-fed fires at the fairgrounds. rne lne chiefs will elect ollicers in the afternoon and award of at tendance prizes and a oanel dis cussion moderated by Smith will close the convention. In the meantime, wives of dele sates have been entertained. Mon day afternoon, they were treated at a tea by the Roseburg Fire Belles and the Ladies of the Rose burg Rural Fire District at the Roseburg Woman's Club. This morning, ihey had brunch at the hpiscopal Parish Hall. The American Bible aocietv has distributed more than 450 million Bibles and parts of Bibles in 139 years. Safeway! Ours flowing over ice. bleeK and satisfying for salads and - weather sandwiches. Per pound only Clendale Home Burns To Ground Early Tuesday The Willard Ellis home in Glen dale burned to the ground early this morning, reports correspond ent Mrs. G. B. Fox. Mrs. Fox reports the owners were not at home at the time. Nothing in the house was saved. The alarm was turned in by Po lice Chief Eugene Losey, who was alerted by an unidentified passer by. According to Fire Chief Monty Bates, the house had been burning for some time when the fire de partment arrived about 2:20 a.m. He said it probably had been blaz ing for about a half an hour. Since it was too late to save the house, firemen concentrated on keeping flames from spreading to surrounding brush and neighboring houses in the west end of town. The garden fence of one neighbor, Mrs. Allen Lewallen, caught fire, but the flames were extinguished. The owners of the house were not located immediately. It was believ ed they had gone to poriland, pos- smiy a snort time Detore me tire started, Chief Bates said. Las Vegas Hit By Flood Following Cloudburst LAS VEGAS, Nev. i - Flash floods unleashed by torrential des ert cloudbursts hit Nevada last night, blacking out this city of bright lights and derailing a pas senger train in the northern part of the state. There were no injuries reported but the damage in Las Vegas was expeted to run ovr 5100,000, and perhaps as high as a half million. While power was quickly restored in most sections, an estimated 80 per cent of all teleobones remain ed out of order early today. Mayor C. D. Baker said there was a strong possibility he would declare a state of emergency and ask for federal flood control aid. It was the worst storm here in 30 years, he said. Well-Child Clinic Will Be Held On Thursday This month's well-child clinic, sponsored by the Douglas County Health Dept., will be ncld at the Salvation Army buildin.j on Win chester Street. The clinic, scheduled Thursday, was moved from the courthouse because of interference from con struction of the new courthouse wings. Any parents with appointments who will not be able to attend should call ORchard 3-3049 beforo Thursday. WINDSHIELD SMASHED Jack Cook. Rt. 3 Box 1195, com plained to city police tnt a van dal smashed his car's windshield late Saturday night. Officers who investigated said it ati'.'cared to have been done by a h;-mmer. Hot and Dusty? Drive the Finest Distance Car of All Time HevZE&& Ambassador Jotfire V8! Nish Ambassador Country Club New Vacation Features Double Your Fun! Enjoy Refrigerated Cool Comfort for only 3I8 i TTiinkof It you canhavc factory-installed Air Conditioning that refrigerates, fillers forSJlSCmorethartthepriceofcarwith heater). Even lower in Rambler models. TAKE THE 10-SECOND TAKE-OFF TEST TODAY! THEN GET OUR "SURPRISE TRADE-IN" OFFER! TlOiL UTN5 BROS -659 N. JACKSON, Hay folk.il Tun In Dimoyland on ABC-TV. So Hospital News Douglas Community Hospital Admitted Surgery: Mary Jean Buell, Don ald Miller, Roseburg; David John son, Winston. Medical: Charlie Scevers, Suth erlin; Richard Conradi, Mrs. Don avon Fielding, Mrs. John Prior, Guadeloupe - Galvin, Mrs. Max Brown, "Mrs. Glenn Ditto, Rose burg; Mrs. Ernest Leonard, Oak land; Arthur Goodwin, Winston Discharged Mrs. Weston Parton, Mrs. Rich ard Knolin, Frank . Shepperd, Wayne Swan. Otto Weisz, Rose burg; Mrs. Gordon Sikes, Canyon ville; Mrs. Ted Vie, Dillard; Pam ala Wise, Yoncalla; Murley Peter son, Winston. Mtrch Hospital Admitted Surgery: Mrs. Henrv Bailev. Mrs. William Weber, Mrs. Wal fred Backa, Roseburg: Mrs. Ray mond Norris, Mrs. Minnie Horn, Sutherlln; Mrs. George Churchill, Glide. -. Medical: Patty Wilson, Myrtle Creek: Mrs. Earl Robertson, Mrs. Gus Spakowsky, Roseburg. Discharood Mrs. Frances Redmond, Svlvan us Hunt. William Schneider, Rose burg: Mrs. Clarence Milter. Azal ea; Mrs. John Murphy, Sutherlin. Mtrey Hospital Admitted Surgery: Mrs. Orlev Thompson, Roseburg; Mrs. Warren Good, Sutherlin. Medical: Michael Howard, En umclaw. Wash.; Frank Lincoln, Mrs. Wendell Johnson, George Cooper, Sylvanus Hunt, Mrs. Rob ert Rundlett, Mrs: Rancis Red mond, Roseburg: Mrs. Atlea Ash er, Mrs. Francis Lee, Sutherlin; Mrs. Thomas Jacobs, Winston. Discharged Mrs. Phillip Erickson and baby, Janice Mary; Frances Hazelton, Mrs. Ralph Dyson and baby, Brad ley Kio, Mrs. Harry Murphy and babv, Debbie Lee, Sutherlin; Mrs. Hudson Behrens. Winston; M r s. Orlis Roberts, Glide; Patricia Rel dv, Mrs. Charles Grell and babv, Thomas Michael; Kenneth Netzel, Roseburg. Douglas Community Hospital Admitted Surgery: Florence Claar. Mrs. Kenneth Moe, Mrs. Irvin Wright, Raymond Myers, Mrs. Floyd Hurd, Roseburg. Medical: Mrs. Eston Parton, Mrs. Divid Harem. Dck Kukulka, Mrs. William Reed, Barrv Smith. Rosebu-o; Howard Lunch. Glen wood; Mrs. Gordon Silres. Canyon ville; Glen Wood, Oakland. Discharned Kelsav Hobdav. Mrs. Robert Eil pfson, ir.rs. levi Wlvte. Carol Pow ell. Andrew Hav'ee, The'ma Shan M, Mrs. flyron Dougan, Mrs. Paul Hanson. Mrs. Ch-i-les rho.ite Th--e Atterbury. Mrs. Paul Veach. Mrs. Norman Hibert, Sharon Land er. Mrs. Robert Cer. Mrs. Lvle Webber. Carrol Ball. Mrs. Mike Mowrey, Roseburg; Sarah Brown, ' Ak.. T.i back in Rigid Seats? i i -"There's 208 Small Fry Never Fre t'arcnts say Airliner Reclining Seats are the greatest thing ever for traveling wilh children. They nap on schedule. Driver, too, can change scat-back angle. - THE CAR DESIGNED FOR WESTERN LIVING Diamond Lake Rehabilitation Program Started The second phase i of the Ore gon State Game Commission i Diamond Lake rehabiliUtion pro gram will get under way Wednes day. . ' Bob Borovicka, district fishery agent of Bend reports Initial re stocking will start with 151,000 Kamloops trout. The Kamloops, known as a "fighting" strain of rainbow, were reared at the Game Coram: tsions Wizard Falls Hatchery md now average four to five inches In innt,h Vn.i,. Uhpratirui units, un der the direction of Kenneth Leh- to, Llovd Smith, Kay MCAay anu Cal El'shoff, will haul the trout from the Wizard Falls Hatchery to the release point a' tne lake- New Concept Of C D Arrives With H-Bomb (Continued from Page One) within the fallout danger zone should a bomb be exploded over Portland. But people here would have a minimum of four hours forewarning. Radioactivity in fall out which could reach here on prevailing winds would take about 12 hours to become neutralized through the natural deterioration of the radiological phenonemon, the colonel said. Food shortages might be a srob lem in the stat. Normally, there is enough food on hstnd to last through S'A days, for wholesalers and retailers carry heavy stocks. But the average family has sup plies for onlv l'i days. Col. ahefs advised firemen that families should have a week's supply on hand. . The colonel said IN the United States ever is attacked wilh ther moneuclear weapons, the' whole na tion would be within a combat zone and eery person would be affected. : Douglas County Area Free Of Forest Fires Douglas County forested areas were reported free of fires Tues day by Umpqua National Forest and Douglas Forest rrotecuve Assn. personnel. Forest areas to the south were not so fortunate. ' Eight forest service men were sent to Siskiyou National Forest headquarters in Grants Pass Tues day to help combat a forest fire which has burned over more than 300 acres near Brookings. The blaze has spread over snag and brush areas and is hard ti con trol, according to Umpqua Na tional Forest service fire control specialist Ray Hampton. Camas Valley; Mrs. vVendelyn Knapp, Mrs. Jess Martin, Suther lin. - M ! Why Wear Out i on mps f H. P. Under Th Hoodl' Travel in cool, clean comfort in the "big gest room on the road". Enjoy the finest ride. See, compare Nash. You'll never be satisfied with old-fashioned cars again! run factor am suit 0in(",t, ROSEBURG - OR 3-5355, OR 3-5237 TV liftings for Tim ond Charml i - 0&CAssn. Plans For Representative In Washington The Assn. of O i C Counties has ecided to employ a fill-time legal representative ia Washington, D. C. according to Judge Can C Hill( executive committee chairman. Hill, who attended a Meeting of the association in Portland last week, said the representative yet unnamed will work on a retainer basis, with the primary purpose in mind of representing the 18 western Oregon counties comprising the as sociation before the legislative and executive departments of the feder al government. Hill said the association feels a full-time man Is needed to "watch the course of events" and take nec essary action in matters affecting the O & C land grant formula. At present, ' the counties of the association receive 75 per cent of the revenue from timber from O & C lands and 25 per cent of the rev enue from federal forest timber, but there are and have. been pres sures to reduce this county income. The association now has no Wash ington resident who is hired to rep resent it. In the past, Attorney Frank Sever, Portland, was flown to Washington whenever his serv ices were needed there by the as sociation. - Review Of State Legislation Given At Counties Meet F. L. Phipp.s of The Dalles, exe cutive secretary of the Assn. of Oregon Counties, presented a re view of state legislative action af fecting counties, at a meeting in Roseburg Monday of the Associa tion's southwest district. Other county matters also were discussed at session in the court house, hosted by members of the Douglas County Court. Judge Guy Forsyth of Curry County presided in the absence of Judge' James Harrison of Coos County, district member o e as sociation's executive committee. Besides Douglas, Coos and Curry counties, Jackson and Josephine are in the district. About 20 men attended the all day meeting, including two county engineers. All five counly courts were represented. The officials had luncheon at Carl's Haven. I O.O.F. PHILETARIAN LODGE No. 8 Meets Evtry Thun., 8 p.m. Visitinq Brothers Welcome : Noble Grand, Arte Stephens Secretary, T. B. 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