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Forest Service
Begins Work On
Scaling Station .
The TJ. S. Forest Service hai
begun work with heavy equipment
to construct a scaling station on
the North Umpqua Road one-half
mile east of Lone Rock bridge, re
ports Mrs. Arthur Selby, Glide
correspondent. -
The station will be set up on
county land, 1,000 feet fronting, ad
joining the Phil Strader property
and paralleling the highway. Con
struction is under the supervision
of Floyd Smith, road crew fore
man for the Umpqua National For
est. George Williams, Steamboat dis
trict rangor, and Gordon Sanford,
Big Camas district ranger, said
the scaling station is being set up
only to check the board feet of na
tional forest timber sold in their
districts. Scalers will measure the
volume on loaded trucks coming
from the North Umpqua and Dia
mond Lake districts. Forest Serv
ice and Bureau scalers ' will be
employed.
Defendants Win Law Suit
On Forest Fire Damages
(Continued from Page One)
the defendants were not making a
"reasonable effort."
In bringing the fire under con
trol, DFPA claimed $18,617.93 was
expended in obtaining extra fight
ers, supplies, etc. This was in ad
dition to regular DFPA expenses,
for which- judgments could he
sought, claimed Spencer Yates,
an attorney tor tne slate.
Whether the defendants were li
able depended on interpretation
of Oregon laws and the meaning
of "reasonable effort." The case
may still go to the Supreme Court.
In closing arguments Tuesday,
one defense attorney, Paul E. God
des, said the case "may decide
a lot of things If and when It goes
to the Supreme Court." Yates
termed the matter "precedent-setting."
State Forester George
Spaur was, one of the officials on
hand to hear part of the trial.
The case went to trial before
Judge Carl E. Wimberly on Mon
dah, June 13. Eleven jurors (one
man was excused because of em
ergency) returned their 1 verdict
about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the
eirhlh day.
It. is almost four years to the
day since the disastrous fire re
curred. It started on a rodeo Sun
day, June 24, 1951, and spread
over 1,715 acres before it was put
out. Only a part of thi acresge
had .'green timber on it.
The fire started In Gourlcy Bros,
derations on land owned by Em
pire Millwork. It spread to other
operations and properties, event
ually involving several logging nut
fits and land owners, including
the federal government. At one
t'me, more than 200 men helped
firht the Mate. ...
Extra exDenscs outlined ' by
DFPA Included 15 separate bills
from companies and individuals
called In on thi fight, the largest
Timber Co., Roscbur? Lumber
Co. -and Fundorburlc Construction.
Co. It was broueht out that the
Gourlcys themselves spent $10,000
on the fire.
The defense contended there
was a divided responsibility In the
case, that under the DFPA con
tract with the State Board- of For
estry the association had the duty
to immediately do what was nec
essary to put out the fire. Just
hecausc the Couriers (Peter, Phil
I'd and Levi) failed to put out the
fire was no reason to believe thev
had not made every "reasonable
effort" to control it, Gcddcs said.
The plaintiff's nttornevs on the
other hand cited Oregon law to the
effect that it is the responsibility
of the operator andor owner to
take immediate charge of the fire
fiehtlng in an nneration area
(where slash is down).
Yates pointed out that at such
times the DFPA only suggests
what should be done and sunervis
es Its own personnel. He said that
the initial effort bv the defend
ants was "practically negligible,"
and that, .among other things, Em
pire had 93 men at Its SuMierlin
mill but sent out only 25, on the
thd day of the fir.
While Yates said It Is "reason
able to assume that DFPA should
be reimbursed." Ceddes termed
the Idea "preposterous.'' To re
cover any money, Geddes said,
the slate would have to prove ll
took the abatement of a nuisance.
Six verdicts were possible (1)
For the plaintiff and against the
Goitr'ys. (2) against the pl.iintirt
and for Empire Millwork, (3) for
the nlaintiff and against both de
fendants, (4) against the plaintiff
and for the Gourlcys, (5) foi the
plaintiff and acainst Empire and
f61. the one returned, in favor of
both defendants and against the
plaintiff.
CRAVESIDE SERVICES
Graveside services for Mary Tl
Wallace of Coos Bay will be held
Friday afternoon at 2:30 n.m. at
Rosehurg Memorial Gardens,
Mrs. Wallace died Wednesday at
a Coos Bay hospital. She was a
former Roseburg resident.
CORRECTION
' In our advertisement in yesterday's News-Review,
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portion of the ad should have read:
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Ore. Thur., June 23, 1955
Maryland College
Votes Integration,
Question Touchy
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maryland state teachers colleg
es have bowed to racial integration
but utterances from the Deep
South continued the theme of a
fight to the finish over the U. S.
Supreme Court's ruling on the
touchy Question.
And a leader in the National
Assn.- for the Advancement o(
Colored People called for complete
schoel integration "by not later
than. . . ocpinmber 1956.
The Maryland Slate Board of
Education and the Board of Trus
tees of the teachers colleges met
at Baltimore and unanimously
adopted a resolution declaring
that racial segregation In the five
teachers colleges "is hereby abo
lished." Dr. Thomas G. Pullcn Jr.,
superintendent of Mary
land schools proposed the resolu
tion. Officials at the meeting also
called on the 33 Maryland counties
to comply with the Supreme Court
ruling before further court action
forces them to it.
The resolution was Maryland's
first statewide banishment of the
color bar in schools. Colleges
affected are former white schools
at Frostburg, Salisbury and Tow
son, and Negro schools at Bowie
and Baltimore.
At a three-stale rally of mem
bers of white Citizens Councils last
night at Selma, Ala., the U. S.
Supreme Court justices who hand
ed down the school segregation
ruling were called "fawning poli
ticians" and a Mississippi circuit
judge recommended their im
peachment. Former Gov. Horman Talmadge
of Georgia said the nine justices
"arc not fit to empty the waste
baskets" of past Supreme Court
justices who upheld segregation.
The call for their impeachment
came from Circuit Judge Tom
Brady, of Brookhaven, Miss., v,-ho
urged a crowd of about 5,000 at
tending the rally to "promise and
vow" to preserve segregation in
Southern Schools.
Jackson Civen Backing
For Resource Board Job
(Continued from Page One)
achcr emphasized the Importance
of the board, created by the last
Legislature.
Other items were up for discus
sion at the association meeting.
Sec. Ernest A. Seaton of Drain
was instructed to send a letter of
commcndatioi to U.S. Rep. Harris
Ellsworth for his bill recently in
troduced in Congress dealing
with mining and timber lands.
The association ottered us help
to the rail-car shortage commit
tee 'recently appointed by the gov
ernor. Progress in highway devel
opments was discussed. William C.
Cole, named to make a survey
of Port Umpqua facilities, report
ed the survey will be completed in
about two months and will he
ready for publication in about
three months. Cole did a similar
survey at Newport,
The meeting in Drain City Hall
was presided over hy Robert li.
Hansen of Suthcrlin, president.
The next meeting is scheduled a
the same place on the fourth Wed
nesday of July.
Medics Split 8-2 On Use
Of Salk Polio Vaccine
(Continued from Page One)
Wednesday that inoculations
should be suspended and vaccine
manufacture halted until a "loss
virulent" strain of polio virus was
substituted for that now used.
Dr. Thomas R. Rivers of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, New York, replied that
"it would, be tragic if we stopped
now."
After this vote, the panel gave
unanimous backing to the view hy
Dr. S a b I n that "attenuated"
(weakened) strains of polio, virus
should be substituted as soon as
practical for the more virulent
strain now used in making the
vaccine. Sabin had argued that
the "Mahoney virus" now used
is too unpredictable for safety.
Mrs. Beckley Re-elected
Clerk Of Glide District
Mrs. Lynn Beckley has been re
elected clerk of School District 12
(Glide) for the 1955-53 year, re
ports correspondent Mrs. Arthur
Selby.
The action was laken at a school
board meeting this week at which
time S. E. Comfort was re-elected
for a fivo-ycar term on the board.
Supt. Byron Evans reii-ts that
Glide schools will need three bus
drivers for the coming school
year: A replacement for the driv
er on the Oak Creek route, a re
placement driver for the l.illle
River route to the U. S. Plywood I
camp, and a driver for a new
route to Cavitt Creek. Applicants
must be residents of the district
and are to apply at the high school
office.
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A new Roseburg business, New
comers Service, is now in oper
ation. The service is designed to
acquaint new residents in the
Roseburg area wiin local mercn
ants, church and civic organiza
lions, such as sororities, Camp
Fire Girls and Boy Scouts.
A well-known Roseburg resident,
Mrs. Helen Hess, is manager of.
the service. Mrs. Hess was for
merly consumer credit director
for Hid U.S. National Bank.
The service has been operating
In Medford for 214 yean.
Newcomers Service is owned by
Olive Keller Lowry. Mrs. Lowery
was advertising manager ot Ulas
and Kine and Charles F. Berg,
clothing stores in Portland, for
23 years.
Th service has nublished
book, "Roseburg Welcomes You."
The book is not for sale, but will
be given to all families contact
ed. It describes local churches,
clubs, recreation areas and haa
information about several locally
owned business firms. It also in
eludes a building directory.
Headouarters for the service li
1415 Madrone Ave., telephone OK
chard 3-7157.
Eaton Elected
Umpqua Savings,
Loan Secretary
William B. Eaton, assistant sec
retary of the Umpqua Savings &
Loan Assn., Wednesday, night was
elected lo the secretaryship to
succeed the late Harry O. Parget-
er at the association's annual
meeting.
M. E. Ritter was re-elected pres
Ident and G. V. Wimberly first
vice president of the organization
A second vice president was es
tablished and Dr. B. R. Shoemak
er elected to fill the office. Ritter
and Dr.- G. C. Finlay were re
elected to three-year tearms as di
rectors. George W. Neuner was
named attorney for the associa
tion. '
Members voted to declare a 4
per cent dividend again this year,
and it will be payable to share'
holders on July 1.
Pargctcr. who died two weeks
ago. served many years as secre
tary and was one of the founders
of the association.
Eaton has been here since last
April, coming here from the First
Federal Savings & Loan Assn.,
McMinnville, where he was assis
tant secretary. He previously
was with the U.S. National Bank
in the Myrtle Creek and McMinn
ville branches.
Fall Off Trailer
Hurts Little Boy
A small hoy escaped serious In
Junes Wednesday afternoon when
he fell from a moving trailer,
which rolled over him, in Rose
burg. Richard Morse, 7, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Morse, Sparks,
Nev., was taken to Mercy Hos
pital, where be was treated for
cuts lo his head and arms. The
Morse family is visiting the Don
ald C. Bliss family, 2053 Harvard
Ave.
Roseburg police said the hoy ap
parently crawled on a trailer, in
which a neiihhor, Lloyd Albert
Norman. Rt. 3 Box 1820, was haul
In" rubbish. Norman, evidently
not noticing the hoy, drove off,
and the bov tumbled. He still was
unaware of the accident when in
vestigating police located him lat
er to ask questions.
Police also investigated one traf
fic ace'dent. Cars driven hy Jean
Carol Marie Corlcy, 124'4 Kane St.,
ard Adelaide I.enore Garrison, Rt.
2 Box 0. coP'Hed at Parrott and
Lane streets Wednesday evening.
About $350 damage to the cars was
cused, police estimated. No tick
ets were issued.
Bird Chooses Pocket
Of Coat To Moke Nest
"Art you flowing down, or
art birds getting fasttr?"
That's tht tonaut- in-clWk
qutition friends have been ik
ing Jane Wharton this week.
Jane, secretary to the County
Court, walked Into the court
house with a winter coat which
looked fine, except it had a
bird's nest in one pocket,
Mere's what happened, she
said: She hung the newly clean
ed coat in a shed at her home
alonn the river two miles west
of Glide. She locked the door
and loft the coat to air out.
Four days later, when she went
back to get her coat, a, bird had
taken possession and built the
nest.
There were no eggs fn the
nest, but she still feels badly
about having to throw away the
bird's quickly constructed home.
Complaint Mads Against
Smoke From Mill Burner
A complaint was made to the
Oakland City Council Tuesday
night concerning the smoke from
sawdust being burned by .Martin
Bros. Box Co., reports Kdith Dunn,
At a meeting the voles of the
city budget election were can
vassed. It was announced that no bids
were received for paving Third
and Maple Streets.
Rob Seehawer asked for a street
right of way in east Oakland. T)ie
discussion was held over until the
next meeting when the city at
torney will be consulted.
All outstanding hills will be paid
by the council before July 1, Mrs.
Dunn reports.
VOTES IKE'S PLAN
WASl.lNC.TON i The House
Hanking Committee voted yester
day to recommend a low-rent pub
lic housing program of the sire
President Eisenhower has asked
15,odo units in each of the nx
two years.
Senators Beat McCarthy Try In
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON ( The Senate
buried under a 77-4 vote yesterday
an effort by Sen. McCarthy (R
Wis) to force Big Four discussion
of Russia's satellite states.
Sen. Barkley (D-Ky) said today,
"That settles it the President
does not need our advice" in forth
coming negotiations with the
Prime Ministers of England,
France and Russia at Geneva in
July.
McCarthy, his political support
In the Senate obviously at a low
ebb, told newsmen rejections of his
resolution was "i great mistake."
He promised to go right on talk
ing about "getting some conces
sions" from the Russians at the
Humane Society,
City Cooperative
Plan Advanced
A cooperative program to help
the Douglas County Humane So
ciety solve its problem of finan
cing an animal shelter has b:en
proposed to the society.
Roseburg City Manager George
Farrell met with the group's di
rectors this week in Roseburg and
with them discussed the possibil
ity of the city's giving the society
a proportionate part or the city s
income, for dog tag sale;. In turn
the society would hire a dog con
trol officer, pay his salary, furnish
transportation and provide animal
teed.
Currently, the city takes 80 per
cent of the income it takes in from
dog tag sales. The remaining
amount goes to the county. The
yearly sum returned to the city
runs between 900 and $950, the
city manager said.
Farrell told the directors that
a dog control officer would have
the power to arrest in the city in
sofar as violations of the city dog
ordinance were concerned.
The directors will consider the
pronosal. according to President
Al Flegel and will possibly have a
decision at their next board meet
ing June 29. If thev consider such
a prooosal favorably, the next
step will be to bring the matter
to the Roseburg City Council for
its action.
For some time the society has
been sheltering homeless animals
at the Clarence Pace place some
three miles from town on the Norm
Umpqua Highway, according to
vice president Frank Kennedy.
Pace has offered to let the so
ciety buy the property for $6,000,
Kennedy said.
He pointed out, however, that
even with the very reasonable
nrice, the humane society did not
have the money. ,
Right now members are plan
ning ways of raising lh sum to
take advantage of the offer. They
have about one-third of it. hut
that woi'ld be denleted vith the
hiring of a control officer,, Ken
nedy pointed out. ' -
Red Cross Meeting Set
On Friday; Reports Due
A report of the past year's ac
tivities of the Douglas County
Chapter, American Red Cross, will
be one of several highlights at
(he annual chapter meeting to be
held Friday at 8 p.m. in the chap
ter offices in the Roseburg Ar
mory. Other items of business at the
coiinfywide session, open td the
public, are: A report on the RC
national convention just concluded
at Atlantic City, N.J., by Gen. Cur
tis T. Beecher: election of direc
tors for 1955-56; an address by
the Rev. Alfred Tyson, pastor of
Roseburg's St. George's Episcopal
Church; and a dry land" swim
ming demonstration by Mrs. Ger
trude Sherlock.
Man With Loaded, Cocked
Rifle Jailed By Police
A 34-vear-old Roseburg man.
found with a loaded and cocked
.22 caliber revolver in a parked
car, was charged with being drunk
a public street and jailed hy
Roseburg police Wednesday eve
ning.
William Stumpf. 140 Cedar St
was arrested after Delhert Nelson,
128 W. Second Ave. N., complained
that Stumpf, appearing drunk, was
in the car near the Nelson home
The gun was (ound in the rear
seat of the car, police said.
Clendale Mill Employe
Injured in Accident
Glendale sawmill employe Otho
Scrimshire returned to his home
Wednesday following treatment
for injuries received Tuesday as
he worked at the Dollar Gang
Mill in Glendale.
News - Review Correspondent
Mrs. G. R. Fox said Scrimshire
was struck by a timber as he
worked behind the edger about 11
a.m. Tuesday.
He was taken to Josephine Gen
eral Hospital in Grants Pass
where he was treated for minor
injuries to his back, spine and
ribs, hospital personnel reported.
U. S. Plywood Corporation
Names Division Managers
PORTLAND if! Two division
managers of the U. S. Plywood
Corp. operations were named Wed
nesday, Gene C. Brewer, vice pres
ident, reported. They are Marshall
R. Leeper and Kenneth L. Morrow.
I.eeper will be general minauer
of the Associated Plywood division,
the unit which was acquired in
January with Eugene, Wll.imina
and Roseburg operations. A pro
jected installation at Gold Beach
will also be under his direction. He
formerly was president and cener
al manager of Shasta Box Co.
Morrow, with the corporation
since 1950, will be in charge of
Anderson, Redding, Douglas fitv
and Willow Creek, Calif., operations.
summit conference. But he Indl-
cated no move for any further
Senate test.
His resolution had ihe combined
opposition of the Eisenhower ad
ministration and of Senate lead
ers of both parties.
Sen. Fullbright (D-Ark), bitter
ly attacked by McCarthy in the
stormy debate, said he viewed the
action as "a further confirmation
of the vote to condemn Sen, Mc
Carthy last December."
Recalling that the Senate had
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One position will be opened In
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