2 Tho Newi-Review, Roieburq, Ore. Fri., July 1, 1953
Crash Of Big C47
Plane Takes 10
Airmen's Lives
KODIAK, Alaska I Ten per
tons were reported Thursday to
have been killed in the crash
Wednesday of an Air Force C47
transport on Sitkinak Island.
An earlier report had indicated
that possibly only a four-man crew
was aboard the two-engine plane
when it hit the highest peak on the
island about 80 miles southwest of
this naval air base town.
Word was received here Thurs
day that 10 persons were aboard
the plane, Including three Western
Electric Co. representativea en
gaged in work on the air raid
warning installations being built
in a series of isolated locations
around Alaska.
Military authorities said the
plane carried a seven-man crew.
A ground- party reached the
scene Thursday from a Navy tug
and recovered eight bodies. Two
more were sought.
Turbulent weather was. blamed
for the crash. It still was so rough
Wednesday and Thursday that
paramedics could not be dropped
by parachute.
The C47 had left Kodiak Wednes
day afternoon on an air drop mis
sion. There never was any report
of trouble.
The party which brought, the
bodies down the death peak's
slODes reDortcd the crew members'
seat belts were unfastened and the
door had aoparently been open at
the time of the crash, indicating
that they had been ready to make
their droo of supplies when trage
dy struck.
Authorities theorized that a sud
den, treacherous downdraft might
have dropped them to disaster.
Par Riley Is Delegate
To Episcopal Synod
Pat Riley, 330 S. Kane St., Rose
burg, is one of the delegates from
the Diocese of Oregon attending
the annual Synod of Episcopal
House of Young Churchman at
North Hollywood, Calif.
The meeting of young people
was scheduled to close today. Thir
ty from. California, Oregon and
Idaho were delegates to the meet
ing, directed by the Rev. L. Frank
Evenson, Portland.
Fire Severely Damages
Doyle Ratliff Home Here
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was mowing the back yard when
he glanced skyward and saw
flames shooting from the second
story.
He placed a call to the fire de
partment which had already been
notified by Charles White, Buck
horn Road. White said he was vis
iting his sister-in-law, Mrs. Les
ter (Essie) Frost, 124T W. Second
Ave. N., when he looked out a
window and spotted the flames.
While and several unidentified
persons rushed to the residence
a few hundred feet to the north
west and began removing many
heavy kitchen articles: stove, re
frigerator, washer, iron, etc.
The rapidly-rising smoke at
tracted several hundred spectat
ors from throughout the oity.
Ratliff was not home at t h e
time. He is employed by Douglas
County Lumber Co., Winchester.
A relative notified him of the fire.
Mrs. Ratliff said Thursday eve-
Ining that the family was going to
. - i - i ten Ct Ck.
rem a iiuusc ui tijv ruwici tjb. uiig
said she did not know if they would
return to their property on Beulah
Drive, which includes some 11
acres of land. The family came to
Roseburg" about eight years ago
from Tulsa, Okla. They purchas
ed the residence over a year ago.
Firemen completed a busy day
with two more calls later.
At 5:10 p.m., firemen from the
west side station stood by a flue
fire at the Homer Strickling home,
2027 Catherine Ave. Two hours lat
er, fire-fighters from the city hall
station were called to extinguish
a grass fire at Commercial and
West Fourth streets. No damage
waa caused from either.
Prof. Robinson
Named Chairman
For Foresters
Professor Dan D. Robinson of
Oregon State College has been
elected chairman of the Colli m
bia River Section of the Society
ot American Foresters, according
to G. Lloyd Hayes of Rosebura
outgoing chairman. Robinson's
two-year term starts today.
C. Weldon Cline of Medford was
elected vice chairman for the
same term. Past officers have
served only one-year terms, Hayes
pointed out, but section affairs
have become so widely spread
and complex that they can be
served better by officers serving
two years.
The Columbia River Section cov
ers all of Oregon and parts of
adjacent Washington, it has a
membership 0f nearly 1,000 pro-
fcss'onal foresters, or about one
tenth of all members of the so
cietv in the United States.
The new chairman is a profes
sor in forest management re.
search, and has been on the OSC
faculty since 1946. He is
a 1940 graduate of OSC and re
ceived his master's degree from
New York University in 1942. He
was farm forester for Oregon
from 1942 to 1944, and was ex
tension forester from 1944 to 1948.
Cline is manager of the W. H.
Daugherty Co. Medford, a tim
ber company. Haves, the retiring
chairman, is leader of the USFS
Cascade-Siskiyou Research Center
here.
Hospital News
PRESTIANNI SHINES
The Glendale Town Team de
feated Eagle Point 24-1 in a Rogue
Valley League game last weekend.
Glendale hitter Tom Prestiannl
led hitting with five hits in six
times at bat.
RACING
INGLEWOOD, Calif. Miss
Todd ($2.90) equaled the world 5
furlong record of 0:57 in winning
the Cinderella Stakes at Hollywood
Park.
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Forest Glen Hospital
Admitted
Surgery: O r a n Gildersleeve,
Oakland: O. M. i'elty, Sulhcrlin:
Jack Cox, Riddle; Mrs. Mary
rarrotc, uienoaie; Mrs. Aiargarei
Dement, itoseburg; Larry Levy,
Roy Hess, Glen Hess, Mrs. Verle
Wallace, Myrtle Creek.
Medical! Marlene Doughty,
James Peterson, Mrs. Lola
Barnes, Canyonville; Mrs. Floyd
Bailey, Dr. A. K. Fowler, Lee Kel
lar, Donavon Shields, Myrtle
Creek; Willis Hamilton, Drew;
Mrs. Gilbert Butler, Tiller; Ah
Rice, Dillard: Mrs. Hattie Leach.
Glendale.
Douglas Community Hospital
Admitted
Surgery! Mrs. Millard Ponton,
Roseburg;
Medical: Mary Frances Hunt.
Wilbur; Mrs. Earl Dixon, Henry
Sielert, Steven Stewart, Mrs. Rob
ert Densmore, Hugh Harrison, Lee
Brown, Troy Ball, Roseburg.
Discharged
Mrs. Paul Kellv. Oakland: Mrs.
Austin Spencer, Winchester; Mrs.
Margaret (ireennalgn, Eureka,
Utah; Norman Hurley, Coos Bay;
Mrs. Frank Grimes, Leon Keller,
Douglas nice, Mrs. billy lual
meyer, Mrs. James Loomia, Rose
ourg.
Mercy Hospital -Admitted
Surgory: Kevin Dale Homer.
Winchester: Sylvanus Hunt. Rose
burg.
Medical: Jerry Dean Robertson,
Mrs. Catherine Kerrick," Mri.
oeuy aneu, Kosemirg.
Discharged
John Markham, Perry Kotter-
man, Michael Olmstead. Denma
uoyie. uuy K. Wilbur. Mrs. Doro
thy Vale, Mrs. Frank Murphy,
Roseburg; Hughes Lasswell, Bes
sie nusn. auuienin Mrs. ueuv
Cherry, Oakland; Mrs. Verna
Helms, Oakland.
Services Saturday
For Dobbs Infant
Paula Sue Dohbs, infant daugh
ler of Mr. and Mrs. Jov E. Dobbs
'of Camas Valley, died Thursday
at a local hospital.
She is survived by her parents:
one brother. James Page: one sis
ter, Kathenne Ann, both of Camas
Valley; her paternal grandmoth
er. Mrs. Sv via Dobbs. welcn.
Okla.: and her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Opal Truman, Cam
as Valley.
Graveside funeral services will
be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the
Noah Cemetery in Camas Valley.
The Rev. Elmer R. Burk of the
Camas Valley Methodist Church
will officiate.
Long and Orr Mortuary is in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Old Landmark Is Consumed
By Flames In Thursday Fire
An oldtime landmark In Rose
burg was consumed by flames
Thursday.
It was the Doyle Ratliff home
(formerly the Jones home and
later the Martin house) which
stood at 256 Beulah Drive in north
Roseburg.
The old - fashioned two - story
frame structure was built around
1884 by George W; Jones. Jones'
daughter, Mrs. Horace Hagen,
said Thursday evening that lum
ber for it was brought to Rose
burg by railroad from the Wil-
Bobo Olson Will
Be Salmon Harbor
Dedication Guest
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Arrested Man Drives Off
While Officer Occupied
A Roseburg man who is accused
of hopping back into his car and
driving off after an off-duty police
man arrested him Tuesday aiter
noon was cited into city court
Thursday on charges of reck
less driving and resisting arrest.
The Roseburg officer, Bert Eat
on, said Arthur E. Wennarberg,
237 W. Second Ave. N., sped onto
Second Avenue South in front of
Eaton's car, nearly causing a col
lision. Eaton, after a couple of
unsuccessful altenvpts, managed
to slop Wennarberg, he related.
Then the officer ordered Wen
narberg to follow him to the police
station. While the policeman was
eetting a citation prepared, he
said, Wennarberg jumped in his
car, parked in the City Hall drive
way, and sped off.
Thursday. Wennarberg was
freed when he paid $125 bail. He
was to annpar hefnre Municipal
Judge Kandolpn siocum today.
Carl (Bobo) Olson, world mid
dleweight boxing champion, will
join Gov. Paul Patterson at the
head of the guest list at the July
9 dedication ceremonies at Salmon
Harbor.
The announcement was made to
day by Frank L. Taylor, secretary
manager of Ihe Lower Umpqua
Chamber of Commerce. He said
confirmation was received Thurs
day that the boxer will leave from
San Francisco by auto, accompan
ied by his wife and Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Le Vesconte. They are
expected to arrive the evening of
July 8.
The area has arranged a fishing
trip for both Olson and Patterson.
The trip is scheduled to start at
a a.m. July .
Tentative time for the dedication
ceremony is 11 a.m. The gover
nor's boat will activate the mech
anism which will raise the Amer
ican flag on the new Shore Boule
vard.
George Gratke, president of the
Lower Umpqua Chamber, said the
dedication of the new mooring
basin promises to be the "biggest
event the Lower Umpqua has
seen."
lamette Valley.
She said the Interior of the
house was finished in hand-planed
lumber. The Hagens sold the
house to the Martins in 1916. Pres
ent owner Doyle Ratliff bought it
about 1(1 years ago.
Original owner Jones came to
Douglas County in 1851 at the age
of 14. He came across the plains
in a covered wagon train with his
parents in 1851, Mrs. Hagen said.
His wife-to-be came to Oregon
from Illinois that same year.
They met in Douglas County and
married Jan. 1, 1871, in Newton
Creek.
George Jones was trained to
be a school teacher. He taught for
a while and for several years was
director of the Roseburg schools,
according to his daughter.
He later left the teaching pro
fession and raised stock (primar
ily sheep) on more than 5,000
acres of land he owned in the
cenrtal part of the county. Two of
his seven .children were born in
the five-bedroom house which
burned Thursday.
Mrs. Hagen and another sister
had a pet name for the residence.
They called it "Willow Dell."
When it was first built, the home
was surrounded by willows.
Mr. and Mrs. Hagen are now
living at 140 Huntley St.
Services Scheduled
For Ex-Sutherliner
Sutherlin Woman
Dies Thursday
Mrs. Willard R. (Louise) Wil
son, SI; resident of Wilbur, died
at her home Thursday following a
long period of illness.
Funeral services will be held in
the Assembly of God Ohurch in
Sutherlin Sunday at 2 p.m. The
Rev. Robert Brown and the Rev.
Richard Kelly of the Assembly of
God Church will officiate. Con
cluding services and interment
will follow in the Roseburg Me
morial Gardens in Roseburg. Long
Jt Orr Mortuary, Roseburg, is in
cnarge ot arrangements.
Douglas Milk Producers
Band To Market; Product
A group of Douglas County milk
producers have banded to market
their milk in a co-operative ar
rangement.
Incorporated recently, the dalrj-
men have named their organisa
tion the Umpqua Valley Milk Pro
ducers Co-operative. Art Rich,
Roseburg accountant, has been
named manager and he will han
dle marketing arrangements.
Donald C. Auer. Green, vice
president, said the group is selling
milk to Southern Oregon Milk Pro
ducers, which in turn supplies milk
to Umpqua Dairy.
Other officers are: Frank Rad
ford, Myrtle Creek, president; H.
L. Northcraft. Olalla, secretary
treasurer; and William Brown,
Canyonville, and Fred C. Schulze,
Lookingglass, directors.
Two Roseburg Drivers
Cited After Accident
' Two Roseburg drivers were
cited in a traffic accident at Win
ston Thursday afternoon, even
though the two cars involved never
collided.
Slate police said, however, that
a group of mailboxes fell victim
to one of the cars, swerved bv its
driver to avoid the second.
Russell William Wortiiiley, 30,
slowed down, police said, at the en
trance to an auto court. Marvin
Ronald Sanders, 16, following
Worthier, attempted to Dass on
the right, only to find Worthley
was making a right turn, police
reported.
Sanders swerved his car and the
tangle with the mailboxes ensued.
He was cited for passing on the
right, while Worthley got a ticket
for signaling improperly, police
said.
Funeral services are scheduled
Saturday ait Mills Mortuary in Cot
tage Grove for David A. Cooper,
79, a longtime former Sutherlin
resident.
Cooper died at the Cottage
Grove Hospital Tuesday after
short illness. His wife is critical
ly ill lp the same hospital, reports
Oakland correspondent Edith
Dunn.
Services for Cooper are sched
uled at 1:30 p.m. and interment
will follow at the Westlawn Ceme
tery in Eugene.
He was born at Higginj, Texas,
and lived on a small farm east
of Sutherlin for about 20 years be
fore moving to Cottage Grove a
few years ago. ,
Survivors are his wife; a son
David, of Cottage Grove; four
daughters, Bonnie Wegner of Suth
erlin, Jessie Fraser of Springfield,
Inez Perkins of California and
Dolly Wild of Prospect; several
grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.
3 Army Reservists
Given Promotions
In Roseburg Areas
Three more Roseburg members
of the Army Reserve have re
ceived promotions according to
S.l.C. Lonnie M. Weaver, assist
ant adviser to local units.
Sgt. Weaver said Leo F. Young
has ben boosted from captain to
major. Young is supply officer of
Det. 1, 6453rd Station Complement
Unit.
Originally commissioned in 1939
at the time he was graduated from
the University of Oregon, Major
Young served in i Alaska during
World War II. He and his wife
and two children live in the Rivers-
dale district on Garden Valley
Road. He has his own accounting
office in Roseburg.
Promoted from sergeant to ser
geant first class are William A.
Baldwin and Raymond E.- Dun
ning. Baldwin, acting first ser
geant for Co. I, 3rd Batt., 413th Inf.
Reg., lives at 1086 W. Third St.,
with his wife, Dorothy. He is an
engineer and announcer at radio
station KRNR. He has been in the
reserve since Nor. 6, 1950.
Dunning, -who lives at Rt. 4,
Box 330B, with his wife and four
children, is the company's supply
sergeant. He served in Alaska at
the time of the Korean conflict. He
is one of the original members of
Co. I, activated July 15, 1954. He
works at Bradley's Market on Cass
Street.
Highway Project Contracts Okayed
PORTLAND I Construction! Highway 9E near Hubbard to a
of a new link in the freeway I P.'nl. A"fV,u: CT"
connecting the Tortland - halem
Expressway with Portland's Har
bor Drive will begin in aooui is
months, the State Hignway torn
mission decided Thursday.
The route now is open between
Funeral For Pfe. Pollard.
Killed In England, Set
Funeral services for Pfc. Wayne
Pollard, the serviceman who was
killed June 10 in a truck accident
in England, will be scheduled
Wednesday, July 6, in Gam Mor
tuary, Myrtle Creek.
The Myrtle Creek Mall report
ed Thursday that the Rev. James
E. Kratz, former minister of the
Myrtle Creek Ohurch of the Naz
arene and now pastor of the South
Salem Nazarene Church, will of
ficiate. Vault interment will fol
low in the Myrtle Creek IOOF
Cemetery.
mission said, will be connecting the
Tieard end with Harbor Drive.
In other action Thursday the
commission:
Approved award of contracts to
low bidders on some two million
dollars worth of construction and
repair projects.
Approved loan of Lewis Scott and
William Hill, Highway Department
engineers, to the stale of Montana
to help control a million-cubic-yard
slide in that state.
Approved construction n f the
"Smith Point route" as the new
highway between Astoria and
Seaside.
Decided to Improve, at a cost
of Sl.400,000, the John Day High
way from Pendleton to Pilot Rock.
The commission allocated $450,000
to start this project.
UNDERGOES SURGERY
OXNARD, Calif. I Actress
Loretta Young probably will be
confined to St. John's Hospital for
another three weeks recuperating
from an operation Wednesday to
correct abdominal adhesions.
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Southern Pacific Co.
Officials Make Visit
The president of the Southern
pacific Co. and several company
officers made a brief stop in Rose
burg Friday.
D. J. Russell, San Francisco,
and his companions were return
ing from Portland where they at
tended a banquet Thursday hon
oring L. P. Hopkins, retiring su
perintendent of the Portland SP
division. The men made the trip
north from the Bay Area In a spe
cial train via the Cascade line.
They returned by the Siskiyou line
in order to view company opera
tions. Two local employes of Southern
Pacific attended the Hopkins ban
quet. They were Tiiiinmaster T.
W. (Ted) Bernard, and Agent El-
don Forbes.
SUFFERS EYE INJURY
A Winston logger, Arthur Roy.
37, was released from Community
Hospital i riday after receiving
treatment for an eye injury.
Hoy tola hospital personnel he
was driving a "cat" Thursday
when a knot hit him int he eye.
He is employed by the E. G. Nel
son Logging Co.. Roseburg. He
was working in the Olalla area at
the time of the accident.
Swimming Classes Slated
For Mentally Retarded
Parents of mentally retarded
children are urged to register their
youngsters for Red Cross Swim
ming classes, the first of which
will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
The class will be held at the
heated pool of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Leikcn on Harvard Avenue across
from the West Side Fire Station.
It will be under the direction of
Mrs. Edward Tauscher, accord
ing to Mrs. Alice Johnson, chair
man. Advance registration may be
made by contacting Mrs. Johnson,
1714 Harvard Ave., phone Orchard
3-5115 or parents may register
children when the class begins.
Woman Confesses
Killing Husband
LOUISA, Ky. Wl Mrs. Garnet
Stucker, 4Z, admitted Thursday
she shot her crippled husband,
beat him to death with a pipe
then hacked off his legs to "make
him fit" in a shallow grave.
She was held for investigation
pending- a coroner's inquest.
Chief Deputy Edward Fyffe said
Mrs. Stucker signed a statement
giving details of the death of her
husband Eslell, 59, who used
crutches because of arthritis.
In her statement, she said her
husband came home drunk and
they argued. He hit her with hii
crutch, then went to the basement
to sleep. She shot him in the head
while he slept, she said.
Then she hit him on the head
three times with an 18-inch pipe
"to keep him from suffering." She
said she dug a grave in the dirt
portion of the basement and sev
ered her husband's legs with a
large hatchet to "make him fit."
Boniols Takes Position
With County Department
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Burghardt, Edward Davis, Glen
Miller and David Geddes. The ap
pointment will be made by Far-
l in "three or four days." the
ciity manager said.
The salary of the city building
inspector has been $4,599. Budg
eted by the county for Boniots is
$5,000 salary and $1,200 travel ex
pense. Judge Hill said today that the
county also has adopted a set of
subdivision regulations, and they
are in effect now.
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W. M. Campbell, secretary of
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past week to the 40th annual con
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in Cleveland, Ohio. They represent
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Man Now In Jail Will
Face Bad Check Charge
A man now serving time in the
county jail in lieu of payment of a
$250 line for drunken driving will
be charged with passing bad
chocks, according to Roseburg po-1
lire.
Leslie Mark Shannon. 40, Win
ston, recently fined and given a
10-day sentence in district court.
will also be accused of obtaining
money under false pretenses, offi
cers said.
' It is alleged .Shannon passed 10
worthless checks, totalling $190, in
the Roseburg area, police said.
! They hold a warrant, issued in
district eourt, for Shannon's ar
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