2 The News-Review, Roseburg,
Dismissal Of Fongs'
Murder Charge Sought
PORTLAND UH Wayne and
Sherry Fong, under I tiril degree
murder indictment for the jlaying
of Diane Hank, asked through their
sttnrnev Monday that additional
charges of contributing to the de-
unquency o: a minor De aroppeu
The contributing indictment, re
turned May 4, 1954, accused them
of giving liquor to the 16-year-old
Portland high school girl.
The Fongs were found guilty of
first degree murder but Circuit
Judge Aldfred P. Dobson set aside
the verdict, saying the jury had
not given the case suiiicieni con
sirtpratinn.
The Multnomah County district
attorney's office plans to try the
Fongs on the contributing charge
after the murder case has been
disposed of.
Circuit Judge James W. Craw
ford took the Fong's dismissal re
quest under advisement.
Cleveland Rapids Swim
Class Draws 50 Children
About 50 children and adults
turned out for the first YMCA
swimming lesson at Cleveland Rap
ids west of Roscburg on the Ump
qua River Monday.
"Y" Sec. Don Naden said the
lessons would continue daily Mon
day through Friday during the
next two weeks. He urged those
participating in the program, par
ticularly children, not to enter the
water during the succeeding ses
sions until an instructor arrives.
He said he was making the plea
for safety's sake, since many peo
ple are unfamiliar with the cur
rents of the river and may be
swept away.
The classes start at 2 p.m. Na
den also asked that any adults
who can swim or can aid in in
stiuction be present at the 'follow
ing lessons.
Wolf Creek Woman Hurt
In Traffic Accident
Mm. Ray Straight, Wolf Creek,
is in Josephine General Hospital,
Grants Pass, with multiple injur
ies as the result of a traffic acci
dent Monday.
According to information gath
ered by Mrs. G. B. Fox, Glendale
correspondent, Mr. and M r s.
Straight were driving toward Wolf
Creek from their home in Coyote
Creek Canyon when their pickup
truck hit a rock or other obstruc
tion. The pickup rolled over in a
ditch. Mr. Straight was given first
aid treatment but was not hospital
ized. PROMOTIONS TOPIC DATED
Promotions for August will be
discussed Wednesday morning at
a meeting f tho Roseburg Retail
Trades Assn. Vernon M. Murdoch,
executive secretary, said the
breakfast meeting will start at
7:45 a.m. In the Civic Room of the
Hotel Umpqua.
BICYCLE STOLEN
Donald Evans. 1039 Winchester
St., reported to city police Monday
that his bicycle was stolen from
near tne swimming pool some
time during the afternoon. He said
the bike was locked.
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Hospital News
Mercy Hospital
Admitted
Medlcali William Lair, Mrs. Ren
Jones, Mrs. Howard Richmond,
Tony Gorman, Mrs Ed Stritzke,
Roscburg; Mis. William Schroed
er, Sutherlin.
Surgery: Mrs. James Lopcr,
Mrs. Melvin Crowall, Oakland;
Wilfred Carr, Roscburg.
Discharged
Mrs. Eugene Ainoe, Mrs. A. D.
Kobbernik, Mrs. Alva Salven and
son, Gary Lee; Mrs. George Wood
rich and daughter, Anne Kathleen,
Roseburg; Mrs Robert Floch,
Umpqua.
Douglas Community Hospital
- Admitted
Surgary: Ernest Buchtmann,
Glide; Mrs. Herman Bagwell,
Roseburg; Mrs. Charles llayncs.
Sutherlin; Keith McKirdy,' Yon
calla. Medical: Mrs. Millard Stewart,
Winston; Mrs. Albert Lewis, Mar
jorie Lyons, Mrs. Harvey Couch,
Roscburg; Mrs. Ralph Dwight,
Tenmile; Mrs. Donald Proha.ska,
Winchester, Judy Larsen, Suther
lin. Discharged
Gail Kelly .Glide; Mrs. John
Roberts, Brockw.iy; Mrs Frank
Finster, Mrs. Gcrnld Jackson,
Frank Price, Mrs. Walter Young.
er, Lois Kinney, Mrs. Robert
Springstcad. Roseburg: Mrs. Clif
ford Fuller, Drew; Claryce
Humphreys, Myrtle creek.
Glasgow Bandits Loot
Money Delivery Truck
GLASGOW, Scotland Wl Four
bandits seized a money delivery
truck parked outside a bank Tues
day and made off with between
30.000 and 40,000 pounds ($34,000 to
$112,000) in cash.
They slugged a guard, trussed
him up inside the rear of the truck
and sped off in a wild dash through
Glasgow traffic Bags of pound
notes spilled from the rear at one
point and littered the streets.
Eluding pursuing nolice. (he ban
dits drove the truck into a garden
a residential section and trans
ferred as many bags as they
could to a waiting automobile and
made their getaway.
Flood Sweeps Bus Off
Bridge; 25 Persons Die
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Wl
Twenty-five persons wore drowned
Tuesday when floodwaters of the
Santa Lucia River swept a bus off
a bridge at San Ramon, 37 miles
from Montevideo. Sixteen passen
gers were rescued.
The bus, returning from an ex
cursion to Rivera in Northern Uru
guay, stalled when it reached the
water-covered bridge. Before all of
the passengers could get out the
flood swept it into the river.
Lightning Kills Three
Caddies Perched In Tree
OWENSBORO. Kv. Iffl Three
of Jour caddies perched in a tree
to " escape ' rain wero killed by
lightning, yesterday.
The fourth, acting on impulse.
jumped as the bolt struck and
escaped Injury. All were attending
a watermelon party for caddies at
Owcnsboro Country Club.
The dead: Jerry Norris, 14,
Charles Ray, 12, and Frank Bur
ger, 13. Their companion in tne
tree . was Danny Thompson.
NORMAL TEMPERATURES
Temperatures will be about nor
mal with maximums in the 80'
and a minimum in the 50'.s, ac
cording to the Roseburg Weather
Bureau.
There will be little or no rain
except scattered showers about
Saturday.
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Attempted Jailbreak,
Blast Occur At One Time
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. I a
mysterious blast, which Destroyed
a wing of the old high school build
ing, and an attempted jailbreak
occurred almost simultaneously in
this little Hardin County town be
fore dawn Tuesday.
The blast caused $100,000 dam
age to the school and shook houses
three blocks away. No one was
injured.
Almost at the minute of the ex
plosion, a convicted forger slid
down a blanket from his second
floor cell in the county jail. But
officers were waiting for him with
guns drawn. They had laid in wait
after hearing a saw grating across
bars of a cell.
Jailer Marshall Heady identified
the prisoner as George Padgett.
25. of Vine Grove, Ky., a convicted
forcer.
Padgett was questioned to dis
cover whether there was any con
nection between his escape at
tempt and the explosion.
Five rooms of the 41-year-old,
two-story building were destroyed.
Cause of the blast was not de
termined. Rail Competition Plan
Considered By C. Of C.
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charges that service is so "un
attractive" it does not "reason
ably" serve the needs of the four
counties involved (Douglas, Jose
phine, Jackson and southern
Lane).
It continues that provision of
"adequate rail passenger service"
in the areas is "of vital import
ance to continued prosperity. . ."
Businesses and enterprises "a r e
reluctant to locate themselves in
these areas because of the "in
adequacy of the presently existing
service."
Seasonal Need Cited
Even if service were not im
proved, the complaint states, at
certain times of the year all bus,
private automobile and air traf
fic is "impossible and at many
other times exceedingly inconveni
ent and hazardous." The complaint
says discontinuance of the passen
ger service in these cases would
be "a serious economic and per
sonal loss to inhabitants of the
area."
The three senators ask that the
PUC order the company to con
tinue its existing service until tne
matter has been fully investigated
by the commissioner. They also
ask that after the investigation,
the commissioner order reason
ably adequate service if he finds
it is not now adequate.
They ask that the service in
clude (1) reasonable dayiime
schedules, (2) reasonably speedy
service (3) reasonable connec
tions with other train schedules
(4) reasonably adequate and com
fortable equipment and (5) any
other service the commissioner
finds justified.
dared he has Ihe authority to call
lime to stidy it. However, he de
the formal complaint until he has
. Hcltzel declined to comment on
a hearing in such cases and to
order service continued. He said
railroads, up to this time, have
accepted the jurisdiction of the
PUC over abandonment of lines.
BOY SHOPLIFTER NABBED
A 13-year-old Winchester boy
was charged with petty larceny
Monday afternoon when a J. C.
Penney Co. employee caught him
shntlifting in the store.
Later, Roscburg police said
about $16 worth of merchandise
was recovered by his mother. It
has been taken from four stores.
The boy was released to the cus
tody of his mother after question
ing and was to be taken into dis
trict and circuit courts today.
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Telephone Assessment
Increase Proposed
(Continued from Page One)
a d'-'rict manager from Eugene
last week. Negotiations remained
stalemated.
Since the old franchise expired
the company has been recording
its coming payment to the city on
a 2 per cent basis in accordance
with a "gentlemen's agreement"
with city officials.
It is understood that the com
pany wants a new franchise to ex
tend at least 10 years.
Address Project Okayed
The City Planning Commission's
proposal to change duplicated
street names and zone and city
for address purposes met with ap
proval of the council. Authoriza
tion was given to the engineering
department to preceed with house
renumbering and other work in
anticipation of the citywide ad
dress purposes met with approval
of the council. Authorization was
given to the engineering department
ment to proceed with house re
numbering and other work in an
ticipation of the citywide address
changes. The council accepted a
plan presented by O. J. Fett,
chairman of the Planning Com
mission.
Farrell said the project prob
ablv will require the renumbering
of 24 out of 25 addresses through
out the city. He added tht the
engineering department w'll he
able to start work on the renum
bering project by next week.
Daadline In October
The Post Office Dept. requires
that the work be done well in ad
vance of the annual Christmas
maM rush, and a completion date
of Oct. 1 was mentioned Monday
night.
A detailed description of the
nroject is to be published soon in
Th News-Review.
The council aooroved the re
quest of Dent. Police Chief Ver
non M. Murdock Jr. to attend a
t'-week FBI training academy in
Washington. D. C, in January.
Murdoch, if his application is ap
proved bv the FBI, will be grant
ed a leave of absence with salary
guaranteed. Onlv other cost to Ihe
eitv will be a S136.60 round - trio
train ticket. Murdoch has areed
to Slav a member of !he Rose
burg Po'ice Deo;, for three years
following completion of Ihe course.
In other action, the council:
1. Adonted a resolut!m for pav
ing Hamilton Strepf avt set a pub
lic hearing for Aug. 11 at 7:30
p.m.
2. Passed the final readings of
ordinances vacating a stub of
Corey Avenue south of M'litar
Street and the parts of Almond
and Evans avenues extending Into
Ihe new Hucrest Sc'iool site west
of Kline S'vee.
.1. Nominated the fn'lowlni to Tie
members of a commitle to studv
Roseburg's sewer problems and
come up w'th an Improvement
program; Arlrn:n B'"'en. Rig
Fett, Harold E. Baclten Jr., George
Veuner, .C!'rl". I'hcinas. Palnh
Sandslerie. Farl Wilev and Jerry
Coen. Another member will be
named ii'."?.
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Salvation Army Budget
Committee Announced
A special Budget and Finance
committee composed of D. Busen-
bark, Vern Harpham and Arthur
McGehey was chosen recently at
a meeting of the Salvation Army
Advisory Board.
The meeting was held in the
Rose Hotel. Howard Ott, chair
man, presided.
The 1956 local corps, budget was
discussed. Motions by members
Earl Wiley and Arthur McGehey,
concerning the 1956 budget total
ing $21,180., were approved unani
mously by the board members.
Major Fred A. Dorin, new local
executive became a member of
the board.
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Canyonville Job
Of Paving Given
To Roseburg Firm
The Canyonville City Council
Monday night awarded a contract
to Roseburg Paving Co. for im
provement to two city streets.
The work, icnluding installatien
of curbs and gutters, will be on
Fourth Street between Main and
Canyon and on Canyon between
Main and Fourth, reports Corre
spondent Virginia Proctor.
In other action, the council ap
proved a business license for Bob
and Francis Lynn of Days Creek,
known as Lynn Bros., for leasing
the Perkins oil station in Canyon
ville. The Lynns also operate a
station in Days f reek.
The council also gave permis
sion to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars post for a harvest festival
the latter part of August, Mrs.
Proctor said. Dates of the two-day
festival, including a street dance,
will be announced later.
Frank Cooper asked the council
for city water service but was re
fused because he lives outside the
city limit. He lives just outside,
out councumen said a water short
age prohibits giving Cooper serv
ice.
i-nairman James Calhoun was
the only 'councilman absent. He is
ill. Mayor Ed Oaks presided. The
next regular meeting will be held
on the third Monday in August.
Oregon Arms Collectors
To Meet At Winchester
A new state-wide club, Oregon
Arms Collectors, will hold ils first
meeting in southern Oregon Sun
day at the Roseburg Rod & Gun
Club building at Winchester.
Meetings of the organization
just formed this year, are set at
different towns throughout the
slale, with every other meeting
to be held in Portland. The meet
ings for the antique firearm col
lectors are held monthly. Mem
bership is now approximately 50,
wnn aoout lu in itosenurg.
Purpose of this meeting Sunday
is to allow a time and place for
sale and trade of antique firearms
by collectors.
The meeting at Winchester will
start at noon.
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Reforestation Talked
At Meet Of Basin Assn.
(Continued from Page One)
of approximately 3,000 acres of
timber a year, with its reforesta
tion program covering about one
third of that acreage to supple
ment natural reforestation. Lack
of an enabling act to permit ear
marking of funds for such work
makes it necessary for B L M to
insert t clause in each sales con
tract so the operator will reseed
the land under BLM supervision.
The Forest Service, which sup
ervises a cut of about 4,000 acres
per year with 1,500 manually re
forested, has no such r.-"
since it has funds earmarked for
reforestation work.
In other association business,
the organization adopted a mo
tion committing it to a coopera
tive effort with other groups to
obtain adquate passenger service
from Southern Pacific. The assoc
iation is protesting the removal of
present service until more ade
quate service is available, accord
ing to Harold H'ckerson, secretary.
Hickerson. who is also secre
tary - manager of the Roseburg
Chamber of Commerce, resigned
h-3 association post at the meet-
in?. A replacement will be named
at the next session, to be held in
September. Hickerson told seven
delegates and other chamber of
commerce men on hand that he
does n"t have time to do an ade
quate job.
The August meeting will be skip
ped because of vacation time. The
next meeting will be on the sec
ond Monday in September.
, 3 FIRES EXTINGUISHED
Three fires in the Roseburg ar
ea did no damage Monday. Rural
firemen put out two grass fires,
one behind the Turn Around Inn,
1501 N. Stephens St., at 10:22 a.m.
and the other on the old Cook
place, Garden Valley Road, at
2:42 p.m. City firemen extinguish
ed a trash fire at the Bill Cren
shaw residence, 902 N. Jackson St.,
at 3 p.m.
LOGGER INJURED
Kenneth Lloyd Kobbe. 25. Oak
land, was taken to Douglas Com
munity Hospital Monday afternoon
after being hurt while working for
tile Floyd Ross Logging Co., Oak
land. Information about the acci
dent or Kobbe's injuries were not
immediately available.
by (EidDdDnDEAnS J
CARTER
Wednesday Services
For Eilene Perkett
Funeral, services for Eilene Lo
retha Perkett, 4, of Tiller, will be
held in Medford Wednesday at
2:30 p.m. at the Conger-Morns
Funeral Home.
Services will be conducted by
the Rev. Willard S. Fenderson of
the Medford South Umpqua Com
munity Church. Interment will fol
low in Siskiyou Memorial Park.
The little girl was killed Satur
day when she ran in front of a car
near her home. She was born Oct.
31, 1950, in San Jose, Calif. She
s survived by her parents, air.
nd Mrs. Ervine (Red) Perkett
Hells Canyon Dam Bill
Survives Sidetrack Try
WASHINGTON tin A motion
to pigeonhole Hells Canyon Dam
legislation was defeated, 13-11, by
uie nouse uiieriur jciiaiiidwuii sub
committee Tuesday.
Party lines held, with Democrats
in the majority, as the committee
kept alive a bill to authorize con
struction of a federal dam in the
Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake
River between Idaho and Oregon,
where the Idaho Power Co., seeks
permission to build three smaller
dams.
Fallen Power Line
Kills 4, Injures Fifth
ALEXANDRIA. La. 13 A power
line that fell during a rainstorm
was blamed for the death of four
persons and the injury of a fifth.
Killed Monday night were x .
Tillman. 36. truck-line operator;
William Brosette, 23, dairy truck
driver; William L. Voorhies,-33,
supervisor of a fleet of dairy
trucks, and Voorhies' 6-year-old
daughter Linda Carolyn.
Voorhies' 5-vcar-old son William
Jr. was treated for minor burns.
NO FIRE DAMAGE
No damage was reported Tues
day by Douglas Forest Protective
Assn. Dispatcher Wayne Miller
from a lW-acre fire in logging
slash on Rice Hill Monday after
noon. Milter said it started from
a smouldering sawdust fire. A Io
nian crew from the Elk Creek
DFPA station had the fire under
control by 6 p.m. The fire was
spotted by a lookout on Harness
I Mountain.
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