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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. Libr.ry Eugene, Oregon Corcp M1Y IU1 iUS BODY OF 1 Falling Tree Kills Logger Near Tiller Elby Mitchell Meets Tragic Death On 20th Day Of Employment A 27-year-old logger, who had been working in the woods near Tiller for only 20 days, Wednes day became Douglas County's sev enth logging fatality of 1955. Elby Glen Mitchell, home ad dress Chehalis, Wash., was pro nounced dead upon arrival at For est Glen Hospital in Canyonville at noon, according to Douglas lnnntv Coroner I.. L. f JimV Pow ers. He was taken to the hospital by the Riddle ambulance. The coroner said he died as a result of being struck by a piece nf a falling tree. He suffered a broken neck and back injuries, the coroner said. The accident occurred about 10 miles east of Tiller on the South JUmpqua River. Mitchell was em 1 ployed as a bucker for the Swal ley Logging Co. of Tiller. . According to the coroner, he was working with his brother El vin and H. j F. Gillaspie, Tillei. The coroner said Gillaspie was falling a tree and Mitchell was standing some 100 feet to the left as it thundered to the ground. In falling, the tree hit another and broke into pieces. The coroner said a "chunk about 20 inches in diameter" struck Mitchell in the back. Veteran Of Korean War Mitchell is survived by his pat ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Mitchell, Chehalis; three brothers: Elvin, Tiller, Loren and Vernon living in Seattle; and one sister, Erna, of Chehalis. He was a veteran of the Korean War. His body will be shipped to Che halis by Ganz, Mortuary, Myrtle Creek. According to. the News-Review Correspondent Erma Best burial will be at the Fissell Fu neral Home there. Mitchell is the second logger to be killed in the county this month. Glendale woodsman Benjamin Al lan Babb, 38, was crushed be tween logs as he worked in the woods July 12. Mitchell's death also marked the second tragedy to strike Tiller in less than one week. Little Eilene Perkett, 4, was killed Saturday when she ran in front of a car. Vermont Lass Awarded Accolade Of Miss U.S.A. LONG-TjEAOH, Calif. W Miss Vermont, the prettiest Republican you ever saw, today is Miss U.S.A. rnrlonn Kine Johnson, of Rut land, won the crown last night over 14 other pretty finalists, rne runners-up were the Misses Ar kansas, Nebraska, California and Georgia. Miss Johnson, a 22-year-old blue eyed blonde who looked 16, is also the prettiest business woman you ever saw. She runs her own jewel ry business in Rutland. Two years ago she was M i s I Vermont in the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City but only placed 13th. Tonight she enters the Miss Universe semifinals. Asked if she were a traditional Vermont Republican, she replied; "Is there any other kind?" Doll-like, she stands 5 feet 8 in her high heels with the perfect Miss Universe measurements bust and hips the same at 35 inch es and the waist 11 inches smaller at 24. Her big prize is a six - month contract with Universal -International Studios. Heroic Sutherlin Woman Is "Slightly Improved" Mrs. Charles B. Williams, the Sutherlin grandmother who was seriously burned Friday as she re moved her grandson from her flaming house, was reported in slightly improved condition at Mercv Hosmtal Thursday. She had been on the critical list jpince being taken to the hospital. Mrs. Williams battled flames in an attempt to save her grandson Preston Wilkerson. The 2-year-old died 12 hours later. She had been unsuccessful in trying to remove another grandson, Benton, 1, from the burning structure. Susan Hayward Twice Tried Suicide, Court Told BURBANK, Calif. ( Actor Jess Barker says that his ex-wile, Susan Hayward, has twice at tempted suicide by taking sleep ing pills. Barker filed a motion for full custody of his twin sons Wednes day asserting that Miss Hayward was emotionally unfit to retain custody of the boys. Ater brief arguments in Bur bank superior court, Superior Judge Leroy Dawson denied the motion on the ground that it was not in his jurisdiction because Baker has appealed the interlocu tory divorce decree on which the original custody award was based. The Weather Fair today, tonight and Friday. A little coder Friday. Highest temp, last 24 'hours SS Lowest tamp, last 24 hours 4 Highest temp, any July 109 Lowest t.mp. any July 41 Proeip. last 14 hours 0 Precip, from July 1 .11 Precip. from Sept. 1 . . 21.55 Deficiency from S.ot. 1 7.59 Sunset tonight, 7:47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:51 a.m. Minneapolis Police Aid Drain Boy In Blood Need . Gary Winslow, 13-year-old son of Drain Police Chief and Mrs. El mer Winslow, has found that peo ple are pretty much the same everywhere. Gary, who has been taken to Mineapolis, Minn., for a delicate heart operation, is being helped by police officers in that city. When doctors decided Gary need ed 18 pints of blood for the opera tion, set next Wednesday, his fath er told his story to a detective at police headquarters. The Win slows knew no one in Minneapolis. Soon, enough persons had volun teered their blood for the young ster who was born with a hole in a heart valve. He was taken to Variety Heart Hospital at the Uni versity of Minnesota after an oper ation at Portland last October fail ed to correct his ailment It isn't the first time the Win slows have found friends ready to help Gary. The trip to Minnesota was financed by benefit projects carried out by the people of the Drain area, after doctors recom mended Gary be taken east for a revolutionary "cross circulation" operation which has attracted world attention. Tram Bandits Get Sacks Of Canceled Checks For Effort NEW YORK im Tuv. mociAu? desperadoes held up an outbound man-express train last night as it stopped briefly in an open cut be low the Manhattan street level near the Hudson River shore. as in aWtld West movie scen ario, they bound and Bashed mail clerk Thomas Mason and dumped eisht mail sacks on the tracks. Then they disappeared into the night with the bags. Police said today the bags con tained worthless canceled checks, each bag insured at $50. They added that the bandits discarded a mail pouch containing $2,700 in small bills and silver. The bandits apparently jumped on the ll-car New York Central train when it stopped for inspec tion of its air brakes. An interstate alarm was flashed for two men described as in their 20s and wearing dark suits and hats. Both were armed. The BFI joined in the hunt. Mason said the train was mov ing when he managed to free his legs and spit out the cap used to gag him. Then he screamed for help. A tower signalman heard his plea. The train was stopped at the next signal. Mason was taken to a hospital with severe bruises and a -possime- nn fracture.- - - Federal Official Under Suspicion Of Disloyalty WASHINGTON im The Wash ington Post and Times Herald said loaay a U.S. security board has found "reasonable doubt" of the loyalty to this country of William Henry Taylor, an official of the International Monetary Fund. The paper said the finding was made after a hearing by the In ternational Organizations Employ es Loyalty Board. Because the IMF is an international bodv not under U.S. government control, rne ooara s finding was an "advisory recommendation." The agency it self must determine what action, if any, to take. "The board is convinced," the paper quoted its opinion, "that the employe (Taylor) has engaged in espionage and subversive activity against the United States. . . and that he was and possibly still is an adherent to the Communist ideology." Taylor, a native of Canada and a naturalized U.S. citizen, has long fought charges that he was a sub versive. He was named bv Eliza beth Bcntley, a one-time Commu nist spy courier, as one of a group of persons who she said were en gaged in espionage. Umpqua- Forest Timber Sold To Eugene Firm U. S. Plywood Corp. of Eugene was high bidder Wednesday for 1,350,000 board feet of Umpqua National Forest timber located 32 miles southeast of Cottage Grove. The Eugene company paid a to tal of $56,260 for the Douglas fir, pine and hemlock and other spe cies appraised at $28,560. It bid S55 per thousand board feet of Douglas fir and pine appraised at $27.30. The winning bidder paid appraised value of $3.60 for 350.000 of hemlock and other spe cies. Other bidders were Bohemia Lumber Co.. Inc.. Culp Creek: and the Walter Woodard Lumber Co., Cottage Grove. Sanitary District Plan Awaits Election Date Creation of a sanitary district at Green just south of Roseburg came closer to reality Wednesday when a public hearing on the mat ter was held in the county court house. No objections were entered at the hearing, reports Judge Carl C. Hill. He said an order is now being prepared to set a date for an election. ! CLUB LEADER DIES LA JOLLA, Calif, I Mrs. Ruth Ottaway Sokoloff, 68, club- woman and one of the nation's 1 foremost patronesses of music. 1 former president of the National Federal of Music Clubs and pres- I ident of the National Council of I Women, died Wednesday. r-:.--aii'irr'ii-i'iiriiiii'iiiiir'J1'" miririsiiiinniir - " 1 "' ' -imtr ---v-- .-.. Established 1873 24 Pogei ROSEBURG OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 21, 1955 -fr-fr 170-55 PRICE 5c Russ Anxious For Results At Geneva Easing Of East-West Tensions Sought, Ike Reports To Congress GENEVA Wl President Ei senhower, in a dramatic bid for coexistence, propostd Thursday that the United States end Rus sia give each other "a complete blueprint of our military estab lishments." Each of the two major powers then would inspect by air the establishments of the other, the President told the Big Four con ference. His proposal was hail ed by Premier Faure of France and Prime Minister Eden of Britain but Premier Bulgan in of Russia was silent. By MAX HARRELSON GENEVA (fl The Big Four foreign ministers began trying to day to salvage something from the summit conference deadlock on the two issues of German unifica tion and European security. The four government heads at their daily session this afternoon were expected to move on to dis armament discussions, third of the four items on their agenda. An authoritative Western source said that the United States did not plan to offer any specific dis armament proposals, but that Preisdent Eisenhower would re state the long - time American stand that any arms limitation agreement must provide for ef fective inspection and control to prevent violations. This was the major deadlock on the two problems: The West in sisted that German reunification must come first, with an all-European security system including a united Germany to be worked out later. The Russians demanded the security system first, with German unification to follow at some future and probably far distant date. Maor Problems Listed In turning the unification and security problems over to the for eign ministers, their chiefs laid down a specific mission to study (Continued On Page 2 Col. 2) Walter Callahan Hurt In Traffic Accident A 37-year-old Roseburg resident. Walter Callahan of 1800 Hicks Sfc, was reported in "fairly good" con dition at Douglas Community Hos pital Thursday, following a traf fic accident. According to a fellow workman at the Roseburg Memorial Gar dens, the pickup in which Calla han was riding Tuesday afternoon was forced off the road near Suth erlin by the inidentified driver of a logging truck. The pickup rolled into a ditch, he added. Callahan was believed to have suffered a fractured shoulder and an injured neck. He was taken to the hospital Wednesday evening. The accident occurred east of Sutherlin on the Nonpanel Road; according to the workman. . Man Drowns As He Tries To Retrieve Tot's Ball NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. in - Marlin Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y., noticed a little girl's beach ball being carried away in the upper Niagara Kiver. "Don't worry, honey, I'll get it." said the 21-year-old .man as he jumped up from a picnic lunch Wednesday with his wife and friends and dived into the water. He swam after the ball for near ly half a mile, then disappeared. Firemen dragged the river through the afternoon but could not locate the body. Long-Bell Planning Start Of Fourth Plywood Mill PORTLAND fl The fourth plywood mill of the Long-Bell Lum ber Co. will be started at Vaughn in western Lane County of Oregon soon, President J. D. Leland said Wednesday. He said the mill will go into production about March 1, 1956, employing 250 men and turning out 50 million square feet of ply wood a year. The company already has timber holdings and a sawmill there. Dili- r.:i- T BiDi rails io neip. Prisoner Tears It Up HOUSTON . Carl Jackson. 23, charzed with burglary, carried a big Bible as he was escorted into Judge Langston G. King's court. "I've found religion," Jackson announced. The jury gave Jackson 12 years In the penitentiary and he was taken to the court's confinement room. There, courtroom attend ants said, be tor the Bible to shreds. Second Atomic Sub Hits SeaKeel Of Third Laid GROTON, CONN. Wl The Na vy's second atomic submarine the long, lean deadly killer named Seawolf went down the ways to the sea Thursday. Three hours earlier, the keel of a third atomic submarine, as yet unnamed, was laid in a ceremony attended by a relatively few offi cials. The 3,000-ton Seawolf is a trim mer, sleeker ship than the Nauti lus. Unlike the bulbous snout of the Nautilus, the Seawolf has- a sharp bow. The official cost estimate of the Seawolf's hull, minus the atomic power plant, is $32,700,000. The Nautilus is estimated unofficially to have cost about $57,000,000, in cluding the atomic engine which accounted for about half the cost. Tito's Course May Cost Him Further U.S. Help WASHINGTON I The United States was reported Thursday to be considering a halt in aid to Yugoslavia until Marshal Tito's government permits full inspectoin of the use of American weapons. Top State Department and Pen tagon officials are reported ser iously concerned over the Yugo slav's government continued re fusal to permit routine checks by American military inspectors in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia further upset offi cials, it was learned, by indicating it will produce Russian MIG fight ers in Yugoslav factories unless the Western nations allow some of their models to be built in Yugo slavia. These developments combined to cause serious discussion of whether the American economic and mili tary aid program to Yugoslavia should continue. The Senate Appropriations Com mittee Wednesday recommended aid be suspended until the Yugo slavs permit "continuous obser vation and review" of military as sistance as required bv the 1951 aid agreement signed by Yugoslav ia. , . i-o. Shop Guard, Gunman Shot In Holdup Battle . NEW YORK m Two gunmen invaded a Bronx workshop for the partially disabled Wednesday in a vain bid for a $5,000 payroll. They fled empty-handed after a blazing gun battle with a .guard. One of the gunmen, shot in the left shoulder, was nabbed minutes later by an off-duty policeman. Police identified him as Dom nick De Gennaro. 40. Schenectadv. N.Y., recently released from Clin ton state Prison at Dannemora, where he served time for robbery. Wounded in the shooting were the shop guard, Gerald Elliot, 40, and a woman clerical employee, Lottie Friedlander, 40. All were reported in good condition. Some 150 sewing workers, al most all suffering from tubercu losis or heart ailments, hit the floor as gunfire echoed in the halls of Altro Workshops, Inc., run by the Federation of Jewish Philan trophies. MILL WORKER INJURED T. R. Garrison, Glendale, suffer ed a badly lacerated and man gled lower left arm Wednesday aa he worked at the Glendale Lum ber Co., reports News-Review Cor respondent Mrs. G. B. Fox. The correspondent said Garri son caught his arm in a planer early in the afternoon. He receiv ed emergency treatment at the Glendale Clinic and was then transfered 'by ambulance to the Medford Community Hospital. More Farm Revenue Chamber's Agriculture Committee Plans Tour To Inspect Possibilities An untapped agricultural potential in Douglas County, which can considerably boost economy, is believed possible by members of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce's ag riculture committee. i Wednesday, committee members summed up results of a study on farming and allied businesses. They listed three undeveloped areas 1. Development of forage crops to 50,000 acres from the present 10,000 acres, with a corresponding increase in livestock population. 2. An 'up" in production of poul try and eggs. 3. The establishment of a com mercial cannery in central Doug las County. Chamber Secretary - Manager HaroM Hickerson, in reporting for the committee, said it was spon soring a field trip Aug. 3 for sev eral business men. Purpose of the trip up the North Umpqua River would be to allow those participat ing to stop at various farms and inspect agricultural possibilities. Details concerning the tour will be announced later. Increased production of forage crops (lotus, etc.) was considered iiisi ! iwiiii rni Mmr-nri'iim ' ' .,.. ... ... NtA Khrkoh SHOWS AMERICA'S LATEST At Geneva, President Eisenhower, center, right, proudly shows off ah American atomic reactor set up on the grounds of The Palace of Na tions. Among audience were two Russian correspondents of Tass, official Soviet news agency; Union Of Roseburg District BLM Units Given Okay Major recommendations to alter administration of the , Bureau of Land Management's Roseburg District were approved In a meet ing this week by the district ad visory board and sent to the state supervisor in Portland. The recommendations included: Consolidation of the district's two master units and marketing ar eas: consolidation of 16 small ad ministrative units into four large ones; and examination of the pres ent southern boundary of the Doug las master unit and marketing area. . ...!',. . "James' W. Watts, district for ester, also said the board had ap- poved five minor changes in the 1955 timber sale plan. The chang es already are effective and were made necessary Dy a lacK ot ac cess to the sale area or by condi tion of timber. The district now contains two master units and marketing ar easthe South Umpqua and the Douglas, which overlap in the cen tral and south-central part of the district. Effectively, sale of timber In the South Umpqua unit is blocked to mills in the northern part of the Douglas unit. Although these mills (Continued On Page 2 Col. 1) U. S. Sells Last Of Its Ladino Seed Holdings PORTLAND Wl The federal gov ernment disposed of the last of its ladino clover seed holdings Wednesday. The Department of Argiculture. which once held 16 million pounds of the seed, acquired in the price support program, sold the last 8,800,000 pounds to the Continenlial Grain Co. of Portland. The Portland commodity office of the department said the price was 55 cents a pound making the total purchase price nearly five million dollars. The once-booming ladino clover seed business has been dwindling recently. Oregon produced 4 Va mil lion pounds of seed in 1951, but the production was down to 304,000 pounds last year. tremendously Important by the chamber group, Hickerson said. They believe it is possible on larg er acreages in the county. For smaller acreages, committee members suggest egg and poultry production. The hope of bringing a com mercial cannery to the county con tinues. Committee members told Hickerson it could be supplied ade quately by truck from small farms. They estimated it would add a one million dollar payroll in tho county. Dave Rusenbark is chairman of the chamber committee. Others working with him are R. H. Franks, L. L. Chitwood and Homer Grow. Chamber vice president J. Roland Parker also met with the group. Innocence Of Marijuana Averts Prison Sentence SALISBURY. Md. Wl Norris McPherson and Gustavus Miller have learned that what's tea in their native Jamaica is dope in Salisbury. Their innocence saved t n e m from a two-year jail sentence Wednesday on a charge of grow ing marijuana in their gardens. Circuit Judge Rex A, Taylor suspended me semence auer men lawyers told him McPherson and MUlor. didn't know there was a law against cultivating the dope weed. The two farm workers brought seeds of marijuana with them when they came from Jamaica 10 years ago. There, said McPher son's lawyer, it is brewed like tea and used for "all sorts of aches and ailments." The two have been using mari juana since they were 20. McPher son now is 35 and Miller 37. 970,000 More Anti-Polio Vaccine Shots Released WASHINGTON MR The Public Health Service Thursday released approximately 970,000 shots of po lio vaccine produced by the Eli Lilly Co. Surgeon Gen. Leonard A. Scheele said this brings to approximately 3,908,000 shots the amount of polio vaccine approved since revised testing requirements were adopted May 26. The vaccine will be turned over to the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis for distribution. The service reported meanwhile that 565 new polio cases occurred in the country for the week ended July 16. It said this represents a 40 per cent increase over the pre vious week, but noted the increase is not "greatly different" from those in comparative weeks over the last five years. AFL, CIO Take Joint Name In Merger Plan WASHINGTON Ml The last major obstacle to merger of the AFL and the CIO was crossed Wednesday when officials of the two big labor irouos agreed on a name for the combined fedora-1 tion. Short of using the name AFL as that group urged or CIO, the officials settled on the simplest, if somewhat unwieldy, compromise. Their choice: "The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Orjanizations" t h e full names of the existing groups. Presidents George Menny of the AFL and Walter Reuther of the CIO said only procedural details now remain to be worked out he fore formal merger actions to be taken at conventions in New York in December. Corpus Christi Schools Throw Out Segregation CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. 11 This south Texas city of more than 150.000 will no longer bar a student from any public school be cause of race. The 100 per cent compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court ban on segregation in schools was an nounced Wednesday by the board of the Corpus Christi Independent School District. Dr. H. Boyd Hall, Texas Con ference president of the National Assn. for Advancemnt of Color PeoDle. called it "the most per fect decision that has been issued in any of the 48 states." Wage Floor Of $ 1 Hour Awaiting, Effective Date WASHINGTON WV-Only Senate. House agreement on an effective date stood in the way today of final congressional approval of a $l-an-hour federal minimum wage. The House Wednesday overrode, 188-145. President Eisenhower's re quest for a limit of 90 cents an c - j h tnn-heavv ,Borod ti h& XL FZt 3t2 . 5 r wage floor for most workers in Inter state commerce. The present mini mum is 75 cents. The Senate, which previously had approved uie same $1 figure, had voted to make it effective next Jan. 1. The House voted for March 1. The House sent its bill lmmedi atcly to conference with the Sen- age for a compromise on the date. About 24 million workers in in terstate commerce, with certain exceptions and exemptions, now come under the law's provisions. The approved increase would mean a pay hike for an estimated 2,100,000 of them. Another Meeting Slated In Meat Cutters Dispute A meeting of employers and un ion representatives has been sched uled for Friday fcftrnoon in Rose burg to discuss a meat cutters' contract dispute which has been in tho news the past three weeks. A. G. Henmngcr, chairman or the Roseburg Independent Meat Dealers Employers Committee, said he had been notified of the meeting. The dispute Involves Independent markets and Safeway Stores, Inc. The Meat Cutters Union has ask ed for a 40-hour week for journey men at 587.50 por week, plus health and welfare benefits. Members of Local 324 met Wed nesday night with Herbert Smith of Eugene, business agent, but of ficials did not say what transpired. President Stella Sade of Roseburg would make no comment, saying any statement should come from Smith. Smith left early today, presumably to attend a meeting at Coos Bay where meat markets are actually struck, lie could not be reached for comment on the union meeting in Roseburg. Bomb Blast Damages Peron's Political School BUENOS AIRES W A bomb exploded early today in front of Peromsta political school in downtown Buenos Aires, shatter ing windows in the vicinity and damaging a nearby automobile sliuhtlv. There was no immediat report of anv nersons In lured. Police put a cordon around me area of the school, which gives courses In the principles and po litical practices of President Juan Peron's dominant Pcronista par ty. BEER INNOVATION FRANKFURT, Germany Wl To Iho dismay of some old-time Ger man brewmastcrs, a Frankfurt de partment store began selling beer Thursday from automatic coin ma chines. The beer is sold for 30 pfen nigs (7.5 cents) a paper cup. CEMETERY NECKING TABOO LANCASTER, Ohio I Mayor John Harvey has deputized super intendents of three city-owned cemeteries In what the mayor said was an effort to break up vandal ism, drinking, card play and "pot- I ting" on the burial grounds. Searchers Led To Spot Near Cabin By Dogs Cabin Owner Arrested For Probe In Murder Of Stephanie Bryan, 14 WEAVERVILLE, Calif. Wl Bloodhounds led two ranchers and a newspaper reporter-Dhotogranh- er team to the shallow grave of a young girl near Dead Man's Cabin Wednesday night in the wilds of Northern California. Trinity County Sheriff Harold Wilson, called to the scene, tenta tively identified the body as that of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Bryan of Berkeley, Calif. She has been missing since April 28. Arrested for investigation of murder and kidnaping was Burton Abbott, slender 29-year-old Univer sity of California graduate student under treatment for tuberculosis. Abbott's family owns the moun tain cabin near here where the body was found. He used the cabin on weekends and has main tained consistently that he was here on a fishing trip the day th school girl disappeared. When he was arrested and In formed of the discovery of the body, Abbott exclaimed: "It just can't be. I just can't understand how it got there. I don't know anything about it. I'm stiU stay ing with my story." Girl's Effects In Cellar In the basement of Abbott's rented home in Alameda last week his wife found a red leather purse which was identified as belonging to Stephanie. Police subsequently (Continued on Page 2 Col. 5) Bloodhounds Called In Idaho Search Two registered bloodhounds and owner Dallas Bennett were in Mc- i-au, luano, loaay to help search for a 5-year-old youngster, missing since Tuesday. -ennett was contacted through McCall city police and state po lice in Roseburg late Wednesday night, and left immediately by car for Idaho. CASCADE. Idaho Us A S-vean. old boy who disappeared on a fish- uig irip wiui nis granoiauier was sougni in me woods north of Cas cade rnursday. More man zoo volunteers helped state police and sheriff' officers in an unsuccessful search for Pat Cochran of McCalJ Wednesday. Scratched and bruised by a nightlong search through the woods. Bill Fitzwater, grandfather of the missing boy, drove to Cas cade Wednesday afternoon to re port him missing. His car went into a ditoh en route to Cascade. delaying him several hours. Fitzwater said the bov. son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cochran, had wandered away the previous eve ning. It was feared he might have drowned in Deinhart Reservoir. Roseburg 8th In Value Of New Construction Roseburg stands eighth among cities of Oregon in valuation of new construction started during the first six months of 1955. fig ures supplied by the Equitable Savings Loan Assn., Portland, reveal. Statistics also show valuation of building permit issued bv the Citv of Roseburg during the, period was a per cent over tne amount is. sued during the same period in 1954. To date, the city has written $1.- 226,512 in permits, compared to $963,438 in the first six months last year. This year. Roseburg stands be hind Portland, Salem, Eugene, Bend, Medford, Pendleton and Springfield in permits. Tho city followed the pattern re corded throughout the Northwest so far this year for increased con struction activities. In permits for new dwellings, Roseburg was 10th, with $436,675. In the first six months of 1954, the figure was only $129,300, an increase in 1955 of 238 per cent. Vinston Woman On Mend From Traffic Injuries Mrs. Darwin DeHart, Winston, was reported recovering satisfac torily today from injuries received in a traffic accident Wednesday at Winston. Mrs. Dcnart was taken to Com munity Hospital for treatment of head lacerations and bruises after the car she was driving was struck by a truck. State police said the truck, driven by Neal J. King, Myrtle Creek, hit the DeHart car as both vehicles headed north. Officeri said Mrs. DeHart apparently start ed to turn off the highway without signalling. Mrs. DeHart was knock ed unconscious in the mishap, but not seriously injured. Levity F0ct Rant By L. F. Relzenstein "Ignorance of the law ex cuses no man," but, in thes days of tinkered statutes burst ing at the seams, mosr crim inals no longer worry about that; they dodgo tht peniten tiary by ducking through the abundance of tht law's loopholes.