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t 0 Wed., Aug. 10, 19552 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. . Kiwanis Summer Theater Series Concludes Thursday The 1955 edition of "Club In time," a review featuring Univers ity of Oregon theatrical personal ities, will he presented in Rose burg Thursday at 8:15 p.m. The production is the concluding offering of the current Kiwanis Summer Theater series. It will be aiven in the newly-decorated Cen tral Junior High School. "Club Intime" is a night-club style revue. Tables will be set up in the auditorium of the j u n i o r high, according to Kiwanis spokes man Ken Bushey. Popcorn and soft drinks will be sold during the performance. Featured entertainers include Tenmile's Gordon Howard and Eugene's Audrey Mistretta. Miss Mistretta, former Miss Oregon, u featured vocalist with the revue naloh DeCoursey will direct the "Club Intime" orchestra. Master of ceremonies is Mark Tanscott Tickets may be purchased at Harmony House. 201 W. Cass St., or at the door. Proceeds from the production go towards Kiwanis youth work. Agreement Signed For Myrtle Creek Street Paving An agreement was signed by the Myrtle Creek City Council Tuesday night that virtually as sures paving of Riverside Drive in Myrtle Creek. The council voted to pay Wine trout Ford Sales $1,340 for about nine-tenths of an acre running along Riverside Drive, thus widen ing the right-of-way. This was the last barrier to county paving of the street, which is now heavily rutted. The county has promised to raise the street, pave it and build a new bridge at the juncture of Riverside Drive and f orest Koad. The county stimulated it would build the road and bridge if the city would obtain the prop erly where Hignway aa meets kiv erside Drive to allow log trucks to turn on and off the highway eas ier. Tho city will install a bigger wa ter main across Riverside Drive to allow additional water for the Weaver Addition, according to cor respondent Ruth M. Evns. In other action Tuesday, the council awarded a contract for a new city pickup truck to Sig Fctt Internation of Roieburg. Bid price was not immediately avail able. Other bidders were Young Sales of Myrtle Creek and Barcus Sales Ic Service of Roseburg. Northwest Will Receive 42,069 Units Of Serum WASHINGTON 11 The Pacilic Northwest and Alaska will receive a total of 42,069 cubic centimeters of new batch of Salk polio vac cine released by the U.S. Public Health Service Tuesday. The service said it was making available 1,177,068 shots of the vaccine for use by state or local public agencies or private physi cians, in the 48 states and the ter ritories. Of the total, Washington will be allocated 22,410 cubic centimeters Oregon 14,514, Idaho 4,392, and Alaska 753. The vaccine was made by Wyeth Laboratories of Marietta, Pa. HOTEL GRAND Cass and Rose Sts. . Limited Number Of Weekly Rate Rooms 9.50 and up Hot and cold water each room. Lavatoriei, tub and shower each floor. Elavator and coffee shop. mm. , I mmer DELUXE AERO-DYNE WAS $9750((ft95 NOW ONLY Xfjji 1853 N. Stephens v J ' '4 AUDREY MISTRETTA , . . long stylist GORDON HOWARD . , featured performer Farm Family Contest Entry Deadline Friday Cnlnn. in Iha "nmiirlna rniinlu 1T9,.m 1,'amil., Af I'd Vits." flnnU.I must be mailed to county fair Manager Dick Turley today. Official' deadline time, is as pre viously announced, Aug. 10, Turley said. He has received five entries from various sectors of the coun- inis la the second year a tarm family will be honored at the Doug las County Fair Aug. M-28. There Is no entry fee. Some blanks may still be available at granges, Tur ley said. He has a few at the fair grounds which may be nicked up. The winning family will be chos en on participation in organiza tions, fairs, general farming and homcmaking abilities. The honored group will receive an engraved plaque and an expense paid trip to the Oregon Stale Fair. The contest is open to any farm family in the counly, "whether or not they are a member of any agricultural organization. Mohammed Ali Asked To Form New Government KARACHI. Pakistan Ifl Chau- dhri Mohammed Ali, new head of the Moslem League party, was asked today to form 1 new Pakis tan government. Acting Oov. Gen. Iskandcr Mirza called on Chaudhri, a key govern ment figure since Pakistan s founding In 1947, to take up Ihe task. Mohammed Ali, previous leader of the Moslem League, resigned as prime minister after the league elected Ohaudhrl as its head Sun day. Formerly ambassador to Washington, Mohammed All had been Pakistan's third prime min ister since April 1953. Z r itff ( ' .'to V ' 1 1 r 'ik, ' mmummm ' Jw- 'rili'T'iaJ Phone 3-3162 Upper Olalla Road Section To Be Rebuilt Rebuilding of a stretch of Upper Olalia Koad sou in of Highway n was scheduled to get under way Wednesday, according to Floyd C. Frear, county road engineer. Another rebuilding job, on Reu ben Koad near Ulendale, was started Monday, and work on the Medleys-Kikhead section between London Hill and Oakland is being complete. The Olalla and Reuben jobs will take two or three months to com plete, Frear said. Both involve widening and realignment. About two miles is involved on the Olalla Road, between the steel and covered bridges south of junc tion with the main road. A new grade will be put in so that it will be above high water in winter. The job on Reuben Road covers about five miles between the junc tion at (he east edge of Glendale and Reuben to the northwest. Be yond Reuben, the gravel road stretches on to West Fork and be- vond, but is property of the Robert Dollar Co. afler that ooint. Surface work is be'ng wrapoed up on the other project, on the mud connecting Oakland and Cot- Use Grove and running east of Highway 99. Involved was a stretch of about one mile at Pinkslnn Hill where an 18 ner cent grai was cut to 7 per cent, Frear said. Three Roseburg Residents Hurt In Accidents Three Roseburg residents were in Douglas Community Hospital Wednesday following mishaps' Tuesday. Miss Esther Fjeldscth, 702 S. Pine Ft., suffered a broken hip when she fell from a chair. The former hostess at the Hotel Ump- oua is reported lo be getting along as good as can be expected dv hospital personnel. Elmo Fryer, 33, was struck by a tree limb as he worked at a United States Plywood Corp. log ging operation up Utile River, ac cording lo fellow employes. He re ceived a fractured vertebra. His condition is "good." William Kohlhoff, IB, injured his right hand as he morning. He was fished Tuesday I in "good' con - dition at the hospital According to Community Hospi tal personnel Mr. and Mrs. Theo dore Monroe were getting along line Wednesday. They were brought to Ihe hospital Monday night by a passing motorist after Iheir car had struck a telephone pole on Tipton Road. They were m'slakenly renorlr-d In have been tuken to Mercy Hospital. RHS Choral Director New Chapter President Robert K. Robins, Roseburg Hiflh School choral director, was I initialed and installed as the first president of Theta Lambda Chap ter of Kappa Delta Pi, an honor society in education, in cremonies on the Willamette University cam pus in Salem recently. Willamette became the second college in Oregon lo receive a charier from the national organiza tion. Dr. John J. llarton, execu tive first vice president and a member of the faculjy of Fresno Mate College, installed the chap ter. Nineteen charter members were initiated into the group, with a delegation of Kappa Delta Pi members from Oregon State Col lege assisting. Robins is a graduate student In music edicalion on Ihe Salem cam pus for the summer session. Five Polio Cases Occur At Boys' Summer Camp BOSTON wi Five cases of polio were reported among 114 boys at tending a summer camp at Mid dleboro, Mass. The report calm as the 105S polio total in the six New England slates rose to 1,189 compared with 240 in the corresponding period last year. The disease has taken 34 lives. Dr. William Fishnian. director of Camp Avoda at Middlehoro, which caters lo boys from New York and Boston, said he h a d written the young campers' par ents advising them that every pre caution is being taken. MEETING TONIGHT The Roseburg Assn. for Retarded Children will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the Weslside Christian Church. All interested persons are urged to atlend. "To keep shirts fresh o new, you can't beat City Cleaners." I for pt r i 'for ptrlicybrpeopU CLEANERS 417' i E. 2nd Av. S. Phono OR 3-4596 10 DISCOUNT FOR CASH & CARRY I ; -W' CALLING TOKYO Una Schmidt-Fine, 20, held her son Danny Schmidt Jr., 2'2, closely as she waited in her attorney s office in Nevada City, Calif., to folk to her first husband, Airman 2. C. Daniel C. Schmidt, in Tokyo. Schmidt is one of eleven air men freed from a Red Chinese prison last week. His wife said she married Alford Fine believing Schmidt was dead. (AP WIREPHOTO) Una Schmidt Notified In June, Says Air Force WASHINGTON, tm The Air Force says it sent a telegram and letter to Airs. Una Schmidt in June 1954 to notify her that her airman husband Daniel C. Schmidt was reported a prisoner in Red China. Mrs. Schmidt has told reporters that not until November 1954 was she notified Schmidt was a prison er of war. That was two months after she had married Alford Fine, 21, she said, in the belief Schmidt was dead. Schmidl, 22, Is one of 11 Ameri can airmen recently released bv the Communists. They are sched- uled to arrive Friday at Travis Air Force base near San Fran cisco. Hurricane Connie Lays Off Carolina Coast (Continued from Page One) Canada. Most hurricanes blow themselves out shortly after they reach land. But after Hazel, , no chances were being taken. Towering waves and high tides already pounded the North Caro lina shore and hard tropical show ers pelted residents and vacation ers moving to safety away from the beaches. Beaches took on a deserted look of winter. The entire cast coast from Sa vannah, Ga., to Provincetown, Mass., was under hurricane alert. Rough seas were reported all along Ihe area. Crowded automobiles, piled high with belongings, moved away from the Carolina beaches. High water lapped protective sand dunes and beach front homes long before the storm arrived. Two men already have died in directly as a result of Connie. Their Navy plane crashed at Nor folk, va., as they sought to evac uate it to safety Inland. Air Force, Marine and Navy planes all along the eastern sea board were put in hangars or flown inland to safety. Navy ships put to sea to ride out the storm rather than be battered anainst docks. The supercarrier Forrestal, still unfinished at New port News, Va., was made as se cure as possible in her berth. RUMMAGE SALE SET The Roseburg WCTU will hold a rummage and cooked food sa e Saturday at the Spruce plant of the Douglas County rarm Bureau Co-op Exchange, The sale will be gin at 8 a.m Making "correct decis ions" is tho most im portant step in pro ductive investing of your money. Would You Like Us to Analyii Your Present Securities or Savings Program? Please phone Eugene 5-4301 collect, for any investment in formation or to set up an ap pointment with Mr. Robert J. Wise either in Roseburg or Eugene. iNvtitMiRT sic veitiis ;vvy 11 sreilt tUOtNl, OfriCtJ, tail Ultm Two Dignitaries Expected At Milo Academy Program If plans for the official dedica tion of the new Milo Seventh-day Adventist Academy materialize, two major dignitaries will be on hand Sept. 11. Invitations have tentatively been accepted by World Seventh-day Ad ventist President R. R. Fighur of Washington, D.C., and Oregon's Gov. Paul Patterson. Complete program will be an nounced later by Elder L. E. Biggs, head of the Oregon SDA confer ence. The Milo Academy, three years under construction, will open its doors to its first pupils- Sept. 6. Principal L. E. Russell said only about 175 pupils will be admitted this year because of lack of work opportunities to aid them in r- iiie their room, board and tuit' i The school will have a capacity . about 300. Enrollment at the board ing school will include about 83 girls and 82 boys. He also reported that the faculty of 18 is complete. . Buildings and grounds in t h e scenic South Umpqua Valley about 17 miles east of Canyonville have already cost about $750,000. The conference expects to spend about $500,000 more before the academy is compleled. Defiant Convicts Flood Jail Cells, Cause Damage YAKIMA, Wash. Ifl Eighteen defiant convicts, transferred here after last month's state peniten tiary rebellion, flooded their Yak ima County jail cells and caused other m'nor Hamate in another shortlived uprising Tuesday night. Sheriff Bert Guns said Ihe small scale riot started when the men refused lo surrender a hacksaw blpde officers 'earned had bepn smuggled into the wuarters on the fonrlh floor of the county jail. Guns said the uorisin? was put down when State Patrolmen, who joined counly and citv authorities in surrounding the jail, threatened to use tear gas. The sheriff said he learned early in the evening from a source he refused to reveal that Ihe hacksaw Wade was in the jail. He ordered lh men to surrender the blade telling them (hey would go hungry ii p I ' I they did so. The men shoufed defiance, he said, flooded their cells by stoopin? uo sinks and toilets, and ripped no maltresses. They quieted down, however, when slate patrolmen threatened to use tear aas. Later the hacksaw blade was handed lo a guard. The convicts, described bv state orison authorities as leaders of last month's rehellion, are here awaiting transfer to a new maxi mum security ward under con struction at Eastern Stale Hospital at Medical Lake. CAR PLUNGE FATAL HOOD RIVER in The plunge of a car from a 300-foot bluff five miles south of here Monday nighl killed Earl Neal, 39, believed to have been a migrant farm worker from Peoria and Wyoming, III. BUS PLUNGE KILLS 10 SEOUL (jfl A crowded bus plunged over a cliff yesterday and carried 10 passengers to t ft i r deaths 90 miles south of Seoul. Twenty others of Ihe 50 passen gers were injured sriously. STATUS ELEVATED WASHINGTON UK The United Stales and the lndochinese king dom of Laos announced today Ihey are raising their diplomatic missions in each other'a capital lo the status of embassies. That is the top category. Here tofore Ihe missions have been legations. YOUTHS REMANDED Two Riddle youths, 14 and IS, have been remanded t ojuvenile court on charges of taking and using an auto without the consent of the owner. The boys were ar raigned Tuesday following their ar rest by a sheriff's officer. INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIVE IN ROSEBURG ROBERT J. WISE Mr, Win it in ftoitburg and Myrtlt Crtvh Thursday tnti Friday bringing you finan cial in forma I ion bottd on lh coniftUtt fociliiiti af In Zilka, Smithar and Co. rgani lotion. OCIOON PttONI J 410I Mttffwe tv. Democrat Claims Ike Too .Old For Office (Continued from Page One) er runs and is reelected, he will become the nation's oldest presi dent before he completes a new four year term. "Under normal circumstances, political parties probably would not choose such a man." Williams said. "But the Republicans prob ably are going to force him to run." Williams' statements provoked soeedy response from Republican Govs. Langlie and Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland. Langlie said thathv raising the issue of Eisenhower's age Wil liams was "slanderine some of the finest workers and finest minds of the country." "In our present stage of national nealtn, the President is not as oia as men of SO or SS who held the iob years aro," I.anslie said. "Anvone is being political or naive when he talks about the Presi dent's being too old to serve after the iob he has done. McKeldin said he regards the renomination and reelection of Ei senhower and Vice President Nix on as "mevitable." add'ng that he is 100 per cent for such a ticket and has no asoirations of his own. "So far as the President is con cerned, age is not a matter of vears. a matter of spirit," he said. "The President's spirit is as young, inspiring and stimulating as it wps years ao when he first began to serve his country. "The complete knowledge of his job that he has gained, plus the confidence the leaders of the world and the peoDle of the United States have in him makes his renomi nation. and reelection inevitable." Bodv Of Susan Ball Is Viewed By Hundreds GLENDALE, Calif. UH The body of actress Suzan Ball, clad in her wedding gown, was viewed by hundreds as it lay in state Tues day. Some two thousand were expect ed to file past her bier before the 2 p.m. funeral service for the 21-year-old actress who succumbed last Friday to cancer. The disease previously had caused amputation of her right leg, but she married and resumed 'her career. Board Supports WCA's Application For Line SALEM 11 The Oregon Slate Aeronautics Board is supporting the application by West Coast Air lines for permission to have pas senger service between Klamath Falls and Boise, Director Earl Snyder said Tuesday. Snyder said the service, especi ally on the section between Burns and Lakeview, would provide need ed service in Southeastern Oregon. The airline has applied-to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Roseburg, Oregon Phone OR 3-5553 SEE THEM AT WARDS AMERICA'S FAVORITE SHOES Wide CHorfmenf It's easy to understand why these handsome Fall Thorn MeAn's are ideal for back-fo-campus wear. Their luxu rious comfort and smart styling in soft brown leathers, make them an outstanding value. Come in to Wards todoy, and try on a pair. You'll agree they're topsl BUY WARDS COUPON BOOKS ON TERMS SPEND LIKE CASH Thursday Services Set For George Simpson Funeral services for George Hen ry Simpson, 61, Canyonville, who died suddenly Monday evening in Canyonville. will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Ganz Mortuary, Myrtle Creek. The Rev. F. Gene Elliott of Can yonville will officiate. Interment will follow in the Masonic ceme tery in Canyonville. George Simpson was born March 12. 1894. He moved to Canyon ville in 1941. Survivors include thiee daugh ters: Mrs. James Merwin and Mrs. Arleigh Kenyon, both of Col lage Grove, and Mrs. Robert Decker, Missouri; five sons: Harry and Bill, both of Ashland; Law rence, Lorane; Eugene, Coquille; and Carl who is with the U.S. Navy In San Francisco. Spanish-American Vet To Be Buried Friday Funeral services for George A Clark. Spanish-American War vet eran who died Tuesday, will be held in the Chapel of the Roses, Roseburg, Funeral Home, Friday, at 11 a.m. The Rev. Newell Mor gan of the First Christian Church will officiate in the absence of Clark's regular minister. Interment will follow in the Odd fellows Cemetery. Airmen Winging Way Over Ocean TOKYO, Ifl - Eleven U. S. Air men who spent 32 long months in Communist captivity sped east ward across the Pacific home and family today. Two plush C54 air transports one Gen. Douglas MacArthur's famed Bataan left Tachikavva Air Base with the men early this afternoon. After a 27-hour layover in Hawaii they are due at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Friday morning. Aboard the Bataan are Col. John Knox Arnold Jr., Capt. John Vaadi, Capt. Elmer F. Llewellyn, Airman Harry M. Benjamin Jr. and Airman John W. Thompson III. The second group, in a sisler ship decorated and outfitted ex actly 'ike the Bataan, includpd Maj. William H. Abumer, I,t. Wal lace L. Brown, Lt. John W. Buck, T. Sgl. Howard W. Brown, Air man Steven E. K'ba and Airman Daniel C. Schmidt. LOCAL NEWS To Meet The auxiliary to the Douglas County Sheriff's Posse will hold a meeting following t lie , potluck dinner to be held at the fairgrounds Thursday night. 7.95 Harry Slater Dies Monday Harrv Slater. Riddle, died Mon day in a Roseburg hospital, fol lowing a lingering illness. Funeral arrangements will ba announced later by Gam Mortu ary, Myrtle Creek, following ar rival of relatives., Drowning Victim's Funeral Saturday Robert B. Fields, 32, drowned Aug. 6, was born Sept. 25, 1922, in Goldsboro, N.C. He was a for mer resident of Los Angeles and Sacramento. He and his family had lived here three years ago, moving back lo Sacramento to live until two weks ago when they re turned to this community to make their home. He was an employe of the Acme Roofing Co. and was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Rose; Roseburg; two sons, Robert Jr. and Michael John, both of Rose burg: a daughter, Linda Judith, Roseburg; his mother, Mrs. Ida Fields, Golsboro, N.C; a brother, the Rev. Luby Fields of the Bap tist Church in Wilson, N.C; two sisters. Mrs. Christine Grey and Mrs. Marie Brock, both of Golds boro, N.C. Funeral services will be held in The Chapel of the Roses, Rose burg Funeral Home, Saturday, Aug. 13, at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mr. Henry Fox of me r irst Baptise Church will officiate. George Stackhouse Hurt In Lumber Mill Accident George Stackhouse, an employe of Dollar and Patterson Co. of Glendale, was treated and released Tuesday after he was struck by an A -log loading frame at the com pany's operations 17 miles west of town. The frame had been loaded on a truck for moving and toppled over hilling Stackhouse on the back and back of h'S head, reports corres pondent Mrs. G. B. Fox. x-ray revealed no iraciures. But Stackhouse suffered' mulliple bruises, Mrs. Fox said. Grand Opening This Week! FREE GIFTS! Gosiine Jewelers '106 S. Jackson Sizes 7 to 1 1
