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QUEEN BETTY LEWIS
... rules over Timber Dayi
Betty Lewis Rules As Queen
Of Timber Days Celebration
Saturday
. Remaining Events
3:30 p.m. Truck Rodeo
4:30 p.m. Power Saw Elim.
9:00 p.m. Dance at High School
square and street dance
Sunday
11:30 a.m. Mounted Games
1:00 p.m. Washer Contest
1:15 p.m. Loggers Contest,
main events.
Lesta Follett
Buys Riversdale
Sanitarium Here
Lesta Follett, who has managed
the business activities at Rivers
dale Sanitarium west of Roseburg
ifor the last four years, has bought
, it from Dr. A. B. Munroe of Rose
burg. Mrs. Follett leased the property
on Curry Road on which the sani
tarium is located four years ago.
She directed construction of jt and
lias since had the business end of
the operation. She has now purch
ased the property outright.
The sanitarium is located about
1V4 miles off Garden Valley Road
on Curry Road. It is a 16-room op
eration designed to serve 36 peo
ple. It serves as a convalescent
and nursing home for patients
of all ages.
Mrs. Follett is a licensed prac
tical nurse. Her supervisor is Nell
Sullivan, a registered nurse.
The new owner is a member of
the Oregon Licensed Nursing
Home Assn., the National Nursing
Home Assn. and is licensed by
the Oregon State Board of Health.
HANFORD TO SPEAK
A Roseburg physician, Dr. Roy
Hanford, has been selected by the
Oregon State Medical Assn. to
speak on hand surgery a topic
lately publicized in tlte Saturday
Evening Post at an association
conference in Portland on Aug. 27.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Teletype chatter:
Adlai Stevenson tells newsmen
in Chicago that he'll disclose his
political plans by the end of No
vember. Referring to whether he
will seek the Democratic nomina
tion next year, he said:
"I'll do what is best for my
party and not what I think is
necessarily best for myself."
Thai's HIS side of it to which
he is fully entitled. Let's now get
OUR side of it straight.
In order to do that, we must
regard Mr. Stevenson as a pros
pective employee who wants
job. We the citizens and the
voters are PROSPECTIVE
EMPOYERS.
As employers, we want the best
possible man for the job.
That's our side of it.
There are two theories of pol
itics: 1. To the victors belong the
spoils.
2. The people are entitled to the
BEST POSSIBLE government. -
1 prefer Theory No. 2.
Wild Woman Connie has a
youneer sister. Her name is Di
ane. Connie and Diane like all
their tribe were born down in
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The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Sunday.
Littlt warmer during tha a f tar
noon. Higheit temp, last J4 hours 74
Lowest tamp, last 24 hours ..... 47
Highest temp, any August 104
Lowait temp, any August .. 39
Prtcip. Iat 24 hours 0
Precip. from Aug. 1 T
Precii. from Sept. 1 . .V
Deficiency from Sept. . 7.47
Sunset tonight, 7:1 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 5:17 a.m.
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Charming Betty Lewis of Glide
was crowned Douglas County Tim
ber Days queen at the queens.
coronation last night in Sutherlin.
Miss Lewis received a $300
wardrobe from Lowell's in Rose
burg. Sutherlin's Judy Grabow wa s
first princess, Norma Thiele, Rose
burg, was second prmcess and
Waylis Havron, Riddle, and Betty
Jo Moore, Wilbur, were third a,nd
fourth.
George Trumbo of Sutherlin
Drugs won the award for the out
standing window display. He
was judged winner by a com
mittee made up of Don Morgan,
Roseburg; Deputy Sheriff John
McCool, Drain; and L. K. Corn
well, Roseburg.
A little sideline to the Timber
Days celebration concerned State
Treasurer, Sig Unander. Unander
went fishing Friday afternoon
just below Winchester Bridge on
the North Umpqua River and
snagged a 17-ineh trout. Later that
evening he was featured speaker
at the Timber Days queen's ban
quet. His topic for the evening
was Oregon history.
Thomas Moore
Pleads Innocent
Thomas James Moore, former
resident deputy sheriff at Canyon
ville, pleaded innocent in district
court Saturday when arraigned on
a cnarge ne defrauded the county
of $75.
Judge Warren A. Woodruff set a
tentative trial date of Aug. 29 and
reduced bail from SI ,000 to $500.
Attorney Fred Bernau, repre
senting Moore, requested a reduc
tion in bail, stating that the de
fendant desires to return to Al
bany to work.
Moore, 52. was returned here
from Albany Thursday evening to
face the charge of being a "trus
tee converting subject matter of
trust." Specifically, it is alleged
Moore misused a $25 monthly trail
er house rental allowance given
him by the sheriff's office.
Eugene Wyatt of Glendale has
replaced Moore as rtenntv in
! southern Douglas County.
Hanna Company Grants
Employes Wage Increase
Hanna Nickel Smelting Co. and
Hanna Coal and Ore employes
hate been granted a wage in
crease retroactive to Aug. 1, ac
cording to a report from the Rid
dle News.
The News says the increase in
wages ranged trom llVi cents an
hour to 18 cents through the waye
scale. Before the increase the
wages involved ranged trom $1.75
to 2.40 hourly.
Representatives at negotiations
were: Hugh Matthews ot Seattle,
union sub-district director; James
Menzie of Portland, international
representative and John Rusen,
Charles Mann and Ed Franklin
of the Local 5074, United Steel
workers of America.
Plant Manager Earl S. Mollard
represented the companies.
Jailed Nazi Spy Will
Be Deported To Germany
WASHINGTON i-Eric Gim
pel, one of two Nazi spies who
sneaked into this country from a
German submarine during World
War II, was bound for his native
Germany today.
The Justice Department an
nounced yesterday that Gimpel,
now 46, was deported under pro
ceedings that had begun in April,
1947.
I The order said that Gimpel was
Reportable because "at the time
'of his entry, he was an immigrant
,not in possession of valid entry
papers." He was taken from the
Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga., to
New York City and placed aboard
the S.S. Italia, which sailed yes
terday. His companion. William C o 1 e
psush, 37. who was born in the
l.'nitcd States, is in Federal Prison
at Leavenworth, Kan.
yngman
Urges Peaceful
Ouster Of Red
Truce Delegates
By BILL SHINN
SEOUL ( President Syngman
Rhee Saturday lifted the midnight
deadline of his ultimatum demand
for neutral nations truce super
visors to get out of Korea. He ad
vised against violent demonstra
tions. Rhee said he acted on assurance
from Assistant Secretary of Stats
Walter Robertson that the U.S.
government "will ' make efforts
soon" to seek peaceful withdrawal
of the four-nation truce commis
sion. He said Robertson gave the as
surance in a letter.
"Our people at this time should
be patient about everything," Rhee
said, in a statement.
"We might be misunderstood if
the demonstrations continued until
all the members of the Neutral
Nations Supervisory Commission
leave Korea."
Rhee's statement, broadcast in
Korea two hours before the mid
night deadline, was released bv
the government office of public in
formation. It followed three mob assaults on
the Wolmi Island truce team com
pound m Inchon Harbor. The last
two attacks were stopped at a
sand bag barricade thrown across
a causeway linking Wolm to tin
mainland.
U.S. guards, reinforced by po
lice dogs, drove back the demon
strators with smoke grenades, tear
gas and high pressure water hos
es. Rhee, charging Polish and Czech
members of the NNSC are Com
munist spies, had demanded that
they leave by midnight.
Thomas Mann, 80,
Writer, Passes
ZURICH, Switzerland, Ml Thom
as Mann, 80, famed German-born
author whose bodks were burned
by the thousands in Hitler's Reich,
died last night following a heart
attack.
Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel
Prize for literature, left Germany
shortly after Hitler came to pow
er. He went to the United States
before World War II and became
an American citizen in 1944.
Mann came back to Eurooe In
1953 after 15 years in the United
Stales. He said he had "the urgent
desire to re-establish and cultivate
the contact with the old soil of
Europe."
Mann, his wife, Katja, and their
daughter, Ericka, had lived in a
small house overlooking the lake
of Zurich.
Mann's first novel, "Budden
brooks," written 54 years ago, was
described by him as the "finest
success of my life." He said the
novel gave him "the necessary
self confidence as an author."
Local DAR Represented
At Cornerstone Laying
Mrs. Celia Day, Mrs. Ray Pet
riquin and Mrs. Lester Nielsen,
regent, are representing the Ump
qua chapter of Roseburg Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
at the cornerstone-laying and coun
try fair today at the Champoeg
state park. It was sponsored by
the Oregon society of the DAR.
The cornerstone was re-laid at
the old Robert Newell home in
! Champoeg by Secretary of the
; Interior Douglas McKay. The
jhome is being restored by the so
ciety as one of its major projects.
'.It is the only Champoeg dwelling
mat survivca me nooa ot 1861.
Following t h e ceremony, at
which Gov. Paul Patterson and
other dignitaries also were in at
tendance, a country cafeteria and
fair were being held at the DAR
memorial cabin grounds.
Student Body Presidents
Are Attending Workshop
Two Douglas County high school
student body presidents will be at
the University of Oregon this week
jend to attend a special student
I council workshop to be held at
i the Erb Memorial Union Build
ing.
They are Bob Bradley of Rose
burg and Bob McClellan of Camas
Valley. The workshop is co-sponsored
by the Oregon Assn. of Stu
dent Councils and the State Dept.
of Education.
DAM AO 6 TRIAL ON
The Medford federal district
court is now hearing a case In
which Nancy J. Copeland is suing
Montgomery Ward Co. for injur
ies allegedly received when she
slipped and fell in the Roehurg
branch of the store. Judge James
Alger Fee is presiding at the
hearing.
Rhee Lifts Ultimatum
J.-? -v a1 .'
NEW BUSINESS AGENT of
Local 2949 of the AFL Lum
ber & Sawmill Workers in
Roseburg is Henry Weber,
above. He succeeds Ted
Prusia, who was recently elect
ed executive secretary of the
Willamette District Council of
the LSW. .(Paul Jenkins pic
ture) Pleasure Craft
Dashed To Pieces;
10 Die, 4 Missing
NORTH BEACH, Md. WS-An an
cient schooner off on a pleasure
cruise was pounded to pieces in
storm-1 ashed Chesapeake Bay,
leaving 10 dead and 4 missing to
day.
Thirteen others were dramatical
ly rescued Friday by firemen,
police. National Guardsmen ana
civilian volunteers who poured into
this beach resort 30 miles south
east of Washington, D.C.
Six of the 13 were rescued by
two men who went down to the
beach "to see if -we could lend a
hand" and stayed to ferry them
two at a time in a 14-foot skiff
through waves as high as a man.
There was nothinz left of the
boat, the Levin J. Marvel out of
Annapolis, Md., except a iragment
of her cabin and debris wlucn lit
tered the spongy sand.
"I didn't see a bit of wreckage
bigger than a door," said one po
lice officer. "She must have taken
a terrific beating."
The 10 dead included men, 3
women and a 9-year-old girL Most
of them were from New York.
The 13 survivors included John
Mechling, 38-year-old skipper of
the Marvel, and his three crew
men, all of Annapolis.
Alarm At VA Hospital
Has Va ried Purposes
There Is no need for distress
when an alarm rings or is sounded
at the Roseburg Veterans Hospital.
This was the report today trom
Ralph Church, personnel director,
to allay any fears of people in the
area. He said it docs not mean a
violent patient has escaped. He
said the method of finding missing
patients is far less spectacular.
The police are informed and so
is the family. "Most come back
on their own volition, however,"
he said.
The alarms at the hospital are
used for two purposed. The first
is for fire drills and the second
is to call an employe who is at
another part of the grounds.
ANKLE INJURED
Merle F. Whitten, Roseburg,
was injured this week when his
ankle was mashed between two
blocks at the Youngs Bay Lumber
Co.. Roseburg.
Whilten was taken to Douglas
Community Hospital. His condi
tion was described as good by
hospital attendants.
Sec. McKay Cites Limitation
Of Federal Participation
In Restoring Historic Sites
CHAMPOEG, Ore. tm Secre-
..(- nt lnlari,, M f k' 3 W HfwtifatAft
I another historical site Saturday,
but warned "there is a limit to
what the federal government can
and should do in the field of pre
serving historic sites."
McKay said the Department of
Interior "finds that its limited ap
propriations are scarcely adequate
for the proper care and develop
ment" of the 123 historical prop
erties now administered by the de
partment.
"Far from seeking new acquMl
tions, the Department of the Inter-
ior is conducting a reappraisal of
some of these areas to see if they
might not be more properly ad
I ministered by state or local gov
ernment." McKay said in a
i speech r.repared for delivery at the
i dedication of the pioneer Robert
I Newell house at Champoeg, where
President Signs
Minimum Pay,
Polio Measures
WASHINGTON HI President
Eisenhower has signed laws pro
viding a new SI an hour minimum
wage and free polio vaccine, and
neared the end of the hundreds
of bills Congress sent to him
Only three bills were left today
on which action was pending.
These concerned the Washington
transit strike, land for a Colorado
River project and continued
stock-piling of some domestic min
erals. Aides said the President
wanted more information on them.
No exact count of bills signed
or vetoed has been made yet. The
President has been working on
hundreds at his White House of
fice and Gettysburg, Pa., farm
home since Congress adjourned
Aug. 3.
The new minimum wage, effec
tive next March 1, applies to 24-
miliion workers covered by the
Federal Fair Labor Standards
Act. It is expected to mean wagp
increases for about 2,100,000 em
ployes, mostly in the South. The
old minimum was 75 cents an
hour. Eisenhower had recommend
ed a 90-cent minimum. Union la
bor leaders wanted $1.25.
The polio bill provides 30 million
dollars to be allocated to the
states to provide free polio vaccina
unaor state programs. Allocations
will be made on the basis of the
state's population under 20 years
of age and per capita income. The
money will be available until next
February. This gives Congress,
convening next January, a chanca
to see if anything further should
be done.
Schmidt And Wife
Hold Conference,
Make No Decision
NEVADA CITY. Calif. W Air
man Daniel C. Schmidt, distrubed
and irritated from a long day of
homecoming, met his son for the
first time and held a lengthy but
inconclusive conference with his
remarried wife today.
The meeting was held In private
and the 22-year-old flier, a prison
er of the Chinese Communists 32
months, said he would have three
or four more meetings with his
auburn-haired wife before making
any decision on his marriage.
The wife. Una. says she married
logger Alford Fine, 21, last Sep
tember in the belief Schmidt had
been killed when he and 10 other
crewmen bailed out of a B29 over
North Korea.
Schmidt's 2V4-year-old son,' Dan
ny Jr., was brought to the law of
fice of Harold Berliner, Una's at
torney, for the reunion. After a
three-hour meeting, with his wife.
Schmidt told reporters he had
nothing to say now. He said he
would remain in this high Sierra
community until "we get this
thing worked out." And as he had
done before when he landed yes
terday at Travis Air Force base
near San Francisco, Schmidt beg
ged for privacy.
"Quit following in around," he
asked television and newsreel cam
eramen clustered in front of Ber
liner's office as he left.
Esther's Beauty Salon
To Open In Myrtle Creek
A new business is opening at
Myrtle Creek Monday.
It is Esther's Beauty Salon. lo'
catcd at 105 Second St. It is equip
ped for three operators and ha
a private booth for special work.
The owner - operator, Esther
Heussner, owned and operated
a beauty chop in Phoenix, Ariz.,
for a number of years before com
ing to the Myrtle Creek area.
early settlers formed the provison
al government that eventually
brought this area into the United
States.
McKay was scheduled to speak
later at the dedication of the it
Vancouver National Monument at
Vancouver, Wash., 30 miles north
of here, his third dedication of the
week.
McKay noted that fhe boyhood
home of ex-President Herbert Hoo
ver was dedicated as a historic
site earlier this week after being
restored by a group of private citi
zens, and that the Newell house
was being restored as a protect
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
He said he was "gratified" that
only in the case of Ft. Vancouver
became of the size of that proj
ectwas the federal government
called upon for financial and other
help.
Grand Openings
Blossom In City
During Past Week
Grand openings blossomed ev
erywhere this week in Roseburg.
Doors opened in shiny new plants
at Ott & Ricketts Music Shop,
Roseburg Jewelers, Gosline's Jew
elry, Ken Gilkeson's and J. J. New
berry's. Ott and Ricketts Music Shop,
corner of Jackson and Cass Sts..
has been completely remodeled
and has incorporated the Record
Music Shop. It now carries a com
plete line ot records and music.
A new feature is the addition of
teaching studios. According to
part-owner Charles Ricketts, the
store also hopes to have in the
near future qualified teachers for
various instruments. Don imith
now teaches guitar.
Another added feature is a full
line of Baldwin organs. One new
man, Eugene Lootens, has been
added to the s riles department.
The second grand opening was
held Friday at Gosline's Jewelry
located on S. Jackson.
Glen Gosline, owner and oper
ator, has been located in Myrtle
Creek for the past eight years
and has now increased his busi
ness to include Roseburg.
Gosline's Jewelry has a modern
jewelry repair and watch repair
ing department, according to Gos
line. Also In the same building. Real
tor George W. Dimmick opened I
new office.
Ken Gilkeson opened his Chev
ron station at the corner of Lane
Jt Stephens today. It has been com
widely rebuilt. The drive-
way space has been redoubled
and gasoline pumping facilities
have been increased.
Anocner jeweier also siagca a
4 opening T hJ d ? Rolana however; 1 i considered TsaMe only f Harrisburg before dislntegrat
a opfnlngJ. J?"," u,lan? fm. r...rM. .ml oration nf r.rfin " in the hills of Pennsylvania.
grand
Wool
crs. After remodeling, the store a
.,?nBr ,.S?!e?Srg.."wo':
crs. Alter remodeling, tne store
However, the bisiiest grand op-
enintf was that of tile $330,000 J. J
Newberry Store in oire of in most
frantic grand opening weens in
Roseburg history.
! See picture page two.
Shell Oil Low
Bidder For Riddle
District Gasoline
Shell Oil Cn. was successful
low bidder this week to provide
gasoline for Riddle School district
vehicles for 1955-56. The company
bid 22.51 cents per gallon, accord
ing to correspondent Mrs. irma
Best.
Other bidders were: Tide Wa
ter Associated 23.1; Standard Oil
Co. 23.1; Champion Oil Co. 24.1;
and Union Oil Co. 24.3. Shell also
supplied the fuel for the district
last year.
It was recommended that bids
be taken for furnace oil at the
September meeting. Other oils and
lubricants were to be purchased
from Union as before.
The school board also author
ized purchase of roof stain from
Riddle General Store, supt. Ken
neth Stuart was requested to
make arrangements for staining
the high school roof before school
starts.
In other action. Sunt. Stuart and
grade school Principal A 1 v i n
Barnhart agreed to serve as Bund
ing inspectors since sufficient
funds were not available to com
pletely cover costs in erection of
the new elementary addition. Sev
eral other cost-cutting changes
were also approved.
Eldon Naas, Explorer
Scout, Coes To Jamboree
Eldon Naas of Myrtle Creek left
this week as one of the three Ex
plorer Scout representatives of the
Oregon Trail Council to the world
jamboree at Niagara Lake, Can
ada. The jam twi ce lasts
until
Sept. 1.
Meanwhile, .three Douglas Coun
ty Boy Scouts have Just returned
from an encampment at the Phil
rmmt Scout Ranch in New Mex
ico. They are: Dee Crooch and
Robert lying of Roseburg and
Richard Naas of Myrtle Creek.
Serve-Yourself Ice Co.
Cash Box Looted Here
A cash box in the Serve-Your-aelf
lie Co., in the 400 block of
South Stephens Street, was open
ed sometime late this week and
about $25 was taken, one of the
co-owners, R. S. Connine, 819 S.
Jackson St., told Roseburg police
Friday.
At the same time, he reported
that a cash box in the Myrtle
Creek plant of the company was
opened and money taken.
CRASS FIRE REPORTED
A grass fire
started from
trash burne
jurner near 1025 Eddy St.
morning, according to
r( firemen. There was no
d damage.
Friday
Rosebu
reported damage
iraitiwl i r
DONALD A. QUARLES, will
be sworn in Monday os the
new Secretary of the Air
Force. He was appointed by
President Eisenhower to suc
ceed Harold Talbott, resign
ed. Quarles was top man in
the Earth Satellite Project.
(AP Wirephoto)
U. S. Will Export
Atomic Fuel To
Foreign Powers
By MAX HARRELSON
GENEVA Wl-The United States
was reported today to have de
cided to export to certain coun
tries atomic fuel of a grade suffi
cient to operate atomic power
stations.
This information came from
highly qualified source who said
Belgium probably would he the
first nation to get such fuel.
Up to now the United States has
not shipped any atomic fuel abroad
but it had agreed to supply 27 coun
tries with, enough 20 per cent en
riched uranium to operate one re
search reactor.
Leading atomic scientists in
cluding Dr. H. J. Bhabha of India.
president of the current atomic
conference say atomic fuel rich
enough to operate a power station
is also a possible weapon grade.
Tne 20 per cent enriched tuel,
I isotopes
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the richer, power grade fuel would
be sent, but they apparently will
he oly those which have closest
ties of friendship with the United
states.
I even men, it was iearnea, ine
unuea aiaies win insist on Having
Inspection rignts to make sure the
fuel is being used only to operate
power stations.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of
the U.S. Atomic Energy CommiS'
sion, made it clear at a news con
fcrence earlier this week the Unit
ed States would not send any re
actors or atomic fuel to any Iron
uurtain nation.
Lillebo And Trowbridge
Win Highway Contracts
Two Douglas County companies
entered low bids and won con
tracts from the State Highway
Commission Friday in Portland for
highway and bridge projects.
Tom Lillebo. needsnort. bid
$56,413 for the replacement of an
obsolete timber bridge with a 200-
foot concrete span near Clear Lake
in Marion County. The Job also In
cludes construction of .16 mile of
new roadway.
Trowbridge Electrle Co.. Rose
burg. offered to install traffic
lights at five Salem intersections
tor $18,000.
One project will Include a section
of relocated Highway 99 in Doug
las, Lane and jaexson counties.
That is the planting of fast-growing
shrubbery between the new
highway and frontal roads to act
as a shield against glare of head
lights of traffic. Low bidder was
Knight-Pearcy, Salem, at $10,416.
PORTLAND Wl Construction
contracts totaling over 1 Vt million
dollars were awarded Friday as
the State Highway Commission
closed its twoKlay meeting here.
Commissioners heard a delega
tion propose construction of a route
to carry north-south traffic around
i the Portland-Vancouver area, Join
ing McMinnville and Rainier, Ore.
The commission agreed to order
a survey of the proposed bypass,
which would follow the samo gen
eral route as the present state
Highway 47.
Clifford Elliott, manager of the
McMinnville Chamber of Com
merce, headed the delegation of
citizens from cities along the pro
posed route.
American Motors Strike
Talks Deadline Extended
DETROIT m American Motors
Corp. and the CIO United Auto
Workers agreed early Saturday to
extend their contract until Sept. 1,
averting a strike of 24,000 workers
scheduled Saturday night.
Negotiations on a new pact were
recessed until Aug. 30. They will
resume in Detroit.
Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice
president who heads the union's
American Motors department, said
the UAW "requested the recess to
accomodate A.MO workers who will
:be on vacation during the next few;ary (o constantly remind the
weeks while the company closes i ' . ai ,(. w. :.
' its plants after Friday's ahifU for P"'d """"01 that na it a
a four-week layoff. loog.
per hour in her waning moments,
cruised northward across the Mason-Dixon
Line into Pennsylvania
Saturday for the final chapter in
a rampage of death, floods and
destruction along the Atlantic sea
board. Spreading over an ever-widening
area with weakening winds, the
dying hurricane was following ma
jor damage, rather than bringing
it.
For hundreds of miles to the
north and northeast in front of the
storm monsoon-type rains poured
down on cities and countryside.
New York wallowed in a record
breaking deluge of almost a foot
of rain.
Rivers ran bankfull and creeks
overflowed in a half dozen states
under the influence of the storm.
The storm death toll had
climbed to 3i, with at least seven
other persons missing and feared
dead in accidents directlv or in
directly linked to the storm.
Connie appeared to be fol
lowing, after a long wait, the track
of greater destruction Hurricane
Hazel slashed across the North
Carolina to - Pennsylvania area
last October. Then high winds
wreaked untold damage and a
heavy death toll. This time the
great difficulty was the torrential
rains.
And 1,800 miles to the south and
east forecasters kept a watchful
eye on a new tropic-bom storm,
Dianne, packing 115-mile winds
on an uncertain course that ap
peared headed away from any ma
jor land areas.
Born near the islands of the
Caribbean, Connie had rolled up
toward the Atlantic coast packing
a threatening wallop of 130-mile
winds. Then for many hours it
churned erratically off the Caro
lina coast starting, stopping, turn
ing oacK. uriaay it finally began
moving inland and with fast-fading
force pushed through Virginia,
pan. n usmiiKLun ana Baltimore
and on up Chesapeake Bay until
it chugged into Pennsylvania
about 10:30 a.m.
Weather forecaster Henry
Adams at Philadelphia said then
cne siorm appeared likely to roll
RainfaU records were washed
awav In drenched N Vnrt r
had
reached a flooding 11.02 inches.
highest In history for the entire
month, ' and more was coming.
Philadelphia's 4.83 inches in 24
hours, and 5.43 inches attributed to
the storm, was enough to causa
some flooding problems.
Subcontractors
Listed By Todd
On Schools Here
Todd Building Co.. with a con-
tract for $346,389 from the Rose
burg School District for construc
tion of the Hucrest School and Jo
seph Lane Junior High School ad
dition, has listed 14 subcontractors
on the project. .
Eight of the subcontracts were
let to Roseburg companies, while
the others are from Portland and
Eugene. They include:
Harris Plumbing & Healing Co.,
heating and plumbing; Douglas
Painting Co., painting; Ideal Con
crete Co., concrcto; Trowbridge
Electric Co., wiling and electrical
fixtures; G. R. Schnore, excava
tion; Acme Roofing Co., roofing;
Riverside Sheet Metal, sheet met
al; and Nelson Ic Pyle, glazing.
aii are itosenurg companies.
Others: Portland Wire & Iron
Works, iron and wire: Mercer
Steel Co., Portland reinforcing
steel; Perkins & Beach, Eugene,
flooring; Multnomah Tile & Man
tel Co., Portland, tile work; Tim
ber Structures Inc., Portland, lam
inated beams; and John Warren
Hardware Co., Eugene, finish
hardware.
Historical Society
Seeking Old Pictures
The Douglas Countv Historical
Society is making a search for
pictures taken prior to 1880 in the
county.
The pictures will be loaned to
Ibe Grants Pass Centennial com
mittee to be used for slides during
its coming celebration. Objects
in the pictures may be buildings,
mule teams, macninery, inausiry,
etc.
Especially wanted Is a picture
of Winchester before 1880.
Those having suitable pictures
are requested to call Mrs. V. J.
Mtcelli, president of the society.
The society will meet again Aug.
21 at the Stilley Nichols house at
Riddle for a potlurk picnic. The
society will honor Mrs. Ben Nich
ols who will reach her 88th birth
day. Levity Foct Rant
Br ( Relzensteln
Now on the market ti an
ointment for applying to the
collar of a dog and spread
ing an odor guaranteed to
rout fleas, thus ending the
oget-old scratching which
philosophers said was necei-