Roseburg Council Has Busy Session On Monday Night
Whit Th Council Did
I Patterson, Kenneth Ryan, Anniquest for renewal from the Rose-
1. Defeated molion to rescirid ! WoHord nd a representative ol
liquor license fun the Monogram le,sewinf ilacnine tenter.
Tavern at its proposed new busi
ness site at 8;iu SK Douglas Ave.
after remonstrance from Ralph
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one block south
of the but depot
2. Requested the fire chief to in
vestigate a proposed underground
gas line at the Klegel Transfer
Co. properly at NE Odell and NE
Caspar.
3. Received a' certificate of
achievement from the secretary of
state's office for participation in
the vehicle aafety-check; program.
4. Sent to committee two re
quests for franchises for taxicab
operations in the city. One is a re-
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first franchise by Eddie Gibson.
5. Approved two liquor licenses,
one a renewal of a package li
cense (or Grimes Grocery; the oth
er a change of license allowing
dancing for Leonard Zacher.
6. Approved the first two reaa
ings of a private utilities
nance. (See other story.)
Band Uniform
Fund Raising
Contest Now On
Dec. 30 is a red letter day in
Roseburg.
It marks the end of the month
long drive now under way to raise
money to buy new uniforms for
ordi-1 Roseburg High School band mem
bers.
7. Endorsed a resolution calling
for immediate study of the Unip-L.onljucted by Band Booster and In-
oua River watershed by the newly-
created Oregon Water Resources
Board. (See other story.l
8. Authorized Mayor Ernest
Barker Jr., Councilman Sidney
Moon, City Attorney Paul Geddes
and City Manager George Karrell
to enter into a contract with the
firm of Cornell, Howlsnd, Hayes
and Werryfield for engineering
work preliminary to construction
of a new trunk sewer system and
disposal plant.
t). Granted city manager author
ity to set up machinery for col
lection and accounting of sewer
service charges. Charges will prob
ably not start for two months.
10. Turned over to committee de
tails of completing recommenda
tions for a sewer service charge.
The committee will determine (1)
ratei to be charged, u any ac
counts for prepayment and (3) any
hookup charges.
11. Scheduled a committee of the
i whole meeting next Monday at
7:30 to discuss (1) bus franchise,
(2) possible consolidation of the
i city and county libraries. (3)
i amusement devices, (4) billboard
'regulations (5) vacation of Giles
i Street and (6) taxicab franchises.
12. Scheduled the next regular
meeting Dec. 27 at 7:30.
13. Approved bills.
LOCAL NEWS
Here Over Weekend Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Horand and daugh
ters Debby, Terry and Cindy
were weekend house guests at the
home of Mr. Horand's mother, Mrs.
Harold J. Hickerson, and Mr. Hick
erson. ,
Ooes To Portland Dr. Bruce
Tuck of Roseburg is in Portland
attending the Northwest Optomet
ry Congress, seminary and lec
tures; presenting the latest in op
tometric science are features of
the annual meeting. Dr. Tuck will
be back in his office Thursday,
Dee. 15.
Prize in the fund-raising contest,
dian Club members, is a foreign
make car. It will be presented to
the winner the night o the 30th at
the half lime of the1 basketball
game which pits the Harlem
Clowns against a local all-star ex
hibition game.
The drive to outfit the band
members is one involving adults
alone. They hope to boost the $2,300
on hand to $6,000. That is the
amount estimated necessary to
purchase 100 uniforms. The uni
form price is $80 each.
The car to be awarded will be
on display in downtown Roseburg,
according to Indian Club Secretary-Treasurer
Bill Garrison. He
added that the band uniform de
sign and color would be selected
later this month by students and
adults.
Garrison was enthusiastic about
the success of the uniform cam
paign. He pointed out that about
2li weeks remained before the Dee.
3Q target dale and said everyone
was eligible to enter the event.
Hospital News
Douglas Community Hospital
Admitted
Surgery: Clinton Dysinger, Rose
burg; Mrs. Richard Moer, Win
ston; Mrs. Richard Thrush, Cam
as Valley.
Medical: Mrs. Herbert Leonnig,
Roseburg; Mrs. William Cunning
ham, Camas Valley; Mrs. Howard
Smith, Glide; Mrs. Billy Howard,
Oakland; Mrs. James Murray,
Winston.
Discharged
Mrs. James Youtsey, Robert
Strong, Mrs. Myrtle Schroeder,
Sherry Burnett, Mrs. Carl Arvid
son, RoseburR; Alma llenthorn,
Oakland; Wilson Falhergill, Port
land. Mercy Hospital
Admitted
Surgery: Walter Stock, Rose
burg. Medical: Guy Pennell. Mrs.
George McWhirter, John Houston,
Roseburg.
Discharged
Cheryl Addcox. Mrs. Ronald Lin-
thicum and baby, Michael Keith; I
Mrs. Sam Waddle, Leo howalew
ski. Roseburg; Mrs. E. W. Bridges,
Dillard; Mrs. Floyd Porter, Suth-erlin.
Terrorist Rebels Riddle
Algiers Military Convoy
ALGIERS. (1 Terrorist rebels
Monday riddled a military convoy
bombed two downtown Algiers
theaters and set a $57,000 fire.
From 14 to 22 persons were
wounded in the theater bombings, Deaf.h Sentence Imposed
and an official French source said, r
Tuesday the military convoy am- ror flayer ur uivorcee
bushed near uueima iosi is aeau
five wounded and six missing.
Heavily armed French reinforce
ments were summoned to the area.
Rebel arsonists cut the wires
leading to Zeralda, 30 miles south
of Algiers, late Monday night and
set fire to a big fruit packing
house. Damage was estimated at
20 million trance ($57,000).
Dixon-Yates Group
Sues Government
For $3,534,788
WASHINGTON m The Dixon
Yates uower leroui) Tuesday sued
the government, for $3,534,778 for
expenses in connection with the
now-cancelled contract for a priv
ate power plant in the Tennessee
Valley Authority area.
The suit was filed bv the Mis
sissippi Valley Generating Co. in
tne . U.S. t'ourt ot Claims.
E. li. Dixon, president of Mis
sissippi Valley Generating, said
in a statement:
"We commenced this litigation
with every confidence in its re
sult."
Dixon also Is president of Mid
dle South Utilities Inc. which to
gether with the Southern Co. set
up Mississippi Valley Generating
to build a 107 million dollar gen
erating plant at West Memphis.
Ark.
The purpose was to supply power
to the TVA system to replace pow
er1 used elsewhere by the Atomic
Energy Commission. The contro
versial contract was cancelled last
summer and on Nov. 23 the Atom
ic Energy Commission announced
it would not pay Mississippi Valley
Generating for money already ex
pended. AEC, in taking this stand, said
Adolphe H. Wenzell "while having
a conflicting private interest, acted
as one of the principal advisers
to the government in the negotia
tion of the contract."
Wenzell, New York investment
banker, acted as a Budget Bureau
consultant. Democratic critics of
the Dixon-Yates contract he con
tended play a dual role. His firm,
the First Boston Corp., later
served Dixon-Yates as financial
agent.
Witness Credits
Col. Liles With
Saving His Life
FT, LEWIS, Wash, m "I feel
Col, Liles was responsible for sav
ing my life by persuading the Ko
reans to take me from the caves."
An Army court Monday heard
this testimony 'from an Air Force
veteran called as a defense wit
ness at the court mprlial of lit.
Col. Paul V. Liles, 39-year-old
Birmingham, Ala., career soldier,
being tried on charges he collab
orated with the Communists while
a prisoner of war in North Korea
William K. ilauneman, now i
Donne rs Grove, 111., salesman, was
one of seven defense witnesses who
test il led Monday.
Hanneman told the court he was
shot down while on a bombing
mission over north Korea and
after spending 20 days in a 5x10
hole at Pyaugyang was moved to
caves near Pyangyang where other
prisoners of war were held.
.Most of (he prisoners were ill,
he said. The caves were damp
and lacked food, water and med
ical facilities.
Hanneman said Liles finally per
suaded the Communists to move
him from the caves to a PUW
camp where prisoners were quar
tered in buildings. The transfer
saved his life, the witness told the
coitrl. He said all but one of the
POWs left in the cave died.
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Rita Hay-worth Embarks
For U. S. Unnoticed
LE HAVRE. France, i.ft Film
star Rita Hay worth embarked al
most unnoticed Tuesday ajjoard
the liner Ile De-France for the
United Stales.
"I'll come back as soon as pos
sible and probably in three weeks,"
she told reporters. "There is one
sure thing; "I'll not meet Dick
Haymes in the United Stales."
Miss Hay worth was granted a
divorce from singer Haymes Mon
day by a Reno court.
Miss Hayworth arrived here early
in October with her two daughters
Rebecca and Yasmin. Yasmin
since then, has lived with her fath
er, Aly Khan, Miss Hayworth's
former husband.
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STATED COMMUNICATION
WED., DEC. 14 8:00 P.M.
Election of Officers
Dinner or 6:30 p.m.
Examinations in oil deqrees.
Vititing BrofMri Welcome
W. M-, Ralph 8. CocuMr
Sec. Durward Owens
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Lfi-The
death sentence has been imposed
on law student John R. Crooker Jr.
for the murder of wealthy divorcee
Mrs. Norma McCauley, his former
sweetheart.
Crooker. 31. of Bucksnort, Maine.
took the jury verdict calmly. He
was remanded to the custody ot
the warden of San Quentin Prison.
The date for his execution in the
gas chamber will not be set until
alter trie automatic review Dy me
California supreme court.
Mrs. McCauley. 33, who had em
ployed Crooker as a houseboy, was
garroted and stabbed in her home
last July 5 after she tried to break
off a love affair with him.
WILL CLOSE AT 6 p. m.
WED. DEC. 14
FOR OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY
Color Television Station
Scheduled For Portland
PORTLAND UH Purchase of'
one million dollars worth of equip- j
menl tor a new color television sta-;
tion in Portland was announced
Monday bv Cordon Orput, presi-i
dent of North Pacific Television
Co., "Portland.
The plans also include merger1
of North Pacific owned by KING
Broadcasting Lo., Seattle, and a
group of Portland businessmen
and Pioneer Broadcasters Inc., op-1
erator of Portland radio station
KCW.
North Pacific would be the sur
viving and controlling corporation. !
Present shareholders in both com
panies would continue as share
holders in the new firm, Orput
said.
The two firms have filed applica
tion with the Federal Communica
tions Commission asking approval
of the merger.
The new station, which would
operate on channel 8, should be
completed before July, 19.SB, Orput
said. It would be Portland's fourth
television station.
Myrtle Creek Band,
Chorus Slate Concert
The Myrtle Creek High School
Rand and chorus will stage a ioint
Christmas concert in the high
school gym Dec. 20. It will start
at 8 p.m.
This will be the first concert to
be presented by both groups.
The program will include a
Christmas suite, "Afternoon of A
Faun," "Voodoo," "Champion of
Champion" march, and a com-
mnea rnorat ana nana numner ti
lled "Three Songs for Christmas."
tiarv Hall will be featured as
I soloist on "Come Back To Sorren
to." A boys quartet will also sing
"Down Among the Sheltering
Palms."
No admission will be charged,
but any donations received will he ,
used for purchase of music equipment.
Committee Can Employ
Bureau To Make Study
SALEM ( The legislative
highway interim committee can
hire the University of Oregon's
bureau of municipal research to
study how highway bypasses af
fect the cities that are bypassed,
Ally. lien. Robert Y. Thornton
ruled Monday. '
The interim committee will pay
the bureau $3,500 tor the study.
In other opinions, Thornton ruled
that the Ore son National Guard
cannot engage Ihe services of an
architectural firm which has
employe who is an officer in the
guard.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins
To Observe Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Jenkins will
observe their golden wedding an
niversary at an open-house affair
Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Ever
green Grange Hall. Mrs. Garnet
Kolmsbee, a daughter, is in charge
of arrangements for the affair.
Friends and relatives are most
cordially invited lo call between
2 and 4 p.m.
CHRISTMAS PARTY SET
Mu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi
has scheduled its Christmas party
and second December meeting
Thursday at 8 p.m. at the home of
Mrs. Neil Kaser Sr., 1155 W. Har
vard Ave. Members attending
should bring food baskets.
LEAGUE TO MEET
The Woniens Overseas Service
League will meet Saturday evening
at the home of Miss Nettie Ul
mer. Any eligible women in the
community are welcomed.
FREE-STYLE ELECTION
BHOOKi.AND, Ark W Mavor
Jewell Anderson decided to step
out of the job, but the town fa
thers couldn't find anyone who
wanted to succeed him. So the cit
izens voted on blank ballot, writ
ing in the names of their candi-,
dates, Alex Smith got the job with
24 votes. His nearest competitor,
li. J. liaker, got z.
PARTY PLANNED
The Winston - Dillard Home
Extension Unit will hold its Christ-,
mas parly Wednesday at the Ev
ergreen Grange at its regular!
meeting time. There will be a gift :
exchange.
MEETING CHANGED
The Steadfast Club of the First
Presbyterian Church. Koscburg, is
meeting for a potluck luncheon
Thursday in the church. The event
is being held a week earlier than
usual.
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