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u' . c i v. 1.1 1 v.'x'y Umpqua oveifs Stead h By losing -ft'?- it - i BONNIE MARIE RADIGAN takes a whirl oround a balcony floor at tha Tots To Teens Shop with a dancing doll while on Christmas shopping tour Tuesday with her mother. She knew a lot of steps the doll didn't, but that didn't bother the doll any, sh followed them easily. She should. Har feet were looped to Bonnie's by elastic bands there for the purpose. Bonnie Marie is 5'2 years old and attends Helen Saar's kindergarten classes. She is th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Radigan of 175 West Tanager Street and the Radigans are lucky someone doesn't steal her. The photographer would hove liked to. Ford Motor Co. Reports Assets Nearly $2'2 Billion WASHINGTON M The Ford .' The ficures n.rl.-i.wi ti,. Motor Co. reported Wednesday its assets are $2,483,010,550. It said il earned 312 million in the first nine months of 1955 on .sales amount ing to $4,012,600,000. The company released the fig ures, heretofore always kept se cret, in connection with the Ford Foundation's proposal to sell 10. 200.000 sharos of company stock to the puMic. This represents only aoout 22 per cent of the Ford stock holdings of the foundation. The amount of stock to be sold apparently was a last-minute de cision. Previous public word had been that about seven million shares would be offered in this first chance for the public to buy into the pioneer auto linn. A registration statement for the proposed stock sale was filed with the Securities and Exchange Com mission (SEC), government agency which polices the stock exchange: The reeistrntinn statement, bar- ing financinal records of the 52-iner ,ce"1 over that of the peak I On Sunday, one posscntan "lost" year-old company for the first da-v year (Monday, Dec. 201. himself on the west slope of Boom time, listed capital and eamines ; About 83.000 outgoing letter and:'r " of Myrtle Creek. Olh- rot:,n0H in tha hiicinp a SI 84n - ! OpO.OOO. The statement did not give a proposed selling price for the slock. This will be reported later. Actual sales are expected about; Monday was the peak day. Car- B.v said high winds during the i Jan. 18. Guesses in financial circles j stens said, and the volume of out- "y hampered the operation some- CounfV Public Welfara as to the price have ranged up to ; going mail will now taper off. How-1 what. After possemen had found '. . Z. $75 a share. This would mean the j ever, the "incoming mail flood 'heir "lost" man. they found trees i Commission To Meet Ford Foundation would receive j will graduallv rise now." That ' blown over the trail on the wavl three-quarters of a billion dollars j means the biggest job now lies i oul- 0ne ,l ee ,0P- blown down hv j " "e, Douglas County Public Wel in cash for reinvestment. with the carriers. gust of wind, narrowly missed i fare Commission will meet in Rose- Directors of the company have! The post office planned in ad-1 horses staked out while the men i burg Wednesday, starting at 7:30 authorized a dividend of BO cents a share for the first quarter of 1956. The statement set out Ford's earnincc and sales for the neriod from 1946 through last Sept. 30. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Over in Prineville a while back mcd decided to trv out mLris s ormect So i hJ , ln J. Prolecl . 1,0 the city council a be-kind-to it instructed the city's cops, when ever they found a meter with the EXPIRED sign up. to put in a nickel. At the same time, they left in the usual place on the wind shield an envelope containing a com card which the motorist was cnnnntpH In mail in In tlio u i'tu a virwi'i Thus he escaped the four bit RU dm c, " llv' S13 BI cm! l'r""'d "" Wrk -f i"rv '" ""Kk a high- fine for overtime parking. short of Us S,2 289 goal CIK F "a vil"11'' ""ntial ele-1 waV divider fence and spun out of t'Ul'F Present Elmer C. Bald-1 "f this community " He said lr" 'S'niirhi u- '"ii' ..worked beautifully for. while.: win said the lag , the drive .J. it. support 'should and must b.inSrK Ro AsUh. novelty wore off Kr eft, '."IT' f " Me reularlr established part of the! Harold Roger Dailcy. 28, Klaml J ; SSSr ; F : T1,EIR Ml-KLI-S- J'.? the oham" Pi organ.,a-cl '"ns. -Six steel posts and fencing were " ns e 5aid ",e major trouble, as ho ruined down The ear -m in So the city fathers, sadder and, Baldwin said I F personnel "can ? "t. was that "people are for reVi on a stone bank on Ih? east wiser as a result of their e.vpen-1 see from 53.300 to S5.IXJ0 more com-1 -f agencies, hut haven't contnh- ,ie of the hichwav .late ment in phil.inthropv, have scrap- '," which will boost the!"1 ' them." lie noted that in said ul'a5. lale P0"" I amount to around S43.00O. He said chapter plans, for example, those-' Kidins with Dailev were Harri. (Continued on Pase Col. 4) 'directors had voted that under "no 'who gave, gave well, but t0 t2 1-rit and elvm " ' -i circumstances" would the cam- many of our people don't give anv- (,tis SI ills 2ri Klamath i Fall l'o- TL ... ;pa.En continue alter Jan. 15. thing. He called it a "lack of nrt-! hep hsted' no citaUon Thl ca The Weather I 'l eontem.iderstanding of the work of thV a, he," Iv damaged plate cutting sums allocated to the i agencies involved " " ' Coinui rnrf with In..:., tan r i in ArJ u - i.kt I T- " M Highest temp, list 24 houri 54 Lowtst femp. last 24 hours Hightsf temp, any Dec. Lowest ttmp. any Dec. .. . Prtcip. latt 24 houri Precip. from Dec. 1 Prtcip. from Sept. 1 Excess from Sept. 1 . Sunset toalght, 4:40 p.m. 50 SuariM tonwrow, 7:42 .. Mm By Paul Jenklm i viJ pany's revival and comeback under us present nead, Henry Ford II. In 1940. it lost 15 cents a sham but turned into the black the next year with a profit of SI. 19, ln the postwar years, the slate- (Continued On Page 2 Col. 2) Post Office Breaks Record For Volume Handling Of Mail ti, n . k t . . The Roseburg Post Office set an i-uine iccuru nionoay in volume hi Pntman.i A i u-T ra'le I 1. 1 , mas,0.r cl(le tautens snowed juesuay. lite nostmasler said the vniimp I of incoming parrels was about 10 1 "reeling ratvta wro hnl MierS Started the search for him aft. day, including about 10.000 of me-!er tered mail, which m about 18 per .cent higher than the top day in 1954. ivance lor a nigger Christinas, the1 postniasier said, and "everything! went off smoothly." Workers have been able to clear each day's mail : : without a holdover In the frtltnu-inl day. I OnA inrliratinn nf I store, rarstens said, was the faciWi" moot in special public session the office has been selling about Wednesday night to consider the 40,000 two and three-cent stamps ! future building program of schools each day for about two weeks. i and additions within thi ritrirt To take care of last-minute par-' i Cels arriving horo f'arclnne c,A ' delivery of gift packages will" he """ ? 0",)(-hr's""" (Sunday) "V - lJ,e- ' hrg delivery area, which includes suburbs. United Fund Comparitive Collection Figures Listed tm. . . particular Hdiinui.ir pariicipaung agencies. until alter the deadline, Baldwin ! said I'nCI Ik,. I,. ,J J.... .... v .M, o,,. .j uale, IMe lr ( workers will reconiact larger con-: ' ' 11 SlOIV.UdUOII dent pointed out. they'll hae I.i r . lit lllo-.l Lmpqui lobby. 1 ....... ,r ' t 31 P"mted out. they II hae S:2.2H9. tile sum of S2 !'.",0 was I Crek .Municipal Court Tuesday. " .'M ?ma" flfan up operations of con-: allocated for administration andi WiNon was arrested Mondav eve 1719 ' , , th,1,, have no1 been made, campaign. nmg by city police. Judge Gerry And they 11 welcome new contnbu-1 A break down of the' drive 1 .Mvllenbeck fined him $125 and or- tions which may he mailed nr returns appears on Page :i It was dered that he be lodged in tail for n Mlli'ht lO 1 h hull nmrinr, in fl.n mr.. A 'I' . i ,. . , . . . ... Established 1873 22 Pa9e Umpqua State Water $ Dr M.r.A Dan ri4 Makes Choice The Umpqua will be the first riv er basin studied by the newly ere- ated State Water Resources Board, it was announced today by j e after a tractor fell on him. Cor- oI pnngfield. , , Thomas was towing the family fw . - . """Slas car out of a mudhole in front of his n,J "fi rt rt"es"" " sll!' " home when the tractor was yanked iv th. E2H -n'" ,Wa"i ?!,provl-,J ' back on its rear wheels and flip by the board, lhe resolution wasi pcd back ovcr on hi v ,Z. in ih7 .A" V"T.,.K. "Vi?" Kost-burg City Council only last week. Prior to the actual study, Maxcy said, a series of meetings will be anna u. iiiccillli;a will UV hold k ihn i .i -.i ;. with interested persons in the bas-, 'NeWbur 'he sa,(l -in. County Judne Carl ' Hill said , as hci"'d ,,le iTcor fal1 a,ld today that the Countv Court prob- r'e:'' ln valn' to j"ck 11 0(1 hl-r ably will create a local advisory llusband s body. It was finally nee board to aid in the survey. I l'ssary t bring in a -cat'' to lift The study, in accordance with 'he vehicle, the law creating the board, will in- ,. Ihe area where the Thomases elude existing water resources; I 'ive ls nul accessible to a big vebi means and methods of conserv-1 9le- The coroner reported he went ing and augmenting thoe resourc-1 n j!' a,ul fl 10 reach the existing and contemplated needs and uses of water for do mestic, municipal, irrigation, pow er development, industrial, mining, recreation, wildlife and fish lite uses: and pollution abatement. Other items to be studied include flood control, drainage and recla mation. following completion of the sill ies and atter a public hearing, the water resources board is to plan an urn-gratea, coordinated pro gram for use and control of the unappropriated waters of the ba sin. 1 Data collected by the Douglas County Water Resources Survey during lhe past l'j years probably win ue put 10 use, maxev said. The county survey, headed by Ben B. Irving, has instituted a program of gathering weather and stream flow data from throughout I h e county and has supplemented the work with data from federal agen cies. Cooperation of state and federal agencies concerned will be re quested in the survey, Maxey said. Sheriff's Posse Has Search Party T,,P BnuKlas County mounted Sheriffs Posse embarked on a pro- cram of nrariir enrl .w ih. wwkend, according to Sheriff Ira c, Byrd. ; pilrfimf , ,0 C1m;na,e search I Units of I in imt.a in oi-nim.l.ai,. techniques. tw"-hour lapse. 1he m"". carrying colTec ,"n" "lncn for llle crew. s found ! in good order. I 1,1 re eating luncn. Iiyrn" aia "le "ay N'8' picked Purposely because of the bad weather, SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET District 4 SO Kin Rn.irH momhnrc The board will also review bids for innirorc at Incink t f Ural Junior Hich School. The ses- sion gets under way at 8 p Supl. M. C. Heller's office ll Ural Junior High School m. m in Cen- Three vountf men etr.-mpd Local participating agencies are- .,,;it., Pl. ,4 Boy Scouts; Salvation Army; ' ?AL!!U lfy " tnfe.re.d I 111) nr I umn L.P.. r-:-i. ,,..;.'. . . ' . " "- "HIS, American Cancer Sorietv Arthritis and Kheumatiim Foun- and 15 aaencies of the fire K,, UI lne ffai tmiieet of lu.s.iay ny oainwin ano Drue Chairman James Richmond. i ROSEBURG, OREGON Wednesday, December 21. 1955 Basin Scheduled For Study j Lester V. Thomas Killed As Tractor Topples On Him A freak accident snuffed out the lite of an upper .Melrose resident Tuesday evening. Lester V. (Leek) Thomas, 36, I Hieil m i-mdi, h,t i,',i.,.' i The coroner said the accident oc curred about 6:30 p.m. Thomas and Ins wife lived on Uie Callahan Trail, near the old Lander's Look out, about 14 miles southwest of n, ...!... . i Hoscoiirs. "l,u-v "nK" was laier laKen oown the mountain to the ambulance. Thomas was a logger. He work ed for his brother's M. B. Thomas Logging Operations. He came to Douglas County about year and a half ago. He was born April 16, 1919, at Rodeo, N.M. Survivors include his wife. Ruth; two stepchildren: .Mrs Ellen Weaver. Albany; and Har i old Snyder, Itoseburg; his father and mother. Sir. and Sirs. Albert M. Ihomas, Crass valley, Calif.; five brothers, Marian, Roseburg; Claude and lla, both of Myrtle Point; and Ernest and Jesse, both of Crass Valley; and five sisters, Mrs. Artie Alarcal. lilylh. Calif.; -Mrs. Able Smiteh. Clarksdale, Aril.; Mrs. Ivy Smith and Mrs. Al ice Riley, both of Dcdonii, Ariz.; and ills. Edna Pitts, Gates. Thomas' body was removed lo the Chapel of the Roses, Roseburg. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later. Umpqua Harbor Dredging Slated The $72,000 appropriated for im provements of lhe Port of Ump qua Tuesday for the current fis cal year will be used for widening and dredging a channel and dredg ing a mooring and turning basin. .Ihe channel will be dredged 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide from the river channel in the Hnrt in ! Winchester Ha The tnoorinc and turning basin will he 12 feet deep. 175 feet wide and 300 feet long at flie river end. Word of the appropriation was u..-..;.. l-ii . , .. ' Harris Ellsworth Tuesdav. II u-.is approved in the appropriation bill fr the current fiscal year Bureau of the Budget " by the p.m Commission members will act on Ihe quarterly budget for the welfare department, covering work for in,,J ih',u V. v , .rJL , ,7 " ,a'',be a;ked 0 increase me present general assist ance nuuget, according to admin istrator l.ois Baker. .Mrs. Baker said the (I A sum was insufficient by 52.000 lo cover current needs lomgnt s session w ill he the first ncr Dr. C. 11. for new commissione I5.inmu. i ne commission will be short one member. Ihe vacancy came when Commissioner Elmer l. .Melzger resigned recently from I charge of' injuring personal prop the Douglas County Court. All erlv ! e i I the Douglas Countv Court. A I court members aro welfare com missioners. Three Young Men Escape Injury In Car Accident To Drunken Driving ' A 61-year-oid Alvrtle Creek man. Tom J. Wilson, pleaded guilty to fl urunK oriving cnarKe in .uynie live uais. reports correspondent Rule X. Cvasi. 17 Persons Die As Big Airliner Crashes, Burns JACKSONVILLE. Fla. (.fi An Eastern Air Lines Constellation, bound from Miami to Boston. crashed and burned on a landing approach here earlv Wednesday, killing all 17 persons aboard. The big, four-engined luxury air liner was only a quarter of a mile from the end of the runway at the Jacksonville airport when it ap parently came in too low, hit lhe top of a tree in the pre dawn dark ness and plunged lo the ground. Visibility at the time was one half mile and the ceiling 300 feet, airport officials said. Five of the dead were crew members, and 12 were passengers. Also aboard the plane was the body of C. B. Thrift of .Miami, an employe of the airline, being sent to Washington, D. C. for burial. Thrift, 47, had died of a heart at tack Saturday. The crash was the third aerial disaster in Florida in three davs. Monday, two Air Force bombers crashed over the outskirts of Tam pa, killing eight men. A few hours later an Air Force jet and a bomb er collided over Port St. Joe. 200 miles up the Gulf Coast, killing three men and leaving three miss ing. Sixteen of the bodies were bad (Conlinucd on Page 2 Co). S) Blind Salesman, Sister-ln-Law Waive Hearings PORTLAND l Clarenea M. dicord, 38, blind salesman, and his sisiur-in-iaw. Mrs. Jovce? Ko ir 28, were bound over to the grand .mi j tucwiay vn ciitirge oi nomo ing the Meier and Frank depart ment store last April. Pcddicord hat admitted th Ih'iinbinc . t part of an extortion attempt against Aaron Frank, head of the store. He said Mrs. Keller served as Ins "eyes." Mrs. Keller denied it. Bond for the pair was reduced from $75,000 to $25,000 each. Both remained in custody with the bond not posted. Meanwhile, police reported that Peddicord's wife has been under going extensive questioning by po lice. Dot. Caul. William Browne said sl,e wa5 not questioned as a suspect and that she was free to break off the questioning and re turn nonie at any time. Mrs. I'eddicord was being treat ed for 'emotional strain" and was under care of the women's protec tive division Tuesday night, Browne added. Woman Shoots Former Husband EUGENE m Clarence Lewis Hamilton, 26, of Klamath Falls, was shot and killed Tuesday night as he forced his way through a barricaded door at his divorced wife's house in Creswell, 14 miles south of Eugene. Dist. Atty. Eugene Venn said Hamilton's ex-wife, Mrs. Aileen Hamilton, 31, said she had band in self defense. "I shot at his Helle Hamilton, 31, said she had legs and missed," she said. "He kept coming, so I shot again." Jenks Found Innocent Of Iniurin? Property i r District Judge Warren A. Wood ruff Tuesday found Joe H. Jenks, v m,tii. r,i, ,....i . He had been accused bv I.. Crafton, representing the Western Living Food I'lan, with damaging a locking device on a food freezer on which Jenks allegedly had miss ed payments. Ji nks contended that he had food in the locked freezer. The judge studied testimony for a day before making his decree. Oakland High School s Yule Program Thursday The Oakland High School's first annual Christmas program has been scheduled for Thursday at 8 p m. in the gymnasium. It will feature Christmas music numbers by lhe band and chorus and specialty pieces by the girls' sextette and the bovs" quartet. The event is for all interested per sons and there is no admission charge. High School music director Dsr rell l.angevm is directing lhe pro gram. TO CONTINUR STUDY The Winston City Council Tues day hired the Corvallis consulting engineering firm of Cornell, How land, Hayes and .Mcrryficld to con tinue engineering data prior to the calling of bids on the city's new sewer system and treatment nlanl. Other business during the meeting was rajtiM. 301-55 PRICE 5e Liles Found Guilty By Court Martial; Granted Leniency . By LEROY HITTLE FT. LEWIS. Wash, i I.t. Pol Paul V. Liles was found guilty j Wednesday of aiding the enemy by making propaganda recordings wnue jie was a prisoner of war in North Korea in 1950-53, but he won leniency from the 10-man military court. He was reprimanded by being suspended in rank for two years. Army attorneys said that meant he will retain his present rank as a lieutenant colonel, but will bo put two years behind all officers in the order of promotion to high er rank. Liles won acquittal on the other charges against htm. He was the 12th soldier lo be tried on collaboration charges since the end of the Korean War. Two other officers and six enlisted men .were convicted; two officers and one enlisted man were ac quitted. Liles was the first West Point graduate to be tried on collabora tion charges. The possible maximum sentence for conviction could have been life imprisonment, dismissal from the service and loss of all pay and allowances. The 39-year-old officer from Birmingham, Ala , was found in nocent of two other charges em bracing several counts. They wore accusations that he was disloyal to the United States; led Red 'in- (Continued on Page 2 Col. 1) Threatened Strike Of Pilots Blocked CHICAGO tm The National (railway) Mediation Board Wed. nesday blocked a threatened pilots' su-iKe on western Air uncs as ne gotiators strove to get parties in the dispute together. The Air Lino Pilots Assn. had called a strike for 6 a. m. Wednes day but postponed it at the request of the hoard in hopes of peace conference Tuesday afternoon in unicago. Company representatives did not appear, and lhe union asked for release from the hoard's jurisdic tion so that the pilots could strike as scheduled. I.everelt Edwards, federal medi ator who was to conduct Tuesday's meeting in Chicago, refused, say ing he still hoped lo get the dis puting parties together. Under the National Railway La bor Act, said Edwards, lhe board is empowered to hold the union under its jurisdiction while media tion is in force. He said the dispute now is in mediation awaiting lhe start of conferences. Coquille Plywood High Bidder For Timber Tract Coquille Plywood Corp. was high bidder on 16,5ti,IM)0 hoard feet of Bureau of Land Managemenl tim ber in the Spencer Creek area. The company paid $34.10 ner thou sand board feet. In a Vincent Creek sale, Long Bell Lumber Co. paid $31.05 per thousand for 9,8M,000 feet. And Ev ans Products was high bidder on 3.154,000 feet in the Loon Lake area. The timber sold for $48.- The sales were made in the Coos Bay office of the BL.M. MINOR MISHAP REPORTED Dan Wann of Roseburg lold citv police Tuesday afternoon that he Dumped car near oak Avenue :il-,.nt ll ha Inf. and Rose Street. He said he left his name and address at Lock wood Motors, since it was raining too bard to leave the information on the windshield of the car he Int. Eden Announces Reshuffle Of British Government LONDON Prime Miniiler Eilen announced a wholesale re shuffle of his government today hut British newspapers gav ine chanyes a mixed reception. Kdin put seven Cabinet portfo lios into new hands, raised one department to Cabinet rank and dropped another from the inner fold. Nine of Sir Anthony i inmost of ficial family stayed where they were and actually only three new men joined the Cabinet. Kven some ('onservativt papers express ed doubts and I.abontes naturally jeered at what they interpreted as a name of political chairs. The.se were the most important changes: 1. Kichard A. 'Ran" Butler went from chancellor of the exchequer lo government leader of the House of Commons. In effect he becomes deputy Prime Minister, the pot for which he has been slated ever since the general election 1 a 1 1 May. 2. Foreign Minister Harold Mac- millan succeeded Butler at lhe Treasury. Residents In Low Sections Advised To Be Ready In Case Evacuation Is Necessary West Oregon Streams Near Flood Stage By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Western Oregon streams went out of their banks Wednesday, families were evacuated from their threatened homes, schools closed slides cut highways and rain still came uown. The McKcnzie, the Umpqua, and the Siuslaw were raging torrents. The Willamette, a damaging river near Eugene in years past, was still being held in check by Look out Point Dam whose reservoir was going up a foot an hour. Mountain snows melted, adding fresh torrents. At mid-morning the Siuslaw Riv er at Maplelon, a dozen miles from the coast due west of Eu gene, was four feet above flood stage and still rising. A score of houses near the river were ma rooned and water was inching up to the floors. All woods crews in the Maple ton area quit work and the U. S. Plywood Corp. mill closed down. Schools wero being dismissed. Since Saturday night Maplelon had measured six inches of rain. The Lane County sheriff's office evacuated seven families by boat from their homes in the Westward mo residential section north of Eugene and a half dozen more families were told to be ready to leave that lowland area which is criss-crossed by the channels of OKI noons. Amazon Creek spread out and surrounded the Eugene High School, which closed. A junior high there also closed because water flooded out tha boilers and there was no heat. Several schools north of Eugene planned lo close at noon so chil dren could get lo their homes be fore rising water cut their paths. Glenwood. lowdymg community southeast of Eugene which used to expect annual floodinz from the Willamette, apparently was in no tContinued on Page 1 Col, ) Home Lighting Judging Friday The judging of the Junior Cham- her of Commerce Christmas horn lighting contest in the Roseburg area will he conducted Friday, suiiiiug m . p.m. Chairman Ken Garey requested Wednesday that persona wishine to have the judges consider their outdoor decorations leavo their lights on until midnight. He said Ihe committee would cover the area that night. Winners will he announced Sat urday, Garey said. Persons wish ing to participate are not requir ed to fill out. any entry blanks, Carey said. All thev need do is keep lhe decorations illuminated rriday night. Myrtle Creek Telephone Operator Wins Auto A 19-ycar-old Myrtle Creek tele phone operator. Miss Gloria Ai ken, who never owned a car be fore in her life, was sporting a new 1956 model today. Correspondent Ruth M. Evans reports she was the winner of lhe car in a contest sponsored re cently by the Myrtle Creek Boost ers Club. The contest grdsscd the club about 4.000. Proceeds will be used to promote all types of athletics in lha Myrtle Creek schools. CANADIAN HELD James John Akarman. 28. was i being held for Portland immigra ..nn . . .1 i ....I... .:.. lion authorities today, city police said, after the man was picked up in Roseburg Tuesday. Akarman en tered this country from Alberta, Canada, on Nov. 10. 3. Defense Minister Selwyn Lloyd takes over the Foreign Office from Macmillan, and Sir Walter Monch ton who has been Labor minis ter succeeded Lloyd in the De fense post. 4. The Worki Ministry w a s raised to Cabinet status and Pat rick Buchan-Hcphurn, chief Con servative floor leader in Commons, was named minister to replace Ni gel Birch. The Ministry of Pensions was dropped from the Cabinet. Those removed from the Cabi net generally men above GO either went to the House of Lords or to higher titles if they already had peerages. The ahakeup was Kdens answer to increasingly shrill criticism spearheaded by the Labor opposi tion of inflation on the home front and failure to cope with step ped up Communist pressure abroad. The United States and other British allies were mainlv inter ested in Marmillan's replacement by Lloyd it the Foreign Office, Th U. S. Wtathor Bureau of fice at Roseburg airport at II a. m. said the South Umpqua River Is expected to go slightly over flood stage at Winston Bridge tonight. The crest forocast is for 2 foot at me bridge by 10 p.m. Flood stage Is 25 feet there. Other forecasts and flood stag es are: Rottburg, 22. S feet by 11 p.m. (about 25 feet); Win Chester (North Umpqua), 15 feat by p.m. (15 feet); and Elkton, 32 fiat by 4 a.m. Thursday. Tha figures ware based on an expected Inch of rain between ( a.m. and 4 p.m. today. Figures will be revised this afternoon and another river stage advisory is sued by tha Weather Bureau for radio broadcast. The North and South Umpqua Rivers were rising late this mor ning, and the U.S. Weather Bu reau station at Roseburg forecast that the swollen streams will con tinue to rise. Residents of low areas, especi ally in the Garden Valley area west of Roseburg, were notified to be prepared for evacuation. A forecast of when the rivers will crest was expected momentar ily. The information will be broad cast on radio stations. Readings this morning showed the Umpqua River at Elkton was at 22.6 feet and still going up. At Winchester on the North Umpqua, the reading was 13.1. Flood stage is about 20. The South Umpqua. pushed by heavy rains in higher elevations, especially in the Cow Creek region, also was going up. The reading at Winston Bridge earlier in the mor ning was 20.95. Flood stage is about 25 feet. . At Roseburg, Ihe reading was. 17.95 where the flood stage also is about 25 feet. At Glide, the Forest. Service reported the North Ump qua Was boosted ahnul fnnr fnnt during the night to a point about is icei anove normal. A crest was expected later in the day. The Weather Bureau said slow rises in all streams is expected.. nosenurg naa 1.39 inches of rain (Continued On Page 2 Col. 5) Highway Traffic Slowed By Slides And High Water Slides and high water ennlinoe lo hamner highway truffle t lore Houglaj Counly point today. Highway 39 batWMn V.Wtnn anA Reedsport wal renorted rinse.) in 'wo spots. There is one-way traf- "e on Highway 99 at Wilbur. A county bridjre was washed out near utenciaie. High water over roads was general throughout the coun ty. The closures on Highway 38 were near Paradise Creek and inst nt of Reedsport, two trouble spots earlier. At Paradise Creek, according to Dep. Sheriff John MrCnnl roc. Hon at Drain, a new slippage of the roadway forced the State High way Dept. to turn back traffic. A new slide, the sixth in ahnut two weeks, occurred on a new highway project a mile west of need sport. A slide In a cut near Wilhui- Tuesriay night forced one-way iramc. me Highway Dept. said the debris probably will he clear. ed from the roadway this after noon. Other slides atom? Highwar M were just north of Myrtle Creek in a new construction area and on the south slope of Stage Coach Pass near Gtcndale. Neither, how ever, slowed traffic seriously. The bridge washout was at Mc Culloch Creek on the Ruben Conn- ly Road, west of Glendale. Slides in two places made one-way traf fic necessary, according to Mrs. ii. a. i-ox, News-Review corres pondent. Water was reported over the road on Highway 235 south of Suth- erlin, and between Suthorlin and Oakland and south of Yoncalla. County Commissioner Frank Ashley, who inspected county roads in western Douglas County Tues day, said three slides on the Loon Lake Koad failed to close off traf fic. He said one slide came down across the road about 300 yards ahead of his car while he was driv ing toward Loon Lake. The Mell Canyon washout on the county road between Klktnn and Kellogg continues to block the road. Part of the roadway slipped into the Umpqua River last week end. About 50 feet of roadwav is set tling on Garden Valley Hoad just west of Calkins Road. CHANGES PLEA, FINED John Wesley Richter, 34. Myr tle Point, Tuesday changed his plea from innocent to guilty on a drunk en driving charge, and Dist. Judge warren A. Woodruff lined him $300. He. was arrested by state po lice in October. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Tha annual sprouting of synthetic Santa Clauses offers a chance for soma fame-teok-in( poet to go Edwin Markham one better by composing an ode to "The Mia With tha Ho. 1 Ho, HV
