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
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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