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Oregon's Highway Engineer
Baidock Will Quit In August,
Hecsd Road Mission To Iraq
SALEM OP) R. H. Baidock, 67, Oregon state hiirhway
engineer lor zi years and past president of the American
Assn. of State Highway Officials, will resign Aug. 16 to
head a highway mission to Iraa.
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Happy Valley Stampede
Program Announced
Queen Carolyn Jackson and her
court of the Douglas County Kndeo
will again rule over the domain of
cowboys and horses July 28 and
29 at the annual Happy Valley
Stampede.
Queen Carolyn and Princesses
Judy Strode and Karen Whilson
will appear, but Princess Karen
may not be able to ride, accord
ing to Karl Doering, manager. She
was just released from a hospital,
where she was treated for a back
injury.
The Stampede will open Friday
night with a dance at the Happy
Valley ranch. Chuck and his Sons
of the Saddle will play for the eve
ning which begins at 9.
A second dance has been sched
uled for Saturday night. Glen
Kinman and his Rockets will play
for the second evening.
Doering reports that plans are
being made for a buckaroo break
fast Sunday morning. At the rodeo,
the concessions will be operated
by the Roseburg Roping and Cut
ting Horse club.
Tickets for the rodeo will go on
sale Monday. They may be obtain
ed in Roseburg at Howard's Men's
Wear and Tipton Insurance agen
cy, and at Baldwin's Clothing in
Winston.
The Rodeo Cowboy Assn. ap
proved show will have seating for
2.000 persons this year. There are
also more prizes than before.
Eugene Business Firm
Hit By $50,000 Fire
EUGENE Wi Fire caused
damage estimated by Fire Chief
Ed Surfus at $50,000 to the Mun
ncll and Shcrill Inc. supply house
here Friday night.
Firemen confined the blaze to
a repair shop adjacent to the
main building, but Surfus said
much of the slock was damaged
by smoke and intense heat.
Fire Marshal Lester Barker
said the fire appeared to have
started under a work bench of
undetermined cause.
The firm, with head offices in
Portland, supplies logging and
industrial equipment.
Rolling Logs Take Lives
Of Boy, Woods Worker
James Richard Kercher, 14, of
Central Point drowned in an irri
gation ditch three miles north
west of Central Point Friday. The
boy. who could not swim, fell into
5-fect of water when logs he was
playing on rolled over.
Frank Lee Vaughn, 61, Grants
Pass, was killed by a rolling log
while working in the woods west
of Rogue River.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Federal farm aid note:
President Eisenhower (acting un
der existing law) has made
drought - stricken portions of Neb
raska eligible for federal disaster
assistance. The department of agri
culture said that for the time be
ing the drought aid will be limited
to five Nebraska counties, all of
which have suffered severly from
dry weather.
Whatever we may think of the
farm aid programs of the past de
cade, under which vast surpluses j
have accumulated as a result of
unwise price subsidies for certain
crops, we must ail agree that
drought disaster assistance is fed
eral aid to agriculture that REAL
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what help of that sort really i
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The Weather
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Fair today, ton.ghf and Sunday.
Continued warm.
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Highest temp, last 24 hours
Lowest temp, last 24 hours
Highest temp, any July
Lowest temp, any July
Precip. last 24 hours
Preeip. from July 1
Precip. from Sept. 1
Excess from Sept. 1 .
Sunset tonight, 7:47 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 4:52 a.m.
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Baidock, who joined the Oregon
Highway Department staff 41
years ago, said in announcing his
plaDS lale yesterday that he would
be in Iraq two years.
The state Highway Commission
will name Baldock's successor.
His deputy now is W. C. Williams.
When the Oregon Highway De
partment was established in 1915
Baidock went to work for it as a
district engineer. He advanced
rapidly and is credited with much
of the progress made in modern
izing and maintaining the high
way system of the stale.
He was active in working for
passage of the federal highway
bill, lias written many technical
papers and has frequently been
called on as a highway consultant
by government both United
States and foreign officials.
His work in Iraq will be as
advisor to that government in a
program arranged by the United
States.
Steel Bridge Will
Rise To Displace
Old Wooden Span
Another of Douglas county's
rapidly vanishing covered bridges
is soon to be scrapped.
The Douglas County Court
Friday accepted a bid of $80,350
for erection and construction on a
new steel span bridge over the
Soulh Umpqua River on the Hap
py Valley Road. It will replace the
wooden, covered Happy Valley
Bridge built in 1916.
County Engineer Al May said
the bridge will be erected at a
"bargain" price.
Successful bidder on the job was
West Coast Steel Co. of Portland.
The only other bidder was Tom
Lillebo of Reedsport with a bid of
390,360.
Part of the "bargain1' May men
tioned was made possible by the
purchase a couple of years ago by
the court of two steel truss spans
which had been replaced over the
Santa Ynez River in California.
The court actually bought three,
but one was used on an approach
to Glendale. The other two will be
placed end to end on the present
piers of the Happy Valley Bridge
to form a 440-foot bridge, includ
ing approaches. The two spans
will reach 164 feet 6 inccs. The
approach on the west end will be
66 feet long and the one on the
east 45 feet long.
Detour For Rodeo Goers
May said work would begin next
week and should be completed by
October. Rodeo goers to the Hap
py Valley Rodeo should be incon
venienced only slightly, since a
detour route will be made and will
be maintained as long as possible
while the concrete and steel Hap
py Valley Bridge is being com
pleted. May explained that it is neces
sary to replace the 40-year-old
covered bridge because it is be
coming dangerous. He said the
lower cords on the bridge are
parting, and considerable sagging
results. He said it would have
been condemned in year or two
if use continued.
Although the present piers are
substantial and will be used, the
bottom oi the bridge will be raised
about four feet to allow clearance
in high water.
The new structure will have a
21-foot roadway as compared to
the present bridge's 16 feet.
Mitchell Blames Flood
Horror On Commission
MITCHELL, Ore. Ufi Resi
dents of this town say in a peti
tion the state Highway Commis
sion was at fault in the disastrous
flood that wiped out half the
town's business section July 13.
The petition asks the comhiis
sion not to rebuild the highway
until an independent engineering
firm has surveyed the stretch of
road passing through the Central
Oregon town.
The 100 signers of the petition
said that the commission nar
rowed the channel of Bridge
Creek when Highway 28 was re
built through Mitchell two years
ago.
The narrower channel was not
able to handle the runoff from
the sudden cloudburst that broke
over the surrounding hills and the
town s business section was wash-
ed away, they said.
The petition says that the high
way was built in such a way as
to make "catastrophe inevitable."
Oregon Sailor Admits
Role In Bank Robbery
I JACKSONVILLE, Fla. I
I Marvin E. Frederickson, 20, of
Gold Beach. Ore., Friday pleaded
guilty to being an accesorv in
Ithe $28,000 robbery of i bank at
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redenckson said that Clinton
Emil Withington told him of the
robbery plan about two weeks be-
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nearby Cecil Field.
17.87, Mrs. Mary Ann Reid, 24
jed guilty to receiving
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Tilhur Boy, 8, Killed As
J. R.Phil ley
11th Traffic
Death Of Year
An 8-year-old Wilbur boy who
was riding in a short logging truck
Friday became the 11th traffic fa
tality of the year in Douglas Coun
ty. Johnny Ray Philley son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Pfaff, was killed
when he fell beneath the wheels of
the truck, which was running out of
control down a hill.
Coroner L. L. Powers said death
was immediate.
The driver of the truck, Billy
Jack Hindman, Wilbur, told an in
vestigating deputy sheriff that the
truck had been loaded about 12:30
and was pulling away from the
landing.
The truck jumped out of gear,
and when he tried to put on the
brakes, lie found they had failed.
The truck speeded down about 100
yards of a private logging road,
then left the road and continued on
for about 165 feet.
The boy. after the truck left the
road, either jumped or was thrown
from the vehicle. The right rear
wheels passed over his body.
Hindman stayed with the truck,
but he was taken to Douglas Com
munity Hospital with a cut on his
right leg.
Hindman was driving for Pfaff,
the boy's stepfather.
The boy was born April 3, 1948,
at Abiliene, Tex. He was a student
at Wilbur grade school and had
lived in this area for about three
years.
The boy was a member of the
Church of Christ. '
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 10 a.m. in The Chapel
of the Roses. Interment will be in
Roseburg Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include his mother and
stepfather; a brother, Chuck; a sis
ter, Linda Kay; a stepbrother, r.1
don; maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. K. Hayer, Big Spring,
Tex.; and paternal grandfather,
G. P. Philley Sr., Abilene. Tex.
He. was preceded in death by his
father, Charlie Lue Philley.
Klamath Falls-Bound
Plane, 2 Aboard, Missing
SAN FRANCISCO I A plane
wilh two persons was reported
missing Saturday in a flight from
Sacramento to Klamath Falls,
Ore.
The pilot was David S. Salerno,
Hawthorne, Calif.
A passenger listed as Jackie
West was aboard.
The Civil Air Patrol set up a
search base at Red Bluff and
said a dozen planes would join the
hunt.
The CAP said Salerno left
Sacramento at 4 p.m. PDT Fri
day, in a BT13 trainer plane with
red wings and a white fuselage.
Powder Use In Logging
Operation Draws Fine
A logger has been fined $200 for
illegally using powder in a logging
operation.
Fined was William E. Feagins.
He was arraigned in justice court,
Sutherlih. A state forest inspector
said he works for Watts Logging
Co. near Sutherlin.
Feagins had been accused of top
ping a tree with dynamite, start
ing a fire which burned over 13
acres of O&C timber at the base
of Harness Mountain, east of Sutherlin.
Donations To Bloodmobile
Short Of Roseburg Quota;
Heat Deters Volunteering
The two-day collection of blood
by the American Red Cross this
week failed to come up to the
quota set for Roseburg, but the ef
fort was termed "a success"
anyhow.
the Red Cross Bloodmobile col
lected 138 pints of blood, according
to Mrs. Walter Britteil, blood re
cruitment chairman for the Doug
las County Red Cross chapter. The
quota set for the city Wednesday
and Thursda;' was 220 pints.
Mrs. Britteil pointed out that
some people probably were kept
away by the 101-degree heat on
Wednesday and the 99 degrees of
Thursday. "It was hardly to be ex
pected that many" more people
would show up." she commented.
At that, 40 potential donors had
to be rejected because of low
hemoglobin in their blood. So 178
persons actually showed up at the
Bloodmobile. Twenty-six were
there for the first time, but eight
were rejected
Mrs. Britteil said five persons
became gallon donori and two per-
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Dillard Mm Jailed
On Robbery Count
involving Assault ,
The alleged robbery and beating
of a Roseburg man Friday evening
is being investigated by the Doug
las County sheriff's department.
Lodged in county jail in lieu of
$1,000 bail is Larry Duane Sim
mons, Box 333, Dillard. Complain
ant Gale Hardy Carlson, Box 1282,
Roseburg, charges Simmons with
robbery by force and violence, not
armed with a dangerous weapon.
Carlson told deputies that Sim
mons knocked him down and re
moved a bill fold containing $6
about 8:30 p.m. Carlson said the
attack took place as he was open
ing a gate to let Simmons drive
through. Carlson said he had join
ed Simmons in Winston to go visit
a friend of the defendant. He al
leges that the event took place in
the Porter Creek area.
Complainant Carlson says Sim
mons took the money and drove
away. Carlson made his way to
the farm house of Thomas J. Cur
ran. Star Rt. Box 48, Winston, of
ficers said and Curran called the
sheriff's office.
A deputy sheriff and a state
police officer investigated the call.
According to the deputy, Carlson
later identified Simmons as his at
tacker when he saw him in a Win
ston service station.
The defendant admits talking to
the plaintiff, officers said, but says
the last he saw of Carlson was as
he let him out in front of the Win
ston Theater. He said in a written
statement that was the last he had
seen of Carlson until the officers
came up to his (Simmons') car with
Carlson.
Simmons will be arraigned Mon
day in Sutherlin justice court at
10 a.m.
Heat Wave Lingers, But
Fire Hazard Lessens '
The temperature reached 96 de
grees Friday as central Douglas
County went through another dry
day, but forest fire danger is said
to be lessening.
A southwest wind bringing moist
air inland from the ocean replaced
a drying east wind which this
week raised fire danger to a criti
cal state in Douglas forests.
Many loggers again Friday were
forced from their jobs by low
humidities. But the humidity read
ing at Douglas Forest Protective
Assn. headquarters on Airport
Road was only 25 per cent, higher
than the couple of days preceding
Friday.
Fire was kept out of the trees
during the dry weather. Again to
day, the DFPA had no serious
fires to report from the past 24
hours.
Hot weather is expected to con
tinue over the weekend, with a
high reading this afternoon of 92
degrees.
Klansmen To Assemble,
Negroes Slate Prayer
LAKELAND. Fla. I The Ku
Klux Klan will gather its forces
here tonight for the first state-wide
rally of the hooded organization in
several years.
The klan has announced it will
be "an old time speaking rally and
cross burning." About 2,000 mem
bers are expected to be on hand at
a leased site north of the city to
hear a minister, two lawyers and
others talk on white supremacy and
world conditions.
At the same time the Negro con
gregation of St. Luke's Free Will
Baptist Church will hold a mass
meeting to pray for the klan. The
Rev. O. L. Williams said the pur
pose of the prayers will be to
strengthen the spread of Christian
love for one another.
sons two-gallon donors. Giving
their 16th pint of blood were Virgil
Olson and Mrs. Betty Zuck, both
of Roseburg. New gallon donors
are Dorothy Ballou of Glide and
Mrs. Zelpha Christensen, Mrs.
Edith Heinke, Edmond C. Hayes
and Leo Young, all of Roseburg.
Among the many volunteers who
assisted at the Bloodmobile was
Mrs. Gertrude Von Hollander from
Braunschweig, West Germany,
who is at present a house guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franks of
Glide.
Mrs. Von Hollander was inter
ested in the Red Cross Blood Pro
gram. She said there was nothing
to compare with it in West Ger
many and she asked many ques
tions concerning it and for liter
ature which would assist her in
telling the people of West Germany
about it.
Donald Woods, John Horton and i
Dave Montgomery. Sea Scouts of !
Ship 237, Roseburg, assisted the i
custodian in setting up and tearing 1
down the operation. i
ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY,
Polio Strikes
As Epidemic
In Chicago
Widespread Vaccine
Shots Begun In Effort
To Check Disease
CHICAGO tfl Chicago, hard hit
by an early outbreak of polio.
struck back with widespread in
oculations with Salk vaccine today
in a dramatic effort to head off an
epidemic.
Health officials exaressed confi
dence the Salk- vaccine could
keep the outbreak under control if
enough people receive tne snots.
"I would like to see a half mil
lion children vaccinated," said Dr.
Herman N. Bunesen, president of
the Board of Health.
With the reporting of 19 new cases
Thursday, Chicago's total for the
year came to 245 including five
deaths. At this time last year, only
38 cases had been reported, with
two deaths.
Of the 245 Chicago cases, about
half have come from a relatively
small tenement area on the West
Side. The disease has stricken par
ticularly children under five years
nf ace.
The city has four fulltime inocu
lation centers operating. Officials
estimate that since July 12 about
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Country Club's Tool
House, Equipment
Destroyed By Fire
Between $8,000 and $10,000 dam.
it is estimated, when a large tool
shed, containing groundkeeping
equipment, burned at the Roseburg
country uiud, west ot itoseourg on
Garden Valley Koad.
Jack Schancvcldt, the club man
ager, said all equipment in the shed
was destroyed. The loss was unin
sured.
Included in the loss were a trac
tor and two mowers used to keep
the fairways and greens trimmed,
watering equipment, about $200
worth of fertilizer which had just
been delivered, hand tools, part of
a small utility shed nearby, etc.
Club members and a Douglas
Forest Protectiva Assn. crew called
to the scene prevented the spread
of flames to the main clubhouse
and the club's duplex apartment.
The tool shed was about the size of
a double garage.
Schaneveldt said it appears the
fire may have been due to spontan
eous combustion. He said it started
in an end of the building where
gasoline from the power-driven
equipment was stored.
A caddy first spotted tne maze
about 1 p.m. and ran to the club
house for help. Schaneveldt called
the DFPA.
Schaneveldt said by the time he
got outside, flames were leaping
as nigh as the trees.
Reckless Driving Fine
Hits Youth; No License
A two-dar trial, in which 13 wit
nesses paraded to the stand, end
ed Friday in Douglas County Dis
trict Court before a jury returned
a verdict of guilty against Ronald
Laverne Shepherd, 19, of 173 SE
Miller St., Roseburg. Shepherd
was charged with reckless driving.
Judge Warren Woodruff fined the
Roseburg youth $70 and charged
him $8 court costs. It was also
recommended that his rights to ap
ply for a driver's license be sus
pended. Sherpherd didn't have a
license at the time of an accident
from which the charge resulted.
The trial started Thursday morn
ing and continued through the day.
It resumed Friday morning, and
the verdict was returned at 3:30
p.m. The state introduced nine
witnesses in its case against anep-
herd.
The reckless driving charge
grew out of an accident on March
13 about five miles south of Rose
burg. The youth was arrested by
state police May 10.
Deer Creek Cabin Thief
Demands More In Note
A search by Douglas County
sheriff's deputies is under way for
the unknown person who burglar
ized a cabin on Deer Creek three
weeks ago and returned July 14 to
demand by note that other articles
be left for hi in.
Complainant D. C. McKay, Rt.
1 Box S, .Myrtle Creek, told of
ficers the following items were re
moved initially: Trunk, several
blankets, kerosene lamp and food
staples.
Saturday, the burglar returned
and left poorly written notes in
which he asked for boots, size
I0F.E; 22 high power shells, flour,
sugar, etc.
JULY 21, 1956
Truck Runs Wild
Operation Alert Declared
SuperiorTo Drill Last Year
But 'Rough Spots' Remain
EMERGENCY PRESS HEADQUARTERS, Operation
Alert UP) The western hemisphere's bijrgest civil defense
drill, Operation Alert 1956, was reported "far ahead of
last year" in efficiency today by one of the men running
it.
Defense Mobilization Director Arthur S. Flemming added
in a statement however, a
Explosion, Smoke
Do Attic Damage
To Local Store
What appears to have been some
sort of an explosion Friday after
noon charred the attic in the Ump
qua Valley Appliance store, 648 SE
Rose st.
Fire Chief W. E. Mills said his
men could find no flames in the
building, but clouds of smoke fog
ged up the store about 4:15 p.m.
The chief said that "there wcrn't
10 gallons of water used."
Damage to the building was con
fined to wiring and the roof, which
firemen broke through when they
were called to the scene.
The cause wasn't determined
this morning. Mills said the wiring
apparently hadn't started the fire.
It was thought that perhaps the
90-degree-plus heat wave of this
week naa evaporated resins in root
timbers, forming a gas which was
ignited in some way.
George west, owner of the busi
ness, said no other part of the
building or contents other than the
attic and roof received' damage.
The loss was covered by insur
ance. Firemen stayed on the scene for
about lVi hours.
Mills and City Building Inspec
tor C. N. Currier continued to in
spect the building this morning
in attempt to find the cause of the
explosion. Currier said the frame
of the building remained sound.
It was the second lire for West
in about three years. Earlier, the
Umpqua Valley Appliance store on
Oak Avenue near Rose Street
burned with heavy damage.
Drunk Driving Charge
Scheduled For Trial
Trial for William Kenneth Sni
der, 31, of 291 Knoll Ave., Rose
burg, has been set in Douglas
County District Court for July 30
at 1:30 p.m.
Snider was arrested Friday by
state police on a charge of drunk
en driving, He posted $500 bail and
was released.
Meanwhile, Fred Reed Lovett,
23, Winston, paid a $25 fine and
was released Friday after plead
ing guilty in district court to a
charge of being drunk on a public
highway. Ha was also arrested by
slate police.
Log-Hauling Periods Set
By Public Utilities Head
Oregon Public Utilities Commis
sioner Charles H. Hcllzcl Friday
set up the time at which log haul
ers may start hauling on state
highways.
He authorized hauling from 4
a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through
Friday through Labor Day, when
summer log - hauling restrictions
end. Hauling on Saturdays will be
allowed from 4 a.m. to noon.
Previously, log - hauling couldn't
start before 8 a.m. The change
was recommended by the State
Highway Commission, according to
The Associated Press.
Carol Morris Crowns Her
Beauty Honors On Receiving
Accolade Of Miss Universe
LONG BEACH, Calif. Ifl A tall,
trim Iowa girl, who came here a
week ago with ambitions of becom
ing a school teacher, waa acclaim
ed today as Miss Universe of 1957.
For Carol Morris, 20, the award
completed an unprecedented sweep
of top honors in the international
beauty contest. She was first
named the most popular girl in
the opening day parade and then
went on to win the title of Miss
United States.
Last night the dark-haired blue
eyed beauty from the Middle West
matched her charms against those
of 14 girls from other nations and
again came out on top. Germany's
Marina Orschcl placed second in
the final judging. Ingrid Goude of
Sweden was third, Iris Waller, En
gland, fourth, and Rosanna Gain,
Italy, fifth.
When Miss Morris won the Miss
USA title Wednesday she said she
had wished upon a star. Last night
she had another good luck charm
working for ber.
PRICE 5e
number of rough spots re-
main
to be ironed out.
Civil Defense Administrator Val
Peterson said he was "initially
pleased" wilh progress of the gi
gantic exercise but lacked enough
reports to make a general evalu
ation. ,
Their preliminary summaries
were issued at the secret informa
tion center more than 100 miles
from Washington.
One major development m the
vast civil defense exercise is a
new administration plan to com
bine civil and military control for
keeping law and order where en
emy action might knock out local
government.
Joint Authority Dua
A White House spokesman said
top authority would rest with a
civilian, the federal civil defense
administrator. This would be
change from the controversial
"limited martial law" system
tried out last year.
Operation Alert, now in its sec
ond day, is designed to show how
military and civilian authorities
in this country and Canada could
cope with an all-out atomic at
tack. The test will end next Wed
nesday. This year's alert assumes nu
clear weapon hits on 100 U.S. and
Canadian targets, including most
major cities and key defense
centers.
Millions wera reported
'killed"
as mock enemy bombers smashed
targets across the countrv Thurs-
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day. The biggest test in this hem- job was $2,538 and on the second,
isphera also affected Canada, Ha-1 $2,824. Both were under tile engi
waii and Puerto Rico. inccr's estimate.
Washington "Evacuated" I The third project was for surfac
More than 30-government de- mg and installation of curbs, gut
partments sent skeleton staffs loiters and drainarte for 1.079.62 feet
secret relocation centers at "safe"
distances from the captial.
Washington itself was theoreti
cally evacuated at the time of the
mock blast that would have seared
the city.
Through an emergency press
headquarters some 100 miles from
the capital, the President author
ized a "test" declaration of "un
limited national emergency and a
stale oi war.
Polio-Stricken Roseburg
Boy Removed To Eugene
Little Mclvin Hunnicutt. Vi. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunnicutt
of Roseburg, was taken to Sacred
Heart Hospital in Eugene this week
with polio.
The bov was removed from iso
lation today, and his parents are in
r-ugene lor me weekend. This is
lha first time they have been able
to visit him since he entered the
hospital on Tuesday.
The disease struck Melvin in the
right leg, although there has been
no paralysis, Mrs. Hunnicutt said.
Both legs were weak, she added.
So far as known, this is Doug
las County's third polio case this
year, Dr. verner Anderson, chair
man of the county chapter for the
National Polio Foundation, said.
ROCK SMASHES WINDOW
Someone threw a rock through
the plate glass window in the front
of the Horace Berg home, 219 W.
Riverside Dr., Berg complained to
Roseburg police this morning.
Berg said he and his wife heard
the glass shatter about 2:30 a.m.
Her father, the Rev. LaVerne
Morris of Ottumwa. Iowa, who
flew in with his wife, disclosed
that for three weeks he has bem
carrying a penny in the toe of nis
shoe.
I found it on the street, he
said. "And at the sama instant a
picture of Carol flashed in my
mind.
"I wanted to keep it separate
from my other change so I nut it
in my shoe and I told Carol I'd
keep it there until she won or lost.
Among the prizes won by t h e
new Miss Universe is a six-momh
motion picture contract at $250 a
week. Rev. Morris made it clear
he is not too keen on his daughter
entering the movies.
"I can't say much now." he
said. "I knew that would be part
oi me program ana 1 sanctioned
her going in. But I'm not hoping
for a movie career for her."
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He said he wanted Carol, a jun-
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Part Of Reno
Awash, Four
Persons Die
Litter Of Wrecked
Cars, Boulders Closes ,
Several Highways
RENO. Nov. Ifl Four nersons
disappeared in the churning wa
ters of Galena Creek Thursday
night following a cloudburst and
mountain flash flood.
Six other nersons were injured
as scattered floods covered a sec
tion of Reno, closed highways and
wrecked automobiles over a wide
section of western Nevada and the
California High Sierra.
AU the missing persons wera
lost when Galena Creek cut a ra
vine through the Mt. Rose road be
tween here and Lake Tahoe.
The flood also closed a nearby
section of U. S. Highway 395, the
main north-south route through
western Nevada and eastern Cali
fornia. Matt Wachwoici of Sacramento,
Calif., was found only slightly in
jured five miles downstream from
the point where Galena Creek wash
ed nis car ott tne road.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said
Wachwoici sought unsuccessfully
to save his wife and two of their
children. Another soh, Fred, 10,
was found near the scene with only
minor injuries.
Also missing in the sama area
is William Boyctt of Reno.
The search was hampered by
near freezing temperatures, which
came with darkness, and waist
deep mud.
Can, Bouldart Litter Road
Highway natrolmen and sheriff's
deputies reported the roads in tha
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6 Street Projects
Draw One Bidder;
Awards Deferred
Roseburg Paving Co. was the
only bidder on six dedicated streets
projects Friday.
Bids were opened by the Douglas
County Court, but were turned over
to county Engineer Al May for
study before awards are made.
1 wo of the projects were for
work on Northwest Dogwood Drive
in HouBlcy Heights near Roseburg.
It called for finishing with asphal-
tic concrete ot 1,010.55 leet lor
roadway 20 feet wide. The second
part called for paving and installing
of necessary drainage for 415 more
feet of the drive. Bid on the first
of Northwest Fairmont Street 24
feet wide. The bid was S13.322.85.
Engineer's estimate was $12,254,00.
Another project is for a 20-foot
width of NE Meadow Avenue 1,880
feet long. Included is paving and
drainage installations. The bid was
$11,327, about $2,000 under the esti
mate. Another is for paving 1,792 feet nf
roadway on Brown Street in Glidi
to a width of 20 feet. The bid was
$8,136.10.
Ihe last is for surfacing, curbs
and gutters for NW Beacon Way
near Roseburg to a width of 26
feet. The bid was $9,996.40 and tha
engineer's estimate $9,974.80.
Dillard Man Arrested
On Drunk Driving Count
A Dillard man landed in Doug
las County jail Saturday following
his arrest by state police on a
charge of driving while intoxicated.
Officers said Charlie Fate Land,
31, was driving north on Highway
near the south Sutherlin over-
Eass when his car slammed into a
ighway divider post. The impact
broke the post at highway level and
put out an amber flashing signal
attached to the post, police said.
lhey said Land s car veered into
the south lane of traffic for two-
tenths of a mile, before he attempt
ed to cross back. Land's car then
travelled nearly 400 feet, straddling
the concrete divider and knocking
out pipe reflectors, they added.
Land brought his vehicle to a halt
on the east side of the highway.
some half milo Beyond the smash
ed pole, officers said.
Heat Wave Takes Toll
Of Turkeys, Chickens
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Verle Nofsigcr, Albany turkey
grower, reported Friday that 15,
000 of his flock of 20,000 turkey.)
died of sun stroke in this week's
heat.
He made no estimate of the
monetary loss but reported that
the mortality rate was highest
among the birds which were fat
and well feathered.
Other Willamette Valley poultry
growers also reported heavy
losses because of the heat.
Frank Hcttwcr, Mt. Angel ponl
tryman, said he lost 700 white
Leghorn hens.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizanstein
Millions of persons, it is
estimated, were theoretically
"killed" in last week's simu
lated nuclear attack, but
grasshoppers, njosquitoei, bee
tles, earwigs and saxophone
players survived.
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