The news-review., June 29, 1957, Page 2, Image 2

2 The Nowi-Reviow, Roseburg,
Increases In Some Postal
Services To Go Into Effect
WASHINGTON i.n - Starting
Monday, it will cost you more to
send a special delivery letter, buy
a money order, insure a package,
or use any of the other half-dozen
special postal services.
Postmaster General Summer
field announced increases in spec
ial service charges a month ago,
to become effective July 1. It's
part of his drive to whittle down
Roseburg Pottmatttr Clyda
W. Carstent said today that tha
increase of fets on mail mat
tar should not ba confused with
ponding legislation in Congress
to incraasa postage ratas. Thara
is no incraasa in postaga ratal
at preiant.
some of the 651 million dollar
deficit the department is facing in
fiscal 1958. starting Monday.
Under the law, the service
charges are fixed by the post
master general. The announced
Funeral Service
Held For Victim
Of Log Accident
Funeral services for Stokely
Lewis Jacobs, 28, of Drain, who
was accidentally killed in a log
ging accident near Rice Hill Fri
day, will be held at the Drain
Church of Christ Monday at ? p.m.
Delhert White will officiate with
interment in the Drain Cemetery.
Mill's Funeral Service of Drain is
in charge of arrangements. Jacobs
was born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb.
21, 1929, and had resided in Drain
for the past 21 years, coming from
St. Louis. He was a veteran of
World War II and was employed
as a choker setter by the Wooley
Logging Co. of Drain.
He was married May 28, 1950
at Drain to Annahelle Manning,
who survives him. Other survivors
arc: his mother, Mrs. Dora Mc
Geehon of California; two children,
Howard Vernon and Mary Ellen,
hoth of Drain: three brothers.
Frank of Drain, Howard and
George, both of Paso Hobles,
Calif.; one sister. Mrs. Betty Lou
DcLauney of Drain.
Only Minor Changes
Made In County Budget
(Continued on Page 4 Col. 1)
000. The $14,900 allowed for serv
ices was reduced to $4,500 and the
amount for supplies was increased
from $100 to $500.
The major delegation at the pub
lic hearing was there to seek more
money for the library which had
had its original request chopped to
$85,442.12. Chief spokesman for
the group was Gordon Carlson, li
brary board chairman.
Askt Library Funds
He asked that the budget com
mittee restore $8,500, or 10 per
rent, to the total appropriation.
Primarily he asked for salary in
creased and increased hours for
branch libraries and for $2,500
more for purchase of books. After
he had made the same request
Tuesday, the budget committee
had okayed a number of salary
boosts, Jackson told Carlson. The
library budget was increased $7,
312.21. Changes were made in the sher
iff's law enforcement budget. Elim
ination of one clerk cut $.1,000
from the salary item, while $500
was appropriated for purchase of
voting booths.
Gen. Curtis Bcerhcr made a
strong plea for restoration of $15.
O00 to the budget of the Umpqua
Basin Drainage and Flood Control
program. He asked that the sum,
for a sinking fund to he built up
for possible future matching fund
projects, be put back in the budg
et. Tiie General declared that he
felt the water resources program
was being jeopardized by not pro
viding surh a fund.
Wants Salary Rastorod
Ben Irving, water resources de
partment head, again asked that
the committee restore the money
rut from his assistant's salary.
When the budget was drafted, the
salary was sliced from $5,400 budg
eted last year to $1,132.
An eleventh hour appeal for a
15 cents per hour wage hike for
rounty road workers was made by
Leo Butts, Portland, representing
the Public Employes Council.
Butts pointed out that such an
increase was necessary to keep the
level of efficiency in the depart
ment. He reviewed the history of I
the workers who had a wane scale
comparable to that paid in private
and public work in the area prior
lo 1952 when they dropped their
union. Unorganized for three years.
Butts said, the men wont without
a wage increase. i
Labor turnover during this pc-j
riod was terrific. Hulls claimed,
and when his organization was j
called in to reorganize the road i
workers in 1955 morale "had reach-;
ed an all-time low."
Hulls told the three members of
the county court and Dr. 11. It.
Shoemaker, budget coinniilteo
member, that he was sure Hie
rnnntv court would nnt bnv the
cheapest grade of oil or cheapest '
machine and didn't think they
wanted the cheapest labor. "Ho !
man beings are just like ma-:
chines." the union representative i
declared, "They need a little oil:
too.
Former Tenmile Man
Passes In Springfield
i
James lloniiilka. former resident ,
of Tenmile. died Thursday at his
home in Springfield. Funeral serv-i
ices will be held a t 10 30 a m.
Monday in the Springfield Catholic 1
Church.
The Btiell Funeral Home of
Springfield is in charge of arrange-,
ments. llomolka moved to Spring
field several years ago. He is sur- j
vived by his wife, Annie of Spring- j
field; five sons, George, Charles.
John, James Jr., Joseph, and one
daughter, Mn. Harry (Blanche)
Adamak. '
Ore. Sat., June 29, 1957
hikes are expected to yield about
28 million dollars a year in ad
ditional revenues.
Meanwhile, Summerfield said an
extra 133 million dollars provided
by Congress for postal operations
in the next fiscal year "eliminate
any necessity of significant cur
tailments in the present mail serv
ice." Increases in special service
charges effective Monday include:
Special delivery From 20 to 30
cents for items up to two pounds,
with similar 10-cent increases in
the other weight categories.
Money orders An additional 5
cents on each, raising the mini
mum charge from 10 to 15 cents.
Business reply cards From 3 to
4 cents, with the charge for each
piece of mail enclosed in business
reply envelopes upped from one
to 2 cents.
Notices of undcliverable second,
third and fourth class mail From
3 to 5 cents per notice.
Registered mail Where liability
is limited to $1,000, as now, an in
crease in the minimum fee from
40 to 50 cents, with the $1,000
rate raised from SI. 75 to S2. The
department will expand this serv
ice to include liability up to $10,
000, for which the charge will be
$4.25. The return receipt fee will
be advanced from 7 to 10 cents.
C.O.D. Service From 20 to 50
cents on items which must be de
livered to a specific individual.
Insurance fees Increases rang
ing from five to 10 cents on items
valued above $10.
Certified mail An increase in
the service charge from 15 to 20
cents, with the return receipt
raised irom v to 10 cents. The
change for delivery to a specified
person would be hiked from 20 to
50 cents.
Deputy Sheriff
Outwits, Captures
Escaped Convict
MARTINEZ, Calif. Iff A den
uty sheriff kidnaped by an es
caped convict outwitted his cap
tor Saturday after a wild ride,
slugged him on the jaw and shot
him.
The climax to the furious chase
came here when Deputy Sheriff
Harry Haring shot James F. Gold
man, 38, in the stomach, wound
ing him. Goldman was captured
by pursuing officers who immed
iately surrounded the car, and
then was hospitalized.
The convict had abducted Har
ing at dawn in Madera. The chase
involved both police cars and
planes.
Haring, who was forced to drive
his car at gunpoint, said Goldman
was holding a snubnnscd revolver
to his head when he pulled his
successful ruse.
"Look up at that street sign and
see what street you want me to
turn on," the deputy said he told
Goldman.
"When he turned to look, 1 hit
him on the jaw. then grabbed bis
gun and shot him."
Haring said he had slammed
on the car's brakes, which threw
the unsuspecting Goldman for
ward. Haring arrested Goldman early
Saturday and was bonking him at
the Madera County Jail when the
man snatched a revolver from his
belt, forced Haring into the sher
iff's car and embarked on a long
desperate flight north.
The chase went through Madera,
Merced. Stanislaus and San Joa
quin counties, into Contra Costa
County. The airline distance is
about 125 miles.
Twice during the hectic ride Har
ing radioed the sheriff's office to
beg Highway Palrol and police
cars to "get off my tail." lie said
Goldman,' had threatened lo shoot.
Haring had picked up Goldman
for questioning in connection with
several brushes with the law in
Fresno.
Mayor Schrunk Freed
Of Perjury Charge
(Continued from page one)
a plot by gamblers who feared !
his election as mayor would drive I
t In m out of business. Much of the
testimony presented at the 10 day I
trial here was a repetition of that j
heard in Washington, DC, last ,
March when the Senate committee
investigated what it said was la
bor racketeering in Portland. j
Portland gambler big Jim Kl
kins was a star witness at the
hearings and testified that anoth-!
er Portland gambler, Clifford O.
Bennett, told him he had paid a
$500 bribe to Schrunk in Septem
ber 1955. Schrunk was county
sheriff at the time and had ralli
ed Bennett's club. The payoff. EI
kins said, was made so Schrunk
would not arrest the club's pat
rons. President Designates
Storm Disaster Area
WASHINGTON i.fl President
Eisenhower Saturday designated
hurricane - ravaged sections of
Louisiana and Texas as major
disaster areas eligible for federal
aid.
Tha President also issued a for-1
mal statement extending his
"deepest sympathy" to the people 1
In the devastated areas. He called ;
on all Americans to contribute to
local Red Cross chapters for re- i
lief work. ;
Eisenhower made a personal
additional contribution to the Red
Cross the amount wasn't dis-l
closed and asked government
employes to follow hn example I
I
FINE SUSPENDED
A $15 fine for littering a street !
was suspended by Roseburg Muni--ripal
Judge Randolph Slocum Fr;- 1
dav when Charles Weslev Mere
dith, 18. Rt. 4 Box 285 pleaded
guilty to the charge. The com
plaining witness, Mrs. Sam Camp-1
bell, 1301 SE Hamilton St . told
police that Meredith had deposited
a beer bottle In the middle of a
afreet.
OBJECT of the boy's fascination is a black-tail doe lying
in the trunk of a state police officer's car. The officer
had recovered the deer Thursday from a highway embank
ment near Steamboat, where it presumably had been
struck by a passing car, apparently a few days before dis
covery. (Paul Jenkins)
Eye-Witness Story Told
Of Disaster-Struck City
Editors note: Stan' Meisler, New
Orleans AP staffer and one of
the few newsmen to reach flood
stricken Cameron, La., made an
extensive tour of the area bv boat
and afoot. Here is his eyewitness '
account.
CAMERON, La. i - Death, de
termination and numbed horror
mingled in this little town today
as stunned survivors hunted their
missing families in makeshift
morgues, floodwatcrs and rubble.
Grim residents deserted evacua
tion camps for the heart-rending
task of hunting loved ones.
Charles Lebocuf, a young Cam
eron man looking for his mother,
keynoted the feelings of other dog
ged searchers.
"I may find her body, but not
her," he aaid.
Take a close look at Cameron:
Walk through tha main street.
Tip-toe over fallen power lines.
Walk through the ruin that was
once a neighbor's house. Pick up
the shoe of a dead wife. Look
at a bundle of letters tied in rib
bons. Look away quickly. More on.
Tears and shows of emotion a?.
er Friday's revelation of the vast
destruction and loss of life gave
way to a numbness today.
The people talked constantly of
death, but without apparent feel
ing. They exchanged family news
tins way.
"I lost my nephew," said Sher
iff O. B. t arter to a deputy. I
"You did'.'" was the reply. "I I
lost a brother and did you hear,
about the family who lost five?"
A dead cow in the center of the I
main street greeted the first res
cue workers. It seemed lo sym-1
miiizc wie ocain oi me cuy ami
many of its 3,000 residents.
Later it seemed to dare people
lo live in spite of the death about
them.
Nearby was a crushed school
bus flanked by two fishing vessels
Oft Familv Orrlnrerl
To Give Up Children
(Continued from page one)
were served with papers by sher
iff's deputies just before the chil
dren were taken.
Substance of the allegations was:
1. That the atmosphere of the
nome is characterized bv the heat
ing of "minor children" with in
struments unfit for the purpose of
discipline.
2. That the home has been char
acterized by neglect of medical
rare, which has resulted in serious
abscesses caused by bruises upon
the children.
3. Thai the home is character
ized by the conduct of Edith Ot!
by harharinus, unjustified and
senseless acts, purporting to hp
acts of discipline, without mature
rciicction or juir.'incnl.
4. That the children have re
ceived innumerable and severe
bruises and abrasions without the
concern anil complete indifference
of Edith Ott.
The judge's order is rffective
temporarily. Final disposition will
be made in a hearing before Judge
Woodrich Julv 15.
However. Thompson seeks per
manent removal of the children
from the home He petitioned the
court to commit the children to
the care of "some reputable citi
zen" or "suitable state institution."
The petition alleges that the
"home, by reason of neglect and
cruelly on the part of . . . Edith
Ott. is in unfit place for children "
The home is located at 1912 NE
Commercial Ave.
I'ndersheriff Carl Smith and De
puty Louis A. Suiter served the
papers and took the children awav
in the company of Lee Carstcnsen.
coordinator between the juvenile
court and welfare commission.
Onlv Mrs. Ott was at home when
the officers arrived. She fed tlv
baby and gathered clothing until
her husband arrived home about
5-.10 p.m. The children were given
over peacefully to the custody of
the officers.
Jap Police Scuffle
With Demonstrators
TACH1KAWA. Japan i.f - Jap
anese police scuffled briefly today
with leftist demonstrators who put
up throe 60 foot poles at the end
of a runway to harass American
pilots at Taclukawa Air Base.
No one was hurt in the clash
between 170 police and 50 Jap
anese villagers. The villagers op
pose expansion of the U S. air base
into Japanese land.
flung four blocks from the Cal
casieu River by angry winds or
savage waves. A dog stood guard
silently.
Nobody seemed to know wheth
er the bus was loaded or empty
when the hurricane hit.
The Courthouse was the only
building intact. Some houses were
still upright but most were piles
of splinters. The upright houses
were nothing but junk inside.
The walls and roof of the post
office survived, but the only inside
clues to the building's function
were three mailbags that some
how came through unscathed.
A trickle of people moved in and
out of the ice house that served
as a temporary morgue. It held
more than 50 bodies during much
of the day.
Some wanderers found their rel
atives. Many didn't.
Everybody agreed many bodies
were washed back into the Gulf
of Mexico by the receding tidal
waters that once stood five feet
deep on the first floor of the
Courthouse.
Air Force Bids
Twining Farewell
With Big Display
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON Ml The Air
Force said goodby Saturday to
Gen. Nathan F. Twining with a
thundering salute from several
hundred jet bombers, fighters
and some ancient planes from the
past.
Twining, retiring as Air Force
chief of staff, will become chair
man of the strategy-making Joint
Chiefs of Staff in August.
At the beginning of the cere
mony, Twining was decorated
with an oak leaf cluster to add to
his Distinguished Service Medal.
The award, conferred on behalf of
President Eisenhower by Secre
tary of the Air Force Douglas,
was in recognition of Twining's
"ceaseless efforts" in providng air
defense and maintaining strategic
and tactical forces ready to cope
with aggression.
Ill perfect flying weather, the
big show of atomic airpower was
flown over nearby Andrews Air
Force Base where Twining, other
high Air Force officials and dip
lomats from many nations packed
the spectator stands.
Among those who watched the
display was a three-star Soviet
General whose name could not be
learned.
The Air Force said this was not
only a salute to Twining but
marked t'.e 50th anniversary of
air power, signifying the advent
of th" "golden age of air power."
Before the jet warplancs came
thundering low and fast overhead,
samples of the old times among
airplanes sailed slowly past. These
included an elderly Jenny trainer
of World War I aiid a Spad fight
er, its machine gun stuttering as
it flew past Twining.
Three More Officials
Quit Vehicle Department
SAI.FM if Three officials
of the Oregon Department of
Motor Vehicles resigned Friday,
director James Johnson said.
Johnson identified them as
Charles Grove, manager of the
field operations division; Harold
McCoy, manager of the financial
responsibility division, and Robert
Putnam, methods officer for the
administrative services division.
The resignations bring to nine
the number of men who have left
the department since a sweeping
reorganization program was put
into effect earlier this vcar
MARIE BURNS HANDS
RENO Actress Marie Mc
Donald is recovering from severe
burns to both hands suffered yes
terday when she tried to pat out
the flaming dress of her wardrobe
mistress. Maude Klinker.
The fire apparently started from
a cigarette. Miss SlcDonald said
she would continue her night club
act despite the heavy bandages.
DULLES ARRIVES
1 NEW YORK i
Secretary of
State Dulles arriv
ed from San
Francisco Saturday
itary Air Transport
He will spend the
aboard a mil
Service plane.
weekend with
ring Harbor on
i his wife at Cold Sp
Long Island.
Dulles, who had
i Lions International
Cisco, will fly to
'4pm. Sunday.
addressed the
in San Fran
Wahington at
Ellis Cabs
Will Start
Here Monday
Ellis Cabs are expected to start
rolling along the streets of Rose
burg Monday afternoon.
At least, they are so expected
by Truman Ellis who figures his
efforts to be allowed to operate
in this city are finally ended.
Ellis said Friday that the last of
his mobile equipment had been re
ceived. Two cabs have been
equipped with meters and two-way
radios, while the third which was
"lost" in transit arrived and pos
sibly can be readied for inspec
tion by Monday morning.
At that time, Ellis said, he plans
to have his cabs and meters in
spected, get his license from the
city recorder, and start business
about noon. His dispatching office
will be located at 619 SE Cass Ave.
The matter of Ellis' bond has
been clarified. The bond, accord
ing to a letter sent to the city
by Massachusetts Bonding and In
surance Co., Boston, has been re
instated. Earlier, the company had
notified the city the bond had been
cancelled.
Ellis first bagan his efforts to
get a taxicab license in Roseburg
last November. The matter drag
ged on while a new taxi ordinance
was studied, drafted and fianally
adopted. At one time the Winston
operator was given temporary
okay to operate but this was soon
revoked when it was decided it
was beyond the council's powers
to grant such approval.
For a few days Ellis operated
in the city on a non-charge bases
but soon gave this up when he
was warned that even a tip to a
driver might jeopardize his chanc
es of getting a business license.
This month, the City Council vot
ed approval of Ellis' license as
soon as he met the rest of the
provisions of the ordinance. This
is expected to be done Monday.
Man Convicted
Second Time
For Murder
DALLAS, Tex. l Harry L.
Washburn, bespectacled building
contractor of Houston, Tex., was
convicted of murder a second time
last night in the booby trap slay
ing of his wealthy former moth
er in-law. The jury fixed his pun
ishment at 99 years imprisonment.
Washburn was charged in the
death of Mrs. Helen Harris Weav
er.. 51-year-old socialite of San
Angelo, Tex., who was killed Jan.
19, 1955 when a bomb rigged to
the generator of the family car
exploded as she attempted to start
the vehicle. x
"I'm still innocent of this thing,"
Washburn told newsmen when the
jury returned the verdict after
some four hours deliberation. "I
had nothing to do with it." His
attorneys filed notice of appeal, j
Washburn's first trial, drew a !
nationwide attention when the
judge permitted it to be recorded
on live television. The trial at
Waco, Tex., resulted in a convic
tion and Washburn was gisen a
life sentence. But it was reversed
by the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals on "rounds that the state
erred in calling as a witness, An
drew Nelson. 46. an ex-convict in
dicted for murder along with
Washburn in the Weaver case.
The prosecution alleged that
Washburn was planning an ex
tortion scheme by killing Waver
and playing Mrs. Weaver "for a
soft touch." but the bomb killed
her instead.
Clay Johnson
Passes Here
Funeral services for Clay Wells
Johnson, 77. will be held in The ,
Chapel of the Roses Monday, at I
2 p.m. The Rev. A. M. Rhoads
will officiate.
Johnson died June 28 in a local j
hospital. He was born Jan. 1. 1880
in Illinois and came to Roseburg '
seven years ago.
Surviving are his wife. Maude,
Roseburg; a son, Arthur, Winston;
two sisters; Mrs. Alice Margan.
Pittsburgh. Kansas: Mrs. Esther
Jones. Medicine Lodge, Kansas;
and two grandsons.
Interment will follow in tha Odd
Fellows Cemetery.
United Tire Stores
Goes Into Bankruptcy j
PORTLAND if U.S. District ,
Judge Claude McColloch Friday
ruled that the United Tire Stores, j
Inc.. is bankrupt.
The firm has stores in Portland, !
Roseburg, Springfield, Albany and
Astoria. j
The firm said in ill voluntary :
bankruptcy petition that it had
debts of $454,000 and assets o f
$316,000. i
The petition was filed by the
firm's president. Clyde Adair Jr.,
of Portland. The company's vice
president is William E. Shaw, of
Springfield. I
Some Shipments Free j
Polio Vaccine Available !
i
Some shipments of free polio vac-1
cine are still allocated to the coun
ty health department although the
federal appropriation for the vac-!
cine ends on July 1. ;
Shipments are arriving slowly, j
according to Dr. Mary Soules, ,
county health officer, and tha de- ;
partment is trying to finish admin
istering the second shots to persons
who have started the three-shot
polio vaccine series. There may not I
be enough free vaccine to give all 1
persons from Douglas county who ;
have started the series the final'
shots, she said. i
Doctors and pharmacists have ,
a supply of vaccine, but it is not '
free. i
PORTLAND FUNERAL
The body of Mrs Florence C.
Hampson, 8.1. who died in a Rose
burg hospital Friday, will lie in
state at the Long and Orr Mor
tuary Saturday and Sunday until
10 p m. The body will be taken to
Portland Monday for interment at
tha Portland Memorial.
' I '.''
GAVEL CHANGES HANDS
president of Roseburg Rotary
of office to Arthur McGhehey
of officers. (Staff photo)
Stormy Weather
Spreads Into East,
Destruction High
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRE
Stormy weather spread into the !
East Saturday while rescue work-1
ers toiled in the Gulf Coast area !
battered by wind and water. i
Rough weather touched off by i
the hurricane brought torrential !
rains and destructive winds to
much of the South and sections I
of the Midwest and East. I
Seven deaths attributed to the
heavy rainfall and floods were re- i
ported In Illinois. Three were re
ported in Indiana and three in
new York State.
The intense storm center was
in Canada east of Lake Huron Sat
urday. It iset off showers and
winds with gusts of 40 to 50 m.p.h.
in tha northeastern area of the
United States. The Weather Bur
eau described it as "the still vig
orous remains of Hurricane Aud
rey." The tailend of the hurricane hit
western New York Friday night
and central New York Saturday.
Gusts of up to 95 m.p.h were re
ported during the night.
Broad areas of central and south
ern Illinois were under water
after rains that ranged up to 10
inches Thursday and Friday. The
Kaskaskia and Embarrass Rivers
and smaller streams were at flood
levels.
Floods routed thousands in cen
tral Indiana, including 1.500 evac
uated from homes on the west
side of Indianapolis, where Eagle
Creek was out of its banks.
The grim task of counting the
dead and rescuing the marooned
moved ahead in southwestern
Louisiana.
Senate Group
Would Restore
Defense Funds
WASHINGTON i Sen. Pot
ter (R-Mich) predicted Saturday
the amount Congress appropri
ates for defense will be close to
the 34'n billion dollars a Senate
committee recommended.
"I think we can hold pretty
much what we've got," Potter
said referring both lo expected
Senate action next week and to
subsequent conference negotiations
with the House which had approv
ed nearly a billion dollars less.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee voted unanimously yester
day to recommend $34,534,229,000
in new cash for the armed serv
ices for the fiscal year beginning
Monday.
That amount is $971,504,000
more than the House voted, in
cluding $560,873,000 more for the
Air Force, $157,731,000 more for
the Army and $252,900,000 more
for the Navy.
Ten Italian Climbers
Killed In Avalanche
PONTRESINA, Switzerland .f
Ten Italian mountain climbers, in
cluding two women, were reported
killed Saturday in one of the worst
mountain accidents in years.
The ten climbers, all members
of the Italian Alpine Club, fell
from 14,000-foot Piz Palu when a
ridge of snow at the summit gave
way under their feet.
They crashed down some 600
yards and must have been killed
outright. Local police said none
could have survived the fall, dur
ing which an avalanch was loosed.
First reports said the climbers
went too near the edge at the cast
summit of the Piz Palu and
failed to notice that the ridge on
which they were standing to ad
mire the view consisted only of
windblown snow.
Air Force Pilot Dies
As Jet Fighter Crashes !
BOSTON. N. Y. An Air
Force pilot was killed Friday
night when his K80 jet fighter
plunged out of a rainstorm and
crashed in flames.
Witnesses said tha pilot circled
the area twice, apparently in an
attempt to avoid hitting any homes
in this Erie County township. j
At I.angley Air Force Base. Va.,'
Air Force officials indentificd the
victim as Lt. Col. Gilbert Nevling.
41, of Hampton, Va., 15-year Air
Force veteran. He was chief of
the Tactical Air Comand's oper
ations directorate at Langlcy.
He is survived by a son, his
wife, tha former June Wells of
Hillsboro. Or.; and his mother,
Mrs. Martha Nevling, Utahville,
Pa
The jet ai on a routina train
ing flight.
Frank Denton, outgoing
Club, handed over the gavel
Thursday during installation
Brewster Keeps
Job, But Going
Appears Tougher
LOS ANGELES I Frank W.
Brewster still heads the Western
Conference of Teamsters, but it's i
getting a bit crowded at the top. !
Brewster, under conviction of
contempt of Congress for refusing
to answer questions about union
affairs, was continued in his job as
head man Friday. But the confer
enee added a secretary-treasurer
and a 15-man executive board to
help him run things.
The Seattle union leader was
slightly injured i
the conference's
few hours after
annual meeting
broke up in San Diego in an auto
mobile collision on Pacific Coast
Highway in Wilmington, in the
Los Angeles harbor district.
Brewster, who was driving, suf
fered bruised ribs. He was treated
at an emergency hospital.
In addition to broadening the
leadership of the conference, the
delegates at the San Diego meet- Gertrude Helen Daughertv died
ing tightened up the conference s at her home in yoncalla Wednes
financial set-up. dav
A new constitution was adopted i she was born Sept. 5. 1878. at
providing mat ail cnecKs arawn
against union funds be signed by
both Brewster and the newly elect
ed secretary-treasurer, William
Franklin of Seattle, whose $25,000-a-year
salary matches Brewster's.
The constitution also provides
for quarterly audits of union funds
and requires that the money be
invested only in government bonds.
The conference not only kept
Brewster in office, it decided it
owed him $42,000 as a result of
the appraised value of some Seat
tle property he deeded to it in
settlement of a $90,000 loan. The
conference reported the property
was worth that much more than
the $86,728 still owed on the loan,
which Brewster made in 1955.
Brewster, who is awaiting sen
tence on his contempt of Congress
conviction, had the title of his job
changed from chairman of the
conference to president. j
The union leader defeated a j
move to have his office made elec-;
tive. instead of appointive.
The counsel has jurisdiction
over 385,000 members in the 11 !
Western states. Hawaii, Alaska
and British Columbia.
Stasscn Briefs
NATO Allies
On Latest Talks
PARIS iji - Harold E. Stasscn. , Exchange Manager Duane Laf
President Eisenhower's disarma-1 ert-v " the numbers that now
anient negotiation, briefed the ! ha,e ' 2 1 as their first two digits
NATO allies Saturday on latest :wu change. The first two digits
developments in the U.N. disarm-;?' .lhcsre numbers will become
anient talks being held in London. I J2 afu,r day. The other two
Stassen flew here Friday nisht ' digits will remain unchanged,
from London for a special closed-! The Sutherlin Fire Department
door session w ith representatives ! is one of those affected by t h e
of the other 14 members of the chance. Its present number. 2411,
North Atlantic Treaty Organizo- will become 4211 starting at mid-
tion. He was believed to be sound
ing out opinion on a suspension of
nuclear tests without a simul
taneous ban on production of nu
clear weapons.
The Imted Slates has pledged
il will make no bilateral arrange-
ments with the Soviet Union on
disarmament steps and will sign
only such agreements as have the
approval of its main allies
In London, the U.N. Disarma
ment subcommittee Saturday
called off a meeting scheduled for
Monday to permit the Canadian
representatives to take part in
ceremonies marking Canada's Na
tional Federation Day. The five
nation subcommittee will meet
again Tuesday.
20 Airmen Being Held
For Payroll Swindle
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE. SC
4" Twenty airmen are being held
custodv at this militarv base
near Sumter in an alleged payroll
swindle.
Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Mack,
the base commander, said lat
Friday the airmen were arrested
in connection with "numerous in
stances of designed overpayments
to personnel
Mack said losses "thus far tabu
ted approximate $10,000 "
lated appi
"There is evidence to suggest
that others may be involved,'' he
said
The airmen involved were not
identified in the Shaw announce
ment.
SEVEN DIE IN CRASH
FARM1.NGTON N M f - Sev
en persons were killed in a head
on automobile collision here lasto
night.
Dead were Ronald Gene Per
kins, 9. Tulsa. Okla : Bobbv I.e.)
Hale, 20. Sterling. Okla.; Jimmy
Carl Mllrov, 21. Farmington,
Mrs. Retha Nell Marshall. 19. To
kio. Tex.; Doyle Wayne Marshall.
3, her son; Richard E. Bernard.
28. Farmington; and Charles
Wayna race, 26, farmington.
General Opines
Nickerson No
Longer Useful
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A
ranking Army officer said Satur
day he did not believe Col. John
C. Nickerson Jr., now standing a
courtmartial here had "any future
potential for the Army."
The opinion came from Maj.
Gen. John B. Medaris, command
ing general of the Army Ballistic
Missile Agency and the former
superior officer of the accused
missile expert.
Medaris, was called back from
Washington to answer questions
by the 10-man court-martial on
Nickcrson's character and willing
ness to obey orders.
Nickerson already has pleaded
guilty to 15 charges that he leaked
secret defense information to peo
nle outside the Army in an ef
fort to obtain a greater role for
the Army in the roles and mis
sions fight which has been going
on inside the Pentagon since the
unification of the armed services
in 1947.
Under question by the members
of the court, Medaris said Nick-
lerson had directly vioiatea nil
orders.
The bluff, mustachioed major
general said that after the mem
oranda bv Defense Secretary Wil
son on Nov. 26 assigned develop
ment and use of an intermediate
ballistic missile by the Air Force,
he called his staff togethr.
"I advised my staff," he said.
that under no circumstances did
I want any one to take part in the
roles and missions argument. . .1
l told them our job is to develop
the best missile possible."
Under cross examination by de
fense attorney Ray Jenkins of
Knoxville, Tenn., who figured as
Senate committee counsel in the
Army-McCarthy hearing, Medaris
admitted that perhaps he had left
the impression subsequently that
i he wanted the Wilson order
! fought, but didn't want to know-
about it.
L'onq-Time Yoncalla
Resident Succumbs
Charlton. Mass.. and came to Yon-
calla with her parents when she
was 16 years old. She was mar
ried to Charles Daughterly in Dec
ember 1903 at Yoncalla and has
lived in that community since she
was 16 years old. Her husband
died in September 1953. Mrs.
Daughertv was a member of the
old Yoncalla Presbyterian Church
and the Oakland Eastern Star.
Surviving relatives include one
daughter, Mrs. Byron (Betty) De
Vorc; one granddaughter. Donna
Van Dolah; great-granddaughter,
Linda Van Dolah, all of Yoncalla:
one sister-in-law, Mrs. Ada Lamb
of San Francisco, and many neph
ews and nieces residing at Yon
calla. Graveside services will he held
Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Yoncalla
Cemetery. The Rev. Austin Mc
Ghee of the Yoncalla Methodist
Church will officiate. Sterns and
Little Mortuary is in charge of ar
rangements. Oakland And Sutherlin
Get Telephone Changes
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
C6. installers will start Monday to
place new number plates on .'
Oakland -Sutherlin telephones
whose numbers will change at
midnight next Friday.
' night Friday.
The change
in numbers was
made necessary by equipment re
arrangements in the central of
fice so that an additional 2O0 num-
bers would be
land-Suthcrlin.
available in Oak-
Grace Forced To Quit
Match With Carole Jo
OSWEGO. Ore. if Defending
champion Grace DeMoss of Cor
vallis was forced to quit her Ore
gon women's Amateur Golf Tour
nament title match with Carole
Jo Kabler of Sutherlin after only
two holes Saturday.
Miss DeMoss said her side
pained her so much she could not
follow through on her shots.
She injured the side in tourna
ment play Thursday. She played
rnoay with the side heavily
taped
Miss Kabler refused to take the
title by default. She asked that
it be rc-schcdulcd later. Tentative
agreement was reached to plav
in August, prior to the women's
national championships at Sacra
mento. Aug. 19-24.
Steclworker Says Price
. . , ,
wr sreei v-ouia i0 uown
PITTSBURGH - U.S. Steel
Corp. could reduce steel prices S6
a ton instead of raising them by
(that amount and still enjoy the
greatest net profit year in its his
tory, the president of the United
'Sleelworkers said yesterday.
David J. McDonald thus joined
some senators and Robert Ander
son, nominee for secretary of the
treasury, in protesting the steel
price boost.
U S. Steel said the price increase
is necessary to offset what it
! says is a 21-cent hourly package
pay boost for its employes under
a three-year contract with the
USW. Both the wage increases
and pnea boosts ara effective
' Monday.