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c 0. ribrur; c0 - etBtrapinis IHfeir' mdbir Access Holmes To Name O'Hara Secretary; Chalenge Likely SALEM (API Gov. Robert D. Holmes says h will nam David O'Hara secretary of state. An im mediate court challenge of his rioht to do o appeared likely to day. Th Democratic governor an nounced Thursday night that he would nam O'Hara. Holmes said that he, and not Republican Gov. elect Mark Hatfield, has the right to nam th new secretary of state. Both Holmes and Hatfield, now secretary of state, have said they want a court test. Such a test could decide the matter within two or three weeks. Hatfield stuck firmly to his posi tion that h can name his own successor. Holmes said that to permit Hatfield to name his suc cessor would giv Hatfield too much power. Not T Chllne Law By naming a Republican, Holmes decided not to challenge the law that says appointees to office must be of the same party as those who vacated the office. O'Hara, 71. retired last year as supervisor of elections in the of fice of secretary of state. He worked six months under Hat field. Gov. Holmes contended that if Hatfield were allowed to appoint his own successor it would con centrate too much power in his hands and would violate the stale constitution. "If the secretary of state were able to assume the office of gov ernor without resigning his office first, he would then be in the position of being able to appoint his own successor, thus giving one man absolute command of the Board of Control, as well as the stale Land Board and the state Banking Commission," he said. "No on can obscure the obvious Westerners Named To Civil Rights Advisory Group WASHINGTON (AP) The federal Civil Rights Commission named 31 prominent Westerners to stale advisory committees in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington Friday. Th appointments. brought to SO the number of state advisory units set up. The units consist of five to nine members and handle civil rights problems in their respective states. Their findings and recom mendations are made to the fed eral commission created by Con gress last year. Those named chairmen of com mittees included: Charles A. Sprague of Salem, publisher and editor of the Oregon Statesman; and William E. Devin of Seattle, attorney and former mayor. The members of the committees Included: Washington Miss Soester I. Anthon, news editor, Yakima Morning Herald; Harold J. Gib son of Seattle, vice president of the International Assn. of Machin ists: Mrs. John C. Reese of Spo kaoy League of Women Voters; (.hartes M. Stokes of Seattle, state legislator; Samuel W. Tarshis, Seattle furniture dealer, and Dav id E. Williams of Richland, State Labor Council. Oregon Dr. Joel Berreman, sociology professor. University of Oregon; Mrs. Ulysses G. Plum mer Jr. of Portland, former pres ident. Oregon Assn. of Colored Women: David Robinson. Port land commission In intergroup re lations, and Monroe M. Sweetland of Milwaukie, publisher of the Milwauki Review and state leg islator. W-D Kiwanians Schedule Amateur Show Tonight The Winston-Dillard Kiwanis Club will award $30 in prizes to night in its third annual amateur talent contest. The show will be in Douglas High School at 1 p.m. Prizes will be awarded in three divisions: For children up to the sixth grade; children in the sev enth, eighth and ninth grades, and those in th 10th grade or above, including adults. A prize of SS will go to the win ner in each division, with second prizes set at S3 and third prizes at $2. The club uses profits from the show in community service, ac cording to Brunette Wilson, News Review correspondent. Accompanist tonight will be Mrs. Paul B. Hult. The Weather AIRPORT RICORDS MesMy cloudy tonight (raj Sat urday with sm afternoon sun shin. Momtnf ff Saturday. Highest twnp. It M hour M Lowest rwn. last 14 hurt 4 Highest feme, any Nv. 71 Lwst temp. ny Nv. .... IS Prcip. last 24 hours . PrKip. frenl Nv. 1 4.40 Precip frm Sept. 1 Deficiency frm Spt. 1 .22 Sunset tonight, 4:44 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:14 a.ir . fact that this is precisely the type : of usurpation of power which the I drafters of our state constitution sought to prevent when they wrote into the constitution the I crystal - clear provision that no I person holding any other state of 1 fice is eligible to fill the office of governor." Gov. Holmes said the state con stitution says no person holding ; any office in th Stat shall fill ! the offic of governor means Hat 1 field must resign before taking I the oath. I The governor also cited a 1947 ' Supreme Court ruling that former state Rep. Earl H. Hill of Lane I County should have resigned be- fore becoming a member of the state Fish Commission. Hatfield contends this applies only to legi ! slators. "It is clear. Holmes said, "that Mr. Hatfield must resign in writing as secretary of state before he is eligible to accept the oath of office as governor and that his resignation must be sub mitted in good time directly to me as the present governor. "Despite any stratagems by (Continued on Page 2 Col. 7) WCA Struck By Mechanics; Schedule Cut SEATTLE (AP) West Coast Airlines operated oa limited schedules in Oregon, Washington and Idaho Friday after 86 me chanics struck the line in a con tract dispute. The mechanics struck after fi nal efforts to avert a walkout ended in failur early this morn ing. The first flight to leave Boeing Field her waa on of the com pany's new turboprop planes destined for Idaho Falls by way of Boise and other intermediate points. Weather delayed the scheduled 8 a.m. takeoff. The company expected to oper ate its first plane south to Klam ath Falls by way of Portland and other points early in the after noon. Supervisory personnel are handling routine maintenance of West Coast equioment. Submits Prpsal Jack Clark, San Francisco, dis trict representative for the Inter national Association of Machinists said the union submitted 12 point proposal for settlement of th disput late Thursday night. Negotiations had been continuing sine th old contract expired July 1. The proposal, Clark said, was the absolute minimum for which the union would settle. The three main provisions were i demand for a pay boost that would bring the scale of WCA mechanics up to that of mechanics employed by major airlines; a demand that any wage settlement be retroactive to July 1, and a demand that the company hire inspectors whose sole task would be to inspect work done by the mechanics. The mechanics now are paid S2.51 an hour. They are demanding the rate paid by major airlines. Northwest Orient Airlines earlier this week signed a contract that would give its mechanics 82.92 an hour by Oct. 1, 1959. West Coast has offered a 22 cent an hour increase in three steps 12 cents retroactive to last July 1, S rents next Dee. 1, and 5 cents on June 1, 1939. Duncan Probable House Speaker, Sources Report State Rep. Robert Duncan of Medford will get the Democratic nod for speaker of the House Sun day when Democratic state rep resentatives caucus in Salem. The News-Review learned today from a good source that four oth er Democratic candidates have withdrawn in favor of Duncan. They are Stat Reps. Al Flegei of Roseburg. Clarence Barton of Co- : quille, Vtilltam Holmstrom of Gear- hart and Norman Howard of Port- lanti. Their withdrawal cam after sup port of the Multnomah and Clack amas county delegations swung to Duncan. Duncan and Barton had been mentioned as being in the running in the event that standoff be tween Duncan and Barton should result in a compromise choice. The Democrats will hold I 33 27 majority in th House when the 50th Legislative Assembly convenes in January. That probably will he, enough to put the Democratic nominee in as speaker. In Roseburg, Flegei Slid he would nominal Duncan at the Sunday caucus. Logger's Arm Fractured In Thursday Accident Carl Miner of Qiiines Creek, near Azalea, suffered a broken arm in a logging accident about 2 pm. Thursday. He was working with a power saw at the time of the accident about fie miles west of Glendsle. The Douglas Dollar lagging Co. employe was taken to Forest Glen Hospital in Canyon ville, Mrs. Gerald Fox. Newt-Re- vicw correspondent, reports. Established 1873 14 (aril Fugate Convicted W 1FC - ' iT r ..v o5 cv "si, vNeVik W.. t -L' T:ff- I JSP A SNIP OF SCISSORS opened the final city bypass section of Highway 99 in Douglas County Thursday afternoon. A small crowd of officials fom nearby communities was on hand along with other well-wishers to hear brief speeches and watch Myrtle Creek Mayor J. D. Groom cut o bright red ribbon, officially opening the new piece of highway. In the photo to the right, Frank Morgan, Southwest Oregon division engineer for the, Oregon Highway Dept., gives the crowd some statistics about the rood. It cost, he said, about $4,500,000 with the state putting up some $500 000 and the federal government the rest. Morgan esti mated the new 6.36 miles of freeway will save the motor ing public $580,000 onnually in fuel, time, etc. Also making short talks were Emil Romberg, outgoing Roseburg Chamber of Commerce president, and Arlo Jacklin, Rose burg mayor. (Poul Jenkins) School Board To Consider Gymnasium Floor Damage A special Roseburg School board meeting has been called for Mon day night to consider a recom mendation concerning the floor in the gymnasium at Winchester School. It has been discoered that the joist subfloor and finished floor at one corner in the gymnasium nas been destroyed by rot. It has been recommended that all dimension and subfloor be pressure-treated to prevent a recurrence of rot and that $150 be made available for re placement of the damaged material in the area affected. The meeting date was also changed because the regular TWA Strike May Be Short Lived KANSAS CITY. Mo. (AP) Trans World Airlines operations were halted today by a strike of machinists, but there were indi cations it might be of short dura tion. Just three minutes before the strike deadline at 10 a.m. Cliff Miller, district chairman of the International Assn. of Machinists, left a negotiating session with company representatives. He announced a new proposal had been made and the union had taken it under advisement. Promptly at deadline time, the machinsts walked off their jobs at TWA installations and posted picket. TWA, one of the world's largest airlines, has about 7.000 machin ists. 3.700 of them based in Kan sas City, the overhaul headquar ters. The strike, if continued, would affect about 19.0110 employe of the airlin in all parts of the world. About 5 a m., Miller left the negotiating session. John P. Mead, director of personnel and industri al relations for the airline, fol lowed him out and spoke to him. They both returned to the meeting where , four other company ofli cials still were sitting. It was about 10 minutes later that Miller stepped from the room with the announcement the com pany had submitted a new pro posal. He said the union had taken It under advisement. Lunch Boxes Stolen From Car In Roseburg Two Roseburg men reported to city police early this morning their metal lunch boxes and thermos cot ties were taken from a friend's car around midnight. Pitnrk O'Rnen. 2982 NR Yount St.. and Arnold Parker, 3004 NE I wukhi .11 . , tutu uiici(auii Ul ficers the boxes were missing '.when they returned to the ear park ed on Pine St. -near Cass Av. about 1:35 a m. They had left the property in t vehicle belonging to a companion. Merle Wood. 203 NE Klamath St.. when the trio stopped at local tavern about 11:30 p.m. yesterday. Paget ROSEBURG, meeting falls on Wednesday night, just before Thanksgiving. In other business, the board will appoint football coaches for 1959- 60, view reports concerning tool ball attendance at high school foot ball games and consider authoriz ing monev to install a whirlpool bath at the high school. The bath was purchased by the Indian Club. Report On Claim School attorney George Neuncr will present a report on a claim submitted by Mrs. Zella May Green. Mrs. Green has presented the district with' a bill for $1,947.50 for hauling dirt and ditching on her property. Dorothy Johnson, Wilbur - Win chester PTA secretary, will pre sent a report concerning the Del Rio Road railroad crossing. Other recommendations will be present ed concerning excusing a child from further attendance at Fuller ton School and teachers serving on jury duty. High School Principal Harry Jacoby attended a governor's con ference in Salem on secondary education. In a letter, he will pre sent what transpired at the con ference. George J. Sirnio, state di rector of health and physical edu cation, will present a report on football in the fifth grade. District Chairmen For MD Drive Are Announced Mrs. Rex Roberts, Douglas Coun ty chairman of the muscular dys trophy drive, today announced names of district chairmen for the door-to-door fund-raising march slated for next Tuesday. The chairmen include Mrs. Don Swick and Mrs. James Richmond Roseburg; Mrs. William Shapro, Brockway; Betty Brown, Dillard; Mrs. Oscar Hubbard, Drain; Viva Dement, F.Ikton; Glen Kafer, Glen dale, Azalea and (juines Creek; Mrs. Herb Melvin, Glide; Lorenea McCrieht, Green: Mrs. Don John son. Myrtle Creek and TH - City. Mrs. Paul Schultz, Oakland; Charlotte Howitt. Reedsport: Le nora Waggoner and Donna Dean Klakely, Stitherlin; Mrs. Leonard Grcnsky. Tenmile: Mrs. K. E. Clayton, Tvee; Mrs. Phil Scallon, Umpqua-Millwood: Mrs. Bob Sulli- van. Winchester: Mrs. Everett Johnson, Winston; Mrs. Lloyd Harvey, Wilbur, and Mrs. Percy Applegate, Yoncalla. Two-hour drive will begin at ( p.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Roberts urged persons wishing to donate to leave their porch lights burning. S. S. President Wilson I Drvdocked For Rerjairi SA-H FRANCISCO fAP) The SS. President Wilson, with 500 passengers aboard, was in dry dock today for replacement of a damaged propeller. The liner, beaded for the Orient, turned bark just a mil outsid th Golden Gate Thursday be cause of th propeller' vibration. OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1958 Threat In Brawl Not Sufficient To Bring Conviction District Judge Warren A. Wood ruff ruled Thursday a remark made in the heat of a brawl is not sufficient to bring conviction for threatened assault. Mrs. Dorothv Kilenberger. 28- year-old Dillard mother and mill worker, was hailed into court Thursday on art affidavit for a peace bond. The complaint was signed by Ann Wilson and alleged the defendant had threatened to commit a crime. The threat: "If you have me ar rested, next time I'll get your guts." This reportedly was part of the impassioned repartee which trans pired last Tuesday night at Dil lard when Wilson and Kilenberger squared oft without benefit of Qutensbury rules, according to witnesses. Judge Woodruff explained to the defendant what legal consequences could arise should another Branna- gan be inspired by a reckless spirit. However, he said the phraseolo gy "I'll get your guts," by impli cation, could mean a number of things and must be relegated to the imponderables. He dismissed the action. Roseburg Man Escapes Death When 'Cat Falls Wallace Men tier, 16A8 NW Crouch St., Roseburg, is recover ing from a severe bruising re- ceived when 25-ton tractor top- pled off a trailer and pinned him Wednesday at Camas Valley. The accident almost resulted In his death. Only a canopy on the tractor supporting most of the weight of the machine saved him, witnesses said. Mentzer waa working for Flegei Transfer and Storage in loading line iracior on a lowrxiy trailer I when the accident happened lie will be in Douglas Commun ity Hospital for about a week and will be unable to return to work for several weeks, his doctor told him. INDUSTRY STILLED BRUSSELS (AP) Belgian in dustry ground slowly toward a standstill today because of a wage strike by gas and electricity work ers. An estimated naif a million workers wer idled by plant shutdowns. iy Trial Jury Sen. Neuberger Seeks To Save Historical Site Another congressional pitch to save the Lillie Moore property for the Douglas County Historical So ciety has been made this time by Sen. Richard Neuberger. Thursday, Nueberger sent a tele gram to Franklin Floete, General Services administrator, requesting him to reconsider the decision to sell the property upon which the century-old Moore house rests. Gen eral Services has invited bids for the property located at the corner of SK Washington Ave. and Rose St. and has scheduled the bid open ing for Dec. 10 in Seattle. Neuberger asks that the sale be delayed to allow Congress to con sider an alternative method of dis posing of the surplus property which Lillie Moore left to the fed eral government. Enforcing Non-Support Cases To Be Talked Methods for improving enforce ment of payments in non-support cases will be discussed here next Tuesday. Avery W. Thompson, district at torney, has scheduled a meeting with Roy K. Terry, chief council for the state's welfare recovery di vision. Also meeting with the DA and Terry will be newly-appointed as sistant district attorney, George Weigum, in charge of domestic re lations cases coming to court here Thompson pointed out scores of men who have been ordered ny the court to pay support for the car and education of children have been "letting their payments slide." Out of th Nov. 25 meeting is expected to come easier and quick er practices for enforcing non-sup port cas payments. City Police Investigating Theft Of Small Radio Roseburg police are Investigating the theft of a 139 93 pocket-size radio reportedly stolen from the counter of a SE Washington St. store Wednesday afternoon. The tiny transister radio, about the site of package of cigarets. was taken from the store counter, it was reported by Lee Schmetxer. The stem was made in Japan, he said. Several sir-peels to the theft ar being checked out by law officers. PRICE 5c Life In Prison Recommended For Young Girt LINCOLN. Neb. AP) A jury today found Caril Ann Fugate guilty of first degree murder for helping Charlea Starkweather on a killing rampage last January. Life imprisonment was prescribed. Starkweather, 19. was convicted on identical charges last May and drew a death sentence, still to be executed. The jury verdict against Stark weather's 15 - year - old ex-sweetheart was delivered at 11:10 a.m. to climax a trial that began nearly four weeks ago. Caril Ann broke into sobs when the verdict was announced. She buried her face against the shoul der of Defense Lawyer Merril Kel ler, seated beside her and crying racked her 91-pound 5 foot one inch frame. Her sobbing could be heard throughout th courtroom. Charged With Assist A trim and pretty brunette, Caril was charged with aiding and abetting Starkweather in one of 11 killings attributed to him. By it verdict, the lury of sev en men and five women tabbed Caril a helpful companion to Stark weather on a Killing spree that shocked the nation. Rejected was Card s plea she was forced into her role bv fears for her own life and threats of harm to her family. Mie was convicted of first de gree on the second count, which is murder in the perpetration of robbery. It was Starkweather himself who pointed the most accusing finger at the girl. Hauled Into court from his death cell at the Nebraska Penitentiary. the bandy t- leeged redhead de scribed Caril as hi willing and ag- ffrMsivii helnfnfttji in the tnvlnnit He labeled as a "bunch oi hog wash" his earlier statements to the contrary, and insisted he and Caril made up the story about her role as hostage before ever setting out on the killing flight. Starkweather also buried the last remains of the teen-age romance. Buries Romance Asked if he cares whether Caril lives or dies. Starkweather aaid It don t make no difference to me." Trial testimony covered what prosecutor! referred to as the en- tire series of "atrocious, shocking events. ' Last Jan. 21, Starkweather lulled Caril's mother and atepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bartlett. and Caril's half-sister, Betty Jean Bart lett, z, at the Bartlett home in Lincoln. Whether Caril was present at the time became a disputed issue. Starkweather said she was a wit ness and casually watched televi sion while he disposed of the bodies. Caril said she came home from school to find her parents gone and Starkweather pointing a gun in her face. Caril said Starkweather gave her a story that family members wer being held prisoner at some other Lincoln home and harm would come to them if Caril didn't obey Starkweather's commands. Not until she was taken into cus tody more than a week later did she learn that her parents already had been killed, she said. This became a key issue in the case, the stats contending Card knew all along her family had been slain. Search Continues For Missing Men REEDSPORT, Ore. (AP) A search was to continue Friday for three missing men, whose 50-foot boat was found late Thursday wrecked on the beach at the mouth of the L'mpqua River, near here. The boat, the draggcr C T. Holland, was found by the Coast Guard Just north of the north jetty at the river's mouth. Coast Guard headquarters at Seattle said the craft was badly battered. Its pilot house and mast . nan neen nppea away The missing men are Rnbrrt Peterson, 73. and Robert Qualset 33, both of Winchester Bay. Ore., and Robert Wheeler, 23, Reeds- 276-58 pon. They left here Monday and were .... , scheduled to return Thursday but Nf-W ORLEANS (AP) Mel fear for the lives was raised wheniott- onetime National League base storms buffeted the region. !' ". d'ed today after emer- Four lifejackets were found onlgency surgery. He was 49. the beach and Coast Guard per sonnel launched immediate area th men. a search of the for any sign of SAL IS TO CONTINUI Roseburg and l'mpqua Lions club members will continue their light bulb sale in this area to night, reports Chairman Edell Bryant. Most of th city wa cov ered Thursdsy evening, but some section remain to be visited. Smirnov Says Kuss To Give Back Berlin Agreement Doesn't Have Affect On Hot Supply Lines Issue By SEYMOUR TOPPING BERLIN (AP) The Russians hinted today they will clear out of Berlin by Christmas, foreshadow ing a holiday crisis for the West, em garrison In th old German capital. Some Russians already were leaving Berlin but the Communists moved to reassure the German residents of West Berlin that they wiu not oe attected By any block age arising from the crisis. The approximate time for the turnover of Soviet occupation con trols to Communist East Ger many was disclosed in Bonn by Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smir- West Cermany Recalls Key Post Ambassadors BONN. Germany fAP West Germany recalled it ambassadors from the key post of Moscow, Washington, London, Paris and Rome today for urgent consulta tions. They are due to assemble hers Tuesday for a briefing on the Ber lin situation, a spokesman said. He added the envoys will return to their posts as quickly as pos sible thereafter. nov. He told reporters at an Indo nesian diplomatic reception: "We are going to give Berlin to the Germans. 1 believe everything will be settled by Christmas." A formal announcement of Soviet intentions may come Saturday. ine communists acted to reas sure the 2,200,000 Germans in West Berlin they will stand clear of anv crisis over East German control of Allied supply lines to the iso lated city ty signing an agreement with West Germany virtually guar- ( Continued on Pag 2 CoL 2) U.S. To Keep Present Berlin Occupation Plan AUGUSTA". Ga. (API Pri. dent Eisenhower' headauarters today asserted the United Stales', "lirm intention" to maintain four power occupation of Berlin in the face of Russia's move to drive out the Western Allies. At the President's vacation re treat, press secretary James C. Hagerty stated the U.S. determina tion after Eisenhower bad re ceived latest reports on the Berlin situation from Washington. "Our firm intentions in West Berlin remain unchanged," Hag erty told a news conference. He was referring to the Berlin sector occupied by the U.S.. Brit ain and France. Russia, which also has occupa tion forces in Berlin, has moved to turn over the city of Communist East Germany and to nut air and land transportation routes under control of that Red government. "The President and our govern ment ara keeping in close touch with the situation in Berlin, and also are keeping in close touch with the governments of the United Kingdom and the republic of F'rance. "This is not a unilateral prob lem with the United States alone. It is a problem which concerns our two allies as well." Asked whether he was speaking for Britain and France as well as the U.S., Hagerty replied he could speak only for this country. But he atressed again that the West ern powers are in close consulta tion. As for defining just what ha meant in saying U.S. firm inten tions remain unchanged, Hagerty put it tnis way: "I can say that 'firm intentions' means to maintain the integrity of West Berlin." And there was no question that maintaining such integrity means, in turn, that the Allies are deter mined to stand fast against any Soviet move to oust them from Berlin. More Rain Predicted For Roseburg Vicinity R.Hehurg and the surrounding area will have more rain than nor mal, mostly at the beginning of next week, according to a five day outlook issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau today. Total rainfall will average from one to two inches over the inter ior and two to three inches on the coast- Jlnt'murn temperatures will rn frnm dR In Ut rinorMii with range from 48 to 58 degrees with minimum from 38 to 48. Bulletin Levity Fact Rant By l F. Reizenstein Reminding economical bride to "bon up" on (hot I pott Thanksgiving delicacy, i turkey hath.
