SALEM JUfJ-7 1360 , COKO, mn wrna at key mm A Associated Press Press' Room Capital Sxleiri, Oregon Pert Rodeo CANDIDATE NO. 1 Gerry Garrett of Roseburg is one of five candidates for queen of the 1960 Douglas County Rodeo June 17, 18 and 19. Other candidates ore Lou Ann Shelton of Glide, Eleanor Irwin of Canyonville, Genevieve ; Shelton of Myrtle Creek and Cheryl Carnine of Camas Valley. More about them will appear 'in later 'issues of The News-Review. The queen will be crowned Friday at 7:15 : p. m. by 1959 queen, Donna Esselstrom. See story page 2. (Chris Photo) , Five Candidates In Race For Douglas Rodeo Queen Accidents Claim Eight In Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Accidents claimed more lives in Oregon over the weekend, with the toll of those killed or confirmed to have drowned, rising to eight. Charles Mack, 8, vanished after school in Portland Thursday. On Kntiirrfav his hodv. was found in the Willamette River. Two small companions said they had seen him inniD into the river from a wooden stairway leading to the water. He came up once, then vanished. "I was too scared,"-said one of the boys, in explaining why they did not report it. Bodies of two children were found Saturday floating in a farm irrigation pond. Pamela, 10, and Robert 8, children of Mr, and Mrs. Bruce Alexander of cast of Silverton, had gone there to play. Fred Ronev. 57, of Portland, drowned in the Rogue River near Grants Pass Saturday. His fishing boat overturned at Pearce RiUle. His brother. Dr. William F Ronev of Grants Pass, 8 - o d d years old, also was thrown into the river, but managed to cling to the overturned boat and finally to reach shore. A motorist died Saturday in a car mishap on a private road eight miles up the Sixes River in Curry County. He was Sterling Morris, of near Sixes. An automobile fatally crushed Shiiiee Herbig, 44, of Wecoma, near Oceanlake, against the end of her garage. Oceanlake Police Chief Al Barzee said she had got ten out of the car to open the garage door. He said Miss Her big's mother, Mrs. Alary Louise Herbig, 75, was in the car but was not able to tell wnat Happened. In Portland, Keven Johnson, 49, fell to his death from his rooming house Saturday. Opposition To O Grab' Voiced At By GEORGE CASTILLO News-Review Assistant Editor (Other stories today round out -interim Committee -coverage) John Meier Jr. of Myrtle Creek took up the cudgel Saturday against what he called the "25 per cent grab" of O & C and Forest Service timber receipts. It was a sequel at the state Leg islative Interim Committee on Ed ucation hearings at the Umpqua Hotel to a proposal earlier by Dr. Victor Doherty, research director of the Portland School District. He rent of federal forest receipts be used as offsets to state educational aid. The Weather AIRPORT RECOPDS Considerable cloudiness late to. night and early Tuesd.y morning. Mostly sunny in the afternoon and cooler Tuesday. Highest temp, last 14 hours 1 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 43 Hiohtst temp, any June 5S ... 96 Lowest ttmp. any June S4) ... 34 Precip. It 24 hour 0 Precip. from un ' ' Precip. from Sept. 1 30.25 Excess from Sept. 1 1.2 Sunset tonight 7:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:33 a.m. Candidate This is a bie week for the five candidates for queen of the 1960 Douglas County Kodeo. Friday night, one of the girls will be crowned on a television pro gram arranged lor the purpose. One of those candidates is Gerry Garrett. 17. of Roseburg. The brown-haired, hazel-eyed girl excels in horsemanship, and she can prove it. She has won 11 troph ies and over 100 ribbons in vari ous horse shows and gymkhanas. In addition, she has held the state Texas barrel race championship for the last two years and was the 1959 winner of the figure 8 stake race title sponsored by the western Horsemen oi Oregon. She is a graduate of Roseburg High School and is now- working for the Happy Valley Ranch. She nopes to attend college alter work ing a year. Princess Gerry is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Garrett, and both her parents participate in Sheriff's Posse activities. She is a past princess of the Myrtle Creek Rodeo, a junior leader of the Sil ver Spurs 4-H Saddle Horse Club and secretary of the pouglas Coun ty Empire Builders. Springfield Junior Named Top Driver MADRAS (AP) Larry Bruhn. 17-year-old junior at Springfield High School, was named the top young driver ot the state teen-age Koaa-e-o, sponsored By the Ore gon Junior Chamber of Com rnerce. Only the day before Bruhn had won the Springfield competition. He will represent Oregon in the national Road-e-o finals in August at wasnington, u. u Other top finishers are Kent uunae, siayton; Dean Sampson, Florence: Bill McKnight, Baker; and Keither Swanson, Madras. . The trophy for the top girl in the competition went to Marlene Gchrman of Bend, who was eignin. Meier, a member of the Myrtle Creek and Rural school boards, saw it as an effort by someone "to make a 25 per .ccnLgrab Obvious Sourre It was evident that "someone" was Portland School District. Port land, he said, now has its tax base and its buildings. "But we are still building basic programs." He said for years Douglas Coun ty and other O & C and Forest Service-rich counties were so poor they couldn't support their schools without federal help. Meanwhile, Portland was prospering, building its tax base and growing, he said. Near Golden Ere In recent years, these counties have been starting to receive the benefits from forest receipts. Meier said "we haven't received much yet, but now we are near a golden era." "And now," he concluded, "the big ones are coming to ask ui to share with them." At this point. Committee Chair man Ward Cook interrupted to in sist that "it isn't that the rich are wanting to soak the poor." All Factor Cook said the major purpose of the legislative committee is to de termine the state support level for education. "We have recognized equalization," be said, "and we re- Established 1873 14 Paget Maurine Union Head Sees Salary Increase Mrs. Maurine Neuberger told the letter carriers meeting in Rose burg last weekend she'll try to pro tect installment buyers, should she be elected if. S. Senator from Ore gon. William C. Doherly, national head of the group told them that they had a good chance at a 9 per cent pay increase. And state officers were chosen. Thus did the state Association of Letter Carriers wind up its busi ness. The state auxiliary met si multaneously and also named offi cers. Mrs. Neuberger favors a "truth in lending" measure which was co sponsored by Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore). She is seeking his former senatorial seat this fall in the general elections. She told the postal workers at a Saturday night banquet that many finance company customers and "Buy-on-timers" don't reckon with "hidden, undisclosed finance charges." The bill she favors would require "full disclosure of finance charges and a statement of the interest rate charge." The national president, also an AFL-CIO vice president, William C. Doherty, praised Sen. Neuberger's flag-carrying for the "little man." Doherty thinks the postal car riers' (and all federal workers) 9 per cent pay increase will carry. It must override a certain Presi dential veto, no easy task, and Do herty's is of course an opinion he'd like to see become a fact. New officers selected Sunday for the state Association included Bill Dixon of Corvallis, president; Charles Wiley of Medford, vice S resident; Jim Godfrey of Rose ure. secretary: Arnold Barzee of Corvallis, treasurer; John Grenz of Jefferson, rural director; Art Strunk. Grants Pass, three-year ex ecutive board term (to serve with Gerald Wood, chairman of Port land, and Harry Sweetman of Co quille). New state auxiliary officers are Mrs. Christine Rose of Medford, president; Mrs. Gertrude Bailey of Portland, vice presiaeni; ivirs. .Tnan Sweetman of Coauille. sec retary; Mrs. Lorraine Barzee of Corvallis, treasurer; Mrs. Rita Graves of Salem, organizer; and Mrs. Lois Quine of Roseburg, leg islative chairman. Retiring state Association aux iliary president is Bernice West cott of Hillsboro, and state Asso ciation president is Mrs. Christine Rose of Medford. Local officers prominent in arrangements for the convention at the Umpqua Hotel which drew around 200 from As sociation and auxiliary were Rudy Brand, president of the lo cal branch; Mrs. Lois Quine, aux iliary president; and Jim Godfrey, convention chairman. Ibarra Winner In Ecuador Election QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Former President Jose M. veiasco marra, running as an independent, swamoed three other candidates to win the presidency of Ecuador early today. The overwhelming election of an independent was a bard blow at the traditional parties, the Lib erals and Conservatives, and was a crusher to the leftists. C Funds Meeting alize that some districts can't give aaequate programs, inus, we need to share. "We are trying to determine a long-range state aid program, so we have to consider all factors." Among tne lactors, he said, are forest funds paid in lieu of taxes, such as the O & C and Forest Serv ice receipts. Cook, a former Portland school board member himself, also insist ed tnat tne money wouldn t be tak en away from the counties. Rath- er, he said, the money received from timber sales would be weight ed in considering the need for state aid to education. Cook Backed Committee member John Houn- sell of Salem backed Cook by say ing "I'm afraid we have to con sider forest receipts to assist school districts in counties receiv ing them." He said the committee would have to consider them in the over all tax burden but "I'm not in fa vor of a big chunk." He pointed out that some have suggested that as much as two-thirds of the tim ber receipts be weighted in deter mining how much state support would be received. Hounsell concluded that the com mittee wanted "something practi cal, fair, just and something that can be sold." S ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1960 Speaker THE MAIL MUST GO THROUGH Pres. William C. Doherty of the national Letter Car riers' Assn. came through along with the mail at the state meeting here last weekend. So did other dignitaries. Shown here are Jim Godfrey of Roseburg, convention chairman; , Larry Rose of Medford, retiring state LCA president; 'Doherty, of Washington, D. C; and Charles N. Coyle, field director for the Portland region. (News-Review Staff Photo) Interim Death Takes Richard Co en R. D. COEN . . , dies suddenly Kichard Davis Coen. 55. co- owner and manager of Cocn Sup ply Co. of Roseburg, collapsed and died late Saturday evening at a downtown hotel. He was pronounced dead on ar rvial at a local hospital of cor onary thrombosis. Funeral services are scheduled Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at Long & Orr Mortuary in Roseburg. Coen Supply Co. will be closed all day Wednesday in deference to Coen's death. The -Rev. H. James Jenkins of the First Methodist Church will conduct funeral services. Ritual istic services will be conducted un der the ausniccs of Laurel Mason ic Lodge of Koschurg. concluding services and vault interment will follow m the Roseburg Memorial Gardens. Cocn was born in Chicago, Nov. Jz.-lw',-aod-tme-4iith,Jus-wir-- ents to camorma in 418, residing at Monrovia until 1925 when he moved- to - Roseburg. He attended Stanford University and was graduated in the class of 1925. He was married at Roseburg Feb. 17, 1929, to Evelyn tjuine. He was a member of the First Methodist Church, Laurel Lodge, Roseburg Elks and Phi Kappa Sig ma fraternity. Surviving are his wife of Rose burg; two sons, Jerry of Portland and Michael of Roseburg: his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie S. Cocn ot Portland; two brothers, Frank H. of Eugene and Dr. Robert A. of Portland; and three grandchil dren. Senator Will Propose Red Diplomatic Break WILBERFORCE. Ohio. fAPV Sen. Stcnhen M. Young (D-Ohio) says he will propose in the Senate that the United States sever diplo matic relations wilh the Soviet Union if Premier Khrushchev con tinue his vilification of President Eisenhower. Reqrga t i mm n.MlBlMi.il f. At Postal Meet l ml V it Committee Hears nization The state reorganization law came in fqi a lot of discussion on the last day of the hearings of the state Legislative Interim . Commit tee on Education in Roseburg Sat urday. ! The day was devoted to discus sion of Douglas County problems in education. And one of the most persistent calls for changes came from speakers discussing the reor ganization law. ' Asking for changes were Eugene Fisher of Elkton, legislative chair man of the slate School Boards Assn.; M. C. Deller, Roseburg School District superintendent; county school Supt. Kenneth Bar neburg; and Harold Glover, chair man of the Douglas County Com mittee on Reorganization. Continuity Asked One change they unanimously called for was elimination of the mandate that all members of the seven-man boards of administrative Jet Pilot's Wife May Have Letter NORTON, Va. (AP) A spokes man for the father ot VZ spy plane pilot Francis ' G. Powers says he understands the family has received a letter from the man held captive by the Soviet Union. Sol Cury, a Norton businessman and close friend of Oliver Powers of nearby Pound, says he believes only- one letter- was received and that it went to the younger Pow ers' wife at Milledgeville.. Ga. Newsweek magazine, in its forthcoming issue, . says letters went by regular mail to the father and the wife. . A cousin of Mrs. Powers, Helen Beck, today said she hasn't heard anything aDout any letters. Mrs. Beck, who is visiting in Mrs. Pow ers' mother's home at Milledge ville, said "they , haven't men tioned it to me." - . Mrs. Beck added that Mrs.. Pow ers wasn't home. -Newsweek quoted! Powers' let ters as saying he knows he must stand trial for spying. And tne magazine said he urged the fam ily not to try to visit him until after the trial persuading his father to call off a plan to try to go to me soviet union. Air Search Yields Body Of Crewman LUBBOCK, Tex. (AP) A heli copter, two, light planes and a truck Sunday helped find the body of the third crewman of a Br8 supersonic jet bomber that crashed in a violent thunderstorm Saturday night. The three civilians floated to earth in parachutes but strong winds dragged them over rough terrain battering them to death. The men, all residents of Fort Worth, Tex., were employes of the Convair division of General Dynamics Corp. which builds the 15-million-dollar plane in Fort Worth. The plane took off from Kirt land Air Force Base at Albuquer que, N.M., at 4:10 p.m. Saturday and crashed seven minutes before if. k..ij TninM miiiuuivu jaiiuuig m evil I Worth at 6:10 p.m. PRICE 5c districts be elected at once in the cases of single unified districts be coming administrative districts under the reorganization law. They asked that present, school board members be allowed to finish their terms to allow continuity of exper ience. , . . Such a situation will face Rose burg probably next year when it Decomes an administrative district. All members of the present board must resign, and to return must run. for re-election even though some oi tnem mignt nave years to serve on their original terms. Kurai Board Duties - Both Glover and Fisher 'also urged that the law be changed to give the Rural School Board the duties of the reorganization com mittee when the latter is dissolved. Another subiect which drew con- siderable discussion during the five nours ot Hearings 'Saturday was community colleges. - ' Deller lodged a protest against the' Southwestern Oregon Commu nity college Area Educational Dis trict's efforts to include part of Douglas County in its boundaries. He said Roseburg expects to have its own community college eventu ally. - . State Aid Asked Both Barneburg and Henrv Hart ley, superintendent of the North Bend School District, said they felt me slate snouia nclo districts in paying for buildings for commu nity colleges. Also on hand to dis cuss the subject was Henry Han son, North Bend, a guiding light in the Loos county community col lege movement. Another speaker was Burl Oar of Roseburg, president of the Doug las County Farm Bureau Federa tion. He read a resolution calling for retention of the vocational agri culture program at Roseburg High School and its promotion through out the county. The program is to be discontinued in Roseburg next year. The resolution also called for retaining controls of education at the local levels. Personal Formula Donald Fluke. Glide School Dis trict .superintendent, outlined his personal formula for financing so called foundation programs set down by the state. He naid, the districts should add state aid and all other sources of revenues to gether and then make up the dif ference in reaching the minimum program with a county-wide rural tax. Then any additions a district wants to make could be made by additional taxes within the districts. The other speaker before the committee was Supt. George Cor win of the Dillard School District, who reported on values of local committees to advise school ad ministrators. School Board Awards Contract At Glide The Glide School Board Satur day awarded a contract for con struction of a two-room addition to the Deer Creek Elementary School. Winning bidder was Fitzgerald Construction Co. of Klamath Falls. The bid was $27,717. This figure was about $1,800 under the esti mate by the architect, John Bris coe of Eugene. The addition will he completed in time for the opening of school in the fan. 131-60 Proposals Canaveral, Vandenberg Sites Hit By Work Stoppage; Ail Test Firings May Be Affected SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Union machinists today struck key Atlas missile bases from California to Florida : first walkout in labor disputes that could tie up a major por tion of the aircraft-missile industry. .- Among those hit is the huge missile base at Cape Can- ' averal, Fla., where the nation's major missiles are tested. At the cape, 800 members of the International Assn. of Machinists set up picket lines that were observed by sym pathetic members of other unions. Launchings and con struction activities were expected to be slowed. Also hit were Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., site of the only operational launch pads for the Atlas intercontin--ental rocket; Warren AFB, Vyo., and Offutt AFB, Neb; InterimGroup Seeks Equity In School Aid The Legislative Interim Com mittee on Education expects to complete its recommendations for a lormuia of state aid money dis tribution by its September meeting. ihis announcement was made Saturday by state Sen. Ward Cook, chairman of the committee. lie saia mo committee s reports must be completed by Oct. 15 so they will be readv for nresentn. tion to the 1961 state Legislature, but he said the formula, which is uie prime suDject Deing studied, will be unveiled in September. One thing that nnnnnreH lilrnlu at the hearings was that the com mittee will recommend' the state work toward paying half the costs of a foundation program. At pres ent that program has been set by me aiaie ana costs $2t4 per pupil. The state pavs about 38 But the committee hopes also to come up with what it considers a more equitable method of state aid distribution based on needs of school districts. One of the in equities of the mresent methiut nt flat grants, members said, is that suine uisiricis nave to raise no money on the. local level. State support and the Rural School Dis trict equalization funds pay the en ure cost oi operations la those dis tricts. State Sen. Jean Twii Tm-t. land said Saturday the committnA is trying to follow the concept that .-""j wuiu gcis g uii sic lounoa tion education." She said the com mittee will try to determine the cost of the basic nrnffrflm anA will probably decide that 50 per cent of it should be naid bv thn sfnto . one vmuea inose wno were m- rerestea only in whether their dis tricts would lose of gain. Each area of the state is dependent on the others, she said, and . the only uues iu .ueneut are tne children. Fire Levels Cawrse Camas Valley Mill ' A roaring fire levelled the John Cawrse sawmill at Camas Valley Sunday afternoon. , ' The mill fire was first reported to the volunteer fire department about 3 p.m. Sunday. Volunteers, besides the department, came from townspeople, John Cawrse mm workers and the Coos County Forest Protective Assn. The planer, and mill were de stroyed. Part of the moveable equipment was saved. Cause of the fire is not known. Residents in the area near the mill did not even know there was a blaze no smoke, only flames, reports News-Review correspond ent Marion Banks. About 100 people were employed at tne mm. 80-Member Roseburg Band Leaves Tuesday For Fete The Roseburg High School Band ade will be Katiirrliiv Th. . 80 strong will leave Roseburg at 8 a.m. Tuesday for Portland to take part as the "honor band" in five days of festivities at the Rose Festival. Led by Director Robert Lenne ville, there will be about 95 per sons in all, including chaperones and bus drivers. The band will travel in three Ellison School bus es, which will also provide trans portation to the band's various ac tivities around Portland. Ten Performances Ten performances are lined up for the band during the five days of festivities, sterling out with the Merryknana parade at 7 p.m. lues- day. The band will be much In evi dence Wednesday. The members will parade in the downtown port land district at 10 a.m., then par ade in the Hollywood district at 11:30. At 2 p.m. they will present a concert at Holladay Park, the Festival center, and that evening at 7:45 they will play at the sports show in Multnomah Stadium. On Thursday at noon they will nlav a concert at the knighting ceremony in the amphitheater at the festival center in Holladay Park, then go to the dock at the foot of SW Stark St. to play a concert at 2 p.m. for the arrival of a Japanese Navy ship. Thursday evening at 7:30, there will be a short parade for the coronation of the Rose Festival queen in Mult nomah Stadium. Friday's participation will be in the Junior Rose Festival parade at 1 p.m. The grand floral par- midnight walkout was aimed at the Convair Division of ' General Dynamics, which makes the Atlas. - -" , , ' i ' Pickets appeared at the head quarters plant here this morning, urging workers to attend a mass meeting. Union officials said the local work stoppage was not a strike but only a stoppage at r least until after the meeting. Strikes authorized bv union members but not vet called threaten production of , such other defense items as the submarine launched Polaris missile and the Midas, Samos and Discoverer - satellites. Polaris is made bv T.nrkhpprt'n Missile & Space Division, with solid-fuel engines supplied ' by Aerojet-General. The IAM is ex- pected to file a strike notice Fri day at Lockheed, which also makes the second stage of - the Midas, Samos and Discoverer satellites. Atlas will nnwpr tho VIHn mis. ' sile-detecting and the Samos tele vision-reconnaissance satellite. At Douslaa Airnrnff fin" malrAi. of the Thor IRBM and other mis siles, the IAM has authorized a strike if necessary against the El Segundo plant, and a similar au thorization is expected Wednes day for the Santa Monica, , Calif., ' plant. Union officials from the Long Beach, Calif., Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte. N.C.. nlanta mat Sunday to consider giving Doug las a seven-aay contract termina tion notice. The strike enulrl halt AHn. firing at Cape Canaveral and Van denberg. An Air Force spokesman said war-readiness at Vandenberg Air only ODeratmnal Intarnntlnnnl In. ' tercontinentar D a 1 1 1 s t i c missile base, will be maintained despite the walkout. . About 800 IAM momWa (,.,, l- ,Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile test 1 i-euier. ricKet lines were set up at midnight. Also struck as the midnight deadline moved across time zones to the West Coast were Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.. Warren Air Force Base, Chey enne, Wyo., and four facilities of Offutt Air Force Base near Oma ha, Neb. . IAM members, 330 strong, also struck the Holloman, N.M., Air Force Base facility of Convair. But this strike stemmed more from a local issue than from the national negotiations that broke off Sunday in a deadlock. . After two hours of talks be tween union and Convair officials in San Diego, Federal Mediator E. Marvin Sconyers said no further meeting was expected until called by either side. Negotiations by the IAM are In behalf of the Atlas base workers along with 22,726 at the San Diego plants and 2,869 at a plant at Po omona, Calif. . A one-day work stoppage, begin ning with the midnight shift, was announced for the San Diego and Pomona plants that build the Altai and several smaller missiles. A union spokesman said a meet ing is set for 10 a.m. PDT' today for workers at these two plants. oera are to assemoie in time for start of the parade at 9 a.m. The band will leave immediately fol lowing the big parade for Rose burg, expecting to arrive home about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. On the way to Portland Tues day, the band will stop off in Sa lem for luncheon on the capitol grounds in Wilson Park. The stu- aents are Hoping also for a brief ww ui uie i-upiiui ouuaings. The band has passed its goal of $3,000 needed to pay its expenses during the week. Most of the mon ey was raised by band Drolect and working on odd jobs about towns. The remainder came from civic organization contributions. The band originally sought only to' appear in the grand floral parade, but received the invitation to ap pear as the honor band of the state with the ten performances in five days. The band will be quartered at Portland University during its Port land stay. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzenstetn Welcome sequel to the an nual lamb show, so far at consumers are concerned, would bt retail prices . for choice cut taking it on Mia 'lam,' ' j The