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FANCY SEWING The center of ottention or the North
Douglas County Fair this weekend is the agricultural and
handicrafts show. Here are some of the sewing entries
being judged. Also entered by the 138 exhibitors are
baking, arts and crafts, food, produce and flowers. The
Sunnydole and North Douglas County Granges also have
exhibit booths. Surjnydale again this year is sponsoring
chicken barbecues each night. (News-Review Photo)
North Douglas County
Fair Under Way At Drain
Entries began coming in Tliurs-1
day, and judging got under way
in the evening to launch the 1900
North Douglas County Fair in
Drain.
Meanwhile, the festivities are
just getting a good start. The big
parade is slated Saturday at 11
a.m. Besides the floats and march
ing units, the parade will be high
lighted by five of the seven his
toric wagons which last summer
crossed the plains in a re-enactment
of an Oregon Trail wagon
train. Some of the 28 wagon train
personnel will also be on hand.
Watermelon Contest
Today Is a day for children.
They will participate in a water
melon eating contest at 2 p.m.
For the adults, a dance has been
scheduled Saturday night.
To fill the gaps, Bert Pratt of
Hubbard is staging performances
with Ins grained chimpanzees anu
leopard, and a carnival is going
full blast.
Fair goers who have been turn
ing out in great numbers since the
fair opened had some aciueu exciiu
mcnt today, according to corre
spondent Edith Bush. One of
Pratt's chimps escaped his cage
and had to be chased down by his
owner and a group of youngsters.
ltcigning over the festivities is
Queen Dunna liedden of F.lkton.
lier court is made tip of princess
es Jniicltn Hoss of Klkton, Evelyn
Shaw of Drain, Judy Brown of
Station
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Tht Rr. John E. A do ml, Poitor
9;5 A.M. Church School
8.30 and 11:00 A.M.
MORNING WORSHIP
"For The Spirit Of Heaviness"
Dr. J. Dwight Russell,
Synod Executive, guest speaker
6:30 P.M. Sr. High W. F.
Nursery Core 9:30 ond 1 1 :00
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11:00 A.M. 7:30 P.M.
"A Revitolited Church" "The Chrittion Witnen"
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Church School, 9:45 A.M.
Dr. Eugent F. Gerlitz, Poitor
Rot and Lane Street!
Curtin, Sharon Williams of Hay
hurst and Carrol Abbott of Yon
calla. This is only part of Drain's big
gest weekend. It is also sharing
the annual National Baseball Con
gress state tournament with Hose
burg. (See sperts page).
Free-Fail Jump
Action starts tonight and con
tinues through Sunday. Part of the
pageantry of the tourney will he
a "jump for life" to be made by
a U.S. Army Captain from Co
qtiille, Ralph E. Weekly, lie will
make a free-fall drop from an air
plane from 10,000 feet to a height
of 1,500 feet before he pulls the rip
cord to open his parachute. His
target will be I lie urain ainietic
field. He will make his jump at
9:45 a.m. Saturday.
Cant. Weekly is on furlough from
the U.S. Army. He is attached to
the Los Angeles instructor group,
Georgia-Pacific
Announces Cutback
PORTLAND (AP) A 20 per
cent reduction m Douglas fir ply
wood production, effective next
week, was announced mursday
by the big Ceorgia-Pacific Corp.
The company said it had raised
lis list price to $114 per thousand
square feet for one-quarter Inch,
sandcd-on-onc-side stock.
A Georgia Pacific spokesman
reported the volume of sales has
been good and that more housing
starts are expected, with 'more
mortgage money available.
More housing starts are ex
pected to improve the condition
of the plywood market, which had
sagged to a post World War 11
low of $60 per thousand.
The company said It looks tor
increased sales and a rise of
prices to a more favorable level.
Contributing Charge
Filed Against Burnett
A charge of contributing lo the
delinquency of a minor has been
I filed against Robert Lister Bur
S nett, of 230 King St.. Medfnrd. lie
; was arrested Thursday at Winston
by sheriff's dputies and lodged in
j the Douglas County jail to await
i arraignment today. The ( ase in
volves molesting of a child, it was
reported.
Powers' Father Confident
Of Assistance From Khrush
LONDON (AP) The family of
Francis Gary Powers headed for
Moscow today, claiming Soviet
Premier Nikifa Khrushchev's
promise of help for the American
Vi pilot who goes on trial
Wednesday as a spy.
"I will see Khrushchev. He
said he will help me," Oliver W.
Powers of Pound, Va., father of
the pilot, told newsmen on arrival
in London Thursday night.
Gets Word
The elder Powers said he had
received word from Khrushchev
but refused to say how the mes
sage came.
"I am going to help my boy,"
he said. "That's all 1 have to
say."
Three olher members of the
pilot's family and several friends
or advisers are flying to Moscow
for the trial.
Oliver Powers was accompanied
bv his wife, Ida, who suiters
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (API-
Radio Vientiane said today the
army rebels holding the capital
of Laos will ask a former pre
mier. Prince Souvanna Phouma,
to head a new government "that
will incline neither toward the
Free World nor the Communist
world.
Souvanna Phouma, 59, two
years ago tried to work out a
truce with the pro Communist
revolutionary movement in Laos,
the Pathet Lao,- by bringing its
leaders into a coalition govern-
Air Force Completes Construction
Of Minuteman Launching Site
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
The Air Force reports initial
construction has been completed
on test launch facilities here for
the Minuteman intercontinental
range ballistic missile.
The new East Coast launch
area, built at a cost of seven mil
lion dollars, includes two block
houses; two regular land launch
pads and service towers; two 90-foot-decp
underground launching
silos the first at Cape Canaveral
and assembly, storage, lnspoc
tion and industrial area facilities.
The first Minuteman test firing
is scheduled for next December.
Launchings are slated at the rate
of one every three or four weeks.
The Air Force plans to have the
three-stage, solid-fuel rocket oper
ational by mid-1962. It will be
smaller, lighter and easier to
maintain and operate than the
Police Seek Motive
In Savage Killing
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-Police from
Miami to New York are seeking
a possible motive for the savage
killing of Joseph Mourey, 56, for
mer butler to a silent film star
and chauffeur for a general in
World War II.
The identity of Ihe nattily
dressed Frenchman, here on a
two-week vacation, was deter
mined Thursday after his beaten,
bullet-pierced body was found on
a lonely, rutted road Wednesday.
A resident reported hearing shots
about 11 n. rn.
Hope Hampton, actress for
whom Mourey once worked, said
in New York he was "a perfect
butler and a perfect gentleman."
Mourey also served as the late
Gen. George C. Pntton'i chauf
feur during the North African
campaign of World War II,
No Injuries Reported
In Log Truck Mishap
A front wheel came off a 1947
Mack longing truck, resulting in an
accident about six miles north of
Hoseburg on Oregon Rt. 2.15 (old
Highway 99) neap Deady Station
lhursday about 10 a.m.
The truck was registered to M
& C Logging Co., Sutherin, and
operated by Virgil Dale Casteel of
Sutherhn, according to state police.
He was traveling north bound and
as the vehicle went into a curve
the left front wheel came off, caus
ing it to go across the center
line and info the front of a Buick
coach registered to and operated
by Vivian Ann Roscmcyer of Sulh
erlin. There were no injuries.
Logger Crushed
GRANTS PASS (AP) A log
ging accident about 25 miles
northeast of here Thursday killed
Dan Garcia, about 25.
He was crushed by a log he was
loading on a truck for the Ron
dean -Pike Co.
from heart trouble; Dr. Lewis K.
Ingram, her physician, and Sol
W, Cury, a friend ot the family.
They were to leave London late
tonight and to arrivo in Moscow
early Saturday.
Leaves Tonight
Traveling to Moscow separate
ly, the pilot's wife, Barbara
Moore Powers, arrived in New
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With her are her mother, Mon
teen Brown of Milledgeville. Ga.,
and two lawyers appointed bv the
Virginia Bar Assn., Alexander W.
Parker of Richmond and Frank
W. Rogers of Roanoke.
Parker said he had cabled John
N. Hazard, a Columbia Uni
versity professor who specializes
in Soviet and International Law.
to join them in Moscow. Hazard
now is in West Germany.
Wife Advii.d
Parker told newsmen that Mrs.
Powers had been advised by the
State Department that Soviet au
thorities would not permit her to
talk with her husband until his
trial ends. The Virginia lawyer
said the pilot's family would be
allowed to consult with the Soviet
lawyer appointed by the Soviet
government lo defend Powers.
Parker's only comment on the
case was: "We are hopeful that
he will he found guilty of flying
the plane (and not of espionage)
and (hat his sentence will be as
light as the Soviet government
ill permit."
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Souvanna Phouma is also a half
brother of Prince Souvanna Vong,
the fugitive Pathet I.ao leader,
and is chairman of the National
Assembly elected last April.
Capt. Kong 1, the paratrooper
who led the revolt Tuesday in
Vientiane, the administrative cap
ital of the Buddhist kingdom, was
quoted as saying he was sending
Souvanna Phouma from Vien
tiane to the royal seat, Luang
Prabang, to ask pro-Western Pre
mier Tiao Somsanith to resign.
liquidfue Atlas and Titan ICBMs.
Like Atlas and Titan, it will carry
a nuclear warhead more than
6,300 miles.
On the West Florida Coast,
three Bomarc missiles were suc
cessfully fired Thursday, but the
Air Force had trouble landing a
drone target plane.
The missiles, two of the IM99A
class and one advanced Bomarc-
B, intercepted their targets 170
miles out over the Eglin Gulf
Test Range at an altitude of 35,
000 feet.
The B model scored i sched
uled near-miss on a Rcgulus II
target missile streaking toward
the coast at more than 1,000 miles
an hour.
The A models, launched an hour
apart later in Ine day, both in
tercepted a pilotless B47 stratojet
bomber. The six-jet drone had
been used as a Bomarc target
for the first time a week ago.
On returning to Eglin, the B47
drone overran a runway by 1,500
feet when its drag chute appar
ently failed to operate. The big
bomber stopped in rain-softened
dirt. Its left wing tip, aileron and
fuselage were slightly damaged.
Douglas Farmers
Attend Confab
Douglas County Farm Bureau
rresident Berl Oak and Don 01
livant, Roseburg sheep producer,
this week attended a two-day Na
tional Lamb and Wool Conference
at the University of Wyoming, Lar
amie, Wyo.
Joining Oak and Ollivant to
make up the Oregon delegation to
the national conference were How
ard rujn, commodity director,
Oregon Farm Bureau, Paul Hat
ched, Klamath County Farm Bu
reau; and Sen. Eddie Ahrcns,
Marion County Farm Bureau.
The conference, the first to be
held on a national basis, was called
for the purpose of improving the
economic conditions of the sheep
industry and featured discussions
on ipiport programs, processing
and grading and merchandising of
lamb cuts.
Pile Of Cedar Posts
Destroyed By Fire
A fire on the Dixonville Road
east of Roseburg Wednesday after
noon nearly went out of control
and" almost destroyed a pile of ce
dar posts, but was halted by Dix
onville volunteer firemen before it
could cause too much damage.
According to Dixonville Corre
spondent Jean Radcliffc. the fire
started late in the afternoon and
was believed started by a cigarette
tossed from a passing car.
It swept through the dry grass
about four miles east of Roseburg
and into a pile of cedar posts own
ed by Ray Banning, but was
brought under control Dctore des
troying the posts.
Glide Community Sets
Auction Sale Sunday
The Glide Community Cluh is
having an auction sale at the Glide
Community Club building Sunday
at 2 p.m., announces President For
est Kennedy.
Potluck dinner will be scre0 at
12:30. All Glide and Idleyld Park
residents and guests are invited.
Persons having anything in the
merchandis Hue that is saleable
are asked to contact any officer
of the Community Club or they
may bring it to the auction.
Proceeds from the auction will
he used to repair the Community
Club building, said Kennedy.
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Hubcaps Said Stolen
A power saw reported stolen
earlier this week from the home
of Fred Carls, 1032 SE Cobb St.,
was recovered Thursday in a berry
bush east of SE Starmcr St. It
was found by a woman picking ;
blackberries. The saw had been
taken from Carls' tool house.
Theft of hubcaps fiom hit car,
parked on SE Main St. back of
the J. J. Newberry store, was
reported to cily police by Conrad
Joe Paxton. The hubcaps were be
lieved taken while he was attend
log the Indian Theatre.
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"Then I will ask his royal high
ness Souvanna Phouma to be
come prime minister," the rebel
leader told a crowd Thursday
night in Vientiane National Sta
dium.
"We want our government to
be truly neutral," ne said. we
wilt accept diplomatic relations
with all countries."
Somsanith and most of his cab
inet were in Luang Prabang, 130
miles north of Vientiane, when
the rebels seized control of the
administrative capital.
One report from Vientiane cast
legiance to the rebels. This re
port said the prince had protest
ed his name was being used with
out authorization as a member of
the 40 - member revolutionary
committee.
Laos holds a strategic position
in Southeast Asia as a buffer be
tween Red China and Communist
North Viet Nam on the north and
pro-Western Thailand to the
south. The land-locked kingdom
does not now recognize Red China
or jvortn Viet warn diplomatical
ly, and the United States has
poured in millions of dollars of
military and economic aid to
keep Laos leaning to the West.
Six Counties Join
In Planning Group
PENDLETON (AP) The Mid
Columbia Planning Council was
formed Thursday to promote and
plan industrial develoDtnent of the
area, which includes the Board-
man bombing range.
Pubic officials from Morrow.
Sherman. Gilliam. Umatilla.
Wasco and Hood River counties,
joined in forming it.
The aim of the council is to
bring industry to the area and the
range which the state obtained
from the federal government in
exchange for acreage in south
eastern Oregon.
A previous attempt by the six
counties to organize was disband
ed because some feared the tax
situation in Oregon was not right
for interesting new industries.
Elected chairman of the council
was Morrow County Judge Oscar
E. Peterson. Umatilla County
Judge D. R. Cook was named
vice chairman.
The council will be made up of
one representative from each
county court, port and planning
commissions of each of the six
counties.
It decided to consider retaining
a firm of professional consultants
to study Eastern Oregon indus
trial development possibilities.
The officials heard William
Rooney of the Portland offices of
Ebasco Services, a firm of plan
ning engineers and consultants,
outline what he believes should
be included in the survey.
VA Hospital Escapee
Captured In Portland
An escaped Roseburg Veterans
Hospital patient has been appre
hended in Portland, and a 1952
Ford he is believed to have taken
from the Utne Bros. Sales and
Service lot at 297 NE Jackson St.
hai been recovered in that city.
Roseburg City Police have been
notified of the arrest. Th man
(whose name was withheld) had
asked permission to take the car
off the lot on trial Tuesday. Po
lice were notified when he had
not returned after five hours, and
an alert was sent out.
A charge of larceny over $75
will be filed.
Oregon Liquor Sales
Will Hit $98.5 Million
PORTLAND AP Liquor-
sales in Oregon for the current
two-year fiscal period will total
about $98 5 million dollars.
The state Liouor Control Com
mission heard this estimate
Thursday from lis controller. V.
H. Osborn. He said it will enable
the commission to contribute $30. 7
million to the state general fund.
Osborn reported sales for Ihe
first fiscal year of the biennium
at $49,556,574. He said the com
mission's operating expenses also
were cut for the biennium by
$186,000 by staff reductions and
other economies.
DANCE SCHEDULED
A teenage dance will be heid Sat
urday from 8 p.m. to midnight in
the gold room of the Umpqua Ho
tel. The theme for the YMCA-spon-sored
event is "Twilight Twirl."
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THE 'RASCAL' This air-to-surface missile called the "Rosea will be on display ot the
Douglas County Fair in Roseburg Aug. 25-28. Airmen technicians from the United
States Air Force Orientation Group of Norton Air Force Base. San Bernardino, Calif.,
will present the display and be on hand to answer spectators questions. (Air Force Photo)
Gunslingers Set
'Fast Draw' Shoot
Modern gunslingers will have
a chance to prove their mer
it on August 21 when the Thun
dercolts Fast Draw Club from Med
ford sponsors a fast draw contest
in the Kerbyville ghost town.
Both the good guys and the bad
guys will be on hand to partici
pate in the shoot-out set for 1:30
p. m. at the old haunted city.
Actually Kerbyville is a reproduc
tion of the original early day mi
ning center which was the Joseph
ine County seat from 1858 1885.
The town, located 24 miles trom
Grants Pass on Highway 199 South,
has a saloon, barber shop, assay
office, general store, judges office,
stage office, sheriff's office and
jail, livery stables and blacksmith
shop.
Besides the Sunday shootout,
western and square dances have
been scheduled for Saturday night.
The dance will be followed by a
hay ride.
Ready-Made Homes
Head For Alaska
PORTLAND (AP) Twenty
halves of already made houses
arrived in Portland Thursday
and were loaded on barges for
Anrhnrapp. Alaska.
The halves. ready to be
matched for 10 complete homes,
included closets, stoves, refriger
ators, beds and bedding.
V.ath half rpnuired a freight
car for its trip from the factory
at Carlisle, Ind., to Portland.
They are the first of several
hundred ordered by the Leniex
Co. of Anchorage.
JYlargareet A. Gibson
Funeral services for Margaret
Annie Gibson, 55. a resident of
Glide who died Wednesday at a
local hospital, will he held at Wil
son's Chapel of the Roses Satur
day at 10:30 a. m.
the Rev. K. R. Thompson of
the Glide Church of the Open Bi
ble will officiate at the service.
Concluding services and interment
will follow at the Roseburg Mem
orial Gardens.
Mrs. Gibson was born April 20.
1905 in Spokane. Wash. She had
lived in the Glide area lor the
past 10 years coming from Klam
ath Falls. She was a member of
the Church of the Open Bible
of Glide.
She is survived by her husband
Phillip. Glide; one son. Marvin,
Winston: one sister, Mr?. Ida
Humphrey, two brothers, Eugene
Frick and Ralph Frick, and three
grandchildren. All are from Spo
kane, Wash.
Speaker Slated At Glide
The Rev. Karl Faulkner will be
a guest speaker at the Glide Bap
tist Church Sunday during the
morning services.
The Rev. Mr. Faulkner, ac
companied by Mrs. Faulkner and
son, Ronald, is with the Hebrew
Fellowship at Philadelphia, Pa. He
was pastor of the Glide Baptist
Church for 12 years, leaving a
vear ago. He was succeeded by
I the Rev. John Manitsas.
I Following the morning services
I a potluck luncheon will be held
in honor of the Faulkners, reports
Mrs. Arthur Selby, correspondent.
First UN Troops Enter
Rebellious Province
ELIZABETHVILLE, The Congo
(AP) United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold and
the first U.N. force to enter seces
sionist Katanga province landed
today.
The force 220 Swedes arrived
in five planes, touching down at
10-minute intervals.
Hammarskjold and the soldiers
almost did not land after all. The
crowd at the airport saw Ham
marskjold's plane circle the air
field three times.
Katanga's Premier Moise
Tshombe and other govern .cnt
officials waiting at the airport
were told as the plane circled that
the secretary refused to land.
It appeared the control tower's
European operator had told Ham
marskjold he would be allowed to
land but that permission would be
refused to the planes carrying the
Swedish soldiers.
Tshombe was appalled and
quickly ordered the control tower
lo allow all U.N. planes to land.
Although Tshombe three days
ago announced he now was will
ing to accept the U.N. force un
der the Security Council mandate
for replacement of the Belgian
Riddle Council Issues
Emergency Water Order
A water shortage caused the
Riddle cily council lo issue an
emergency order this week, pro
hibiting the use of city water for
all sprinkling purposes until fur
ther notice, according to Erma
Best, News-Review correspondent.
A stubborn grass fire between
the C. &D. mill and the pole yard
called the Riddle Volunteer Fire
Department to the scene twice on
Wednesday. The blaze, which burn
ed over only a fraction of an acre,
is believed to have been started
by a carelessly discarded cigar
ette.
Fuel oil and gasoline bids were
opened at the August meeting of
the Riddle school board. The Rid
die Union Oil Co. was awarded the
contract for. fuel oil with a low
bid of $3,792. The gasoline con
tract went to Richfield with a
low bid of .2407.
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Treat your savings account just like it was
one of your regular household bills. Any
amount, however small, added to your sav
ings account with us will amount to a good
sired cash reserve in a very short time. The
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inlHifirs nn dutv in Katanga, the
order to prevent them from land
ing never was withdrawn at the
airport control lower.
That explanation was given to
newsmen by Tshombe himself.
Preceded by bodyguards, the
secretary-general walked down
the steps of his white twin-engine
plane and was greeted oy isnom
be and all the members of the Ka
tanga government now in
Elisabethville.
Planes still were coming as
Hammarskjold and Tshombe
drove to Tshombe's official resi
dence to begin their talks.
Belgian soldiers remained at
the airport and terminal.
Drum Corps Sets
Shrine Appearance
Following up their successful ap
pearance at the recent Seattle Sea-
fair, the Knights ot "ytnias oirii
Drum and Bugle Corps this Satur
day will appear in Portland.
me occasion: rne ism annual
Shriners" Hospital All-Star Football
Game.
Billy Black's Knights o Pythias
performers will be among 45 en
tries participating in pre-game and
half-time activities ar. me contest
at Multnomah Stadium, with kick-
off at approximately 8:30 and before-game
events commencing at
7 p.m.
The game, raising money for
Shrine charities involving outstand
ing State high school players in
cluding Bill White of Roseburg, is
an annual Portland sports high
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