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SHOWN HERE REIGNING OVER the Myrtle Creek Foil Festival is Queen Betty Moodie
of Myrtle Creek, surrounded by her princesses, Janet Hazelton, Linda Streitberger, Janice
Wright, and Linda Ulam, all of Myrtle Creek, and Linda Porter of Canyonville.
They appeared in the Saturday parade, (News-Review Staff Photo)
Dancers, Grangers Get
Festival Float Honors
Mor. Pidm on Pans 5
Another Fall Festival festive fun-1
arama full of frolic and features j
has ended at Mvrtle Creek. I
The big dav was Saturday and :
a parade wended its way through i Ihe winner, with Western Aulo Sup
Ihe streets of the Douglas County ply in second place and the Super
-itv u-ith vat-inns winners eiven I Y Market third
prizes. I
The Tri X -Square Dance club
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wun lis vna Nuiuau in uie .-tuue
and the Mvrtle Creek Grange. !
with "Cinderella", tied for first
place in the civic caleeorv. The .
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Train Crash
Injures Six
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) A i
freight train smashed head oni
into a Burlington passenger train
today, injuring six trainmen and
blocking the main line wuh
w reckage. i
me passenger irain mane an ;
emergency slop. Freight crewmen j
said they did not see Ihe other
train in time to halt. Burlington
oflicials said they were investi
gating to determine why the
trains were running on Ihe same
(rack. The. passenger train was
running from Kansas City, Mo.,
to Omaha, Neb.
Three crewmen remained hos-
pilalizcd with culs and uriascs.
Wonthor't llltt DlltklP
tteUUICr JUl ummc
ln The Roseburg Area
Rain, rain, wonderful rain.
ii lasi ureguii, dnu in mi ui-mui
Roseburg, seems like that good,!whcn tne cigarette lighter develop-1
old. damp, cool place everybody jd a short. His 19.i6 car was de-
kn,"ws-. , . . ... imolished.
In Ihe past 24 hours Roseburg i This morning. Oscar Hillman of
nas nau .Jo inciies oi rain ami mr -Glendale also escaped serious in
most people the jangled and jarred , mrv Kw his car skidded into a
nerves caused by Ihe summer heal;
have been soothed.
Actually today's rain is not the ;
first this month, but most persons jnt0 the skid while he was en
were unaware that earlier in Au-inule to work at Ihe Tiller ranger
gust .01 inches of ram tell. Occur-j station, lie sulfered onlv cuts lo
ing mostly while everyone was fasti his face.
asleep, the .01 inches broke Rose-1
burb drv spell of over 70 davs. ! ,
The Roseburg Weather Bureau at J $. ACCUS6S S0VI8tS
ine an pol l nas pieuicieu scaiiereu
showers throughout today with de
creasing cloudiness tonillllt and
Tuesdav. The five day outlook calls
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..rm,i 0iihh ih.o",..iTl i, o
slight warming trend. Some possi
bility of scattered showers is in
sight later in the week.
Restaurant Robbed
KV YORK (AIM A marker!
gunman held up Sardi's restaurant; Acting U.S. Delegate David H. I C(l-
early Sunday and escaped wilh; Popper satd that unreaonahle So- On Saturday the two depart
$.1,000. Harry Valentine , nishl viol demands lend to hamper the ' ments fought a Krass (ire in the
manager, told police the holdup1 talks at every turn on the problem ! 3100 block on Diamond Lake Blvd.
man forced him to open a sate m i of eflective international control j Cause of the fire, which resulted
the third-floor office. 1 and inspection. ( in no damage, was not determined.
Proposed County Welfare Budget
Hits S2.9 Million For Biennium
A tentative bud jet ieure nf $.
9.'.1.2'.8 for the lin;i-6.'t biennium is
soon to be submitted to the state
by the Douglas Count Welfare De-
partment.
If the proposed budget is accept-
ed. it would co-t Douglas t ounty
aooui 5iu ti"u more per jear our-
ing Ihe 19HI-6.1 biennium than the
county is expected to pay out dur
Til- AeUtr
ine Weather
AiDDnDT Dcrnonc
daconSc:5""
Highest temp, last M hour. 70
Lowest temp, last 24 hour, 51
Highest T.mp. any Aug. ( 601 103 dti Iron, lasl month, primari v ,'"' --' "l-e.is.s. fernatmnal l ivestock I'av n. 1 square. r Chief Don Blakely. was near the
Lowest Temp, any Aug. ('561 41 becau-e of seasonal harvest work. . At Ihe present time Hie depart-j Commen.d Bernstein: "This Is j "Her hu-band was about SO feet PORTLAND (AP. - The grand portion of Ihe mill which burned.
Precip. last 24 hours .35 He said the department has been ment is providing old 2e assi-t- (hp fj ,,mp , ,.an remember ahead, on Ins lawn. I award of the American Philatelic It probably was caused hy saw
Preeip. from Aug. I M "'King lo have every emplojahle anee to 42 persons, general assist- p h,.(J ,k, ,,... turn,., arum ,, ()okn Society's exhibit here Saturday dust which smoldered since the
Precip. from Sept. 1 30.62 l'f--"n Hi" welfare rules work- a nee of 219 families aid to the .h, ,n.rr,vi,in a skipped - at her. stunned bv Ihe noise, ami was won by Col C. L. Ma -son. 'earlier fire. Ihe mill had not been
Esctss from Spt. 1 .27 m me summer narw-ung. bund to 9 persons, aid to the o:- jnd (h, pr,ram vliorlened a bit , then he started to run hack. The ' Sixikane. He had a display of 1S!0 used since the previous Ware, re
Sunset tonight, 7:05 p.m. Welfare Casts Up ahled to 218 persons, and aid to 0 Hie orchestra could make next one hit him before he got first issue ulamps from (I r e a t ports correspondent Mrs. G. B.
Sunrise tomorrow, 5:27 a.m. The welfare administrator s a i d dependent children, 272. I plane connections for Havau there," Slone said. ' Britain. Fox.
Honored During Festival
v .... Wl'sr
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,l":imnfii rlirU wilh lar llarl I
A Little Lamb", raled a third-1
place ribbon.
ln Ihe commercial category, Ihe
California - Pacific Utilities Co. was i
Among other competition staged ;
during the dav. Pamela Warren
i. .t.- ' i ' i j ji
iook me ajo wnicn was uouaieu
in the form of a doll dressed with !
dollar hills, but the Myrtle Creek !
swimming pool fund was Ihe real I
t-i" .i j .1.. ...
lforthatuurno.se
A vKilur mm lu anil ash
o ..-.V-.T.'. i.
Garv W. Melton, Krabhed Ihe hon-lpwt on his brakes and slid cross
(ns "in winninu a trip lo either I wise into the oncoming car.
: Timberline l.oclye or the Ort'ton j To Study
1 Coast. Sharon Davidson of Myrtle This latter car, a pickup, was
iLreek took the camera awarded, i
and Don Anderson of Myrtle Creek, j
the transistor radio.
Queen Beltie Moodie and her ;
court reiuned over tha . two-duv-i
event, which also included dances j
and various concessions for the I
amusement anil amazement ot me i
thrones which visited the city for
ihe affair.
'Men Slightly Hurt
I . ! .
Ifl AUTO ACCldeilTS
inmi- Bi vson of Wolf Creek es-'
t.aped Wlln ,mnr scratches and;
! bruises Sunday night aboul a milei
iand a 1,alf s"u111 "f ,ne Jlendale'
,Juneli0 despite a plunge ofl25 feet
i over a bank in his car, reports cor
respondent Mrs. (i. B. Fox.
Krvsnn drivine north, lost eon-
!i,.n ,',f ihe vehicle when he tried
in Dui nut a ire on his dashboard
bank and turned over about four
miles easl of Days Creek. He said
tlio car hit a slick spot and went
; Of 'Hampering' Tactics
jr..sr.
GENEVA (AP) The lnited
States accused the
Soviet I nion
of hampering deadlocked three-:1" " "urnen ny me company,
power nuclear lest ban talks. ; Cause of the blaze was not known,
which went into a five week re-! Earlier Sunday the Roseburg ru
cess today, alter the 21iilh session. I ral and city departments jointly
'I he Soviet l nion retorted lhat it ; put out a grass lire at Geddes
is the "militarists who are block-1
m progress of a ban.
ing this year. I'nder Ihe proposed 1
huduet tlie countv would nav S.VI2.-
7ii. or IS 1 per cent lor the two
year period. Hie state would pay
SI. 242. 192. or 42 1 per cent, and the
federal government would pay SI,
725Xo. or D9.8 per cent.
Revision Possible
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the budget figure is onlv tentative.
i",mert,eld"sa,d .he proposed
!bud..t would be sent to the State
" enure ouunei lomimuee ami
Ihcv niyv rnvi.n il hffnre refine
Pt.
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. Nummerlicld said that the ease
load tor the month ot AiimM i
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Roseburg Youth
Dies In Crash
Bonald Roy Baker. 23. of 3M1
Hooker Kd. KOSeburg. WaS latallV
' l"red ln a two-car collision on
Highway 42 near Remote Saturday
about noon. He died at Mast Hos-
P"al in Myrtle Point at 5:35 p.m.
that niglii.
Operator of Ihe car in which
Baker was riding was listed by
rmice ai tuquiuc as canyon
West Easton, 24. of Sitkum lit.
Muilln Pninl V :tAn cnfff!i-l mi.
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nor injuries. Baker reponcaiy was '
pinned in the car.
The investigating officer report-1
h n.ni t'xiiin vfa iiipmni n to
pass another car on a curve. When !
anuuier car tame iniu vnw, lie
operated nv Harry Leonard V em-
pern of California. With him were
his wife and daughter, but no one
in this car was injured, except for
very minor culs and bruises, said
the officer.
The State police said no charges
have been filed but lhat the lnfor-
malion wilt be turned over to the
district attorney'! office.
Funeral services for Baker will
he held at Wilson's Chapel of the
iioses Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.
with the Rev. (iuy Zehring of the
Conservative Baptist Church offici
ating. Concluding services and
vault interment will follow at the
Itoscbure Memorial Gardens.
frem Nebraska
uak(,r was ! April 19. 1937, in
Hastings, Ntbr. He moved 'to' Rose-1
)llrg in 1948 from Nebraska, and!
attended local schools.
lie is survived by his parents.
Velina Vacca, Burbank, Calif., and
.lames Baker of Roseburg; two sis-
i-rc n i in,i Kirhv rtn..
burg Snpry) Bake., Burbank, and
his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.
Herb Beach, Portland.
.
Firemen Kept Busy
With I limhoi- hll-O
A fire in
at the L.S
pile of scrap lumber,
Plywood mill kept
Roseburg Rural Fire Department
crews busy for almost four hours
this morning.
The fire, which started Sunday
evening at 10:28 p.m. and was fi
nallv put out at 2 a.m. todav.
'ausen no damage, as the scrap
mmucr nan just piled up waiting
Park., near the Veteran s Hospital
properly. Ixo damage was report-
that he expects lhat Ihe number
of cases on the weltare roles will
go up next month when dependent
children return to school and the
harvesting ends. However he said
-.the department hopes to off set
Ilus increase somewhat hy trying to
dependent motners with school
I children or with onlv one child
employed during the coming
'"'"" ,
I'unng the month of August.
Siim.nerl.el. said, over half o the
v " . mc niie
oe pannicm are on airt to the a tied.
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Established 1873 12 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1960 194-60 PRICE 5c i
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Steps Okayed
By Congolese
1.KOP01.DV1LI.E, the Congo
(API The Congolese government
t,.!-,,. t. if l.rl Iha .l..i-.n,l it
has 'been trying lo impose on the
Lnited .Nations Congo operation. 1
In a sharp reversal of ils pre-1
vious position, the government an-
nounced it "sees no reason lo
press its demands" in view of the
a est SeeiirilV I Olint'll IlieeUnil Oil
the fnn.'o " '
Policy Rooffirmtd
The Security Council, in effect, i"', - ... , , ,
reaffirmed Ihe policy pursued by ,"e of, hls n,os lal"1"1 "
.1. i' v c..Mt. -....i nj i phshmenls was the preservation
llammarskjold. He has been un-1
rier lire bv the Conaolese who ac- i
cuscd him of "blackmail, treason
and plotting."
Today, in a statement which
neutrals in the Congolese capital,
a Congolese government spokes
man told newsmen:
Government Satisfied
"The government is satisfied
lhat Belgian troops will be with
drawn. The government considers
lhat the atmosphere is good."
Among the demands made by
Premier Patrice Lumumba were
withdrawal of all white United
Nations soldiers from Ihe Congo,
a supply of planes by the li.N.
to transport Congolese soldiers to
.1 I ...;t nnlitinal rl i CCHn Inn in
the interior, and the appointment called blue sky law to protect in
of an African-Asian committee to ! vestors, and guided legislation foi
advise Haminarskjold. ,
Lumumba had threalened that I
unless the Security Council bowed I
to his demands he would appeal j
. ,u n,. .i it h-w
nir a.u i y""";" .V",
iV-r "mluir umihl h the So
the o hei power would ik iii' M
viet Lnion. which has been gain-
mg more ground daily in this
uwunu
The government'! position was
communicated lo newsmen by
Serge Michel, a left-wing expa
triate Frenchman of Russian ori
gin who has been acting as Lu
mumba's chief press aide.
Outboard Capsizes;
2 Fishermen Drown
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) A 14-foot
outboard inotorboat went down in
a storm in the Columbia River
Sunday, and both men aboard
were drowned.
The body of Robert J. Meyer.
24, of Aloha, Ore., was washed
ashore Sunday night at Chinook,
Wash., just across the river from
Astoria.
The Coast Guard reported that
'he body of the second victim,
Andrew F. Malhison, 55, of li-
gard, Ore., was found on a beach
at Baker Bay, Wash., near the
mouth of the river, this morning.
Both men had come here Sun
day to fish, and had gone out into
the river in their small boat. After
they went out, a storm lashed the
area.
A commercial fisherman. Eu
gene (loodell of Rosburg, Wash.,
found the outboard boat in his Rill
nets early today, the Coast Guard
said.
A life jacket was on Meyer's
body. He had been in the water
four to six hours, the Coast
Guard said.
The area around Ilwaco
i nd
Ihe inoulh of Ihe Columbia River
h3,H hit h umHsmi m Sun.
dav and early '.Monday. The Coast'
Guard said winds up to 50 miles
an hour raked the area.
Two Traffic Deaths
Listed On Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two have died in weekend car
sm,ashups in Oregon, pushing the
slate s death toll tins year in
traffic accidents to 2.1.
The deaths of Delbeil K. Green,
72. of Portland and Marion II. Ste
phen. 4.1. of Gearhait raised Ihe
Associated Press count of traffic
viclims this month to 26.
Stephen was killed Sunday when
his car struck a retaining wall at
a railway bridge just west of Ihe
Vernonia Junction near Portland.
Police said Green was killed
when his car hit a tree at South
east 57th Avenue and Southeast
Flavel Street in Portland.
Witnesses said he slumped over
'the wheel of his car before lhe;Cessive bolts of lightning killed a
auto hit the tree
Traffic Jam Delays
Philharmonic Concert
I
PORTLAND (AP) A
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traffic lam caused an hour', de-
I ?V v 'h Ph th!rTe r.r
! the New York Ph''J'rmir;
' ch " I orlland Saturday
, ,, ,..i. (u 4.tr;
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r ... Bern..
jaill Wd llir Ulllinua a i 'di'iuv
, d h7e llo the
,n,...r. .... the Portland In.
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Colorful
Oswald West, Dies
POHTI.AND (AP) - Former
Gov. uswald West, whose lorcelul i
hand molded a lasting imprint on i
Oregon's government in one term I
5 years ago died here lo.lay. j
.". ,' ".."'"";,
lur sol"e l,l"le- a"li d'01' 111
sl,;'P ,at llls lu'"u'-
'" ,11S one l0, m !ls governor, i
, ,"V .i .',. . ..
-"- m-
ne an(1 pol'eies thai slill are au .
miegiai paiL 01 v.iego.1 govern-
uf, t''egon coastal beaches for the ,
I"'1.""
West shcpherdwl lliruuuh the
Legislature from 1911 to 1915 much
of the state"s most progressive
social legislation:
The workmen's compensation
law. protection of women and
children in employment, reserva
tion of the beaches for the people,
the honor system at the stale peni
tentiary. West wrote the oriqinal draft,
setting up the state Hoard of Con
trol, the top-level administrative
agency composed of the governor,
stale treasurer and secretary of
stale.
West appointed the first High
way Commission, sponsored a so-
for ',
creation ot state boards ot r ish, I
(Jame and Forestry. !
"I was 50 years ahead of my
time, he remarked a few year s (
HKU III d llf .VAIIIdll.
Seven Youths
Die In Crash
WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP)-'When a
priest comes to your house al 7
in the morning, .you know some
thing has. happened."
That was how Florence Mcdir-
rcau, widowed mother of J L chtl
dren, learned her youngest son,
Earle, 19, was one of seven youths
killed in a predawn automobile
crash Sunday.
The accident was Ihe worst single-car
crash in the state's history.
The seven, all born in Ibis small
community in the northwestern
corner of Vermont, grew up to
gether and graduated louether
from Winooski High School last
June.
Six were dead when stale police
reached the crash scene at 3 a.m.
The seventh died minutes after ar
rival al a Burlington hnsoital.
Their lll.it sedan had skidded 500
feet on a rain-slicked hill at South
Hero and wrapped ilself around a
maple Iree.
Edward Foley also heard the
priest s knock. His son Ldward,
20. was another one of Ihe seven.
"1 answered the knock. It was
Msgr. (Charles D.) Towne (of SI
Stephen's Catholic Church. He
said he had had news about my
son. 1 was stunned. 'Why, my
boy s upslairs in bed, I lold him
An,' Ihe monsignor said, your
boy s nearer heaven
Retired Army l.t. Col. Richard
Daigle heard the news in church.
His son. .lames. IN. wms alsn in
the car.
I went lo Mass at 7 o clock be-
fuf. I always get up with Ihe
ms,
the father said. "There
was still 10 minutes before Mass
began when an usher tapped ine
on the shoulder and said Msgr.
Towne wanted to see me outside."
Winooski's two Catholic church
ei aren't big enough to hold all
the mourners at a single joint
service so there will be two herv-
j ices.
A solemn high Mass of requiem
will be olfered al 9 a m. Wedne
; day in St. Francis Xavier church
' mr r.arie net arrenu, nunaiii Hog
20, and Maurice P. Soulicre,
Two hours later, al SI. Ste
phen's, Mass will be olfered for
Foley, Uaigle. Norman E. Pa
fpietie. 19. and William L. l.an
dino, also 19.
Lightning Bolts
Kill Michigan Pair
BAY CITY. Mich. fAPI-Suc-
man and his wile Sunday.
I The furious electrical storm
! felled Marjone Shook. 22, then
killed her husband. Kotiert, 27, as
j he ran lo her bodv. Ihe couple
ilelt three young children.
Mrs. Shook was vi.ilmg neigh -
Knr. ,n rt. . n linun,.. u.h,.n
"' " ' su""""
I "I've got lo get home lo mv
1 kirfishTtoM "lr .rMr..
i Chalfee. She ran out inlo the
utorin
Hi""' . niminsi ."in.U"M
i wrao n a, e raincoat a mm, !
her when ih. first hall hit her
Former Governor,
West stepped out of active kale ,
polities m l;tl .". ami moved to Port-1
land to resume his law practice, i
A heart attack in llil.i forced Innl
to retire, but he had remained
"" iiu.ue me incxsiiuu . s""'
pasl years-doing research on in a case thai went all Ihe way i
'e sli"e a"1' writing scores of lo Ihe slale Supreme Court. ,
newspaper arlioles and w illy, Inl- j Another tune, a convict escaped ,
0
.iuiiui imanu- mr wmu .iuu
two daughters, .Mrs. Helen Stone i
of San Francisco and .Mrs. Frank
Mclliigh of Portland.
West was a lile-long Democrat
one of Ihe few members of his i
party elected governor
in the
state. W hen he ran in the tall of !
1910, Republicans oiit-iniinbered
Democrats in Ihe state bv about 1
four lo one. But West won by ti.uuu i
votes. j
In recent years, as he worked
at his home on the history of Ore-1
gon banking, and fired off letters;
lo newspapers, West loved to chat
with newsmen.
"I've always voted Hie Demo
cratic ticket, down the line, even
for Harry Truman," he remarked
to one reporter.
He was a staunch foe of alcohol,
and a supporter of prohibition dur
ing the nation's dry era
As he;
explained it:
"1 spent about three years of
mv life as a bov silting in Iront 1
of a saloon behind a team of;
horses wailing lo go home, and
ever since it has been my ambi-
tion to shoot a bartender."
W est's years as governor gave
the slate unprecedented advances
in social legislation. He also gave
Ihe governor's office a bit of vesve
unmatched before or since.
lle had a mission for law and
order and during his term or -
dered a slate of marlial law to
clean up the wild litlle town of
Conneiiield in Baker County.
The lown was Idled with saloons,
gambling halls, and vice ran
unchecked. West sent in
I lie
Vets Hospital
Medic Dies
DR. FELIX VECCHIONE
.... succumbs
n,- Voliv V-tliruli.t-n V'nnr-hiiinu
KR r!ir...t,.r nf nrnfi.ttinnu 1 sir.
ices at the Hoseburg Veterans Hos-
pilal died Sunday at a local hos-
ltal
He' was horn Sept. 11, 19011 all
East Douglas, .Mass. He attended
Tufts ('olk'Ke al HoMon, Mass.,
and was graduated from Boston
University Medical School in 1942.
He served as a captain in the
U.S. Army during World War II.
lie was married at Washington
DC. March 17, IU44 to I'ri.scilla
Hastings. He came to Roselmr" j
from North Hampton, Mass., about1
a year ao. ife was a coinmuni-l
cant at St. !eorge s Kpiscopal
Church, a member of Ihe Ameri
can Medical Association. American
Psychiatric Association and the
Koseburg Country Club.
Survivors include his wife, Pris
cilla; four children. Paul, Prised
la, Felicia and Daniel, all of itose
burg; four brothers. Fred Vec
chione of Fort J.auderdale, Ma..
John Vecchione of Panama, Dal
vatore Vecchione, Fautield, Calif.,
and the Itev. Felix Vecchione
of Lafayette, Ore.; three sisters.
Mrs. C'ea
sai Oldoni of Hevere.
Mass . Mrs. Warren llulke. Whit
tier, Calif , and Mi s William Jack
son, hast Boston, .Mass.
Funeral services will be held at
St. (ieorge s Kpiscopal Church
Thursday at lu::m a m. with the
1 Kev. Alfred Tyson, rector, offiri -
I a I lllll 'f.m.lnn inff inrvii... anI in.
terment will follow at Willamette!
National Cemetery in Portland.
i V
Vi'. jW
Wfjl. f I
i ontriDutions In a memorial at hi. i morning to put out a lire which I
(ieorge's Kpiscopal Church may be burned a conveyor bell at the old
made. His body will lie in stale at'dayward mill near the edge of
Long St Orr Mortuary Mondav, j (llendaie.
Tuesday and Wednesday until l(n u wll, nperaled by the Patterson
P,m ll.iimlM'r Co. until the major part of
' Snob in Mm Wint
1
In Sleep
National Guard to, as he put it:j'"'1' ownirs "c the """y m 1W8.
"Burn up Hie gambling equipment Revision Needed
and seize the hou.e." i Bvrd, who last week sent a let-
The order was carried out. but : ier 'to 'the stale Tav rnmmUsinn
saloon keepers tiled a S:iO,OoU Milt
' prison, ami ine
aim
West the governorl
armed wilh
;i(i-.:iO rifle went j
out anil tracked him dow n in Ihe i
lulls and relurned In in to the pern-
tenltary.
W est as a young man was a
messenger for the l.add and Bush
Bank of Salem, and studied law
on the side. In IIHi.l he was ap
miinled a slate land agent, and
helped recover SWU.Ouu acres of
land lor the slate.
"Over 4U0.000 acres had been
obtained by forgeries and the rest
on application by land bums," he
once sail
In 1907 he was appointed lo the
state Railroad Commission. He
was elected governor in 1910, but
declined lo run a second term.
As he explained it recently lo a
newsman: "1 accomplished nearly
everything I set out to do in one
term."
Barbara Powers
Seeks T Meet
MOSCOW (API Barbara Pow-
Prs decided todav lo appeal di
Irecllv In Premier Nikila Khru-
siuhev foe elemencv for her hus-
; band Gary Powers.
I -.she has decided it would lake
l)n hing lo await the outcome of
her anueal lo President J.eonid
Brezhnev." said attorney Frank
W. Rogers of Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. Powers, 25, brunette wife
of the :il-year-old American flier
sentenced lo 10 years' detention
for espionage against Ihe Soviet
Union ear her had lold reporters
she would await the outcome of
this formal appeal before trying
lo sec Khrushchev.
The Soviet Premier is vacation
ing in Yalta on the Black Sea,
and just how she intended to go
aliout seeing him was in doubt.
11 is known that the pilot's father
also intends lo press ahead with
efforts lo see Khrushchev, hut his
attempt did not appear to be co
ordinated wilh that of his daughter-in-law.
They also were report
ed to have disagreed on the word
ing of an appeal.
There was no indication of the
points in dispute, but lawyers who
accompanied the family lo Mos
cow for Powers' espionage trial
last week said the flier's wife and
his parents had not been able to
agree on Ihe wording of the mercy
petition they had planned to sub
mit to Brezhnev loday.
The lawyers said there was a
possibility two petitions would be
submitted one from Barbara, and
one from the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver W. Powers of Pound,
Va.
The American pilot was sen
tenced Friday lo three years in
prison and seven more of "de
privation of liberty." presumably
in a labor camp. Powers has said
,lR UOCS nOl llllllR I1C lid IIIUCll
uwme ,ul vivintuij.
Mikhail Griniov, Powers' Soviet
defense lawyer, told Ihe pilot's
family it usually takes about a
month for a clemency plea to be
' acted on bill that it might be fast
er in this case because the fam
ily is in Moscow awaiting the out
come. Many Fair Entries
Closing Today
This is fair week in Douglas
County.
The annual Douglas Counly
Fair and Kxposition. replete
with new buildings and a thou
sand new features, gets under
way Thursday morning. Many
entries are being closed loday
in preparation. Others will have
until Wednesday to make their
entries.
The fair will continue through
Sunday night when Ihe finals
of the talent conlest will be
staged.
Glendale Lumber Mill's
- n I. nl
1 lOnVeVOr Dell DlOZeS
f: endale vo unleer firemen
1 were called about 3 a.m. Sunday
it burned early in June. The site
of the blaze, according lo Fire
$300,000
Refund Due
Timberlands
Background story, page 2
All property taxpayers except
limber owners will probably be get
ting an extra tax bill this year as
the result of a Supreme Court de
cision hist week.
Sherilf Ira I'. Bvrd. Doudu
i County tax collector, and Asses
sor Morris Bowker are the men
whose departments are caught in
the squeeze which resulted from
the difference of opinion between
the stale Tax Commission and tim-
akinft what to do about the Su-
preme I ourt decision which over-
rled the Tax Commission, today
reimrled he had received an an
mr
In Ihe letter, the key to the job
hnd for the numur anH i n..i.
lector is this- -Th. unrrfmo r
decree indicates that you are
red in your presumption that the
entire tax roll will have to be re
vised." The letter was written bv John
C. Mull, state Tax Commission at
torney, it says that refunds for
excess taxes paid must be made to
an taxpayers on timber in the 1958
year. These refunds will be paid
from the county general fund. But
all taxing districts or tax levying
bodies must reimburse the general
fund "by Ihe amount of refunded
taxes received by it."
$300,000 Rafund
This means Uiat an estimated
S.KW.000 must be refunded to tim
ber owner taxpayers in the county
with an additional 6 per cent in
terest on the money. But that S-Ton .
000 must be made up by taxpayers
un an oiner types ot property. They
will have lo pay g per cent inter
est on the money.
Tax collector Byrd calls it a sit
uation unique in the United States.
Interest Question
Byrd says many questions are
still unanswered desDite tha three-
page letter. He says he has asked
the district attorney for an opinion
on the 8 per cent interest which
win be charged to all taxpayers
but timber owners. He also re
ports he will request a meeting
with slale Tax Commission person
nel lo determine proper procedure
in the job of righting tha record.
He points out that the physical
job will be titanic. Ha says all tax
rolls for the 1958 year must be
made up and corrections made on
every lax bill. Compounding the
problem, Byrd says the tax collec
tion department is now entering
its heavy time of Ihe year. He es
timated cost lo the county in just
carrying out the job will run into
the thousands of dollars.
The change on lax rolls will in
volve only the 1958-59 tax year.
Light Plane Safe;
Two Still Missing
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ono of the small planes missing
on flights in various parts of tha
country was found safe today.
Carrying a family of four, it had
made an unscheduled landing
in Tennessee because of bad
weather.
Searches went on in New Eng
land and the central states for
two other planes, bearing seven
persons.
Tha Civil Air Patrol reported
thai a four-seat single-engine
plane which had failed to arrive
in Atlanta, ('.. Sunday on a
scheduled two-hour hop from
Bowling fJcen. Ky., had been
found at McMinnville. Tenn.
A missing plane was flown hy
Rodman Carey, member of the Do
Kalb, 111., police department, on
a vacation trip with his wife and
Iwo children.
The plane took off Friday at
Montpcfier, Vt., for a one-hour
hop to Manchester, N. II.
Those aboard included William
K. Martin, 5.1. a veteran pilot of
Concord. N. II., hired for the trip
by two officials of First N.itional
Stores, Charles MacFarland of
Wobiirn, Mass., and Oliver Whit
comb of Wilmington, Mass.
Air and land searchers ranged
over an area from northern New
York lo Oklahoma, seeking a
missing Oklahoma City family of
four. They left Teterhoro, N. J.,
lasl Tuesday morning for Okla
homa City. Okla.
Henry Griffing, 51), president u(
Video Independent Theaters, Inc.,
was flying the plane, accom
panied bv his wife, Josephine,
and daughter Linda, 20, and son,
Phillip, 21.
Grants Pass Woman
Injured In Portland
PORTLAND (AP) Two cars
collided in Portland Sunday, and
a Crants Pass woman was pitched
from one nf them onto Ihe street:
Good Samaritan Hospital later
reported that the injured woman,
43 year old Mrs. Faye Deters,
was in satisfactory condition. She
suffered chest injuries and a pos-
sible jaw fracture
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
It il laid
"To err ii human, to for
give divine";
So-o-o-o
"Jail term Impended on
payment of fine."