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Brookings Girl Drowns In Diamond Lake
Dad, Trying
For Rescue,
Nearly Dies
Tragedy struck the Oscar Crump
family of Brookings Friday night.
A 4-year-old daughter, Debra
Martina, tumbled out of the boat
from which the family was fishing
and drowned in Diamond Lake. The
father tried desperalely to save her
and almost lost his own life.
Sixth In Year
It was the second drowning ati
Diamond Lake in a little more
than two weeks, and the sixth in
Douglas County this year.
Sheriff Ira Byrd said the Crumps
were fishing at abuul 7 p.m., and ;
their two children, a boy and the
lilile girl, were in the boat. While
Mrs. Crump was playing a fish
and Crump was maneuvering the I
bii.it, the little girl fell in the lake.
I lor father jumped in after her,
but the weight of his heavy cloth-j
ing pulled him down. He was sawd
when the young son held out his
fishing pole which Crump grabbed.
But the little girl had disappeared
in the 11 feet of water.
Sheriff Bvrd mobilized his diving!
crew to begin a searcn lor uie
body, but it was recovered by a
diver at the lake at about 9 p.m.
The incident occurred just off the
area used by the Y.MCA as a camp
site. The body was removed to Long
& Orr Mortuary in Roseburg. F'ulas newsmen asked what message
neral arrangements will be
nounced later. The girl was born
Dec. 4, 1955, at Crescent City,
Calif.
Boy Visitor In Klamath
Area Drowns In Canal
KLAMATH FALLS (API A lit
tle boy visiting a Klamath County
ranch with his parents from Dor
ris, Calif., fell into an irrigation
canal Friday afternoon and drown
ed. The boy, Bruce Wayne Burnett,
was one of the six children of Mr.
and Mrs. Eddie Burnett visiting at
the A. C. Fred Mullanex ranch
near Bonanza.
He was missed in midatternoon
and a haying crew which joined
the search found hii body a half
mile downstream.
2 Tenmile Youths
Injured As Auto
Hits Their Bikes
Two Tenmile youths wore
in-
jured, one seriously, when they
were struck by an automobile
while riding bicycles Friday.
Roger Wayne Martin received
compound fractures of both legs
and other injuries, stale police re
ported. The 13-year-old Martin
vouth was reported in satisfactory
condition at a Roseburg hospital
this morning.
His companion, 33 year-old Ger
ry Redenius, was given treatment
at the hospital and released follow
ing the accident.
The Martin youth lives on Ten
mile Valley Road and the Redenius
boy lives on Lookingglass Road.
According to state police, the ac
cident occurred at 1 1 : 2. a.m. Fri
day at the junction of Tenmile Val
ley Road and Reston Road. State
police said the hoys failed to stop
their bicycles when coming from
Tenmile Valley Road onto Reston
Road and rode directly into the
path of a car driven by Claud
Ray Gray, 17, of Tenmile.
Police said there was no stop
sign at the intersection, hut said
that Gray's car was on the right
hand and had the right of way at
this intersection.
Federal Medical Aid
For Aged Months Away
PORTLAND (AP) - Andrew
.luras, state Public Welfare De
partment assistant administrator,
" IU A 1 n'a3 may we iiiuiiius ue-
mau mnnl lie- hw
lore new federal medical care
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juras saio. u may ne necessary
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the law belore slate funds can be
ust-u io aiu pt-isuiift noi on weuare,
but lacking the necessary income
to pay all their medical costs.
When the program does go into
effect, he explained, the federal
government will pay 52.58 per
cent of the cost of medical care
for persons 65 and older eligible
under the program.
CAR KILLS PEDESTRIAN
A pedslrian highway death and
a drowning marked the carlv
Hums ui me iiiiii; i-auor uay
weekend in Oregon.
Near Newberg. Sebastian Anton
Fettig, 51. was struck bv a car
as he walked along a
nignway
norm ot iewoerg at 11:30 p.m.
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Negotiations Fizzle In Pennsy Railroad Strike
'Dig In For
Long' Siege,
Unions Told
PHILADELPHIA (AP) "Dig in
for a long strike."
With those words, Michael J.
Quill, leader of the strike which
has immobilized the Pennsylvania
Railroad, today headed for Altoo
na. Pa., and a major rally of bis
men.
The PRR's largest shops are in
that western Pennsylvania citv.
Quill's "dig in" statement came
he had for the strikers members
of the Transport Workers and Sys
tem Federation Unions at the
the start of the Labor Day week
end. To that terse message Quill add
ed bluntly that nothing had been
accomplished in the daily negotia
tions since the unions 20,000
strong struck a minute after
midnight Wednesday. This course.
followed by the laying off of 52.000
operating employes, completely
stalled the PKR for the first time
in its 114-year history.
PRR spokesmen commented
that very little headway has been
made in the talks. They repeated
management statements that set
tlement depends on "a more rea
sonable" attitude on Quill's part.
Meanwhile. Federal Mediator
Francis O'Neill, Jr., kept up his
effort! to get the two sides togeth
er. He called separate sessions of
railroad and union bargaining
teams, hoping this might lead to
another joint meeting, perhaps
even to a summit gathering.
Since the strike against the na
tion's largest railroad began Thurs
day there have been no joint ses
sions, despite the almost continu
ous intervention of Mayor Richard
son Dillworth of Philadelphia, the
city in which the PRR plays a
vital economic role.
But, as the nation's largest rail
road, the PRR strike effects also
were being felt from New York
to St. Ixiuis and the first com
plaints of delayed freight ship
ments were being heard.
Tree Group Eyes
Forest Strip Use
SEATTLE (AP) The use of sald
forest strips to break the force of I Prof. Arvid, a member of the
wind and save land and crops was j Smith faculty for 36 years, re
discussed F'ridav by delegates toi reived the National Book Award in
I the World F'orestry Congress.
d. I. Logginov of the l kraiman
Academy of Agricultural Scien
ces in Kiev, said the Soviet Un
ion planus forest shelter-belts on
the pla'ns to protect fields, and
Ihe resLlt is an increase of up to
25 per cent in grain production.
Logginov told delegates from 71
nations that the great walls
j trees on the Russian steppes cut
wind speed from 30 to 40 per cent.
He said the trees have also cut
evaporation of moisture up to 15
per cent.
Dr. Sadao Ogihara. professor at
Tokyo University, said dams and
other gigantic flood-control proj
ects capture the public's imagina
, lion and thereby gain support, but
; . - - '
nonnl loranlv ionnr the mn.
j lrii)ut10n of forPsts in soii COnser-
vation and food conUo,
of Japanese forts has awakaned
ih a people to the need
i servation
Kennedy, Busy, Sets Cross-Nation Hop,
Nixon Guides Aides From Hospital Bed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen John F Kennedy ieli 1n!W all Americans
California today, carrying his
residential caninaian from one
: coast to the other. Then it s Alas
ka tonight and Detroit Sunday
- r..: ..i r u
pace (ne Democratic candidate
has set for himself as the race
enters Ihe final two-month stretch
down to election day.
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on, still abed with a knee infec
tton. is expected to display similar
enerev when he starts a 9.000-mile
oi a nepuniican ptatiorm pieage
lui ruuai riKNis lur women. 11 is
my hope." said the Nixon state-
ment. "that there will be wide
ni sPreaa' support for our platform
'VV declaration in behalf of an equal
rights amendment which will add
1 quality between the sexes to the
Castro Destroys U.S.
Treaty, Blasts OSA
HAVANA (AP) Smashing Uie
Western Hemisphere's united
front against Red China, Fidel Cas
tro announced Friday night that
Cuba will establish diplomatic ties
with the Peiping regime.
The bearded prime minister
broke the news at a rally of hun
dreds of thousands of cheering fol
lowers. He climaxed his fiery
speech by dramatically tearing up
the Cuba - U.S. mutual defense
treaty of 1952 and throwing away
the pieces.
Bristling with defiance, Castro
declared his revolutionary regime
was breaking with the Nationalist
Chinese government and switching
ties, making Cuba the first nation
in tlie Americas to recognize Com
munist China.
He accused the United States of
trying to isolate the Soviet Union
and Red China from the Western
Hemisphere and served notice his
government would establish diplo
matic relations with all Communist
countries.
The Havana crowd, privately
estimated at more than 30,000 but
officially billed as more than a
million, was whipped to a frenzy
for more than three hours as Cas
tro lashed out at the Organization
of American States and made his
boldest threat yet against the big
U.S. naval base at Guantanamo.
The prima minister flatly reject
Two College Teachers
Face Obscenity Charges
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (API
Two Smith College faculty mem
bers were arrested Friday on
charges of possessing obscene
photographs and literature.
Released on $1,000 bail was Prof.
Frederic Newton Arvid. 60, of the
English Department. Edward W.
Spofford, 29, a Greek instructor,
was released on $f00 bail.
Arvid was also charged wilh be
ing a lewd and lascivious person
in speech and behavior.
Both were scheduled for ar
raignment today in Northampton
District Court.
They were arresled after an in
vestigation by the State Police Bu
reau of Pornography. Thousands
of pieces of literature and photo
graphs were confiscated, police
1951 for his biography of Herman
Melville.
Spofford came to Smith in 1957.
Chilly Reception Given
Khrushchev In Finland
HELSINKI. Finland (AP) - Ni-
ofikila S. Khrushchev toured a Fin
nish electric turbine plant today
and got a stand-offish reception.
The Soviet premier went to one
of r inlands tinest plants, the
Stromberg electric works just
outside the capital.
Finns told foreign correspond -
enls wilh the Khrushchev party
that the people normally didn't
show much animation. And they
didn't today. Only at Ihe end of
Khrushchev trip through the
plant did a relatively large group
perhaps a hundred or more
gather on a landing and siaircasp
for con-! to see him leave. They were si
1 lent.
.freedoms and liberties guaranteed
Kennedy got a rousing reception
in Portland. Alaine, Friday. Eve
ning crowds on the sidewalks
thronged around him as he made
his way to a TV station for a news
interview, and police had to force
a way through for the smiling 43-year-old
candidate.
Jack Hopeful of Main
"We're hopeful of Maine in No
vember." he remarked.
Kennedy brought to Portland a
message he had delivered also in
Boston and Manchester, N.H.:
New F.ngland's economic ills can
be cured by voting Democratic in
November.
In Boston, he look notice of So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's
decision to come personally to the
Lmted .Nations in New lork this
month. Khrushc hev. Kennedy
said, "should realize that an elec-
tton is going on and we're quite
capable of deciding ourselves who
shall be president."
ed the OAS foreign ministers' dec
laration at San Jose. Costa Ric
last week which denounced Soviet-
Chinese meddling in this henu
sphere.
In taking aim at the U.S. naval
base in southeastern Cuba, Castro
warned that if the United States
"engages in mining the economy
of our country and attacking us,
then we will rally the people and
demand withdrawal of their naval
forces."
But Castro said "we will never
attack the base."
Lashing out at the U.S. -Cuban
Mutual Defense Pact, he charged
it gave former dictator Fulgencio
Batista authorization to use U.S.
military forces against Cubans.
Then ripping the document in two,
Castro shouted "By sovereign will
of the Cuban people this military
treaty between the United States
and Cuba which cost so much
blood is annulled."
His action in effect pulled Cuba
out of the 1947 Rio de Janeiro
Treaty binding the hemisphere
nations to mutual defense in case
i of outside attack.
W. BERLIN BUDGET HUGE
BONN, Germany (AP) The
West German government plans a
1961 budget of 44.8 billion marks
(S10.6 billion), the highest in the
republic's 11-year history.
2 Killed, 3 Kurt
In 2-Car Collision
In Washington
EUPHRATA. Wash. (AP) -Two
men were killed and three other
persons injured, one critically
twotraffic accidents in Grant
County Friday night and early Sat
urday. Walter Corley, 37. lone, Ore.
died ill a two-car collision at the; of Ihe Congo fighting, but a Mo
intersection of two county roads I roccan unit was forced to fire on
four miles east of Quincy at 9:43 1 a menacing group of armed civil
p. m. Friday. I ians in Moerbeke near the army
His wife Elvana, 35, was taken 'base of Thysville in Leopoklvillc.
to Quincy Hospital, where she was! Lumumba was hewing straight to
reported in critical condition with I the line lhal usually leads to a
a skull fracture and lacerations Communist-style dictatorship. His
of the head and right leg. regime has been suppressing news-
The driver of the other car, Silas papers, banning political meetings
Jones, 46, Brewster, Wash., wasiand using troops and police to ar
hospilalized with injuries believed : rest political opposition. Soviet ad
to be less serious. visors have also been pouring into
The State Patrol said Robert Sill- the Congo in recent weeks.
Ii an, 40. Moses Lake, was killed I
at 12:15 a.m. Saturday when a car " " '
he was driving failed to make a
curve at the south city limits of
Lphrata on Stale Secondary High
way 1A. Ihe car rolled over a
number of limes, officers said. A
passenger. Henry Meagher, was
hospitalized in Kphrata. His injuri
es were not belived to be critical.
Possession Of Deer
Draws $100 Penalty
James Wilson Wright. 40. Idleyld,
was fined $100 bv Douglas Counlv!
j Court Judge Warren Woodruff
j Friday alter he pleaded guilty tol
i a charge of illegal possession or
deer.
Mis. Norman (Rulh) Richard-!
i son. Roseburg. was arraigned on.
; a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. Her case was con-1
tinned to Sept. 9. She is charged I
with passing a bad check for Slo!
at Drager Food Center, 1127
Slephrns St., Roseburg, on Aug. 27.
In Washington, Rep. Cecil R.
King (D Calif I charged Friday
that "another campaign payoff is
being engineered tor Richard Nix
on" in connection with govern
ment seizure of a savings and
loan firm in his home district.
King's thesis was that the gov
ernment action was unwarranted,
and that a Long Beach. Calif.,
lawyer active in the Nixon cam
paign had gotten a "lucrative re
tainer" from the government
agency that seired the firm.
A Nixon aide, Robert H. Finch,
called Kings charge "absolute
nonsense, pure political tissue."
lung taiou was nncn woo nan
.i.nr.. thm pnmni,n hiiines
to the Long Beach law firm.
Republican National Chairman
ThniiUin B. Morton said Kennedy
had shown himself to be an in
effective leader in the session of
: Congre.-i that ended this week.
Morton said the session was a
i "resouncing failure" and showed
, that Remedy
I material '
is not major league
Bloody Congo
n i ni i
itoie navea
By Russians
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(AP) Opposition to Premier Pa
trice Lumumba's swing toward
leftist, dictatorship mounted today i
as ne pressed his campaign to
stamp out rebellion in the eastern
Congo.
As U. N. officials counted near-
ly 30O dead in Kasai Province
lighting, reports reached here
that the Soviet Union had stepped
up its aid to Lumumba by pro
viding him cargo planes.
Some of the 10 Soviet 1114 planes
that arrived in Stanleyville have
been repainted with the words
"Congo Republic" on their sides,
these reports said. Stanleyville.
capital of Oriental Province in the
northeast, is Lumumbas chief
base of operations in the eastern
Congo. About 100 Soviet trucks
already are in the interior.
At last report Lumumba s Con
golese army was locked in a see
saw battle with tribal supporters
of Kasai secessionist leader Al
bert Kalonji. The fighting was
centered around Bakwanga. cap
ital of Kalouji's so-called "min
eral state."
An army spokesman from seces
sionist Katanga province said Lum
umba's troops also were poised 20
mites trom the Katanga border in
Kivu province to the north.
"This could he a greater threat
to Katanga than any action and
troop movements taking place in
the Kasai province right now,"
the spokesman said. ,
Some Congolese troops were re
ported deserting and joining Ka
lonji's .secessionists. This appeared
to be the case in Bakwanga, the
spokesman said, and also at Pu
pula where a platoon of Congo
troops had defected.
L'.N. forces have steered clear
18-Year Old Climber
Dies On Cascade Jaunt
SEATTLE (AP) An 18-year
old Seattle mountain climber was
injured fatally in a 200-foot fall
Friday on the rugged slopes of
6.550-foot Mt. Thompson in the
Cascade Mountains.
The Seattle Mountain Rescue
Council got word Saturday that
Robert Nieman died on the moun-
tainside, where he had been left
by a companion who went for aid.
Nieman was climbing the peak
50 miles southeast of Seattle with
David Bushley of Seattle. Bushlev
said a piece of rock came loose
when he grasped a big boulder.
The he'avy fragment slruck Nie-
man and caused the fall.
LOPCIina LUmOer firm
Buys 5 Retail Yards
PORTLAND fAP) The Cope
land Lumber Co. of Portland has
purchased fivp retail lumber
yards in Washington from the
White River Lumber Co. of Seat
tle. J. W. Copeland. president and
general manager of the Portland
firm, said the yards are located
at Prosser, Pasco, Toppenish,
Mabton and Wapato. The pur
chase price was not stated.
Copeland Lumber Co. owns 57
yards on the West Coast.
CATHOLICS OK 'SIT-INS'
LOUISVILLE. Ky. (AP) - The
National Federation of Catholic
College Students has endorsed
"sit-in" demonstrations.
The group's convention here also
resolved Friday that suspension or
explusion of students from schools
"as a result of his free and re.
sponsible expression of opinion
. , , Ic,demlc freedom.
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GUILTY PLIA INTIRIO
Ray Harold Andrus. SI, of 169
W. Hoover Ave., Roseburg, Friday
pleaded guilty to a charge of being
drunk in an automobile and was
fined J".5 in Roseburg Municipal
: Court. Ho was arrested Ihe night
netore by ciiy ponce.
$ioi,895Pmd
for Four Tracts
of ou Timber
The Roseburg District of the
Bureau of Land Management Fri
day sold four tracts of UiC and
Coos Bay Wagon Road timber ap-1
praised at Sj9.728.25 for a total
of $101,890.05.
Douglas Veneer Co., Roseburg,
purchased the lirst tract, contain-
inji 1.124.000 board feel of timber
appraised at S17.709.20 for $31,229
85. The high bidder paid $40.25 per
thousand for 671.000 feet of Doug-
la fir "PPraised at $20.10
On Little River
Other bidders oi
Little River were
this sale on
Round Prairie
l.umber Co., U.S Plywood Corp
Skeels Logging Co., Sabala Log
ging Co., Sun Studs, Inc., and Mar
tin Brothers Container and Timber
Products Corp.
The second tract, located on 19
acres on Little River, was purchas-
l ed by U. S. Plvwood Corp., Eu
gene, for $25,607.25. It had been
i appraised at $14,589.75. U. S. Plv-
wood paid $41 per thousand for
565,000 feet of Douglas fir apprais
ed at $21 .50.
Other bidders were Round
Prairie Lumber Co., Skeels Log
ging Co., Douglas Veneer Co., Pa
cific Plywood, Nordic Veneer, Sa
bala Logging Co. and Eugene Ven
eer. Canyon Cratk
Bate Lumber Co., Merlin, pur
chased the third tract, containing
1.062.000 feet located on Canvon
Creek, for $32,256.10. It had been
appraised at $19,4()9.9;. Bate I.uin
her Co. paid $31 for 1,027,000 feet
of Douglas fir appraised at $18.55.
Other bidders were Round
Prairie Lumber Co., Roseburg
Lumber Co., Stomar Lumber Co.,
D. R. Johnson Lumber Co., Skeels
Logging Co., C&D Lumber Co. and
Keystone Lumber Co.
Camas Valley
The final tract was a salvage
sale containing 358.000 feet of tim
ber located north of Camas Valley
and was purchased bv Fred Fitz
gerald. Roseburg, for $12,801.85. It
had been appraised at $7,959.35.
Fitzgerald paid $38.05 for 325,000
feet of Douglas fir appraised at
$23.15.
Other bidders were Skeels lag
ging Co., Roseburg Lumber Co.,
Standley Brothers, Martin Broth
ersSun Studs, Inc., Clayton lag
ging Co. and D. R. Johnson Lum
ber Co.
Kennedy Slated
For Eugene Talk
Dnugla County Democrat party
worker have been invited to meet
with Sen. John K. Kennedy, Demo
cratic nominee for Ptesidcnt, Wed
nesday at Eugene.
Party workers have been asked
to meet the senator at the Eugene
m the Vane Conlu Z
friS- ,.W0. ...TJ?
airport at 11:30 a.m. and then at
invi.ed to attend a no host lunch
eon with Sen. Kennedy Saturday
afwrnoon.
Persons planning to attend the
luncheon should contact Ihe Lane
County Democratic headquarters
to secure reservations.
'Pistol Packin' Mama
Passes Away At 80
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
Mary Stamos, 80, Ihe original
"pistol parkin' mama" known
professionally as Aunt Molly Jack
son, died in obscurity this week.
Daughter of a Baptist minister of
the Kentucky hills, she told of Ihe
rigors of coal-mining life through
more than 100 folk songs now in
Ihe Library of Congress. Her
practice of carrying a pistol for
protection inspired Ihe song "Pis
tol Packin' Mama."
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Mid-Morning Total
Of Known Deaths 83
r,y THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With brijrht weather forecasts to cheer them and a wonl
of caution to sober them, millions of pleasure-bent Ameri
cans streamed onto the nation's hiKhways today for sum
mer's last flinjr from home and work.
As the nation swung1 into the first, full day of the three
day Labor Day weekend, the traffic toll rose.
Fair skies and balmy tempera-1
lures promised crowded beaches
long queues at the first tee,
packed picnic grounds and traf
fic jams en route.
The National Safely Council es
timated that 'raffic deaths might
reach 460 lor the 78-hour weekend,
from 6 p m. Friday (local lime)
until midnight Monday.
This figure would exceed by 130
deaths the traflic toll for a non-
holiday weekend of Iht same
length (his season, Ihe council
DEATH LOG
1 p.m. EDT: 73 traffic, 2 boat
ing, 3 drowning, 5 misc. Total 83.
said. It would be but one short
of the record Labor Day weekend
traffic toll of 4(il, set during the
I9.M holidav.
1959 Toll Cited
For comparative purposes. The
Associated Press made a survey
of the nonholiday weekend from
p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, to mid
night Monday, Aug. 22. The re
sults: 389 persons died in traffic
accidents, 34 persons died in boat
ling mishaps, 61 persons drowned
and 90 perished in miscellaneous
accidents a grand total of 574.
During last year's Labor Day
FBI Chief Raps Inadequacy
Of Traffic Safety Program
WASHINGTON (AP) Carnage man who had been firing a gun
on the highways during the Labor! on a crowded street and return
Day weekend offers stark tesli
monv to the inadequacy of the na
lion's safely program, FBI Direc
tor J. Edgar Hoover said today.
He decried soft punishments for
drunk or reckless drivers and ask
ed why anyone should feel com
passion for them.
Hoover said in an article in the
FBI law enforcement bulletin that
in some slates drunk driving n
classed as a simple misdemeanor
involving va light penalty and no
suspension of the driving privilege
"It would appear just as logi
cal." he added, "to free a crazed
Shell Explosion
At Training Kills
16Gls,Wounds26
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany
(AP) A 161h American soldier
died today of injuries suffered
when a howitzer shell hit a U.S.
Army supply tent. Another victim
is on the critical list.
The accident which wounded 26
other soldiers occurred Friday
during maneuvers 30 miles from
the Czechoslovak border.
The Army in Washington iden
tified Ihe 16th dead soldier as Pfc.
Norman D. Harris, son of William
W. Harris of Stockton. Calif.
V S. Army investigators said the
shell was over-charged wilh pow
der. There were also indications
it was badly aimed.
The shell struck just after the
morning roll call. It ripped
through one tent, exploded in a
second and rained fragments on a
third. Thirteen of the 18 soldiers in
Ihe second tent were killed in
stantly. The victims were members of
the 3rd Reconnaissance Squad of
the 3rd Armored Division.
Mai. Cen. Frederick J. Brown,
division commander, said the in
vestigation would he pushed until
X"Z? l
th"e sZTw. fir'ed'byrartinery
unit training on the t.rafenwoehr
range in a lest requiring repeated
shell firings. The shell that caused
the accident, he added, was fired
by a powder charge of 7 when a
charge of S should have been used.
LUCK FOLLOWS DREAM
IIOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) Dream
long enough, and hard enough
and win an Irish sweepstakes
and the dream may come true.
It did for retired Pullman port
er William Tyler.
The 78-year-old Tyler had always
dreamed of hiring hn own Pull
man car for a Irip around the
country.
Tyler rolled through here Friday
In the private car aboard the Lack
awanna Railroad with his wife and
six friends. A first place ticket in
Ihe Irish Sweepstakes last May
helped him realize) his lifelong ambition.
L i:V
leisure period, the traffic toll was
i:8 while boating tragedies took
29 more lives and drownings not
connected with boating accidents
accounted for 62 more deaths. In
addition, 84 persons died accident
ally from such varied causes ai
fires, falls, shootings, air crashes
and electrocutions.
Record Str In 1951
The record overall accident loll
for a Labor Day weekend was 6 8,
again set in 1951. The record for
any holiday period for the post
World War II period was 881 ac
cidental deaths during the four
clay Christmas observance of 1956.
That holiday claimed 706 traffic
victims.
The council attributed the ten
dency for traffic deaths to mount
during holiday periods to the com
bination of more cars traveling
more miles with more unskilled
occasional drivers in the traffic
tide.
Almost all Ihe nation's 73 mil
lion motor vehicles will he on the
road sometime during the week
end, the council said, running up
a total of 7.6 billion miles about
400 million miles more than on a
nonholiday weekend.
his weapon to him.
"Two of the greatest dangers on
our roads are the drunken and
reckless drivers. Why should any
one feel compassion lor them'.'
Their actions snow as much dis
regard tor law and order as do the
acts of a burglar who follows a
carefully laid plan to steal in the
night. Also, in many instances,
they are a far greater threat to
human safely.
Pity Excuses Wasted
"Just as through research and
positive action wa have isolated
and conquered the germs which
,ca.use many dread diseases, su catv,
'we remove Ihe slaughterers who
lilter our highways with broken
and battered bodies. But it cannot
be done by showing pity or offer
ing excuses for those who wanton
ly violate the basic rules of traf
fic safety."
Hoover said "traffic regulations,
as they should be, are the respon
sibilities of the various state and
local governments. Indifference
and Ihe Jack of positive action to
reduce traffic fatalities, have
brought on considerable talk of fed
eral intervention."
This was an obvious reference In
set up a national clearing house
for recording driver license sus
pensions or revocations stemming
from drunk and reckless driving.
It also referred to proposals in the
present Congress to bring about
some kind of uniform safely regu
lations across the nation.
Two Council Seats
Await Aspirants;
Deadline Tuesday
At least two petition! for posi
tions on the Roseburg City Coun
cil will have to be turned in at
city hall Tuesday. Deadline for the
petitions, which must contain the
names of 25 residents of the speci
fic ward from which the office is
sought, ia S p. m. Tuesday.
Petitions for mayor must be in
at the same time and must con
tain the names of 25 registered
voters from anywhere in the city.
To date, only one candidate for
mayor and three candidates for the
council have filed petitions at city
hall. Council President Pete Sera
fin has filed for the mayor's chair
which will be left open by Arlo
Jacklin. wno has announced he
will not seek re-election to that
office.
This, in turn, leaves the council
spot held for the past four years
by Serafin open. Scrafin represent
ed Ward 4. There have been no
petitions turned in for this couctl
seat.
Two of the three councilman
petitions in come from Ward 1.
They are for incumbent John Bless
ing and East Roseburg resident
William N. Kernan. To date, this
is the only spot in the city gov
ernment which has announced
competition.
Ward 2 Councilman Fred Kelly
has also filed for reelection. Biil
Adair, councilman from Ward 3
has not yet announced whether he
will seek re-election to the post he
has held for the past 14 years.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Relzenstein
I Atpirante for teats in Con
gress may find it to their ad
vantage, if elected, ta heed
the advice or a veteran pilitico
of that body a formula
which apparently hat been
adopted in the current tettion.
Here it it: "Learn how to
think no, toys yet and mean
maybe." j.
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