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2 The Newi-Review, Roseburg, Nixon Urges Wide Program Of Federal Education Aid WASHINGTON (API A broad program of federal aid to educa tion, including college scholiii-. ships and money for building both public senooi ana college ciass rooms, is advocated by Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon. But he supported only Indirect aid for teachers' salaries saying. "We must avoid the danger of rigid federal control over who teaches and whp.t is taught In our public schools." He said federal funds should be used to help build new public schools and to help local districts pay off bonded debt on new schools already built, lie said the local money thus freed could be used to raise teachers' salaries. Nixon's views were set forth Sunday night in the third of a series of "position papers" he is issuing during the election cam paign to outline nis views ai length on various national issues. Secretary of Welfare Arthur S Flemming told newsmen Nixon's program "is Ihe most practical you can get in terms of what you can get tnrougn - congress, lie said many Congress members would support such a program who would oppose any direct fed eral aid to increase teachers salaries. But Sen. Joseph S. Clark. D-Pa. Deputies Investigate Reported Beer Bust The Douglas County Sheriff's of fice, with the assistance of Slate Police, today were probing a re ported teen-age beer bust which took place in north Koseburg, Sat urday night. There were an estimated IS young people, ranging in ages from IS to IB years, apd including both boys and girls, according to Sher iff Ira Byrd. They reportedly had 10 cases of peer, bottles of wine and whiskey and "all but one girl started drink ing and got pretty drunk," officers Were fold. After the party at this location broke ' up, what was left of the beer and liquor was loaded into one of the cars and some of the participants headed southward to another party, the officers were informed. Mary A. Stelzier Mary A. Stelzier, 76, of Myrlle Creek, died Saturday in a Portland hospital following a lengthy illness. She was born June 9, 1884 at Dil lard and shortly after moved with her family to Myrlle Creek where she had spent her entire life. She was a member of the Christian Church of Myrtle Creek and the Arbor Vitae Rebecca Lodge. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Glenn Hichardson of Hose burg, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Myrtle Creek Christian Church Tuesday at 3 p.m. The Rev. John Myers of that church will officiate. Interment will follow at the 100 K Cemetery In Myrtle Crock. Gam Mortuary is in charge of arrange ments. Called To Grass Fir The Winston-Dillard Fire Depart ment had one call over the week end. At 8:20 Sunday morning the department was called to a va cant lot on Park St. in Winston where the grass was ablate. No damage was reported from the fire which is believed to have been started by children playing with matches. Hovo You Mined Any Phone CALLS LATELY? OR 3-6629 CLOVER'S Telephone Aniwering Service MEET YOUR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IASKET SOCIAL LADIES BRING LUNCH AND SERVICE MEN BRING $3.00 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 6:30 P. M. New Exhibit- Building Douglas Co. Fairground's EVERYONE WELCOME Meet your Federal, State County and Local Candidates INCLUDING MAURINE NEUBERGER Candidate for United Stares Senator MONROE SWEETLAND Candidate for Secretary of State WARD COOK Candidate for Stote Treasurer ROBERT Y. THORNTON Condidate for Attorney General MARV OWENS Candidate for U.S. Representative, lit District CHARLES PORTER Candidate for U.S. Representative, 4th District Pocd political adveMlwmtnt by Dtmocroiic Control Com. miltft, P.O. Po 718, Rowburg, Oreoon, S'd Lt.ktn, chairman. Ort. Men., Sept. 26, I960 said in a statement that such a program lacking salary aid "con tinues to miss the most essential issue." He contended also that matching construction ' grants would attract slate money away from teachers' salaries, rather than adding to the total available for that purpose. He said that Nixon, in advocat ing aid for college classroom con struction, is now supporting a Democratic program which Presi dent Eisenhower vetoed twice when it was included in general bousing bills. On that point. Nixon proposed that the present federal program of low-cost loans lor college dor mitory construction be "greatly expanded into a program of both loans and matching grants for classrooms and laboratories and libraries as well." Post Office Move Hearing Slated WASHINGTON (AP) The House Government Operations subcommitle will hold a hearing in Portland, Ore., Thursday on a proposal for moving the regional post office from Portland to Seat lie. Rep. Jack Brooks, D Texas, chairman of the subcommittee, said civic groups and private or ganizations "are incensed over what they describe as an arbi trary, wasteful decision" by Post master General Arthur Summer field. Brooks said that the office, es tablished in 1954, "apparently has been performing its mission satis factorily and everything running smoothly until Mr. Summerfield's sudden announcement last June 28 that it would be packed up, bag and baggage, and moved to Seattle "We intend lo learn the full facts behind this move which will uproot 182 families." Jay L. Chaney Jay Livingston Chaney, i'S, died Saturday evening at a Roseburg hospital after a short illness. He was born Sept. 25, 1868 at Flora, 111. He had been a resident of this area for the past 68 years, coming from Troy, Idaho. Chaney was married to Sarah Jane Trask, March 10, 1894 at Myr lle Creek. She preceded him in death May 26, 1956. lie was a past master of the Maple Masonic Lodge 127, Myrtle Creek, and a past worthy patron of the Valentine Chapter of the Or der of Eastern Star. He was also a member of the Order of East ern Star, He was also a member of the Roseburg Consistory of Scot tish Hite and an ordained Metho dist minister for 40 years. Survivors include three daugh ters, Mis. Fred Neal and Mrs. Guy Conley, both of Myrtle Creek, and Mrs. William Stevenson of Med ford; and two sons. Jay L. Jr., Eugene, and Ernest of Anlioch, Calif. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at Ihe Methodist Church in Myrtle Creek Wednesday at 2 p.m. The Hev. Campbell of tha Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will follow in the 100K cemetery. Gam Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Glide Coffee Hour Set The Glide Woman's Chorus in vites all women residents in Ihe community to attend a coffee hour at 10 a. m., Thursday at the home of Mrs. Jerry Hansen at Whistlers Rend. Plans will be made for the coming yar, according lo Mrs. Arthur Selby, correspondent. For further Information, phone Mrs. Wayne Coales, GYpsy 6-3417 or Mrs. Hansen at OR 3-8886. Rockwell Sought In 1950 Slay togs EUREKA. Calif. (AP The Humboldt County Sheriff's office said Sunday Raoul Guy Rockwell is wanted for questioning in the 1950 slaying of a bread truck driver and the disappearance of a waitress. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Larson said Rockwell's name came into the case in recent weeks, after human remains were found in a septic tank in his Seattle home Rockwell has been missing from Seattle since August. His second wife, Mrs. Manzanita Kockwell, 39, and her daughter, Dolores Mears, 18, disappeared in April. The remains found in the septic tank have been identified as those of a young woman. Rockwpll livd in Fortuna in Humboldt County from late 1947 or early 1948 until sometime in 1950, Larson said. The body of Henry Baird. 22, Eureka. Calif., was found June 18. 1950, near Tallin Bluff, a Naval radio atation in the Fortuna area. He had been shot in the back of Ihe head. The body was naked except for shoes and socks. The rest of the clothes were piled neatly nearby. A .32 caliber pistol, the caliber with which he was shot, was missing from his car. Officers said Baird had last been seen the previous Saturday night with Barbara Kelley, 17, a Fortuna waitress. She was not seen again. Her clothes were found piled under Baird's. The parents of Rockwell's first wife, with whom he was then liv ing, owned one of Fortuna's two restaurants. The waitress worked in the other restaurant. Both were on Baird's route. Rockwell worked as a short-order cook in the res taurant owned by his father-in-law, Jerome B. Loop. Deputy Lar son said he is trying lo locate Loop. Belton Reveals Maclaren Saving SALEM- (AP) The state Board of Control has saved 300.000 this biennium in operating Maclaren School for Boys at Woodburn. Stale Treasurer Howard C. Belton told a group of Salem Republican women today. Belton, one of Ihree members of the all-Republican board, is running for slate treasurer. He said the saving "is the result of enlightened policies of adminis tration which utilized the taxpay ers money to the fullest, yet gave the school a dynamic program which has achieved national and international recognition." In the past two years, he said, enrollment at the school has de creased, contrary to the national trend. Frances E. Wixson Miss Frances Effie Wixson, 90, well-known resident of Myrtle Creek, died Saturday at a local hos pital. She was born at Bolivar, N.V., on Aug. 10, 1870 and came lo Douglas county In lnm. She (aught school in New York for a tout 10 years before coming West and taught for 10 years in Oregon and 20 years in California schools. She was never married. Miss Wix son was a member of SI. Anne's Episcopal Church at Myrlle Creek. Surviving are a sister, Catherine Desdemona Wixson, and a broth er, Oscar McAilhur Wixson, bolh of Myrtle Creek. Funeral services will be held in Ihe Chapel of !ong 4c Orr Mortuary, Thursday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Robert Bunnage, vicar of St. Anne's Episcopal Church of Myrtle Creek, officiating. Concluding serv ices and vault interment will fol low in the Civil Bend Cemetery. RESPECTABLE BEATS STUTTGART, Ark. (AP) -Beatniks achieved a respectability of sorts on the social page of the Stuttgart Daily Leader. Writing about a far-out party at Ihe country club, the newspaper's society editor referred to the mer rymakers as "beatniqtle.v" Entertainment By The. PONSONBY SISTERS OF Aialea A Be Sura -jl To Attend 25 Acres op FIRE SWEPT HILLSIDE A fire Saturday afternoon on the L. L. Patterson ronch, three miles south of Dixonville, caused obout $5,500 damage to a vecant house on the pro perty. While a 12-man crew from the Ranchers Volunteer Fire Dist. fought the house blaze, flomes spread up the hill, blackening nearly 25-acres of gross land. (News-Review Photo). Illness Of Judge Halts Neglect Case CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) Be cause of the illness of Juvenile Court Judge Margaret J. Spellacy ine cnim neglect trial of Lillian Fratantonio mother of the "sleep ing beauty" girls was interrupted today. Judge Spellacy, 38, was taken lo Lakewood Hospital Sunday suf fering from severe pleurisy. Her family said the pleurisy fallowed a severe case of pneumonia Judge Spellacy suffered six weeks ago. Mrs. Fratantonio is accused of mis-treating her children, Berna detle, 3, and Venita, 5, by feed ing them barbiturates, which kept them iu a state of coma for long periods. A statement lo police, in which Mrs. Fratantonio allegedly told of giving the children barbiturates, has been admitted as evidence by the court. Mrs. Fratantonio. 29. contends the statement was given under duress and denies sne drugged her children. Portland Pedestrian, Struck By Auto, Dies , PORTLAND (AP) Glen Van Gorder, 68, died over the week end from injuries suffered Friday nignt when he was struck by an automobile. The accident occurred at E. Burnsidc St, near 65th. Gorder was walking his dog across the street when he was struck by a car driven by Her man James Tydeman, 70, police said. i The dog also was killed. Lucinda H. Sefton Lucinda Henrietta Sefton, 86, died early Sunday morning at a Rose burg hospital. She was born at Cherokee. Calif.. on July 4, 1874. The family came lo Oregon in 1914 and lived at Sa lem and Portland. She was mar ried to Fred Sefton at Yuba City, Calif., on Sept. 15, 1895. Following Ihe death of her husband in Por land in 1942 she came to Yoncalla to live with her children. Survivors include two sons, Fred C. Sefton, Jr., Yoncalla, and Bing er 11.; two grandchildren, Mrs. George (Charmaine) Myers and Mrs. George (Shirley) Roberts, bolh of Lanyonville; and four great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of Christ at Yoncalla, with the Rev. Ren Hnllisler of the church officiating. Commitlal serv ices and intermrnl will be at 4 p.m. at Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland. .The Suthcrlin-Oakland Mortuary is in care of arrangements. INSULATION 1 ' -il RIG. 10. tt Un'Y iq- H. i 2'" iff Reg. 8c ,1 ? vmiy Cash tt Ml DELIVERY AND TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED CITY LUMBER & BUILDERS SPLY CO. 300S N. E. Diamond Lok, Blackened 1 - - -' VJl Burning Mattress -Blamed In Blast EUGENE (AP) The explo sion that shook the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house here Friday morning is attributed by city fire marshal Lester Barker to gases created by a fire. Barker said a discarded mat tress thrown by the house appar ently was ignited by a burning cigarette. Resulting flames burned through an outside wall into a space between the first floor ceilings and -the second story flooring, he said. The blast knocked out part of the wall, some windows, and pieces of ceilings in the kitchen, dining and living rooms. . Loss has been estimated at $5,000. Kim Karen Newport Funeral services for Kim Karen Newport, 4, who died last Friday following the fire which destroyed her parents home on SE Mill St., will be held in the chapel of Lone & Orr Mortuary Tuesday at 11 a.m. ins ttevs. H. James Jenkins of the First Methodist Church and A. P. Ritz, pastor of the Roseburg Seventh-day Adventist Church, will officiate. Concluding services and interment will follow in Roseburg Memorial Gardens. She was born at Roseburg on Aug. 16, 1956. ' Surviving are her father, Marvin Newport of Grants Pass, Ore.; her mother, Mrs. Nonda Newport of Roseburg; a brother, Terry Lee of Roseburg; her paternal grandmoth er, Mrs. John Newport of Rose biirg; her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Laurance V. New port of Corvallis; and her maternal great-grand mother, Mrs. C. E. Richardson of Roseburg. Marion E. Ulshaffer A former Roseburg resident, Marion E. Ulschaffer, 64. died Thursday at his home in Crescent City, Calif. He owned Schaffer's Lodge In Winston until four years ago when he moved to Crescent City where he was associated with a plywood company. While living in Roseburg he was a member of the Roseburg Country Club and the Laural Masonic Lodge. Funeral services were held Saturday in Crescent City. Annie Agnes Bare Annie Agnes Bare, 68, of Brings Acres, Myrtle Creek, died Sunday in an Ashland hospital following a lengthy illness. Funeral arrange ments will be announced later by Gam Mortuary of Myrtle Creek. Jj Now ( c tq. ft. Carry Blvd. OR 3 5248 Douglas Jail Fills To Over-Capacity The little ol Douglas County jail is being crowded to capacity these days, and Saturday night they had 'em sleeping in the halls. Sheriff Ira Byrd said 24 persons were booked over the weekend, and this number was added to 54 already there. However, sev eral were bailed out Sunday to relieve the congestion, and some more will be released today. The jail can haidle around 60 Inmates- comfortably. Its popula tion of course, is swelled now with the addition of Roseburg city po lice arrests, which will be relieved when the new city hall and jail are ready. Many city cases are for drunkenness or for disorderly conduct. The county jail bookings ranged from the more serious traffic vio lations through vagrancy drunk enness, disorderly conducts, drunk en driving on up to felony charges. A considerable number are young men 18 to 21, Some of those book ed are serving jail sentences. Oth ers are awaiting disposition of their cases by trial or otherwise, and are unable to post the re quired bail. Evangelist Graham Attacked By Reds BERLIN (AP) Evangelist Billy Graham, under attack by the Communists, today called his visit to divided Berlin "provident ial." A huge tent holding 20,000 per sons has been set up for him with in 100 yards of the "Little Iron Curtain" that separates the two parts of the city. The first of a week's series of meetings was to be held tonight. "We planned this trip more than 18 months ago," he told a news conference, "and we did not know that we would be here at this difficult time. It is providential that we should be here just now, where the two worlds meet." "Berlin is the most prayed-for spot in the world just now un less it is New York," he said. The Communists have attacked him as a representative of "Wall Street" and "American imperial ism." Communist police have questioned choir-singers and other helpers recruited in East Berlin for the meetings. ' There were unconfirmed reports that East Berliners had been for bidden to attend. There is normal ly no interference with Berliners moving between the two parts of the city. Since early this month, the Communists have required West Germans on visits here to get a special pass to go into East Berlin. Delvis R. Battise Funeral services for Delvis Reese Battise, 21, of Riddle will be held later this week in Livingston, Tex as. He was killed Saturday in an automobile accident on Highway 99 BR south of the Green bridge. He had lived in Riddle for the past two years, coming from Livingston where he was born Jan. 27, 1939. He was a member of the Tri-City Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his father, Os car Battise of Livingston; three brothers, Daniel and Oscar Jr. both of Chicago, and Revis of Houston, Tex.; and eight sisters- including Mrs. Calvin Poncho of Riddle. Local arrangements were in charge of Ganz Mortuary, Myrtle Creek. Margaret L. Leffler Funeral services for Margaret L. Leffler, 17, of Grants Pass, who was killed early Saturday morning in an auto accident on Highway 99 near Quines Creek Bridge, will be held later this week at Ihe L. B. Hall Funeral Home in Grants Pass. The body was shipped to Grants Pass Sunday by Gam Mortuary of Myrtle Creek. Anna M. Williams Anna May Williams. 74. died Saturday at a Salem Hospital fol lowing a prolonged illness. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later by Wilson's Chapel of the Roses. 'Get-Together Planned I A get-together of all Melrose Camp Fire Girls, Blue Birds and their mothers is planned for Wed nesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Melrose Community Church. To be a Blue Bird a girl must be 9-years old or in the second grade. All prospective members and their mothers are urged to attend, reports Nettie Woodruff, corre spondent. Leaders are needed and anyone wishing to help is invited to attend or call Mrs. Carrol Friend at 3-8663. Refreshments will be served. EAGLES AERIE NO. 1497 Attention REVISION OF BY-LAWS Tues. Sept. 27, 8 pm Fla Atttnd This Meeting To Benefit o Your Aerie Harvey J. Jones Secretary Earthy Cough Interrupts Voice From Outer Space LONDON (AP) A spokesman for the British Flying Saucer So ciety said today ihat before the Soviets or anyone else try to put a man on a planet they'd bet ter get the planet's permission. "We've been informed by the cosmic masters," said William Mayhew in an interview, "that earth men will not be allowed to Demo Candidates On Coastal Trip TILLAMOOK (AP) A cara van of Democratic office seekers leaves here today for a trip down the coast in quest of votes for the Nov, 8 election. The tour opened here Sunday with a call by Monroe Sweetland, the Democratic candidate for sec retary of state, for Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield to designate the week Oct. 1-8 as Voter Regis tration Week. Sweetland said that such an ac tion would help the Democrats. Also in the party which has scheduled stops at Hebo, Taft, Depoe Bay, Newport, Walport, Florence, Reedsport and Coos Bay are: Mrs. Maurine Neu bergcr, the Democratic candidate for U. S. senator from Oregon; Thornton, who is seeking re-election; and Marv Owens, candidate for congressman from the 1st District. Ex Gov. Robert D. Holmes, also a member of the tour, is campaigning in behalf of Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass., the Democratic presidential nominee. Famed Aviatrix May Be Suicide NEW YORK (AP) Ruth Row land Nichols, 59, world famous flier, was found dead in her apart ment Sunday. Her body was found by the apartment house superintendent after an aunt of Miss Nichols, Polly Haines, said she had been unable to ireach the former flier by telephone. Police said the cause of death would not be known until a medi cal examination was completed. They listed her death as a possi ble suicide. Miss Nichols, who was a society girl, was regarded with the late Amelia Earhart as one of the pio neering women in American avia tion. Miss Nichols' latest achieve ment was in 1958 when she claimed women's records by fly in? an Air Force jet faster than 1.000 miles an hour at an altitude of 51.000 feet at the Suffolk Coun tv Air Force Base on Long Island, New York. Firs Meeting Slated Residents of Fisher Road, Del Rio Road, Garden Valley and Ridgewood will hold a meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Riversdale School. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss rural fire protection. Cliff Thrasher, assistant fire chief at Roseburg Rural Fire De partment and Douglas County fire defense chief, will be Ihe speaker. Representatives of various fire in surance'eompanies will be present. "THOROUGH CLEAN" WALL TO WALL RUG CLEANING SERVICE "Town or Country" Coll . E. 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King went into a yogi trance and said a Martian spoke through him. He recorded the message purportedly from Mars. The mes sageapparently directed at the leaders of East and West was broadcast through the convention The delegates listened in re spectful silence as the "master on Mars" said: "Unless much ground is ' given by both sides alike" v Here the spokesman was inter rupted by what sounded like a very earthy cough. Delegates were unable to say if the cough was King's or the Martian's. , "If you go on as you are at the moment," the voice went on, "fostering suspicion, arguing and boasting about your latest weap ons, then a conflict will most sure ly come." ... , The voice said the conf Uct would take place between 1963 and 1964. Glide Schools Set Open House Principal Calvin Christensen will uj nrun hntis for the Darents ,of the upper elementary students and other parents inieresieu in. we upper elementary curriculum on VnJnaeAvt at 7-W1 n.m. at thfi Glide Junior High building, accord ing to Mrs. Artnur ueiDy, news-ne-view correspondent. Prininal ChristpnKpn will onen the assembly of all parents with a taiK On SCnOOl urgaiUAauuu. rui- lowing the close of the speech, the narantc will fnllnw thp Schedule (if the students in 10-minute periods . ... JL. I 1.. 1? U conducted oy ine lauuuy. .ai-u teacher will explain how he is teaching and the material covered. Refreshments will be served in the high school multi-purpose room. Programs Discussed At the regular monthly meeting of the Roseburg Insurance Women held in the banquet room of The Broiler, plans were discussed for welfare and education programs for the coming year. It was reported that Janice Ken wisher has been appointed regional chairman of group insurance for NAIW. It was decided the next monthly meeting will be a break fast meeting at the home of Betty Moore. Seventeen members attended the meeting. 2 Gal. With Evtry New Radiator Cori Installed ZUCK'S UNITED RADIATOR SERVICE 450 N. E. Gordon Valley Blvd. OR 24971 Rei. OR 3-4690 Don't Forget Your FIRE EQUIPMENT Other liiai Its In track CAMP NEEDS! Permanent' Anti-Free C7
