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Number 7 Becomes Symbol
Of Tradegy On U. S. Roads
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Number 7 became symbol
of tragedy on the nation'i high
ways iq the past 1U days.
Three families were virtually
wiped out in four accidents, each
of which killed seven persons.
Twenty of the 28 victims were
children. Four were mothers.
. Viewing the multiple-dealh-deal-ing
crashes, the National Safety
Council issued a safe driving
warning for motorists who will
set out Thursday on a Thanksgiv
ing holiday that for some may last
fuur days. .Most fatal accidents
Stabbing Count
Holds Author
NEW YORK (AP)-Author Nor
man Mailer, 37, whose latest book
is "Advertisements for Myself,"
has been arrested on a charge of
slabbing his wife, Adele, during
a party in their Manhattan apart
ment. Mrs. Mailer, 35. in critical con
dition with a knife wound in the
stomach and one in the back, told
police: "He didn't say anything.
He just looked at me. He didn't
say a word. He stabbed me."
Mailer had a penknife when de
tectives arrested him Monday
night when he arrived at Univer
sity Hospital to visit his wife. He
was booked on a charge of feloni
ous assault.
He refused to discuss the stab
bing with newsmen. Later, his at
torney, John Cox, told detectives
that when . he conferred ' with
Mailer he had ''encountered dif
ficulty in talking" with him.
Police quoted Mrs. Mailer as
saying her husband had "homi
cidal tendencies" and that his
family had been trying to perJ
...suade him to see a psychiatrist.
Mrs. Mailer showed up at the
hospital about 8 a. m. Sunday,
three hours after the 'stabbing. She
first told doctors she had slipped
at a party and fallen on broken
glass. They doubted the story and
notified nolice. After an emergen
cy operation she told officers of
the standing.
It was the second time in eight
days that Mailer had been ar
rested. A week ago Monday he
was arrested at Birdland, a jazz
nightclub, on a disorderly conduct
charge after he argued with the
management over a $7.60 bill. A
hearing Was scheduled today.
Last June. Mailer, acting as his
own counsel, was found guijty of
drunkenness by a rrovincetown,
Mass., judge. Mailer was acquit
ted, however, on a charge of rude
and disorderly conduct.
Johnson Named
Portland Chief
PORTLAND (AP) David H.
Johnson. 50. was named Port
land's new police chief by Mayor
Terry Schrunk Monday.
Johnson, a deputy chief for
three years, had been acting chief
since the death of William Hil-
bruner from a heart attacK jnov.
12.
Johnson has been with the police
bureau since 1936 except for World
War II service and three years
with the Jr Bl.
occur near home, the council said,
where most drivers will be oper
ating during the Thanksgiving
holidays.
Last of the large-toll accidents
occurred Monday in Toltec, Ariz.,
when a Southern Pacific freight
train sliced into an automobile at
a crossing. The collision dragged
the auto a half-mile, killing Anna
belle Martin, 30; her son and
daughter, aged S and 3; Mrs.
Kalph Jewel. 26: her two sons.
aged 3 and 15 months, and Ben
jamin Martin, 37, Mrs. Martin's
brother-in-law.
Only hours earlier, searchers
near Eugene, Ore., found the
bodies of a family of seven in
Dexter Lake. Authorities said
Howard R. Lemons. 39: his wife,
35; and their five children appar
ently drowned Sunday when their
auto slid past a guard rail into
the lake during a rainstorm. Their
car was submerged, the family
inside.
Mrs. John Eastman Monday at
tended funeral services for her
husband, a Presbyterian minister,
and their six children in Leiston,
Minn. She was attending a school
play Friday night when the Rev.
Mr. Eastman bundled the children
into the family car and set out
for a friend s home. The car
slammed into a bridge abutment
and all were killed.
The first in the series of acci
dents claiming seven lives was
Nov. 11, when Richard Chidester,
29; his wife. 25; her mother and
four of their children were
crushed to death by a. semi-trailer
truck in Illinois, The family was
returning from Aurora. 111., to
their home in Elburn, 111., after
visiting'Tommy Chidester, l,,in a
hospital. Tommy is the sole-survivor.
'
The fatal streak of 7s was bro
ken Monday when a two-car crash
in Iowa took four lives, Roland D.
Potter. 29. of Carlisle, Iowa; his
wife, Patricia Ann. 29; their son,
Steven. 5. and Roland Dean-Price,
21, of Hartford, Iowa, were the
victims.
Oregon Race Row
May Be In Offing
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon's
big test on racial problems may
still be coming, Miller A. r.
Ritchie, president of Pacific Uni
versity.! warned Monday night.
"Comnared to other areas there
has been no explosive clash of
state law and national law here,
no great influx ol any one
class or Broun of people and no
Harlem," Ritchie told the Urban
Leaeue.
But much of Oregon's growth
is still to come, and that may be
when problems arise, he said.
He also said there were dan
gers in suburbia.
"You set socio-economic strati
fication when houses are all
priced the same. In many towns
youngsters will never have the
chance to no to school with the
rich, middle - income, and poor
famines," he said.
Ritchie also deplored the school
situation in the South.
"In various parts of the South
private schools are growing up,
and some leaders in the South
think the Christian school is the
best hope against desegregation,"
he said, adding that he consider
ed that a "terrible thing" and a
misuse of Christian principles.
Congo Missionaries
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DR. AND MRS GENE JOHNSON ore in Roseburg visiting the latter's grandmother, Mrs.
Anno B. Nicks6n, 1035 Nash St. after o harrowing experience in the Congo on mission
ary work. They were there at the outbreak of the Congo crisis. Shown ore, left, Mrs.
Nickson, David, 5, Mrs. Johnson, Dr. Johnson and Ronald, 3. (Andy Fa.utheree)
Congo Crisis Incidents Are Still Fresh
In Minds Of Missionaries Visiting Here
By ANDY FAUTHEREE
News-Review Staff Writer
.being used to communicate with
a plane circling over the station's
While latest reports on the Con- airstrip.
i situation 1 Kiill hiiihlipht thol The soldiers circled the airstrin
and camp and confiscated every
thing that even looked like a com
munications radio, including a tape
recorder. Because the soldiers
were from another province and
newspapers and other media, the
memory of the neginmng ot mat
crisis is still fresh in the minds
of a missionary couple and their
two sons who are now staying in
Koseourg.
Dr. and Mrs. Ciene Johnson, stay
ing with the latter's grandmother.
Mrs. Anna B. Nickson, 1035 Nash
St. in Roseburg, were in the Congo
when the crisis first developed.
At Missionary Station
The two, together with their two
sons, Ralph, -5, and Ronald, 34
were at Monieka missionary station
in Equator Province in the Congo
at the time.
On July 4. while preparing to
leave the Congo after three years
there, they heard tne first reports
trickling in over the radio telling
of the uprising. . ..
The foursome left Monieka' July
9 and went to nearby Boende mis
sionary station where they were to
catch an airplane to Leopoldville.
Upon arrival, they soon found that
planes were not tiying.on scneauie,
but were hauling out evacuees.
Worsening
July 11 saw things getting worse
in the Congo. On this day, Congo
lese soldiers came to the mission
aries and held them, together with
others of the station, at gun point.
The Congolese were looking for ra
dio equipment they thought was
did not speak the local language,
the missionaries could not reason
with them. '
Mrs. Johnson states that thev
kept clicking the safeties on their
rules on ana oti threatening them.
But she believes they were not ac
tually loaded or otherwise they
probably would have started shooting.
Finally Leave
The soldiers finally left, only to
come back several more times and
make more searches. The nlane.
they believed, held Belgian para
troopers and they were hoping it
would land so they might confis
cate it. Actually, it was only an
evacuee plane.
Tuei., Nov. 22, 1960 The New$-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3
Roseburg C. Of C. Group Urges
TPoint Plan For Street Parking
Dick Smith, representing the
parking committee of the Roseburg
Chamber of Commerce's trade de
velopment division, presented a
seven-point program, of recom
mended objectives at the division
meeting Monday noon in the UniD-
qua Hotel.
He advised that the committee
would work officially with Uie Rose
burg City Council and the city
administration for approval and
action. The points recommended
were:
1. Complete the "Courtesy Park
ing Tickets." for out-of-state autos,
already approved in general by
the city administration, and got ed the provisions of (he Bancroft
burg where they are now staying
uniu ov. zy.
Mrs. Johnson, whose first Tin me
is Suo, is a native of Roseburg.
having attended Roseburg High
School. She met Dr. Johnson in
Eugene where lie was studvine to
be a missionary.
They went to Indiana in 1951
where Dr. Johnson attended the
University of Indiana medical
school and Mrs. Johnson attended
Butler University. .She received a
Bachelor of Science degree in ele
mentary education and went on to
attend Butler seminary..
They went to Panama In 1955
where Dr. Johnson studied for his
internship. The eldest son, Ralph,
was born here.
In 195ff, they came back to the
United states and took a four
month course- in French at Yale
University.
The Johnsons- then went to Brus
sels where they studied more
French and took a tropical medi
cine course. Ronald was born here.
SoIonsSayNo
To Cabinet Post
WAKHlMr.TfW fAPA Bonol-
study says there is no place in'
U.S. governmental machinery for
a "first secretary" to aid the pres
ident. Proposals which 'were considered
would provide for such a secretary
out ranking -other Cabinet mem
bers and supervising major oper
ations of the government.
"The president of the United
States cannot be relieved of his
burdens by supplying -him with
a 'deputy' to do what only he can
do," said a staff report from the
Senate subcommittee on national
policy-making machinery.
Its chairman. Sen. Henry M.
Jackson, D-Wash., expressed the
personal view that creation of the
new post might add to (lie presi
dent's . policy making burdens
rather than reducing them.
President Eisenhower has been
expected to recommend some such
proposal as part of his promised
plan for reorganizing the govern
ment. The idea came from New
York Gov. nelson A. Rockefeller.
who headed a presidential advis
ory committee on the subject.
Jackson issued his personal
statement in making public Mon
day night the report of his sub
committee staff. But his position
as Democratic national chairman
gives at least some indication that
his views coincide with those of i
rresident-elect John F. Kennedy.
Rockefeller had suggested that a
first secretary could exercise del
egated presidential auinnrity on
all national security affairs "at
the prime ministerial level."
The staff study said such a plan
Wttuld appear at' first glance to
lighten the load on the president.
But it saia putting a nrsi score
them in use.
2. Change the time limit for park
ing' on SS Jackson St. from one to
two hours, as it is felt no one can
do a reasonable amount of shop
ping or other business in one hour.
Yellow and red head metered spac
es accommodate the short-slop
parker.. '
3. Install "bumper to bumper"
parking in at least one block on a
trial basis. If this substantially in
creases the flow of traffic on Rose
burg's narrow streets, than all me
tered streets should be changed to
this system.
'4. Place in a reserve fund for
off-street parking facilities from
parking meter revenues the sum
of $12,000 each year for the next
two fiscal yeiirs, and $20,000 per
year thereafter, so that additional
off-street facilities may be obtain
ed wherever it is deemed neces
sary. (The 1959 Legislature extend-
Vote Fraud Charge
To Get Legal Test
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - Renubli
can demands for investigation of
what they claim was fraud in
counting Texas' presidential voles
headed today for a legal test in
District Court.
State GOP officials, still hop
ing they may be able to swing Tex
as' 24 electorial votes to Richard
M. Nixon from John F. Kennedy,
protested sharply when Atty. Gen.
Will 'Wilson refused to grant an
immediate statewide investigation
but agreed to a lest court inquiry
into the balloting in Wichita County.
Wilson said he felt he was
"leaning over backwards" to give
the Republicans a court test of
their claim that irregularity and
apparent inconsistency in tossing
out ballots in the presidential race
constituted fraud.
Bond Act to parking facilities.)
5. Give consideration to perime
ter facilities for the all-day work
er in the central business district.
Their needs merit solution, and in
a manner which will (1) remove
them from competition with the
shopper for space, and (2) prevent
deterioration of adjacent residen
tial values due to on-slreet all
day parking congestion.
6. bnact an ordinance to require
off-sli-cct facilities in connection
with new construction on vacant
lots (or razed buildings) in the cen
tra I business district.
7. After everything lias been dono
to make parking convenient, push
a concentrated education program
to bring this to the motorists at
tention, explaining any controls
which are necessary and calling
attention to off-street and on-slreet
areas which only have minimum
use. Tris will result in more)
acceptance of Roseburg as a retail
trade center for the area.
The ultimate objectives for the
Chamber of Commerce and the
community should be: (1) Parking
anywhere in Roseburg should be,
easy, and (2) customer parking
should be provided as a pail ot
the sales price of cither mer
chandise or service, the committee
pointed out.
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Church Official Denies
San Juan Vote Charge
CHICAGO (AP) The archbish
op of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has
flatly denied that Roman Catho
lics in that country will be pun
ished for disobeying a church ori
der on voting in a national elec
tion. The Most Rev. James P. Davis
in a statement Monday night said
sacraments would not be withheld
from Catholics who defied church
instructions to vote against Gov.
Luis Munoz Marin's Popular Dem
ocratic party in the Nov. 8 elec
tion. Marin's paiiy swept the elec
tion. His statement followed a report
that the Catholic woman mayor
of San Juan, Felisa de Gauthier,
was ordered by ,ber pastor to do
public penance before she can re
ceive Communion because of the
way she voted.
Archbishop .Davis, in Chicago
I for a meeting of the Catholic
Church Extension Society, said his
I statement covers all three dioces
es in the church's Puerto Rico
' province San Juan, Ponce and
i Arecibo.
SERVICE SCHEDULED
1 A Thanksgiving worship service
will be held at Faith Lutheran
i Church Thursday at 10 a.m. The
junior and senior choirs will pre
sent the anthem. Members and
friends are reminded that the an
, nual clothing drive for Lutheran
1 World Relief ends that day.
the station, they took Dr. Johnson
to their nearby headquarters for
interrogation. The soldier's super
iors realized he was only a mis
sionary doctor and had no connec
tion with the uprising and released
him. . . , .,
Paratroopers In Command
Only July 15, the Johnsons flew
from isoende with otner evacuees
to Leopoldville airport.' Mrs. John
son states that at this time Belgian
paratroopers were in control of
the airport and the road leading
into Leopoldville and other white
territories.
The American Embassy there
picked them up in a car and took
them to a boat where they crossed
the' Congo River to Brazzerville.
Here, they were to catch a sched
uled flight to Brussels. As before
though, no scheduled planes were
flying.
Injured Priest
On Juiy 16, two days after they
arrived at Brazzerville, they heard
of another evacuee plane making
a flight to Brussels. Upon inquiry,
thev found that the plane would
onlv take women and children and
some wounded. Among these evac
uees -were several Catholic priests
who had been injured in the fight
ing and a. number of nuns. When
the pilot found out Johnson was a
doctor, he gladly permitted him to
leave with Mrs. Johnson and the
children.
The Johnsons arrived In Brus
sels only one day later than they
had planned and were able to take
a two-week tour of Europe they
had previously scheduled.
To Switzerland
On the tour, their first slop was
in Switzerland where they bought
an automobile. From there, they
went to southern France, Italy,
Austria. Germany and Holland. In
Holland, they shipped the car to
New York and left for Edinbor-
ough, Scotland to attend a week
long world convention of Christian
churches
On July 11, they arrived in New
York and went to Dr. Johnson s
parents home in Casper, Wyo. Aft
er a visit there, they came to Rose-
bie, Congo for a six months Con- Cabinet members "would incvit-
golese language course and on to amy generate lriclion ana resent-
tne Monieka Missionary station. ' men,t.
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