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Kasavubu Returns To Congo
To Set Visit Of MM Group
Food Prices
Take Jump
In October
WASHINGTON (AP) Living
costs rose four-tenths of one per
cent in October to hit another
peak.,
Nearly half ths increase was
attributed to hither food prices
but practically every element of
consumer expenditures advanced.
The government index rose to
127.3 per cent of the 1947-49 aver
age. This is 1.4 per cent higher
than a year ago.
The October increase was the
largest since last April. The index
increased in eight of the first 10
months of 1960.
The new cost increase will
bring a pay boost of two cents
an hour to approximately a mil
.lion workers in auto and farm
equipment manufacturing.
About 80,000 other workers in
the farm equipment industry and
in several small aircraft firms
are due a one-cent hourly in
crease. ' -
Under labor contracts, the pay
rates of these workers are ad
justed to changes in the govern
ment index.
The question of whether nearly
.100,000 workers in the iron and
steel industry are due a living cost
adjustment based on the October
index is- being submitted to ar
bitration. The matter is in dispute
between the steel industry and the
United Steelworkers Union.
Food prices, which usually de
cline in October, went up instead
by six-tenths of one per cent.
These combined with higher
prices for new cars, higher rents
and other housing costs, and in
creased prices for women's and
girls' apparel to send the October
price level to the record. Medical
care costs were also up.
Prices of food bought for home
consumption and restaurant meals
both increased. Egg prices rose
nearly 11 per cent in one month to
a level 23 per cent over October
1959.
Prices of most fresh fruits,
tomatoes, pork, milk and bread
also rose. Higher prices for grape
fruit, up 9 per cent, and tomatoes
reflected damage to Florida's
crops by the September hurricane.
Bread prices, up five -tenths
of one per cent in October, have
increased nearly 5 per cent in the
last year.
Introduction of 1961 models
raised prices of new cars 4'4 per
cent.
However, new cars are selling
2.2 per cent below the prices for
new 1960 models at this time a
year ago.
Although medical care con
tinued its steady increase in Octo
ber, prices of prescriptions and
drugs averaged six-tenths of -one
per cent lower.
Yule Meditation
Series Commences
Today, the annual series of
Christmas meditations start in
The News-Review. They will
continue until Christmas day.
The series is prepared by
members of the Roseburg Min
isterial Association. Each day
a different minister will draw
meanings from the Scriptures.
The first of these is written by
the Rev, George Knox, pastor
of the Westside Christian
Church. It appears on page 3.
Subsequent Scripture lessons
will appear on the editorial
, page.
Nation's Holiday Accident Toll
Hits 209; Highways Claim Many
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic I48
Fires ?5
Miscellaneous 1 38
Total 209
Traffic deaths, the nation's No.
1 accident killer, brought tragedy
to many homes Thanksgiving Day,
traditional hoUday for family re
unions. ,
The traffic death toll, in Ihe
first period of the extended week
end holiday, mounted to 148. Many
of the accidents claimed lives in
multiple numbers. So did fires.
In addition to the traffic fatalities,
other violent deaths included 22 in
fires and 29 in miscellaneous type
mishaps. The over-all total was
209.
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Shswan anil Dartial clearing to-
mgnr ana jiraroiy, vw.... "icHiiv Nov
mixed with rain during the l!?,,m".iVH
night and early morning hours. u ,ra",c '"V " 1 r ul""f '"nit. Kiev plan to return to Port
mgnt ana tany """"" J fir" nn 144 kl"ed in mucellane-1 and after the weekend visit.
Mignesr Temp. lair m nours ..... w
Lowest temp, last 24 h""" 34,
Highttt temp, any Nov. 'SS) ... 73 :
Lowest ttmp. any Nov. 55) J
Precis, last 24 hours
Prtcip. from Nov, 1 .-
Precip. faom Sept. 1 .
Exeats from Sept, I ..-
Sunset tonight, 4:41 e-.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:11 a.m.
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UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (AP)
President Joseph Kasavubu of
the Congo was llying nome toaay
to Dreoare his people for the visit
of a political conciliation commis
sion from the United Nations.
Kasavubu left New York Thurs
day night after telling Secretary
General Dag Hammarksjold that
he would let him know within a
week when he was ready for the
commission to come.
Hammarskjold's 18-nation advi
sory committee for the Congo
agreed to wait for word from
Kasavubu before deciding on a
Messiah Chorus
Performance Set
The 11th annual Messiah Festi
val Chorus presentation will be
staged Dec. 11 at the Douglas
County Fairgrounds Community
Building.
The announcement was made to-
day by Robert . Robins who will
direct the chorus this year. He re
places Clarence Trued who direct
ed the chorus for several years.
Trued declined the directing chores
this year because of illness.
Robins, who will the direct the
ISO-voice chorus, has appeared in
ROBERT ROBINS
. , . . leads Messiah
seven local Messiah presentations
as a member of both the chorus
and orchestra and has served as
orchestra director, rehearsal dt
rector and tenor soloist in the past.
He is a native of Salein and a
graduate of Willamette University,
1951, cum lauae. He nas aone graa
uate sludv at Willamette, the Uni
versity of Puget Sound and the
University of Oregon choral work
shops with Roger Wagner and Fred
Waring.
Robins served as director of mil
sic for the Oakland school system
from 1951 to 1953 and came to
Roseburg in the fall of 1953. He is
the vocal music director of the
hitrh school here now.
He is also director of the choir
of St. George s Episcopal Church
directed the Roseburg Choral So
ciety spring concert in 1954 and the
Roseburg Symphony Orchestra
from 1958 to 1960.
JFK's Prophecy
Proves Correct
BOSTON (AP) When a boy
was born today to President-elect
and Mrs. John F. Kennedy,
prophecy of the Massachusetts
senator became a fact.
Last Sept. 9 in Richmond. Calif.,
while he campaigned, Kennedy
explained why his wife was not
with him on the tour.
"My wife is home," he told the
California audience, "and we are
having, a baby, i boy, in Novem
ber."
Four traffic crashes claimed 12
lives, three in each. Eight per
sons perished in two fires, includ
ing four early today in a home in
Pittsburgh's Homewood section.
The other four victims were chil
dren who kist their lives in a fire
in Canastota, N. Y.
Generally fair weather in most
of the country Thursday lured
millions to the highways. But the
National Safety Council said traf
fic on Thanksgiving Day normally
is not as heavy as on other major
holidays.
The council did not make an
estimate of traffic deaths for the
holiday or for the 104 hour period
which started at 6 p.m. (local
time) Wednesday and ends at
midnight Sunday.
But the toll appeared running
I close lo the figure taken by The
Associated Press in a survey for
non-holiday period, extending
over 102 hours Irom 6 p.m.
Wednesday Nov. S until midnight
13. Ihe COUnl Was
ol)8 accidents, lor 1 tuiai 01 iwo.
Jn )ast vcar'f four.day Thanks-
: ,n. houflay weekend, the AP
c(Hlnt wa 445 traffic fatalities. 70
: 3
' 1
! ( t' "' V
if yi i
, !I dead in fires and 135 killed in mis
.!'?! cellancous accidents, a total of
..ll.mvm srrirlnnti. a tnlnl of
Tne '"' h1'd"!r traffic toll
was 4'vl. fires claimed 54 lives
and 118 died in miscellaneous mis-
I haps. The over all total was 626.
new date for making the trip.
The commission includes all
countries with troops in the 20,-Uuu-man
U. N. force in the Congo.
The conciliation group first
planned to leave for the Congo a
week ago but ran into delays.
When the General Assembly voted
Tuesday to seat a delegation head
ed by Kasavubu, it put off the
trip to talk with him first.
The commission's assignment,
under a Sept. 20 resolution of the
General Assembly, is to help
Kasavubu; his rival, deposed Pre
mier Patrice Lumumba; and oth
er Congolese political leaders to
settle their differences.
Kasavubu told the committee the
Congolese people were against the
commission and advised that the
trip be postponed while he pre
pared them psychologically to ac
cept tne group.
Committeemen said they be
lieved Kasavubu's main concern
was to persuade the Congo's army
commander, 'Col. Joseph Mobutu,
to let the commission come in.
Kasavubu himself had been sus
picious of the commission because
seven of its members India, In
donesia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali,
Morocco and the United Arab Re
public favored giving the Congo's
U. N. seat to a delegation sent
by Lumumba. ,
2 Rates Urged
For Insurance
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two organizations of insurance
underwriters have announced an
automobile insurance program
which they say will save money
for safe drivers and increase pre
miums for those with bad driving
records.
The National Bureau of Casual
ty Underwriters and the National
Automobile 'Underwriters Associa
tion said also that the basic ore-
mium for physical damage is be
ing increased an average of 4 per
cent in Oregon. i
But, they added, under the safe
driver program, there will be sav
ings for three out of four Oregon
motorists.
The safe driving plan will work
on a point system. Persons wilh
clear family driving records for
the past three years will qualify
for a maximum premium reduc
tion of 15 per cent. Those with
ona point charged against them
will pay an extra 5 per cent; with
two pomis, an exira so per cent;
with three points an extra 100 per
cent; and with four points an ex
tra 150 per cent.
Points will be- assessed for
chargeable accidents or law viola
tion's. A drunken driving convic
tion win draw three points. So
will hit-run driving. Reckless driv
ing will bring a two-point charge.
V. Dean Musser, Oregon in
surance commissioner, had no
comment on the program. The
state is prohibited from making
any disclosures before its effective
date.
The two insurance rating agen
cies represent some 200 insurance
writing companies.
Cuba Still Seeks
Market For Sugar
NEW YORK (AP) - Cuban
President Osvaldo Dorticos savs
he does not expect Washington's
hostility toward the Castro re
gime to change when John F. Ken
nedy takes over the presidency.
"We are not optimistic about
fhe United States," Dorticos told
New York Times correspondent
Max Frankel. "And we have no
choice."
Frankel. who interviewed Dor
ticos in Havana, wrote that "since
the Cubans consider themselves
largely blameless in the dispute
they have decided against taking
the initiative to improve rela
tions." Cuba has not vet found a mar-
ket for the three million tons of
sugar formerly sold to the United
States.
Dorticos said the Castro govern
ment would be pleased to conduct
"bilateral negotiations" to reonen
me marxet.
He acknowledged that his Job,
like that of every officeholder in
Cuba, .depended entirely upon the
will of Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro. Dorticos said Cuba's switch of
trade to the Communist bloc
was a reaction to "aggressive ac
tions" of the United States.
Wife, Children Visit
Deported Portlander
PORTLAND ( API-Mrs. Hamish
Scott MacKay left Portland Thurs-
1 ay for Vancouver, B.C., to spend
the Thanksgiving Day holiday
witn ner nusnana, wno was de
ported from Portland last week.
MacKay was deported to his
native Canada nn Immigration
Service charges that he was an
alien who once had been a Com
munist. Mrs. MacKay was accompanied
hy hlr 17.vrar.nlri atnnnn Rnn
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day. The Vatican's yellow and
I sold flags were unfurled in hi
honor hut there was no special
, celebration.
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METEOROLOGICAL'
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WEATHERMAN IN SKY This scale drawing shows how
Tiros II is working o better idea of the weather sit
uation in the Uniter States. The cameras on the orbit
ing satellite take pictures of the earth's surface and trans
mit them back to earth where they are evaluated.
State Tax Group
Talks Valuations
Representatives of the slate Taxi
Cohi mission were in Koseburg this
week to discus, with Douglas Coun-
ty Board of Equalization members
Robot Weatherman
Partial Success
WASHINGTON (AP) Govern
ment scientists have handed down
this report card for the new wea
therman satellite, Tiros II:
Excellent in checking . the
earth's heat balance.
So-so in photographing its cloud
cover.
The cloud cover problem cen
ters on the two cameras of the
satellite, which was sent into or
bit Wednesday from Cape Canav
eral, Fla.
The national Aeronautics ana
Space Administration reports
that the small camera is doing
its job well, but the large cam
era isn't.
The small camera takes pic
lures of cloud areas that cover
a square of 75 miles. These
photos, however, need support
from the large camera's photos
to give scientists useful weather
information.
The large cameras snap pic
tures of clouds that cover areas
of 800 miles square. These pin
point the exact locations of the
small photos.
NASA scientists say they are
trying to find out what's wrong
with the large camera and cor
rect it.
But the scientists report (hat
the infrared equipment on Tiros
II is doing its job on checking
heat balance. The equipment pro
vides information on the amount
of reflected sunshine, the amounts
of radiation from the earth and
its atmosphere, and the amount
of visible light reflected back into
space.
Glendale Area Reports
Power-Phone Outage
High wind and rain on Thanks
giving day and snow which Regan
to fall during the night played
havoc with public utilities in the
Glendale, Azalea, Wolf Creek areas
according to Mrs. G. B. Fox, News
Review correspondent;
California - Oregon Power Co.
crews were working Thursday and
today repairing extensive damage
to power lines in the area. Lights
in the Wold Creek area and in
some parts of Glendale were out
for about 4'i hours Thurvlay.
Wind damage to telephone lines
was also severe and California
Pacific Utility Co., was working to
restore service. Most of the dam
age to power and telephone lines
was caused by the wind blowing
trees over the lines.
Bombs Blast Havanna
HAVANA (IP) Ten small
bombs exploowi in widely scrta
ruled areas of Havana during the
night and the crew of a police
patrol car found another bomb
that had not exploded. One man
was injured by the blasts.
The bombings, which occur
nightly. iiKually are attributed to
the anti-Castro underground.
ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1960
Hoy For
Robot
WIDE-ANGLE
TV-CAMERA
COVERS
800 MILE
EARTH AREA
a proposed slate tacnyjse of the
jassossea valuation oi an umuei
" TS', F S.,.
BlUlier X1UIUI1 V1UURII, uu ,iicm-
ber, it was the opinion of the court
tnai to carry out tne proposea as
sessment increase would have a
disastrous effect on the already
depressed state of lumber sales in
tne county.
insurance Michaels. assistant
supervisor of all appraisals in the
state and Wally Eubanks, super
intendent of timber appraisals.
represented the stale commission.
clough went on to point out that
the assessment increase would
have a two-fold effect on the coun
ty economy: (1) It would cause
producers to remove timber from
their own lands, which would re
move that timber from the coun
ty tax rolls; (2) it would also cur
tail sales of government timber,
thereby not carrying out effective
limber management ny allowing
mature trees that should be cut
to stand and eventually decrease
in value by disease or rot.
Clough also pointed out that the
county Eauahzation Board could
only advise the state commission.
The county could have little say
in any assessment change.
An increase in valuation two
years ago is still causing pron-
lems in the county. The Board
of Equalization refused to uphold
a 50 per cent increase ana the
matter was later taken to court.
The court turned down the increase
for 1958, but it was allowed for 1959.
Timber owners were forced to pay
the increase in 1958, but this year
are being given a refund on the in
crease they paid that year.
Rodeo Group Sets
Tentative Contract
Douglas County Rodeo Associa
lion President Bill Tipton and Fair
Manager Dick Turley have reach
ed a tentative agreement for a
contract for the 1961 County rodeo
which both say will help toward
providing one of the best rodeos
in the county's history.
The two' said today they plan to
meet wilh their respective boards
to encourage adoption of the new
contract agreements.
They said the terms they agreed
nn won't be announced until
they've been accepted by the Fair
Board ana rouco Doarn, nut aaura
one of the main clause! was a re
duction in the cost.
Tipton ssid that, "If the changes
in the contract go through as dis
cussed, I feel the public will great
ly benefit from increased flexibility
of the rodeo association to put on
a better rodeo and offer heller
COmracis w maib tup atia auu
performers."
Both men said they were highly
pleased with the cooperative atti
tude of the other.
Their meeting followed on the
heels of the verbal war between
the Fair Board anthe Douglas
Countv llorsemen'f Association
Tuesday night.
Tipton said, "I wish to point out
that the horsemen'a aim is loilai-
i prove facilities for better rodeos
and OClier puuiic paniripitinn 111
hnrse activities at lower costs to
,th public.
Kennedys
F. Jr. Arrives Early;
John
Mother, Son Are Doing Well
WASHINGTON (AP) A 6-pound
3-ounce son with a shock of black
nair was born today to president-
elect and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Radio flashed the news dramati
cally to the father as he was
speeding from Florida to his
wife's bedside. ,
The word changed the grim
look on the president-elect's face
to a happy smile. All he knew
earlier was that his wife, Jacque
line, 31, had been rushed by am
bulance to a Washington hospital
and was undergoing a caesarean
section.
Doing 'Beautifully'
Or. John A. Walsh, the attend
ing physician, said "both mother
and son are doing beautifully."
The baby was delivered at 12:22
a. m. Eastern Standard Time.
Dr. Walsh, back at the hospital
shortly after 9 a.m., reported the
new mother resting very comfort
ably and said the baby is fine.
The physician said Airs. Ken
nedy had not yet seen her son,
occupying an incubator in a nurs
ery about 25 feet down the hall
from her room. He said she might
see him Saturday, depending on
when she can make the wheel
chair trip to the nursery or the
pediatrician will permit the baby
to De Drougnc to ncr.
Incubafor Routine
Hospital authorities said incubn
tor cure for a time is routine in
such cases
Dr. Walsh described Mrs. Ken
nedy as being delighted that the
baby is a boy.
"He s a very gooa-inoKing young
ster." the physician said. "He's a
healthy youngster."
In some disagreements with oth
er descriptions of a shock of black
hair. Dr. Walsh said John Fiti-
0Ainlri .Ti linn a fair nr mnrlGrnte
1 amount of brown hair. He -said.'
the baby's cry is good
Asked if anything risky was in
volved. lr. waisn sain mere is
"always some attendant risk in
the circumstances we had."
Due Dec. 27
The baby was not normally due
until about JJec. ana aoctors atate njgilway Department divi
had planned for delivery Dec. 12, sion offic8 jn Rose,urg,
a procedure described as routine
in caesarean cases.
But the doctor said It started to
Pictures Destroyed
By Secret Service
WASHINGTON (AP) Secret
Service agents today confiscated
camera and destroyed a roll of
film containing pictures of Mrs.
John F. Kennedy being wheeled
from the recovery room of
Georgetown Hospital.
The pictures were made by AP
photographer Thomas F. Free
man, lie was tne tirst pnntograpn
er to reach the hospital after Mrs.
Kennedy'! arrival for birth of her
son.
Upon arrival, he asked an at
tendant where Mrs. Kennedy's
room was and he was directed to
the fourth floor. There he took a
position in an open-doored service
room about 150 feet from the re
covery room. While waiting he
talked with several nurses and
said one brought him a cup of
tea.
When Mrs. Kennedy was
wheeled from the recovery room,
Freeman took three shots before
the Secret Service intervened and
seized his camera. It was re
turned after the film was re
moved.
Freeman was directed to work
from the hospital lobby where he
made pictures at the arrival of
President-elect Kennedy.
'Congressmen By Proxy' Plan
Is Innovation Of Edwin Durno
A "congressman by proxy" on
full-time duty in Oregon s 4th Con
gressional District, is proposed by
Dr. Edwin R. Durno, congressman
elect. Durno, a resident of Medford,
who achieved political victory over
Democratic Congressman Charles
O. Porter In the Nov. 8 election,
was a visitor in Roseburg for a
brief time Wednesday. He is plan
ning (0 leave within a short time
for Washington, where he will as
sume hia official duties. Prior to
his depcrtiiro, however. he is set
ting up a program which he hopes
will assure continued contact Willi
the district and its people.
Arringtmanti Ponding
Within a few riavs, he reports,
hthopes to be able to complete ar
rangements for 1 "proxy congress
man." This man will be paid ex
pense43and salary by Durno. He
will have an office at some con
venient place in the district.
Through the office he will be sub
ject to personal contact at any
timp, although he will spend a
great part of his time traveling
over Ihe district.
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happen "a little sooner than we
had expected so we went ahead
as planned
.The baby is expected to remain
in the incubator another day or
day and a half, and Mrs. Kennedy
may be in the hospital 10 to 14
days. 1
Dr. Walsh said Mrs. Kennedy
was given an inhalation anesthet
ic, Cyclopropane, for the surgery.
He said she had been given intra
venous nourishment but at the
time he spoke she probably was
on her last such feeding.
Kennedy, soon after returning to
Washington, was driven to the
Georgetown Medical Center.
Beamed Happily
He beamed happily as he looked
at his son through a heavy glass
window. Ihe baby lay in an in
cubator in the premature baby
room. He'll be there a day or two
normal procedure for a caesar
ean cases.
After watching his son, Kennedy
spent eight or nine minutes with
his wife and then left the hos
pital. He planned to get some
sleep at his Georgetown home and
return to the hospital by noon.
Named 'Junior1
As he left, he told newsmen the
boy would be named John Fiti
eerald Kennedy Jr.
The babv is the first son fur
the president-elect and his wife.
Their daughter, Caroline, will be
3 on Sunday.
When Kennedy arrived at his
home, he told newsmen he had
found his wife awake and had
talked with her. "She is fine," he
said. Asked about his son, Ken
nedy said, "He is fine, loo."
Slides Block
County Roads
Both Highway 38 and Highway
42 from interior Douglas county to
the coast are being plagued by
slides and high water, reports the
Highway 38, from Drain (0
Reedspoi t, has had a slide east of
Reedsport, but it is not serious
enough to impair traffic move
ment. Highway 42, however, has been
closed between Coquille and Myr
tle Point. High water is expected
to crest sometime near noon. The
Highway Department said it is not
known when the road will again
be opened to traffic.
County utilities were also hav
ing some trouble! because of the
storm.
The California Oregon Power Co.
reports it has had some trouble in
the Toketee, Rock Creek and Little
River areas wilh lines being knock
ed down by falling trees and snow.
The Parific Telephone and Tel
egraph Co. reports some cable
damage having occurred by the
storm, however, damage is slight
and only a little more than usual
at this time of the year.
Service was cut off for a lime
early today in the Glide and Little
River areas, apparently as the re
sult of trees falling across power
and telephone lines, reports cor
respondent Mrs. Arthur Selby. She
said two inches of snow had fallen
last night and today in the Glide
area.
Douglas Electric Co-operative re
ports slides in several locations
have taken out power poles and
that winds along the coast have
caused some damace to lines from
fullintf trnos nnrl Tirnnphna rrhnv
atate outages due to the damage
that repairs are presently under-
way.
He will visit each major city on
schedule and also will make fre
quent visits to smaller communit
ies, he said. It will be the practice,
Durno said, to give advance notice
of the time when the local repre
sentative will be present. People
then will have an opportunity to
discuss problems, ideas and opin
ions with Ihe representative who,
in turn, will keep the congress
man Informed by telephone and let
ter of the needs and thinking of the
people of the district.
Ports Eyed
Durno suys he also is contact
ing each of the 16 port commis
sions in the district and is setting
up a meeting wilh each. The
commissions will furnish him his
torical information on each port,
together with an outline of needs.
He plans, he rcf) ts, to devote con
siderable energy to the task of ob
taining port and harbor improve
ment in the district as a means
of creating better industrial possi
bilities. Tin need lo develop coast
al ports, Durno said, is evident in
any study of the stale's industrial
potential.
Rainfall Hits
Six Inches
In 48 Hours
Ark builders can put away their
hammers, at least for the pres
ent. The rains which have pounded
Douglas County for the past two
days seem to be abating and the
rivers are now falling after hav
ing crested early this morning.
Heavy rains Wednesday and
Thursday raised river and stream
levels throughout the county, but
by Thursday evening the rain has
changed to snow in the higher ele
vations and the freezing level had
dropped to 1,300 feet to slow the
runoff of rain into the rivers.
Upwards of six inches of rain
fell on parts of Douglas County.
The rain guuge at the Little River
station recorded 6.11 inches in 't ie
48-hour period ending at 7 this
morning.
A kayak tlio down the swollen
South Umpqua River proved more
man two corvallis youths had bar
gained for, and ended with them
being fished out of the water about
noon Thanksgiving day.
Dale Story, 18. and Clifford
Thompson, 21, both of CorvaUis,
put their craft into the river at
the Dillard bridge and were pro
ceeding in fine shape down river ;
until they came to the dam in the ,
vicinity of the Fairgrounds.
There the kayak was capsized,
and the two floated downstream
hanging onto the craft. They had
life jackets.
Report came to the State police
who notified the city police and
fire department. The firemen put
in a boat at Templin Beach and
rescued the men after they were
able to swim to high ground along
the west shore.
The two youths were to have been
picked up by Thompson's father
at the Oak Ave. bridge.
They were none the worse for
wear, but cold and "scared," they
told officers.
The Upper Olalla station report
ed a 5.40 inch 48-hour rainfall and
nourney valley had 4.58 inches.
Other twenty-four hour totals for
the period were Elkhead. 2.45:
Winchester, 2.15; Lookingglass Val-
ley, 1.98: Kellogg, 2.81: and Drain.
1 2.35. The niddle station reported
that 1.08 inches of rain had fallen
from 6 p.m. Thursday to 8 this
morning.
The weather bureau at the Rose
burg airport recorded 2.18 inches
of rain Wednesday and 2.19 inches
for the period ending at 10 a.m.
today for a 48-hour total of 4.37.
The record rainfall in Roseburg for
a 24-hour period is 3.94 set in Octo
ber of 1950.
Despite the' heavy- rains, there
appeared to be no danger of flood
ing. The heavy downpour swelled
the rivers and streams greatly,
but most seemed to be well below
flood stage.
Closest to overflowing its banks
was Cow Creek at Riddle.
The stream reached 17.25 feet
early (his morning. Flood stage is
18 feet. The station at Brockway
on Lookingglass Creek reported a
high of 14.25 feet at 5:45 this morn
ing. Flood stage is 18 feel.
The station at Winston on ihn
South Umpqua River reported the
river nad swelled to 19.98 feet, five
feet below flood stage. The Soutli
Umpqua in Roseburg was 4.40 feet
below flood stage with a crest of
17.60 reported at 8 this morning.
The North Umpqua at Winches
ter crested at 14.03 feet, four feet
below flood stage, at 1 a.m. to
day. By 8 a.m. the river had fall
en to 12.95 as the rains slowed.
While Douglas County was hav
ing heavy rains, the rest of the.
state was also experiencing t he
downpour. In North Bend 4.39 Inch
es of rain fell in a 24-hour period
ending at 4:30 a.m. today. Port
land had 2.12 for the same pe
riod and Salem had 2.17.
Eugene recorded 6.43 inches of
rain in a 48-hour period ending at
10 this morning. Traffic in the Em
erald Empire city was moving at a
snail's pace as streets throughout
the city were flooded.
The weather forecast for Satur
day shows some relief is due as
partial clearing is predicted. The
five-day forecast, however, calls
for more tnan normal precipita
tion. Rain mixed with snow is pre
dicted for western Oregon during
the five day period while eastern
Oregon will have scattered snow
1 flurries.
After being thoroughly "brief
ed" on the needs of the several
ports, said the congressman-elect,
he will Initiate efforts looking to
ward projected development and
will be kept Informed by his "eyes
and cars," as he termed the local
representative he Is to select soon,
on further requirements for ex
pansion. Senator Kennedy's near
microscopic margin of victory
for president, despite the cam
paign detriment of Truman,
the Missouri meddler, deserves
inscription in baseball'! Hall
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizensteirt
!of Fame ai the greateit
, tfuceie play of record.
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