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Newspaper Page Text17, of 0. library Eugene , Oregon 1,0.1:0 mm rui nl for Please Turn Me Loose From i mi-m "j it s isuun v ri J K t '" :; '"n V ! : Mill m DON'T FENCE ME IN Roseburg City Police Sergeont Sam Gosso helped point out the city's new jail facilities for The News-Review camera today by locking patrolman Lyle Wescott in the main cell. The city police staVted booking prisoners into the new jail last weekend and ore now holding all persons sentenced to serve jail terms for misdemeanors .ot this jail. All women prisoners and men convicted of felonies will serve their sentences at the county jail unless sentenced specifically to the state institutions. In addition to the main section which accommodates from 12 to 20 prisoners, the new jail includes a maxi mum security cell and a "drunk tank." The city jail is located in the new police and fire deportment building at the corner of SE Rose St. and SE Lane Ave. (News-Review Photo) w mm n lounai postpones Buagei Action Pending Meet Vifh Budget Group The Roseburg City Council Mon day night declined to accept a recommendation lor allocation ot funds from a S44.995.20 supplement al budget submitted by City Man ager John Warburton and voted instead to call the entire city Budget Committee in for a special meeting to discuss the recom mendations. The council, led by Councilman T en West, voted to include the en tire Budget Committee in on this decision Decause me iunus which 1H he included in the supple mental budget could possibly be rarrieH over as a surplus into the next year's operation. The Budget Commute Dad Deen cancn u uu tend last night's meeting, but only one member appeared. Warburton based his recom mendation on what he called "ileum the citv needs right now.' He said they were for the most part items which in one way or anotner were trimmea iroiu t- n c original budget for this year or which would be taken care of through state-earmarked funds. Earmarked Of the nearly $45,000 total, $9,- 800 of the supplemental budget is earmarked by state law for street maintenance or purchase of sup plies or materials for the public woi'KS aepanmem, which is hi charge of. the street projects. This money comes from the state gaso line tax refunds. Another $2,800, from the state liquor lax refunds, is earmarked for police department use. War burton recommended that all funds received through these taxes be spent by the two departments. These extra tax refunds were due to an incorrect original census count in the city. The correction was made alter the budget had been passed and these funds were not included., The remaining 112,395.20 came from underestimation of revenues to the city. Of this amount, $12, 200 came from engineering fees from the previous year which were not paid until the projects in ques tion had been carried through in tne Bancroft (sen-liquidating oy property ' owners ) procedure. The second largest extra income Hem on me supplemental ouaget was franchise fees, totalling $6, 500, which figured largely on ex tra fees derived by the city from annexation of the East Roseburg area.. . . The airport revenue was $4,700 He's Always Floored On Basketball Floor Lightning doesn't strike twice, or so they say, but Ray Karcher, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Karcher of South Deer Creek Road, is wondering if the fates aren't against him when it comes to play ing basketball. The Glide High School student Monday injured his wrist exten sively enough during basketball practice that he had to have a doctor's care and the wrist placed in a cast. A year ago at the start of basket ball season he broke his arm and was out for the season, according to Jean Radcliffe, Dixonville cor respondent. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday. Intermittent light rain, net much temperature change. Vightit temp, last 34 hour 47 Lowttt hmp. last 34 heurs 34 Highest ttmp. any Nov. CSS) .... 73 Lowest Hmp. any Nov, ('55) .. i IS Prtcip. last 34 hours 0 Prtcip. from Nov. 1 1.50 Precip. from Sept. 1 10. M Exceit from Sept. I 2.2V Sunset tonight, 4:3 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:24 a.m. iii arm m above the anticipated amount. This included a $4,200 payment from the state Board of Aeronau tics to pay for paving the ramp at the airport. Warburtonrecom mended that alj $4,700 be spent improving the airport. Revenues from the golf course had been estimated at $3,000 but ended up topping the $8,000 mark. The city manager recommended that $2,300 be spent at the golf course and that the remainder go for picnic and playground facili ties and sprinkling systems at the city's parks. Another $3,995.20 came from miscellaneous sources. This in cluded 3,400 "t unspent tnsuraece proceeds from the Aug. 7, 1959, blast, i But what the blast gave, it took away, as the city's state Industrial Insurance program cost was lip ped $4,000. Warburton asked that this increase be paid from the $44, 900 supplemental budget funds. Other department - by depart ment expenditure, recommenda tions he made were for $350 for the city manager's office, $2,900 for the city clerk, $2,000 for new street and traffic lights, $1,650 for Freight Train Hits Loaded School Bus LAMONT, Alia. (AP) A Cana dian National Railways train struck a loaded school bus here today and a school official said about half the 32 children aboard were killed. The crash came In subzero weather at a grade crossing a quarter mile from the railroad station of Lamont, 45 miles north east of Edmonton, Alberta's capi tal. Harry Sharuk, chairman of the Lamont School Board, gave the estimate that half the children died. Others were injured. The wreckage was carried down the track into the town itself and the victims were strewn along the right-of-way. Frank Butney, driver of the bus, survived. M. Woycenko, secretary-treasurer of the school division, said the train a through freight struck the bus "smack in .the middle." He said the students were main ly from the Chipman district, 10 miles southeast of Lamont. They attended grades 10, ' 11 and 12. Demonstrations Feared COLOMBO, Ceylon (AP) A state of emergency may be de clared in western Ceylon Wednes day to prevent possible Roman Catholic demonstrations, a relia ble source said today. A new law transferring control of private schools to the state Frank Morgan, Roseburg divi goes into effect . Thursday and sion engineer, said hospitals, government officials fear violent schools, police and news media demonstrations by Catholics, the I had been forewarned of the explo source said. sions to be made. Four Major The revival of hopes for four major Roseburg project! took the spotlight at meeting of the Chamber of Commerce's Civic De velopment Division in the L'mpqua Hotel. They are Roseburg's couplet sys tem and Washington Ave. bridge, a new National Guard Armory and a community College. Summer 'U Finish City Manager John Warburton, a member of one of the division committees, reported bids will acain be opened Dec. ( on the couplrt, and the state Highway De- Calaboose V " "' i. i'ii V,V , II""" ltlli", ,lll'" inn" (Hum iiini mdiii iihiii niMiri mm: Kill (III lllll till lllll III) tlllt IIIH lint (III Milt lllll Hill in nun' ',',' I.. "tii- III iiu'V III lllll" III .lilllll iiiiit .MM K III. Ill mini iMII'l iii Hunt in urn Illli nun! mini HMiiii Ml. 'lilllll mint. in. mini .miiiii I" lilllll MIHH, iii mint Hum in 11111,1 (i,ml, " 'mm, iiift'.i lilllll. iiiiiii IlltlUI lilllll until Mill Mi I ti.ii ..'I until .'.'I. ,'Mi. ' .'.i..,iir,'ii.iiiiV.'i i iV i ,,.! i V.i V.inV' tl," .'Hi.'! 'U WW m m m i'the fire department, $3,500 for the sewer service fund and $500 in miscellaneous expenditures. Riots Continue In Venezuela CARACAS. Venezuela IAP1 Strict security measures were en. forced by troops today as Presi dent Romulo Betancourt's moder ate Socialist government moved to crush leftist rioting that has rased since Friday. me rioting, apparently inspired by admirers of Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba, resulted in one person being killed Monday. Altogether four have been killed since the start. Scores have been injured and up to 200 are reported in jail. Confined to Caracas The rioting so far has been con fined to Caracas, capital of this oil-rich nation. Riot leaders have directed their fiercest attacks on police stations. Authorities had a free hand un der a suspension of civil guaran tees. Army, navy and air force com manders made a special trip to the presidential palace to pledge support to Betancourt, a pipe smoking intellectual who has tried to steer Venezuela on a moder ate Socialist path since taking of fice two years ago after the oust ing of dictator Marcos Perez Jim enez. Back Catlro Although the rioters have not outlined a specific program, they proclaim their opposition to the government in general terms and shout slogans backing Castro. Betancourt charged. Commun ists and the Movement of the Rev olutionary Left, a Marxist splin ter group, touched off the riots, they had the situation under con trol after army units- were flown here from the interior, violence flared again Monday night with an attack on a police station in the capital s Sucre district. Small Explosions Heard Over Roseburg Today The city of Roseburg, which has a natural dislike for explosions, will be hearing some today, but they're nothing to be alarmed about. A state Highway Department seismograph crew is in town mak ing tests to determine the best place for footings for the new SE Washington Ave. bridge. The method is to explode single sucks ot aynamite at ground level and record the course of shock waves. In that wav. the location of solid rock formations on which bridge foundations can be built will be determined -.'.lY X'lu. '-..I . Local Projects Draw Attention Of Chamber Committee fiartment has been assured at east 10 bids will be entered. The job, which would connect SE Pine and Stephens Sts. into a couplet through town, drew no bids at the November bid-opening session in Salem. Warburton also reported that de signs on the Washington Ave. bridge are coming along well and should be ready for bid in April. He estimated the bridge would he completed in late summer of 1962. Vot Property About the Armori. Warburton reported that effoiS? are being made to find a new lite for tho ttlmmamammmamUmmmmlm1Mmtmtmmammmmm HHfrSWW j Established 1873 12 Pages Congolese Soldiers Seek Whereabouts Of Lumumba LEOPOLDV1LLE. the Congo (AP) Congolese soldiers went through the African quarter to day, hunting for ex-Premier Pa trice Lumumba. The Communist-leaning Lu mumba raised the threat of civil war Sunday by escaping his guarded villa, apparently intend ing to make his way northeast to Manleyvilie, Ins poutical strong hold. Reported Organizing His top lieutenants there were reported organizing to restore him to power. borne observers thought Lu mumba may try to assemble Par liament in Stanleyville under pro tection of his followers in a di rect bid for power. ' Thomas Kanza, Lumumba s for mer delegate to the United Na tions, told newsmen Lumumba left Leopoldvilie by air for Accra and New York. This report generally was dis counted as a diversionary maneu ver to discourage the hunt for Lumumba. i Leopoldvilie Officials of Col. Joseph Mobu tu's provisional government were convinced Lumumba was hiding with friends in the teeming Leo poldvilie. A u.N. oiticiat said uimtimpa s escape from the euarded villa ob viously was prepared with great care and outside assistance. Mobutu s chances of tracking Lumumba were regarded as very slim. Lumumba, accompanied only by a driver and a secretary, crashed his darkened station wag on through a sleepy Congolese army guard outside the Villa Sun day night and disappeared. Foes Not Reassured His political foes, Mobutu and President Joseph Kasavubu, were not reassured by a statement is sued later in his behalf that he would attend his daughter s funer- al in Stanleyville and then return jno Leopoldvilie. Mobutu apparently believes Lu nuimba is trvine to reach Stan leyville, about 750 miles northeast of Leopoldvilie, by boat. But some reports said 'LUinumoa is ueeing by car. Lumumba's top lieutenants awaiting him in Stanleyville arc his brother, Louis; Antoine ui zenga, , deputy premier in the re gime ousted by Mobutu in Sep tember, and Gen. Victor Lundula, Congo army commander when Lumumba was in power. Two weeks ago, Lundula es- Yugoslavia Eyes Constitution BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (AP) Communist party experts are drafting a new constitution for Yugoslavia. President Tito says it is intended eventually to modify the directing role of the national government in the country's econ omy. Yugoslav Marxists say Ihis will be a step toward the purported goal of Marxist communism the withering away of the state ap paratus. Yugoslav ventures along these lines have aroused the wrath of the -Kremlin and the drafting of such a constitution seems likely to widen the Soviet-Yugoslav cleavage over party theory. The constitution seems intended to combine two basic features ot Yugoslav-type communism- worker councils serving as man aging bodies of factories, and lo cal self-government through com munes. The state will serve as the coordinating agency. Communes, as the Yugoslavs seem to intend them, are looked upon as a means of decentralizing state authority, and thus are far removed from the sort of "peo ple's communes" established by Communist China as a means of heightening central, government control. Rebels Broken Up JAKARTA. Indonesia (AP) Army authorities said today two, or three rebel battalions in thc( Other bidders were Douglas Ve North Celebes have broken upineer Co., Roseburg: Eugene Ve hecause of feuding among their neer Co., Glide, and the L&H Lum leader on strategy. 1 ber Co., Sutherlin. armory which was damaged in the Aug. 7. 19)9, blast. The action is being taken despite a derision by the National Guard thai not enough money was available to build a new building immediately. Warburton said he thinks It pos sible that nine acres of Veterans Hospital land in the northwest cor ner nf the facility might be trans ferred to National Guard owner ship in the near future. Wayne Crooch, who is spear heading efforts to bring commun ity college facilities to Rosehurg, revived the hopes for their estab lishment. ..i ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1960 caped army detention in Leopold vilie and made an eight-day river boat trip to Stanleyville. Mobutu alerted soldiers along the Congo river and in Equator province to the north, through which Lumumba will have to pass if he is using the river. The United Nations guard around Lumumba's villa in Leo poldvilie was withdrawn after his flight, making it unlikely that he would return peacefully to the capital.. Mobutu has attempted to arrest Dickinson Named By Byrtl To Post Of Undersheriff Lyle Dickinson,. 38, Canyonville resident deputy, has been promot ed to the post of undersheriff in the Douglas County sheriff's of fice. Search Widens For Bev Allan PORTLAND (AP) Police widened their search today for a coed feared kidnaped when her boy friend was killed in a lover's lane Saturday night. The girl is Beverly Allan, 19, Port Townsend, Wash., a pretty sophomore from, Washington State University. She disappeared Saturday night on a dale with her boy friend, Larry Ralph Peyton, 19, a Port land Mate college siuueni. his body was found Sunday night in the front seat of his car on an isolated lover's lane m. the hills northwest of Portland, Evidence of Struggle Police said there was evidence of a terrific struggle. Young Pey ton had been stabbed 23 times with what police said was a 4-inch blade. Ho also Had received s blow that caused a skull fracture, There was blood outside and in side the car. Miss Allan's coat, purse, glasses and part of ner necklace were in the car. The coat was stained with blood, apparently from Pey ton's wounds. Her purse contained $11. Peyton still had his wallet. Inside were his papers and $3. Windshield Pierced Police said a bullet had pierced the windshield of the car. The glass was blown outward and police believed the bullet had been fired from inside the car. No gun was found at the scene. The car keys were found in nearby brush, apparently thrown there. Miss Allan, after Thanksgiving dinner with her parents at Port Townsend, had come to Portland to visit the Peytons. Young Pey ton's parents said they ail had dinner together Saturday, then their son and Miss Allan left for the evening. The parents reported them missing Sunday, but it was not until that night that the car was found in a routine police check of the lover's lane. Two bloodhounds and scores of searchers fanned out from the car Monday in a search for the girl Even more were called up for the search today. Martin Bros. Get Umpqua Timber The Martin Brothers Container and Timber Products Corp. of Oak land Monday purchased 23,000.000 board feet of Umpqua National For est timber for 3220 above the ap praised $296,850. The timber was located on t 697-acre tract in the North Ump qua Ranger District 55 miles east of Rosehurg The high bidder paid $4 20 per thousand board feet for 2.000.000 feet of western hemlock and othpr species and the appraised $13.85 for 19,900,000 feet of Douglas fir and western while pine and the upraised 111.85 lor 1,100,000 feet of sugar nine. He said he had learned nf a new approach to a community college which would be consider ably cheaper than a full-scale jun ior college plan. It would be set up in present facilities with only partial curricula of I full-scale college. He said the plan would allow leaching several courses by college teachers furnished hy the state Department of Higher Edu cation. The courses would be ac ceptable for credit hy almost any college in Oregon, Washington or California, he said, ,. . Croorh savs he is meeting wiH&lnns Kduratmn Day'' by which the Roseburg superintendent this Lumumba several times, accus ing him of trying to plunge the Congo into civil war. Each lime Lumumba's U. N. guards inter vened. The Congolese army has sought Lumumba since Mobutu unseated him and ousted Soviet bloc diplo mats the colonel said were schem ing to take over the Congo. A spokesman said U. N. head quarters previously denied Lu mumba permission to attend the funeral of his daughter, who died recently in Switzerland. The appointment was reported today by Sheriff Ira C. Byrd. Dick inson succeeds Lewis A. Suiter, who resigned in July. From Kansas Dickinson has been with the sheriff's office since 1955. He came to the county from Kansas. He has had 13 years of police exper ience. Byrd said the appointment be comes effective immediately. Dick inson and his family will move to Roseburg, and the soum Douglas LYLE DICKINSON . . . new undersheriff County area will be patrolled from the Roseburg office unlil a new resident deputy is named. Byrd said the Canyonville replacement will prohauiy Da named snortiy after Christinas. The iob of undersheriff entails taking charge of the sheriff's of fice when the sheriff is out of the county, setting up patrols, han dling transportation of prisoners in and out of the state and assist ance in preparing the printing pro gram for the sheriff reserve and deputy training. Dickinson falls heir to a post which has been the source of con siderable bitterness. Suiter Precedes His predecessor. Suiter, resign ed from the job contending that he did not receive as much pay as resident deputies, even though re sponsibilities of the undersheriff's job were greater. He did not re ceive a raise when the 1961 fiscal budget was prepared, and this pre cipitaled the resignation. Shortly after. Suiter became a candidate for the top job held by Byrd. lie ran as an independent against Byrd and another former undersheriff, Carl Smith, in the Nov. 8 general election. It was probably the bitterest race of the campaign. Algerian Rebels Slay 5 Moslems ALGIERS (AP)-Algorlan reh els kidnaped shout 50 Moslems and killed 5 others just inside Al geria on the Tunisian frontier, French sources said today. The incident occurred Sunday night near the village of M'Raou, which lies between the Tunisian frontier and an electrified wire barrier the French have erected against Tunisian-based rebels. French artillery killed about ten rebels, the report said. The kidnaped Moslems apparently were taken into Tunisia. week to determine if Ihcv are re ceptive to the plan and then will meet with the Kosetiurg School Board Dec. 14 to discuss it. He said a minimum of 50 to 60 pupils would he needed. He estimated cost of the courses which would allow full college loads in the evening heurs would be about $150, compared to annual college costs of between $1,600 to $2,000. Another report was made by Gene Magre, who reported that ..T,!"""" "M.K "II ..,,31- pians re progressing on nusi- Roseburg school teachers and pu 277-60 PRICE 5c FBI Agents Get Suspect In Kidnaping LOS ANGELES (AP) FBI agents converged on a startled Frank Ma none at a Los Angeles intersection early today and ar rested him in the kidnaping a week ago of wealthy spoilsman Anthony Alessio. The FBI said Marrone, 31, a convicted murderer with a long police record, was unarmed and offered no rcsislance. His first comment, agents related, was: "1 knew the FBI was smart, but I've never seen so many in one place." The agents said Marrone driv ing his own 1953 automobile car ried currency identified as part of the $200,000 ransom paid by the Alessio family to secure his release. Alessio, 41, abducted from in front of his fashionable San Diego home last Tuesday, was found un harmed later in a San Diego mo tel. He is executive director of the Caliente race track in Baja California. The track is believed to be owned by the Alessio family. A widespread search for Mar rone commenced alter the rbi arrested his wife. Sclma. 25. and another couple in Hollywood last Friday. Agents recovered $77,900 of the ransom money at that time. Don Keller, San Diego County district attorney, said he planned to file formal kidnap charges against the three. The other two a io James R. Gorman, 29, identi fied as an escaped convict also wanted for a $13,000 Huntington Park, Calif., market robbery; and Gorman's wife. Ruby, 30. The FBI. adhering to customary nrucedure. declined to say how agents happened to catch up with Marrone. Agents said he was car rying part of the ransom loot in $10, $20, $50 ana siuo Dins. U. S. Ply Starts Aerial Seeding Aerial seeding of Douglas fir was started Monday on the lirst ot ap proximately 2,200 acres of United States Plvwood's forest lands in Douglas County. The seeding was lo continue today, weather permit ting. Seeding, by helicopter of the Per petual Forests, Inc., Eugene, was started on a huge tract on Cavitt Creek, south of Little River. It was to continue on Red Butte to the east, and also some reseeding is planned lor tne uanton ureeK section out from Steamboat, ac cording to Homer Hlldcnhrand, for est superintendent for U. S, Ply wood. ' Dale Kononen was doing the fly ing, under the direction of Bent Gcrdes, vice president and forest er for the aerial seeding firm. Cost of the seed is $16 per pound distributed one-half pound to the acre. The seed is treated with a rodent repellent and coated with aluminum paint for identification as treated seed and as further de tercnt lo rodents and birds. Some ponderosa and sugar pine seeding will lie done experimental ly on south slopes. Al Flegel Chosen On Speed-Up Group Al Flegel of Roseburg, Douglas County's senator-elect, has been named to a committee of state leg islators which is being designed to expedite legislation in the coming biennial session of the Legislature. The committee will hold Us first meeting Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. in Salem to hear reports from the state's Fiscal Committee. The purpose of the meeting will be to speed up the activities of the Legislature so the session will not last so long. Flegel's appointment was mide hy the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House. It was indicated that the other two members of the county's legis lative delegation, Heps. W. O. Kel say and Sidney Leiken. would also attend the meeting. Kelsay said he definitely would attend, and he said Leiken would nrnbahlv be on hand. Leiken, who is in New York, 'could not be contacted today. pils will be Informed by personal ly visiting Hie operations of busi nesses in the community. He said (he day will probably be set in February or March of next yeir. 'Build Roioburg' Chamber Manaeer Harold Resume said the first six months of the "Build a Greater Roseburg" operation by the chamber has been gratifying, but more work is necessary. He emphasized particu larly the need lo defend the pri vate enterprise system which Khrushchev has promised lo bury economically. Plan Offers Little Value, SaysSerafin By BILL SPARKS News-Rtvitw Stiff Writer Roseburg's mayor - elect, Pete Serafin, Monday night urged the City Council to vole against the Douglas County Housing Author ity's plan lo increase its facilities here. Serafin said the government aid ed housing project doesn't offer too much of real value to the city, causes private property in the area to lose part of its value and in addition "it gets by with paying only about a third of the cost of taxes paid by private housing." Housing Authority administrator Charles Dondero, who had asked the council to approve tentative lans tor a 50-unit addition to the losewood Park Homes oroiect in West Roseburg, told the council, "If you people don't act on it (the proposed addition) it's going to be dropped by the authority." The council voted to table ac tion on the matter unlil the next regular meeting. Mayor Arlo Jack lin appointed the entire council lo serve as a committee to look into the pros and cons of the proposed development and report back at the first meeting in December. Serafin said he would be in fa vor of the project if it offered housing strictly to the elderly. He stated, however, he was opposed to this type of low rent housing be cause it affords subsidized housing for some who could pay regular rent. "What it amounts to," he de clared, "is the public is paying half of somebody's rent." The Rosewood Park Homes units are available to persons with a fixed maximum income. Dondero said the maximums to be eligible for the low-cost housing are' S3.3UO for a family of two; $3,500 for a family of three or four; and $3,. 800 for a family of five or more. Persons who move into the units while making salaries under this maximum allowance and then add $750 to their yearly income are forced to move from the units, Dondero declared. One of the big points of con tention between the future mayor and the housing authority admin istrator was a recent survey of housing needs taken by the author ity. Dondero said there were 1,042 sub-standard housing units in Rose burg and a portion of the area on me norm city limits. Serafin countered that Rose burg's 12,000 plus population would figure out. to some 4,000 homes at the three persons to a home average. "I can't believe that ono out of every four struc tures in Roseburg is sub-standard," he declared. Dondero had asked for the coun cil's approval of the tentative nlun for the 50-unit addition so he could suomic a request for $10,000 in funds In carry out preliminary planning. All requests for funds lot or such Work must be annrnviwl by the Housing and Home Kinum-o Agency, which loans construction funds to the county bousing proj ect. The housing authority adminis irator asked for two forms of ap proval Monday night. The first request was for resolution of con. sent to carry on with the project. The second was for a resolution approving the application for the $10,000 preliminary loan and exe cution of a cooperative agree ment. He said he would ask for a third form of approval after a workable Erogram is completed. This would e for the city's approval of those plans. Dondero said he felt the 50 units were needed badly today. He said he has had to turn away many qualified applicants because there is just not enough low-rent housing available to meet the demand. "It is very difficult to find rental housing of any type in Roseburg," he stated. "Finding low-priced rental units is the toughest job of He slated that many times ha has helped applicants whom ho could not accommodate at the Rose wood Homes to find low-rent hous ing rilsewhcre. "On the other hand." he aaid. "there are nianv. many times when there is no de cent housing available anywhere in the price range they can af ford." He cited the Roseburg U. S. Vet erans Hospital laboring staff as one of the biggest markets for such bousing. "They come here for jobs and then can't find a place to live," he emphasized. He also pointed out there are school teachers, slate employes, persons living on welfare and so cial security living in the project. An ironic twist came at the con clusion of the discussion when Jacklin also appointed the citv Planning Commission to study the proposal and make a recommenda tion at the December council meet ing. Dondero is a member of that commission. Dondero said the survey In ques tion pointed lo a need for Vli addi tional low rent units, but added they were asking for only 50 be cause they felt there was a much belter chance of getting this num ber in the near future. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenslein Thanksgiving observance would have been more fitted to the weather had the feasts been topped with geesa in tteod of turkeys, with the chanct that some of the geese might here yielded golden 99.