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L of 0. Library Personnel Chosen For Musical Phase Of Annual Festival , , "Aw . S - T Laitad - ii n jl sfcii - MESSIAH SOLOISTS Featured soloists for this -year's 1 1th annual Roseburg Messiah Festival will include Caro line Mahoney, left, alto, and Mrs. George (Georgia) Gratke, soprano, both of Roseburg. Other soloists will be Frank Moore, of Steamboat, and Frank Holman, Portland. Featured soloists for the 11th annual presentation of Handel's "Messiah" in Roseburg will in clude Mrs. George (Georgia) Grat ke, soprano, and Caroline Mahon ey. alto. The Messiah Festival will be held at the Douglas County Fair grounds community building at 5 p.m. Dec. 11, and will be under the leadership of director Robert E. Robins. Other Soloists "other soloists will be Frank Moore, bass, and Frank Holman, tenor. Holman is a soloist with the Portland Symphonic Choir. Thumbnail sketches of the two female soloists show Mrs. Gralke, who resides on Ridgewwod Drive, to be a graduate of the University of Oregon, where she-majored in music education. With Symphony She was a soloist with the Eu gene University Symphony Orches tra in 1952 and is a member of Phi Beta, national music and speech fraternity. She is a former music teacher in the Rcedsport public schools and currently teach es vocal music at St. Joseph's School in Roseburg. ' Miss Mahoney is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Mahon ey, 2224 W. Foothill Drive. She is a senior at Roseburg High and an active member of the high school A Cappella Choir. Festival Soloist She has been featured as a solo ist with that group on several oc casions, including the Jester Hair ston Festival in Eugene last April. She is also a member of the choir of St. Joseph's Church. The Roseburg Symphony Orches tra, under the direction of Charles Davis, of Milo, will assist the Mes siah Festival Chorus in the pre sentation. Organi.-it will be Elwin Mvrick, Springfield, and Virginia Young, Roseburg, will be the pi anist. Priest Draws 3 Years For Abduction Of Girl SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) The Rev. Lawrence Dudink, 47, a Ro man Catholic priest, pleaded guil ty Friday to a charge of abduct ing a 17-year-old girl and was sentenced to three years in state prison. Father Dudink former chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital here, ad mitted in Superior Court that he ahducted Rosalie O'Connell of Gilbert, Minn., Nov. 8 from the hospital where she had been ad mitted a few hours earlier for treatment of a nervous condition. .TnHoff Waller Dahl nrnnnunced sentence in a closed court session after Douglas County authorities agreed to reduce the original charge of kidnaping to atxiuction. Dudink. described hv his So ciety of Divine Word Missionaries superiors as a reformed alcoholic, was arrested at a Phoenix motel last week. The girl was with him. She was returned to the custody of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Conrad O'Connell. STEEL TOILERS IDLED HAMILTON, Ont. (AP) One of every four Hamilton steel-workers is unemployed following lay offs bv Steel Company of Canada Ltd., the nation's largest. The com pany has laid off more than 2,000 workers this year. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Parti cloudy with ihawara fa, night. Sunday partly cloudy with patents at morning tog. Highest tamp, last 24 hours ... Lowest ramp, last 24 hours . Highest tamp, any Dtc. 'St) Lewttt ttmp. any Dec. CSS) . Precip. last 24 hours 42 y ' '' . - 30 iii'm Prtcip. from Dtc. I Pracip. from Sapt. 1 . Exeats fram Stpt. 1 . 1.2 Sunset tonight, 4:11 p m. SunriM tomorrow, 7:21 a.m, Lumumba Nabbed By Congo Troops; Trial Scheduled LEOPOLDV1LLE, The Congo (AP) Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's firebrand former nremier. today faced trial on charges of in citing the army to rebellion and other crimes as he became the center of another international dip lomatic clash. Manacled and jeered by onlook ers, Lumumba was returned to Leopoldville late Fridav and iailed after being captured in remote it'xsal fiovinca by the "srtidiers of army cnief Col. Joseph Mobutu. The Soviet delegation at the United Nations in New York de manded that Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold make an im mediate report on steps being tak en by the U. N. command to en sure the safety of Lumumba. The Soviets declared in a state ment the arrest of Lumumba, who accepted Soviet military aid out side U. N. channels when he was premier, was an "arbitrary and illegal act against the lawful Con golese government committed by an official, dictatorial regime." Hammarskjold sent two messag es to Congo President Joseph Kas avubu asking him to see that Lu mumba gets a fair trial. His hair disheveled, arms bound, his shirt open, Lumumba was hus tled into a truck when his plane arrived. Soldiers grabbed him by the hair and twisted his head about for the benefit of photographers. Property Damage Count Faces Youthful Driver The young driver of a car filled with Winstop and Roseburg girls and boys found it difficult to ex plain his way out of a chayge of damaging city property this morning. The 17-year-old Winston driver! affected tanks each contained 25, and his car were found near the; 090 gallons of high-test gasoline. No. 2 green at the Stewart Park I Gates said the explosion was golf course. The car was stuck in believed to have been triggered the mud. - i by static electricity while a tank A Roseburg patrolman who dis-! truck was being loaded with fuel covered the car and its passengers early tins morning said the car had gone onto the course and had made a high speed turn which spun it into the mud. He said the car had torn up about 180 feet of grass and had rutted the course. The youth was iailed for dam aging city property and his father's ear was impounded Five other youngsters were in the car. Two 17-year-old boys were : from Winston, 13-year-old and 14 vear-old girls were from Roseburg and a 15-year-old girl was from Winston. , Illinois Vote Recount So Far Shows Nixon's Gain Too Small To Upset Democratic Lead CHICAGO (AP) The Republl-1 Nixon Lodge headquarters fun can national chairman stood byinelled new steam into a contro today, espousing the cause of an versy which had been chugging honest count, as teams of elec-i along for days. Hon officials sifted through reams "I'm not here as part of a con- of paper ballots and Republicans ! spiracy to deny Sen. Kennedy the ,906 precincts. Their task was to hoped for a belated surge for Vice presidency," Morion declared at determine whether sufficient President Richard M. Nixon. j a news conference. "I didn't come cause exists for an official re To overturn President-elect John into this state half-cocked, I had; count Detition. F. Kennedy's Nov. 8 victory in j Illinois, GOP officials said thcyi needed an average of 9 arlditionali (votes per precinct. But the cur- rent recherk so far showed only nlnr changes in the original re - lui'in. Kennedy carried the slate, with! its 27 electoral vnli hv ft R1Q votes out of nearly 434 million c,st- (oolc County gave him the razor-thin eds;e he needed. Friday GOP Chairman Thnistnn !R. Morton came to town and his!ures, as they are trying to do in appearance in the Citzrns for this oting situation?" 1 .ii... ii.i.i in. urn i i mr iiimmii i i i i .in im Eitoblished 1873 10 Paget ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1960 281-60 PRICESe Fires Throughout US Take Eight States Contribute To Death Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Home fires across the nation have cost at least 49 lives in two days. Most of the victims were children. Five Southern states accounted for 35 of the victims. The death count by states: South Carolina. 10: Maryland, 7: Tennessee, 8; Louisiana, 6; Florida, 4; Pennsylvania, 4; Ohio, 2; New York 6: New Jersey 2. A single fire that swept through a La Plata, Md.. farm house killed seven persons a mother and father, their three children, a nephew and a grandchild. Six other persons, five children and a woman caring for them, burned to death in a blaze that destroyed a home at Monroe, La. A flooded kerosene heater burst into flames in a Miami home, killing two elderly women. A mother and her niece were asphyxiated by gas as Uiey slept in their home at North Charles ton, S. C. In another South Car olina accident a burning sofa suf focated three children. At Colum bia, also in South Carolina, a woman. 75, and her son, 38, who was blind and crippled, died as flames destroyed their small frame home. An early morning fire today in a small frame house at Cleveland, N.Y.w took the lives of three young brothers and a neighborhood friend, ranging in age from 5 to 10. A three-monlh-old girl died in a burning frame house in Brooklyn, a year-old boy was asphyxiated in a similar blaze at Kearny. N.J.. and a 31-year-old woman parwfcad-when sht went .barte into a mazing dwelling at Lawrence ville, N.J., apparently to recover some possessions. Los Angeles Fire Dept. Battles Oil Conflagration LOS ANGELES (AP)-Firemen controlled a spectacular blaze at an oil company tank farm early today after a nightlong battle with towering flames that erupted from eight big gasoline storage tanks. The fire started when an ex plosion rocked the Rothschild Oil Co. storage yard in suburban Santa Fe Springs. Fire Chief E. C. Gates imme diately ordered evacuation of 700 persons from a nearby drive - in theater. Men and equipment were rushed to the scene from Los Angeles County stations and from six nearby communities Downey Jlontebcllo. South Gate, Bell, Ver non and Whittier. No injuries were reported. -The big effort was to keen the blaze from spreading to dozens of other tanks and a cracking plant. I Chief Gates estimated that the near a mending facility HANDICAPPED ESCAPEE SALEM (AP) Harold E. Broome, 32, walked away from the state prison grounds Friday, and was still sought today. Police said he would not be too inconspicious: He has an arti cial leg. walks with a slight limp, and lacks the little finger on his left hand. He . was serving a three-year forgery County. term from Yamhill evidence before 1 came." , Dmetert Fire Back Democrats were angrily ' de- pouncing GOP charges of vote! fraud and irregularities in this jif,-rti-iiiit-iT ii-niiwij. Mayor Richard J. Daley. Cook fniinlv Demrw-ralie chairman posed this question at a civic luncheon: "Will we let people tear down Uie good name of Chicago ! without having the facts and fie- Sales Of Timber From Two Forests Yield $274,580 Two Medford lumber firms pur chased 1.510.000 board feet of Umu- qua National Forest timber ap praised at SJ5.489.30 Friday for a total of $55,104. Both tracts sold were located on tile Cow reek Ranger District. In Tiller Area The first tract, on 28 acres lo cated 20 miles northeast of Tiller, went to McGrew Brothers of Med ford for $42,800. It contained 1,- 200.000 feet of timber and had been appraised at $25,903. Alcbrew Brothers paid 543 per thousand board feet for 980,000 feet of Douglas fir and pine ap praised at $26.05 and $16.50 per thousand for 40,000 feet of white fir and other species appraised at .35. Olher bidders were Oregon ve neer Co., Medford; Herbert Lum ber Co. and D. R. Johnson Lum ber Co.. Riddle: Miles H. Ferro W. O. Kelsay, Dillard: Lee Log ging Co., Salem; J. P. Heath, Can yonville; Hoot Owl Logging Co., Central Point; and Sun Studs, Inc., Koseourg. By Oregon Vimr The second tract, on 50 acres located 19 miles southeast of Tiller, contained 310.000 board feet ap- Criminal Cases Here Give Two Courts Busy Sessions Three persons pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the Circuit Court of Judge Charles Woodrich Friday afternoon. In each case the judge ordered investigations before imposition of sentence. Dolnhie D. Christian, 20. Lake- view, charged with burglary not in a dwelling in. connection with bur glary u-I the .Pwstliuo: Tavern in canyonvnie early weanesaay morning, entered his plea to the district attorney s iniormation. Larceny Guilt Action was swift in his case. He was arrested by Canyonville night ofliccr Chuck Cason on suspicien after discovering the Pastime bur glary. Arraigned before Justice of Peace Nina Pictzold that same dav, he waived preliminary hearing and was held to answer with bail set at $2,500. However, he chose to waive grand jury investigation ana pleaded guilty to the charge. Marion L. Griggs. 22. and Ralph Douglas Bowers, 47, both of North Bend, pleaded guilty to larceny of logging equipment. They were ar rested by Oregon State Police and bound over to the Grand Jury from Rcedsport Justice Court Friday, and chose to go immediately be fore the judge on the district at torney's information. Held In Jail They told the judge they thought the logging equipment in question had been abandoned, and that oth er people had been helping them selves. The judge told them he would hold them in jail until they could be questioned by the proba tion officer, then release them on their own recognizance until a com plete pre-sentence investigation could be made. Bower's wife, Violet Armistice, 34. arrested with the pair and bound over to the Grand Jury by the Reedsport Justice Court, did not enter a plea. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Verden Hockett stat ed he wanted more Information in her case before pressing a charge. Upon his recommendation, she was released by the judge on her own recognizance pending further in vestigation. New Judge Sees Action District Court Judge Gerald; Hayes had three criminal cases before his court on his first day In office Friday, and in each case the accused asked to see an at torney prior to arraignment. Rohert Caeser Densmore, 42, Winston, faces a charge of assault Chairman Morton held his press conference only halt a block from City Hall, where teams of deputy election commissioners were por- ng through paper ballots from "Our intention here." Morton ssid, ""is not necessarily to seek votes, but to protect the sanctity of the ballot. "Our plan of attack ii to get j the board here to revise the fig i ures u Bireaov nas sem io apiing field (the state capital)." ; Nixont Ntt Cain Small Cook County election officials sent their official canvass, con- tainlnf the crucial Kennedy vic- tory margin, lo Springfield about 'a week ago. Subsequently, Gov. praised at S9.586.30. It was pur chased by Oregon Veneer Co. for $12,304. - The high bidder paid $40 per thousand for 307.000 feet of Doug las fir and pine appraised at $31.15 and $8 per thousand for 3.000 feet of western hemlock and other species appraised at $7.75. Olher bidders were Miles H. Feero, J. P. Heath, D. R. John son Lumber Co. and J. A. Mc Alullcn, of Mvrtle Creek. 04C Tracts Alto Sold The Woolley Logging Co. of Drain Friday purchased two tracts of O Sc C-timber containing 11,5.13, 000 feet for the appraised $219, 476.05. According to the Roseburg Dis trict office of the Bureau of Land .Management the only other quali fied bidder on either tract was the Martin Brothers Container and Timber Products Corp. of Oakland. Woolley Logging Co. purchased the first tract containing 9,565.000 feet for the appraised $174,934.30. The Douglas fir was appraised at $19.45 per thousand. They purchased the second tract, containing 1,968,000 feet appraised at S44.541.75 for that price. Dong as iir on that tract was appraised at $23.35 per thousand. being armed with a dangerous wea pon in alleged threatening of Law rence Gustav Shultz at Winston Thursday night. The ludge conlin- ucd the. pa until Dec, a at 1-is n m nri ot halt at i p.m., and sot ba t at $1,500. James Albert Thompson, 39, of 314.8 W. Harvard Av...faoe a charge of forgery in Uie alleged falsification of a sales voucher, on complaint of W. B. Warren, "with intent to injure and defraud." The judge set his case down for Dec. 7, at 1.15 p.m. Thompson also uses the names of Jim Thompson ana Jim wuson. Charles Dewey Wimmer, 39. was returned to Roseburg Friday by uepuiy siienti Bon Johnson to face charge of obtaining money bv false pretenses, in connection with the passing of a $10 worthless check at Martin's Grocery in Rose burg. Records show Wimmer was indicted on April 10, 1959 on a for gery charge to which he pleaded guilty July 22 of that year. His case on the check charge has been set for Dec. 6 at 1:15 p.m. Non-Profit Groups Plan To Fight Taxation Move EUGENE (AP) Nonprofit organizations will go either to the legislature or to court in an effort to fend off planned taxation of fraternal organizations' property. T. T. Turner, Portland, said here Friday. Turner, executive secretary of Oregon Non-Profit Organizations, inc., said a hasty check in r.u gene showed that just two frater nal organizations had contributed $59,000 to charities so far this year. He did not name the two. "The amount of taxes raised by the inclusion of these two organi zations would be small in com parison with the volume of chari table work accomplished," he said. In the past. Lane County, as well as some others, has exempted the properly of "fraternal organi zations from taxation on the basis of charitable work. Some counties have had Dartial exemnliona Uniform taxing procedures are I planned for July 1 with such fraternal groups as the Elks, Masons. Moose and others finding their property on the tax roll, Assessor Kenneth Omlid said re cently. William G. Stratton. Republican defeated for re-election, threat ened to withhold certification by the State Electoral Board of Ken nedy's victory if strong proof of fraud is presented. The recheck of voting machine precincts has been completed. On the basis of the recheck of paper ballots in 62 precincts re viewed rriday, an Associaten Press tally showed Nixon scored a net gain of 97 votes; Thursrisy he gained 174 voles in -a recheck ol 27 precincts City election officials, describ ing their running tally as hssty and (inofficial, said Nixon gained 147 votes in paper ballot precincts 0-er the two-day period. u ..... , 1 . j . 1 . ....it tor'a recheck of machine precincts iuii i-uiiit-iiuru ina an lunr j disclosed a net gain ol 1,214 votes for Nixon. 49 Lives Bitter Fight With Church Faces Castro HAVANA (AP) - The govern ment - controlled press lodav charged the United States is giv ing aid to Cuban counterrevolu tionaries by setting aside $1 mil lion to assist retugees from Fidel lasiro s regime. But the press refrained from mentioning the reason Washington decided to assist the refugees: The United States now considers Castro's regime Communist-con- iroueci. President Eisenhower said Fri. day he was releasing the funds under terms or the Mutual Secu rity Act, which provides assist ance for refugees from Commu nist-dominated lands. About 30.000 relugees from Cuba have con gregatcd in Florida. Jiven though the official Cuban version of Eisenhower's action was scrambled, anti-Castro Cu bans in downtown Havana streets were exhiliarated. They refer to Miami as "West Berlin. Church Aims At Castro More trouble was shaping up for Castro in his bitter fight with me cuDan ttoman catholic Hier archy. Reliable church sources said the hierarchy has drafted strongly-worded reply to Castro's accusation that the clergy accept ed bribes to preach against his regime. Cuba's too prelates met nrivate- ly for several hours later, the sources said, and drew un a firm rejection of Castro s attack last Sunday in which he termed priesl, -henchmen in cassocks." 1 . In the, Far East: Castro's din- itomats have established formal re- lations with two more major communist states North Vict Nam and North Korea. Cuba is to set up formal ties with these i countries. Ernesto Guevara, Castro's eco nomic envoy, has just completed a 15-day visit to Red China which was recognized diplomatically earner, t-eiping gave mm a StiU million loan by Communist figur ing, and other economic conces sions, Four Children Perish As Fire Sweeps Home CLEVELAND, NY. (AP) Three young brothers and their neighborhood friend perished in a predawn fire today that swept a frame home in this community on the shore of Oneida Lake in central New York. The dead were three Corcoran brothers John. 9. James. 10, and U acott, 5, and Dale Morns, 5. Four persons escaped. One fire man was overcome by smoke. Dale and an older brother were spending the night with the Cor coran boys. All apparently were sleeping when the fire erupted from an overheated space heater in the living room of the 1'i-story frame home. Fire Chief Charles Hinds said. Colleen Corcoran, 31, mother of the three dead boys, was treated for shock at the home of a neigh bor. Mrs. Corcoran is separated from her husband, firemen said. Fir, Hemlock Buying Activity Speeded Up PORTLAND (AP) - Lumber buying for shipment after the first of the year has perked up the fir and hemlock market in recent days. Crow's Lumber Market News Service said today. Demand was railed only mod erately active, with Midwest buy ing at a slow rate. Because of mill shutdowns, there has been some short supply of random di mension, studs and planks. Most cargo dimension prices were listed as up &l tn $5 a thousand from the early Novem ber low. The plywood sheathing market remained depressed, the report saia. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS ism Soviet Space Ship Carrying 2 Dogs Destroyed By Fire MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Un ion s race toward pultiug a man in space met a setback when So viet scientists failed to bring back to earth a five-ton, dog-carrying satellite. But the Soviets claimed their latest space ship "yielded new data for manned space flight in the near future" before it shot off course Friday and burned up in me earin s atmosphere. . Before the Soviets announced their failure the first time they have done so the launching was considered one of the last before ,a man might be rocketed into space and brought back alive. What went wrong was not an nounced, but Moscow radio did say Soviet scientists signalled the satellite to return to earth on a pre-calculated orbit and that it veered off course and disintegrat ed. In announcing failure. Moscow radio did not mention the dogs. But it said earlier they survived the shoot lino space and quickly became organically normal. Air conditioning, heat regulation and communications aboard the ship functioned reliably, the broadcast said. When the latest satellite went into orbit, Khrushchev said it rep resented "a great victory and a step to man s flight into space. Umpqua Radio, TV System Undergoing Reconstruction Improvements in service for Umpqua Radio and Television Inc., have been in progress and more are planned, according to a cable service official, Everett Fa ber, of Medford. The system has been completely rebuilt from Mount Nebo down to Military Rd., and last week con struction was completed from W. Luellen SL to the freeway. Resi dents in that area will now be serviced. It was the second step In a re construction process modernizing the system, according to aner. the lirst was in micro-wave in stallation at Mount Nebo and King Mountain, as antenna on Mount Nebo was torn down and the firm's building rebuilt. - The system's lines are now cov ered with new aluminum foam' flex, which means the . "picture can t "get jn or out of the cable, and thus a clearer image is pro iecled. said Faber. Eventually the entire city will ne covered ny lite system, witn an estimate of about 2,000 hook ups (there are between 400 and 500 now said Faber. The system now carries local Channel 4 (IyPIU). as well Channels 5 at Medford and 2 at Klamath Falls, it will finally in clude five "pictures of broadcast quality," said raber. California-Oregon Power Co. has assisted in the endeavor by erect ing poles where needed, said Fa ber. Texas U. Students Back Integration Principle AUSTIN. Tex. f AP) About 200 University of Texas students, in cluding 20 Negroes, staged a.i in tegration demonstration Friday night at a segregated theater across from the campus. There was no violence and no arrests were made. Several of the students were members of the University reli gious council, whose meeting Tues day night was disrupted by a bomb explosion. students approached the box of fice window of the theater and asked if all Americans would be admitted. They were told that tick ets would only be sold to white persons. The students then would leava the box office and rejoin one of two lines leading to the box of fice. The demonstration broke up about 8:30, an hour after it began. Two university students have been convicted of exploding the hnmb outside the YMCA building adjacent to the theater. They were sentenced to 30 days in Jail Fri day and fined $200 each. Campaign Begun To Aid Ex-Canyonville Resident Cinyonvlllt friends of $. D. "Jinx" H Ink It, who lost bath arms following high tension wlrt burns from a mint accidtnt tar liar this fall, havt bttn told of a campaign to providt artificial arms for him by Christmas hv stigattd by the Rlcfvwoed, W. Va. Ntwt-Ltsdtr, According to a story In the Wtit Virginia paper, asm $4,. 000 Is nttdtd ts supply tht arms and a "Jinx Fund" has bttn tt tablithtd with tht Ntwt Lttdtr acting as colltctlon agtncy, ac carding to Virginia Procter, News.Rtvitw corrtspondtnt. Hinklt, a former Cinyonvlllt high school ttudtnt who gradua ltd from tht Rich wood high school In l'Sf, Is marritd and . i j . .1. -. - ... e i , ,w raiiivr vt ihi, 0pvrnvvn i Douglas Jr. born last month at I Blrhwaarf. ' GIANT YULI TRIE UP NKW YORK (AP) - The Rocke - feller Center Christinas tree ' set up Friday, a 67-foot spruce trom the eastern Pennsylvania mountain region. Trimming the giant tree requires stringing 7.000 lights on 2' miles of wue. The official lighting comes Dec. I In televised ceremonies, N. Carolina Gov. Hodges Given Post PALM BEACIt. Fla. (AP) President-elect John F. Kennedy today chose North Carolina's Gov. Luther Hodges, 62-year-old for mer textile industrialist, as sec retary of commerce. Kennedy announced his selec tion for the $2a,000-a-ycar cabinet post with Hodges, a Democrat, standing at his side on the patio of the home of the president elect's parents on the Atlantic shore. Kennedy read a statement sav ing he was making the Hodges appointment with great pleasure. tie added: "At a lime when the strength and accelerated growth of the American economy is vital to our own prosperity and to our ability to fulfill out commitments tn the cause of world freedom, the Department of Commerce has become one of the most impor tant agencies of government. Firmness Pointtd Out Kennedy noted that the depart ment employs more than 36,000 people and is spending more than a half-billion dollars Uus year to carry out its functions. Kennedy then said: "Gov. Hodges will bring to his new po sition experience in both business and government. During the last four years, under his administra tion, the State of North Carolina has secured $1 billion in new in vestment in manufacturing activi ties, in addition to huge sums for electric utility expansion. Much of this was made possible through Gov. Hodges background in indus try. "We are fortunate to be able In secure a man of Gov. Hodges' ability and background for this important post." Hodges' selection came as no surprise since it had been ru mored for weeks that he was in line for the Cabinet post. Kennedy fold newsmen that he was not ready to announce selec tion of a secretary of slate. Ha indicated again that he won't b ready to disclose his choice fur mat Key post Deiore next wees.. Shortly bctore leaving Washing ton the president-elect said he hopes to have his Cabinet com pleted, or nearly completed, by the end of next wceK. Policy Stated in a question and answer ses sion, Houges aaid, ' one oc mo main problems we will deal wun is expansion ot iraae wvui outer nations,- . . . . -,. He said lie intends to exploit the genius, imagination and dar ing of the individual businessman to help this expansion, adding: "U we can show the businessman we have a manifold department ready to help him, he 11 do the work himself." Asked if he thought this coun try was headed for a depression, the governor said: "I believe the situation is worse than the pres ent administration leads us to be lieve. It certainly is not as good as it should be, and 1 hope for a rebirth of confidence when the new administration takes office on Jan. 20." Hodges quit school when he was 12 to get a job in a Marshall Field cV Co., textile mill at Leaks ville, N. C. He worked his way through col lege as a waiter, janitor and Bible salesman, then went bark to the mill as secretary to ils general manager. in lime ne necame general manager and sales manager fur the 29 mills of the Marshall Field & Co., scattered through North North Carolina, Virginia. Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan and Illinois. He retired from the textile com pany in 1950 saying he planned to devote the rest of his Ufa to public service. Murder-Kidnap Clue Search Intensified PORTLAND (AP)-Four hund red searchers, many of them on horses or in four-wheel drive ve hicles are combing a 60-square mile wood area west of Portland to day, looking for clues in a mur der and possible abduction. - Nineteen-year-old Ralph Larry Peyton, a Portland State student. was stabbed to death early sun- day in his car in a lovers' lane area of the Portland west hills. Police believe that his assailants kidnaped his date for the evening, Beverly Allan, 19, of Port Town send, Wash. No trace has been found of the girl, a Washington State University student. . Rewards for recovery of tilt missing girl total $1,500. Police have run down a number of clues concerning the girl's whereabouts, but so far none has produced results. POLICE CAR STOLEN SALEM (AP) A police cBr was stolen from a garage here Friday. It later was found on a grocery store parking lot nearby. The car contained 40 parking meter mechanisms, three meter heads, a bucket with $7 worth of pennies, assorted tools and radio equipment. All were recovered. ; Living Colt Still goinq higher, WhiL CkiUimai ilma'i ' rlir Whil. Chrutmoi time o elic ri; Cosh going fast; can w moke jr ott r ... - .. ; ror. Tom ond )c"y i in tr n c n I I Levity I act liant I i O
