U. of 0. lo'bmry 18 DEAD xn c . i SJl "Mr M)fiirnnMmiiinJ-iinim4fiiilfinnf , 4.C. i 'W m. '& 4 ONE DEAD IN WRECK Laurence C. Bursik, 22, of Rr. 3, Roseburg, was killed early Thursday night in the wreck of this automobile between Melrose and Umpqua. State police said the accident occurred when the car failed to negotiate a curve near the junc tion of Umpqua Road and Cleveland Hill Road. Task Force Urges ' Aid To Education NEW YORK (AP)-A . special task force recommended to President-elect Kennedy today a high priority program to pump $3V4 billion in loans and grants into the American educational system. The objective would be to "lift the schools to a new level of excellence." The plan would provide extra federal cash for all public schools, for construction, and for teachers' salaries or other purposes related to improving education. It would provide a special program along similar lines for states in econom ic distress. And it would set up a special aid plan for city schools. Added Housing In addition, increased grants and loans to improve academic facilities and housing at colleges and universities was blueprinted for the president-elect. The task force which drew up the recommendations was headed by Dr. Frederick Hovde, presi dent of Purdue University. Hovde handed the report to Kennedy in the presence of Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, who will be secretary of health, education and welfare, in the new administration. Program The program lines up like this: 1. It recommends that Kennedy support legislation to provide $110 per year per pupil, based on aver age daily attendance in public schools, for the entire school sys tem of the nation. It would cost an estimated SI. 2 billion a year. State and local governments, how ever, would be required to "main lain or increase their support of education." 2. Similarly, the task force rec ommends S20 per year per child for states where incomes are be low 70 per cent of the national , average, figured again according to average daily attendance in public schools. The task force estimated that this would cost $140 million an nually, would help about one fourth of the states, mostly in the South, and would assist seven million children. $20 Pr Child 3. For cities over 300,001), which "are facing unique and grave ed ucational problems," the task force proposed the equivalent of another S20 per child in school. This would be for grants to sup port research and experimental programs in special problems of urban schools, for planning and constructing ' facilities, for buying land, and for other educational pu.rre,S.:, ....,., k ,,..., I a formula taking into account such thincs as ooDulation densitv ! the nature of housing Myrtle Creek Tavern Scene Of Big Theft A safe at a Myrtle Creek tavern, containing about $2,000, was bur glarized early Thursday morning, acc-ording to Oregon State Police. Myrtle Creek Chief of Police Jim Prinale notitied the state police that sometime after 1:30 a.m. thelous sale at the Ilee Haw Tavern had been broken into and burglarized. According to the police report, the safe had been rolled into Ihe cooler at the tavern and the door furred open with what was thought to be a steel bar. Myrtle Creek Police and the Ore gon' State Police are investiga ting the crime. the Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Occionl rain end periods of " partial clearing tonight and Satur day. Highest temp, last 74 hours it Lowest temp, last 24 hours . 41 Highest temp, any Jan. ('5?) eS Lowest temp, any Jan. ('57) 9 Precip. I st 24hourt Oi Preeip from Jan. 1 ...... 06 Precip. from Sept. 1 12.86 Deficiency from Sept. 1 1.51 Sunset tenight, 4:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:45 a.m. Fourth Fatality Of percentage of students finishing high school. Annual Cost Estimated cost: $120 million a year; estimated number of chil dren benefiting: six million. 4. To helo colleges, universities and junior "colleges accommodate a million new students in the next five years, the task force urged legislation providing $350 million in grants, and SI50 million in loans to help provide facilities. These would be first-year costs. In succeeding years, the task force said, this phase of the ed ucational program will require in creasing sums. Grants would be provided on a matching basis, that is, federal funds would ac count for only half the total outlay. 5. For the college housing loan program, already in operation 10 vears, the task force recommends i that Congress be asked for. an immediate increase in loan au thorization of $150 million to meet needs of the present fiscal year ending next June 30. Hula Gals Blamed For Liner's Woes HONOLULU (AP)-Fair wind and fair maidens were blamed partly for bringing the 30,000-ton British liner Arcadia to grief on a reef just outside Honolulu's har bor entrance Thursday. It appeared that as the ship ma neuvered to pick up an off-shore boarding party she drifted in the steady trade wind and crunched gently on a coral reef. The board ing party included one of Honolu lu's welcoming taskforces of Hula girls, but it also had customs in spectors and shipping agents. No one was hurt. The only dam age found was an indentation about a foot long and half an inch deep, embedded with bits of coral, about 25 feet below the water line forward of the bridge. But it took several lugs more than two hours while ail other shipping was halted through the 180-foot wide harbor entrance, to work the Arcadia free. The big P&O-Orient liner car rying 1.1S2 passengers and a crew of 713 was scheduled to leave at midnight Thursday night for the South Pacific and Australia. SEATO Council In Third Meet BANGKOK Thailand (AP) The SEATO Council today held "s ""rn s-s!,,"n ln a wecK "" linn dujuumivu wiiiivuv iauiuj, a statement. An informant said the United States submitted no further evi- idcnce to back up its charge that I Soviet planes have landed sub ! sliintial North Vietnamese rcin j lorcements for the pro-Communist Pallid Lao rebels. Ambassadors of the eight Soulh j east Asia Treaty Organization na i tions met for an hour. One source said the envovs "discussed vari- rrports of Communist lnter- venlion in Laos and that Ihey considered the situalinn in the neighboring kingdom "just as se rious as earlier in the week." Big Judgment Sought In Goebl Traffic Death j Judgment for S20.OU0 for the Iraf ; fie death of Kenneth Gene Goebl is asked in a complaint filed in i Circuit Court by Esther Goebl. ad- minislralor of his estate, against Leslie Hatfield. ! The ac'irlcnt took place July 2. !9M. on Buckhnrn Road eight miles east of Dixonville The com plaint states that the defendant's car was driven by his daughter. Audrey Hatfield, and that young Goebl was a passenger in the car. It furl her stales that the auto traveling east failed to negotiate a curve, going off the road. Negli- I genre against Iha defendant u i charged. ii Year New Riots Erupt In S. Belgium BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) The government said today the 18-day-old strike has collapsed in two of Belgium's nine provinces. But rioting broke out in Liege in the industrial south and there were noisy demonstrations in Brussels. Socialist leaders of Ihe strike against the Conservative govern ment's economy program were reported looking for a way to halt th? crippling workouts. A source close to the Socialist high com mand said "the end is near." Pierre Harmel, government spokesman, said the strike is over in the provinces of Limburg in the north and Luxembourg in the south. Trouble, however, broke out in the southern industrial citv of Liege where 30,000 strikers cheered Andre Renard, a union leader considered the real power behind the walkouts. Up to 1,000 strikers attacked a railway station, a pout office and a fire truck, but were hurled back by police who fired (ear gas. In Brussels, about 2,000 demon strated in front of Forest Prison. They were led by Guy Brouhon, Socialist member of Parliament, who declared 40 strikers are be ing held there. Demonstrators threw firecrackers and a few rucks at massed stale police, then left. Premier Gaston Eyskens' Catholic-Liberal government pushed for parliamentary approval of its austerity program that touched off the strikes. But Eyskens was re ported considering calling early elections a year ahead of time immediately alter adoption of the economic reform bill. The momentum of the strikes, which have led to one death and cost the nation millions of francs in lost production and properly damage, was clearly losing steam. Except in the Socialist strongholds of Liege and the Charleroimons industrial belt, where the workers are tradition ally militant. W-D Fire Department Answers Two Alarms An overheated heater caught a wall on fire and caused about $50 damage at the John Murphv resi dence on Fifth St. in Dillard Thurs day afternoon, Winston - Dillard Fire Department officials report. The department also answered a call to Gen. E. L. Lyman's resi dence in Illinois Heights in Win ston. A flue fire, which caused no damage, was out on arrival. U.S. National Opening Set Saturday NuHiiiliJ :f.J ! b p wi ujjz MARKING THE OPENING of the U. S. Notionol Bank's new Roseburg branch building, ribbon-cutting ceremonies will be held on Saturday. Doors will swing open of 8:30 a m.. During the day-long celebration the crowded colendar of events will include carnations for the ladies and balloons for the youngsters, a speciol treasure chest con test, refreshments, end a general explanation of the new structure by bpnk officials. The bank will be open until 5 pm. Among those appearing on the program will be E. C. Sammons, chairman of the U. S. National Bank's board of directors; Peter B. Serafm, Roseburg mayor; ' I iiiijiiiiii.i mill II -!i''.mM.1.OTi mm t'vrmtmmmmmw n n imii !. ni 1 1 n. l. timiiii i i inm..i iiuw m nun,.,,! L - iiini-iimiri mm- ft '" A- --nm n Minn - - ' '- f i rrl -Trft i mi ri r mimm inn mi Established 1873 16 Pages Youth Dies i As Car Skids On Highway A 22 year-old Roseburg area man was killed in a one-car crash be tween Melrose and Umpctua earlv Thursday night to jump the Doug las County death toll for the year to four. Slate police said Laurence Com muneus Bursik, of Rt. 3, Box 1470, Roseburg, was killed when the car in which he was riding failed to negotiate a curve on the Umpqua Road near the Cleveland Hill Road junction. Skids On Gravel They said the car, driven by 65-year-old Olna Hathaway, of the Tyee Rl., Roseburg, skidded on the gravel at the intersection of the two roads and crashed into a roadside bank. Douglas County Coroner Dr. John Donnelly said Bursik died of a skull fracture and possible brok en neck. He was listed as dead on arrival at a Roseburg hospital. Hip Injury s Hathaway sustained multiple lac erations of the face and an injured hip. the accident occurred about 6:30 only hours after the final rites for two of the three teen-age boys kill ed in a one-car crash near Glide Mew Year's morning. The first fatality of 1960 was not recorded until Jan. 14. Lawrence Bursik, Rte. 3 resident, was born July 28. 1938 at Melrose and had been employed as a choker setter for Counts Bros Logging Co. Survivors include his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Emerick C. Bursik of Melrose; three sisters, Mrs. Jo seph Laurance of Coos Bay, Mrs. George Kohonis of Coos Bay, and Mrs. John Mulvihill of Coquille: and three brothers, Lyle of Garden Valley, Wayne of Roseburg, and Franklin of Melrose. i Funeral services will be held at the chapel of Long and Orr- Mor tuary Monday at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in the Melrpse 'ene- ".. j . Roseburg Permits Down From 1959 Building permits for the Oty of Roseburg for 1960 hit a total of $2,513,722. or about $163,000 less than in 1959. Although the total valuation of permits issued was slightly down, the valuation of new commercial construction was up better than $250,000. 17 Permits Building Inspector Oliver Eggel ston reported the city this year issued 17 permits for new commer cial construction for a total valua tion of $953,200. The total for 1959 was $706,309. Permits for dwellings this year hit $484,184, as compared lo $436, 074 in 1959. Biggest Jobt Eggelston said the total valua tion of the permits issued was down because of the heavy num ber of repair permits issued in 1959 after the August blast. He said the big jobs for which permits were taken out this year were for the United States Nation al Bank, $311,000; Fullerton IV El ementary School, $290,000; t h e YMCA building, $233,000: Kir Grove Elementary School, $180,000; Byrd s Market, $98,000; the siaie Employment Office, $84,000; the Roseburg City Hall. $82,000; and $75,- i the Church of the Nazarcne iOOO. ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961 Security Castro s UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP)' The U.N. Security Council Thursday night discarded Cuba's latest charge that she is facing imminent invasion from the Unit ed States. A majority of members of the 11-nation body made clear in de bate they did not believe there was any evidence to back up the 4 Bombs Hit As Algerians Begin Voting ALGIERS (AP) The Algerian countryside bristled with police roadblocks and troop patrols to day as voting began on President Charles de Gaulle's plan to give Algeria local self-government now and a chance lo vote for inde pendence if the bloody rebellion ends. , The voting started in apparent calm throughout the Algieran countryside, but in Algeria four bombs aimed at the power lines of Radio Algiers went off just ootore it was lo carry De Gaulle s final appeal for support of his proposals. The bombs caused ma jor damage, but did not stop re lay of the speech. Approval Asked De Gaulle called once more for a massive yes vote so that ne gotiations with all factions on At geria s future could oe arranged "with the smallest delay pos sible." j Speaking from i.raris to the nearly 27 million voters of France who on Sonday "will decide the outcome of the referendum, he implied that if his plan is defeat ed, forces outside j France would impose a solution in Algeria. To vote "no" would be lo recognize that the problem would not be re solved by France, he said. Man Eligible In Algeria, 3.9 million Moslems, 700,000 French colonists and 340, 000 soldiers in the French army were eligible to vote. The voting is in the villages today, in the lowns Saturday and in the big cities Sunday. France also votes Sunday. Associated Press correspondent David Mason toured several out lying districts in the tense area around Oran and reported all was orderly. He said the initial turn out indicated little enthusiasm among the French settlers but a better response from the Mos lems. ' Canby Teener Stabbed After Row With 'Friend' CANBY (AP)-A teen-age girl was slabbed 11 times here Thurs day night and police later arrest ed her boy friend in Astoria. Sheriff Joe Shobe said Dennis Arnold Anderson, 18, Canby, told him he stabbed Judy Diane Otte, 17. Canby, after they had an argu ment. Shobe reported that the girl had told Anderson she wanted lo break ! up. Anderson told him they had i been going steady, Shobe said. Miss Otte was reported in fair ! condition in the hospital. . II I I I V. T. Jackson, Douqlos County judge; George Gratke, president of the Chamber of Commerce; and Arlo Jacklin, former Roseburg mayor. The $300,000 structure located at SE Oak Ave. and SE Main St. will feature 1 1,000 square feet of off-street parking, oir-conditioning and bank-from-your-car facilities; o safe deposit vault with coupon booths, conference room, employe lounge, and complete vault facilities, besides other features such as the landscaped 55 x 55-foot entrance court. (For stoTics and picture on the U. S. National Bank see Page 7). Council Invasion charge made last Saturday by the ridel Castro government that an invasion was coming within hours. U.S. Victory The council ended its two-day debate without a vote a victory for the United States, which termed the charge ridiculous and asked that it not be dignified by formal action. A resolution by Chile and Ecua dormerely calling on the United States and Cuba to settle their differences by peaceful means was not pressed lo a vole. Of the 11 council members, only the So viet liuion supported the Cuban charge. Ceylon and the United Arab Republic did not commit themselves. The rest of the coun cil Britain. Chile, Nationalist China, Ecuador, France, Liberia and Turkey agreed with the United States that the charge had not been proved. Debate Ended U.A.R. Delegato Omar Loutfi, the council president for January ended the debate with a brief statement expressing the hope "that nothing will be done which could in any way aggravate" the tension between the Uniled States and Cuba. It was the third U.N. defeat for Castro's regime in its efforts to pin aggression charges on the Uniled Stales. Last July Cuba failed to slop a resolution shunting charges of eco nomic aggression to the Organi zation of American States, which rejected them. Last October the Cubans failed to get immediate U.N. assembly debate on charges that the United States was pre paring a big-scale military inva sion. The later charge still awaits action in the assembly political committee, which is in recess until March. Final Statement ln a final statement Cuban For eiun Minister Raill Roa insisted that the threat of invasion "still hangs over Cuba despite the U.S. denial." He declared that if Amer ican forces invade his country, "Ihey will not meet a Cuba who is alone." Plugging the new Communist line that the Soviet Union and its allies expect policies more sym pathetic to them from the Ken nedy administration, Soviet Dep uty Foreign Minister Valerian A. $25,000 Offered Pine Street Motel The Oregon Slate Highway Com mission, through its commission ers, has tendered into court a 000 offer for purchase of proper ties of the Soulh Roseburg Motel for the south exit of the Pine Street Couplet. The olfer is made lo Ihe molel R. O. Johnson, and Olhers named as having an interest in the prop erty. Johnson in a counter suit is asking $35,000 lor the property. The couplet would cut through the molel taking out several units. Johnson maintains Ihe business would be ruined by the action as not enough of the molel would be left to do business. The state has deposited Ihe mon ey with the clerk of the court for use oi ine ueienoanis penuing ou judication of action seeking to con demn the property. Contract to construct l!ie couplcl has already been let. The suit will merely determine the damages due Ihe defendant. HIlT - iliiiflitarf,ii 4-61 PRICE 5c Discards Charges Zorin said he hoped the incoming administration would "take the course of peaceful settlement of the conllict" between Cuba and the United Slates. U.S. Delegate James W. Barco noted this "mild approach" by Zorin to the new administration but said he wanted to remind the Soviet Union that the American people "are united and our policy is consistent." Fights Erupt Fist figlus between Castro and anti-Castro partisans erupted Thursday in the public lobby of the general assembly and also out side U.N. headquarters. U.N. guards ejected the combatants from the lobby, and New York police broke up the fighting out side. U.N. guards searched the coun cil chamber lor bombs before the meeting and weeded out suspi cious persons to prevent a repeti tion of the demonstrations that twice interrupted the first day's debate. Castro's Troops Still On Move HAVANA (AP) Troops were on the move everywhere today in Ihis Caribbean island once a fa vorite winter playground as Fidel Castro kept his nation in a frenzy to fight off the invasion he claims is coming from the Uniled Slates Hie United Slates termed Cas tro's latest invasion charge ridicu lous, and a majority of the U.N. Security Council said alter two days of dcbalo the Cubans had not proved the charge. But the Cuban regime put on the most intensive military display it could muster. A wave of searches' of Roman Catholic organizations and the arrest of at least nine Catholic students or teachers was reported, bul it was not immediately clear whether a widespread movement against the church or its affiliates was under way. Antiaircraft and antitank guns studded Malccon, Havana's pic turesque seafront that in pre-Cns-Iro days was a favorite prome nade for tourists at this time of year mostly Americans. Artillery emplacement! sprout ed throughout the rest of Havana and its suburbs. The capital resounded to Ihe movement of grim laced civilian soldiers. Militia men and women patrolled rooftops with machine- guns at the ready. Hunnreas of blue-uniformed teen-agers, members of Ihe revo lutionary youth organization, car ried burp guns and bazookas into the elegant Hotel Nacional over looking the Gulf of Mexico. Ihe miliary activity cast a shadow across the "Day of Three Kings" the traditional gift-giving day in Latin America which ends the Christmas holiday season. Pro-East Nations End Summit Talks CASABLANCA. Jlorocco IAP Five anti-Western African govern ment heads wind up their summit conference today with a commu nique pledeini! to wilhdraw near ly a third of the U.N. military force in the Coniso unless Patrice Lumumba is returned to power. The five are Gamal Abdel Nas ser of the Uniled Arab Republic, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Se kou Tour of Guinea, Mndibo Kcita of Mali and King Mohammed V of Morocco. Conference sources said they also had agreed to announce more active political, material and moral support for Ihe Alger ian rebels led by Premier Fcrhat Abbas; and call for Alri' i unity and an end to colonialist... The five leaden have been meeting behind closed doors since Wednesday. Abbas and Libya's foreign minister attended as ob servers. Pennsy Driver's Exam Due For Eisenhower HARRISBURC!, Pa. fAP) -President Eisenhower will have to take Pennsylvania's rigid new auto driver's examination- if he intends to lake out a state license, sayi the Hate's commissioner of traffic safety. "I am sura that due lo his tre mendous interest in traffic safely over Ihe years, Mr. Eisenhower would not want any special ex ceptions." Commissioner O. D. Shipley said. Shipley was asked to comment on a report Ilia President, who leaves office Jan. 20, planned to buy a car and drive it himself. Eiionhowcr has established a ho.ne near Gettysburg, r. Many Injured In Leap From Blazing Hotel SAN FRANCISCO fAP)-Fira swept through the Thomas Hotel, a low-rental, four-storv buildine at 971 Mission St.. and caused a heavy loss of life early todav. At least 18 died and up to 30 persons were injured. In the chilly dawn hours, soma underwear-clad occupants of the lbO-room hotel had to leap from their lop fourth-floor rooms as flames raced up from the first floor through an elevator shaft. Others, many of them pension ers who had just cashed pension checks, slid down gutter pipes or used their bed sheets as ropes. The fire, San Francisco's worst in a decade, broke out at 5 a.m. Fire Chief William Murray said it started in a mattress in a first floor room and spread lo the rear of the building and up the eleva tor shaft. The dead included at least one woman. "I'm afraid there'll he more." said Chief Murray. "We've just barely got the fire controlled and we're still finding bodies." Some of the victims were trapped in their rooms by the flames; others were asphyxiated. Ironically, the chief said, the fire was seen earlier and thought to be extinguished. "The guy in 42 smelled smoke in 41," Murray said. "He found a mattress smouldering and poured water on it. Then he went back lo bed." The man in room 4t was iden tified as Ray Gorman. The man in room 42 was Ed Sajior. Both were taken to emergency hos pitals, critically burned. Earl Blake, chief of the city's emergency hospitals, directed a steady flow of ambidances carry ing dozens from the hotel. "There were two or three dozen seriously hurt," he said. The hotel housed many pension ers and others unable to work. Many of the older residents were drank, police said. They had just cashed pension checks and the halls of the burned out build ing smelled from ashes, smoke and alcohol. Some people jumped to safety. Others, including at least two in wheel chairs, were carried out by firemen. One man, Herbert Isett, Iried to descend from the top floor by using a rope made o knotted sheets. The knots parted and Isctt fell four stories to the pavement, breaking his back and legs. Most of Ihe survivors escaped wearing only underwear and thev shuffled as they waited in their bare feet for ambulances. The temperature was 36 de grees, extremely low for San Francisco, and only 7 degrees higher than the lowest ever re corded here, 29 in 1888. 3 Indictments Hit Alleged Cop Slayer EUGENE (AP) The slaying of two men, including the Junc tion City police chief, the day after Christmas led Thursday to two murder indictments against Robert Steven Evans, 45, Craw fordsville. A grand jury also returned a third indictment, accusing Evans of assault with intent to kill Mrs. Verna Mae Milligan, 42, Junction Cily. Evans was accused in first de gree murder indictments of kill ing Woodrow Whetstone, 43, Junc tion City police chief, and Everett Leslie Fletcher, 52, Junction City. Evans was a former suitor of Mrs. Milligan. The shootings came when Whetstone tried to disarm Evans after he followed Fletcher and Mrs. Milligan to Whetstone's home. Mrs. Milli gan s daughter sain they were seeking protection from Jivans. YMCA Planning Recruitment- Drive The YMCA membership enroll ment general chairman, William (Chris) Christensen, met with di vision leaders and captains of tho 19til Y enrollment campaign Thursday night and mapped plans for Ihe "kickoff." Meeting with lum were Cliff Hu- kari, Dr. Jeff Currier, Randolph Solemn and Bill Grav. The kickoff date for the drive was set as Jan. 19, preceding open house at the new YMCA building Jan. 22 to zn. this week is also National "Y" Week. Approximately 80 workers are needed in the enrollment cam paign, Christensen announced. Anyone willing lo assist is asked to contact one of the leaders as soon as possible. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Because of increased service expanses, living costs for the overage American family will rise from 1 to 2 per cent in 1961,' toys a Federal Labor Department spokesman. Spells more worry for public welfar dispensers and taxpayers, the while Uncle Sam keeps food and other necessities going to foreign lands In return for various manifestations of In gratitude and probable ul timata succumbing to th wiles of communism.