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Publiihid by Niwt-Rtvitw Co., Inc., 545 S.E. Main St., Roseburg, Ort. Charles v. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Business Manager Jleniber of the Assosicialed Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered is second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Roscburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rales on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The Newi-Reriew, Roieburg, Ore. Fri,, Jan. 6, 1961 POWER CO. MERCER By Charles V. Stanton The proposed merger of the California Oregon Power company with Pacific Power and Light has considerable meaning for southwestern Oregon and northwestern Cali fornia. Copco has pioneered hydroelectric service in a huge area one sparsely settled in comparison with other parts of western Oregon and western California. When Copco first entered its "Slate of Jefferson" the population was far less than it is today. Pioneering was costly. Much complaint has been heard about the cost of electricity in the region served by the California Ore gon Power company. But not many of those who com plain take into account the fact that service was given to a section with great distances between major points to be served, and where there has been a comparatively rapid growth demanding constant expansion. Copco's hydroelectric development on the North Ump qua, where the company obtained water rights on a small stream and generated power by using water over and over, has become a model in this country and in many foreign countries as a unique, economical and efficient method of power development. But Copco's smallness posed a threat. Only a few years ago, when public power was so high ly touted by a segment of our population, Copco's very life was threatened. Ladder Of Rivers The scheme for a "ladder of livers" was offered. The scheme actually was blueprinted. Water from the Ump qua, Eogue and Klamath rivers would have been diverted, by pipeline, canal and tunnel into northern California, while water from northern . California would have been carried to the arid southern California region. By appropriating water from each of these rivers up stream from Copco's generating plants, the California Ore gon Power company would have been put out of business by the public power advocates and Bonneville could have taken over Copco's "empire." The State of California recently voted a huge bond is sue for facilities to carry water from the north to the south. The project was bitterly opposed by the people in the north. But people in the south had the votes. So. by sheer weight of numbers, they're "stealing" northern Cali fornia's water, while making the northern Californians pay for the loss of their own resources. The "ladder of rivers" was first proposed, in my opin ion, as a scheme to advance public power. Because of the threat, Copco was forced into the Northwest Power Pool with Bonneville. ...'. A merger with PP&L will give the region another source of power, eliminating hydroelectric generation in the area, but let s not gain the opinion that the "ladder of rivers" is dead. Oregon hasn't nearly as much population as California. If southern California can engineer a "theft" by sheer weight of votes, can we prevent California, which can out vote us at every turn and far outweighs us in the Congress, from removing our "surplus" water? Company Praised But disregarding schemes concerning water the mer ger seems to me to have much to recommend it. The ter ritory wasn't attractive in former years because of its sparse population. Now, however, it is growing rapidly and permits the merger of the pioneer company with a larger organization. In fact, the merger will produce the fourth largest power company in the Nation. The merger unquestionably will permit a much more efficient and economical operation, one we can hope will be reflected in an improved rate structure. At the same time, the area will be made more attractive to industry because of a greater abundance of power. The California Oregon Power company has done a great deal for the counties of southern Oregon and of northern California. It has worked diligently to be a part and parcel of the area served. It has attacked growth problems with vigor and confidence. It has enjoyed the good will of the public. Because of the high costs of pio neering, it has built up many unique and comparatively low cost engineering achievements to serve as models. We are barely on the threshold of growth in this "State of Jefferson," as our own Frank Jenkins calls it, a "state" covering almost the same area that Copco serves. T h e forthcoming merger will give a big boost to industry, agriculture and domestic development in the region. Water Resources Consideration Of ASTORIA, Ore. (AP)-The Ore gon Water Resources Hoard uni mously agreed here Wednesday not to reconsider its decision to grant a permit to Portland Gen eral Electric Co. for construction of Round Butte Dam on the De schutes River. The request for a rehearing rame from the Citizens Conserva tion Committee on the basis of agreement reached between the United States and Canada .on pow er development cooperation. The committee, one of several groups opposing Round Butte, said this agreement made the dam unnecessary. The board's legal committee said earlier "there was nothing to he gained" by re-opening hear ings. II now goes lo the Oregon Hydro electric Commission for final ap proval. The Federal Power Com mission has granted a permit, Don Lane, board secretary, said the license will be conditional on flow restrictions to protect fish and the company's commitment to build I new park to replace Palis ades Slate Park, which will be inundated by the reservoir. Borden Beck, Jr., one of the at torneya for the citizen's group, said in Portland today, "The rem edies available lo protect the pub lic interest have nol yet been ex hausted." The main arguments advanced the danger of extinction of Board Refuses PGE's Dam Bid by the citizen's committee have been (he protection of the wilder ness and recreational qualities of the Deschutes, protection of fish, and the lack of need for the dam. The 440-foot high earth-fill dam will be located eight miles north east of Madras on the Deschutes River. The dam will cost $73 mil linn and will have capacity of 246,000 kilowatts. OSC Scientists Awarded Russian Travel Grants CORVALl.IS ( API-Two Oregon State College scientists have been awarded grants to travel to Rus sia next summer to attend the In ternational Biochemical Congress. Dr. Vernon 11. CheJdclii. and Dr. Tsoo K. King will go to Moscow under the sponsorship of the Na tional Science Foundation. OSC officials said. The poner,, l lltnallv alland. ed by some 5.000 biochririsl from aroi'nd the world. Both I'holdelin and King will appear on the pro gram. The (wo scientists are in charge of several Science Research In slilute projects, and hold research grants totaling (25,000. In The Days News By FRANK We've broken off diplomatic re-1 shoulder defense against commu tations with the Castro govern- nist aggression. nient of Cuba a step fully jusli- ficd under the circumstances. Not onlv has Castro been calling us every foul name he can lay his tongue lo. rvoi only nas ne ncen making reckless and inflamatury statements, including absurd charges that we are planning to invade Cuba within a matter of hours. He is also making it plain that his ourrxise is to make of Cuba a communist MILITARY OUTPOST IN T H E WESTERN HEMI SPHERE. That, of course, we can not and must not tolerate. We have every possible justifi cation for taking the step we have taken, The big question: ' WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? An inlercsting suggestion comes from South America, where in Ar gentina and Brazil there is talk of a special hemisphere-wide con ference to deal with the situation created by the break. Raymundo Padilha, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Brazil ian chamber of deputies (corre sponding roughly to our house of representatives! says tnis morn ing: "Cuba has placecf itself outside the Pan-American system anaV has become a COMMUNIST BRIDGE HEAD AND STRONGHOLD in the Hemisphere. The Organization of American States should call an im mediate meeting and take a col lective stand against Cuba." That makes sense. It takes us out of the position of the Big Shot who insists on run ning everything. It makes of the Castro business in Cuba, with its dangerous background of commun ist intrigue, a matter of mutual concern to ALL OF THE AMER ICAS. II aligns all of us in the West ern Hemisphere in a shoulrter-to- James Marlow Faster Growth For U. S. Is JFK's Toughest Task . WASHINGTON (AP) Sunny and sober. Those two words spell one of the basic differences between President Eisenhower and Presi dent-elect Kennedy. The elderly 70-year-old Ei senhower appears to have a sunny optimistic outlook. The young 43-year-old Kennedy is not pessi mistic but appears lo take a mucn more sober view of the world. Three stories.- which moved within an hour of one another on Associated Press wires, point up the difference. During the presidential cam paign Kennedy complained the American economy was dragging its feet.' needed lo grow faster. Eisenhower has appeared rather satisfied with the rain ol growth. A number of economists agreed with Kennedv. Thursday at 4:38 p.m. The AP moved at story saying the National Planning Association which de scribes itself as a nonprofit, non nolitieal organization teamed up on Kennedy's side, called for fast er growth. Trying to accomplish this is go ing lo be one of Kennedy's tough est tasks, At 5:30 p.m. The AP carried an other story out of Washington. This one, basing its information on "authoritative sources," said Eisenhower would send Congress a budget which at tins moment looks very sunny, indeed. rue country is in a recession. the fourth since World War II. nd just preventing its getting worse will call for strenuous ef forts by Kennedy's new adminis tration. If it does get worse, Kennedy may have to take stringent steps. The President's budget is his es timate of how much spending should he for the fiscal year start ing July 1 and how much the gov The Cartoonist Says: Communism's Cocoon ; . .''; JENKINS One more question: What of (iuantanamo? Here is its background. In April of 1898, we went to war with Spain. Our immediate provo cation lo war was the sinking of one of our battleships (the Maine) in Cuban waters. We charged that Uie Spaniards did it.' Our REAL reason was to free Cuba from Spanish misrule. The war to liberate Cuba lasted 1 1'J days. After (he liberation, Cuba was ruled for several years by American Military governors. In 11KJ1, what was known as the Piatt Amendment (to the army appro priation bill before the U.S. Con gress) demanded from Cuba a lease of Guanlanamo as a naval base. It included other conditions too voluminous to be gone into here. The Cubans objected to the Piatt Amendment, hut finally gave in and included it in their consti tution, which was adopted in 1901. We finally repealed the Piatt Amendment in 1934. That is the background of our claim to the Guanlanamo base. This should be added: Back in, 1901 we were planning the Panama Canal, if built, it must be PROTECTED. The Navy was then our big weapon of defense for the Canal. That made Guantanamo highly important to us. The situation has changed. First war in the air and now MIS SILE warfare are our weapons for defense of the Canal. Under these circumstances, Guantanamo is less important. But We can't stand by and permit Castro to take Guantanamo and then TURN IT OVER TO THE COAIMUNISTS as a base of oper ations from which to extend com munism throughout the Western Hemisphere. ernment will collect from revenue lo offset the spending Eisenhower figures, The AP said that if Congress voles to spend no more than he suggests, then at the end of the fiscal 1 30, 1962). the Boveinmpni will be $000 million more than its expenses. . , . But this is based on a hannv view of the future: The belief that the recession will get no worse and that a gradual recovery will begin in the next few weeks This is contrary to the way most economists see it. Just 10 minutes after The AP finished moving the Eisenhower budget story it moved another as a bulletin out off New York where Kennedy is staying until his in auguration Jan.i 20. This one slarted off: "President elect John F. Kennedv tonight re ceived study committee recom mendations for swift emergency measures to combat the business slump. The group also urged temporary tax cuts if the situation turns a great deal worse in the spring." the study group, appointed by Kennedy to evaluate economic conditions, wasn't predicting dis aster which would require massive spending and public works. ' out it did suggest a bundle of steps lo end the slunm uiilmni trying to be drastic right awav. It then suggested drastic ones if the recession takes a mean down turn. Pay Train Attacked ELISABETHVILI.E. the Com.,. (AP) Nigerian U.N. troops rid ing guard on a pay train drove off a band of attacking Baluba tribesmen and killed 14 of them, Ihe U.N. Command announced to- diy. ! Hal Boyle In Show Business, Tension Is Daily Survival Problem NEW YORK (AP)-Tension is an annoyance to the housewife and office worker, but in the fast paced world of show business it is a daily problem in survival. How do entertainment stars whip tension? Glamorous Mary Healy has her own secret way one which she feels will work for you as well as it does for her. "Practically everyone ' today lives at the jerky tempo of a speeded up old silent movie," she said. "Everyone has frustrations, no matter what his job but you have to learn to quit fighting them all the time while you're awake, and letting them give you night mares while you sleep. "Take a few minutes every day to yourself. Take time out for fun. No matter how busy your day, find time to commune with your self. "If you're going somewhere, don't drive the cab. Don't fly the plane. "Force yourself to let go. Relax completely physically and men tally. "Let everything go. Drain your veins of go. "It's hard to do. You have to practice." Mary insists her system will work for anyone. j "If you can, take a walk or sit where it is lonely and quiet," she advised. "But even in a crowded noisy place you can find a per sonal peace if you learn to let go deliberately of every tension of mind and body for five min utes. "You'll snap back feeling bel ter. "It sounds like mere words, but Dispute Settled At State Hospital SALEM (AP) State Civil Service Director Melvin Cleve land said Thursday a dispute over job assignments at the East ern Oregon Stale Hospital at Pendleton has been settled. The dispute was caused by lack of communication between the hospital officials and the em ployes, Cleveland said. Employes had said the director of nurses acted arbitrarily in as signing employes to jobs without regard to their seniority, Cleve land reported. Cleveland said employes were placed on various jobs for three months at a time to give them more experience but got no ex planation. Now that tne employes Know the reason, they are satisfied, he said. In the future, four employes will sit ton the hospital's planning council 50 they will know what's going on and lo aid in the plan ning. 1 Oregon Will Join In Civil War Fete SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark 0. Hat field today said Oregon will join in a national Civil War Centennial observance that President Eisen hower will proclaim Sunday. "Oregon made a great contribu tion to the Union in wealth and leadership." Hatfield said. "Our Oregon senator. Edward Baker, was killed at Bali's Bluff. "Many soldiers and families from the divided sections journey ed lo Oregon and the Far West after the war. Their families and descendants have enriched our state and region for three genera tions." Hatfield said the Oregon Civil War Centennial Commission is drawing up a program aimed at providing a better understanding of the war. Letters, diaries, photographs, maps, firearms, uniforms and other materials pertaining to Ore gon and the war period should be sent to the Oregon Historical Society at Portland, he said. you can put it into action if you try." Her theory finds living proof in" Mary herself. After 22 years of stardom in movies, radios and night clubs, she is still as slender and fresh-faced as the day she quit a secretary's job in New Or leans to go to Hollywood. She and her husband, Peter Lind Hayes, are currently fea tured in an NBC-TV series. When the series ends, Mary wants either to do one more Broadway show or retire as a performer. "I've been working since 1 was a kid," she said. "And I'm no longer starry-eyed." She'd like to spend more time at home with her children, Mike, 11, and Cathy. 9. "Your children can teach you a great deal, if you'U just let them," she said. "My son, Mike, for example, wants to be an astrophysicist. Asking him questions has given me a whole new interest in outer space. "He makes Ihe stars seem nearer lo me and the moon, too. The moon used to be to me only a rhyme word in songs I sang in night clubs." Reader Opinions Yule Tree Lift To Aid July 4 Fireworks Fund To The Editor: V,'e would like to take this op portunity to explain the purpose of the Moose Christmas Tree Lift scheduled Sunday morning. The fact we are so late in making the pickup of trees is because of the two, double holiday weekends. It is our hope that response of trees for pickup, as well as dona tions, will be good. The reason for requesting cash donations tied to the tree tops, or mailed or left at any Roseburg or Winston bank, is so we may reestablish the Fourth of July fireworks display, the dis play that was so popular in tor mer years. We of the Moose Lodge thought the Christmas Tree Lift would be a service to the communities, as well as a novel way of raising funds for a Fourth of July display. The areas where trees will be picked up will include Greater Roseburg, Winston and the Green areas. Those who have already dis posed of their Christmas trees, but who wish to make a contribution to the fireworks fund, may do so through any local bank. Just mark the envelope. "Christmas Trees." Trees will be picked up Sunday morning, Jan. 8. starting at 9 a.m. All Christmas trees in front yards or driveways will be picked up. It is not necessary lo make a do nation as a requirement for re ceiving our service, but we hope that most people will aid us as much as possible in what we feel is a needed civic endeavor. Public cooperation will certainly be appreciated, and we will be looking forward to seeing every one Tuesday, July 4, at the Doug las County Fairgrounds. Roseburg Moose Lodge Bob Elliott, Governor Moose Temple Roseburg, Ore. Reader Says Teen-agers Need Some Place To Go To The Editor: Hark! "Teenagers are a bunch of hoods!" We're tired of hearing this. We think it's about time we were treated like people, rather than as convicts! After all. how many of you adults never were teenagers? If any of you ran honestly say "No." we give up'. We want a place where we can go for good, clean fun three or four, nights a week dancing, soft drinks, sandwiches and a gab ses sion. Now we can't even go to Rudy's without interference from the po lice and parents.. What do we do there? Sit around, drink Cokes, and wish there, was something to do or someplace to go. Rudy's isn't a teenage bar, as some people seem to think. We just enjoy visiting with our friends, and that's the only place we can go to see them. We need a teenage canteen, and we're going to work to get it. Watch some of the programs of teenagers on I v. dancing and nav 'fl ThteU , T,t ,eemn'anKe.s!h,!ih,y,s',,is,1,c,ory sta,e Park I & no'rLd5 zrr j irrsr , you trouble, Zr0 something to occupy our time and ' see how trouble recedes. Carol Berrow !)47 S E. Stephens Roseburg, Ore. Nixon To Appear On Ike's Program NEW YORK (API Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon has de cided to participate in a television program honoring President Ei-1 teeming with opposition congress senhower to be aired hy NBC men. some newly elected, who net Tuesday from 10 to 11 p.m. awaited eagerly a' new president EST. of a parly that had been long out Nixon at first declined an invi lof power. This time, as we read lation extended by NBC. j reports from Washington, the gen- Nixon's remarks are being eral feeling seems to be good taped today in his office Wash-1 Some of this mav he due to resig ington. The program will feature ; nation resignation to the fact many world leaders, including ! that John Fitiarralrt K,-nn,u- i j President elect John K. Kennedy j Mxnn s press secretary, tier-; hert (".. Klein, said the vice presi-; dent reconsidered his decision not ; to appear after NBC offered to hold the taping session later than originally proposed. Accordingly. Klein said. Nixon found he could work the TV taping into his ar- ranged schedule. Editorial PARKS MIGHT SUFFER Albany Dtmocrat-Hirsld It begins to look like Gov. Mark Hatfield's state government's re organization proposals are not go ing to materialize overnight, as well they shouldn't in view of the wide scope and departure from precedent that attend some ot his suggestions. Moreover it is doubt ful if the governor will press for immediate adoption of the entire program. First Secretary of Slate Howell Appling, whose office would be come appointive instead of elec tive if the governor has his way, took exception to some of the pro posed changes, notably abolition of the Slate Board of Control, of which Appling is a member. Then another conlrol board mem ber. State Treasurer Howard C. Belton, chimed in also with a pro test against eliminating the Board of Control. There is undoubtedly merit in many if not all of the governor s recommendations. There should be, in view of the personnel of the advisory committee that con ceived many of them. The com mittee comprised such men as ex- Governors Charles A. sprague and Robert D. Holmes, Robert T. Mautz. Robert Elfstrom. Sen An thony Yturri, E. B. Lemon. Tom Lawson AlcCall and others ot simi I lar stature. Abolition of the board of con- ; trol is one of the more extreme i elements of the reorganization pro posal but others will meet opposi- i tin, too. on the long road through : the Stale Legislature and general i election. It is the people who final ly must approve the plan, since it can be accomplished only through a drastic change in the state's constitution. The governor has said he considers his recommendations as a step toward the cabinet form of state government, which in it self has sparked some opposition to the entire plan. We ourselves are skeptical over advisability of moving slate parks irom jurisdiction of the State High way commission to lhat of a newly created Department of Natural Resources. Had a department of natural re sources existed at the time the state system of parks was inaug- uraica it is possible that the park program might have broeressed as well as it has under Highway De partment administration, but oth er states that have tried to develop state parks through agencies other than their highway departments certainly cannot point to their achievements as excelling Ore gon's. The reputation of 0 r e g o n state parks as superior is spread ing throughout the nation. Perhaps success of the Ore gon park program can be attribu ted lo a fortunate choice of ad ministrators. Most of the progress made in the field of slate parks and recreation facilities has been made under superintendancy of Chester H. Armstrong, though his predecessor. Sam H. Boardman, provided him with a good founda tion. Under Armstrong's ten-year ad ministration the State Highway De partment has established and de veloped some 175 state parks in addition to several hundred road side rest areas. Most of the state's major parks and recreation areas are contiguous or in close proxim ity to Oregon beaches, which un der stale law are public highways. Therein lies a fundamental rea son for intimate relationship be tween the park and highway sys tems, reinforced by the exislance of roadside picnic and rest areas and the fact that the highway department- must, under any state government retain responsibility for Providing access (n narbt And highway department equipment is employed in park development and maintenance, a cost saving factor. Thus the weldinsz of flip hiohwnv department and state parks sys tem was a natural one. Less close ly tied to existing slate depart ments are the other fields of ac ivity proposed for assignment to Thpse jnclude forestrv. fer' aDri-itPn ,,,. ': " " a Department of Natural Resouvc ies, agriculture, water, minine anrt the marine division, they are all concerned with material resources while parks and recreation facili ties are more properly classified as esthetic rcsoucces. The two cat egories have little in common. Though Armstrong's devotion may be largely responsible for success of the stale parks, his ability to effect his program stem med from the circumstances un der which he operated. He was given a free hand and adequate support by the highway depart ment, with which he was associ ated as an engineer before he be came park superintendent. His suc cessor. Mark Astrun. also a for- mer highway department engi-' necr. will undoubtedly command 1 the same cooperation. '? We cannot see that the gover- j ei Ji ?iyJL" e.te.'"?- .8nd I determination can be completed. ! wee. A GOOD FEELING Eugene Rtgisttr-Gutrd ' As Congress meets, more than ! two weeks before a new president ! moves into the White House, we : see played out a drama that has i been played only once before in American history in 1953. Then, j as now. the president of one party was serving out the final itavs I of his term while Washington was president of all the Americans' and that, like it or not. the hope of the free world rides on his shoulders, We mav be seeing an "era of good feeling." however temrjorarv as the recriminations of Ihe recent campaign are modified and as Mr. j Kennedy demonstrates that he is unwilling lo surrender the reigns lot goernment to the Pope, to Comment Labor or even to the Democratic National Committee. Congressional Quarterly, the au- tliorilative news and study ser vice which watches national gov I eminent closely, points out an odd (fact: Although the campaign was i waged on such issues as foreign I policy and American "prestige," the work of the new Congress will , be largely iu the domestic field. I Although the exact details of the new president's program will not j be known until after his inaugura tion Jan 20, it appears now that I hi mainr effort will be toward "pump priming" to stall off a re cession, toward doing something about the gold crisis and toward meeting an expected Eisenhower budget of $82 billion without re sorting to deficit spending, if such a miracle is possible. A large measure of the Cabinet responsibility for these programs will fall to C. Douglas Dillon, the secretary of the treasury-designate. Mr. Dillon is a Republican, a mem ber of the retiring Eisenhower ad ministration as well as a member of the new one. We must assume that Mr. Dillon's views on econom ic matters will find substantial agreement from fair-minded Re publicans, probably more agree ment from them than from Demo crats who plainly hope for a shot of Galbraith economics. But it is unlikely that Democrats, no mat ter what their economic philoso phies, will seek to buck an em issary of the Democratic presi dent, So, perhaps, the "era of good feeling" will extend to this important area. National Security and foreign aid problems will come up, of course. But in our view it is unlikely that Mr. Kennedy's recommenda tions in these fields will be much different than Mr. Eisenhower's or Mr. Nixon's would have been. Mr. Kennedy, like the two Republicans, will find his opposi tion from a bi-partisan group of congressmen, especially senators, who forget party lines in their stout opposition to foreign aid pro grams. If there is no "era of good feeling" here, it will be be cause of the nature of the subject, not because Mr. Kennedy will be any less adroit than a Republican president might have been. Not that Republicans won't have their knives out, and properly so. They will he waiting for lhat first error. Such is the nature of the two-party system and such is the reason for the constitutional safeguards on executive influence. The dangerous feature of the early New Deal years stemmed less from the ideas of FDR than from the willingness of Congress to do any thing he wanted it to do. But while Republicans may be wait ing to pounce on that first mis take, we see no evidence that their minority is preparing a pro gram of blind obstruction, either. This could be a tit-for-tat situa tion. Mr. Kennedy's administra tion does not appear, at this point. to be rallying ground for wild eyed radicals. Republicans must respect this, expecting at the same time that the president of all the Americans will listen to their pleas, recognize the slender majority he commanded at the polls, and seek to be just what the Constitution says he is presi dent of all the Americans. Corvallis Officials Defendants In Suit CORVALLIS (AP) Corvallis city officials are being sued for $30,000, accused of permitting a tree limb to hang lower over a street than an ordinance stipu lates. Joseph F. Wood of Portland. who said he was forced to leave Oregon State College because of injuries sutlered in an accident involving the tree limb, filed the suit in circuit court here. Named as defendants were City Manager John Porter, City Engi neer V. L. Goodnight, Mayor Gor don Harris and the nine members of the City Council. , Because the city has no liability insurance for its employes or council representatives, City At torney LaVerne Johnson advised them to seek individual legal ad vice. Wood said a city ordinance stip ulates a tree cannot hang lower than 12 feet above a city street. He said the tree in question was 9 feet, 6 inches above the street, lie was passenger in a truck 9 feet, 8 inches high that hit Ihe limb of the tree, he said, adding he was thrown from the truck, and landed head first on the pave ment. Wood said he suffered perma nent head injuries that required him to drop out of college. Land Board Approves State Land Oil Leases SALEM (AP) - The stale Land Board today approved two oil leases On state land in Cnnt and Curry counties. Marie G. Becker of Milwaukie leased 610 acres of land in Coos County. The agreement provides for drilling within two years and an annual rental of 23 cents an acre. A tract of 1.560 acres was leased to Willard Farnham in Coos and Curry counties. This inpllldpri 10 anrnc rl ctal. owned land and 1.240 acres on which the state retained mineral rigms. The lO year lease has an annual rental of 25 cents an acre and re quires drilling within two years. Soviets Take Delivery On Sikorsky Choppers STRATFORD. Conn. (AP)-Twn S58 helicopters built bv the Sikorsky Division of Ihe Ynited Aircraft Corp. for the Soviet government were shipped to Ihe Soviet Union in December bv Ihe Amtorg Trading Corp. of ' New York, it was learned recently. The S5S is the type used by President Eisenhower when he gave Premier Khrushchev a Hying tour over Washington during Khrushchev's visit in 1959. J
