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Newspaper Page Text:. ol u. Iobmrv -iivonQ, Oregon k Creek Pqm U rged By omeeir Alternate Site Shows Better Benefit Ratio Leaders Launch Event T1 l ' fill ' iiiijMiuiii ir'i me mi i iisii itiiin)iiiiritiiffiiiiMii.TWMf riiiM liiniitiiiiitiwtiiilnUiiiiiii i"ii r iiiiniimii iimmiiimmiis iiiliiiiiniiM'MiihiiHttriWM ra 1 ft 4 i ? I -' it'. J YMCA WEEK PROCLAIMED The four YMCA enrollment drive division leaders look on happily as Mayor Pete Serafin, right, reads over the proclamation tie signed making Jan. 22-29 YMCA Week in Roseburg. The division leaders, from left, are Cliff Hukari, Randolph Slocum, Dr. Jeff Currier and Bill Gray. (Chris' Studio) Opening Of 'Y' Structure To Highlight Banner Week Balubas Attack Swedish Troops ELISABETIIVILLE, the Congo, (AP) Swedish U.N. troops fought off Hundreds of rebel Baluba tribesmen who made three at tacks on a train the Swedes were escorting in central Katanga Province. A U.N. spokesman said the Swedes inflicted "heavy- casual ties on the Balubas but that no Swedes were hurt. The Swedish troops were es corting a train traveling south .from the coal mining .town, si l.uena, about 300 miles northwest of Elisabethville. Balubas had at tacked the same train over the weekend, wounding three Swedes. The spokesman said the train was first attacked today a few miles outside Luena by about 100 Balubas armed with old guns and bows and arrows. "The Swedes repulsed the reb els." he continued, "but the train then reached part of the rail track which the tribesmen had torn up. As tiie train backed up to return to Luena, about 400 more Balubas appeared and made another at tack. "The Swedes opened fire and the' Balubas retreated. There were about 60 Swedish troops on board the train. "The train was about 500 yards from Luena station when the Bal ubans launched their attack which the Swedes drove off, in flicting many casualties. The troops are presently dug in around Luena station and a helicopter is due to leave from Kamina base about 100 miles from Luena with fresh ammunition and other sup plies." Twenty-nine Americans mis sionaries and their families have arrived safely in Ruanda I'randi after being detained by pro-Lumumba forces in Kivu Province, a U.N. spokesman in Leopoldville said. Details of their release were not given, but earlier reports indicated their detention was a mistake on the part of over eager troops at the border. Little Hope Held For Ike Nominees WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower sent 51 more postmaster nominations to the Senatn Tuesday but the prospect for their confirmation was mighty slim. Among the nominations: Norman B. Hess, Roseburg, ie.; iiarvey ij. dimes, lacoma, wasn., ano urvuie Jv. Allen, Vte natrhee, Wash. More than 1.000 postmaster nominations have been sent to the Senate by Eisenhower since this session of Congress opened. Many have been for persons whose previous nominations by Eisenhower weren't confirmed by the Senate in the last session as the Democrats held up action in hopes they would capture the White House in last November's election. President elect John F. Kennedy Is expected to make new nomi nations for the jobs. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday. Ounce of showers on Wednesdey. Not much temperature chenge. Highest temp, lest 34 hours 53 Lowest temp, lest 24 hours .. 36 Highest temp, eny Jan. ('59) .. eS Lowest temp, any Jen. ('57) .. Precip. lest 34 hours 0 Precip. from Jan. 1 73 Precip frsm Sept. I 13.53 Deficiency from Sept. 1 3.45' Sunset tonight, 5:05 p.m. Sunrise Hmarraw 1-lt m ' 'til The YMCA launches its biggest effort in history this week to make the opening of the new "Y" at Stewart Park a banner occasion. Thursday night is the official tee off meeting of the 1961 YMCA en rollment drive. Some 80 workers will get final instructions in a drive to sign up 1,000 prospective mem bers. The meeting starts at 7:30 in the YMCA building. Worker Teams The drive will be tied in with the open house week of the new building, Jan. 22-29, and national YMCA week. The drive is being handled by four teams of 20 workers under division leaders Cliff Hukari, Dr. Jeff Currier, Randolph Slocum and No. 2 In Poll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Klamath Falls is the best high school basketball team in Oregon in the unanimous opinion of the sports writers and broadcasters in this week's Associated Press poll. Thirteen experts cast ballots and all of them had Klamath Falls in first place. Roseburg continued in second place, but just barely edged Medford, which jumped from fourth to third after giving Klamath Falls a tough battle in overtime Friday. Medford lost that tussle, 58-56, but garnered 100 points in the poll. Roseburg had 101, with four second-place votes to Medford's five, but enough third and fourth-place support to stay ahead. South Eugene dropped to fourth in the shuttle, after an upset loss Saturday to the cross-town rivals, North Eugene. Grant of Portland stayed in the No. 5 spot after a sudden-death overtime victory over Wilson, which held on to sixth place. La Grande jumped from tenth to seventh after weekend victor ies over Pendleton and Hermis ton. Beaverton moved down a notch to eighth place and Corval lis stayed in No. 9. Bend, despite two weekend vic tories, dropped out of the first ten it was eighth last week and David Douglas of Portland moved into the No. 10 spot of the select group. The only undefeated teams in the lop ten are fifth-place Grant, with 9-0, and seventh-place La Grande at 12-0. All of the top four teams' de feats have come at the hands of one of the others with the excep tion ot south Eugene s loss to North Eugene. Standings, with 10 points eiven for first-place voles, 9 for second. etc., and records in parentheses: Team Points 1. Klamath Falls (81) 130 2. Hoseburg (7 2) lot 3. .Medford (9-2) . . 4. South Eugene (7-3) 5. Grant (9 01 6. Wilson (9-1) 7. La Grande (12-0) . urn 95 79 51 38 8. Beaverton (7-1) 33 9. torvallis (7-21 . 19 10. David Douglas (7-1) . 17 Others: Bend 16; North Eugene 13; North Bend, 11: Central Cath olic 8; Marshficld 3; North Salem 1. Fireball Noted In California ins ANGELES (API A lirtt. limit fireball, variously described as blue, red, green or whue flashed across California skies at du-k Monday. Mt. Wilson astronomers said the object probably was one of a shower of meteors which orbit the sun at this time of year. Monday, observers reported- a hlmh (irrhil over nnrlhprn Cat. ifomia and southern Oregon. , . V r Bill Gray. The over-all chairman is William Christensen. The division members will re ceive instructions, materials and prospect cards at the Thursday meeting and will also be given a tour ot the building. f Attend Meet i YMCA Secretary Wayne Schulz reported that anyone who has not been contacted who wishes to be come part of the enrollment drive team may do so by attending the meeting. The drive, which starts Sunday, will continue through Feb. 2. A vic- WILLIAM CHRISTENSEN . , , enrollment drive head tory celebration is planned for thai day. Meanwhile, the drive will get an added boost from many Doug las County churches which will be observing YMCA Sunday Feb. 22. Republicans Hold Transition Ball WASHINGTON f AP)-ReptibIi-cans held a transilion ball Mon day night and not much hap pened. There was dancing and drink ing, a few laughs and a new fight song nobody got very excited about. But the worst blow was that the top brass especially President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon didn't show up at all. Not even the Republican national chairman, Thruston B. Morton. The 900 or so energetic Repub licans who did come had a fine time dancing till midnight to a jazzy, 13-piece orchestra. But it wasn't what you'd call a gala. As Chairman Lyman Brown field of Columbus, Ohio, put it: It was the first time a transition ball was held and "People wouldn't take it seriously." Es pecially, it seemed, in the midst of a Democratic inaugural week. The audience, including many young dancc-niinded Republicans, applauded a transition ball song that predicted "We'll be back in sixty-four." Paper "crying towels" were distributed and a sign reading "House Rules" advised that no crying aloud was permitted. It urged: "Republicans, save your buttons." Several congressmen were on hand and two from Ohio William Ayres and Frank Bow partici pated in a skit depicting nev.-s commentators reviewing events "that made this ball necessary." Two bars were labeled "Going Out of Business Barr" and "New Frontiers Here." They offered drinks including "grape debate sour grapes and old crow," plus apple Jackie, pink Lady Bird, llyannis port and old Fiizgerald on the rocks. Factory Workers Shot PARIS (AP) Three factory workers were shot and seriously; wounded .Monday night in what : police describe as an attack by; Algerian nationalist terrorists.! iu mum Wur ii mi, nil I 41.11 r 1 v!r 1 i Yes .v m Established 1873 10 Pages Laos Troops Capture Big Rebel Base VIENTIANE. Laos (API-Pro-Western government troops pushed their way into Vang Vieng Monday and captured the stra tegic rebel base on the road to the royal capital of Luang Pra bang after only slight resistance. A dispatch from Associated Press cameraman Fred Waters said the town fell at 11:25 a.m. Monday after only a 30-minule battle. Another government column was inching south from Luang Prabang, with plans for a linkup and then a turn east toward the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres. But the government's prospects were seriously dimmed by reverses on the southern front, where pro Communist forces on Friday cap tured Ta Vieng, one of the gov ernment's staging bases for the planned offensive against the Plaine des Jarres. The situation around Tha Thorn, another government staging base, was confused. French sources said Tha Thorn fell Sunday to rebels advancing' from Ta Vieng. Other sources said it was still in government hands. Waters reported rebel Capt. Kong Le had left 500 defenders in Vang Vieng and that they fell steadily back, before a determined government push launched at dawn Monday. The government force was supported by rocket and machinegun fire from the Laotian army's four U.S.-supplicd trainer-fighter planes. The government force captured 16 prisoners including a woman, a 105mm howitzer and a Soviet made 120mm mortar, several jeeps, trucks and bulldozers in operational condition and a large number of gasoline and oil drums with Soviet markings which apparently had been air lifted in by Soviet planes. Col. Kourprasith Abhay, who commanded the attack, said he had made radio contact with three isolated companies of gov ernment troops who had fled ear lier from Vang Vieng and Xieng Khouang to the east. Abhay said he planned to link up with them later. Rickover Gets Fop Navy Award GROTON, Conn. (AP) The Navy gave its lop peacetime award to Vice Adm. II. G. Rick over today in an unstinting trib ute to atomic ships and the man who helped give them birth. Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke pinned the Distin guished Service Medal to Ricko ver on behalf of President Eisen hower. It was Rickover, said Franke, who was "largely responsible for making the dream of nuclear power for ships come true." The ceremony for the dynamic white-haired little admiral came six years to the day that the first atomic submarine, the Nautilus, moved on nuclear power. And the place was the same: at the Electric Boat Division of Gen eral Dynamics Corp., where the Nautilus was built. The medal was presented aboard the Nauti lus. The world's first nuclear sub mersible was on hand to supply power for the ceremonial keel lay ing on the 34th atomic submarine of the United States, the La fayette. And in a sense the ceremonies also were a tribute to the Nauti lus and her sister ships. The La fayette will be the 10th of the missile-firing submarines and lead ship ot a "third generation" of the rocket boats. These will be bigger than the present ones and able to fire rock els of 1,500 mile range instead of the current 1,200-mile series. Franke ticked off what has hap pened in these past six years. "We now have at sea 16 nucle ar powered submarines; 27 oihers are under construction or have been authorized, for a grand total ot 43," he said. .. Tauscher, Powder Firm Cases Set For The Supreme Court session in Salem Wednesday will be Douglas County Day. Two maior ease are to be ar gued before the high court. They are state vs. Alicia Irene Tau scher. 51, Roseburg. who is charg ed with embezzling Douglas County Tuberculosis and Health Associa tion funds, and state vs. Pacific Powder Co., in which the com pany is charged with manslaughter for its part in the Aug. 7, 1959, blast in Roseburg. Both are appeals from circuit ; courts made hy Disl. Alty. Avery W. Thompson. Embeiiloment Charged In the Tauscher case, the county ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1961 Hope Fades For Of Radar Tower NEW YORK (AP) Salvage workers reported today that there was "no further sign of life" from the sunken wreckage of a radar tower which collapsed in the sea Sunday night. Salvage rescue operations were resumed at 6:30 a. m. At 8:20 a. m. the Coast Guard here was notified there was nothing more to indicate anyone might be alive in the underwater debris. Tappings resembling the work of humans had been heard from below the surface Monday, giving rise to hope that some of the 28 men aboard the tower might have survived in an airtight compart ment. A sea search of the area was abandoned and rescuers concen trated on salvage and diving op erations at the tower site, 70 miles southeast of New York City. The so-called Texas Tower was wrecked by high winds and stormy seas. One body has since been recovered and another sight ed but lost. Rescue operations had been dramatically spurred Monday when enigmatic tappings and a sound which was likened to a hu man voice were heard coming from the tower. Then the lappings faded, stopped and were not heard again. "A realistic view," said the Coast Guard, "must be that the Flood Control, Jetty In Budget See comprehensive story on Ore gon projects Page 2 President Eisenhower's budget for the 1961-62 fiscal year includes almost $000,000 for the U. S. Armv Corps of Engineers for flood con trol and jetty work in Douglas County. The biggest item is half a mil lion dollars for reconstruction of the south jetty at Reedsport. The jetty has been damaged by storms and its repair is being pushed by tne fort ol Umpqua Commission. Further Study The porl made a bid for the money for this year's budget, but it was decided by the Corps of engineers that money lor further studies should be allocated first. The second item in the Presi dent's budget is $35,400 for sur veys of the Umpqua basin. This amount is expected to be sufficient to complete surveys in Douglas County on proposed damsiles in the county. The corps last year asked for $57,000 to complete the surveys, but less than halt this was allowed. The surveys are expected to be completed in 19B2. Mid-'50s Start This survey was started in the late 1930s, was interrupted by World War II, and then was start ed again in the mid-1950s. The third item is for $57,000 for operation and maintenance on the umpqua. It will probably he used for revetments, diking, etc. Truck Weight Bill Hearing Due Soon A public hearing on Senate Bill 33, pertaining to changes on fees of trucks over 18,000 pounds, will be held in the State Senate in Salem, Room 309, Stale Capitol, at 4 p.m: inursday. James Faught, president of Jim Faught Trucking. Roseburg, re ports that on behalf of himself and other independent truckers, he re quested a public hearing on the bill when it was first announced. The bill would remove flat fee options on motor carriers in ex cess of 18.000 pounds. Faught contacted Sen. Al Flegel who reportedly requested a pub lic hearing after a week's delay, but the hearing dale has been set for Thursday, Faught has been In formed. Independent truckers are being notified of the hearing and are being urged to attend and inform themselves concerning pending leg islation. Grand Jury charges that between March 23. 1957, and April 22, 1959, Mrs. Tauscher, who was executive secretary of the Douglas County Tuberculosis and llcallh Associa tion, used association funds total ing I38B 05 to pay her own elec tricity bills. Mrs. Tauscher's attorney Ran dolph Slocum demurred lo Ihe charge last year, and that demur rer was upheld by former Circuit Judge Eldun Caley. t.aley said he was convinced the indictment "fails to state the crime of em bezzlement." He said the indict ment "may well be void for pre judicial vagueness and duplicity." Caley had the Indictment return ed to the Grand Jury for improve men in the tower are no longer alive." During the chill black night, a flotilla of salvage and search ves sels hovered near the spot where the tower stood guard as part of the Air Force's early warning system. While searchlights and flares played eerily over the scene. teams of divers plunged into the 48-degree seas in attempts to reach the main quarters or the lower's ship-like hull. Otficers believe the tower was in an upright position, more than 50 feet below the surface. Lumin escent objects, believed radar domes, were spotted by a diver Monday. Despite underwater lights, the divers found the going rough as murky water, stirred by the same storm that wrecked the tower Sunday night, lowered visibility and hampered operations. J wo ot the tower s three legs were discovered still standing but bent over as if by some gi ant hand. One was 10 feet and the other 25 feet below the sur face. Those legs will be sheared off by divers to permit a salvage boat carrying a diving bell and diving gear to move into position directly over the tower's position. J lie siauon, not unlike a ship, had two enclosed decks, contain ing recreation hall, gymnasium. swimming pool, dining areas and canins lor personnel. The 4,300 ton, 67-foot tower had rested on its tripod sunk into the ocean bottom about 180 feet be neath the surface. Failure to evacuate personnel from the tower before the collapse apparently wa3 due to a decision of the tower commander, Capt, Gordon T. Phelan, 34, of Los An geles. Unofficial reports were that Phelan had wanted the men re moved as the wind and cas rose on Sunday, but believed they could wait until daylight Monday for helicopters from the aircraft Soviets Protest Rocket Attacks The Soviet Union nrolosted to Ihe United States Monday that the rocket attacks In Laos bv the U.S. supplied planes "tend to widen the conflict in Laos and to create a highly dangerous situa tion in .that area." Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov, in a warn ing to U.S. ambassador Llewellyn K. Thompson against American aid to Premier Prince Bourn Oum's armed forces, said it was learned the Americans also in tended to turn over some F81 Thunderjct fighters. In Washington, State Depart ment press officer Lincoln White said he knew of no American plans to send jet fighters to Laos. The Soviet protest stirred specula tion that the Soviets may be plan ning to give jet training to the 60 pro-Communist Laotian pilots Ihey have already announced they would train. U.S. officials said that pilots of the pro-Western Laotian govern ment, have not been checked out for jet operations and none of the government-held airports are ca pable of handling jets. Kuznetsov told Thompson Ihe Soviet government hopes the Unit ed States will agree to an inter national conference on Laos. Thompson in reply commented that one of the difficulties was that "what we call the rebels, you call the government, and vice versa." Shoplifter Caught A 16 year-old Roseburg girl was taken into custody Monday by Hoseburg police after she was caught allegedly shoftlifling by Lee Albert Williams, assistant mana ger it Mark's Outdoor Store at 2329 W. Harvard Ave. She was turned over to Ihe Doug las County Juvenile Department. The report said she admitted tak ing a deck of $1.09 playing cards. ment, but the jury refused to change it. As a result the de murrer was upheld. Dist. Atty. Thompson then appealed. The ar gument on that appeal is the action slated at the Supreme Court. In the second case, Thompson will argue that a corporation ran, indeed, be criminally charged with manslaughter. He issued the indirt ment last year against Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash., charging that the company being the owner of a truck loaded with 6'.3 tons of explosives, was negli gent and thus caused the death of Harrison Carmuhael when the explosives blew up. Company Demurs The powder company demurred, 13-61 PRICE 5c Victims Disaster carrier Wasp. He thus advised' a supply ship circling about 12 miles away. Train Hits Gas Truck; Nine Dead MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) The crack passenger train "City of New Orleans, barreling through Magnolia en route to Chicago at about 80 miles per hour, rammed into a gasoline trucK al a whistle' stop crossing today, killing nine persons and injuring six. The streamliner, en route to Chicago from New Orleans, streaked 300 yards alter smash ing into Ihe truck, flames sweep ing the length of its nine cars. Illinois Central authorities said the City of New Orleans was not due to stop in Magnolia, about 100 miles north of New Orleans. The truck driver, they said, apparent ly did not hear Ihe train or real ized it was approaching. Among the dead were J. A. (Jimmy) Livingston, the engineer from McComb, Miss.; fireman John Collins; truck driver Morris Piggott; Percy Nelson and Bob Gwin, white freight yard employ es; and four other workers in the train yards. Flaming gasoline from the ex plosion spewed over the workers unloading grain from three freight cars and onto one warehouse. Railroad spokesmen in New Or leans said there were no reports of passenger injuries. There js a rl and white sign at the crossing, witnesses said, mak ing a slop at the crossing manda tory under state law. But there were no flashing lights or cross bars. The streamliner left New Or leans at 7:10 a.m. and was due in Chicago at 11:40 p.m. The train plowed into the truck with "a terrible explosion," Airs Wilma Gray lold newsmen. She works in a drug store near thel crash scene. "Fire went everywhere, she said. "The front sections of the train were burned and killed sev eral people. I don't guess I ever heard as loud an explosion. Dr. Claude Pctey, a dentist whose office is near the train yards, rushed to the scene when he heard the crash and saw Percy Nelson, a white train yard labor er, staggering down the tracks with his clothes aflame. Petty said he pulled the burning clothes from Nelson, who ap peared calm and kepi asking "about Ihe other boys. Magnolia is about 100 miles north of New Orleans. Georgia University Free Of Violence ATHENS, Ga. (AP) The Uni versity of Georgia passed a day and night of integration without serious violence and school offi cials hoped firm aclion by local authorities against rowdy ism would prove effective. The second enlry of Charlayne Hunter, 18, and Hamilton Holmes, 19, Atlanla Negroes, effected by repeated orders of a federal court caused no disorder among the 7.500 white students. Humors spread over the city Monday that a new demonstration was planned for Monday night The campus was quiet, however, and officials hoped that disciplin ary measures against those iden tified with last week's disorder would restore normal conditions A few coeds carrying small satchels or overnight bags were seen leaving Myers dormitory Monday night. Miss Hunter is housed in that building. Dormitory sources said the girls are planning to stay with friend in sorority houses or homes in the city until excitement over the presence of Miss Hunter ends. Wednesday saying a corporation, not being a person, could not be charged with manslaughter. A Medford judge up held the demurrer, and that de cision was appealed to the Su preme Court. Although only Carmichael was named as being killed, he was only one of 14 who died as a result of the blast. Meanwhile on another trouble front for Pacific Powder, the al most $3 million in civil suits will be up 'or discussion again in U. S. District Court in Portland Jan. 31. Kffurts are being made lo (1) de termine responsibility for the blast and (2) make equitable compensa tion to all parties if the powder company is found responsible. By BILL SPARKS ) News-Review Staff Writer The area engineer for the Bu reau of Reclamation Monday night recommended consideration of con struction of a dam near Drew on Elk Creek instead of the previous ly contemplated dam at Tiller on the South Umpqua River. The Drew dam, to be known as the Deer Butte di'in, shows a 1.39 to 1 benefit to cost ratio, as com pared to only a 1 to 1 ratio of the proposed Tiller site. All dams must show more benefits than cost in the ratio study turned in to Con gress when funds for construction are requested. Only Marginal Generally, the better the ratio, the better lite chances of receiving a federal appropription for con struction, the engineer said. Regardless which of the pro posed sites the Bureau of Recla mation and the Corps of Engineers would decide is best, it will be from three to five vears before a feasibility report is ready lo be submitted to Congress according to Douglas County Water Resourc es Surveyor Ben Irving. The Tiller dam has always been considered as only a marginal pro ject, he added. That margin waa tightened down even more Mon day night when officials of the state Game Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said construction of the dam at Tiller would prove detrimental to fish above the dam. Fish Ladder They said a joint study had shown that although the dam would add some benefits to fish life in the area, its drawbacks were great er than those benefits. Game Com mission biologist William Pitney, who formerly was in charge of the Umpqua River Study, said that if a dam were constructed on tha South Umpqua at Tiller the com- mision would have to ask that it include a fish ladder to allow fish to cross the dam into spawning grounds. ihe additional cost ol sucn a lan der would again cut deeply into Ihe already marginal cost vs. bene fit ratio. Tiller Arguments These facts were brought out at the regular monthly meeting of the Douglas County Water Re sources Advisory Committee at the Courthouse Monday night. The statements regarding detrimental effects to fishing in the area were hotly contested by residents of the Tiller area and tli - ounty in gen eral. : Their basic argument was that there isn't enough good fishing in the area to be damaged, and there fore it should not be considered cause enough lo block construction of the dam. Passage Law Pitnev staled the actual dam ages caused to fishing somewhat outweigh the benefits, without con sidering lie added cost of a fish ladder over the dam. He pointed out there is a stale law against blocking a main stream without allowing for fish passage. The Game Commission objec tions could be overruled by the stale Water Resources Board, if it found the other benefits from con struction of a dam outweighed tha damage to fishing. Elk Creek Locale The recommendation for con sideration of the Deer Butte site was made by Lee McAllister, area engineer for the Bureau of Recla mation. He said that under pres ent economic conditions, the Deer Butte site would be much more feasible Ihan the Tiller site. The Deer Bulla dam would be located about four miles above Til ler on Elk Creek. Preliminary surveys for this site call for a dam lo be built 230 feet high, holding 50,000 acre feet of water and ir rigating some 12,260 acres, the ir rigation area of both dams would be the same. Estimated cost of the Deer Butle dam stands at slightiy more than eighteen million dollars. A break down of this cost shows ten mil- linn dollars for irrigation benefits, six million for municipal and in dustrial water use and another mil lion dollars for flood control. There was a strong turnout ot persons from throughout the area benefited by potential construction of a dam on the South Umpqua River and its tiibutories, known as the Hoseburg Division, at Mon day night's meeting. Access Roads Urged WASHINGTON ( AP)-Construc-tion of more roads in national forests to reach vital timber stocks was called for by twu Western senators Monday. Sens. Frank Moss, D-Utah and Gordon Allott, R-Colo., said they are backing a bill authorizing construction of access roads cost ing $15 million in the year starting July 1, 1961, and $60 million in 12. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein The current recession af fords tavern keeper a cSonce to display their public spirit- restore ye olde times free lunch at the end of the bar, to com plement a quart of "suds" for a nickel while a juke box pours out melodious strains of "Big Rock Candy Mountains."