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U. of 0. Library -Wone, 0ruon EQENHEDY, fUl A rn Ulll em augural State Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Tauscher Case Can a person wilh authority to write checks on funds of a charit able organization be prosecuted for larceny if she writes checks on those funds to pay her own bills? This is the question now being considered by the state Supreme Court. Wednesday afternoon, two Roseburg attorneys made their ar guments on the ouestion before the high court in Salem. Five of the seven judges heard the arguments. Arguing that such a person can be prosecuted for larceny was Dist. Atty. Avery Thompson. It was his second appearance before the court in the day. (See other Suspect Held In Slaying Of Student BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Po lice today arrested John Harrison Farmer, 34, and said he told them he killed a University of Califor nia graduate student and wound ed an English professor with a sawed-off shotgun Wednesday. Fatally wounded by a sawed-off shotgun blast in the back was Stephen Mann Thomas, 29, mem ber of a pioneer ranching family ;jt Ukiah, Calif. He was a teaching assistant to Prof. Thomas F. Parkinson, 40, who was shot in the face as he arose from his desk in his quiet office on the second floor of Dwi ndle Hall. Parkinson and Thomas had been in conference after classes. The younger man's back was to the open door when the hatless Run man entered and, without warn ing, fired twice wilh the double barreled weapon. Birdshot from the second blast didn't hit Parkinson full in the funa Rut it rinned flwav Dart of his jaw and blasted out a window behind him. 'J ne student wrnnea on the floor with gaping hole in his back. Two empty 12 gauge shotgun shells were ejected onto the floor. Two professors in a nearby of fice, Brendan O'Hehir and Ralph t TtvAa rn-shfd info the corri dor. The slayer ran toward them brandishing tne snoigun. "Outta the way," he said grim Iv. "or I'll kill you." Then he darted past them, down the stairs and lied out me main east entrance. Another English professor, Gardner D. Stout, nuf n nliinrtcA nf 1h Pnnman tauftiib a . ..... o ---- as he ran past a corridor poster advertising a rrencn yuaKer mm entitled: "We Are All Murderers." "I never saw the man before," Stout told police. Relatives of the victims were at a loss for any possible motive for Dip shootings. Thomas died in Herrick Memo rial Hospital an hour and a half after the shooting. He had been studying for his doctorate in Eng- lisn. He already neiu mirnus u---grees in fine arts (Iowa. 1957) and English (California, 1959). Parkinson, a native of San Fran cisco, is recognized as an out standing poet. it n-am tha cprnnrt ramnns slaV- ing in slightly more than six mnnlhe A nrpflv CflPH. Snna Hoff, 21, was shot in the head in the liorary JUiy u. a jury re turned a verdict of first degree murder against a Moslem con vert. Mohammed Abdullah. 21,- about the time of the latest shooting. Bid Calls Slated ForThree New Douglas Post Offices Postmasters at three Douglas County post offices have been no tified of bids being called or con tracts let on new post office build ings. The new post offices will be built in W inston, Myrtle Creek and Suth erlin. Postmaster Paula J. Burt was advised today the Post Office Department has signed a contract lor construction and lease to the Department of a new post office building at Winston. The successful bidder, North Bend Realty Company of Salem, will construct a building containing approximately 2.452 square feet of interior floor space with a 2(0 square foot platform and 9.050 square feet for a driveway, park ing and maneuvering area. Terms of the agreement provide for a basic ten-year lease with 2 five vear renewal options. The ne w building will be located on the East side of Rose Avenue. Tentative completion date is set or July. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Night and morning clouds, pert ly sunny in the afternoons today and Friday. Continued cool. Higheit temp, leit 24 hours .. 43 Lowest temp, latt 24 hours 30 Highest temp. ny Jen. ('59) .. 65 Lowest temp, any Jen. ('57) - Precip. lest 24 hour T Precip. from Jen. 1 .73 Precip from Sept. 1 11.53 Deficiency from Sept. 1 275 Sunset tonight, 5:08 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:40 .m. story). Representing the state, he had appealed a ruling from Jjoug las County Circuit Court in which a demurrer was upheld. The person who demurred was RandolDh Slocum. attorney for. the defense. He argued that such a person could not be charged wun larceny. Tauschir Fat Argued The two were arguing the fate of Mrs. Alicia Irene Tauscher, 51, Roseburg, former executive secre tary of the Douglas County Tuber culosis and Health Association. The Grand Jury charged that from March 23, 1957, to April 22, 1959, Mrs. Tauscher had used asso ciation funds totaling $386.05 to pay her own electricity bills. Mrs. Tauscher last year pleaded innocent to the charge, and a jury had even been empaneled to try her when the demurrer was en tered. The judge at the time, El don Caley, upheld the demurrer saying the Grand Jury indictment "fails to state the crime of em bezzlement" with which she was charged. He had ordered it back to the Grand Jury for further consid eration, and the Grand Jury re fused to make any changes. It was this action Thompson ap pealed. He told the Supreme Court that embezzlement as a charge could indeed be discounted be cause Mrs. Tauscher didn't actual ly have the money in hand, but he said, the court has previously ruled that the title was not important if a crime is actually described in the indictment. The crime describ ed in the Grand Jury indictment against Mrs. Tauscher, he said, is larceny. Abstraction Questioned He said this Taises the main ques tion to be determined by the Su preme Court can an abstraction be stolen. He said the abstraction is the check which is merely a promise to make funds in a bank available to the person to whom the check is written. Memorial Services Set For Guardsmen ASTORIA. Ore. (AP)-A com munity-wide memorial service for seven men lost in last week's marine disaster at the mouth of the Columbia River will be held Jan. 29 in the high school audi torium. The program will be under the direction of service chaplains with ministers of various faiths partici pating. Community leaders and families of the deceased then will go ahoard the Coast Guard Cutler Yocona. which will sail to the mouth of the Columbia for a me morial service. Wreaths will be placed in the water, one for each man lost. A memorial fund committee is discussing a suitable memorial for the lost men. A group of Warrenton fishermen also has collected money for the families of the victims. As a result of the disaster, the Astoria Chamber of Commerce has authorized a special investi gation of Coast Guard problems here by lis .Military Allans com mittee. "We want to make constructive recommendations regarding placement of lost equipment and possible addition of new equip ment and personnel to provide best possible and safest life sav ing and towing service here," said President A. M, Stramiello, of the chamber. The seven men five Coast Guardmen and two fishermen were killed when crashing seas sank two Coast Guard vessels and the disabled fishing boat they tried to rescue. At Myrtle Creek, Postmaster Harley 1). Naas was advised that during the period from today through Feb. 20, the Post Office Department will advertise for bids to build and lease a new post of fice building at Myrtle Creek. Specifications cail for a struc ture containing approximately 4. 031 square feet of interior floor space with a 531-squarefoot plat form and 7,070 square feet for parking area. The department will enter into a basic 10-year lease agreement, with two five year re newal options. The site option on the south side of Broadway St., east of First Street, presently held by the gov ernment, will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the de partment. Contract Let For Sutherlin, Postmaster Rus sell F. Cooper was told North Bend Realty of Salem was also the successful bidder for a con tract on the proposed post office. The department said it had sign ed a contract for construction and lease. The contract winner will construct a one-story masonry building containing approximate ly 3.000 square feet of interior floor space and provide 7,8uO square feet for a parking and maneuvering area. The same 10-year lease and op tions will also be included in the agreement as at .Myrtle Creek. The new Sutherlin Post Office will be located at E. Everett St. between Stale and L'mpqiia. Tcn tatie completion dale is in April. Thompson contended that the Legislature in its description of larceny naa made the law as broad as possible. This means, he said, mat tne legislature had in-1 tended to make those broad terms ! include the idea that "an abstract i tiling can be stolen." "There don't seem to be any I other terms which could be added j (in the larceny description) with out citing this specific case," I Thompson said. j Slocum insisted to the high court : that "possession (of the actual ' funds) is implicit in the crime of larceny." He claimed it was the bank which had possession, "not the TB association or the person (of Mrs. Tauscher)." Right Considered The defense attornev said the question to be determined is wheth er or not this "property right" twiucn gave Mrs. Tauscher the power to write checks) is the 'kind of right which is possible to be considered for this kind of crime." Slocum also took exception to charging embezzlement and (hen making attempts to prosecute a charge of larceny. He said this would give district attorneys "carte blanche to charge oiie crime and prosecute under an other." In the understatement of the day, one of the justices concluded the session by saying: "There arc many metaphysical aspects in this case." Bowles Says U.S. To Aid Formosa WASHINGTON (AP) Under secretary of State-designate Ches ter Bowles told inquiring senators today the United States is "going to defend Formosa at whatever the cost and whatever the risks." Bowles also testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee he not only opposes recogni tion of Red China as things now stand, but also sees no possibility that the United States would meet the terms the Communists would demand for such recognition. The committee began its hear ing on his upcoming nomination in a packed committee room. Scores stood outside unable to get in. Under questioning by Sen,. John aparnman, D-Ala., Bowles said Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung has imposed the condi tion that Formosa, Nationalist unncse stronghold, must be a part of Communist China. In addition. Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai made clear m an interview with writer Edgar Snow that there can he no discus sion with the United States until it accepts as a fact that Formosa is part of mainland China. "Obviously we won't do that," Bowles said., "I simply feel we are obviously not going to give up Formosa. We are going to defend Formosa at whatever the cost and whatever the risks." Girl Slashes Wrist Following Arrest A young Roseburg girl, picked up earlier in the day for shoplift ing, is reported to have suffered a self-inflicted wound on her left wrist Wednesday. She was in the city police station when the wound occurred, according to Roseburg police. The girl had been talking to a county juvenile officer after she had returned to the station of her own accord. She was sent home earlier, but stated she wanted to go to jail and not return home ever, the report stated. The wound occurred when the Juvenile officer left the room in which they were talking to make a telephone call, police stale. A city patrolman spotted her as she took a razor blade from her purse and put it to her wrist. He stop ped her before the wound was deep. The girl finally went home wilh her mother and sister, the report concluded. Rusk Gets Approval WASHINGTON ' (AP) Dean Rusk has the unanimous approval of the Scnale Foreign Relations Committee for secretary of state in the new Cabinet. His nomination, and others, can not he officially approved until after President-elect John F. Ken nedy is inaugurated and sends them to the Senate. But a poll of the 17 committee members Wednesday showed all In favor of confirming Rusk. Powder Co. All seven justices of the slate Supreme Court look the bench just before noon Wednesday to hear ar guments on the appeal by the ttate in which it charges Pacific Pow der Co. of Temno, Wash., of man slaughter. The appeal was made by Dist. Atty. Avery Thompson of Rose burg afler a demurrer was upheld by a Medford judge who contend ed that a corporation could not he charged with manslaughter under Oregon law. Thompson argued that the rulin? from the circuit court should he overturned. Arguing that the rul ing should be upheld were E. K. oaeeafftpeMMweeeeeeweeeewBMeweeMWMMweieeewei t;-',pw..inpniwi Established 1873 30 Pages Atty. General Proposes New Beach Bi Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton told a News-Review reporter in Salem Wednesday that he had turn ed over three possible bills to the state Land Board which could pave the way for International Paper Co. to pipe effluent across the state beaches near Gardiner. Thornton said he had turned the proposed bills granting authority over to the Land Board, which must approve them. If approved. they wili then probably be given to the Douglas County delegation for introduction to the Legislature. Two of the bills are alternates. One would make mandatory pub lic bidding to sell the land. The second would make the sale pos sible without public bidding. The third bill would allow the company to raise the levels of Tahkeniteh and Siltcoos lakes with out having to bid on lands over flowed. Compensation would be de termined and payment made with out having to bid on the land in competition. The necessity of the bills came about in December when Thornton ruled that the state Land Board (made up of the stale treasurer, secretary of state and governor) had no authority to allow Interna tional Paper to run a pipeline for waste through stale-owned beach areas to the ocean. The Land Board had asked the opinion after the company request ed permission to lay the pipeline. It would carry effluent from a pulp mill being considered there. A site near Roseburg and another near Klamath Falls have also been considered. At the time, Thornton proposed that the matter be taken to the Legislature. The three hills are the result of that proposal. Under the statute, no portion of the Pacific Ocean land between or dinarv high tide and extreme low tide "shall be alienated by any of the agencies of the slate. ; Lawmen Discuss Mobile "Gangs' EUGENE (AP) Law enforce ment officers from Lane and near by counties met Wednesday in an effort to cope with what they said is an increasing problem the mo bile criminal. Roseburg Chief of Police Vernon Murdoch Jr. and Deputy Sheriff B. J. Johnson from the Douglas County Sheriff's office attended the conference. "Forty or fifty miles is nothing for these boys to travel in a night," William Mcleod, Lane County's chief sheriff's deputy, told the conference. "The same night we get hit by the boys from Corvallis or Albany, those towns may be getting hit by boys from here," McLeod said. With this in mind some 50 law enforcement officers from Lane Linn, Benton, and Douglas coun ties exchanged information on known criminals in their areas. In some cases, they found they were dealing with the same men. McLeod said it. was important for the information exchanged at the conference to filter down to the patrolmen in each depart ment. These men are in the best position to observe activities of known criminals, he said. Boun OumTo Leave Laotian Capita! VIENTIANE. Laos ;(AP)-The pro-Western government of Pre mier Boun Oum is preparing to evacuate this Laotian capital, government sources said private ly today. These sources said Bonn Oum plans to move his capital lo Savannakhet, his former southern headquarters, if Laos is cut in two by advancing pro-CommunisI rebel forces or by an eventual international political settlement of the six-year-old Laotian civil war.', Pro-Communist rebels striking across the narrow waist of Laos l have moved within about 100 miles norlhrast of this adminis trative capital. Manslaughter Case Heard By Supreme Court Murray of Tacoma, Wash., and Ed win Allen of Eugene. The two rep resented the beleaguered company which had consigned 6'.a tons of explosives to Roseburg. The ex plosives were on a truck which was parked near the center ol town next to a building which caught fire. The fire set off Ihe explosion. Negligence Charged Specifically, the Grand Jury charged that the company had been negligent in that its (gent, George Rutherford, driver of the truck had driven the truck inlo town and left it unattended. II charged that the subsequent ex- I ROSEBURG, OREGON 1 HURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961 I V e " ANOTHER STEP in the school building program for Roseburg's School District 4 was taken this week with the start of construction of the addition to Fullerton III Elemen tary School to remodel it into John C. Fremont Junior High. The work is being done by Todd Building Co. of Roseburg for o contracted price of $392,000. The building is slat ed to be completed by the stort of school next September. (News-Review1 Staff Photo). Cuban Government Holds Six Charged In Revolt Officials Confer On Bridge Plan Officials of the stale Highway Department. Wednesday conferred with members of the Roseburg City Council and the Roseburg School Board lo firm up plans for connecting the proposed SE Wash ington Ave. bridge with tha Pacific Highway. According to Cily Engineer Ken Meng, there were no major revi sions required on the Highway De partment's preliminary plans. He said the Highway Department offi cials agreed to a few minor chang es requested by the two local boards. Meng said it now appears that the connections should be complet ed about the same time as the SE Washington Ave. bridge, some time during the fall of l!Xi2, The Washington Ave. bridge will then carry traffic away from the cen tral business district to the west and the present SK Oak Ave. bridge will carry traffic from the west into the business district. Both bridges will be two-lane, one way crossings over the South Umpqua River. School Board member Dr. Ver ner Anderson said the only main changes made by the new streets connecting the bridge to the high way will be the taking of two por tions of the Roseburg High School parking lot, bringing the traffic noises closer to the classrooms and limiting the distance to which the school could expand in that direction. The Highway Department will now draw up final plans for the project and submit them to the Citv Council. The Council and School Board will then have ar opportunity to approve them be fore final contracts are awarded for the project. Highway Department officials on hand for Wednesday s meeting were Vic Wolfe, administrative as sistant to the state Highway Kn gineer, design engineer Jerry At tig and division engineer Frank Morgan. Roads Bureau Will Open Bids On Elk Creek Job PORTLAND (AP) Bids will be opened by the Bureau of Pub lic Roads here Feb. 9 for I tim ber access road near Trail in i Jackson County. The project Is on the West Branch F.Ik Creek Road. It starts five miles northeast of Trail and calls for 5.3 miles of grading plus a 106-foot-long reinforced concrete bridge over tha west branch of Elk Creek. plosion killed Harrison Carmlchael. He was one of U people who died from the blast. The powder company lawyers contended during the hour of the hearing that under Oregon law, an act of manslaughter must be committed by a person. They argued that the legislature had no intention of including cor porations in the manslaughter stat ute. They said that in slates where corporations are prosecuted for criminal arts such as manslaugh ter Ihe law is specific about it. The two pointed out other crim inal laws of Oregon which specify that they apply lo "persons and Work Starts On School HAVANA (AP) Fidel Castro's government announced today it is holding six Americans accused of sailing to Cuba Jan. 7 to join counter-revolutionary forces here. I lie announcement said all six were seized in Havana the day after they made a pact in Florida with a Castro loe, former hen. Rolando Masferrer, to join other dissidents trying to overthrow Castro's regime. Several Americans were exe cuted by Castro firing squads last year after they were captured with "invasion", groups . in Cuba. Americans laennriea The announcement identified the six as George R. Beck, 24, Nor on, Mass.; Tommy L. Baker, 28, Dothan, Ala.; Donald Joe Green, 28, Clover, S.C: James E. Beane. 34, Cedar Falls, N.C.; Alfred Ku gene Gibson, Durham, N.O.; and Leonard i.ouis bcnmiut 21, Chi cago. The account said the six sailed from Marathon Key, Fla., with a reiueling slop at Key west Jan. afler undergoing training at Mas ferrer's anti-Castro training camp norma. Castro's Cabinet needled the Portland Resident Killed In Holdup PORTLAND (AP) - A man was shot and killed by gunmen who held up his service station here Wednesday night, police said. Au thorities later took two men into custody and said they were ques tioning I hem today. The dead man was identified as James Chambers, 53, who op erated a service station at S. E. 107th Avenue and Foster Road. He had been shot twice, once in the shoulder, once in the chest. Police said neighbors discovered his body, apparently a few min utes alter the shooting. The cash register in the station was empty, and police said they estimated $70 bad been taken. The robbery apparently oc curred as Chambers was closing the station, ilis body was found sprawled in his sinull office. The holdup was one of a num ber that have occurred in and around Portland in the past few weeks. Police said Ihe men taken into custody were arrested on a traf fic charge by patrolmen in Ore gon City. A pistol was found in their car, police said. Lumumba Beaten KI.ISABETIIV1I.LE, the Congo (AP) The U.N. command todav said Patrice Lumumba's transfer In a Katanga jail was an internal Congo matter, but it appealed to local authorities to place the de posed premier under Red Cross protection. Lumumba had been reported beaten up when he wad taken off a plane at Klisahethville airport. corporations." So, they reasoned, whim the Legislature lines not in clude corporations, it is .intention al. Corporations Included Thompson rebutted that Ihe term "person" can be extended to in clude corporation. He cited a New Jersey case in which this was con cluded by the court. He also claim ed that if corporations can be sued in civil suits because of the ads of their agents, they should also be liable under criminal I w through acts of their agents. One Supreme Court justice ask ed 'how a corporation would ho jailed, tliire the law allows line or 15-61 PRICE 5c - ' 1 United Slates with a scries of new decrees. Work Permits Ordered In a session lasting until after nuumglit, tne cabinet: l. Ordered all Cubans and for eigners employed on the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo and living outside the base to get spe cial work permits from the Cuban government. 2. Ordered all other Persons en tering the base inclining Cubans trading wun it to gel special per mits. 3. Ordered drastic changes' fn tne hpanisn-Aineriean War Monu ment in Havana. 4. Ordered dissolution ol the Cu ban American Cultural Institute charging it has been converted into a propaganda outlet for the Slate Department. Nearly 4,000 Cuban nationals work at the base. The new law indicated that one aim of the regime was to get its hands on all dollars paid by the base to Cubans. It said that ap plications for permits to work on the buse must he accompanied by a declaration of income. The eagle aton the Soanish- Amcrican War Monument was or dered replaced by a dove of peace, me decree saying mat me eagle was a "tragic symbol of aggres sion, vassalage and exploitation." Three Executed Military firing sounds executed three members of the Cuban Klec trical Union Wednesday as Cas tro pressed nis purge oE oppon ents in the ranks of labor. The three men shot in the dry grassy moat of ancient La Cabana for tress were accused of sabotaging electrical equipment last Novem ber, when the capital was partially blacked out by bomb blasts. The three electrical workers raised the unofficial total of ex ecutions to 584 since Castro look over power on New Year's Day of 1959. U. S. Curtails Aid To Laos Military VIENTIANE, Laos (AP)-The United States announced today its economic aid program in war torn Laos is being changed to a stopgap operation with sharply re duced personnel. John H. Tobler, U. S. aid direc tor for Laos, told a news confer ence a streamlined force of 40 American specialists will provide assistance in small self-help proj ects. Before the leftist coup d'etat last August touched off civil war between anti-Communist and pro Communist forces, 110 Ameri cans were assigned to the aid program in Laos. Tobler said Ihe new program has been set up "because there is so much emphasis on the mili tary side and it is terribly im portant to do something that is constructive on the civilian side" Imprisonment. Thompson answered that Ihe probable course would be to fine the corporation. He said a similar question had confronted tho U.S. Supreme Court once and Chief Jus tice Oliver Wendell Holmes had ruled that It wasn't an important consideration. The Supreme Court will now pon der the information set forth in briefs and Wednesday's arguments made by Thompson and t!ie pow der company. Its decision will be a far-reaching one because it can vt the pattern which could jllow the prosecution of a corporate body for such ( criminal Bet, U.S. Security, Gold Problem Plans Talked WASHINGTON' (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower and President elect John F. Kennedy canvassed the nation's major problems in a White House conference today lasting more than two hours. When he came out of the con ference, Kennedy told reporters that he and three of his top ap pointees had had "the opportunity to get the thinking of the Presi dent and the responsible officers of the government on some of the major problems facing the United Stales." Kennedy 'Interested' Kennedy, bron.ed and smiling, was asked how he feels with his inauguration as president, sched uled Friday. "Very good," he replied. A reporter asked if he was ex cited. "Interested," Kennedy replied with a broad grin. A joint statement issued by the press secretaries of the outgoing and incoming presidents said that world areas discussed at the con ference included the Far East, Africa, Western Europe and tho Caribbean. Eisenhower and Kennedv met alone first in the President's of fice. Then they met in the Cabinet Room with the incoming and out going secretaries of stctc, Treas ury and defense for continuation of their discussions. Security Talked The statement said that during their discussions, the president elect and the incoming Cabinet members "were broucht un in dute on a number of matters af fecting tho security of the United Slates." It was the second time Eisen hower and Kennedy had met for pre-inaugurat discussion. They conferred for nearly three hours Dec. 6. Today's meeting lasted about three hours and 15 minutes. Kennedy told newsmen the two conferences will make the transi tion from a Republican to a Dem ocratic administration easier. Kennedy was reminded that F.i- senhower had said Wednesday that the transition was coing smoothly. Kennedy agreed. Touch on Gold Among the problems touched upon today, Kennedy said, was the outflow of gold. He said this was touched on briefly. Kennedy said, in reply to .. question, that the talks were vir tually restricted to foreign affairs as distinguished from domestic problems. Ho said that Eisenhower and his associates had offered to continue to help in any way they could aft er leaving office, if the new ad ministration had any questions they could answer. He indicated, in reply to a ques tion, that there had been no dis cussion of any specific mission Eisenhower micht- undertake for him after returning to private life. Snow Will Dampen Inaugural Activity WASHINGTON (AP) Snow began falling in Washington this morning, and the weatherman gave the crowded city this glum' news: Several inches of mixed snow and sleet may accumulate before the hour of President-elect John F. Kennedy's inauguration Friday. But come snow or sleet, the capital was squared away for one of its biggest celebrations. Kennedy was deep In confer ence with President Eisenhower in the While House when the snow started coming down. Ho paid his second visit to the outgoing chief executive, and it was longer than tne lirst. They huddled for nearly two hours on Dec. 6. I on ay they spent more than two hours discussing prob lems. On leaving the White House, Kennedy drove to the home of a friend in the Georgetown area of Washington where several confer ences were on schedule. He planned to take in a few receptions tonight before attend ing the inaugural concert and the Democratic entertainment gala tonight. Those were the major events on the Inaugural eve program. Laboring under overcast skies, amid falling snow, workmen ap plied tho last touches to the con struction mat nas mrnea apiioi Plaza into a vast outdoor arena for Ihe inauguration ceremony. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Liquor soles in Oregon dur ing December, from a dollar standpoint, wore the highest of any month in the state's history. Revenue for the month was $7,022,089. Meant more money for tho periodical "divvy" to cities but that's not all tha story. The number of liquor viola tions involving minors in 1960 totaled 516, a jump from 298 in 1959. A heavy price to poy for feeding the public coffers.
