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Newspaper Page TextI . of 0. lobrrry MS f(l WAP CM LED A CSTlf Origin Of Blaze ONE OF FOUR FIRES believed to have been started by the sama fire bug near the heart of downtown Roseburg early last night is examined by Fire Marshal Leonard Sten der, left, and fireman O. K. Wescotr. This scene is at the home of Mrs. Arthur Clarke at 759 SE Kane St., where the fire bug started blazes in three sections of the house. (News-Review Photo) U. S. Takes First Step Toward Space Stations WASHINGTON (AP) The ed States takes its first tentative step today toward creation of cos mic filling stations for space ships. In time, a series of these space platforms oould become manned refueling points and wayside inns for astronauts bound on trips of exploration around the solar sys tem and possibly beyond. Initially the problem is to find out whether such filling stations can be put together and how. There is no thought of putting men on them for1 some time. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration -announced today that a $100,000 contract to study the problems involved had been let by the George C. Mar shall Space Flight Center at Huntsville. Ala., to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif. Under the contract. Lockheed is to study the feasibility of send ing two satellites into orbit and then hooking them together while they are whirling through space at 18.000 miles an hour. If the Lockheed study indicates that the experiment is technically possible, then NASA will give it a try, using the Thor-Agena B and the Atlas-Agena-B missile and satellite combinations. NASA said there was no time table for such an experiment. It will depend on the Lockheed study and the availability of funds. If the experiment is successful, a NASA spokesman said, huge Precipitation Totals Take Drop In Douglas Precipitation totals took a big drop in Douglas County in Decem ber after a soggy November. The Douglas County Water Re sources Survey daily precipitation summary for the month shows amies. only six of the 28 stations on which I Maximum attendance at Presi records were reported had more I dent Kisenhower news conferences than four inches of rain. The highest recording came from a station just outside Douglas County at Marial at the head of the west fork of Cow Creek. Gen erally showing a high reading, it recorded 5.28 inches. Others with four or more inches were Smith River 4.82. Idleyld Park 4.59, Hogback 4.45. Upper Steamboat 4.24. Tokctee Falls 4.15 and Glendale 4.3 The lowest reading was recorded, Karachi Airport s new S9million at Tiller with 2.04 inches. Rose-Met runway, financed bv the L'nit burg recorded only 2.26 inches, led Slates, was dedicated tndav. Walking Plank Seems No Worry To Passengers Of Pirated Ship NEW YORK. (AP) Pirates c1.nn..l.n;n.l lL... nave shanghaied inein on an extra-dividend Lanhbean crui;c K,,. . . . -but no one appeared worried anoiu wanting any piann. the general tenor of passengers ne Portuguese liner as it steamed her husband, Cecil, were return messages radioed lo the folks ! Tuesday under command of an'ing from Tehran, Iran, where he The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly cloudy with fog In the val leys tonight and Thursday. Occa sional showers Thursday Highest temp, last 24 hours 50 tflWBlt tmn l.c 1A kA.... Jl Hinh.t mn .nu l.n f'COl zc Kowesr terns, mnv Jn. ( 'S7l " recip. last 24 hour T Preeip. from Jen. 1 si Precip. from Sept. I Deficiency from Sept. 1 . Sunset tonight, 5:15 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:35 a.m . 13.62 . 3.54; Unit-(space ships also could be boosted into orbit ia sections and then assembled for use in deep space prooes. it everything works out as NASA hopes, a series of inns for space explorers, or tourists, ulti- j mately could be assembled in an ever-expanding series of conceit' trie orbits around the earth. Innovations Set For JFK Confab WASHINGTON ' (AP) There will be innovations at President Kennedy's news conference to night. It will be held in the spa cious auditorium of the new State Department building, about a mile from tile While House. This is a move from the ornate Indian Treaty Room on the fourth floor of the executive office building across from the White House. President Harry S. T r um an switched the conferences there from his White House office in the late 1910s. Franklin V). Roose velt's also were held in that office. Still another Kennedy regime change is a request that report ers refrain from identifying them selves. Truman started the identifica tion practice. The radio and TV networks have urged that it be continued but press secretary Pi erre Salinger has gone along with a group of newsmen who have contended that some reporters or their organizations are seek ing self-serving publicity. The primary reason for the move to the State Department au ditorium is that it has greater seating capacity and provides more room for TV and radio fa- was 311 newsmen on two occa sions, and the room was jammed. In the Slate Department audito rium a big bloc of seats two thirds of the way back has been removed for cameras, leaving 3!)8 seats in front of this section and about 225 behind it. Airport Dedicated KARACHI, Pakistan fAP) - ; hack home from the comma-! rinnl-n1 Cm). t..-;.. ....... nn-- rieered Santa Maria was; "Don't , 1 worry. idum Mauon along ine .American coast received mire 1 than a score of radiogram from exiled adventurer Relatives said most of the pas sencers seemed optimistic. "We're safe." messaged Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Smith Jr., "don't worrv." Mrs. Smith s mother, Mrs. Mil ton S Hamcr of Johnstown. Pa., said the Smiths and their daugh ter, Carolyn, 7, boarded the ship in Lisbon. Safe. Well." radioed Mr. ad Mrs. Henrv Bates nf Vtathinotnn e.U.C. who were returnine from European lour. Mrs. Bales' sister. Gene Carrinstnn nf M.II.Iho Knrlr V..h 1 trnm ""!"". "V-t called the episode Hjuiuu'iy fantastic, I ..c o.c vnnj, sain rrot. nwi, Mrs. John W. Bietz lo Mrs. Boyce of I.ulherville, Md., mes - sister, 1rg1n1a Long of'saged a son in Baltimore. i Biclz' iiiiii in rtiiiiri Miniriiiii'ii'"i :; , t i n -11111 111' 11 ' -' ' ' v-utt- Established 1873 16 Pages Bandit Hits Drain Bank By MRS. WILLIAM GUTHRIE Tht U. S. National Bank of Portland at Drain was held up shortly after noon by a Ion bandit. He escaped in a car bearing Oregon license plates, authori ties believed. Poe Johnson, manager of the bank, said proper authorities have been notified. $2,000 was taken. The Oregon State Police said that the robbery occurred short ly after 12:45 p.m., and the bandit drove a maroon automo bile, with the last four license numbers 9243. They also said that at least one man was in volved, 38 years old, 5 foot ten inches tall, and 150 to 165 pounds, of ruddy complexion, and was wearing a light gray coat, and had a .38 caliber re volver. The bandit and or any other accomplices was head ed north. Roadblocks have been set up here and in Eugene, with Roseburg city police and Doug las County Sheriff's office coop erating in the investigation, the sheriff's office in charge locally. U. N. Council To Face New Congo Debate UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The U.N. Security Council faces a new Congo debate on a charge hy President Joseph Kasavubu that the United Arab Republic is interfering in tha Congo's inter nal affairs. The debate, however, may not come until February. Kasavubu cabled what he called an urgent complaint Tuesday to the Security Council president for January Omar Lontf i of -the U'.A.R. without slating what the intervention was. Diplomats assume he will charge that the U.A.R. is supporting rebel forces in Oriental and Kivu provinces who back imprisoned ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba. Kasavubu asked Loutfi to con sult his U.N. delegation before setting the debate dale "in view of the convocation of the Congo lese round-table conference." Pre liminary meetings of this con ference of opposing political lead ers were to start in Leopoldville today.' The conference is to con vene in Elisabethville next month. Diplomats speculated Kasavubu hedged on the date to insure that the U.A.R. delegate would not be in the chair during the debate. I.outfi will be succeeded by Sir Patrick Dean of Britain Feb. 1. Hospital Campaign Dinner Scheduled Over 250 persons, representing a cross section of workers and friends of Mercy Hospital, have accepted invitations for the Com mittee of Sponsors Dinner tonight, Charles Hancock, campaign ad visor, announced today. Emil A. Ramberg. chairman of (he campaign, will he Toastmas ter at the dinner, held at 7:30 p.m. in the Gold Room of the L'mpqua Hotel. Guest speakers will be Paul Geddes, attorney. Aaron Boc, KPIC manager and Ray Martin, of Martin Bros. Box and Contain er Corp. Feature talk is to be given by James G. Swindells, prominent Portland attornev. The Invocation will be Biven hvicatc. also, that those who seized the Rev. Allen G. Inglebritsori. Benediction is lo be presented by Father tKunan Buckley. Gainesville. Fla. Bielz teaches at , ik 1: t.-i. .-:... the University of Florida. "Everything is all right." wired Joan Densmore Harberson to her father, Col. L. D. Densmore, Lin coln. Neb. Mrs. Ilarhprsnn unH had been working for the Govern ment Allairs Institute. His moth er, Mrs. L. H. Harberson, lives in Wichita, Kan. "OK. Contact everyone," was Ihe message from Dorothy Thom as. Los Angeles, to her daughier, Anne, a student at the University of Southern California. pFnr L-Uil lrAin T . A -.. les. wired his molher-in law. .hs.j Paul Dans, that he and his wile and their four vounn sons were all rieht. He ,k'oH her in rnnurt the t'niversitv nf Kansas, where year leave. "Destination unknown. T.ovr, mother, U'll tlx. 11.91 r,ril,nn wminnumwii mm.i w inn mi h n iwmmm hwwpi wwmw pinmn ty,iy nia.puiuin u m iiiiimm. ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1961 Danish Merchant Ship Sights Hijacked Portuguese Liner WASHINGTON (AP) A Dan ish merchant ship sighted the hi jacked liner Santa Maria today about 930 miles east of Trinidad, Navy headquarters here said. The position of the liner, as re ported by the Danish ship, the Vieke Gulwa, seemed to confirm radio bearings taken on the ship by Navy aircraft, a spokesman said. Navy planes headed for the area immediately. The Santa Maria was reported heading on a course south of east, which if held would take her to ward the central part of the Afri can coast. Meanwhile, the search force had grown from the original sev en planes and two destroyers. The Navy said that at the latest re port a British frigate has joined in the hunt and up to 14 Navy planes were now in the search. The Portuguese frigate Pedro Escobar put to sea and a standby order went out to all Portuguese naval commands in the West Af rican colony of Angola, the Azores, the Cape -Verde Islands and Mozambique all areas con trolled from Lisbon. Seiied Sunday The 20.906-ton liner was seized - Sunday by enemies of the Salazar regime m 1'ortugal. At the time the vessel was between Venezuela and Florida, on a course to set some of its 600 passengers ashore at Port Everglades, Fla., Tues day. Four twin-engine isepiunes ot the U.S. Navy circled over a 100 mile radius centered 400 miles due east of Guadeloupe, a French possession in the Leeward Islands. They were following a radio fix, a method by which monitoring stations compare note.", to deter mine the location of a transmitter through triangulation. f Same Position s Portugal's navy gave approxi mately the same position. They sniii the Santa Maria was located 550 miles east of the Windward Islands, souUicrncigbBora pi tlic The Santa Maria, witj Henrique Malta Galvao f hijackeqs in com- .1. Galvao Will Nat Surrender Liner NEW YORK (AP) The leader of Portuguese dissidents who seized the cruise liner Santa Ma ria radioed to the Columbia Broadcasting System today that the vessel would not he surren dered to either Portuguese or for eign ships. "If we arc followed by Portu guese or foreign ships we will not surrender, nor will we slop." said the message from Henrique Gal vao. "We place responsibility of at tackers, whoever attacks, against the ship." The laller assertion evidently meant that anyone seeking to in terfere wilh the vessel would be held responsible for the deed. Several American and British craft are pursuing the Santa Maria. A U.S. Navy spokesman in Pu erto Rico said American craft had orders to stop and search the liner only if they apprehend her on the high seas. A Portuguese vessel has put to sea from Lisbon in an effort to intercept the Santa Maria, and parts of the Portuguese navy have been ordered on a standby basis. In his message to CBS, Galvao also said passengers shortly would be put ashore at a neutral nort. The message seemed lo indi- 1 the vessel also might disembark. but this was not clear. This was the way CBS translated the Por tuguese wording of the radio gram: "American passengers, as well as all the others, understand per fectly the legitimacy of our strug gle for liberty hy the most en thusiastic forces at my command. "We will shortly find a neutral port where "we will disembark for our sliin." , r wilh sately for I lie in, tor us ana Runaway Trailer House Hits Service Station A freak accident Ihis morning I .., i.l,l Jr-... i . lau.M'U mii-nuTi tunc uaumur n a nj , .... service station. But it might have J'p" p0'cdn,",',hort ?"; been much worse away about 11 minutes afler the betn ni Kh worse. 1 attack, detectives said. When or A trailer towed by a truck rlriv-1 d(,r(,, to hat, cleaves pressed the en hy John Boyd of Itoseliurg : mlle of thc p,0 to hjs hp8,, broke loose on Harvard Ave. Boyd . without saving a word and pulled said that the bolt at the trailer u,e tngncr. hitch broke. i ' Thp trailer then went whi77inp across fresh cement on the Shell service station property al H2.ri W. Harvard Ave. It struck a divider; ; between a boom and a wah rack, m building on the service sla - . tlOn DrOOertV. En route it missed J. larviss . Robertson, on duty at the stalion tin..- IIib '..!.,.- A.lniiiiiclrnli.ni i hospital entrance, by about lour 1 feet. mand, paused Monday off St. I.u-i cia, one 01 the windwards, and,fruitle sent ashore eight crewmen, in ducing one wounded severely by gunshot in the battle for the ship. Messages from the Santa Ma ria this morning, handled in an exchange with an RCA station at Chatham, Mass., were "All well don't worry" assurances from passengers to their homefolks. Radio Fix A Navy spokesman at San Juan headquarters directing the search for the Portuguese liner said a radio fix had been obtained on a ship 500 miles southeast of Bar bados that "might be the Santa Maria." Pirate Leader Former Supporter Of Salazar LISBON (AP)-Gen. Humberlo Delgado, the man behind the sei zure of the Portuguese liner Santa Maria, says he soured on Pre- mier Antonio de Oliveria Salazar's regime because he learned about democracy in Canada and the United States. For 30 years he was an ardent supporter of Salazar. For 10 years he. served the regime in Canada and in Washington, finally as Por tugal s representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mil itary group in Washington. Learned Democracy "I learned what democracy meant there." he told foreign newsmen in 1958, when he ran un - successfully for the presidency against Salazar s candidate. Del gado polled a surprisingly high 25 per cent of the votes and claimed the election was stolen from him. Salazar dismissed him from his post as chief of civil aviation. He I claimed.-pnlitical asylum in the Brazilian JMjhassy Jan. l.i, luitt. saying he was in danger of being arrested. Two months later he went to Brazil. The general, 54, heavy-set and balding, comes from modest stock. His father was a profes sional noncommissioned soldier and the boy was brought up in military schools. He was a good student but showed a stormy per sonality from the start. Supported Salazar He was always interested in politics and threw in at the start wilh the military dictatorship of 1926 which led to the Salazar re gime. Thenv he switched to the air force and was trained in F'rance. Like Capt. Henrique Malta Gal vao, who led the band that seized the Santa Maria, Delgado was considered in Lisbon to be a pro tege of Salazar. Portland Assaulter Shoots, Kills Self PORTLAND (AP)-A man shot and killed himself here Tuesday night, police said, when he was tracked down by Multnomah Coun ty deputies after sexually assault ing a northeast, Portland house wife. Sheriff's Capt. Gordon Auhorn said detectives are investigating a report that Dean Leon Gleaves, the dead man, who had a long criminal record, had bragged he was responsible for the double murder last Nov. 27 of Larry Ralph Peyton and Beverly Ann Allan, both 19. Those slayings still are unsolved. Police said Gleaves put a single bullet from a .22 caliber pistol through his head after fleeing the home of friends where he had forced the 20 year-old woman lo submit to a sexual assault at gun point. The victims were reported lo have said that Gleaves boasted before the attack that he had kill ed two teen-agers here. Auborn said of this possibility: "It doesn't look good at the moment." He would not comment further. Investigating officers said (he victims told them Gleaves had taken the pistol, belonging lo his host, loaded it, and forced the husband to lie on the floor in the bedroom. He then forced the wife ! !" 8ul"n!1 10 "lul acls, depu- ; III"? MI1 Supervisors Named : County Judge V. T. Jackson to i day announced the re aniKiinlment iof three men as supervisors of the Douglas County Dog Control Dis- "ic. j Darley E. Ware, .T. Harold Nich nlo ...I fr.. l.ll.... pointed lo serve two vcar terms, The terms expire Feb, 3, 13. 20-61 PRICE 5e A check of that area proved At dawn the hunt moved north. The Neptunes, long-range recon naissance planes, were under in structions to determine the posi tion, course and speed of the ship. British radio monitors ex pressed belief the Santa Maria was on a course toward Angola. This is about 5,000 milt's across the At lantic from the West Indies. U.S. and Dutch planes and American and British surface era ft took part in the search for the liner seized on the high seas with the avowed aim of starling ouster of Antonio do Olivcira Sala- zar, Portugal's ruler for 33 years Delgado rose to become the highest ranking officer of Hie Portuguese air force and was sent on many important military mis sions. He was the nrincinal neeo- tialor tor Ins government in the granting of bases in the Azores to Britain and the United States during World War II. Announced Candidacy On returning from Washington to resume his post as director of civil aviation, he broke wilh Sal azar and announced his candidacy in the 1958 presidential elections. lie returned to Europe from Brazil last November for a speech-making lour against the 1 Salazar regime. His trip was cur- tailed after a number of European governments refused lo permit him to speak and he returned to Brazil. Bloodhounds loin Search For Steve The search is on aaain for es caped mental patient Steve Solo vich. This time bloodhounds have been added to the search and they're reported to be close lo the escapee today. Douglas County Sheriff Ira Byrd this morning said the bloodhounds were put on Solovich's fresh trail Tuesday afternoon, but were called off because of darkness. To Avoid Shooting 1 he shenlf said Solovich is known to be armed with two stolen rifles. and added he doesn't want to try and take the Roseburg U.S. Vet erans Hospital escapee, under con ditions that might lead to a shoot ing nf either deputies or Solovich. Byrd said two deputies have been camped out in the timber lands near Glide for two weeks in search of Solovich and saw him about four o'clock Tuesday after noon. They said he is presently roaming the hills near Fall Creek, between the North L'mpqua River and Little River. Glide Area Sheep He said they have been burning the escapee's camps every lime they find one in an attempt to drive him into the open. The sher iff pointed out Solovich is contin uing his habit of eating some of the choicest sheep in Ihe Glide area and is believed to be stralinc other property from ranchers in ine area. The bloodhounds were called In from Ihe Gresham Fire Depart ment. They're owned by Ton Mar tel and he and Dick Chaflin are in Douglas County to aid the sher iff's department in the search for Solovich. who has been missing from the hospital for nearly a year. Woman May Be White House Medic WASHINGTON (AP)-The next While House physician will ho a woman. Dr. Jancl G, Travell of New York. Announcement nf her appoint ment was mado today. White House press secretary i Pierre Salinger said Tuesday Ken nedy s choice tor personal physi- ! cian would not be from the armed 1 forces. He refused to comment further. It has been almost 40 vears since a president has selected nonservice doctor as White House physician. There never has been a woman in tho post Dr. Travell is credited wilh curing Kennedy of severe bark trouble which bothered him for a number of years i She reportedly discovered Ken i nedy'f left leg is slightly shorter i than his right and Dial this con tributed to the bark trouble. It was corrected wnh 1 lift in thcjthe remainder of the term left shoe A graduale of Corroll I'niver sity Medical School, Dr. Travell has practiced in New York City since 192B. She is married lo John Powell, an investment counselor. They have two married daughters. iFire Bug(s) Blamed In Rash Of 4 Blazes Tuesday Night; Three Homes, Garage Hit Mark Denies Plan Is Crab For Power SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark O. Hatfield denied Tuesday night that his reorganization plan is a grab for power. He said at a hear- ""s inai ine legislature cnuici put me man imu eueci auer ins lerm ends two years from now. The plan calls for regrouping scores of state agencies into seven departments, all directly respon sible to the governor. About 400 persons attended the hearing before the Senate and House Stale and Federal Affairs committees. More such hearings are planned. Willi Democratic cx-Gov, Rob- r t D. Holmes giving him strong support, the Republican governor said the plan would give "in creased responsiveness to the will of the people." The plan, he said, would rem edy difficulty of coordination, slowness of action and division of responsibility. Holmes said lie doubted whether the legislature could tackle such a big job at one session. So he placed a priority on what should be done now. These are elimination of the Board of Control, and establish ing departments of mental health and corrections to take over its duties; a full-time Parole Board. an appointive superintendent of public instruction, a Department ot Revenue, and combining agen cies which encourage Oregon s de velopment. Welfare Heads Refuse To Quit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Four Oregon Public Welfare Commission members said Tues day they are refusing to resign as Gov. Mark llattield asked. Said Mrs. Nellie M. Ii by of Baker: "1 am not resigning. I feel it is unfair to be asked to. I've always performed my ditties lo the best of my ability." - Ilatfield-i -earlier . -said his--To quest was the. result of a wide difference! in views on how to op erate the commission. One point is ineir. disagreement wun Ins proposal that commission head quarters be moved from Portland to Salem. This controversy has been carried into the Legislature. The oilier three commissioners criticized by Hatfield are Gcrson F. Goldsmilh of Oswego and Mrs. Lee Patterson and Dr. Morton J. Goodman, both of Portland, Thev agree with Mrs. Irby. Goodman said that when the coin- mission meets Friday at Oregon Cily "We'll have a lot moro to say." Navy Patrol Plane, 5 Aboard, Crashes SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) A Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane wilh five aboard crashed into San Diego bay Tuesday night. 1 Tha Navy said one body has been recovered. The two-engine plane took off at 7:Xt Tuesday nieht. Search was started at 10:30 p. m. after it failed lo make radio contact with in the mandatory period of three hours. The plane was from Patrol Squadron 721, based al Glenview, III. Officials said il was a reserve squadron and had reported here last week for two weeks acuve duty. Gets Fair Post A, FAIR BOARD oppointment this week was C. (Tolly) Toll efson, a Roseburg truck firm manager. He has been named by the Douglas County Court to succeed Ray Doerner, who is now o member of the Douglas County Court. Tollefson will serve out igL. i . until next January. O t h e r tho voting age to 18. Enoct mernbers of the board ore ment Into law would rid the Howard Hatfield and James Myers. Hatfield wos appoint ed last week, and Myers was reappointed. By BILL SPARKS News-Review Staff Writer The slate police arson squad was called to Roseburg this morning to investigate four fires believed to have been started by a fire bug or fire bugs Tuesday nighl. Three of the four fires occurred within an Jl-minule period shortly alter 8 o'clock and thc fourth was discovered less than nvo hours la ter. All but one of the files was started in houses where no one was home al the time. The fourth was in a garage. All four were in a three-hloct area near the heart of downlowu Roseburg. Damage Near $2,450 Preliminary estimates of dam age hit S2,fi5(, but Roseburg Fire Chief Don Slarmer said the dam age may run higher. He said it is believed there may have been sev eral antiques burned in one of the Starnicr issued a rennpst r,,,- 11 citizens lo keep a close vigil on unoccupied houses and to watch for persons prowling around gar ages and other buildine n n;n. ed out this vigil is needed for the kai icw nays, or until the fire bug is caught. 32 In Fight A total of 32 city firemen and volunteers linnpii m,i , the rash of fires Tuesdav night, righting (lie four blazes involved using all four of the fire depart ment s pumpers and the salvage The Roseburg Rural Firm fin. partment was on the scene at tha city s main fire station within min ules after the third fire was re ported. They rolled in wilh a ni,m. er and three men to serve on stand- uy emergency duty under the fire departments' mutual aid program. 35 Seek 'Bug' -wore than 35 policemen and re serves from the city and stale po lice departments and the Douglas County Sheriffs Office carried out a search for Ihe fire bug until the early hours of the morning with a heavy saturation patrol of cars and men throughout the cily. The first alarm hit al 8:04 p.m. when a fire was discovered at tha home of Mr. and Mrs. Lolt Art- man ai snz cobb St. Starmer said the fire bug is believed lo nave eiucrca mrough. a door to thil house. Damage was estimated at a SI . 000 loss to the contents of tha house and $500 to tho house itself. Ihe Artmans had moved to an other home in the cily early this month, but had not yet moved (heir furnishings, Starmer said. On Mosher Avenue Even before tha trucks had ar rived on the scene of the Cobb SL fire the alarm sounded for a blaze '? s. vacant house owned bv Airs. Paul B. Hull at 833 SE ilosher Ave. Enfry into this house was be lieved (0 have been mado through a porch window. A mattress was set on fire in the downstairs apart ment and the fire was discovered by people living in the upstairs of the two-story apartment house. Damage was cslimated at SlUO to Ihe building and $50 lo the con tents. On Main Street The third alarm sounded at 8:15 p.m. for a fire in the garage at Ihe home of the Rev. Jack Adams. 1229 SE Main St. Rags in the gar age were started afire and no dam age was recorded. Thc fire bug then apparently laid low for about an hour and a half, as the fourth alarm sounded at 9:59 p.m. This was for a blaze in the home of Mrs. Arthur Clarke at 759 SE Kane St. Mrs. Clark is reported to be in Portland on vacation. Entry into the building was made by jimmy ing a cellar door and the fire was started in three different locations in the house. Antiques Thought Burned Damage was initially recorded at $500 to the property and an equal amount to the contents, but Starmer said Mrs. Clarke had sev eral antiques in the house and some of them may have been burned. These were the first arson fires since last summer, when three were started in unoccupied houses. The last heavy-damage arson case involved the burning of a laundry on SE Fowler St. about nine years ago and resulted in a Roseburg man being sent to the atate prison on an arson count. Castro Executes 589th Victim HAVANA (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime has sent its 589th victim to the execution wall. Two Cuban army defectors were shot Tuesday in Pinar del Rio after speedy conviction on charges of leading 1 rebel band in the western mountains. The execu tions brought to 589 the nunibrr known lo have been executed since Castro seized power two years ago. Levity Fact Rant By L F. Reizenstein Repeated in the current I session ot the Oregon Leqis- laturo it a proposal to reduce 18-ageri of the emborossment of being listed os "children" in the periodical school census.