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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.