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U. of 0. Library i'ueicna , Oregon W.U'.J eoreh Coontomiyes 0 I I CHECKING FOR FINGERPRINTS Two Douglas County Sheriff's deputies dust for fingerprints ot the cage of teller Kermit Miller. Clear fingerprints were found and have been taken to the state Crime Laboratory in Salem. Dusting for the prints are C. R. (Nails) Borgman and Undersheriff Lyle Dickinson, closest to camera. News-Review Photo) -LJi'lllHI' J " f ' . vmnm.WM 1 - r.- hi f -: I J r ik ;" 'i . 5,J j. , ' 1 HELD UP Kermit Miller, teller at the Drain bank, didn't hesitate os he looked up into the barrel of a revolver of the robber who made off with more than $2,000. Miller, who said the gun barrel looked huge, handed over the money without question, as he and all other tellers have been instructed. (News-Review Photo) ' Cigarette Tax Support Denied By Governor KAI.KM (AP) Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield, in reply to criticism from legislators, said Wednesday he never did endorse a cigarette tax or a cut in income tax rev enues. Hatfield said his plea for an end to stale income tax deductions and a percentage levy on all in come was designed to bring in the same amount of revenue now raised by income taxes. New Tax Bill Asked Rep. Clarence Barton. D-Co-quille, at a joint Senate-House tax committee meeting said Hatfield should come up with a new tax bill in view of his opposition to the cigarette tax. Chairman Dick Eymann. D-Mo-hawk, of the House Taxation Com mittee said the cigarette tax was part of a tax package that would make up revenue lost under the new income tax system. Evmann said the package pro vided for a $20 million income tax reduction and that this would he made up by the cigarette tax and a system of making quarterly tax payments which would bring more revenue. All Mut Pty The Haltield proposal would make persons with low incomes who now are exempt from taxes pay some. H alo would give some Release Of American Fliers Seen Move Toward JFK-Krush Meet WASHINGTON" (AP) Soviet release of two imprisoned Ameri can fliers increased today the chances for a meeting between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev later this year. But in Kennedy's view many other ob stacles to a summit conference The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Cloudy with scattered lhowerj tonight and Friday. A little warm er tonight. Highest temp, latt 34 SS Lowest temp, lot 24 heuri .. 36 Highest temp, any Jan. ('59) ... 4S Lowest temp, iny Jan. C7) .. t Lowest temp, lest 24 hours . . ? Precip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. from Jan. 1 .82 Precip. from Sept. I 13.6? Deficiency from Sept. I . . 3.71 Sunset tonight, 5:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:24 a.m. ' 3 . ITT x?-t -: 1 Vj o ! relief to those in higher income : brackets. I Hatfield's reply came at a news conference shortly after Barton sparked the challenge. Eymann later sent a three-page letter to : the governor asking a tax bill. I "You have been aware of the I interim committee's recommenda tions for some time and you ex pressed approval of the package program in conference and in comments made to the press," Eymann said in the letter. Eymann said when the interim committee on taxation discussed this with the governor that Hat field went along with reducing the income tax base and passing the cigarette tax. Barton said Hatfield's opposi tion to the cigarette tax now can mean only that the revenue esti mates are $10 million too low. that there is Sill million in fat in the budget or that the governor has a new income tax bill of his own. "I suggest that the governor come forth with his income tax bill that is necessary to balance the budget, Barton said. The hearing drew opposition to the cigarette tax from Tom Scan Ion, representing the Oregon AKL- Clt). and Kobert Bradley, score tary of the Oregon Tobacco Dis tributors Association. must still be cleared away. I Kennedy announced the freeing of the two airmen. Capl. John R. j McKone of Topeka. Kan., and Capt. Freeman B. Olmstead of El ! mira, N.Y., at his first president- ial news conference Wednesday night. It was a goodwill gesture I by Khrushchev and something of a diplomatic triumph for Kennedy. Kennedy offered a goodwill ges ! lure of his own. announcing he j had ordered that 12 spy plane flights over the Soviet I ninn not , be resumed. In that action he re , newed an assurance given by I President F.isenhower when the Paris summit conlerence blew up last May. Khrushchev had de clared tiien his interest in know ing whether Eisenhower's succes sor would resume the flights. On other matters dealing with foreign relations, Kennedy said: ( 1 1 Thero are no present plans for rcopenine diplomatic relations wilh Cuba, 1 2) 1 her has been no Soviet reaction to the British pro - JFK Asks Hike In Rules Group WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy, speaking as an "in terested citizen," wants the House to enlarge its Rules Committee to break a bottleneck threatening his program. The President told a dramatic dramatic news conference Wednesday night his first that he wouldn't for the world inter fere in the constitutional process by which both houses of Congress fix their own rules. "But it is no secret," ho said, "that I would strongly believe that the members of the House should have an opportunity to vote themselves on the programs we will present." Kennedy's statement was made in the framework of surprise ac tion by House Speaker Sam Ray burn. D-Tex. Rayburn postponed until next Tuesday a showdown vote previously scheduled for to day on a proposal to cut South ern Democratic-Reoubliean coali tion power' to pigei?jhol in Uic committee domestic legislation ol the kind Kennedy wants. Rayburn backs a move to add two Democrats and a Republican to the committee and thus pro vide a majority to send the Ken nedy program to a House vote. Angered Republicans, not noti fied in advance of the postpone ment, charged that some Kennedy Cabinet officers were being enlist ed to solicit votes for the en largement plan. Ren. Charles A. Halleck of In diana, the House minority leader. told reporters Secretary ot inter ior Stewart L. Udau, a lormer House member, had telephoned some Republicans urging them to support the Rayburn move. U. S. Air Force Begins Lift Of Food To Congo EVREUX. France (AP) The U.S. Air Force today began a gi ant airlift of food and other sup Dlies to the Conao to halt famine among hundreds of thousands of refugees driven from their land by tribal warfare. Twenty huge transport planes based in France and West Ger many will be used in the opera tion over the next few days to oarry 1,100 tons of supplies solic ited from five countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organ ization. President Kennedy announced in Washington Wednesday night that the United States was going to "increase substantially its con tribution toward relieving the famine in the Congo." Plans for movement of these supplies have not yet been announced. Relations Renewed LONDON (AP) Britain and the United Arab Republic today formally re-established full diplo matic relations by announcing an exchange of ambassadors. posal for reviving an interna tional control commission for Laos and (31 U.S. contributions of foodstuffs will he increased sub stantially to relieve famine in the Congo. One question posed by Ken nedy's announcement was wheth er Khrushchev and he had ex changed concessions the release of the airmen for a pledge of no more- spy flights. When asked if Khrushchev had required a con cession lo free McKone and Olm stead. Kennedy replied that he did not The President also said that he would mil ' attempt lu make a judgment as lo whv the Soviet Union chose to release them at this time." Some officials report ed that U S. Ambassador Llcwel ln E. Thompson raised the sub ject of the imprisoned airmen in a two-h our conlerence with Khrushchev lal Saturday. Others jaid Khrushchev was the fust lo bung it up. lyiygjp urn iiiaiii.iiiyi i;n mi) j im iin;. i i m.n n iiiiii i mi i.iiinjmn LJ-""'-J " MaiiimfiiiiMi -iiri- ;,-"M' - - t riiiiiinmniifwwriiimf turn in'iiumi i iianiiif.y-itir' Established 1873 28 Pages Reds Release Fliers After Seven Months See Story On Peg 3 WASHINGTON (AP) The two American fliers released from So viet custody are expected to reach Washington t r i d a y afternoon. President Kennedy wUl meet them on their arrival at Andrews Air force Base. The fliers, whose freedom from seven months of Soviet detention was announced so dramatically by Kennedy at a televised news conference Wednesday night, had originally been expected to get to nasmngion nils aiternoon. Stop-Over Set But the While House announced today that the two men Caps. Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone will spend the night at Goose Bay. Labrador, where nicy arrived mis morning, msieaa of flying on to Washington, and into a prediclea snow storm. Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said McKone and Olmstead landed at Goose Bay at 0.63 a.m. tai. Present prospects are that they will land at nearby Andrews Air force Base some tune after noon Friday. Wives Due Wives of the two men were at Andrews around noon today from Topcka, Kan., the home of Alc- Kone. They will remain at the air base tonight. Salinger said an Air Force phv sician accompanied the wives on tncir night in an Air force plane. Airs. Olmstead, he said, expects to have a baby in another month or so. Salinger ' said that Kennedy plans to greel .ucwone ana Olm stead at the airport, where they may make a brief statement but will not hold any interviews. Only Survivors McKone and Olmstead are the only known survivors of the U.S. RB47 reconnaissance plane which the Russians shot down over the Barents Sea last July 1. There were six U.S. airmen in the plane. The Russians returned the body of one man to this coun try. The fate of the other three is unknown. Camp Fire Dinners Set Here Friday Almost 2.000 Camp Fire girls and their parents will attend "potlatch es" in Central Douglas County Fri day night in mass recognition of the 50ih anniversary ot the organ ization. Similar banquets are being held all over the United States on the same night. In Roseburg, about 1.300 have signed up to attend the potluck affair at the Douglas County Fair grounds. Camp Fire workers arc already making preparations at the Community Building for the big affair. In Myrtle Creek about 400 are expected to attend the potlalch in the Tri-City School cafeteria. In Winchester, about 150 will be on hand at the Winchester School. Programs at all the potlatehes will be given by the Camp Fire Girls themselves. In Roseburg, the master of ceremonies will he Dr. Donald Bailey. Mrs. Dale Sail will direct the one at Myrtle Creek, and Mrs. Willard Pease will be MC at Winchester. At Winchester, the program will be a Camp Fire group ceremonial. The term "potlatch" for the af fairs was an Indian term, mean ing banquet. All the programs will start at 7 p.m. New Rogue River Port Slates Opening Today GOLD BEACH (AP) A sea going til' is to tow two barges loaded with lumber out of the Rogue River today, thus provid ing Oregon with a new sea port. The barges have been loaded with three million board feet of lumber fur California. The Corps of Engineers recent ly completed construction of two 3.3.10-fool long jetties at the mouth of the river at a cost of S2.7.'iO.OOO. The engineers plan to dredge a 13-loot channel between the jet ties next summer. But the tug boat company said it ran begin operating now at high tide. Community's Lions Will Cope With Roving Dogs SEATTLE fAP) They're go ing to turn the Ijons loose in the lit 1 lo prim mnnit v nf Mnv Vallpv next week to cope with the rov ing dogs. Mrs. Helen Mvers, volunteer worker, said Wednesday the marching mothers can't take the chance nf being attacked by a dog pack when they solicit for the March of Dimes. Members f the l.ioni Club will lake over the duty. ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961 Mothers ti r - ' f FT -. "?'4J jr f 4 ji Sgsxfci. : . i' If f tiWz MAKING HER CONTRIBUTION to the Mothers Morch of Dimes campaign in Roseburg is Mrs. Wayne Harris, 1447 SE Overlook Ave. The volunteer collector is Mrs. R. Allen Brown, 715 SE Terroce Dr. The Mothers' March is on to night, from 6:15 to 7:15, in Riddle, Myrtle Creek, Wins-ton-Dillord and other areas of Douglas County. Those participating will stop only at houses with porch lights turned on. (News-Review Photo) Hotel, Hospital Get Bomb Scare Roseburg's fire bug has appar ently either turned into a phone bug or triggered the phone bug tendencies in someone else in the city. Two bomb threats were made over the phone Wednesday night and a threat of burning down a house was added to the list. All three calls were apparently made by the same person. The homo threats were lo mercy Hospital and the Rose Hotel, while the fire threat was against a wom an living in the northeast section of (he city. These calls followed within 24 hours of a rash of four fires, all believed to have been set by the same fire bug, or bugs. The slate police arson squad is currently in vestigating the four Tuesday night fires, which resulted in a loss of more than $2,6un. Woman Receives Call According lo Roseburg police, the first of the threat calls was made to Mrs. (ilenda M. Gadway, 1144 NE Winchester St., at 8:39 p.m. The police report said the caller told Mrs. Gadway to meet him at SE Oak Ave. and W. Harvard Ave. or he would burn her house down. They said he gave his name as Bob Williams. The caller made one mistake, however, as SE Oak Ave. and W. Harvard Ave. do not intersect one another. The second call was made at 8:45 p.m. to Mercy Hospital when the man identified himself as Steve Solovich and said, "There will be a bomb between 9 and 9:30." The police said hospital re ceptionist Ann Margaret Kilkenny had called a fireman to the scene and the man called back at 9 U5. He then said. "This is Steve again I hope you don't think I'm kidding." She handed the phone lo the fireman, but Iho caller hung up. Solovich is an escaped patient from the Roseburg U.S. Veterans Hospital. Police Get Call The final call was made at 9:47 p.m., this time to city police head quarters. According to the report, the caller told Sgl. Bob Simonsen. "This is George Williams and 1 am the person that has started the fires." He then told Simonsen, "I don't want to hurt anyone," but imme diately contradicted himself by add ing, "I also planted a bomb in the Rose Hotel, and I think it is set lo go off about 10::io." Simonsen said the voice was that of an adult man, not a youth ful prankster such as was the case in last year's bomb threats to Rose Elementary School. Fire Marshal Leonard Slender said this morning he had no way of knowing whether the man who made the calls Wednesday night was the same one who started the fires Tuesday night, but added it was a strong possibility." Queen Views Parade NEW DELHI (API A sample of India's military might and in dustrial development paraded lie fore Queen Elizabeth II today at the annual celebration of Repuhlic I Day. anniversary of India's be rumuiii n ii-iuiiiic tviiiini Mil' i British Commonwealth in 1950. coming a republic within the To March w I e v L If , i.J''. :W f,,'t: Dimes Drive Set Tonight - IfundredK of mothers' tn thev Rose burg. Winslon-Dillard. Glide. Win Chester, Myrtle Creek and Riddle areas win make their annual Moth ers' March tonight. In HoseburR. mill and fire de partment whistles will blast at 6:15 p.m. signaling the start of the march in the area. The mothers here will stop at homes with porch lights on only. In the Winston-Dillard area, the Kiwanis Club has arranged to have at least 100 women make their march. They are to start march ing at 6 p.m. They will knock on every door in the Winslon-Dillard area. Olto Jones, who is in charge of tile March or unties drive in Win ston, said a road blockade to raiso more money for the march will be staged Saturday. Similar marches of mothers to raise money for Ihe drive which is designed to finance work to bat lie birlh defects, arthritis and polio will go on. County March of Dimes Chairman Robert Sargent of Rose burg said the goal for the drive is $15,000. v Chamber Of Commerce In Drain Picks Officers New officers will take over at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet in Drain Saturday night. The announcement was made at Hie regular meeting of the cham ber Wednesday. The Chamber also made final plans lor the banquet scheduled at 7 p.m. in the grade school. 'iho new officers are Martin League, president; Dr. Mark Wat son, vice president; Mary Scolt, secretary; Mrs. Grant McCormack, treasurer; and Bob Miller, Dr. Watson, Bill Duncan and Verne Thomas, directors. Kennedy Task Force Urges Move To Curb Flow Of Gold From U. S.1 WASHINGTON (AP) A spe cial task force on economic prob lems had to wait only a few hours Wednesday night to see President Kennedy adopt its No. 1 sugges tion for curbing the drain on U.S. gold reserves. Kennedy told his news confer ence the value of the dollar must be protected and can be protected without restricting the movement of privale funds between the Unit ed States and Uie rest of the world ine task force headed by Allan Sproul. former president of the' L'.un..l Unciin U.nk ..f IS. n. York, met earlier Wednesday wilh Kennedy and Secretary of Ihe Treasury Douglas Dillon. The group urged a strong statement by Kennedy that the dollar would not be devalued and that curbs would not be imposed on money j f(inmT ,.,.,,,1, )wil(hl Eisrn-lthe latest place for a passen movemens. huwer and Ins secretary of Ihe.aer in the event of a wreck. niiite hut -iage rcpuri or me sized the gold dolhir problem, it also included suggestions for stim ulating the economy. The task force recommended .... i-.i i t K"-Hlt'r It'iifiiii flin to llie linem- i ployed but said mafstve spending 21-61 PRICE 5c Navy Plane Feared Down i In Atlantic ARGENTIA, Nfld. (AP)-A U.S. military transport plane disap peared today near the southeast tip of Newfoundland. Canadian and U.S. planes and ships began a search of the frigid waters. Information here was that 28 persons were alxiard but a spokes man at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey said there were 23 persons 10 IVavy crewmen and 13 passengers on the four-engine .Military Air Transport Service C118. It was on a flight from Port l.yautey, Morocco, to Ivorfolk, Va., via the Azores and Argentia. The last word from the missing aircraft was a radio message to Air Traffic Control at Gander, Nfld. The pilot reported lie was 455 miles southeast of Argentia. There was no mention of trouble. The C118 lett Lajes in the Azores Wednesday night. Royal Canadian Air Force search head quarters said it was due nl Ar gentia at 6:37 a.m. There was an unconfirmed re port that a U.S. Navy pilot saw an explosion at 6:14 a.m. about 28 miles southeast of Argentia. Search officials said this might nave neen a Hare. Gander Air Traffic Control clared an emergency when the plane did not report by radio as scheduled. Those aboard were given little chance of survival if the plane landed in Iho water. The air tem perature was near zero in New foundland this morning. The Weather Office., said the ocean water would be between 32 and 35 degrees.' Search planes had sunny weath er to aid their hunt but high winds anu Hying spray created the haz ard of icing for surface vessels. The plane left the Azores wilh enough fuel for about ll'.j hours flying. The fuel would have been used up by 10:30 a.m. today Control In Doubt In El Salvador GUATEMALA (AP)-Control of IM Salvador was in doubt today following a revolt by a self-proclaimed anti-Communist military junta and reports that supporters of Hie previous leftist junta were making a stand. Troops loyal to the former rul ing group were reported dug in at Zapote Fort in San Salvador, strongest military post in the cap ital and located just across the street from the government pal ace held by the rebels. But re ports filtering across the border said the new junta was negotiat ing with the armed holdouts. Details were still sketchy as to the slale nf the revolt which erupted Wednesday in the small est of the 21 American republics. A member of Iho new five-man junta, Antonio Rodriguez Port, broadcast over El Salvador radio that his group had full command over the armed forces. Port said his group had acted because the country faced "very serious dan ger" from forces of both Iho ex treme right and extreme left. Reports from across the border said the rebel command had ar rested a number of leftist lead ers and that students were dem onstrating in favor of the old military-civilian junta that threw out President Jose Maria Lcmits on Oct. 26. Travelers arriving from El Sal vador in Managua, capital of neighboring Nicaragua, said a child had been killed and a mem ber of the former junta wounded in fighling which followed the re volt. The official was not identi fied . increases were neither necessary nor desirable to combat the busi ness slump. The group indicated it expects only a mild and brief recession, To bolster the dollar, it advo cated these new measures: 1. Repeal of tax incentive de signed to encourage private Amer ican investment in other indus trial rot tunes. 2. Reduction of the amount foreign goods which may he brought into the United Slates free ! ' t'"0,. Z.T. r..; -, f.... ,.. ' 'Th. .mmlnt now is m " ' In a statement. Kennedy called Ihe report very useful and said the recommendations merited close attention. j The report was generally con I "1. " .1..: 1 T-i JL. u, .r' servative in lone and ficqticnlly Treasury, ItoDcrl II. Anderson. I urged Kennedy to pursue effec- - i Hvclv" steps ordered earlier bv Eisenhower in his effort to attack i the gold-dollar problem. ,t.i. ii.... l...l:..Anit.. - 1 nu Kil"i inns iniiii ft i ly t - n - : doised Eisenhower's: controversial Gunman Flees Into Forest Near Drain Stale police this morning weia coniiiiuir.t; to comb the hills near Dram ;u an attempt to pick up the track of lite daring armed gun man who held up the Drain branch i f the United State:, National Bank of Purl land. Ihe lono puni.ian walked calm ly into liie bank about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, held a teller at gun point and scooped 52,426 from a cash drawer. He left Ihe bank and Hrnm about three miles west of the ciiv on Highway 3S, where he turned off ine uiKiiway onto llardscrablo Creek Road and Ihon abandoned his car on a log'.'iii' roar! afnr it bogged down in the mud. Trail Picked Up Trackers Dirked im bis liail Wednesday afternoon and found that after roaming up and down the hills he headed back toward Drain. They abandoned their track ing aUcmols al dark- Iml rut, ,,.! the search this morning. gi, Richard Bouey of the Rose burg slate police office' told The News-Review this morning they plan lo continue their saturation pairoi around the Drain area un til they receive indications the bank robber has left the area. As far as it is known, there w.u only one man involved in the hold up. Only one man was seen at the bank and only one set nf fnnt. prints left Ihe car after it bogged ..... 41. I . . uwnrn uii' uic imping road some 300 yards off Hardscrable Road. The armed robber, making no apparent attempt to conceal his identity, held teller Kermit Miller at gunpoint and stuffed the stolen money in his shirt. Bank employes are under orders to make no at tempt lo try and stop such a rob bery. Police Alerted Joe Cole was driving from his ranch home on Hardscrable Road shortly after the holdup when he thought he heard a car and then noticed tra!(s going up the seldom-used logging road. After hear ing of the armed robbery, he con laetcd the police and told them ho thought he knew where the car might be. A state policeman from the Rose burg office returned to the logging roaii with uole ana discovered tho car. It had been taken from a Springfield used ear lot earlier in the day on a Irial basis. Stale police, Douglas County sheriff's officers and members ut the. Federal Bureau tnf Investiga tion Immediately Converged on Drain. A saturation patrol was started in the afternoon wilh soma 10 state policemen from the Rose burg and Eugene offices joining" deputies in a constant patrol of the area throughout the night. The armed gunman was des cribed as 5 foot, 10 inches tall, weighing 150 to 165 pounds, of ruddy complexion and wearing a light gray coat. Police found spots of blood while trailing him and believe he received several cuts and scratches whue trommng through the woods. Fingernrints were obtained at the bank. n !.. u I uregon nuuve named To High Navy Position WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy Wednesday named a native ol Oregon, Kenneth K. Re Lieu, as assistant secretary of the Navy for materiel. Be Lieu attended the Univers ity of Oregon and Harvard Busi ness School before joining the Army for service during World War II. 'He was discharged with tho rank of lieutenant colonel after winning five decorations and serving in France, Germany and Czechoslovakia. He returned to Portland Ore- after the war but soon took a commission in the regular Army. He served in several capacities in the Pentagon and then volun teered for duly in Korea, where he lost a leg. He retired from the Army in 11)55 and became a staff member of the Senate Armed Service Committee. For the past two years he has been staff director of the Senate Committee on Aero nautical and Space Sciences. move to gradually reduce the numlK'r of military dependents abroad. Kennedy told his news confer ence the administration is review ing the implications of Eisenhow er's order. He said the question is whether some less harmful al ternative would be equally effec tive in protecting the dwindling gold supply. He indicated no decl ,,,'sion had been made yet or i Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein A transportation expert toys the back teat of an auto if u. ..i j l. kn If it also the most dangerous place for such a one who continually shouts advice to a high-strung driver with a ( - . - . i mon slaugntor cmplox,
