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Jaycee Award Winners
Missile Hits
Target After
4,000 Miles
EAflAN
SCOPES
SUCCESS
TAKING TOP HONORS ot the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tues
day evening were Williom Garrison, Junior "Top Citizen", and George Gratke, senior
boss. (News-Review Photo)
Local Bankers Receive
Jaycee Citizen Awards
By BILL SPARKS
v New$-Rviw Staff Writer
Douglas County State Bank Pres
ident William Garrison was named
the Junior Citizen o the Year
Tuesday night by the Roseburg
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
This award is given annually to
the young man having made the
most outstanding contributions to
the community.
And it was bankers' night all the
way through, as George Gratke,
executive vice presdient ot the
First National Bank of Roseburg,
was named Boss of the Year. One
of his chief assistants, Cashier Al
Brown, was given the Spoke
Award by the Jaycees.
YMCA Rota
Other awards to Jaycee mem
bers went to television's Larry
Kingen and Chapel o the Roses
employe Glen Yates.
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president of the Prineville Jay
cees, sam mis murine" in?
"very pleased to have been given
this award by the Roseburg Jay
cees." He said he felt the tremendous
cooperation of the citizens of Rose
burg actually accounted for the
success of the YMCA building pro
gram, which in turn played a big
part in his winning the Jaycees'
Distinguished Service Award as
the Junior Citizen of the Year.
The same award was given last
year to YMCA Director Wayne
'Varr'ison, who lives at 1842 NW
Adventurers Face
30-Year Sentences
HAVANA (AP) Six American
adventurers, who faced possible
execution as conspirators against
Fidel Castro's regime, have been
sentenced to 30 years imprison
v ment.
i The Americans were sentenced
Tuesdav, three (lays after their
trial before a military tribunal.
Castro himself reportedly had
been weighing the verdict.
Their sentences, the maximum
prison terms under Cuban law,
were interpreted here as the Cas
tro regime's reaction to President
Kennedy's denunciation in his
Stale of the Union message Mon
day of Communist influence in
Cuba. Defense attorneys said they
will appeal.
The Americans said they sailed
lo Cuba to help defend the Castro
revolution. They are George R.
Beck, 24, of Norton, Mass.; Tom-1
mv L. Baker. 28. of Dothan. Ala.;;
Donald Joe Green. 28. of Clover. I
S.C.; James K. Bean. 34. of Cedarj
Kails. N.C.; Alfred E. Gibson, 32.
nf Durham, NC, and Leonard,
Louis Schmidt. 21. of Chicago. I
New Spy-ln-Sky Satellite
Is Top Air Force Secret
POINT ARGUELLO, Calif.
( AP ) Santos II is circling the
globe every 95 minutes today on
a pioneer mission which may lead
lo a whole system of United States
electronic military scouts.
The ultimate goal of the pro
gram is to be able to make de
tailed photographs of any point on
earth and thus detect a buildup
by a potential foe.
The mission is so secret that
the Air Force won't even confirm
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Shewtrt and pariedt of partial
clearing tonight and Thursday. A
littlt cooler tonight.
Highast temp, latt 24 hours (3
Lowest temp, latt 24 hours 37
Highest temp, any Feb. ('51) 70
Lowest temp, any Feb. ('56) 13
Precip. lait 24 houri . 0
Precip. from Feb. 1 0
Precio. from Sept. 1 . IS 01
Deficiency from Scot. 1 3.21
Suntet tonight, 5:25 p.m.
-Sunrise tomorrow, 7:21 a.m.
Dogwood Drive, was president of
the YMCA and played a big part
in guiding the drive for construc
tion of the better than $200,000
new 'Y building. "In my opinion,"
he declared, "a project such as the
'Y' building would not have been
possible had the people of the
community not supported it with
their generous contributions."
"They saw the need for sucli a
building the same as those of us
Boycott Def iers
Leave Suddenly
NEW ORLEANS (AP) The
John N. Thompson family, whose
two sons broke a while boycott at
an integrated public school, left
their furnished home during the
night for an undisclosed destina
'.ion.' Calls at the home went un
answered and neighbors said the
family departed Tuesday night
carrying ,'ittle or no belongings.
A man identifying himself as
Thompson. 33, father of six, called
station WDSU-TV Tuesday night
and said the family was leaving
on the first train, but gave no
destination.
The two boys, Gregory, 9. and
Michael, 8, entered McDonogh 19
Tuesday under the watchful but
silent protests of while parents
boycotting the school.
About 30 persons, mostly wom
en, gathered at the school but
looked on silently as the two
Thompson boys entered escorted
by U.S. deputy marshals. The
group said nothing when the three
Negro girls attending the school
arrived a few minutes later.
Thompson defied the 10week-old
boycott for the first time last Fri
day by sending Gregory to
McDonogh.
Thompson said he intended
sending Michael to the school as
soon as the boy got over a cold.
Tuesday, Michael tagged behind
his older brother into the door.
New Trespassing .
Bill Introduced
SALEM (AP) Rep. Edward
W. Elder, R-Eugene, said Tues
day he is introducing a bill to
make it a misdemeanor to enter
a private dwelling without the
implied or xpress consent of the
owner.
He (aid there now is a loop
hole in the burglary law so that
it isn't always possible to pros
ecule an unwanted intruder.
The bill wouldn't apply to a
person who enters a home to help
a person in distress, or to prevent
damage to the home.
'that the satellite, launched Tues
Iday. will radio pictures back to
j earth. The orbiting vehicle is
equipped with cameras to photo
i graph ground terrain and sensors
to record electro-magnetic radia
i tion.
It can be made to transmit in
formation as it passes over sta
: lions where data can be repro
duced, stored, integrated and in
terpreted by automatic display
equipment.
Signals from Samos II were be
ing picked up by tracking and tel
emetry stations at Vandenberg
Air Force Bae at Oahu, Hawaii
and at Kodiak. Alaska.
All orbital da! a was being re
ceived at the Air Force Satellite
Trt Center in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
south ot San Francisco.
Samos I. launched last October,
failed to orbit.
No. 2 in the series roared aloft
into a drizzly sky at 12:23 p. m.
Tuesday and disappeared in a
heavy overcast. Two hours later
the Air Force said it had achieved
rwtlur nrhil lie nnlh rDrrmi th
satellite at altitudes ranging from
1300 to 350 miles.
in the 'Y' and carried right through
to see it constructed," he poinled
out.
In addition to serving as presi
dent of the 'Y' he has served in
the past as president of the Mus
cular Dislrophy Association, is a
charter member and treasurer of
the Indian Club and is a member of
the important legislative commit
tee of the Oregon Bankers As
sociation. Gratke, who is also president of
the Roseburg senior Chamber of
Commerce, was given the Boss of
the Year award both for his sup
port of Jaycee projects and for
allowing an employe (Al Brown)
to actively participate in Jaycee
worn itirougnout tne year.
Spoke Award
Brown won the Spoke Achieve
ment Award for initialing various
projects for the Jaycees during
the year and serving as chairman
of those projects unlil their com
pletion.
Kingn won . the Jaycee of the
Year award for outstanding con
tributions to the club and the com
munity made bv a first vear mem.
ber. Included among his projects
were the telethon which gave the
Jaycees funds for the start of im
provements to the city swimming
pool, one of the main Jaycee proj
ects oi uie year.
Projects and more projects, as
wen as normal club activities,
were the story of Glen Yates' Key
Award. This award is given an
nually to the Jaycee around whom
the bulk of the Jaycee work is
centered and Yales is regarded
as one of the most deserving Jay
cees ever to cop tne coveted award,
Winston Chamber
Gives Nod To Map
Winston s Chamber of Com
merce met Tuesday evening and
gave its approval to a proposed
new Winston area map that has
oeen prepared by Jim Daugher
ty, Winston surveyor.
According to News-Review cor
respondent Phche McGuire, the
chamber will now investigate the
costs or reproducing Uie map.
Seeks New Locale
In other aclion the group dis
cussed ways and means of brine
ing new business into the commun
ity. It was poinled out that a new
lurnilure store and a new really
office have recently been estab
lished in-Winston.
The chamber also heard Elwood
Baker, owner of Baker's Ready
Mix Co. explain that his firm is
seeking a new location in Winston.
The site of the company's present
operations was recently sold. The
chamber assured Baker that they
would do their utmost to assist
him in finding a new location
in Winston.
Petition To Board
A petition containing 46 signa
tures and a letter from the Cham
ber of Commerce will be sent to
the slate Sneed Control Board
asking that the speed on Hwy. 42
bchnnd the new school be reduced
to 25 miles an hour. At the pres
ent time the speed is 40 miles per
hour.
A brief discussion was held on
the group's project of the year.
Chamber President. Lewis Lorenz,
listened to a number of suggestions
and then tnld the group that the
board of directors would take the
suggestions under advisement and
decide on a project in a short time.
Incorporation Meeting
Scheduled At Tri-City
A public meeting will be held
Friday at the Tn-City School to
discuss the possibilities of incor
poration of the Tri-City area ac
cording to Lorraine Birenbaum,
News Review correspondent.
Discussing the prohlems of in
corporation will be Carl Felker,
attorney from Roseburg. The mept
ing is being sponsored by the Tri
City Businessmen's Association.
The proposed boundaries to b
included in the incorporated area
would correspond to the bound
aries of the Tri-City Water District.
There are between 400 and 500 fam
ilies living in this are.
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Established 1873 U Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1961 26-61 PRICE 5c
So.1 American
Unit Named
By Kennedy
WASHINGTON (AP) Latla
America, an area of deep concern
in President Kennedy's Slate of
the Union message, is getting
immediate attention from the new
administration.
For example:
1. A new. hiah-level agency.
headed by Adolf A. Berle jr., a
Franklin D. Roosevelt brain trust
er, has been named to handle
Latin American affairs.
Food For Peace
2. A food for peace mission to
south of the border may be
named early next week and may
go on tour before the end of the
month.
Two days ago, Kennedy in his
message to Congress lamented
Cuba's Communist leanings. He
said broad action was needed to
aid all Latin American nations.
Late Tuesday, Berle's task force
was announced. He has been at
work at the State Department for
several days.
Broad Powers
The task force, according lo an
informed source, ' will have the
broadest powers ever given any
agency for dealing with Latin
American affairs.
Indications are the force will
deal with economic aid and fi
nancial assistance, cultural and
social matters, and apparently
will have charge of U.S. activity
in the Organization of American
States.
Aaencv Members
On the interdepartmental force
with Berle will be: Theodore
Achilles, counselor of the State
Department: Thomas Mann, as
sistant secretary of state for In-tpr-American
affairs: William Bun
dy. deputy assistant secretary of
defense lor international security
affairs, and Lincoln Gordon, an
economics professor at Harvard
University.
Teen-Ager Dies
In Tower Climb
SALE.M (AP) A teenager
climbed a power transmission
tower, brushed against two 69,000
volt lines and was killed outright
in a flash of crackling blue
flame late Tuesday night, sher
iff's demitics said.
The dead man was John Star
Rueeles. 18. of Turner. It took
hours to remove his body, found
draped over two power lines high
on the tower, said John Zabinski,
chief investigator for the sheriff's
office here.
Zahinski said the events that
led to Ruggles' death began as
he and two- otner persons were
driving m the Stayton area and
the battery of the car went dead
near a Consumers Power Co. sub
station.
Ruggles left his companions,
Guy LeKoy Anderson, zo, ot ma
rion. and Billie Parker. 17, Lyons
and climbed over an eight-foot
fence into the substation, the dep
uty said.
The deputy quoted Anderson and
Hiss Parker as saying that Rug
gles told them he was going to
climb the tower, unhook a wire,
run it to the car and use it to
provide power to start the car
"John called me three times
and he was on the other side of
the fence, the depifly quoted An
i derson as saying. "He told me he
knew all about electricity and was
going to unhook a wire on the
I tower and run it to the car to
I siart it. I thought he was kid
ding...." Anderson and Miss Parker re
lated that, moments later, Rug
gles was climbing the 60-foot high
tower, the deputy said. A short
time later, there was a shower of
sparks. Blue flame crackled on
the tower.
Coroner's deputies and power
company linemen found the body
at the 40-foot level on the tower.
Payne Pleads Guilty
To Drunken Driving
Charles William Payne, 37, Ten
mile, pleaded guilty lo drunken
driving in the District Court of Ger
ald R. Hayes Tuesday, following
his arrest by State Police. Judge
Hayes sentenced him to 10 days in
the Douglas County jail and im
posed a fine of $100 and $3 costs.
Frank Senscney Jr., 38. of Buck
horn Road, arrested by Stale Pol
ice early Monday, pleaded inno
cent to drunken driving and his
trial was set for Feb. 6 in District
Court. His hail was set at $.100.
Committed to the Douglas County
jail from the Drain Justice Court
of Warren De La Vergne was
Dennis Edward Smith, 24, of HI.
1, Cottage Grove. On two separ
ate charges of operating a motor
vehicle with suspended drivers li
cense, he pleaded guilty to both
counts. On the first he was fined
$100 and senienced to two days in
jail and on the second count fined
Sl.'iO and aenlcnced to three days
in jiiL
Seeking Blood Donors
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MAKING PHONE CALLS AT HER DESK in on effort to
locate a "walking blood donor" with a certain type of
blood is Mrs. Walter (Evalyn) Watkins. At times certain
types of blood might be . in short supply because of emer
gency calls, and then Mrs. Watkins goes into action. She
uses her file of "walking donors" and calls until she
can find one who is immediately available. (See story
page 2). (News-Review Photo)
Early Start Planned
For Shopping Center
Four Arrested
In Jewel Theft
NEW YORK (AP)-Three men
and a woman, arrested Sunday
night, have been questioned about
the burglary in early January of
I hotel suit occupied , by , actor
Peter Lawford and Ins wile, a sis
ter of President Kennedy, Chief
of Detectives James J. Walsh said
today.
Police have been reluctant to
discuss the burglary, in which
$30,000 in gems and $1,000 in cash
were reported missing.
Walsh said the four persons
all Canadians had been ques
tioned. Deputy Police Commissioner
Waller Arm, department press
representative, turned aside all
queries.
Walsh said the- four questioned
about the theft were booked on
grand larceny charges in another
case.
They were arraigned in felony
court Monday morning, but dis
position of the cases was not im
mediately known.
The four arrested were listed
as:
William Livingston, 33, of Que
bec, a salesman,
David Ramsay, 33, same ad
dress, a lumber grader.
Ronald Spears, 30, of Montreal,
a salesman.
Rosalind Wade, 23, of Montreal,
a bookkeeper.
Walsh said the four were booked
in connection with the theft Sat
urday of a lady's suit from a
Fifth Avenue shop.
Yvonne Dionne
Begins Novitiate
BA1E ST. PAUL, Que. (API
Yvonne Dionne, one of the quin
tuplels. has begun a two-year
noviliale at the convent of the
Little Franciscan Sisters in this
town 55 miles northeast of Que
bec. .
Yvonne announced last week
she planned to become a nun but
said later her entrance into the
convent would be postponed a
few days until publicity died
down. The superior of the con
vent said Tuesday night she ar
rived last Thursday.
"She seems very happy." the
sunenor said. "She appears to
adapt herself quickly to our way
of life."
Yvonne is 26 and has been
trained as i nurse. Her sister
Kmilie was a postulant at the
time of her death in 1954. Another
of the quintuplets. Marie, entered
and lefl a convent twice without
taking final vows. She and the
oilier two quints are now married
and Marie has a baby girl.
K-P Drum Corps
Slated For Game
Billy Black's Knights of Pythias
Girls' Drum and Bugle Corps
aren't claiming responsibility for I eventually having 2,000 Minute
t sell out house this Saturday. men on station.
That house, already assured, Is As the Minuteman force Is built
the result of the "crucial" game; up, the so-called missile gap be
between South F.ugene and Rose-'tween this country and Russia
burg High School basketballers. 1 will begin to close, many military
But the l!i61 version of the K of experts predict. Many predict
P group will be on hand as half-
time entertainment. It II be the
; first appearance of the corps this
' year.
i The girls will present an exhibi-
lion drill with the music, and 14
girls will be making their firm Mralrgic Air (Jo mm inn. llie
appearance with the Drum and rocket also reverses a trend to
Bugle Corps. jward mors expensive missile sys
By GEORGE CASTILLO
Ntws Ravitw Assistant Editor
Construction Dlans for a nev
shopping center on the Central
Junior High School property were
announced luesday as the owners
of the property made their final
payment to the Roseburg School
District.
Mayor Pete Serafin renorted that
the property owners indicated con
struction is expected to start as
soon as weather permits.
ine property purchased by a
group of Portland investors in
cludes the vacated junior high
building, which was badly dam
aged by the explosion Aug. 7, 1959.
It will be razed in the near future.
The final payment of $132,874.44
(inducting $7,874.44 in interest)
was paid Tuesday. Total purchase
price was $232,000. . .
Seek Ingrast
The demolition and subsequent
construction now await final ar
rangements for use of SE Rose St.
between Washington and Douglas
Aves. Three men from the Port
land investment company, Richard
G. Harper and Sol and Frank Di
rector, met with Mayor Serafin
Tuesday to discuss traffic and
parking on the street.
Serafin said as a result of the
meeting, the city will make efforts
to arrange traffic ingress and
egress lo the satisfaction of the
new owners and still allow a good
traffic flow.
To Racaiv Plan
Serafin reported that he will re
ceive a plan of the building and
parking requirements of the cen
ter. He said he, the city manager,
and police chief would look over
the plan and determine what park
ing arrangements would be feas
ible. If it proves suitable to the
new owners, the Planning Commis
sion will hold a special meeting he
fore the next meeting of the City
Council Feb. 13. The final action
will then be taken by the council.
Serafin reported that the com
pany slill contemplates under-sur-
face pinking on SF, Stephens. It
would also have parking on lota on
both sides of Rose St.
Serafin indicated he could now
see no snags in the proposals. He
said it would probably result in
provisions for handling traffic on
Rose St. and changing traffic from
one way to two. He said the latter
had been fairly well determined
previously as a better tie-in with
the route to the new Washington
Ave. bridge. .
Air Force Planning Fast Buildup
Of Perfected Minuteman Missile
CAPK CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP)
The V. S. Air Force plans the
fastest buildup in missile history
once the Minuteman missile, fired
successfully for the first time to
day, is perfected.
The Air Korre plans to have at
least 600 Mimitcmen deployed by
1964. About 450 of these will he
spread across the western United
States in underground silos de
signed to survive a near miss by
a nuclear bomb. The remainder
will be on special railroad trains.
Defense Dlanners are talking nf
both nations will he even in mini
ber of long range missiles in 195.
The advent of Minuteman will
begin an era when rockets rather
than manned bombers will be the
dominant deterrent force in the
U. N. Diplomats
See Stalemate
In Congo Debate
L'NITKD NATIONS. N.Y. (AP)
Some L'.N. diplomats predict
the security Louncu s Congo de-
bale opening today will end in a
deadlock, as have all others re
cently, unless the Unites States
announces a new middle-road
policy.
First For Adlai
Adlai Stevenson, facing his first
debate as chief U.S. delegate, has
given no indication of any switch
in policy. He said Friday that
President Kennedy's administra
tion supports Secretary-General
Dag llammarskjold's efforts to
end the Congo crisis "by what
ever means he chooses."
llammarskjold's policies have
been criticized by the Communist
bloc and African U.N. members
who support deposed Premier
Palrice Lumumba, now jailed by
President Joseph Kasavubu. Their
demands that the U.N. force in
the Congo restore Lumumba to
power have been blocked by the
U.S. -led majority on the council.
Before the council were a
variety of complaints: charges
from the Soviet Union and Czecho
slovakia that Belgium is commit
ting aggression in the Congo;
Kasavubu's accusation that the
United Arab Republic interfered
in Congo internal affairs, and a
complaint that the imprisoned
Lumumba has been given "inhu
man and brutal treatment." This
was submitted by Ceylon, Ghana,
Guinea, Mali, Libya, Morocco, the
IJiulcd Arab Republic ana xugo
SHIVIH.
The Soviet Union charged Bel
gium was "taking steps to organ
ize a so-called foreign legion to
fight in the Congo and demanded
tne aecuruy council lane ueci
sive action." The Soviet complaint
also accused Belgians of bombing
Congolese towns under the control
ot Lumumba's supporters.
Dag Rafuait
Also in the council members'
hands were Kasavubu's demand
that Haminarskjold recall his
Congo representative, Rajeshwar
Dayal of India, and the secretary-general's
refusal to do so.
liammarskjold was expected to
address the council on his efforts
to keep up the strength of the
20,000-inan U.N. Congo force in
the face of troop withdrawals by
pro-Lumumba nations. He has
said the United Nations may have
to pull out of the Congo if the
withdrawals continue.
'Roseburg Plaza'
New Center Named
The name "Roseburg Plaza" has
temporarily been adopted for the
proposed shopping center to be
built on the Central Junior High
School property in Roseburg.
Mayor Pete Serafin said the Port
land investors who will build the
new building report plans for de
velopment of the property are near
ly complete.
Firms To Occupy
The development is being plan
ncd as a marketing center. Several
large firms will occupy the site
The building will contain approxi
nately 60,000 square feet on two
floors.
Spaces will be provided for
parking about 200 cars off the
streets. Parking will he available
on the cast side of Rose, where
the present playground is located
and also on the west side. In ad
dition about half the parking cap
acity will be underground on SE
Stephens St.
The name "Roseburg Plaza" has
been selected for identification
purposes for the time being, but
anolhcr name may ne selected
later, Serafin said. He reported
that concerns planning lo occupy
sites on the property will be identi
fied afler pending contracts have
been signed.
tems.
Construction is expected lo start
soon on 200-foot deep silos and
other facilities for three 53-missile
Minuteman squadrons at Mnlm
strom Air Force Base near Great
Falls, Mont.
Once in place, the missiles will
be manned and guarded only
through remote controls. F.ach
silo will he capped by a 10-ton
concrete hatch.
Nearby will be an underground
checkout console whose electronic
instruments will keep a close
watch on the missile and report
any technical trouble.
About three miles away, two
Air Force men will be In an un
derground control center. They
will keep tabs on 10 missiles in a
squadron. In an emergency, any
one of the five control posts in a
squadron could fire all 53 mis
siles in I matter of minutes.
The first Minuteman train Is
slated to start rolling over 100,000
miles of U.S. railroad trackage in
r.Pt.j. ine live to eight missiles -. . o,.i,rir Welfare
aboard will h eoneeal.d In a hori. ",one "om Public WeltOre,
zontal position.
CAPE CANAVERAL. Ha. (AP
A Miniitcman missile. Amer-
ica's hope for a pushbutton war
weapon, scored an amazing suc
cess on us first test flight todav.
A jubilant Air Force reported
20 minuies after the 11 a.m. EST
launching that all three stages
nau ineu successfully and that
the rocket had landed on target
in the south Atlantic Ocean, more
than 4,000 miles away.
The Air Force had gone all out
on the initial firing of this second
generation intercontinental range
missile, - which will prowl the
countryside on hard-to-find rail
road trains, or sland poised in
hardened underground holes,
ready for firing on instant notice.
General Thomas D. White, Air
Force chief of staff, called the
success "one of the most signifi
cant steps this nation line pvpp
taken toward gaining interconti
nental missile supremacy in Uie
critical years just ahead."
Never before had so many rock
et components been tested on a
first launching here. All three sol
id fuel stages, the guidance sys
tem and nose cone were tested to
day. The distance covered was
just 2,000 miles short of the in
tended operational range of 6,300
miles.
This was the first time that all
stages of a military rocket were
manufactured by different con
tractors. Thiokol made the first
stage. Aerojet the second and
Hercules the third. Bueing Air
craft Co., is assembly and test
manager.
"Anything beyond the first
stage will be strictly a bonus," a
project official said. "We decided
to go for broke on the first launch
because success would cut the test
program by several months."
Previous multistage military
rocket programs here started
with testing of only one stage and
worked up to the full configura
tion, gradually weaving in guid
ance, nose cone and other refine
ments.
The Air Force plans to have
Minuteman ready for combat by
mid-1962.
Lobby Of Hospital
To Be A Memorial
The lobby of the new Mercy
Hospital addition has been select
ed as a memorial bv an anonv
nious doner in the name of his
family and firm, Emil A. Ram
berg, general chairman, announc
ed today.
"This amounts lo a sift of SIS..
000 and is the first important me
morial which lias been received in
our campaign," Rambcrg stated.
He went on to say, "A total of
$77,457 has now been pledged to-
wara our iszau.ouo goal even be
fore active solicitation.
Active solicitation gets under
way this week. Workers in the
Memorial Division group A, whose
leader is Gordon Carlson, met to
day at the Hotel Umpqua to re-
ceive imormauon anu uicir assign
ments. The general solicitation division
of the Mercy Hospital expansion
tuna arive, unaer tne co-chairmanship
of Mrs. W. H. Carter and
Paul Bellendorf, will receive their
final instructions at a dinner,
Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at the Hotel
Umpqua.
Man Who Cried 'Wolf
Placed On Probation
PORTLAND (AP) A Brook
ings fishing boat operator was
placed on probation for one year
after pleading guilty Monday to a
charge of sending a false distress
signal.
The federal government charged
that Samuel Spraguc, 42, sent the
signal while his boat was an
chored in Charleston Harbor. Asst.
U.S. Atty. Robert Snashall said
that the Coast Guard had sent
aid before learning there was no
emergency.
U.S. District Judge William E.
East, in pronouncing sentence, .
said the offense was a serious
one, pointing out that seven men
drowned in a recent rescue at
tempt at the storm-battered Co
lumbia River entrance.
Minuteman Is the first U.S.
ICB.M powered by solid fuel,
which also is used in the Navy's
Polaris rocket and the Army's
Pershing. This propellant is easy
to handle and easy 'o store.
With less complexity, size and
weight Minuteman has the mobil
ity that the liquid fuel Atlas and
Titan lark, but its warhead will
be smaller.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
"Slippery Steve" Solovich,
elusive phantom of the North
Umpqua wilderness, it enti
tled to this much credit: Ha it
able to support himself, rain,
sunshine or tnow, without oi-
and ho has no tax worries.
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