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of 0. I.ibrr.ry m. asec AIM HEAVY MJCBC IM 'Goodwill Industries' HELPING THE HANDICAPPED This is the "Goodwill Industries" booth located next to the First Methodist church in Roseburg on the corner of Main ond Lane. Here, citizens of Roseburg may deposit any item (except newspapers) that can be fixed up and used again. Shown are Rev. James Jenkins, pastor of the First Methodist Church and George Powell, a local Methodist layman, who packages the goods once every two weeks and sends them to o firm in Portland. See Story Page 2. (Chris' Photo) Depressed Areas, New Wage Bills Get Attention In House, Senate WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen- ale Banking subcommittee ends hearings today on the S389.5-mil-lion depressed areas bill while the Senate Labor subcommittee gels to work on President Ken nedy's proposal for a higher mini mum wage. Caucus Harmonious Administration leaders hope for a faster pace of Senate action on the President's program after a harmonious caucus, of Democrat- Two-Hour Meters Due For Jackson Roseburg Chief of Police V. If. Murdoch Jr. Monday night an nounced plans to install two-hour parking meters on SB Jackson St. in the downtown business area. Murdoch said this will be one of several moves made in answer to requests of the Chamber of Commerce which the chamber felt ' would provide better parking facili ties for shoppers in the downtown area. Stmt Rat Murdoch said the rate on SE Jackson St. will still be 10 cents an hour, but that meters will be installed to double the present one hour maximum time on the me ters. He also pointed out penny slots will be provided on the me ters to allow six minutes of park ing for each penny to accomodate short-time parkers. The chief of police said the de partment has dropped its policy of issuing tickets for overnight park ing on SE Jackson St. and SE Cass Ave. in the business district. He said the department is also ' cooperating with the chamber on other requests, including the issu ing of courtesy parking tickets for out-of-state cars. ' AFL-CIO Members Being Tapped To Counter $2.2 Million Deficit MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) The AFL-CIO is tapping its mem bers for an extra $2.2 million to counter a deficit caused by a combination of bad luck and bad work. The bad luck is the unemploy 1 ment situation. In five years the AFL-CIO has lost a million mem bers, many of them made job less in the 1958 recession and the current one with consequent dues payment loss. the bad work comes from 1 lark of successful organizing. The federation's unions have lo.-t ei ther their technique or leal or both in enlisting new members. These are the reasons behind a decision made Monday by the Council, high command of the la bor union federation, to levy a The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday. Chance of seme rein to night, slightly warmer. Highest temp, last 14 hours . . Si Lowest temp, last 34 hours 35 Highest temp, any Feb. ('SI) 70 Lowest temp, any f-'eb. ('St) 11 Precip. lest J4 hours 03! Precip. from Feb. I t.H' Precip. from Sept. 1 JJ.97I Excess from Sept. 1 2.13 Sunset tonight. 4:01 p.m. ' I Sunrise tomorrow, 4:50 a.m. """I .Will' Vsi-r 1 r-5 wo -x- '4 i5."ir-s ic senators Monday. Majority Leader Mike Mans field, D-Mont., said he thought the depressed areas bill should be cleared lor floor action next week and that major administration bills should be ready to follow in a steady stream. House subcommittees also are working on the minimum wage and depressed areas bills. Sessions Completed , A House Labor subcommittee has completed its public sessions on minimum wage legislation and is drafting its version of the bill behind closed doors. A House Banking subcommit tee continues today with testi mony on the depressed areas bill. Gov. Bert Combs of Kentucky is among the scheduled witnesses. Three Cabinet members appear before the Senate banking group in its final session on the de- Power Firms Ask Merger Approval WASHINGTON (AP)-The Fed eral Power Commission Monday was asked by Pacific Power and Light Co., Portland, Ore., and California Oregon Power Co., Medford, Ore., to approve their proposed merger. , The firms said the merger would put them in a better finan cial condition for supplying their areas with electric power. PP&L provides service in Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, Wyoming and Mon tana. Copco provides service in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Under terms of the proposed merger, which would be accom plished by the exchange of stock, PP&L would be the surviving corporation. special assessment on the organ ization's 12.5 million members. The special dues payment will be three cents a month per mem ber on top of the regular five cents a month dues payment. This makes a total of eight rents a month payable by each affiliated union on each of its members. 'This is a temporary expedient to meet a financial crisis. AFL-CIO leaders said privately that when the federation's convention con venes in December they expect to propose, and get, a permanent two-cent hike in monthly per cap ita dues. All this underlines the fact clearly shown in the 10-day winter meeting of AFL-CIO chiefs, now ncsruig a close, that union la bor's main organization is cur rently wobbly both in word and deed. Pronouncements from the AFL CIO leaders have largely dealt with the bread and butter wage and joh security matters that worry the average worker. This is partly due to the chang ing American scene the fact that the era of manual labor is fast disappearing and that the day has dawned for the clerical workers more highly skilled and less sus ceptible to becoming union mem bers. The labor leaders are aware of this change but as yet haven't decided on a successful formula to handle it. Booth ILL INDUSTRIES OEPOSITBOOm pressed areas bill Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, H. Hodges and Secretary of La bor Arthur J. Goldberg. Try For Vote Sen. Paul H. Douglas. D ill.. subcommittee chairman, said his group would try to voto on (the measure Wednesday or Thursday, It also must be cleared by the full committee before it can go to the floor. The Senate subcommittee is ex pected to approve the full amount of federal loan and grant funds asked by Kennedy to aid areas of high and chronic unemploy ment. The bill sponsored by the Pres ident is almost identical with the one drafted by Douglas and passed by the Senate. last year, it was cut down in the House and finally vetoed by former Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Two Points However, there are two points on which long-time Senate spon sors of the legislation differ with Kennedy. Douglas favors an independent agency to administer the pro gram. The President has asked that it be put under the Com merce Department. The Senate bill would make available the funds through ad vances from the Treasury, some times called backdoor spending. Kennedy has asked that it be han dled through the regular appro priations process. Canyonville Board Completes Budget In an efficient two and one-half hour session, Canvonville school directors and budget board com pleted the 1961-62 budget in t h e total amount of $215,643. some $18, 000 less than last year's budget, according to Supt. Larry Burdan. This decrease plus an increase! in anticipated receipts for the coming year spells a decrease in millage rate for the Canyonville district property holders. Burden told Virginia Proctor, News-He-' view correspondent. A decrease in numher of admin istrative personel and decrease in the instructional salary budget be cause past deficits are now paid accounts for the smaller budget figure, Burden added. Heating System A new heating system for the high school for more efficient op eration is the major change made by the budget board. A new salary schedule for teachers was adopt ed with a beginning teacher with a bachelor degree to get J4.600 per year. In other action, the board set aside J 1,000 for a bus sinking fund. In addition to the roster of school directors, Robert Proctor, Dr. John Aaronson, George McClane, Milton Herbert and Charles Dowd. budg et board members include William Brown, Oscar Hoverson, Robert Hinkle. Clarence Grunst and Nor man Olson. Bottle Breaks Window Earl Kennedy, operator of the Pillard Texaco Station, reported to the sheriff's office today that some one threw a beer bottle through the plate glass window of his sta tion Monday night. An investiga tion is being made. mm eaaeeaeeieeaeBeeeeeeaeaa MMlMMMMMMMilMiMllhna ! liUMWMM HI I III HIM mil III nil V 1 1 if Mttim 'il,tlm4 Established 1873 . 12 Paget Castro Aims New Charges At Kennedy HAVANA (AP)-Fidel Castro's government launched an all-out attack on President Kennedy's administration today and charged anew the United States is plotting to overthrow the Cuban strong man. Attack Blistering The blistering attack was con tained in a lengthy note sent Mon day night to Latin-American1 for eign ministers. It was to be dis tributed later to the Organization of American States and the united Nations. The Cuban note recalled the in vasion charges Castro hurled at the Eisenhower administration " a few months ago. Washington de nounced those charges as a cover up to divert the Cuban people's attention from economic troubles at home. One Latin-American diplomat shrugged off the latest Cuban note as "the same old story" this lime directed at the Kennedy ad ministration. Twofold Plan Foreign Minister Raul Roa charged the United States with plotting a ' twofold plan to bring down the Castro regime. The first phase would be an at tempt to overthrow Castro before the conference of Western Hemis phere foreign ministers in Quito May Z4. If that fails an alternative plan would create conditions for indi rect military aggression master minded by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. This would be masked by a declara tion of war against Cuba by Guat emala, Nicaragua or Peru that would permit the setting up of a beachhead on Cuban soil. An ar tificial provisional government then would be set up in Cuba and probably receive direct military aid. Berle Charged The Cuban note charged the "political architects" of the plot were Adolf A. Berle Jr., head of Kennedy's special inter-department task force to Latin Amer ica; Thomas Mann, assistant sec retary of state for inter-American affairs, and Mann's deputy Ar turo Morales Carrion of Puerto Rico. Recreation District Tax Gets Protests Protests have welled up strongly against taxing in the Sutherlin Park and Recreation District, re ports correspondent Barbara Lie singer. Most of the opposition has come from the communities of Fair Oaks and Nonpariel near Sutherlin. At a meeting this month, the dissenters were told bv the district's attorney, Donald Kclley of Roseburg, their only recourse was to petition slate legislators to change stale laws on the subject. Set Up District He said the district had been formed in strict compliance with state regulations and all legal steps had been carried out in setting up the county's first park and recre ation district. The district was formed to raise funds for construction of a swim mine oool in the Sutherlin area. An election to decide on a bond issue for actual construction of the pool is expected (o be announced in the near future. Tax District Kelley says the district will op erate as a tax district only and not a district regulating hunting and fishing. He said the district may not ask for more than 10 mills a year. The district was established last year after voters of the district ap proved it. It has the same bound aries as the Sutherlin School Dis trict. State Police Probe Liquor Store Heist Oregon State Police are contin uing today to investigate a bur glary which occurred sometime over the weekend at the Myrtle Creek liquor commission retail store. Over $307 in cash and merchan dise was removed from the build ing, the police report slated. The loss included $150 cash, which in cluded all of Saturday's receipts, one fifth of Bronze Label Bourbon, one pint of Little Brown Jug, two cases each of Jim Beam and Old Crow fifths were taken, they said. Entry to the store was gained through a storeroom sliding door by prying on the door with a large round object with a flat point, po lice staled. The door is near the rear cf the building and on the east side. The burgliry was discovered Monday and must have happened between 8 pm. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Monday, the police were jold. ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961 Kasavubu Given Warning By Dag By MAX HARRELSON UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold warned Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu today that the United Nations will no longer permit its peace efforts lo be blocked by political opposition, Asks Cooperation In a letter to Kasavubu. Ham marskjold called for full coopera tion ot me Leopoldville govern ment in averting a civil war. But ne added that the United Nations has the strength and the determi nation lo carry out its mission without such cooperation, if nec essary. "Those engaged in these meas ures on behalf of the United Na tions cannot allow themselves to be forcibly deterred from carry ing them out," he said. The letter to Kasavubu was part of a report Hammarskjold made to the Security Council on sleps he is taking to carry out last week's resolution authorizing January Living Costs Decline WASHINGTON (AP) Livine costs declined slightly in January the first drop in 12 months. ine Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today its consumers price index dropped by a tenth of one per cent because of lower prices for clothing, used cars, eggs, milk, fresh' fruits and tomatoes. - , The index fell to 127.4 from December's record level of 127.5. In the index, 100 represents aver age prices in 1947-49. Despite the drop from Decern- ber, January prices were 1.6 per cent higher than in January 1960. The index rose in everv month last year except August, when it held steady. ; ., ,. .' Because prices did tiot rise In January, there will be no change in wages of about a million workers in the auto industry and related fields whose pay is ad justed to the living cost index. Robert J. Myers, BLS deputy commissioner, attributed much of the January price drop to weather conditions, although adding that a recession decline in demand doubtless had some effect. Myers said the weather cur tailed clothing sales in December and that department stores, be cause of large January inventor ies, offered sharp price reductions in women's suits and coats. There also were some price cuts in shoes and other clothing items. Average clothing prices dropped by l.i per cent from December to January. Used car prices were down 2.5 per cent and Myers said this de velopment was influenced, too, by the weather. Food prices, on the average were down a tenth of 1 per cent. As for the February outlook, Myers said he would expect little change although a drop between January and February is normal. Progress Edition Copies A vailable Sales of The News-Review's first progress edition Monday have been brisk. The 92-page special issue is a massive roundup of Douglas County industry, recreation, history, business and commun ity life. It's probably the most comprehensive profile ever compiled on the county's present and future. The progress edition was de signed not only to tell people in the county about the place where1 they live, but also to tell those elsewhere what it's like in Douglas County. Copies of the edition are still available and may be ordered by filling out the blank in to day's News-Review and send ing it and money for the issue lo the newspaper office. The progress edition will then he sent to the addresses indicated on the form, no matter where they are. Rain, Poor Search For Fog tnd threatening rain have rut down visibility in the Little River area east of Glide and In terrupted the search for Big Steve Solovich. Sheriff Ira C. Byrd stressed to day that the search has not been called off. He said it would be sel into motion again as soon as wea ther clears. "With our present plan of action, we need good visi bility," he said. Byrd said no further contact had been made with the mountain man, hut he and his deputies were cer tain they could pick up the trail again. use of U.N. force if needed to pre serve order in the Congo. The So viet Union has been pressing for a report. No More Politics Hammarskjold told Kasavubu that no conciliation is possihle without the removal of all mili tary forces from politics. In addition, the isecretary general disclosed he had taken these additional steps to imple ment the Asian-African Congo resolution for setting up a broad Congo peace plan: 1. Warned Belgium it must take "immediate and effective ac tion" to remove Belgian political and military advisers from the Congo. 2. Appealed to all U.N. mem ber nations to see that no foreign mercenaries leave their terri tories for the Congo. 3. Asked Indonesia and Moroc co to delay the withdrawal of their troops from the U.N. force. 4. Appealed to all African mem ber states with the exception of Libya and Togo to speed contri butions to the U.N. force so that it can be built up lo 23,000 troops. 5. Asked the International Court of Justice to suggest names of an African, an Asian and a Latin American who would undertake an impartial investigation into the execution of Congo leader Pa trice Lumumba and his associ ates. The African would be chair man of the three-member investi gation group. Rule Committee Okays Idle Plan WASHINGTON (AP) The House Rules Committee today unanimously approved House con sideration Wednesday of Presi dent Kennedy's program to nay unemployment compensation for longer periods. The Rules committee action prohibits any amendments, giving tne House the choice of taking the measure as it came from the Ways and Means Committee or rejecting it completely. ' Two Republican members of the ways and means group as sailed the legislation as a "pre ferential dole." Reps. James B. Ult of Cali fornia and Bruce Alger of Texas also questioned the significance of statistics on current unemploy ment, estimated by the Kennedy administration at 5.5 million. In a minority report on the extended payment bill, Utt and Alger said proponents have not shown whether the unemployed are all principal wage earners supporting families or "instead supplementary wage earners or even casual members of the labor force." The majority report recom mending passage of the bill, re leased at the same time, said the measure is clearly needed under present circumstances, but ex pressed hope that "more states will act to deal effectively with the special problems imposed on the federal - stale unemployment compensation program so that the need for federal action during times of recession can be al leviated. " Planning Group Okays Williams St. Vacation The Douglas County Planning Commission, in recent meeting, gave its approval to the vacation of NE Williams St. The street bor ders on the site of the new Mont gomery Ward properly. ine commission also granted per mission to widen NE Oakland Ave. and NE Vine St.. also bordering on the Monlgomcry-Ward proper ty, ir the company will turn over pan or its land lor the project. The streets would be widened lo stand ard county road specification. In other action the commission met with members of the Rose burg Planning Commission and Pete Scrafin. Roseburg Mavor. John Warburton, Roseburg City Manager, ana nen nicng, Knsenurg Engineer, to discuss continuation of a municipal research and plan ning project. No final decision was reached, however. Visibility Interrupt Big Steve Solovich Solovich is being hunted with In creased intensity because he shot a sheriff's reserve deputy, Watson Talcott, of Glide, last week. Tal cott, wounded in the chest, has just been released from the hospital. The bizarre case of the escaped Roseburg Veterans Administration Hospital patient, has brought re action from Idaho. Tha Boise, Ida ho Statesman reports that three Boise men remember Solovich as an Idaho miner in the Stanley basin area. Joel C. Olsen, Idnho mineral surveyor, made a pre viously publicized offer to talk with the fugitive. Byrd said he hid ttJVed lo the 49-61 PRICE 5c Fatigue Puts Gov. Hatfield In Hospital PORTLAND (AP)-Gov. Mark'f.,,- l,,,.,..... V,',,., . " ,Z .X.KT Z O Hatfield is in "very good con-, rejected, Confess should be pre dition. today with normal temper. pa,-e(1 l0 iacrea9 gasolme uFxes anuiT cm uiuuu i Kaaiii i-, ui.iin all User. Ralph Purvine, his physician, said. He said the governor is "suffer ing more from faligue than the flu." Hatfield was taken to Univer sity of Oregon Medical School Hospital Monday evening after be ing forced to go home at noon. Diagnosis Not Complete "There has been no complete diagnosis yet," Dr. Purvine said. "The governor had an excellent night, slept well, and had a satis factory breakfast today." He explained that the governor was brought to Portland to assure complete rest, He said he thinks the governor will stay in the hospital until Thursday or, Friday. In the mean time, he is getting his complete annual physical examination. Dr. Purvine gave his report to a news conference at Salem. There will be reports issued at the governor's office at 9:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. daily. Work Proceeding Travis Cross, Ihe governor's press secretary, said the gover nor's work is proceeding without interruption. Gerald Frank, chairman of the Advisorv Committee on Planning and Development, is presiding in Hatfield's Dlace at an economic conference of business, industrial and labor leaders. Warne Nunn, administrative assistant, will pre side at the governor's cabinet meeting. Signing Due Today . Hatfield will sign the bill today to issue $10 million for higher ed ucation dormitories and other structures. Cross said all of Ihe governor's engagements have been cancelled through friday. He also said that Ihe reins of the office will not be turned over to Senate President Harry Boivm. Under a 1959 law. when the gov ernor is incapacitated, he can va cate the office temporarily. Cross also announced mat ine hospital had been instructed not to give any information about the governor s condition, ah oi inis information will be handled by Cross "so that only accurate in formation will be given oul," he said. Khrush Ponders Return US Visit MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government has let the Soviet peo ple know that Premier Khrushchev is thinking of a return visit to the United Nations and the possibility of a meeting wilh President Ken nedy while in the United states. Films of two of the President's news conferences were shown on television Monday night, including newsmen's questions to Kennedy on whether he would meet Khrush chev if the Soviet premier visits the U.N. General Assembly open ing next Tuesday. Kennedy re plied only that he hadn't heard yet whether Khrushchev was coming. The showing of the films was an unprecedented gesture. It also was the first time that the Soviet people learned that a new Khrush chev visit to the United Nations is Dossihle. Such ideas are rarely put in Ihe fiublic mind unless they are like y to become accomplished facts. Kennedy's statement gave the Soviet public Ihe impression that the initiative for a visit is up lo the Soviet Union and that Khrush chev would be welcome in the United Slates. Soviet diplomats in Washington have been active in spreading the idea that Khrushchev would like to make a visit, and diplomatic cir rlcs in the U.S. capital have said they would not he surprised if Khrushchev comes to the United States late In April, when the as sembly session will he winding up. man on (he telephone and had In vited him to come, but he had not heard from him since. Olson said he had known Solo vich from 1948 to Wtf. The two other men, Ken A. Tillman and Jack R. Mohrman said they re member him from 19:18-39 "when we were working in mines In the hills above Atlanta, Idaho. Tallman and Mohrman, both Idaho Power Co. employes said Solovich showed somewhat the same nature when they knew him. "Big Steve always packed sidcarms, no matter where he went. , , .lie was a nature man. a,,,, m nin aa in nuura ruiiu, Tallinan said. Alternative Would Be Gas Tax Hike WASHl.VGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy today proposed a tax formula for financing super highways by placing a greater share of the burden on big trucks. The President, in a 3,500-word special message to Congress, said his pay-as-you-go plan would com plete tl.OUO miles of express road by 1972 without resort lo a higher federal gasolino tax. No Reduction Asked However, he said Congress should not permit a scheduled June 30 reduction in the gas lax from 4 cents a gallon to 3 cents. Villi he U,wl..H lh:t if him .PAnn.,,1. Kennedy's plan would boost tax es and fees on heavy trucks, die sel fuel, tires, tubes and retread rubber. While truckers would bear the brunt of these. Kennedy said even so they would not pay men- lair snare ot the cost o this program." Billboards Rapped The President also made sninn sharp comments about roadside, billboards, which he said "tend to detract from both the beautv nd safety of the routes thev line." Kennedy said the states should be given a bigger incentive to regulate billboards. If that doesn't work, he said federal control or billboard taxes might be neces sary. in arguing tlw merits of super highways, Kennedy said they will save ' each year at least 4,000 lives, 42.000 years of travel time and 9 billion slops lor red ugtus and intersections. , Vital To Security Declaring the road program vi tal to the nation's security, safe ty and economic growth, Kennedy said "I am wholly opposed to ei ther stretching out or cutting back" the work. He was equally emphatic about paying for the job out of revenues from taxes on highway users without dipping into general funds and unbalanc ing the budget. The only lime regular Treasury funds should he used, he said, would be in times of recession. He added that he believes anti slump ' moves already proposed will be sufficiently effective to make such action unnecessary. If a later reading of economic signposts., indicates- - otherwise, Kennedy said, Congress might . want to use general funds to re pair winter road damage in areas of substantial unemployment. The President said the road program is in real peril because of a threatened shortage of funds. -He said that if the job is to ba finished on schedule federal rev enues must- be increased by $900 million a year after June 30. Oth erwise, he said, the program will take an extra five years. The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the new superhighways and the stales tha rest. The total bill is expected to approach $40 billion by 1972. To raise an additional S900 mil lion a year, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower last month recommended that the gas tax bi boosted to 4'4 cents a gallon. Clearly Acceptable Kennedy called this "clearly acceptable." However, he said that because of economic condi tions he would "prefer not to raise taxes on the general con sumer at this time." His alternative suggestion: pro vide $600 million a year by pre. venting the scheduled 1-ccnt cut in the gas tax and raise the re maining $300 million through the heavier taxes and fees which would bear most heavily on truck ers. . Under the Kennedy plan the federal truck license fee, apply ing to vehicles of more than 26. 000 pounds weight when loaded, would go up from the present $1.50 a thousand pounds to S3 a thousand. Thus the fee for a 45.-000-pound track would rise from $67.50 to $225. The tax on a 100 pound track tire would jump from $8 to $10 and trucks burning die sel fuel would pay a tax of 7 cents a gallon instead of the present 4 cents. The biggest effect on the aver age motorists would be the high er tire tax a matter of an extra 40 cents on a typical 20-pound lire. AWOL Sailor Held William Andrew Mitchell, 26, of 240 NE Patterson St., Roseburg, has been booked at the Douglas County jail as being absent with out leave from the Navy. He is being held for Navy authorities. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Sola, a word standing for alon or single-handed, ap pears quite appropriate for the first syllable in the surname of the slippery hermit of the North Umpqua wilderness. No matter "vich" way he goes, Steve displays individual re sourcefulness that would be a credit to the most experi enced woodsman. Ha has his sympathisers, it seems, especi ally in the region of his self impoied exile, and this may add to the difficulties of the law in its efforts to capture him,
