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lT. of 0. Library ucone , Orucn I'll Ml? CONVE ARMS BU They Don't YOU WANNA FIGHT over that bone, Shorty? Lady Mary, o purebred bulldog with papers to prove it seems to be looking for o tussle with the little pup in this picture while their fuzzy friend seems bored with the whole thing. Actually, Lady Mary is o ' gentle 2-year old former mother fierself and did nothing more than wash the pup's face with her tongue. These dogs, and close to 50 others, are all available for adoption at 'the Douglas County Humane Society in Winchester. Margaret Money, operator of the shelter, states there is a minimum $3 adoption fee for mixed breed dogs while pure- ' bred dogs cost a little more. (Photo by David McNabb) House Tax Changes In SALEM (AP) A drastic re- the House Taxation Committee. It vision of Oregon's income taxi'" be considered by the House laws had the approval today of Five Die In Crash Of Air Force Plane MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) A loaded Air Force tanker plane smashed in a flaming smear across a busy highway late Tuesday, destroying two buildings and narrowly missing a tavern and a tulip farm home. The Dilot had iust veered his stricken ship, loaded with 9,500 gallons of fuel, away from a crowded housing project. The pilot, Lt. John C. Bibble, 24, Urbana, III., and the four oth er airmen aboard lost their lives. A housewife, Ruth King, 32, said the four-engine, prop-driven KC97 from nearby Selfridge Air Force base struck "in a great big billow of flame and smoke." The big pot-bellied ship, crash ing moments after takeotf, left a wake of burning wreckage. Pieces hung from overhead power lines and clogged U. S. 25, the high way leading from nearby Detroit. An , Air Force spokesman said the ship was on a routine retool ing mission when it apparently suffered a power failure. Solons To Seek Expansion Fund . SALEM (AP) Four House members said Tuesday they would try to introduce a bill to create a $60,000 fund to expand industry and agriculture. The money would come from the $900,000 appropriation that Gov. Hatfield has requested to pave the way for Boeing Airplane Co. to lease the Boardman bomb ing range. They said the $900,000 is more than enough to pay the Boardman cost. In order to introduce the bill, the sponsors would have to get permission from the House Rules Committee. Sponsors are Reps. Carl Fisher and F. F. Montgomery, both R Kugene; Richard Eymann, f Mohawk; and Ed Whclan, D-Port-land. No Evidence Set Of Upturn In Economy Says Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP) President i turn in taking place as yet." Kennedy said today there is not Secretary of Commerce Luther sufficient evidence at hand to in- H. Ilodees recently nredicted a dicate an upturn has taken place; in the economy. A reporter told Kennedy at his news conference that some econo mists have voiced the opinion that "perhaps the recession has reached a rock bottom and that perhaps the economy is on an up turn." The President replied that lie i hopes an upturn does take place. IS 11 Ulliuill gurs lore T..t L.. th nnnaHmnt . i rommerce is releasing statistics I f , -.hat do not indicat. that an up- The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Showtrs and partial clearing to- night and Thursday Higheit temp, last 14 hours . Lowest temp, last 34 heurt Higheit temp, any Mar, ('Ml Lowest temp, any Mar. ('56) Precip. last 24 hours Precip. from Mar. 1 Precip. from Sept. I Excess from Sept. 1 Suntet tonight, 4:0? p.m. Sunrit tomorrow, 4:41 a.m. to 44 .. II . H . 33 .33 34.20 Really Have A Bone To Pick 1 Group Approves Drastic Stale Income Tax Laws March 8. The package, approved by the committee at a late night meet ing, would: Impose a tax on gross personal income of Va per cent on the first $1,000. 1 per cent between $1,000 and $12,000, and lva per cent over $12,000. Removes Deductions Remove all personal deductions except for extraordinary medical expenses and extraordinary casu alty losses. Eliminate the $600 personal ex emptions, and substitute a $20 credit for each dependent or per sonal exemption. This $20 would be deducted from the tax; itself. Adopt new lower tax rates, so that the total effect would be a 10 per cent income tax reduction. JFK Establishes Young Peace Corps WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy today established a tem porary Peace Corps of young Americans to be sent overseas, and sent a special message to Congress calling for creation of such a helping-hand agency on a permanent basis. He announced tbe move at his news conference and expressed hope 500 persons will be working in foreign countries by the end of the year. The While House followed up with a message to Congress rec ommending the permanent es tablishment. The President defined the corps as a pool of trained American men and women sent overseas by the U.S. government or by private organizations and institutions to help foreign countries meet their urgent needs for skilled man power. Kennedy said the participants will work without pay, live as their foreign counterparts do and speak the native language. "The initial reactions to the Peace Corps proposal are con vincing proof that we have, in this country, an immense reser voir of such men and women anxious to sacrifice their energies and time and toil to the cause of world peace and human prog ress." Kennedy's statement said. rise in the economy within the next bo days. Kennedy said there still are many, hundreds of thousands of Americans dependent upon unem ployment compensation and sev eral millions who can't find work. "Members of Congress and oth ers with whom I have talked re port from various sections of the nnlln,. ,1..,.. ..till t luumi j mat me, sun me iiuim '"rthinku'wouM ""nrnminre ,n economy is on the rise, and, there fore, that there is no necessity ! fur action. 1 don't lake that view jit all." In view of this situalion. Ken- nedy said, he thinks all of the 1 anti-recession programs he h a s recommended to Congress are needed 'I am hopeful that a will see the economy move up in the! spring and summer, but we can make no predictions about it. he went on. "There is not suffi- rient eviHmr at hanH vol hv - ...... . . ..7 ".any government drpartment to in dirale an upturn has taken place as oi lousy. A i This, presumably, would be made up by a cigarette tax ot i cents a package. Provide for estimated returns and installment payments on in come which is not subject to with- hoding. Compel all couples to file joint returns. The purpose of the net receipts tax is to make people with low incomes contribute something to ward the cost of government. Gov. Mark Hatfield has indi cated he favors most of the pack age. He' asked the committee to retain the deduction for contribu tion to charity, but the commit tee refused. If the House passes the pack' age, it will 'get a rough reception in - the Senate, The Senate 'laxa tinn fmmittee has said it wants to reduce taxes, but doesnt like the House bills. The House tax package was drafted by the Legislative inter im Committee on laxauon. The House committee's vote was 6 to 2. Voting against it were Reps. Bill Bradley. D-Gresham, and Raphael Raymond, R-Helix. Rep. George C. Flitcraft, R-Klam-ath Falls, abstained. Soviets Say West Aids Berlin Riots BERLIN (AP) The Soviet Un ion' commandant in Berlin today accused the Western powers of supporting meetings and demon strations against ine ooviei uniuu in the divided citv. Maj. Gen. Nikolai F. Zakharov sent the accusation to JIaj. lien Ralph H. Osborne, the U.S. com manriant. lt was Dart of his an swer to a protest Osborne made on Feb. 13 against Communist East German police for blocking 40 West German churchmen lrom attending a service in East Her The answer kept secret by the U.S.- authorities was disclosed by the Communist Daily Neucs Deittschland. The Soviet general disclaimed responsibility for the Last Iter man police. He repeated the stan dard Soviet position that the East German satellite slate runs its own affairs, without Soviet inter ference. The Western powers do not recognize the East German regime and hold the Soviets re sponsible. Arab World Leaders Holding Summit Meet RABAT. Morocco (AP) Three Arab leaders o( North Africa were meeting in .a "little sum mit" conference here today that may broaden the way for eventu al peace in Algeria torn anew by bloody Oran rioting. The three, brought together in mourning for the late King Mo hammed V of Morocco, are the dead monarch's son King Hassan II. President Habib Bnurguiba of Tunisia and Ferhat Abbas, head of the Algerian nationalist rebel regime. Inclement Weather Continues To Delay Solovich Search Douglas County Sheriff Ira Byrd this morning said tha rain and fog "hanging in" heavy in the Glide-Little River area would hold up the search for escaped mental patient Steve Solovich at least one more (lav. Byrd explained the reason he's calling off the search during the inclement weather is so the posse can go into the woods just as soon it stops and have completely freh tracks to start trailing. He iwinted out that keening evervone eNe out of the woods novr will al- ,iow tne rain to wipe out old tracks Esroblished 1873 14 Pogei Angry Mobs Jeer Accused Sex Slayer NEW YORK (AP)-An ashcnl faced and dejected Fred J. Thompson guarded by swarms of police and subjected to jeering abuse from people on the streets was held without bail today in the wanton sex slaying of 4-year-old Edith Kiecorius. Thompson, 59. appeared to be happy for the strong guard as he stood silently listening to arraign ment proceedings in a courtroom jammed with some 150 spectators. The appearance before Magis trate Louis S. Wallach look only three minutes. Thompson, manacled to a detec tive, had no lawyer and said noth ing at any time, even when asked a question by the magistrate. Then he was led away to a cell. Magistrate Wallach adjourned a hearing in the case until Friday. Thompson had heard jeers and abuse from people on the streets as he was taken from a station house to police headquarters for fingerprinting and photographing, ana inen to ine courtroom. One woman near police head quarters cried out: "There's that dirty dog." The sparkling-eyed little victim of one of New York's most sav age sex slayings in years vanished while playing on a street last Wednesday. Her battered body was found Sunday in a room which had been rented by Thompson in lower Manhattan. He was arrested in New Jersey Tuesday and returned here. Durno Seeks Funds For Access Roads U. S. Rep. Edwin R. Durno has asked Oia IT. ntirpnn nf Pnhlir Roads to release funds to assist -the ttate in oa.struction WE tcnetM roads to rest areas adjacent to Highway 99 which the state High way Department is ready to build if the federal government will co operate. In a memorandum last year, (he bureau ruled against federal par ticipation except where such areas have special historical significance. One of the reasons cited was diffi culty in keeping such areas clean and sanitary. 'W Funds Included Officials in Douglas County said they were not certain what areas might he affected in the county. They did point out, however, that money for these roads to rest areas are not generally included in funds for construction on High way 99 itself. Durno answered the difficulty of maintenance question by pointing out that such areas in Oregon are under the direct administration of the Division of State Parks "which has an unexcelled record for high standards of sanitation and main tenance." Durno said he is making the plea for funds to "aid in meeting the serious unemployment situa tion in Oregon, both by direct em ployment on the project and by the utilization of wood and other prod ucts in the construction of the fa cilities." Progress Edition In All SO States At least someone in every stale of the Union knows something more about Douglas County today. They know because they have received copies of The News-Review's first annual progress edi tion which was published Monday. A. Fuller Johnson, News-Review circulation manager, said today copies of the edition had been mailed to friends and relatives of Douglas County people in the other 49 slates and some had even gone to Canada. Although sales of the edition are brisk (running hetween :I0 and 500 a day), copies are si ill avail able. They may be sent to friends, relatives or business acquaintances merely by filling out the blank in today's News-Review and sending it along with the money for the edition to The News Review. The editions will then be sent on as designated. and that any fresh tricks will be long to Solovich Eluding of Pone A kill week has gone hy now since Solovich shot and wounded special deputy Watson Talrott in the heavily-timbered area some isix miles east of (,iide. He nas I been sighted since then, but each 'time fog, rain and darkness help!N Cost, Risk Assumption ied him elude the posse i Byrd also answered a charge by;lo allow anyone who thinks theyipital. "Sieve just can't stand 'a Boise man that the sheriff had refused to cooperate with him when he requested permission to try and 'talk to Solovich and get him to ivir- renuer peacefully. r i if j-miirnniinnm n inim mn jn j . ROSEBURG, OREGON Kasavubu Promises Steps To Halt Attacks By Army I.EOPOLDVIU.E. the Consol (AP) Faced by a stiff warning from U.N. Secretary-General Dag llammarskjold, President Joseph Kasavubu's government promised louay to iane steps 10 nan Congo lese army attacks on L'.N. per sonnel. The pledge was made by Inter ior Minister Cyril Adoula. lie told a news conference: "We will ap ply legality if necessary." He did not elaborate. Land Moratorium Stands, Says Udall The 18-month moratorium on most types of non-mineral appli cations and petitions for public lands within the national land re serve administered by the Bureau of Land Management will not be changed. so said secretary of the Inter ior Stewart L. Udall today in a re port of a letter to Sens. Barry Goldwaler, Wallace F. Bennett, Henry Dworshak and Gordon Al lott. Protest Action Udall set the moratorium Feb. 14. The senators protested the ac tion as a "freeze" to public land programs. Udall said in his letter the effect would be the opposite. "It will allow the department to unfreeze public land programs that have been in deep freeze lor many vears." he says. "The department will substitute orderly businesslike operations for the frozen morass of backlogs and rejected applica tions." District Forester Archie Craft of the Roseburg BLM office said the moratorium would nave only minor effect on Douglas County lands Patented Lands He pointed out that moratorium applies to patented lands under which requests are made for ute of land for recreational facilities or for exchanges of public and pri vate land. He said most of the lands in the county administered by the BLM are reserved l o r timber production and would not be too much affected. Udall said pending private and public ownership exchanges would be hurried Dy a punnc land con servation program he announced in February. The moratorium is designed to give the BLM time to catch up on the welter of applications for lands which have built up in the last few years. Consideration Due Postmaster Jobs WASHINGTON (AP) The Civil Service Commission disclosed to day it has suspended work on ex aminations lor lilting postmaster positions in the first, second and third classes, at the request of Postmaster General J. Edward Day. The commission said it also had agreed to a request by Day for an immediate review of the cur rent standards for filling such po sitions. This review must be com pleted and the decisions made by April 30. the commission said. Day wrote that "we are most anxious to insure that we recruit for these positions only persons with the experience and training necessary to manage and operate modern postal establishments." "Our preliminary considerations of this problem lead us to the conclusion that the present quali fications standards may not be producing the kind of personnel necessary to meet this objective," he added. In reply, the commission's ex ecutive director Warren B. Irons said it had been some years since the postmaster standards had been considered. Threa Policemen Freed HONG KONG (AP) Three missing British policp inspectors were held by the Ked Chinese, the Hong Kong government disclosed today in announcing they had been freed. Tho three set sail Sun day for Tolo harbor bordering Ked China in a converted lifeboat and apparently were swept into Chinese waters by strong winds. Boise miner Joel Olsen had told the Idaho Statesman (a Roise newspaper) that the sheriff's of fice had turned down his offer to help and said. "I'd like to help; but I don't know the country, and ( wouldn't get any help from the sheriff's office in the search." Byrd said he has never refused can help bring Steve in peacefully Mo join the search. He pointed out. I however, the sheriff's office will j not py travel expenses for Olsen or anyone else to join tha searcn. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1961 was raped bv Congolese soldiers I near Leopoldvilte Sunday and the United Nations has reported new incidents of mistreatment by Con golese since then. Tunisian, Ma layan and Nigerian detachments in the U.N. force were the vic tims. The newly reported incidents occurred presumably before llam marskjold s new warning to Kasa vubu. announced at the United Nations Tuesday. Demands Cooperation The secretary-general said the United Nations demanded cooper ation from Kasavubu and would back up its actions by strong force if cooperation is not forth coming. llammarskjold also warned Con go leaders to get together "or chaos will result." Kasavubu s premier, Joseph Ileo, called the news conference to explain the anti-Communist military pact he signed with Pres ident Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province and Albert Kalonji, chief of the so-called mining state in southern Kasai Province. Skirts Problem He explained again that the three signers skirted the delicate problem whether all recognize Kasavubu. as head of the Congo state. Tshombe and Kalonji de clare their areas are independent. But lleo asserted our lnends in Katanga are not secessionist. We reached agreement in 45 min- UtPS The anti-Communist leaders in Winston Chamber Picks Committees Main item of business at this month's meeting of the Wmstonl Chamber of -.Commerce; lieM Tvics day night, was appointment of committee members, Phcbe Mc- Guire, News-Review correspond ent. reDorts. Appointed by President Lewis Lorenz to the planning and de velopment committee were Elton Zuvcr. Jim Daugherty. and Dor othy True. Otto Jones was named to the street signs committee wun Newell Howard on the house num bering committee, Bill schell on the organizational sign committee, and Frank True, Dixie Meglasson, and Russ Turner appointed to the membership commiltee. City Map Drawn The group heard a report of the progress being made on the new Winston city map. It was reported that the new map, which will soon be available, will include ell new and proposed streets in the city. The chamber's board of direct ors announced that the group's community project for the year will be development of summer recreation facilities at the com munity park. Both the chamber and the Winston Kiwanis Club will participate in the project. Highway Speaker Earl Whitfield, who recently pur chased the Oregon Liquor Commis sion agency in Winston, was intro duced at the meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for March 28 with a speaker from the state Highway Department scheduled to discuss Highway 42 and Main St. in Winston. Gl Benefits Eyed For Cold War Yets WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore., gave his support Tuesday to a bill that would extend the benefits of the old GI Bill of Rights to veleram of the Cold War. The draft makes irrelevant the question of wartime or peacetime service, Morse said. "The sacri fice is the same, the duty of the nation is the same," he testified before a Senate Labor subcom mittee. The bill, sponsored by Morse and 36 other senators, would pro vide benefits mostly housing and education to those who wera in the armed forces between Jan. 31, 1955. and July 1, l!Ki:i. The old GI Bill, for veterans of World War II and the Korean I War. expired in 1955, Also, he said, the sheriff's office will not assume the responsibility for such a volunteer's personal welfare, hut will aid them in find ing Solovich so they can talk to him if Rig Sieve wants to talk. The Statesman also reported a ritmmcnt attributed to Olsen in which he apparently disagreed with the Veterans Administration policy of putting Solovich in a hos - be locked up; he s a mountain l.veMia saui it nan sensed man by nature, and he can't stand j hints of a "thorough cleaning of being confined, lt'i the worst thing 1 Gen. Eisenhower's Augean sta thev could do for him," the States-1 hies with the coming of I new man reported Olsen (lying. hoss to the White House." 50-61 PRICE 5c signing their pact at Elisabethville offered an olive branch to the Communist-backed rebel regime of leftist Antoina Gizenga, Gizenga was invited to a roundtable conlernnce of Congo lese political leaders on the is- iiuiu ui luauaKuacar starling ncMiiies out does not yet know pro- Monday Kashamura Invited Also invited was Anicct Kash amura, another follower of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumum ba. Kashamura has been running Kivu Province but lately has been reported in jail at Stanleyville. President Moise tshomlie of secessionist Katanga Province emerged as the dominating fig ure in the three-wny anti-Communist military alliance signed Tues day in his capital of Elisabeth ville. Premier Joseph Ileo represent ed the central government in Leopoldville. Albeit Kalonji signed for the "Mining State" he has proclaimed in southern Kasai. County Committee Eyeing Sutherlin The future of reorganization in the Sutherlin School District area will be discussed tonight at a meet ing of the Douglas County Commit tee for Reorganization of School Districts. The meeting, chairmaned by Harold Glover of Roseburg, will start at 7:30 p.m. in the county school superintendent's office. The announcement was made to day by Kenneth F. Barneburg, county school superintendent. A recent proposal for consolida tion of Sutherlin, Oakland, and Umpqua School districts into a sin gle administrative district failed at the polls. Thfl committee hasAwhioti ha submitted to-Secretary - lucOn carrying on further diseus sions with each of the three dis tricts in an effort to find a com mon meeting ground on which to base further reorganization plans. Tonight, the committee meets with the Sutherlin School Board and administrators of the district First on the meeting agenda. however, is an official canvas of ballots cast in the recent election for establishing an administrative school district proposed for Yon calla, Drain, Scotts Valley, Curtin and Guntcr. The proposed district was turned down by voters in those districts Feb. 16. Contract Due Tonight On College Courses The Roseburg School Board is expected to enter into a contract with the stale System of Higher Education tonight which will offi cially set up plans for lower di vision collegiate education in Rose burg this fall. The board has already given Its tentative approval to the plan for offering college courses on a night school basis. They have been wait ing for firm proposals to sign a contract, which will see District 4 guarantee the payments for the program and in return use the tui tion paid by students as incoming revenue to offset the cost. Dr. Byron Moore and Charles Ivie of the System of Higher Edu cation are expected to be on hand for tonight's meeting, which starts at 7:30 in the District 4 adminis tration office on W. Harvard Ave. Khrush Changes Mind, Will Send Gromyko MOSCOW (AP) Against a background of mounting Soviet hostility toward the Kennedy ad ministration. Premier Khrushchev has decided to stay away from the start of U. N. General Assem bly session next Tuesday and send foreign .Minister Annrei Gromyko to head the Soviet dele gation. Moscow radio announced the makeup ot the delegation Tues day night. Khrushchev was not on the list. This doused specula tion that Khrushchev would go to tJ. N. headquarters for the meet ing as a prelude to talks with President Kennedy. Diplomats felt that Khrushchev decided not to attend the assem blyat least at the start be cause the time is not yet right for a meeting with the new presi dent, who is still working out hii foreign policies. In addition to Gromyko. Deputy Foreign Minister Arkady Sobo lev, former chief Soviet V. N. del egate, will be in the delegation. An article in tne government ' newspaper Uveslia indicated that 1 as the Kennedy administration ! comes up with its own policies, lollhey are not to Moscow's liking Limited War Ability Of US Being Studied WASHINGTON (APJ-President Kennedy said today he is anxious to increase the conventional mili tary power of the United States and its allies, but is still relying on nuclear weapons as the ulti mate defense of the free world. At a news conference, Kennedy said Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has already recom mended strengthening this coun try's conventional forces. Kenne dy said he is now studying 11c Namara's report. He said he would finish the study in about two weeks. Laavet N Doubt The President thus left no doubt that he has decided in principle on building up the non-nuclear forces of this rnimli-v anrl ile nl cisely what increase is necessary to give the free nations greater capacity for limited war, Kennedy was asked ipecificallv whether there has been a change in United States emphasis on the availability and use of nuclear weapons in a great international emergency if employment of such weapons was considered essential. He said that "we've not reached a decision" on any change in U.S. nuclear strategy, then added "there is no such change at the present time." "What we're anxious to do," the President explained, "is to see conventional weapons strength ened not only in Western Europe but throughout the world." Indications of the administra tion's thinking on the subject had come earlier from Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Seek Cooperation Rusk said in a statement lata Tuesday that "we are determined in cooperation with our allies, to enhance the common defense ti assure the security of the Ires world." "I have lone felt," Rusk contin ued, "that this will require a strengthening of the non - nuclear aspects of that defense, as well as the maintenance of its nuclear aspects. Our commitments to tho common defense are known, as is our determination to back them." Rusk issued his statement in tho midst of controversy over a news report published Monday of a memorandum on defense policy - jof - Defense Robert S. McNamara early in February. Rusk called the news report highly inaccur ate." Other Slate Department offici als said that what Rusk most strenuously objected to was an el ement of the report saying that he favored defending the NATO Allies in Europe by conventional rather than nuclear weapons. He was also reported disturbed by a "distortion" of his memorandum to the effect that he would favor use of U.S. troops rather than Al lied forces in limited wars which might arise in parts of the world outside Europe. Generally In Lin State Department press officer Lincoln White said Rusk's state ment was generally in line with the meaning of the memorandum which Rusk sent McNamara. Oth er authoritative informants report ed that what Rusk recommended was an increase in the ability of the North Atlantic Treaty mem bers to meet a substantial, non nuclear attack in Europe by con ventional means rather than by in stant use of nuclear weapons. These informants also said Rusk expressed the view that it would be necessary for some years at least to maintain American-manned medium-range ballistic mis siles (which carry nuclear war heads) in the European area, bas ed either on land or on seaborne carriers. The presence of these missiles in the European area. Rusk reportedly recommended, should be accompanied by an as surance to the Allies that they will be used if necessary. "Now, . toward the end of Feb ruary," 1vestia went on, "the impression is that Washington has got used to the stink of the un cleaned stables." In one of the sharpest Soviet attacks on the new administra tion, it singled out 17. S. policy in Asia and Africa and culled tha policy two faced. The govern ment organ accused the United States of attempting to show a friendly face toward emerging nations on the two continents while actually working with colo nial powers. Levi! Fact Rant By L. F. Reizensteia Oregon, octivoting her mot to, "she fliet with her own wingt," is probably impelled to seek tho solitudes of the air to get out of earshot of the legislative seisiont during the wrangles aver important and unimportant marten. From present indications, "the mountain will labor and bring i forth a mouse." ,
