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U. of 0. lo'brrry JFK-ASK ..' Tl- fa) CD ULION In La SOS ; 1 0 1 ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT J. V. Long, center, receives congratulations from Emil A. Romberg, left, and Raymond J. Martin, right, after he formally accepted appointment as Solicitation Organization Chairman for the Mercy Hospital Expansion Fund Drive's final phase. The appointment was announced at a noon meeting Wednesday of the hospital Lay Advisory Committee. Final Hospital Drive To Start On March 20 Plans to begin the final phase of the Mercy Hospital Expansion Fund Drive on Monday, March 20. were announced Wednesday at a luncheon meeting of the Lay Ad visory Committee. The committee also announced (he acceptance by J. V. Long as Solicitation Organization Chairman for the final phase of the drive. The kickoff is scheduled to be gin with a 8 a.m. breakfast on Jlarch 20 with captains and cam paign workers to begin their calls immediately afterward. The announcement was made by Emil A. Ramberg, drive chairman, as the lay board met to plan or ganization for the final phase of attempting to achieve a $250,000 goal. Ramberg also explained Ihut, at present, nearly $107,400 has been received in cash and pledges from local residents. The $250,000 sum sought will be joined bv an additional $250,000 contributed in federal Hill-Burton funds, and $350,000 that the Sisters of Mercy must borrow on the ex isting facilities in order to finance the $850,000 new structure. House Group Okays School Aid Raise SALEM (AP) The House Ed ucation Committee in a policy move Wednesday approved a $20 increase in the per pupil allot ment of stale aid to schools. This increase was double what Gov. Mark O. Hatfield had rec ommended in his budget. He had urged that the Legislature boost the present $105 per census child to $115. Rep. Joe Rogers, R-Independ-rnce, said that because of the load on properly taxpayers, edu cation will suffer unless the state jumps its contribution. It was Rogers who ' made the motion to boost the figure in the bill from $115 to $125. He also moved to have the do pass recom mendation on the bill. It received the unanimous support of the com mittce. The bill now will go to the Joint Ways and Means Committee be fore reaching the House floor. If Ways and Means and the House passes it. the major lest will be on the Senate floor. There is spec ulation that the $20 boost may not get past the Scnalc. X-15s Record, Hit 2,905 MPH EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Air Force Maj, Bob White learned Wednesday that his latest speed run in the record selling X15 rocket ship was even fasler than at first estimated. Initial readings after Tuesday's flight showed he had exceeded lt r,,ilne l a ..,1 of 'instrument data later fixed the figure at 2.905 m.p.h. Eitier way. While had lopped Ms previous world mark of his prev achieved in an X15 with a smal ler power plant, i-i... nnn;nA ,,.i,i.i, I.. ST.ooO-pound thrust,' is expected to carry man to the lringe ot space later this year. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Occasional showers and brief pe riods of partial clearing tonight end Friday. Cooler today. Highest temp, last 74 hours . Lowest temp. It 74 hours Highest temp, any Mar. ('(0) Lowett femp. any Mer. CM) Preeip. last 24 hours Precip. from March 1 .. . . Precip. from Sept. 1 Excess from Sept. I Suniet tonight, 4:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:14 a.m. J-75 In Final Drive Phase Kennedy Stays Firm On Aid To Schools WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy says the Constitu tion bars federal loans to private secondary schools on any across-the-board basis. And he hopes ad vocates of such aid will desist lest the administration's education bill be killed. Taking fresh issue with critics, the President sounded that appeal and expressed his views, on the legal issues at a news conference Wednesday even as word came from Congress about plans to press for loans to these schools. Kennedy previously had assert ed that he also believes outright granls to non-public secondary schools would be unconstitutional. Busy Session Set For Local Solons A busy session is scheduled for Saturday at a legislative clinic to be held from noon until 2 p.m. in the Umpqua Hotel. The meet ing is sponsored by the Koseburg (area) Chamber of Commerce's civic development division and the slate government committee. All chamber members and oth ers interested are invited to the meeting, when Sen. Albert G. Fleg el and Reps. W. O. (Bun) Kelsay and Sid Leiken will be present. Important legislation before the slate legislature will be discussed, and the legislators will be open for' questioning. The session, ac cording to the chamber commit tee, is more one of study, rather than simple explanation, in order to determine support or opposition to the respective measures. The following bills will be up for discussion: basic school support community colleges, federal aid to education, lauor-managemeni rela tions, workmen's compensation, un employment compensation, mini mum wage and maximum hour, medical care, highway use tax, Oregon Highway 42 bonds, timber taxation. Repeal of the personal property tax, replacing with net business tax; personal income tax, bond ing, compulsory auto insurance, civil rights, uniform commercial code, building permits, repeal of the 1959 shop lifting law and repeal of the publishing county warrants. Sutherlin Resident Faces Assault Rap Bernard Frank Smith. 49. of Sutherlin, has waived extradition ano win oe reiuineu iu iium-iiui miles down range, today from Eureka. Calif., to facej uam. the space chimp, was a charge of assault being armed launched on a similar flight with a dangerous weapon. course Jan. 31. However, a mal- t'hief Criminal Deputy C. R. function in the thrut regulator Boigman left at noon Wednesday j resulted in boosting Ham's space for Eureka to bring Smith here, capsule higher and farther than Arrested by Eureka authorities on I intended . a Douglas County warrant. Smith At Kglin Air Force Base, Fla., at first refused to waive exlradi an atmospheric study was made lion, but changed his mind and . by an Aerobee-300 research rock consented lo return. His bail has;et fired 190 miles high, been set at $10,000. The 42-foot rocket was fired to Smith is wanted in connection wj,h holding his estrang - led wile and six children at gun - '""" ' '" -" , ,u , , of he ,amilvl home shortly before olficcrs ar-i rived. Mrs. Smith had managed to ' slip out of Ihe house and called Sutherlin Chief of Police Richard Cruinal. who notified the sheriffs ollue. The home is about three nnlf.c itavi nf Kntllnrlin Smith reporterilv had two guns.! I1 LORKNCE. Ore. (AP) The one nf them loaded, when arrested search was resumed today for the in K.iireka He was in his car oul-,lhree crewmen who were aboard side a hotel where he was staying. Harriman Pays Visit 1 ROME (AP)-Hoving VS. Am- block, all of Newport. Ore They 53 bassador W. Avcrcll Harriman spl "t 'm Newport Saturday 3 i paid courtesv calls on President m Ihe 53-foot fishing boat West Giovanni Gronchi and Premier . Wind- The craft disappeared Sun- "lAmintore Fanlani today prior to day during the storm. .(1 beginning talks with Fanfani and Wreckaae was spotted Wednes i his ministers. i day on the beach between Flor- 26.58 1 Thprp was tnprnlalinn Tlarri. pnrfl and llecela Head. Coftt man would urse llie Italian unv- I eminent to lake over some of ! America's burden of foreign aid. At the session with 350 news men, Kennedyy dealt at g r e a t length with the administration's controversial S3. 2 billion bill to provide federal granls to public schools, scholarships to college stu dents and loans to colleges. It calls for neither grants nor loans to par ochial and private schools. but the conlerence questions and answers also ranged into the inter national field and touched on other domestic matters. For example, Kennedy said he would like to see an easing of what he called Communist China's belligerent attitude and harsh at tacks on the United Stales. "But," -he added, "we are not prepared to surrender in order to get a relaxation of that." And Kennedy announced that next Monday he will make a ma jor policy statement dealing with the problems of Latin-American nations. He also said he soon will be sending a special message to Con gress indicating "what I believe to be the relative defensive posi tion of the United Slates and other countries, and what needs to be done to improve it. The President made that state mcnt when asked whether he had yet concluded, on the basis of Pentagon studies, whether the So viet Union has a missile advantage over tnc united Mates. Kennedy said cryptically that be had looked into an FBI report on Charles Meriwether before the Senate voted 67-18 Wednesday to confirm him as an Export-Import Bank director. "I am confident that he will do a' good job." the President said. A reporter had noted that Sen. Wayne Morse. D-Ore., had raised a question as to whether Men welher had a police record. Meri wether had not commented on Morse's statements. Officials Pleased With Missile Test CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) The successful 200-mile test flight of a Redstone missile has pleased bolh Army and U.S. man-in-space officials. An Army team launched the rocket Wednesday night. Primary goal of the lest was to check de vices which in wartime would au tomatically arm and fuse the nu clear warhead after the missile is well on its way to target. An American astronaut is ex pected to ride a Redstone within two months on a flight which wi i take him 115 miles high and 290 , determine the density and distri- 1 billion of ultraviolet rays, ions and . electrons in the upper almos- Search Is Resumed For Missing Crew a fishing boat destroyed in a howling storm last weekend. Missing are Charles Matleurci Jr., his father and Henry Knob- auardmen found debris from the craft and part of its bridge i sign ot the missing crewmen. . Or : . Established 1873 24 Pages Stevenson To Face FirstiRed China Told Big Test Of U.N. Career UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP) ing the Kennedy administration a it will make no deals. But it is Adlai E. Stevenson today faced I breathing space in which to for- j generally agreed there will have the first big test of bis U. N. ca reer as he tried to persuade the Soviets to drop their demand for a disarmament debate at the cur rent assembly session. The U. S. Delegation claimed wide support in its campaign to trim the assembly docket to only essential housekeeping items, giv- Soviets Return Dog From Space MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union announced today it placed in orbit and returned safely to earth a space ship containing a dog. The Soviet news' agency Tass said the dog, named Chernushka, and "other biological subjects" had been safely retrieved through the earth's atmosphere. The space ship weighed 4,700 kilograms, or slightly more than live tons. The Tass broadcast said the space ship, after "the fulfillment been landed successfuUy "in the required area of the Soviet Un ion." It added: "The dog's condition is nor mal." Last Aug. 19 the Russians an nounced a five-ton space ship car rying the dogs Strelka and Belka was launched into ornit ana re turned safely. The Russians said they had traveled nearly 435.000 miles in an orbit that reached a maximum height of 190 miles. On December 1. the Hussinns launched another space ship with two dogs and other animals but it burned up in the earth's at mosobere. The last previous Soviet space operation was the launching tea. 12 of a rocket from the back of an orbiting space vehicle. It -is scheduled to reach the vicinity of Venus in May. Its radio has gone silent. Tass said the purpose of the latest test is "the further adjust ment of the design of the space ship and of the systems on. board so as to insure the necessary con ditions for the flight of man." The space ship reached a max imum height in orbit of 154.5 miles and a minimum of 113.4 miles. As in the previous test, the dog and other animals rode in a special cabin. The Tass announcement did not define the "other biological ob jects in the satellite. High Schooler Gets Young Demo Post The Young Democrats of Rose burg today announced the election of Ronald Yount, Roseburg High School student, to fill the post of second vice president. The position was left vacant aft er the recent resignation of Vera Busenbark. Rick Johnson, president, also an nounced several members of the local chapter are planning to at tend the state convention in Salem April 7 and 8. On April 7, all YD's will attend the stale legislature as guests, he said. Cake sales, car washes, window washing and other projects are slated bv the Roseburg Young Democrats during the next two weeks in order to help defray costs of attending the stale convention. The convention is to be held in the Marion Hotel, Salem. Riddle School Budget Fixed By Committee The Riddle school budget com mittee met this week for final con sideration of the annual budget. Jlrs. B. O. Bordeaux was appoint ed to the budget committee until June, 19H2, to replace Mayor George R. Aker Jr., who resigned because of a conflict in meeting dales for Ihe budget committee and the Riddle city council. Wil liam E. Markham was elected president of the committee and William Slrobndge secretary, ac cording to F.rma Best, News-Review correspondent. Petitions for a candidate lo re place Harold Olsen, who is not a candidate for reelection to the school board, must be entered by Aprd 1. Petitions are available at the elementary school oflice. Peti tions are also available for rural school district board members which includes one distnctat- large member. Eugene Fisher of hlkton. incumbent, and one Irom Zone K, districts 8. 13. 70, and 77, Guy McGce, Canyonville, incum bent. In special arlinn following t h e budget meeting. Mrs. Christine Sel lard, sixth grade teacher, was granted a leave nf ahence as of March 27 lo enter Eastern Ore con college. La Grande, and com plete her degree by the end of i Ihe summer session, providing Al j vin Barnhart, principal, cn iind a suitable replacement. ROSEBURG, OREGON mulate new policies on disarma- mem ana other major Last-West issues. But a U. S. spokesman indicated (he Soviets were insisting on a full assembly debate on Premier Khrushchev's call for total disarm ament. To win the Soviets away from this declared stand would boost II. S. prestige in the 99-nation forum and strengthen Stevenson's hand in future international ex changes. The new U. S. delegate already has won favor among many smaller nations with his approach ability and friendly interest in their problems. But now they want to see how he makes out across the negotiating table from the So viets. Stevenson reportedly urged the Soviets to shelve assembly discus sion on the controversial arms question until the next assembly in September and devote the in terim months to quiet negotiations. The British have been giving Stevenson strong support in his drive to pare down the assembly agenda, but they feel it is up to the American delegate to do the final selling ob- The 46 Asian-African nations, a pivotal force in any U. N. nego tiations, 'also favor lopping acri- monv-provoking ilems oif the agen da, but tliev insist on seeing some concrete sign of u. s.-oviet agree ment before spelling out their own position. The Soviet Union has insisted that if any ilems are, cut from the agenda, they should be such issues as Hungary and libel, if those two anti-Corn inunist com plaints are discarded, the Soviets indicated tney wouui scrap ineir charges against U. S. reconnais sance flights. The United States has insisted Fish Pond Interest Gains In Douglas Increasing Interest is ' being shown annually in farm fish ponds in Douglas County. Since 1955, when the first permit was issued, the number of ponds has grown to 75, Jerry Bauer, Game Commis sion biologist, has reported to Wayne Mosher, Douglas County Farm Extension agent, who is stressing the recreational import ance of fish ponds on agricultural lands. The Oregon Game Commission, Bauer reports, requires that an in spection be made of every pond before it is slocked with fish and a permit obtained to possess fish. The permit is free. If a person desires to sell fish or otherwise commercialize the pond and fish production, a license must be obtained. Native Area Fish Regulations concerning the spe cies of fish lo be stocked in farm ponds vary in different parts of the state. In Douglas County, tri butary to the Norlh Umno.ua drain age system, only fish native to (he area are permitted in farm ponds Bass, bluegills, crappies and other such fish are prohibited. Sixty of the 75 ponds in Douglas County, Bauer reports, have been built since 19a7. Nineteen were con strucled in 19B0. Inspection has been made on three sites since the first of this year. Ponds range in size from one fourth lo 16 acres. Mpi ) m t ii i j j ii ' ii i 1 1 1 1 1 ii i hi iww I t; . ',,','' ' , u-rr:M- l-A" '.fefefe TWO PRODUCTIONS ore 'on the boordi' ot Douglos High School tonight. One-oct ploys, they include "Dork Rider", a western fantasy ond droma, ond "Andante", o tragedy centered oround a talented musician's loss of the use of a hand in o cor wreck. Shown here, left to right, in the cast of the fantasy, ore Frank Bird, Fred Bates, Jack Ander son, Bob Vie, Jim Fields and Don Ross. The ploys will be staged from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the school ca.fetorium with Helen Howell and Don Ross as student directors. i THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1961 to be a certain amount of give and take to reach a solution. The nuiigdiiau vuimiimct: m , Qv;i.,e headed by JUsgr. Bela Varga . announced Wednesday r night that it would prefer to ha'e the charges of Communist repres sion in Hungary debated again at the current assembly but would be willing to have the debate postponed until the fall assembly. Varga said he understood Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro myko wants to bar the Hungarian issue from the assembly agenda permanently and that his com- mitlett bitterly opposed this. Food Shortage May Slow Red China's Industrial Plans WASHINGTON (AP) Severe food shortages in Communist Chi na may force that country s rul ers to slow down industrial ex pansion and divert more re sources to agriculture, the For eign Agriculture Service said to day. Present food troubles said to be bordering on the famine in some areas of China reflect a gamble of the rulers to let agri culture wait until heavy induslry has been built up. Causes Over-Stressed In a lengthy analysis of, the Chinese food ' situation, the serv ice said Communist leaders had ovcrstressed drought, floods, ty phoons, hail, storms, frost, in sects and plant diseases as llie causes of shortages. That raises the question, the agency said, of whether the Red Chinese leaders are attempting to alibi mistakes and exports of foods needed at home. The analysis said the Chinese rulers have played up natural calamities to create the proper mood for turning work battalions to flood control and water con servation projects. Hard-Pressed "At the time of this writing, one month after the close of 1960, said the service, "it now seems most likely that what Communist China faces is, at best, a develop ing situation in which the regime is extremely hard pressed and llie situation will get worse before getting better." The service said many observ ers doubt China's policy of starv ing agriculture for the sake of heavy industry can be made to worn over me long nam. Already there have been hints. llie agency said, that (lie Chinese regime is moving in the direction of diverting mora resources to agriculture. 'Call Me Madam' Production Set It's show time this weekend. The Roseburg High School Vocal Music Department cast is staging "Call Me Madam" at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Community Building Friday and Saturday. A picture lay-out of the event is on Page 7 of today's issue of The News-Review. Curtain time both nights is 8 p.m., and morn than 100 students in Ihe itllS A Cap pella choir and the RHS Girls' Glee Club will participate. And at Douglas High School two one-actors will be staged. For details see a photograph on Page 1 today. Plays At- Douglas 57-61 PRICE Sc U. S. Not Willing To Quit Formosa - r- c'ur..i! Kennedy has received a sharp -,,..,. : ,.; , ,.,. . , ,:. ;"," ", ' "r. Xl",. hM,'" Z official United China. States and Communist But administration officials said today the President intends to keep trying to arrange an ex change of newsmen and other wise lower the barriers between the two countries, despite the lack of diplomatic recognition. Kennedy told a news conlerence Wednesday that he would like to see a lessening of tension he Uveen the United Slates and Red China, "but we are not prepared to surrender" in order to achieve that result. In effeel, he was telling the Chinese Red leadership and the world that the United States, un der his administration, has no in tention of abandoning its protec tion of Formosa, tho island home of Ihe Chinese Nationalist govern ment. The President's comment came after the State Department dis closed that a Chinese envoy at Warsaw, Poland, had declined lo accept a list of 32 U. S. newsmen cleared by Washington to go into Red China if they could outain approval from Peiping, Ordered Concession U. S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam in effect offered a conces sion to the Red Chinese ambas sador. Wang Ping-nan, by invit ing him to submit a similar list of newsmen from his own coun try with assurance that approval for their entry into the United I Stales would be promptly consid ered. Previously, under llie Eisen hower administration, the United States had avoided any move in llie direction ot graining lieu china's siandinc demand lor re ciprocal treatment in the form of an agreement lo exenange an enual number of reporters. Since Wang refused even to ac cept the American list,, rne alti tude of his government was takon here to be entirely negative on the project except as it may. be used for propaganda purposes in rela tion to Red China's larger objec tive, U. N. Feels Pinch Of Hold In Congo LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (AP) The United Nations today admitted it is feeling the pinch of the Congolese stranglehold on its vital supply lines. Rajeshwar Dayal, head of the U.N. Congo mission, said he hopes negotiations to gel U.N. soldiers back to the key ports of Matadi and Banana will be completed be fore he leaves Friday for a Gen eral Assembly meeting in New York. He told a news conference that a return of U.N. forces to these ports is essential for the U.N. op eration. Most of the Congo's sup plies from abroad pass through Matadi. A U.N. freighter due to dock al Matadi is having to stand off the port unable to land its supplies. Within the next three weeks, 33 U.N. vessels are due to dock al Matadi, a port 60 miles up the Congo River from the Atlanlie. The Congolese government has put forward a set of stiff demands before allowing U.N. soldiers back in Matadi. They include Congo lese control of U.N. air and river traffic and the joint occupation of strategic bases. High Cabinet Rank Proposed For Housing Head WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy today sent to Con gress a $3.25 billion save-the-cities housing program, to be run by a proposed new cabinet-rank depart ment of housing and urban alfairs. In a special 10-point message Kennedy called for nromnt housim legislation to spur the economy I and reinforce the cities in their "desperate struggle against blight' and decay." ' First Negro Housing Administrator Robert C. Wrai'fll- Vl'lm ocntum n ...Ill U come the first t,et,ro cabinet mem ber if his housing agencies are wrapped togelher as the 11th de partment, said drafts of the whole package of legislation will be laid ' belore Congress this month. While stressing the need to spur liomebuilding as a stimulant to jobs and income, Kennedy's 10,-000-word message was aimed chief- , ly at helping the middle-income and lower-income city dweller rath er than the two-car suburbanite. - Highlights of Plan The highlights included: A four-year, S2.5 billion aullior ization for urban renewal grants and loans. A test program of 40-year mort gages with no down-payment for low cost dwellings, under the Federal Housing Administration loan insurance program. A go-ahead for construction of 100,000 public housing units, in per- ' haps three years. Half would be earmarked and specially built for tlie elderly. A major-expansion of FIIA's program of home improvement loans, to make this device possible the major vehicle of the drive to upgrade decaying neighborhoods and modernize the nation's hous ing inventory. The five-year limit and $3,500 ceiling on FHA repair and modern ization loans would be greatly in creased. Weaver indicated, and some new types of home-improvement credit never before mad available may be devised. Kennedy said the problem of cit- , ics ana tneir suDiiros should Da "constantly brought to the cabinet table" and deserve leadership at the top level of government. 110 iuiu uiiKieas: i mereiors recommend and shall shortly of II tU (r .1 r . fer a suggested proposal for the establishment of the execuuvu branch of a new, cabinet - rank department of housing and urban auairs. ' Qu:tian VJlrl. flnn This left wde- open the o,ucstion whether he would ask Congress to act by its normal procedures, or would short cut the process by is suing a presidential reorganization plan, subject to congressional veto. under reorganization powers which Congress is now weighing. The new department presumably would embrace all the agencies which Weaver, as administrator of the housing and home finance agency, now supervises. These are the FHA, Public Housing Author ity, uroan .Renewal Administra tion, Community Facilities Admin istration and Federal National Mortgage Association. The President put no price tag on his program, and Weaver de clined the invitation of newsmen to do so. The potential outlays and authorizations which could be iden tified added up to $3.25 billion, spread over the next few years. tsui pan ot tins is in loans which are repayable, insurance authoriza tions huulnn notflirriMa m.lr lnu . and soendinir "Cellini's" which might never be reached. On some other programs, the cost would be .' set by the amount of matching funds put up by the cities. : Aski Full Speed But Kennedy was calling for full speed ahead. The nation must re deem its pledge of decent dwell ings for "the 14 million American families who currently live in sub standard or deteriorating homes," he said. Equal challenges lie in the vast city growth that lies ahead, the President warned. He said land adjoining urban centers has been eneulfrd at the astounding rate of about 1 million acres a year." He added: "The result has been haphazard and inefficient subur ban expansion, and continued set backs in Ihe central cities des perate struggle against blight and decay. The s umn in home building left one out of every six construction workers idle by the end of 1960. Kennedy said, and brougnt serious problems to the many industries which depend on uutuung. Ogle Featured Speaker At Meet Of Foresters Charles Ogle, sccrelary-manager of Associated Oregon Industries,' will be the featured speaker at Friday night's meeting of the Ump qua Chapter of Ihe Society of Amer ican Foresters. Ogle, who is retained by the AOt lo check legislation in Salem, will speak on "What's doing in forestry in the stale legislature." The meeting will be held at T:30 in the Umpqua Hotel, with a social hour to start at 6:30. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein Most fragile and most of ten broken words in the Eng lish language are those re flected In the nation's shame ful record of divorce cases. They arc "Love, honor and I obey." ' V
