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I 2 Tht hUws-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., Mor. 16, 1961 ; American Missionaries Being Held In Kasongo By Congolese Soldiers LEOPOLDVILLE. the ConKO (AP) Congolese soldiers are holding 23 American missionaries and (even other white persons un der arrest at Kasongo, in the anarchy-torn province of Kivu, the United Nations reported today. A U.N, spokesman said the Americans believed to be Protes tant missionaries of the World Grace Testimony or the Evangel isation Society African Mission succeeded in getting out a mes sage saying they were held under guard and were without food, Malayan U.N. patrols were re ported advancing to rescue the Americans from their base at Kindu, more than 100 miles from Kasongo. The Malayans have been ordered to take them to Kin du so they can be flown to Leo poldville. An American girl, reported in messages to U.N. headquarters to have been raped by four Congo lese at another outlying Protes tant mission station in Kivu, now has been brought to safety at Kindu. Malayan patrols reached the girl after a two-day trek through the scrub and jungle. They met no opposition, the U. N. spokes man said. The girl is one of several white refugees at Kindu awaiting evacu Lumumbist government in Kivu requires the refugees to get exit permits. Smith Bound Over To Grand Jury Bernard Frank Smith, 8, Suth erlin, Wednesday was bound over to the Douglas County Grand Jury on a charge of assault being arm ed with a deadly weapon, lie ap peared before District Judge Ger ald R. Hayes at a preliminary hearing. i' Smith allegedly held his family at gunpoint for several hours on March 6, then fled before offi cers arrived. He was arrested in Eureka, Calif., a few days later. He is specifically charged with holding a gun to the head of Earl J. Baremore, a nephew of Mrs. Smith. Smith Wednesday also was found In wilful contempt of court on ap pearance before Judge .Don . II. Sanders in Circuit Court. The con tempt charge was for failure to comply with provisions of the court order of Oct. 28, 1959, in connec tion with a divorce action brought by his wife, Jean Anne. He was sentenced to IS days in the county jail, but the sentence was suspend ed. , ' He currently is being held in jail in lieu of posting $5,000 bail. Bail was reduced by Judge Hayes from an original $10,000, Union Gap Home Razed By Blaze The home of Mr. and Mrs.' Er nest Cantwell of Uuion Gap burn ed Wednesday morning. Mrs. Cantwell and daughter Mrs. Jessie Hash, and Mrs. Hash's small baby were at home at the time of the fire. It was believed to have started on the roof frum a spark from a wood stove. Camt wcll is currently working in Med ford. A few articles were saved, and the house was believed partially covered by insurance, according to Edith Dunn, News-Review corre spondent. ' On ----- - ".. v. . . tmm hi i i ii I. -aiUn-w SLIPPING OF SOFT EARTH on the hillside in the south part of town is threatening the above pictured residence of William P. Donnelly, 1335 SE Marsters St. Heavy rains during the winter months have loosened the eorth, causing it to slide down onto the street. The northwest corner of the porch support is now exposed. The soft earth started giving woy after part of the slope was cleared of brush and terraced. (News Review Photo) SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS-REVIEW REVIVAL SERVICES STARTING MARCH 15, 7 P.M. REV. BOST EVANGELIST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH TENMILE, ORE. A U.N. spokesman said the refu gees were getting out in small groups. Giant U.S. Air Koroe globemas (ers roared into Leopoldville'i Reapportioning Plan Declared Not Lawful SALEM (AP) A republican sponsored "preferred" plan for reapportioning the Oregon Legis lature was called unconstitutional Wednesday by Atty. Gen, Robert y. lhornton. While Chairman George Annala D-llood Kiver, termed the Thorn ton advice just another opinion his committee pulled back a re apportionment bill it had reported out of committee favorably. The bill recommended by the committee made only a minor change in the Republican-approved plan. It drew support from Republicans and eastern Oregon Democrats. "By the plain language of the constitution, Thornton's opinion said. "Multnomah County is en- tilled to 18 members. The preferred plan proposed to limit Muilnoinan county to is mem bers." I his new development means the house elections and reappor- tionment committee must do its work all over again. Annala said a representative of the attorney general's office would be asked to attend a com mittee meeting and "tell us just what joining of counties to form legislative districts will be consti tutional." The Republican plan would take one representative scat from east ern uregon ana give it to uack a. 'ii as County. It would take i half-senate seat from Polk County and give it to Washington County. The plan approved by the com mittee would change this to give a representative jointly to the Multnomah-Clackamas district. Arthur Milby Arthur Milby, 88 of 373 W. Chap man St, died at a local hospital Tuesday, following a brief illness. He was born in Onowa, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1873. He was in business for himself at Milton-Freewaler fur many years. In 1930, he moved to Walla Walla, Wash., where he was later appointed manager of the store at the Walla Walla I'cnilen tiary until he retired at the age of Jo years, ror the past six years he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. M. E. (Florence) Uroshong of Kosemirg. Hu is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Groshong, and Mrs. Mil dred Smith of Kunnyside. Wash- two sons, Cranston Milby, of Pen dleton and Harold Milby of Coos Bay; one brother, Russell Milby of Breckenridge, Mo., 10 grandchil dren and 22 great grandchildren. The family has requested that there' be no flowers. Funeral services will be held . at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Chapel of the Munselle Funeral Home, Mil-ton-Freewater. with the Rev. J. William Bowles of the Milton-Free waler Methodist Church oUiciating. Concluding services and interment will follow at the Odd Fellows cem etery. Arrangements are in charge or Wilson s uiapet ut The Roses. Shaky Foundation tightly guarded airport today with crack Gurkha troops, the van- HuorH nt a A 7W1 elrnnn nnml.ol In. ation to Leopoldville or the neigh-1 boring Belgian trust territory of "aue "n-iauie oy uie presence oi Ruanda-Urundi. Malayan soldiers' BiS Sleve Solovich in the North hold the Kindu airfield but the i dian brigade ordered to U.N, duty in the Congo. Despite the Congo government s bitter condemnation of the LT.N. reinforcement by Indians, there was no trouble. By early morning 200 soldiers' and 28 tons of jeeps, weapons, ammunition and equipment had arrived. Many of the first Gurkha ar rivals are' veterans- of the World War II campaign against the Japanese in Burma. U.N. officers . said the Indians would be stationed temporarily in Leopoldville. Congolese sources in Elisabethville Wednesday said they are expected to be assigned eventually to North Katanga, where President Moise Tshombe's troops have been trying to crush tribesmen supporting the rebel Stanleyville regime. On the political front, Prem Joseph Ileo of the Leopoldville government disclosed negotiations are under way to bring rebel-held Oriental 1'rovince into the pro posed Congolese confederation. Ileo said Gen. Victor Lundula, had sent him a telegram express ing a desire to reach an amicable settlement. Plea Of Innocence Entered By Rhodes Leland Crady Rhodes, 21, of Yon calla, pleaded innocent to a grand jury indictment charging burg lary when arraigned before Circuit Judge Don H. Sanders Wednesday The judge stated that his trial would be set down in the April term, and continued bail at Sl,- 000. He is accused of burglary from the home of Larry Palmer at Yoncalla on Dec. 27. Joseph John Bookshnis, 55, ap pcarcd for trial Wednesday in Cir cuit Court, on an appeal from a conviction in District Court for drunken driving. However, he mov ed in open court for dismissal of the appeal, and the case was re manded back to the lower court for disposition. He had been con victed and fined $250 in District Court, but had appealed. Two dismissals of criminal com plaints were signed by Judge Charles Woodrich. One was against Robert C. Johnston and the other against Lola Alice Johnston, also known as Lola Shepherd of Myrtle Creek, both charged with obtain ing money by false pretenses. l)is missals were on grounds that they had pleaded guilty, to drawing bank checks with insufficient funds in connection with the same cir cumstances. Johnston was pre viously sentenced to 75 days in the county jail and fined $50, and Mrs. Johnston was sentenced to six months in the county jnil, with probation after serving 75 days, and credit for the 68 days already served. She must make restitu tion on two checks for a total of $20. Portland Man Innocent Edward Edgar Hall, Portland, was found innocent of drunken driving by a trial jury Tuesday in me court of District Judge Herald R. Hayes. He was arrested on the charge Jan. 20 and pleaded inno cent on arraignment. Lloyd Coon Funeral services for I.lovd Coon, 68. well known resident of Camas Valley who died at his home last Frida, will be held in the Chapel of Uing It Oir Mortuary, Satur day at 2 p.m. Concluding services anil inter ment will follow in the Marlimlale Cemetery at Camas Vallev. He is suivived by two brother, i Norman I.. Coon, Portland, and J. D. Coon, dlide: and three sis ters. Mis. Robert .Sawyer and Mrs. Robert Mead, both of Rosehuig. and Mrs. Frank Church, Port ford. inau Year Of Sheriff Byrd Sighs With Relief With Capture Of i hree men whose lives were i umpqua wooas unanimously neav- ea signs oi reuei ai me capture oi i tions in leading the search for Solo , , , , , , vich brought criticism from all X X X X X X x ,x sides. Some people thought Solo- Steve Surprised He Shot Deputy Steve Solovich Wednesday ex pressed surprise that a bullet he fired last month almost killed Glide reserve deputy Watson Til- cott. "Is he dead? V Solovich asked in an amazed tone. "1 thought 1 shot him in the leg." Actually, the .22 bullet hit Talcott in the chest. Sur gery was necessary to remove the bullet, and he was hospitalized a week. Solovich appeared relieved when told the man wasn't dead. He said he had fired three shots over the head of the search party in which Talcott was a member. Then, he said he shouted for the men to go home. "One (Talcott) didn't," Big Steve says. "I warned him again, but he seemed to want to skir mish." (Ironically, Buford Policy, the first man on the scene when Solovich was captured Wednesday, was also in the parly when Talcott was shot.) "I never like to kill a man," Solovich said. "I could have killed many men, but I didn't want to do that." He said he only had a .22 rifle. At the time of his- capture he did not have the rifle with him, which Sheriff Byrd and other searchers viewed as a "lucky break." "He's just so unpredictable. You don't know what he'll do," one dep uty said. Fat Man Awaits Verdict On His Mental Condition SALEM (AP) Chester Hed rick, -the so-called "fat man" as saulter of Portland women, was returned Wednesday from the Oregon State Hospital here to Rocky Butte jail in Portland af ter undergoing psychiatric treat ment. Hedrick has pleaded guilty to five assaults. Hedrick was returned to the hospital earlier this month from Los Angeles. He escaped from the hospital last December by wrap ping himself in a blanket and throwing himself, through a plate glass window1. A report on Hedrick's mental condition is to be sent to the Port land court later. After the report is received, a dale for sentencing wilt be set. Case For The Wood Schoolhouse Heard At Lumber Group's Clinic The case for the wood school was presented to a gathering in Roseburg at the Umpqua Hotel Wednesday night, when a team of technical experts from the Nation al Lumber Manufacturers Associ ation held a wood school clinic. Present were about 50 architects. building officials, city and school officials and executives in lumber manufacturing and of retail and wholesale lumber distributors. Meeting chairman was Ralph De Moisv, general manager, U.S. Ply wood's Roseburg division. All-Round Atlttt Wood school buildings of the past have an excellent performance rec ord, the speakers asserted. Modern educational facilities have demon strated that wood construction stretches the building dollar, eases budget pressure and gives better value to the community. Since the modern wood school has all Severance Tax On Timber Labeled Unfair By Industry SALEM (AP) A man repre senting timber companies with holdings both east and west of the Cascades said Wednesday a severance tax is unfair because it treats the good and the bad tree alike. A severance lax, Dan Goldy told the House Tax Committee, levies the same tax on the dead or marginal hoard that it docs on the highly valued lumber.' Goldy testified on a bill that would gel rid of the ad valorem principle of taxing timber the same as other properly in eastern Oregon and put in its place the severance tax. The bill would put all timber severance tax into a pool and then parcel it out lo individual coun ties on the basis of the percent age of timber based on assessed value within the county. (iulily said a declining cutting rate for timber could bring pres sure either lo raise the sever ance tax or to boost the ad valorem tax on the land, which would be taxed separately. Sahie lioldy appealed (or the "T" 01 I,x"on "n 1n" " V.." H. 1 "V t iiiiii-i run y luuiu ii-auti -in uuuuic taxation. David T. MaMin of Mason. uruce iiiraru, roruanu consult ing lores! ry firm, said the present ad valorem tax procedure is the greatest obstacle in the way ol sound forest management. Mason, whose tirm manages large limner Holdings held as in vestments, said the present melh- j oil ut timber taxation seriously threatens sustained yield manage Or-jment of forests. I Mason said the proposed sever Freedom Mountain Man the grizzled mental hospital es- capee. Leading the list was Douglas county Sheritf Ira C. Byrd. His ac- vim siiuuiu ue capiuicu i any cost. uuters vun-eu uie upimun no harm should come to Solovich in being captured even though lives of deputies might be risked. And still others thought Solovich should just be let alone. Methods Vindicated Most recently, a delegation from Glide went to a state senator with the insistence that Byrd's search methods were not satisfactory. Clearly relieved, Byrd, his search methods vindicated, understated his reaction by saying the capture was "something we've been hoping for." He added, however, that the cap ture of Solovich unharmed was "something we were afraid wouldn't happen as it did." A Praises Daputiat Commenting on his search meth ods, he said his deputies and re serves had kept Solovich "on the run" for so long he was "com pletely worn out." Byrd had high commendation for the three deputies who captured Solovich. He called it " a job well done." The two regular deputies were immediately granted a week's vacation. "We felt the plan we were using offered the best possible chance of taking Solovich alive, and it paid off," Byrd said. "We had many chances to shoot him if we had wanted to, but we had just as much interest as anyone else in taking him alive." The sheriff also had high praise for the regular and special depu ties who took part in the search. He thanked everyone in the Glide area for their assistance and coop eration. A second man whose life was af fected by the wildman of the North Umpqua was Watson Talcott, who was shot in the chest by Solovich last month. He spent a week in the hospital and still carries the .22 slug taken from his body as a good luckcharm. It's still an un easy reminder of his brush with death. 'Glad Ha't Out' "I'm glad he's out of there," says Talcott, whose farm was often raided by Solovich. He estimates at least five sheeD were killed in forays by Solovich. He said another yearling ewe bad oisappearea oniy last' week. And finally, a deputy who prob ably knows "Solovich best of all the searchers. Gail Carnine. said blunt ly, "I'm damn glad they caught him." He has been on every search for Solovich and on this one was out on the hunt 38 consecutive days. He was finally ordered to rest by his doctor and just returned to duty with the sheriff's office Tues day. I the qualifications of durability, safety, flexibility and suitability the technicians expressed difficul ty in understanding the urge to build schools of more costly and less suitable materials. Making up the team of NLMA experts staging the clinic were Paul R. Beattie and Roe Kilborn of the Washington. D.C., headquar ters staff: John Fies, San Francis co: Robert D. McPherson, Seattle, and Norman Reece, Denver. Fiva Aspacts It was pointed out that when schools become overcrowded as they are at present the pres sure for new school buildings be- comes so great that subsequent bond issues may pass without in sistence on economic planning. The speakers examined school costs from five aspects: exterior class room walls, classroom partitions, classroom roofs, exterior auditori- ance bill would encourage sus tained yield cutting by taxing the soil as farm soil and by taxing the tree orrty once when it is cut. Mason said he would like to see the severance principle ap plied lo the taxing of all limber in Oregon both east and west of the Cascades. I Rep. W. O. Kelsay, D Rosehurg, I said a severance tax would de stroy the incentive for private timber owners lo cut their own 1 timber and this would drive up the price of government timber. The result of this. Kelsay said. 1 would be to drive out of business the small timber operator the man with no timber holdings of his own. Crown Zellerbach Workers Quit Job ASTORIA (AP) Members of the International Woodworkers I union walked off the job at the 1 1 -r,,wn yllj,-hBi-h I'nm nlnnl and ' woods operations here Wednesday. lion officials contended that a iurta signal man had been laid off and his job taken bv another worker iu.,ik i... ..ni..r,iu Management declined to com I ment un the dispute. NEW HOMES Designed & Built To Srey Within Your Poymente IVAN P. EDWARDS luiU.r.Dv.loar OK 3-743 - - Ends For Big Steve . . . CM It Qi : tJW?M : Solovich Lived In Primitive Camps... Hulking Steve Solovich set up camps for himself in many parts of eastern Douglos County during his years ranging the hills as an escapee from the Roseburg Veterans Hospitol. Sheriff Ira C. Byrd is shown examining one of his more elaborate ' shelters. Some of the camps were so meticulously camouflaged, they could not be seen unless their exact location was known. ' ... He Worried A Sheriff . A relieved onlooker at the jail booking of Steve Solovich was Sheriff Ira C. Byrd, who directed the successful ' capture of the wiJdman of the North Umpqua. He looks over Solovich's shoulder at left as his prisoner signs the booking card .under the direction of matron Charlotte Smith. um walls and auditorium roofs They presented arguments for the economy of wood over competitive materials in all three areas. A highlight of the program was the presentation of NLMA's new color film, "Blueprint for Betier Schools." It showed that while wood is one of the oldest of all building- materials, at the same time it is one of the most mod ern. ' It was warm, comfortable, secure and stimulating "a hap py place for learning," the film emphasized. The point was made that the greater acceptance of wood in school structures has car ried with it a reasization that safe- j tv depends not on the characleris- tics of specific materials but upon design. Shown were many examples of one-story schools, considered saf est according lo the National Fire Protective Association, with inter estingly designed and landscaped play areas, park-like and open to their natural environment. Other parts of the program in cluded talks on the effects of build ing codes and fire insurance on school and other wood construc tion. A second film, "Comparative Fire Test on Wood and Steel Joists," was shown. 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