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I', of 0. Ubmry -Ucone, Ortf cn Soggy Weekend The U. S. Weather Bureau toys precipitation will be heavier than nor mal in the next five days. Tempera tures will drop to tninimums of 35 45. Jarvis Honored Jim Jarvii, a Roieburg High School basketball all-stater, has won another honor as an ail-American. Sea sports, Page 8. Established 1873 14 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1961 94-61 PRICE 5e Cuba Says Rebels Trained By US Military Officers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS land including tanks, machine guns. lhe Cuban radio charged today the rebel invaders beaten on Cuba's beaches wore trained by V. S. officers in Guatemala. The broadcast said the attackers were ferried to the beachhead in "North American military trans ports" escorted by "Yankee de stroyers." The broadcast aaid the story was told by prisoners captured on the beach. Among them is the son of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, head of the rebel movement in the United States, Havana as serted. Exile leaders in New York said a son of Miro Cardona was in the landing. The insurgent "army of libera tion" answered this charge of U. S. intervention by declaring that the Soviet Union, Red China and Communist Czechoslovakia were ' actively aiding Fidel Cas tro's forces. Denying claims by the Cuban government that not a single in vader made it into the interior, the insurgent broadcast said the "army of liberation" is firmly entrenched in the Escambray Mountains of central Cuba and is ready to fight onto victory. Then the broadcast added: "The fight is hard. It is not easy to defeat the traitors, who are operating with the intervention of Russia, China and Czechoslo vakia." . , How manv invaders may have made it into the mountains to join up with anti-Castro guerril las IS I mailer ui wujtvmn.. r'nhan xile sources in Miami, Fla.. say about 1.000 fighters went ashore. Roundabout Com munist reports put total prisoners at 500 In support of its claim that the in.-.jcinn was the work of "Yan- l kee mercenaries," Havana radio ' cairi nrisoners told of being flown from the United States to a camp in Guatemala. They were quoted as saying they were trained there The Havana broadcast said the reDorted they were ormv . ri, in Puerto Cabezas in Nic- aragua where they boarded the "Norm American muiuujr uaua- Guatemala and Nicaragua have denied officially they naa any hino n An with the operation. Havana said all captured weap; ons were ionn Aiueiuiau Horsemanship Tryouts Held At Fairgrounds Horsemanship tryouts for the Douglas County Pioneer Days Court were held Thursday evening at the Fairgrounds. About 200 per sons attended. Competing were Catherine Ash' hueh. Davs Creek: Carla Hedine, Vickie Miller, Jane Phillips, Cindy Post, Pat Thompson, Mickey Utter back and MBarilee Schemer of Roseburg: Elaine Reiser of Oak land, and Glenda Rice of Dillard The I960 Queen, Genevieve Shelton, set the course. Two-thirds of the judging will be held at a tea at the YMCA on Sat- urday from 2 to 4, and the basis will be appearance, personality, poise, talent selection and prepara tion (the latter some effort of at least three minutes). Mrs. Grady Mankins is in charge of the tea. Gasoline Prices Take Big Drop As Dealer War Continues Here By BILL SPARKS Niws-Rtvitw Staff Wrirtr Gasoline prices took such a ' drastic dip in Roseburg this morn ing that in some places the cost of the tax was higher than the gaso line itself. With the price dropping to 19 9 cents a gallon for regular at some stations, the gasoline was selling for 9 9 cents and taxes stood at 10 cents a gallon. The price drop went to 20 9 cents a gallon for regular and 24.9 for ethyl at at least 10 major com pany outlets. This brought the to tal decrease within less than four eeks to 17 cents from the 37.9 cent a gallon rate at most major stations prior to uie Aiarcn a gas war start here. Umpqua Retail Gasoline Dealers The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Showert ana pr.eai Of ptrmi clt.rmj tonight and Saturday. Con- timwd ceo1- Highit tmp. last J4 hours 57 Lowttt tmp. last 24 hours 44 Highest tmp. any April ('17) W lowttt tamp, any April ('55) V Pracip. last 24 hours .04 Prcip. from April 1 . .55 1 Prtcip. from Spf. t 31.01 1 Eicess from Stpt. 1 4.47 Sum) tonight, 7:02 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:11 a.m. rifles, antilank guns, rocket launchers, flame throwers and trucks. The rebel invaders earner had charged they were met on the beaches by Soviet-made tanks and were attacked by Soviet-made M1G jets. Havana radio asserted Prime Minister Fidel Castro personally led the fight against the invaders His absence from Cuban airwaves has led to speculation he may have been incapacitated or shunted aside by the Communists. British Warships Bound For Cuba MIAMI. Fla. (API Two Brit ish warships have been ordered to take on fuel and prepare to steam towards Cuba, the anti Castro Radio Swan reported ear ly this morning. The station, operating on Swan Island in the Caribbean, said that the two ships, the Ulster and the Rothesay are taking on fuel in Bermuda preparatory to heading for Cuba to "protect British in terests mere. Earlier Radio Swan had said that a British woman, Kay El liot of Yorkshire, had been taken from her home in Havana "min utes" after giving birth to a child. The broadcast said she was put in a damp prison and was re leased only after direct interven tion by the British ambassador. The Swan broadcast was moni tored by radio station WLCY in St. Petersburg, Fla. A later Swan news program said that large numbers of peasants and housewives" are joining anti-Castro forces in the Escambray Mountains. The program heard by The As sociated Press - in Miami, also charged that the Cuban govern ment has given the militia au thority to arrest anyone it con siders "opposed to the Commu nist regime." The broadcast said that 29 per sons have been executed by Cu ban firing squads since the be ginning of the invasion Monday. It said seven were shot in Ha vana Thursday, three in Pinar del Rio and two in Camaguey. It said the latest executions brought to "more than 700" the total number of persons shot since the Castro government came to power January 1, 1959. Radio Swan charged the Cuban regime with "genocide" and said that diplomatic overtures were about to be made to the Cuban government in an effort to have it curb the firing squads. Budget Deliberations Reopen At Meet Tonight The Roseburg City Budget Com mittee will reopen its deliberations on the proposed fiscal 1962 budget at 7:30 tonight. The meeting will be held in the City Council Cham bers at City Hall. It is Hoped the committee will ,, h, nne nha nf h,lriBPt ai tonight's meeting. They have a spe cial meeting slated for next Thurs day night, after the City Coimcil has an opportunity to carry out ne- ontialinnu with Ihn Rncuhnra School Board for student bus trav- el on the west side of the city. I Association President James Marr said this morning members of the association naa aiscussea ine pos sibility of going to the state asso ciation and asking that group in turn to appeal to Gov. Mark Hat field to put a curb on the price war. Marr said that this is the worst possible time to have a gas war, because of the tourist season which will soon be in full swing. "Everyone works nine months of the year to get tourists into the state," Marr said, "but now that they're starting to come we're starting to lose our margin of prof- it- . "This loss." he pointed out. "will cost the state heavily in in come tax the gasoline station oner ators would normally pay, but won't be paying this year because of the drastic decrease in profit." Company Support in Doubt He said that while the stations were selling gasoline for 37.9 cents I a , linn m n.i mora tnalrintf alw.,,1 M ccnt Th dlp , t cut that prof,t by half or tw0. thirds, he pointed out. -We don't know how this latest drop is going to affect us because we haven t had any word from the companies on how they'll support the decrease," he declared. The latest 7 cent a gallon de- create came on the heels of a 1 Thursday night meeting of some 1 30 local area gas station opera- itors. The association prcji-1 JFK Says ?' & Hi tziT'iTir - f--r'i ""'""" -i it th.,,,. - -a I ' ' "---- fcriwunJ .fciinirnVii i i .mi rii.iiiii irr I mrl ON TO PENDLETON The obove treatment is what is planned for the Pendleton Cowboys when the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce invades the 1961 state Jaycee Convention at Pendleton May 5, 6 and 7. The above picture includes: Al Brown, new president of the Jaycees, in the prone position. From left to right, Bob Stevens, Bob Luierance, Ken Clark and Clarence Paul. (Photo Lab.) Highway 42 Bill Passes Senate; Governor Next By GEORGE CASTILLO News-Review Managing Editor The state Senate today approved a bill allowing sale of $4 million in bonds to finance reconstruction on Highway 42 from Roseburg to Coos Bav. The vote was 25 to 2, with three members absent, liov. MarK u, Hatfield has said he would sign it. Obviously happy. Sen. Al Flegel of Roseburg in a telephone con versation with The News-Review this morning said "I think it s real innd legislation. It has taken two sessions to get it through, but I think it will be an asset to me economies of both Coos and Doug las counties." The money will be used to straighten a route which has been described as one of the most tortu ous in the state. Sen. R. F. Chap man, D-Coos Bay, said the High way Department is ready to let contracts on the highway if the governor approves the bill. Chap man introduced the bill. It was originally passed in the Green Sewer Vote Scheduled Monday Voters in the Green Sanitary district will cast ballots a second time next Monday on a proposed $355,000 bond issue to finance sani tary sewers and a treatment plant Voting will take place at the Green Elementary School from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The issue was approved several years ago, but at that time the money was tu be used to build a system tied in with the Roseburg svstcm. It was decided to hold an other election because of the turn over in population in the Green I area since then, also dent said the dealers were unable to reach a meeting of the minds Thursday night, and added they didn't know for sure what to ex pect this morning. Dropping Fast Marr said there were five major stations down to 20 9 cents a gal lon early this morning. A spot check by News-Review staff writer Dave McNabb showed that num ber to have at least doubled by 10 a.m. and one station on nb btcph ens St. had its 19.9 cents sign up oy io:30. One dealer on the wet side of the city told McNabb. "the only way I can see to stop this gas war is to drop the price to the point the oil companies themselves real ly begin to lose money. We're hop ing this latest drop will break the war wide open." "I'm losing four cents a gallon on all the regular I seil now and I won't know until later today how much I'm going to lose at this new price until the company tells me how much they're going to sub sidize me during the new drop," he told McNabb. Marr said local dealers are split on opinions about the war. Some fee! it is a local problem and that if ever) one l bark up to a fair margin of profit the gas prices north and south, (which are now in the price war), wouldn t af- i feet the local situation. Others feel ther can t go hack up until it becomes a stale wide movement. U.S. 1959 session in a combined meas ure with the authorization for S24 million in bonds for the Astoria Mcgler Bi'idgo over the Columbia River mouth. That bill, however, provided that tne $4 minion in bonus lor mgn way 42 could be let only if $6 mil lion in matching federal funds were available for use on the high way. Because the matching federal money was not ' available, the bonds could not be sold. . This bill separates the two proj ects and permits use of . the $4 million without matching federal money. Flegel said the entire job would cost between $10 and $12 million. Chapman added that the Highway Commission already has approved some work and the bill now approved by the Senate will accelerate it. Flegel said about a million dol lars has already been put into the job. This work has taken place in the Powers Junction area of Coos County. Flegel said he had, in discussing the jobs with the state Highway Commission, suggested it begin worK at the east end of the High way, particularly in the Camas Mountain area of uougias county. The commissioners replied that it had started on the eastern end be cause most of the vociferous re action had come from Coos Coun ty. Lumber Industry Asset Flegel said he was pleased be cause he thinks straightening and realigning the highway will be a great asset to the lumber indus try, particularly in the cost of hauling to Coos Bay and Rose burg. In addition, he said, the jobs should play a great part in lm proving safety of driving. He said "an untold number of dollars" will be saved from accidents." This saving, he said, will also take the form of property damage and loss of life and injuries resulting lrom tne condition of the highway. He said he had received no op position on the bill from the High way Commission. "Although I have great respect for the commission. I'm not one who thinks it is in fallible," he said. "I think there are certain areas where it needs some impetus from the legislature, ana this is one of them. The House approved the April 3 by a vole of 43-15. bill Winston Slates Clean-Up Week The Winston City Council has! designated the week of May 1 to 6 as Winston Clean-up Week. An in spection will be made of all prop erty in the City immediately fol lowine this nerlod and all property 'owners found in violation of the Nuisance Ordinance will be sub ject to a fine of $10 to $200, or im prisonment. Local residents are assea to co- operate In this project by remov ing all junk, litter or debris from their property to assist in the beau tification of the City. School Board Secretary Suffers Stroke Thursday Victor J. Micelli. longtime Rose burg School Board secretary, was rushed to Sacred Heart hospital by Billy Mohr ambulance at 10:40 p.m. Thursday. He reportedly suf fered a stroke. His condition was described by Sacred Hospital attendants as critical, and they added that a series of medical tests are ached- I ulcd. Jaycees Plan Confab Bid The Roseburg Junior Chamber of commerce has decided to bid for the 11HJ2 state Jaycee conven tion. The junior chamber is sending one of the largest delegations in history to this yeur s convention in Pendleton May 5. 6 and 7. The whole delegation will be attired in the famous Paul Bunyan outfits, donated by local merchants. They ill be carrying the well - known axes which have two-foot blades and will be used along with the power cnam saws, purely as sym bols.i of course! Members believe they have a good chance of winning the bid and are working hard toward that end. Roseburg businessmen are work ing with the junior chamber in planning one of the largest conven tions ever to come to Roseburg. George Gratke, president of t h e Roseburg Chamber qf Commerce, says his organization is supplying help in the extensive preparations necessary in obtaining a conven tion of this size. j : - Planners Okay Plan e Access The Roseburg City Planning Commission Thursday night took an official stand on the controversy over the proposed access route from the SE Washington Ave. bridge to W. Harvard Ave. In a motion passed unanimously by the seven-man commission, they said, "The Planning Commis sion does not favor the plan in its present form, but feels it is the most expedient." Thus the commission thinks there are "better ways," but docs not foresee that under the circum stances any will develop and thus reluctantly recommends a "do- pass" on the proposed new street to tne city council, as City Engi neer Ken Meng explained it. This official action by the Plan ning Commission will be turned over to the City Council Monday night. The state Highway Depart ment has said it will take no ac tion on the proposed new street heading from W. Military to W. Harvard Ave. between W. Corey and Madrone Sts. until the Plan ning Commission, City Council and District 4 School Board reach an agreement on the proposal. Klamath Falls Indians KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) The United States handed $12 million cash to nearly 300 Indians in Klamath County, ore., wis week. Each Indian had an average of $43.0UO to save or spend. Must of them promptly put It in Uie banks. Show Good Stme Klamath Falls Mayor Robert Veatch said they generally showed good sense. Few got out of hand, he said, adding It hadn't been supposed that they would. Many quickly began looking for things to buy. Within 48 hours, one automobile dealer sold 17 new cars 15 of them for rash and S used cars and pickup trucks. At least two Indians bought lumber for new houses. Some in quired about small ranches for sale. Some looked at new houses. They bought sporting rifles and fishing tackle and refrigerators and clothing. A few mora than usual, the leadaiM New Rebel Force Moving On Cuba By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Undeterred by one defeat on Cuban beaches, from 500 to 1,500 fresh guerrillas are sailing in the direction of Cuba, exile sources in Florida declared today. The original force that struck the southern coast of Cuba Mon day has been variously reported at from 5U0 to 1,000 men. How many escaped into Uie mountains is not known. Casualties Admitted Both sides admitted severe casualties in the fighting. Various roundabout reports from Cuba have said from 350 to 500 pris oners were taken by Fidel Castros forces. Wrangling Halts Vote On Cuba's Charge In U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) A wrangle between the Latin American and Asian-African blocs stymied a vote early today in the U.N.'s top political committee on Cuba's charges of U.S. aggres sion. The 99 nation committee had de cided after a long argument to give priority to a Latin-American proposal that Western Hemisphere nations try to settle U.b.-Cuban dif ferences. Then the wrangle erupt ed. Just before the balloting. Su dan's Omar Adecl put in a long list oc amendments which would wipe out any role, for the Organ ization of American states in the negotiations. Nigeria and other nations quick ly lotlowcd with other amend ments and weary delegates fi nally decided at 2:26 a. m. to ad journ until 10:30 a. m. The committee had been ex pected to approve the resolution by seven Latin-American states, but with the last minute amend ments thrown in. there was chance it might swing its support to a Mexican resolution calling for an end to aid to the Cuban rebels. Observers gave little chance to a rival Soviet demand that the assembly condemn Uie United Stales for aggression on grounds the anti-Castro rebels were trained and armed on U. S. soil. The Cuban government's claims that the invasion was "destroyed" undercut any support the Soviets might have had in charging the United States masterminded and abetted a plot to topple Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Earlier the U. S. chief delegate, Adlai E. Stevenson declared that the initial breakdown of the Cu ban invasion made -plain that fal sity of Soviet charges that the United States had committed ag gression against Castro. "Let me ask," Stevenson de manded, "if this was a United States military operation, do you think it would succeed or fail? How long do you think Cuba, a small almost defenseless island, could resist the military power of the United Stales?" "Perhaps the best evidence of the falsity of the shrill charges nf American aggression in Cuba is the melancholy fact that this blow for freedom has not yet suc ceeded," said Stevenson. R. Iverson Pleaded Innocent To Charge It was erroneously reported In a headline in part of our Thursday edition that Roger Iverson, 25, of umpqua had pleaded guilty to a charge of contributing to the de linquency of a minor. The story was correct, Iverson pleaded innocent to the charge. The defendant was continued on 12,500 bail. sheriff's office said-got drunk and landed in jail. One had $40,- OUO cash in a paper bag. One put $5,000 into a checking account and two days later was overdrawn. He added more from savings. One put $20,000 Into savings and handed $10,000 cash to s buddy. "We are going to hear some fantastic talcs," said a business man in this city of 17.000 near the now-dissolved Klamath Indian Reservation. "Hut most of the people," he added, "are going to put their money away." Payment For Land The money is payment for a half million acres of Klamath In dian reservation land. The Klam aths voted to give up their tribal life and dispose of their property. The federal government bought most of it as an addition to the National Forest System. On Monday the Treasury De partment's Portland disbursing of- fice mailed checks for $68 mil For The A British correspondent in Havana said there were uncon firmed reports in the somber capital that thousands wero killed on the invasion beachhead about 100 miles southeast of the capital in Matanzas Province. The rebel radio on Swan Island off the coast of Central America asserted without confirmation from any other source that new but small landings already had been made in Cuba. The Cuban radio charged Mon day's invaders arrived in "North American military transports escorted by "Yankee destroyers" afler being trained by U. S. of ficers in Guatemala. Rtdi Aid Castro The insurgent "army of libera tion" in a broadcast from the in terior in turn charged that the Soviet Union, Red China and Communist Czechoslovakia were' actively aiding Fidel Castro's forces. John Bland. Reuters corre spondent reporting from Havana, said there was no mass rejoicing in the tense capital when the Cas tro regime announced victory in the battle of the beachhead. There were a few small pa rades by trucks filled with sol diers or militiamen but only thin crowds watched, he said. The correspondent said there was no word in Havana of the fate of other landings reported in western and eastern Cuba. Castro has not appeared in Ha vana and Bland repeated earlier reports that the prime minister was said to be somewhere in the interior directing the operations against me anti-Castro forces, Raports Unconfirmed Bland found 'no confirmation of reports in the United States that Castro may have been incapaci tated by bombing in the beach- ueau Hunting. A Havana radio commentator, speaking about President Ken nedy's declaration that the United States will not abandon Cuba to the Communists, called it "the stupid declarations of an illiterate millionaire." Kennedy avoided further ques tions on Cuba at a Washington news comerence today but said the United States is consulting with other American nations on the Cuban crisis. The Swiss Embassy in Havana said at least 18 Americans had been rounded up but the total might be twice that number. Cuban broadcasts said prisoners captured on the beach told of being trained and brought to the beachhead in "North American transports." Among the an nounced prisoners is a son of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, head of the rehel movement in the United States, Havana asserted. Adenauer Says 1 NATO Arms Due BONN, Germany (AP) West German Chancellor Konrad Aden auer said today nuclear and con ventional arming of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will continue as planned. He told the lower house of Parliament this was thoroughly discussed during his recent meet ing with President Kennedy. "We were in full agreement that NATO is the basis of our common defense and our common policy and that the alliance must be further developed politically and militarily in order to meet the steadily increasing demands made by the defense of the free world," ne said. "The United Stales as the strongest land is the natural lead er of NATO. But leadership among free peoples doesn t mean the strongest simply imposes his will but that he announces his intentions early and discusses them with his partners," Uie West German leader said. Receive Much Wampum lion to Klamath Indians quitting the reservation. About three - fifths of these checks went into trust funds for minors and incompetents. But 5X8, totaling $25 million, were deliv ered without restriction. They represented individual shares of the reservation which had been held as community property. Each share came to about $13,000. Dtpoiiti Zoom The shares went to Klamaths in 18 states but more than half were in Klamath County. This dumped into Klamath County at one time a sum equal ling 20 per cent of Its annual re tail sales. It went to people who had spent their lives as wards of the government, unaccustomed to handling money of their own. One woman this week picked out S -t,S0O automobile, handed the dealer her government check for $41,900 and asked for the car and her change. However the state of Oregon, oon $2 Billion Is Earmarked For Vehicles WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy said today the U'Lited States may lag behind Russia ia space for the next 10 years but is bending every effort to become first to the moon. The President at his news con ference studiously avoided ques tions about Cuba and the speech he- made Thursday saying the United States would not hesitate to act alone against communism in this hemisphere if necessary to protect its own security. No Naws On Laos And he said ho has no new in. formation on a cease-fire in Laos. But on the general fnliWl- nf Communist tyranny he declared, "It is a matter to which we must address all our energy and all our attention." He described this as main problem for a decade ahead. Kennedy said his adminklro. tion would carefully consider ven turing into new space projects to determine "whether a real suc cess can be achieved or whether we are so tar behind now in this particular race we are going to be second in this decade." Projects Speeded Up Kennedy said (he Saturn cle, the Nova and Rover projects uro ueing speeded up with addi tional funds and that the govern ment will spend about $2 billion on space next year. But he said the Saturn would not get us to the mooa and de clared: "We have to consider whether there is any program now regardless of its cost which offers us hopes o being pioneers m A nrnir.nl Saturn is the U.S. project of building a more powerful rocket. Nova contemplates a cluster of Saturn rockets. Rover Is a project to build a nuclear rocket. This was the President's 10th news conference and 402 news men turned ouL It was a closed meeting taped for later broad cast or telecast Sfand Affirmed The President announced at the outset that he would stand on hie speech Thursday regarding Cube and would accept no questions on that explosive subject He said Uie government was making every effort on hhiir individuals who may be In danger because of Uie tense situation in Cuba. These other matters came up: FIGHTING COMMUNISM 1 Kennedy aaid he hoped that ev eryone strongly concerned about Communist advances would direct themselves to such problems as Laos, Viet Nam, internal subver sion and "the desperate life lived by so many people in this hemi sphere and so many other places which the Communists exploit" He said this when asked Ms opinion of the John Birch Society, iiiuuanuy conservative group. Kennedy said he did not believe the society's judgments are bssed on accurate information about the real challenges. Nor, he said, did he believe the society "is wres tling witn tne real problems cre ated by communism, Vitt Nam Is Problem For example, Kennedy said. Red guerrillas are killing 4,000 civil and police officers In Viet Nam each year. This, he said, is the kind of problem "which is go ing to be with us all through this decade." He suggested the nation con cern Itself with that kind of threat rather than with the loyally of former Presidents Dwlght E. Ei senhower and Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Franklin V. Roosevelt or himself. Robert II. Welch, founder of the Birch Society, has been quoted as questioning the loyalty of s num ber of people at the top of the I government in recent years. with s helping hand from the Bu reau of Indian Affairs, has been at work several years helping the Klamaths prepare for this sudden wealth. Us principal advice on money: tmst the banks and re member that the money repre sents accumulated lifetime estates; it should be saved. In 18 Statts One Klamath Falls bank report ed that Its savings deposits zoom ed $2.5 million in 48 hours. "We aro pleased," said Harvey Wright nf the state Department of Education who headed the coun seling program. "We are not going to have any trouble now. There may be some later, but not now." A Klamath Falls businessman who has been dealing with the Klamaths for years said probably 30 per cent of the money now in the banks would stay there or be put in sound investments. But 70 per cent, he said, will be spent with varying degrees of speed "just like It would when any . n . Knn n Anls an U
