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Newspaper Page Text2 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Sot., April 29, 1961 Massive Eichmann Evidence n ir f ' ' v ( t " V"f - r 'I'll t rw ' '" 1S' 1 t - i ' ' I j jH It HONORED ON THE DOUBLE OCCASION of her 70th birthday and 46 years as postmaster was Miss Emma Hed den of Scottsburg, Presenting her with a plaque is Andy Anderson, master of the Umpqua Volley Grange. Scottsburg Postmaster Ends Long Service In Community Miss Emma Hedden of Scotts burg passed two milestones this week her 70th birthday and a long period of service as postmaster of Scottsburg. She has served as postmaster of Scottsburg for more than 46 years, and has operated a general merc antile store in Scottsburg which is the oldest store continuously in operation In Oregon. She, is retir ing on Sunday. Testimony Shows Strikes Delayed Missile Program WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John h. McClellan, D-Ark., said today costly strikes and work slow downs at missile bases invite a tough new 'Jaw to outlaw unions responsible for such things. McClellan said his Senate In vestigations subcommittee in hearings this, week produced "ev idence beyond any reasonable doubt" that organized labor at the Cape Canaveral missile base abused the strike weapon to en rich its members at taxpayers' ex pense. The subcommittee has heard a parade of witnesses denounce the 109 strikes and uncounted work slowdowns reported at Canaveral in the last 4Vi years, charging these have inflated costs by. mil lions of dollars and slowed the program. McClellan siad it was clear that most of the strikes were called on fiimsy grounds with "the pre meditated purpose" of throwing missile projects behind schedule so workers could draw overtime pay in a rush to catch up. The subcommittee has produced evidence that many plumbers and electricians drew wages up to $764 a week, including overtime comput ed at four times the regular wage rale. Robert Palmer, top labor lender at the base, has acknowledged strikes "must have" slowed the missile program. He denied any trike was designed to force over time wage payments, and swore be never authorized a walkout. Palmer is business manager of Local 756 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers. Witnesses have said other un , ions follow his lead on strike and work slowdown mailers. Joseph W. Morgan, Teamsters Union general organizer in Flori da, invoked the Fifth Amendment constitutional provision against possible self-incrimination when asked Friday about his own role in a strike which virtually para lyzed the base for four weeks in 1957, near the peak of the rush to gear up missile programs. McClellan told newsmen he may draft legislation to protect missile bases and other defense installa tions from crippling strikes. County Health Officer Sets Reedsport Clinic An immunization clinic has been scheduled for Monday afternoon in Reedsport, Dr. John H. Donnelly, county health officer has announc ed. The clinic will be open from 1 to s p.m. in the Reedsport Lily Build ing. At 10:30 a.m. the same dav. the health office will conduct tubercu losis testing of grades one and scv en in the Ash Valley School. Im munization shots will be given at in same time. Solons Resigned To Second Longest SALEM (AP) The men who run the Legislature are resigned to the fact that this session prob ably will be Uie second longest in Oregon history. Their hopes for a ahort session were dashed weeks ago. They hope now to wind up Fri day or Saturday. By running un til Friday, it would be the second longest at 117 days. The longest one was 128 days in 1957. Rut the lawmakers will have to work like mad if they are In finish next week. A huge pile of legislation remains. The legislative Joint Ways and Means Committee finished all of its major tasks except one Fri day. That one is how much to in crease basic school aid. A sub committee has recommended a S20 per child annual increase, but the full committee will wait i few days to c if the budget' More than 250 friends of Miss Hedden celebrated her 70th birth day and enjoyed a dinner and birth day cake served by the ladies of the Umpqua Valley Grange. Following the dinner a program was held. Mrs. Gladys Workman resident of Scottsburg and author of the best seller "Only When I Laugh, ' the story of Scottsburg, was the master of ceremonies. Oldtimers who had gone to school with Emma Hedden were present and related stories of the early days of Scottsburg. The program was patterned afler the television production "This Is Your Life." At the conclusion of the program Emma Hedden was presented with an engraved plaque for her half century of service to the people of bcottsburg. Satterfield Pleads Innocent On Count Ray Satterfield, 21, of Roseburg pleaded innocent to a charge of larceny in an auto on arraignment before Circuit Judge Charles S. Woodrlch Friday. Satterfield, indicted by the Doug las County Grand Jury for the al leged theft of a tool chest from the car of Bob Miller on March 17, had his bail reduced from $2,500, set in the secret indictment, to SI, 000. He was represented by At torney William Green, the state by George Weigum. The judge set trial for July 5, to start at 10 a.m. Judgo Don H. Sanders dismissed an oral appeal of Ila Janet Jones, who was convicted in the District Court of Gerald R. Hayes on a charge of cruelty to animals. No tice of oral appeal was made by her attorney after trial, but the appeal was never pertected. The appeal dismissal order re mands the case back to district court, which had sentenced her to serve 30 days in the Douglas County jail and pay a fine of $50. The sentence, however, was to be suspended for one year provided that she dispose of all but two of her horses within two weeks. The alleged cruelty involved failure to adequately feed her horses. hhc claimed tiicy were family pets and were being fed adequately, Cecil Ray McAlpine Cecil Ray McAlpine, 60, died this morning in his home on Kent Creek Road, Dillard. He was born May 13, 1900 at Klllccn, Texas. He was a me chanic and owned Mac's Garage in Dillard. He was married to Myrtle Georgia Harriot in Los An geles, May 9, 1922 and came to Dillard from Los Angeles in 1933. Ho resided there until 10-1R, when he moved to Pasadena, Calif. In 1953, ho moved back to Dil lard. His wife preceded him In death in July 1958. Mo was then married to Arlita Field In Dillard, July 13, 1959. Survivors are his widow, Arlita; three sons, Dale Ray, Dillard; Ray George, South San Gabriel, Calif., and James Donald. Azusa, Calif.; his mother, Millie McAlpine, Pas adena; a sisler, Mrs. Donald (Myrtle) McAlpine, Pasadena; five grandchildren. Funeral services will be h e Id Tuesday, May 2, 1961, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Long & Orr Mor tuary. The Rev. J. C. Johannes of the Methodist Church in Winston, officiating. Interment will follow in Civil Bend Cemetery, Winston. can stand that much. When the ways and means com mittee completes its work, that is a sign that the show is ready to fold up. A vital factor In the question of adjournment is whether the senate and house will get in many disagreements, throwing bills in to conference committees. Each house has buried a lot ot the other's bills. Hut it doesn't look like too many bills will go to con ference. Here Is the status of major legislation that remains to be con sidered: TAXATION - The Senate Tax ation Committee ha scuttled the House plan to overhaul income taxes. The Senate committee wants to keep present rates but to give a 5 per cent discount. The Senate will vote on this latter plan early next week. Th Senate com Points To JERUSALEM (AP) Israel's evidence against Adolf Eichmann is so massive that indications to day point to July, or later as the earliest possible date tor me ena of the hearings. We hoDe to complete our proof by the end of June," Atty. Gen. Uincon Hausner ioiu xne court. Eichmann. has been indicted and faces a possible death penal tyon 15 counts of "crimes against Tall, White Man - Stands Ready On CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) The U. S. space program wull thrust closer to that of the boviet Union one morning next week when the first American astro naut is rocketed on a high arc ride into near space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announcing plans for a limited manin-space shot, made official today what has been an open secret here for days. The tall, white rocket and the space capsule atop it already are in place on the launch pad. NASA said the launch climax ing about 2V4 years of Project Mercury preparation will come about an hour alter oayDreaK in the next week or so. From other sources, it was learned the shot is set for next Tuesday morning, i all goes well. That would be 20 days after So viet air force Maj. Yuri Gagarin became the first known man to orbit the earth. The Soviet Union claimed he did so in a five-ton space craft. Next weck':i U. S. manned space trip will not be as ambi tious. In the lingo of space agen cy people here, an orbilal voyage by an American is "still dovyn the road." n may come laicr mis year. On this coming trip, an astro naut whose identity is still a se cret, will be strapped into a 3,000 pound capsule and sent aloft by a relatively low powered Redstone ballistic missile. The planned course would carry the chamber to a peak altitude of about 115 miles, it would land at a poini southeast of here where Navy and Air Force ships and planes will be poised to recover it ana its passenger from the water. During a 15-minule flight at up to about 4.500 miles an hour, the astronaut will experience about live minuies oi weignuesMiess, mi eerie sensation, and terrific forces up to 11 times that of gravity. t tlifnn mnn all mamtirl VIIC VI tilled mill, ml nmiiiiv. and fathers of children, will get the historic honor of making the first U. S. space tour. They are Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., 39, of New Concord, Ohio; Child Preparation Glendale Meet Set By MRS. GERALD GOX Mothers of next year's first graders are invited to attend a special meeting at the Glendale school Monday at 2:30 p.m. A panel including a first grade teacher, the cafeteria cook, the school visiting nurse, and the prin cipal, Elbert Brock, will discuss ways in which ntother may help prepare ncr cnild lor school ex periences, nn appropriate mm will also be shown. Refreshments will bo served. Principal Brock urges that all mothers make a point of being present, even If they do not plan to remain in Glendale. The in formation to be made available to them will be hcldpful, he said, no matter where the child is to enter school. On Monday aflcrnoon, May 8, the present first grade classes will be host to the boys and girls who are to start school next year, from 12:30 to 2:45 p.m. Mothers are asked to leave the children and come back for them later. Hult Lumber Company To Add Second Shift Flans for adding a night shift at the Paul B. Hult Lumber Co. in Dillard are under way, said Hult. The night shift is scheduled to begin on Monday, May 8, at 5 p.m. in the mill. The firm recently reoDened on a day shift basis, employing 40 men on April 3 alter a lengtny, market-created shutdown. An additional 40 men on the night shift, together with 20 other workers in various capacities such as the administrative end, will umift uic cmpii'.i mi in. up iw I around 100, according to Hult. mittee has recommended a con stitutional amendment that would put a 3 per cent ceiling on future sales taxes, but it hasn't gone through either house. The house passed bills to repeal the personal ! property tax ami to defer prop erty taxes tor the aged appear doomed in the Senate, FINANCE - While the Ways and Means Committee has acted ion the major budgets, they ' haven't been passed by either I house. REORGANIZATION The Senate hasn't acted yet on the House bills to put the five mental institutions under the governor, and to create community mental health clinics. That's ail of the governor's big reorganization plan that stands a chance. LABOR The bill to have state-conducted labor elections is in i conference committee. The Lengthy the Jewish people and crimes against humanity." The former gestapo officer's trial in Jerusalem is nearing its fourth week, and the three judges have . -i: u-tt;- ' un pace oi h. "I hope the court will under stand the difficulties which face us," Hausner told them. "We have to prove the detail of all the counts in the indictment, and bring evi- ln - Space Rocket Launching Pad Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Grissom, 35, of Mitchell, Ind., and Navy Cmdr. Alan H. snepard, 37, ot East Derry, N. H. These were "finalists out ot a group of seven astronauts chos en two years ago for intensive training looking toward space flight. The seven, volunteers ev ery one, had been drawn from an original list of 110. NASA administrator James E. Webb said the forthcoming shot is "a most serious step, for it cannot be taken without risk to human life." He said he was con fident "every reasonable precau tion has been taken to minimize this risk." Rioting Marks Gay Splash Day GALVESTON, Tex. (AP)-Thou-sands of rioting youths turned Galveston's gay Splash Day into a nightmare lor ponce olticers Friday night and early Saturday. City and county jails were filled with jeering young men, many of them apparently college students, who staged impromptu fights and hurled bottles and beer cans. Many suffered bruises and lac erations but no serious injuries are reported. Police Chief O. E. Henson said the disturbances started when the youths began throwing beer bottles on the pavement on Sea wall .Boulevard, near me Day, early Friday night. Sheriff's deputies were dis patched to help local police. Fire man sprayed hoses on the milling crowd of youngsters. Hospital cmeregncy rooms soon were jammed with rioters who appeared to be only slightly injured. "Wo had them so thick in here at one time that they were lined up in the hall," said Dr. Homer Reed, emergency physician at John Sealy Hospital. "A lot ot them had just minor bruises but they were bringing in their bud dies who were hurt a little worse." Chief Henson said he bad no idea how many young people were arrested hut that they still were being booked. Estimates of those arrested varied from several hun dred up to 2,000. Splash Day is an annual event which officially opens the ocean bathing season. Police Sergeant R. L. Keller said "a bunch of fights broke out among the college students. When one breaks out. several oth ers break out." Firemen Douse Blaze At Old Lumber Mill Roseburg Rural Fire Depart ment Friday evening put out a small fire in the attic of the old Coon Creek Lumber Co. mill (now owned by U. S. Plywood Corp.) on Airport Road. Firemen were alerted at 6:20 p.m. by a woman resident whose ome is on a hill behind the mill. She saw smoke coining from the null. Little damage was reported by firemen, who said the fire had more smoke than flame. The mill is not being operated Cause of the fire was not deter mined. Green School Band Will Entertain PTA Monday The Green PTA will meet Mon day at 7:30 p.m. in the school gym nasium. The Green School Band, directed by Ralph Anderson, will play sev eral numbers. Mrs. S. L. l.indberg will install the new officers for the coming year. Convention reports will be heard and service pin awards for outstanding contribu tion in the community will be giv en. Refreshments will be served bv i the first grade mothers following 1 the meeting. Session In I relations bill is asleep in a House committee. I EDUCATION - The House hasn t acted yet on the hill to set up stale-financed community col leges. REAPPORTIONMENT The .bill to slightly reapportion the ! Legislature has passed both houses, with the Senate taking away the extra senator that the I house gave to Multnomah Coun I ty. This one might end up in con 1 ference. j TRAFFIC SAFETY - There has been no action on the bill to fix speed limits on highways. The house hasn't voted yet on the bill for compulsory blood tests for i suspected drunken drivers. I INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT -Legislative leaders are trying to ;work out a hill that would let i employers self-insure for indus Hearings dence wilh respect to matters that took place over a period of 12 years in a whole series of places. "We cannot do justice to our case unless we are given time to do this. We can't strangle our own case." He told the judges the prosecu tion, as of today, is running a half- day ahead of its timetable. "This isn't enough," replied Su preme Court Justice Moshe Lan dau, president of the three-judge tribunal. When the prosecution completes its case, Dr. Robert Servatius, chief defense counsel, will have bis turn. Servatius has given no indica tion as to the character of the de fense, or how long it will take to present. He. won't say whether he intends to put Eichmann on the stand. But he Is battling stubbornly to get into the record some testimony by former S. S. elite guard offi cers, and other ex-Nazis, who are living today in Germany and Aus tria. Servatius says they should tes tify in Jerusalem provided they will come here. Under an Israeli law, ex-Nazis may be liable to ar rest, and Hausner said the gov ernment cannot give a blanket guarantee of immunity. Justice Landau, searching for a way out of the impasse, said: "We are ready to permit, and the attorney-general consented, that the said witnesses, be cross-examined before the foreign court." He urged Hausner and Serva tius to work out a method of ex amining witnesses outside Israel, and said, "We prefer that this should come about as quickly as possible." Meanwhile, the prosecution pre pared to bring in witnesses to de scribe the Nazi operations against Jews in Poland, and then in the Soviet Union. Thereafter, the pic ture will be shifted to what the Nazis did in western Europe France, Holland and Belgium dur ing World War II. Roseburg Singers At Hairston Fete One hundred twenty Douglas County high school singers today are in Corvallis to participate in the Vester Hairston Negro Spirit ual Festival. Hairston, arranger of choral background music for many of Hol lywood's outstanding films and the former assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Negro Choir, New York, is one of the outstanding authorities on Negro music. He will direct choruses from eight state high schools including Douglas High School and Roseburg High School at 8 p.m. in Oregon State University Coliseum. Each choir will sing two num bers, one of them directed by Hair ston, and all will combine for six massed spirituals about l,000,sing ers. Today's festival will be the fourth in which Roseburg High School has taken part since 1953. The Roseburg choir is directed by Robert Robins and the Douglas choir is directedjiy Margaret Mc Donald. Roseburg High Students To Attend Institute Three Roseburg High School stu dents, interested in retailing, will attend the Oregon Retail Distrib utors Institute in Eugene Sunday and Monday. The three, representing Roseburg Chamber ot Commerce and the hjgh school, are Miss Barbara Mohr, Russell Steiner, and Brad ley J. Young. Held at the University of Ore gon, the seminar features retailing experts and members of the uni versity's staff of the School of Busi ness Administration. High school students from over the state as well as interested retailers will attend. Roseburg students will make a formal report upon return. This is the fifth year of coordination be tween the high school and chamber in such a project. The three arc in the high school's retail selling classes. Umpqua Stamp Clubbers Slre Monday Meeting A session of the Umpqua Valley Stamp Club will be held on Mon day at 7 p.m. at the home of Marge and Bill Williams, 598 NE Hose land Ave. The discussion will center around U. S. Postal Issue stamps in use between 1923 and 1938. Members arc asked to bring their perfora tion gauges, and the public is in vited. Oregon Stale trial accident coverage. This would be in addition to the pres ent state insurance. POWER The Senate has voted to restrict competition be tween electric power agencies, and the bill has a 4 3 blessing of a House committee. CONSTITUTION The House hasn't acted on the senate reso lution to create a commission to write a new constitution. OFFSHORE OIL The House has passed legislation to let the Land Board lease offshore lands for oil drilling, and a Senate com mittee has approved it. WELFARE Neither house !has voted on medical care for the I aged,, but the Ways and Means i Committee has greased the wavs for it. LEGISLATIVE PAY - The I House Slate and Federal Affairs MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OFFICERS Mrs. Dale Roles, right, is shown discussing the 1961 Muscular Dystrophy Association fund drive as she displays last year's placard. She handed over the presidential reins to Mrs. T. C. Fitzgerald, left. Looking on is new secre tary Mrs. Jack Davis. New vice president is Mrs. James Wilson. (News-Review photo) Polling Places Given For May 1 School Election (St Other Story Pag 1) The polls for Monday's Roseburg District 4 School Budget election will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. Poll ing places are: PRECINCT 1-The Court House for all the legal voters of the dis trict irom ueer ureek.i Eastwood, Lane, Roseburg and Hamilton elec tion precincts. PRECINCT 2 - Senior High School for voters from Laurel wood, Park, West Roseburg and Wharton precincts. PRECINCT 3 Riverside School for voters from Edenbower East No. 2, Edenbower East No. 3, Eden bower West No. 1, Edenbower West No. 2 and Hucrest precincts. PRECINCT 4 Rose School for voters of Caro, Hawthorne, Her man, Miller, Woodward and that part of Parrott lying north of the junction of old Highway 99 and the present Freeway precincts. PRECINCT 5-Melrose School for all voters of the Melrose Pre cinct, formerly School District No. 71. PRECINCT 6 Green School for all voters from Green, South Green, West Green and that part of Parrott lying south of the junc tion of old Highway 99 and the Freeway and for that area of what was formerly the Roberts Creek School District No. 37 precinct. PRECINCT 7 Winchester School for all voters from the Wilbur and Winchester precincts. PRECINCT 8 Rivefsdale School for all voters from Garden Valley and Edenbower West No. 3 pre cincts. PRECINCT 9 Benson School for voters of the Umpqua, Benson, West Mill and East Mill pre cincts. PRECINCT 10 Fullerton School for voters of the North Brown, Grove, Brown, Orchard and Fair haven precincts. PRECINCT 11 Joseph Lane Jun ior High for voters from Eden bower East No, 1, and Newton Creek precincts. Youth Scyd Improving After Spreader Mishap Kenneth Nichols, 18,' of Rt. 2, Box 1)75, Wilbur, is reported to day tc be resting comfortably in Douglas Community Hossital where he was taken after a fertil izer spreader rolled over him Wed nesday. His mother, Mrs. James Nichols, said that he felt better after he was stranned into his hospital bed. He suffered a broken collar bone1 and two broken ribs. The accident occurred as he was driving a tractor pulling the spread er down a hill on the Abner Rice farm on Rice Creek Road. He was thrown off the tractor in the path of the spreader. Tcrmmis Campbell Stars In Douglas High Play Tammis Campbell played the lead role of Anne Frank in t he Douglas County High School play "The Diary of Anne Frank." In a recent review, her name in this role was inadvertently omit ted. History Commitce wants annual sessions, with legislators to fix their own salaries. But neither house has ! voted on it yet. DAYLIGHT TIME - The Sen ' ate will vote early in the week on House bills to let the Port- land area have daylight time im i mediately, and to have the people j vote next year on statewide day light time. I MILK No action on a bill to set minimum prices for dairymen. GASOLINE No action on 'legislation designed to end gaso- line price wars. But the House State and Federal Affairs Com- : mittee plans to vote on it early Monday. I FARM PICKETING The ' Senate has passed a bill to re- strict picketing of farms during j harvest seasons. A special house ; committee is badly split over it. Muscular Dystrophy Drive Funds Aid 5 Area Patients Money raised in campaigns by the Douglas County Muscular Dys trophy Association chapter is be ing used to help five southwest Oregon patients and assist in MD treatment at the Portland Clinic. This was the report Friday night at the annual meeting of the MD chapter after a dinner at the Ump qua Hotel. The report was made Dy Del McKay of Roseburg, one of the original members of the chap ter. He helped organize it in 1957. Aids Patients He said the chapter had used its funds to aid the five patients, had purchased wheelchairs, braces and beds and is now planning to send fi.ora to tne 1'ortiand Clinic tor its Wife Accuses Carnival Man SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - An itinerant carnival worker who has admitted that five of his children died during nationwide family wanderings now has been accused by his wife of strangling a strange woman in a fit of anger 12 years ago. But police so far have been un able to find the shallow grave on the edge of a dump in up state New York where Kenneth E. Dudley supposdly buried the woman, known only as Jean, Nor have they been able to de termine that a woman answer ing Jean's description ever was reported missing. Dudley. 47 allegedly strangled Jean after she picked his pocket. inspector Marry s. Sanderson revealed Friday night that Dud ley's wife, Irene, 44, related the strange episode to two New York state policemen who recently questioned the couple in Virginia, where they are held on murder charges in the malnutrition death of one of their children. Sanderson gave this account, based on statements Mrs. Dudley maoe 10 new York state trooper David Leroy and Syracuse detec tive Robert Bush: The Dudleys met Jean, a black haired woman about 25, in a bar at Syracuse, wnere they lived at the time. Jean accompanied them to another bar at Bridgeport, on Oneida Lake. On the 10-mile drive home, the women wanted to make a rest stop along the highway. It was as Jean followed Mrs. Dudley out of the automobile that sne allegedly picked Dudleys pocket. Mrs. Dudley said her husband throttled Jean until her body went limp, then placed the body in the back of the car. The couple drove about for a time and then stopped at a dump near nnogepori. The Dudleys are known to have had 10 children since thev were married in 1934. Only three chil dren survive. Health Session Set Douglas County Health Officer Dr. John II. Donnelly is scheduled to attend a meeting of the board of directors of the Oregon Public Health Association in Salem. The session will be held in the Marion County Health Building. Civil Defense U.S. Warning WASHINGTON (AP A full dress civil defense test with wailing sirens and deserted streets has proved the nation's warn ing system is "fast and reliable," but indicates many persons "would die needlessly." That's the official appraisal of Friday's first phase of Operation Alert 1961 a test aimed at dis pelling public fatalism by pound ing home what might happen if 100 targets across the country were flattened by nuclear mis siles. President Kennedy sounded the warning himself shortly after the test began at 4 p.m. Eastern Stand ard Time when regular television and radio broadcasting stopped for half an hour. Going on the emergency Conel rad channels, Kennedy told the na tion war was not expected, but he warned: "Common prudence demands that we take all necessary meas ures to protect our homes, our in stitutions and our way of life so that they can survive should an work in treating patients. McKay said he had been activ in the March of Dimes campaign when the breakthrough was made in conquering the disease. Then he shifted his efforts to the MD cam paign. No cause or cure has yet been found for the disease which dissolves muscles and almost in variably ends in death. Breakthrough Seen A big breakthrough can and will happen with muscular dystro phy, too," McKay said, "if efforts continue to finance research on it." A movie on the subject was aslo shown. It was announced at the meet ing that Mrs. T. C. (Thelma) Fitz gerald had been selected as the chapter's new president. She suc ceeds Mrs. Dale Roles, who pre sided at the meeting. New vice president is Mrs. James Wilson; and secretary is Mrs. Jack Davis. Employment Up Over 4 Weeks Ago Although not yet bright com pared to a year ago, the Oregon employment picture improved per ceptibly last week over four weeks ago, David H. Cameron, Depart ment of Employment Commission er, announced. covered state unemployment stood at 36,408, a rate of 9.1 per cent, compared to 11.7 per cent four weeks ago and 5.5 per cent a year ago. Kate ot covered unemployment compared to a month ago went down last week in every section of the state with the exception of the La Grande area, where the rate rose from 20.6 per cent to 25.8 per cent. This was the highest unemployment rate of any area in the state. Lowest unemployment rate was in the Ontario area with 4.6 per cent compared to 6.3 per cent a month ago and 3.1 per cent a year ago. Largest improvements in lower unemployment were shown in the Astoria and rmamooK area wnere unemployment went down 7.3 per cent and 7.0 per cent, respectively. Breaks in the weather, opening of logging roads and resuming of construction projects all were fac around the state, the Department said. Milton Hard To Attend Underwriter Seminw Milton E. Hard, agent of the C. Von Hichman district agency, Eugene, associated with the Law rence J. Evans general agency Portland for Mutual Life Insur ance Co., is one of the 31 agents from Idaho, Oregon and Washing ton who will attend a special ad vanced underwriter seminar of the company at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle May 1 and 2. The seminar will provide ex perienced agents with training in recent developments in special fields of advanced underwriting work, lt will cover uses of life insurance in business and estate planning. Test Proves System Fast enemy thrust war upon us. "Unless individual Americans plan to protect their own families, the most ambitious and carefully organized activities of the govern ment will prove inadequate." A few hours later the director of civil and defense mobilization said many people aren't prepared. "The first hours of the simulated nuclear attack have already indica ted that many would die needlessly because they do not know the pri mary emergency preparedness measure for their own protection against radioactive fallout." said Frank B. Ellis, adding: "As the ewrcise attack continues to un fold, we expect that our estimates of the number of fallout casual ties will increase greatly." The nationwide test was the climax of three days of efforts to prepare 7.5 million federal, state and local government employes, assigned to shoulder emergency duties during and after an actual attack. No final critique was in, but parts of the test apparently ran smoothly.