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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.