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Rusk, Gromyko Meet
Sec. Of State Dean Rusk gets first
taste of personal diplomacy with
Russians. See Page 2.
Netmen Move Up
Four Roseburg High netmen have
moved into the state tennis semi
finals at the tournament being held
in Corvallis this weekend. See page 6.
Established 1873
12 Poges
ROSEBURG, OREGON
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1961
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PRICE 5c
Formal Cease-Fire
mum war
W IV MM rsri
Signed
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Sir
REPRESENTING THE SPIRIT of Mother's Day is Mrs.
Ella Mae Russell, 85, a resident ot the Douglas County
Home. (Photo by Andy Fautheree).
Aging Woman Typifies
American Motherhood
When Mrs. EUa Mae Russell w as
a daughter and not yet a mother,
Douglas County was itself an in
fant. Cars were only a boyhood
notion of tinkerer Henry Ford. As
for travel outside of space fairy
tales!
It was the kind of a world in
which Douglas County pioneers ac
tually travelled the covered wag
ons and where the battles with
the Indians were real, not just the
play-acting which livens modern
day Western events.
Lemnitzer Says U. S.
Could Destroy Soviets t
WASHINGTON (AP) The
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff says that if the United States
is attacked it could, "without any
doubt," destroy the Soviet Union.
Ccn. Lyman Lemnitzer told the
House Armed Services Committee
in February that he feels the in
ternational situation has deterio
rated during the past year.
But despite the deterioration, he
said, the chances of a general war
are no greater than 12 months
ago.
Lemnitzer stressed that the es
timate of American strength com
pared with the Soviets dealt
with the current situation. He said
"our problem" is how to deal
with the future.
Lemnitzer's closed door testi
mony was released Friday after
censors removed classified material.
Grand Jury Exonerates
in Slaying Of Oakland
Ernest Ray Perry, 16, of Oak- Ormsby died shortly after 5 a.m.
land, was exonerated of blame in the next day from a blow to the
the fatal injury of Merrill Alva head by a blunt instrument suf
Ormsby, 55, also of that commun-lfered in a street altercation with
ily. the night of April 10. young Perry. The youth was re-
The Douglas County Grand Jury, manded from Juvenile to Circuit
in a motion signed by its chair-Court for disposition of his case
man and also by District Attorney! as an adult, following a lengthy
Avery Thompson, Friday asked the 1 hearing before Judge Woodrich.
court for an order dismissing the i The judge stated at that time that
cae. by this procedure he was neither
The Grand Jury motion indicates
that no crime was committed
District Attorney Avery Thompson
said today that the motive of self
defense was responsible for the
exoneration.
Probable Signing
The action is not final until the
order has been signed by the judge.
The Grand Jury made its return
hnfnrn TirMiit JiiHon Finn 11 Sun.
dors. Judge Sanders stated thatj8" W'!n..Club . .
since the original hearing had1.'1'0, of them went ahead and
been handled in the court of Judne : Toc)t1 Hie Ormsby trail-
Charles S. Woodrich, he would as'f1r house. When nothing happened
a courtesy measure lake the mat-, ,ny. decided to go home, but in
tcr under advisement until he had P""."1 the P'a. one boy dragged
nnnnrtimitv in mnfnr tilth a stick along the fence. hen they
Judge Woodrich. He stated in court h,card noise they aU ran. As
that in all probability the order , "V"? rounded the corner and head
would be signed. toward the alley back of the
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Mostly cloudy with a few show
ors tonight and early Sunday,
Clearing partially Sunday alter
noon.
Highoit ttitip. last 24 hours 43 j, called t0 tnc man in the tiar)i.
Lowest temp, last 34 hours 44 Ormsbv came out brandishing a
Highest romp, any May ('54) 95 small club. In the fight that en
Lowest temp, any May ( 44) . 24 5ued, he was struck the fatal blow.
rrecip. iist 44 nourt v
Procip. from Mey I 1.97
Proeip. from Sept. 1 33.33
Eicets from Sept. 1 5.M
5 unlet tonight, 7:2s p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 4:50 o.m.
But Mrs. Russell, and the world
in which she lives, has since
come a long way, for better or
worse.
Mrs. Russell, 85, is one of the
oldest mothers residing at the
Douglas County Home.
She has three sons, Robert and
Charles (Bill) of Roseburg, and
Morgan of Reedsport, five daugh
ters. Mrs. Geroge Hinsdale and
Mrs. Margaret Callen, both of
Roseburg, Mrs. Mabel Becker of
Alaska, Airs. Helen Cockelreas of
Vancouver, Wash., and Mrs. Jen
nie Manley of Medford; eight
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. Her husband,
Charles, u. Russell, resides in
Roseburg.
' Mrs. Russell has lived in Rose
burg for about fifty years and is
a member of the Episcopal Church.
A full and enriched life, to be
sure but what elevates it to
front-page stature?
Well, Mrs. Russell was selected
as a fine example. To represent a
certain Sunday in -May. The Sun
day of tomorrow which is ob
served simply as
Mother's Day.
Multiracial Meet Called
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
'(AP) More than 250 staff mem-
bers of the University of Cape
Town have signed a declaration
calling for a multiracial meeting
of leading South Africans to work
out policy principles and to or
ganize a national convention of all
races.
indicating innocence or guilt, but
that the action would permit proc
essing the case in the orderly
manner established by law.
It was brought out at the hearing
that Perry and four other youths,
meeting in downtown Oakland
about 9 p.m. after attending a
, science fair at the school, had do
, cided to go down to the Ormsby
place and cause a disturbance.
'irniMjy place, someone graoiiea
Perry and started beating him
with a club.
He broke free,' and after the
five boys regrouped a block away,
three of them, including Perry, de
cided to go hack and see who it
was. Perry look with him a 2x4
post used for a newspaper box.
A hp nparprf tho nllnv tin KlnnnpH
Prior Circumstance Involved
It was testified that Perry stayed
at the scene with Ormsby. while
the other bojs went to get Uiei
police.
I Evidence was brought out in the-
Brush Fire
Claims Homes
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -
Fire swept through the scenic,
brush-covered Hollywood Hills
with explosive fury Friday night,
leaving many homes destroyed or
damaged.
The flames, pushed by gusts up
to 40 m.p.h., blackened more than
1,000 acres before fire fighters got
tho upper hand. There were no
reports of serious injuries.
Scores of residents were evacu
ated from the elevated residential
district a mile or so from Holly
wood and Sunset boulevards.
All of the homes burned or
threatened were on hillsides near
Griffith Park Observatory. Among
those lost was novelist Aldous
Huxley's.
Aerial observers counted 24
homes apparently destroyed or
damaged.
The blaze started about 7:43
near Beachwood Canyon, an area
often used for scenes in Western
films.
Within 17 minutes after the first
alarm, officials declared a major
emergency. Powerful winds swept
the flames through brush crisp
from one of the driest years in
the area s history.
Camp Hollywood, a Girl Scout
encampment with 146 girls on
the scene, was surrounded by the
fire for a time. Firemen moved
equipment in rapidly and the chil
dren were allowed to remain.
Cause of the fire was undeter
mined. One report was that it
started when a power line blew
down.
Winston Residents
Approve Budget
The Winston city budget for the
coming fiscal year was approved
by a nearly four-to-one majority
Friday.
The final tally saw 49 Winston
residents vote in favor of the budg
et and 13 vote against it, a 79 per
cent approval by those who turned
out to vote.
According to Winston city offi
cials, this total of 62 voters was
less than 10 per cent of the eligible
registered voters in the city. They
gave the nod of approval to an
issue to use $5,000 cash balance
for the city hall building fund by
transferring it to that fund by the
same majority.
The City of Winston, following
this favorable vote, will have a
$42,388 operating budget for the
coming year. This shows a $963 de
crease from the present budget.
Youth
Resident
hearing that a situation had been
brewing in the town of Oakland
for quite some time, in which the
Ormsbys were made the brunt of
ridicule by certain individuals, and
that at one time he had been se
verely beaten by a younger man.
The youths involved denied that
they had at any prior lime been
responsible for any of the difficulty.
NEW EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS ot
846 SE Pine St. in Roseburg will be open to the public ot
8 o'clock Monday morning. The stote Employment Deport
ment's Roseburg offic completed the move into its new
Famed Western
Actor Failing
HOLLYWOOD (AP) Gary
Cooper, fighting hopeless odds al
though gravely ill with cancer, has
BULLETIN
HOLLYWOOD (AP) Gary
Coopor, tho movies' most endur
ing star, died Saturday of can
cer. Ho was 60.
Doath ended his valiant fight
against tho disease at 12:27 p.m.
been given the last rites of the
Catholic Church, a family spokes
man said today.
The spokesman said the 60-year-
old movie star was given extreme
unction sometime rriday after
noon by the Rev. Daniel Sullivan
of Good Shepherd Church in Bev
erly Hills.
The actor's condition remained
critical but unchanged during the
night.
He slept under heavy sedation.
For the past 10 days he has been
heavily drugged to ease intense
pain, the spokesman said.
His physician marveled at Coop
er s slaying power, the spokes
man sain.
The doctor himself was not
available for comment. But the
spokesman, who has been giving
newsmen daily bulletins dn the
actor's illness, reported the doc
tor's reaction: "Any number of
times in tho past two weeks, the
situation has been touch or go.
But each time, Mr. Cooper would
regain some strength and go on
the next day."
Plastic Bombs
Damage Paris
PARIS (AP) Two big plastic
bombs exploded in the heart of
Paris today, injuring several per
sons. The first blast hurt five persons
and heavily damaged offices of
the Radical-Socialist party. .
An hour and a half later a sec
ond charge burst in front of the
offices of a left-wing weekly news
paper, France-Observateur. First
reports said damage was heavy,
and that several passersby were
hurt.
The bomb explosions came on
the third anniversary of the 1958
revolt in Algiers which led to the
fall of the Fourth Republic and
the return of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle to power. Explosions of
plastic are usually the work of
right wingers opposed to Dc
Gaulle's liberal policies for Al
geria. Victims of the first blast includ
ed the concierge in the building
housing the party offices, three
members of his family, and a
woman in a clothing store next
door.
Police swarmed into the area,
but there was no immediate indi
cation who had planted the bomb.
The Radical Socialists, once a
powerful party in France, are
generally in favor of De Gaulle's
efforts to resolve the 6'4-year old
rebellion.
New Engineer Named
Lawrence W. Rulien, state high
way department assistant field
construction engineer in Salem,
has been promoted to assistant di
vision engineer in Roseburg.
Rulien is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, where he re
ceived a degree in engineering in
1950. He became a registered pro
fessional engineer in 1954. He has
served with the state Highway De
partment since 1953.
US, South Viet Nam Slate
Joint Efforts To Halt Reds
SAIGON', South Viet Nam (AP)
The United States and South
Viet Nam announced today that
powerful new military and eco
nomic supjiort is being thrown into
the battle to halt the Communist
takeover in Southeast Asia.
A joint communique stemming
from two day talks of Vice Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson and Pres
ident Ngo Dinh marked a major
stiffening of U.S. determination to
stop the Communist drive to over
throw the Diem government by
terrorism and infiltration.
Eight-Point Program
The statement announced an
eight-point program of "concrete
understanding" involving an im
mediate 20,000 man increase in
Viet Nam's armed forces, which
now number 150,000, and more
later if it becomes necessary.
There were no official estimates
of costs of the speedup and ex
pansion in U.S. military aid. The
aid program is now running in the
vicinity of $200 million in both the
military and economic fields.
Some diplomatic quarters have
anticipated a 20 per cent rise
would not be out of line.
The communique, listing the
eight points, said "these may be
followed by more far reaching
measures if the situation in the
opinion of both governments, war
rants. '
Others Invited
In general terms, other allied
nations were invited to participate
with Washington and Saigon in the
anti-Communist effort. This did
not mean the Southeast Asian
Treaty Organization, which is al
ready pledged to consult on dan
ger to Viet Nam. It could include
Malaya and the Philippines, where
there is already experience in de
feating Red guerrillas.
The program included:
1. An agreement to carry out
existing programs with a "high
sense of urgency and dedication."
2. Agreement for an increase in
the size of the 150,000-man Viet
Nam army. Addition of 20,000 men
is the first sttp. The United States
Woman Prefers Jail
To Selling Horses
A Roseburg- area woman has
chosen jail for 30 days rather than
dispose of five horses, which, it is
alleged, are not being properly
fed.
Ila J. Jones of Roseburg on
March 28 was convicted by a trial
jury of cruelty to animals in the
District Court of Judge Gerald R.
Hayes.
The judge sentenced her to 30
days in jail and imposed a fine of
S50, but suspended imposition of
sentence for one year upon provi
sion that .Mrs. Jones sell all but
two of her seven horses within two
weeks.
Mrs. Jones maintanicd they were
family pets and that they were
getting all the feed they needed,
but the jury had disagreed.
Friday she came into the office
of the judge and informed him he
had better have her locked up. She
stated she would not dispose of the
horses.
She went to jail.
What the next step will be if she
still refuses to dispose of the hors
es after her jail stay is completed
is still undetermined.
quarters this week. The
olso maintain its offices at
19. (Also see other pictures
assured Viet Nam it would pay
more than half of the cost of
training, clothing and paying the
troops. The United States, of
course, will provide equipment
and arms.
U.S. Promises Support
3. In getting to the heart of
Bodies Of Two
Children Found
Near Redmond
REDMOND. Ore. (AP) Police
searched today for the slayer of
two children who apparently were
assaulted sexually, fatally bludg
eoned, then thrown Into a 600-foot-deep
gorge.
The nude bodies of the child
rena girl about 4 and a boy
about 6 were found at the bottom
of the Crooked River Gorge Fri
day. An autopsy indicated they had
been killed by blows on the head,
then thrown over the cliff Thurs
day, state police reported.
Tho children were not identified
at once. Police had no report of
any missing children. They added
that the children may have be
longed to migrant farm workers.
Both appeared to be of Mexican
or Spanish descent, police said.
The bodies wcro found at a point
where Highway 97 crosses the
deep gorge of the Crooked River,
about seven miles north of Red
mond. At that viewpoint the state
had created Peter Skene Ogden
state park. The bodies were
sighted by Walter H. Meyer Jr.
of Bend, who hod stopped at the
parking area off the highway.
It took hours to get the bodies
out of the gorge. Two men were
injured slate policeman Roy Car-
slensen, who slipped on a steep
slope and injured his back, and
Onn Makison, Jefferson County
coroner's deputy, who suffered a
broken nose when hit by a falling
rock.
Both men were hospitalized.
Meyer, a Descules National
Forest Service employe, said he
was with friends, en route home
from a forest- meeting at Timber
line Lodge, when he saw the bod
ies on the south bank of the river
at the gorge bottom.
'. He telephoned police, who led a
party of four into the gorge. The
sheer south wall could, not be
scaled, so the group went down
the north wall. They had to use
ropes on Uiat escarpment also, and
crumbling rock added to their
danger. At the bottom they threw
a rope across the swift Crooked
River to get to the bodies on the
other side.
Police said they had called the
FBI into the case.
Cubans Release
U.S. Newsman
HAVANA (AP) Associated
Press reporter Robert Berrelle7.
was released from La Cabana
Fortress prison late last night.
Berrellcz was among those ar
rested in a big roundup carried
out by Cuban authorities at the
time of last month's abortive in
vasion attempt.
Employment Deportment will
327 SE Jackson St. until May
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Communist guerrilla strikes, the
United States promised to give
support to the 70,000-man Vict
Nam Civil Guard.
4. It was agreed the two gov
ernments will collaborate in using
military specialists to work with
the Viet Nam armed forces in
health, welfare and public works
in village areas.
5. A call for other allied govern
ments to help the United States
and Viet Nam wage its anligucr
rilla fight. Both the Philippines
and Malaya had long and success
ful experience in stamping out
guerrilla movements in their coun
tries. 6. It was agreed a group of
highly qualified economic and fis
cal experts from both countries
would meet in Vict Nam to work
out financial arrangements for the
stepped-up U.S. support program.
Governments Agree
7. The two governments agreed
to discuss new economic and so
cial measures for rural areas to
take part along with the antigucr
rilla effort.
v. I'inaiiy, it was agreed a
longer-range economic develop
inent program would be laid out
in the fields of agriculture, health,
education, fisheries, highways,
puonc administration and Indus
tries. Local Man Hurt
In Train Mishap
A truck-train accident on Gar-
den Valley Boulevard early this
morning landed Arthur L; KIttol
son in Douglas Community Hosnl-
tal with a broken rib and a broken
vertebra. Ho was described as in
good condition this morning.
Klllelson. 57. of NW Garden Vol.
Icy Boulevard, was driving east on
Oardcn Valley in a 59 Dickun
irucx towing a ooat on a trailer.
A Southern Pacific Railroad two-
car freight train from Eugene was
coming south to Roseburg.
According to investigating State
Police officers,- warning lights
were flashing at the railroad cross
ing on Garden Valley. According
to the train conductor, SP engineer
W. E. Cook of Eugene was blowing
the train horn.
Too Late Ta Stop
The truck made it across the
tracks but the boat and trailer
didn't. Cook told police he saw the
truck and trailer but couldn't stop
in time.
According to the conductor, the
train was traveling between 15 and
20 miles per hour. It came to a
stop about 200 feet down the tracks
from the accident scene. The mis
hap occurred at 7:40 a.m.
Riding in the truck with Kittcl-
son were his wife and two grand
children, Joanie and Debra Lee,
five and seven years old respective
ly. Outside of minor scratches, no
one else was hurt.
The two children are the daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee, Rt.
4, Box 25, Roseburg.
Truck, trailer and boat were to
tal wrecks. The truck was flipped
by the collision on Its top and
rolled onto its side. It stayed on
the east side of the tracks T-dth
part of the trailer. The rest ot the
wreckage stayed on the west side
of the tracks.
Three Float Divisions Set
For 'Pioneer Days' Parade
Three divisions have been set
up for floats in the Pioneer Days
parade June 17.
Cash prizes will be awarded In
the non commercial divisions.
Prizes of $40, $20 and (10 will go
to the first, second and third
place winners In one non-commer
cial division, made up oi liotts
costing more than S2S to construct.
The first three place winners in
the non-com merical division with
floats costing less than J 25 will
receive prizes of $20, $10 and $5.
The third division is the com
mercial in which ribbons will be
given.
Float Division Chairmen
Anyone interested in entering a
float should contact one of the cn
chairmen, Mrs. Ueorgo Krueger,
at OR 33802 or Mrs. Robert
Schmilt at OR 3-3148. They are
chairmen of the float division.
Anyone interested In making en
tries in any other sections of the
parade such as marching units,
bands, and other groups, may do
so by calling Parade Chairman
Steve Swan at OR 2 4301 or the
rodeo office, OR 2-4632.
Full-Scale
Neg otiaf ions
Open Sunday
BAN NAMONE. Laos (AP)-A
formal cease-fire document was
signed here today by delegations
irom the government and the pro
Communist rebels. They agreed to
open full-scale military and politi
cal laiKs nere Sunday.
Delegations from the pro-West
ern government in Vientiane, the
leiiist Pathet Lao rebels and neu
tralist political groups will partici
pate in the talks, aimed at setting
up a coalition government and
possibly sending a unified Laotian
delegation to the 14-nation confer
ence in Geneva. Separate delega
tions aireaay are in ueneva.
Key Figures May Meet
In Ban Namone, a village in
rebel territory, there was specula
tion mat the talks here could even
tually lead to a meeting among
the three key figures in the Lao
tian political tangle neutralist
Prince Suvanna Phoiima: Princo
Souvanouvong, chief of the Pathet
Lan, and Gen. Phounu Nosavan,
military strongman of tho Vien
tiane government.
The signing of the cease-fire
document and the government's
concession to hold major political
talks here came during long morn
ing and afternoon meetings held
in a dirt-floored schoolhouse.
Military representatives of the
three-nation International Control
Commission were present. The at
mosphere was extremely friendly
but there was no doubt the gov
ernment found itself in a weaken
ing position.
Head Of Table)
The meeting was conducted bv
the head of a delegation repre
senting Prince Souvanna Phou-
mas neutralists Pheng Phong
savan, former president of the
National Assembly. He and other
delegates representing the neutral
ist prince But at tho head of Uie
U-shaped truce stable. Right-wing
and left-wing representatives sat
on either side.
The neutralists and the pro
Communists both claimed that
Souvanna's rump government is
still tho legal one in Laos despila
the fact that he fled to Cambodia
in December and the king sup
ports the right-wing regime he
fled.
Before the Ban Namone agree
ment was signed, the International
Control Commission reported to
the Geneva talks that it had been
assured by all warring Laotian
factions they will respect the
cease-fire except when attacked.
Britain and the Soviet Union as
cochairman of the Laotian peace
parley formally published the
text of the Indian-Polish-Canadian
commission's report in Geneva
Saturday. i
Signed By Son
The commission report, signed
by Chairman Samar Sen of India,
declared:
'Irrespective of a formal cease
fire agreement, the commission
is satisfied that a general de
facto cease-fire exists and such
breaches that have been inform
ally complained of are either due
to misunderstandings or to fac
tors such as the terrain and the
nature of the disposition of forces,
both regular and irregular, of all
parties.
Explosion Kills Three
TAIPEI. Formosa (AP) An
explosion killed three and Injured
IB iriday at the south rormosa
port of Kaohsiung. The explosion
occurred as attempts were being
made to seal a high octane avia
tion gas pipe line which had been
gashed by a truck.
' Meanwhile, plans are going
ahead full iteam in rallying sup
port for activities of Pioneer Days
June 13-18. A caravan left this
morning for the Reedsport spring
opening whero people will be ask
ed to participate and attend the
rodeo June 17 and 18. Included in
the caravan will be Roseburg Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce mem
bers who will challenge the Reeds
port Jaycees to a pony express
race.
Reedsport Caravan
The caravan will Include the five
Pioneer Days princesses, Pioneer
Days Committee members, Mayor
Pete Serafin, the Paul Bunyans
and Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent George Gratke.
More planning for the county's
biggest week Is slated Tuesday
morning at 7:30 at the Broiler in
Roseburg. It is a meeting of the
Pioneer Days Booster Committee,
but anyone Interested In the proj
ect may attend the breakfast ses
sion. Many Jobs are still available
for county nennle. whether they
'live id Roseburg or not.
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