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2 The Newi-Review, Roiburg, Ore. Fri., July 28, 1961
Accident Commission
Eyes Effect Of Jury
Meet
Trials
SALEM (AP) A state Indus
trial Accident Commission confer
ence, called to discuss evaluating
injuries, centered today more on
the effects of jury trials when
compensation rulings are ap
pealed. Bob Corbett,. National Biscuit
Co. representative, said to change
the method of evaluating the in
jury might only raise the floor
from which the legal profession
appeals for higher compensation
before juries.
He said the motive to appeal
commission-set compensation ir,
there because the chance for
gain is almost automatic.
Culp Creek Firm
Wins Tree Tract
A Lane County company ran the
price of a timber tract southeast
of Cottage Grove up $133,000 over
the appraised price before finally
winning it in a sale at the Ump
qua National Forest supervisor's
office in Roseburg, Thursday.
The winning bidder was Rickini
Lumber Co. Inc. of Culp Creek.
The tract on 270 acres in the
Bohemia District of the forest con
tains 13,400,000 board feet, includ
ing 10,400,000 feet of Douglas fir
and pine appraised at $14.45 per
thousand and three million feet of
western hemlock and other spe
cies appraised at $5.70.
The Culp Creek company won
the tract with a bid of $311,780.
Rickini bid $26.20 per thousand for
the fir and pine and $13.10 for
the other species.
Other bidders were Natron Ply
wood Co. of Springfield, J. and W,
Logging Co. of Philomath and
Murphy Logging Co. of Portland,
The next Umpqua National For.
est sales are slated Aug. 7 and 8.
Accused Burglar
Enters Guilty Plea
Richard Jocrs, 21, of Roseburg,
Thursday changed a previous plea
of innocence to guilty on a charge
of burglary not in a dwelling be
fore Circuit Judge Charles S. Wood
rich. Jocrs, by his plea, admitted bur
glarizing The Friendly and re
moving the safe, as charged In a
Grand Jury Indictment, last Dec. 5.
Judge Woodrich deferred impo
sition of sentence for a pre-sentence
investigation.
Joers on arraignment Monday
pleaded Innocent to the charge, but
on Thursday asked to change his
plea to guilty.
He was arrested by Roseburg
City Police last Sunday on the
Grand Jury indictment, after
months of investigation by City
Detective E. R. Woodworth and
other officers checking on the bold
burglary, in which a car was re
ported to have been driven into
the alley behind Ths Friendly to
haul the safe away.
A description of the car provided
the only immediate clue for of-ficers.
Numbering System
Due In Tri City
Douglas County Planning Co-or-dinator
Bruce Elmgrcn said today
the Planning Commission house
numbering system in Tri Cuty
should be completed within GO days,
and the system in Myrtle Crock
should be completed shortly there
after. A progress report on the num
bering project was made at Thurs
day night's Planning Commission
meeting by Myrtle Creek Record
er G. D. Myloenbeck, Postmaster
Harley Naas and Tri-Clty Fire
Chief Don Wight.
In other action Thursday night,
the Planning Commission recom
mended two street vacations. One
calls for vacating of a 50-foot street
in the John Ulrich llomesilcs sub
division on NW Garden Valley ltd.
and the other calls for vacating
NE Brooklyn Ave. between NE
Vine and NE Poplar Sis. west of
Cloverdale. Both are dedicated
streets, but neither is in use.
Fire Crew Back
From Okanogan
The 14 - man fire suppression
crew, stationed at the Wolf Creek
training camp in the Little River
District of the Umpqua National
Forest, has returned to its post.
The crew along with a 24-man
division team was flown to the
Okanogan National Forest in Wash
ington Sunday evening to help bat
tle fires raging there. The division
team returned to Roseburg early
in the week and the suppression
crew arrived in Roseburg Thurs
day evening.
"As it is now in Oregon," Cor.
bett said, "you have a leadpipe
cinch. You are bound to get
more."
William Moshofsky, Ceorgia
Pacific Corp., added that any
new method of injury evaluation
was useless until a new system of
reviewing commission action was
found.
Moshofsky said that such a
svstem should not only consider
the rights of the employers, who
pay the bill, but those of the
workers who gave up their rights
to sue for an unlimited settle
ment when the system was insti
tuted in 1913.
In reply to a question from
Moshofsky, J. D. MacDonald, Ore
gon AFL-CIO president, said he
opposed any change in the right
to appeal with a Jury trial.
MacDonald said he had been at
every Oregon Legislature since
1937 defending this right to ask
for a jury trial.
Dr. C. H. Kiest, head of the
commission's new Restoration
Center at Portland, said Canada
does not permit, jury review.
He said in the Province of Al
berta, for example, a plan which
all agree is impartial reviews
cases without knowing what com
pensation has been allowed for in
dustrial accident injuries.
The chances of getting a gain
are there. Dr. Kiest said, but the
board also ocassionally sets
lower compensation and this ma
terially reduces the number of
appeals.
Paul Johnson, federal Social
Security manager in Portland
said appeals on Social Security
compensation are heard by a fed
eral district judge without a jury,
He said if the judge finds the
person's rights have not been fully
protected the case often is re
manded for further administra
tive action.
MacDonald said that perhaps a
little more liberal determination
by the stale Industrial Accident
Commission and more flexibility
in setting compensation might re
duce the number of court appeals.
Speaking of the central theme
of the conference, Dr. Kiest said
the question is whether to evalu
ate injuries on the basis of the
loss or the basis of what remains.
At present the commission
gives the same benefits to a log
ger who loses a leg and can't
Sutherlin Man Gets i
6-Months Sentence
Dennis M. Bangs, 18, of Suther
lin, drew a sentence of six months
in the Douglas County jail for lar
ceny from an auto, on a plea of
guilty before Circuit Judge Charles
s. woodrich Thursday.
The judge provided, however.
that after he has served 30 days
in jail he will be released and
placed on probation for a period
of two years. Bangs earlier had
Pleaded innocent to a Grand Jury
idiclmcnt charging the theft of
a tire and wheel from a car, but
chanted his plea to guilty,
Jerry K. Wilkins, 34, of 1364 SE
Pine St., pleaded innocent on the
arraignment to obtaining money
by false pretenses, a charge
brought by the Grand Jury in con
nection with a worthless check ac
cusation. His trial will be set
down in the September term of
court, and his bail was set at $500.
A show causo order was served
on Bob Dean Ledbetter, 21, of
Winston in the Douxlas County
jail Thursday. The order requires
him to appear in Circuit Court and
show cause why his probation,
granted Dec. 24, 1958, from a bur
glary charge should not be revok
ed and why he should not be sen
tenced to serve three yeurs in the
Oregon State Penitentiary.
Reasons given for probation re
vocation are that he has not ab
stained from the use of alcohol,
that he has driven a car without
authority and that he has not con
ducted himself as a law-abiding
citizen. He is currently in jail on
a charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a minor,
work as it does to a person who
loses the leg but can still carry
on his vocation.
The other method would provide
for compensation based on the
ability of the person to earn a
living after the injury, providing
for rehabilitation too.
Father Of Slayer
Blames Television
For Son's Plight
GUNTERSV1LLE, Ala. (AP) -A
grieving man says his 11-year-old
son learned to kill from tele
vision. "I can't thin'c of any other
answer," said Junior Franks, the
father.
William Earl Franks told his
father at the Marshall County
jail how he waylaid a rural mail
carrier and shot him to death
with a rifle.
Joseph R. Thompson, 37, the
postman, was killed Wednesday
about 300 yards from the house
near the Grant community where
William Earl lived with his di
vorced father and grandmother.
"I think the main cause is TV,"
the father said in a telephone in
terview. "He liked the war pic
tures and Westerns." N
Franks described his son as
normal and said he made better
than average grades at the gram
mar school at Grant, where he
had been promoted to the sixth
grade.
Franks said he gave his son
the rifle for Christmas two years
ago.
sheriff Warren Jones said the
boy gave a statement Thursday
describing how he raised the flag
on a rural mail box, causing the
postman to stop, and then shot
him to death.
The sheriff said he used the
mail in the car to set the vehicle
on fire.
The boy was held in Marshall
County jail but no charges were
filed immediately.
The postman's cash box was
found open in the car. The
amount of money taken was not
known. None was recovered.
The sheriff said several books
of stamps and the postman's
watch wore recovered.
Five expended .22-cahber car
tridges were found beside the car.
Jones and sheriff s deputies be
gan a search for a rifle. It was
this search that led them to the
Franks house.
Labor Profit-Sharing Plan
Proposed To Auto Workers
DETROIT (AP) American
Motors Corp. today offered the
United Auto Workers Union a
profit-sharing wage plan and a
seven-cent hourly wage increase
annually over the next three
years.
In exchange, American Motors
asked the UAW to give up cost-of-living
allowance and annual im
provement factor clauses in their
current contract expiring Sept. 7.
AMC's was the first settlement
offer handed the UAW in negotia
tions started a month ago with
the auto industry. In 1958 profit
sharing was the union's principal
goal but it failed to get it.
AMC would set aside the firs't
10 per cent of profits before taxes
for its stockholders, then set
aside the next 10 per cent to what
it termed a progressive sharing
fund for hourly rated union em
ployes. American Motors offered cus
tomers a rebate program last
winter, the refund depending
upon total sales. In only one
month did sales sufficiently out
strip those the similar month a
year earlier and consequently
only one $25 rebate savings bond
was paid to Rambler buyers of
December.
Under the cost-of-living escala
tor, hourly wages rise or fall with
the government's consumer price
index. Seventeen cents of the cur
rent $2.80 hourly wage has been
added by this clause.
The so-called annual improve
ment factor gives an automatic
yearly wage increase of 6 cents
hourly or 2V4 per cent, whichever
is greater, to permit workers to
share in cost-saving technological
advances automation.
All contracts with the auto in
dustry contain those two clauses.
Under the "progress sharing
plan," AMC said that "decisions
would be made annually by the
company and the union jointly as
to the distribution of the fund,
cither in the form of cash pay
ment or through supplementation
of employee benefit programs
No Damage In Fire
The Roseburg City Fire Depart
ment was called to the Roseburg
Lumber Co. yard on NE Diamond
Lake Blvd., at 4:52 p.m. Thursday
to put out a fire which started in
some wood chips in the yard. No
damage was repoted, the cause of
the blaze was unknown.
Short Causes Fire
One of the employes of the
Douglas County Bottling Co., 1230
NE Stephens, drove a lift truck
into an electric service entrance
at the plant and shorted it out,
causing a fire Thursday. The
Rural Fire Deportment was beck
oned but no damage was report
ed. '
such as pensions, supplemental
unemployment benefits, and in
insurance." The company proposed in its
offer "continuation of present em
ploye benefit programs and said
it would make the present 17-cent
hourly cost-of living payment as
a party of the base wage.
Head-On Crash
e
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -Four
members of a Washington
State family died Thursday in the
grinding, head-on collision of their
station wagon and a dump truck.
Two children in the wagon sur
vived, one with critical injuries.
The truck driver was seriously
hurt.
Killed were James Howard
Thompson, 28, of Tacoma; his
wife, Julia E., and two of their
children, Cheryl Elizabeth, - 17
months, and Earl, 5.
In critical condition was 3-year-old
Cliff. Another Thompson child,
John Frank, 2, was hospitalized
with minor injuries.
Officers said the survivors were
a boy about four years old, criti
cally hurt, and a girl of about two,
also injured.
The dump truck driver, flung
from his cab on the crash, was
Clarence Cooper of Chubbuck, a
suburb of this Eastern Idaho city.
His condition was rated serious
in a Pocatello hospital.
Cpl. Oscar Miller of the Idaho
State Police said Cooper's truck
struck a car that had halted
alongside the highway, then ca
reened into the oncoming Thomp
son station wagon.
Miller said the halted car had
run out of gas, and its driver
went into shock when he arrived
moments later and learned what
bad happened.
The officer said there was 15
feet of pavement between the
halted car and the center stripe
of the two-lane highway. The ac
cident happened in daylight, about
an hour before sundown.
Officers learned that Thompson
was a serviceman, stationed at
Ft. Lewis, Wash.
The base public information of
ficer said the family had gone to
Columbia, Tenn., and was return
ing to Washington.
Driver Gets Jail
Walter Eugene Gillett. 37. Mvr-
tle Creek, has been committed to
the Douglas County jail from the
Municipal Court of Laura Goodell
of Canyonville for five days, on a
charge of driving with suspended
operator's license. Gillett also was
fined $250.
Solar Winds Are Worry
Of Freckle-Faced Scientist
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -Guess
who's worried about solar
winds? A blonde named Marcia,
that's who.
Ranger I an unmanned space
explorer is poised to blast off
from Cape Canaveral.
One of the instrument assem
blies aboard is called an electro
static analyzer. One of its jobs
is to probe solar winds.
That's where Marcia Neugc
bauer comes in.
"I'm a co-experimenter with
the electrostatic analyzer," says
Marcia, 28. She looks like a well
scrubbed, freckle-faced college
freshman. But she's a senior sci
entist who is among the key per
sonnel responsible for Ranger's
complex machinery.
Marcia works at the California
Institute of Technology's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory here. She
is in charge of coordinating the
various experiments being per
formed by instruments on Ran
ger. "I'm the only one that worries
about the scientific aspects all to
gether," she said.
She said it's up to her division
the division of the space sci-
'Peeping Torn'
Pleads Guilty
Richard L. Carleton Jr., 19, of
Winston, pleaded guilty to a charge
of violating the privacy of anoth
er person (peeping torn), on ar
raignment before District Judge
Gerald R. Hayes Thursday.
The judge sentenced him to 180
days in the Douglas County jail,
fined him $150 and $5 costs.
Carleton was arrested by Win
ston Police Chief William Hale
and another officer, following sev
eral complaints by residents of
the area. The offense was com
mitted July 19.
Marion County Reports
2 Drownings Thursday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSVi
Two drownings were reported
in Marion County Thursday.
Four-year-old Lee Edward Da
vis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Davis, drowned in the North San
liam River southwest of Stayton.
He apparently wandered away
from his parents, who are migrant
crop workers.
The body of Stanley K. Stesney,
53. Salem, was found in a mill
pond at the Willamette Plywood
Mill in Aumsville Thursday night.
The sheriff's office said he appar
ently fell in and drowned.
California Man
Struck By Auto
A 45 year-old California man was
treated as an out-patient at a
Roseburg hospital Thursday night
for minor injuries received when
he was struck by an automobile
while crossing the street.
The pedestrian, John Warner Al
strnnd, of Brisbane, Calif., re
ceived minor injuries when he was
struck by a vehicle driven by 28-
year-old Donald Dclos Young at.
Myrtle creek. According to po
lice reports, Young said ho was
driving west on SK Cass Ave. and
made a turn onto SE Stephens St.
The reports said he told them he
was watching another vehicle and
did not see Alstrand.
The minor accident occurred at
6:15 p.m.
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