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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Oregon COhP ft PROCUUflEID IN Hurricane Esther Loses Her Fury Wearing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Esther either lost her punch or took a breathing spell loaay as she neared Cape Cod, Ulass. The Weather Bureau station at Otis Air Force Base on the Cape reported before noon that the eye of the hurricane had closed, that winds were fast diminishing and Cape Cod may have no hurricane ai au. However, shortly afterward, the station said the eye of the hurri cane had reopened and that the storm was moving forward again. The U.S. Weather Bureau at Boston in its noon advisory said: "Although Hurricane Esther has decreased slightly in intensity during the past 12 hours, it still is a aangerous storm.' It said hurricane warnings still Diamond Lake Trip Scheduled A group from the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce will drive to the Diamond Lake area Satur day morning to look over areas for possible future development of a winter sports and recreation site. The group will be headed by Jack Snodgrass, who with Vondis Jliller, Umpqua Forest supervisor, is making arrangements. Snod grass said there probably will be at least two carloads of men, some of them returning Saturday night and others staying over until Sun day, Areas Eyed The areas tinder consideration are Rodley Butte and Hemlock Butte. Last February a group from the chamber went into the area while the snow lay heavy on the grounds. They made the trip through the snow on a California Oregon Power Co. sno-cat. They wanted to study snow conditions at that time. The trip this weekend is to look Into the site while it is free from snow to determine development possibilities. The winter sports idea In the Diamond Lake section will hinge " entirely upon .whether the North Umpqua Highway is to be kept open during the winter months when it is completed. Otherwise access would be impossible. The study at this time is on a long range basis, according to Jliller. Road Nessary Rodley Butte is being given first consideration but it has some drawbacks. It lies about three miles from the highway and the Forest Service would have to con struct a road into it. It is about three miles due west of the north end of the lake. Hemlock Butte has a road to its base at the south end, and in some ways presents better recreational development potential. In any event, the road into either place would have to be kept open, along with the North Umpqua Highway, said Miller. Marion Davies Near Death Doctors Report HOLLYWOOD (AP) Former actress Marion Davies may die at any hour, her physicians re port. They said Wednesuay she had been administered last rites of the Roman Catholic Church last week when her death seemed near. Miss Davies, 61, entered Cedars of Lebanon Hospital May 16. She was operated on June 7 for osteo myelitis of the jaw. Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of bone mar- Clendale Community Gets New Post Office Building Glcndale will soon have a new post office building. Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced today the Post Of fice Department has accepted the proposal of Harold A. Cooley to construct and lease a new building Cooley, the successful bidder will erect a one-story structure containing approximately 1.886 square feet of interior floor space with a 150-square-foot platform. Provided also will be 5.450 square feet for parking and maneuvering. The new post office will be lo- The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Partly cloudy today, mostly ir tonight and Friday, with night and rly morning fog. High to day 72, low tonight 4$, Highest tomp. last 24 hours e5 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 41 Highest temp, any Sept. ('55) 102 Lowest temp, any Sept. ('54) . 32 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. rom Sopt. 1 . .71 Excess from Sopt, 1 - 05 Sunstt tonight, :13 p.m. Sunriso tomorrow, :00 a.m. Cape Cod are displayed from eastern Long Island, N.Y., to Maine. The hur ricane watch had been ended over Connecticut and the New York area. At 11 a.m. Esther was centered about 75 statute miles west-south west of Nantucket, Mass., the Boston forecaster said. She was moving toward the north-northeast at about 10 miles an hour. Highest winds were estimated at 100 miles an hour over a small area near the center. Winds were expected to decrease somewhat. The Miami, Fla., weatherman said Esther's fate is attributable to the fact she moved along the coast so slowly and stayed over cold water so long, the cold water modified the storm considerably, The Weather Bureau observa tion station at Hyannis Airport still referred to the storm as a hurricane. Otis weather officials said the center of the storm was 35 miles south of Martha's Vineyard when the eye disappeared. Otis has radar facilities which permit observers to track the path of the storm and determine its strength. Esther slammed by the eastern end of Long Island this morning with 100-mile-an-hour winds but the effect on the populous New York area was considered tame. Most serious consequences ap peared to be power failures in thousands of homes, flooding of highways, broken windows and signboards. Esther seemed unlikely to chal lenge the record of her unnamed sister which swept up the coast just 23 years ago today. That storm took 588 lives ana caused $300 million damage. Prenaredness was the watch word in Esther's path. About 700 persons left their homes in the Montauk, N.Y., area, at the east ern tip of Long Island, for emer gency shelters or higher ground. Massachusetts uivil ueiense headquarters evacuated 1,000 fam ilies from areas in the path of high tides or coastal flooding ia Buz zards Bay and Cape Cod. Kennedy Rushes Request For Aid wAcutNirmM f APWPresident Kennedy rushed to Congress to day a request for an extra $55 miiiinn in hnln nav for the dam age of hurricanes Carta and Es ther and otncr possime naiurai disasters. Tho funeral pnvernment now be lieves the damage from hurricane Carta, wmcn nit primarily in icx as and Louisiana, plus the effects nf Pettier which is still hammer ing New England, could run as high as Uie total lor inreE siuruu which struck the east coast in Au-- and Kentemher 1955. The damage then was close to a bil lion dollars, and the federal gov ernment put nearly $65 million into disaster relief. Kennedy also officially declared that six Louisiana parishes (coun- triael art msfiT disaster SreaS. and thus eligible for federal finan cial help. A numner oi lexas counties previously had been de clared disaster areas. The Louisiana parishes: Calca sieu, Cameron, Iberia, LaFourche, St. Bernard ana vermiuon. Messiah Practice Set First practice for the Roseburg Messiah will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Episcopal Church parish hall. Mrs. George Gratke, president, said anyone interested is invited to participate. cated on the south side of Pacific Ave. west of Second St. It will be leased -to the Post Office De partment under a 10-year con' tract. Cooley, who operates the Glen dale Rexall Drug Store, is also owner of one of the two lota on which the new building will be lo cated. The other lot was pur chased from Paul Archambeau ot Cleveland, Ohio. When contacted this morning, Cooley said construction on the 35- by-60-foot concrete block structure would start as soon as blueprints are completed and approved by the Post Office Department. He told correspondent Mrs. G. B. Fox he will contract the construction to some building firm. Howard T. Edson is postmaster : at Olenuaie. The announcement heralded the ' latest in a series of new post of fices for the countv. New build ings have been constructed in the , last two years at Roseburg. Idle yld Park, Winston and Sutherlin. : The Sutherlin Post Office was just dedicated last weekend, and an- other dedication is planned soon fnr a new building in Myrtle Creek. Established 1873 28 Page Rusk, Gromyko Open Cold War Talks Berlin Crisis Is Top Issue Of Parleys NEW YORK (AP)-U.S. Secre tary of State Dean Rusk started a series of eoid war conferences with Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko here today to find out whether a peaceful solution to the Berlin crisis may be possible. The two men met on the 28th floor of a tnidtown Manhattan ho tel where Rusk had invited Gro myko for lunch. Each was accom panied by a panel of advisers in cluding U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson on the American side and Deputy Foreign Minister Val erian A. Zonn with Gromyko, Berlin Central Issue- Berlin was the central issue of the meeting but aides of both men said there was no doubt they would also discuss the crisis in the Uni ted Nations arising from Soviet opposition to appointment of a suc cessor to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Gromyko gave no advance sign of any Soviet yielding on either of the two great problems that have brought the world's two mightiest powers into threatening conforma tion. Rusk was reported in an ada mant mood, determined to warn the Soviet government anew of war dangers in the Berlin dispute and of Western fears for the fu ture of the U.N. Faces Tricky Task Rusk, who took the initiative in setting up the talks, faced the tricky task of sounding out Soviet views on Berlin negotiations with out giving Groymko any impres sion that the western allies are acting from weakness or fear of war. Such an impression. West ern diplomats said, would increase the danger of war over Berlin' ny encouraging a Soviet miscalcula tion of Western intentions. S. Douglas Road Bought By U.S. The Bureau of Land Manage ment's Northwest regional office in Portland today reported the fed eral government had bought the Robert Dollar Co. Rd. m southern Douglas County. The announcement was made by Russell E. Getty, Oregon director of the BLM in a release today. It was part of a package in which two logging roads, this one and one in Lane County were bought for a total $1,413,400, Getty said. It was not immediately determined what the cost of the individual roads was. Companies Soli The Robert Dollar Rd. was bought from the Robert Dollar Co. of San Francisco, and the Big Riv er Rd. in Lane County from Wey erhaeuser Timber Co. Getty said the rock-surfaced, sin gle lane roads will provide access to more than four billion feet of timber, which will be hauled W many mills of southern Oregon. In addition to purchases, the BLM has signed long-term recipro cal right-of-way and road use agreements with the two lumber companies for mutual use of exist ing or future roads that the com panies or BLM may build in these areas. Getty said the purchases and agreements are "vital to tne lum ber industry in that they will pro vide equal opportunity of access to all BLM sales areas and orderly harvest and protection of Umber involved. Money for the purchases came from a fund made up of O&C coun ty timber sales refunds. Part of the refunds from sales is desig nated for road development. Use of these funds is determined by the BLM and the Road Committee of the Association of O&C Counties. Douglas County Commissioner El mer. Metzger is a member of that committee. Bridges Suffers Coronary Attack CONCORD. N.H. (AP) U.S. Sen. Styles Bridges, R-N.H-, has coronary attack," his personal : . ij physician said today. "His conoiuon is sen.ius ""; critical," said Dr. 1. Dunbar Shields Jr. "ft will be several days," Dr. Shields said, . "before a definite prognosis can be made." Bridges, the Senate's senior ranking Republican and chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Com mittet, was readmitted to Con cord Hospital Wednesday. ROSEBURG, OREGON WAVES CLIMB High winds from Hurricane Esther whip the storm moves up oiong the New England coast-. This photo Pier, R. I. (UPI Telephoto) U. Si Locks Coos Daily COOS BAY AP) The Internal Revenue Service Wednesday night closed the Coos Bay World, a daily afternoon newspaper. Agents oj the IRS padlocked the front door of the World's building ana posted a sign which read: "This property seized for non payment of internal revenue taxes by yirtue of levy issued by the district director ef internal rev-1 Tho tax man romov.d tfia pad. lock from rh door of tho Coot Bay World today and tho news papor prepared to return publi cation a?tr an overnight cloture. enue. All persons are warned not to remove or tamper m any way. The notice was signed by James Baumgartner, revenue officer. Sheldon F. Sackett, editor and publisher of the World, could not be reached for comment at once. Arthur G. Erickson, the district director of internal revenue, said m Portland the property was seized because of failure to pay withholding taxes by the Times, Inc., the corporation which owns the paper. The amount the government claims was not disclosed. The government hopes to reach a satisfactory agreement with the paper, krickson said. Staff of the Coos Bay World were reported to be on a standby basis as the firm maneuvered to reopen its doors by late morning. This is the latest incident in the past week about The World. Mon day shifts in top personnel occur red when the office manager and managing editor were released from employment. Portland Man Dies After Car Accident By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon continued Us two-deaths- a-day rate in September as an other traffic victim died in Port land early today. That made 42 traffic deaths in the state this month in the Asso ciated Press tabulation. For the year 349 persons have been killed. That is 40 more than at this date last year, and only 8 under the record pace of two years ago. The death toll that year reached 497 by year s end. The Portlander killed was Michael Vocana, 40, whose fatal injuries were suffered Wednesday night. His car veered off a road on the outskirts of Portland and crashed into a pile of concrete blocks and an utility pole. Firemen Answer Call A fire that started near a stove flue and burned into an attic brought the Roseburg Fire De partment to a home at 1964 SE GUes st-. morning. The fire 'ss quickly contained and fire- ! n gmaw mm Occupant is Oiiie Ysrborough. Claims Take Drop SALEM (AP) The number! of claims for unemployment in surance at mid-September was 15 per cent below the number at mid-Aueust, the state Employ ment Department said Wednesday. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1961 UAW Aims New Approach At Settlement Of Local Problems DETROIT (AP) The United Auto Workers Union its threat of a nation-wide strike against Gen eral Motors Corp. quashed aimed today at a new approach to local problems holding up complete set-' tlement of a new contract with GM. Waiter P. Reuther, UAW presi dent, said Wednseday night the union has "developed a new ap proach to pediie the settlements of unresolved local issues. He scheduled a 10 a.m. meeting today ox the General Motors Coun cil, a union advisory board, to discuss the new approach. Readi er declined to elaborate on the plan. Today's meeting followed a hee tic night which saw the council vole to accept a GM-UAW nation al agreement on the money pack age and national work rules, A few hours later, however, the council voted to ask the UAW In ternational Executive Board fnr authority to strike GM in support of local contract demands. The board, governing body of the UAW, met quickly. Less than; two hours later, Reuther an nounced that the board would not; authorize a general strike against! GM. He said the advisory coun-1 cil's action was an "action by I members demonstrating the bit-! terness of some toward soma lo cal practices. This was a cutain-i ation of resentment over local problems and the locals way of protesting. j He said a general strike "can not in good conscience be Justi fied, therefore it will not be authorized," He added: "AU Gen eral Motors employes in plants where local issues are resolved are instructed to stay on the Job." Local unions which still had not reached agreement with their managements retained 0i author ity to strike. GM officials declined eomment on the union's actions. Wednesday night's flurry fol Kennedy Children Taken From Cape HYANNIS PORT. Mass. fAP President Kennedy's 3W-year-old daughter Caroline and 10-month-oid son John Jr., were removed from their Cape Cod summer home today for protection from Hurricane Esther. They were taken to Otis Air Force Base at Falmouth, 18 miles from Hyannis Port, With them in a five-car caravan went all per sons at the "Kennedy compound," including six cousins. They made the trip fcy automo bile at 8 a.m., the While House said, at the request of the Secret Service which is responsible for the protection of the President s family. In addition to the President's children, those at Hyannis Port were the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith; three of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lawford; and one of Mr. anil Mrs. Edward Kennedy, None of the parents was with them at Hyannis Port, the White House said, but the President's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was there. The While House said the chil dren were beine cared for at a Stratcgic Air Command installs - linn at the base. 18 miles from Hyannis fort. ' waves today over seawall as was token at Narraaansett lowed a day to which GM and the UAW apparently reached agree ment on national contract de mands and made substantial progress on the various local demands. Negotiations at GM started June ZJ and the strikes heaas a week ago Monday after the union authorized walkouts at plants not having agreement on local de mands. More than 250,000 of GM's 350,000 hourly workers were idled at the peak of the strike Urn paralyzed CM production. MTS Plane Missing With Crew Of Six OX.VARD, Calif. (API A miU iary transport plane carrying a crew of sis failed to land at Ox- nard Air Force Base after radio ing Wednesday night that it was approaching the field. The two-engine C47 was last heard from at 9:36 p.m. when it radioed that it was m the landing pattern 12 miles west of the base. There was no indication of trouble. The Western Air Rescue Service declared the plana missing at 12:35 p.m. today. Planes and ships began a wide spread search over the ocean off the coast of Ventura County. An Air tores spokesman said the C47, hieh was on a local proficiency flight, had sufficient fuel to keep it aloft until 3 a.m. Russian, U. S. Representatives Clash On Nuclear Weapons Ban UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)i The United Slates today de-: manded that the question of ban ning nuclear weapons testa be given urgent consideration by the United Nations, The Soviet Union insisted it should not be taken up separately, but as part of a gen eral disarmament debate. Representatives of the two coun tries clashed in the General As sembly's 2! -nation Steering Com mittee, which was drafting the agenda for the current session. Each Mama! Urn other for the collapse of the Geneva talks on a nuclear test ban. The committee ended its morn ing session without resolving the controversy. It also had before it other issues, including seating Bed China. Both the Unit ed States and the Soviet Union were expected to support debate on that issue. U.S. Delegate Adlai E. Steven son declared the Soviet decision to resume nuclear testing had made the situation more acute by increasing atomic radiation in the atmosphere and forcing the Unit ed States to resume underground testing. Stevenson called tor high prior ity in the 99-nation Political Com- mitlee for a test nan denate. He was supported by Britain's Sir Patrick Dean, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin remarked sar castically that the United States for years had opposed U.N. de- ! bate on nuclear tests, but now 'found the nuestion urgent. i Stilt opposed to admitting lie PRICE 5e JFK To Address Assembly Monday WASHINGTON (API Prui dent Kenntdy will aa'dresi tha United Nations- General Assam My next Monday, the Whit House announced today, Kenntdy is expected to sat forth the United State posltisn on disarmament and a nuclear lst ban. He is certain to express U.S. policy toward the organiretisn ef th United Nations itself in Mm wake of tha daaffc ef Setratary General Dag Hammankjeid, Th White Hsu M the United Nations has sriwdulad a Kennedy speech for Monday morning. Press secretary Pirr SHn ger said the President would appear at that time unless same thing ynforseen interferes. Breakers Smash Fishing Vessel Man's eternal battle with the sea was re-enacted Wednesday after noon as 10-foot breakers smashed a Winchester Bay fishing boat and almost cost its owner serious in juryor possibly his life. James Campbell, SS, owner ana operator of the "J.C." a JMoot commercial fishing vessel, today is recovering from the harrowing ac cident. He spent a chiliiag So min utes clinetne to the ngn of his capsfaed boat while awaiting res cue irom crashing ocosn break ers. Campbell had been KsMng out side the mouth of the Ummua Biv- er until S;30 p.m. when he headed for the "bar" (the nana where the umpqua Klver current and the ocean current meet). 'Sneaker Hit According to Coast Guard Chief Petty Qfncrr Elmer A, Stevens, Campbell wr on tne bar when sneaker fa large breaker) came behind Mm, picked up bis boat smail fishing skiff taM to manuever close to Wis foundered boat to rescue Campbell, tat the hugo breakers drove i" hack. This rjrf r.nd jmbwwt 40.1 foot utility boat and a 36-foot mo tor lifeboat to the sec-no m the capsized boat and Campbell were washed toward the remains of the south jetty on the Umpo.ua Biver. Three Coast Guardsmen were sent out on the rocks of ttio Jetty whe-n it looked like Uie rescue boats might become Imperiled by the hard-breaking surf. The three sot a line to Campbell ana pnuea him to safely. He was taken to Umpqua Lighthouss Station. and treated for shock. His boat with its atom torn off and the cabin atove-in was wash ed throash the surf by Uw pounds tag breakers and a line fastened to it. A halftrack hauled It up on the beach. Chief Stevens said the 1?M beat was a total loss, lis said Camp bell took IS breakers after he was capsized before he could be res cued. It war. the first commercial boat to capsize on the bar this year. Peieing regime, the Unitrf States! has agreed only to assembly Se nate on tne issue. i The Red China issue was one! of several serious cold war dis putes that cropped up either on' the agenda or in the background almost as soon as the assembly met Tuesday, Among others are Berlin, disarmament and the fu ture of the United Kations itself. This last involve the task of choosing a successor to the late Secretary-General Bag Hammar skjold, in the face of stem Soviet opposition. In the Steering Committee, the Onited Stater is determined to Work the Soviet demand that the United Nations recognize Peiping ss ngMBii sower of vm seat sow occipied by Nationalist China, ro u.f. delegation announced Fail Fashion Section Due In Friday Edition On af rh big vent of the faH astiai season will b lb an nual "Pared, of Partiss" staged by th Mercy Hospital Auxiliary In October, This wilt b a feature ef the fait Ulhior and women's wction which will b part of Friday's Ntwi-Rtvitw. In addition to fstur taller td for wemn, rh-s ttttian will outline th cloth f l h I o rt s wWch will b part el Aw fall and winter seen m Dsoglss County and th rit of Hi ra 222-61 War Danger Still Looms Over Katanga KDOLA, Kerfhent Rhodesia (AP) An uneasy cease-fire was proclaimed today in embattled Katanga but the danger of civil war still hung over the Congo. President Moise Tsnombe ot Katanga and Ike CN. command signed a provisional tease-firs fiat froze the positions of their warring forces. Still unsettled is the issue that ted to the shooting Katanga's secession. While a loH in the fighting was already evident Before the sea pact was reached there were no immediate reports whether afl shooting had stowed according to the timetable set for one minute past midnight. A new threat came from tha Congo central government, which has bees a bystander during the eight days of fighting between the Katangan fortes and V.N. troops acting at the government request. With Tshombo as adamant as ever in keeping his minerai-rich province independent, Congo Pre mier Cyriito Adouia alerted th Congolese army wita the declara tion tile central government would "spare so eHort to end Katanga's secession," Speaking In LeopoIdviUe before the cease-fire was announced. Adouia warned his government will reply to force with force." The shadow of the la! Patrfr Lumumba hung over tie Conga capital. Supporters of the slain leftist former premier demons Ira - tea m the streets shouting anti Western slogans, and Soviet dip lomats, kicked oat after Lumum ba's overthrow, moved back to set up shop again. The provisional cease-fire call ing for a freeze ia ail mill. tary operations in Katanga was reached Wednesday night la a cordial tut cool atmosphere on neuirai growls la this Kortbern Rhodesian frontier town. Smiling and outwardly conil dent, Tshombs made the an nouncement Sirst at a news con ference, Juhmoud Khiari of Tunisia, who took over as chief UJv. negotiator after Dag Bam roarskjoM met his death m a plane crash flying to the peace taiai. comtnnett the agreement later. A British attempt to get the two to appear together for a joint an nouncement xattea, n . u , . i t i . .TSETE ""KS BgT but backed dWn I ""1 .."'J ."... -ir., . I. XSjKm L5a?H?,5L t: . . , claimed, the Katanga government m as open letter to the United. Nations said Conga unity is "sotn ing but fallacious myth, hoi low idea, aa Imaginary vision." Man Admits Af facie, Death Off 'SiW SALT LAKE CUV. Uiah fAP) Police say a married laborer has admitted raping and kitting an 11-year-old baby-sitter at American Fork, Utah. Sheriff Ralph Chappie said Oar. rell Bevere Penben, 22, of Prow, Utah, signed a statement Wednes day admitting the slaying of Sar en Ass Meehling last Sunday, Karen was attacked Is an apart ment where she was tending two children, She was beaten to deaib with a calkmg gun, the sheriff said. support for New Zealand pro posal to debate the over-all cues iion of who should represent China. And the U.S. or one of its allie is expected to move for creation of ipecial committea to study the issue and report back to the assemoly next year, , Aware that this would nave the same effect u shelving the issue, the Comntimhte are certain to fight the maneuver. But delegates believe the study plan Kill jet majority support. in the mm for m new secretary general, the Soviet Union killed hopes ef Eat-West agreement by turning down a widely supported plan to same a representative of a nonaugnefl nation as interim successor until a permanent feo relary-gesenu san be ag upon. FOREST FfGE DANGER THAI KEEP ORESON CREEK The fire outlook today ia moder ate with a high temperature ex peeled from 65 to "0 and low hu midity near 40. Prospects are for northwesterly wind from S to IS m.p h. except easterly winds ol IS m.p.h. expected over ricigei. Winds of about 10 m.p.h. will be come northeast to east tonight a4 Friday, t v
