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2 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore Thur., Sept. 21, 1961 Machete-Waving Baluba Tribesmen Attack Katanga Police, Civilians EDITOR'S NOTE Andrew Bor owiec, seasoned correspondent of The Associated Press, has arrived m Elisabethville, capital of Katan ga Province, which was cut off from direct communication with the outside world nine days ago. The following dispatch by Boro wiec was filed six minutes after a cease fire was supposed to have gone into effect. By ANDREW BOROWIEC ELISABTHEVILLE, Katana, the Dogs End Training At Green Kennels About 60 people attended the graduation exercises held Wcdnes day night at Bolen Kennels in Green for dogs completing 10 weeks of obedience training under trainer Bob Butts. Certificates of training com pleted were received by owners. Judge for the exercises was Mar garet Jones of Phoenix, Ore. First place awards and trophies were won by Marie Teague, of Eu gene, recently of Roseburg, with her German shepherd, and Linda Watson of Elktor, with her Welsh Corgi, was second. Third place was won by Hazel Nutt of Myrtle Creek with her German shepherd. Mrs. Harold Glover of Boscburg with her border collie, and Bob Trued with his Irish setter, also received certificates. Pilot class winners trained pre viously by Bob Butts ' also re ceived awards at last night's meet. Jim Wylie, Myrtle Creek, placed first with his golden Labrador: Marie Teague placed second with her German Shepherd; and Patri cia Butts placed third with her Shclti. 1 Refreshments were served fol lowing the exercises. - - The dogs were treated too, each received a bag of dog food. Congo (AP) Hungry Baluba tribesmen went on the warpath from their giant refugee camp on the outskirts of this battle-torn city shortly before agreement was reached on a cease fire between Katangan and U.N. forces. Hundreds spilled outside the camp, attacking Kalangan police men and white and black civilians At lease three Europeans were wounded by Baluba tribesmen who were scrpaming and waving machetes. The flare-up followed several days of rising tension in the camp, organized by the United Nations to house the tribesmen seeking refuge from Kasai l'rov ince. More than 100 Baluhas were wounded and killed when Katan gan gendarmerie lobbed mortar shells into the camp, housing 30,- 000 refugees, at the height of the U.N.-Katangan fight. Ambulance crews from Queen Hospital, fearing for their lives, refused to enter the camp. The tribesmen emerged from the camp in several groups, at tacking passers-by and the homes of Europeans. They stormed the house of Bel gian settler Claude Lamnot, wav ing knives and screaming. "I grabbed a carbine and killed three of them right away," said I.ambot. "But they managed to hack my father with a machete." . Ambulances one after another pulled up and Belgian doctors and LOCAL NEWS Insurance Fraud Trial Resumes ' PORTLAND AP) The trial of 10 persons accused of defraud ing insurance companies by, stag ing automobile accidents was to resume today in U.S. District Court in Portland. ' The trial was in recess Wednes day due to the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur. . ' Peter Schwabe, Jr., attorney for George James Barnard, Portland, said Wednesday he will ask the government to produce evidence as to why Barnard is being held under $20,000 bail on a charge of intimidating government witness es in the trial. Barnard, one of the defendants, was arrested Sept. 1 on the in timidation charge. Schwabe said he would ask the government to show cause for the amount of bail set, and to release Barnard on his own recognizance. Air Force Fighter Wing Notches Safety Record HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) The 78th Fighter Wing at Hamilton AFB flew 20, 852 hours without an accident through June 30. The word came from Air Force headquarters in Washington Wed nesday that this record had won the wing a flying safety award. Other safety awards went to the 57th Fighter Group at Paine Field, Washington, and the 408th Fighter Group at Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, Ore. Romoy Ware, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darley Ware, and David liar land, son of Mrs. Ann Harland, went to Ashland Tuesday to enroll as freshmen students at Southern Oregon College. The Darley Wares took them to Ashland. Airman 2C Kennath L. Marque returned . to Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, after spend ing 15 days at the home of his mother, Mrs. William Bowen, on Meadow Avenue. While on leave the family spent a week in Cali fornia sight-seeing. nurses attended the wounded. In the nearby U.N. hospital doctors and nurses wrung their hands in despair. There was no water, no electricity, and no one could operate on two young boys one with a bullet in his head, the other injured in the abdomen. At noon, apparently bored by the whole thing, a large number of Katangan troops withdrew to camps despite the orders of their white officers to attack U.N. posi tions again. But gun fire by sni pers and occasional mortar shell ing kept up the atmosphere of terror through the eighth day. Pacific Rim Nations Talk Joint Trade PORTLAND (AP) - The sixth Japan-American Conference o f Mayors ani Chamber of Com merce Presidents began its fourth and final day this morning with more discussions of joint trade problems. Delegates from the two Pacific Rim nations heard some ideas on this subject Wednesday from former U.S. Sen. William F, Knowland, now an Oakland, Calif. newspaper editor and assistant publisher. He said a quota basis for im ports may be the thing that would solve problems arising from foreign trade. He said pressures on Congress for more drastic action will grow unless there is a "well-thought- out quota system, or some better system if it can be devised." He also said the United States and its allies are near an inter national "high noon" in their struggle against communism. "In fact," he warned, "it can be said that it now is past 11:45." Knowland said that last June 3 Soviet Premier Khruschcv gave President Kennedy a six-month ultimatum regarding a peace treaty on Germany. The six months will be up Dec. 3, he reminded, and "it would be highly dangerous for Americans or the free world to put any other Umpqua Lions Club Sets New Projects Two upcoming projects were out lined in reports presented Wednes day night at a meeting of the Ump qua Lions Club. Clifford Hukari, chairman of the annual Lions Club light bulb sale. said this project will be conducted in October. He noted that all clubs in the area participate in the event. All proceeds are used in theor ganization's civic activities. Plans for the club's annual bas ketball backboard program were in trod need, and Roland Edie was ap pointed chairman. Each year the club members construct a number sf backboards and these are given away on request to families interested. This is a youth activity with the objective of promoting interest in basketball. Special program speaker was Roy Thompson, Roseburg High School football coach. Thompson reviewed highlights of the last game (Springfield) and discussed team prospects. He said commu nity support of the team this year has been outstanding. It was reported that Mr. and Mrs. Don Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Glass will attend an Ore gon Lions mid-winter conference at Astoria. interpretation on this ultimatum." put out. Fire In Cottage Claims Oregon Pair WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) -Fire in their cottage took the lives Wednesday of a couple from Uregon. They were Edward Carlyon, 73 and his wife, Bessie, 64, said by friends to have been retired linotype operators who planned to return to Medford in about month. Firemen said they believe he fell asleep while watching televi sion and that the blaze started from a lighted cigarette. A neighbor heard a cry of "Bessie! Bessie!", looked out the window and saw the whole front of the house in flames. Firemen arrived but the house was destroyed before they could j control the flames, which spread to nearby pines. They finally were -4 PI I Uf 11 J ' Ori Mil LAUNCHING NEAR Saturn, the largest U. S. space vehicle ever developed, will be launched in the very near future, it was announced Wednesday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The vehicle is shown at Cape Canaveral, Fla., being readied in the gantry that is 185 feet high, the world's tallest structure on wheels. The Saturn will have 1.5 million pounds of thrust. (UPI Telephoto) Grass Fire Doused A small grass fire on properly near the Fairgrounds at Roseburg was brought under control Wed nesday by a Roseburg crew, of the Douglas Forest Protective Associa tion. The DFPA office said the fire burned about two acres of grass. FLAGS LOST Three golf hole flags were stolen sometime Tuesday night at the Veterans Administration Hospital, a hospital official reported to Rose burg police. Police were advised the flags are missing at holes 2, 3 and 4 near the bridge of the golf course grounds. Currency Comptroller Named In On-Again, Off-Again Byplay WASHINGTON (AP) In an on again, off-again bit of White Mouse bvplay, President Kennedy has named Chicago lawyer James J. Saxon to replace Ray M. Gidney as comptroller of currency. The appointment, announced Wednesday, will become effective Nov. 15. Gidney, a Republican, has dis agreed strongly with Atty Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, the president's brother, over antitrust policy on bank mergers. The White House announced nomination of Saxon, a Democrat Wednesday afternoon. A spokes man said he understood Gidney was stepping out under a verbal agreement with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. Less than two hours later, the White House withdrew the nomi nation. The Treasury Department said it was all a mistake, that the nomination had been sent to the White House "as a result of a clerical error in the rush at the close of the session in Congress." Still later, the White House press secretary, Pierre Salinger, summoned reporters hack to the White House and said Gidney is resigning effective Nov. 15 and Saxon would succeed him in the $20,500 job. Gidney's term is not scheduled to expire until 1963. Saxon will be given a recess appointment to finish out Gidney's term. The nomination requires Senate approval. Nixon Expected To Reveal Status LOS ANGELES (AP) Next Wednesday will hold much inter est for three announced California Republican gubernatorial candi dates. That night,, former Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon will hold a news conference at which he is expected to announce whether he will seek the governorship of Cal ifornia. If Nixon says "yes," the three hopefuls are expected to become underdogs in the GOP primary election battle. They are former Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, former Lt. Gov. Harold J. Powers and Assemblyman Jo seph C. Shell, all of whom say they will stay in the fight even if Nixon runs. Wilderness Areas Said Not Likely WASHINGTON (AP)-Tne chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Richard E. McArdle, said Thursday desig nation of additional very large areas of national forest land for wilderness-type preservations is unlikely. He told a forest land use confer ence he based this belief on the fact that large additional tracts would mostly be inaccessible for recreational use. Some forest industry groups have been opposing extension of wilderness areas on public lands because it would reduce the sup ply of timber for commercial production. "In recent years recreational use of the national forest has in creased more rapidly than any other use," McArdle said. "We are moving aggressively to catch up our recreation load, and we intend to move still more aggressively in this direction. "None of this means that we have any intention of neglecting timber production as a major ob jective of national forest administration." RADIO STOLEN Floyd F. Jennie, 1254 SE Steph ens St., told Roseburg police a black transistor radio was stolen from his car while it was parked Wednesday in the Umpqua Hotel parking lot. He said the theft oc curred sometime between 2 and 8 p.m. Now at PARK-N-SHOP FALL COME OUT AND SEE THE FINE SELECTION OF BULBS TO PLANT THIS FALL FOR SPRING BLOOMS DARWIN Portland Cabbies Set Representation Vote PORTLAND (AP) A petition I for a union representation elec tion among Portland taxicab drivers now members of the Teamsters Union has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board, a spokesman for the Motor Coach Employes union said Wednesday. Gene Watson, business rep resentative of Local 757 of the Street, Electric Railway and Mo tor Coach Employes, AFL-C10, said an estimated 450 drivers for two cab companies are involved. VANDALISM REPORTED An incidert of vandalism on the properly of Emil Nelson, located 2Va miles north of the Melrose store, was reported to the Douglas . County Sheriff's office, Martin C. Nelson, 4131 NE 39th Ave., said a pump house had been lorn down, lumber scattered, a motor stolen and a pump broken beyond repair. At home or away.,, 7500 AGENTS TO SERVE YOU NORM WICKS 971 N. . Sttphtnt (Hillcraif Motel) OR 3-6231 STATE FARM MUTUAL A HOTS, Wis Fine Quality Mixed Bulbs 1.00 SHRUBS . Pfitzer Juniper Pyracantha ., (Firerhorn) Aralia . Boxwood Special TULIPS PARROT TULIPS TULIPS Darwin and Cottage, Named Varieties Dox. in Bulk, By Color Doi. 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