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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Oregon COilP Established 1873 10 Paget ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1961 236 61 10c Per Copy "YER OUT"! Out ot first base is Yankee Bobby Richardson in the first inning of the World Series game today ot Crosley Field, the Reds' home turf. Richardson hit the ball to Red shortstop Ed Kasko. Kasko tossed it to Gordy Coleman for the out. Calling the play is umpire August Donatelli. (UPI Telephoto). Maris' Homer Gives Yanks Third Game Roger Maris first hit of the 1961 World Series today proved the de cisive factor in the third game of the classic as he lifted a drive into the right field stands of Cros ley Field. Th hiinini rnniino in iha fire naif of the ninth inning put the i Mirx tels ""re Yankees ahead of the Reds 3-2 and Two Western observers on the gave Maris an average of 199 for SP1' said ,he most tnking thing the series. Maris led off the in-labout ,he crowd lls Uck oI ning, Mickey Mantle, plaving his ; enthusiasm, first game this year, struck out, I At tne most liberal estimate, no Yogi Berra grounded out and El,: more 01311 20.000 people stood be slon Howard was out on a smash 'ore the white, slogan-decorated Hnu-n th fircf hato lino I The Reds started a rally in their' half of the ninth but fireman Luis " """" " U'C,r " Tight pitching and fielding kept! both'teais. scoYeless through the ' first 2'i innings. Kasko of the Reds -n..oAJ .nn..r ;n il, i - inning DV SiaSning a inKie lO CCII- ter. His teammate, Richardson, ! a city would come with the signing beat out infield single in the sec-1 of a peace treaty for Germany, ond, but both men died on base. Ulbricht never spoke. However, Coleman did threaten, however, by Deputy Premier Bruno Leuschner reaching third. stepped to the microphones to de- The Reds finally managed to clare there would be no war over hrcak into the scoring column in I Germany. He said "we are now the bottom of the third. Chacon i about to conclude a peace treaty," beat out a bunt and raced to sec-1 but, like Mikoyan, faded to men end when Stafford threw wildly I turn a date, past first. He romped on to third Most of the crowd were factory on a play at first. Then Robinson I and office workers, brought out m ram in hat fnr a douhle and the i organized groups, and uniformed run. It wasn't until the fifth inning that the powerful Yank batters could solve Bob Purkey's pitches. It was Elston Howard who finally turned the trick in that frame. He smashed one into centerfield off the wall for a double, but he died on a double play ball. Meanwhile, the Reds continued to find the range on Bill Stafford s i offerings, although tight fielding was keeping them away from home plate. In the sixth Coleman lined a single to lett, nut ne aiso oieajln Roseburg to discuss a new mcd-jer in the face ot a vannee oouoic ; play. It was the fifth Red hit olt Stafford. The Yankees finally tied up the game in the top of the seventh on, an unearned run. Kutiek started ; the action by singling to center and went to second on a passed ball. Berra then tipped a single to short right to seme Kubek. The single caine when Chacon and Rob-1 inson collided as each tried for sician service, hospitalization and the catch. 1 nursing home care equivalent tu This spurred the Reds, howev 'what could be purchased for about or. and they moved ahead 21, in month in private insurance, the bottom of the frame. . I It is a result of recent legisla- Edwards liked Stafford pitches Jive action with costs being met enough to slam a double to the o? s,a,e' federal and county mon r.cht field corner. althouEh he was ' An estimated 55.000 persons almost nipped by Mans' fine throw to Kubtk. Then, with two outs. Jerrv Lynch, a pinch hitter was intentionally passed. Kasko met the challenge by hitting a sharp single to left for the score At this point, with seven hits against him, Stafford was pulled lor vaua l-inson. Home runs came to the fore baril Wmchell. Glide, to take the aain for the 'iankees in the top applications and determine eligi nf the eighth to tie the score at blll,y she ha, nad voar, cx. 22, , . , , . , . per.enre in the Lane County Wcl- John Blanchard was sent into bat lare 0fdce fnr Daley and answered the chal-i li'nge by slamming a homer into the right field bleachers Luis Arroyo came to the mound for the Yanks in the bottom of the eighth to stop the Reds with no hits in that frame. New York Ooo ON) 111-3 6 1 Cincinnati Ool ooo 1002 8 0 Stafford. Daley (7i. Arroyo 'Si and Howard. Purkey and Ed ward" W Arroyo. I Purkey. Home runs Nev York, Blanch aid. Mans. i New York r; . 2 11. leads best of " se The Weather AIRPORT RE COR CIS Clarina and cooltr tonight. Sunday and Sunday night. Chan or frost tonight. Migntrt tomp. last 34 hours Lowest tmp. Uil 4 hours . Highest ttmp. any Oct. C$J) Lowest temp, any Oct. ('54) . Prtcp. last 34 hours Proeip. from Oct. 1 . Doficit from stpt. 1 . Suntot tonight, 5:44 p m. Sunns tomorrow, a It a m . 47 .03 .04 .75 Listless Berliners Fete Anniversary BERLIN (AP) The East Ger man Communist government cele brated its 12th anniversary today and brought out thousands of list less people to hear patriotic speeches. The Communist ADN news agency said 2oO.Ouo wildly cheer ing East Germans took part in a monster rally on East Berlin's reviewing stand. Last German I Communist boss Walter Ulbnchtitwo Myrtle Creek youths out of the , and Soviet Deputy Premier Anas- j hands of the lower courts by ! ,h; " I Mikoyan told the gathering the while armed with a dangerous wea- Soviet L'nion is "prepared to givelpon. Bad of .0(K, wa, set on all ana mosi eiiecuve guaran- ippi 1 fni- iIia f rni Hum 1 1 it a rituri .l.. t ll'.- DnPlin 11 nA vny ui nca uiuu. hg oam uui:.'. up; ""J Communist youth formations. -rv oii.n frnnni Public Health Meet Cm Uava UlAnrlnifl NTfirTs npFr? lYlOnunv U'alfai-o tvtnrncnnlativnt from 1 1 Oregon counties Mondav and Tues-;berly (1ay wifl mect wl,n rjr. James StCwart, medical director of the state pubi,c Welfare Commission. jcai proeram. The orientation session will deal with the rules of eligibility and procedures for aged persons not receiving welfare assistance but eligible for the new medical care ; program. It will be held in Doug- las County's Welfare office. The new program, which begins Nov. 1, will provide persons who receive limited incomes, with phy- in the state will benefit from the program. Jack Summerficid, Douglas Coun ty welfare administrator, in mak ing the announcement of the ses sion, said his department tenta tively will start taking applications for the program Oct. 15. i In doing so. the department ,s hiring a Dart-lime rlerk. Mr. Kar Russia Recognizes New Syrian Powers LONDON" (AP)-Damacus ra dio announced today the So viet Inion had recognized the new revolutionary government of Syr- The broadcast -id Communist Bulgaria had aio decided to rec ognize the Syrian rczmie. which t(Mik powrr aftrr a bloodies re volt aaaimt Kcptian PreHrnt ascr in the United Arab Repuo- he. Reporting that the Smict I'mon . wanis to establish diplomatic re Fr l.ti.n. at atrhiit 1, l i.,th It, discus authorities, the radio add- e-1: The SoMet eoernment ex- preed its hipe that the reiatuin Ixtween the L SS R. and the Syr ian Arab Kepuhlic will be based upon thi- principle of peaceful ro- i-vr.rf! f..r the mutual interest of the people of the two countries ar.d fur 'renthrning world I'' ' thickly, packed sections of the crowd, but never saw the thinly spaced spec-1 tators in me rear Soviet Premier Khrushchev has frequently threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with the sat-1 ellite East German regime by the ; end of the year. Grand Jury Will Hear Knife Case n- 3 .. n.,....!... 1 HIT llldllU ilU V 1U1 Lvuia rountv Kridnv iimlr tlii rasi- nf '""'" eacn inuicimeni. InriirtpH uprn Ttillv T Wimhpr. K- US anli hie U,-ntUa ivimt,..ri in Th.. glimpses of the most cused in the indictments of knifing!" on "bout five hours. Marv Aliens Root. 22: Kuenl With aishtinc r lh wwek... Ralph Shclton, 21: and Dale Sis- about 40 policemen from smal f.0"' T y .V . . . U . I uUclc. lur l".e murn nomo nJ co, 21, all of Myrtle Creek on communities in the region moved the,T noH ?hrl'y v V"' toith Roseuurii' , t Sept. 23. No mention was made in I to the scene. A team of 35 moun- BP lcr, n'?V , " Crelt ,rf a , 7 h ,d"ctor tl"i ,he f,h on hI the indictments of Gordon Lee tain climbers wa: assembled at " 'P'V 5. Jlt i 'niRh was deep and required Smith, 24. Riddle, who was listed Perpignan. Radio-equipped vehi- . H ,e .'" a? ,,toppcd. ' h.eJ r ! scvcn , lo e,sbt stitches. It for in original police reports as hav-!cles accompanied the search par- 'ruek' Mrs' JNlcJhol poel the tunately missed a large artery. ing,uffered a knife wound also in ties. j bear 200 yards down the road. Four stitches were required In the fracas south of Dillard Tuesday, District Judge Gerald I R. Hayes dismissed charges against the Wimberlys. after deny-i ing Deputy Dist. Atty Verden Hock- iett additional time in which to ob-! tain a subnoenaed material wit-j fa.? a 8ChKiuled pre"m",ary! New complaints were filed imme- , ;, i, ..,,.. .., niw ompiainrs ritea Id u-..... c.;.i..i. Peace Ward Watson in Sutherlin On arraionmpnf lhirn thn U'im. brothers asked for prelimin ary hearings, which were set foi next Monday. The Grand Jury de ! cision eliminates any further low court action, taking them di rectly into Circuit Court. re. and 1 One secret indictment was turned by the grand jurors one not-true bill. The not-true bill favored Leslie Maurice Jay. who had been charged with contribut- ing to the delinquency of i minor on Aug. 15. It was reported in court at the time of the Grand Jury return that Jay is already in a penal institution. Arms Budget Could Reach $50 Billion WASHINGTON7 (AP) Seere- ' tary of Defense Rubert S. Mc- Namara has drawn guidelines for a new military budget that could reach S50 billion which would top this years by about J3.3 billion. The current military budyet the highest ever passed in peace- time was increased about $ti bil lion from last year after Presi dent Kennedy ordered an increase in conventional military power to meet the Soviet threat in Berlin ! and elsewhere in the world. j Pentagon sources stressed, how ever, that any over all estimale' at this stage must he considered J extremely tentative. They said the process of distilling and shap I ing a military budget for the !'...! : fiscal year is only now getting! under way in earnest. More pre- j else figures may not lie arrived at iintil mid November, if then ) Kennedy will present the mili-j tary budget to Congress in Jan-j uaiy. It will be for the year start i mc next July. I The Army Navy Air Forre Jour-! nal reportid Friday that McNa-j mara had told the service to plan! for a S."3 71 billion hudcet and a . nit of 147.720 men from the Army. Navy and Air Forre The )nurnal J is a nonofficial publication close to the services. Inf-irmed sources told a report-! er the J."3 71 billion figure is con-. sidcrabiy hii;h of the mark. ! Newspaper Bombed BEIRUT. I-ihanon V) A fifth pro Nai-er npupapr va-. bjinbed in Beirut tiKU, refleet- ing Lebanon's tension follow iru the revolution in nti,;n 'wring Syria Plane Crash Claims 34 In Pyrenees TOILOISE. France (AP) Wreckage of a British DC3 Dakota airliner that earned 34 persons was found in the Pyrenees Moun tains today and a search plane radioed that there were no survi vors, police at l'rades announced. Ground parties made their way slowly to the scene, in the area of Camgou Peak at an altitude of about 6.000 feet. The search plane made its iden tification in a low-level flight over the wreckage, the police said, and reported 'there was no sign of .life. Weather in the area was rc ! ported bad. Mt. Camgou. which is mined for lion ore, rises to j 9,137 leet. I The Britih plane, a Dakota, dropped from sight on a flight from Gatwick Airport near Lon don to Perpignan, a regional com mercial renter nf (MIA in smith. era France about 10 miles from the Mediterranean and 20 from the Spanish frontier. A spokesman for Derby Avia- li0 , Lmled A.rwav affiliate tnat owned the plan said it Piprf n ncen..., aH i mcn, AU were b,.Ucved t0 be Bril. ish. The passengers had sched uled a bus tour of Spam's Medi terranean coast. Air control centers at Toulouse and Bordeaux said they had been in contact with the plane shortly after midnight. Construction workers in the Ari- ege Department of the Pvrenees i -l -- , i .. . ' " hi" h.ihk i- " T" ,""V hlili; ev were j ti "ng Sormallv they were functioning normally. ! Police at .C.rc.sm.. between ITT, i h erm,!"aD received "VJ IX lllT. hS i sons reporting :,. - . ;irplin; virhH h ! r . 6 UaTKnCSS. the Dakota had a flvine ranse Local Man Burned In Garage Blaze A 73-year-old Roseburg man suf fered severe burns in an apparent ?llemPt ,0 dr": J r ou' of a burning garaue todav. I Breeze Bovack. 2315 Harvarii Ave., was rushed to Douglas Com-! munity Hospital for treatment of burns on his head and chest. I His condition was reported as I "good." I The Roseburg Fire Department n i-allorl In ll.o U,,, o. l, !,. . '8:38 a.m. Flames had engulfed the! ; garage, a connecting woodshed and portion oi tne nouse. I firemen said Boyack prior to the fire had apparently walked into ne wooasnea to get a raKe. While in the shed, he lit a rioar wilh a wooden match and the match!"' wrestled behind him and got a annnmntlv rltv.nnoH intn onH i. SCISSorS On him With HIV legs. mierf hnv nf mhhuh Later, when the fire had spread, moulh to hold it open and pulled j This post made him the sccond Boyack was burned trying to move his head back to keep him from ranking spiritual leader ot the the car out of the garage. Boyack getting me. I yelled to Buz to get! world's 17 million .Mormons, was taken to the hospital by Doug-i mv knife and slit its throat. Funeral services will be held al las I.yda. a neighbor. The car was "But he (Buz) cut my thigh by noon Tuesday in the historic Salt destroyed. mistake. I told him to try again , Lake Tabernacle. The blaze was tinder control and get the bear this lime. Former President Herbert Hoov- about 10 a.m. rircmen estimated1 "He actually calmed down after 'er said Clark was "one of Ameri total damage at about S1.150. he saw what happened to me."jca s noble men strong in his re Squirrels Will Wear Mink This Winter, Says Almanac LANCASTKR, Pa. (AP) Squirrels will wear mink coats, rabbits will wrap up in beaver Moles, and human beings had best simply find a cozy cor ner for the winter's duration. On that liiKuhnous chord John Biter's lli2 agricultural almanac makes its bow today. In all th 1P7 y ar history of this famed Pennsylvania Dutch standby, a few weather forecasts hae been more numbing. Shivering at tiieir own sagac ity, the publishers say: "We can no longer call a spade a spade. We e got to call it a snowshovel, and. brother, will it ever get a workout this win ter." If American, particularly in hast and Midwest, thought last winter was totifch, they d bet tpr beware of what's coming, ays the almanac, for "old fashioned winter will set new sules in snow, cold and blows this season ' Trouble with all this, how ever, is that you hae to sep arate the grim fiorn the gay. Baer s. like niot people who swear by it. has a playful side earthy. rxtraa;tant, expan ?ie. one minu'e it is solemnly macular, the next it is off on an outrageous spoof. Fnr example it would hae juj bei,ee this winter will GINGERLY EXAMINING bandages on the right hand of her husband, Edgar, Betty Nichols prepares to take her bear-wrestling husband home. This morning while on o deer hunt, he was forced to wrestle with o 135-150-pound black bear. (News-Review Photo). Local Hunter Tangles With Wounded Bear, Wins Wrestling Match By JERRY CORNELL News-Reviaw Staff Writtr "Bar-rasslin Douglas County- ;S' 'e today resulted in a skinned- up logger - who required a few, irtttt a Imu ' " '.' ac," bear which i The Wcer Edcar Nichols. of Irilevl, Park h .fe.led th. he.r a 135 to 15t)-pound black variety " ' enucu in a Rose- brg doctor's office Mchols, his wite Betty, and their Boy Snoots Bear According to Nichols, his son jumped out of the truck and fired shot into the bear. I'll , j i , . "'" truck, Buz was chasing down the road after the bear." he said. When Nichols caught up with his son me ocar was c.imu.ng an e, . - the bear and it rolled down the bank onto the road "1 told Buz to just leave it alone for a while but he fired another jshot into it," Nichols relates. I W ith that, the bear got up and charged at the boy. . T.,ui.rf . "r Nichols hc w,as backing up rc' to take another shot when i"f " - "en "e '""KV,' '"v. L, " ,J , r ih running past nun mauca lor me ""j; "So I tackled him, Mchols said. I "Next I stuck mv hands in his! match one of old that was so cold a candle flame froze sol id on a Pennsylvania Dutch mans kitchen table. What did he do? He threw the flame, now an icicle, into the wood shed. Next day, the yarn goes, the flame thawed, setting the shed a t ire. Hefo.'e the reader can laugh off that one, Baer s is at In in again, this time with an up tn ihe minute tip on what to do if he lives in a ranch-style hoi lie or drives a low-slung car rig up tall flagpoles for easier spotting in the predicted ni'Adnfts. Potpourri of Facts Volume 1.17 extends the Baer tradition nf tickling the reader with a potpourri of fact and fancy in every direction, mix ing rustic humor with home spun philosophy, looking at tne n;oon not as an astronaut would but as a farmer or gar dener eager for guidance about planting and harvesting, or as a wooer seeking the real low down on courtship and mating. In one of it rare conces sions to bra.sh modernity, Baer's prints what it calls a spare a ue loe song, "Farmer In Orbit," wherein the lover Mis his lass that when they 7i ng into the beond, "We II farm the sky and feed our hav to catile on the Milky ttay." .mm i .af MM n u j Nichols said. Then he cut the I Dears throat. Mrs. Nichols said she came run- ning down the road when she heard Buz yell and saw her hus - K l . i. t band lying on the road "i couldn't see the bear. I just h'd " "10 i ' Tourniqutt Placad After the bear had bled to death. Mrs. Nichols put a tourniquet on Nichols' leg and loaded him in the imchois ngni nana wnere i n e a i s ii-i-ui mu riiiutru ii aau i where a claw had torn it, "I saw him going for Buz so il "I ! r . .1 n . I , . .. i. , ... It x . i. i lated while being sewn up. i ..Now ,,. . ,... I'm going to eat part of the bear- u T , Nicnol!, driveJ , ,oggine for Hale Brothers now operating the Diamond Lake area. in Mormon Leader Dies In Salt Lake Home SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) J. Reuben Clark Jr., 90, one time U.S. ambassador to Mexico and a Mormon church leader for 28 years, died at his home Fri day. At the time of his death, Clark was first counselor tu President David O. McKay of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ligious lann. nis aevotion to me principles of freedom, and his service to his fellow men. "He was a steadfast friend for 3.1 yearn." Hoover said. "1 grieve: with all his friends at his pass- ing. Clark was V S. ambassador to Mexico under Hoover, from 1931) to 1933, when he resigned to ac cept a high post in the church. He devoied the rest of his life to the church. Clark was born in September of 1871. on a farm near Crantsville, Utah. He taught school for a few car. then studied law at Colum bia University and entered U.S. diplomatic service in 1806. He filled several government! assignments between periods of nnvale law nrarlice in N.. Vorv Ws.hii.Kt.si. lit. and Salt I l. City. Before becoming amhassajhi dor to Mexico, he was undersec retary of state. Survivors include four children, seven grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren, four and a sister. 15 Killed In Slid TOKYO f AP) Fifteen persons SOine soup and tea Friday, were killed and six others arej missing after landslides and! floods caused by torrential rains GrlSl Fir Controlled in Japan's northernmost Hokkai-I do Island, police reported today. A grass fire at the rear of Dale's The floods, brought by tropical ; Cafe on Diamond Lake Blvd. was storm Tilda, inundated 4.000 controlled Friday afternoon by the homes snd disrupted railroad and Roseburg Fire Department. A other communications lines at trash fire ignited the blaze, fire several places, police laid. Some men reported. There was no dam villages also were reported iso : age. The Roseburg Rural Fire De lated, partmcnt assisted. East, West Still Remain Far Apart On Berlin Crisis WASHINGTON' (AP) Despite' Berlin into a "free city" that is, a two-hour conference between fre of the protection of Western President Kennedy and Soviet For-' troopswhile ottering mainly un eign .Minister Andrei A. GromykoJ explained "guarantees" of West the United States and the Soviet ern access to the city. I'nion were reported still far apart1 JFK Warns On Asia today on ways of negotiating a' Well informed officials said to peaceful settlement of the Berlin day that the Kennedy-Gromyko crisis. : talk was dominated by Berlin but Still Dangerous Kennedy did warn of the danger Informed officials here consider of conflict in Southeast Asia. The the East-West dispute over Berlin ' warning is understood to have still extremely dangerous. At the Mvcrcd both Laos and South Viet same time hope persists that a Nam. solution short of a military show-) Gromyko told reporters that the down will be found to end t h e conversation had touched "sever crisis. j al important matters" bearing on Kennedy and the Soviet foreign U.S.-Sonet relations and added: minister discussed the situation in D... tu. li-i.it.. un.... the Oval Room of the White House late Friday and wound up their talks shortly after 7 o'clock with out issuing any kind of formal statement. As he climbed into his limosine to return to the Soviet Embassy nn riAnrhv 1Afh Nti-iiM flrnmvkn told newsmen the conversation had I been "useful." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, wno sat in on the dis cussion, merely called it "inter esting." Wtit Otttrmlnad Kennedy was understood to have told Gromyko in calm but very emphatic terms that the United States and its Western Allies arc fully determined to defend West Berlin against Communist pres sures, to preserve their right to I maintain troops in the city, and to 1 keep open the supply lines from 11-. '..-.. ..rsi un.ii.ii). At one point, referring to Rus- sia's Berlin demands, Kennedy said the Soviet Union is trying to' trade the United States "an apple for an orchard." He told Gromyko there would be no deal like that, Officials said the President meant that the Soviets are asking a lot and offering very little in return; they want to convert West Local Businessman Dies In Hospital E. R. Buckingham, 58, Rose-burg businessman and an activa civic worker, died at local hospital today following a prolonged illness. E. R. BUCKINGHAM . . . dies in hospital Buckingham was owner and proprietor of the Rexall Drug Store. lie was very active in the work of the Lions Club. lie resided at 152 Calkins road. The body has been removed to the 1-ong It Shukle Memorial Chap- el. winch is in cnarge oi funeral arrangements. Rayburn Feels Improved Today DALLAS. Tex. (AP) Doctor.) said today that House Speaker PI Sam Kaynurn "spent a very coin- quency. fnrtable night and feels improved Officials Friday transcribed th this morning." boy's account of how Yvonne was "He seems more alert and 'in Wednesday night while on cheerful." Dr. Ralph Tompsett errand for her father in near said of the cancer-stricken Texas jby Elmhurst, western suburb of congressman. . ?a-. .. . ,. . ,t "He had a small breakfast and . 1 .Just dld..,t ""' 1 is now restmif comfortably. There has heen no imoortant chance as been no importsnt change m ,. condition " Ravburn. 79. asked for a for luncheon and the doctor said he would get it. Former President Harry S. Tru- brothcrs man called by telephone and talked to the family. West Gcr j man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sent a message expressing his concern. I Raburn. much thinner, had "Of course, as far as the position tl. c..:,.. . u Mir ou.ii-i sulci mill-in 19 lull- cerned, we stressed first of all the importance of the question of the peace treaty with Germany." U.S. Considers Viet Nam Troops WASHINGTON f AP) The Unit ed States is considering nending U.S. troops to help South Viet Nam fight off Communist attacks, expected to grow stronger when the rainy season ends later this month. U.S. officials consider South Viet Nam the main target of the Com- : m.,ni.i cn..uA.o a..:. t th, government of President Kta i)lnn uieai should fall, they say. Thailand, Malaya, Burma and Cambodia would h dancerouslv . . ..... " weakened. High State Department sources revealed privately Friday that j sending troops to South V iet Nam : was under consideration, Press officer Joseph Reap, while I not specifically confirming, this, did not rule it out. in' answer to questions, map said: "In view of the serious situ- alion there, due to increasing Com munist attacks against government defense units, we are considering' various means of assisting the Viet Nam government against Commu nist efforts to take over the coun try. I "We are hopeful that measures to strengthen Viet Nam's defenses now being taken jointly by the Viet Nam government and the United States will prove effective." Troops from other countries in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organ ization may join in bolstering South Viet Nam's defenses. Plans for the protection of Viet Nam's pro - Western government, completed at a recent meeting ot SKATO military advisors at Bang kok, Thailand, wen reported to include use of SEATO forces if necessary. Youth Faces Murder Count WIIEATON. III. (AP)-A mur der indictment but not the death penalty will be sought by the state against Steven Schloneger, 13, the freckled, curly-haired boy who has admitted the sex -laying of his young neighbor, Yvonne Elliott, 7. State's Atty. William J. Bauer said Friday that Schloneger will be arraigned in Circuit Court Monday on a charge of murder. Bauer said he will present the case to the grand jury when it convenes later this month. "We are dealing with a 13-year-old boy," said Bauer, in announc ing that he will make no effort to obtain the death penalty. "Steven is either a vicious criminal or a very sick kid," Bauer said. "In any case, he is not fit to be a member of society st this time." The Schloneiter boy i being held in Du Page County Jail, tern- porarily charged with delin- nra J'0" coula cl lnr.m V?m m'!1 - ? boy WM quoted by Her. ' j w 1" " " "l"" he.'J i,ert".c l.!:'. ?I.iVuf: Krr .i.i.ii.ru i.c ..u wicti girl into a vacant lot, stripped her and bound her, then pushed her face in a puddle when she cried out against being sexually mo lested. FOREST FIRE DANGER T0-0AY KEEP OREGON CRCEM Fire danger today is moderate. Continued cool weather is the fore cast with low humidity near 35 per cent. Northwest winds expect ed from 12 to II m..h. I
