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"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
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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
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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-
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m'!1 - ? boy WM quoted by Her.
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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.
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