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r O Vlrifitf Cf Oregon oviets Kevuse Wleasut'es To Improve Information How .".(Mffu Trr-"- ? --''qr'''sapas)s)j ALERT OREGON PANEL members ore shown here being greeted by Douglas County Re publican Central Committee Chairman James Richmond, shown shirking hands with Secretary of State Howell Appling on right. Other panel members were Rep. Mrs. E. G. Chuinard, and Sen. Walter Lefh, at right. (News-Review photo) Appling Raps Hall's Appearances At Public Institutions In Oregon By LEROY INMAN News-Review Staff Writer Secretary of State Howell Ap pling told Douglas County Repub lican! at a dinner meeting in the Umpqua Hotel Wednesday night that if ha had had anything to say about it. Communist Gus Hall would have been denied use of slate institution facilities for speak ing engagements. Appling's reply to a question on this controversial topic met with a rousing round of applause from the 200 persons who turned out to hear an "Alert Oregon Panel" speak and answer questions at what proved to be a Republican Party rally. Speaking also were Rep. Mrs. E. G. Chuinard of Portland and Sen. Walter Leth, Salem. A fourth member of the panel. Rep. George Flitcraft, Klamath Falls, was un able to attend. Del McKay emceed the program. Republican Central Committee Chairman James Rich mond spoke briefly on organiza tion and Lauren Loveland explain ed a "sumps for Republicans" fund raising plan. (See story Page 3). Statement Modified Appling modified his statement Lamb Having Six Legs Born At Tenmile Ranch Birth of a lamb with six legs occurred at the Ralph Howard ranch at Tenmile Wednesday morn ing, it was reported to The News Review. The extra two legs seem to come out of the upper chest and hang limply. One is almost fully de veloped, but the second is short. The lamb is being given special care to prevent pneumonia from the cold weather. The lamb was sired by a Romney ram. Howard has about 55 ewes on his ranch. Bob K Draws Cheers, Jeers After Challenging Hecklers JOGJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Robert F. Kennedy drew a mixture of cheers and jeers today alter challenging student hecklers "if you disagree with any aspect of American policy step forward come up here and tell me." Only one student of Jogjakar ta's Gadjah Mada University came hesitatingly forward with a long question referring to the American "capitalistic and mo nopolistic society." jabbing his finger toward the youth, the U.S. attorney general launched into a long statement on US. life and politics. Showing fashes of anger, Kennedy told the students at one point to grow up when they attempted to pin him down on the U.S. attitude toward Indonesia's claim to Dutch-held West New Guinea. After reiterating that the Unit rd States felt ownership of the disputed territory should be de termined hv negotiations, he add ed heatedly: "You should be more mature. Here, you've had the benefit of an education and you cannot expect the United i- States to agree with everything you do." The attorney general said his brother. President Kennedy, was in mred in the Pacific during The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Partly cloudy today ton.h and Friday with a ftw afternoon show ers today. Hlghett temp, last 74 hours 54 Lowvtt temp, last 74 hours 74 Mijhtst temp, any Fb. (SS) 70 Lawttt tamp, anv Ftb. (54) U Prxip. last 24 hours .01 Precip. from Feb. I 1.22 Prcp. from Sapt. 1 . . .. 23.51 Eic from Sapt. 1 1.14 Suntat tonight, 5:44 p.m. Sunrise temerrew, 7:11 a.m. I concerning Hall by saying his re fusal would not be with any feel ing the Communist leader would influence Oregonians. nor would he deny him his constitutional privi lege to speak. But, he stated, he could see no reason for granting I him state supported facilities for expounding his beliefs. I Appling carried the ball, intro ducing the other speakers and mod erating the discussion. This group ! was one of 12 which appeared in Oregon cities Wednesday, the an niversary of Oregon statehood to I explain the need for electing a Re publican controlled legislature for 1963 and sending Republicans to Congress. Appling explained that the Re publican party represented the philosophy that God bestowed upon man the ability to make choices himself, and therein lay the basic difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. Feelings Outlined He said Republicans feel that things should start with the people themselves, going only to the city, the county, state and federal gov ernment in that order for assist ance in what they cannot do for themselves. The Democrats, he maintained, start at the top, with the attitude that the people are incapable of thinking or doing things for themselves. He enumerated three main points of concern that need special at tention in the state. The first was I improvement of the state's econ omy by attracting more industries. He hit hard at United States laws requiring lumber producers to ship in subsidized U.S. ships, up ping the cost $11 per thousand board feet above that which Cana dians have to pay. Blame P'aced He ret.. ,ed to unemployment, which has hit the 17 per cent fig ure in Douglas County and 23 per cent in Grants Pass, and he blam- ed lack of the states ability to ex- World War II partly to free In donesia and during the same time American soldiers were seeking to free Holland. "We retain ties with both coun tries and we want a peaceful set tlement between you," he said, repeating the theme he has been stressing since arriving in Indo nesia with his wife on Monday on a good-will tour. A member of the Kennedy par ty emphasized that the attorney general "is under no instructions' to mediate the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over West New Guinea. The spokesman's comment came in reply to newsmen who asked about Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio's statement Wednesday that Kennedy and President Sukarno were "seeking a speedy solution" to the dispute. Kennedy and the Indonesian president met Tuesday and Wednesday and are scheduled to confer again on Sunday when Kennedy returns from his tour of central Java and Bali. CORDA Lisls This is the third in a series of fivt articles by Editor Charlts Stanton about a new recreational dtvalopntant organisation which is calling for Si's million in e- panditurc-t for recreational facil j itias en fadtral land, much of it ' in Douglas County. Federal appropriations for rec rratmnal development on 22 high priority projects in the I nipqua National forest in 12 amount to $.13 6011. The proiects need a three year total of $712,809 with $367,800 sought f'r lnw. The proiecM are layed in a re port prepared for the Congre's, land various federal agencies, by pand the economy. He blamed a tax plan that takes 36 per cent of the national income in taxation. He said the economic security of the people is the most important fact or. Thirdly, he said the people have the right to expect the utmost will be received from their tax dollars. He hit at unnecessary costs and at savings Oregon is making to keep the state economically sound, com pared with Washington's poor fi nancial condition. Sen. Leth carried on the theme tli at we can't tap "uncle" for mon ey for our needs, when the money comes from the people themselves. He spoke of the need for conserva tion of natural resources and the need to get the most out of our raw materials. He emphasized the importance for looking ahead. Politics Important Rep, Chuinard stressed primar ily the vital importance of politics and how much influence politics play in shaping the lives of Amer icans, she referred to the govern ment's ability to lake our money and spend it as it pleased, and to the taking of our sons for battle. Politics, she said, shapes our lives from the cradle to the grave. Federal controls and further In roads on the people's responsibil ities and rights were prime tar gets hit in the discussion period. Douglas Clears Way For Cohen Release WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court cleared the way today for release on $100,000 bond of Mickey Cohen, ex-gambler of Los Angeles, who is under prison sentence on a fed eral income tax conviction. Douglas struck down a require ment imposed by U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in Los An geles that $110,000 of the $100,000 bond be made applicable to pay ment of Cohen's fine on the tax conviction. The $100,000 bond was granted by Douglas on Jan. 30, and he specified today that the grnnt car ried no condition concerning pay ment of Cohen's fine. Flemming Politics Bother State Solon PORTLAND (AP) Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, president of the University of Oregon, was criti-i cized by State Sen. Wafer J. Pearson for "political partisan-, ship" Wednesday. j Pearson, a Portland Democrat1 and candidate for his party's nomination for governor, referred to Flemming's speech Tuesday to a Lincoln Day dinner audience. Flemming told the group he was "enthusiastically Republican." j Pearson said: "It is apalling that so partisan a politician com mands a sensitive post in our system of higher education. j "I said last March that Flem ming should not have been ap pointed and I am just as certain today." Recreational Development Needs the Cal Ore Recreational Develop-. ment Association (CURDAl. j Needs of the district, which em-! brace Douglas. Jackson, Joseph ine, Klamath counties in Oregon and Sikiou and Modoc counties in California, are presented in a report prepared by the association following extended conferences with officials of the nine national forets in the area, supervisors of grant lands, counly courts and rep resentative citizens. Man7 othr sites are suitable for recreational development, the report states, but "2 on national forest acreage and 25 on lands controlled byathe Bureau of Land Established 1873 24 Po9c U. S. Embassy Official Slain By Congolese LE0POLDV1LLE. the Congo (AP) The assistant U.S. military attache in Leopoldville, Lt. Col. Hulen D. Stogner, 39, of El Paso. Tex., was shot in the head Wednesday night as he lay on his bed reading. He died an hour later without regaining consciousness. Within two hours, a Congolese chauffeur was arrested but a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said questioning of him had pro vided no useful information. The chauffeur was held in cus tody by U.N. Nigerian police, and a search was launched for Stog ner's Congolese house boy and his night watchman. U.N. and Congolese police were investigating the killing. No weap on was found, but plaster casts were taken of footprints found outside Stogner's quarters. Nearly 500 Congolese troops en circled the Pare Hemhise residen tial section of Leopoldville within an hour of the attack. They searched all houses in the vicini ty, including quarters of other diplomats. G. McMurtrie Godley, U.S. charge d'affaires, said an embas sy secretary, Miss Elizabeth Tring of Washington, D.C., was sitting in the room with Stogner when the single shot was fired. Slain Military Aide Was WWII Veteran EL PASO. Tex. (AP) Lt, CoL Hulen Dorris Stogner, 39, who was shot to death in the Congo Wednesday night, was a native El Pasoan and a career military man. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thorn as A. Stogner, he graduated from Austin High School, where he played football, and attended The Citadel until he entered the Army in 1943. During World War II he was a paratrooper and was stationed in Japan from 1945-48. He was with the 7th Army headquarters in Germany from 1951 until 1954 when he was assigned as an in structor at Ft. Benning, Ga. Stogner graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1960, then returned to El Paso and received his bachelor of arts degree in history from Texas Western College. Mrs. Stogner, who lives In El Paso with their six children, is the former Marion Frisbie, daughter of Walter E. Frisbie of Springfield, Mass. Fire Hits U.S. Mexican Embassy MEXICO CITY (AP) - Fire swept through the partially com pleted new U.S. Embassy building here Wednesday night. Flames shot as high as 250 feet, causing steel girder work to collapse and destroying wooden scaffolding. No one was hurt. The cause of the blaze was not immediately determined. A Mexi can official estimated damage at $160,000. Officials feared the fire may have set back completion of the $4 million structure from six months to a year past the original target date of August 1963. Only the foundation, basement and first two floors had been completed be fore the fire. The building was designed to be the largest U.S. Embassy in Latin America and one of the three largest embas sies in the world. About 400 construction workers were on the job when the fire broke out in the building on the I' a soo de la Reforms, the city's major thoroughfare. Firefighters were hampered by low water pressure but managed to get the fire under control 90 minutes aft er it had started. Management are given first pri ority. Projects listed on the Umpqua National forest, together with the amount sought for fiscal 19t3, and, in parenthesis, the proposed three year appropriations include: Diamond Lake improvement, $43, 000 ($71.400i: water system im provement. $9 9i0 ($9,900); Dia mond Lake Camp road $16,i0 SIS. 800 1 ; reolarement Diamond Lake ( amp tables, barriers, $21, 000 ($21,000): Diamond Lake am phitheatre ($4,500); new picnic area at Diamond Like $13,900 ($13.9001; Toketee Lake camp, $8. u0 ($14,600); Boiilder Creek for- ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1962 ON DISARMAMENT Geneva Meet Seems Headed For Trouble WASHINGTON (AP) The big new disarmament conference set for Geneva March 14 appears to be in serious trouble a month be fore it opens. Just how serious the trouble is should be determined in the next week or so by Soviet Premier Khrushchev's next move in h i s campaign for a summit level meet ing. If Khrushchev insists on going personally to Geneva for the open ing sessions, U.S. officials said to day, his action will be taken here and in other Western capitals as evidence that he is concerned only with propaganda aims. If, however, he is prepared to put off his summit proposal until some later stage of the negotia tions, officials said that his action could be taken as an indication Weather Forces Flight's Delay CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) A 54-mile gale sweeping across the central Atlantic forced the United States today to cancel its ninth attempt to rocket Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., around the world. The next try is Friday. The storm, covering an area of about 27.000 square miles, was driving 18 foot waves through the area where Glenn would have to land in event of an emergency during the first few minutes after! liftoff. The center of this storm is lo cated about 950 miles east of Bermuda. The postponement was an-1 nounced by Paul Haney, news di rector for the National Aeronau tics and Space Administration, at 1:18 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. As it did Wednesday, the "scrub" came after a special weather brief', ? for Project Mer cury Director Waller C. Williams at the Cape Canaveral control center. The briefing began at midnight. Immediately after the decision was made, the White House was advised of the further delay in the planned launch which was first scheduled for Dec. 20. Board Re-Appoints Winston Teachers The Winston School Board in its meeting this week re-elected au teachers and administrators in the district, according to Phebe McGuire, Winston correspondent. A delegation of six local resi dents appeared before the board asking that funds be put in the budget for a community recreation director who would coordinate rec reation in the district comprised of Winston, Dillard, Tenmile and Lookingglass. This program would be continued in the summer months. The board agreed to include this request in the budget, with approv al dependent on action of the budg et committee. The board set the next meeting of the budget committee for Feb. 20. At its meeting of Jan. 30, the committee adopted the new salary schedule for teachers which will bring salaries in line with the aver age in the area. The movie "No Bells Shall Ring" pertaining to teaching methods and building requirements in var-l ious parts of the country, was j shown to the board. Teaching of teen-agers and flexible scheduling were stressed in the film. Shuet Need Mora Shoes SHERILL, NY. (AP) The Shues are going to need a lot more shoes because there's a lot more Shues. Douglas Shue, and his wife, Barbara, who were the parents of five children, today are the par ents of eight. Mrs. Shue gave birth to triplets all boys in Oneida City Hospi tal Wednesday. lest camp. $5,300 ($5,300); Clear I water River camp, $4,300 ($4,300); 'Thielsen Creek camp, $6,000 ($11. 000); Crystal Springs camp. $2,000 1 ($9.100 1 ; Inlet camp $6,000 ($14.- 500i; Broken Arrow camp, $2,000 I ($10,400); North Diamond boat launching $1,300 ($1.300i: Lake 1 Creek forest camp, $t!00 ($13.3001; Bunker Hill camp, $600 ($4,400); Lemolo Lake lierreation Area. $.'j0.000 f $1 41 .2.10 1 ; Diamond Lake j moorage $20,000 l$3).000i: Mt. Bailey snow area $3,000 ($3,000): i Recreation road surfacing $1.')0,()00 ; ($300,000); Lake of the Woods camp $1,500 ($1,500): Hemlock 1 Meadows camp $2,000 ($21,500). that he is interested in making a ! serious start on disarmament, even at the cost of some small concession to Western views. ' Ntw Message Due I In view of the speed with which the situation has developed dur ing the past week, the expecta tion in government quarters here is that a new Khrushchev mes sage to President Kennedy, Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Mac- j millan and other leaders involved 1 in making preparations for the Geneva talks should be forthcom ! ing in a few days. At the moment, top officials be I lieve there is a better than 50 per cent chance that Khrushchev will go to Geneva, even though Mac millan and Kennedy have argued against starting the talks at the summit, and Kennedy is reported to be personally determined not to go under any circumstances. This estimate of Khrushchev's probable action is based, among other things, on a belief that he prob ably wants a forum of internation al importance in which to sound off against the prospective new series of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests by the United States. Kennedy made clear at bis news conference Wednesday that he in tends to make the final decision on atmospheric tests around the end of the month. It is widely expected that he will decide in favor of testing and that the first shots will be fired in early March, prior to the Geneva conference opening. Another bit of evidence in sup port of the speculation that Khru shchev will go to Geneva, regard less of Western objections to i March 14 summit, was found here in the fact that the Soviet press seems already to be building up a new propaganda campaign against the West on the disarma ment issue. HAT IN RING Roy Cox to day became the first Demo cratic candidate for nomina tion in the party primary for county assessor. The Republi can candidate is incumbent Leland Svorverud. See story page 3. West Protests Red Action On Corridor MOSCOW (AP) The United Slates, Britain and France today protested against Soviet Interfer ence with Allied air corridors to Berlin. The three Western embassies said in a terse statement that they had made written protests to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. No details were given. Earlier, the three Allied occu pying powers of West Berlin had rejected another Soviet request to restrict their air corridors be tween Berlin and Hanover and Hamburg to certain altitude levels. Communist jet were heard breaking the sound barrier over Berlin today. Passengers flying on a Berlin Frankfurt airliner said that jets believed to be Soviet or East Ger man flew close to their plane today. For California - Oregon I In addition to the projects on the Umpqua National Forest, the report proposes nine projects in the Roseburg District of the Bur eau of Land Management. No fed eral funds are provided for 1962 on these projects, the report points out, but county funds amounting to $15,100 have been authorized. COKDA is seeking federal appro priations amuunting to $u, 100 (or the fiscal year 1963. with $87,300 I as a three year goal. The projects, with amounts sought for 1963 and for three years, together wilh (c) authoriz ed county appropriations are as follows : . . . I 39-62 10c Per Copy t. IX A. t STRAUB MAKES MOVE U I;'Vv..-: s" ( ;Avrs , J, , : v-- Vt ' i B . Si I State Sen. Robert W. Straub, ! i"ev wi-m-law. and Mikhail c - va.j i jij ...u;Kharlamov. the Soviet nrest chief Eugene, Wednesday did what he has said for some time he was going to do. He filed his candidacy in Salem for U. S. representative from the 4th District. He is the first candi date to file. Also indicating they will file are state Sen. Robert Duncan of Medford wd former Congressman Char- 6 Porter. Seven Children Perish In Fire KANKAKEE, 111. (AP) -Six young brothers and a neighbor Girl DerisheH Wednesday nioht in fir uhich rWrnvAH thii- -moU'ed until now: The general area frame house in nearby St. Anne Woods. The victims ranged In age trom i to iz years. The mother of the six boys, Gwendolyn Mallory, 40, a widow. was at a neighbor's home, about a mue away in Pembroke Town- ship, when the fire broke out about 11:30 p.m. tire Chiet Robert Hayes said the fire was caused by defective wiring. The five-room house burned to the ground. Police said Mrs. Mallory had left home about 10 p.m. and the children presumably had gone to bed. The mother had left the chil dren in charge of her oldest son, Michael, 12. In the home with him were his brothers, Harold, 8: Bruce. 7: Claude, 5; Robert. 2; and Mark, lVa; and Barbara Ewing. 3. daughter of Thelma Ewing, a neighbor who is ill in a hospital in nearby Clifton. The bodies of the children, all Negroes, were identified by a dep uty coroner. Mrs. Mallory's husband, Robert, was killed about 18 months ago in Chicago while working on a building which collapsed. Kankakee is about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Kekkonen Elected For Second Term HELSINKI, Finland (AP) President Urho Kekkonen, a staunch advocate of Finnish neu trality in the cold war, was re elected to a second term today. as expected. The tall, 81-year-old president won 199 votes in the 300-member Electorsl College on the first ballot. He snowed under the Commu nist candidate, Paavo Aito, who got 62 votes and Social Democrat Rafael Paasio who got 37. Emil Skog, the candidate of the Social Democratic Opposition group, re ceived 2 votes. Kekkonen's majority was the1 largest in any presidential elec ' tion since the end of World Wan " ....... vi j ! PORTLAND (AP) Dr. Clyde C. Under his leadership, Finland pirlova. Astoria, was sentenced can be expected to continue it Wednesday to seven months in neutrality. His policy is to main.jaji lnd two year, 0f probation tain cordial relations with the So-for fVading federal income taxes. viet Union while preserving de- ,,.:.:. i.jj ...in. mocracv and Finland's tie. with The Ph'clan P'e'oe" R'r to mocracy and r inland s ties witti reporting jncome o( tti67g in im ' ' , , I instead of his true income of The Finnish chief executive has $12 695 far-reaching powers- comparable j , d to hose of an American presl-j dlnf faj, J camxe forwlraP ind 1 pay their obligations," said fed He starts bis new six year term eral Judge Gus J. Solomon, who March 1. I imposed the sentence. ! Rock Creek csmp $2,000 ($10.-! 5001; Canton Creek forest campi $1,500 ($8,000) (c $2,looi; Millsnle (Rock Creek) camp $27,500 ($35.-' 1000); Upper Smith River Park $5,000 ($5,000) Tyee recreation site I ,$1,300 ($11,300) (c $10.0001; Table 1 Rock camp $4,000 ($4 0001; Island j camp $!6u0 ($6,000); Darby Creek 1 narlr tArfl tO Sjtfll 1 The report seeks' $19,694 for 1963 for four projects on the Fremont ! National Forest, with a three-year total of $37,194. Other Requests Made Other requests are: Rogue Riv er National Forest. 14 projects, $366,150 t$N87,5U); Wine ma Nation Red Attitude Disappoints U.S. Leaders WASHINGTON (AP ut,,i. Premier Khrushchev is Dressing i President Kennedy for a personal , mi-rung, soviet diplomats here rigidly refuse to broaden contacts 'aimed at improving the flow of information hnt...... u - . " . " V 1 .1 tllH IMI) COUU tries. U.S. negotiators reported this after two weeks of talks between U.S. and Soviet delegations. The conference started Jan. 31 with the goal of negotiating a new agreement on cultural exchanges to replace the one that expired at the end of last year. Although the Soviet attitude was more or less expected by U.S. specialists, it is nonetheless dis appcT.ing to those who hoped for greater flexibility. This hope was based on recent direct contacts between President Kennedy and Pierre Salinger. White Hnus. pre5, .ecretary, on the one hand. land Alexei Adzhubei, Khrushi on the other. Kennedy told a news conference Jan. 31 that his talks with Izvestia editor Adzhubei. Salinger's Paris meeting with Kharlamov and the White House press chief's invita tion to Moscow are "directed to improving communications." Kennedy said: "I believe that any exchange of Information, any exchange of views, any coopera tion of any kind in these very hazardous times will be very use ful." During the two weeks of talks between the delegations, the Sovi ets asked for a greater number of exchange visits by scientists, technicians and artists. But the Soviet negotiators snowea no interest tn more ex changes in the field which the U.S. side considers most import. am ana wntcn had been neglect- ' Information, including newspa- pers, magazines and books, radio and television broadcasts, and ex hibitions. The U.S. view is that better un derstanding between the two peo ples coum Dest De promoted in i this broad field, Tiller Family Flees From Path Of Slide At least one family has moved out of the path of the moving mountainside near Tiller, accord. ing to a report received (hi tnnrtsa ing by Mrs. Milton Tiller correspondent Mrs. J. V. Lewis, a widow with two children, moved out Tuesday night as a precautionary measure. Unofficial reports indicate that nn more family has also evartiataH Some six families live in the path of the slide. The slide, which started last Thursday, involves some 200 acres and is roughly a half square mile in size. About half of the area ia owned by the BLM and the re mainder is private property. Ranger John Wilson of the Cow Creek District of the U.S. Forest Service said this morning that the mountain is still moving, although slowly. Crashing of trees and rocks can occasionally be heard, Wilson said. Residents of the area said the surface of the hillside, on a 45- degree slope, has cracked and heaved. Hart Lake, a two-acre lake on the edge of the area, has dropped with the slide, residents said. Ac cording to Mrs. Hammersly, the immediate problem for those con cerned is to locate a new water supply. Ranger Wilson stated this morn ing that, while no immediate dan ger is evident, it would seem prud ent to remain out of the slide area. Physician Draws Term Cor Evasion Of TflXeS rBr Hlun Ul IUAe District al Forest, 7 projects, $238,750 ($413.6501; Klamath National For est, 10 projects, $28,400 ($133,400); Modoc National Forest, IS proj ects, $11 i. 500 ($359,800). For BLM lands, CORDA seeks: Medford District, 8 projects, $03 800 ($s6.7CO); Coos Bav District, 4 projects, $41,800 ($63,000); Lake view District, 4 projects, $9,000 ($151,000). The association asks $25,000 to be spent by the BLM for general planning. The projects on national forests would necessitate $500,000 to be used for road grading and surfac ing, the report states.