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Witness I I J SPARKLING Mary Louise Wilde is one of the five princess es seeking the title of Queen of the 1962 Douglos County Pioneer Days Rodeo, June 16-17. Mary Louise is sponsored in the event by the Myrtle Creek Saddle Pals. (Chris Studio) Local Airport Funds Included In New Bill The Federal Aviation Aseney Thursday submitted a $1,135 billion plan to Congress for airport im provements, which includes one project for Roseburg. The Roseburg project is the con struction of the navigational aid Big Fight Near In U.N. Halls UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) U.N. delegates foresaw an all day battle in the General Assem bly's steering committee today over an Asian-African demand that the assembly discuss white rule in the British territory of Southern Rhodesia. Indications were that, despite strenuous British objections, the 21 -nation committee . would, rec ommend that the assembly take up the issue at the session which opened Thursday to debate inde pendence for the Belgian trust ter ritory of Ruanda-Urundi. The 104-nation committee is ex wrtpri to anorove the committee recommendation on Southern Rho desia next week. In asking that the assembly dis cuss Southern Rhodesia, 40 Asian and African delegations charged that Britain is orenanng to prom ulgate a new constitution for the African territory that will give new powers to a minority white regime dedicated to racial dis crimination. They said the territory's Afri can majority bitterly opposes the constitution. Sir Patrick Dean and Sir Hugh Foot of the British delegation have advised other delegations that the Southern Rhodesian elec tion has been put off from Oc tober until March or April. They argued that the constitution thus cannot take effect until next year and that accordingly there is no urgency to the matter. A five-nation commission has recommended that the assembly set July 1 as the date for inde pendence and an end to trustee ship in Urundi, one of the two little countries adjoining the Congo. But the report asks that the as sembly decide whether the same independence day is practical for Ruanda because oi recent oiooa shed between the feuding Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Olympia Judge Dismisses Tandy Blast Case; Settlement Reached Superior Judge Charles Wright at Olympia, Wash., has dismissed a $101,000 civil suit arising from the powder explosion which ripped The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Fair and warm today with a marked cooler cooling trtnd Satur - day. Early morning low cloudiness Saturday. High today, 18, low to - night SO. High Saturday 78. Highest temp, last 24 hours IS Lowest temp, last 24 hours 48 Highest temp, any June (25) 104 Lowest temp, any June (52) Prtcip. last 24 hours ... 35 ... o Prtcip, from June 1 Praeip. from Sept. I . .49 31.49 Excess from Sept. I . J.38 Sunset tonight, 7:51 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:33 a.m. Loggers' Fire Weather Danger rising to moderate lev els with light northeast wind1 across Cascades. Warming and dryine oontinuing most areas Fri - day with moderate ea breeze in; terms of the over all settlement of : company. Remaining sums will be nomic development loans and ad northwest Oregon late Friday. Noj the blast cases, gets a 30 per cent , paid over a five-year penod by the I ministration had programmed for rain through weekend. (OMNI) five miles south of Rose burg which will ajjow lowering of flying levels and improve airplane landing procedures. The site for the navigational aid has been prepared and it is anti cipated about $75,000 will be need ed for purchase and installation of the electronics equipment on the site. The FAA hopes to put up the installation late this year. With the installation, the alti tudes at which navigational radio signals can be received will be low ered from 7,000 to 4,500 feet be tween Roseburg and Eugene and from 11,000 to 7,000 between Rose burg and Medford. It will also allow instrument landings for pri vate planes. At present only West Coast Airlines, which has its own instrument landing equipment, is able to land with low visibility. Roseburg Skyways Manager Bud Good estimated the installation would increase air traffic in Rose burg by 50 per cent. Much of the traffic between Medford and Eu- gen now goes over Glide. The FAA bill has $6,222,000 ear marked for Oregon in airport im provements. Included are recom mendations for new airports at Portland, Monmouth - Independ ence, Cottage Grove and Gleneden Beach on the coast of northern Lincoln county. The billion dollar plan is design ed for the five years starting July 1. Air Collision Kills Four In Florida TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (UPI) -A civilian plane owned by a gro cery chain collided in flight with a military plane early today, kill ing four persons. The sheriff's office identified three of the victims as Hoyt Col son, the pilot: Herschal Miller, copilot, and Colson's wife, all of Montgomery, Ala. The fourth victim, a woman, was burned be yond recognition and was not im mediately identified. The pilots in the military T33 trainer, Capt. Thomas B. Martin and Lt. Edwin Rainey of Moody Air force Base, Valdosta, Ga parachuted to safety. They were taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for treatment of super ficial injuries and released. Roseburg Aug. 7, 1959 causing 14 deaths, the Associated Press re ports. Wright ordered dismissal Thurs day after Marilyn Tandy, the wife and administrator of the estate of Dennis Napper Tandy, reached a settlement with Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash., and truck driver 'George Rutherford. She sued over (the death of her husband in the 1 blast. i Laws Differ I Oregon limits death claims to $20,000. but Washington has no sucn limitation. Washington also permits property attachments in sum cases, ana Mrs. lanay nau filed attachments against powder company property at Tenino. ' L'nder the dismissal, the attach- ments were released. An applic; tion to authorize settlement of the case was filed in Douglas County Probate Court recently, and an or der of the court was issued. Num erous other case dismissals have been filed in the Douglas County ( Circuit Court of origin. i Mrs. Tandv however, under j preference in payment. Agreement (Looks "LBS -To Hsftes: Cose Manuel Says Investigation Is Distorted WASHINGTON (AP) Robert Manuel, dismissed Republican counsel to a House investigating committee, charged today the group s inquiry into the Bilue Sol Estes case "is being distorted and the truth suppressed." In a statement, Manuel quoted an Agriculture . Department offi cial ' as saying Estes personally pressured him by invoking the names of the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, but that John son's name was not brought into public testimony. Manuel added: "This incident points up the way this investiga tion is being distorted and the truth suppressed either because of shoddy preparation, or a will ingness to cover up." Incident Revealed Manuel said another incident in volves a discussion by the sub committee in closed session of how to deal with testimony which would ' implicate certain members of Congress and at least one very high-ranking administra tion official." The testimony, taken in execu tive session, related to a list of individuals to whom Estes alleg edly sent gifts in the form of money orders," Manuel added. He said it was against this background that he decided, "as a matter of conscience and duty to the public," to give a confiden tial Agriculture Department re port on the Estes case to a news paper reporter. The reporter, who Manuel de scribed as a longtime friend, was Earl Mazo of the New York Tribune. It was for this action that Manu el was discharged after a day long subcommittee wrangle bi- hind closed doors Thursday. Dem ocratic members spoke of a breach of ethics." Has Harsh Words Manuel also had harsh words for the subcommittee, headed by Rep. L. H. Fountain, D-N.C, which he called a one-party opera tion. Manuel handed his statement to newsmen as the subcommittee opened a public hearing with James T. Ralph, former assistant secretary of agriculture, in the witness chair. Ralph, a 36-year-old Californian, was fired by Secretary of Agri culture Orville L. Freeman May 15 on grounds he used Estes telephone credit card for personal calls. A Texas court of inquiry had developed earlier that Ralph was fitted in Dallas for some ex pensive suits in the company of Estes, but Ralph denied Estes paid for the suits. Ralph was ousted At the time Ralph was dis missed from the Agriculture De partment, he was undergoing training to become agricultural attache at the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Freeman had ousted him as an assistant secretary in February. Under questioning from the subcommittee members, Ralph said Freeman pressured him into taking the assistant secretary's post in the first place and that the reason the secretary gave for forcing his resignation was, "Let's just say you and I are incompatible." Fire Truck Vote Slated In Clendale The City of Glendale will hold an election Monday on a $20,000 bond issue for the purchase of a new fire truck and other fire fight ing equipment, reports Mrs, Ger ald Fox, correspondent. Voting will be at the city hall from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Underprovisions of the bond is sue, repayment would be spread over a 10-year period. on settlements in her claim and other death and injury damage suits were reached in U.S. District Court in Furtland. Settlements Reported Attorneys agreed that $440,000 should be made available for these claims. Damage suits asked $294, 000 for deaths (which includes ex penses in the estate of James Siles) and $1,060,729 for injuries. Settle ments provide that death claims re ceive m times the percentage of recovery on allowable claims over bodily injury claims. Death and bodily injury awards, however. have been pared down to $795,260 by the special masters bearing the cases. District Court also approved award of $K.vu2,764 to more than 3000 property damage claimants for which there it $757,26$ available for payments. It is understood from reports available here that damage claims on the prorated basis are being paid now from available insurance and tax refund monies and some made available from the powder powder company from earnings. m Steffi? Established 1873 16 Paget ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, Four School Administrators iff MM HARRY JACOBY , . . directs program E. Germans Under Hail BERLIN (AP) Bringing a baby with them, 13 young East Germans hijacked a 500-ton river excursion boat early today and es caped to freedom under a hail of machine-gun bullets. East German police, firing from a watch tower, a pier, a bridge and a patrol boat, pumped over Murphy Wins Hospital Bid At Reetlsoort A contract for construction of the Lower Umpqua Hospital in Reeds- port was awarded Thursday to Murphy Construction Co. of Rose burg. Construction of the 40-bed hospi tal and nursing home is expected to start within a month and be completed early next year. The estimated cost of the hospi tal is $730,000. The company offered to do the construction job for a low basic bid of $564,418. Five other firms submitted bids on the project. They were Tom Lillibo of Reedsport, $569,700, John son & Meloy of Salem, $579,182, A. T. Fox of North Bend, $579,781 and Thompson & Georgeson Inc. of Portland, $594,600. The hospital will mclude about 20,000 square feet of space and provide 20 hospital beds and 20 nursing home beds. Other facilit ies will include delivery and labor rooms, nursery, surgery units, kit chen, dining room, laboratory and X-ray, recreation room, solarium and offices. It will be a masonry building. The basic construction bid will in clude installation of kitchen equip ment, blacktopping of parking ar eas, curbing and some lawn work. Architects for the job are Roald, Schmeer and Harrington of Port land. The money for the project was iaised through sinking funds, Hill- burton federal aid funds to small hospitals and a bond issue. Foreign Aid Ceiling Set WASHINGTON (AP) The Sen- ate hat voted a $4.7-billion ceiling on foreign aid spending next year just about what President Ken nedy requested. But there's evidence Congress in tends to slash away at the aid pro gram before it finally provides the money that may be spent. The measure passed Thursday by the Senate 61 to 23 simply sets limits on aid spending in the fis cal year that begins July 1. The appropriations will be handled la ter in separate legislation. Actually, the administration had to settle for partial victory on its embattled provision for aid to Com munist Poland and Yugoslavia In an attempt to wean them away from Soviet domination. Wednesday the Senate voted 57 to 24 to bar foreign aid to such countries. But, with heavy pres sure from the White House and combined appeals from Democra tic and Republican leaders, the Senate retreated Thursday and voted 56 to 34 to exempt gifts and sales of surplus food. It still left the ban on any as sistance under the foreign aid bill itself, including $10 million in eco- Yugoslavia next fiscal year, University cf Oregon Library Eupne, Oreeon ROMAYNE R. BRAND . . . new assignment Hijack Boat, Escape Of Machine Gun Fire 200 bullets into the fleeing ves sel Nobody was hurt. WeRt Berlin police fired 10 shots back at the East Germans to check Jieir fire. The boat, tho Friedrich Wolf, was riddled and there were bullet marks on build ings on the West Berlin shore. The escapees included eight men, all employes of East Ber lin's "white fleet" of excursion boats, five women, and one cou ple's S-month-old boy. The adults, all about 30 or under, told police they had been planning the escape for a week. Thursday night the men in the group went aboard the Friedrich Wolf at her mooring beside the River Spree and began drinking with her captain and engineer. When the two were off guard they jumped them and tied them up. Under cover of darkness they spirited their women and tho baby aboard. Then at dawn the men got the two-deck boat moving. They swung into the Spree and headed toward the center of Ber lin, making for the point where the left bank of the river becomes the border between East and West Berlin. Posts of Vopos as the East German police are called opened fire. Racing the engines at their top speed of 10 knots, the men aboard the Friedrich Wolf suddenly Giant Slide Takes Road, Camp In B.C. TERRACE, B. C. (AP)-A 5,000 foot length of the Kitimat-Terrace highway and a government camp site disappeared into Lake Lakel se Thursday in a half-mile-wide sea of oozing blue-grey mud. The second slide in as many weeks, caused by an underground upheaval, snapped off 80-foot high trees and swallowed earth-moving equipment, leaving trees and campsite outhouses in islands of ozze and debris in the middle of the lake. Officials said it was lucky the slide did not occur during the tour ist season when the 60-site camp site, one of the largest in British Columbia, would be packed. Still moving Friday, the slide severed Kitimat's only road con tact with the rest of British Co lumbia. It cut off the power supply to Terrace, 100 miles northeast of Prince Rupert, which was drawn from the Aluminum Company of Canada hydro dam at Kemano. Kitimat is 40 miles south of Terrace. The Canadian National Railway track to Kitimat, on the other side of the lake, was not affected. Special trains were to be run to take care of stranded motorists on both sides of the upheaval. One witness said the massive trees were being carried in the ooze Into the lake at a rate of about three miles an hour. Dave Beck Asks Stay Of Sentence WASHINGTON (AP) Counsel for Dave Beck, former teamsters union chief, asked the Supreme Court Friday to reconsider it May 14 decision upholding his em bezzlement conviction. Beck's counsel also asked I stay of the labor leader's 15 year prison sentence, ordered by a Washing ton state court. Beck's conviction In King Coun ty Superior Court in December 1957 was on a charge that he pock eted $1 .900 from the sale of a Cad illac owned by the Teamsters Union. CO tP JUNE 8, 1962 135-62 r t ROBERT A. MOURSUND . . . moves up swung left and rammed the boat into the entrance of the Land wehr Canal Western territory. The escapees, movmg quickly in twos and threes, sprang ashore. They flung themselves to tho ground to escape the whipping bullets. When the West Berlin po lice fired, the Vopos checked their fire. The whole thing was over in 20 minutes. The boat's captain and engineer were allowed to get the boat un der way and return to East Ber lin. Doukhobors Set Fire To Homes TRAIL, B. C. (AP) A mass fire demonstration in which more than 50 homes of Sons of Freedom Doukhobors were tet ablaze in three Freedomite villages in the Kootenays was reported Friday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice. Some 40 homes were reported burning at Krestova, 10 at the villages of Shoreacres and three more at the village of Gilpin. Authorities said the burning buildings were all the homes of Freedomite Doukhobors, Most were plywood and tarpaper shacks. An RCMP spokesman said the Freedomites simply stood around and watched their houses burn down. There was no nude parad ing or other demonstration. More than 30 RCMP officers were dispatched to the three areas. Police said more Freedomite homes may be burning. But only those at Krestova, SO miles to the north, at Shoreacres 30 miles north and at Gilpin 50 miles west were reported so far. The home-burning at the three little communities followed anoth er major fire demonstration in a prison at Nelson Thursday night where many Freedomites are ei ther serving sentences for terror ism or are awaiting trial, Prison ers set seven fires and sabotaged the prison's sprinkler system. The fires were doused with little damage. Thursday there was a peaceful demonstration by Freedomites on the streets of Trail. They sang hymns and carried placards say ing "we want Sorokin" a refer ence to the sect's spiritual leader Stefan Sorokin who Is now In Uru guay. RCMP hold a warrant for his arrest alleging conspiracy to intimidate the provincial legisla ture and the federal parliament with acts of violence. - Drum Corps To Seek Seattle Fair Funds The Knights of Pythias Girls Drum and Bugle Corps will spon sor a "mile of money" in down- to "to Roseburg Ssturday to help raise the money needed for a trip to the Seattle World's Fair. The all-girls group will be "band of the day" at the Fair June 25. They must have the money for the trip by June 24, according to Billy Black, director. The girls will all be in uniform and will attempt to run a chain of money from the Umpqua Hotel to the Douglas County State Bank on the sidewalk. They will have a tape measure laid down and will measure the money along it. Contributions of any size will be accepted, Some $400 Is still to be raised for the trip. Each donor will be given an anniversary button, Hours for the "mile of money" will be from 10 a.m. to ( p.m. wmm Get JAMES L TROWBRIDGE ... to vice principal Powers Man Dies As Truck Leaves Road Accidents In Douglas County. one near Elkton and one near Myrtle Creek, took the life of one man, critically injured another and nospitalizcd a third today. Arthur M. Dennison. 50. Powers was killed instantly when a truck loaded with scrap iron he was driv ing plunged down a steep 40-foot embankment around 8 a.m. today. me accident, wnicn occurred on Highway 38. about 10 miles west of Elkton, also injured Dennison's stepson, Tom H. Wiedeman, 15, who suffered a fractured pelvis. The location was near Paradise Creek. Dennison roportcdlv was crush ed in the cab. The truck appar ently went out of control after traveling onto a soft shoulder. Dep uty Sheriff Lee Shiolev rerjorted a fire truck and cutting torches wore ordered out of Elkton. Details on the second accident three miles north of Myrtle Creek on Highway 99 were still lacking as press ume. state .Police are In- vestigating. The victim, Howard George Gal lois, 18, Myrtle Creek, said to be in critical condition was taken to Myrtle Creek Hospital for emer gency treatment and then taken by Billy Mohr ambulance to Eugene as soon as possible. According to information learn ed by The News Review, an older model pickup apparently hit the jiggle bars where the highway narrows. The driver was said to have lost control. His car went over into the other lane of traffic mm coiuaea wnn anotner car, a late model, headed north. The pickup then turned over and was reported to be a total wreck, ac- coraing to tne Myrtle Creek Body Shop which towed it in. Only fender damage was caused to the other car, and the occu pants, whose names were not learned, proceeded on under the car'i own power. Salem Prison Trusty Escapes SALEM (AP) - A state prison trusty escaped Thursday afternoon ui pnsun irucK, waraen c.T. Gladden said. The escapee Is Everett Earl Ft. llott, 36, who entered the peniten tiary reD. o to serve three years on a bad check conviction. Gladden said Elliott made a delivery to the prison farm, and men drove away. He had been as signed to the prison garage, out side the wall, as a truck driver. Elliott is from Columbia County. Auditors Seek $5 Million Missing In Estes Accounts DALLAS, Tex. (AP)-Audltors are trying to trace $5 million which dlssppesred from bank ac counts of Blllle Sol Estes in 14 months, the Dallas News report ed today. "Soma creditors think the mon ey went to Switzerland," reporter Harry McCormick wrote in the newspaper's copyright story. Estes, Pecos, Tex., promoter. has been indicted on fraud and theft charges and is being Inves tigated by two congressional com mittees. Hit multimillion-dollar grain storage, cotton growing and liquid fertilizer sales interests are in the hands of a receiver. FBI agents arrested Estes March 29. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said he ordered the move because there were reports bstes might flee to Brazil. The Dallas News said the audit ing firm of Ernst e Ernst la hunt ing the missing money. It did not say who hired the audit A spokes- mm for the firm would not comment. 10c Per Copy New Posts Jacoby Heads New Oregon Program Here Also St Story, Pag. 1 Four key personnel In the burg school system will move into new assignments when the next fiscal school year begins July 1, District School Supt. M. C. Deller announced today. Romayne R. Brand, Joseph Lane Junior High School principal with ji years ot service in the district, will move into the Central School Office as an administrative assist ant, a new position. Robert A. Moursund, Joseph Lane vice principal for 3V4 years and former Marshfield High School instructor, will succeed Brand as principal. James L. Trowbridge, dean of boys at Joseph Lane, has been elevated to the vice principalship at the school. Jacoby Gets Job Deller also made official an nouncement today that Harry Ja coby will serve as director of Ore gon Program activities for the district. Jacoby will handle tha now assignment in conjunction with his duties as assistant school super intendent. He also heads the Umn- qua Junior College program. uener said creating the rfcw post of administrative assistant w a i necessitated by the increased work ioaa placed upon the district of. fice. During the past three veari thn scope of the work of the superin- wnucni ana assistant superintend- am nas neen increased by the ad dition of the National Defense Edu cation Act, the Oregon Program, Piihii, T ... OTJ J I .1.- - unit uy UIO WOrK connected with handling an in crease ot approximately 200 puplla per year," Deller said. "In addition to these programs, our school district has embarked upon a curriculum revision pro gram which now involves a sequen tial study and Implementation of programs in English, mathema tics, science and physical educa tion." Program Eyed Brand, lt was exnlalnjvf. nrilt h. taking over portion of tha duties now handled by the assistant su perlnterdent. This will allow Jaco by opportunity to devote part time to the Oregon Program. Roseburg School District Is an applicant for Oregon Pmorum funds made available to the state Dy me H'ord foundation. This dis trict expects to receive about $62.. 000 over the next four years for experimental education projects designed to Improve teacher prep- aiauuu ana instruction. 58 Glide Students Head For Mexico With smiling faces, veils, ham. honking and banners waving, the group iert ior its summer trip to Mexico this morning bright and early. According to Mrs. Arthur Selby, correspondent, some of the stu dents were at the appointed place of departure early In the morning. ine group, au members of Glide Spanish classes, was to travel by bus to the Mexican border. As they passed through Glide they made sure the residents knew they were leaving. Some 58 students are making the trip with seven chaperones. They will return June 23. These detail were reoorted h the newspaper: Estes deposited about $12 mil lion In 40 bank accounts between Jan. 1, 1961, and March 1, 1962. He received an additional $400,. 000 about last March 1 or 1 on a 90-day personal note given May- nam u. Wheeler, president of Commercial Solvents Corp. Court-appointed receiver Harry T. Moore Jr. subsequently found on taking over that the 40 bank accounts contained only $12,359. "At the peak of this 14-month period," the News said, "Estes was paying numerous finance companies at the rate of $527,000 per month. Thus the total paid out could have been only $7,378, 000. It doubtless was much less, "So between about $7 million spent and the $12 million plus $400,000 on deposit to Estes ac counts, more than $5 million cannot be accounted for." Auditors are working at Plain view, Tex., which has headquar ters for Estes' grain atorag operations.
