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o University cf Oregcn Library Eugene, Orsc-m o o COfiP Escape Made Good? Search portico continue diligent hunt for escaped convicts from "the rock." Page 3. SMth!ng's Got To Give United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management at odds on policy. Page 4. Established 1873 16 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1962 139-62 10c Per Copy Boost For Plywood Industry Possible With Small Homes GEARHART, Ore. (AP) Com-j ration be set up with SI million in pact homes, like compact autonio-1 stock sold to association members biles, have an increasingly strong and more capital obtained on loans appeal and the Douglas Fir Ply- and mortgage debentures, wood Association could capture a The compact type homes, he big piece of added business if it j said, would have some 900 square would set up financing for them, feet of floor space and sell at the association was told Tuesday j at its annual .meeting. Donald Jaenicke, director of spe cial projects for the association, suggested that a financing corpo- U.S. National Gets Bond Bid The United States National Bank of Oregon was successful bidder in a field of two for the 8290,000 high school expansion bond issue of the Reedsport Union High School District U13, reports corre spondent Dawn Peseau. The bids were opened at the Tuesday night meeting in Reeds port of the district board of di rectors. The successful bid called for a net effective interest rate of 3.18 per cent on a 10-year retirement schedule. The other bidder was the First National Bank of Oregon with net effective interest rate offer of 3.3488 per cent. It was estimat ed that the difference between the two bids was S3.697. Board members also discussed the construction plans with repre sentatives of the architectural firm of Balzhiser, Seder and Rhodes of Eugene. A grandstand to be of stressed plywood construc tion 180 feet long seating 1,500 per sons, a multipurpose cafeteria, band room and chorus room, and boys physical education locker and shower rooms are included in the 16,000 square feet of sew con struction given tentative approv al. The architects will submit final plans and bid specifications within the next few days preliminary to calling for construction bids. Senate Okays Access Fund WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Sen ate Tuesday voted to raise from $2 million to $6 million the amount of funds for condemnation of private access roads. The vote was 49-40. . The additional funds were pro posed by Sen. ,Warrea G. Jlagnu- son, D-Wash. Sen. John Williams, R-Del., crit irized the addition, accusing the Kennedy Administration of prom ising tax cuts for election year purposes while sponsoring spend-- ing increases in congress. Magnuson charged that his pro posal was opposed by people who had large holdings. He said it would help in ' getting access to intermingled sections of national forests. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., said during discussion of the measure that the lumber industry was as depressed as any in the country and added, "There is no excuse for the Forest Service not having raised the percentage of allow able cut . . .," he said. The interior fund bills contain t'17.5 million for forest roads and trails. The House had deleted a $2 million budget request for pur chase of condemnation of existing access roads or rights - of - way needed for access to national for ests. The Senate Interior Com mittee reinstated the $2 million item and Magnuson's amendment tripled it. Grass Fire Danger Looms Mike Neeley, Winston - Dillard fire chief, urges residents of the area to cut the grass around their homes and on vacant lots before it becomes dry and a fire hazard. He advised that regulations re quire residents to cut their own grass, as the department will not be doing any burning. Portland Truck Dynamiter Enters State Penitentiary SALEM (AP) Levi McDonald, Portland stereotyper. who was con victed of dynamiting trucks leased by the strikebound Oregonian and Oregon Journal, entered the state penitentiary Tuesday night. He must serve two consecutive 10-year terms Warden C. T. Gladden said that McDona'd, accompanied by two Also sentenced in the dynamiting Multnomah County deputy sheriffs, were Charles Henry Snyder, Wil- rrived at the prison at 7:05 p.m.; bam L. Snyder, Edward Snyder The state Supreme Court re-j and Gerald Allen Couzens. They ceived the' mandate from Uie U.S. ; have completed serving the two Supreme Court Tuesday, the high- j year terms each received. They est court having refused to .hear were charged with placing and set McDonald's appeal. , ting off the explosives under Mc- The state Supreme Court put its Donald's planning, mandate to the Multnomah Circuit McDonald, who was a member Court in the mail late Tuesday. !of the union's negotiating commit- McDonald would not have had to tee. anDealed his conviction on the start serving his sentence until ground, among other things, that; the day. after the mandate arrived in Port- publici'y attendant on the strike McCahe has served as Reeds land today. ; prevented him from getting fair ; port police chief for the past 27 He was convicted in both Mult- trials in the two counties. The state j years and for a number of years nomah and Clarkama counties of Supreme Court rejected his appeal 'was a member of the Douglas planning the dynamiting of the and the United States Supreme I County Sheriff's department. He is trucks used by the newspapers and Court declined to hear it. well knows throughout' the county. $8,000 to S10.000. Prospective buy ers are mostly in the $3,000 to Sj.000 income class, he said, and hence need financing aid. Perry E. Willits, Miami, Fla.. vice president of the National As sociation of Home Builders, said increased attention should be giv en to this low-incume market. And Herbert Richheimer, a specialist home remodeling, said this market could be boosted $-100 mil lion with financial help. The meeting heard an informal talk on news backgrounds by Da vid Brinkley, television news com mentator whose late evening pro gram is sponsored by the associa tion. John D. Ritchie, advertising di rector, said the association's ply wood home exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair was drawing nearly 40 per cent of total fair attend ance. He called it the fair's most popular commercial exhibit. Officers were re-elected, iney are John H. Martinson, Tacoma president; Jackson B e a m a n, Grants Pass, vice president; Hugo L. Peterson, treasurer, and Har rison Clark, secretary. Riddle Planning Franchise Vote A special election will be held at Riddle next Tuesday on the ques tion of granting a gas franchise to California - Pacific Utilities Co., reports Erma Best, News-Review correspondent. Voting will be conducted from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the City Hall, At a council meeting this week, Waterworks Supply Co. of Port land was awarded contract after submitting low bid on furnishing supplies for the water depart ment. Police car bids were tabled and bids submitted on furnishing gasoline for city vehicles were re jected. The problem of dog control on the city's streets was discussed at length. Councilmen viewed the question of how best t enforce a city ordinance which provides for impoundment of dogs running at large and requires that owners must pay a fine before recovering l .pounded dogs. County road crews are at work on the extension of Main St. through the annexation to connect with the by-pass road. It was reported that the Riddle Volunteer Fire Department rais ed $325 for the city park fund from its recent " Fun Festival." Judge Dismisses Case On Giving Minor Beer A charge of giving alcohol to a minor7 against Raymond James Johnson was dismissed by District Judge Gerald R. Hayes Tuesday, when the state was unable to pre sent a case against him. Johnson had been accused of fur nishing beer to James Loughridge, 19. He had pleaded innocent on ar raignment and asked for the jury trial. In another district court case Tuesday, Charles Lee Haney, charged in a private complaint with vagrancy, was found innocent on trial. Haney had been accused by Henry Gaylor with conducting himself in a violent and riotous manner on a premise near the North Umpqua Highway and mak ing threats against him. A trial of David Hugh Glenn, charged with operating a motor vehicle with suspended operators license, was postponed. Glenn pres ently is in the hospital from injur ies suffered in an accident. owned by Oregon Film Service and Wymore Transfer Co. No one was injured in the blasts which occurred the night of Jan. 31. 1960. two and a half months after the Stereotypers Union struck the two newspapers in a contract renewal dispute. The newspapers continued to publish i ;.,. . .SS J I DAVE COTTON, Forest Service employe, is shown at work in the new regional Forest Service sign shop located on Diamond Lake Blvd. New facility here will produce rustic signs for six national forests within region 6 and consoli date regional sign-making operations. Cotton, above, is involved in first step in sign-making process: letter layout. Using a template. Cotton measures out each word and cen ters it. A small hand-routing apparatus is used on larger signs where more than one line of words is involved. Cther lettering is produced by machine. For full story, see page 12. (News-Review Photo) Executive Resigns Position After $2 Million Withdrawal NEW YORK (AP)-The Ameri can Stock Exchange today sus pended trading in the stock of E. L. Bruce Co. after the firm announced that the president of the company had withdrawn $1, 953,000 from the company without authorization. Edward M. Gilbert resigned as president Tuesday after making the disclosure to directors of the New York City firm that makes hardwood flooring, doors and other lumber products. The exchange's committee on securities, acting before the open ing today, based the suspension on the announcement of Gilbert's res ignation by the company's chair man, E. L. Bruce Jr. Developments Awaited Thi trading suspension will con tinue until further notice pending developments, the stock exchange Siid. Bruce stock was the most active on the exchange Tuesday, closing at $15.38 a -ihare. a 1962 low and off $3.25 for the day on volume of 39.000 shares. Bruce, who also was elected president of the firm, said that Gilbert's withdrawals had taken place between May 28, the day the stock market suffered its steepest decline since 1929, and June 6. Man Resigns In a statement issued later. Gil bert defended his actions and said he had made the disclosures vol untarily. The actions I have taken were directed to the protection of an acquisition program on behalf of the corporation, and in my judg ment were in the best interests of the corporation and its stock holders, Gilbert said. "I adhere to that judgment, con- Project 35 Group Now In Mazatlan The Glide High School Project 35 entourage has arrived at Ma zatlan, deep in the heart of Mexico and all students are fine and hav ing a great time. Clarence Bakken, special corre spondent, said the group arrived in Mazatlan after a 25-hour train nae wnicn sianea ai ivogaies in Mexico. The youths have enjoyed swimming and taking advantage of "free time" on the schedule. Bakken said at Phoenix the stu dents visited George LeSatz, for mer Glide teacher, and the Hugh Ciarrs family. The group crossed the border into Mexico 25 hours after leaving Nevada, in tempera tures up to 103 degree?. The students are making the flip on funds raised from projects un dertaken during the year. Reedsport Police Chief Stricken With Illness Veteran Reedsport Police Chief H. M. (Mac) McCane was rushed by ambulance to Kaiser Memorial Hospital at North Bend early this morning stricken with a sudden illness, reports correspondent Dawn Peseau. Hospital attendants reported that he was resting comfortably later in fident in the belief that it was and is correct," he added. Gilbert, 38, said he had resigned "to permit the board to have a free hand to take such action with respect to those matters as it deemed advisable." Bruce's statement said the com pany had retained special counsel to submit the facts of the case to the. Securities and Exchange Com mission Mid the American Stock Exchange, where the company's stock is traded. MORE SNAKES Rattler Comes To Roseburg Rattlesnakes are fairly common in Douglas County, but it is ex tremely rare that they visit popu lated areas. One did earlier this week, how ever, and in fact came right upon the porch of a home at 1546 SE Cobb St. This is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nave. Their grand daughter, Kathy Nave, age 3, was on the front porch and came run ning into the house very excited. Nave went out on the porch to see the small rattlesnake, which was about 2 feet long with one button, lying full length along the side of the house on the porch. It was in a fighting position. In front of it was a garter snake, not more than a foot in length. Both snakes had their heads reared up as antag onists. When Nave poked at the rattler with a stick, it started backing away, and as it did, out from be tween its jaws came another gar ter snake. It, too, was about a foot long, and had been swallowed its entire length. It, however, was still alive and in an angry mood, Nave said. He wasted no time in disposing of the rattler, which he has kept temporarily for evidence. Beauty Salon To Open Arleta's Salon of Beauty will open for Business Thursday, loca ted on Rose Street in Winston, one block north of the new post office. Mrs. Robert Grensky is the own er and she will be assisted by Mrs. Mary Gibson, bc'h Roseburg Beauty School graduates. Open house is planned later. m - ataa . . 5 a ESCAPE PATH Prison officials ot Alcotraz believe the three convicts who escaped Tues day followed the path illustrated, fleeing from the roof of the building housing the cell blocks offer climbing o pipe tunnel. The trio then is believed to hove made its way to the northern end of the islond, about 100 yards away, erasing two J 2-foot fences be for entering the woters of Son Francisco Boy. (UPI Telephoto) Legion Player's Condition Static; Fund Is Started Jim Wassom's condition remains unchanged and doctors are still giving the injured Roseburg Amer ican Legion baseball player a "SO SO" chance to recover today, re ports his mother, Mrs. Carl Was som. The insurance on the Legion ball players will cover up to $1,500 of Wassom's hospital and doctor ex penses. To meet the remainder of the costs, the Legion has started a "Jim Wassom Fund," it was re ported today. Donations to the "Jim Wassom Fund" can be made at any of the three Roseburg banks. Money will be accepted at the banks by John Kennedy, First National Bank; John Kort, Douglas County State Bank and Willard Buchanan, U.S. National Bank. Lyle Fcnncr is heading the fund raising campaign. An earlier report from Herbert Lindner, Roseburg American Le gion baseball commissioner, stat ing that the Legion insurance would cover the entire cost incur red from the accident came about as a result of a misunderstanding of the policy covering the ball players. Wassom, a 16-year old Roseburg youth, was injured Friday when struck in the head by a pitched ball in the second game of a double header at Legion Field. The injur ed lad was hospitalized Saturday, then moved to Sacred Heart Hos pital, Eugene, where he underwent brain surgery for the removal of blood clots. Wassom has not been conscious since the operation. Reedsport Hospital Ceremony Sunday Ground-breaking ceremony for Reedsport's new $730,000 combina tion hospital and nursing home is scheduled at 2 p.m. Sunday. Turning the first shovel of earth will be Emma Hedden, colorful pi oneer Scottsburg resident and member of the Lower Umpqua Hos pital District board of directors. Speakers will include Reedsport Mayor- Jack- Ungcr. Murphy Construction Co. will contract work on the building which includes x-ray and technical facilities, obstetrical room, recre ation room and otner nospitai lca tures. The site, purchased from the city of Reedsport a number of years ago, is in the southwest section of the city just off Arthur Drive and Bowman Rd. Hospital financing was achieved through serial levies, a $225,000 bond issue and federal Hill-Bur ton funds. An open staff policy has been set by the directors. Reedsport physicians, osteopaths and dentists have been named to the medical staff. Pace Of Rose Festival Begins Moving Faster PORTLAND (UPI) The pace is quickening in Portland's Rose Festival. Five navy minesweepers tied up at the Willamette River seawall Tuesday night, the vanguard of a 13-sliip Rose Festival fleet. An other minesweeper and seven other vessels were due today. ljueen uierle I, Chcrie Lynn Viggcrs, had a round of appear ances scheduled, including a visit with her court to Docrnbecher Hospital. Memorial Coliseum opened to allow the public to watch con struction of floats for Saturday s grand floral parade. Other events scheduled today included a model boat regatta at Westmoreland Park and the "Aqua-Spectacular" water show tonight at the coli seum. Showers Possible The five-day weather outlook, ac cording to Uie Weather Bureau sta tion at the Roseburg airport, calls for temperatures near or a little below normal with few showers possible Sunday and Monday. Highs of 68 to 78 are expected with lows of 44 and 54. THREE CONVICT ESCAPE TO ROOF THTOUGH SKVU6HT 77 I ..... nW ?rj-'& I ft rtW - " illie Sol Discusses FRANKLIN. Tex. (UPD-Billie Sol Estes went before a Texas grand jury today to tell them what he knows about the mysteri ous death of an Agriculture De partment official. Estes went before the grand jury after his lawyer, John Cofer, agreed to withhold pressing a pe tition for a vit of habeas corpus. The writ would have nullified Estes' subpoena and kept him from testifying. Estes walked into the jury room flanked by Cofer and Texas Hanger Capt. Clint Peoples. The grand jury wants to find out what connection, if any, Estes has with the death of Agriculture Department official Henry H. Marshall. Marshall was believed to be investigating Estes' cotton allotment operations when he was found shot to death June 3, 1961. Marshall had been shot five Pilot Unscathed In Azalea Crash Delmar C. Gladden, master ser geant with the U. S. Air Force, Mc- Chord Air Base, Wash., walked away uninjured after his plane struck a power line wire, during a forced landing, and crashed. The crash occurred about 10 a.m. Tuesday near Azalea, east of Interstate Freeway No. 5 in an open field near Mile Post 230. Investigating state police said the pilot stated he was en route south from McChord Field and heading for Mcdford to fuel his plane. His carburator iced up causing him to make a forced landing. He picked an open field. When he brought the plane down it struck some power lines connect ed to a private water pump. The lines were not activated at the time. The right wing of the plane, an Aronca sedan, was torn part way off and the windshield broken out. The plane was towed to the east end of the field. The State Aero nautics board at Salem was noti fied. Woman Judge Claims . Sixth Term In Office ' Ida May Adams, municipal court judge in Los Angeles, has been re elected for her sixth six-year term. Judge Adams is well known In the Douglas County area. She has a summer home on Cavitt Creek, a tributary of Little River, where she spends her vacations. i When sworn into ofuce In 1931, she was the first judge of a Cali fornia "ourt to wear the traditional black robe. Young, small and blonde she was of the opinion she could not command the respect and discipline needed for an effect ive court without the robe. Later this judicial garb became manda tory upon all judges. California law makes judicial po sitions non-partisan. It also is pro vided that if several candidates seek an office and one, in the pri mary election, receives more votes than the aggregate for others, that candidate is deemed to be elected and no run-off election is required. At the recent primary election in California, Judge Adams receiv ed more votes than five opponents combined. Stewart Park Speed Signs Will Go Up Soon Chief of Police John Tructt to day advised that new speed signs are to be erected at Stewart Park in the vicinity of the pro shop of the golf course. Cross walks and designated park ing areas are also to be marked, he said. This area is congested frequent ly, and there are many people walking in the park, he comment ed. He advised motorists to adhere closely to designated speeds to avoid accidents. Goes Before Jury, Mysterious Death times with a bolt-action rifle. An autopsy on his exhumed body showed he had suffered a sharp blow on the head and had a near fatal dose of carbon monoxide in his blood. A justice of the peace ruled at the time that Marshall died that the death was suicide, but no au topsy was made. Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk, a noted Houston pathologist, conducted the only autopsy four weeks ago when Marshall's body was ex humed. He said the death was probably a murder but said he would not -rule out the possibility of suicide. JAMES A. BROOKS . . . heads young medics Roseburg Youth National Prexy Honors In his chosen field of medicine have been won early by a young Roseburg medical student at the University of Oregon Medi cal School, according to word re ceived this week at The News-Re view. James A. Brooks, son of Mrs. Ann Lane of Winston, was elect ed president of the Student Ameri can Medical Association at the na tional meeting of the group in Washington D.C. As president Brooks will attend a meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago June 24 and in August will go to Madrid, Spain, for the meeting of the International Fed eration of Medical Student's As sociation. Brooks is a 1955 graduate of Roseburg High School where he was senior class president and a member of the basketball team. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon where he was a mem ber of Nu Sigma Nu, Theta Chi and Friars. He was president of both the inter-fratcrnity council and the YMCA while on the Eu gene campus. . He is presently a junior at the medical school and during vaca tions has worked in Roseburg in the office of Dr. Roy Hanford over a three-year period. He Is current ly visiting with his mother in Win ston. Volunteer Fire Group Elects New President Glenn R. Burgess of 2756 W Sanders Ave. is new president of the Roseburg Volunteer fire De partment. He succeeds Art Scvall, Burgess has been a department member for two years and last year served as vice president. Other new officers are vice pres ident. Dude Saltern, and secretary- treasurer, Jack Walters, who was re-elected. Officers said the department plans to send a team to partici pate in competitive evolutions at the State Fireman s Convention in Coos Bay June 27-30. At last year's convention the Roseburg volunteer group won first place in this com petition. In the contests, teams of fire men match skills in activities in volving use of fire hose and other fire-fighting equipment. Oakland Fire Fighters Extinguish Roof Blaze The Oakland Fire Department was called Tuesday afternoon to put out a roof fire in a vacant house was formerly occupied by Gus Westland. Cause of the fire presumably was from sparks from the sawdust burner at Martin Bros. Container and Timber Products Corp., ac cording to the firemen. Shortly after the department had put out the first fire, another broke out around the drier of Martin Bros, plant. The department re sponded, but mill employes had the blaze under control, according to correspondent Mrs. Edith Dunn. Extent of damag was not im mediately known. Hookup Denied With Billie Sol WASHINGTON (UPI) - The president of a firm accused of collaborating with Billie Sol Estes In trying to corner the West Texas fertilizer market today la- oeiied as lalse and defamatory a lawyer's statement that he of fered to put Estes in business in turope or Brazil. Maynard C. Wheeler, president of Commercial Solvents Corp., told a House subcommittee the relationship between his company and Estes was that of "customer and supplier and no more." The subcommittee is trying to find out if Estes and his associ ates attempted to pressure or buy influence from the Department of Agriculture in connection with the Texan's grain storage operations. Frank Cain, a lawyer for one of Estes' major creditors, told a Texas Court of Inquiry that Wheeier and Estes discussed the possibility of Estes working for Commercial Solvents in Europe. Cain alleged that Estes suggested Brazil instead. Cain also said there was dis cussion between the two of cer tain Swiss bank accounts. "I deny emphatically that I ever made the statements at tributed to me by Cain, ' and I also deny that there were made in my presence the statements at tributed by Cain to himself and Estes, Wheeler testified. After adjourning for they day, subcommittee Chairman L.1I. Fountain, D-N.C, told reporters he would call Cain to hear bis version of the conversation. Probation Granted In Burglary Case Ned Ncitch, 52, of Eugene, Tues day drew from Circuit Court judge Don H, Sanders a sentence of 18 months in the Oregon State Cor rectional Institution. Execution of sentence, however, was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years. Neitch, on May 7 pleaded guilty to bur glary not in a dwelling, in connec tion with the theft of a pump and other equipment from a farm home near Kellogg late last year. He had been waiting pre-sentence investi gation. Alberta Bryant, 21, returned here from Eugene to face a charge of ootainmg money by false pretenses, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the Grand Jury from the District Court of Gerald R. Hayes Tuesday. The specific charge involves a check for $21.62 dated May 31 passed at the Safe way Store here, but there are oth er checks against her record, ac cording to the Sheriff s Depart ment. She is on probation for five years from Lane County. Judge Sanders Tuesday signed an order revoking the probation of Louis J. Prevost, 30, of Myrtle Point following a hearing Monday. He was sentenced to serve one year in the Douglas County jail, which sentence was Imposed ear lier, but he has been on probation following a plea of guilty Oct. 13, 1061, to non support. Reason for revocation was that he has failed to make support payments, has failed to maintain employment and has consumed Intoxicants. A charge of obtaining money by false pretenses against William D. Johnson, also known as Jack John son, 43, Seattle, was dismissed by the judge on motion of the district attorney. Grounds are that John son has just been paroled from Walla Walla Penitentiary, where he spent time for writing bogus checks, and that it appears he has been rehabilitated from this time served. Tables Stolen D. W. Weiprecht, County Parks DeDartment superintendent, report" ed to the sheriff's department the theft of four tables, valued at S30 each from the Smith Springs park, Harness Park and Busenbark Park. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Considerable cloudiness today and Thursday with fsw showers near the mountains, cooler Bern days. Highest temp, last 24 hours .... 74 Lowest temp, last 14 haurs 44 Highest temp, any June (25) 10 lowsst ttmp. any June (52) 35 Preclp. last 24 hours - 0 Prtcip. from June 1 ,4 Preeip. from Spt. 1 . J2.4 Excess from Sept. 1 3.0J Sunset tonight, 7:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:13 a.m. Logger's Fire Weather Fire danger low today in Ore gon, but weather expected to be come warmer and drier Thurs day. 9
