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1 01 9 County! Committee Approves Record University cf Oregon " Library w Eugene, Oregon OOtP million Budget Established 1873 East Berlin Wall Guards Kit Refugee BERLIN (UPU- Trigger-quick Communist border guards today snot another refugee trying to flee over the wall to the West from East Berlin. The shooting occurred early this A morning on the border of the French sector only a few hours after East German guards acci dentally shot and killed or of their own men trying to block the escape of two women and two ckildren into the American sector. West Berlin police said the lat est incident took place at 1:15 a.m. The Reds fired three shots. A cry of pain was heard, indi cating the fleeing refugee had been hit. The police believed the voice was that of a woman. Monday night Western police heard about 100 machine pistol shots, presumably fired at refu gees, on the border of the Ltch tenrade district of the American sector. With the border shootings in creasing, U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg announced that a fresh battle group of 1,500 men soon will begin to cross the Helmstedt-Berlin autobahn to re place a group in Berlin since last March. Warning ts America The East German Communist party newspaper Neues Deutsch land told Secretary of State Dean Rusk to get U.S. troops out of Berlin. In an editorial comment on Rusk's trip to Bonn and West Berlin later this week, the official paper reiterated the Communist demand that West Berlin be turned into a "demilitarized, neu tral free city." Along the border where the two women and two children escaped to the West under firs Monday night,. Communist guards searched for mora freedom tunnels with giant searchlights. The Communists accidentally shot and killed one of their men who was trying to foil the escape engineered by three brothers who had fled to the West some months ago. The women and two young boys burrowed to freedom Monday night in a tunnel dug under the Communist wall from west to east by the boys' father and his two brothers. The brothers worked se cretly on the tunnel for six weeks. 40 Shots Fired 1 The escaping family survived at least 40 shots tired by Communist guards. Five other East Germans were captured before they could reach the tunnel. Some of the bullets hit a guard who was about to shoot one of the brothers, identified only as Rudi, 25. He had gone through the tunnel to the east to help the women and children. "If the vopo (peoples policeman) had ndt fallen in front of me, I would not be here now," Rudi told newsmen. "He was raising his ma chine pistol to shoot me when he himself fell under bullets meant for me." Even so, one bullet went through Rudi's clothes. The rescued children were Rudi's and one of the women was his wife. The other woman was his wife's sister. Parking Group Asks Financial Aid For Engineering Studies Representatives of the Roscburg Parking Association asked the City Council Monday for a financial as sist in providing engineering stud ies on a proposed downtown park ing mall. The Council also discov ered Monday that some residents are opposed to the proposal. Councilmen agreed that addition al studies are needed to determine the venture's feasibility and ten tatively assured (he assnciatOt)lhe oqqsQiftii mil authorize SPjO for the engineering service when the coun- Tfee Weatfior O AIRPORT RECORDS Fair todayptoniuh and Wednes- day. Continued warm. 'aspects as the cost, location and Highest ttmp. last 24 hours 78 j concept of the parking mall. Lowest ttmp. last 14 hour 44! The association has suggested Highest temp, any June (25) 104 that four blocks between SE Doug Lowest temp, eny June (52) 35 las Ave. and SE Lane Ave. facing Preclp. list 24 hours 0 SE Rose St. be converted to off- Precip. from June 1 49 .49 E'BiefS Sunset tonight, 7:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:33 a.m. Loggers' Are Weather Fire danger will continue rise slowly as fair warm weather 12 Pogei ROSEBURG, OREGON DEATH SCENE Three men- inspect the West Berlin entrance of a tunnel through whioh two women ond two children escaped to the West Monday. They were fired at by East German guards, but during the shooting one East German Shot and killed another. The white cross (top left) marks the spot where he was killed. Communist guards probed for more freedom tunnels. (UPI Telephoto). Secret Army Breaks Truce; Eighteen Soldiers Injured ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI)- The Secret, Army-Organization defiant ly broke the "terror truce" in Oran today and shelled a Moslem quarter with mortar fire in that western Algerian port city. First reports said 18 soldiers were wounded in the OAS attack, seven of them seriously. It was not immediately known whether the soldiers were French or Mos lem. The attack was launched just before noon. It followed earlier statements by the OAS in Oran that it would not adhere to the truce ordered Sunday night by the European Secret Army in Algiers. In Algiers today, the truce was being obeyed so well that French authorities, for the first time in six years, completely lifted the curfew on the city. Roadblocks Withdrawn The police also withdrew road blocks from the streets and called off special antilerrorist measures which had restricted parking in downtown Algiers. No killings have been reported here in two days as an apparent result of the truce concluded Sun day midnight. Leaders of the OAS in the east ern city of Bone also rejected the truce, but there was no immedi ate report of violence there. The refusal of OAS leaders in Oran and Bone to support the truce had threatened to carry the European terror campaign into cil meets in regular session Mon day. About 50 persons attended an informal discussion on Roseburg's parking problems held in the Coun cil Chambers. The meeting was called by the cOncil to give the Roscburg Parking Association op portunity to present a request for funds and to bring city officials up-to-date on parking proposal de velopments. Aiffoffg the audience was a dele gation opposed to the parking mall proposition. Protest Mad In a calm presentation of argu ments, (the "anti's" which in pIiiHpH ftonrep SinfTlptnn. Hnrnlrl r. j nihr nmtpiirt nrh street parkEig. One opponent said street parkfiig. One opponent said XiSW !ilu,4fe 8 teH - the business district. Emil Ramberg was chicfjpokes man for the parking association. He outlined the proposal and read the state statute which allows cre- to'ation of a municipal parking lot and sets forth the manner in which such projects canMje financ - ed, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1962 the July 1 independence roferen- dUin.iy :':'., - '-'I..V V- :: In a pirate radio broadcast Monday night OAS leaders in the western port city of Oran repudi ated the agreement reached in Algiers between OAS and Moslem leaders. In the eastern city of Bone OAS leaders expressed the same defi ance with leaflets and backed it up with the explosion o' a plastic bomb and three hand grenades. The Oran broadcast dismissed the Algiers agreement as "vain and illusory." It added that the situation in Algiers was "differ ent." Split Confirmed The broadcast and the leaflets confirmed what 'had been suspect ed that there was a deep split in the OAS leadership and no one faction could control the whole organization. Despite the internal revolt, OAS leaders in Algiers appeared determined to carry through their promises to halt their terror cam paign in return for amnesty and a role in the police forces of a future Algeria. OAS spokesmen denied the Se cret Army was involved in the only incident in Algiers Monday, a $40,000 bank holdup by seven youths. There were no such denials in Oran where 10 holdups netted $19,000 Monday. The Oran OAS broadcast said "the battle goes on." Ramberg said the association's objective is to "revitalize and cre ate more business in the down town area in order to make Rose burg a more progressive town." Merchants Speak Other proponents were Georfy: West and Ray Sims, Roseburg mer chants. Sims discussed work done to date on the project and explain ed possible methods of financing by assessing the benefitted proper ty owners. West said purpose of the asso ciation's request for assistance is to hire a competent engineer who can make a professional study of the proposSl to determine whether it or sme other plan is feasible. It is the association's plan, he explained, 'd'.o create a large shop ping dowr.Oiwn shopping center to combat the growth of outlying shopping centers which are suc cessful because of free and easy parking facilities." Vote Necessary I Queried on legal aspects of the iSl - l .& cArney Paul feySrisfi tation of a municipal parking set up would require a charter amend ment setting forth procedures to follow. A charter amendment re quires a vote of the citizens. Once the amendment was effect j ed, the council would then have j authority to proceed with landgac- Canadian Government Suffers Biggest Blow MONTREAL (UPI) Prime Minister John Dicfcnbaker and the conservative party suffered a staggering 86 - seat loss in the House of Commons, but clung nar rowly to power today in Canada's 23th national election. 'We are still the government of Canada," the 66-year-old prime Court Promises Public Hearing On Boys' Camp The County Court, meeting with a delegation of 14 residents of the Myrtle Creek area, Monday cast aside any fears that a juvenile de tention camp would be built by the county in the Bilger Creek area in the near future without giving res idents a hearing. The delegation asked the court just where it stood on the matter and how far along the matter had progressed. Judge V. T. Jackson told the del egation "we haven't done any thing. We haven't decided to buy anything on Bilger Creek. "But before we do," he said, "you will have an opportunity to have your say." The delegation noted that sever al meetings in the area had been held. Speakers, whom the delega tion alluded to have been connect ed with the county Juvenile Advis ory Council, apparently indicated during these meetings that plans were already set. The delegation appeared in two erouDS. The first, consisting of four persons, Mr. and Mrs. jonn Weslwang, Mrs. Jack Norton and Mrs. Ray Norton Sr., spoke to the court in Jackson's office. Jackson explained what such a home might be but said the court hasn't adonted it. "No money can be budgeted for it' for at least another year,-" he1 said. In speaking to the entire dele gation in the auditorium, the judge said the council, to whom the land was offered for the camp, has not mentioned any type of plan to the court. Ha told the group not to worry. Youth Regains Consciousness Roscburg baseball fani and friends of Jim Wassom, 16, Amer ican Legion junior baseballer, were given a boost today with the news that he has emerged from coma. Mrs. Carl Wassom, told The News-Review today that her son "woke up" Monday afternoon and smiled at her and the nurses. He is in Sacred Heart Hospital, Eu gene. Young Wassom cannot talk yet, she said, because he still has a tube in his throat where a tracheot omy was performed. Mrs. Wassom also said ha can move his right arm a little now but not the fingers in his right hand. However, she said, he is working on them. During the afternoon Monday, she said he held up his hand so that his mother could rub it and massago his fingers. This morning he ale a breakfast of half a glass of milk and a little Jello. When he awoke Monday he was given some ice cream. While he slept well during the night, he still hasn't been removed from the critical list, his mother said. However, she hopes to see his name removed from the list soon. Mrs. Wassom said her son Is en joying the cards and letters which have been sent to hii(P dur ing his hospitalization. H recog nizes names and looks at the cards, she said. Wassom was taken to Eugene June 9 following an accident June 8 when he was hit In the head with a pitched ball. Doctors re moved two blood clots from inside his brtin and one on the outside of the brain on June 10. Purchasing Agent Planned For County A new item has been added to the 1063 budget for Douglas County under the County Court. The new item is for an adminis trative assistant with a salary of $7,000. Commissioner Elmer Mctzgcr read tbe assistant wouSS ! th the capacity of a purchasing agent. He would lake charge of general pur chasing for the Court. At first, Metzger said, the assist ant would be assigned a limited fiekfSsith the possibility of expand ing his purchasing. Mctzgcr said the Court antici pates a great savings to the county through such central purchasing. 144-62 10c Per Copy minister told a nationwide tele vision audience. He admitted he was "disappointed" by what a- mouniea to the most convincing political setback in Canadian his tory. Three ridings (districts) were In the doubtful category when vote counting stopped early today, but it appeared the conservatives would win only 117 seats in the 265-seat House of Commons. Diefenbaker could look to the 1958 conservative landslide, big gest in Canada's political history, as tfie single reason the party will hold minority control when the next parliament convenes in Sep- temDer, Liberals Gain A resurgent liberal party, head ed by 1957 Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. Pearson, 65, cap tured 99 seats to form the main opposition. The liberals gained 48 seats from the number the party held when the last Parliament was dissolved two months ago. How long the next Parliament would last was anybody s guess. Informed opinion suggested Can ada will have another federal el ection within six months. The conservatives, who held 203 House of Commons seats at its dissolution, could thank the three other parties in the election for allowing them to maintain a slim parliamentary majority. The right - wmg Social Credit (SOCRED) movement proved to be the real surprise, picking up 29 seats and rising from oblitera tion in 1958 to third place in the new Parliament. All but five of the seats were captured in the French-Canadian province of Que bec, a traditional liberal strong hold which went conservative in 1958. Followed Suggestion It appeared Quebec voters de cided to follow the SOCRED suk gestion that "you have nothing to lose." The new Democratic party, a socialist group in its first national campaign, won 19 seats, The party's jubilation was dimmed by the defeat of its national leader, T.C. Douglas, in Regina, capital of the Saskatchewan Province in which he once headed Canada's only socialist government. Voting in one riding, Stormont in eastern Ontario, was postponed until July 16 because of the liberal candidate's death. Douglas was not the only leader to fall. Four conservative cabinet min isters and Commons! Speaker Ro land Michener were removed from the government ranks. The defeated cabinet ministers are Jacques Flynn, mines; William Hamilton, post office; Noel Dor ion, state: and David Walker, pub lic works. Crews In Futile Search For Youth GOVERNMENT CAMP. Ore. (UPI) Crews worked through the night and were out again to day in the woods cast of ML Hood in a vain search for 7-year-old Clifford Altman of Portland. who has been missing since early Sunday afternoon. Almost 200 persons and every conceivable type of equipment was thrown into the search Mon day, with no results. Mountain Rescue units at Hood River. Sa lem, Ptrtland and The Dalles sent 150 men to join the search. Later 25 mounted horsemen were added, along with an Air Force helicopter from Portland and tho Brushbustcrs, a jeep unit equip ped with loud speakers. I wo bloodhounds brought In from Madras picked up the boy's trail and followed it to Clear Lake Junction, about 2 1-2 miles north west of the campgroundswhere he was last seen, but they lost the scent there. Some searchers expressed the theory that the boy might have emerged on the highway and been picked up by a motorist. Cliffords was returning to Port land from a fishing trip to Prlne- vilie witn his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Grant of Portland. The party slopped at the Bear Paw Campground, lust off U. S. Highway 26 about three miles northwest of the junction wiui Mate Highway 216. Grant said they had finished their pic nic lunch and the boy dashed off, disregarding the shouts of his grandparents. Clifford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Altman of Portland, was wearing jeans, a yellow orange sweatshirt with a hood, and tennis shoes. 9 0 a ease essoa e Oregonian Has Fire PORTLAND (UPI) - A fire broke out and smouldered in a janitor's closet in the Oregonian Building Monday afternoon. Dam age was estimated at $250. firemen were investigating the cause. It was the second firs i0 the building in lest than a week sj-rosj, W - Qz-i?L "... - PROUDLY holding the trophy whioh the Winston-Dillard fire drill team won in a waterboll contest Saturday is Mike Neeley, fire chief. The trophy was awarded by the Douglas County Firemen's Association. The contest was held on the Montgomery Ward parkina lot at noon Satur day. (News-Review Photo). Rusk In France For Europe Tour PARIS (UPI) Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived here to day for a five-nation tour of Amer ica's key allies in Western Europe and declared confidently that the solidarity of the Western alliance remains unshaken. Rusk landed at Orly Airport early this afternoon to try to set tle the nuclear argument within the NATO alliance and to seek Western European help to lighten America s foreign aid burden to underdeveloped nations. Rusk arranged to confer imme diately after his arrival here with Foreign Minister Maurice Couve dc Murvillo before a conference this evening with President Charles do Gaullo. r ' Before leaving Washington Estate Executor Gets Rose Hotel Operation of the Rose Hotel prop ertics by the Senior Citizens Land Development Co. has now been taken over by Cliff Thornton, ex ecutor of the estate of Mazie G. Smith. Thornton took over the opera tion of facilities including the hotel dining and lounge facilities. A court order, issued by Circuit Court Judge Don H.. Sanders, authorized the move "for the purposes of preserving the values thereof and pending either a foreclosure of said mortgage or the making of other satisfactory arrangements relative to the same." The order was filed June 14 with the county clerk. The move reportedly was preced ed by a default by the purchasing corporation of payments on the mortgage to the estate. Thornton noted that last Monday night, the corporation paid its em ployes and tho next day tho samo employes were continuing under his operation. No discontinuance in service gecurred in the shift. It Is understood that efforts are being made on the part of the corporation to rectify the default and renegotiate the contract. The Senior Citizens Land Devel opment Co. was formed to take over the operation of the Rose Ho tel and the Grand Hotel. The two hotels were to be converted to senior residences for retired per sons. Directors of the corporation would give no comment when con tacted about , any disruption in their plans. Mexico Visitors See Sun Pyramid Glide High School's Project 35 students seem to bo really seeing the sights in Mexico, according to special correspondent Clarence Bakkcn, one of the students mak ing the trip. Bakkcn said in a telegram from Mexico City that they visited the Aztec ruins and climbed the Pyra mid of the Sun Saturday, Sunday was highlighted by a bullfight and a visit with a bull fighter. They also visited the flea market and "floating gardens." In the afternoon they attended a Dartv Hit on hv the bilingual school. ' 'The'party and efhebuiliig?il? how ever, were dampened somewhat ny rain, he said. Monday morning they visited the University or Mexico. He states that everyone ts feeling fine and ragt they hate to leave Mexico tjiy. They were scheduled to leave for Guadalajara today. , ; -V' V shortly after midnight Rusk said the current ferment la the Atlantic alliance stemmed not from basic disagreements but reflected "a lively examination in all direc tions" of the new steps NATO must take. There arc no crncks In the basement of this solid and great edition of the Atlantic commun ity," ho said. "What wo are talk ing about is how to add another story on this great structure. Rusk listed three items as sun jects for immediate attention: Enlargement of the European Common Market by the addition of Britain. Development of nuclear stra- tegv with NATO. ' ' Relations of NATO powers to the worlds underdeveloped na tions. From Paris, Rusk will visit Ber lin, Bonn, Romo, London and Lis bon, returning to Washington June 28. In each city ho win una pron lems but probably none so great as he will find in Paris. The United States and France e at loggerheads over de Gaulle's determination to create an independent French nuclear striking force. MARLEN YODER , . . superintendent resigns Glendale School Supervisor Quits Marlon Yodcr. Glendale School District superintendent for the last five years, has resigned to take a position as superintendent of the Monmouth Independence School District, Yodcr Is well known In the coun ty, having also been the first Rose burg YMCA secretary and super intendent - principal at Camas Val ley and Days Creek. He is credited in the Glendale district with having introduced sev eral advances, Included were Intro- ducation of college mathematics class, third-year Spanith, "brief hand" and advanced biology class es. Programs in student guidance and remedial reading have also been started. This year, a full time elementary physical educa tion and junior high school girls' health class teacher began work ing to give classroom teachers more time for lesson planning and individual student help. Yoder's program for the Glen dale district next year will include an increased emphasis in tie jun ior hili iff reading ancf introduc tion of foreign language work. Ihe district during his tenure has been accredited by the North west Association of Secondary Schools, Yoder will take his new position at Monmouth-Independence July 1. The Glendale board is now seek ing applications, reports corre spondent Mrs, O. B. Fox. I ...... ..Xcr, 4,-J MifMeAtl New Salary Schedule Set For Employes By JERR CORNELL News-Review Staff Writer Operation of Dougla9 Count; during the 1963 fiscal year will come to a record $9,071,378.20 un der a budget prepared and adopt cd by the County Budget Commit tee. The budget is $780,626.80 higher than the one prepared last year and adopted by the County Court. The budget estimate for the new fiscal year will be brought up for public examination July IS at 19 a.m. in the County Court Auditor ium. The budget estimates come In twS divisions General Fund of $3,780,670.20 and tbe Road Fund of $5,290,708. Anticipated General Fund reven ue other than current taxes Is ex pected to be $3,105,010.20. Anlici-: pated Road Fund revenue is $5, 290,708. I Taxes Included Thus a balance of $675,660 is left to be raised by current taxation. However, an amount of $89,963.69 is to be added to the balance repre senting the estimated current tax es that will not be collected during . the year for which the budget ia being made. , The total then is1 $765,623.69 to be raised by tax. Tax base used in the 1961-62 budget wis $722,286.50. Adding the statutory 6 per eent increase the lax base is raised to $T65,623.69 or the exact amount needed to bal ance the budget. Commissioner Elmer Met?ger noted 'the budget Increases, in the main, reflect normal increases in operation of county functions, a few additional peasonnel and gen-. eral salary increases for all county personnel. Proect Completion Eyed , However, Metzger noted a large item in the County Parks Depart ment of $212,235. This money has been budgeted, he said, to com plete tne dredging (project at Salm on Harbor (see other story). ! The salary increases were re cently oraerea on tne neeis ot a re classification of all county person nel and jobs,. ; Judge V. T. Jackson said the re classification was something the county needed for a long time. It offers something for the employes to work for, In the way of a ca reer, he noted. At the same time. a new salary schedule was adopted which included raises for practical ly all employes. A new category was added to the General Fund for Government Food Distribution. A total of $50, 000 was budgeted for the new Item. This is the "surplus food program" which has been the subject of con siderable discussion lately. The increase in the estimated budgrt occurred in the General Fund. The Road Fund was esti mated at $5,290,708 comnanii tn that of 1961-62 of $5,456,080. The General Fund estimated for the new budget is $3,780,670.20 compared to the 1961-62 find of $2,834,669.40. Figure Climbs ' Biggest jump In the General Fund was in the Park Department where 331,543 has been budgeted compared to the 1961-62 fiscal year appropriation of $92,949. The Salm on Harbor figure ts a major rea son for the boost. The new budget has the sum of $1,500 sot for the Douglas County Historical Society under the ad vertising and publicity section. No money was budgoted for the society last year. In 1961 $5,000 was budg- otea for it. General publicity for the county is being Increased to $8,400 from $6,900. In estimated revenue for the Gen eral Fund $2,206,217 Is anticipated from the O U C grant lands and $20,000 from the Government Food Cooperative. An unexpended cash Daiance of $390,893 exists. In the estimated revenue for the Road Fund, an unexpended cash balance of $1,865,925 exists with $1,810,783 anticipated from O & C lands.. Forest Service timber sales are expected to put $1,100,000 into the fund. Budget Allows For Harbor Dredging In the estimated b'idgot for 1963 for Douglas County $212,235 has been added to the Park Depart-' ment for Winchester Bay Improve ment. Commissioner Elmer Metzger said the money would be used to complete the dredging project at Salmon Harbor, thus providing an enlarged boat basin. Fill from the dredging project will be used, he said, for base for a road. The county plans to con nect tho harbor with the county beach to the south via the road. Metzgc said the rpad will even tually connect with roads going down the coast. Also the fill will be used to form an overnight camping area at Sal mon Harbor. Commissioner Ray Doerner said Indications have been made that a large part of the growth In the county near the mouth of the Ump qua River will ba at Winchester Bay. persists over Oregon. No rain next (hrea lys, e 'j(uiiuun ana uuanciug, ne saiu. T
