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2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Frl., July 20, 1962 . : ; ; 1 ; ; . Dean Rusk Skirts Crucial Berlin Issue In Arrival Statement At Geneva Meeting GENEVA (UPD Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew here today for key East-West talks with Sov iet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko, but he carefully skirted the crucial Berlin issue in his arrival statement. Itinerant Admits 27 YMCA Fires COLUMBIA, S. C. (UPI)-A 37. year-old itinerant has told author ities here two Salem, Ore., fires were among 27 he set across the country because of a grudge against the YMCA. George Allen Walters of Mem. phis, Tenn., made the statements in testimony released here Thurs- day, but Oregon authorities said the confession may be phony. Walters said he set both the fire at Salem's YMCA Jan. 11 1962, and the fire at the Salem JSIkS uud June 4, 1961. "Boy, one of the biggest I ever set was in the "Y at Salem Ore., I guess I might as well tell you I set the elks Home there too." he told oflicers. At Salem, fire chief Robert Mills said today his department has closed files on both fires. He said the confession of Stanley Phil Yokum. now at the State Hos pital, cleared the $54,000 YMCA lire. Mills said no apparent arson was involved in the $74,000 Elks Club fire, which was attributed to a cigarette in a waste can. "I've been running all my life running from an urge to set fires," Walters said to South Caro lina officers. i "The first time I set a fire was at a children's home in St. Louis -Hawthorne Hall School; I rode off on a b l e y c 1 e," Walters said. "Maybe I was just trying to get recognition so my mother would come and get me and take me home with her." Walters was arrested last week in Charleston, S. C, and has been charged with arson. , He has confessed to setting fires in California, Texas, Oregon, Tennessee, . Indiana, Ohio and Missouri. He also has admitted a blaze in Nashville, Tenn., which caused one death. "I sometimes used a towel bomb to set fires. I used that about five or six times, he said. "My grudge against the 'Y's is because the only time I've been jailed for arson was on one I honestly didn't do. It was in Can ton. Ohio. .- "Indianapolis . - iha ;' that's the place (YMCA). I set that one in the ladies restroom. "I don't, know why I set these Ires. I don't get- a thrill from seeing the fire trucks. It's all in my mind, I guess and I need help." - ' Hospital News Visiting Hours to 3:30 p.m. and 7 to 1 p.m. Douglas Community Hospital Admitted Medical: David Angell, Mrs. Robert Francics, Mrs. Charles Shives, all of Rosebiirg; John Cor dcr, Glide. Surgery: Albert Davenport, Mrs. Jesse Marr, both of Rosebiirg; Mrs. Carl Osborn, Oakland. Discharged Eva May Burns, Brcnda Clouse, Johnny Clouse, Mrs. Hnllis Doylo JoAnn Franks, Viola Harlwig, Mrs. Charles Manning and daughter Dina Lynn, Deborah Munroc, Kar en Seiner, Mrs. Larry VanScoyk and son Dennis Allan, Marion West, nil of Roscburg; Scott Good man, Oakland; Mrs. William Ra horn, Myrtlo Crock; Georgia Rice, Eureka, Unlit.; Mrs. Kenneth Still well and daughter Eileen Annolte, Sutherlln; Mrs. Emory Thrush, Camas Valley; Karen Willis, Ten mile. Mercy Hospital Admitted Medical: Mrs. Eugene Beoudry, Mrs. Adah Knowland, both of Roseburg; Hayley Phillips, Myrtle creek. Surgery: Ben Drecse, Klin Cot. troll, Diana Mathews, Gregory htandlcy, urielle Dudley. M r s Lloyd Spring, James Spires, Eva Hubbard, Mis. Theodore Baker, all of Koscburg; Mrs. Earl Cowlcs Milo; Gale Gross, Canyonville. Discharged Mrs. George Laugrn, Mrs. Rob ert Collier, Leslie Burns, Joseph I'mard, Mrs. Fred Andrews, Mrs Sadie Von Classen, Mrs. Roger Melsncr and son Kylo Evan, Mrs George McMnhan, all of Roscburg; Mrs. hart Humgarner and son Troy Allen, Myrtle Creek. A. B. MUNROE, M. D. and GERALD L. CASEBOLT, M. D. Take Pleasure In Announcing The Association Of LEWIS H. HART, M. D. ond ROBERT KAYE, M. D. For The Practice Of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics ROSEBURG MEDICAL DENTAL CLINIC 880 S. E. Jackson Street Roseburg, Gromyko, who arrived a little more than two hours earlier, also was reluctant to discuss the Ber lin question with newsmen. Both Rusk and Gromyko con centrated their remarks on the wind-up of the 14-nation Laos Con ference, which ostensibly was the reason for their presence here. Rusk said agreement to make Laos neutral was "a good basis for its future." He pledged the United States will do all it can to insure the agreement is carried out in the spirit in which it was intended. Rusk also will attend the sign ing here of the Laos Neutrality Treaty worked out this week after 14 months of negotiations. Unlike Gromyko, Rusk did not suggest the Laos agreement was a pattern that might be applied to other areas disputed between East and West. Rusk, Gromyko and British For- eign Secretary Lord Home will have talks on major East-West issues this weekend and next week. Rusk said the Laos negotiations "have been difficult and compli cated, but with a great deal of good will on all sides, it has been possible to reach an agreement giving Laos neutrality and tnde pendence." Assault Suspect Held For Jury Jasper Thomas Osborn, 49, of Winston, has been bound over for Grand Jury action on a charge of assault while armed with a danger ous weapon. swer to the charge by District Judge Gerald R. Hayes at a pre liminary hearing Thursday. The defendant was arrested by Winston City Police Tuesday in conneciton with an incident alleg ed to have occurred at the 99 Tav ern in Winston Monday night. A complaint stated Osborn assault ed Carmack Jennings of Winston by chasing him with a knife. Jen nings was not injured. Attorney Requested Norman Arlo Jones, 25, of Rt. Roseburg, requested time to see an attorney when he appeared be fore the District Court Thursday on a charge of contributing to the de linquency of a minor. According to the complaint, the case involves a 17-year-old girl. Violet Marie Dowell, 22, of Rt. 1, Riddle, was scheduled to appear lor trial without jury in canyon vlile Justice Court today. She will be tried in connection with two separate counts charging her with furnishing alcoholic liquor to a per son under 21 years of age. Mena Kim Larceny Trial Reset For Wednesday Mena Kim, 20, of Los Angeles, will appear in Douglas County Cir cuit Court next Wednesday for trial on a charge of larceny in a store building. A bench warrant was prepared earlier this week for the woman's arrest when she failed to appear for a Monday trial date. This ac tion was reportedly dropped when the woman showed up Thursday, advising the court she failed to receive word of a change in date for the trial. The case was originally schedul ed for Thursday of this week but wns subsequently moved back to Monday. The defendant has been free on $2,000 bail pending trial. She is charged in connection with the lar ceny of $1,237.60 from the Drain Variety and Dry Goods Store. Riddle Woman Booked On Burglary Charge Doris Emerson, 45, Riddle, has been booked in the Douglas Coun ty Jail, Roscburg, on a chargo of burglary not in a dwelling. Bail has been set at $2,500. She was booked at 9:20 p.m. Thursday by sheriff's deputies and the Myrtlo Creek Police. Myrtl Creek police said she al legedly entered the Myrtl Creek Hotel coffee shop, at 11:30 p.m Wednesday, after it was closed, and took money from the till. Square Dance Canceled The Buckcroo Square Dance Club has canceled Its regular Saturday night dance for this week only be cause ot the stale square danco fes tival to be held at McMlnnvllle Saturday and Sunday. Regular dances will resume Sat urday, July 26. Oregon "This is a good basis for the future of Laos, and we wish her well," Rusk said. Among subjects also up for dis cussion among the ministers will be the lack of progress towards a nuclear test ban treaty at the Disarmament Conference. Shortly befcre the Soviet foreign minister arrived, the three-nation nuclear test ban subcommittee of the Dis armament Conference met for an hour and half without making any progress. When he landed, Gromyko wel corned the Laos agreement at "important for peace in Southeast Asia." Negro Adoption Hits Criticism CARLSTADT, N.J. (UPI)- Opinions of neighbors seethed to day against a white couple who wants to adopt a 6-year-old Ne grn orphan. Owners . of respectable stucco and clapboard homes on Hacken sack St. of this small Bergen County community opened their comments about Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Sandberg with, "Now, I'm not prejudiced, but. . ." A random sampling of their opinions revealed much bitterness toward the appliance dealer and his 'Wife because of the proposed adoption of Michael Eley, whose mother died January, 1981. The Sandbergs have two mar ried children and two live at home Arthur, 20, and Carol, 16. Many Neighbors Object "We have to know . how the community in which the child would grow up will accept it, aid cicjah ' L tn N.ew Jers?y Board of Child Welfare, who asked not to be identified. But many of the Sandbergs' neighbors object to the adoption. "He's ruining our property values," one irate neighbor said. "This used to be an all-white town before he brought Negro families in. It was known for that. Now he wants to adopt one. One time he had 26 cats here. He does a lot of strange things." Have Reservations Sandberg, 58, and his wife Doris have rented the three apartments in their house to Ne gro families. The Negroes also seem to have reservations about the adoption. "I don't see anything wrong now, but who can tell what can happen in the future," . said Mrs. Sophie Smith, - 30, who occupies tho second-floor apartment. Mrs. - Lottie Royal was more outspoken. "I think it's peculiar," she said. "There are so many little white children who need homes, why adopt a colored child?" Cruising School Set For Employees Of BLM Tha Roseburg office of the Bu reau of Land Management has scheduled a crusing school for its employes next week, beginning Monday. Twenty trees will be cruised on a timber sale area near Drain being logged by Woollcy Lumber Co. After the trees ore felled, buck ed and opened up, the logs will be scaled for net content as a check against the standing tree cruise. The Dravi company has been co operating with the bureau in this project with its forester, Bud Low ell, assisting. Private cniisers are invited to cruise these check trees. Anyone interested may obtain plot location maps ot the BLM office at 2583 W. Harvard Ave. The plot should he cruised before July 27 when fell ing of trees occurs. Police Book Driver For Part In Accident Roseburg stale police hooked Troy Vance Coady, 57, of 1532 NW Fairmont St., Roscburg, in the county jail following a molor ve hicle accident on NW Garden Val ley ltd. and Fairmont St. Thurs day. He was booked at 5:15 p.m. on a charge of driving while under tho influence of intoxicating liquor. Bail was set at SHOO. According to police, Coady was driving a 1SHJ2 sedan and was enter ing Garden Valley Hd. from tho driveway of the Wagon Wheel Res taurant at 3:50 p.m. His car ram med into the side of a 1954 sedan heading west on Garden Valley. Impact was in tho westbound lanes. Driver of the second car was Walter Dale Clark. 24, of 951 NW Kcasey ltd., Roseburg. He had in his car as passengers, Helen Clark, 20. and George Pond, 61. There were no Injuries. ! No Rain In Sight The five-day weather outlook for : western Oregon, according to the I Weather Bureau station at the ' Roseburg airport, calls for temp eraturrs averaging near normal Uttlf or no precipitation is ex pected. DU PONT '501' Nylon CorptU Anil Quality Wool Corpttl BOB ALLEN FLOOR COVIR.INO Phono OR 2-1501 z o- SURVIVOR of a sky-diving attempt in which her para chute didn't open, Lois Ann Frotten, 20, is comforted by her mother, Mrs. Frances Frotten of Brewster, Mass., at Cape Cod Hospital. Miss Frotten, a Hyannis, Mass., telephone operator, was making her first jump Wednes day when her parachute tangled. She landed in a loke with a big splash and only facial cuts. (UPI Telephoto). Top Man Advises: People Aren't Mailable Even When They're Male WASHINGTON (UPI) Post master General J. Edward Day regretfully advised a young lady Wyoming today that it is against the rules to mail a male. A teen-age girl in Rawlins. Wyo., had sought Day's help in arranging a summer visit from her boy friend in Illinois. In a letter to the postmaster general, she said: 'Would you please tell me if It it is possible and lawful to mail oneself? ' Compulsory Auto Insurance Attacked Arguments against compulsory auto insurance were presented by Phil Meagher, local insurance agent, in -a talk before the Rose burg Lions Club Thursday night. Meagher pointed out that in the three stales Massachusetts,. New York and North Carolina where compulsory insurance - exists to day; insurance rates are almost double those in Oregon, and nu merous problems have arisen. Principal opposition arguments he gave are that (1) Oregon in sured motorists already have much better protection against uninsur ed motorists than any compulsory law could give; (2) compulsory auto insurance fails to provide the protection it promises; (3) costs are much higher under compuls ory; (4) taxes increase to pay for Duroaucrauc red tape; (5) enforce ment is costly; (6) compulsory tends to put the state In the insur ance Business; (7) compulsory in surance actually results in less pro tection for motorists. Berta May Royce Funeral services for Berta Mav Royce, 82, who died Wednesday at ine nonic ot her son, Vcrnen Wil liams in Tri-Clty, will be held Sat urday at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of Gonz Mortuary In Myrtle Creek. The Rev. Richard Rohrbaugh of the Tri-Ctty Presbyterian Church will omciate. Following services, the remains will be taken to the Siskiyou Me morial Park in Medford for cre mation and inurnment. She was born Oct. 21, 1879, in Columbus, Ohio. She had been a resident of the Myrtle Crock area since 1952, moving there from Portland. She formerly lived in litendale and was a member of the Presbyterian Church there. She was a past noble grand of the Glendale Rebekah Lodge. Her hus band, Charles P. Royce, preceded her in death in 1952. ' Survivors besides her son in elude one granddaughter, M r s Kathcrine Martin of North Bend: a grandson, Robert Williams of Portland; and one great grand child. HME oaivjs No appraisal fee. Fait, low colt loam to build, buy, refinance or remodel. See Equitable. Ask about A.P.O. home loan protection. SAVINGS lO.W 4IIOtlt,N Ollill, ttrtnt, 0riM ' I. I. JltklM "The reason is, my boy friend and my girl friend's boy friend live in Illinois, where we used to live. Our fathers were transferred here to Wyoming. "Our boy friends want to come and see us before they go away to college this fall. But we know how hard they have worked in or der to save the money to even start college. The cost by train, round trip, is almost $100. We have found that bus is about the same. "If It is possible to mail one self, would it be cheaper? If so, how much less? Also, how would you go about it?" The girl added that she was taking her postal problem to the top man because the . local post office seemed disinclined to take her inquiry seriously. The postmaster general, who has two teen-age daughters of his own, replied sympathetically. "I am sorry that the Post Of fice Department cannot help you," he wrote, "but people are n't mailable even when they're male. Plummer Checks Medford System Earl Plummer. the Countv Court's new administrative assist ant, will travel to Medford Friday to observe the operation of t h e Jackson County purchasing office. Plummer, who took over the newly-created post of administra tive assistant Monday, will make the trip with James Slattery, coun ty planning coordinator. Duties of administrative assist ant will include purchasing for the county. The Jackson County oper ation, Plummer said, has been in operation for some time. He will check over its operation and ex periences. Slattery is scheduled to meet with the Jackson County planning coordinator. The o Senate Okays Foreign Aid Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) - The senate today approved 56-27 t compromise $4.67 billion foreign aid authorization bill stripped of three foreign policy restrictions opposed by the Kennedy admini stration. The measure now goes to the House for final congressional ac tion. It was worked out Wednesday night by House-Senate conferees. They dumped two administration opposed restrictions written . into the original legislation and took the more flexible House approach toward aid to Communist nations. The vote came after a brief final flurry of debate, in which Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., assured Sen. Stuart Symington. D-Mo.. that the objective of a Senate restriction on aid to India would be carried out by the administration al though it was not spelled out in the compromise bill. There also were last-hour com plaints about the provision which lets the President continue aid to such countries as Yugoslavia and Poland if he finds it to be in the national interest. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. said the administration is crack ine down roughly on a new mili tary dictatorship in Peru but is going ahead witn am to a torn munist dictatorship" in Yugo slavia. Symington sponsored a Senate provision which would have limited aid to India to the amount allotted during the past fiscal year about $727 million. The ad ministration had wanted to alio cate about 10 per cent more dur ing the coming year although no exact figures were given. The con ferees scrapped the provision on grounds that the bill should not single out individual nations. Humphrey assured Symington that the "objective of our bill will be fulfilled by the Ad ministration. News On Churchill Relayed By Telstar NEW YORK (UPI) (From Lon don Via Telstar Satellite) Sir Winston Churchill is his old grumbling self again, a sure sign the forme; prime minister is making a sound recovery from his broken thigh and may be ready to go home from the hos pital within the next few days. The reoort on Churchill's con dition came in a Telstar-relayed telephone call from London, placed by Daniel F. Gilmore, European news editor of United Press International, and received here by Francis T. Leary, UPI managing editor. ... . The telephone conversation was one of several that took place Thursday during the first demon stration of multiple telephone calls relayed by Telstar. . The United States also transmuted via Telstar the first color televi sion to Britain. A total of 24 calls four at a time were made while the Telstar satellite whirled on its 87th orbit 3,000 miles overhead at a speed of 16,000 miles per hour between the northern coast of South America and Africa. (A few hours after this latest breakthrough in communication via Telstor, there came a criti cism from Moscow charging that the U.S. Telstar satellite has turned outer space "into a sphere of rivalry among the capitalistic vultures." (The accusation was made by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia which told its readers that Russia transmitted a televi sion image through space in 1950, three years before the United States.) IT PAYS TO PATRONIZE NEWS-REVIEW ADVERTISERS that goes around acting like an Pontlac it vm ufiu mt?m itarwr iiw Ill TOlM LOCAL AUTHOftlZIO POKTiAC ROSEBURG ROSE & WASHINGTON STS. Settlement Of Seen Possible WASHINGTON (UPI) - Amid predictions a settlement may be close talks between contractors and iron workers continued until the early morning hours to day and then resumed at 10 a.m. Rep. Edith Green, u-ore., saia she was advised by the Labor Department that a settlement could come today. Mrs. Green said a member ot the department who sat in on the talks told her the talks already have settled "all the issues ex cept one wages." Railroad Union Heads Set Meet CLEVELAND, OHIO (UPI) Railroad union presidents decided today to hold another meeting to discuss what action to take against railroad management's plans to dismiss 13,000 firemen. The unions issued a joint state ment saying another meeting would be held to consider what course to take. The union leaders have not commented so far on the possibility of a nation-wide strike against the railroads. The union officials said they had begun a study "of the 40-page ultimatum served on us by the carrier conference committees." The statement added that be cause of the "many aspects in volved," the rail leaders will hold another meeting, the time and place to be decided later. Attending the meeting were H.E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen; Roy E. Davidson, grand chief engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, and Neil P. Speirs, presi dent of the Switchmen's Union of North America. Also present were rcpresenta fives of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men. The railroads announced this week they would invoke the rec ommendations of a presidential commission on railroad work rules which would eliminate the jobs of 13,000 firemen. The action would become effective Aug. 16 The unions legally could call a strike the same day the work rules go into effect. However, any walkout could be delayed 60 days if President Kennedy summoned an emergency fact-finding board. Police Alter Plans Of Fair-Bound Boys PORTLAND (UPI) Two California boys, ages 13 and 14. have run afoul of the law here in their plans te see the Seattle World's Fair. Donald E. Darrell. 14. of Wood land and Kelly L. Rife, 13, of Modesto, told police they caught a ride with a truck driver i n Woodland Tuesday night. They rode all the way to Salem, where they got another ride to Portland Thursday. They were picked up Thursday and Seattle Railroad officers as they were trying to "hop freight" to Seattle. One boy said he had $6 with him when he left home. He said he bought a pair of shoes for $4 and the truckers bought them meals. The boys are being held in the county juvenile home for their parents. Car Equipment- Stolen Douglas James Tudor Jr. of 727 SW Luellen Dr., Roseburg, report ed to city police the theft of equip ment from his car while it was parked in front of his house be tween 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. Thursday. He reported a five-ton hydraulic jack taken along with a three-bar flipper hub cap with a check back ground, and a gearshift knob. Tempest nimi mn ftn. ttr Nrrai a. 01 AIM POft NtW-ACTING USEO CAM, TOO. MOTOR CO. ROSEBURG Iron Strike For Today The sessions were held behind closed doors. But observers saw a hopeful sign in the fact that the talks were continuing late in to the night and resuming again in less than eight hours. The sessions are aimed at end ing an iron workers strike that started in the northwest nearly two months ago. The record Ore gon construction dispute has stal led many projects, uonsimcuon also has slowed to a crawl in the Seattle and Spokane regions. The talks here started Wednes day and ran until about 5:30 a.m.. EDT, Thursday, iney resumed again Thursday morning, contin ued until 2:30 a.m. today, and started again at 10 a.m. this morning. Special mediator jonn uumop, presiding over the talks, imposed a news DlacKOut. ine two sioes were scheduled Thursday to have started tackling the major stumbling block to an agree-, ment wage and benefit in creases. The union is represented by a six-man regional negotiating com mittee with members from Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma.: Contractors are repre sented by negotiating teams from the same (reas. ' The union, which maintains that northwest iron workers are among the most poorly paid in t h e na tion, is seeking t wage-benefit in crease of about 58 cents an hour. DFPA Crews Extinguish Rock Creek Dump Blaze The Douglas Forest Protective Association was called on Thurs day to extinguish a fire at the old Rock Creek garbage dump near the North Umpqua Highway. DFPA officials stated the fire burned one-quarter acre of rubbish before' being controlled. No dam age was reported. The Rock Creek warden and headquartrs crew handled the fire. The dump has been closed for some time. Assault Charge Nets 30-Day Jail Sentence James Earl Roberson, 23, of 4937 Golden Ave., Roseburg, Thursday was fined $100 and costs and sen tenced to 30 days in jail on a charge of assault and battery. He appeared before Dist. Judge Gerald R. Hayes for imposition of sentence. Tuesday the court return ed a verdict of guilty on the charge but Judge Hayes deferred impo sition of sentence. - Roberson was charged with as saulting and beating Dale L. Bow man on June 23. '. River Swimmer At The Dalles THE DALLES (UPI) Dis tance swimmer Spencer Campbell planned to make a grand entrance here today as part of his 557 mile swim from Orofino, Idaho, to Astoria. Campbell was pulled from the water behind The Dalles Dam at 1 a.m., after swimming about 20 miles from the junction of t h a John Day and Columbia Rivers. He planned to re-enter the water near the dam this morning and swim down the Columbia to The Dalles, where Mayor John Howe and other city officials were to greet him. County Court Calls For Stockpile Bids The County Court has called for bids on 16,000 cubic yards of var ious sized crushed mineral aggre gate for the county stockpile near Elkton. Bids will be opened by the Court Aug. 1 at 10:30 a.m. Contract, when awarded, will call for a completion date of Nov. 1.
