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ROSEBURG, OREGON
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1962
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Three American
Airlines Avert
To Press New Test ian Plan
7
US.
SCOURGE OF FIRE compounded the massive damage
done by the explosives truck blast which rocked Roseburg
Aug. 7, 1959, in the pre-dawn hours. Firemen from miles
oway came to the assistance of Roseburg fire fighters
as fear of a second explosion from butane gas storage
tanks loomed. Although no explosion resulted, the fire
proved almost os devastating as the original blast. (News
Review Photo). . .
Three Years Ago
Hell' Broke Loose
In Downtown Area
Three years ago today Roseburg
was a smashed, smouldering sham
bles. In a matter of a couple of hours,
an explosion and fire had killed
13 people, injured more than 100
and caused damages of about $9
million. A 14th person died more
than a year later as a result of
the blast.
Today many of the scars are
still there from one of Oregon's
greatest disasters. The site of a
: junior high school is littered with
rubble. And. a four-block section
along the Southern Pacific railroad
tracks is still barren except for
weeds and isolated masses of shat
tered concrete.
Recovery Continues
It's still a bleak area, but the
efforts of recovery are moving
more quickly to cover the scar.
Rain Postpones
Playoff Series
Tonight's playoff game between
Roseburg and Tigard for the state
American Legion baseball title has
been postponed because of rain.
The two teams are scheduled to
try again Wednesday at Tigard,
weather permitting. Tonight's
game was to have been the first
outing of a best-of-five series.
Should the Roseburg diamond be
ready Wednesday, and the Tigard
field still wet, the series will be
switched to Roseburg's Legion
Field for the first two games, with
the final outings of the series be
ing played at Tigard.
Another possibility is the mov
ing of all five games to whichev
er diamond is ready if the rains
continue in either area. If the rain
continues both places throughout
the week the series will be short
ened to a best-of-three affair.
Wednesday's game is scheduled
for 8:30 p.m. (PDT) at Tigard. If
the two teams play Wednesday
the second game will be played
Thursday at Tigard, and the se
ries will be completed at Rose
burg starting Friday.
Voters At Riddle Approve
High School Bond Issue
Riddle voters Monday approved
by a comfortable majority a $293,
000 bond issue for additions to the
high school, with a vote of 158 in
favor of the issue and 107 against,
reports correspondent Erma Best.
The S37.000 measure for cafeter
ia facilities did not fare so well,
being defeated in a close vote of
134 "no" and 129 "yes." For the
time being, Riddle will remain one
of two second class districts in
The Weather
0
AIRPORT RECORDS
Moitly cloudy with occasional
showers tonioht and Wednesday.
Not much temperat:ir change.
Highest temp, last ' ours , 75
Lowest temp, last lours 58 tion. There curriculum would be
Highest tamp, any Aug. (M).. 103 ! increased to include home econom-
Lowest temp, any Aug. (54) 41 : i, shop, typing, foreign langu-
. ... n'age and eventually, art. This will
rr.c,p. .... n.,. - J?
Pr.c.p. from Aug 1
Excess fram Sept. P. ..... 2.71
Sunset tonight, 7:28 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 5:11 a.m.
New buildings have sm'une un
on every side of the blast area.
First were the Douglas Farm Rn.
reau Cooperative store and ware
house, Umpqua Valley Appliance,
a reouiit Hansen Motor (Jo. and
Robertson's Shell station. This year
a new service station at SE Pine
and Oak and the Douglas Inn Mo
tel appeared.. A new bridge from
SE Washington Ave. . over the
South Umpqua River is fast near-
uig completion and a new street
couplet is operating. Within weeks,
work is expected to start on the
Roseburg Plaza, a sparkling new
snopping center covering the site
of the Central Junior High.
The plastic surgery of progress
is rapidly fashioning a new look to
the face of Roseburg.
On the human side, three years
has seen an agreement reached on
settlement of most of the claims
at a fraction of the value of lives
and property. Even the deep per
sonal pains are growing dimmer.
Al Kuykendall, for example, is
now doing business at his new
cycle shop. Hardest hit by the
blast, he lost his shop, his wife
and a daughter. Another daughter
was hurt, and he was so painfully
injured it took 2W years to put
him back on his feet..
Hundreds of others, also, won't
forget for many years that black
Friday when a great pall of black
smoke drew the compassionate
eyes of the world to Roseburg.
Truck Explodes
Probably never to forget is
George Rutherford who drove the
truck into town Thursday night.
Aug. 6, 1959. It was loaded with
6Vi tons of explosives. He went to
the Umpqua Hotel to sleep until
morning. At about 1 a.m. Inday,
he came rushing out of bed when
he heard fire trucks. Still dressing
he ran into the street. He was still
two blocks away from Gerretsen's
Building Supply when the world
tumbled around his ears with a
roar which was heard many miles
away. A fire had started in a trash
barrel and set the building afire.
The fire moments later triggered
the explosives, pulverizing an eight
block section, shattering windows
two miles away and shaking hous
es off their foundations as far as
a mile away.
The time 1:13 a.m. Aug. 7, 1959,
started Roseburg's darkest hour.
! the county without cafeteria facil-
itites.
The $293,000 bond issue will pro
vide for additions to the remodel
ing of the present high school
building, including a shop, bus
ports, garage and a new heating
plant. Seven classrooms will be
added along with a multi-purpose
room and storage space.
On completion of the new facil
ities, the seventh and eighth grades
will be moved to the high school
site to take full advantage of spe
cialized teaching, Mrs. Best re
ports. These two grades will con
tinue to function as a separate stu
dent bodv for social life but will
share teachers, not in the same
; class periods, with the high school
in science, mathematics. English,
1 social studies and physical educa-
. as0 allow more room for lower
i grade pupils in the elementary
building
Calls for bids on the remodeling
amr construction wilPbe issued in
1 the ear fu&Q
Near Tragedies
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
Three American Airlines planes
carrying a total of 126 persons
ran into trouble Monday night.
One crashed on landing at the
Knoxville Airport but there were
no serious injuries.
bod was with American to
night," local manaaer Harvev Hal-
lock said later.
American Airlines Flight 414
from Dallas to New York was
shoved off the runway here by a
vioieni gust of wind in a thunder
storm just as it touched down.
The right wing broke off, and the
two engines on the wing burst
into flames.
An American Convair with 31
passengers and a crew of three
developed engine trouble over El-
kins, W.Va., and was forced to
return to Kanawha Airport at
Charleston, W.Va., on one engine.
An American DC6 with 21
aboard made a "precautionary
landing" at Memphis because
one engine was running rough."
Flight 414, a turbo-prop Electra.
carried 66 passengers, including
two congressmen, and a crew of
five.
Capt. Vie James, 49, Fort
Worth, Tex., a veteran of 28
years of flying,, was the pilot.
The plane hit the runway in a
blinding rain at 100 miles per
hour. The right landing gear went
off the runway as a gust of wind
caught the plane. The wheels
bogged down in the mud,, and
James could not hold It.
'One prop didn't come into
reverse right away," James said
later. "By the time it came in
we were already off the runway.
No. 3 and 4 engines on the right
wing came off and caught on
fire."
The passengers and crew scram
bled out. I i
Crash trucks speeding from the
terminal almost a mile away
rushed them back to the airline
offices.
An anxious search turned up
two minor injuries.
Two of those aboard were Reps.
Dale Alford, D-Ark., and Clifford
Davis, D-xenn.
Britain May
Send Soblen
Back To U.S.
LONDON (UPI) British gov
ernment sources today raised the
possibility that Britain might de
port Soviet spy Dr. Robert Sob
len back to the United States
rather than let him slip back to
Israel. ;
The government has given Is
rael's state-owned airline, El Al,
until midnight Wednesday to com
ply with its order to resume Sob
len s flight to New York.
The flight, from Israel, was in
terrupted July 1, when Soblen
slashed himself aboard an El Al
plane, forcing his hospitalization
in Britain.
Israel has insisted it will not
be a "party to extradition" of the
61-year-old New York psychiatrist.
It has ordered El Al to fly him
back to Israel if Britain forces
him aboard one of their planes
El Al also has refused to trans
fer the ticket to another airline.
British government sources said
that if El Al does not comply
with the directive, deportation
proceedings might be instituted
This undoubtedly would involve
a court challenge by Soblen s at
torneys and further delay or block
his return to the United Stales to
start serving a life sentence for
wartime spying.
In Washington Monday, Rep,
Francis E. Waller, D-Pa., urged
that El Al's landing privileges in
the United States be canceled if
the airline refuses to cooperate
r!TTTrrfffirlr7 I.
NEW WINSTON CITY HALL will feoture all v,ood con
struction with use of vorious types of wood paneling
obtained from local mills. The 1 800-square-foot build
ing will be located on Highwoy 42 between Glenhart ond
Rose streets ond will house all city and police offes
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$ .!. . l 4 i
STANDING HIGH on the runway at the Roseburg Airport this morning was this blimp
which had stopped to allow a change of crew. Traveling with if ore i three vehicles,
including the bus to which it is moored. Many sightseers come to. gawk at the big
machine which is powered by two 275-horsepower motors. Despite its great apparent
size it uses only Q gallons of aviation fuel an hour when in flight. (News-Review
photo by Andy Fautheree).
Man Still Missing
Foul Play Feared
In Accident Case
Mystery surrounding the where-1
ahoutji nf a former Rosehurff resi-
dent and radio personalityEugene
Lt, onannon, at, 01 ohiuiii,i was
still being Investigated today by
state police , out of Coquille and
the sheriff's department. ('
Authorities ' were probing today
the possibility the victim had met
with foul play.
Shannon was due In Roseburg
either late last Friday or early
Saturday, en route from Salem to
visit his three children being cared
for by their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. John F. Koehler at Wilbur.
Shannon's car was found near
the mouth of Smith River at the
bridge near Gardiner. The car, an
Austin make, had gone into a tidal
Lights Still On
The car is believed to have
plunged in at high tide, the water
cushioning the blow. It was only
slightly damaged. It was resting
on large boulders. The lights were
still on when found. The ignition
was turned off with the keys left
in the car, and the windows were
rolled up.
Police are studying the theory
Shannon may not have been alone,
as a hat two sizes too large tor
him was found in the car. It was
an old hat, soiled, the brim taped
to the top. It was not the type of
hat Shannon would be wearing in
his nosition as a public relations
man with the state jDepartment of
Agriculture.
Found also in the car were a
flash attachment of a small camera
and a small bag containing soiled
clothing Shannon was bringing
with him to be washed at the
Koehlers.
Shannon was known to have had
an expensive state-owned camera
in his possession. He took numer
ous pictures for the state in con
nection with agriculture. He travel
ed extensively about the state in
connection with the job he Tiad
hold since around the first part of
J er- .Tne came? has;. not
Paycheck Received
Shannon also was known to have
received a paycheck Friday and
believed to have cashed It, In a
sum in excess ot sjw.
Koehler, who with his wife are
caring for Shannon's children
Debra Mae. 5. Timothy Patrick, 3,
and Brian Paul, 16 months,, said
Shannon had said he was very
pleased with his lob, was in high
spirits and saw an interesting fu
ture. Ho has a son, 12, by a former
marriage in California.
He said that he had shown no
more than the normal grief from
the loss of his wife, who died last
Dec. 24 following an operation in
connection with burns. Her clothing
had caught fire from the backfire
of a car exhaust. Shannon was not
despondent, said Koehler. There is
a history of amnesia about 15
years ago during war service fol
lowing a head injury, but there
has been nothing since.
Shannon was known as Hap
O'Day as a radio announcer for
KYES in Roseburg, and had been
a resident here six or seven years,
going last summer to California
for several months, then taking tne
job after his wife's death.
Who Called Actress?
Element Of
HOLLYWOOD (UPI), A new
element of mystery clouded the
death of screen star Marilyn
Monroe today.
The actress' housekeeper said
Monday , Miss Monroe was dis
turbed by a mysterious telephone
call which she received the night
before she was found dead.
Mrs. Eunice Murray, the last
person to see the 36-year-old vo
os well as the council meeting room. Construction this
year is contingent on bids being within the cash on hond
allotted for the structure. Target date for tompletion i
Jaa '' .
Goodyear Blimp
Visits Roseburg
"We'ro just gypsies," says Dean
Mealy of Akron, Ohio, pilot in
charge of the 150-foot blimp which
set down at the Roseburg Airport
early this, morning.
The blimp and its crew stopped
in Bosebiirg just long enough to
rest . up before , leaving for . San
Francisco about 8:30 a.m. today
It was On its way from Seattle
where it had soared over the Se-
i attle Gold Cup races and the
World's Fair. ; , ... . r. -
He and his air and ground crew
of 11 have been touring the country
for Goodyear Rubber Co. ever
since May when they started from
Miami, Fla. The four pilots who
take turns navigating Hie big bal
loon are Mealy, Fred Leuders, Jim
Maloney and Frank Hogan. Their
home base is Akron, but they only
get there about two months of the
year. The rest of the time is spent
in public relations and advertising
work for Goodyear.
The balloon, with a capacity of
132,000 cubic feet of helium, will
go over San Francisco and Los An
geles and then head east again.
It stops, tonight at Ukiah, . Calif.
The. appearance of the big blimp
this morning drew scores of sight
seers to the airport.
Mystery Clouds Death Of Marilyn Monroe
luptuous star alive, told United
Press International she did not
know who the caller was, but
Miss Monroe "seemed disturbed
after the phone call." She did not
overhear the conversation.
Private funeral services for
Miss Monroe were to be today,
at 1 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. EDT).
No movie celebrities were includ
ed among the 40 persons invited,
a funeral director said.
Sorensen Digs
Senator Morse
SEATTLE (UPI) - Presi
dential advisor Theodore Sor
ensen took a dig at Oregon
Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse
Monday night for opposing the
administration's satellite bill.
Referring to the World's Fair
Space Needle, Sorensen re
marked, "It's impressive, but
it would seem that a larger
and sharper needle was put
into us by Sen. Morse."
The Kennedy aide added,
"Perhaps if we can't use the
satellite for communication, we
can use Morse Code."
Douglas Agrees
To Hear Appeal
Of Mrs. Duncan
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas
has agreed to hear an 11th hour
appeal today from attorneys for
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 58, con
demned to die in California's gas
chamber Wednesday.
A spokesman for the high court
hore said Douglas has set a hear
ing on the appeal for 10 a.m. PDT
at Glonwood, Wash., where he is
vacationing.
About the time the acceptance
of the appeal was announced. Mrs.
Duncan was taken from the Cali
fornia Institution for Women In
Southern California to San Quen
tln Prison where the execution is
scheduled.
. Mrs. Duncan, convicted of mur
der and sentenced to death for
hiring two men to slay her preg
j..u ; in... i 1QKO oBoiresis in aiDeria. western cu
north in a state car in the cSm-
n.nv n ton ru.tndtnl oHlcer. and
r .
Luis Moya, 28, and Augustine
Baldonadoi 23, hired by Mrs. Dun-
can V0 KUl Olga DUnCan, Siniay
were at San .Quenun. Prison. Tlief
alci am snhorilllAri M tin exeCllten
Wednesdav
The bodv of Olga Duncan was
found Dec. 21, 1958, in a shallow
fft-nve near a mountain nienwav.
She had been pistol whipped and
strangled.
The victim, wife of attorney
Frank Duncan, was lured from
her Santa Barbara apartment
Nov. 17, 1958, by Baldonado and
Moya on the pretext her nustmnd
was injured.
On March zo, wa, Mrs. uun.
can and her codefendants were
convicted and later ordered ex
ecuted. Various dates for death
have been set but appeals have
brought postponements,
TO VISIT FAR EAST
WASHINGTON (UPI) Peace
Corps Director Sargent Shrlver
will leave Wednesday for 25
day tour of corps projects in the
Far East.
The trip will take him to the
Philippines, Thailand, Malaya,
North Borneo and Sarawak.
Poet-author Carl Sandburg was!
invited to deliver the eulogy, but
there was doubt his health would
permit him.
Only A Few Invltwl
Guy R. Hockett, the managing
director of the Westwood Village
Memorial Park, said only a hand
ful of personal friends and rela
tives were invited because of the
space limitations at the "rustic
modem" Chapel of the Palms.
He said arrangements were
made Monday by Mrs. Bcrnice
Miracle, half-sister of Miss Mon
roe, and Mrs. Inez Melson, desig
nated by the conservator of the
actress estate to make the ar
rangements. Miss Monroe, who became
America's sex symbol with her
wiggily walk and sensuous figure,
was found dead shortly after
3 a.m. PDT (8 a.m. EDT) Sun
day.
Her housekeeper said she was
unable to set definitely the time
Miss Monroe retired or what time
the telephone call came.
"But knowing Marilyn as I do."
Mrs. Murray said, "I think that
if this call waked her up she
might have taken some more
sleeping pills."
A toxicologlst's preliminary re
port Monday said a lethal dose
of barbiturates was found in ex
amination, of the actress' blood.
R. J. Abcrnathy said there were
4.5 milligrams of barbiturates to
100 cubic centimeters of blood
which he described as ibout
twice the amount usually consid
ered lethal. He also said there
was no trace of alcohol in the
blood.
Didn't Identify Drug
He did not identify the type of
barbiturate, but an teipty bottle
labeled "Nembutal" was found
on Miss Monroe's nlghtstand near
her nude body on the bed.
Dean May
Seek Talks
With Zorin
GENEVA (UPI) The United
States intends to press its new
approach to a nuclear test ban
despite advance indications of a
Soviet rejection, informed sources
said today.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur H
Dean is expected to put the new
American position on record
Thursday when the three-nation
nuclear subcommittee of the 17
nation disarmament conference
meets. The othor members of the
subcommittee are Britain and
Russia.
U.S. sources said Dean mav
seek further talks with Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian
A. zorin, although no definite
meeting was set. :
Monday Zorin cold-shouldered
Dean's statement on tho new U.S.
policy regarding control of a nu
clear test ban. He made clear
that the Kremlin regarded the
U.S. shift as insufficient and hold
ing little hope for early settle
ment of the test ban question.,
The new American approach
provides for a reduction in the
number of on-site inspections
which the United States would
deem necessary to police a test
ban. It retains, however, the prin
ciple ot international control
which Russia rejects.
Zorin told the conference Mon
day that Moscow's opposition to
any form of international control
remains firm. , -
In view of Zorin's statement,
and Russia's renewal of nuclear
"i"? "l? -!.ovjSt" -Ca"
be persuaded to accept the new
u-s- 8tanS a basis for serious
Inegotiation
Dean's statement to the sub-
oimmnm, wuuiHSi won CMrcti-
no.uno iramnij u cuu-
VIIIUUIK UW Cltilll UIMUIKUCU VU11-
ference nations that the United
States is genuinely interested in
disarmament.
Dean failed to budge Zorin in
two meetings Sunday and Mon
day during which he spelled out
the key points of the new U.S.
approach worked out in Washing
ton consultations with President
Kennedy.
Car-Truck Collision
Claims Oregon Youth
PENDLETON (UPI)-A head-on
collision between a car and a
loaded cattle truck 10 miles north
east of here early today took the
life of Donald Raymond Scott, 19,
Reith, Ore.
Scott was alone in his car. po
lice said.
Driver of the cattle truck. Hen
ry Lester Winkle. Athena, was not
injured. The cattle were unhurt,
police said.
Abornathy said a full resort on
his tests would be made today.
otrs. Murray said the actress
spent most of Saturday in bed
resting.
"She wasn't III." she said, "she
was just resting."
Miss Monroe called her psychi
atrist a few hours before she was
found dead. He advised her to go
for a drive to the beach, but Mrs.
Murray said the glamorous
blonde stood at the door of her
bedroom and said, "I think we'll
not go to the beach."
These were the last words any
one is known to have heard her
say.
Miss Monroe's press agent. Pat
Newcomb, was at the house until
about 8 p.m. Saturday. ,
The housekeeper said ' the
screen star was a person plagued
by insomnia who alternated be
tween periods of depression over
her career and a happy interest
in her new home the only one
she ever owned. ;
D.pr.ssd That Night :
"I don't want to give the Im
pression that she was depressed
all the time," Mrs. Murray said,
"but she was depressed that
night. Being fired from her last
movie ("Something's Oot To
Give") was hard to take." ' i
The housekeeper said Miss
Monroe "never mentioned death"
during the time she knew her.
Mrs. Murray was the one who
called a doctor when she saw a
light under the screen star's
locked bedroom door at 3 a.m.
She said she didn't ordinarily
stay with the actress but re
turned to her own home in near
by Santa Monica every night.
She said she had stayed on for
several nights during the past
week because Miss Monroe's phy
sician did not wane her to be
lone too much.
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