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MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963 ROSEBURG, OREGON
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docad Mishaps Claim Two
n County veir Weekend
FATAL CRASH One of two automobile accidents which ended in death for motorists
in Douglas County is shown above. Kenneth Richord Olson, Gardena, Calif., wos killed
when his northbound vehicle blew a tire and went out of control near the North Oakland
junction. A passenger, William Frank Woolman of Eugene is in Douglas Community
hospital in fair condition. (News-Review photo)
Kennedy Sends U.S. Troops
In Birmingham Race Riots
(Sm Story Page 2)
By ALVIN SPIVAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi
dent Kennedy kept federal troops
poised in the vicinity of Birming
ham, Ala., today to move against
any new outbreak of racial vio
lence in the strife-torn city.
The President sent military riot
control units to bases near Birm
ingham Sunday night and said
"This government will do what
ever must be done to preserve
Australia Welcomes
Pert Lady Aviatrix
BRISBANE. Australia (UPI) -
Sirs. Betty Miller, 36. the Santa
Monica, Calif., housewife who be
came the first woman to fly alone
from California to Australia, rest
ed here today in preparation for
a return flight by commercial air
liner. Airs. Miller was greeted Sunday
night by about 3.000 persons who
rushed onto the runway when she
landed on the final lap on her
7,000-mile solo flight. The crowd
gathered around the twin-engined
plane and sang "for She's A Jolly
Good Fellow."
The freckle - faced housewife,
tired but cheerful stepped out of
the cockpit in a pink-and-white
checkered frock.
Moments of Anxiety
She admitted to some "moments
of anxiety" when one engine start
ed to run rough after she had
passed the point of no return on
the final 780-mile flight from Nou
mea, on the island of New Cale
donia. "I radioed the Air Traffic Con
trol Center to tell them of the
trouble but the engine kept go
ing." she said.
The Department of Civil Avia
tion at Brisbane alerted two planes
to stand by in case of emergency,
but a spokesman said this was
strictly precautionary.
"We didn't tell Mrs. Miller be
cause we did not want to alarm
her." he said.
The aviatrix had made an un
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order, to protect the lives of its
citizens, and to uphold the law of
the land.
He also directed that a procla
mation and executive order be
drafted so that he could order the
Alabama National Guard into im
mediate fc-leral service if violence
erupts again.
But Kennedy said he hoped "the
citizens of Birmingham themselves
will maintain standards of respon
sible conduct that will make out-
scheduled three-hour stop at Nou
mea when she ran into heavy
headwinds on the flight from Suva,
Fiji.
"It was a long flight and I'm
pretty tired but I'm happy and re
lieved to be here," Mrs. Miller,
said. "I wasn't really worried
about the engine trouble. It didn't
take long to rectify itself.
"The only time I was really
worried was on the flight from
Honolulu. I had to be over that
ocean station halfway to Honolulu
in 10 hours or turn back. I made
it in 9'? hours.
Phones Husband
The first thing the aviatrix did
when she got to her hotel here
was talk by telephone with her
husband, Charles, in Santa Moni
ca. It was he who taught her to
fl.v.
Mrs. Miller left Oakland. Calif.,
April 30. Total elapsed flying time
for the trip was SI hours. 38 min
utes. She said she planned to rest
in Brisbane for a few days before
taking a commercial flight home
via Sydney. ,
She was ferrying the $50,000
plane to a new owner in Australia.
She made stops at Hawaii, Canton
Island, Fiji and New Caledonia.
Mrs. Miller flew approximately
the reverse of the course taken
by American flier Amelia Karhart
when she and copilot Fred Noon
an disappeared on the way from
Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Is
land in the Central Pacific in 1937,
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side intervention unnecessary."
He appealed to both white and
Negro citizens of the city to "re
alize that violence only breeds
more violence." He said that the
federal government would not per
mit "a few extremists on either
side" to sabotage an agreement
reached between leaders of the
two races.
The President ordered Asst.
Atty. Gen. Burke Marshall, who
helped work out the agreement on
integrating facilities in the city,
back to Birmingham to consult
with local citizens.
It was a solemn, unsmiling
President who read the statement
to newsmen announcing that, for
the second time, he had ordered
federal troops into a Southern
state because of racial rioting.
He sent U.S. marshals and Army
troops into Oxford, Miss., last fall
to enforce a federal court order
admitting Negro James H. Mere
dith to the University of Missis
sippi. Two men were killed during
riots An the campus.
No Court Order Involved
No court order was involved in
Birmingham. In dispatching troops
to Alabama, Kennedy acted under
U.S. law dating back to Recon
struction days giving him power
to put down "domestic violence"
if citizens are deprived of consti
tutional rights.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace
challenged the President's author
ity to send the troops. He said
Alabama had not requested out
side aid, and enough state and
local forces were available to han
dle the situation.
The military units were en route
to Alabama even as Kennedy j
made the announcement. Units ,
were sent to Maxwell Air Force
Base at Montgomery, 80 miles
south of Birmingham, and to Ft.
McClcllan. located about 40 miles
away near Annislon.
Numbtr Not Indicated
Secrecy surrounded the troopispect to four former members of
movements, but sources said ele
ments involved might include men
from the 101st Airborne Division
at Ft. Campbell, Ky., the 2nd In
fantry Division at Ft. Benning,
Ga or the 82nd Airborne Division
at Ft. Bragg. N.C.
Kennedy said he had ordered expelled or transferred earlier.
Defense uocrctary Robert S. Mc-I A U. S. Embassy spokesman
Namara to dispatch units "trained said that "While the embassy in
in riot control." Military sources I no way accepts any allegations
said such training is given to most ' that any officers have behaved
divisions. in a manner incompatible with
There was no indication of how; their official standards, it can only
manv troops were being sent into accede to the U.S.R.R. govern
lahama. An estimated 23.000 ; ment decision not to permit Mont
.roops and federalized National gomery to resume his position
Guardsmen were used to protect here."
Meredith and restore order at Ole ! The British official ordered to
jli,, ,leave is embassy Second Sccre-
' Government sources said that the ! Gervase Cowell. His wife,
President and his advisers did not I 1 named in the
consider sending U.S. marshals to note. I he other Britons already
Birmingham as was done at Ox-1 "') left .Moscow,
ford. Thev said the Birmingham j The Soviet notes were delivered
rioting was considered to be com-jtv ter former Soviet
pletcly different in character than scientific official Oleg Penkovsky,
that in Mississippi.
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS ,
Mostly fair through Tuesday,
much temparature change.
Highest tamp, last 24 hours
Lowest tamp, last 24 hours
Highest tamp, any May (St) .
Lowest tamp, any May (54) ...
Pracip. last 24 hours
Pracip. from May I
Normal May Precip
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Normal Pracip. 1 to S-t
Pracip. from Sept. I
Suntat tonight, 7:21 p.m.
SunriM tomorrow, 4:51 a.m.
Week-Long Manhunt
Ends With Suicide
Of Leading Suspect
FLORA, Ore. (UPI) A week
long manhunt in the wilds of
northeast Oregon ended Sunday
when slaying suspect Billy Evans,
44, shot and killed himself at his
cabin after wounding his cousin,
state police reported.
Evans had been sought since
last Monday night for the fatal
shootings in Clarkston, Wash., of
Mrs. May Griner, 40, Clarkston,
and William Gerry, 40, La
Grande.
State Police Sgt. David Brizen
dine said Evans shot himself after
a group of officers closed in while
firing a barrage of shots at the
cabin for cover.
The cousin, Amos Evans, 60,
Enterprise, was wounded in the
left side of his face and was listed
in critical condition at a hospital.
Billy Evans had been spotted
last week, but searchers lost his
trail.
Account Given
Sgt. Brizendine gave this ac
count: Amos Evans and other relatives
had lunch at another cabin in the
area and then went to the sus
pect's cabin, thinking he might
surrender if he were there.
Scientists Plan Orbital Flight
Despite Threat Of Bad Weather
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI),
Scientists moved ahead confl-
dently today with plans to send
astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36,
on America s most ambitious
space journey Monday despite a
threat of bad weather.
"As of this time preparations
for the attempted launch are con.
tinuing," a federal space agency
spokesman laid at a weather
briefing.
Soviets Oust
U.S. Diplomat
In Spying Case
MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet
Union today ordered the expulsion
of one American and one British
diplomat for alleged complicity in
Hie espionage case that resulted
in a death sentence for a Soviet
official and imprisonment for
British businessman
In a note delivered to the U.S.
Embassy, the Soviet Union also
declared three former embassy
members allegedly implicated in
the case personna non grata (un
welcome). Similar action was taken in re-
the British Embassy here
The American ordered expelled
is embassy Security Officer Hugh
Montgomery 39, Springfield, Mass.
He is the only American named
in the Soviet note still assigned
to Moscow. The others had been
t. i, Yi so iiu iivlu w ISU aiiui I'J m
firing squad for passing secrets
to an Anglo-American spy ring.
His British accomplice, Greville
Wynne, 42, was sentenced to eight
years deprivation of liberty.
! In addition lo Montgomery, the
Americans branded unwelcome I
were former Second Secretary j
William Jones. I' apt. Alexis Davi
son, former doctor and assistant
Air Force attache, and Hodney
" Carlson, who was agricultural at
.... 2 tjche.
0 The note also referred to for
. l.t mer embassy archivist Richard
LIS Carl Jacob, who was expelled for
29.M alleged espionage activities last
32.W November.
1 Montgomery, while still assigned
here, n curre tiy on vacation.
Amos Evans took three or four
steps up a stairway and was
struck in the face by a blast of
gunfire from the attic. He did not
see the suspect.
He made his way outside and
was rushed to an Enterprise hos
pital by other relatives.
State Police officers D. A. Nel
son and Dean Harrison and Sher
iff Mark Marks of Wallowa Coun
ty closed in on the cabin, firing
shots for cover. They called for
Evans to roue out and he replied
"come and get me." An officer
said he would be given to the
count of three and Evans (aid
"don't rush the matter."
Then a shot and a shrill scream
were heard from inside the cabin.
Evans' body was found inside.
Both Evans, who lived in a
trailer house at Lcwiston, Idaho,
and worked for a feed firm there,
and Gerry, a La Grande carpen
ter, had dated Mrs. Griner, a di
vorcee, police said.
The bodies of Mrs. Griner and
Gerry were found at Mrs. Grincr's
home last week. A warrant charg
ing Evans with murder had been
issued at Asotin, Wash.
Cooper, an Air Force major, is
scheduled to lift off Tuesday
'morning on' a planned 22-orbit
voyage that would far surpass
three previous orbital flights by
Americans.
Foul weather could delay his
trip one day or possibly longer.
The first half of a "split count
down" for the flight was com
pleted at 7 a.m. PDT today. This
consisted essentially of preparing
the launch facilities and equip
ment to be used in the 34-hour
flight.
If all goes well, the second half
of the countdown will begin short
ly after midnight tonight.
Clouds Over Florida
The spokesman for the National
Aeronautics and Space adminis
tration said, "The extended period
of clear skies over Florida is com
ing to an end. ..and it now seems
quite certain that morning cloudi
ness (Tuesday) over Cape Canav
eral will cover at least half of the
sky, with some periods during the
morning having nearly overcast
conditions."
NASA officials expressed confi
dence that the clouds would clear
away sufficiently to permit the in
tense camera and tracking neces
sary for the blastoff sometime be
tween 6 a.m. and 8:30 PDT.
The weather in the primary re
covery area in the Pacific near
Midway Island remained gentle
"partly cloudy with scattered light
showers and moderate to fresh
winds along with moderate seas.
Improving sea conditions are ex
pected by the end of the 22nd or
bit." Cooper planned a relatively
quiet day today.
Reviews Star Charts
He was scheduled to make at
least one simulated flight in a
Mercury procedures trainer and
later review star charts and tech
nical information.
The astronaut was to meet with
Mercury Project leaders late to
day for what was described an
"informal briefing" on the flight.
A spokesman said the discus
sion would cover everything from
the status of the Atlas rocket that
will boost Cooper into the sky at
a speed 'f 17,500 miles per hour
to the recovery plans.
Hakanson Quits
Harrisburg Post
John Hakanson. former Canyon-
ville High School principal, will re
sign his position ai union high
school district superintendent at
Harrisburg.
Hakanson has advised the school
hoard he will resign to enroll in
n,e graduate sehool nf tho Univer.
sity of California at Berkeley. He
plans to work on a doctor of educa
tion degree.
The former county resident grad
uated from Oakland High School
in 1937. He taught at Myrtle
Creek High School In 1954-56 and
was principal at Canyonville 1956
59 just prior to taking the post at
Harrisburg.
His resignation at Harrisburg
become! effective June 10.
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GALEN MOREY
. . . colonel cited
Roseburg Army
Officer Cited
Lt. Col. Galen C. Murcy of the
U. S. Army has been cited at
Sandia Base in Albuquerque, N.M.,
for services he performed while
assigned as plans officer for the
Field Command of the Defense
Atomic Support Agency.
A native of Mcdford, he is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Collom,
now living in Roseburg. He is a
1935 graduate of Roseburg High.
He Inter attended the University
of Oregon.
The colonel began his duty tour
at the Sandia joint command in
stallation in January 10. His first
assignment was as chief of the.
Manpower and Control Section of
the Field Command, where he scrv
cd until his transfer to the Plans
Office.
Under "Operation Bootstrap,"
the colonel is presently attending
the University of Omaha, Neb., to
complete requirements for a de
gree. At the end of the six-month
course, he will receive a bache
lor's degree in general education,
majoring in military science. He
will then return to Sandia for re
assignment.
VA Volunteers
Honored Sunday
An estimated 400 persons attend
ed a "Hospital Day" program stag
ed Sunday at the VA Hospital in
Roseburg.
The afternoon program featured
presentation of awards to citizen
participants in the VA Voluntary
Service (VAVS) program Top
award the "silver howl" for
10,000 hours service went to
Mrs. Cora Carlson, who assists
the VAVS as Veterans of Foreign
Wars Auxiliary representative.
Mrs. Carlson is the first person to
achieve the 10,000 hour service
mark at the local facility.
The "gold emblem," for 5,000
hours service, went to Mrs. Eliza
beth Hogan. Roth awards were
presented by Dr. Frank F. Mcrk
er, hospital director. Recognition
certificates went to several other
volunteers who have notched var
ious levels of accumulated service.
Program speaker was Harris
Ellsworth, who discussed the his
tory and development of the hospi
tal. Preceding the awards pro
gram, the Fremont Junior High
School Band, with Ray Moore di
recting, gave a band concert.
Alut 200 persons participated in
tours of the hospital. Officials said
the program was attended by vol
unteer workers, resident! and rela
tives of patients.
Boys' Joyriding Ends
In Wild Police Chase
A joy ride in a 1902 Lincoln auto
mobile for two 14-year-old Rose
burg boys ended in a police chase,
including the firing of a gun by
one of the officers Saturday night.
The automobile waa owned by
Verne Reynolds, who reported it
stolen from his home at 809 SE
Main St. The car was observed a
short time later by a cruising city
policeman on SE Mosher Ave. He
gave pursuit. The boya abandoned
the car and started running.
The officer gave chase, and was
joined by another who fired a cou
ple of warning shots to halt the
fleeing boys. They then were taken
into custody and held for juvenile
officers.
The boys told police Uiey were
Just going to drive the car around
town for awhile, thee return it.
While the police car wis parked
behind that of the stolen tehMe,
it rolled forward and damaged the
bumper of the latter ihghtly.
Umpqua Hotel Employe,
California Man Killed
In Separate Crashes
Highway accidents in Douglas
County over the weekend took the
lives of two persons and two oth
ers are in hospitals reported in
critical condition, state police re
port. This brings to four the highway
deaths in Douglas County this year.
Two other Oregon deaths were
reported for the weekend.
Mrs. Rhcta Ellen Gough, 47, of
1229 SE Mill St., Roseburg and
Kenneth Richard Van Ness, 23,
Gardena, Calif., were killed in sep
arate one-car accidents on Inter
state 5 north of Roseburg, Sunday.
Mrs. Gough'i husband, George
Keith, 45, is in Sacred Heart Hos
pital, Eugene, in critical condition.
The condition of Anna Ella Park
er, 67, Sutherlin, was reported as
"poor" from Douglas Community
Hospital, and that of her husband,
William Rufus Parker, 68, as fair.
They were injured Sunday about
4:30 p.m. near Briggs Camp on
Big Camas Road, when the west
bound vehicle, operated by Parker,
went out of control at the end of
Police Chief,
Man Injured
In Gunfight
RAINIER. Ore. (UPI) Rainior
Police Chief Don Allen and a
Portland man were wounded in a
gunfight at a tavern here early
today. ,
. Allen was reported in satisfue
tory condition at St. John's Hos
pital in Longvlow, Wash. He was
shot in the neck.
Gerald Macombcr, 40, Portland
was listed in fair condition at Co
lumbia District Hospital in St.
Helens with bullet wounds in the
side and one arm.
(Sheriff Roy Wilburn of Colum
bia County said he was investi
gating to see if Alacomber was
the same Gerald Macombcr who
was captured in Southern Oregon
in the fall of 1052 after an escape
from the state penitentiary. Peni
tentiary records at Salem showed
this Macombcr was paroled Oct.
19, 1961.)
Allen was called to the Stop-In
Tavern shortly after 4 a.m. when
tavern owner Mrs. AI Diss heard
noises over an intercom syr.lem
connecting the establishment with
her home.
The chief said he surprised a
man and a woman inside the tav
ern. The man opened fire, wound
ing Allen, who returned the shots.
The intruders then fled, but St.
Hclnns police took Macombcr and
Donna Hedges, Portland, into cus
tody on U.S. Highway 30 half a
mile north of that city. The wom
an was being held at St. Helens.
CASTRO IN ASIA
MOSCOW (UPI)-Tourlng Cu
ban Premier Fidel Castro has ar
rived in the central Asian city of
Bratsk, Moscow Radio reported
today.
Castro arrived in tho Soviet Un
ion last month for a visit that
has taken him through thousands
of miles of Soviet territory.
Millions Of Copper Fibers
Orbited In New Space Test
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Millions
of tiny copper fibers were begin
ning to disperse in a polar orbit
around the earth today as part of
a controversial Air Force commu
nications experiment.
The Air Force announced Sun
day that a canister containing the
400 million needles called dipolc
were dumped from satellite
launched Thursday from Point Ar
guello, Calif.
Radar sightings show the fibers,
each about one-third the diameter
of a human hair, are beginning
to spread. They are expected to
fan out into a narrow ring about
the earth taking aeveral months
to complete the circle 40.000 miles
in circumference and about 2,000
miles high.
The belt will be used to bounce
radio signals back to earth over
great distances. The Air Force
said the dipole belt is practically
invulnerable to physical damage
end is especially useful in long
distance microwave communica
tions. Some scientists have opposed
the experiment saying it would
clutter space with trash and im
pair observations of the stars and
the pavement, ran off the north
side of the highway, striking a
small dirt bank. Mrs. Parker was
thrown into the windshield and
both were taken to the hospital.
airs, uougn, a waitress at the
Umpqua Hotel. Was DrnnnunceH
dead at the accident scene four
nines souui ot curtln from severe
head injuries. Her husband suf
fered a broken back and other in
juries.
Their vehicle was nnrlhlmnnrl
about 7 a.m. Sunday, going from
a two-lane highway onto a four
lane. Tho car apparently headed
for the center divider at tho stnrt
of the four-lane highway, and the
operator swerved to miss the di
viner post, then lost control, said
the police report. The car skidded
264 feet sideways, hit an overhead
light post, went over a 41-foot
bank and came to rest in a small
creek.
The other fatal accident occurred
at the north Oakland Junction at 1
a.m. Sunday. Olson was listed as
the operator. The vehicle waa,
northbound and apparei.Uy blew a
tire. The operator lost control and
collided with the center divider.
tie was thrown from the vehicle
into the southbound lane of traffie
and was pronounced dead on ar
rival at Community Hospital.
a passenger with Olson, William
Frank Woolman, 20, of 2936 Olive
St., Eugene, was thrown from the
vehicle. Ho was admitted to Com
munity Hospital with severe lacer
ations ot the shoulder. His condi.
lion was reported from the hospl-
tal as "fairly good."
Tho bodies of both Mrs. Gough
and Olson were-taken to the Wil
son's Chapel of tho Roses, and fu.
ncral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
Elsewhere in Oregon deaths in
cluded: Mrs. Marjory Williams, 36,
Springfiold. died in a two-car col
lision on Stnte Highway 222 one
mile west of Jasper Saturday.
Wayno Bryan, 27, Beaverton,
was killed when his motorcycle
slid under a car near Portland
Friday night.
Powder Theft Here
Probed By Police
Theft of powder from the Flegel
powder magazine east of Rose
burg was reported by Rosoburg
City Police, who took into custody
four 16-ycar-old boys over the
weekend.
Police said 25 sticks of powder
were found covered with a jacket
in the back seat of the car occu
pied by the youths, which was
stopped on suspicion by the offi
cers on NE Diamond Lake Blvd.
The boys first donted knowing
the powder was In the car, but on
questioning at the police station
admitted the theft from a Flegel
truck at the powder magazine.
Accompanied by sheriffs depu
ties, as the magazine is out of the
city, the officers located an empty
box from which the powder ap
parently was taken. The explosive
was turned over to an employe of
the magazine for safe keeping.
The boyi were held for juvenile
authorities.
planets with telescopes.
Astronomers also fear the fibers
might reflect back to earth a con
fusing jumble of radio signals that
ordinarly might pass into space.
Dubbed the west Ford Project,
the experiment is being conducted
for the Air Force by tho Lincoln
Laboratory of tho Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Information on the experiment
Is being distributed internationally
to help world optical and radio
astronomers in making independ
ent observations. The Air Force
said it hoped some observations
could be made of the needles by a
worldwide camera network oper
ated by the Smithsonian Astro
physical Observatory.
The Air Force previously tried
a similar experiment using 75
pounds of the needles but was un
successful when they apparently
failed to spread into orbit. Fifty
pounds were used in the new ex
periment. The dipole fibers are expected
to disappear within five years as
radiation pressure from sunlight
forces them down Into altitudes of
greater atmospheric density wharo
they will burn up.
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