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2 The Newi-Reviaw, Roseburg, THIS IS THE WAY Helen Dyhre, left, is shown above coaching two Miss Roseburg candidates, Gail Petherick and Donna Bourassa, how to moke a curtsy with the most poise. All girls have been given coaching and assistonce during the last three weeks as they prepored for the con test tonight. (News-Review photo) Lawmakers Face Avalanche Of Decisions In Long Meet SALEM (VP!) An avalanche o major decisions hung over the legislature today as lawmakers ought to finish In one more week what will be the longest session in Oregon history. The 1957 record of 128 days will he equalled Tuesday, the day me Senate has scheduled action on a new constitution that is likely to end up in a conference committee. I j-uislntorj informally were shooting for final adjournment of Ihe 1963 session Friday or haiur day, although they conceded un finished business could carry it over into tho following week. Two key figures in the time table of the final days said Ihcy are aiming for a Friday or Satur day adjournment and consider it feasible. Sen. Daniel Thlel, D Astoria, said his Ways and Means educa tion subcommittee will try to kick out the big education, higher ecin- GOP Meeting Dated For July By EDWARD M. MCMANUS United Praia International DKNVER (Urn The 1904 Re- publican national convention will ho held In either the second or third week of July In nno of soven cities still under consideration as possible siles, It was announced today. "We decided our convention would have to he in July in view of the fact we do not have an in cumbent." GOP Nntlonal Chair man William Miller told a news conference today following a meet ing of the site committee here Friday. "Wo need tho time lo project our candidate, raise Ihe money and perfect our campaign organ! ration. " Miller added. As for the eventual nominee, Miller said he did "not disagree with the gonoral speculation" that the leading presidential candidates wcro Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, Sen. Barry Hold wotcr of Ariionn, Gov. George Homney of Michigan and Gov William Scranlnn of Pennsylvania. Rut to these familiar names he added three oilier governors whom he described as "attrac tive" presidential possibilities: Hubert Smylle of Idaho, Mark Hatfield of Oregon and John A. lave of Colorado. Gardiner Man Joins Rural School Board Frank White of Gardiner w a s worn in for another three-year term on '.he Douglas County Rural School Hoard at the board's regu lar mooting this week. White, representing Zone A, was unopposed in the May 6 election. George Wilcox of Oakland was returned as chairman of the board while Harry Young of Glide was elected vice chairman Canvass of voles on the rural school budget allowed 2,liU3 bal lots in favor and l.tKHI opposed. The hoard then proceeded lo sign contracts with rertilietl personnel of the office. Curtis Weiss, speech correction 1st, discussed the progress of his program and Inland I'. I. Inn. di rector of education, outlined ac tivities in that department. Eugene Fisher, a director of the National School Hoards Associa tion, and W. M. Campbell, assist ant county school superintendent, reported on a recent national con vention of board members held in Denver. Fisher also reviewed school leg islation under consideration at Sa lem. Local News Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Ryan and aon, Paul Jr., are bark at their home here, following a trip to Port land for the latter to receive a medical check up. While in Port land they visited the Ryans' daugh ter. Miss Cheryl. Kn route home they slopped over in Salem to visit Mr. and Mrs Tom J. Groh. A year ago Friday Paul Jr. suffered seri ous In lories in an automobile acci dent. He has spent the greater part nf the year hospitalized and sinre being out of Ihe hospital has been convalescing from hii injuries. Ore. Sot., May 18, 1963 cation, and community college bills In a series of meetings early in the week, starting at 8 a.m. Monday. Sen. Ward Cook, D-Portland, co chairman of the full Ways and Means Committee, said Ihe com mittee will act speedily to send remaining budgets to the House and Senate floors, probably in a series of special, hastily called meetings. The explosive Income tax issue rested with a Senate-House con ference committee which today began striving for a compromise Its four members were among the few legislators on weekend duty. Veteran lawmakers observed tho weekend vacation, wilh no Saturday sessions planned, prob ably would speed final decisions in ihe following days. They figured the unusual two- day break would have the effect of giving lawmakers whose tem pers have shortened tinner long hours a chance lo "get out of the trees and see the forest." The controversial workmen's compensation bill, approved by the Senate and revised by a ilouso committee, Is not scheduled to reach the House flour until mid-week. House changes may be opposed in the Senate. Still In Ways and Means Is the Civil Defense nntminriatinn meas ure which strips the governor's requested ZD-man agency to . a three-member force. The cut-down Civil Defense pro gram has won House approval, bill Senate President Ren Musa asked Ways and Means lo double Ihe budget so a six-member CD force could be established and the state could get federal matching funds. If Ways and Means does not lake some action and it may not it would mean the elimination of stale Civil Defense agency. In addition, final action still is awaited on such ticklish items as eliminating Ihe death penalty, civil commitment of sex offend ers, crontlon of a department of natural resources, regulation of fraudulent subdivision promotions, ami welfare programs. Scores of other mensures active ly being promoted by legislators still awnil determination. Many will he overlooked and thus doomed In Ihe frantic, hectic final days of the session. Nurses Go To Eugene For Clinical Forum Four nurses from ltosoburg at tended the eighth annual clinical forum of the Oregon Nurses As sociation Inst week in Eugene. These wore Sister Mary Alphnn sus, Sister Mary Simeon, Gerald luo Polk and Waunita Nolle, all from Mercy Hospital. The forum was designed to In form nurses of new developments in patient care. Tours nf special departments of Sacred Heart Hos pital, demonstrations of now cquin mont and a display of now medi cations w ere features of the forum. Local Golfer Fires Ace At Stewart Park Course A Roseburg golfer, Jack C. Smith, Saturday morning fired a holcinone that resulted In his wile getting so excited she stopped her game to report Ihe feat, while he calmly continued to finish what started out as a hot game. Smith hit the coveted hole-ln-nnc on the llO-yard fourth hole at Stew art Park, lie was using a six iron. Smith was playing the round with his wife, (iene, and sons Hrad and Sandy, lie has been playing golf for one year, Stewart Park manag er Arlu Jacklln said. Mrs. Jay Boyer Mrs. Jay (M anon I Boyer, long time Roseburg resident, died at Grants Pass Friday after a long : illness. I She was bom Jan. 26, 18.15. at St. Mario. III. She was a member of the Catholic Church and Ameri ! ran Legion Auxiliary, i Mrs. Buyer's husband preceded jher in death in 1!M7. She is stir : vived by two daughters, Mrs. Clay : Dean of Grants Pass and Mrs. Jes sie L. Neusham of Hurlingaino, j Calif ; a son, Gordon F. Meredith I of Merced. Calif.; two grandchil dren and four great grandchildren, j Services will be held at 11 a m. I Monday at St. Joseph's Church, ; Roseburg. j Interment will follow at Ruse jburg Catholle Cemetery. House Approves ill To Strike Death Penalty SALEM (UPI) A proposal to strike capital punishment from the state constitution was ap proved 4513 Friday by the House. The measure would be voted upon at the 1364 general election, and would apply both to the pres ent and proposed state constitu tions. Rut the House sent back to committee a companion measure which would have set the statu tory penalty for murder at life in prison. Rep. John Dcllenback, R-Med- ford, said he wanted the hill amended so the death penalty could be retained in cases of cop killing, a prisoner killing a guard, and the killing of a kidnap victim. Both the proposed constituional change, and the statute already have passed the Senate. The Senate version changed the constitutional penalty for first de gree murder from death to life in prison. The House amended this to delete all reference to murder from the constitution, and the Senate must agree with this be fore the measure can go to the voters. The Senate set the statutory penalty for first degree murder at life in prison, required a min imum of IS years be served, then required lifetime parole supervi sion. The House took out the IS year minimum, retained the lifetime supervision provision, and then set the penalty for second degree murder at life in prison, with re lease from parole possible after seven years. Dcllenback told House members he did not think the penalties were severe enough to offer pro tection to the public. The House voted 35-23 to send tho bill back to- committee for amendments. Joint Committee Seeks Compromise On State Services SALEM (UI'l) A four-man, Scnate-lluiiso conference commit tee today sought compromise in an effort to raise $60 million to finance expanded slate services next biennium. House Tax Committee Chairman Richard Eymann, D-Marcola, and Rep. Victor Atliyeh, R-Porlland, met with Senate Tax Committee Chairman Boyd Overhulse, D Madras, and Sen. Robert Elf strom, R-Salcm. They must reach agreement on amount and method. The House, approved plan would raise $35 million from in come tax hikes, $12 million by a one-shot speedup of withholding tux collections, and $18 million from a 4-cent a pack cigarette tax a total of $U5 million. The Senate-approved plan would raise $52 million from increased income taxes, and use the $12 million one-shot money only if needed a total of $U4 million. The House income tax measure includes a modified net receipts tax. The Senate hill hits hard at largo families on the theory that most of the state's general fund goes to pay for education. Tho Senate Tax Committee has nut yet acted on the cigarette tax, and probably will let it die in committee. The House has refused to ap prove a sales tax bill, although Senate Tax Committee members claim a sales tax offers the only way lo cut lncomo and property taxes. Many senators said Friday they were voting for the lax package simply to gel It to conference committee. Less than an hour alter the Senate voted, rules were suspend ed In the House and both the Son ale income tax and one-shot bills were rejected and Ihe conference committee members named. Instructor Training Offered By Red Cross An instructor training class for i first aid will begin Wednesday in the American Red Cross chapter I house from 7 lo 10 p.m. Anyone holding an advanced first aid card is eligible to attend Ed C. l.ciun, state Industrial Ac cident Commission first oid instruc tor, will bo the teacher. Anyone interested in the class 'should call Ihe local Red Cross of fice at 657 SE Rice St., OH 3-3254. 'The office is oicn week das be tween the hours of HI a m. and 2 .10 p.m. Public Invited To Box Social The public is invited to a box so cial tonight at 8 at Ihe South Deer Crock Grange Hall. Prires will be given for Ihe pret tiest, funniest and most unusual boxes, reports Mrs. Alliert Rad clifte. correspondent. Purpose of the social is to aise funds to send South Deer Creek Grange Youth Contest winners lo the state Grange event. Families attending with teenag ers are requested to bring separ ate boxes for them, said Mrs. Had chlle ACCIDENT RESTOREsTsPSKCH HAHI.BOHl), England (LI'I) -Vernon Mitchell. 24. lost his speech 16 years ago when he fractured his skull in a fall from a tree while playing Tarian. He was knocked unconscious by a speeding car Friday and re tained his speech. life m f ' ml .... :.. : ,f fL , TACTICAL STUDY is olso on the agenda for National Guardsmen. Here Sgt. Leon Mar icol and Sgt. Bob James locate a critical point on a military mop during a tactical class. The activities of the Guard will be on display during an open house Saturday, and later all armed forces personnel will be honored at o public dance of the Armory. This morning three jet airplones flew over Roseburg from the Portland Air Defense Command. Other aircraft were scheduled to fly over the city this afternoon. (Notional Guard photo) Several New Recreation Areas Being Readied For New Season Roseburg District of the Bureau of Land Management is getting the district's public recreation facili ties ready for a new summer sea son. Several new sites will be intro duced this year. rorco account crews of the BLM are busy at the present time pre paring the new Mill Pond Rec reation Site on Rock Creek Road. The project represents t h e larg est recreation improvement un ncrlnkcn by the Roseburg D i s trict. A combination campground and picnic facility, it is located at the site of Ihe old Douglas County Lumber Co. mill. BLM officials anticipate the fa cility will be ready for public use about July 1. Fifty picnic tables, six comfort stations and several Sentence Deferred On Assault Charge Marie S. Colburn, 57, Eugene (formerly listed as from Washing ton), Friday pleaded guilty in Cir cuit Court to assault and hatlcry. Sentence was suspended and she was placed on probation for a pe riod of one year. Mrs. Colhurn was charged in a Grand Jury indictment with beat ing Mrs. Ruth Thompson, operator of the Pacific Motel at Winchester Bay, on April 25. Robert Leber, 32, of G33 SE Jack son St., Roseburg, asked for a pcr liminary hearing when arraigned before District Judge Gerald R. Hayes Friday. The hearing was set for Wednesday. Attorney Wil liam Green has boon appointed by the court to represent him on a charge of larceny over the value of $75. Ho is accused in a Hnsohiirg city police complaint with the thclt of a camera from the Photo Lab. Lloyd Albert Cole, SO, 1919 Dia mond Lake Blvd., drew six days in the county jail, $100 fine and $5 costs for reckless driving from Judge Hayes Friday. Hex Thomas Sears, Bridge Route. Myrtle Point, and James Daniel Harrison, Myrtle Point, both were fined $25 for larceny of chickens, on appearance hefore Justice of the Peace Ward Watson al Suthcrlin Friday. Lawrence Joseph lleidcnreich, 18. Idloyld Route, has been bound over lo the Grand Jury or al leged burglary of the Deer Creek School May 8. Mefford Must Stand New Trial For Rape William Hugh Mefford. 41. for merly uf Roseburg and recently of Omaha. Neb., will have to stand trial on a charge of rape, Circuit Judqc Don II. Sanders has ruled. Mefford on arraignment had pleaded innocent ami also enter- iOd a plea of former jeopardy, j based upon proceedings in a pre- maintenance were topics which Minis case dated July 9, 1961. The took up the four-day session. ! plea was overruled. I Chief objective, according to i In this case he had been charged j Philip L. Heaton. chief of the rec . with rape upon Ihe daughter of reational division in the regional : his wife, hut on trial it was learn-1 oflice. was to imnrov forest roc cd (he girl s mother with whom he was In ini. was not his wife, so the indictment of the Grand Jury did I not apply, Judge Sanders ruled at ithat time. j The Grand Jury latrr brought a i charge of rape, involving the same minor child, for an act which al legedly occurred at a different j lime. Oct. 21. I9tk). The charge ! merely specified rape in this case. I Mefford, through his attorney, ; had alleged double jeopardy be i cause Ihe second charge imolved I the same girl. ' Judge Sanders ruled that scpar ! ate charges can be brought for each alleged offense. Ambassador Resigns W ASHINGTON tl'Pl! George F. Konnan. a prominent expert on Communist allaifs. resisned Friday as I'. S. ambassador to ! Yugoslavia He denied he as , quitting because of a disagree i mcnt with President Kennedy. I The White House issued a spe j cial statement saying the resig nation "is in accord with Am l hassador Kennan's long-standing i plan" to return to private life. . fireplaces are being established in the camp. Roads have been "roughed out" and these will be improved with gravel cover. After July 1, offi cials said, a ball field with back stop will be developed. Other spe cial recreation improvements arc planned. The size of the facility and ex tent of the recreation developments are expected to establish the Mill Pond Site as a popular area for large group picnics and special out ings for organizations. A major improvement Included in the camp development is a large community shelter, to he pat terned after the style of the shel ter at Stewart Park. It will be a 40-hy 80-foot structure equipped with tables and a fireplace in the center. The BLM will call for bids on this project. Work is now under way on one of the biggest tasks in connection with developing the site: Installing pipe for a water system. A well has been drilled. Its pump will be operated by electricity from a gas generator. Trenches are being excavated to accommodate an estimated 3,800 feet of plastic pipe. Several other new recreation fa cilities are now completed or are in various stages of construction in Roseburg District. Darby Creek picnic area located on Cow Creek about 15 miles south east of Riddle is finished and ready for public use. A picnic area and trail project just north from Susan Creek State Park are basically completed. The new Lone Rock picnic site on the North Umpqua River near Glide is likewise substantially complete. The new Cavltl Creek picnic and camping site is expected to be ready by July 1. The facility is 12 miles south of Glide on Ihe Cavitt Creek County Road. A trail project which will provide a hiking experience into Wolf Creek halls southeast of Glide has been completed. But Ihe trail is not usable until bridging to pro vide access across Little River is completed. Officials said it is hop ed the trail will be ready for use by mid summer. Smith River Park north of Drain will be ready for summer use. Part of the work was done last year on this camping and picnick ing improvement. Two Umpqua Foresters At Recreation Confab Two I'mpqua National Forest representatives were in Portland recently for a Forest Service Rec reation Conference. They were Walt Furen, forest en gineer, and Norwood llobertshaw. recreation assistant Campground i site nlannlne. construction and , reation opportunities and service to the public, on limited funds. Michael LeRoy Davis Michael LeRoy Davis, old son of Mr. sand Mrs 2 week- Harold Davis of Roseburg died Friday at r.ugene nospuai. lie was born May 2, 1963, In Rosehurg. He is survived by his parents and his grandparents, Mrs. Ruby Da vis of Tacoma. Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. l ee Morton of Sutherlin. Graveside funeral services will be held at Ihe Melrose Cemetery Tuesday at 2 p.m., with Bishop Ralph G. Anderson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints officiating. Wilson's Chapel of the Roses is in charge of arrangements, Retire When You Pleote In Tim To Enjoy It! Plan No With Lincoln Notional Life PV OR J-3341 ACK PATTERSON Construction of a community shelter on the style of the Mill Pond structure but smaller is planned at Tyee Recreation Site west of Sutherlin. This work will be done on a bid basis. BLM officials pointed out the uaroy Creek, Lone Rock. Cavitt Creek, Susan Creek and Wolf Creek projects are financed from Accel erated Public Works funds. The other projecLs are beine ac- complishod under regular BLM ap propriations for recreation devel opment. . Bricklayers Quit 0SU Dormitory Job COHVAI.LIS (UPI)- Bricklay crs walked off an Oregon State University dormitory construction project Friday. The walkout threatened delay of the $2 million job. The dispute was over a non union subcontractor laying tile in the dormitory. Officials of Todd Building Co., gcnernl contractor of the project, expressed concern that the walk out would affect the entire job unless it wis settled soon. The dispute was between Brick layers Local No. 5 of Salem and the Valley Tile and Marble Co. of Corvallis. The firm had eight nonunion employes on Ihe job. Four bricklayers left their work when negotiations between the tile company and union failed. John Todd, head of the building firm, said union leaders were not present at the negotiations. He said no settlement could be ex pected until a meeting could be arranged with the union leaders. The dormitory is scheduled to he ready for occupancy hefore the next school year starts. It is planned to house 375 students. Grand Council Fire Is Monday Event Some 500 Camp Fire Girls of the Umpqua Council are expected to converge in Roseburg Monday night for their annual Grand Coun cil Fire. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Roseburg High School. Representation is expected from groups in Roseburg, Sutherlin, Glide, Melrose, Myrtle Creek, Wilbur-Winchester and Winston-Oil-lard. Girls in the three age groups in the program. Camp Fire. Jun ior Hi Camp Fire and Horizon Clubs, will take part and have also made totem poles and other props to be used in Ihe ceremony. The council fire will follow the Indian theme and will he based on WOHF.l.O, the law of the Camp1 rire iiiris. Awards will be made and ad ad- vanrcment in rank honored. cording to Mrs. Oscar Amundson, executive director for the council, who will be in charge of the event. All parents, sponsors and friends of Camp Fire are invited to at tend. Walter E.Willoughby Walter E. Willoughby 8.1, died in Salem rriday. He was born Oct. 5. 1879. in Stanton. His usual residence was in Sutherlin at Rt. 1 Box 82, where i he lived for the past 28 years. ; o( Sl,ihprjn. and several ' nieces , lmt n.Dh,,,, Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p.m. at the Chapel of the Firs in Sutherlin. with Ihe Rev. Neil Brown of th Oakland Com munity Presbyterian Church offi ciating. Private interment will be held at Fair Oaks Cemetery. Sulberlin Oakland Mortuary is in charge of arrangements SALES n4 SERVICt CUMMINS FUEL SYSTEMS JACOBS ENGINE BRAKE DIESEL INJECTION SERVICE 17S0 Nl STtPHINS OR 1-4! ! Threat Of New Violence Looms In Birmingham By United Prtss International A threat of new racial violence hung over Birmingham today. Police stepped up their patrols through the tense city and un armed Negro volunteers sta tioned themselves around churches and the homes of inte gration leaders Friday night. The activity was touched off by a re- Sort from integration strategist lartin Luther King Jr. that an anonymous telephone caller had threatened new bombings. There was another racial dem onstration at Greensboro, N.C., Friday night, resulting in at least 325 arrests, and more than 50 Ne gro children skipped classes to Soviets Stress Mechanical Ills In Orbit Flight LONDON (UPI) Praise for astronaut L. Gordon Cooper con tinued today from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In Tokyo, Ja pan prepared a welcome for a key member of Cooper's team, Col. John H. Glenn. The Communist world mixed its praise with references to the long space flights made last year by two Soviet cosmonauts, and stressed Cooper's technical trou bles. But it did give the Cooper flight more extensive coverage than it has accorded other recent American events. Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, Friday night reported "an atmosphere of fear and nerv ousness" at the Mercury control center because of the mechanical faults as Cooper began his de scent. But it found no fault in the ac tions of the astronaut himself. "Only thanks to his courage and self-possession, the cosmic flight was happily concluded," it said. Glenn, who played an impor tant role in' Cooper's safe land ing, arrived in Nagasaki, Japan today from his post on the Navy communications ship Coastal Sentry. It was from this ship that Glenn, America's first man to orbit the earth, radioed in structions to Cooper to fire his retro-rockets manually after au tomatic devices to fire them failed. Glenn will arrive in Tokyo by plane Sunday for a 12-day semi oflicial visit, the first to a for- eign country by a U.S. space- in .in. 'the tiny mountalntop republic of San Marino today cabled its congratulations to President Ken nedy on the Cooper flight, join ing a list of nations that includes Russia, Britain, Japan, West Ger many, and France. Hearing Scheduled On Waterfront Jobs The Oregon Wage and Hour Commission has slated a public hearing in Portland May 23 to dis cuss the issurance of permits to 18 and 17-year-olds to work on fish ing and pleasure boats. The hearing is an outgrowth of a protest coming from the Reeds port area last summer when the commission ordered all such youngsters off the boats at Salm on Harbor. The meeting will take place at 10 a.m. in the State Office Build ing in Salem. Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen says the hearing will re view the request of fishing resort and boat rental operators for more relaxed and concise regulations on waterfront employment of minors. Beside discussing the permits for 16 and 17 years old, evidence will be entered concerning employment hwus ui , ' ' ' I . waterfront jobs that do not require riir.iUrvVhm is .executive secretary of the com - Present regulations of the com- mission prohibit employment of minors un or near waterfront areas, except under provisions es- tablished for organized youth camps Influenza Gains In May The incidence of influenza in Douglas County continued to run ririv lii"h again during the first part of May. Oregon Communicable Di sease report for the first week of the month showed 37 cases. Five cases of pneumonia were also re - ported. So far this year, it was noted, there have been 11 cases of infectious hepatitis. Starts at 2 P.M. SUNDAY USED TV's & APPLIANCES TraaViai during fur mommoth Spring Salt ha.a MR trwhtlming our ipact il crammed with food Httd TV'i, Rongt, Rt friieratort, Wathtrt, tit. WE MUST MAKE ROOM FOR NEW MERCHANDISE THAT'S ALREADY CM THE WAY. Sax At N.r.r l.t.r. On Uicd M(rchondix! Starting Bids 99c & up SO. STEPHENS tHK 1212 S.E. STEPHENS stage an antisegregation march at Lvnchburg, Va. Friday. At Jackscn, Miss., the Nation al Association for the Advance men nf Colored People fNAACP) said it would submit a "suggest ed list" of Negroes to meet with city officials to discuss racial problems. NAACP President Ar thur B. Spingarn predicted in New York there would be a dem onstration in Jackson as violent as the Birmingham marches. Tails Of Thr.it King said the bomb threat came from a caller who warned a Negro minister, whom King would not identify, that he was next on the bomber's list. The bombings of a Negro home and motel last Saturday night touched off rioting that injured 22 persons and brought more than 3,000 fed eral troops into Alabama for pos sible riot control duty in Bir mingham. Negroes began guarding churches and homes of Negro leaders at sundown Friday night and King said they would be on duty. 24 hours through the week end. King went home to Atlanta Friday but said he would return Monday. Birmingham Police Chief Jam ie Moore said he was stepping up police patrols for the week end and taking other steps he would not reveal. Won't Open Records There were these other devel opments: A federal judge refused to order the University of Alaba ma's admission records opened to three Negroes seeking en trance to the school. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize dismissed a Justice Depart ment suit to force racial integra tion of schools at Gulfpoint, Miss. President Kennedy and his brother, the attorney general, re portedly appealed to senators to "keep their mouths shut" so Bir mingham problems could be worked out, Sen. George Smath crs said. The Alabama House Judici ary Committee approved a bill that would give a state commit tee investigating the Birmingham racial crisis broad subpoena pow ers. The Birmingham school board restated its plans to expel or suspend Negro students who cut school to demonstrate, but said they could attend summer school. 'Romeo' Is Back In Toils Of Law SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) At the tender age of 16 Ellsworth (Sonny) Wisccarvcr made nation al headlines and earned the mon iker "Boy Romeo" when he eloped wilh a serviceman's wife. Smaller headlines appeared down through the years concern ing Wisccarvcr, now 33. He ran up a total of five minor arrests in California, Nevada, and Utah, mainly, he said because people remembered Wisecarvcr the "Boy Romeo." Wisecarvcr is in trouble with the law again today. But this time he'd he in print no matter what his name was. Deputy Dist. Atty. Herb Jackson said Sonny and Jimmy Wright spent each weekend for the past three months tapping telephone coin boxes for a total of about $2,000. Both men were booked Friday on two counts of burglary after, police said, a telephone company employe spotted them breaking into a box. Sonny made the big headline when he ran away with Mrs. Ele anor Deveny, 25, a Long Beach, Calif., mother of two. The couple left a Long Beach party for "ham burgers" and ended up in Oro ville. Calif., 500 miles away. Mrs. Deveny said Sonny was "more of a man at 16 than a lot of men at 35" and "I love him more than I do my husband." Wisecarver's mother charged hcr with contributing to the dc- linquencv of a minor, I , , sne le,dc( guiny to what I he called a "wild infatuation" ; dedd(ld 0 s(ay wj(h ncr hus. hand and "bring up our chil- dren. ' bat was the end of the story for Mrs. Deveny. . . but not Wise- carver. Trent Winning Bidder On Coos Bay Tree Tract Curtis Trent of Roseburg was j w inning bidder on a tract of lim i her sold Friday by the Coos Bay S District of the Bureau of Land l Management. ! Tmnt icnn a (rani Pnnhinind fin ! PSjn,at(.( volume of 1,641,000 board fCPl Sealed in Coos Countv. His hid was $20.50 per thousand for ; the Douglas fir.
