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UaiVvTSity zi OlC-ij.ll Library Souvenir Firm Receives 'Payroll Builder' Salute - See also story and pictures Pag i Viletta's Arts and Souvenirs is , being hailed today as the local , "Payroll Builder" for June. This is i the first Douglas County industry to be so recognized in a "Payrolls for Progress" program. Elliott Motschenbacher, Rose , burg (area) Chamber of Com merce president, presented Mrs. Jack (Viletta) West with a scroll ; in recognition of her business en deavor that began as a hobby in 1959 and now employs up to a dozen ,: people in this wholesale china dec orating activity. Program Explained Motschenbacher said, "We are embarking on a planned program of recognizing local employers in this area who are helping to build ;. payrolls for the future. Nationally 85 per cent of all industry origi nates from a local base and Vilet ta's is an example of this develop tt ment and growth." Business is booming for Vilet ta's so much so that the shop in the basement of the West's home at 473 W. Riverside Drive, is oper ating at full capacity and is pres ently two months beind in filling - orders. Mrs. West claims national marketing potential although out put presently limits her to market ing from Denver west. The Payroll Development Com .' mittee of the Roseburg Chamber is assisting Mrs. West in finding solutions to production problems so that back-orders can be filled and the marketing area expanded. Exemplifies Progress The scroll presented Mrs. West states, in part: "We of the Rose burg Chamber of Comemrce are proud to present this acknowledge- State Crash Claims Four By United Press International A spectacular two-car collision near the Portland Zoo about mid night Friday took the lives of four young people and raised the state'! Memorial holiday weekend death toll to 12. The deaths brought to seven the number of traffic fatalities in Portland within 24 hours. Killed in the Friday night crash on SW Canyon Rd. were Richard LeRoy Belanger, 17, Lake Grove; Kenneth Terry Barney, 18, Lake Oswego; Mary Frances Smith, 16, and Bernice Ashford, 17, both Portland. The boys were scheduled to be graduated from Lake Oswego . High School next week. Police said the four were in one car which apparently became caught in the center -depression of the highway, struck another vehicle and slammed into a utility pole. Driver of the second car In volved, Clarence LaFond, Beaver ton, was not hurt. A one-car accident early Friday took three lives. The victims were Mrs. Helen Slankard, 35; Albert C. Tweedy, 51, and Mrs. Maxine Hoge, 37, all of Portland. Walter Fred Pflughaupt, 58, of Powers, was killed in a one-car crash near Myrtle Point Friday. Three other persons died in sep arate crashes in the state since the long holiday weekend began at 6 p.m. Wednesday. In addition, an Oregon man died in a Califor nia accident and a Portland man drowned near Cannon Beach. Marching Group Will Participate In Portland Fete Bill Black director of the Knights of Pythias Girls Drum and Bugle Corps, has received in structions for the band to take part in the Merrykana parade June 8. a preliminary to the Rose Pa rade. Black said instructions are that the corps be in position at 6 p.m. prior to start of the parade. The members will assemble at the Col iseum, then be assigned to meet ing rooms and assembly areas. Forty members of the corps and two chaperons will make the trip to Portland for the one-day event. The group received its invitation from Ralph Holsapple, parade chairman April 1!). The corps will take part in this portion of the Rose Festival ac tivities rather than in the big pa rade, as many of the members will not be able to make the later dale because of work. Also the corps will lake part in the Douglas County Rodeo parade on June 15 in Itusphurg, according to Black. He said the corps will disband after the rodeo parade until just prior to Aug. 17. when it will take part in the Shrine football contest in Portland. SWITCH TO AIR j DALLAS. Tex. ( UPI ) Company : B of the 719th Railway Operating' Battalion of the Army Reserve is i Rning to Ft. Eustis. Vs., for sum-j mer training. .Mode of travel airplane. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS ! Partly cloudy today, tonight and Sunday with mild temperatures and a chance of a few sprinkles. , Highest temp, last 24 hours 73 Lowest temp, last 14 hours 52 Highest temp, any June (61) 102 Lo tit temp, any June (54) 34 F.-ei . last 14 hours 0 P f-om June 1 0 Normal June Precip. - ... 1.5 K precip. -l to t-1 .... 31.01 Precip. from Sept. 1 ... 33.04 Sunset tonight, 7:4o p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:3e a.m. j ment of our recognition. , . .You, and the work you are doing, are a good example for this area of how manufacturing businesses start, grow and prosper, and develop into important payroll builders." "By showing how local firms are presently growing we hope to help stimulate others of our local people so that they, too, might be ' I U 4 I PAYROLLS FOR PROGRESS Viletta West displays to Roseburg Chamber of Commerce President Elliott Mot schenbacher samples of decorated china which she pro duces for sale through numerous outlets. Her business has been selected as the first in a series to be saluted as an industry of the month where payroll expansion potential is evidenced. (News-Review Photo) More Demonstrations Set In South; Philly Is Quiet By United Press International Anti-segregation leaders today organized more demonstrations for lions for the weekend in at least the weekend in at least two south ern cities, while a Dixie governor prepared to take his arguments for racial barriers north. Above the Mason-Dixon line, Negro spokesmen and contractors in Philadelphia had reached an agreement ending protests against job discrimination that led to a battle between pickets and police. In Washington, the Justice De partment worked on new civil rights legislation which President Kennedy is expected to propose to Congress next week. And in New York, fresh pleas for integration were issued by the World Council of Churches and the president of a huge restau rant chain. Some highlights of the racial situation: Jackson, Miss.: Police arrested 421 Negro demonstrators late Fri day and drove them in trucks to makeshift prisoner compounds on the slate fairground. Most were students ranging in age from 12 to 21 who met a human blockade of helmeted officers on a march toward the downtown section. They were charged with parading without a permit. More demon strations were imminent. Tallahassee, Fie.: Negro stu dents, fresh from a court victory, stayed off the streets of the slate capital Friday night but planned McKee And Keady Are Assigned To Key Roseburg School Posts Two kev appointments to admin-1 Schools, will take over the helm,ed as vice principal of the Central utintiio nostinns in the Roseburglat Fremont Junior High to replace Junior. High School and was ap- school system were announced to- dav by Supt. of Schools M. C. Del-1 McKee has served In the Kose ler' burg school system for 14 years. Hnh-rt F MrKee nrincioal of lle cln as sixth grade teacher Robert fc. aicn.ee, principal ui vinmnirv Sehnn nnd the Fremont Junior High scnooi, has been appointed principal at Roseburg High School effective July 1. McKee will replace Ralph Tet'ers, who has resigned to be come high school principal at i-ieiimoni, lain. Robert B. Keady, principal of:: Benson and Eastwood Elementary 4. 4k.U. ROBERT McKEE , . , high school choice- 1 y. f'-, encouraged to set up new business es." Samples of Mrs. West's china is on display at several places of business around Roseburg and will continue to be during June. Phil Quisenberry and Don Dole are chairmanning the Payroll De velopment committee of the cham ber. to resume picketing of all-white theaters today. A circuit court judge dismissed contempt charges against 220 students arrestee on Thursday night for such picket ing, and gave them permission to continue demonstrating in lim ited numbers. "This is a great and sweeping victory for the Ne gro," an attorney for the intcgra tionists said. Montgomery, Ala.: Gov. George Wallace, pledged lo block the en rollment of two Negroes at the University of Alabama June 10, flies to New York today for a television appearance Sunday. The fiery Wallace also continued lo play a cat-and-mouse game with U.S. marshals, who want to serve him with a subpoena for a fed eral court healing Monday aimed at preventing him from interfer ing with integration at the uni versity. State troopers Friday formed a human chain around Wallace to block serving of the subpoena. Philadelphia: Two policemen were stabbed and six pickets were slugged with blackjacks during a melee Friday at the construction sites of two schools. None were seriously hurt. After 200 police men quelled the disturbance, of ficials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored the school board announced that an agreement had been reached for hiring five Negro workers at the sites and organizing a com mittee to map a program for hiring more. . j McKee. at Rose K ementarv School ana moved to the vice principalship of Roseburg Junior High in 1951. He was principal of Benson School from 1953.57 and of Central Junior High from 1957-61. Following the explosion w hich de- ,, ,.., .,;hn, ,, , Jumor Minn 1959, McKee moved to the Joseph Lane Junior llitih building as principal of the ! Central Junior High student body at that building. Upon completion of the Fremont Junior High build- iing. McKee's Central Junior High student body was translerrea lo and became John C. Fremont Jun ior High School. He has served in ithe new Fremont post until the present time McKee graduated from Oregon College of Education in 1949 with a bachelor of science degree and earnd his master's degree at the same institution in 1955. McKee and his wife. Marvlou. have three children. Bob, who will be a senior this fall: Man. a sophomore; and i Roger, a sixth grader. Keady came to Roseburg in the fall of 1955 after having served at the Willard School in Spokane for a year He taught the sixth (grade at Wilbur in the Roseburg district. In 1956 he joined the Cen tral Junior High School staff as a 1 science teacher and coach, a po isition he held for three years In the fall of 1959 ha was employ- j Established 1873 $ Mike French Bring New Crisis To The EEC BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) The European Common Market faced a new crisis today over French refusal to permit expand ed British contacts with the six- nation economic community. Diplomatic observers said the situation was dangerously similar to the disunity following France's veto of British Common Market membership last January and it could get worse. Friday, France refused to per mit Common Market ambassa dors of the other five nations from holding periodic meetings with the British ambassador. Backed by the power of veto, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said that pres ent contacts through the British mission to the community were sufficient. In return West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg known in Britain as the "friendly five" are threaten ing to delay action on important agricultural policies trance con siders vital. They wanled the ambassadorial contacts to narrow the economic policy gap between themselves and Britain, thus facilitating Brit ish entry into the Common Mar ket sometime in the future. The five will attempt to take up the problem again at a min isterial meeting June 17 but their proposal appeared to have little chance against French obstinacy. The Common Market dispute with American poultrymen re mained unresolved today. The ministers flatly refused to give U.S. exporters lower tariff rates into the community on broil er chickens than their Danish competitors despite the fact the Danes receive government sub' sidics. - America's share of the Euro pean chicken market has dropped from 70 to 10 per cent because of price-culling and increasing production efficiency in the Com mon Alatket countries. House Approves Education Funds SALEM (UPI) A $78 million budget for operating expenses of the Higher Education System passed the Oregon House Friday and went to the Senate. An additional $500,000 was add ed in the final hours to keep near ly half the state's tuberculosis patients at the university hospital at Portland. There was a chance the Senate would try to cut out the sum, re turning to the plan to consolidate all TB patients at Ihe Stale Hos pital, at Salem, The higher educalion budget was trimmed more than $2 mil lion, mainly In money for new teachers. ; pointed principal of the Be and Eastwood Schools in 1961-112. lle has served eight years for the Kosehiirg School District Keady received his Bachelor's Degree from Whitworth College in Spokane in 1954. lie earned his Master's degree at Southern Ore gon College in 1902. Keady and his wife. Vcrlee, have five boys Tim, junior in High School; Todd, sev enth grader: Danny, fifth grader John, second grader; and Toby, pre-senool j ROBERT KEADY I ... Fremont hood 12 Pages SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1963 Million Clears A WOMAN kneels in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City late Friday as she prays for Pope John XXIII, who lies near death In the Apostolic Palace. (UPI Telephoto) END EXPECTED TONIGHT Pope Clings Tenaciously To Life During Last Hours ' VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John XXIII regained conscious' ncss for a second time today as doctors gave him "pain-killing in jections to case his last hours. He hovered between lire and death, consciousness and coma, but one Vatican source said death probably would come before night fall. Twice Die 81-yenr-old pontiff has slipped into a coma, but twice he has regained consciousness. The latest period oi conscious ness, the Vatican press omce an nounced, came at 3:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. liUT). Previously, he had returned to consciousness lioin a coma at 2:45 a.m. (9:45 p.m. EDT Fri day), when he was able to drink coffee, chat Willi those in his bed room and recognize his relulivcR. He blessed them "Individually." Then he lapsed bock into a coma about five hours later. As he regained his senses the second lime, the official announce ment said, "Ihe holy father blessed those present and offered once auain his own life for the church, for the (Ecumenical) Council, and for Peace." resent at the time In the third floor bedroom of the Vatican palace were Vatican Secretary of State Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Fernando Cardinal Cento, Msgr. Angelo Dcllacqua of the Vatican secretariat of state, members of the pontiff's family and his con fessor, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagnan. As the stout heart of the peasant born Pope refused to give up the fight for life, a sudden afternoon tliiindcrshower drenched thousands of pious and curious gathered out side in St. Peter s Square to pray and await news of his ebbing bat tle with death. Despite his moments of con sciousness, Vatican radio said "the holy father remained oh the threshhoid of this life and the next." Oakland Sets Third Bailor Residents of Oakland School Dis trict will have a third opportunity to vote on a school budget Friday of next week at the Washington School gymnasium, announces Ce cil B. Bamelt, superintendent. Hearing on the budget is sched uled for 8 p.m. Thursday at the high school. Darned said the budget hai again been trimmed and is now almost the same as that for the current year, except that l')00 has had to be added to pay the cost of each election. The first budget as presented was $10,000 greater than that of the present budget. On second vote it was down to $7,500 greater. The $7,500 has been knocked out of the upcoming budget, said Barnctt. Eliminated from the budget will he provision for the drama de partment, baseball and band uni forms, other minor cuts have been marir. including trimming sorre money from the water and iighv bills. Other sources quoted ' the Pontiff's principal official physt cian, I'roi, Amonio uasiiarrim, as saying he hoped Pope John "will live until this evening." However, the director of the Vatican city newspaper said he did not think the failing Pope would Inst Unit long. Even as Pope John lay on the simple iron bed in the Vatican palace, peacefully awaiting death, plans were going ahead for his funeral. Vatican sources said he would he buried in the Basilica of St. John in Latcran rather than in the Vatican, presumably at his own request. St. Johns is In the southern part of Rome, in what Is now a working class district. It is tne mother church of Christendom The Pope moved Inexorably to ward the end. He dramatically regained consciousness during the night, but slipped hack into a coma early today. The Vatican offered no explana tion of the injections at a time when the pontiff was in a coma. but it was presumed that he was experiencing momenta oi con sciousness. The 81-yenr-old pontiff's breath ing was slow. His temperature had risen to 100.4 degrees and he was being given oxygen. Give Pain Killers q Then, at 1:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m. EDT), the Vatican radio said in a German language broadcast that the Pope's doctors administered the pain killers early this morn ing. This was the first mention of sedatives. The broadcast added lhat the Pope's general condition remained "stationary." "His face Is quiet and re laxed." the announcer said, "lle is still fighting with dealh. His pulse is entirely normal, his breathing slow and broken. Still Grave Situation "Summing up, the situation Is stationary hut slill very grave . . . the death agony can atill last hours." A few minutes later, a press of fice spokesman confirmed that Ihe Pope had been receiving pain-killing injections. Earlier, Dr. Raimondo Manzinl, director of the Vatican City news paper Oservatore Romano, said after a visit lo the Pope's bed room Mat he did not think the pontiff would last until evening. Farm Prices Take Dip WASHINGTON (UPI) Farm prices declined 1 per cent in the month ended May 15 under the impact of lower returns for cattle, eggs, and wholesale milk, the Ag riculture Department reported Friday. Higher prices for hogs and or anges were not enough to prevent the overall decline. The May 15 index of prices received was one- half of 1 per cent below a year earlier. Farm costs were unchanged for the month, but up 1 per cent from a year earlier. The increase over a year ago stemmed from higher prices for farm production goods and farm wag ralea and taxes. ROSEBURG, OREGON 129 Income Ton Legislate Passage Is To 14-Day SALEM (UPI) - A S48 million increase in the state income tax was on Its way to the governor's office today after finally having cleared the legislature. A sales tax measure which would be referred to the voters at the November, 19G4, election, was slill locked in conference committee. A tentative agreement on the sales tax blew up Friday when New Highway Death Total May Be Set By United Press International The nation sped into the last half of Uie long Memorial Day holiday weekend today and ap peared headed for a new record for highway death. The National Safety Council snid tho death pace was running ahead of 1900's, when a record 482 deaths occurred during that year's four day Memorial Day woekond. A United Press International count at 11:30 a.m. EDT showed the traffic dentil count sinco 6 p.m. Wednesday had passed tho auo mark. The breakdown: Traffic 304 55 7 8 57 Drowning Boating Piano Miscellaneous Total California, the automotive state, 431 nation's most led tho death count with 32. There wero 28 nuto fatalities in Now York Stute, 15 in both Ohio and Toxns, 12 in Pennsylvania,' 11 each in Indiana and Oregon, and 11 each in Illi nois and Missouri. The Safety Council had cstimuled that as many as 550 persons could die In traffic beforo the spring summer season's first holiday ends at midnight Sunday. Man Is Arraigned For Threatening Life Of Kennedy KLAMATH FALUS (UPI) A man accused of threatening the life of President Kennedy in a lcttor was arraigned on the charge before U.S. Commissioner David Vandcrherg Friday. Alex Holcomb, 30, Huntington, W. Va., was arrested by state po lico here earlier in the day on a federal warrant. Vandcrherg set ball at $10,000 for Holcomb. formerly from Klamath Fulls. He was lodged at the city jail. He will be taken to West Virginia uy a u. s. Marshal. Frank Kcnncy, in charge of tho Secret Service in Portland, said tho chargo involved a letter mail ed to the President from Hunting ton on May 11 "In which tho text contained threat against tho President. It Was Cool In Redmond! NEW YORK (UPI) Tho U.S. Weather Bureau said today the lowest tcmperaturo in the nation, except for Alaska, was at Red mond, Ore., early today. Tho mer cury dropped to 32. 11 went to 39 at Klamath Falls. Leukemia Takes Walter, 69, Loquacious House Democrat WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Francis E. Walter, D-Pa., one of the most powerful and controver sial members of tho House, died of leukemia Friday. Walter, 69, died at 8 p.m. EDT after being in a coma most of the day at Georgetown University Hospital, lie hud been hospital- s 1, -' , REP. FRANCIS E. WALTER , i , leukemia victim 4 I .i.iMaiAt&A 10c Per Copy Climax Deadlock both Senate and House conferees resigned in a dispute over wheth-, er groceries should be taxed. The House said yes, the Senate said no. Now House conferees were W. O. Kelsay, D-Itoseburg, and Jack , Smith, D-Condon. New Senate con ferees wero Harry Boivin. D- Klamath Falls, and L. W, New bry, K-Ashland, Passage of the Income tax ' measuro climaxed a 14-dav dead. lock. A tax commission spokesman said the bill raised tho state in come tax 28 per cont, but that the out-of-pocket cost to the aver- . age taxpayer would ramie from 3.5 to 6 per cent because of a change in handling federal income tax deductions. Hike Approved The Senate approved the tax hike 22-8 after it cleared lha House 35-24 in a dramatic vote tally that was climaxed by a last minulo switching of votes. The final tally showed six Re- ' publican and two Democratic sen ators voted against the bill. In tho llouso fivo Democrats and 19 Re publicans voted no. As the roll was called, 33 rep resentatives voted against the measure. Then several Democrats switched to a yes vote. With tho measure one vote short 1 of passage, House Tax Committee Chairman Richnrd Eymann, D Murcola. charged tho Rcnubllcani had voted to spend money, but rc- iusca to support the lax hike needed to finance the spending. At that point Rep. Victor All yeh, R-Porllnnd, switched his vote to yes, assuring passage. As soon as Atiyeh switched several other Democrats reversed their no votes. In all, three Republicans and seven Democrats who first voicn no, switched to back the in como lax hike; Votod "No" Senators who opposed the in crease were Alliens, Flegel, Hare, Husband, Inskccp, Leth, Naterlin and Yturri. liouso members who voted no wero Bazett, Bennett, Bonosteele, Branchficld. Channel, riminn,.,! Ciothers, Dellenback, Detering, Dickinson, Elder, Field, Gallag her. Hagan, Howard, Hunt, Jones, Alaher, Montgomery, Orr, Ridder-' busch, Rogers, Robert Smith and Wlielan (Duoley absent). The now incomo tax Is backed by a one-shot speedup of with-, holding tax collections if needed,, and carries a nrovlsinn that mv surplus in excess of $10 million would be applied as a nronertv tax offset. The capital gains lux wa 1th. cralizcd, and tho corporate excise tux increased, as part of the package. Main features of the new In. como tax measure: Itcmoval of the federal in- come tux deduction. Head of household eels faint treatment. Students entitled as denend. ency credit. Blind get full extra credit. Senior citizens (over 65) ent one-half extra credit. Flat $22 tax credit for nersnn. al and dependency deductions. Unlimited medical deduction above 5 per cent of income. Five ner cent ontlonal stand.' ard deduction. F ractional rates from 2 to 7Vi per cent, Huso broadening via a $5 fil ing fee or 1 per cent of adjusted gross income, or the tax, which ever Is higher. Ihe measure represented a complete victory for the Senate, as the House-favored net receipts and cigarette taxes were refused by the Senate. ized for about four months. He was chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities, the judiciary subcommit tee on immigration, and co authored the McCarran-Waltcr Im migration Act. Adding to his pow er, ho was chairman of the Democratic Patronage Committee. which dispenses Capitol jobs. since 1901, ho had been chair- an of the House Democratic caucus, a prestige position, President Kennedy, who visited Walter recently, said "when t saw him on my recent visit...he was facing the futuro With the same faith and courago he had shown throughout his life. Hi' will be greatly missed In the House of Representatives and all of hit friends mourn his passing." Funeral arrangements for Wal ter were Incomplete. He will be buried in Arlington National Cem etery. Considered an expert parlia mentarian, Walter often presided when the House debated its most intricate bills, lie was a trusted confidant of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, who told a friend 10 years ago that he wanted Walter to succeed him. - 63
