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Newspaper Page TextReedsport Myrtle Creek Set Dates For Festivals Plans have just begun for one community celebration, and are well under way for two others in Douglas County this week. The dates have just been set by the Myrtle Creek Chamber of Com merce for its annual Mvrtle Creek si Festival. The festival is sched uled Aug. 9 and 10. A major planning meeting for Big 6 Officials End Spring Meet CARMEL, Calif. (UPI) ' Big Six officials concluded their spring meeting today without making any historic decisions, but with a sur prising showing of unity. Just about everyting was "unanimous" when it came to voting and there was no friction 'on anything. The leaders even agreed that they would support the United States Track and Field Federa tion 100 per cent in its battle for control of amateur athletes with the national A.A.U. "We are behind all the federa tions strongly," said retiring President Dr. Bradford Booth. The other federations tangling with the august Amateur Athletic Union are in baseball, basketball and gymnastics. The council even agreed that Oregon and Oregon State are "making progress" in bringing their educational standards up to the level of those at Big Six schools and thus some day may be eligible for admittance, if they want it. At the closing session Friday, Dr. Rixford Snyder of Stanford was named the council president, Stan Bates, Washington State ath letic director, was named secre tary. And Pete Newell, California athletic director, was re-elected to a two-year term as treasurer. Among the items approved dur ing the four days of sessions, was a petition to the NCAA asking it to use a regional blackout when a college football game is being televised nationally. The Big Six also wants all its schools to enter a team in every conference sport. Most of them do. However, Washington and Washington State don't have wa ter polo teams. And Southern Cal ifornia, does not have a wrestling team. Five of the six clubs have crew as a sport. But nobody suggested building a lake for the inland city of Pullman, Wash., so that the Cougars could join the crew fun. Glendale Superintendent Due For Workshop Post By MRS. GERALD B. FOX Jack Johnson, superintendent of the Glendale schools, is taking summer classes at the University Glendale Resident Still Hospitalized By MRS. GERALD B. FOX Douglas Dollar of Glendale, who entered Josephine General Hospital in GranU Pass two weeks ago for treatment of pneumonia complica tions has been transferred to the Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital in Medford where he is under the care of a specialist. Mrs. Dollar Makes Trips Mrs. Essie Dollar returned re cently from a trip to Kansas City where she visited with her mother for a month. Stopping in Ohio, she visited friends. She later visited with her granddaughter, Carolyne i Dollar, a student at Portland Stale College. Four members of the Glendale Bethel of Job's Daughters, Betty Staplelon, Evelyn Kimbrough, Neva Wilson and Christy Easlon. attend ed Grand Session of the Job's Daughters in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. William Hale of Glendale are the parents of a S pounds, 2 ounce baby girl born June 13. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Close and familv moved recently to the home he has been building in the Red wood Highway area south of Grants Pass. Close is a member of the Glendale High School faculty and will continue, to teach here. Family To Move Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Friedrich and family are moving soon to Washougal, Wash., where he has accepted a position nn the high school faculty. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fricdrich'i parents live in the Washougal area. Mrs. Pearl Frost who under went major surgery' at the Joseph ine General Hospital, was released this aeck. , Mrs. James Korthof and children of Springfield were in Glendale to attend the high school graduation. Lester Moschkau returned home with them for a few days Ruth Ann Moschkau of Fortuna, Calif . visited with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. August Moschkau for a week recently. BRING YOUR- Sewer Drainage Drain Field Excavoting PROBLEMS T0-PRE-MIX CONCRETE PIPE CO. OR 2-2694 4 Septic Tank the celebration was held Friday. Chairmen for the committees in charge are J. D. Groom, queen contest; John Cavaner, parade. rrans miners, lesuvai mmwav. The festival will take place this year again on properly adjacent to the post office building. Meanwhile, at Reedsport, Chair man 4acK Turner ot me Meet Days Parade Committee issued a call for more lloats to be entered in the parade slated July 13. He said the parade this year will include the Grants Pass Cavemen. Portland Rosarians, Eugene High landers, Cottage Grove Prospec tors, Douglas County Rodeo court and courts representing the Wald port Beachcombers and Azalea Festival. At Sutherlin, five girls have been named as princesses in the Doug las County Timber Days Court. They are now selling tickets fo the event to determine which will be elevated to aueen on the first day of the big event Aug. 2. Timber Days is scheduled Aug. 2-4. The girls vying for the honor and wardrobe prizes are: Judy Crady, 19; Shirley Kavr, 19: Char lene Fornev, 16; Donna Edwards, 15; Susan Monett, 16; and Ruth ruiley, 15. Prizes being offered in the con test are $150 worth of clothes for the queen; $75 wardrobe for the second place winner; and $50 ward robe for third. Drain Girl In Eugene At Business College By JO CARLILE Linda McCormack of Drain has entered Portland Business College on a three-month business machine scholarship. Drain Revisited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vandolah of Annt r'nlif fnpmar nrain rpei- dents,' spent 'the weekend visiting at the home ot Mr. ana mrs. viyae Stevenson. Mrs. Levi Asker visited recently at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bail Perry, at Reedley, Calif., and attended the eighth grade graduation of her Uatn lire A clrr' nn gld.iusuu, A CIV. I'll J. .w.-. "I Gene Balfour of Henderson, Nev., drove to Keeaiey ana ujok nis uioui er home with him for a visit. . HtH I aetar Uamnlrnr ma(pr fit North Douglas Grange 936, Mrs. E. O. Breier, treasurer, ueckie ureier and Deanna Bickford attended the Stain firanee meetings held recent ly in Salem. Mrs. iiverett carneu ana iiautjr and Mrs. Grace Moorman attend- A .lnia rinoii mpptinPS and COn- W BlOW VI. .... d- -- tinued on to Vancouver, Wash., where Mrs. tserneii ana iauiuy via itcd her son, Danny, who is a stu dent, and Mn. Moorman visited in Portland. of Oregon in Eugene.- He will jbe home on weekends to be with his family and attend to details- hav ing to do with the school system. Later in the summer he will be an instructor at the Student Coun cil Workshop, which will also be held in Eugene. ' Couple Makes Trip Mr. and Mrs. Walter McAllister have returned from a trip which included attendance at the Rebck ah Grand Assembly at The Dalles and a trip as far as Montana where they attended the wedding of their granddaughter, Lynette Vaughn. In St. Anthony, Idaho, thev visited Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kafer and family, former Glendale residents. Bill Mullarkey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mullarkey of Quines Creek, is working for the State Fish Commission in Clacka mas, Ore., at the Fish Commission lab. J. G. McFeetcrs of Atchison, Kan., who has been visting his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Connie O'Rokc of Glendale for nearly a month, left for home June 14 by train. M-,. rtilo Wriuht and children. j of Roseburg spent a couple of days recently visiting with her hus i band's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred j Wright of Glendale. Daughter Is Visitor I Colin MrCov of Albany, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Buchanan of Azalea, has enlisted in the Army and his wile is slaying with her , parents for a few days until he j is assigned to a school. ' Mrs. Pierce Furlong of Glendale was in Josephine General Hospi tal recently undergoing medical treatment and check up. ! Visitors at the Robert Grandy home this week included Grandy's ! mother. Mrs. Cleo Grandy of Au 'burn. Wash., and Marsha Moore i of Seattle, who is to be a brides 1 maid at the wedding of her cousin. Roberta uranay, in me near iu- !turc. .. ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woodley ot 1 Glendale were hosts for a week I recently to their granddaughter ! and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. i Allen Ruth, and their daughters, of Seattle. MISSOURIAN VISITS Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitten I dorf of Glide drove to Portland re cently to meet the latter'! moth j er. Mrs. Jane La Brol of St. Louis ! Mo., and bring her back to their home for an indefinite visit. Mrs. La Brot's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mattof of Glide, will also host the visitor. SALES imI SERVICI CUMMINS FUEL SYSTEMS JACOBS ENGINE BRAKE DIESEL INJECTION SERVICE 1758 NE STEPHENS Ot 1-61 1 NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT The scene above was staged to give students of an Umpqua National Forest fire suppression school training in case they tangle with the real thing this summer. First the instructors started demonstration fires and showed the proper way to put them out. Then the students did the same. Here a group of students do a little mopping up. (Forest Service pnotos by Jim Crates) & :4JQ; rr FIRE CONTROL OFFICERS of the Umpqua National Forest, who will be charged with con trolling orvy forest fires this year in a season which has been called one of the most dangerous in history. They took part in training new crews this week. From left, they are: Lester Spurgeon of the Little River District; Ira Poole of Cow Creek; Frank Wilson of North Umpqua; Clair Hogote of Bohemia; Elmo Picht of South Umpqua; and Carl Yeust of Dia mond Lake. , Wolf Creek Training Fire Course For 65 Trainees By MRS. ARTHUR SELBY News-Review Correspondent Sixty-five Forest Service "smoke eaters" were graduated at the Wolf Creek Training Camp on Lit tle River this week. The students began the week of training Monday. They came from almost every state of the union, many of them majoring in forestry at accredited colleges. Twenty-seven district rangers, assistant rangers, fire control of ficers and personnel from the six districts of the Umpqua National forest carried the load of instruc tion. John Myers, assistant fire control staff officer of the forest was superintendent of the school. Eight Classes Held Eight classes were held daily in the program. The instruction in cluded map reading, small fire suppression, gravity water, com pass and pacing, foremanship, fire behavior, fire finding, use of wa ter, communications and two new courses this year, scouting and public contacts. After three days of intensive training, written tests were given. Every year there is much rivalry among the six districts to deter mine which will win the "golden pulaski" (an instrument with an axe on one side and grub hoe on the other). The decision is made Former Tiller Residents Visited By Mail Carrier, Wife, On Trip By MRS. MILTON HAMMERSLY Willard Russell has returned to his job as star route mail carrier between Canynnville and the Tiller-Drew vicinity after he and Mrs. Russell returned to their home fol lowing a five-week trip to Califor nia. Rattlesnake Reported Third rattlesnake to he killed on the grounds of the Tiller Ranger Slation within a five-day period was accounted for by Ranger Mil lard M. Lilligren as he walked from the office to his home after work. The snake, about 20 inches in length and having four rattles, was in grass near the L'tley garage. Larry Stone, who was a fellow patient of Ionard B. Proefroik during his recent stay in the Rose burg Veterans Hospital, has been a house guest at the l'roefrock home on Red Butte Road. Gary Zimmerman has gone to Washington to spend part of his school vacation with his father. C. S. Zimmerman, who came to Tiller over last weekend to get the boy. nllen Hunter, junior of Days Creek High School, has gone to Woodland. Wash., to visit at the home of Mr. and Mr. Gilbert But ler and family, formerly of Tiller. He accompanied Norman Butler, Wayne Bums and Lee Moore when they returned home after a week end visit at the Glen Hunter and tS' on total grades of the students as signed to each district. This year, Little River district won after hav ing been a loser for several years. Winners Listed In the more active contests which followed, Fred Rhoade of the North Umpqua won the compass and pacing test; Frank Ffnnell of Lit tle River won the bucking contest; and Frank Walter',. Finnell and Carl Varner of Little River won the "merry packer" test. The for est test for all classes was won in a tie between Little River and South Umpqua districts. Twenty-one students were se lected to man lookout posts in the six districts. They were chosen on their distance seeing ability. All 05 of the students were given these eye tests. The other students will be as signed to engineering crews, tim ber layout crews, campground maintenance crews and to various oilier duties. Another School Held A sncciul 2l-m:in fire stmnrpi. sion crew was also given training at Cougar and McDonald Creek areas in the Little River District during the Wolf Creek session. These men, coming from several different stales, have had previ ous fire fighling experience. They were selected on the basis of edu- . Jack Lehnherr homes at Tiller. i l.so accompanying them to Wood land were Audrey and Jess Lehn- herr, who will visit with their uncle and aunt ..Mr. and Mrs. Clifford I Marshall, and family, also former- ;iy of Tiller. j FJIrn Tryon of Grants Pass spent last week as a guest of her umcie and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. N. K. McCutchcon and children, at their home near Jackson Creek. Former Residents Vlstl I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomai of Reedsport stopped to visit Mr. and Mrs. Vern !.crwill recently cn I route home after a fishing trip to Diamond Lake. As a boy, Thomas ! lived with his parents on a ranch on Red Butte Road and Mrs. Ir. I will stayed with the family when sne nrst came to liner to teach school. Mr. and Mrs William V. Hall of Milo. their son, Naal Airman Richard Hall, and the former's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hall of Myrtle Creek, spent the weekend in EiiKene visiting another son of the William V. Halls, (iary, who is employed on the staff of the Register-Guard and serves as minister for the Rainbow Valley Church west of F.ueene. Richard Hall left by plane from Roseburg Wednes day to return to his station at I't. Mugu, Calif., following a lV-day leave spent with his parents. Camp Ends cation, experience and physical fitness. Gordon White was suppres sion crew foreman, while Dean Simpson and Louie Wolf, all from the Glide Hanger Station, served as his assistants. This crew is now stationed at the Wolf Creek Guard Station and Three of the Instructors at the Wolf Creek fire control school this week got a little extra in struction themselves when they were called on to rescue an in jured woman. Correspondent Mrs. Arthur Sel by reports that Frank Moore of Little River came to the Wolf Creek camp Thursday afternoon to report that his sister, Ella Carson of Crescent City, Calif., had fallen and broken her ankle. He asked for help in bringing her to the hospital. The only access to Moore's house is over a swinging bridge across Little River. Forrest Fen sternaker and Ray Belenardo from the Umpqua National For est, supervisor's, office in Rose burg, and Lester Spurgeon, fire control officer of the Little Riv er District, accepted the chal lenge. However, instead of taking a chance of carrying her across the bridge, they waded the river with her. She was taken in a station wagon by Mrs. Bonnie Krohn of Roseburg, head cook at the train ing camp, to Douglas Communi ty Hospital. She was reported do ing fine today. is available to answer calls lor fire fighting in national forests any where in the Pacific Northwest. At the main fire school, camp personnel were: .Mel Greenup, camp boss; Mrs. Ronnie Jean Krohn and Mrs. June Rrusseau, head cooks; Mrs. Anne Kinne and Mrs. Lava Gardner, assistant cooks. House Guests Reported For Tenmile Residents ' Mrs. Julia Fnlow of Tenmile has as her house guest her sister, Mrs Eva Henson, of Sulpher, Okla. Mrs. Henson expects to spend the summer with her sister.' Woman Visits Mrs. Ruth Garr of Modesto, Calif., Is visiting at the home of her son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Benedict, in Ten mile. Also guests of the Benedicts for two days were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peters of Bandon. The Pe ters are former Tenmile residents, correspondent Mrs. Walter Coats reports. It Poyt To Patronize NEWS -REVIEW ADVERTISERS Cuban Says Red Troops In Move Against Rebels SAN JOSE, Costa. Rica (UPI) A Cuban refugee spokesman said nere Friday night Russian troops are moving into action against anti-Castro insurgents in Cuba. Luis M. Martinez, spokesman for the Cuban Refugee Commit tee, quoted what he said were radio renorts from Cuba saying - mere nas o e e n an intense movement of Russian troons and militia units under orders of Rus sian officers toward the west central section of (Cuba's) south ern coast." Martinci said at least 3.000 an ti-Castro guerrillas had landed at various points along Cuba's south coast during the past three weeks to link up with anti-government forces already operating there. Refugees in the United States have said they will demand U.S. aid if Russian troops attack reb els in Cuba. (In Washington, the State De partment said "small bands" of refugees may have infiltrated Cuba in recent weeks, but added it has no evidence of major military landings on the Island, (Department spokesman Rich ard T. Phillips said a "very careful check" had convinced the U.S. government that the number of possible infiltrators is small probably fewer than 50.) Martinez described the report ed landings as "part of a devel oping movement which will draw reinforcements from all refugee groups in a determined effort to overthrow Premier Fi del Castro. . The refugee spokesman said the infiltrators staged their land ings from "Caribbean bases" and "points on the mainland" pre sumably meaning Mexico or Cen tral America, He said the operation had no U.S. backing. Landings will continue until the infiltration has built up into a full-scale insurrection, Martinez said. Strike Forces Baxter Closure J. H. Baxter & Co.. located in the Green area, has become a vic tim of strikes elsewhere, so it hns closed down until further notice. 1 lie announcement was made Friday by Willard O. Spies of Eu gene, vico president of the com pany. Spies said the closure was nec essary because ,tho plants it sup plies liuvo been struck, so there is no outlet lor production. Tho company, which has been operating in the Roseburg area since about 19-18. manufactures poles and pilings, but its main business is treating all wood prod ucts. Spies poit.L-d out that the Lum ber & Sawmill Workers have struck a plant it supplies in .The Dalles and the associated .company of Baxtcr-Wyckoff at West Seattle and Eagle Harbor, Wash. Another plant in Weed, Calif., was closed because it received Us steam sup ply from International Paper Co., which is one of the "Big Six" be ing struck in the Northwest. When the plant was struck, the steam supply was lost. Involved at the Roseburg plant are between 15 and 20 workers. The company has a labor contract with the LSW. Grants Pass Firm Wins Bridge Job Buswcll Bros, of GranU Pass was the apparent low bidder on a mireau oi I'uouc iioaus jod lor grading of a road and construc tion of a bridge for the Union Creek Road in Douglas County this week. The company entered bid of $ll(i,8Ht. The job includes grading of 4.441 miles of roadway and con struction of a 283-foot reinforced concrete girder bridge across Cow (.'reek near its confluence with Union Creek. The work is to be done for the Hm can of Land Management. The improvement is located along a feeder road routing which will join the Cow Creek Road about 18 miles southwest of Riddle. The job is being financed through acceler ated public works funds and BLM timber access road funds. Estimate of cost by the BPR en gineers was 1143.831. Other bid ders were M. J. Brassfield Co. of Salem, $488,509; Oroseheck-Durbin Inc. of hugene, J.W.Ma; and Dale Dennis of Lake Oswego, $715,200. City Police Probing Rear-End Collision Roseburg city police Friday In vestigated a two-car, non-injury ac cident at the intersection of SB Pine Avenue and SE Flocd Street. According to police report, the accident occurred at 2:35 p.m.. in volving vehicles driven by Kenneth Charles Smith, of Iing Beach, Calif., and Ami Willie BillinRton, of Salem. Police said Smith had stopped at the intersection for a stop light and Billington was unable to stop be fore hitting the rear of the Smith vehicle. TUNISIA GETS LOAN TUNIS, Tunisia (UP!) The United States will lend Tunisia $15 million under an agreement signed recently by U.S. Ambas sador Francis Russclland Ahmed Ben Salah. Tunisian secretary of state for planning and finance. Sat., June 22, 1963 The Business News ' 1 it's- j VISUAL ACUITY is tested on one of the devices in the Standard Oil Co. mobile unit while Bob Colwell, left, keeps track of the employe's showing, whio his co-worker looks on. This was one of several tests given in the visit the mo bile unit made in Roseburg. Standard Oil Making Sure Employes Are Safe Drivers Safe drivers save money for a company. With that ' philosophy in mind Standard Oil Co. is making as ccr-, tain as possible that its employes are safe drivers. It docs this with the help of a specially-equipped unit designed for testing drivers and a short course in good driving practices. Two specialists and the special unit were in Roseburg this month tq conduct theso tests and the school for the employes ot Stand ard in the county. In charge of the operation were specialists Hoi) Colwell, safety en gineer, and Kill isert, who special izes in driver safety and trnining. I " ) ' ' J. ' THE LOOKINGULASS STORE hos been reopened under new management, following closure for several months for" the first time in nearly a century. Lookingglass Store History Recounted In Transaction By HAZEL S. MARSH Lookingglass Corratpondent The Lookingglass store recently was re opened by ilollis and Cnrol Real who plan to conduqt a general merchandise business and gas sla tion. The Reals have a son Mike, 16, who will ho a student ot Doug las High School this full, und daughters, Peggy, 8, and Toni 0, who will he enrolled in the Ixiok ingglass School. They have living quarters in the rear of the store building. Heal it engaged in logging oper ations and Mrs. Reol will oper ate the slore. Prior In coming to the valley they operaled a ranch for nine years near Cottage (irovc. Contlhuoul Operation The Ixioking.'ilass store has been in operation continuously, with the exception of the lew months from the first of this year, since the 1850's when opened by two Jewish men, the Ziniski Bros. According to information obtainable, the suc cession of owners through the years included: Billy Cochran bought the busi ness from the Ziniski's. Jim Good man, the next owner, was followed by Cochran's son. Dave Morgan and Al Foster were the next own ers. Morgan later sold his .interest to Will Arnold, tlio uncle ot Mrs. Wesley Meredith (Veda Arnold) now living on the Arnold home place in lmkingglass valley. Foster and Arnold conducted the business for some time and then sold to Wylio Miller, who operated the store until 11107 when lie sold to Sam Brisbane. Mrs. Lee Wil liams (Ona Brisbane) of Roseburg, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brisbane, spent her girlhood days in the valley until 1020 when her father disposed of his holdings to Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Nickcns. Dur ing the time the Nickcns operated the store from 1020 until June 1945, the Lookingglass 1'o.st Office which had been located in the store, was discontinued by the Postal Depart ment and the valley placed on Route 4 out of Roseburg. Last Postmistress Mrs. T. F. Holmes (Cenevicve Nickens) worked with her parents in Uie operation of the store and was the last postmistress. In Oc tober 1944 the post office was clos ed. Mrs. Holmes has resided in Roseburg for many years. News - Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 The complicated testing unit Is designed to test vision, depth per ception, visual acuity, color per ception, peripherial vision, glare, vision and reaction time. The equip ment is contained in a 23-foot house, trailer pulled by a half-ton pickup. With the use of visual aids, the two men from tho San Francisco office emphasized the importanca ot defensive driving to the Douglas County personnel. The safety unit and its operators aro conducting tho tests and school in nine western states, including Huwuli and Alaska. About 23,000 people will bo involved. 1 .1- . '' f Nickcns died in 1941, unci tho store wus bought in 1945 by Rex Wulker who conducted tho busi ness a short time and sold to Ray ucicnauniy. Ilo was followed by Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Glasscr who carried on the business for a num ber of years and finally sold to Dwight Morgan. Morgan still owns the property but closed out tho store business this winter. He has now rented the building to Mr. nnu Mrs. Heal, ihu slore, which has persisted down through the yours, is again the scene of ac tivity. It is the understanding of old timers slill living in this area that the lookingglass Store was one of the first husjness operations in I Moue,ias couiiiy. rrom inai nino ! os time progressed, the cominun ' ity boasted u hotel, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Irn Howard for a i number of years, and was a slage ! terminal on the old Coos Bay Wag ; on Route. Other Businesses t There was also a bliicksmilh'j ' shop, a barber shop, the Odd Fel i lows Lodge building, o tavern, tho j school and church. The latlcr was carried on for o number of years in the ground floor room of tho lodge hall. Later the hall was organized and the original hall built. This was replaced by tho fine new modern grange hall which was dedicated this spring. At the time of tho selection of seal, iuuKinKiass wit a .n ..tu ner tip and is reported to have lost out by a very few votes. As time marches on, "the valley has chang ed to a residential area with the I general merchandise store the only business operation catering lo ino public. Mr. and Mrs. Real are be ing congratulated on re opening tho business. Local News Mrs. Ross (Sharon Lyons) Webb,. who was graduated this year trom Lewis and Clark College in Port land, will teach tlifj fall in the Portland area.