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U.uv-rsity ci." Oreg-n Library In Balance Stephen Ward, major figure in England's vice and possible espionage scandal is in an iron lung in cn effort to save his life. See page 2. Show Opens "Flower Drum Song" opened Wed nesday night- (or a 10-day run at Umpqua Wer Theatre near Melrose. See page 5. 10c Per Copy Established 1873 34 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963 180-63 Kennedy's Plea hv Nuclear lest lupport Expected Ian "t""1 W ' 11111111111 "i wmmtrnxmnumtsfyip t T'yg LOOKS LIKE WAR An unidentified FBI ageni looks or some of 20 aerial bomb casings seized 30 miles from New Orleans, La., along with more than a ton of dynamite. Of ficials said the raid was made "in connection with on investigation of an effort to carry out a military operation from the United States against a country with which the U. S. is at peace." (Official FBI photo by UPI Telephoto) School Board Picks Architect For Fullerton School Addition The Roscburg School Board has selected John Briscoe of Eugene as architect for a proposed four room addition to Fullerton IV School. The district's building program time table calls for completion of additions to Fullerton IV, Fremont and Joseph Lane junior high schools prior to opening of school in the fall of 1964. These improve- Defense Head Views Security In W. Germany BONN (UPI) Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara flew to the edge of the Iron Cur tain today to find out if the Amer ican lock on nuclear warheads earmarked for West German forces really is safe. With West German Defense Minister Kai-uwa Von Hassel at his side, McNamara hopped to Hannover, then to Brunswick, and from there to inspect German units on the Communist border near Passau. Hassel's army units have U.S. rockets and missiles, but Ameri can Army forces keep the nuclear warheads ia their custody. Mc Namara was checking the devices installed to insure the warheads remain under direct U.S. control. Before flying back to Bonn, Mc Namara also was inspecting the new West German standard tank at the .Munsterlace proving grounds. German army brigades are equipped with "Honest John" bat tlefield rockets, and are in the process of getting the "Sergeant" missile. In all cases, the United States retains custody and con trol oi me nuclear warheads. Only the President of the Unit- Jkd States can order the war Scads attached to the missiles and. further, permit them to be fired. Korean War Defector Plans Return To His Ohio Home HONG KONG (ITU An Amer ican captured during the Korean: War who chose to stay behind the I Bamboo Curtain returned to the! West from Communist China to-i day and said another American may be coming out soon. Lowell D. Skinner. 32. of Akron, i Ohio, a former corporal who has! not seen the United States since; 1950, stepped across the border! into this British crown colony shortly after noon. "It's about time to go back.") he said. "My parents are getting; pretty old." j Skinner said that during his; The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Fair and a littl warmtr today through Friday. Highest limp, last 14 hours . 78 Lowest tomp. last 14 hours 4? Highest Ump. any Aug. (60) 103 Lowtit timp. any Aug. (56) 41 Prtcip. last 14 hours 0 Procip. from Aug. 1 0 Normal Aug. Precip. .03) Normal Procip. t-1 to M 3271 Sunset tonight, 1:35 p.m. PDT Sunrisa tomorrow, 6:04 a.m. PDT mcnts will be financed from se rial levy funds. Supt. M. C. Deller at Wednes day night's school board session urged the board to make the archi tectural assignments now to allow ample time for planning. He recommended that the firm of Hewlitt and Jamison of Beaver ton be appointed to prepare draw ings for the Fremont and Joseph Lane additions, but action on this suggestion was tabled until next meeting. Awards Made ' In ot'jcr action, several bid awards were approved by the board, largest of which was the award of roofing work. The board accepted the low bid of Lloyd E. Bailey for a roofing improvement at Benson School. Acme Roofing was low bidder on a Fremont roof job. Bids on Hoscburg High School roofing exceeded the budget allow ance, however, so Business Man ager Wendell Smith was instructed to study the situation to determine what can be done. Roscburg Fuel Oil Co. was awarded contract for providing heating oil ( PS-300) to Green, Rose Melrose, Wilbur, Winchester. Hu crest and Fremont. Union Oil Co was low bidder on heating oil (PS-200) for Fullerton, Fir Grove and Melrose and Ben Martin Oil Co. won the heating oil award on stove oil for the special education building. Texaco won the regular gasoline contract with a bid of .2154 cents. Tidewater Oil Co. won the award for providing the district with bulk and quart motor oil and transmis sion and chassis lubricants. Bid .Accepted The hid of Tillman & Booth. i lno.. of Eugene, was accepted for providing the district with electric I lamps. Williams Bakery won the i bakery products award which will I involve providing the district lunch program wiin urcau. iiciiuinii kvi buns, wiener buns and yeast. The board approved six teacher appointments. They were Harriet Barnuin. Winchester third grade; Ethel Edwards, Wilbur fifth grade: nine years in Communist China he kept in touch with other Ameri cans among 21 who stayed behind at the end of the Korean fighting. One of them, Scott L. Rush of Marietta, Ohio, indicatrd he also might be leaving China soon, bc cording to Skinner. He said Rush was employed as a lathe operator in Wuhan, a big steel center in the central mainland. Besides Rush, seven others of the original 21 American prisoners of war are believed still living in Red China. They are: Clarence C. Adams of Memphis. Tenn., Howard G. Adams of Cor sicana. Tex.. John R. Dunn u( Baltimore. Md., James G. Vener is of Hawthorne. Calif., Harold 11. Webb, of Fort Pierce, Fla., Wil liam C. White of Plmr.mersville. Ark . and Morris R. Wills of Fort Ann. N Y The la.-t previous American for mer prisoner of war to leave China was Richard G. Gordon o( Providence. R.I.. who arrived in Hong Kong in December. 195$. Skinner and tin? others all wer dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 19S4, and cannot be prosecuted under military juris diction as trracoats. Roberta Kimmciling, Melrose fourth grade; Florence Duncklee, Melrose fifth; Terry Hanson and Jon Weller, both senior high busi ness education. Resignations were accepted from Mary Hermes, Melrose fourth grade; Chrystal Janssen, Wilbur fifth grade; Beverly Olesen, Win chester third grade, and Chris Warnes, senior high business edu cation. New Tremors Hit Skopje SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (UPI) Three new earthquakes struck de vastated Skopje today, sending its battered residents fleeing into the streets in panic once again but causing no further damage or in juries. However, Yugoslav rescue cen ter officials who announced no new casualties said they would speed up the evacuation of the city, wrecked by a catastrophic earthquake last Friday. They said there have been close to 200 tremors since Friday, but that most of them have been mi nor. Officials also said workers dug out the bodies of three more vic tims Wednesday night, raising to 857 the total number of dead re covered. Estimates of what the final death toll will be ran be tween 1,500 and 2,000. But officials said they had "no further hope" of finding more sur vivors under Skopje's rubble. Officials indicated a complete death toll may never be known. They said: "We feel it is impossible anv body who has not yet been found could survive." The boom from dynamite squads demolishing tottering buildings echoed in the background as Yu goslav authorities voiced their grim observations. Mostly they went ahead with plans to rebuild Skopje on anoth er site in an effort to avoid fu- j lure disasters. But some surviv I ors felt otherwise, j Djordie Dimosvki. a baker whose family escaped injury but i lost, almost everything they owned i commented: "Even if I have to sweep streets and live in one room someplace else, I will never come back." He said he and his family cur rently were living in a tent set up in a park. He added: "I will do anything to escape from here. I will take any job." Motor Boat Used To Reach Freedom j WITTENBERG, Germany (UPI) ! An East German family of five dashed to freedom in a motor !boat. West German border police i said today. j A 50-yrarold employe of the East German Navigation Office at ' Wittenberg placed his family in one of the boats he used on his iob. Hinnpri the unpinn anA reached Ihp Wpsl Gprman hanlr of the Elbe River without being i spotted by Communist guards j Wednesday afternoon, police said. When Communist border guards j were not looking, he picked upi his family and a skeleton supply ' of household goods and crossed ! the 100 yards that divided them ! from freedom, police said. j Strike Spread Stops After Hatfield Offer In Lumber Dispute By United Press International Spread of the Northwest lumber strike halted, at least temporarily, today after Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield offered the services of his office in helping to settle the dispute which has idled about 29,000 workers. It appeared the respite from new strikes would be brief, how ever. Harvey Nelson, Region 3 presi- '63 Timber Days To Start Friday Preparations are quickening and excitement is mounting in the city of Sutherlin as area residents go into the final stages for Sutherlin timber Days scheduled to begin Friday. - .;. The big three - day event will get underway in the evening with the queen's coronation ball at the American Legion Hall. Six girls are competing for the Timber days crown. On Saturday, the kiddies' par ade will begin at 10:30 a.m., with the grand parade to follow at 11 a.m. A record-breaking number of entries is reported, according to Gene Walker, parade chairman. Logging events will be hold both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. On hand to compete will be World Champion John H. Miller of Gar den Valley, fresh from his recent triumph at Hayward, Wis., where he was named World Champion in ingle nucKing. others o the na tion's leading contestants are ex pected to be on hand for the many logging events. Central Park will be the scene of the annual Lions Club chicken barbecue Saturday afternoon and evening and starting around mid night Saturday, Sutherlin. Jaycees will stage the ' annual Loggers' Breakfast. - Playground Shows of Portland, carnival attraction, is already set up ana ts expected to De a particu lar attraction for small fry and teen-agers. According to Harrv Held. Tim ber Days chairman, everything is shaping up well for the big cele bration. "There will be something ot special interest to everyone Held said. The Timber Days grounds will be the focal point for all logging events and also for the carnival activities. Crucial Legion Series Opens Ar Park Tonight A pair of undefeated pitchers face each other on the mound to night in the crucial series opener for the state Legion Junior base ball semifinals in Roscburg. Ran Cool of Drain with a 12-0 record takes the chores for Rose burg; Jim McCandish (11-0) repre sents Salem. The first ot the three games starts at 8:30 on Legion Field. (See page 8.) Meanwhile, the other half of the semifinals sets under wav tonight I at Tigard where The Dalles takes on Sargeant Construction (Madi son High) of Portland. Games in both halves of the semis will be played tonight and Friday night, and Saturday night, if necessary. SENTENCED TO SPANKING AMARILLO. Tex. (UPI) Cor poration Court Judge Connally Lockhart sentenced a 15-year-old traffic violator to a spanking Tuesday, then watched approv ingly as the boy's father admin istered the walloping in the courtroom. KEYS CHANGE HANDS Coniractor Dick Stritzke of James & Stritzke Construction Co., on right, turns over to Fred Lockwood, partner in Lockwood Motor Co., second from left, keys to the new Lockwood Motors building on SE Pine St. Looking on are Kenneth Morin of the Eugene architectural firm of Morin and Longwood. on left, ond Gordon Smith, partner with Lockwood, third from left. (News-Review photo) dent of the International Wood workers of America (1WA) indi cated more walkouts were planned against the 196-member Timber Operators Council, but he declined to say when. "It might be tomorrow or it might not be until next week," he said. Nelson and executive secretary Earl Hartley of the Western Coun cil of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers (LSW) met with Gov. Hatfield for nearly two hours in Salem, Wednesday. No Intervention Planned Nelson said they simply dis cussed the issues involved. The governor's office indicated he planned to meet with management leaders, but had no intention now of intervening directly in the dis pute. Hatfield talked to some top in dustry officials Tuesday at Coos Bay when he attended a preview of a new Weyerhaeuser Co. plant. Nelson and Hartley said today they have no meetings scheduled with any firms, but were hopeful that sessions could be set up with Georgia Pacific Corp. That firm was struck two weeks ago. Nelson also said his union was real close" to an agreement with Scott Paper Co., wluch has con- turned to operate. The dispute over terms of a contract to replace one which ex pired June 1 has closed plants in Oregon, Washington, northern Cal- llornia and Montana. The latest strikes came Wednes day against Santiam Lumber Co at Lebanon and Sweet .Home and Menasha Plywood Corp. at North Bend. A strike also was scheduled against Rainier Manufacturing Co. at Rainier, but its employes are on their summer vacation until Aug. 12. The LSW indicated pick ets would be posted then. ' Outside the" Douglas'-Fir belt, the IWA moved its negotiations with two producers from Lewiston to Albent Falls, Idaho, today. Diamond Talks Today The IWA and Potlatch Forests, Inc., broke off talks in Lewiston Tuesday after each side rejected an ofter from the other. Meetings were scheduled today between the union and Diamond National corp. More talks are planned Friday at Superior, Mont, IWA regional vice president Leon ard Palmer said workers will stay on the job until the regional negotiating committee meets in Portland and decides on a course of action. Palmer said the meet' ing will not be held for at least a week. Potlatch Forests employes 2,200 workers in northern Idaho and Diamond National has 450 in northern Idaho and Montana. New Stud Mill Due For Green National Plywood company's Lake Pleasant stud mill at Tiller is being moved to Green. The plant, reportedly one of the best equipped stud mills of the area, has been closed since April. National Plywood bad a rather substantial operation at Tiller, ac cording to A. J. Standley, man ager, but had previously shut down all plants other than the stud mill, which had employed 15 men. A crew of six men now is em ployed in taking down the exist ing structure and re-erecting it to a site adjoining the plywood plant at Green. Machinery, capable of producing 80,000 board feet during an eight-hour shift, also will be moved to the new location. It is planned to resume opera tion in about four months, Stand ley said. r ij ' ' XlOaWIOTflOTOJOTOTBTOTOTJI ADVENTURE PLANNED Ex-President Dwight D. Eisen hower and his wife and Commodore F. G. Watts, right, Captain of the Queen Elizabeth, wave from the ocean liner on departure from New York Wednesday. Ike was bound - for France to visit the beaches of D-Day, in what he called "an adventure in nostalgia". (UPI Telephoto) Ike Leaves On Adventure Trip Into Nostalgia Today NEW YORK (UPI) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was bound today for an "adven ture into nostalgia" along the beaches of Normandy and in Eng land., Eisenhower thus described his one-week trip to Europe with bis wife, Mamie, during a news con. Terence - Wednesday aboard the Tragedy Ends Movie Outing TOLEDO, Ohio (UPI) An outing to a drive-in movie ended in violent death Wednesday night when ten persons, including eight young children, were killed in the worst traffic mishap in the me mory o highway patrolmen. The dead were identified as Fe lix Campos, 41, of Florida City, Fla.: his wife, Catherina; and their children. Joseph, about 10. Rosa, about 16. David, about 3. and Teresa, about 5; ana Ciuaaa loupe Chico, 6; his brothers, Raoul, 13, and Jaime, 7, and sister, Ma ria. The Chicos were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Camilo Chico. The Chicos and Camos were migrant farm workers employed by Emil Webert of near Elmore. A neighbor, Clayton Magsig, said the two families just ar rived at Webert's farm this week. A station wagon containing the victims was attempting to pass a tractor-trailer on a straight stretch of Ohio 51 about 10 miles southeast of here and five miles north of Elmore when it slammed head-on into anotner tractor-trailer operated by Charles Strong, 38, of bwanton, umo. Strong was released after treat ment for minor injuries at a hos pital here. Mr. and Mrs. Campos and Maria Chico were pronounced dead at the scene. The others were dead on arrival at St. Char les Hospital except for Guadalou pe Chico, who died 25 minutes after he was admitted, and Ter esa Campos, who died several hours later of head and other in juries. High Court Judge's Wife Gets Divorce GOLDENDALE, Wash. (UPD- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, 64, was divorced Wednesday by his wife, Mer cedes, 46, who charged the jurist treated her cruelly and desired that they live apart. The divorce, the second for both, was uncontested. She for merly was marrieO to C. Gerard Davidson, former assistant secre tary of the interior and now Dem ocratic national committeeman for Oregon. Mrs. Douglas lives on a ranch near Glenwood. north of this Co lumbia River city. The divorce proceeding before Judge Ross R. Rakow of Klickitat County Superior Court lasted only 15 minutes. Mrs. Douglas was the only witness. She told Judge Ra kow that Douglas had told ber for more than a year that he no long er cared for her and that her ef forts to bring about a reconcilia tion had failed. Queen Elizabeth shortly before the liner sailed. "I plan to walk up and down the Normandy beaches and visit Portsmouth, England," he said. The decision to launch the D-Day Allied invasion of France was reached in a conference room at Portsmouth. - The former1 Chief Executive, who is visiting Europe to make a television documentary film deal ing with the invasion, also said current Negro civil rights demon strations emphasize "the rightful discontent of a minority." "I understand their purposes," he said. "I agree with those who say they are entitled to their just rignts. i disagree with alt things that become so violent that they have contrary effects." "If they call attention to their discontent by proper demonstra tions, I feel it is all right," he said. "Every individual in the United States has a legal and moral ob ligation to see others enjoy the same rights. We must eliminate every possibility of differentiating between poutical and economic rights on the basis of color. Eisenhower said he would re serve comment on the recently signed partial nuclear test ban among the United States, Britain and the soviet union "because we still have to hear military and scientific opinion on the whole thing." On the GOP presidential nomin ation, he said that he could stron ly support "anyone who has been mentioned for tne republican can didacy. Twenty-Five Give Blood At Camas Valley Stop The Bloodmobile at its Camas Valley visit Wednesday picked up a total of 25 pints, just half of the 50-pint quota for the community. correspondent Mrs. nave inrush reports. Six rejects were report ed. While the total was disappoint ing, the light figure was attributed in part to the late hours worked by some of the woodsmen living in the area. The unit was station ed from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Camas vaiiey Grange nau. Ten local women donated their services, and Grange women fur nished refreshments. Mrs. hdgar Markham was in charge. Sweltering Troops Patrol Uneasy Korean Truce Line SEOUL, Korea tUPD-Swelter- ing American and Korean soldiers of the United Nations Command patrolled gingerly along the truce line today on guard against fur ther infiltration from Communist North Korea. Three skirmishes between U.N. troops and Red infiltrators Mon day and Tuesday killed four North Koreans, three Americans and one South Korean in what has been called the gravest series of inci dents since the Korean War ended 10 years ago last Saturday. Over the years both sides have filed thousands of complaints about violations of the truce. In the two weeks before the latest series of skirmishes, five other North Ko rean infiltrators were killed. But the new series was the worst concentration of incidents on U.S. Signers Leave Friday For Moscow WASHINGTON (UPI) Presl dent Kennedy is expected to em phasize anew today his hope for overwhelming congressional and public support of the nuclear test ban to be signed in Moscow next week. The President scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. EDT, which could serve as a forum for his new appeal. The conference was being televised and broadcast live to the nation. Kennedy was believed ready to give some indication of U.S. reac tion to the attitude of French President Charles de Gaulle, who has declined to sign the pact and plans to continue his test pro gram. Clarification Unlikely It was considered unlikely, how ever, that the President would clarify in any great detail the question of whether the United States was" prepared to assist France with information and weapons if the French keep their experiments underground. Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman said Wednes day the President could be ex pected to give some observation on the French attitude toward nuclear testing. The President was understood, to be wary of taking too definite a position pending further study. Harriman pumped more steam into the administration drive for test ban approval by asserting that the United States would lose our leadership of the world" if the Senate failed to rat ify the ban on air. space and un derwater tests. Announced Delegation He spoke at a National Press Club lunch not long after the White House announced that a 11 man delegation, including four Democratic and two Republican senators, would accompany Rusk to Moscow. Friday. ..... - The delegation includes Demo cratic Sens. J.W. Fulbright, Ark.; Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn.; John O. Pastore, B.I., and John Sparkman, Ala.; and Republicans Leverett Saltonstall, Mass., and George Aiken, Vt. Others are United Nations Am bassador Adlai E. Stevenson; Dis armament Agency Director Wil liam C. Foxier; Chairman Glenn Seaborg of the Atomic Energy Commission; Llewellyn Thomp son, former ambassador to Mos cow and now a top adviser to Rusk, and Arthur Dean, former head of the U.S. delegation to the Geneva disarmament negotia tions. Khrush To Attend Signing Of Treaty 510SCOW (UPI) Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev will at tend Monday's signing of the par tial nuclear test ban treaty and take personal command of high level talks with the United States and Britain, it was learned to day. Informed sources said Klirush chev changed his vacation plans in order to take a personal hand in the treaty signing ceremony and the discussions that will fol low with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secre tary Lord Home. Khrushchev had been scheduled to leave for his Black Sea retreat today and relax for at least two weeks before making a journey to Yugoslavia on Aug. 20, It was officially announced, meanwhile, that Rusk has ac cepted Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's invitation to remain here for three or four days after the ceremonial treaty signing Monday. Lord Home simi larly is expected to stay for the three-way talks. record and it occurred six miles south of the demilitarized zone, the deepest Red penetration into South Korean territory since the war ended. The UNC said there was more firing Wednesday, apparently warning shots by U.N. troops to ward suspicious persons or ob jects. There were no casualties or property damage. All was quiet as of midday to day. The weather continued hot along the 155-mile truce line, with a broiling sun, high humidity and temperatures close to 100. South Korean officials said that behind the rash of fatal incidents were the Chinese Communists, chafing under the pressure of their power struggle with the Russians and intent on stirrinup trouble.
