V Uaiv-.ridty :1 Uri-ii Library r.-i;v-.,.. Or.;; 'a CCnP Legion. Team. Wins Lockwood Established 1873 14 Paqei ROSEBURG, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1963 187-63 10c Per Copy Nine Gets sport big smiles as they crowd 1963 STATE CHAMPION lockwood Motors players a into the pmoont Constructor! Co duaout 1o conaratulate the Portland players for a fine state championship series. Coach Bill Harper, whose team picked up its third straight state title with a thrilling 3-2 win Thursday night, strides to the dugout to congratulate Sergeant Coach Bill Wiitala. The Lockwoods will see their next action storting next Thurs day, when they enter the American Legion Junior Baseball Regional Tournament at Legion Field in Roseburg, Additional pictures and story page 6. (Photo by Bob Leber) Compromise Contract Seen 'Break' In Lumber Strike PORTLAND (UPI) A conipro-1 the TOC have offered 26-cents. mise contract agreement was Big Six officials had no coin signed here Thursday that may be ment on the Georgia-Pacific a major breakthrough in t h e j agreement pending a meeting be Northwest lumber strike. itween them and unions Monday. Georgia-Pacific Corp.. and the The Federal Mediation Service two lumber unions signed an agreement calling for an approxi mate 30'i cent hourly raise over the next three years. The agreement was termed a compromise between the Simpson Timber Co. settlement of two weeks ago and the offers of the Big Six and Timber Operators Council employer groups. Simpson settled with a 33'i cent raise for the same period. The Big Six and Korean Defector Trods U.S. Soil NEW YORK (UPI) Lowell D. Skinner, a former American prisoner of war who chose to re main in Communist China at the end of the Korea War, stepped onto U.S. soil today for 'the first time in more than nine years. A flight from Tokyo brought the former Gl into New York Inter national Airport early today. He was greeted by neither relatives nor friends when he stepped from the airliner. Only a few newsmen and an immigration official were on hand when the turncoat de barked. Skinner, 32. was shaven and neatly dressed. He said, "I def initely have plans," but refused to say what they were. He read a telegram from his mother, Mrs. Brady D. Skinner of Akron, Ohio, and said it indicated a job was waiting for him at home. He gave no details. Skinner, traveling alone, was met at the airport by an official of the Immigration and Naturali zation Service. He was traveling on a certificate of identity issued him by U.S. officials in Hong Kong in lieu of a passport. Skinner confirmed he was re maining in New York overnight, but refused to reveal his plans, other than to say he would go to Akron "as soon as possible." Two District Boards Approve School Merger The Canyonvillc School Board met in special session with the Myrtle Creek board this week in Canyonville and the joint boards gave the green light to the much- discussed topic of reorganization which will alfect the two districts. According to a report from Beth Chappell, correspondent, this is the first tangible step thus far towards the consolidation of the two dis tricts. Days Creek-Tiller had ear lier in the year voted down a three-way consolidation, and Rid dle last year withdrew from a four-district plan. The way is now clear for in stituting procedures necessary to bring the plan to a vote of the residents of the districts. This is expected to take anywhere from 90 days to three or four months, according to board members. In itial steps according to law must be carried out with the approval of the State Department of Edu cation and the county Rural School Board. In other action the Canyonville board set Sept. 3 as the opening date of school for its district, with the provision that those stu dents engaged in bean picking would be excused from school for the duration of the harvest. Some 50 students are expected to par ticipate in the harvest, Miss Chap pell said. Provisions will be made for make-up work. Bean growers Pete Ulam, Webb Briggs and Hay den Laurance ap peared at the meeting requesting a delayed school opening. The Canyonville board will meet next in regular session on Aug. 12. scheduled the meeting in attempt to end the two-month old strike. Georgia-Pacific President R. B. Panplin said 5,000 men idled by the G-P strike would return to work early next week. Union membership has yet to ratify the agreement. A spokesman for the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Un ion said his union would vote be fore Saturday night and the Re gional Council would have the re sults by Sunday. Georgia-Pacific was struck in mid-July by the two unions, about 5,000 men at 16 plants in Oregon, Washington and California were idled. The contract agreed on Thurs day provides 10 cents an hour in crease across the board retroac tive to June 1, 1963 ; 5 cents ef fective December 1 of this year; 7 cents effective June 1, 1964, and 6 cents June 1, 1965 a total of 28 cents. In addition, benefits include a one-cent "bracket" increase to certain skilled jobs and premium of 6 cents for certain woods em ployes who travel beyond desig nated marshalling points. Both of these are retroactive to June 1. I Company officials said the 30'i ceni ngure was arrivca at Dy spreading out the premium pay. the agreement made no men tion of the variable work-week formula which would eliminate overtime pay on week-end days, and which the unions have ob jected to in Big Six and TOC negotiations. Georgia-Pacific spokesman said about 65 per cent of its fir lum ber and plywood production has been affected by the strike. Return of the approximately 5, 000 G-P employes and some 14.- 000 who started back to work this week for Big Six companies who ended their lockout would still leave 10,000 to 11,000 men out of work. Still struck are St. Regis Paper Co., and U.S. Plywood Co., both members of the Big Six, and a number of smaller firms who are members of the Timber Operators council. State Title Roseburg's American Legion Juniors pushed across single runs in the second, third and fourth in nings to edge Sergeant's Construc tion (Madison) of Portland, 3-2, Thursday night and win an unpre cedented third consecutive state championship. Ace lefty Ran Cool was credited with the victory, coming on in re lief of starter Rojelio Gutierrez in the fifth inning with the champs leading by a 3-1 score. (A starter must pitch a full five innings to be credited with a win.) In gaining the victory, his 14th, of the year, Cool avenged his lone loss of the season which had been handed him by Madison's Keith Lampard. Lampard was on the losing end of Thursday's clash. Roseburg's Lockwood Motors drew Billings, Mont, in the first round of the American Legion Jun ior Baseball Regional Tournament which starts here next Thursday. Billings, which won its loih straight Montana state champion ship by defeating Helena, 7-1, in the final game of an eight-team double - elimination tournament, comes into the regionals with a 42 9 record. Roseburg is now 50-9. The tournament will open next Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with the Wyoming champion taking on the Washington champs. In the first game of a twi-night double header. the Idaho champions will meet the Alaska champs at 6 p.m. The Rose burg-Billings game will follow. Information received from Don Zupan, sports editor of the Billings Gazette, indicates Billings has a veteran team, with many of its players returning from the squad that won the regional tournament at Alius, Okla., last year and claimed one win in the national tournament before being defeated two straight. Billings has been in the Little World Series four of the last five years. Leading the Billings club this year are right-hander John Hilts, 11-0, and lefty Les Rohr, 11-2. Rohr has chalked up 203 strikeouts in 96 innings, Zupan said. The Billings team's leading hit ler is Roger Brautigan, who is currently averaging .373. Other teams in the tournament will be Lewiston, Idaho; Anchor age, Alaska; Sclah-Naches, Wash.; and the winner of the Wyoming tournament which will be decided either Saturday or Sunday. For complete details of the Rose- burg-Portland game Thursday, see page d ot, today s wews-Keview. President's U.S. Negroes Get Backing Of Red China Infant Transportation Facilities Signed For Freedom March and then tossed away the By United Press International Intcgrationists picketed city halls, supermarkets, department stores, a Brooklyn hospital con struction site and locked them selves in chains in one city Thursday in the nationwide civil rights drive. And across the country a mas sive "freedom flight" of buses', trains and airliners began to take shape for the August 28 civil rights march of an estimated 100.000 persons on Washington. Dozens of chanting teen-age demonstrators locked themselves together with chains strung out across a busy street in Elizabeth, The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS N.J. key Several girls fainted in the noisy demonstration in the mid day heat. Police had to cut the chains from the demonstrators. Traffic was stalled about an hour. A 33-year-old woman was arrest ed on disorderly conduct charges. The Southern Education Report ing (SER) service said the larg est number of school districts in Southern and border states to ra cially integrate classrooms since 1956 would mix white and Negro pupils beginning in the fall school term Union, Big Six To Meet Monday Marvin Williams, business rep resentative of the International Woodworkers of America, advised the local office in Roseburg to day that he and other members of the IWA have been called to stay over in Portland for a Mon day meeting with the Big 6. Williams went to Portland ear lier this week for the advisory committee meeting. Highlights in the strike situation today were the agreements reached with Georgia Pacific and the Scott Paper Co. Verdo Ligon, who is in charge of the IWA office while Williams is in Portland, and Lumber and Sawmill Workers union business representative Norman Lee both reported this morning there were no new developmeuts locally. Lee added, however, the situa tion is very favorable for the Senate Leaders Hope To Pass Big Space Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen ate leaders hoped to push a S5.5 billion space authorization to pas sage today. Action on the big authorization for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was scheduled for the second successive day. Senate Democra tic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., promised a Saturday ses sion if it cannot be acted upon today. Scheduled for debate and vote was an amendment growing out of the new communications satellite dispute. It would require the controversial satellite corpor ation, or any other non-government user, to agree to reimburse the government for a proportion ate share of NASA research and development which benefits their activities. Other congressional news: Research Center: Senate Dem ocratic Leader Hubert Humphrey today gave his backing to a $50 million space research center for Boston. Humphrey indicated, however, that he did not think one center was enough. The Min nesota lawmaker said perhaps "two or more" would help the space effort. Debt: Administration forces an ticipated little trouble today in a drive to persuade the Senate to accept a House-passed bill to keep the legal ceiling on the na tional debt from falling below the actual size of the debt. Un less the bill is passed, the limit on the debt will drop on Sept. 1 from $309 billion to $285 billion. This would block federal govern ment activities because the Treasury Department would be barred from selling new bonds. TOKYO (UPI) Communist Chinese leader Mao Tze Tung Thursday called the American Negroes' civil rights campaign a "sharpening of the class sniggle" and promised them Peking's sup port. Mao, in a statement issued by the New China News Agency, charged that President Ken nedy's civil rights program was nothing but "two-faced tactics. .. an attempt to lull the fighting will of the Negro people and de ceive the masses throughout the country." He denied charges made by Moscow that China's own policies were racist. The Soviets have ac cused the Chinese of trying to capture leadership of nationalist movements in Africa, Latin Amer ica, and Asia by turning the peo ple there against the "white, hos tile," Soviet citizens. "Our unity is not one of race; it is the unity of comrades and friends, Mao said. His statement on the U.S. race question was prompted by an American Negro, Robert Wil liams, who is "now taking refuge in Cuba," Mao said. (Williams fled to Cuba from North Carolina in 1961 after the alleged kidnaping of a white couple during Negro protest dem onstrations in Union County, N. C. He had been suspended from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before the incident after advocat ing violent action to meet vio lence from whites.) Mao, chairman of the Chinese Communist party, said Williams "has twice this year asked me for a statement in support of the American Negroes' struggle acainst racial discrimination. "I wish to take this opportuni ty on behalf of the Chinese peo ple to express our resolute sup port of the American Negroes in their struggle against racial dis crimination and for freedom and equal rights," he said. He said the "speedy develop ment of the struggle of the American Negroes" was a "man ifestation of the sharpening of the class struggle and national struggle within the United States." "I call upon all the workers, ueasants. revolutionary intellectu als, enlightened elements of the bourgeoisie, and other enlight ened personages of all colors in the world, white, macK, yeiiow, brown, etc., to unite against the racial discrimination practiced by U.S. imperialism and to sup port the American Negroes in their struggle against racial dis crimination," Mao said. fyi o lay j' SAD FATHER President Kennedy leaves Boston Chil dren's Hospital after death of his son early this morning. The President flew by 'helicopter to Otis AFB Hospital to be with his wife. (UPI Telephoto) Grief-Stricken JFK Comforts Jacqueline In Time Of Tragedy SER said about 113 districts were scheduled to desegregate, Roseburg area raising to 1.092 the number of in tegrated districts in the 17-state area. Of these. 95 plan to inte- Mostly cloudy red.y through Set- fed (0 fcdera, orders The so-called "freedom fleet ; was expected to include more! The Myrtle Creek Fall Festival '2 than 2,000 buses. 14 chartered' sot under way today at 10 a.m. urday with a few lighr showers to day and tonight. Cooler. Highest temp, last 24 hours Lowest temp, last 24 hours Highest temp, any Aug. (6) Lowest temp, any Aug. (So) Precip. I st 24 hours Precip. from Aug. 1 Normal Aug. Precip. Normal Precip. 91 to 8-1 Precip. from Sept. 1 Myrtle Creek Set For Fall Festival -.44' trains and five airliners to bring 1 with th. opening of the midway. 1M the marchers to the nation's capi- l will rcmiin opn until p.m. 41 tal. after Hit street dance Saturday. T The Hollywood March Commit- S.turd.y t 10 e.m. has been T tec announced it would send two ; set for the big annual parade, 031 , pUne loads of stars to participate j which will travel from the twim- 32.72 . in the inarch. ' ming pool through town and beck 14. OS rw. Wjrian said the march to the pcol. Tonight the corona- Sunset foniBlff.; iJ:2S p.m. am" ctfe 1e largest in I S. his- tion of gie queen is scheduled eft- Sunrise tomeftjiw, 4:15 e.m. W, tory. 1 er a 7 p.m. bnd co.lc.rj, Alaskan Asks Warships To Bar Soviet Vessels WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, this week carried to President Ken nedy his appeal fot warships to bar Soviet fishing vessels from Alaskan waters. Gruening. in a telegram to Ken nedy, said Russian fishing vessels including whalers-were "actual ly faster" than Coast Guard and Navy vessels now in Alaska. He said Soviet vessels were "rerjeatedlv invadina" the terri torial limits to take fish and that protests to the Slate Department by Alaska Gov. William bgan "seem to be unavailing. "It is not enought to report these incidents and make diploma tic protests," Grening said, "these violators should be arrested and brought to trial, and this cannot be done with the inadequate naval and Coast Guard equipment now available." y County Forest Fire Danger Worsening The vacation from forest fire danger is over for the Umpqua National Forest. The forest enjoyed a damp spring and moist summer, but that's all in the past. Weather con ditions have reached a stage where a normal fire season is anticipat ed for the balance of the summer, reports Homer Oft, a fire official for the Umpqua. Forest recreation users were urged to be additionally careful with camp fires and to make "ab solutely certain they are out." Smokers were urged to use ash trays when snuffing out cigarcts. The advent of fire season condi tions will require increased vigil ance by logging operators who are affected by the 30 per cent hu midity shutdown law. (The law ap plies to forests in the western areas of Oregon and Washington.) Under this regulation, logging nrierators are reauired to halt oper ations when the humidity drops to the 30 per cent mark. Oft said Cin namon Butte lookout reported a humidity reading of 8 per cent Thiircrlav morning. Oft warned that the finer fuels of the forest are drying out very fast and will ignite easily. Blowdown and slash areas were described as "explosive. State Records Extremes In Temperatures Today PORTLAND (UPI) Oregon had both the high and low tempera ture in the 48 contiguous states Thursday, the U.S. Weather Bu reau here said today. Records of the state, except Ha waii and Alaska, showed 104 de gree temperatures at The Dalles, Ore., and Mineral Wells, Tex., and i low early today of 44 at NeTrt, Ore., and Oneota, N.Y. Needles, Calif., had a high Thursday of 103, and the tradi tional hot snot. Thermal. Calif.. gwent no higher than 102 degrees. OTIS AFB, Muss. (UPI) President Kennedy consoled his grief-stricken wife Jacqueline to day over the loss of their two-day-old son and then went to ' his Squaw Island summer home to visit his other two children. ' The anguished Chief Executive, his eyes red and swollen, left the base hospital after a 2 hour and 10 minute visit with the First Lady. He made no immedi ate comment. Kennedy's brothers, Ally. Gen. Robert and Sen. Edward, rode with hini in a convertible on the Caroline, S, and John Jr., 2, awaited him. President and Mrs. Kennedy were alone during most of his visit. Kennedy had flown here earlier by helicopter from Bos ton, where his prematurely born son had died in a hospital at 4:04 a.m. The reddened, tear - swollen eyes tell the story of the grief of a father, not of a president. And the tight lips testify to the strain that any husband feels when ho sets out to do something that no one else on earth can do for him to tell his wife that their infant son is dead. The saddest day in the private life of the President of the United States begins at 2:10 a.m. with the ringing of a telephone in his room at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. The urgent telephone message- informing President Kennedy that his infant son, Patrick, has taken a turn for the worse shatters a virtually sleepless night for the President. Kennedy arrives at the hospital to be near his ailing son at 8:30 p.m. and it wasn't until shortly before midnight that the White House announces the President had retired after deciding to spend the night at the hospital. Appears Tense, Haggard The telephone call sends Ken nedy, tense and haggard, down to the decompression chamber where his son, his frail body weakened by lungs that ham pered his breathing, struggled to cling to a life that had begun less than 40 hours before. For an hour the President, joined by his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, remains at the boy's side while his labored on Pies Private Rites Set Saturday In Boston BOSTON (UPI) Patrick Bou ier Kennedy, infant son of Pres- irlont onrl ATi't" Vannorltr rlirtrl 4a- day 39 hours after his birth, his neart exhausted in the struggle with a respiratory ailment. The President was with the tiny infant when the end came at 4:04 a.m. EDT in a giant pres sure chamber at Children's Hos pital Medical Center. He lived just 39 hours and 12 minutes aft er his Birth by Caesarean section at 12:52 p.m. EDT Wednesday. wnito House press secretary Pierre Salinger, in making the somber announcement of the child's death, said: "The struggle of the baby to keep breathing was too much for bis heart." Strain Too Much Salinger told newsmen the child simply could not stand the strain put on his 17-inch-long body by me inability to breathe properly. The pressuro chamber was a final effort by pediatricians to case this burden and for a short umo it seemed to be working. The official cause of death giv en by the hospital was prema turity and hyaline membrane dis ease. The disease is a coating of mucous within the lungs. Oxygen is prevented from getting into the lungs of the child in sufficient quantities. It was later announced at Hyan nis Port that the funeral for the child would be held at 10 a.m. EDT Saturday in Boston. There will be a private Mass of the Angels, said by Richard uurmnni cusning, a close triena of the Kennedy family, in the ciiapci at uie prelate s Home. Only members of the immediate family will be admitted to the services. The burial, which also will be a private ceremony, will be in a laimly plot at Holyhoocl Ceme- to- breathing subsides steadily ward death. During this time he also con- tery in suburban Brookline. The fers with the baby's doctors, hop- plot has not previously been used. ing, grasping lor ine mcuicai me f irst iauy nas been in ex- miracle thut never came, At 3:10 a.m., the President re-' turns to lus room lor about 30 minutes before being called back to the decompression chamber to remain at his son's side for the final moments of his brief life. Makes Sad Journey Death comes at 4:04 a.m. to this 33rd grandchild of the Presi dent's father and in the imme diate gloom following the end, news of the tragedy is kept from the boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. The President retreats into se clusion to bear his grief in private, only- to emerge a little after 9 a.m. to leave Boston on a sad journey to the bedside of his wife. Kennedy, wearing a dark blue suit, his eyes red with the tears of grief, unives by helicopter at 9:28 a.m. at Otis Air Force Base, Muss., where the First Lady awaits her husband. She is not unfamiliar with the tragedy of death at birth. Once before, she was rushed to a hos pitalin 1950 at Newport, R.I. only to givo birth to s child that could not live. And on another oc casion, she experienced the or deal of miscarriage. cellent condition at the base hos pital since the birth. 5Vii weeks Drcmature. of her son Wednes day. But the infant had struggled all the way. Within hours of his birth, the child had to be taken by ambu lance to the Boston hospital available to handle his breathing problem, known technically as idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. The boy's condition seesawed during his 34 hours at the hospital. Kennedy cauea uacx Thursday morning, doctors had noted "some encouragement" but Kennedy was summoned back from Cape Cod, where he h a d been visiting ms wite, in tne (Continued on page 1) Ward's Death Ruled Suicide LONDON (UPI) A coroner's jury ruled today that Dr. Ste phen Ward, the society osteopath who touched off Britain's scandal of the century, killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills. It took the seven-man jury only three minutes to bring in its sui cide verdict. Coroner Gavin Thurston formally recorded the finding that Ward died of "bi lateral snttening of the brain re sulting from self - administered drugs. Ward, who had medical train ing and knew how much to take, died of barbiturate poisoning Sat urday rather than face sentenc ing on vice charges. Ward's family arranged private burial services today for the 50-year-old Anglican minister's son and refused flowers for the fu neral, i O Two-Way Traffic Due On Stephens Roseburg Chief of Police John Truelt said today that SE Steph ens Street from SE Mother to SE Rice Avenue will be convert ed to a two-way street all day Tuesday while state Highway Department crews carry out patching work on SE Pine Street from SE Oak to SE Mosher ave nues. Truett said detour signs will be placed along the route to di rect traffic. Fighters Control Big Imnaha Blaze By United Press International Firefighters contained a 300- acre blaze in the desolate Imnaha River eniintry of northeast Ore gon late Thursday night. The blaze, about 25 miles north east of Enterprise in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest, had been controlled earlier but was fanned anew. Thirty-nine men were added Thursday night to the 45 already tignung tne ugntning-causca maze. The fire burned over grass with some scattered timber in rugged country and hand equipment was used, along with chemicals drop ped by air. The Forest Service reported four small man-caused blazes in National Forest land were con trolled. Two were in the Wallowa Whitman forest, and one each in the Malheur and Winema forests. Despite hot and drying weather, only four small fires were report ed on state-protected lands. The largest was half an acre near Gold Hill in Southern Oregon. Assessed Valuation Shows $2.2 Million Gain In Year Douglas County's assessed valu ation edged up another $2,263,741 last year to $121,566,270, reports County Assessor Leland Svarverud Jr. By classes, real property edged up from $82,524,140 to $83,341,190; personal property showed a slight increase from $14,535,180 to $14, 557,760; and public utilities took the biggest jump from $22,243,209 to $23,667,320. Assessed values arc 25 per cent of the true cash value. Taxable property in Douglas County has a true cash value ol $486,265,080, Millage figures are now being computed preparatory to printing the tax statements for the 1963-64 taxes. The total valuation includes all of the Douglas Rural School Dis trict area and part of the Lane Rural School District. The Douglas County district valuation is $121,- 056.675, while Lane has S509,595c where it overlaps into Douglas County to the north. Twelve school districts in t h e county showed decreases, but the others showed fairly substantial in creases. The biggest district in the county, Roseburg, showed a valu ation increase from $33,988,764 to $34,989,556. Other big valuation was Glide which was raised from $20,047,310 to $20,922,330. Leading the list of cities was Roseburg, also, with an increase in valuation from $15,612,528 to $15,623,731. Seven cities showed slight de creases in valuations. One of the biggest jumps in valu ation among fire districts was the Roseburg Rural Fire District, which showed an increase from $10,804,412 to $13,761,485. Among the four water districts, Tri-City and Ridgewood showed in creases. The North Roseburg San itary District's valuation rose from iKB768 to $5,253,829; the Ump qua Hospital District from $11. 796 176 to $11,959,734; and the Port of Umpqua from 53,592,983 to $13,-842,872.