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Groundfire Hits
Boeing Jetliner
In S. Viet Mam
SAIGON. South Vict Nam (UPI)
Pan American Airways Boe
ing 707 jetliner with 78 persons
aboard was hit by ground fire
on its final approach to Saigon
Airport today.
One engine was pierced by a
single bullet, but the plane land
ed safely on three engines. No
one was injured.
The huge airliner was on a
regular run from Jakarta and
Singapore 'with 68 passengers and
10 crew members when it was
hit by the ground fire.
It was the first time a com
mercial airliner using Saigon Air
pert .has been hit by Communist
fire, although military aircraft
using the airfield have been hit
occasionally.
The incident was first reported
by military sources and later
confirmed by Pan American offi
cials. Student Council
Studies Charge
Against Negro
OXFORD. Miss. (UPI) The
Student Judicial Council of the
University of Mississippi meets
today to consider a charge of
carrying a concealed weapon
against the school's only Negro
student.
"It seems to be a serious of
fense," said council head Champ
Terney, son-in-law of Sen. James
Eastland, D-Miss., but he would
not speculate whether' the charge
would result in the expulsion of
Cleve McDowell. ,
McDowell, 21, , was suspended
by the university Monday, a few
hours after Sheriff Joe Ford
jailed him on the charge. The Ju
dicial Council can only make rec
ommendations to the universi
ty but such suggestions rarely
are rejected by the administra
tion. ;
McDowell will be invited to ap
pear at the hearing. He was ex
pected to be freed from the La
fayette County Jail under bond
today.
The hearing was scheduled for
2 p.m. .PDT.
The charge carries a maximum
penalty of 90 days in jail and a
$100 fine. '
Ford, who said he was acting on
a tip from another student, ar
rested McDowell as he emerged
from a morning class Mon
day. The sheriff said McDowell
surrendered a small 22 caliber
pistol.
McDowell, a law student and
an honor graduate of Jackson
Stale College for Negroes, was
taken immediately before Justice
of the Peace W. H. Jones for a
preliminary hearing, but he de
clined to enter a plea because he
was not represented by an attorney.
'Island' Faces Possibility
Of Annexation To Roseburg
The residential property of Mr.
and Mrs. Ford Plant at 1884 NW
Calkins Road, is completely sur
rounded by the incorporated area
of the city of Roseburg.
They like it that way.
But their little island faces the
possibility of annexation. The Rose
burg City Council brought up the
matter of annexing the Plant prop
erty Monday night. City officials
said the matter came up because
neighbors had expressed concern
over the Plants' proposed construc
tion of a work shop storage build
ing. Their property is in a resi
dential area. .
New Statute Involved
A new state statute approved
by the 1963 legislature enables a
city to annex parcels which it sur
rounds. The Plants said the building they
propose would be an improvement
The Weather
AIRPORT RECORDS
Fair today and tonight except
for early morning fog. Partly
cloudy Wednesday.
Highest temp, last 24 hours . 75
Lowest temp, last 24 hours 47
Highest temp, any Sept. (55) 102
Lowest temp, any Sept. (54) 32
Preeip. last 24 hours 0
Normal Sept. Precip. 1
Preeip. from Sept. 1 ... 1.42
Sunset tonight, 7:01 p.m. PDT
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:04 a.m. PDT
(Pan American officials in New
York also confirmed the incident.
A spokesman for Pan Am in
New York said the engine had
been repaired on the ground and
the plane continued on to Man
ila.) The incident occurred as Sec
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara and Gen. Maxwell Tay
lor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, were en route to Saigon
on a fact-finding mission for Presi
dent Kennedy.
Pan Am officials here gave
this account of the shooting:
The airliner was about six
miles from the airport at about
1,000 feet when the pilots noticed
they had suddenly lost all oil
pressure in the right inboard en
gine. The engine was shut off im
mediately. And the plane landed
without mishap. '
An inspection of the plane after
it landed revealed that a single
bullet, believed to be a .30-cali-ber,
had pierced the engine cow
ling, severing three oil tubes.
The incident against the jet:
liner came only a day after Com
munist saboteurs infiltrated the
key air base at Nhatrang, 200
miles north of Saigon, and blew
up two Vietnamese C47 transport
planes.
The airfield, which is used by
U. S. troops training Vietnamese
soldiers, is held under tight se
curity guard. This was the first
time the Reds had succeeded in
penetrating the security ring to
sabotage parked aircraft at a
military airfield, military sources
said. The Communists escaped.
Both planes were heavily dam
aged, but no one was reported
injured.
Secretary McNamara.and Geji.
Taylor were sent here by Presi
dent Kennedy to find out if South
Viet Nam's dispute with the Bud
dhists is harming its efforts to
defeat the Communists.
Consolidation Meet
Scheduled Tonight
The first in a series of two hear
ings is scheduled tonight at 8 in
Myrtle Creek for proposed consoli
dation of the Canyonville and Myr
tle Creek school districts.
The hearing will take place at
the Myrtle Creek school cafeteria
before the Douglas County Inter
mediate Education District Board.
The hearings were prompted by
a delegation from the two districts
recently presenting the board with
a reorganization plan for the dis
tricts. Following the hearings, the
Intermediate Education Board will
either modify the plan or adopt it.
The final plan will then be sent on
to the slate Board of Education for
approval. It approval is received
from the state, a special election
will he called.
The second in the series of hear
ings before the county unit is sched
uled Wednesday night at the Can
yonville High School gymnasium.
It too will start at 8.
to the property and would conform
with the city's building standards.
They said it would not be offensive
to the neighborhood and only ..a
small portion of the structure would
be visible due to construction of a
back yard fence.
The residents said they purchas
ed the property in the first place
because it "suited our budget" and
i because it was outside the city.
They said it would be "financial
jly impossible for us to continue
i living there with the added expense
I of sewer installation, hook up to
I the house, plus the increase in tax
Ics." I Sale Promised
j If the city should annex the prop
erty, "we've got a beautiful home
: for sale," Mrs. Plant told the coun
cil. j Mayor Thomas Garrison appoint
ed councilmen Orval Peterson, Al
ton Andrews and Harold Horn as
: a committee to investigate the sit
uation and report back to council.
! Andrews said he thought the
Plants should be participants in
I city responsibility on the same ba
sis as their neighbors. He said the
property is gaining "most of the
benefits of the city, without the
owners paying any share of the
i taxes." The benefits referred to in
; eluded police and fire protection.
The Plants are in their present
. "island" situation because they
have resisted previous annexation
moves.
V . V
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QUICK DELIVERY The Roseburg Civil Air Patrol and
City Police combined their efforts to provide fast delivery
service of blood from the Red Cross Bloodmobile here
to Portland Monday. Police officer Steve Ryder rushed
the blood from the Bloodmobile to the Roseburg Air
port where Civil Air Patrol Cmdr. Bill Williams loaded
it aboard a plane and flew it to Portland. The 28 pints
are being used today for a Portland man undergoing
heart surgery. The blood had to be rushed because it
must be fresh to use in the operation. Meanwhile, the,.
Red Cross Bloodmobile is in Roseburg again today from
4 to 8 p.m. It will be stationed at the Elks Temple. (News
Review photo)
Defense Bill Action
Due After Approval
Of Test Ban Treaty
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Sen
ate prepared today to follow up
its historic vote for a "peace
promoting" treaty with action on
a $47.4 billion money bill to pay
for the instruments of war.
The big appropriations bill,
amounting to nearly half of the
entire annual federal budget, was
scheduled for debate immediately
after ratification of the nuclear
test ban treaty.
Sen. William Proxmne, D-Wis.,
said he planned to offer at least
one amendment to cut $60 million
added by the Senate to the House
bill to speed research on a mo
bile medium-range missile, de-
CDUF Workers Get
Progress Report
The "first quarter report" by
the Central Douglas United Fund
team in its efforts to win the 1963
fund-raising game with a "score"
of $69,93G was given Monday dur
ing a progress luncheon at the
Roseburg Elks Temple.
Campaign Chairman Hazel Sax
on left no doubt that the "team"
could not let down. She spurred
the division leaders and their work
ers to make special efforts to make
their contacts before hunting sea
son starts. She said with the ad
vent of the hunting season Satur
day, many contacts will not be
available.
About 25 division "players" at
tended the meeting. They were
told the campaign would continue
through the first week of Novem
ber. Several reports during the lunch
eon were given by division "cap
tains." Frank Riley reported the
most successful effort. He said all
public employe groups had been
contacted.
Harold Fix also reported a com
pletion of his contacts at the Vet
erans Administration Hospital. Bob
Fcldkamp. in charge of the ad
vance gifts division said 41 per
cent of his contacts had been made.
Ken Salmonson, in the business
division, said all his contacts
would be made this week.
PLAY BALL
With United Fund
Goal Score To Date
$69,936 $18,029
Motel Blaze Doused
The Roseburg Rural Fire Depart
ment was called late Monday after-
noon to the Roseland Motel, 2050
;NE Stephens, to investigate a
smoking electric heater.
Reports by the firemen indicate
that a collection of lint and dust
from the summer period when
the heater was not working caused
the smoke. No damage was report-
iea.
W 1
signed to be fired from trucks or
other vehicles.
But Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-
Ga., top Senate military expert,
issued advance warning last week
when the bill cleared the approp
riations committee that any effort
to cut the outlay would be stren
uously opposed.
Must Remain Strong
Russell, chairman of both the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee and defense appropriations
subcommittee, said that because
of the test ban treaty, it was all
the more imperative that the
United States remain militarily
strong.
The bill provides funds for the
manpower and weapons to main
tain the nation's armed might in
the fiscal year ending next June
30.
In all, it totals $47,371,407,000,
which is $289.4 million more than
the House approved last June but
$1.6 billion less than President
Kennedy requested.
So huge was the sura in the bill
that one Senate staff aide calcu
lated it would take one man
spending at the rate of $1,000 a
minute almost 90 years to get
rid of that much money.
' The bill includes funds for war-
planes, tanks, land and sea-based
missiles, and ships and weapons
needed by the armed forces.
DFPA Crews Battle
Brush Fire Blaze
Crews from the Douglas Forest
Protective Association battled i
six-acre grass and brush fire Mon
day afternoon on the Bateson prop
erty in Garden Valley.
The blaze was located one mile
north of Brown's Bridge off Del
Rio Road, the call was received at
3:30 p.m. and crews had the fire
under control by 5:30.
Firemen reported that a "sleep
er" brush fire set during the rains
over the weekend started burning
as the brush dried out and the
blaze got out of control. Damage
to new grass in an adjacent field
was reported.
Mother Of
ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPI) Mrs.
Mary Ann Fischer mothered her
other five children in the quiet of
her home today while her famous
j quintuplets squalled and wiggled
I in their hospital incubators.
Mrs. Fischer and her husband,
Andrew, 38, didn't plan to venture
from their old, 10-room farm
i house just outside Aberdeen on
Mrs. Fischer's first full day home
from the hospital.
Her homecoming Monday after
noon was a quiet, subdued affair
! compared with the commotion
ithat followed the births of the
Mediation
Team Due
In Alabama
By United Preu International
Two former military men, one
a brigadier general and the other
a colonel, arrive in Birmingham,
Ala. today at the request of Pres
ident Kennedy to try ease racial
tensions.
The two-man mediation team.
former Army Secretary Kenneth
Royall and Earl Blaik, the ex
Army football coach, conferred
with Kennedy in Washington Mon
day before leaving on their as
signment. The President also met sepa
rately with two white groups
from ' Birmingham one com
posed of civic leaders and the
other of ministers.
Kennedy said all of the erouD
involved in the Birmingham situ
ation, including Negro leaders
with whom he met last week,
"have expressed confidence that
these matters can be settled on
a local level. That is also my
strong belief."
A federal grand jury in Bir
mingham indicted eight men
Monday on charges of attempting
to block the integration of public
schools two weeks ago. The eight
were connected with the militant
segregationist National States
Rights party.
.Police used tear gas Monday to
break up a civil rights march by
Negro high school students at
Shreveport, La. One officer was
struck on the shoulder with a
rock and two girls were injured
by tear gas. Police arrested 19
marchers, 11 o whom were juve
niles. Elsewhere in the nation:
Selma, Ala.: About 600 Negroes
held a rally Monday night to pro
test the arrest on truancy
charges of 21 Negro children who
participated in demonstrations
last week.
- Oxford, Miss.: The . University
of Mississippi Student Judicial
Council meets at 5 p.m., EDT, to
day to consider a charge of car
rying a concealed' weapon against
Cleve McDowell, the school's only
Negro student. The charge possi
bly could bring expulsion.
Roma, Ga.: A scheduled con
cert by the U.S. Air Force Band
here Oct. 20 was canceled by a
civie group after it was learned
a , military directive prohibiting
segregated seating would be en
forced. Salisbury, N.C.: Dr. Clinton M.
Jones, a Negro dentist, has come
closer than any other member of
his race towards achieving mem
bership in the North Carolina
Dental Society. Jones said he was
disappointed at the 50-30 vote de
nying him membership, but that
he "wasn't too surprised" at the
outcome.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Civil disobedi
ence demonstrations which have
led to 77 arrests were suspended
Monday while a full-scale attempt
to settle the racial bias dispute
began.
Garnet Quits
City Council
Jack Garnet has resigned as
councilman on the Roseburg City
Council.
Garnet, who assumed the council
post on Jan. 1 of this year, said
he is moving to Gary, Ind., in
about two weeks. He represented
Ward HI and his term would have
run to Dec. 31, 1966.
Mayor Thomas Garrison accept
ed Garnet's resignation with re
gret and said he would study the
matter of finding a replacement for
the council post. Interim vacancies
can be filled by council itself.
Garnet has been operating a phys
ical therapy service for the two
hospitals in Roseburg in partner
ship with Paul Logan. He said Lo
gan will continue the service with
Roger Giles as a new associate.
Garnet said bis new activity will
involve setting up a physical ther
apy program for St. Mary's Mer
cy Hospital at Gary, He will leave
Roseburg about Oct. 4. His family
will remain here until Christmas.
Quintuplets
quints in the pre dawn hours a
week ago Saturday.
The oldest three children were
in school. But Evelyn, 4, and
Denise, 3, were at home with
their grandmother, Mrs. Elmer
Brady of Hecla, S.D., when the
Fischers pulled up in their new
station wagon.
When Mrs. Fischer walked out
of St. Luke's Hospital on the arm
of her husband, she broke into
tears as she told reporters, "I
want to thank everyone for every
thing they have done I appre
ciate it more than I can ever
tell."
' t4,kirh nil, -: jlJsuV:
HELP GIVEN Elderly victim of Los Angeles County Fair
monorail orash at Pomona, Calif., Monday is helped onto
stretcher, foreground. Meanwhile, firemen help other riders
out of door. Thirteen riders, mostly senior citizens, were
taken to hospital for observation. (UPI Telephoto)
Fleet-Of-Foot Youth
Leads Authorities
In City-Wide Chase
... By LEROY INMAN
News-Review Staff Writer
"You'll read all about me in the
paper tomorrow," a fleeing youth
called to an astonished woman who
saw him run by her home on SE
Moshcr Ave. Monday about 3:30
p.m.
The boy, 17, (name withheld be
cause of age) made quite a name
for himself, in a negative sort of
way, with exhausted police officers
who chased him all over Roseburg
and part of "Barnes." And the of
ficers had some choice names
they'd still like to call him.
The youth, 6 feet tall and weigh
ing 160 pounds, had appeared in
juvenile court on possible parole
revocation from a previous Mac-
Larcn School commitment. The
case was continued until the boy's
father could be contacted, and it
was decided to detain the boy in
the county jail for further action.
But apparently the boy had other
ideas.
Escape Starts
He was in the care of detention
officer Mrs. Lee Carstcnsen and
made a break for it. The long
lcggcd youth vaulted and half fell
down the courthouse steps while a
surprised deputy sheriff, not know
ing the circumstances looked on.
Mrs. Carstensen came up, and the
deputy asked: "What's with him?"
'Get him. He s escaping," she
said.
The deputy, loined by Juvenile
Officer Julian Hcllcck and three
or four other deputies started pur
suit. They chased the boy up SE
Kane St. to SE Washington Ave.,
then up Main and to the rear of
the Douglas Abstract Co., where
they almost caught him in a wood
shed.
But the boy took off again, up
Overlook onto one of the steepest
hill sections of town. Some of the
officers who had enough wind fol
lowed, alternately running and
walking. They chased him through
yards, over fences and all over the
area. One officer got within SO feet
of the boy where he had stopped
to rest.
Off Again
Then the boy vaulted away, down
the hill through town, west on SE
Moshcr to the South Umpqua Riv
er, swam, or waded the stream,
and was seen at Kclley's Motel
heading up Ml. Nebo, where he
was temporarily lost.
Home From
Inside the hospital, the quints
continued their regular feeding of
milk formula every two hours.
Hospital attendants said they do
not know when they will be given
bottles.
The biggest and the most ac
tive the lone boy, James An
drew tugged at a bottle a cou
ple times Sunday. But he, like the
other four, continues to be fed
through a nose tube.
The old rhyme "Saturday's
'child has to work for its living"
will not be true of the Fischer
quints, at least at first.
The next trace of the youth came
when he coincidontally stopped by
me nome ot Koseourg city police
man Steve Ryder on W. Finlay
avc. near tne High school and ask
ed Ryder if there was any way to
get across tne river except on the
uriuge.
Officer Ryder said no, and when
the boy went on. he decided to call
the police station because of the
boy s strange manner. The desk
clerk told him to bring him in.
the officer started in- pursuit.
chasing the boy on foot across the
South Umpqua River bridge on
Interstate Highway 5, then onto
tlie grounds of the Roseburg Me
morial Gardens. He fired two shots
into the ground in an effort to stop
the fleeing youth, but it only made
the latter run faster,
Boy Caught
At Garden Valley Junction, Ry
der sought aid and transportation
from a citizen in a car. They gave
chase north on Mulholland Drive,
where the boy finally was overtak
en near the airport. He gave up
without resistance.
The officer said the escapee had
a gash the full length of his arm
and that there was evidence he had
burned his arm severely with a
ciEarette in several places.
The boy, originally committed to
McLaren from Coos Bay, had been
released to go to relatives in Mich
igan, got into trouble there and
later returned to Roseburg, where
he has constantly been causing mi
nor trouble, the juvenile officer re
ports.
Senate Confirms
New Postmaster
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Senate today confirmed John A.
Gronouski, economist and tax ex
pert, to be Postmaster General in
the Kennedy cabinet.
The action was by voice vote
with no audible dissents.
Gronouski succeeds J. Edward
Day as boss of the nation's mail
operations. Day resigned to join
Washington law firm.
Before the vote on Gronouski's
nomination, several senators
praised his record as head of
Wisconsin's state tax department
and as a university economist,
Hospital
A planning committee hoped to
take the Fischers later this week
to inspect prospective sites for
the new $100,000 home the Aber
deen folks have promised them
The planning committee said it
also was going to invite President
Kennedy, U.N. Secretary General
U Thant and other noted figures
to Aberdeen for the quints day,
Oct. 14.
The quints were a month pre
mature, and Oct. 14 would, in a
way, be a sort of birthday, too,
and the celebration was planned
with that in mind.
80-19 Vote
Fovors Pact
With Russia
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In in
historic action, the Senate today
ratified the truaty with Rus
sia banning nuclear tests in the
atmosphere, outer space and un
der water. President Kennedy
called it a single but "substan
tial" step toward peace.
All but one of the 100 senators
the -ailing Sen. Clair Engle, D
Calif. were on hand for the 80-19
roll call vote. The margin was 14
votes more than the required two
thirds majortiy.
The pact does permit under
ground testing and the adminis
tration has pledged to push
ahead in this area to maintain
what experts consider the present
U.S. atomic lead over the Soviet
Union.
Senate galleries were jammed .
as the Senate started its roll call
at 10:30 a.m. EDT to climax
weeks of debate featuring untold
thousands of words on the agree
ment reached between the United
States, Britain and Russia after
prolonged negotiation.
On the showdown, 55 Demo
crats joined 25 Republicans in
voting for the treaty. Opposed
were 11 Democrats and 8 Repub
licans. Victory For Kennedy
Ratification of the Dact was n.
pected and it was a diplomatic
not a direct nolltical vinim-v
for Kennedy who had argued
that rejection of the pact, despite
us umiiea nature, would be a
step backward in the quest for
peace... - -
The only surprise on the roll
call was provided by Sen. Mar
garet Chase Smith who kept her
siano. in aount throughout the
long debate and wound up voting
against the treaty. ,
Mrs. Smith said In a statement
that her "troubled vote" was one
of the most difficult she had
faced in 23 years in Congress.
"The jeopardy the treaty im
poses on our national security is
a more compelling argument
against the treaty than the nnlifl.
cal and psychological disadvan
tages that would stem from re.
jection of the treaty," she said.
Goldwater Votes No
Sen. Barry Goldwater. Ariz..
the front-runner for the Rcpubli-
Two Oregon Senators
Vote With Majority
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sent.
Maurine Neuberger end Wayne
Morse, O-Ore., cast their ballets
with the malorlty Monday as the
Senate voted 76-16 to reject a
reservation by Sen. John Tower,
R-Tex., to require on site inspec
tion at a condition for ratifying
the nuclear test ban treaty.
can presidential nomination in
public opinion polls, carried
through his vow to vote against
the treaty even if in his words
it meant "political suicide."
Just before final action
ocratic congressional leaders
conferred with the President at
the White House. Senate Demo
cratic Leader Mike Mansfield.
Mont., told reporters "the Presi.
dent expressed his d e 1 1 e h t
with this single but substantial
step toward peace."
Significantly, the treaty carried
no U.S. reservations or "under
standings" which might jeopar
dize ratification bv other coun
tries. All such proposals were re
jected. The only addition made hv hn
Senate was a procedural one.
adding a preamble to the ratifi
cation resolution restating the
Senate's constitutional right to ap
prove future treaty amendments.
Oppose Reluctantly
Senators who voted against the
treaty did so largely with de
clared reluctance but with em
phasis on their distrust of Russia.
They argued that it was ambigu
ous, too hastily agreed to, and
carried too great a military haz
ard to U.S. security.
Those who supported it in the
11 days of floor debate and more
than two weeks of public hearings
agreed with top administration of
cials that the risks were "accept
able." They insisted that the hope
it offered for avoiding nuclear
holocaust could not be rejected.
Some confessed they voted
"yes" reluctantly, but felt they
had no choice.
At the insistence of senators,
Kennedy gave the lawmakers
written "assurances" that safe
guards to protect U.S. security
would be maintained and ad
vanced. The President made it clear hir
right to use nuclear weapons in
time of conflict would not be im
paired. He cautioned that the
treaty's rejection might harm
U.S. leadership inhe world.