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BIG OCCASION Four officers of the Umpqua
Post of the American Legion turned over the first
shovels of dint to start construction of a new Legion
home at 406 SE Oak Ave., Roseburg. Those with
shovels, from left, are: Noble Goettel, finance com
Hope Is Abandoned
For Trapped Miners
PEINE, Germany (UPI) -Hope
was finally abandoned to
day for 39 miners trapped in a
flooded iron mine for 42 hours
after' electronics experts said
knocking noises picked up by a
microphone were rattling rocks
and not signals.
A spokesman for the Ilseder
Mines Co. said at 2 p.m. (9
a.m. EDT) 39 of 43 men sun
trapped in the Lengede-Broi-stedt
mine must be presumed
dead.
1 Rescue teams drilled in re
lays to drive a hole through to
the mine's 270-foot side shaft,
where four other men were
working in a smaller tunnel
when the mine was flooded at!mg to Mrs. G. B. Fox, corre-
8 p.m., (3 p.m., EDT)I Thurs
day. ,
But hope of finding even the
four alive was dim, the spokes
man said.
"They may have survived in
an air pocket," he said. Rescue
officials said the chance was a
very slim.ne.;.,..;
The company spokesman
originally announced hope had
been abandoned for the 39 at
noon (9 a.m. EDT) He said
death notices were sent to their
families.
But a few minutes later
knockine noises were picked upi. sj u. .,,i i.
by a supersenstive microphone
lowered through a bore - note.:
The spokesman then refused to;
post the names of the lost min
ers. ' !
Then mine experts analyzed
the noises and said they were
definitely not from miners, but
were the rattling of rocks
in the depths, a common sound
in mines. 1
Similar knocking sounds
heard for a time Friday turned
out to have come from an air
pressure hose banging against
a metal pipe in the main shaft.
Friday night seven miners
PLAY BALL
With United Fund
Goal
Score To Dote
$37,43
S3i
Meandering Days Appear
About Ended For 'Ginny'
WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) The bulletin placed the ccn-jsprlng. He also said he thought
tinSAor,. r.innv uhioh chasedit... f r.innv nr latitude 33.7that primary would be a wide-
4,000 coastal residents from!north iongitude 77.1 westjfj "cJeM.U!, "-I!?f!!!"a. I
3' " TIZ
and showed signs of breaking
up
A late weather bulletin said
the eye of the storm had be -
come poorly defined aiiring Thc San Juan Weather Bu
the morning hours and that it' hi(,h .imi, ln h. j:,.
had become almost stationary -
"Conditions still favor re -
sumpuon 01 an easi miru.c.si
movement bdoui v miies an
i"r,!ia'.f!' .,i,i5...mo!.ng!.,i.l
and STwInEVm remain
offshore,"
me vtrnuici '"
said.
The Weather
AIRPORT RICOOS
Pair wife morning tog Mrot Carolina .
. ? .J? , ' Th .tnrm .Miwllv moved
cl9udln.it Sunday ift.rnoon.
Contlnutd cold.
Hiahest temp, last 24 hours 40
Lowest temp, last M hours N
Hifhott temp, any Oct. (SI) fl
Lowest temp, any Oct. (S4) J4
Prtclp. lost 14 hours .W'
Normal Ocf. Brocia. l.M
Proclp. from Sept. 1 3.14
Precis, from Oct. 1 1.71
Swnoot teaifht, 4:14 p.m.
Sunriio tomorrow, 7:42 a.m.
!f, .t-; - I few ...
w- : s
ir - u mi ,Ja
were rescued after a 23-hour or
deal in mud and water follow
ing the collapse of a giant sur
face sedimentation basin. About
19 million gallons of water and
Home Burns
To Ground
The James P. (Tim) McKern-i
an residence three miles north
of the ' Glendale Junction of
Highway . 99 burned to
ground early Friday morning,
sDodent.
McKernan and his wife awoke
about 4 a.m. to find the house
filled with flames and smoke.
Smoke was creeping under the
door of the downstairs bed
room where the couple was
sleeping. ,The made their way
vcwju, safety'' 'through'' a Tiedroom
window, said Mrs. Fox
The family dog in the kitchen
lost its life. McKernan, who isj
a retjre(1 lieutenant commander
from the U.S. Navy, said he
believed the fire might have
started in the kitchen, but had
F jd ,he Douglas
Protective Association I "fV Be was wrpnsea crm-
. ut ..;cism of opening Oregon's
was called to the scene but it
was already too late to do any.
thing by the time the McKern.
ans discovered the fire.
The couple had lived in Glen.
dale for the past three years,
and McKernan was doing ex
tensive remodeling on the two.
story frame house which was
only partially covered by insur
ance.
The McKernans are staying
temporarily at the Renus Mi'
chel residence.
CLOCK STOPPERS
COMBE MARTIN, England
(UPI) Residents of this Dev.
on seaside village always won-
dered why the church clock
was stopping all the time. They
discovered the clock stopped
because pigeons sat on the
minute hand.
or about 60. mi.es southeast ol
Wilmington, N.C.
Another tropical disturbance,!
Union. ntn lnsl some nf its
;pUnch during the morning,
, turbance dropped from GO to W
imUcs n hour M it m0Ved
si jsand of Dominica
nd ,n(o the Caribbcan.
A late bulletin on Helena
?- !e f"" Iat""?.e
or about 370 mUe, souu,cast of'
San Juan, P.R.
Helena was discovered in the
tropical Atlantic Friday at an
hour when the center of Ginny
-appeared headed for the coast
som -what closer to the North Powers' parents, who live ai
Carolina shore during the night mountainous Pound. Va., would:
tut this was because of the jut ;attend. " ' j I
ting nature of the shoreline,! Powers mother said Friday
and not because the storm had night: "I don't know much
changed course. (about It. I'm tot going any-
About 200 evacuees spent the where." The father added, "I
nioht in Sal Cm hrltrra in can't attend wedding if I
Wilmington. They had break- don't have an Invitation. Last Ij
fast this morning while waiting heard he was to California. 1;
;to be sure Ginny was going to! didn't know he wa netting!
'continue out to sea. Imarried." 1
mittee member; Dr. E. B. Stewart, past post and
stote commander; George Trapalis, finance commit
tee member; and JocK George, post 'commander.
(News-Review photo)
ore sludge cascaded down into
the honeycomb of shafts and
tunnels in which a mine com
pany official said either 128 or
129 men were working.
Crawling through ventilation
tunnels and up rope ladders, 79
miners escaped on their own.
Drilling teams worked under
floodlights throughout the night,
boring holes to the 210 and 270
foot levels.
This morning a six-man res
cue squad emerged after a
four-hour dingy search of air
pockets in the sludgy caverns
tneiand reported no sign of life
"The situation is far graver
than we thought," Armin Scmil
te, Lower Saxony state mines
official, said Friday night. He
explained that the entire west
side of the mine 180 feet under
ground was flooded with sludgy
water.
Surprise Mark
PORTLAND (UPI) Gov.
Mark Hatfield, returning from
speaking engagements in
Arizona and California, said Fn.
opening Oregon s
special legislative session o n
Veteran's Day, Nov. 11,
"There wasn't any vacation
taken on the battlefront, h e
remarked at Portland Interna
tional Airport after arriving
from San Francisco.
Hatfield said he expects a 5
to 10 day legislative session,
based on discussions with the
presiding officers of the two
legislative bodies
"If the legislators restrict
themselves to the single issue
of carrying out the people's will
as expressed in the tax referen
dum, there is no reason why
they can't complete the session
in that time," he remarked,
In San Francisco Friday the
governor told the Common
wealth Club he believes former
vice president Richard A. Nix.
on is an "active" candidate for
the presidential nomination in
1964.
"Nixon is on the track and
running fast," Hatfield said.
He said he believes the 1960
Republican standard bearer's
name will be entered in t h e
New Hampshire primary next
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License To Wed
CATLETT, Va. (UPI) Fran
cis Gary Powers, the U2 pilot
who was shot down over Rus-
Isian territory, was scheduled to
be married today to Mary Sue
f- ' DWney' f Arli"g
The wedding was scheduled
'for 4 p.m., EDT,
A relative of Mrs. Downey
said the wedding would take
place at the Catlett Methodist
Church here in this small Fau
inTu J??
Virginia. It was not known i
Legion Home
Work Started
Officers and members of
American Legion Umpqua Post
turned out Friday noon to of
ficially start construction on its
new post headquarters at 406
SE Oak Ave. in Roseburg.
They turned the first spade.
fuls of dirt in a groundbreak
ing ceremony on the cleared lot,
the site of the former building
which was ruined by the Aug,
7, 1959 blast.
The building will be construc
ted by Miller & Dimmick, gen
eral contractors. It' will be a
40-by-to building facing Gateway
Park and the South Umpqua
River.
The target date for comple-
tion of the building is Feb. 1,
1964.
On hand to '.urn the first
shovels of dirt, were two mem.
bers of the finance committee,
a past state commander and the
present post commander, (See
pioti!reabovc):'-" ' "
Others turning out were, from,
left to right in the picture
above: Second row: Mrs. Mary
Ferche, member of the auxil
iary; Martin Dimmick, contrac
tor; Severen Ferche, chairman
of the building committee; Mrs.
Helen Wood, president of t h e
auxiliary; Mrs. Ellen Post, aux
iliary member; Ted Post, past
commander; and John Rich
ardson, second vice command-
er. Third row: Roy O. Young,
past commander and service of
ficer; 'Alfred Allan and Lenore
Kruse, legionnaires; and Bruce
Mollis, adjutant.
Portlander Is Crushed
Under Wheels Of Train
PORTLAND (UPI) -Jack
Osborne, 49, Portland, was
killed Thursday when he was
crushed under the wheels of a
Spokane, Portland and Seattle
freight car being switched at
the Portland yards.
Officials said Osborne, a yard
switchman, fell from a boxcar
as six of the cars were being
moved.
The accident was under in
vestigation.
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HER MAJESTY, Jennifer Babbitt, reigned supreme
during spirited homecoming activities ot Roseburg
High School Friday. She is shown during the rally in
downtown Roseburg Friday afternoon. She was se
lected from o field of seven condidates. She is the
daughter of Dr. ond Mrs. Clifford Bobbin. (News
Review photo)
i
City Paints;
Day Flight
Is Resumed
With a break in the weather
Friday, city crews painted
threshold markings on the run
way at the Roseburg Airport,
and West Coast Airlines rein
stated its daylight flight after
a day of interruption.
The late afternoon flight, how
ever, will not start again until
threshold lights are put in along
the runway, WCA officials re
ported today.
The daylight flight is one
coming from Portland and ar
riving here at 9:20 a.m. en
route to Klamath Falls and San
Francisco. The afternoon flight,
which has not been reinstated,
comes from San Francisco en
route to Portland. It previously
arrived at 5:25 p.m. However,
starting Sunday with the return
of the state to standard time,
the flight would have arrived
at 6:25 p.m., which would be
about half an hour after sun
set.
WCA said it could not start
the afternoon service until
threshold lights were installed.
The decision to stop service
until the city had installed
markings for the . touch-down
patterns for commercial planes
was announced Thursday. Serv
ice was completely cut off Fri
day. WCA said the service was
"involuntarily" interrupted be
cause of a Federal Aviation
Agency requirement under
which the airport did not meet
minimum standards required
for. safety of commercial air
craft. The daylight markings were
made 1,000 feet from the south
end of the runway and 1,012
feet from the north end. Mean
while, the city is studying the
demand for threshold lights so
the night flight can be started
again.
New Coucilman
Will Be Named
. The Roseburg City Council is
seheduled.'to- appoint 'a--ew
councilman to fill the unexpired
term of Councilman Jack Garn
et at its regular meeting Mon
day night. Garnet resigned from
the council following his an-
nouncement he would leave
Roseburg for business reasons
The council will meet at 7:30
p.m. at the City HaU.
Public hearings will continue
on changing the name to "W,
Oriole Drive" that portion of
W. Oriole Ave. from W. Broc
coli St. to W. Cardinal St. and
from W. Harvard Blvd. to W.
Bradford Drive.
U.S. Plywood Manager R. J.
Moore will convey the deed for
a 14-acre tract of land adja
cent to the municipal airport
to the city.
Applications for renewal of li
quor licenses for four business
es will be considered at the
Monday night meeting.
The council will discuss re
quested annexations for single
units of land in two locations
on NW Calkins Road, one at
the intersection of NW Lynwood
Drive and the other lying east
of NW Kline Street.
Discussion of the off - street
parking plans for the downtown
area will hightlight the city
manager's report.
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ALGIERS (UPI) Heavilyi
reinforced Moroccan , units
launched a blistering new of
fensive igainot Algerian troops
in the sun-seared Sahara today.
Amid apparent deadlock on
conditions for peace talks
President Ahmed Ben Bella an
nounced he will leavs Sunday
or Monday for Tunis or Tripoli
for African summit peace
talks.
HOUSEWIVES WARNED
Contaminated Fish
Blamed In Deaths
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
nation's housewives were urgedfarea.1
today to destroy all smoked
fish known to have been caught
or processed in the Great
Lakes area.
Commissioner George P. Lar-
rick of the Food & Drug Ad
ministration (FDA) ordered the
emergency measures into effect
Friday night in a move to stem
new outbreaks of the deadly
type-is Dotulism poisoning.
Larrick said the "destroy"
order was aimed at smoked
fish products that are "pack
aged in sealed plastic wrappers
and those that are sold m bulk
without any package." Canned
fish products are not involved.
he said.
Study Recent Deaths
Larrick issued the order aft
er receiving a report from FDA
scientists and from an advisory
panel of experts who made an
independent study of seven re
cent deaths traced to botu-lism-E
and stemming from
smoked whitefish processed by
the, H. J. j.Hprnljos&Bios. po.
an urana Haven, mien.
In the course of the investi
gation, the FDA said, traces of
botulism-E were found in at
least three other fish process
ing plants in the Great Lakes
area.
ine ; emergency measures
proposed oy tne panel were
adopted "with modifications,"
Larrick said, pending develop
ment of more complete infor
mation on the sources of con.
tamination. He said the FDA's
investigation of the botulism
hazard was continuing,
In a notice to wholesalers.
retailers and processors, the
FDA urged that all supplies of
smoked fish products made
from Great Lakes fish or proc
essed in the area also should
be destroyed.
Some May Bo Retained
Larrick said that some of the
fish could be retained if it
could be established with cer
tainty that:
The fish was heated imme
diately after it was packaged
in a manner that would assure
a temperature of at least 180
degrees for at least 30 minutes
in the coldest part of the fish,
The fish was frozen imme
diately after packaging and has
since been maintained continu
ously in a frozen condition.
Larrick admitted the inde
pendent panel did not "restrict
its recommendation to Great
Lakes smoked fish." ,
He said its report was modi
fied by the FDA, however, be
cause all of the known botu
lism outbreaks of smoked fish
in the United States in recent
years have been traceable to
Moving Day Set
For Quint Family
ABERDEEN, S.D. (UPI)
Next Friday is moving day for
the Andrew Fischer family of
quintuplet fame.
Chamber of Commerce Man
ager E. C. Pieplow said Friday!
night a large, rambling homeito-8nneUon form from
on the northeast nan of the dent of &e Keasey-Calkins
ity is to serve as the tempo
rary ' residence for the Fisch-
ers. the ouintuDlets and the
couDle's five other children un-
til the city builds them a new
$100,000 home.
Pienlow said the Fischers;
have not selected the site for1
the new home, but "probably the property owners, represent-1 Osborne said the only sure
tilings will start moving on that ing two-thirds of the land and means of correcting the situ
as soon as they're nettled in two-thirds of the valuation in ation Is by installation of a san
their temporary home." jthe area. Itary sewer system. In his re-
The quints still remain In SL City Manager Craig McMiek- port, he said annexation to the
Luke's Hospital and were not cn told The News-Review he city appeared the most feasible
expected to leave before the will request authority from the! means of getting this service,
family moves to its temporary , City Council Monday night toj The consent forma have been
residence. 'carry out a sanitary sewer ; given to residents ot the area
Four are in bassinets, leaving master plan for that general on their request, the city of
only first-born and finest Maryjr.rea so it can be determined Ccials pointed out The forms
Ann in her iiolette. 'exactly where sewer lines could may be obtained at City Hall.
h.
OffffeiTDsive
The eleventh hour Moroccan
offensive, according to Algerian
government sources, appeared
aimed at Tinfouchi, 50 miles
southwest of Hassi Beida, the
desert frontier outpost for
which the two armies have
fought a seesaw battle for
nearly a week.
Its purpose, Algerial sources
said, seemed to be to encircle
Algerian army units in the area
products from the Great Lakes
Larrick said evidence indicat
ed that the poisonous type-E
botulism is limited to the Great
Lakes area.
DuraiHp Eyed
As Sister City
Durango, Mexico, moved into
the limelight Friday as a likely
prospect as a sister city for
Roseburg.
It was the maior subiect ofl
discussion at a meeting of Rose
burg's Sister City Committee at
Harris Cafe. Chairman Peter B.
Qerafin said the city had been
suggested by the U.S. Informa
tion Agency through the Amer
ican Municipal Association.
No contacts with the Mexican
city will be made, however, un
til other -information is received
about common interests of the
city with that of .Roseburg.
Durango is- the capital of tne
Mexican state of Durango. Lo
cated 574 miles northwest of
Mexico City, it has a popula
tion of about 70,000 people. It
is situated on the eastern smir
of the Sierra Madre Mountains
at an elevation of 6,300 feet
overlooking a picturesque val
ley.
Among its major industries
are iron mines, foundries, cot
ton and wool mills, tobacco fac
tory, sugar refineries and tan
neries. It is a commercial cen
ter. The city aas founded in 1563.
Chairman Gel fin will request
more information from the
AMA on such subjects as tim
ber industries, clubs and organ
izations and. other activities.
The next meeting of the Sis
ter City Committee is scheduled
Nov. 8 at noon, again at Har
ris Cafe. ,
Road Project
Gets Lone Bid
J. C. Compton Co. of Mc-
Minnvitle was the only bidder
on a U.S. Forest Service lob
calling for bituminous surfac
ing of Steamboat Road about
48 miles east of Glide.
The company bid $71,212,
considerably over the govern
ment estimate of $57,400.
In another bid session, four
firms submitted bids for re
construction of Princess Creek
Road about two miles east of
the Willamette Pass in Klam
ath County. Low bidder was
Marvin Russell of La Pine. The
bid was $1,089. Two other bid
ders were Fitzgerald Logging
of Roseburg $6,735; and Kinnan
Logging of Camas Valley $14,
135.
Keasey-Calkins Residents
Show Annexation Desire
Roseburg city officials today
reported they have received
about 30 requests for consent-
area involved in a recent sew
age survey by the Douglas I
wuniy oanuauon Liepanmem.
The city is investigating the
'possibility of annexation of the
jarea by the "triple two-thirds"
mctnoa, wnereny consent forms
are required from two-thirds
pemi
WCOD"
of Tindouf, a rich desert iron
ore region in the extreme
southwest of Algeria,.
It followed close on Moroc
can attacks Friday against the
vital railroad and highway life
line linking Algeria's main cen
ters with Colomb Bechar, the
Algerian army's advanced
headquarters.
Algerian army officials at
Colomb Bechar, the staging
area 450 miles southwest of Al
giers, said Algerian troops in
flicted "heavy losses" on the
Moroccans, who abandoned sev
eral burned-out tanks on the
battlefield.
At the same time, authorita
tive Algerian sources said Mo
rocco had launched two small
scale attacks north of Colomb
Bechar, threatening the strate
gic railroad lifeline Unking Co
lomb Bechar with Oran.
Algerian troops beat off small
skirmishing forces at Ben Zi
regh, 19 miles north of Colomb
Bechar, and Djebel Omer, 50
miles to the north, the sources
said.
Hassi Beida, a tiny oasis 250
miles southwest of Colomb Be
char in the Sahara Desert area
claimed by both countries, has
been a key battleground in the
undeclared border war between
Algeria and Morocco.
There were no reports of Al
gerian losses in the latest fight
ing, although Algerian sources
said Moroccan planes strafed '
and bombed Algerian troops at
several points.
Despite the continued fight
ing, the two countries appeared
to be headed for truce negotia
tions, but there was some doubt
about when and where they
would meet.
A series of proposals were
being considered for a three
man, six-man or eight-man
summit meeting of African
ucaua ui.. suue. , , ;-.r .- ';. J.
'"There " were also conflicting
accounts of the fighting in the
Sahara Desert border area.
The Algerian army announced
that it had the Moroccan forces
"in full retreat." Moroccan
headquarters claimed the
"complete rout of Algerian
troops."
A Moroccan government
spokesman in Marrakech Fri
day suggested a six-man meet
ing attended by King Hassan II
of Morocco, President Ahmed
Ben Bella of Algeria, President
Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia.
President Mobido Keita of Mall.
King Idris of Libya and Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of
the United Arab Republic,
The Algerian government
made a flat statement four
hours later that Hassan and
Ben Bella had agreed to meet
in Tunis Monday in an eight
nation summit conference in
cluding Emperor Haile Selassie
of Ethiopia and President Se-
kku Toure of Guinea in addi
tion to the other six.
Tunisian official sources said
Friday night the Tunisian gov
ernment was "completely in
the dark" about the conference.
They denied that it had agreed
to be host for such a meeting.
GUILTY CONSCIENCE
BIRMINGHAM, Eng. (UPI)
British Railways officials here
received $56 in postal orders
Friday from a passenger with
a conscience.
The anonymous writer said
he traveled from Birmingham
to Glasgow 25 years, ago with
out paying the fare. He esti
mated the fare cost seven
pounds $19.60 and the rest was
interest.
be installed to serve the area.
County Sanitarian Jack Os
borne, in his report issued af
ter the survey of the area, said
the surface sewage in the area
could result in a serious out
break of one of several com
municable diseases. He said the
1
sanitation department will not
sign loan approvals for
any further construction in the
area until the siuiatlon Is cor-
ofjrectcd.