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School of Journalism University of Oregon Eugene, Ore. 6A64 Cage Season Starts Several Douglas County basket ball teams saw their first action of the season Friday night. See sports, pages 6 and 7, No Move Due Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Oswald, says her son's body will stay where it is. See page 3. Established 1873 12 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1963 288-63 10c Per Copy T. EUGENE THOMPSON, hand in pocket ond out wardly casual, "leaves the courtroom at Minneapolis, Minn. Friday with deputies trailing behind after hearing the guilty verdict at his first degree murder trial. (UPI Telephoto) "Th om pson's Ca ree r, Life Are Now In Ruin MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) Deputies hustled criminal at torncy T. Eugene Thompson off to prison today to start serving a life sentence at hard labor for masterminding the slaying of his wife for more than $1 million insurance. Authorities apparently hoped to get the suave, 35-year-old Thompson behind bars at Still water State Prison before his lawyers can file an appeal, which will be Monday at the earliest. Thus Thompson will change; his high-priced suits for prison dungarees less than 24 hours after six men and six women found him guilty of conspiring Garden Valley Home Burned The G. M. Jeffers home on Garden Valley Road was de stroyed by fire Friday night Addie Schneider, News-Re view correspondent, said there was no one in the small wood frame house when fire broke out sometime before 10 p.m. Mrs. Schneider said the house had been unoccupied for about two weeks. 11 contained furni ture and furnishings, however, which were destroyed by the blaze. Bob Johnson spotted the fire on his way to work. Other neighbors of the area rushed to the scene, but the blaze was al ready out of control and there was no opportunity for persons to enter the house to remove belongings, the correspondent' reported. It was reported the fire loss was partially covered by insur ance. An oil drum near the house exploded as result of fire. Neigh-i bors quickly removed a gas bar rel which was near the house and creating a possible hazard. Mrs. Schncidc- said the prop erty had belonged to Lloyd Gray of Melrose but was re cently sold to G. M. Jeffers The site is on a side road off Garden Valley Road and is northwest of the Layton Dairy Cause of the fire was not de termined. No call was made for fire fighting equipment, due to the advanced state of the blaze Neighbors stood by, however. to keep the fire from spread ing to adjoining properties. FOUR-EYED CALF BUDAPEST (UPI) A calf with four eyes, two noses and two tongues has leen brpught to the Budapest Zoo, it was an nounced today. Officials said the calf, which was born two months ago in south Hungary, can see with all four ryes two in the normal position and two in the middle of its forehead. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Partly cloudy this afternoon, Increasing cloudiness tonight, with rain Sunday. Little change In temperature Highest temp. Ia 24 hours S4 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 32 Highest temp, any Dec. (58) 49 Lowest temp, any Dee. (42) 14 Precip. last 24 hours Normal Dec. precip. Precip. from Sept. 1 Sunset tonight, 4:31 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:33 a.m. to have his wife, Carol, murdered. And in so doing the one-time farm boy's promising and al ready high-paying career fell into ruin for at least 17 years and four months when he will be eligible for parole unless Hie appeal should upset the verdict. Won't Answer Questions Thompson's brunette para mour Mrs. Jacqueline Olesen 27, opened the door of her apartment only far enough to tell reporters they would have to see her attorney for any statement. Thompson's four children, Jeffrey, 14, Patricia, 12, ' Mar jorio, 10, and Amy, 7, appar ently will go to live with his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Bcsche'The1 Besches have a 700-acre farm near Blue Earth, Minn. Prosecutor William B. Ran dall made plans to proceed with murder trials for two oth cr persons in the case. lie said he was ready to try Norman J. Mastrian, 40, former. prize fighter and one-time col lege classmate of Gene and Carol Thompson and in more recent days a law client of the defendant. Salesman Faces Trial And after that it will be Dick V. C. Anderson, 35, a decorat ed Korean veteran who became a sometime salesman and a continuous hard-drinker later. The jury foreman told ques tioners Thompson's affair with Mrs. Olesen then a divorcee, did not have much to do with the verdict. He indicated the primary reason for the slaying was the $1 million in insurance Thompson had purchased on his wife. , Minnesota has no death pen alty. The state contended Thomp son worked through Mastrian to arrange for Anderson to kill Thompson's 34-year-old wife last .March 6 in their fashion able St. Paul home. 0EA To Support Earmarked' Tax PORTLAND (UPD The Ore gon Education Association voted Friday to support a state sales tax with the money to be ear marked for education. The or ganization said it would initiate the measure, if necessary. The action came at a meet ing of about 200 delegates to the OEA's Representative Coun cil. There were estimates it might cost as much as $74,000 to run the initiative campaign. The council also voted to re sist any attempts by school boards to lower teacher salaries as a result of voter defeat of the legislature's tax bill Oct. 15, Some school district budgets arc expected to be cut as much as 25 per cent next year be cause of an anticipated $12 mil lion slash in the S141 million state aid to education fund for the next biennium. Another motion to have the OEA take action if teacher in crcnicnt raises arc withheld next jear was dei'cated. The OKA also rraf.'irmerl its 1anrl Tlnn-iintf mpnt rait, nhn tnr teachers and spoke out for lOilcacher starting minimum nf $6,000 yearly with a $13,000 top alter ten years. Delay Asked On Changes At Airport The Roscburg city Airport Commission Friday recommend ed delaying action on changing and lighting the runway thresh olds at Roseburg Airport. The decision was based on the feelings that (1) it- would cut down the length of the runways; (2) DC-3 operation will be back to daylight hours in about a month; and (3) West Coast Air lines could obtain a deviation from regulations from the Fed eral Aviation Agency to use the present runway for DC-3 opera tion if they wanted to. i Aviation consultant R. T. Lam son- presented by letter, plans for some phases of airport im provement which would aid the city in keeping airline service but also acknowledged what the city leaders have felt for the past months that the real ba sis of the city s problems lies with Civil Aeronautics Board subsidies, which make it un profitable for West Coast Air lines to land at Roseburg. Boardings Low In the meantime, due to un certain schedules, a cut in the number of flights daily, and wintertime landing restrictions brought about by the weather, West Coast boardings at Rose burg hit a new low of only eight for the month of November. As it now stands, the FAA has ruled against F-27 prop jet flights into Roseburg because of airport restrictions. WCA still serves the city with DC-3 flights, but it appears the DC-3 will be phased out of opera tion, as WCA strives to mod crnize its equipment. One possible answer to the air service problem being faced by Roscburg which Lamson urged the city to investigate fully is that of a "third level ' service or smaller airlines that would serve Roseburg and other com munitics where regular airline service docs not appear prac tical, and which would offer links with major airlines at larger cities. - . Mens Reviews Costs City Engineer . Ken Meng es timated tt 'would cost between $1,500 and $2,000 to light the thresholds. Tiie scheduled even ing flight is for 5:45 p.m., which will be before sunset in about a month, so the lights will not be needed for this flight any way. A check with West Coast Air lines Saturday morning showed the regular 9:20 a.m. south bound flight was not scheduled to land, due to weather condi lions. This made 13 days in .' row there has been no flight into Roseburg. The commission voted Friday to recommend the council grant new leases to R. C. (Bud) Good and Don Hunt for construction of hangar and shop buildings at the municipal airport. Good s lease would amount to a three- year extension of his present 10- year lease and Hunt would re ceive a new 10-ycar lease. Both would have options for renewal for five years. U. N. To Hear LB) WASHINGTON (UPI) -Prcsi dent Johnson announced today he will address the United Na tions in New York on Dec. 17. K w: 1 ftp - $m THE DAY OF INFAMY which occurred 22 yecs ago today is recalled by viewing this captured Joponese bottle equipment which mode up port of an exten sive collection of Japanese war souvenirs owned by the lote U. S- Navy Chief Al Rowe of Days Creek. Chief Rowe, shown here in a photo taken while he was on a Victory Bond drive during the war years, died in 1961. He left the collection to his wife, Elsie, who died in 1962, ond she hod requested that the collection be turned over to the U. S. Navy Recruiting District in Portland. Rowe's stepciaughter, Mrs. Walter E!lis of Days Creek, turned the collection over to Cmdr. C. F. Jennings eorlier-'this week. It wU be displayed throughout the state, and at the Douglas County Fair next summer. Chief Rowe wos a member of the Navy Seebees. Also see page 3. Interest Heavy In 'Four Days' "Four Days," the tragic story of th assassination and burial 'of President John F. Kennedy in book form, is drawing such high interest in Douglas County that the de mand for first editions far ex ceed th expected supply. Th book is being offered to Douglas County residents at $2 a copy ($2.25 if mailed) by Th News-Review. Because of th great de mand, it has become neces sary to request that those wanting copies pay for them in advance. Those who have paid in advance will receive their first edition books first. Non-paid reservations will still be taken, but they will receive books only as long as the supply lasts, following the paid-in-advance orders. If requests exceed the num ber ordered, as appears likely, more will be ordered. Th story of the death and interment of President Kenne dy is being published by Unit ed Press International and American Heritage. The ad vance editions will be pub lished and distributed in Jan uary. LBJ Holds News Talks WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson had his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, call reporters into the presidential office shortly before noon Sat urday with no advance notice He met with them for almost half an hour answering ques tions and bringing up points of lus own particularly the de fense budget cuts. He said he had talked all morning with McNamara and that the secretary was "going to spend several hundred mil lion' less for his department than he did last year" through manpower reductions and oth cr undisclosed actions. , Then Johnson turned to Mc Namara for amplification. Mc Namara, who was in Salinger's uftice, announced these four ac lions: A cut of 25.000 civilian em ployes, to reduce the Defense Department's total of such per sonncl to 997.000 by July 1, 1965. This will be the lowest sinco the early 1950's. A reduction by June 30, 1964, of 15 per cent in military and civilian personnel assigned to overseas headquarters staffs, lopping off more than 2,500 such personnel. A cut of 10 per cent, also by next June 30, in U. S. service men, civilians and foreign na tionals employed in military aid missions abroad. This would eliminate more than 1,000 jobs. A further reduction of 15 per cent by next June 30 in the number of foreign nationals em ployed by the department, meaning a cut of about 9,000 employes. The President said he had tried to give the nation a sense of continuity in government! since Kennedy's death and a sense of American unity to the world. "Our response from the coun try and the world has been very good," he said. Unlikely Yoncalla Eyes Fire District A public hearing on the ques tion of forming a rural fire dis trict at Yoncalla has been set Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Yoncalla City Hall, reports Mrs. Karl Hummel, correspondent. According to Fire Chief Stew art Mathis, there are two ways to form a rural fire district: A district could be formed to include only those living outside the city limits, or the munici pal volunteer fire department could be abandoned and the ru ral fire district would then cov er both city and rural areas. There arc advantages and dis advantages in both plans, Math is said, and he urged that both rural and townspeople bo pres ent for the hearing. He pointed out the rural area proposed for inclusion in the fire district generally follows the Yoncalla School District boun daries. Mrs. Hummel said speakers at the meeting will include Don ald Husband, Eugeno attorney, and Frank Kauble, state depu ty fire marshal, of Salem. There will also be a fire insurance representative present to an swer questions, Mrs. Hummel said. Unions Seek Mill Lockout Benefit Pay PORTLAND (UPI) A licar-l ing on possible unemployment benefits for Northwest lumber workers idlccl.by, last summer's strike and closures, recessed here Friday until Dec. 15. The time was granted to per mit attorneys for employers and two unions to attempt to settle their differences. The issue dividing the two sides is whether statements made by a Springfield business agent should be considered typi cal of all International Wood workers of - America business agents. Frank R. Worley, business! agent for IWA Local 3-246 Springfield, had said his local established no picket line, de clared no strike and was ready to return to work at any time Employers claim the plants were closed on a strike one strike all" basis after pickets from the IWA and Lumber and Sawmill Workers appeared at St. Regis Co. and U.S. Plywood Corp. Woycrhatieser, Interna tional Paper Co., Crown-Zcllcr- bach and Rayonicr subsequently shut their plants, idling 7,100 workers. If an agreement can he reach cd the general hearing here will end and regional meetings will he scheduled in Oregon and Washington to discuss "local issues. NEIL WILSON , , . soloist in oratorio . - Oratoria Set For Sunday Performance l lie popular holiday season oratorio, Handel's "The Messi ah," will be presented for the public Sunday at the Douglas luumy r airgrounus. The performance, scheduled to start at 5 p.m., caps several weeks of rehearsal for the par ticipants, according to Robert E. Robins, director. Appearing in the 14th annual presentation of the oratorio lo rally will be several of the community's outstanding must cal artists. Wilson Among Soloists Among these is Neil Wilson, a baritone, who is an assistant professor of voice at the Uni versity of Oregon School of Mu sic. .Wilson's musical activities while at the U of O have In cluded appearances as soloist' wnn. me fonianu aympnony Portland Junior Symphony, Spo kanc Symphony, University of Idaho chorus and orchestra and Willamette University chorus and orchestra Wilson received a bachelor of fine arts and master's degrees in music from the University of New Mexico and is continuing studies for a doctorate in mu sic at Indiana University. He is a private voice instruct or and directs an opera work shop in addition to his music faculty assignment and also conducts the Oregon University; Chorale and Grace Lutheran Church choir. At one time he taught voice and chorale at Eastern Oregon College in La- Grande. Robins, w!in is directing the Messiah for the fourth time, has been vocal music director at Roseburg High School for 11 years. Other Soloists Named Other soloists in tho presen tation arc soprano Barbara Martin, Roscburg High School senior; alto Peggy Nott, active in the first Christian Church choir and a 1957 Messiah per former, and tenor Tom Heinz, RHS graduate and former solo ist with the Yale University Glee Club. Mike Norrcll will be directing the Roscburg Symphony in con nection with the performance. Ruth Trued will piny the organ renditions and Helen Saar will appear at the piano. Exemption OK'd From Jones Act WASHINGTON (UPI) - TIlcl Senate Friday passed and sent to the House legislation to al low West Coast lumbermen to continue using foreign vessels for shipping lumber lo Puerto Rico. The measure would continue for (wo years an exemption from the Jones Act, which re quires use of American flag ves sels lo carry cargo between U.S. ports. Lumber producers testified earlier at Senate hearings that the exemption had helped them recapture much of the Puerto Itican lumber market from Ca nadian producers. Spokesmen for the depressed domestic lumber Industry con tend they had lost Puerto Rican and U.S. East Coast markets to producers in British Columbia chiefly because the Canadians can use lower-cost foreign ves sels lo carry lumber. Some lum bermen have asked that cxemp tion from the Jones Act also be extended to shipments to ports on the U S Atlantic Coast. In Price For Called 'Too High' BERLIN (UPI) The EastlBerliners during a three week German Commvnlst govern-! ment set a price today that ap parently is too high for the West to consider letting West Bcrliners visit East Berlin for Christmas. The East German press of fice announced that East Ger many is ready to allow West Bcrliners to cross the Red-built anti-refugee wall between Dec. 15 and Jan. 5. BUt it said West Berlin May or Willy Brandt must negotiate with East German Deputy Pre mier Alexander Abusch and that offices to issue passes for visits to the East must be opened in West Berlin. Both of these conditions have been declared unacceptable to the West. Hopos Dashed The Eastern announcement and the Western reaction to it dashed hopes thai West Berlin crs would be ablq to spend Christmas with their friends and relations in East Berlin for the first time since the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961, West Berlin officials said the Communist proposal was not acceptable and there was no reason to hopo thai Christmas! would bring -a reunion of fam ilies split by the wall The city government had warned West Berlincrs earlier against raising their hopes too high that the wall might be opened for Christmas A West Berlin spokesman said the issue would depend on whether the East Germans at tempted to exercise sovereign ty In West. Berlin The conditions set by the East German Communists indi cated clearly they wanted to use the Issuance ot passes as nn entering wedge for recogni tion by the West. In a statement, urancii said earlier that it was regrettable that an official announcement Friday night created a false impression that West Bcrliners had considered the Communist move a wonderful Christmas present. Passes Offered City officials said today that the East Gcrn.an government in fact has announcod its will- ingnoss to issue pusses lo West! TIMING IS OFF VENTURA, Calif. (UPI) A mother and the baby she deliv ered without help when the hos pital sent her home were re ported in good condition Friday at General Hospital. Mrs. Valerine Grubbs, 24, went home Wednesday when the hospital resident loid her it ap peared it would ho sometime be fore her baby would bo born. But the baby arrived soon aft er and Mrs. Grubb delivered her daughter before deputies or highway patrolmen arrived to assist her. Hoffa Denies Hierarchy Of Union Having Trouble MIAMI BEACH (UPI) - Teamsters head James R. Hof fa Friday denied a reported rift among tho union's hierarchy over the group's official reac tion to the slaying of President Kennedy. Informed souices in Washing ton said Hoffa's top assistant Harold J. Gibbons, and several other union aides had resigned in protest over Hoffa s state ments and actions following tho assassination. "Nobody has resigned," Hof fa said. "If you don't believe mc, call headquarters Monday mnrnlnff ami vnn ran tnllc In (hi.ni I Hoffa termed as "pure non sense" a report that he was angry because Gibbons shut down Teamsters' headquarters in Washington on Nov, 25. the day of national mourning for the slain President. Sources said Hoffa and Gib bons also disagreed over the union's statement of condolence to Mrs. Kennedy. Gibbons is sued statement without first clearing it with Hoffa, sources said, and Hoffa ordered it with drawn and issued a substitute which said the assassination made Atty. Gen. Robert F Kennedy "just another lawyer." Meeting here with the Teams lBerDfiirD Visits period. They added that every- thing depends on how and ' where the passes will be issued. They said the Communists ill not be allowed to open of fices in West Berlin, a maneu ver they attempted shortly aft er the wall went up. The ma neuver was considered an East German attempt to win recogni tion, The city government wants the East Germans to issue the passes at crossing points in the wall. Authorities said the ques tion will be decided during reg ularly scheduled talks between East and West German trade officials. Foreigners and West Ger mans are permitted to cross the '"all. But West Bcrliners arc not and many East Bcrlin ers have been shot trying to sneak through. 4 Rail Unions Seek Reversal By High Court WASHINGTON (UPI) Four ailroad unions have appealed to a federal court to overturn findings of a government ar bitration panel that would al low companies to eliminate 90 per cent of the firemen on diescl locomotives. The unions also asked the federal court here Friday to de clare unconstitutional the law, enacted in August to prevent a .nationwide railroad strike, es tablishing, the; nrtjltratlon. board. Tile boa I'd ruled Nov. 26 that DO per cent of; tho firemen's jobs on freight and yard locomo tives should be eliminated grad ually because other crew mem bers can perform the duties of the firemen. The ruling, involving the so- called "featuerhedding" issue, also called for renewed negotia tion on the size of train crews and set up a system of arbitra tion in case of deadlock. Tho suit wasi filed in federal court by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En- gincmcn, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Switchmen's Union. The Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers filed a separate suit also at tacking tho award as illegal and challenging establishment of the board. The suit filed by the three unions asked that the award be labeled void. It also asked that the court meanwhile keep the award from taking effect as scheduled Jan. 24, The unions charged that the arbitration board exceeded the authority given It by Congress and failed to follow congres sional dirrctivos. ters executive board, Hoffa said the remark about the attorney general was misinterpreted and taken out of context. We sent out the wire of con dolence to the President's fam ily and I approved it," he said. He said the remark about Robert Kennedy was not con nected with tho condolence statement and apparently came from an interview in which lie told a newsman that the assas sination "simply made (the at torney general) one out of many lawyers in the nation, and one out of nine on the cab inet." JANTM HELPER SAY . SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS 4