Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1963)
Poge 2 The News-Review Thur., Pec. 19, 1963 School Board Eyes Budget Matters, Salary Hikes At Wednesday Meeting The Roseburg School Board Wednesday night delved deep ly jnto salary increases and oth er budget items which will be taken before the District 4 Budg et Committee vhen it opens its hearings for a 1964-65 budget early next year. Wednesday night's action was in the form of recommenda tions, with final action on all budget matters requiring ap proval of the Budget Commit tee before they are submitted to' residents of the district for a"1)udget vote. The school secretaries' salary schedule was reviewed, with the board recommending that $10 par month be added to the top of the scale in each of the Two Children Perish In Fire . The names of two more chil d'ren were added Tuesday night to the list of those recently los ing their lives as a result of fire, According to a report rcceiv- en today by Mrs. Albert Rad- cliffe, Dixonville correspondent, the two small children of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Churchill died Tuesday at Pensacola, Fla., as a result of burns suffered in an explosion and fire which de stroyed the Churchill's trailer house. " Both Mr. and Mrs. Churchill are 1961 graduates of Glide High S.'hool and have been in Pensacola for the past two years since Churchill's induc tion into the Air Force. The children are listed as Sherry, 18 months old, and Bob by, 4 months. According to a telephoned report from Mrs. Churchill to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Zimmerman of Buckhorn Road, she was talk ing on the telephone to her hus Band at the air base when the oi J stove of the trailer exploded and burst into flumes... Mrs. Churchill was able to get the older child out of the trailer but wis unable to reach the young or one. The Burns proved fatal almost Immediately for the old or child. Mrs. Churchill was hospitalized for shock and burns but has been released Mrs. Rad- dl)f(e said. -v Paternal grandparents of the dead children are Mr. and Mrs Byron Churchill of the North Umpqua Highway. Mrs. Church ill is tho former Wanda Zim merman. . Auto In Flames Halts Motorists tt . Umlersheriff Lyle Dickinson ' wus heading south from Rosc Bilrg to his home In Canyon ville Wednesday evening when Ifo came onto a string of cars near the Sound Prairio Lumber (A), mill along Interstate High way 5. 'Impatient with waiting, he bjew his siren and headed around tho cars to learn the Cause of the traffic holdup. 'rlIo found an automobile on fjro and the owner sitting on (Jto nearby bank watching it -vQulckly he summoned the 'inston-Dillard Fire Depart ment, and then took into cus tody the car owner, James Rog rt Rouscy, 33, of Myrtle Creek, nn a charge of being drunk on 4; public highway. liRousey maintained today he jyns overcome by smoke from the burning car, but evidence ())d not Indicate this, Dickinson Kportcd. Tho interior of the automobile was badly damaged Cause of the fire was not de termined. ; ine traffic stall, both ways along the highway, was due nn Warily to the hesitency nf lead automobiles to pass the burning Vehicle. The car was removed tfnd traffic resumed. NO REASONABLE Mil I M I I l I I 1 I d ) C" I N Oi pcn VCfy SN I JsTyJ night y 5 ,IK AND SUNDAY C. .... - , . ... . lm three classifications. The board felt the scale compares favor ably with similar job classifica tions in various business and in dustry offices in the district bu. that $10 should be added to thj top of the scale to provide increases for those secretaries who have reached the top of the scale and who are doing outstanding jobs. Park School Budget Viewed ine Doard recommended an increase of $800 in the Park School budget for 1864-65, bring in-: that budget to $23,200. Spe cial education director Bill Wil liams said he would like to see the enrollment level increased from 32 to 34 students next year, as there is a small wait ing list of students and the school would be able to handle a two-pupil Increase, Tho Douglas County Court provides half tho cost of opera ting this special school for re tarded children, up to a maxi mum of $3,600. Each district which sends students to the school pays a tuition fee on a per student basis. Instrumental music instructor Gary Wilson was given a $250 Oregon Plan Budget Passes A budget of $125,000 for oper- ation of the Oregon Program during the 1064-65 school year was approved by the Rose burg School Board at Us regu lar meeting Wednesday night. The Oregon Program centers around funds derived from foun dation grants to help the school district carry out an upgrad ing of the general curriculum in local schools. Key projects in the local Oregon Program are (he use of teaching interns for team teaching and the develop ment of a curriculum revision. In this program, the Rose burg schools work in coopera tion with the University of Ore gon and Eugene schools. Program director Harry Ja- coby said the local schools plan to use 10 teaching interns next year, as compared to five being used in the school system this year. He also said plans are be ing made to revamp a portion of the former high school cafe teria lor use as - a--D strict 4 curriculum , materials supply center, - The board also approved a budget of $7,022 for the lower di vision higher education courses which are offered in Roseburg on a nigut school basis. Supt. of Schools M. C. Deller announced that school will be gin on Sept. 8 for the 1964-65 school year. This was tho final board meeting of 1063. The first meeting of the new year will be held on Jan. 15. Roseburg Man Fined, Sentenced To 30 Days Charles Wayne Williams. 27. of lit. 1. Box 636. Rosoburo. Wednesday was sentenced to sorve 30 days In the Douglas County jail and was fined $20 and $5 costs, on a plea of guilty to assault and battery before District Judge Gerald R. Hayes. Williams was accused of as saulting Bertha Patterson on Dec. 10. The jail sentence is to run concurrently with another ior wi days Williams is now serving for drunken driving. The two charges grew out of the same incident, the judge stated He also was fined previously for driving without a driver's license. Schools Close Friday For practically all schools of he county, the Christmas and New Year's vacation starts Fri day and continues to Jan. 2, it was reported today by County School Supt, Kenneth Barne-burg. ROSEBURG JEWELERS 506 SOUTH EAST JACKSON OPPOSITE PAYLESS Watches Diamonds - Silverware increase and the title of band director for the district, in view of the outstanding job he has done with the Roseburg schools' instrumental music program The Roseburg High School Band, in addition to providing colorful halftime shows at high school football games this fall, brought the color and quality of the local music program into state wide focus this year with an outstanding appearance at University of Oregon football game. Superintendent of Schools M. C. Deller. on recommending the salary increase and title for Wilson, said that as far as he was concerned, Wilson is one of the finest music directors on the West Coast. The board voted to call for $1,500 to be added to the budg et for increases to coaches and the athletic director. Generally, the increases would be $200 for head coaches and appropriate increases for assistants. These are acknowledged "risk" jobs, with performance holding the key to the increases. If anoroved by tne Budget Committee, tho money will be in the budget and those coach es whom the board feels de serve the increase at the com pletion of their season will be civen the raise. It was felt ny the board that athletic director Al Hoffman and football coach Roy Thompson, as well as Thompson's assistants, had earned the raises for their per formanccs during the past foot ball season. Similar decisions will be made upon tho comple tion of each sports program. Salary increases ranging from $500 to $150 were granted to otler key personnel in the school system who are not on a regu lar salary increment schedule This includes the superintend ent and assistant superintendent. administrative office personnel, vocal music director and lunch room coordinator. Three Meningitis Cases Reported Douglas County Health Offi-I cer Dr. James K. Gray today issued a statement in which he said there have, been some cas es of meningitis reported in the county, including two which brought death, but that there has been no outbreak of an cpi domic variety ot the disease. Dr. Gray said meningitis may be caused by any one of sever al types of bacteria, but that most are not of the epidemic type. "The cases we have had in Douglas County are definite ly not of the epidemic variety. he said. The two deaths attributed to meningitis in Douglas County were in Sutherlin and Myrtle Creek, ho said.. They involved a baby in Suthcrlin and a 27 year-old man in Myrtle Creek Both occurred during Decern ber. , . -, In addition, a 14-year-old boy in Roseburg developed the dis ease, but is now reported recov ering nicely. "This case, too, is definitely not ot tho epidemic variety," the county health of ficer stated. McDonald To Resign Oregon Labor Post PORTLAND (UPI) J. D. (Rosy) McDonald, will retire Jan. 1 from his fulltimo salaried job as president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, he announced Wednes day. However, McDonald said he will keep the title of president and may even run for re-elec tion when his term expires Dec. 1, IOCS. McDonald is 68. He said after he gives up his $195 weekly salary ho will work only under special assignment from James T. Marr, executive secretary of t h o Oregon AFL - CIO. OFFER REFUSED! Man With Chimp's Kidneys Receives Early Christmas NEW ORLEANS (UPD- Christmas came a week early at the home of dockworker Jef- ferson Davis, Davis suffered from a kidney ailn.ent that doomed him un less drastic action was taken. Six weeks ago that action was taken when he received the kid neys from a 90-pound chimpan zee. Wednesday night, Mrs. Davis and the four Davis youngsters were elated when Davis arrived home from Charity Hospital He was their main Christmas gift. Having been unemployed for medical reasons for a year, Lions Hear Cage Coach Roseburg High School basket ball coach Curt Jarvis told the Umpqua Lions Club Wednesday n'ght that while the Indians do not have the blinding speed tncy would like to have, they are continuing to work toward fast-breaking team which they feel they'll need to win ball games. Acknowledging that the In dians' recent defeat at t h e hands of Grants Pass was pri marily the result of errors. Jar- vis said that emphasis on de fense has been the main theme in practice sessions since then Pointing to the unusual aver age height possessed by tms year's squad, the popular cage mentor singled out Bruce O'Neil, 6-6 forward, who in Jar vis' opinion is "just this year beginning to perform as we al ways Delielred he would, ine 195-pound O'Neil has an average of nearly 20 points per game. In regular club business, it was reported mac DasKcman backboards which the club pro vides as a community youth service can dc picKen up ai tho Jerry Roberts residence, 159 W. Broccoli. The backboards are provided without cost and are given out on a first-come first-served ba sis. Seven members of the Rose burg Lions Club made a visi tation to the Umpqua group's n.eeting. It was announced that the next regular dinner meeting Fire Destroys Picasso Art DETROIT (UPI) Thirty-five Pablo Picasso art pieces, , in cluding, two valuable paintings, were destroyed early today in a $500,000 fire that swept downtown building. The Picassos were being shown in a second floor art gal- lory. The damage to the collec tion was csimatcd at $150,000. More than 125 firemen and 25 pices of equipment battled the blaze in the building which housed a furniture store alon with the art gallery. The fire was brought under control within 50 minutes de spite chilling 17-degree temper atures. There were no serious injuries to firefighters although several received first aid for cuts and abrasions. High School Yuletide Program Set Tonight More than 250 singers' will participate in Roseburg High School's annual Christmas pro-i gram which will be presented for the public at 8 tonight in the school auditorium. Participants will include the school's A Capella Choir and Girls' Glee Club. One of the program highlights will be a short Christmas canta ta entitled "Christmas Is Com ing." In addition, the A Capella Choir will sing "The Baby Was A King," a composition by Clarence Trued of Roseburg. The program is open to the 1 general public. There will be no admission charge. the dockworker could offer only himself and his love. "We never expected to get him home again," Mrs. Davis said. "It sure will be a nice Christmas." "I feel fine," Davis said. Intricate medical treatment, so far, has overcome the body's natural tendency to cast off for eign matter. An earlier trans plant by Tulane University sur geons into a woman patient failed because the "immunolog ic barrier" was not broken. Drugs and X-rays were used to keep the animal kidneys func tioning in Davis. Davis will return to the hos pital Friday night for re-evalu- ation ana tests. 11 no complica tions have developed he will be given a pass or will be re leased Monday for the holidays. A team of Tulane University surgeons operated on uavis Nov 5. They transplanted the chimp kidney into his body in 39 min utes. Davis entered the ' hospital last January with a severe kid ney ailment. It steadily wor sened until he needed an arti ficial kidney to live. Doctors knew that Davis needed new kidneys to survive. Unable to find a suitable hu man donor. They decided on the chimp. Davis agreed. "The doctors told me couldn't live with what I've sot." he said later. "I have no choice." The animal kidneys were tied into Davis' system and began functioning immediately. His own kidneys, which doctors left in his body, were nearly inoper ative. Television Out For Ruby Trial DALLAS (UPI) State District Judge Joe B. Brown announced today that no television cam eras, no radio recording equip ment and no still cameras will be permitted in his courtroom during the trial of Jack Ruby. Ruby is charged with murder ing Lee Harvey Oswald, ac cused . assassin of President Kennedy. Brown's statement ended the possibility that the trial might! go on coast-to-coast live televi sion. A hearing for a writ of habeas corpus is set in Judge Brown's court Dec. 22. Brown had already served notice that no television, radio or press photo equipment would be per mitted during that hearing. Ruby's murder trial is set for Feb. 3. Raymond D. Hewitt Raymond David Hewitt, 74, of Troutdale, former resident of Roseburg, died Dec. 13 at Trout- dale where he had been city re corder since 1960. He was a brother of Leland Hewitt of Roseburg and Mrs. E. S. Booth of Garden Valley. Funeral services were held Monday in the Bateman Funer-j al Chapel at Grcsham with pri vate interment following at thej Douglass Cemetery in Grosham. Hewitt was born Dec. 12, 1 1889, in Roseburg and around 1910 taught in Glide schools. Hej was school principal at Gold Beach in 1912 and 1913.and taught at Troutdale from" 1915 to 1925 and then was principal until 1935 at which time he left the teaching field to operate a grocery store. He was Trout dale postmaster from 1945 until I960. He was a past president of the Troutdale Lions Club, the Troutdale Rod and Gun Club and the Quad Postmaster Club, and a member of the Fairview Masonic Lodge No. 92, AF&AM. Besides the brother and sis ter here, he is survived also by his wile, Justa, of Troutdale; one daughter, Mrs. Robert El lis o( Springdale; one son, Charles, of Coos Bay; another brother, Allen, of Glendale, Cal if.; three other sisters, Mrs. Bess Wilson and Mrs. Grace Van Horn of The Dalles and Mrs. Helen Bales of El Cerito, Calif.; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Dan Edwin Wells Dan Edwin Wells of 1682 Kca scy Road died at his home this morning. Funeral arrange ments will be announced later by Long and Shukle Memorial Chapel. Herbert LeRoy Wade Herbert LeRoy Wade. 50, of 1243 NE Klamath St., Roseburg died Wednesday at a Roseburg hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Wilson's Chapel of the Roses. I OS! tout uccast to onttr ROLF'S PREFERRED INSURANCE fjt Irift. iutimtt lui)ki 939 S. E. Stephen! 673-8164 First Group Of West Germans Cross Berlin's Wall For Christmas Visits BERLIN (UPI) The first West Berliners to cross the Communist anti-refugee wall since its erection 28 months ago went into East Berlin today on Christmas holiday visits. The Communists opened routes through the wall one day ahead of schedule to start the first of a series of Christ mas reunions among East and West Berliners. West Berlin police reported a mother and child walked across the border at the Sandkrug Bridge at 2:10 p.m. They were the first to use the new passes the Communists be gan issuing today for Christ mas visits. A few minutes later, West Berlin police said, a man, his wife and two children walked across the Oberbaum Bridge where East German guards Mother Will Give Kidney To Son WEST PATERSON, N. J. (UPI) Mrs. William Koscuis zka sat in her modest home and spoke quietly about the or deal ahead. I gave him life once, and with God's help I can do it again," she said Wednesday. On Dec. 29, she and her son, William, 23, will undergo joint surgery in Boston for a kidney transplant in what may be the first mother-to-son operation of its kind. William, a once healthy, vig orous youth who liked to play football, has been in and out of hospitals for the last two yers. He is currently under treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital for chronic glomerulo nephritis, a kidney disease. An identical twin of the pa tient is normally used in a kid-1 ncy transplant operation. But in the case of William, there was no twin. Both mother and fath er of the boy underwent tests and she was chosen as the most suitable one to give up a kid ney. I could do nothing less, if it means a chance for him to live and be well," she said. Mrs. Koscuiszka has quit her job as a waitress in a Clifton restaurant and the loss of this income against the mounting medical bills has worried the family. Her daughter, Gail, 18, was considering withdrawing from Paterson State College to get a job and hor husband was think-l ing about getting a mortgage on their home. But all this may not be neces sary. Townspeople and public offic ials in this community have rt sponded to the Koscuiszkas plight by setting up a fund, the Bill K Fund. Harry B. Haines, publisher of the Paterson Evening News, launched the drive with a $100 contribution. Other donations fol lowed. Friday-Saturday-Monday-Tuesday BRAKE & FRONT END SAFETY SERVICE BRING YOUR CAR TO THE EXPERTS DURING THE NEXT THREE DAYS AND RECEIVE: Complete brake check and adjustment Brake fluid will be added, and entire brake system road checked Front end will be aligned, with camber, caster, and toe-in corrected. PAY AS YOU RIDE knocked a hole in the wall fori West Berlin pedestrians Wednesday night. Police said Loth groups car ried the new permits. East German postal employes issuing the passes in 12 West Berlin schools today were al most overwhelmed by tremen dous crowds lined up for hours in the snow. They began handing out the first permits for one-day visits to relatives in East Berlin at 1 p.m., but ran far behind a flood of new applications. At that tfme, 30,500 persons were lined up and police had turned away thousands more because they rould not be han dled before the offices closed in the evening. A West Berlin city official met with an East German rep resentative, and tl ey agreed to double the number of postal clerks who would be on hand from East Berlin Friday. Western sources said the new meeting showed the Commu nists already were realizing their aim of parlaying the pass agreement into a scries of ne- gotiations between West Berlin'"" oirccuiatui a and East Germany. The Western Allies and West Germany always have opposed such negotiations as possible support for the East German e.:aim that West Berlin is not a part of West Germany. Wednesday 24,500 West Berlin- Hospital News Visiting Hoiirt i 2 ta 3:30 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Douglas Community Admitted Hospital Medical: Mrs. Larry Dysert, Wayne Kincaid, Albert Parson, Arthur Marsh, Walter Bernal, Park Paige, Thomas Scott, all of Roseburg; Howard Lmstead, Sutherlin; Mrs. Willard Baker. Winston; Mrs. Merlin Grubbs, Glide; Mrs. Ronald Waitt, Idle ylo Park; Mrs. Ronald Harring ton, Roseburg. Surgery: Deborah Noland, James Harris, Howard Robin son, all of Roseburg; Mary Pope Camas Valley; Fred Shepard, Winston. Discharged Mrs. Lyle Bursik, William Branham, Emma Stringfellow, Mrs. James Gilbert, Gege Graham, Mrs. Robert Williams Mrs. Linn Emmons, Mrs. Floyd Smith, Albert Pierce, Darrold Hanna. all of Roseburg; Rich ard Crumal, Sutherlin; Lola Walker, Glide; Mrs. John Mar- low, Winston. ., " Mercy Hospital-: 'i. Admitted Medical: Lillie Crow, Joe Johnson, both of Roseourg; Mrs Richard Williams, Milo. Surgery: Mrs. Lloyd Good win, Roseburg; Mrs. Roy Dou gan, Myrtle Creek. Discharged Tracy Hansell, James Hum phrey III, Mrs. W. L. Carr, Mrs. Justin Eifert, Mrs. David Perron, all of Roseburg; Rob ert Dascke, Minneapolis, Minn. HBHP"" ' ers filed applications for 50,000 to 60,000 passes, West Berlin officials reported. Most returned early today and they were joined by thou sands of others who wanted to fi' applications. , Many waited in the cold for three or four hours, only to be told "we have no passes for you." Some were told to come back a day or two before their proposed visit. A West Berlin, city govern ment spokesman said it was ex pected that individual West Berliners could make a total of three visits to East Berlin dur ing the 17-day period before the agreement ends pn Jan. 5. New Drug Boosts Zellerbach Stock SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Crown Zellerbach Corp., sur prised by a five-point rise in its stock because of rumors it has a new miracle drug in the work. 'rinpsHiv tn'pri tn hn" A company spokesman said even if the experimental drug Dimethyl Sulfoxide, or DMSO should live up to the effects at tributed to it, "commercializa tion of the chemical as a drug would have little effect on the company'r overall sales volumes and earnings." However, stock purchasers were apparently unimpressed as th j stock, which closed Tuesday at 55Vs soared to 60V4 on the Facific Coast Stock Exchange Wednesday. A crown - Zellerbach public relations man reported: "Our annual business is more than $600 million, of this, the chemi cal division does only $2 million. What's all the fuss about?" The University of Oregon Medical School in Portland has bten testing DMSO. Doctors said the chemical. derived from wood, has bright possibilities in the field of medi cine but that much testing re mained to be done before it could be marketed. Its possibi lities include help in human or gan transplant, pain killing and the potential of transporting medication in the human body. Winston Man Injured As Auto Hits Bridge D. A. Fain, 21, of Winston, was hospitalized with injuries and bis automobile was "total ed," when it struck a bridge abutment about 1:30 p.m. Wed nesday one mile north . of Win ston, state police report. am was northbound on U.S. Route 99 BR and while in the process of passing another ve hicle also traveling north near the Winston Section junction, the cars ran into a wall of fog. Fain's car struck the end of the railing of a small cement bridge on the west side. He was brought to the hospital by am bulance. ANT MAKE U.S. CAR 266 S. E. STEPHENS Phone 672-3393
