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t Fire Forces Evacuation of Southern Oreg Fores on' - (Slory in Column g.) President's Smile Brings Good Luck to Boy tenon POUNDED 1651 105th Year 2 SECT10NS-28 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, September 6, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 163 Cakes .Bail Issued. ete Area 1 I ' i j - i t i Comp ":!- ;" f 1 H : r n OKLAHOMA CITY Bill Stockwell from Dntch painter Frank DeBruin Valerius. Bill took all $2.29 from his piggy bank and sent it to the artist in hopes he could buy the painting. Valerius sent BUI the painting and remarked it was . m m l L ! . 'I ft V, 1IT!.. L i ' J: K 1 ine only portrait ne naa ever none wncre mc sudjccv imun, i.-vr Famed Dutch Painter Stills Ike Portrait to Lad for OKLAHOMA CITY VT Like i many a youngster who has little knowledge of finances and an over-1 abundance of enthusiasm, 7 - year - old -Bill StockweU Jr. robbed his piggy bank of its $2.29 and en closed it in a letter to a famous Dutch artist. Bill, who is a great Davy Crock- Off BHSOOQB The Portland Oregonian pro fesses concern over the fact that aisinci attorneys in mosi oi me counties are not paid enough to require them toj devote full time to their official jobs. It quotes Attorney General Thornton to the effect that the office is still treated by the Legislature as. a "part-time job."! The salary range at present is from $8,800 in Mult nomah county to $3,000 in some of the small . counties. A com mittee of district attorneys, ap pointed by the Oregon Bar, will report to the state Bar meeting in Baker later this month on this subject j The Oregonian fails to note the plight of deputy district attor neys whose salaries range in still lower brackets.! For them it is a part-time job too. The conse quence in both instances is a heavy turnover of deputies and DA's. I : . f his subject j should be exam ined on both sides,' however. For many counties the load of the 'DA's office is relatively, light Except in a " few counties the criminal load is not heavy. Civil work for county officials is spo radic. At times the volume is heavy; at otherf times quite light How we are going to work out a general plan for the whole state is a hard matter. Consoli dation of counties into districts might help but then there would (Continued on editorial page, 4) Ice Snaps Off Ship Propeller ST. JOHN'S Nfld. on The .Nor wegian ship Jopeter suffered a heavy blow Monday in her five day battle against the-Greenland ice pack. Her single propeller snapped off when the vessel was within six miles- of clear- water.- U. S. Air Force rescue units at Thule.. Greenland, prepared to take the 19 passengers and 15 crew off the ship by air ' Tuesday if necessary. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARREN GOODRICH Martha's deaniag kase TO) POOCH I . i . Jr.. 7. display! t portrait of President Eisenhower he received ett follower but still rates Presi-; 'dent Eisenhower his No. 1 hero, i asked Frank DeBruin Valerius if 'he'd sell a portrait of the chief executive for the cash. The youngster had seen the pro trait in a. newspaper picture and wanted it for his room to hang in an honored spot besides his col lection of spacemen and Crockett pictures. Caavas f Ike Last week. Bill received a long red mailing tube and to his par ent's amazement it contained the; canvas of Ike with his big grin ' and a letter from Valerius, who j is now living in Toronto, Canada. , Valerius, who has don many portraits of Europe's royalty in cluding a $25,600 commission to paint the royal family of Holland, made a startling confession. "Bill, when I was an art stu dent in Holland I vowed never to paint a canvas such as this," he wrote. "That huge grin, I mean. "Our professors warned us we must never, never paint an adult laughing. The old masters were waved before us as stern examples. So, to paint teeth, boy, that's treason!" Weakened Once Valerius went on to explain he weakened once in his career and only once because the Eisenhower Californians Flee Before Forest Fires SAN FRANCISCO W Scores of families evacuated their homes tonight before threatening forest j fires east of rTesno and nearitinuous logging job has: beei Middletown in Lake County, 70. miles north of San Francisco ' Between 200 and 300 persons fled Lake County's Cobb Mountain sec tion. Rangers evacuated families from the Grant Grove and Hume Lake communities in Sequoia National Forest 50 miles from Fresno. The : Boy Scout camp at Sequoia Lake also was cleared. In Humboldt County, near Eur - ea. more inan u.ooo acres were ournea in inai areas worsi ioresi maze in to years. One arm of the fire in the Se-'a quoia National Forest had reached within a mile of the General Grant Grove of redwood trees. The Gen- jeral Grant tree 272 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter is believed to' nave sianea its me l.ooo years; oeiore vnnsu Gladys' Storm Aims Flooded Mexico Capital BROWNSVILLE. Tex. (J Thej tropical storm Gladys, unprechct able and dangerous, made a radi cal turn Monday night and headed in the general direction of Mexico City, where she already had caused the worst floods in that capital's recent history. The Brownsville weather Bu reau, in its 10 p. m. (CST) ad visory, relaxed its major flood warning for the Middle and Lower Rio Grande Valley, but warned . ,, , . r V" "tXnrh These squalls' ranged out 400 j miles from the storm center in, some areas. . Gladys never quite gained hurn - cane intensity u reacneu an estimated 70 m.pJi. as it struck the Mexican coast about 150 miles below Brownsville. , 4. h ucyuvius. i ! .i: f $2.29 grin was so infectious and addesd 'I can just hear my old protes- sors weeping faintly into thair pa-, lettes and declaiming! mournfully: 1 'Frank Valerius is a naughty boy.' i J. "I really hate to part with 4ijis cheerful canvas, Bill, ; but I j don't want to lose the commission" ( Bill thinks the picture is thj most wonderful thing that ever!) hap pened to him. Everything ts jus4 perfect and hej wouldn't have ob jected if Valerius had painted Davy Crockett coonskin cap pa e rresiaenu ', '55 Grassman i i1 I I!. Awara boes to . .J X: in auverion r air is - ; ! ! Floyd T. Fo &. Son, Silverton, one of Mariqn County's j mot widely known eed growing part nerships, has been named Mariqn County Grassman of the jyear. Announcement was, made! Mon day by T. R. jHobart, chairman of the agriculture committee Of the Salem Chamber ofj j Con -merce, sponsors of the ptojec. For weeks the committee!, con sisting of 15 men, have j Visited and checked activities and! cropte of Marion County! Farmers. "Marion County! has many top farmers and selection was not easy,". Hobart said in making the announcement! i !( ( I j The Fox farm, managed bt both father and son. consists of 381 acres of which 200 aW cropf land, and 125) timber. A coii planned for the future. Shd 809 small Port Orford Cedars will b ! They planted out this winter are now growing in 'a riurserf near the residence of, thd elder foxes where they can gated. j be irr !to th! Flovd Fox. Sr.J came Waldo Hills Farm J which1 he and j his son now farm, .with bis pa4 ents in 1907. ! 1 I. ; t addition to the home place; j the two men farm 200 iacres ot leased ground. r The Foxes will he riresenle plaque at jthei Chamber of' commerce asrjcultural lUncheoii this fall. Winning the ! county honor gives the partnership th opportunity of icomnetinie Ifor the State Honor. ! If the two men should win this, they ma go on io iNortnwest honors. at The Weather! Bureau said thj i it storm turned sharply south-south west after hitting the cbst in midl afternoon and passed almost dii rectly over Tampico, Metico. At 10 p. m. (CST it wa approxi mately 20 miles: south of that ma jor Mexican coastal city In Mexico City, weathermen blamed Gladys for three days of rams. j j These rains caused disastrous flwwle TKttv rffnsirA An Ann f.; , i'wuo. aifivicu TU.UW mill fli l of 3 trillion per Tw0 children ;drowned and frvf more were missing. Police esti mated 2,300 houses -were under 'rom 5 to7 feet f wa(cr - Late Monday ) night waves were high all tides and along the Texas Coast from Galveston south; At Fair Judges Kept Busy Tasting Samples; Race Betting Up By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Cakes are no longer on the top 10 "most wanted" foods for some people at the 90th Oregon State Fair which opened Saturday and ; will run through next Saturday, i m. ir j;i; -art., wit tu ij u.viaiun. v- coven i i in cimn H seven, to be exact, were sampled I before the le fluffy, white angle . 4 tA Kalr A A Km Que o n Ur! rrVif rf Medford was declared the "best.""f somf . l'8htning-set blazes m But a lof of cakes were -.iJOregons Under-dry- foresU and mosr as good, and among those ,ran5ea"ds- hakin? anppl food whirh iiiHsM covered some 500 acres selected as blue ribbon quality were Judith Eberhardt of Silver- ton, Glenda Kirschner of Albany, Jean Carnes of Yamhill, Bonnie u cusicr vi nicniinnviiic, nieioa Smith of Dallas and Nancy Obrist 1 of Woodburn. ; Adults' Cakes And while the judges were,mars- sampling the juniors' cakes, oth er judges were tasting other cakes baked by adults. Mrs. O W. Olson, Silverton, long-time winner at Oregon State Fairs, baked the top chocolate angel ! food. Mrs. Olson also won a large j number of other blues as did Mrs. Stanley Andrews of Eu- gene, Mrs. Dale iMallicoat and Mrs. Tom Pomeroy of Salem, Mr. Pomeroy was also in there . pucning in tne tooo department, with 16 entries. By Tuesday night judges had selected at least one; Elwood Jackson a 38-year-old first for him, on a chocolate lay-i0gger from j0hn Day. was trapped er "J1?' , (Sunday when flames surrounded Outside of races. Labor Dayhim while fighting a 3.000-acre iiuwus were auvui evenly ui- vided between entertainments, livestock ringsides, flower shows, and other free attractions during the daytime. Race crowds, 757 below last year's 7,859 for La bor Day, made biggest pari mu tuel handle in the history of the Oregon State Fairs. The $172,482 topped all others, and was $4,166 above the 1953 previous record.! Attendance Drops . - r ' ioor umj crowas, jue tnose oi sunaay mis year, were some- wnai snori oi ine im UMr Day crowd, which numbered 73,- 230. This year's total was 57,530. ! niuic man ouu people paia IO get into th FairornnnHc ,flnr in u " Helene Hughes' Night Revue ! continued to be a big attraction ! with the Monday night attend- ance listed at 3,500, and the cir- .,..:... vuc, i"uuui..6 me uiduuct:, iu-, taied j,751. Bargain matinees start at the circus this afternoon with the 2:30 show. All seats in the house go for $1 to adults and 50 cents to youngsters. i lv Vair Iirsi D,g re"!and WaUowa-Whitman forests in gional Aberdeen Annus Futuritv : r-. r ,M mt.. Plata 7 - I Show, in which 119 of the smooth. stocky beef cattle paraded be- (ore Judce Elliott Rrmrn r pnc. Hill, Iowa, closed Monday after-! noon in a crowd-tensed selection ' of the Supreme Champion. (Pic - ture on nape 2 n RarHn-ihao lier DW, the bull owned by Dale ' West of Merrill, was finally nam-' ed over the grand champion f e-! male. Bela Blackbird of Shasta, owned by Hacienda de Los Reyes of Selma. (Additional State Fair details pages 2, 5 of sec 1; pages 4, 13 of sec. 2). Supersonic Mark Affirmed (Picture on page 10, sec. 2.) PHILADELPHIA tf - The Air Force announced Monday the world's first official faster-than- sound speed record, 822.135 miles an hour. The exact altitude was not' dis closed, but Col. Horance A. Haines, pilot, said he flew the F100C Super Sabre jet fighter at about 40.000 feet last Aug. 20 over . an 18-kilometer course 'about 11 miles) near Palmdale, Calif. An Air Force spokesman said that at 822 miles an hour, Hanes would have been flying about 1.2 times the speed of sound. The fact a record was set was revealed last month but the time was not disclosed until Monday.,, NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem 6-11. Tri-City 3-5 At Wenatchee 8-2. Lewiston 0-0 At Yakima 4-7, Spokane 3-3 . PAcrric coast leacuk At San Francisco 4-5. San Diego 3-3 At Hollywood 6-4, Sacramento 7-J At Portland 2-2. Los Angeles 6-7 At Seattle 5-4, Oakland 4-7 AMERICAN LEAGUE ' At Detroit 7-0. Chicago 2-3 At Cleveland 4-9. Kansas City 5-3 At Baltimore 6-3. New York 5-5 At Boston 10-4. Washington 2-2 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 11-8. Philadelphia 4-2 At New York 5-6. Pittsburgh -J At Chicago 2-0, Milwaukee 0-1 At St. Louis 3, Cm anna U 2 Rogue Valley Blaze Worst of 200 in State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of the Tolo district were being evacuated as. a forest fir rnllpH rplpntlncclv tnu.irri h Southcrn Q Monday niht s ' Tarksnn m..itv sheriffs deputies, who were direct- '"6 l"c c""lu flight truck"! to haul awav ner ireigm itucks io nam away per "'V" " w "V""""'63 The fire was one of the worst of state-protected land by. late j evPn& ana naa P"t 0l of com-, mission tne transmitting tower of Medford television station KBES- - The flames late Monday were advancing up Table Rock, one of Jackson County's best known land- Serious Blazes Some 1,500 acres had i been charred by scores of fires in the county. The other serious blazes were in Evans Valley to the north, where 500 acres were blackened, and in Timber Mountain in the ridge between the Applegate and Ropup vallevs There were no injuries reported among firefighters.; However, a forest and rangeland blaze in Eastern claimed one life I Oregon had blaze in the Malheur National Forest. j Wait for Lull ii Fire Jackson became separated from a seven-man crew! in the heavy smoke. Another member of group, Alvin Stock well of Seneca ...fr-.-j . i tu. ,u ' made it felv aton bare knoll! e lttheyfelyaitedP i a luu in ! 4k f; j u a k: . ..--.j V.. - "'" "" a, i vu . ic UUc "-,c't0tai 0f 574 -" V-m iinn.l v,iA.i Guy Johnson, regional National i Forest fire officer In Portland, said , huiiici uuu uiaic was chuii? iiiiu limherland in the! Rosup River ;v,.i. - i pnc( ir. c.,(v,- rx gon. This blaze, which had covered about 200 acres Monday night i spread from a fire in the Klamath Forest in Northern California. ib Willamette r orest ouuie iw siucincr iircs wire reported in the Willamette and ; o ii Umpqua National forests in West- iern Oregon. The Deschutes, Ochoco, Umatilla ' i;u; ulC -.a v. . t 4u c . i The Dalles in North - Central 0regon report1 the highest tem-lhjt Pra'ure th state Mondayi02 7e5recs - "oseburg i ana Meatord ioi. it was ss at Burns ana Lakevicw' 98 at Pendleton, 97 at Eugene and Salem, 96 at Redmond and 93 at Portland. Astoria, on the coast- reported 77. I : n , , Lj Portland WOlliail I . I slam; Man Held ! PORTLAND UFi Mrs. Mary Taylor, 37, of Portland, died.Mon- day from a gunshot wound inflicted Sunday Fulton Jackson, 33, also -Portland, was booked in the county jail shortly after the shooting on a charge of assault j Police saidjVi further charges were pending Today at TUESDAY, Gates Open 7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 4-H Judging Guernseys, Sheep 9:00 a.m. ' JUDGING Dairy Beef Cattle Herefords and Shorthorns: Sheep Columbias, Swine Spotted Poland Chinas, shires, and large Yorkshires 11:00 a.m. Band concert' in : ! I ; 1:00 p.m. FFA Jersey Calf 1:15 p.m. Pari Mutuel Horse 1:30 p.m. 4-H judging: Ayrshires, Milking Shorthorns, Brown Swiss, Red Poll 1:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Free Midway Act, Circus in stadium Band concert in 4-H Livestock awards program j i 7:00 p.m. 8:04 p.m. Free Midway act, Helene Hughes Night Revue, Grandstand Circus in Stadium 12:00 p.m. Gates Close Spaiir May Resign State Forester Job i Resignation jbf George Spaur i as Oregon's itate forester ap ! peared a strong possibility Mon- i day. Spaur denied i reports that he had already submitted his resig nation, but he! admitted he had been offered 4 j position he was : considering accepting. Gov. Paul Patterson said, "I ; understand he Is going to resign," ! but said he , hadn't received a resignation abd felt that any statement about r e s i g n a t i on should come from Spaur himself. Spaur indicated he wouldn't make up his rnind until talking with the Statje f Forestry Board i which will meet at the Capitol Wednesday. j mm fl iLlJMlll It J. L !M MCCIuGtllSl UGHlllS III State ! Holiday Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seventeen persons met accidental deaths : in Oregon over the long Labor Day week end, making days on record in the state. Five 'additional deaths were of summer's- last holiday week end. Seven persons died in highway Road Toll Tops 400 Estimate, Still Qimbing j By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Slaughter on the nation's high- tri'ways rose .to staggering propor ' ! tions as time I started to run out on the Labor Day weekend. 1 RePrts of fatahties at 1 a. m. Jr&JSti killed 410, 7S persons drowned. .ana misceudn killed another! 85! for an overall I Four hundrexl was the number .wav dipath nredirted bv LKffi thTSS?S i-.. . miut SlUl, noi compipie. And for every three Prsons i SiTc rV.Li ! u . fu . T'.r . .r. "V"" "'. die .,a,c.r ' 1"Jur'e,s j fur s wppkend For padn npath thprp ' uprp V) lniiirtpc e council esti- j jated j Kids May Ricle Atop Elephant at State Fair M. Rides" for children, which have been getting rhore elaborate every' year at the State Fair midway, a new h Monday The high: Rides ! available atop , one ; ot the 4,ersatile circus ele- phants now performing at the Fair, The Weather Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend San .Francisco! Lbs Angeles New York . Willamette River -3 0 feet. FORECAST (from; u. s. weather j bu McNajr fie.d. saiem,: cooler today. High ; today near 85; low tonight nar 55; . Temperature: at 12:01 a.m. today was 6fi. i " SALF.M IPRF.CIPITATIOV Since Start ot Weather Year Sept. 1 Last Year Normal trace .20 jthe Fair SEPT. 6 Cattle - Jerseyi Hols eins Cotswolds, Snropshires, Cheviots Berkshires, Hamp- front of administration building i .1 i Award ' Racing, Lone Oak Track front of stadium front: ofj Administration building front of stadiam j Max. Min. PreclpJ i 87 5J .M I i i B3 52 .00 64 44 .00 101 59 .00 Jl 53 .00 69 51 .00 69 69 .00 83 68 .19 i Gov. Patterson is chairman of the State Forestry Board, a 10 inember body which appoints the istate forester and supervises mat :ters of state forestry Dolicv and management. I Spaur has been with the State i Forestry Department since 1937 jwhen he received a master's jdegree in : forestry at Oregon State College. He was appointed Istate forester in " 1949, following ;the death of N. S. Rogers, j The rumors circulating about 'Spaur's possible resignation in dicate he might accept a U. S. 'government assignment of inter national scope. it one of the most violent holi ' reported Monday, the final day crashes, four drowned and six others were killed m miscellaneous mishaps in the counting which began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Monday. . Don Westover, 21, of Springfield, drowned Monday in a water skiing accident on Fern Ridge Lake.- 10 miles west of Eugene, j He was being towed by a speed boat operated by U. W. Ellmaker, Eugene, when he fell into the water. Ellmaker began circling back to pick him up when the boat developed engine trouble. Westover went under before Ellmaker could get back to him. . Neck Broken ! Forest DeHart, 23, of Tillamook, was Monday's other swimming accident victim. . .His neck was broken when he dived into shallow water at Hidden Lake near Bar view on the coast. ! Robert Hughley, 10, ran the wrong way and was killed Monday by a 40-foot ' snag his father was falling near Riddle. The tree struck the boy in the head, killing him outright. Crushes Truck I Dee H- Deffenbacker, 38, and! Meanwhile, looked-for ;quin. wlere killed Alonday in ! another logging accident. A falling i jl j . tree crushed a pickup truck near Sprague River in Klamath County. Both die i outright. S Jack Fenimore, 22, of Klamath Falls, was killed and three others were injured when their automo bile ran! off Lake of the Woods Road 16 miles northwest of Klam ath Falls Monday night. j Dee Valentine, 16; John Devine, ;i4, and Jack Fields, no age avail able, all passengers, were reported in serious condition at a Klamath Falls hospital. All are from Klam- j ath Falls l Dives Off Road I Martin J. Hilburn. 25. of Park- dale, 'was killed outright Sunday when his car plunged off a highway three miles west of grants Pass. A passenger suffered minor hurts. Other week end traffic victims i'ere: Donald Hovgaard, 25, Cas cade Locks; John C. Hopkins, 21, Portland; James - P. Twohy. 43, Portland; Lee Papham. Portland; 1 and Ambrose! Hopkins, 63, Marcola. The others who drowned were ! Jimmy L Bones, 18 months, ofj Turner and Arthur Brawand. 23, , Portland i ! Mr and Mrs Charles Scott diedj from burns suffered in a Portland rooming house fire "and Patricia !. Trute. 24. Portland, was killed in j a fall down an oceanside cliff at Depot Bay. New Teachers In Salem to Report Today ! Salem Public Schools will lay age but the welcome carpet and ther ward and Alvin Lansbury, Sis work schedule today for 117 ters. Ore., drove into the Tennessee teachers who will be new to the,pass area 30 miles southwest of system thi year. . jhere a week ago. Then they hiked S These newcomers report at 9 , ;nto ow, Canvon Creek region on a.m. toJay in the Little Auditor - ium of South Salem High School for the start of a two-day orien tation in their jobs. . -i They will- be treated to lunch eon and welcoming speeches from school, city and chamber of commerce leaders at noon, in the Marion Hotel. In the afternoon they will report to their schools for briefing hy the principals, i School will open Monday. NIXON CRITICIZED I MOSCOW 0r Pravda Monday sharply accused U. S. Vice Presi dent Nixon of intolerance and demagogue!?. It said he is "one j "-off the American reactionaries" trying to revive the cold war. Order Includes Valley Zones; Woods Too Dry High temperatures and low hum- Wily readings brought an order Monday frcm State Forester eorge Spaur closing log opera' tions in Marion and Clackarras counties ' and other mid - valley areas. - Spaur's order to protect tinder, dry forests came after Salem swelt ered through its fifth consecutive day of steaming temperature read- ; ings. t .' - . Relief for today was predicted by the U. S. Weather Bureau . at McNary Field which foresaw cool er weather with a mercury reading some 12 degrees under Monday's 97. : Cooler air from the coast is ex pected to bring some cloudiness to day and tonight The last five days saw temperature readings of 89, 91, 87, 100 (on Sunday) and 97. Operations Closed The state forester's order, which went into effect Monday at mid night, closed down all operations of power -driven machinery and equipment used in sawmilling and logging or other operations within one-eight f a mile of forest land. Affected were the tinder-dry Til lamook. Burn, Clackamas and Ma rion counties, eastern Lane County forest .areas. Linn County and a portion of, Douglas County. . The forestry office said "zones 3, 8, 9, 10 and 14" were affected. Zone maps are on file at all forest ry, headquarters offices, and at newspaper and radio station of fices, foresters said. They caution ed log operators to check their operation permits for .zone num bers. "This order will remain in effect until the weather becomes , more favorable and the danger to timberlands is lessened," Spaur said. ; , First Time This year marks the first time since 1952 that - this area has gone 121 consecutive days with out a substantial amount of rain to dampen dry. forest floors. Forest fire danger is expected to decrease near the coast today, but is expected to remain criti cally high elsewhere in Oregon.' Some lightning- is expected this afternoon and tonight in the mountain areas of southern and eastern Oregon. traffic accidents failed to materialize, at least in the Salem area, Mon day, as the three-day Labor Day holiday drew to a close last night This, despite the fact that home ward : bound motorists packed, highways near Salem. A check with state police shortly after midnight showed no serious accidents reported. Hands Full Jefferson volunteer firemen had their hands full Monday evening extinguishing a brush fire near the Santiam Bridge, near Jefferson. Salem fire equipment roared through downtown Salem late l Monday afternoon answering a false alarm at the state capitou A defective switch on the auto matic alarm system caused the dry run, firemen said. Firemen cautioned the public against burning anything out-of-doors during the next few days. A fire permit they said, does not relieve the individual of rlamapp caused hv an out-of-rnn. A g,.ass fire cause(rty trash burning brought firemen on the double to a lot on Park Way in West Salem Monday afternoon, - Hike Fatal to Prospector GRANTS PASS Ufi David Allen Ward, identified as a Eugene prospector, collapsed and died near ; here Sunday after a long hike to his pickup truck. . The coroner's office did not reDort his ja prospecting trip. They were ' returnine to the parked truck when Ward collapsed. Today's Statesman See.' Page Arkansas Page ..II 7 V Classified .......... I..1J, 13 Comes the Dawn 4 Comics . H. 6 Crossword I 12 Editorials ...c-.... 4 Home Panorama I 6, 7 Sports :....-...ll- 1-3 Star Gazer I ' 6 Valley 5