The News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon • Page 1

L. Cf C. I.i V-ry 'Sugars tr-cn One Year Later Heart Of Blast Area Scars Still RALLY NG Evident, But Disappearing Established 1873 42 Pages Roseburg, Or THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 179-60 Dag Rushes Troubleshooter To Katanga; Troops Alerted By GEORGE CASTILLO Ntw-Rtviw Assistant Editor Sunday is Aug. 7, a date burned into the minds of many Koseburg residents. 11 was on thai date a year ago a fire started in a building supply warehouse and it triggered th worst explosion disaster the stale had ever seen.

High Toll The toil was 13 lives, )25 injured The Katanga government or-! night their departure would not be alm i million dollars in 1 EOPOLDVILLK. the Congo 1 properly damage. dered general mobilization of all immediate- Helgian Foreign Minister Pierre able-bodied men in the province. (AP) V. N.

Dag llammarsk.iolt rushed his chief troubles-hooter to Kutanga 1 his dale is a sobering one to most, but it can also be a date of Wigny told a news conference the both black and white, to back up the hard core of 500 loyal Congo- lielgian forces, who have been today alter giving assurance that pride. The city not only claims one of the nation's worst disasters bui lese troops serving under Beigian keeping order at the request of Tshoinbe's government, would officers. leave only when the Belgian com mand decides that the security of persons there is assured." I he Soviets, who cliargea Wednesday in Pravda thai llam- inarsktold was acting the Con go as a pro-American agent, said Wednesday night the decision to send U.N. troops into Kutanga struck a blow at those who hoped I i. forces will not try to enforce the central Congo government's claim on the rich secessionist province.

Dr. Tialph J. Bundle flew to Klisabethville. the Katanga capital, a day ahead of schedule alter Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe warned N. forces "will have to fight their way in" to lus province.

'Hie V. X. Command went ahead with plans to send its lirst units to Katanga Saturday despite Tshombe's threat. A special multiracial task force was alerted to stand by for the move. Privately I'.

N. officials said thev expected no serious resistance in the mineral-rich province, whose secession would spell economic doom for the rest of the vast central African country. to "ignore Security Council de also its greatest dose of courage and fortitude. Scar Evid.nt The scar of the blast is still evident near the heart of Koseburg, but the city is closing in on it. It clearly spells the disaster, but also marks the challenge the city has taken up in the year since.

Today's issue of The News-Review is designed lo tell the story of the blast, hut more importantly Hie story of the year of triuinphj which has followed. The rest of the stale isn't forgetting Roseburg's year of struggle either. The Kugene Register-Guard has already published a page of story and pictures about the year of struggle. And both the Porlland Oregonian and Salem Capilal Journal are planning layouts this week. Couplet System cisions.

llainmarskjold sought to soften the defiance of the Katanga leaders by emphasizing the U.N. troops were not acting as agents for the central government of Premier Patrice Lumumba. He said in a statement that the U.N. force is not under the oiders of the Lumumba government nor can it be permitted to become a parly to any internal cnnllict. The fear he sought to put at rest was slated by Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo.

who said, "We know only loo well that the U.N. forces would bring in their baggage the agents of Lumumba." Tshombe, in declaring Katanga independent of the central government soon after the Congolese army mutinied last month, charged that Lumumba was planning to set up a Communist dictatorship. The provincial premier and other Katanga leaders want the Congo's provinces joined in a loose federation, with their province retaining Ceil Bowles New Oakland Judge Cal Bowles, Oakland city record v- 1 0 vr.wntKsl.-VAVi'':--'f 3' er, has been appointed lo serve as temporary Oakland city nidge, Mrs. Kdiih Dunn, News-Review correspondent reports. Kennedy Plans Farmer Confab Junior High is at left center.

The only maor new buildings in the blast area itself are the Douglas County Farm Bureau Exchange store and warehouse at left center just above the Oak Ave. bridge. (News-Review Photo) Bowles will replace li. A. while the latler is in the hos ROSEBURG TODAY The blast area still looks somewhat like the Roman Forum, but it's a much more orderly sight than it was a year ago Aug.

7 (See page 17.) The shell of Bill Stock Motors can be seen just to the right of SE Oak Ave. near the center of the picture. Central pital. The appointment was made much of the revenue from us rich uranium and copper mines and its fertile fields and pastures. Lu Ihe city wasted no time in gel-ting at the job of rebuilding.

For example, today the state Highway Commission is laying the fin a 1 groundwork for the construction of a couplet syslcm to improve the ilow of traffic right over the scar. Work is expected to start soon, and the reason for this long-awaited triumph is the ardor with which the City Council and Chamber of Commerce attacked the request for help. New Bridg. Another example is the impending start of construction of another mumba wants a strong cen tral government and looks to Katanga to finance the poorer re mainder n( the country. at this week nieoung oi me uan-land City Council.

councilmen heard a report on the resurfacing job recently completed by the Roseburg Paving Co. on Ihe city streets. Re-paved were Ihe Post Office alley from Oak to Locust Cypress su fnmi First to Second Sis and Nixon in Hawaii Youth Hits Race Hatred ijjUi i u.i County Shares In Liquor Tax Although the Belgian cabinet agreed Tuesday that Belgian 1IYANN1S PORT, Mass. (API-Sen. John F.

Kennedy announced today he will convene a Midwest farm conference in Pes Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21 and will attend it. He said he would visit former President Harry S. Truman at Independence, some lime the same weekend. Kennedy announced plans for the conference alter a meeting troops in Katanga would turn over (heir peace-keeping mission to the from Third to Fourth Third Bridge over the South umpqua II.

N. lorces. I'lemier liaston.r.y new in nuni wurucr skens said In Brussels Wednesday SI. iron. Maple 1 "I River.

Again the success is a re- St. from Third to and cction tne wiU (0 (hi Douglas Count has received a total of S9.8I8.18 for the quarter with Gov. Herschel "xiveless of uooe. eeona oi. nuiu wivuju -Sis.

The council also discussed a pro A former Winchester youth has i Idaho, newspaperman. Hall said, told California and Idaho law en- "1 had no idea Sammy was going One of the most imposing vard. Iowa. Its purpose, he said, will ending June 31), ISM), as its share of the state alcoholic beverage Lightning Starts be to bring together "those im-i sticks of courage and furtitude. HONOLULU (AP) Richard M.

Nixon, pushing his campaign for the presidency in a stale wilh-out problems of civil rights, today called for an end to discrimination throughout the country. "This is the objective to which we should certainly aspire in the tiMiinri flutes Nixon said. forcemenl ollicers that Rmmett to shoot nun. 1 thought we would lax, fieri l.aurance, county treas-Spcncer, alias Sammy lierman, just take his cash and get back urer reports. shot a Portland doctor last August in the car and move on." The city of Roseburg led the in- posed lagoon-type sewer system for the city.

According to the coun-oil the laiioon-tvne system is cheap Seven New Fires er than the regular, sewage treat after he (Roger Julius Hall) and He said Spencer shot the doctor corporated cities in the county in Spencer stopped the man to three times. He said thai he and the amount of money sent to them mediately concerned with progressive farm policies in the United Stales" and work out long-range plans for legislation. Policy Committer The Democratic presidential nominee also announced he in creating a National Policy Com ment operation. A iraci is available for the purpose, the coun Socucer's alleged wife. Maiy from the alcohol tax.

Koseburg re The GOP presidential nominee i mm Hall, speaking from his Crescent By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning touched otf seven new ceived MllO.lil lor the quarter Reedsport was second with $.140.01 Refunds Listed said, however, that desegregation will take time and a new disposition in many areas of the nation. cil was told. Oakland Fire Chief Bay Stearns asked the council lo consider whether fire protection should be City, jail cell, said Spencer, currently in in Florida, shot 1 Dr. John Html in the desert near forest lues in Oregon Wednesday mittee of Agricultural Progress to serve as a policy committee for night. Despite rising fire danger, the narlv.

the U. S. Forest Service said none Moral Problem 1 flooding, Idaho, last Aug. 21. Hall Other incorporated cities' slate.

It will be the responsibility of said when he asked spencer wnai the heck he was doing, the man extended lo the L. C. l-errnn rei-let Mill located several miles tn the east of the city. The council voted not to extend the service. In final action the council au alcohol tax retunds in the county wore Canvonville, $49.21: Drain, Elkton, Clcndale, Myrtle Creek, S110.27; Oak The idea, he said, is to explore of (he new blazes was serious, the problems of agriculture, "sol Two of the fires broke out on that if we are successful in No-j the Malheur National Forest, the vember, we will be prepared toolhers on the Willamette, act in January," when the next I Meanwhile, big crews still were replied, "Shut up or I'll shoot you too." In an interview with a Boise.

the next president to attempt to build in the hearts of the American people the idea that nondiscrimination is not just a legal problem but a moral problem, not a Southern problem but a nation land, Riddle, Slither- thorized the installation of a sprin mopping up the remains uf mas kler system for the uaKiana me station lawn. uowever, was me cny uecision lo bind its own wounds as much as possible. After considerable discussion with federal officials for federal help, the city decided to go it alone. Bond Inu. It prpved its sincerity br approving a $198,000 bond issue for blast rehabilitation.

Finally, the businesses, industries and just plain residents proved their faith in the future of their community by rebuilding too. In the year before the blast, building permit valuations were $1,300,000. But since last August, that figure has skyrocketed to $3,600,000. And there's atill more on the drawing boards. Aug.

7 is a day for twisting remembrance, but it's also a day for challenge. The merchants of Ihe town have seen it as such by staging anniversary promotions. And even a church has decided to take the Iheme of challenge. The theme will be "Build a Greater Koseburg" at the 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday services nf the First Presbyterian Church.

Spelling out this spiritual and physical challenge will be the Key. John Adams. Catherine Hampton, 18, of Sandy Hook, then returned to California. They had traveled to Idaho together and were broke when lliey arrived there and decided to puil a robbery, Hall said. Officials of Gooding County, Idaho, are currently on the way to Crescent City to extradite Hall on a murder warrant.

The 22-year-old Hall, who once resided iii a trailer court pear Winchester, was arrested three times in Douglas County in 1958. The arrests were for bastardy proceedings, vagrancy and assault with the intent to do bodily harm. Hall told Del Norte County Sheriff Oswald E. Hovgaard he bad attended Roseburg High School, but quit in He said his parents moved from Winchester in 1957, but added he returned there for several visits. al problem, not a govenmu-ii.

problem but a personal problem, Nixon made that statement in a iivised interview Wednesday) Mrs. Foutz Named Nursing Director American Hunters Slay Viet Nam Reds SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Three American hunters kilted two Communist guerrillas in a forest skirmish 75 miles north of Saigon last Sunday, a V. S. Embassy spokesman said today. A French plantation operator, accomuanving the Americans.

Virginia K. Foutz has been ap niht after a day in which he touched on national security, foreign policy and the complications of civil rights in that policy. He also emphasized two campaign themes: That the voters should decide which of the candidates himself or Democratic Sen. John F. Kennedy has the sive forest fires in Eastern Oregon.

Men were being steadily released from fire duly, however. Fire danger continued to rise today in much of the slate. The Weather Bureau said the danger of fire was "moving into the high category" as a result of conl inuerl dryness. The forecast for Oregon Friday was for warmer weather with humidity reaching a low of about 30 per cenl in northwestern Oregon. The highs in Western Oregon Friday will range from 78 in the northern interior lo 90 in the southern interior.

The coast will have 65 lo 70. Eastern Oregon highs Friday will range from 80 lo 90. hn, Winston, and Yoncalla, $28.01. Of Douglas County's total alcohol lax refund, $8,309.80 was received as surplus payment after all expenses for enforcing the tax law had been deducted by the stale Liquor Commission. The figure is based on the county's census figure of 68.800 less incorporated cities population within the county.

The other $1,538 38. making the grand total of $9,848.18, was received as the county's share of the regular tax refund as stipulated by law. Multnomah Loads Multnomah County led the state in the amount of its refund of surplus funds. Multnomah County received on a 540.O0O' census figure. Lane County was sec- pointed director ot nursjng ai uoug-las Community Hospital.

According to hospital administrator Clyde Wager, she will replace Mrs. Lois Sauer in that position. Prior to being appointed director of nursing, Mrs. Foutz was 4 Congress convenes. Kennedy said he also is planning a subordinate advisory committee to give voice to the producers of various farm commodities and lo represent all sections of the country.

Hasn't Decided Kennedy said he also will establish "Farmers" committees in every county in every agricultural section of the United Slates. Kennedv said he has not yet decided whether he will visit Truman before or alter the Des Moines meeting. Kennedy and Truman have just made peace. Truman had refused to attend the Democratic convention as a protest against campaign tactics used by Kennedy in winning the presidential nomination, but Truman now has agreed to campaign for Kennedy and his running mate, Sen. Lyndon B.

Johnson of Texas. Kennedy said he and Tiveloss chose a Sunday for the Des Moines conference to avoid interfering with the Congress session which will reconvene Monday. necessary, experience jwas kjled. government and that the itdeiai terrorists altacked the four- necessary, experience to iun i rotrirt its rolf I and the Frenchman was Cold Shoulder Set If Visits West eovernmeni anumu ftm situations with which he inn me outright, the spokesman dividual or the state cannot cope Knifing Case Goes To Grand Jury James Earl Sandefur. 23.

of Cava rond with $18,153.52 on a WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will gel the official cold shoulder treatment from the United States if he actually succeeds in arranging a visit to the Western Hemisphere in the next few weeks. U.S. Blasts Cuba For 'Harassment' WASHINGTON' (AIM Tho L'nil said. The Americans killed the attackers with their return fire. The Americans were not injured.

The Americans were guests on the weekend hunting trip near the plantation in heavily wooded Binh province. Papers found on the dead guerrillas identified one as a high officer of the Viet Cong movement assigned to subversion work, a government report said. South Viet Nam contends that the Viet Cong is directed by the Junction, arrested by city police as Crowd of 35,000 A crowd of 35.000 lined the streets of Honolulu and gathered before lolani Palace, scat of the 50th state's government, to welcome the vice president Nixon, bv flying to the island oroup became the first presidential candidate to court votes outside the continental limits of the i'nited States. On the go continually, and gran- cnjft when he could, Nix- population base. Jackson County received $8.

fill. 75 on' a 71.300 census figure. Jose phine County received $3,729.75. U.S. officials, reporting this to u.o.

Uliiliais, lepmuiiK mi ed States today accused Cuba of I I day. said it appears Khrushchev teleDrates Birthday is iisning ior a muio visii one c. II. n.U deliberately seeking lo molest, harass and arbitrarily detain U.S. reporters." Slate Department press officer Lincoln While made the accusation while discussing the release on made a half-dozen ceremonial tomraunisi iwm.

and handshaking slops during the daFor the most part, he touched Cnyjaf Unjon SOVS foremn oolicv and security. He wimwii khj a suspect in a uniting in Koseburg Sunday night, waived preliminary hearing when arraigned before Justice of Peace Ward Watson at Sutherlin Wednesday. He was hound over to the grand jury with bail continued at $3,000. Sandefur is charged with assault being armed with a dangerous weapon in connection with a fight in which Roy Wallace, 30, of Blue River, was stabbed once in the abdomen and four other nlares. He was released from a local hospital Tuesday.

Sandefur was arrested at Ihe Cobra Farm at Cave Junction where he has been working. or more lis. neighbor nations. mi j-ym Failing that, he could attend Elizabeth her three grandchil- vnnir rupi m. Plln meetings of the U.N.

General at llor a pile rovle 7 fed to her dea to ta't'e totemGer8 6'h fi-' the window'of in late ScplLmbei. I todav. apartment. Police said she was Any head of a L.N. government; sleeping on a sofa and apparently has the right to come to the head- The widow of King George B0t up al 1:20 a.m., walked to a quarters of the international or-j spent her birthday quietly at her i low-sillcd front window and fell ganization-but to go elsewhere in inuse residence.

Unit. of Charles Wiley, a New York ra dio newsman, by Cuban author! lies. Spy Parachuted While said Wiley has been deported from Cuba and that no charges ever were made against AlfWnW fAPl Soviet news. uie iiiii'u oiditrn wmnu i ihuii u.r kent full hlae of null- i an invitation from this country ued Hawaii as an example of practicing equality among people 1 Based on Ins travels, which lme taken him to Alnca and Nixon said the greatest probiem of the I'nited States in the battle of ideas is explaining how Americans can talk equality and dignitv of man abroad and practice prejudice and inequality at home. licity todav on an alleged Amer-1 Officials said Khrushchev would ican spv who.

thev said, was cap- not be invited to Washington or Hired Irving to sneak out tc Iran, elsewhere in Ibis countiy if he -i i 1 I NaIC Affim it I linn although he was held lor eight days. White said that Cuba had not, lo his knowledge, responded to a July 15 nole about the arrest and VIRGINIA FOUTZ new nursing director IApaiiuuiA nit intas. i iiv ioii.t .1 would take cognizance of his pies- expulsion of three L. S. corre X.

I-, ence in New York. 1. S. spy A similar policy of pointedly Soviet Union by spondents. Cuba did reply lo a June 17 note, he said, by declaring on June 20 that "since January I9M.

Cuba has maintained be ikiiui ins presence wouici Grading Completed plane t- a -w I followed by U.S officials if I lie niiu noii taar mil umii uev vi.Mil'U unrestricted trepilom ol press, tree from any censorship, monopoly or control." Senator Morse Visits Friday U. S. Sen. Wayne Morse (IV Ore.) will meet witj members of the Douglas County Livestock Assn. Farm Bureau at 10 a.m.

Friday at the county courthouse. The meeting will be in the extension department conlercnce room. According lo Lynn Beckley. president of the livestock association, the meeting was called to discuss the lamb import situation with Morse. head nurse in the maternity ward at Douglas Community Hospital.

She is a graduate of the Los Angeles, Calif. County Hospital School of Nursing and had experience in nursing administration in several California hospitals before coining to Koseburg. Mrs. Sauer has resigned the post to go into private nursing. Sutherlin Woman Suffers Bruises DIRECTORY Cf EVENTS In Blast Anniversary Issue Much of today's News-Review is devoted to Rose-burg's greatest disaster ond the year of courage and reconstruction which has followed.

Following ore some of the major feotures in the issue about Roseburg's biggest story. What happened that smashed this quiet little city, page 5. The story of how a newspaper managed to publish with no plant, page. 7 The organizations which minimized the chaos, page 10. Utilities go to work, poge 11.

Some of injured still recovering, page 16. Harrowing experiences of the Fire Department, page 16. The damage ond how it looked from the sky, page. 17. Tenmile Loop County Road from 0f Soviet air de- American country.

Beston to Tenmile has been com-, Dy American aircraft, such I pleted. according to Douglas Conn- as rr.poited by Soviet authorities. tv Kngineer, Al 11. May. touch a most sensitive in NcWtflM Pin MC 'The two-mile rtretch from Ten- this country.

ikhiuh ueen riHni mile to Flournoy Valley junction on Tne Communist partv paper Rprrpnf inn Dlctrirt the loop road has been started, pravria pictures of ma 6U ll Blank, Sans Attorney, Conducts Own Case A petition will bp circulated No completion oaie nas urm (prial claimed to have been seized Mav said. I from Slovnov. This mrluded arms, ammunition, flashlights, wfl i .1 knite and assorted documents A hearing in Douglas County Circuit Court to determine if a temporary injunction against Reinhuld anrl Louisa Blank of Lookingglass Betty Jane Worden, Sutherlin, suflered numerous bruises in a I hG WCdTnSr lennush to wear down a pack within a week to resident of the Newton Creek area to form a park recreation district, reports Ann Hayden. secretary for Hip I group that is trying to build a playground. The Newton Creek "Build a a Questionnaire muie.

hould become permanent started iiueeur nee ident on Highway 234 AIRPORT RECORDS loday but was not finished at press nt.ar Deadv Junction about 5:10 Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizensrein c'oudr Hustler Operational I p.m. Tuesday. Blank, not represenled by an al-j Slate police report shows she lorney, was doing his own que- wa, proceeding north nn Ihe high-tiomng of California Oregon Power way.

On entering a sharp curve Co. witnesses. her ear got off into the gravel and ti i. i he lost control of the car. The 17.

Highest temp, last 74 hours 3 YORK (AP) A super-, and asked people what they 'houchl I Lowest teirp. Iat 24 hours 14 jct bomber, the llusiler. of building a playground. The re-! Highest Temp, any us. jji rt hn, heen put in operation by me snowen an overwhelming ma Appearing in local markets Lowest Temp, any Aug.

('56) 41 Air Force Strategic Air Command, jority wanted it, Mrs. Hayden said. Adjustments of people offected still evident, page The legal results of a disaster, pages 18 and 19. The cost in human lives, page 19. The steps which averted on epidemic, page 20.

What concussion can do, page 21. Heroism being reworded, poges 22 and 23. Roseburg police battered, page 22. Order returns ofter disaster, pages 24, 26, 27. porary iniunction to keep the car then went broadside down the are pre-packaged chickens Blanks from interfering with the shoulder and back across the road.

I adorned with the label of ot line installations of opco. open ramming mm a nana. e(M two Southern Itatei. Mr. Precip.

last 24 hours Precip. from Aug. I Precip. from Sept. 1 Excess from Sept.

I Suniet tonight, 7:3) m. Sunrise tmorrow, a.m. General Dynamics Corp. said If enough signatures are ott-1 that of the new bombers had tained, the petition will he sub 30.25 hecn turned over to the 43rd Bomb milted lo the County Court for "'iWing al Carswell Air Force Base. approval and he placed on the Fort Worth.

Tex. The base will November ballot for vole in the be used to train B.i8 crews. jarea. I Oregon poultry producer has a loud squawk coming. is stringing me line iroui i'iahii- iiIIf to Reston nver the Blanks' She wis treated by a doctor in property.

The Blanks are resisting. I Sutherlin..