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1 1 a a a a a a a a a a a I U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon BLOW KILLS TWO The News Review Established 1873 14 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, JULY 19, 1954 166-54 PRICE McCarthy Ousts Witness In Wrangle Clash Marks Opening Of New Probe Of Reds FBI Agent, Posing As Red, Names Three Defense Plant Men WASHINGTON UP Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) began public hearings Monday on his repeated charges of 130-odd subversives in defense plants and ran into a stormy clash with a man named as one of them. It wound up with McCarthy's having the man removed from the hearings room.

Yelling about informers and stool pigeons, Charles Wojchowski was hauled out by a capitol policeman acting on McCarthy's or. ders. Wojchowski had been identified as a Red by James W. Glatis of Boston, who testified he himself joined the Communist Party as an FBI undercover man. McCarthy interrupted Glatis' testimony to inquire if Wojchowski were in the room.

A short, stocky young man in slacks and dark grey jacket came, forward. The senator asked he would like to be sworn in as a witness so he could affirm or deny whether he was a Red. Wojchowski shouted: "I'd like to know what the charges are, who the accusers are. I'd like to have time a to prepare. He said a telegram practically convicting him had been sent to his employer and had just about cost his job.

"I don't know who the stool pigeons and informers are," Wojchowski said. McCarthy said, "You are not (Continued on Page 2 Col. 2) Blood Brigade Formed By City To Save Boy CAMBRIDG, Md. UM Winnie Townsfolk formed a blood brigade today to save the life of 6-year-old Eddie Phillips, who has been bleeding steadily since his tonsils were. unnamed removed 13 disease.

days a ago. certain deficiency in the blood, prevents the blood from clotting. He needs fresh blood and direct transfusions. Stored blood will, not do. This industrial 34,000 in southwest Ohio has responded with hundreds of offers of transfusions.

More than 40 pints of blood have been pumped into the youngster already. bleeding is centered in the throat and a tube has been inserted below it to allow him to take in oxygen. This prevents Eddie from talking, but he cheerfully shakes his head yes or when questions are put to him. CORRECTION A recent report of a fight volving Clemore Clarence Woodworth of 2126 Hollis Roseburg, in the News related that the fight took place in The Club in Roseburg. Actually the fight was in Wally's Pastime Tavern at 329 W.

Cass St. Public Library's Activities Hum During Puzzle Vying Information Seekers Intensify Staff Tempo; Circulation Soars DENIES CHARGE Ursula Schmidt, 27, a divorcee who worked for two years with the U. S. Air Force in Frankfurt, Germany, before coming to Montreal, Canada a year ago, said she would voluntarily return to her homeland to face trial. She is charged as a Communist spy against the Air Force.

She vigorously denied she was an espionage agent, saying the charges were made by a jilted lover. Milwaukie Girl Chosen For 'Miss Oregon' Title SEASIDE W) Diane Carman a brown-eyed brunette from Milwaukie, Sunday was named Miss Oregon and will represent the state in Miss America contest at Atlantic City, N. next. September. Miss Carman, 19, topped a field of 13 contestants in the three-day pageant here.

Other finalists were: Connie Lee Becker, Columbia County, second; Marilyn Craghead, Portland, third; Carol Ann Arnason, Eugene; and Billie Lou Raw. Corvallis. The winner is five feet, six inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She measures 33 inches at bust, 24 at the waist and 36 at the hips. She placed first in competition for modeling evening clothes and won the talent contest.

She plans to use the $500 scholarship she won to attend Brigham this fall. Young University, at Provo, Utah, Girls Drum Corps Scheduled At Coos Bay The Roseburg Knights of Pythias Girls Drum and Bugle Corps will participate Thursday at Coos Bay in American Legion state competition, according to Director Bill Black. The group will not be eligible for prizes, Black said, but will be rated by judges to aid the corps in the future. Only American Legionsponsored drum and bugle outfits may compete for prizes. The contest is to be held at 8 p.m.

on the Marshfield High School football field. The girls will be judged on repertoire, execution, field coverage, concert formation, entry, and exit. They are the field between 13 and 15 minutes. Black said an auction is scheduled by the Knights of Pythias Lodge on Saturday, to buy new jackets for EX-SENATOR DIES LEBANON, Ore. Dr.

Joel C. Booth, 81, Lebanon physician and former state senator from Lane and Linn counties, died at his home here Sunday, When the "great puzzle contests" of the two Portland dailies ended, the staff of couldn't help but have been they weren't happy to have library users, but the place did hectic weeks of using erence material at the library started latter part of May, Librarian Miss Muriel Mitchell recalls. It ended about July 10. There are definite signs that lots of people were around. For example.

The Oregon Blue Book, year 1947-48, opens automatically to page 115. It is on that page that the listing of the 212 incorporated cities in the state begins. It was a section that aided participants in the Journal's "Tangle Towns" contest. Then, there's that new 12-volume set of biographies (with pictures) put out by the H. W.

Wilson Co. Well, it was new. Participants in the Oregonian's Stars puzzles examined it thoroughly Some of the precise contestants went through the volumes, page by page, inspecting each picture. It helped them, too, Miss Mitchell said, pointing to the dog-eared set as proof of her statement. Many of the.

contestants were waiting for Miss Mitchell or one of her two assistants, Mrs. Robert Hansen and Mrs. Stan Olson, when they opened the doors at 1 10 a.m. Others bad to be literally "sent home" when the staff closed up shop at 9 p.m. But, they were a most congenial crowd, on the whole, Miss Mitchell said Friday.

Lots of the folks were Comp Troops Push Wipe-Out Of Rebel Base Demonstrations Aim At Geneva Proposal To Sever, Indochina By FORREST EDWARDS HANOI, Indochina (P) Some 5,000 French Union troops, spearheaded by tanks, pushed mop-up operations Monday against a Vietminh guerrilla base only 18 miles northwest of Hanoi. The French reported 28 rebels killed and 13 captured in the push, which met only slight opposition. A spokesman said 215 rebels were killed early Sunday when a rebel battalion charged into French tanks, machineguns and rifle fire re north of Hung Yen. Night flying B26 bombers ranged the northern and southwestern borders of the Red River delta Sunday night, pounding Vietminh bases and ammunition dumps. Here in Hanoi, between 2,000 and 3,000 Vietnamese gathered in front of the opera house Monday for a brief demonstration against any partition of their country by the Geneva conference.

After cheering several short speeches, a delegation handed Consul Turner Cameron a petition addressed to President Eisenhower, because "we just wanted the President and people of America to know our It was the mildest of several anti-partition rallies held in Hanoi and Saigon in recent weeks. Conference At Geneva Still Without Decision GENEVA UP The West and the Communists squared off for more iron-fisted bargaining today as French Preimer Pierre MendesFrance pushed to meet his selfimposed deadline of an Indochina peace agreement by midnight tomorrow. The French Premier moved tirelessly ahead with his round of private conferences in an all out final effort to make good on his promise to secure, a cease fire by July 20 or resign. Pact Must Satisfy U.S.. U.

S. Undersecretary, of State Walter the conference produced a cease fire (Continued on Page 2 Col. 8) Prisoner In County Jail Slashes Wrist Harold van Keuren, 33, Sutherlin, was rushed Douglas Community Hospital Monday after he slashed a wrist in an apparent fit of despondency in the Douglas County jail, according to Sheriff Calvin Baird. His injury is not critical, according to hospital authorities, but tendons were severed." Baird said the jailer was called to 4 cell when other prisoners told him Van Keuren was cutting his wrist with a razor blade. Van Keuren was lodged in the jail June 24 after he was returned here by the sheriff's office on probation violation and a bad check charge, Baird said.

In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Speaking of items for the book, here's another one. It comes from the town of Durban, away down in South Africa: "A carnival sharpshooter who fires at a. a a a line of bottles on a table from a speeding airplane (the bottles crash as the gun roars, and the spectators are goggieeyed with amazement) was hooted off the program at the Durban air week festival today when the crowd got an unscheduled look at the trick to his trade. "The marksman fired and the bottles splintered twice in a row as the plane swooshed past at high speed. But the third time the slipstream from the plane's motor whisked away sides.

of the REVEALING MAN DERNEATH WITH A HAMMER IN HIS HAND." The pity of it is that if the guy had spent as much time actually sharpening up his shooting as he spent thinking up that scheme to FOOL PEOPLE, he might have been able to do the job honestly (as Annie Oakley used to do) and earn his money. This one is from Seattle: Washington will be one of the first states to try out the new trick to keep motorists from getting lost in strange cities. Colored highway markers will be installed soon on an experimental basis in Seattle, Spokane and Olympia. Northbound motorists will follow orange highway signs. Southbound routes will be green, eastbound brown and westbound blue.

The Washington highway department says that if the colored markers prove successful in the first (Continued on page Four) The Weather Fair with morning cloudiness today and Tuesday. Highest temp. last 24 hours 84 Lowest last 49 Highest temp. any July 109 Lowest any July 40 Precip. last 24 hours trace Precip.

from July Precip, from 36.47 Excess from Sept. i 6.34 Sunset tonight, 7:48 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:50 a.m. PICNICKERS Charles Roland Andrus, Ramona Degette Victims; W. E.

Ellison, Driver, Held Two picnickers were killed by an day night while they were walking toward Highway 99 about three miles north of that Charles Roland Andrus, 20, of S. burg, and. Ramona Harris Dequette, 22, walking to Oakland after they discovered flat tire, according to Coroner L. L. Powers.

Formation For Gas, Oil 0. Driller Reports: Geological formations are for gas and oil in Douglas County, in the opinion of E. C. (Gene) Reid of Gene Reid Inc. Reid spent the weekend in Roseburg conferring with local promoters of Community Gas and Oil Company, which is endeavoring to raise funds for gas and oil exploration, He is dealing with the company to bring one of his six site portable drill Melrose.

rigs to Reid's the headquar- proposed at ters are at Bakersfield, Calf. His activities have been largely confined to that area. He made a trip to Douglas County at the time Oil Developers, were preparing to drill at Coles Valley, but had no equipment available. In the event arrangements can be made with Community Gas and Oil he states, it will be possible to start operations within 30 after contract terns are reached. "Prospects here are good," he said, "and I would to drill the hole.

The previous, drilling shows a good source tions are right, and it only remains to determine whether there is commercial accumulation and, if so, where it is located." Girl's Body Discovered In Drawer Of Dresser INDIANAPOLIS UP) The partially-clothed body of a 5-foot-7 smalltown girl was found brutally jammed into a four-foot long dresser drawer in a downtown hotel Sunday. The girl was 18-year-old Dorothy Poore of Clinton, Ind. The body was partially decomposed and technicians sought Monday to determine how she was killed. The register of the hotel, the Claypol, showed a Jack O'Shea had rented the room, 665, Thursday and paid rent through the next day. He gave a New York City address which proved to be false.

The girl, a 1954 graduate of Clinton High School in western Indiana, had come here looking for work. Her mother, Mrs. Hazel poore of Clinton, said she had taken a civil service examination Thursday for a typist's job. Woman Killed, 2 Men Hurt As Autos Collide KLAMATH FALLS UP) Mrs. Angelo Lozza, Oakland, was killed outright Saturday in a headon collision near Macdoel, 35 miles south of here.

Injured seriously were her husband, who was thrown from their car, and Orville Hicks, Tacoma, who was in the second automobile. They were brought to a hospital here. Only Portion Of Atom Plant Strikers Return OAKRIDGE, Tenn. UM Hundreds of AFL construction workers returned to work on two strikebound atomic plant projects Monday following a back to work plea from union leaders. Other hundreds again refused to cross picket lines thrown up by striking AFL labcrers in defiance of a court order banning picketing near the jobs.

Middlewest Still Sizzling In 100-Plus Temperatures Kansas Area Hottest At 116; Toll Of Lives Increases To 237 By THE Hot weather continued at section today after a brief There was little relief in sight. The toll of the extended heat wave, which had only a brief respite, had reached 237 lives Sunday central when temperatures from Texas and northern Louisiana to southwestern North Dakota climbed generally into 100-plus figures. Scattered thunderstorms tempered the heat in the Ohio Valley and near the Canadian border, but west and south of those sections temperatures matched or exceeded normal summer extremes of the adjoining desert Southwest. Sunday deaths attributable to the heat included 3 at Fort Smith. where the mercury mounted to 108; 3 in southern California, where readings ranged up to more than 100 in the San Joaquin Valley; and 5 in Oklahoma, which had such steaming weather as Oklahoma City's 105 and Tulsa's 110.

Samplings of the Heat The day's peak was 116 at Fort Scott, Kan. Chanute in the same state had 113, and in adjoining Missouri it was 111 at Kansan City. 112 at St. Louis. Other samplings in the heat belt I included 106 at Quincy, and automobile SunOakland along town.

Stephens, RoseWinston, were their car had Phases Of Advertising Topic Of Discussion At Meeting Of Oregon Newspapermen Representatives from 11 daily and attended the 1954 Regional Meeting of paper Publishers Association in Roseburg Designed particularly for publishers ing staffs, the all-day conference was and women. It was held at the Umpqua Drunken Driving Charge Lodged Against 2 Men Two Roseburg men were scheduled for arraignments this afternoon after they had been arrested by city police over the weekend on charges of driving while under the influence of liquor. Raymond Theodore Mayfield, 43, 702 E. First Ave. was placed under $350 bail after officers charged that his car had hit two other vehicles before he could be sirened down Saturday night.

Mayfield, police said, was spotted on Sheridan Street when his car smacked a parked postoffice delivery truck. Before they could get him stopped, officers reported, he had run the stop sign at Cass and Pine streets. Mayfield's car rubbed fenders with another car, owned by N. Smith, 132 N. Pine when the siren finally, sounded.

Orvin Clyde Smith, 47, 1824 N. Stephens arested early Street, officers His bail was Monday morning, on Stephens set at $200. Arrested with him and charged with being drunk on a public highway Irene Bonita Lund, 44, 1223 Ballf St. Kidnaping Try Balked By Resistance Of Youth KANSAS CITY, Kan. (PI A 13- year -old boy's fight against two men was credited today with thwarting a kidnaping.

The two men attempted to take Kenneth Ogle from his home Saturday night. Even after the abduction failed, a man telephoned the boy's father at a grocery store he manages and demanded $4,000. The caller warned that unless the money was paid "we're going to get you or your family." The father, Dennis D. Ogle, contacted police. The police had Ogle carry out the caller's instructions.

using a fake payoff Ogle took the package to a street intersection as instructed, while police watched, but no one turned up for the payoff. The men lured Kenneth from his home on a ruse. When they attempted to force him into their car, Kenneth, who is 5 feet 8 and weighs 125 pounds, fought mother them. and a 15-year-old of sister frightened the men away. Police have made no arrests.

Blackout In Wartime Will Be Abandoned WASHINGTON The blackout curtains that became a costly and cumberson fixture in many American homes during World War II will be abandoned in any future emergency. Military and civil defense officials announced that window shades and venetian blinds will do an adequate job of controlling "sky glow" in the event of enemy, attack. A plan for reducing by 75 per cent the light deflected skyward by the normal lighting pattern of a modern city was disclosed. It directs a dimout rather than a blackout. New Lifeguard Saves Youth From Drowning GRANTS PASS Wesley Wengren, 11, was saved from drowning here Saturday by a lifeguard who was graduated only cently from high school.

A bystander reported to the lifeguard, Tony McPeak, that the boy had disappeared in the Rogue River while swimming off the city park, and McPeak dived in. The found the boy floating along the bottom, brought him to shore and revived him. 35,000 Wetbacks Sent Or Return To Mexico McALLEN, Tex. UP) An estimated 35,000 Mexican wetbacks have been rounded up or have voluntarily returned to Mexico in the lower Rio Grande Valley drive to oust the illegally-entered aliens. The campaign Monday was in its fifth day.

The U.S. Border Patrol estimated that 10,095 wetbacks have been rounded up, In addition, the patrol estimates that 25,000 aliens have left voluntarily. Market Thugs, In Panic, Drop $15,000 Booty a The driver of the death car, William Edward Ellison, 24, Umpqua, is being held in the Douglas County jail today. The district attorney has him. not as yet filed charges against Ellison was arrested by state police.

Deputy Coroner Vernon Little said roadside the two left their car at a picnic area after they discovered the tire on their car had gone flat. They started walking on the legal side of Highway 99, going south toward Oakland, state police said. Meanwhile, Ellison was driving north and was just coming off a weekly newspapers the Oregon NewsSunday. and their advertisattended by 37 men Hotel. Host newspaper was the News-Review.

The session started at 10 a.m., when ONPA President Lucien P. Arant, publisher of the Baker briefly welcomed the group. During the morning period, motion pictures dealing with vertising were shown by ONPA Secretary Carl Webb. After a 12:30 p.m. luncheon, the ad men and publishers started a three-hour discussion period which covered objections to advertising by advertisers, fundamentals, of copywriting, and classified advertising.

Most of the topics discussed were covered by means of questions and answers. Questions from individuals were answered by the others, special present. session devoted to classifieds was conducted by Ross Johnson, classified advertising manager of the Eugene RegisterGuard, The regional meetings on advertising for publishers and advertisers are the first held in the state. Previous regional gatherings have featured conferences on the mechanical and business sides of publishing. Future sessions will include news.

Before starting such gatherings, attendance at such meetings had been limited to publishers only. Newspapers represented at Sunday's conference included the Baker Democrat-Herald, Coos Bay Times, Cottage Grove Sentinel. Empire Klamath Builder, Falls Myrtle Herald Creek Mail, Sutherlin Sun-Tribune, Eugene Register-Guard, Illinois Valley News, Brookings Harbor Pilot, and Roseburg News-Review. Two Tracts Of Timber Dated For Oral Auction sales are small, scheduled at the PostTwo oral salvage timber office Building in Roseburg Aug. 16 for Umpqua National Forest timber east of Glide.

One, called the Buzzard Salvage Sale, involves 180,000 board feet of Douglas fir and pine and 45,000 feet of western hemlock and other species appraised at $2,602.25. Douglas fir and pine will sell at no less than $14.35 per thousand. The other, the Camp Robber Salvage Sale, includes 450,000 board feet of Douglas fir and pine and 80,000 board feet of western hem lock. It is appraised at $7,105 Douglas fir and pine is appraised at $15.30 per thousand. The sale is scheduled at 2 p.m.

Bank-Spurning Hoarder Loses Cash To Robbers CAMBRIDGE Md. (P) Winnie M. Jones, 57, a frugal bachelor v. ho made thousands of dollars crabbing and oyster tonging but didn't trust banks to keep it for him, was near death and penniless today. Neighbors, who heard his cries for help early Sunday, found him lying in the kitchen of his neat four-room house at Bishop Head.

30 miles south of here. He had been savagely beaten. Sheriff Waldo H. Robinson, who questioned Jones at the hospital during one of his rare periods of consciousness, said he told him he had been carrying between $5,000 and $6,000. Three Years' Loot Found In Four Eugene Garages EUGENE (M Earl L.

Wallin 36, remained in jail here Monday awaiting, grand jury action on charges of possessing stolen property and violation of parole from the state mental hospital. Police Chief Ted Erown said stolen automobile parts and other merchandise were found in four garages rented to Wallin. He estimated the original value of the loot, some stolen as long as three years ago, at probably more than $20,000. Sweet Home. Bather Drowns In S.

Santiam LEBANON, Ore. UP Oharlie Edward Bassett, 57, Sweet Home, drowned Sunday while swimming in the South Santiam River at Waterloo, east of here. A companion, William A. Austin, also of Sweet Home, pulled Bassett from the water but failed to revive him with artificial respiration. Bassett's son, Sam, also was swimming in the river.

BAKERY SALE SET The auxiliary of Winston-Dillard Fire Dept. will have a bakery sale on Saturday at 10 a.m, at Fisher's Variety Store, Winsion. The sale will last as long as food. holds out, sponsors said. Donations may be made by contacting Betty Johnstone.

or Jean Taver. Pair Flees When Police Sirens Sound; Station Wagon Found Nearby SPOKANE (M) Two panicky gunmen held up a big Spokane supermarket after closing hours Sunday night but dropped more than $15,000 in loot on the front sidewalk and fled when they heard police sirens. Officials at. Albertson's Food Center said Monday they didn't think the men got a dime. They had cleaned out the safe and were dragging 150-pound sack full of cash and checks when police approached.

An unnoticed employee in the back of the store had put in quiet call to report the holdup as it was taking place. Alex Gloth, the assistant manager, said the men were wearing silk stockings for masks and each had a gun when they forced him back into the store as he left about 10:30 p.m. They made him put all the receipts from the safe a sack and help said them Gloth drag it out." sidolice the sack and dropped ran when nis police sirens were heard up street. The two robbers followed suit. Detectives found an abandoned station wagon in the vicinity and said they were working on "a couple other leads" Monday.

Iran Rejects Russia's Objection To Alliance TEHRAN, Iran Iran has firmly rejected Soviet objections to her joining military alliances. In a blunt note, the Iranians told the Kremlin they have sovereign right to measures necessary to safeguard Iran's "security, defense, independence and After receiving the note, the red-faced Russian ambassador swept brushed angrily out of the office, reporters aside and drove off without comment. The note was in reply to a Soviet complaint made 10 days ago that Iranian Premier Zahedi had given U. S. Ambassador Loy Henderson "certain assurances concerning the participation of Persia Iran in the military measures of the U.S.A.

A. in the Near and Middle East." Dionne Quint Leaves Convent; Homesickness WATERLOO, Que. Marie Dionne, the quintuplet- who took a nun's first vows two months ago, has left the convent and gone home. A church official said she had departed temporarily for health reasons but her family said she was homesick. "It has been tough on her being separated from her four sisters with whom she had lived since they were babies," her father said.

The requires candidates for nunhood to serve two years as novices. With other white-garbed nuns, Marie spent her days in prayer and silent work on priests' vestments, altar clothes similar duties. Homicide Charge Lodged William Edward Ellison, driver of the car that apparently killed Charles Roland. Andrus and Ramona the Degette, was taken to Sutherlin justice court to be charged with negligent homicide The late this announcement by. Dep.

Dist. Atty. Warren Woodruff. four lane stretch of highway onto a two highway. He was rounding a corner and "apparently cut it too close," state police said.

Ellison told police he didn't see the young couple coming toward him from the north. The accident occurred about 11 p.m. Dep. Coroner Little said the two were killed instantly by the impact that threw them more than a hundred feet. Charles Andrus was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Andrus of Roseburg. He lived at S. Stephens St. The woman was a resident of Winston.

They had been picnicking at the roadside park, Little said. Andrus' Funeral The body of Andrus has been removed to the Long Orr Mortuary in Roseburg, and the woman's body is being held at the Stearns Little Mortuary in was born June 4, 1934. He had attended Roseburg schools and was employed as a carpenter by his father, Raymond H. Andrus. He is survived by his wife, Lila M.

Andrus, and one child, both of Roseburg; his parents, both of Roseburg; three brothers, Floyd William Irwin, Lloyd Downing Irwin, both of Roseburg; and Seaman Harold L. (Pete) Andrus of the U. S. Navy stationed at Long Beach, his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Andrus, chester: maternal grandmother, Mrs.

May Owens, Hebo, Ore. Andrus was separated from sis wife. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Long Orr Mortuary at 11 a.m. Thursday. Concluding services and interment will follow in the Roseburg Memorial Gardens.

Tragedy Halted When Tree Stops Truck's Dive The third traffic fatality in 24 hours in the county was averted narrowly at 7:15 o'clock this morning. A tree hanging over the South Umpqua River about a mile north of Myrtle Creek stopped the plunge of a loaded lumber truck short of the water. The crash sent the driver, Clyde Franklin, Dillard, to Myrtle Creek Hospital with cuts and burises. Attendants said he wasn't in serious condition. Witnesses said Franklin, driving a truck owned by Doughty Bros.

Lumber Dillard, lost control of his vehicle. It crashed through a guard rail and started down the 25-foot bank to the river, The tree stopped the fail. The truck, loaded with rough lumber, was headed north. Lumber was scattered over the wreck scene, and the truck was badly damaged. Witnesses said the vehicle appeared to have turned over at least one complete turn.

the Roseburg Public Library somewhat relieved. Not that welcomed more than 400 new become a little crowded. hesitant to say just what use they wished to make of the references they sought. Book Circulation Soars The library staff soon learned that when a patron asked if they "had any old magazines, like ail of the 'Lifes' for last year" or "are there any books about sports here" it meant but one thing. Most of the library users were out of their teens and twenties, Miss Mitchell said, and they ranged from the farmer to the busy city executive.

All in all, the contests put quite a strain on the library, but everyone came out in shape. Some contestants won prizes, and book circulation for the month was second highest in library history. A total of 10,959 books were taken out in June, as compared to the high month, January '54, when 11,397 volumes were checked through the main desk. Miss Mitchell noted, too, that while adults were busily searching for towns and people, the youngsters were reading a record number of books 4,997. It wasn't all fiction, either.

There was' 3 great demand by the young readers for biography, history, science and nature study. Flash Flood Smashes West Virginia Town ASSOCIATED PRESS full boil in the nation's middle period of simmer late last week. Presidio, Texas; 104 at Memphis; at Indianapolis; 100 at Omaha, Rapid City, D.D., and Dickinson. N.D. Showers and thunderstorms were confined mostly to the Rocky Mountain region, western Kansas and Nebraska, the northern Great Lakes area and New England.

Away from the stifling blanket of hot air down the center of the nation, it was generally pleasant with temperatures in the 80s. KANSAS CITY, Kan. The Fire Department has given up its plans to burn some houses today for practice. Weather is too hot. Firemen were given the job of burning 11 houses to clear a rightof -way for a new street.

They could get some fire-fighting practice while doing so. They burned two, and Fire Director Louis Spandle said that was enough the weather cools off. The temperature climbed to 111 yesterday. RICHWOOD, W.Va. A flash flood smashed the central West Virginia, town at of least one Richwood life Mon- and ruining perhaps one million dollars worth property, Torrents of water estimated at 10 and 12 feet in depth swept through the town of 5,300 population.

Calls went out to the Red Cross, National Guard and Air National Guard for emergency relief. DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Lola Coble, about 67, the Dixonville area, died this morning in a Roseburg doctor's office while awaiting a checkup, reports Mrs. Jean Radcliffe, Dixonville correspondent. The woman died while awaiting routine examination for an operation she had had last week.

No official report of the cause of death has been received. Levity Fact Rona By L. F. Reizenstein Betcha a hamburger our Roseburger beats Dickberger for the U. S.

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