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NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURS, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 29. 1948 SEVEN Bluebirds Plan Summer Session At Camp Tyee Camp Tyee It nearlng the close of in second successful week, and Bluebirds, third and fourth grade girls in the Camp Fire organiza tion, are making plans for their summer camp session, which be gins Sunday at 3 p. m. Fifty-four girls are attending the camp this week, according to Mrs. Sidney Pomenico, local executive dir ector ol the organization. Parents are asked to call for their girls at th; camp Sunday by 2 o-clock, so that the camp area may be cleared for the Blue birds. There will be no picknlcking In the camp but a fine picnic site Is located just soulh of Camp Type for familv gatherings. Visiting day Is limited to Sunday also, according to Miss Lois Fitz gibbons, camp directnr. Counsellors this week at the camp include .Miss Fitzgibbons, camp director; Miss Laura Bur gess, swimming instructor; Miss Joyce Morgan, camp craft in structor; Mis. Dorothy Ferguson and Mrs. Virginia Proctor, na ture instructors; Mrs. Lois Shoe maker, handicraft instructor; Miss Lavenia Fulton camp nurse, and six Junior counsellors. Attending camp this session are Sandra Bushey, Clarye Cart er, Dcniese Coon. Barbara Gosso, Nancy Gile, Roberta John, Janice Johnson, Susie l.ce, Alelha Mead, Marcia Moen. Shirley Pinard, Mary Joan Wilson. Sue Wissing, Cherry Arney, Nancy Allen, Irene Rrewington,- Gera'lene Bry son. Linda Beatty, Carol June Bjerke, Sandra Bullington, Nancy Claxton, Yvonne Cooper, Ann Daniels, Joan Diester. Also Betty Ferguson, Sue Fer guson, Jean Fairfield. Donna Fltz- atnrk. Betty Jean Ferber, Etna lo Joiner, Janet Hargis. Janet Iwis, Carral Jelinek, Leola Lorenzen. Norma John Joyce Mault, Marline Martin, Marilyn Nlckens, Joan Phillips, Barbara Paltison, Loi Patterson, Louise Gillam, Peggy Pfaff, Catherine Raade, Marlpne J -well, Bernlre Rlcheson. Mary Klma Smith, Donna Hayes, Rosemarie Stein hauer, Donna Strahan, Martha iFtrttzke, Elva Wilton. Mary Wolfer, Evangeline Worrall. Avoid Ghost Town Fate, I Dr. Geo. W. Peavey Warns I (Continued From Page One! the cost of production and trans ' portation costs to extremely high figures. This can be done under the sustained yield plan, he said. City Cited a Example Dr. Peavey described as an ex ample of perpetual operation the Simpson Logging Company, Shel ton. Wash., in production 50 years. New streets, water main extensions and new sewers in this town of 8000 persons and a $350,000 new company office in dicate the operations are consid ered continuous, he said. The company, he explained, re tained Its 170.000 acres of logged over lands and Joined them with 110,000 acres under a 100-year contract with the Forest Service lo assure sustained yield. The operations employ 900 persons with a perpetual pavroll that has every Indication of being increas ed. To be feared, he stated, Is the possible creation of ghost towns. The former ghost town of Mc Clary, Wash., he said, had been bought up by Simpson Logging Company and revamped with a door factory and veneer plant and the construction of schools, churches and homes. It now has a payroll of 630 persons. Lumbering concerns to become permanently established, he said, cannot he maintained on a shoe string. They must be of a sizable development. We must think In terms of permanency and per petuity of the land which Is good for nothing else but to grow an other crop of timber, he concluded. Truman Asks Power To Put Brakes on Prices (Contimed From Page One) BARBECUE- GRILLS Pogo Lumber & Fuel 164 E. 2nd Ave. 1. Ph. 242 nearest representative period. 3. Regulivion of the price is practicable and enforceable. 4. The public Interest will be secured by such regulation. The measure says price ceilings set must be "generally fair and equitable," and must take Into consideration speculative fluctu ations, changes in cost, changes in profits and other relative fac tors since November, 1947. What Bill Provides It would permit a temporary freeze of prices pending Industry consultation, and would provide for hearings and review of price fixing orders. The bill stipulates that for agri cultural commodities any maxi mum price must be high enough to reflect the parity price or a WE ARE NOW DELIVERING TRUCK MIX CONCRETE In Quantities Large or Small ANYTIME! '-si Form Work and Finishing TRANSIT MIX Phone 11 07 -J East end of Booth St., Miller's Add. 1 -TeBTsBsKTlsllsisfciW Perfect For Homes, Offices, ft'; Restaurants, etc. MODERN FURNITURE now has a wide selection of colors in famous TILE TEX asphalt tile. Our factory trained mechanics are skilled in the art of designing asphalt tile floors. They will be glad to help you fill your needs. Prices are reasonable and free es timates will be given gladly. comparable price established by the Secretary of Agriculture. On wages, the legislation: Establishes w age 'controls over employes only when a maximum Firlce has been established affect ng the employer and when the employer expects to use the wage adjustment as basis for seek ing a price Increase. A wage board would be creat ed, and would have power to rule on whether a proposed wage in crease was necessary: 1. To com pensate for Increases In the cost of living or prevent lowering of living standards; 2. To correct In equities In the wage structure; 3. To correct substandards of liv ing, or 4. To maintain essential production. Struck Plant Hums Under Police Guard (Continued From Page One) United Electrical Workers, Local 768, directed three picket lines despite a court order barring him from the vicinity of the plant. Kaplan said he had not been served with the order. He wore a patch on his head, and a frac tured finger suffered In yester day's melee was in splints. Haranglng the crowd a union sound truck, across the street from the factory Kaplan shouted: "You are witnessing the results of one of the most vicious laws, the Taft-Hartley Law. "One officer gave an order yesterday to kill me." Yesterday, the plant was the scene ot disorders in which five pickets of the striking union were injured in clashes with police. The disorders climaxed a three day back to work movement. The strike developed from a wage dispute when the present contract with NEW expired In May. Price of Cigarets Upped One Cent a Pack NEW YORK. July 29. It's going to cost you a penny more a pack for your cigarets here after. The Increase began today on some retail counters. Most major tobacco manufac turers boosted their wholesale prices by 40 cents a thousand to day or a net of 35 nts after discounts. They estimated the re sult would be an increase of one cent a pack at retail. Some retail stores here said they would apply the one-cent In crease immediatel-', but chain drug stores and other bio outlets mav wait a few riava. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said Its Increase applied only to Its Camel brand cigarets., and others ot ts brands had been left unchanged. The American Tobacco Co. said the boost applied to Its Lucky Strikes and also to Its Herbert Tarevtons and Pall alls. Philip Morris and Co. an nounced the Increase for Its Philip Morris. Marlboro, English Ovals. Dtinhlll, Spud and Fleetwood brands. Olympiad Opens With U. S. Team High in Prospects OLYMPIC STADIUM, Wem bley, Eng., July ?9. -PV The Olympic games open today in a setting oi royai pomp wnn tne powerful United Sta'es team su premely confident of winning the greatest share f plury. King George sptaks the solemn simple words that revive Olympic competition' after a 12-year lapse and send, s.uuu athletes Irom .w nations Into competition in 17 different sports: "I proclaim open' the Olympic games of IMS celebrating the 14th Olympiad of the modern era." This Is the biggest of all Olym pic games. The previous record was 42 nations and 3.904 athletes at Berlin in 1936. Some R0.0CO spectators bought tickets lor the opening cere monies in this stadium. ..lore than 400 athletes and of ficials of the American team will form he most conspicuous unit of the parade. U. S. Team Rates High The United States track and field squad. Just about the most powerful ever assembled under one banner is favored tc take ten gold medals in the games and play a big part in the expected smashing of at least eight records. Ten other Olympic marks are In danger of being surpassed and in addition several world stand ards are within reach of the vast army of the world's greatest athletes. Two of the track stars of the 59 nations taking part in the eight days of track anci field competi tion are considered likely to cap ture two titles. They are California's Mel Pat ton In the 100 and 200 meters and Czechoslovakia's running machine Emil Zatopck In the difficult 5,000 and 10.000-meter double. Improve the dietary and nutri tional standards of school chil dren through the serving of bal anced noon-hour meals and to piovide an enlarged market for farm products. The program is Administered by the Agricultural Department fhrough state educa tional agencies. TRAFFIC FINES LEVIED Robert Dean Holm, Looking glass. Route,' was fined $30 In Municipal Court today on a charge of reckless driving, re ported Judge Ira B. Riddle. Other traffic fines' reported by Judge Riddle include: George Elmer Taylor, Grants Pass, $15. speeding; Charles Junior Kliver, Camas Valley, S2. muffler; and Elijah Elmer Olllvant. Roseburg, $20, speeding. Britain Plans Halt In Demobilization (Continued From Page One) the Berlin blockade problem and other German questions. Berlin Still Muddled Berlin still had two." police chiefs. The Communist-trained' Paul Markgraf, whom the elected city government lired, told police from the Russian zone that only his orders are valid. Johannes Stumm set up headquarters in the U. S. zone and told them the same. It was all very confusing, hut confusion is the thing upon which Communism thrives. Frau Louise Schroeder. 61-year-old woman mayor of Berlin yes terday defied a Soviet order to dismiss Stumm. Backed by the three Western commandants, she Millions Allotted For School Lunches WASHINGTON. July 29. The Agriculture Department Tuesday allocated $58,800,000 to the states and territories for the 1948-49 school lunch program. Congress appropriated $75.000.. 000 for the program, $5,000,000 more than for the previous year. Money not allocated to the states a id territories will he used to pay administrative expenses and lor the purchase and distribu tion of specific funds 'l schools participating in the program. Northwest States Benefit Funds allocat 1 to the states are used to reimburse particl- fiatlng schools for a part of their ocal purchases of food for school lunches. The lunch program seeks to Anri-Poll Tax Bill Target of Filibuster (Continued From Page One) I policy committee, added:. "We will take up the poll tax as Is." Senator Mavbank (D.S.C.), giving his own version of the huddle, said his own retort to th Repuhllcan position was: "Oh Yeah?" Acrosf the House, Rep. Bender i R. -Ohio), sponsor of the pending bill to outlaw poll taxes now re. quired by seven Southern states and New Hampshire, took sharp issue with the proposed compro mise. He called any plan to substi tute a constitutional amendment for an outright law "a shabby device to evade the Issue" and "a meaningless gesture." Break For Republicans In the Senate, there was no sign of any great Republican tin happiness over the Impending filibuster. "The Southerners are entitled to a reasonable time for debate." said Taft. But he recalled Mr. Truman's contention that the Re publicans can pass an anti-poll tax hill If they want to do It." The plan fact hi that hours and. days of time-consuming or atory by Southern Democrats will simply make It easier for the j GOP leadership to carry out Its 'formally announced promise That is to give "consideration" to Mr. Truman's anil-inflation and other proposals and then wind up the social session "a soon as possible." ONLY A TRASH FIRB The Roseburg Fire Department answered a call Wednesday at 4 p.m. to the house directly behind the Coen Lumber Company, used hv the company for storage. A pile of trah In the building had Qa Qn(j Rose open nurning niii 'ne nnrr was out upon arrival of the firemen. SPACE For rant or leoie. 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