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TWO NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949 V V .1- .'-.'riJ., Sen. Morse Wants Hearing on Repeal Of T-H Statute WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 Wl Republican Senator Wayne Morse today proposed an April target date for a Senate vote on repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. But Senator Lucas (111.), the Demo cratic leader, called for a "much faster pace. Morse told a reporter he will ask the Senate Labor Committee Monday to start hearings next week on a repeal bill and on re storation and revision of the old Wagner Act. "My motion," said Morse, "will call for ending hearings about March 1 and for giving the com mittee the entire month of March to put its bill together. The Sen ate would get the bill by April 10 at the latest and could start debate right away." Lucas called the Morse time table too slow, but declined to name a different date for a Sen ate vote. "I am going to talk to the Dom ocratlc leaders of the labor com mittee and see whether we can get much faster action than Sen ator Morse Is proposing," Lucas said. President Truman wants the Taft-Hartley law repealed and the Wagner Act restored with "certain improvements." Anna A. Potter Of Myrtle Creek Dies Anna Amelia Potter, 91, died Jan. 20 at her home In Myrtle Creek after several weeks' illness. She was born May 21, 1857, In Michigan and came to this coun ty in 1904. She was affectionate ly known as "Grandma Potter" to her monay relatives and friends in Myrtle Creek. Surviving are four sons: Arthur, Mollala; Fred, Harvey and Clif ford, all of Myrtle Creek; three daughters: Mrs. Grace Valentine, Winchester Bay; Mrs. Callie Hnus otter, Riddle; Mrs. Aurllla Hall, Myrtle Creek; a brother, Miller Lindsay, Portland; a sister, Mrs. Van Hecke, Wisconsin; 29 grand children and 24 great-grandchildren. Funeral services in charge of the Roseburg Funeral Home will be held In the Christian Church of Myrtle Creek Sunday, Jan. 23, at 2 p. m. with the Rev. Mr. Powell officiating. Interment will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Myrtle Creek. Main Grind Will Open In Legislature Monday (Continued from Page One) House tax committee consider it Liquor revenues now are used to pay old age pensions. Under the proposal, these rcvnues would be paid into the stale general fund, and pension money would be appropriated irom that fund. The House alcoholic control committee recommended passage of the bill, but Chairman Ralph T. Moore of the tax committee said his committee wanted toconslder the bill. The legislature ended Its sec ond week yesterday. The House had about the same number of bills as at the same time two years ago, but the Senate was on ly about half as far along as two years ago. The Senate staeed a enod de bate, too, which ended in its send ing a House-approved resolution lor a Housing investigation bacK to committee. The majority thought the resolution wasn't clear enough. The House approved and sent to the Senate a bill to make the federal government pay gasoline taxes on any gas purcnased in Oregon, and to give cities their state gas tax distribution money twice a year. Now they get it once a year. Rant Control Wanted Democrats introduced a bill In the House to provide for a state rent control board to take over when federal rent controls end. It would malntnln the federal ceil ings, which could be raised only it a landlord could move he wasn't making 6 per cent on his investment. A bill ready for Introduction In the House would make parents name in cases ol delinquent chil dren. It would nrnvide a miivl. mum penalty of &(H) fine and 100 days In Jail for any person who causes a child to become delin quent, as well as for any parent who does not enre properly for his delinquent children. The House tax committee said it would begin In a week or 10 days to talk about transferring Income tax surpluses to the gen eral fund. Quarter Horse Boosted A bill to permit quarter horse racing under the pari-mutucl sys. tern was passed hy the House and sent to the Senate. Rep. C. I.. I leupllen. Pendleton, explained that quarter horse rac ing now Is going on sit county fairs, but some lawyers think it Is illegal under present laws. Quarter horses are a iectal breed used for bulldogglnij and rodeos. They ate sprinters, so can't race more than a quarter of a mile. Lleuailen said the quarter horse Industry is getting to be big busi ness in Oregon. Potato Board Sought The House agriculture commit- Truck Crane Service Log Loading & Excavating Bulldozing Pond Cleaning Piledriving & Buildings Moved Old Man P M t I 4 SNOW FAMILY South Main Street residents were attracted by these snow figures made by the children of the Rev. end Mrs. H. P. Sconce in their front yard Friday. Left to right, Johnny Sconce, 3, and his "snow pup"; Marvin Sconce, 12, and Peggy Lou Sconce, 8, and her "snow girl." The Sconces live at 468 S. Main St. !.'-;, ' Jr . fl ft- WHITE BLANKETS The snow gives unique appearance to this used car lot on West Oak Street Friday morning. A pedestrian lidewalk. 4 PRACTICAL JOKE Three grinning firemen hea ped thii car with drifts were Friday. Left to right, Bill Reed, Tony Shuttle and Fire scene: North Main Street. tee introduced a bill to establish a nine-man Oregon pntulo com mission which would set up grades and standards and adver tise the state's potatoes. It would be financed by taxing growers l'.ii cents for each 100 pounds. The commission, appoint ed bv tile governor, woulil hire an administrator for $S,000 a year. The bill closely follows the 1947 law setting up the Oregon wheat commission, which advertises and tries to find new uses for wheat. Sen. Phil Hitchcock, Klamath Falls, said potato growers nrgani 7a! ions throughout the state are sponsoring the hill. One tribe of American Indians, the IMmas, believed that upon death, the human spirit passed Into the IkkI.v of an owl. To as sist In the transfer, the Indians gave owl feathers to the dying j-erson. Oregon Certified Marshall Strawberry Plants Grown in Eastern Oregon Write for Price List Agricultural Research N urierles Route 2, l!ox 71', Payette, Idaho Winter Visits WBgifiwwywumi-- fytx, mi ji j. ip iijvm " Ml -!.. . 1 i MACHINE SHOP BURNS VALE, Ore., Jan. 22. M Fire destroyed the Malheur County machine shop yesterday. Loss was estimated at $7,000. Itecords, tools, books and maps were lost. Two trucks and other equipment were saved. Half the damage was covered by insurance. Vr - -:J fJ i-. m , Vi : HIM II I f tY-iP til hi I E.; 1 1 NEED A GOOD CAR? During the month of January we will sell any used auto mobile now in stock or ony we may trade in at N. A. D. A. official used car price. We Have These Now Others to Follow 1947 Ford Club Coupe 1947 Frazer Sedan 1946 Chrysler Sedan 1940 DcSoto Club Coupe .941 Plymouth Club Coupe 1939 Plymouth Sedan 1936 Plymouth Sedan CASH -TRADE -TERMS ROSE MOTOR COMPANY . Roseburg 0 line of parked automobiles on a makes her way along the slushy 4 PiclurM hy PauI Jvnkln mow to thow how "deep" the Chief Clenn H. Taylor. The Goth Roseburg Airport Sites Given CAA Nod (Continued on Page Two) funds, for development of a Class 3 airport. The federal money would be subject to matching with city funds. In the approximate per centages of total cost of 'J5-75 for purchase of land and 59-41 for development of the port. iipjpi -i - t. r 4. . : r-.ia.V - '-1 Reservists Have Until Feb.1 to Ask Active Status Army reserve officers have only until Feb. 1 to apply for ac tive reserve status if they are not currently engaged in reserve activities the Oregon Depart ment of Veterans' Affairs was informed this week. After the deadline, those re- Kserve officers who have not in dicated a preference will be auto matically transferred to the in active reserve and will not be el igible for promotion, drill pay and retirement benefits, accord ing to Oregon Organized Reserve corps headquarters officials. Col. George D. Wahl, deputy senior Army instructor for Ore gon, told the state veterans' agency that retirement benefits at age 60 are assured those who complete 20 years of satisfactory federal service, for which active duty during World Wars 1 and II counts, under the new armed forces retirement plan. Minimum requirements, he said include 30 hours of training a year and proper age for grade held. Former enlisted men also may be eligible for active reserve commissions, according to Col. Wahl, under any of these provi sions: 1. If they have had one year of active duty and two years of college. 2. If they were In the first three pay grades, even though they have no college credits. 3. Any reserve enlisted man can apply for officers candidate school. Applications are being accepted at Army recruiting offices, and at branch offices of the organized reserve corps at Salem, Cprval lis, Eugene, Medford, Astoria, Pendleton, and 225 U. S. Court house, Portland. Active reserve corps strength today in Oregon numbers about 3500 officers and 2500 enlisted men. Colonel Wahl said no limit has been set on the expansion program. Ex-Po!iceman H. D.Patrick Dies Harry D. Patrick, 50. former Roseburg city policeman, died Jan. 21 after a long illness at the Roseburg Veterans Hospital. He was born August 10, 1898, in Day ton. Wash., and came to Oregon in 1934. He had lived in Roseburg since 1936 and worked for Copco for three years before being em ployed as a policeman. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of American legion Post No. 16 of Roseburg. He was also a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his widow, Mar lon, Roseburg; six step-children: Charles Dunning, Long Beach, Calif.; Leo Dunning, San Fran cisco; Harry, Richard and Ray mond Dunning, all of Roseburg; Mrs. Doris Garrett, Roseburg; three sisters Mrs. Nettie Craig, Portland; Mrs. Nlda Knight, La Grande, Oregon; Mrs. Elsa Ralph, Walla Walla. Wash.; a brother. Edgar Patrick, Walla Walla, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of the Roseburg Funeral Home Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 2 d. m. with Dr. Morris Roach officiating. Interment will follow in the Veterans Cemetery under the auspices of "impqua Post. Hummingbirds feed during the davtlme; large sphinx motns, which resemble them, feed at eveningtide. SPECIAL TRADE-IN OFFER! TRADE IN ANY RANGE ON THIS NEW WEST INGHOUSE AND GET UP TO $50.00 OFF THE REGULAR PRICE. BETTER HURRY! See the new Westinghouse Electric Ranges for the lateat ideas in electric cooking. Use Westinghouse and enjoy better, more economical meals more leisure I TWi'i t model to fit your family, your kitchen and your budget I I4 f'W .duJ! lf. Htm AikW. im. BRR-RRRR! The snow and cold doesn't faze this bevy of girls Roseburg High School. They went out to the playfield in their balls. The girl in the center, on the shoulders of her friends, America's 'Middle Class' Defined, At Least in Truman-Set Brackets By JAMES THRASHER Since Nov. 2 quite a lot of people have said that they voted for Mr. Truman because they knew just where he stood on every issue. The President's forthrightness didn't end with his victory, either. For now he has told the people where he stands on the subject of the middle class. We're obliged for the informa- tion, because it has always been hard to recognize the dividing lines in our classless society. We've heard a lot about the common man from Henry Wal lace. But Just who is he? How many of him are there? Where do they live and work? How much money do they make? We've never found out. We've had the same difficulty with the same questions about the middle class. This term, un like the term common man, is not largely one man s property. What it means deponds on who uses it. We've heard about "the great middle class" when the speaker obviously meant that it was the slightly conservative backbone of the nation and ol the private en terprise system. We've heard others use the term when they were clearly thinking of the mid dle class as a mass of statistical anonymity. And, as an adjective, middle-class has long served as a scornful symbol of those Amer ican tastes and customs that Henry Mencken and Sinclair Lewis used to rail against back In the Twenties. Mr. Truman hasn't answered all the questions about this seg ment of our society. But at least he has put it in its economic place. For where would the mid dle class belong except in the middle Income tax bracket? Thanks to the President, we now know that the middle bracket in cludes those who make between $6000 and $25,000 or $30,000 a year. We would have guessed that the middle class Income began at a slightly lower figure. But that is because we ace still Inclined to think in terms of the not-too-distant past when $6000 was quite a respectable annual income. In those days, you had quite a bit of that six thousand left even after the butcher, the grocer and the Collector of Internal Revenue had got through with you. Why, you could even buy a pretty good tv house for $6000. But now we know better. We DRAMATIOALLy NEW! stinhouse fam does more far you I TROWBRIDGE i I M I if X ; u rin - I' ;- I'll IMP also know, however incredible it may asume that below the six come bracket there Is still some skimmable cream which the tax man will go to work on, if Mr. Truman has his way. Since we know this much, we may ssume that below the six thousand figure lies Henry Wal lace's realm of the common man. Perhaps the $5900-a-year man can lay claim to membership in the petite bourgeoisie, but the rest seem definitely proletariat. If the c o m m e n men feel that any stigma is attached to those terms, their escape from the tax col lector ought to console them. Whether the heights above $25,000 or $30,000 are occupied chiefly by "gluttons of special privilege" Is another matter. At least they seem to be down to financial skim milk, for the pro posed tax boost passes them by. And the President declined to second the suggestion, once made by Mr. Roosevelt, that all net in comes be limited to $25,000 a year. Mr. Truman almost had to pass that one, if only out of gratitude. For on the same day he was put ting the right class In the right bracket, the Senate was voting him a $75,000-a-ycar raise with two-thirds of It tax exempt! The Weather U. 8. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Forecast for Roseburg and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness with snow flurries today. Partly cloudy and Sunday. Continued cold. Low tonight 18 to 28 de grees. Highest temp, any Jan. 71 Lowest temp, any Jan..... -6 Highest temp, yesterday 41 Lowest temp, last night. - 29 Precipitation yesterday . .16 Precipitation from Jan. 1.. 1.23 Precipitation from Sept. 1.... 14.90 Deficit from Jan. 1 2.36 ELECTRIC CO. 1 ' I r1 t i riciura oy raui jencini in a physical training class at gymnasium shorts to toss snow. " is Wanda Andrus. Draft Law Gives Police Power To Nab Delinquents Colonel Francis W. Mason, dep uty director of the selective serv ice system for Oregon, has made public information recently for warded to the local boards of the state stating it is the opinion of the general council, selective service system, that local police . HAS I .1 onicers nave authority to arrest known violators of the Selective Service Act of 1948. Colonel Mason further stated that: "The prisoner should be turned over to the United States marshal or the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the earliest opportunity." Colonel Mason commented on the cooperation that Oregon's se lective service system has re ceived from the state police, the police forces in the various cities and the several sheriffs. "Thus far there have been very few will, ful delinquencies in this state," said Colonel Mason. "The local boards find that the greater part of the registrants intend to abide by the rules and regulations and in most instances cases that seem to be 'delinquencies' turn out to be misunderstanding or neglect." Colonel Mason also pointed out the fact that even when a regis trant reaches the age of 26 a"hd is placed in Class 5-A he Is still a registrant and must continue to keep his local board advised of his address, occupational and v marital status or be liable to be f classed as a delinquent. A delicious dressing for seafood is prepared from thick sour cream to which chili sauce, minced green pepper and pimi ento are added. Serve with shrimp or crabmeat. Aviators have reported swifts circling about planes which were flying at speeds up to 85 miles an hour. Beautiful Piatt Mirron Priced Right PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 Rang r ' 1- ; : B. H. MANN Chrysler-Plymouth 136 N. Jackson Phone 268 Phone 273 Riddle, Oregon Rose ond Lane Sts. Phone 66 i
