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NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949
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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Taft-Hartley law repealed and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
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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-
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Log Loading & Excavating
Bulldozing Pond Cleaning
Piledriving & Buildings Moved
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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.
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WHITE BLANKETS The snow gives unique appearance to this
used car lot on West Oak Street Friday morning. A pedestrian
lidewalk.
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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.
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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.
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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
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makes her way along the slushy
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PiclurM hy PauI Jvnkln
mow to thow how "deep" the
Chief Clenn H. Taylor. The
Goth Roseburg Airport
Sites Given CAA Nod
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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