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NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29. 1949 THREE Entirely New Pontiac For 1949 If" K5 r ' X : ' 1 jftfi i JJ The Pontiac Chieftain line of which the four-door deluxe sedan is shown here has a 120 inch wheelbase. Roof lines have been lowered without sacrifice of comfort. Trailing pattern of the Chieftain series consists of two gracefully arched steps from roof crown to trunk deck to lower edge. Both Pontiac Streamliner and Pontiac Chieftain lines average 38 percent more glass area. Visor on car .pictured is an accessory, Senate Votes Authority To Governor McKay to Relieve Power Lack in Emergency By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 29. (P) The Oregon Senate gave unani mous approval yesterday to a bill to permit Governor McKay to take emergency steps to relieve the power shortage. The bill, which now goes to the House, where speedv approval is expected, would let the gov ernor declare an emergency dur ing a power shortage. This, In turn, would authorize the public utilities commissioner to allocate power, regulate the distribution, and force any person or firm to cut down on the use of power. Senator Thomas H. Mahoney, Portland Democrat, sponsor of the bill, quoted Public Utilities Com missioner George H. Flags as say fng "rationing on a voluntary basis won't work." For More Taxing Power The House got three proposed constitutional amendments to give the Legislature more taxing pow er, to tighten up the initiative process, and to make it harder to get school bond issues passed. One measure would let the Legislature pass tax measures containing emergency clauses by a twothirds vote. This means that if two thirds of the Legis lature voted for a tax bill, the referendum could not be applied to it. The second measure would re quire 8 percent of the signatures of all registered voters before an initiative could be put on the ballot. The requirement now is 8 per cent of the number that voted for Supreme Court Justice at the preceding election. The third measure would pre vent a school bond Issue from going into effect unless 25 per cent of all the registered voters in the district approve it. Now such bond Issues can be approved by a mere handful of voters, just so that the majority of those voting approve it. The measures would appear on the next general election ballot. The Senate approved and sent to the governor a bill to let School districts' keep for two years more their temporary oower to levy bonds up to 10 percent of their assessed valuation. The perma nent limit is 5 percent. The House Labor and Indus tries Committee introduced a bill to license all building contrac tors. It is opposed by the Associa tion of General Contractors. The House Local Government Committee introduced a bill to increase the marriage license fee from S3 to $5. Lions Receive. Visit From District Governor Murphy, Prepare for Tonight's Dance Roseburg's Lions Club was hon ored Thursday night with a visit by District Governor Lee Murphy, Junction City, who spoke briefly to the club on work of the organi zation in the nation and state. The club completed plans for the dance for members, their wives and invited guests tonight at the Country Club. Al McBee, chairman, reported all plans had been completed, that the party would begin about 8:30 and danc ing would start at 9 o'clock. Buf fet luncheon is scheduled later in the evening. " President Dr. L. M. Lehrbach appointed Ralph Turner as the club's representatives to the City Park Commission's special swim ming pool dedication committee. A directors' meeting was called j by Dr. l,ehrbach lor 7 a. m. l ues ; day. Feb. 1. I Motion pictures on the making i of tires, from the rubber tree to the finished product, was shown at the close of the meeting. The picture was through the courtesy of Firestone. District Governor Murphy call ed atlention to Lions Secretary General Melvin Jones Month of January as the time for Increas ing club memberships. The Lions organization, formed in 1914, was first really established in 1917 with 50 clubs. This number has Increased to over 1300 clubs in 25 countries, with total membership In 1918 of over 365,000, said Mur phy. Over 40,000 members are ex pected to be added this month. Fifteen new clubs have been 36 this year, he said, and added 'that if is no easy task to keep -that many new organiaztions alive and operating. He urged lo I cal members to "value your mem ; hership. It is no better than you I make it." DO YOU KNOW? That Arthritis, Rheumatism, Heart, Stomach, Headaches, Dizziness, Gastritis ond about 95 of all ailments are caused by spinal and toxic conditions exisiting in your body. Remove the cause ond get well. Dr. M. C. Cassel Chiroproctic Physician 301 E. Cass St. Phone 1407 1 ."A :- V WV.'t ,t V,"v -.IV- ''. ' .-ILL. FOR SALE Superior construction. Masonry cavity walls. Roman brick. Three bedrooms, den, beautiful kitchen, fireplace and 2,000 square feet. Spacious rooms with excellent floor plan. Restricted neighborhood. About $7,000 down. ' Call 1 132-J for appointment to inspect. Threat Letters Sent to Judge In Commies' Trial NEW YORK. Jan. 29 P Judge Harold R. Medina, presid ing at the conspiracy trial of 11 high U. S. Communists, an nounced in court yesterday he had received threatening letters. Harrv Sacher. one of the de fense attorneys, asserted Imme diately afterwards that the de fendants and their counsel, in cluding himself, also had been threatened by mall. Judge Medina said he had "no notion" of what had inspired the letters sent to his home. "I don't think I am in any danger," he commented, Vbut if I'm wrong, I'll take the risk calmly." Earlier defense attorneys called a Negro teacher In a Marxist school as a witness in their chal lenge to the federal jury-picking system here. Me was trot, uoxey A. Wilkerson. director of the fac ulty at the Jefferson School for Social Studies. A defense attorney said he plans if necessary to call every qualified Negro In Harlem as a witness to prove the defense claim that the jury system Is dis criminatory. Operation Begun By First Unit Of Jet Bombers WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The first Air Force jet bomber unit is beginning operation. Deliveries of B-4:s a light bomber designed for hit-and-run strikes in support of ground troops are being made to the 47th bomb wing at Barksdale Base, La., an Air Force official said today. The wing will be completely equipped with 48 jets in the next few months. It has been flying wartime B-26s. The Air Force also is outfitting a unit for the first time with the new F-86 jet fighters, the type which currently holds the world speed record for non-rocket air craft. The 1st fighter group at March Base, Calif., is getting the planes. The B-45 is designed to strike at targets 400 to 600 miles from base. The Air Force has 139 of these planes on order or deliver ed. Orders for 51 more were re cently canceled. Of the 24.000 Air Force planes, active and in storage, only a small fraction are jets. About half a dozen of the 59 combat groups are Jet-equipped all of them fighter units. But, except for the ultra-long range B-36s and the medium range B-50s, all bomber and lighter planes now on order are jets. Sunday School At Camas Valley Names Officers Mrs. Ben Pasco has been elect ed superintendent of the Camas Valley Sunday School. The an nual election of officers was held Sunday. Mrs. Pitts was chosen assistant superintendent; Mrs. Robert Wheeler, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Meeks, pianist, and Lee Wilson, vocalist. Teachers will remain the same as last year, with Mrs. Joe Kirkendall in charge of the kindergarten class; Mrs. Pitts, primary class; Bea Thrush, Intermediate class; Mrs. Ethel Brown, young peoples class; Winnie Brown, adult class. Other Camas Valley news briefs; Mrs. Ethel Brown has received word that her sister, Louise Cun ningham has undergone surgery in St. Vincent's Hospital at Port land. Mr. and Mrs. James Comhs were called Sunday to Grants Pass by news that Mr. Combs' aunt, Miss Rose Lillie, had been injured when struck- by an auto mobile while walking home from school in Glendale. She receive.! a knee injury and was taken to the Josephine General Hospital in Grants Pass. Mrs. Janet McCann of Brock way spent Sunday visiting with friends in Camas Valley. Wilfred Brown of North Hol lywood, California, is expected for a weekend visit with his daughter Rozelle and his mother, Mrs. Ethel Brown. The occasion is Rozelle's ninth birthday. Mr. Brown is one of the script writers for the Alka Seltzer news pro grams heard twice daily over Mutual Network stations. Mrs. Brown's health would not permit her to make the trip at this time. 'Men Wanted' Ads of German Girls Very Frank FRANKFURT, Germany Pi- German girls out to get a man don't beat around the bush In a country where they outnumber men two to one. They bluntly advertise "Man Wanted" on the ble citv billboards which fill the place here of American newspaper want ad sec tions. Ads like this: . "Twenty three - year old - girl, blond, medium-sized, blue-eyed, wants to spend weekends with weaiuiy uusinessman. nease itii ward offers to X." Or like this one: "I am alone. Good looking and well-shaped 25-year-old girl wants to spend evenings with man not older tnan JO. Have own apartment." The "love advertising" is a new Idea but it's spreading like wild fire. As the samples quoted show, the ads are shockingly frank. Mostly they make no mention of marriage. Men use the billboards, too. One advertised: "Fifty-one-year-old businessman Hooking much younger) travel ing to Bavarian resort soon. Where is the good looking girl, not older than 28, who wants to accompany me? The men w ho run the billboards say an ad like that will attract 50 to 100 answers. AUTO TAKEN, DOG LEFT SAN PEDRO, Calif., Jan. 29. George Cannon parked hii car to shop. In It he left his keys and his watchdog. Returning, he told police yes terday he found the dog sitting patiently on the curb. The car was gone. China Still Far From War's End NANKING, Jan. 28. PI In the chaos of war China awaited an uncertain new vear tonieht amid the roar of guns and waning peace hopes. A regiment of Peiping Nation- j alist troops rebelled at an order to move Into Communist country and shoot It out with fellow Na tionalists bent on forcing them to obey a peace agreement. The Nationalist headquarters said the revolt was supressed. Acting President LI Tsung-.Ten appealed to Red Chief Mao Tze Tung to name negotiations and start the new lunar year off right with a peace conference. Two of Li's high government of ficials, the premier and foreign minister, may have deserted him to flee southward. They reported ly feared detention as "war crim inals." There were also rumors of a Kuomintang revolt against LI with Chiang Kai-shek taking over once more. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Poland Blames America For 50 Percent Slump in Exports WARSAW. Poland, Jan. 28 iP) The Polish government charges that trade discrimination by the United States has caused a drop of 50 percent in this coun try's exports. A government spokesman said that this drop in 1948 below the export figures of 1947 was due to discrimination. He' said this was justification for formation earlier this month by Russia. Poland and four other Eastern European countries of the Economic Council of Mutual Aid. Polish exports to France and Italy, particularly of coal, could be increased considerably "if it were not for the pressure upon these countries by the U.S.A.," the spokesman continued. SLABWOOD in 12-16 ond 24 in. lengths OLD GROWTH FIR DOUBLE LOADS WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phent 5 Nations receiving Marshall Plan aid were showing a "grow ing tendency" lo discriminate against and "even boycott" Po land and other countries in Rus sia's orbit, he added. MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (.'Pi- Rus sia now has set 1949 trade quotas for all her five fellow members of the Economic Council of Mu tual Aid. The latest quota was fixed in a trade agreement with Romania, announced yesterday. It calls for a turnover two and a half times that of 1943. The total was set fr 405.00(1,. 000 rubles (about $93,000,0001, and calls for the "rendering of technical assistance to Romania" in building enterprises and in producing new types of machin ery needed by Romanian industry-Informed quarters said Russia is now ready to consider mutual trade with almost any country with which It has relations, re gardless of whether the country belongs to the ECMA structure. Plywood and Wallboardi PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 fOW-- A BIO, HEALTHY- WELL , "lOU WtHB DOG HALF LOOKIN' MAM LIKE YOU M TEACH HK AWAKENS gp CAN'T SLEEP CUZ M. TO SCRATCH 1 MEMOWAND M A LITTLE DOG THAT WITHOUT V THEM, BUT 11 SIZE SCRATCHES X? THUMPlW ( YOU TWO ipj? HISSELF--SEZ IT TH' FLOOR, J DO A SOUNDS LIKE TH1 J V OR LOCK Wfoi THOROUGH FIREMEN AT TH' I HIM IMTH' M2$$k JOB OP POOR--OW - J klTCHENrMs-rv IT P '(ilk ' ,RvXJUJAMS. Si. WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY SSjjvV&L J Rctarians Hear Quartet, Report On Week's Sport Cloyd Rlffe's Sophomore Boys Quartet from Roseburg High, In cluding Roland Shanklin, Chuck Plummer, Dick Sanders and Carl Ellenwood, entertained the Rose burg Rotary Club with several selections In "barber shop quar tet" fashion Thursday noon In the Hotel Umpqua. Don Hubbard, Rotary student representative from the high school, reported on sports activi ties of the past week. He intro duced Don Parr as the new rep resentative who was elected by the school for the second semes ter. The club welcomed Parr and thanked Hubbard for his coopera. lion. Vic Mlcelli was appointed by Rotary President J. V. Long as the club's representative on the City Park Commission's swim ming pool dedication committee. Arlo Jacklln had charge of the program, which also Included group singing by the club. Leroy Hiatt reported on a re cent visit to the -Sacramento, Calif., Rotary Club, which, he said, did not compare with Rose burg's from the standpoint of courtesy to visitors. He said he was one of about 30 guests who were "strictly on their own" so far as the Club was concerned. and, he added, $10 fines were hung on members, one after an other for the most inconsequen tial "offenses." YFW Asks Legislation For Bonus Involving Total Cost To Oregon of $55,000,000 Bv PAUL W. HARVEY JR. , SALEM, Jan. 28. tP) The soldiers' bonus issue bobbed up In the Legislature yesterday when the Veterans of Foreign Wars asked for a maximum bonus of $940 per veteran. It would cost the state $55,000,000. Norman Howard, Portland, leg islative chairman of -the VFW, asked the House Military Affairs Committee to introduce the bill, but the committee didn't say if it would. At any rate, if the com mittee doesn't, some member will. The bill provides the bonus shall be paid for service in the armed forces between Dec. 1, 1941, and Dec. 1, 1946. It would lie paid at the rate of $10 for each month of service in the United States, and $15 for each month of overseas service. Any veteran who had a disa bility of 10 per cent or mow would get the maximum $940 bonus. Howard didn't offer any meth od of raising the money. A simi lar bonus hill was rejected by the voters last November. Highway Aid Sought The House was ready to go ahead on the bills to raise more money to construct highways. Rep. Earl H. Hill, Cushman, pre pared his hill to Increase the $5 auto license fee to $10. He would give half the money to the state, and the other half would be split between counties and cities. Hill earlier had introduced a bill to boost the gas tax a cent and give all the extra revenue to the state. Hill's bills carry out the recom mendations of the Legislative In terim Committee on Highways. The loint ways and means com mittee appropriated funds to tight the budworm, which Is threatening to ravage Oregon's lorests. The House sent to the governor a bill to Increase the homestead exemption for debtors and widows from $3,000 to $5,000. The vote was 56 lo 4. Pension Requests, Totaling Billions, Made to Congress By Veterans of Foreign Wars Judges' Request For Salary Hike Creates Storm SALEM, Jan. 29. CP) Multno mah County legislators had a stormy session this week Over a request by that county's circuit judges for a $1,000 pay increase. The legislators took no action, but a majority of them are for it. The proposed pay would be $8,500 a year, with the extra $1,000 to be paid by the county. That would give them the same salary as Supreme Court judges get, and $1,000 more than the other circuit judges. One Portland member of the legislature said he and other law yers would have to vote for the bill because "I have to practice before those judges." Other law yers say the Portland jurists de serve the extra pay because they work harder than upstate judges. This claim is disputed by most upstate legislators, who claim that some upstate judges work harder. One Portland legislator sug gested that all lawyers in the leg islature be prohibited from voting on the bill because "lawyers have a special Interest in It." Several Portland judges ap peared at the meeting. Costly Fire Hits University At Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 29 (CP) Fire that razed six home economics huts at the University of British Columbia early yester day came within 30 feet of the new physics building, a vital link In Canada's atomic research pro gram. University officials said the building, where a new Vander graf generator is being assembled for nuclear research, housed equipment valued at $1,500,000. Firemen contfned the flames, which broke out In home eco nomics laboratory, to the group of huts near one corner of the big building. Flames that spread to a nearby chemistry laboratory were quenched. Officials estimated the damaga at between $150,000 and $200,000. Modern ranges and refrigerator! made up most of the lost equip ment. In addition $2,000 worth of amateur radio equipment, partly the property of students, was de stroyed when the Radio Society hut was burned. . Between 200 and 300 home eco nomics students, ousted, from their regular classrooms by the blaze, are already taking classes In emergency rooms. One spectator said an explosion which could be heard for about a mile ripped through the home economics laboratory about halt an hour after the fire began. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. T Veterans bonus and pension re quests totaling billions were made to Congress yesterday by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The proposals were advanced at the start of hearings by the House Veterans Affairs Commit tee on pension legislation for all veterans of World Wars I and II. Omar B. Ketchum, VFW legis lative director, laid before the committee a pension program he said was designed to place the veterans of the last two wars on the same footing now enjoyed by Spanish American War veter ans. This provides a monthly pen sion of $90 at age 65, and non service connected disability ben efits ranging upwards from $20 a month according to the degree of disability. The VFW quotes Veterans Ad ministration figures estimating the cost of the pension proposal at $1,000,000,000 the first vear, with a peak of $2,000,000,000 a year at the end of five years. Ketchum told the committee a service pension "is a tradition of this country." But, he added, the last pension law was enacted In 1921 for veterans of the Span ish American War. "Thirty years have now elap sed since the close of World War I and the average age of World War I veterans is approximately 55 years," Ketchum testified. "We strongly feel that the Con- Dr. E. W. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N. Jackson Phone 1170 Over Rexall Drug Store gress should write Into the law this traditional service pension." Costs Estimated The VFW's proposal on ad justed service compensation the bonus asks $3 a day for service in the United States up to $3500, and $4 a day for service over seas up to $4500. It would cost the nation be tween $15,000,000,000 and $20, 000.000,000, the VFW estimates. Other points of the VFW pro gram are cost-of-living Increases amounting to 2.j per cent In ex isting disability and pension pay ments, and revision of Income eligibility limitations for pension recipients. Chairman Rankin (D-Mlss.l has given top priority to hear ings on a committee hill to pay $00 a month to all veterans of World War I and II at the age of 60. The bill also provides addi tional pensions ranging from $20 to $120 a month for disability not connected with military ser vice. Some 18.000,000 war veterans would be eliidhle- more than 3, 500,000 of them within the next 10 years, according to Veterans Administration figures. $9,000 HORSE DIES REEDSPORT, Ore., Jan. 28. --(P A $5,000 Palomino stallion died of a heart ailment today. The stallion belonged to Rob ert H. Thomas, Scot tsburg ranch er and horse fancier. INSURANCE- LIFE AUTO FIRE State Farm Mutual Insurance ROSE ALLEN P. O. Box 4R9 Phone 288 116 W.Cass Over Douglas County Bank FOR QUALITY AND SERVICE BUY FEED AT YOUR CO-OP CROWN CO-OP ALBERS Egg Math Dairy Rabbit Ration Calf Meal Graim Sheep Cubes Chick Starter Hay Egg Maker Dog Cubes Scratch Friskies Alfalfa Meal and Molasses BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington St. ond S. P. R. R. Tracks Look! li LoOl?! BARGAINS! AUTO-TRUCK GENERAL LIABILITY FIRE We sell a notional standard brood form policy. Our policy is not restrict ed or limited ond not assessable. 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