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Comp. Fire Sweeps Home For Feeble Minded WHO DOES WHAT Tht Weather Increasing cloudiness with possible rain tonight and Fri day. - Sunset tonight 7:34 p. m. . Sunrise tomorrow 4:44 a. m. . i U. Of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon By Paul Jenkins I k yet Ft i'S - i BOB BROWNING (you almost can tell by looking at him within just a matter of hours when this picture was taken had become the father of a little, black-haired, curly-haired baby girl, who weighed in for the battle of life at six pounds five ounces. Her name is Capitola, after her grandma, and she is receiving visitors at Mercy Hospital. , Capitola's mother, Phyllis, is bearing up remarkably well under the severe strain her husband has been under the past day or so; but probably will remember the poignancy of the mo ment longer. As you may or may not have noticed, husbands hardly can survive the ordeal of imminent parenthood, but get over it faster than their wives. . , Bob owns the Richfield station at the corner of Cass and Stephens streets, and handed out about. as many cigars yester day as he did helpings of gas. $950,000 Allocated For Two Douglas Highway Projects Allocations of state and federal funds for Douglas County highway improvements were announced by the State Highway Commission in its meeting at Portland Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Among the 57 projects outlined for the state the next two years are the $600,000 program for the Pacific Highway south of Canyonville, and $350,000 grading and paving of the 5.6-mile Marks Ranch-Lone Rock section of the North Umpqua Highway. The North Umpqua Highway project is classed as a secondary route receiving -fedewi eidt The section for which funds are al located will be an eastward extension from the end of the present paved section. Money allocated for the Pacific Highway south of Canyon ville will be used to improve highway from the standpoint of highway money will be used. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS HERE'S one for the book from Washington: "The American people, con fronted with shrinking income, CUT THEIR SPENDING so sharply in the first three months of 1949 that their TOTAL SAVINGS WENT UP." Tills Is the way it worked out, according to the figure experts of the Department of Commerce: Individual incomes after taxes declined only a billion six hun dred million dollars. Individual expenditures for consumption luppea I uun uiuiuii iuui Hun dred million dollars. THAT is to say: The people, with their in comes dropping, CUT THEIR SPENDING. Government, facing (Continued on Page Four) FISH HATCHERY EXPANSION SLATED Rock Creek Project No. 1 In Construction Plans Of State Game Commission Expansion of the Rock Creek Fish Hatchery on the North Umpqua River is the number one priority of all construction of the State Game Commission's program. This information was revealed here by Clark Walsh, the Com mission's publicity director, who said that bids will probably be taken about June 1. While the sum of $70,000 is provided in the budget, an additional $30,000, which must be obtained "from some where else," w ill be needed, said Walsh. Walsh stated he had inspected plans for the expansion, which will include a new dam, a com plete new water supply, and 16 new pnnds 12 for nursery stock and four for brood fish. The project has been well designed and will provide sufficient con trol of water supply and fish. Walsh, who spoke before the Rosebui ir Lions Club last Thurs day night, stated that a study ot j hydroelectric and conservation programs reveals thnt It all boils down to the fact the Umpqua River is the one remaining source for salmon reproduction in Ore gon. 'The spring Chinook is the finest of game fifh, but I am afraid the future is very dark." he stated in discussing project ed dams on Oregon rivers. "There is no stopping of water power one of the worst sections of the curves and grades. Federal forest Baptist Group Votes To Join International Assn. CLEVELAND, May 19. (JP The General Association of regu lar Baptist Churches, a funda mentalist group, voted almost unanimously yesterday to join the International Church Council of Christian Churches. The action, by a 315 to 8 vote came at the Baptist group's 18lh annual conference. Approximate ly 500 churches are represented by the Association. The Internationa! Council has a fundamentalist approach and is opposed to the Liberal World Council of Churches. Sire Of 18 Children Is Chosen 'Father Of 1949' LOCK HAVEN, Pa., May 19. (JP) A 78-year-old farmer who splits logs to "blow off steam" today becomes the "American Father of 1949." William Casper Peter of near by Beech Creek, who has 18 chil dren and 80 grandchildren, was selected for that honor by the National Father's Day Commit tee. development, but we cannot stand in the way of progress." He said it was hoped a solu. tion satisfactory to both fish re sources and conservation of water power could he worked out, but so far this has not been pos sible. Proposed water developments on tne coiumnia, Willamette, rschutes and Rogue Rivers will block completely o percent of the salmon spawning area, he slated. With the Umpqua the one remaining major spawn area, concentration is being made to develop hatchery facilities for propagation here. Evaluation Must Change Sportsmen, Walsh stated in spcakinp of game in general. (Continued on Page Two) Established 1873 County Upped Committee's Hikes Follow General Plan County Road Department Tops Increased Items; Recreation Sites OKd General adjustment in salaries in all departments Is provided in the proposed budeet for Douelas County. This was announced fol lowing adoption of the tentative budget by the County Budget Committee, which met all day Wednesday. Total amount of the budget was not available this morning, since it was necessary to retabulate the item totals to include changes in the various departments, re ported County Clerk Roy Agee. There will be a special levy out side the six percent limitation, to be voted on by the people. Total budget, anticipated reve nues, amounts to be raised by taxation, and the amount outside the six percent limitation will be published in Friday's News Review. The salary increases generally follow a pattern of $400 a year in crease for all elective officials, ex cept that the salary of the two commissioners will be raised from $3000 to $4000 and that of the county school superintendent from $3300 to $4000. These chang es were authorized by the state legislature. A general salary pattern of &juu a montn lor an otner iuii time Courthouse employes was provided. The County Road Department shows the largest increase, be cause of the need to rebuild coun ty roads badlv damaged by freez es last year and contemplated new .road construction.- - -v. A special item provides $10,000 for purchase by the County of certain lanas along ine iNorin and South Umpqua Rivers for recreational purposes. This is con sidered as only a starter, to be added to in future years. A new deputy sheriff is provid ed for at Canyonville. A more detailed report on the budget will appear later. Recreational Sites' Fund Asked Of Budget Board Douglas County may have money next year to make a start on recreational land acquisition. The Umpqua Basin Conserva tion Council presented a petition to the County Budget Committee Tuesday, asking inclusion of a sum of $30,000 or more to be used by the County Court in buy ing land for picnic sites, access to fishing streams, boat moorages and other purposes. The petition, signed by all sports clubs affiliated with the Council, bore endorsement from the Reedsport Chamber of Com merce and Reedsport Lions Club. Various organizations throughout the county have offered endorse ment of the petition, the Commit tee was informed by Bruce Yea ger, Council secretary. Appearing before the Budget Committee on behalf of the Sports Council were Yeager, V. V. Harpham, Harold Hickerson and Charles V. Stanton. The Budget Committee Indi cated approval of the plan, pro viding a source of revenue can be found, but gave no definite promise until a more thorough study is made of County finances to determine availability of money for the project. Safecrackers At Salem Get Booty Of $3,000 SALEM, Mav 18. -4.B Safe crackers got $3,000 last night by breaking the safe in the Busick Market here, police reported to day. Police said the Job was the work of experts, who picked off the lock of the big safe and then carried off a 500-pound inner vault which contained the money. It was Salem's fourth safe cracking job in recent months, but police said the methods used show they have been done by different yeggs. They got into the market by climbing on top of a marquee and breaking a second story window. Youth Drowns In Private Swimming Pool NEWBERG. Ore., Mav 19 (JP) Twelve-year-old Peter John uroat drowned in i private swim ming pool yesterday at nearby Dundee. The pool Is located at the Dan Harmon home. The victim was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Groat, Dundee. ROSEBURG, Salaries In Budget 1 , Mrs. C. T. Shields Discovered Dead, Body of Mrs. Carrie Thompson Shields, 80, was found hanging Dy a rope in the woodshed at the rear of her home at 703 Mill St. this morning, Chief of Police Cal vin H. Baird reported. She had apparently died by her own hand, the chief said. The tragedy was discovered by a neighbor, Mrs. C. H. Wickham, who told police she looked for Mrs. Shields in her woodshed, where she did her washing, after the elderly woman failed to re spond to knocking on her door. Mrs. Wickham said she knew Mrs. Shields could not have been far away. Mrs. Shields died a little more than two weeks after the death of her husband, B. F. Shields, from a heart attacK May 2. The body was removed to the KoseDurg f uneral Home, wnere funeral arrangements will be an nounced later- Soviet Keeps Part Of Ban In Blockade Lift BERLIN. Mav 19. (JP) Mai. Gen. George P. Hays, deputy U. S. military governor, announced today the Russians are modify ing their new restrictions on truck traffic from West Ger many to Berlin. He said the Soviet military administration informed him freight-laden trucks from West Germany now halted by the Rus sians at Helmsledt on the inter zonal frontier will be allowed to proceed to Berlin without writ ten, permits from the Soviet Zone Economic Commission. ., But, he added, the Russians will demand that any other trucks crossing the frontier bear such permits. Gen. Hays said the Western Allies would try to get the Rus sians to drop that demand in further negotiations. He called it "a new restriction and therefore a violation of the four-power agreement in New York for lift- (Continued on Page Two) Silver Dollars Of Same Year Pay For New Auto SPOKANE, May 19. (JP) Charles Hink, Spokane service station operator, bought a new car yesterday. "There's your money," he told the dealer, pointing to a wooden chest. In the chest were 2,600 sil ver dollars, all minted in 1921. Five years ago, Hink started sav ing 1921 Iron men, figuring to get a new car. It worked. So did the dealer. He wrestled yie 170-pound box into his car and spent the rest of the day counting and stacking cartwheels. PASSES TEST DIES GLENDALE, Calif., May 19. (P Robert Mann, 62, pulled his car alongside the curb and stopped. Driving Instructor Lloyd W. Bradley, Jr., told him: "You've passed your test." Mann gasped, collapsed and died. Police said yesterday that "a heart attack was the cause. 5..?::: iUfu THREE DEAD, 4,000 HOMELESS IN FORT WORTH FLOOD Flood waters of the Trinity River inundated this section of Fort Worth, Tex., when the swollen river, fed by 1 0-inch deluge of rain, smashed four levees and (urged into 1,000 or more homes. At least three persons were drowned, 10 others are missing and an estimated 4,000 were homeless as a result of the flood. In the foreground, resembling a bathtub filled with water, is Farringten Football Field. Large building In left background is Montgomery Ward and Ce. INEA Telsphonle). OREGON THURSDAY, MAY , 4 . APPROVE COUNTY BUDGET Douglas County's Budget Committee met in an all-day session Wednesday at the Courthouse to draft county expense allocations for tht coming year. The exact amount of the budget was not totaled ready to announce before Friday. Pictured here are, left to right, County Clerk Roy Agee; H. W. Clough, Canyonville; Jack Diehl, Reedsport; JuJge D. N. Busenbark (standing); Commissioners Lynn V. Beclcley and Dick Baker, and seated in front, Arthur H. Marsh, Lookingglass Route. Clough, Diehl and Marsh are Budget Committee members appointed by the County Court. . Operation Of New Sawmill At Green Starts Operations at the new sawmill of the Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., at Green were started Tues day afternoon. Wednesday was the first full day of production. Klamath Machinery Co. planned the layout of the operation, which includes the main sawmill building, equipped with an eight foot band saw and 8 x 60-fooJ edger; the planer shed, and other structures. Thurman Johnson has served as construction superintendent for the layout, while M. M. Rob ertson will serve as superintend ent of the new mill. Timber for the mill comes from Associated Plywood's holdings on Lttle River. Peeler logs for the company s piywooa mms ai tu eene and Willamina mill con tinue to be shipped by, raij frorp Here. ' . -K. S. Wenljar, local manager of Associaled plywood, plans 10 have an open bouse at tne new sawmill within a few weeks. No definite date has been set. Death Claims 3rd Victim Of Three-Auto Crash CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., May 19. (JP) Mrs. John P. Christen son, Everett, Wash., died in the local hospital Tuesday night. She was the third fatality in a three car accident three miles east of Kennebec, S. D., Monday. Those who previously died in the mishap were Mrs. Andrew Anderson, Florence, Ore., and Gene Fairchild, Pueblo, Colo. Three others seriously hurt In the accident were described today as "resting quite well." They are Mrs. Gyla Fairchild, Pueblo; An drew Anderson, Florence, and Mrs. Lloyd W. Swanson, Palo Alto, Calif. Accused Girl Blames Sorority Initiation PORTLAND, May 19 (JP) A school sorority initiation was blamed today by a high school girl for teaching her criminal ways. Police reported Leila uund- lach, 18, charged with falsifying store charge accounts, told of be ing instructed to cnarge a batn ing suit to a fictitious account. Since January she had continued obtaining merchandise that way. 19, 1949 It- Four Students Missing From Monmouth College SALEM, Ore., May 19. (JP Four married men, all students at Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, were the object of a police search today after being missed since last night. College authorities reported to State Police that the men came from Monmouth to Salem last night to go to a baseball game, and that they haven't returned to Monmouth. It was feared they might have had an auto accident, but no accidents were reported. The men are Bert McConnell, Sam Ramey, Bob McKeever, and Wayne A. Hubbard. They drove in Hubbard's car. The college reported that all four men had good habits. MeConnell's wife is an ex pectant mother, and Ramey's wife teaches at Monmouth. All four are war veterans. Only 10 Pet. Of Czechs Red, U. S. Woman Says NEW YORK, May 19. OP) Miss Vlasta Adele Vraz, Ameri can relief worker, who was jailed in Prague last month on espon age charges, says "not more than ten nercent of the people In Czechoslovakia are Communists." "About 90 percent are be coming more and more opposed to the government and more and more unhappy," she said on her arrival here yesterday aboard a liner. Miss Vraz, who headed Ameri can Relief for Czechoslovakia In Prague, said she was arrested on "false charges of espionage" be cause she had known a man a year ago who since has been ac cused of spying. He was not Identified, Husband, 82, Father Of New Set Of Twin Boys BATES VILLE, Miss., May 18. (JP) W. T. Thompson, 82, is the father of a new set of twin boys. The boys were born to 41-year-old Mrs. Thompson Saturday. Each weighed five pounds, eight ounces. The Thompsons have three other children, ages two, five and 24. Mrs. Thompson was 16 and her husband 57 when they were mar ried in 1924. J I H8-49 H W 1 wmm tmtmt mm Columbia Basin Water Projects Urged By McKay WASHINGTON, May 19. (JP) Governor Douglas McKay of Oregon said today his state heavily favors the Army En gineers' recommendation for a $3,000,000,000 development of the Columbia River and Its tribu taries. - He is here to testify tomorrow before a House Public Works subcommittee in favor of the program. "We want to see adopted an orderly program for the develop ment of the Pacific Northwest where our great resource is hydro-electric power," the Gov ernor told a reporter. "We need more power and flood control in the Willamette River Valley where floods have caused $50, 000,000 in damape since 1943. "We need the power and water storage for irrigation because tne tremendous increase In our pop ulation makes it imperative that we be able to take care of the additional people." McKay will be joined by Gov ernor Arthur Langlie of Wash ington stale, and Elmo Chase of Eugene, Ore., in testifying favor ably for the Columbia Basin de velopment. Presbyterians Asked To Reduce Synod Structure BUFFALO. N. Y.. May 19.-WP) The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. opened its ltiisi uenerai Assembly today with major or ganizational changes near the top ot the agenda. The changes are recommended in a 59-page report completing two years of study by a com mittee headed by Dr. Robert B. Whyte, pastor of Old Stone Church, Cleveland, Ohio. The most drastic cnange pro posed concerns the synod struc ture of the Church. The com mittee recommends that the number be reduced from 40 to about 12 with about 200,000 Church population In each. It also proposes that the Gen eral Council be reorganized, en larged and given greaier in creased powers, becoming the "conscience, heart and will of the church." In connection with this, it pro Doses creation of a new office of general secretary of the Coun cil to serve as lis executive. James Truslow Adams, Noted Historian, Dies SOUTHPORT, Conn.,- May 19 (JP) James Truslow Adams, who quit a career In Wall Street to become an internationally known historian, died here last night at his home. The 70-year-old chronicler of colonial New England, winner of the pulltzer prize in history in 1922, had been 111 for several weeks. He suffered a stroke a week ago. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Kathryn Seely Adams, and a cousin, Frank Adams Truslow, president of the New York Curb Exchange, Adams received the Pulitzer prize for his "Founding of New England," one of about 20 histor ies he produced. School Budget Approved In Light Corvallis Vote CORVALLIS, Ore.. May 19 (.V) Corvallis School District voters yesterday approved a 1919-50 school budget of $:R2.000 which carried a tax levy of $125,995 out side the six percent limitation. Out of about 8.000 eligible only 521 voted. There were 395 favor able votes and 116 unfavorable. The election was one of four special elections which face the people of Corvallis between now and June 7. The others are on a special bond issue for the city, expansion of the city limits and on a special county road tax. !' Members Of Staff Rescue All Patients Fire Fourth In Two Years At Oregon Institution; $300,000 Loss Covered SALEM, Ore., May 19. (.?) The 40-bed treatment hospital at the state's home for the feeble minded was in ruins today, but heroic work by staff members saved all inmates from injury. Twenty-five bed patients were in the Fail-view Homes Hospital when fire broke out yesterday. The flames were discovered just at the time for changing shifts and the staff was short-handed. Stairways were blocked as the flames spread rapidly from the basement, up an elevator shaft and through the two-story fiame building. Staff workers carried or aided patients to first floor windows and helped them through. Patients on the second floor were sent down fire es cape chutes. Cause of the fire, the fourth in two years at the Institution, was under Investigation by state police arson squad officers. Damage was estimated by Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent. $300.- 000. Most of the value was In costly surgical, x-ray and medi cal equipment. He said the fire was defected at about 5 p.m. The Institution's fire equipment was joined by the Salem city depart ments. Only the four walls of the stucco-finished medical center were standing today. It had been built in 1933. Dr. Hill said none of the cot tages and other buildings hous ing about 1,000 other inmates were endangered. Loss Fully Covered One fireman was overcome by smoke and another knocked from a ladder by a falling cornice. Neither was seriously hurt. William Ryan, supervisor of state institutions, reported the damage was covered by the state restoration fund which contains about $400,000. The fund is main tained by the state In lieu of in surance. Dr. Hill reported the patients In the hospital, 13 of them tu bercular, were moved to other buildings quickly. He said the staff would be hard pressed tem porarily In medical treatment De cause of loss of equipment. Surgi cal cases will he sent to .the State Hospital here. .,.., , Medals For U. S. Officers Blocked WASHINGTON, May 1.9. (JP) Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the president's top military aide. will have to wait awhile longer to wear the highly-publicized medal he received from Argen tina. A House armed services sub committee voted unanimously to day to table a bill which would have let him and 15 other army officers accept decorations of the order of General San Martin from the Argentine government. It was Vaughan's medal that Indirectly touched off President Truman's now-famous "s.o.b." re marks. Columnist Drew Pearson criticized Vaughan for taking it from Argentine President Peron whom Pearson described as a "military dictator." That brought a retort from Mr. Truman that he wasn't going to let any "s.o.b." tell him who he should name to government posts. The House Commute acted on the recommendation of Rep. Vin son (D-Ga). Vinson said "no harm will be done if these medals Just stay a little while longer" at tne state ucparimem. Gas, Diesel Tax Hikes Not Effective Same Day SALEM. Ore., May 19. (JP) Oregon's increased gasoline tax should become effective July 2, but the increased tax on diesel and other motor vehicle fuels should become law on July 16, At torney General Ncuner ruled to day. The present tax is 3 cents a allon on gasoline and diesel. The eglslature voled to boost them to 6 cents on July 1. Ncuner, In his opinion for Secretary of State Newbry, held that the rilosel tax Increase couldn't become effective until 90 days afler the adjournment of the Legislature because It was not an emergency measure. H. L. Beard, Former Band Leader At O. S. C, Dies CORVALLIS, Ore., May 19. (JP) Harry Lyndon Beard, 70, who led the Oregon State Band for 40 years, died In a hospital here today. He had retired two years ago, after 42 years on the staff of Ore gon State. An assistant professor of mathematics, he was better known for his musical work. His wife died In 1929. Two sonf, a daughter, a sister, and four grandchildren survive. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzenslein Prince Aly Khan (could bo pronounced Alley Corf) an nounces he will censor any pic ture taken of his marriage to Rita Hayworth. For this con sideration for tht reading pub lic he merits a vote of thanks. s