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Comp 1' -"7,-" .'SEV' 1 , lib,..- U. Of 0. Library I WHO DOES WHAT psnatf r ; i EDITH MITCHELL, wlio is exrjeriment with $ome photo fwitched from her fancy usher the Umpqua Amusement Company! Iheater are tamiliar to western garb. She is taking a hitch at ticket selling at the Rodeo booth on Jackson Street. The picture appearing above was taken with one of the new Polaroid Land cameras which have just been released by dealers here a camera whrch furnishes its manipulator a finished print just 60 seconds after he has snapped the shutter. These are specialized cameras and won't do everything (what camera will?) but they give every promise of becoming exceed ingly popular. For one thing I'll be abie to make a deadline in an emergency now, when time doesn't permit processing and printing of a conventional film. That's something, particulary in the newspaper business. Directors Of Douglas County Non-Union School Districts Will Be Elected Next Monday The annual meetings of all Douglas County school districts lor the purpose ot electing district directors and lor transacting other business which may come up will be held Monday ol next week. Excepted, however, reports County School Superintendent Kenneth Barneburg, are the three union High School Districts, Reedsport, Drain and Yoncalla, which have annual meetings the lourth Mon day, instead .of the third. Roschurg, the only;,.fU;st.cass district, holds a director election, June 6. from 2 to 7 p. m., at the Junior High School. "' ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A DISPATCH from Des Moines (la.), where Midwest Demo cratic leaders are planning the strategy of the 1950 political cam paign, says: "Democrats will stake their hopes for another Midwestern farm victory in 1950 on the Tru man administration's new farm plan promising cheaper food (for the consumer) and more farmer prosperity." THE dispatch goes on: "Republicans have declared their intention to try to pull the traditionally GOP farm vote back into the party fold next year." The Republicans insist that the farm law passed by the Republi can 80th Congress last year will be better In the long run than the (Continued on Page Four) Stabbing Ends Romance Of Newlyweds, Each 16 PORTLAND, June 16. OP) A 16-year-old bride was in a hos pital today and her 16-year-old husband was in jail following a lovers' quarrel over going home to California. Police said Mrs. Belva Freed Babcock suffered abdominal knife wounds. Husband Donald Babcock was quoted as saying he was sorry. The two were married In Yuma last July, when the bridegroom was three days past his 16th birth day. Mrs. Babcock said they both had misrepresented their ages. NEW STEP IN CONSERVATION Timber Sale Contract Protects Fish Life In Regional Stream Conservation has taken another forward step. . An advertisement by the Bureau of Land Management offering a block ol timber on Rock Creek watershed, east of Roseburg, con tains a stipulation reportedly never before made in Oregon, in con nection with a timber sale. The contract would require pro tection of the watershed and stream, on which Is located a trout hatchery operated by the Oregon Game Commission. The sale tract is situated about four miles north and west of the hatchery on a tributary of Rock Creek. The logger will be barred from washing any rock for road bal last In Rock Creek or any of its - tributaries. All culverts across the stream must include headers and wines to prevent washing. All drainage ditches must run into settling and filter basins. Roads shall be sloped away from free runoff to permit self filtration of one of my "guinea pigs" when I idea I now and then have, hai uniform with which patrons of Three Rural School District members are also to be elected in their respective zones. One candidate has been named from each zone. Guy McGee has been nominat ed lor Zone A, which includes Canvonville, Days Creek, Anchor, Riddle, Glendale, Booth, Tiller and Galesville districts. Arthur H. Marsh of Looking glass, present chairman, is a candidate to succeed himself from Zone C, which takes in Wil bur, Lookingglass, Umpqua, Gar dpn Valley, Cleveland, Melrose, Winchester, Riversdale, Suther lin, Elgarose and Callahan Trail. Nominated for Zone D is Made line B. Cool, Drain. The zone embraces Oakland, Shoestring, Glide, Drain, Sunnydale, Scotts Vailey, Yoncalla, Pleasant Valley and Hayhurst. There are two hold-over mem bers, Gilbert Weaver, Myrtle Creek, Zone B representative, and Norman Weatherly, Elklon, Zone E representative. Non-High School Districts must elect a candidate for Zone 3 for a live-year term. This zone includes Green, South Deer Creek, Lookingglass, Melrose, Elgarose and Callahan Trail. J .F. Bonebrake, present hoard representative from this district and Board chairman, has an nounced he does not care for re election. He has served on the Board for many years. One nominating petition nam ing James E. Conn was circulated but his nomination has been de clared null and void by the county school superintendent, who failed to receive the candi date's acceptance within the time specified by school laws. There lore the ballot will specify no name, but a place will be pro vided for writing In of a candi date's name. Conn has indicated to Barne burg that he Is willing to serve (Continued on Page Two) drainage water. Considerable trouble has previ ously been experienced at the trout hatchery because of sllta tion from upstream logging operations. "We are definitely endeavoring to cooperate with the Game Com mission and to practice better conservation methods," said J. E. Slattery, Roseburg district super visor lor the Bureau of Land Management. The timber sale will be in the form of an oral auction at the Federal building In Roseburg July 12. Meat The Weather Partly cloudy and cooler to day end Friday. Sunset today 7:55 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:32 a. m. Established 1873 Fifty Cowboys Ready For Annual Rodeo Contests Greetings Will Be Broadcast Here Tonight Parade Plans Readied, Program Listed; Group From Grants Pass Due Roseburg prepared a welcome today for more than 50 cow boys, trick riders, and ropers who will take part in the filth annual Douglas County Sherlll's fosse Rodeo, which opens Fri day for three days at the Fair grounds. This evening, listeners will be given a chance to "meet the cowboys" over KRNR, in a pro gram beginning at 8 o'clock. Among those who will appear, are the Chrlstensen brothers, stock contractors for the Rodeo; Cy Taillon, Rodeo announcer, and Lou Franca and his Happy Valley Cowboys. Tomorrow, the weekend fes tivities will be ushered in with a western dress-up parade at 10:30. The parade will form at the triangle on N. Jackson St., and proceed through the down town district. Riders in the pa rade will then proceed across the South Umpqua River to the Fairgrounds. The main Rodeo parade, featur ing bands, fjoats, marching units, and hundreds of horsemen will be at 10:30 Saturday morning on N. Jackson St. Saturday's parade is to assemble at the (Continued on Page Two) Opinion Blocks County In Plan To Shift Funds SALEM. Ore., June 16. VP) -Lake-County was blocked to day in its plan to snitt sft.uuu from Its road fund Into its almost empty eeneral fund. Attorney General Neuner ruled that the transfer proposed by the Lake County Court would be un constitutional. Neuner said the county could transfer up to $5,000. The county's general fund now has a cash balance of less than $6,000, but there's $100,000 in the road fund. Neuner wrote: "Both funds are for county pur poses, but each is for a distinct purpose, and warrants drawn on either fund are general obliga tions against the county. "It appears obvious that any transfer from either of such funds to the other would result in a general obligation against the county and if in excess of the county debt limitation of $5,000 would be prohibited by the constitution." RODEO STAR AT HOME Participants in the Douglas County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo have parked their trailer homes this week in the grove behind the race track at the Fairgrounds, on the banks of Ihe South Umpqua. In this pleasant scene, Ike Thompson of Tucson, Arii., rests on his horse, "Chico," and chats wit his wife at the door of their trailer house. Like most of the rodeo stars, the Thomasons have been on the road since January, when they started out from Denver. Ike has taken part in 25 rodeos throughout the Southwest this year, from Texas to California. Both Ike and his wife have their own horses, which they transport in the trailer in a special stall. There are half-a-dozen other tra ilers in the camp, with washing hung out ts dry and children's playpens set up under the trees. (Picture by Paul Jenkins. I Cutters Facing Damage Rodeo Program Grand entry at 1:30 opens show at fairgrounds Friday, bat urday and Sunday. Calf roping, first section. Bareback riding, first section. Calf rooing, second section. Drill, Douglas County Sheriff's fosse. Bareback riding, second section. Daily team tie, first section. Cowboy saddle hone race: First three place winners Friday to race Saturday's winners on Sun day. Saddle bronc riding, first sec tion. Dally team tie, second section. Stake race: Sheriff's Posse and Trail Dust Saddle Club, Friday; Yoncalla Saddle Club and Myrtle Creek Saddle Pals, Saturday; winners, both days, Sunday. Saddle bronc riding, second section, Bulldogging, first section. Trick riding and roping: Paul and Marie St. Croix and Jacquel ine Carstens. Bulldogging, second section. Pony express race: Douclas County Sheriff's Posse and Trail Dust Saddle Club, Friday; Yon calla Saddle Club and Myrtle Creek Saddle Pals, Saturday; winners, both days, Sunday. Bull riding and bull fighting. Lamb scramble: 4-H girls of Douglas County, Friday. wild horse race, Saturday, Calf scramble, 4-H boys Douglas County, Sunday. of Woman Sues S. P. For Rape Attack By Negro SAN FRANCISCO, June 16. UP) A Southern Pacific woman station worker has sued the com pany for negligence and asked $250,000 damages involving a rape attack by a Negro station hand at Wicopee, Ore. Eleanor E. Arledge, employed as a train order operator, raid the company failed to maintain locks on the station doors. She said as a result Alan Jacobs en tered the station last August and heat and raped her. " . " Sin addition to damages for painful injuries, she charged in her complaint that she was un able to work, sleep or remain a member of the community. She filed her suit under the Railway Employes Compensation act Woman Little Hurt As Car Hurtles Off Road A car which hurtled over a 30- foot embankment three miles south of Roseburg at 11 p.m. Wednesday, was considerably damaged, but the driver escaped with only minor injuries. State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell named the driver as Ciarice Mary Borrows, Grants Pass. She re ported to the investigating offi cers that she lost control of her car, when she applied the brakes upon seeing a car approach from a side road. The second car was not 'nvblved. ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949 '. 141-49 Truman Not Disturbed By Spy Exposures . Postwar Hysteria, As In Past, That Will Die Out, Assertion Of President WASHINGTON. June 16. (T) President Truman today de scribed the current uproar over spies as part of a postwar hys teria which will die out as it has after other wars. If any members of his own administration are infected by it, Mr. Truman said, he will clean them out. But he would not comment at his news conference on an edi torial proposal that a commis sion be named to investigate the methods and procedures of the FBI and its director J. Edgar Hoover. He stated flatly, however, that Hoover has not submitted his resignation. This was in reply to questions about a published report of a quarrel between the FBI boss and Attorney General Tom Clark. When asked whether Hoover has his confidence, Mr. Truman replied that Mr. Hoover has done a good job. And when asked whether he thought Hoover could be in cluded in those denounced by Mr. Truman last week for head line hunting, the President in vited reporters to make their own estimate of the situation. Neither would he comment on whether It would be a good idea (Continued on Page Two) Dallas Darkened By:5 Utility Fire: DALLAS. Ore.. June 16. -4m Industries here and In Inde pendence were shut down today and Dallas resiaents were on a voluntary "brown out" after a Mountain States Power Company substation -fire. Intermittent electric service prevailed here through the night from emergency power available at the Willamette Valley Lumber Company sawmill plant. R. G. McFarland, district man ager for the utility, said service would be restored possibly late today. An oil fuse exploded at 9 p.m. yesterday and showered two transformers with burning oil. The units were quickly burned out. Firemen prevented flames from spreading to the neighbor ing sawmill power plant. Damage was estimated at $30,000. One of the two hospitals af fected had four surgical opera tions and two births during the time they had emergency service. 1 :' ' L ' tZCil PLEDGE FULFILLED Hal Ayotte, exalted ruler of Roseburg Elks Lodge 326, on left presents City Councilman and Park Commis sion Chairman Percy Croft, on right, with check for $1,333.85 to pay the cost of the children's wading unit at the Municipal Swimming Pool. Mayor Albert G. Flegel looks on approvingly. The lodge agreed, during a campaign to, raise additional funds last summer, to underwrite the cost of the wading unit, whatever the amount. The work was done under City Manager M. W. Slankard's supervision for a sum considerably under the expected expense. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) SOCIAL SECURITY Increases In Benefits, Rates Of Tax, Wider Coverage Planned By Committee By FRANCIS M. LEMAY WASHINGTON, June 16. UP) The House Ways and Means Committee may be nearly ready to recommend that about 12,000,000 more workers be blanketed under old age Insurance. That was the unofficial word today from secret Committee meetings. The newly covered workers are not expected to include 5,000,000 farm operators and 3,500,000 farm workers. Girl Who Shot Waltkus Faces Mental Test """ CHICAGO, June 16. (P)" The 19-year-old girl admirer . who shot first baseman Eddie Waltkus broke down and wept today upon co n? to felony court, wnere sue was ordered examined by a psy chiatrist. She-was arraigned on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Waltkus now is given a good chance to recover. Tears rolled down her cheeis as she talked with newsmen in an ante-room before she faced the Judge. "For the first time I'm begin ning to realize what I've done," said the girl, Ruth Stelnhagen, who shot and seriously wounded the popular Philadelphia Phillies star in her hotel room early yes terday. "Up until now it had been more or less of a dream," she added. Waltkus, 28, shot near the heart with a .22 caliber rifle bul let, was reported "a bit improved" today In Illinois Masonic Has pital. CHANGES This ' was reported to be the tentative action on President Truman's proposal that 20,000,- 000 additional workers be insur ed.. About -30,000,000 already, are, Sualified for old age benefits lin er this phase of social security, The Committee, meeting be hind closed doors for six weeks, also was understood to have agreed tentatively to: 1. Boost old age benefit pay ments substantially but not as much as Mr. Truman asked. The president wants benefits increas ed in some categories by about (Continued on Page Two) Heat Death Toll Increased To 30; Forests Periled (By the Associated Press) Deaths of 30 New Englanders were attributed today to live days of hot and humid weather in the East. The forest fire peril Increased in New England with the con tinued drouth. Smoking and fire making in the Maine woodlands was forbidden. There were 15 small, controlled fires in the state. New Hampshire, where eight additional deaths boosted the sec tional total to 30, followed Maine's action in banning smoking and firemaking. The U. S. Weather Bureau in Chicago said there was no sign of rain to break the dry spell. Seven new forest fires were reported yesterday in the Adiron dacks, raising the total to 32 since Saturday. All of the new fires were under control. Conditions in the Hudson Valley were reported "rapidly becoming critical." There also was a possibility of showers late today In New Jersey, which has had very little rain in the last 25 days. ' Hilyard Simpklns, a farmer at Florence, N.. J., seeded a cloud with dry ice from an airplane. He said rain fell for five minutes a mile south of his farm. Registration Taken From K-Falls Broker WASHINGTON, June 16.-P) The Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday revoked the broker-dealer registration of Lewis H. Ankeny, Klamath Falls, Urp, StC said the action also Cffectl his firm which opcraicu u,u,., , the name of Lewis- Ankeny and Company. SEC said It found that Ankeny u. ,.aU.,EU u.-.u,,i u? i i-uiiui minx nip shik iii nt-runiH'H to them, but. never making de livery. The Commission also said An keny operated while "hopelessly Insolvent," and violated other provisions of the Federal Securi ties Act. Child Drowns In Unused Flooded' Gravel Pit LEBANON, Ore., June IB. (IP) Nine-year-old Eugene Ellis drowned In an abandoned water- filled gravel pit yesterday while his parents vtslted at a nearby farm. The boy. a ion of Mr. and Mr. Harold Ellis, could not swim. Action Safeway Asks $5,000 In Suit Over Strike Breach Of Contract By Union Is Alleged By Plaintiffs Spokesman Legal action seeking $5,000 damages from the Roseburg Meat Cutters' Union in connection with the local strike will hp fiioH in Federal Court at Portland today Mjr OQ,CWJ OlUieS, inC, Announcement of this action was made to the News-Review this mornine bv E. R. .inhnnnn. Safeway's labor negotiator, who iias oeen representing the local store in discussions here. Safeway's suit will be filed against Roseburg Local Union 231 anu iiie n,i..u.it. urbanization of the Amaluamated Meat OittPr and Butcners and Workmen ol North America. The action seeKs $5,000 immediate damage plus "any further damages that may incur as a result of the local strike." The suit is being brought under Safeway's present contract with the defendants and charges ihe union with a breach of con tract, said Johnson. Action Explained "It Is Safewav's doIIpv In lt relation with labor organizations to deal with utmost fairness keep ing in mind the necessity for con tracts that are equitable and in all cases offer the company com petitive parity," Johnson explain ed. "Safeway Stores entered into its present agreement with the Roseburg Meat , Cutters' Union with the understanding and the objective of strict adherence to the contract, not only on Sale way's part but also upon the part of the union. "This Union has ignored lt commitments to our company un der the terms of the present con tract," he continued. We believe it should be held accountable just as any other person would be held legally accountable lor ir responsible actions that specific- (Continued on Page Two) Three Fires In Umpqua Forest Quickly Subdued Three fires broke out at widely. separated points on the Umpqua National Forest Wednesday, but were brought under control oy loggers and Forest Service em ployes, Bald M. M. Nelson; forest auperwlsotvv-'. - T. r- - The s first ' fire covered five acres on a logging operation on Shed Creek, tributary of . Elk Creek, south of Tiller. Employes of the Harbor Plywood Co... Vern Johnston, logging contractor, and the Forest Service brought the blaze under control. Nelson said the. fire occurred as result ol logging in timber owned by the Harbor Plywood Co., and being cut by Johnston under contract. Four pumpers were used, Including three sup plied by the Forest Service. The second fire was a "spot" fire covering only one-tenth of an acre, 25 miles east of Azalea. Nelson said the lire apparently occurred as result of spring slash burning, with the fire smoldering in the ground under logs for al most two months. The third fire was located on 10 acres of a Shelton and Burr ' Logging Co. sale operation, on Little Taft Creek, tributary of Little River. This fire also ap parently resulted from spring slash burning. Ranger George Churchill fought the blaze with the aid of 12 men, four pumpers. and one power saw. Boy Scout Rescues His Drowning Companion SPRINGFIELD, June 16. m Leroy Mann, a 13-year-old Boy Scout, was credited today with a difficult drowning rescue that took three tries. Lcroy's playmate, Gerald La Plant, sank while swimming to ward a raft in a slough near here Monday. Leroy swam to his aid, hut the struggling boy fought loose and sank again. Then Leroy streaked to shore, found a plank, and swam back with It. He saw his companion on the bottom; dived to bring him to the surface, and put him on the plank. , Ashore, he started artificial respiration. When a doctor, summoned by bystanders, arrived a half-hour later, Gerald had regained con sciousness. Repeal Of Liquor Law Hot Issue In Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, June 16. I!P) Oklnhomans braced them selves today lor a solid summer of knnrk.riown rnmnalonlno nn the issues of liquor repeal. Gov. Roy J. Turner gave the Ripnnl vpstprHnv whlrh mav hrinr on one ol the most bitterly-fought uHinptugns in ine states iz-year nistory. Turner called for a vote on the age-old Issue at a special election September 27. Livity Fact Rant By L. f. Relcenstein Most of Roseburg will prob ably attend the Rodeo. How many will vote at the school director election next Monday? ' Incidentally the 134th birth day anniversary of the city's founder, Aaron Rost.)