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ARRANGES INSTITUTE County School Superintendent Kenneth
Berneburg is pictured here as he appeared at Rose school for the
first day of the county elementary teachers workshop. The pro
gram for the workshop and the all-county institute scheduled for
Friday was arranged by his office, in cooperation with local
school authorities. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.)
DDT SPRAYING URGED
Oregon Board Of Health
Gives Roseburg Advice On
Disease Control Method
The city of Roseburg has been encouraged by the Oregon State
Board o Health to adopt a DDT spraying program in an effort to
control spread of communicable diseases, according to a letter
received by City Recorder William Bollman.
Writing In answer to questions I
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ventive value of the spray, Dr.
-6. & Osoot, 'director ot the ep
idemiology and Y. D. sections,
advised use of DDT in addition
to a fly control program and a
general sanitation program.
Bollman had written originally
In response to urging by several
civic groups concerned over the
spread of certain diseases In this
area, especially poliomyelitis.
According to the State Board
of Health's letter, it is known that
both house flies and blowflies
may carry the virus agents re
sponsible for polio. However,
neither the Board of Health nor
the U.S. Public Health service
has accumulated enough data to
justify the general adoption of a
DDT spraying program as an
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
YOU'VE been reading, of course,
the published details of the
fuss between the army and the
navy, In which the navy is ob
viously on the defensive. You
must have wondered what it is
really all about.
I don't know, but here is my
guess:
The fight the navy has been
putting up is compounded partly
of pride in the naval service,
partly of fear that navy careers
(in peace-time as well as In war
time) are in danger and partly of
GENUINE BELIEF THAT IT IS
DANGEROUS TO ENTRUST
OUR FUTURE TO BIG BOMB
ERS THAT WILL ATTACK
ACROSS THE WORLD WITH
OUT PROTECTION OF FIGHT
ER AIRCRAFT.
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this latter point, I feel sure.
the navy people are sincere.
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HEAR INSTRUCTIONS First grade teachers of Douglas County listen to instructions from Evelyn
Mesten, Southern Oregon College, on the subject of phonics and word analysis during the
Wednesday morning session of the two-day workshop program at Rose school. (Picture by
Jenkins.)
Bloody Battle
With Grizzly Won
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 13
(Pi An Alaska Roadhouse own
er was recovering today from a
mauling by an angry she-grizzly
that necessitated 200 stitches iii
his face, arms, scalp and legs.
Dan Luddlngton, owner of the
Summit Lodge roadhouse, IS
miles southeast of here, said he
met the grizzly and her cub near
Summit Lake last week.
The animal felled him when
his rifle misfired on the first shot.
"She was pawing, mauling and
raking me with her claws and
I was trying to get away and at
the same time reload my rifle."
Luddington said from his hospi
tal bed.
"It seemed like my head was
in her mouth when I got another
shell in the chamber. I managed
to get my rifle around while she
was dragging me by one leg.
"The bullet hit her in the chest
and she dropped."
Luddington managed to drag
himself a mile to a road where
he was picked up by an Alaska
Freight Lines truck.
Rural Fire Protection
District Hit By Ruling
SALEM, Oct. 13 4JP) The
Coos county court has authority
to reject the proposed Coquille
rural fire protection district on
grounds the proposed district
isn't compact enough.
Attorney General Neuner, wh
made this ruling today for Dis
trict Attorney James A. Norman
ot Loos county, said there are
large areas within the proposed
nistnct wnicn would be excluded
from th? district. He said these
areas are mostly bottom lands
which are wet the year round.
QUADRUPLETS BORN
SAl'LT STE. MARIE. Ont.,
Oct. 13 (P Quadruplets were
horn here todav to Mrs. Evelvn
Hargreaves. All were girls and
exceptionally w e 1 1." Their
weights are not disclosed. I
The Weather
Fair today and Friday. Early
morning fog. Temperature to
night near freeiing.
Sunset today 5:34 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow o:2S a. m.
Established 1873
Lewis Gives
Demands in
Coal Strike
Additional Per-Ton Cost
Could Bo Absorbed Out
Of Profits, He Asserts
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
w. va uct. 13. w John 1.
Lewis disclosed today that his con
tract demands on soft coal oper
ators would cost JO to 3d cents a
ton more than now. He said the
industry could absorb it out of
profits.
Lewis, at a news conference,
went into an exhaustive outline
of his theory that powerful finan
cial and steel interests were de
termined to hold up a coal settle
ment until they "battled it out"
in steel.
The UMW president said that if
the government must intervene
and take over the coal pits, it
should order a "bonafide seizure"
by running the mines for the
benefit of the people instead of
the mine owners.
Lewis said that past seizures of
the coal miners had been "make
believe, papier-mache affairs."
He told reporters he was not
suggesting seizure and declared:
"We are willing to fight this
out. The mine workers have
whipped these operators and are
willing to do it.
"We ask no aid. We prefer to
be left alone, but, if we are not
left alone to defeat them on their
own ground, then we ask fair
treatment.
Fact Finders Belittled
Lewis said that he could not
at this time disclose a breakdown
of the 30 to 35-cent demand. He
added that the White Sulphur
Springs negotiations with north
ern and western operators and
those with the southern coal pro
ducers association at Charleton,
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Air Force Will '
Reply In Defense
Of B-36 Bomber
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 JP)
The House Armed oervices
committee agreed today to hear
the Air Force next week in rep
ly to the Navy's bitter criticism
of its B-36 bomber program. Se
cretary oi Deiense jonnson also
will testify then.
Chairman Vinson (Dual and
Secretary Johnson held a long
conference this morning. After
wards, Vinson announced the
schedule for the next phase of
the committee's inquiry into mili
tary policy.
Vinson said that beginning next
week the committee will hear
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Gen. Omar Bradley. Secretary
of Air Symington and Air Force
officers.
Then, he added. "Secretary
Johnson will give the committee
and the country" his views.
Johnson, as civilian boss of all
the armed services, is caught
squarely in the cross fire of the
angry controversy over military
policy.
He also has come In for harsh
words from some Congress mem
bers because, by executive order,
he has cut back appropriations
that the lawmakers made for the
navy.
Vinson publicly accused John
son yesterday of making "a
grandstand play" by economiz
ing on Navy funds. He said the
committee "is to have a lot to
say about this."
Toppling Piano Kills
Two Young Children
CORTLAND, N. Y.. Oct. 13.
l'.T Doug Stebblng, 4, and his
brother, Roy. 3, were crushed to
death yesterday when an upright
piano their mother was moving
toppled over.
The children had been playing
on the living room floor in their
home.
Their distraught mother, Mrs.
Andrew Stebbing, ran a quarter
of a mile before she found two
neighbors to help her right the
piano. The boys were pronounced
dead on arrival at a hospital.
DEATH RIDES HIGHWAY Pictured here are the cars in which two aged persons met their
death and a third person was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon near Boswell Springs north
of Yoncalla, State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell reported Warren A. Shaw, 80, of Warrenton, Ore.,
lone occupant of one car, and Mrs. Charles S. (Cora) Wolfsen, 60, of Everett, Wash., were
killed outright. Mr. Wolfsen, about 73, driver of the second car, was taken to Mercy hospital,
but removed Wednesday to a Eugene hospital. His condition is reported as "serious."
2 Brothers Slain
In Oregon Woods
TOLEDO, Ore.. Oct. 13 0P
The bodies of two brothers were
found sprawled beside a brushy
trail northeast of here last night
after a middle-aged rancher told
the sheriff "I hurt them.
Dead of bullet wounds were
Melvin Longyear, about 25, and
his brother, Charles Longyear,
about 22.
Held in the Lincoln county jail
without charge is Norman Homer
Ldwards, 50.
Sheriff Tim Whelo said Ed
wards telephoned him at home
yesterday and said he waited to
see him. The sheriff drove to his
office and there met Mr. and
Mrs. Edwards.
"Get the coroner and an am
bulance and go up the Siletz riv
er and get the Longyear boys,"
Whelp said Edwards told him.
"I hurt them about noon. You'll
find them if you go up the trail
on Brush creek. It was either
them or me."
The sheriff with Coroner Fran
klin Barker and 17 men set out
in the dark and late last night
came upon the bodies in the
Nashville district 40 miles north
east of here.
Whelp said that Edwards, after
making his initial statement, de
clined to comment except to say
that one of the Longyear men was
armed.
Although there had been some
dispute between the Edwards and
Longyear families for a number
of years over a property boun
dary. Whelp said, there was no
known evidence of ma,or friction.
Two Injured In
Collision Of Cars
A two-car collision last night
two miles south of Roseburg on
Highway 99 resulted in injuries
to two persons, passengers in the
respective cars, according .o
State Police Sgt. Lyle Harrell.
Susan Volk, Roseburg, suffered
shock, lacerations and possible
internal injuries, according to th,;
officer's report. She was a pas
senger in a car driven by Ed
ward Joseph Kenney, Roseburg.
She was taken to Merry hospital.
Also Injured and in the hotpital
was Thomas Jackson. 71, of Myr
tle Creek, who sustained cuts,
bruises and an ankle injury. He
was a passenger in another car
driven by Roy Edwin Allen, 50,
of Myrtle Creek.
According to the officer's re
port, Kenney, who was uninjur
ed, was over the yellow line,
forcing the Allen car into the
ditch as a result of the collision.
Kenney was cited for operating
in the left lane of traffic.
Oregon Polio Cases In
Week Increased By 23
PORTLAND, Oct. 13.(.B
There were 23 new poliomyelitis
cases in uregon last week, one
ending In a fatality, the state
board of health reported todav.
The year's tallv to date is 201
cases and 15 deaths.
Portland had five of the new
cases reported. Marion county had
three. The others were scattered
throughout the state.
Portland Red Cross
Dates Gen. Marshall
PORTLAND, Oct. 13 (Pi
Gen. George C. Marshall, new
chief of the American Red Crons,
will be a dinner speaker here
Oct. 26 at a Portland Multnomah
chapter meeting.
LAUGH'S ON THIEF
ONEONTA, N. Y., O. t. 13.
P Shoe salesman M. L. Holt
of Scotia wondered today what
the thief who stole three cases of
samples from his car would do
with the loot.
It included 48 shoe, all for the
right foot, and $40 worth .if
woolen
socks, none of whicn j
match.
ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1949
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Discharged Woman
Accused Of "Witchcraft"
ELDRIDGE, Calif.. Oct. 13
(T A woman employee dismiss
ed for "witchcraft" gets a hear
ing today at the Sonoma State
home for the feeWe minded.
She is Mrs. Lorena Blackwell,
dismissed Sept. 8 and accused of:
1. Scaring patients by grab
bing them in the dark.
2. Threatening to put a
"curse" on patients and em
ployes. 3. Terrifying patients by the
"practice of witchcraft."
Canton Awaits Red Army
As Nationalists Flee
HONG KONG, Oct. 13 UP)
Telephoned reports from Canton
said Nationalist forces tonight
abandoned the South China city
Plans for all organized resistance
ended wiahin the provisional cap
ital. i.ntry or communist troops
is now awaited.
Livestock Ban Applies
Only To Bulls, Ruling
SALEM, Oct. 13 P- It's O.K.
for cows, heifers and steers to
run at large In Benton county.
But the bulls can't do it.
Attorney General Neuner, who
today that the law against live
stock running at large in Benton
county applies only to the male
bovines.
Bomber Crashes,
Explodes; 12 Die
ISLEHAM, Eng., Oct. 13.
(API . A U. S. air force B-50
bomber with a load of live
bombs dived into a wheat field
today and exploded with a roar
heard 12 miles away. All 12
crew members were killed.
The plane, designed as the
atom-bomb carrying version of
the B-29, was on a 180-mile
practice mission to the North
Sea island of Helgoland with
twelve 500-pound bombs.
CHRISTMAS GARB PLANNED
Retail Trades Assn., City
To Unite In Decorations.
Starting On November 25
The Roseburg Retail Trades association yesterday approved Nov.
25 at the day the city is to begin decorating for the coming Christmas
holiday season.
luncheon at the Umpqua hotel,
retail merchants will cooperate
with city officials and civic and
service organizations in planning
and financing the decoration".
Decorating will begin the day aft
er Thanksgiving, wilh the entire
business section slated to be
garbed In holiday at tire by the
following Monday.
Merchants voted to use the'r
entire decorating fund fur pur
chase of several brightly colored
Santa Claus statuettes. Costing
about $20 each, the Santa Clausr.-:
are constructed of hard rubber,
framed by silver tiniel material
and colored lights all on a heavy
iron wire frame. The group ap
proved a sample of the decora
tion displayed by RTA President
Roland West.
A report was also heard from
Jack Josse, who was recently
contacted by a lxs Angeles firm
which manufactures decorations
lor holiday events.
City Buys Material
City Manager Matt Slankanl
told the group the city has al
ready purchased over $700 woith
of decorating material, consist
ing mainly of strings of colored
lights, cord and switch boxes.
A proposal to have city stores
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Shirley Temple
Seeking Diyorce
HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 13. (.)
Shirley Temple's marriage is on
tne rocks, ner attorney announced
today.
The 21-year-old actress and her
John Agar have separated, Attor-1
ney oeorge Mamman said, and
he is drawing up divorce papers.
He said the grounds have not been
determined.
A close friend, however, said
she probably will charge mental
cruelty.
"There Is no career trouble,"
the friend said.
The blonde one time child star,
who In recent years has made a
comeback as an adult, married
Agar, also an actor, Sept. 19, 1945.
Their dughler, Linda, was born
Jan. 30, 1918.
The curly-haired Shirley was
an actress at four, a star at five,
the No. 1 boxoffice attraction at
six and for four straight years
received academy awards for the
best performance by a child.
Shirley's romance and subse
quent marriage was followed by
millions who had watched "Little
Miss Marker" grow up. She was
only 17 when she and Agar, then
24, were wed. He was a sergeant
in the air forces, hut shortly was
released and he quickly got film
assignments.
His wife once said he was "a
natural" and would go farther
In pictures than she, but so far
his roles have not been outstand
ing. Burglar Loots Home
Of Donald K. Mulder
Donald K. Mulder, Melrose
route, box 317, reported a burg
lary at his home sometime be
tween 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wed
nesday, State Police Sgt. Lyle
Harrell said.
Entry was made by prying the
lock of the front door. Numerous
household articles were taken, to
gether with rings, fishing equip
ment, electric razor and other
articles.
Also taken were 12 travelers'
cheques, bearing Mulder's name,
and a certificate of title with his
name to a 1941 Buick sedan.
remain open one night a week
during the fall and winter seasons
was overwhelmingly defeated by
a vote of the group. Owners of
local concerns Included in their
arguments against night openings
the trend toward shorter working
hours, the hardship the proposal
would work on both employes
and employers, and expressed
doubt that possible Income from
sales would outweigh extra cosu
of operation.
Independent merchants weie
united in their opposition to fol
lowing the lead of large national
chain stores toward a general one
night opening.
However, the group approved a
motion that stores remain open
until 9 p.m. Monday through Fri
day preceding Christmas. In ap
proving the move, the group in
dicated there would be no special
Christmas season opening date.
Although most merchants will
have special Christmas window
displays by Nov. 30, no general
window unveiling is planned.
John Hardiman, member of tl
merchants' fall opening commit
tee, expressed gratitude to Rose,
burg residents, city officials and
cooperating merchants for mak
ing tne recent tan opening an
i overwhelming success.
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Workshop Of
Teachers Ends
This Afternoon
Institute Will Follow
Tomorrow; Speakers On
Pertinent Topics Listed
With the two-day county ele
mentary teacher reading work
shop drawing to a close this after
noon following a panel discussion
held in the Rose school audito
rium, preparations are being com-
fileted for the all-county teacher
nstitute Friday.
The institute, to Include high
school teachers, as well as ele
mentary, will open at 9 a.m. in
the Roseburg junior high build
ing. Jack Plug, Reedsport princi
pal and president of the Douglas
County chapter of the Oregon
Education association, will pre
side during the morning session.
The Roseburg band, directed by
Charles A. Ricketts. will enter
tain from 9 o'clock until 9:20, after
which an hour's session will be
given over to the O. E. A. business
session. Eollowing business trans
actions, a report will he given
on the National Education asso
ciation convention at Boston by
Mrs. Margaret McGee, Douglas
county delegate.
Martha Shull, president of the
O. E. A., will then speak on "What
Are We For?" and Howard Bill
ings, director of research, O. E. A.,
will speak on "Action In the
Teaching Profession."
At 10:20, Junior High Principal
R. R. Brand will speak briefly on
the "Teachers' Credit Union."
This will be followed by an
nouncements and intermission.
At 10:30 Dr. E. W. Warrington,
head of the religious and philos
ophy department, Oregon State
collrge, will deliver the address
of the morning. His topic will be
teaching Knrlched by Adven
tures." Dismissal for lunch will
be at 11:30. Luncheons will be
served in the school cafeteria.
Paul Elliott, Roseburg superin
tendent of schools, will preside
at the afternoon session, opening
at 1 p.m. with selections by the
Roseburg school choruses. These
will Include the sophomore girls
chorus directed by Wendell John-
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Photographer
Takes Position
At Clark's Studio
Don Edwards, recently of Phil
adelphia, Pa., has assumed a po
sition as photographer with
Clark's studio. Roseburg.
Edwards, his wife, and their
twoandahalfyearold son are
living temporarily on Pitzer
street, until they secure a per
manent home.
Edwards was employed for
nine years hv the Eastman Kodas
company at Rochester, N. Y. For
the past three years he has been
a free lance photographer in Phil
adelphia, doing assignments for
Country Gentleman and other
publications.
In coming to Roseburg, the Ed
wards' are answering a desi.'e
they have always had to "come
to the West Coast." he said.
Mrs. Edwards, writing under
her name Charlotte Edwards, is
a free lance writer. Her short
stories have appeared in Wom
an's Home Companion, Ladies
Home Journal, Collier's, and Sat
urday Evening Post.
At Clark's studio, Edwards will
do general studio photographic
work and commercial and wed
ding photography.
Bonding Company Sues
Utility's Ex-Cashier
The Fidelity & Casualty com
pany, a bonding company, of New
York, has filed suit in circuit
court against Carlysle E. Park
er, asking Judgment for $3, 306. .')..
The complaint alleges that the
company, under which Mountain
States Power company was bond
ed, suffered total loss of $3,772.77.
This sum, the complaint charges,
was "embezzled'' by the defend
ant while he was employed as a
cashier for the power company
between Jan. 1, 1914, and Jan. I
22. 1045.
The complaint states that'
Mountain States has been reim- j
hursed for its alleged losses, but
that the bonding company has
received In return only $1W.42.
Oregon Bankers Assn.'s
Former President Dies
GLEN DALE. Calif., Oct. 13
(.It- William G. Tait, 78, one time
president of the Oregon Bankers
association, died Monday.
He had made his home In the
Los Angeles area since 1022. Dur
ing his active career he had been
president of the First National
bank In Tillamook and in Med
lord. TWO SCHOOLS ROBBED
EST AC A DA, Oct. l.WnThe
robbery of two schools here was
reported today.
Burglars broke Into the grade
school and the high school, blow
Ing the dials off the school safes.
They got $125 In cash and a $350
movie projector.
Rebuff Dealt
President By
Vote Of 53-1 5
Power Commissioner
Branded "Pink," Aide Of
Commies In Years Past
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. UP
A smarting 53-to-15 defeat on
the reappointment of Federal
Power Commissioner Leland Old
today handed President Truman
his third and sharpest Senate
rebuff this year on an important
nomination.
Despite the pressure of party
discipline which Mr. Truman mar
shalled behind the nominee, the
Senate refused overwhelmingly to
return Olds to the commission lor
a third term.
The vote came shortly after
midnight. It followed weeks 3f
debate which steadily mounted In
heat and bitterness.
Opponents shouted that Olds Is
a foe of capitalism, that 20 years
ago he wrote articles that helped
promote communism.
Senator Edwin C. Johnsonf D
Colo) called him "A warped, ty
raroical, mischievous, egotistical
chameleon whose predominant
color is pink."
Senators supporting the nomi
nation countered with charges
that private gas and oil Interests
were backing the fight against
Olds.
They pictured him as a devoted
REJECTED Lel.nd Olds.
above, member of the Federal
Power commission, lost reappoint
ment when the Senate last nlgnt
refused to confirm his nomina
tion, despite a personal appeal by
President Truman.
public servant trying to protect
consumers by effective utility
regulation.
Democratic leader Lucas, of Il
linois, refused to say, after tha
vote, what effect Mr. Truman's
directions for the party to tak
the Olds fight back to the peopla
had on the outcome.
President Silent . i
Olds said he had nothing to
say about the Senate's action be
yond this: "I think everybody
knows where I stand and what I
stand for."
He told a reporte rthat he had
made no plans about another Jub
"I Just haven't gotten around to
that yet."
The White House was silent on
the Senate rebuff to the presi
dent. Charles G. Ross, the presi
dent's press secretary, withheld
comment. Asked the president's
reaction, he replied tersely:
"I have no expression from
him."
Reporters wanted to know If
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Communists' Case
Is Nearing Jury
NEW YORK. Oct. -(m The
government's case against 11 high
U. S. communists neared the Jury
today when the government com
pleted its summation.
Federal Judge Harold R. Me
dina's charge was expected to
take about two and one half
hours, so the Jurors mav pet the
case about 12:30 or 1 p.m. (PST).
The 11 communists, who form
the communist party's American
polltburo, are charged with con
spiring to reorganize the party
in 1945 to teach and advocate the
violent overthrow of the United
St.-itcs government.
U. S. Attorney John F. J. Mo
Gohcy, completing his summa
tion, referred to the Intimation of
Eugene Dennis, one of the de
fendants, that the party might
go underground if the defendants
are convicted.
"I assure you," McGohey said,
"that if the party goes completely
underground, the F. B. I. will go
along wilh them, performing with
customary efficiency the task as
signed to them in the detection of
crime."
Ltvity Ft Rant
By L. F. KtMt4a
One suspects that an accu
rate count of the world's atomic
bombs right now would list
Russia's total on the right-hand
side of the decimal.
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