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2 Tha Newt-Review, Roseburg, Of. Thur., Oct. 20, 1949 Community Chest Drivt Plant Arranged (Continued from Page One) ment program and the Armed Services program. Committee Listed The local campaign will be con ducted by more than nine commit tees. Committers and their mem bers, as released by the planning group, Include the following: Steering: Harold Hickcrson, chairman; Tom Parfce'er, Wilson Hinsen, Jean Whittcnbcrg, W. J, Adair. Advance gifts: Harold Schmecr, chairman; Harry Pargeter, Earl Garrison, Howard Oil, Bruce El liott, Roy O. Voting, Al Henniger, Roy Cummings, Or. B. R. Shoe maker, Dexter Rice, M. M. Nel son, John Todd, Jim Slattciy, Frank Bodin, Charles Emory, Carl Wimberly, Paul Geddes, Tom Parkirson, Bob Gile. Publicity and speaking: Charles V. Stanton, chairman; Rev. W. A. MacArthtir, Rev. Morris Roach, Leroy Hiatt, Helen Casey, Dick Gilman, Al Elegel. Prospects: Ed Murphy, chair man; Harry Pargeter, Ed Young, Duane Baker. Employees division (contact firms with mote than 20 em ployee?): Roy Cummings, chair man: Dwayne Buel, John Kelt, Joe Morgan. Shoemaker said the Business and Professional Women's club accepted the assignment of con tacting all employes of School Dis t let 4 and will also contact the cltv employes. The Junior Women's club will contact the county employees re siding wilhln the city, including the county officials and court house employes. Four Roseburg service clubs and the Junior Chamber of Com merce will contact firms with less than 20 employes. Other civic and service clubs will be pressed Into service In the near future, Chairman Shoemaker added. Campaign headquarters are lo cated at the E. G. High insurance offices. Chairman Shoemaker said vari ous firms having agreed to par ticipate under the pnvroll deduc tion plan will he publicized soon. Truman Will Renew Urge For Tax Boost (Continued From Page One) 'In taxes and then went on to say j he doesn't know of any other way to mpet the deficit. I As to how he would raise the j funds to meet the deficit, the ' president said he would cross that bridge w hen he got to It. ! Chairman George UXJa) of the Senate finance commiltee told a reporter it Is his understanding the House Ways and Means com ; mittee will begin hearings on a i tax bill shortly after Congress I meets again. George already has announced his committee will consider House j approved social security legisla tion in January, i Controversy Shunned ! President Truman harred ques tions on the national defense con troversy. He said he wanted to make It clear tha' he did not Intend to answer any questions at this time about the row among the armed services. The president said he will ask Congress next year for money to push the atomic energy commis sion's expansion program but de nied that the plan stems from evi dence of an atomic explosion In Russia. He said Ihe commission has ...30.000.rKiO to start the work at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanfnrd, Wash. He added that he will not know how much the program will cost until he has an opportunity to talk It over with the commission and the budget bureau, hut that he has seen a figure of $.100,000,000 men tioned in the papers. In a statement he said that the decision to expand the atomic fa cilities "Is the result of careful studies directed toward finding means of increasing our produc tion capacity in an orderly fashion." 1 JUST WANTED TO KNOW LINCOLN, Neb. (.11 It was no Idle stroll that took th young man In Army uniform to Ihe Lancaster county cniirlhouse here. With a piettv girl and a clipped white poodle In tow, the man wanted lo know where to: 1. Get a dog license. 2. Re-s-ler his pedigreed poodle. 3. Get a license to remarry If his ffi Sill i x x r; rs ' . sr.-: !Z V Custom Slaughtering and Curing Hove your onimol slaughtered and cut by us. We cut and wrap each piece for your locker. Pork Slaughered Tuesday Beef and Veal Monday, Tuesday and Wedneiday. Limit ed to these days in accordance to the Brand Inspection laws. Beef, veal and pork for your locker at wholesale prices. ROSEBURG MEAT CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FROZEN FOOD LOCKERS 624 Winchester Phone 280 Annexation Advantages Told To Suburanites (Continued from Page One) been Increased to $130,000. The assessed value of the city has Increased to over $7,323,000. This Is part of the reason for the low ering of the city tax rate to 1S.6 mills. It is well to note that the budget has been increased $16fl,000 and the tax rate has been lowered 4.4 mills, j New Benefits Lilted "Streets are being graded and graveled by city crews. Many streets have been resurfaced and patched. New equipment has been bought and the personnel of the street department doubled. A large equipment garage has been constructed. A full time mechanic has been hired to maintain equip ment. "Transmitting receiving radio equipment has been bought for the fire trucks and police cars i and motorcycles. I "Roseburg boasts 113 modern I mercury vapor street lights, cost ing $51,000. "A new municipal swimming pool was constructed by city em ployees at a great saving to the people of Roseburg. "A new park and recreation department has been formed, to provide better recreation facili ties. Plans have been approved for a community kitchen and large outdoor fireplace in Ump qua nark. "we of Roseburg are proud of the fact that we have secured much needed facilities without increasing taxes. The city of Rose- ourg is in mum better shape to give added fan I it Ins to areas be coming part of the city. Extensions Desired "Roseburg has not slopped with what has been done. We think it desirable to install more street lighting. We think the new mod ern lighting should go out Mili tary, Corey and Harvard to Ihe Kail haven market; to the south city limits, and on the Norih Umpqua highway east lo the city limits. "The city crews are in position to grade and gravel the streets of Rosehuig and all added areas. When new areas become part of the city, they get Ihe same con sideration as the present city. "West Roseburg. .Millers addi tion and Sleepy Hollow are in need of street work and scwen. The city, Ihrough Its qualified personnel ran give attention lo these services much quicker than any area trying to develop its own facilities and improvements. "It Is a known fact that the assessed valuation of the outside areas is low, therefore It will 0c hard lo finance all of the needed sanitary and street improve ments. "It Is very desirable that In the coming election Ihe truth be given persons living In the areas voting. Jt can be assumed that these areas want to become part of this thriving community and have a voice in matters pertain ing to its oerallon. "We must cooicrate with un derstanding, both the citizen o the areas and the city offl-ials. We must all vole, so there an be no question as lo Ihe feeling. If annexation is approved. "We all know thai If Ihe prdpo sltinn fails, valuable time will be lost, as sooner or later an other election will be held lo cor rect the bad conditions existing in these areas." LOCAL NEWS III at Horn Gladys Foley is reported to be 111 at her home on the Garden Valley road. Attend Meeting Hazel Smith, Golda Nickell and V. Vivian Logsdon of Roseburg attended the southwest Oregon district conierence of B.P.W.C. at Von calla Sunday. New Electric Lines Will Serve Lower Umpqua Area (Continued from Pag One) The Weather P. E. O. Tea Chapter BI, P. E. O. Sisterhood will meet at the home of Mrs. K. D. Lytle, 928 Chapman street Friday after noon at 2 o'clock. This meeting will be followed at 3 o'clock by a tea for girls of the senior class and senior class faculty members. Congress Adjourns With Much Business Deferred (Continued from Page One) Beneficiary Perpetuates Student Assistance Plan LOS ANGKLKS - (.PI When Francisco Bravo was a young medical student, he worked nights at a gas station and could studv onlv in the intervals he. tween cars. He wondered then if there wasn't some way life could he made easier for amhitimts Mexiran Amerirans of limited I means. Now. as I)r Frn,.ii.i P.iavo. he has found Ihe answer. He he is them himself. Last year he cave MO.000 of the earnings of his Bravo clinic t finance a .icholarship at the Stan-1 lord University School ol " . cine for Rodnifo Ponce, of Riv era. Calif. Recently he cave Wil. ham Iiaz, of Riverside. Calif, $2,000 to cover a tour-car course at the School of Pharmacy of the I niversitv of Southern t'alifni-ni. Pr. Bravo attached one string to these awards. The young men he befriends must promise to aid other Mexican-Americans who desire professional careers. , on Installment credit and bank loans expire In June. Social Security Kxpanded cov erage and increased benefits ap- proved by House, but no action III oriiaic. National Health Insurance No action In either chamber. Both houses approved extension of fed eral aid in hospital construction progiam. Education Plan for federal aid lo slates passed by Senate, but boll led up in Hou.se labor com miltee. Rent Controls -Relected a re quest for two-year extension but approved a one-year continua tion on a states' right basis w here by curbs can be removed by local action. Farm Prooram Shelved the Brannan plan, and approved a compromise price support pro gram which generally provides for a continuation of wartime props under major crops. Defense Proposal for univer sal military training ignored. Big gest peacetime appropriation for armed services approved. Civil Rights - Repeal of pol tax es approved by House, but no action in Senate; anty-lyching legislation approved by Senate committee, and fair employment f radices commission approved oy iouse committee. Pay Raises - Nearly every fed eral employe from a buck private up to the commander-in-chief him self and including postal work ers, civil service employes and top executives were voted salary hikes. FOREIGN AFFAIRS Economic Second vear's In stallment on Marshall plan aid to Kurope approved; reciprocal trade agreemenis program renewed without rest ricl ions voted by last Congress; international wheat agreement ratified by Senate; ex port controls extended for two years: plan to aid developme.it of backward areas of wo. Id witii government-backed nrivate in vestments not acted on by either I iouse. Displaced Persons Rill to let more homeless Europeans inlo U. S. passed by House. Senate building and warehouse will be located approximately one block nrth of the new City market, on the highway. Final approval of the contract is being awaited from the Rural Electrification admin istration at Washington. D. C. When the new office building is completed, the cooperative will vacate its offices in the Pacific building, in downtown Roseburg, said Backen. The contractors who recently submitted bids for construction of the office building and ware house include the Nord Construe ti n company of Corvallis, $6.1, 7K4.42, and Todd Building com pany, Roseburg, $66,850. Backen said the new substatio-i west of Oakland cost approxi-j match' $25,000 and Includes four! 6G7 kva transformers and one i regulator, the latter to maintain adequate voltage. The substation 'has a full load capacity of 2.000 I kva. ! The new substation Is located jon the Carlton Goff property. With its completion, and of a .14.5 kv feeder line from the I Bonneville Power administration j substation at Drain, The Douglas Electric cooperative discontinues ifs point of delivery from the (California Oregon Power com pany at Oakland. U. S. Weather Bureau Office Roseburg, Oregon Fair and continued cold tonight and Friday. ' Highest temp, for any Oct. ft Lowest temp, for any Oct. 22 Highest temp, yesterday Sit Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. 21 Precipitation last 24 hrs - 0, Precipitation sines Oct. t 2.21 Precipitation sine Sept. 1 .....4.17 Excess sines Sept. 1 1.39 Graveside Services Set For Winnie M. Hunt Graveside services for Mrs. Winnie M. Hunt, who died at Spo kane Oct. 18, will be held at the Fair Oakes cemetery Saturday at 2 p.m. The Rev. C. E. Brit tain will officiate. A former resident of Oakland. Mrs Hunt was the wife of Law rence Hunt. Besides the widower and . three children, two sisters also survive: Mrs. Lloyd Pink sion and Mrs. George Chenoweth of Oakland. Arrangements are In care of Stearns mortuary, Oakland. V. M. Petterson, S. P. Official, Passes Away Word was received in Rose hnr nf the death this morning of V. M, "Vie" Petterson, assist ant general manager of the Southern Pacific company. Pet terson died in the company nos- pital at san f rancisco iunuin . i nAriH nf ill health. He formerly was employed In Roseburg as car distributor. He advanced rapidly in the business and administrative departments and In recent vears served In a managerial capacity. He visited in Roseburg only a few weeks ago following release from the hospital where he had been re ceiving treatment. cnnaril tT-Hr are to he held at 2 p.m. Saturday In Junction U City. Oregon. L. RUMMAGE SALE ot the Episcopal Parish House Friday ond Soturdoy October 21 ond 22 Third Diphtheria Death Is Reported At Medford MEDFORD, Oct. 20. f.P I Medford's third diphtheria death was reported today. A 12-year-old boy, one of the ' first stricken in the present out- break, succumbed to the disease Wednesday night. I No new cases occurred, how-' ever, and health officials ex- pressed hope that the diseas was ! under control. Virtually all the1 grade school pupils In the county i have been immunized. I There have been 11 cases, In cluding three fatal, so far. CANDIDATE FOR QUEEN Miss Joan Rutter. Roseburg high graduate with the class of '49, has been selected as one of five candidates for the honor of homecoming oueen at Oregon State college. The queen will not be announced until the Friday night prior to the homecoming game with Washington State col lege Oct. 29. The remaining four will serve as princesses. Miss Rutter is a freshman at the col lege. . Lebanon has planned a 20-year reforestation program to restore the cedars of Lebanon which were famous in ancient times. 2S vaunt deferred action until next Jan uary. Global Defense The 20-year mutual aid treaty between 12 North Atlantic nations ratified by Senate; a $1,314,010,000 mili tary aid program to help build up defenses of Atlantic nact mem bers and other friendly nations , united against Communism was passed. 1 YOU CAN ENJOY TANK GAS SERVICE Propane Tanks For Rent No Need To Buy UTILITY If SERVICE Pacific Bldg. Roseburg Phone 2.1S t I Crocus Bulbs Darwin Tulip Bulbi Parrot Tulip Bulbs Narcissus Bulbs Yet, now is the time to get thoit bulbs in the ground for blooming next spring. Be sure to stop in to Goettel't and tea their wide selection of bulbs. n many beautiful colon your garden will be like a rainbow next tpring. Be lure and get yours now. Anemone Bulbs Freetia Bulbs Irit Bulbt Hyocinth Bulbt Calla Lilly Bulbt GOETTEL'S 249 N. Jackson Phone 132-J Dt's Hours Fresher LAY-AWAY. . . LAY-AWAY LA Y- AWAY . . LAY - A WAY L AY - A WAY C.S.I.O. 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