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a 10 Th Newi-Rcvitw, koiebbrg, Or. Mon., Oct. 24, 1949 Labor's Drive For Pensions Will Force Govt. Adoption Of Townsend Plan, Solon Says WASHINGTON (JFi Senator Downey (D.-Callf.) predict! that labor'! drive for pension! will force the government to adopt the principle! of the Townsend plan. Downey said that Senate advocate! of more liberal old age pen sions will seek next year to write the Townsend plan into the house-passed social security bill. "I am still convinced.' Downey Arthur De Mott Assumes Position As Navy Recruiter Arthur DeMott, aviation ele tronics chief, has assumed the position of Navy recruiter in Rosehurg. He comes here from San Diego, where he also was in the recruiting service. DeMott succeeds William For han, who was transferred to ear lier based sea duty recenly. With DeMott's assignment here, came the announcement that the Navy recruiter is auth orized to spend up to 75 per cent of hi time In recruiting men for the Naval Reserve program. Advantage of belonging to the Naval Reserve, he pointed out, Is that it gives anyone who is Navy-mindrd a chance to start his retirement program, should he Intend to Join the regular navy later. Naval reservists are also given regular advancement In rating! and a priority on enlistments when openings In the regular navy occur, DeMott said. DeMott is maklnr; his home temporlly on S. Pine street, with his wife and two-month-old daughter. RECRUIT COURSE ENDED Raymond F. Davidson, seaman recruit, USN, son of Mr. and Mis. Joe Davidson of S1!H Hamilton si.. Rosehurg, has completed recruit training with Company No. 208. at the Naval Training center, San Diego. Calif. Davidson entered the Naval service July 16, 1949. at the Na val Recruiting station, Portland. Prior to entering the service he attended Oak Grove school, Sti! well, Okla., and worked for I'mp qua dairy while living In Rose burg. Boswell Mineral Baths Chiropractic Physiotherapy Clinic Lady Attendants 1 Mile S. of Drain. Orcon Have You Rheumatism or Neuritis? Read This About eight years ago I was living In San Diego. At that time I was 78 years old and in a critical condition. My legs were badly swollen, ankles had sores on them and between my toes on both feet was raw sores. I ti led many remedies and Doctors and got no relief. I finally heard of a Doctor In the Medical Building who said that he had been with the Mayo Bros, for six years. He told me right away that my trouble was poor or no circulation In my feet, and also told me that he could help me. 1 was put to bed for three weeks with my head six Inches below my fret. At the end of the time my sores were all healed and I was very grateful. . He then told me that 1 would have to sleep the rest of my days, with my head below my feet. I did this for more than a year, it was a misery hut It kept me out of trouble. One evening after I was undressed 1 got to looking at my feet, all red and slightly swollen. The Idea came to me, "why not stick your feel straight up and massage them." I laid bark on the bed, stuck both feet straight up and commencing at the toes I used both hands, putting on pressure downwards clear to my body for about ten minutes. My feet and legs had become perfectly white, showing that all of the blood had been worked out of them, and hen blood fame back It no doubt was the same kind of blood as surged In the rest of the body. I have followed this method for about three years every night and while my feet still get red and slightly swollen 1 have had no sores on them. Before I had this treatment I had on both feet soft and hard corns. They are all gone. There Is no doubt about stale and poisonous blood settled In the feet, poor circulation or non causing. Such misery as Rheumatism. Neu ritis, Arthritis. Varicose Veins and hardening of the Arteries and In many cases Gangieen and perhaps amputation of the feet. I told a friend who had a bad case of Diabetes and he got relief right away. This Idea Is no cure but if ou follow it faithfully. It will keep you out of trouble. There is another cause of Rheumatic pains which al.:o comes from the feet. It is the falling of the metatarsal arch. Poor circulation may be the cause of this. A Friendly Old Timer. said, ' that the fundamental prin ciples of the Townsend plan are right." The principles, he said, are to have a "flat sum of $75 to $150 a month paid as a matter of right, and not charity, to every unemployed person at age 65 in the case of men and at age 60 to 62 in the case of women." Such a plan, he said, involving expenditures of $7,000,000,000 to $8,000,000,000 a year, "could only be financed by a widely spread tax extracted from the wealth of the nation." "Labor's push for pensions, with various unions competing for the best type of pension, in evitably will drive the govern ment to some plan such as this," Downey said. The house-passed social -ecur-lty bill would broaden the cove--age and increase benefits of the present old age and survivors in surance. Financed, as the present sys tem, by payroll taxes, the tax on employer and employee would b increased from the present 1 per cent each to 1 1-2 per cent in 1950, 2 per cent In 1951, 2 1-2 in 1952, 3 in 19.56. and 3 1 4 in 1970. Downey said this still would require needy retired persons to depend upon state old age pen sion systems for additional funds to meet necessary living expenses. Mori Members Desired By Retail Credit Assn. Members of the Retail Credit association will hold their regular monthly meeting at the Umpqua hotel Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. All current members are ask ed to attend and to bring a pros pective member as a guest. Robert Rennle, president, re minded present members that the organization is still in the grow ing stages. Before the RTA can do the job for which it was form ed, Rennle said, its membership must be enlarged. The Retail Trade association extends membership to every re tail merchant In the area who grants credit to customers. Patrolman Prevents Serious Fire At Plant Merchant Patrolman W. I. He hard revealed that quick action hy his son, Kenneth, also a mer chant patrolman, may have pre vented serious fire at the Coop er Implement company late Fri day night. Discovery of burning paint thinner at the plant sent young Hebard speeding to the Rosehurg (ire department, where he made the report. Firemen brought the blaze under control after remov ing the paint tank from the build ing. TYPHOID CASES REPORTED EUC1KNE P A third case of typhoid near here brought a warning from health authorities today for 25 families northwest of here to take innnculnlions. The most recent case was that of a 14 year-old boy. All have been In the same area, where about 75 persons get their water from wells. , MU -1A aVL x i Notes Of Douglas Students At OSC Bv ROD NEWLAND CORVALMS. Ore., Oct. 20 Tlie fioM of 23 candidates (or homecoming qupon has horn cut down to five now, with the re mainlng freshman women con ftLsling of the homecoming court. Among those remaining in the race for homecoming queen is Joan Rutter, a l!M9 graduate of Rosehurg high. She is represent ing Snell hall, one of (he women's dormitories on the campus. The homecoming queen will he chosen Thursday night, hut her identity will not he disclosed un til Oet. 2S. when she will he in troduced at the midnight show in connection with homecoming. The queen nnd hcrcourt will also he inlroducrd during the ha'f time entertainment of the OSC WSr foothill game and at the student body dance, both on Saturday. r FARMERS Local claims service is your assur ance of fast tepairs when your car is damaged. LOW RATES . . . on collision and liability cov erage gives you standard protec tion at substantial SAVINGS Liability oCverage $5000-10,000 bodily injury. $5000 property damage. No Extra Charge for Age, Milcoge or Business Uit Over 600.000 Western Motorists Insure and Save Through Farmer! Standard Form Nonassessable Policies. X J inwa Farmers Insurance Exchange Wl .I'M c i 4-n W:if n 4 t The Rook rally squad wai chos en at a freshman class meeting Wednesday with Joan Rutter as a member. She was the veil queen for Rosehurg high In )ier senior year. The yell squad will make its debut Friday afternoon. Jack Mai his. also of Rosobutvr. goes into the defensive line-up against the University of Port land Kreshman for the "Rooks" second game of the season. Bill Brady. Marilyn Mnser, and Dick Home make up the lead parts in the speech department prKluction. "Storm in a Teacup." scheduled for Nov. in. 11 and 12. E. S. Cortright, director, an nounced. Brady is a 10 in graduate of Rosehurg hisn. He will pi ty Mr. Thompson, the pompous provost. "Storm in a Teacup' is a sh tire on politics and revolves around Patsy, a dog. and the plight into which he is thrown. Palsy symbolizes the individual in conflict with the totality ot government. Paul H. Krueger 636 S. Stephens Phone 518 $M Each six months Current Rates Plus $5. 00 Nonrecurring Fee at Beginning of Policy The West's Leading Auto Insurance Carrier "V. ' ii A TsT sUV iif 1 1 iyiW-i , 'i - .i -i-t saWisssssr-' -i-r- - - . .. a a. v- mm--- 'if LOCAL Club To Meet Riversdale Happy Hour club will meet with Mrs. Dale Guiley at her home Wednesday at 2 p.m., with Mrs. Donald Guiley as co-hostess. Back from Portland Mr. and Mis. H. O. Pargeter have re turned from Portland after spending several days there on business. Visits in Eugene Mrs. A. D. Haw n has returned to her home on Blakelev street after visitin? in V, ,..... i.iih li.r ertn an.) j ri.niiclitrr in law, Mr. and Mrs. La- erne iiawn. B.icle From Deschutes Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kruse of Rivers dale and Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Morris. Fisher road, returned Thursday nicht from a hunting trip in the Deschutes. Kruse and Morris both brought back a deer. Still in Race Miss Dona Mears of Hoseburg is one of 12 coeds still in the race for the Sweet heart of Sigma Chi on Willam ette university campus at Salem. Tonight the contestants will ap pear in pedal pushers or levis for another phase of the campus con test. Delta Zeta chapter will host the 12 quarter finalists at an in formal picnic lunch. " . oil: - IM ecl 1 i'tfof Mi Order Your Winter's Fuel Now! 16" Green Slabwood Planer Ends Order your wood now while supplies ore plentiful and you can get prompt delivery. WE ALSO HAVE Sawdust 4' Slabwood 15" Mill Ends U" Dry Slabwood ROSEBURG LUMBER CO. Phon 468 v ri' KIDS AND DOCS war much in evidence at Nielsen's Market Sunday and competition wai rough in the annual Mutt Show.! Mutts, mongrels and pedigrees' were mixed together in grand confjsion as 97 dogs competed or priies in ten classes. Pie-1 tured at upper left it on of the winners, "Pudgie", a com. bination pekingese and toy ter rier, whose ability to perform tricks gava her a first in that division and brought smiles to the face of her young master, David Vineyard. Picture at right shows one cold little entrant who slept through the whole competition. The little girl it Linda Carnahan, aged 6. The sleeping beauty is month-old "Tagalong", whose breed was given by her mistress as "just puppy." Lower photo shows two entrants' regard for their com petitors. "Yati," German box er held by Brica Nielsen and his master, Robert McDermott (center), quiiilically I o o k s down his nose at one of the smallest dogs entered, a toy ter rier and chihauhua mixture ap propriately named "Tiny," held by her master, Tom Keel. (Staff pictures). NEWS Return From Vacation Mr. and Mrs. Jim Turk of Looking glass route have returned from a week's vacation on the Rogue River at Lucky Lodge near Gold Eeach. They brought back their limit of Chinook salmon. Ttie Turks spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bar rows at Bandon where their daughter, Cathy, stayed during the week. Turk also took advant age of duck hunting w hile in Ban don and reports excellent luck. Returns Home Mrs. R. L. Dunn has returned to Rosehurg after spending the past month in Kansas visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Dunn's niece and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Gredda I Austell, graduates of New Tribes Mission school at Chico, Calif., visited at the Dunn home today. They have just been assigned to mission field in Brazil and will leave soon hy plane from Chicago for their field of work. OFFICIAL INJURED PKNDLETON. Oct. 24-(.PVD. V. Davis. I'malilla County as sessor, is in a Wood, Calif., hos pital today with Internal injuries suffered when his car rolled over on a highway near Weed. His f'iswsisVrMSr WNTtK? Shop and Save With Classified Ads Child With Bladder Out Of Body Will Face Knife SPOKANE, (.) A baby girl. Just one year old will re ceive funds to help pay for an operation as one of her birthday presents. The child was born with ner bladder on the outside of her body. The first of a series of operations to correct the rare condition will be performed in Seattle, Oc;. 31. A Spokane civic club donated $75 to help pay part of the ex penses. The little girl. Carolyn Wood, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Wood of Spokane. Czechs Hold 2 Americans On Charge Of Spying PRAGUE. Oct. 24 (.Pi Czechoslovakia arrested an American Embassy clerk Friday and demanded the recall of an assistant attache on charges the two were spies. A note delivered to the U. S. embassy named the arrested clerk as Samuel Maryn, who Is attached to the military attache s office, and the embassy attache as Isaac Patch Jr., who also is vice consul in Prague. Patch comes from Gloucester. Mass. He arrived in Prague last February, after diplomatic ser vice in Moscow and Manchuria. To Relocate U. P. Tracks SPOKANE, JP Plans for re locating the Union Pacific rail road's tracks in the vicinity of Mc Nary dam were announced here by Arthur E. Stoddard, pre sident of the company. Stoddard said an alternate plan worked out with the Army corps of engineers had been aeceptej. The new schedule calls for the relocation of 11 miles and 11 milei of new construction be tween Wallula and Hinkle, Ore. The railroad president said the plan calls for service into Uma tilla on a branch line from Hin kle. Stoddard said the change would improve service between Spokane and Portland. School For O. N. G. Man SALE M, F) Three Oregon National guard men have been ordered today to attend army service schools. They are: 2nd Lt. George H. Mahoney, Co. F, 162nd Infantry, Portland, or dered to attend infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., from Oct. ZS to tea. 23. Sgt. Alexander C. Laver, Co. B, 162nd Infantry, Salem, ordered to food service school, Presidio of San Francisco, from Oct. 28 to Feb. 1. Pvt. Harrv M. drossier. Co. L, 186th Infantry, Astoria, ordered to food service school, Presidio of San Francisco, from Doc. 12 to March 15. Jobless Total Up SALE M, (P) Oregon's total employment Is still at near-record levels, but unemployment is serious, too, the state unemploy ment compensation commission reports. On October 1, the commissi-)!! said, there were 36.000 jobless persons in the state, compared with 21.000 a year ago. And the commission said the number of unemployed probably is consider- anty greater now tnan It was on October 1. It blames the decline on shut downs in the lumber industry and the end of the harvest sea son. Proposal On Education WASHINGTON (JP) A bill to consolidate all government educa tion activities in the Office of Education under a commissioner is proposed by Senator Morse (R.-Ore.) The proposal would set up a board of 11 members, each to serve for 11 years, and an SIS,-000-ayear salary for the com missioner. He said the beard would be em powered with control and super vision of the policies and pro gram of the office of education. Members would not be paid but would be recompensed for thir expenses in attending meetings. BABY'S BODY FOUND SPOKANE. Oct. 22 (.-Pi The body of a baby boy found in the Spokane river Friday has been tentatively identified as the son of a woman who jumped to her death from the Monroe street bridge Oct. 1. The bodies of Ms. Marie Klce, 36. and her four-monthold son, Charles, were found in the river immediately after the tragedy. It was believed she also carried two-year-old Frank Klee in the death lean. Mrs. Klee, who was estranged from her husband, is survived by another son, 18. SMALLER SPUDS GOAL MEADVILLE. Pa.t.Tn Farm ers in these parts faced a real puzzler today: how to grow smaller potatoes. The spuds raised this year were just too darned big. Farmer Ira Sheets figured he has the answer. He'll plant his potatoes on poorer ground next year. Then, he opines, there won't be too much waste. It seems his wife would cook one potato for a meal for her self and her husband and the two of them couldn't finish it off. wife escaped with shock and bruises. Davis is secretary-treasurer of the Oregon Ass-x-intion of Couniv Assessors and former association president. He and his wife were enroute to an assessors' conven tion at San Diego. ITCH '9cahtM ! htaTM rrtn. ta cious a rid will con- ttnua for lift if not atopord. Its sol nuts la th ttch-ml. which Is immunt to ordinary treat r"nt RXSORA mils tha Iter-mit almost instantly Onl tht- dsV FXORA tratmfnt ta rouir. Mail erdr iivn prompt attaotioa. Notice NO Hl'NTlNG or trnpautnl on our properly South of In. North Cmpqua River to th. Garden Valley Road and West of the R R tracks to tna South I'mpqua River Ed Marks. John Marks. Ora Wclker. War. Broa WE WILL Prosecute' anyone found huntins or treapassing on ouj prop erty on Roberta Mountain Road. Merl. H- Doering and J Carl Doer In! 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