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j U. of 0, Library C0?P J Eugene, Ore, SIP mm JV WKO DOES WHAT s' ----- J-. i JANICE ERICKSON, helping in the jewelry department at Millar's during the holiday season, is displaying a necklace to Mrs. Rupert Lee, who admired any rata I saw her buy one that looked like it. Janice, a graduate of Senior high last spring, lives on East Second Avenue North with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Erielcson. . . Truman's Helper In Senator Days Appointed As His Special Counsel WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. UP) Fifteen years ago a young North Carolina law graduate came to Washington hunting a Job. He got one at $2,100 a year which led to an asignment to help a senator from Missouri. And on Feb. 1 he will become the $20,000 special counsel to that man, now the president ol the United States. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS MODERN economics note: Cotton growers have Just voted to accept government con trol over HOW MUCH THEY CAN PLANT In return for gov ernment guarantees of HOW MUCH THEY'LL GET for their crop when it is harvested. HOW come? : ' V Well, with a guaranteed price and. plenty .of fertilizer, the cot ton growers have been growing a whale of a lot of cotton. So much cotton, In . fact, that the government boys are getting worried (among other things, they don't know where they're going to find storage enough to hold all the price-guaranteed cotton). 'So they've had to say to the cotton grower: . . . "See here, Bud. If we're going to pay you the guaranteed price for all you harvest In the fall, you've gotta cut down on what you plant in the spring. Other- (Continued on Page Four) Burglar Draws 15-Year Sentence Joseph McKee, 54, of Myrtle Creek today was sentenced to a total of 15 years in the Oregon state penitentiary on one larceny and two burglary charges, upon a plea of guilty to district attor ney's information. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimber ly imposed sentences of five years each on the following counts: larceny from a store, Henninger's Mart, on Dec. 3, and burglary, Dec. 15 in both the Industrial Electrical Supply , and Western Auto Supply. The sentences are to run consecutively. McKee, the father of two chil dren, was arrested by city offi cers In the Industrial Electric, af ter he was observed by Night Pa trolman Lloyd Leonard. McKee also admitted entering another building that night and confessed to a Eugene safecrack ing Job recently, according to city officers. ' Government's Milk Support Prices Virtually Unchanged WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. UP) Thursday announced that it will support producer prices, of milk used for manufacturing purposes and butterfat during the "next 15 months at virtually the same rates now in effect. The support program for that period should assure dairymen at least $3.07 for 100 pounds of milk of 3.95 percent butterfat con tent and 60 cents a pound for butterfat. These are the same support floors in effect for 1S49. To carry out the support pro gram, the department will offer to buy at specified dairy prices which, officials said, would en able processors and manufactur ers to pay the support levels for milk and butterfat The products which the depart ment will offer to buy Include butter, cheddar cheese, dried milk and evaporated lllk. The department's buying prices for these products in the 15-month period ahead, compar ed with corresponding prices this year, include cheddar cheese, .u it so much she bought it; or at Yesterday President Truman announced to Charles S. Murphy and newsmen that Murphy would succeed Clark ' Clifford, who is resigning to enter the practice of law. After the news conference Mur phy related to newsmen that his first federal Job wasfs a laborer at $1,500 a year In te Wilming ton, N. C, postofflce in 1928. Later he worked in Durham as a postoffice clerk. In Durham he attended Duke university and the Duke Law school. He got his law degree In 1934. "I came right out of Duke to Washlneton." MurDhv related. "I got a job in the Senate Legisla tive counsels oince. The next year Senator Truman (Continued on Page Two) Convict Freed On Murderer's Story COLUMBUS. O.. Dec. 23. UP) An absolute pardon was granted today to a 36-year-old man who has been imprisoned in Ohio Cenitentlary since Nov. 26, 1948, ecause of a mistake. Gov. Frank J. Lausche, it suing the pardon, ordered the immediate release of Ralph Eaches of Richwood, Ohio. . The eovernor. after extensive investigation, found that Eaches was convicted, Dy misiane, oi a grocery store robbery which oc curred in August, 1948, at Marion, Ohio. Eaches, Identified by witnesses as one of two men who held up the store, was sentenced to 25 years in prison . Earl D. Bircham, now awaiting electrocution in the Kentucky state prison, said that he and Charles Hunter but not Eaches robbed the store. Bircham, a former resident of Marion, is awaiting electrocution for slaying a Louisville, - Ky. policeman in a holdup. Eaches has a 10-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter. He is divorced. . : . , . Unclt Sam's Family Tops 150 Million Mark - WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 UP) The United States population has crossed the 150,000,000 mark. The census bureau today esti mated the population, growing at a nuo.ouu-a-montn cup, reacnea 150.183.000 on Nov. 1. This was a 2,132,000 increase in the first 10 months of 1949 and a gain of 18.514,000 since the last full census on April l, 13U. The Agriculture department U.S. grade A' or higher, 31 cents a pound compared with 31.75 cents. Butter. VS. grade A or higher, 60 cents pound, compared with 59 to 62 cents. Non-fat dry milk solids, spray type, U.S. extra, 12.5 cents a oound and 12.25 to 12.75 cents. Non-fat dry milk solids, roller type, U.S. extra, 1U.3 cents a pound and 11 to 11.5 cents. The department bought abou'. 1110.000.000 worth of these proa. ucts this year in carrying out its support programs, it nas sola about $32,000,000 worth. Thp new sunnort Droeram Is designed to reflect at least 79 percent of a new modernized par ity price which goes Into effect Jan. 1. Tho WtOtto Cloudy today, rain lata this afternoon and tonight; showers and cooler Saturday. . Sunset today 4:41 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:43 a. m. Established 1873 Bombers Craft Drops In Flames In Georgia Muck Improved Superfortress Version Meets Tragedy Just After Taking Off DENISON, Tex., Do. 2J m Lt. Rogers Hornsby, 29, son of Rogers Hornsby of baseball fame, was among eleven air men killed when a B-50 bomb er crashed near Savannah, Ga., last night. This was learned today when the victim's mother, Mrs. J R. Hayden of Denlson, was no tified by the Air Force. Young Hornsby was a veter an of 50 bombing missions dur ing the war. He was born and reared In Denlson. SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 23-UP) A flaming Air Force B-50 bomb er crashed in a dreary river marsh last night, killing all 11 airmen - aboard and scattering and burying bodies and wreckage in ine mucK. The big bomber had just taken off from Chatham Air Force base here when it went down on the bank of a branch of the muddy Savannah river. The crasli was only seven miles above the city, but it was so inaccessible it took rescue parties hours to reach it by boat. . ine nrst persons to reacn me (Continued on Page Two) THRIFTY SCOTS Exchange Same Yule Card For Seventeen Years PLAINFIELD. N X." Decf '23 UP) James MacLaren and A. J. Cave' never have trouble de ciding - what Christmas card to send to each other they've been sending the same one back and forth for 17 years. This year It's MacLaren's turn. A native of Scotland now living in nearby Warren township, Mac Laren bought the card for 15 cents back in 1932. Cave lives in Red Bank, N. J.' The card has a little window in lt, and each year the sender changes the cheery message in the window. The canny Scotsman several years ago thought of a way to save the cost of a stamp every other year. The two men work near each other in New York City. Now the sender of the card each year walks to the other's office, and delivers It in person. f Operator Gives Turkeys To Miners PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23 UPy- A coal operator played Santa Claus to his 600 miners today. He gave each employee a 15- pound turkey and ordered the next payday advanced five days. President Leonard Sasso of pe nowa Coal company, with mines at Noblestown, Burgettstown, El dersville, all in Pennsylvania, and in Brooke county, West Vir ginia, said: "This year they need the tur keys so much, i decided to give them out regardless of conditions in the coal mines." The miners currently are work ing only three days a week. On John L. Lewis' orders they will enter the pits only two days the next two weeKS. The miners accepted the pay ana tne turKeys oyousiy. One of the first to get his tur key was E. J. Slack of Sturegon, who said with a broad grin. "This is a big turkey but it'll only make one meal for my fam ily my wife, eight children and my 63-year-oid. mother. Rent Refunds Await 515 Persons U. S. Can't Find WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 UP) The government has $544.50 for William Wallace Braw, but it can t una mm. It also has about $23,000 belong ing to 514 other persons across the country who, at one time or another, paid too much rent It can't find them, either. The office of the housing expe diter reported sadly today that it has been unable to return the cash to the people who own lt because tney movea away wnn out leaving a proper address. TWO SENT TO JAIL Raleigh Brannon, 41, Glide, charged with assault and bat tery, and Lyle Raymond Park, 34, Eureka, Calif., charged with larceny by bailee, were each sen fenced to 60 days in the county Jail following their appearance before Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly Thursday. ROSEBURG, trash Kills All 11 President Truman. Pope Pius Stress Goal Of World Peace In An Exchange WASHINGTON, Dee. 23! Pope Pius XII in a Christmas message that tha United States "gladly re-dedicates its efforts to the creation of a peaceful and advancing world order." Tne Pontiff said in reply: "We invoke the light, assistance and blessing of tha Christ Child upon your excellency's person and work, .as wall as upon all your fellow citizens, who courageously strive to find and follow the road leeding to a peaceful future for mankind." Approach Of Yule Finds Price Of Foods Reduced (By The Atioclated Preu) . Turkey prices declined two to six cents a pound in most places this last week before Christmas -and were about 20 cents cheaper than the all-time highs of last yuletide. Family-sized birds averaged around 57 to 59 cents a pound in many highly competitive chain stores across the nation. Cranberries were mostly un changed from Thanksgiving time. And holiday menu planners look ing for something besides tur key for the main course found hams, pork loin roasts and rib beef roasts costing about the same as a week ago. Prices of many fresh vegetables for the menu side dishes were a little lower this week. Nuts for turkey stuffing, fruit cakes, mince pies and the nut bowl were so abundant that the agriculture department included them among the most-plentiful foods for the pre-Chrlstmas week. Raisins were on the list, too. Oranges were beinz widely featured for holiday fare with some California varlties as much as15 cents a dozen cheaper than a year ago. .'.T ' Ton grade eggs continued their long seasonal price skid this week, dropping two to 10 cents a dozen as production continued high. Milk production for November exceeded 8,300,000,000 pounds and topped the previous record for the month, set in 1946, by one per cent. Retail coffe prices edged slight ly higher in some stores. W. F. Williamson, manager of- the National Coffee association, said shoppers can expect to find cof fee staying at tne present level or somewhat higher, for a long time. Search For Lost Elk Hunter So Far Futile WALLA WALLA, Dec. 23-P Search parties, hunting for an 18-year-old youth who few of tnem even dare to nope may oe found alive, were straggling back home today. Some were giving up the search; others, doggedly determined, planned to return to the rugged blue mountain area southeast of here. The youth, Donald McDonald, disappeared eight days ago dur ing an elk hunt. Rescue parties nave combed tne snow -swept black snake ridge sector since Sunday without success. ; ( h . -hi -:' CONSTRUCTION IIDS OPENED Clea Jenkins. Douales Community hospital architect, stand ing, opened and reed bids submitted by construction firms In Portland, Eugene, Roseburg and Wh.. last niaht at the eitw hell. Todd Building Co.: Roseburg, submitted the low- . kiA 1179 700. The bavd awarding of contract. In the abova picture are (left to right) Alvin C. Kneuss, hospital man agar; Kenneth Ford, president of the board; Jenkins, and Ceorge M. Shiffer, Portland, chief of hospital facilities, Oregon State OREGON FRIDAY, DEC. 23, Of Messages (API President Truman fold The White House today made public the exchange of messages. "The summons to peace on earth, good will toward men, has come ringing down the ages, giv ing direction to tne tnougnt ana the action of every human being whose life is lived according to God's purpose," the President wrote. . "The significance of the Divine call, personified in the birth and mission oi tne savior, is increas ingly visible in the record of his tory despite the vicissitudes oft entimes encountered on the long path, of the centuries." Mr. Truman noted a "steady achievement of friendly, mutual ly helpful relations among most of the world's peoples today, liv ing indeed as good neighbors." Obstruction Bans Peace But the leaders of a few na tions, he asserted, do not follow "this path to an enlightened and (Continued on Page Two) Truman Viewed As Sure Winner WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -OP) President Truman's statement that he doesn't expect General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president brought this reaction today from Senator Humphrey tD-Jlinol;- - . - - Mr. Truman could win another presidential election right now whoever his Republican opponent mignt oe. A reporter asked the senator if he would like to have Mr. Tru man for a candidate in 1952. - "If he wills it," Humphrey re plied. "He is doing a good job, but it's a tough one. It probably will depend upon his health." Humphrey said a -recent tour of the Pacific coast and a visit to Minnesota convinced him that the president is more popular and in a stronger political position than he ever has been before. "Everywhere I went I found more support for his program than there was a year ago," Humphrey said. "As of now, he could win again easily. The Re publicans are split .among them selves,' have no program and have no leadership. They are piti fully demoralized." Parents Responsibility Ordinance Faces Test EUGENE. Dec. 23 -U.IP) Eu gene's ordinance holding parents responsible for their children's law violations will be tested In municipal court January 4. The case will bring into court K. J. Stover, whose 17-year-old son ran afoul of police. Police Chief Keith Jones said the boy has a Juvenile court record ex tending over a five-year period. members will study the various Board of Health. (Picture by 1949 Aboard Agreement Boosts Local Price Of Milk Distributors Announce Vi-Cent A Quart Hoist . Following Parley Here Milk consumers of the Rose- burg area will continue to receive locally-produced milk but at an increased price per quart. Local distributors announced a half-cent increase yesterday with the price of pasteurized milk 20 cents per quart and homogenized to sen at tiYi cents wnen pur chased at stores. The half-cent in crease also affects home delivered milk. Prices on other dairy prod ucts will remain the same. The announcement followed a temporary settlement reached by local miiK distributors ana active members of the Umpqua Valley mhk froaucers association. Agreement in the four-day price dispute, although temporary, averts the possibility of continued strike which threatened to cut off a steady milk supply for the Rose burg area. ine agreement came alter more than two hours of proposals and counter-proposals by both sides, with milk producers agreeing to the distributors' compromise pro posal "In order to assure the pub lic a steady supply of milk,' ac cording to Association President Carl Binder, Elkton. - Hearing to Follow Until a full hearing can be held before the milk market admin istration for the state of Oregon (formerly the state board of milk control), dairy farmers agreed to accept 90 cents a pound for but- (Continued on Page Two) Probation Crocker Gets Second Rap . A violation of probation and possible parole violations have resulted in one youth being sent to the state penitentiary and two others to be turned over to Lane county authorities, following their arrest on a charge of larceny over $35, Sheriff O. T. "Bud'' Carter reported. Arthur Donald Endicott, 18, John Day, was arrested in con nection with the recent theft of a chain saw at Drain, Carter said. It was learned that he was on probation from a two-year penitentiary sentence arising out of a forgery conviction in Grant county. Endicott pleaded guilty to the larceny charge before Judge Carl E. Wimberly on District Attor ney Robert G. Davis' informa tion. He was given a year's sen tence, to be served following the serving of time on the earlier conviction. Carter said Endicott implicat ed a 17-year-old Drain youth and a 16-year-old Cottage Grove youth in the chain saw theft. Both were returned to Lane county, Carter said, to face possible par ole violation charges there. Carter said it was not known yet if local charges would be pressed against the latter pair, pending disposition of their case in Lane county. figures before announcing the Paul Jenkins). 201-49 r ; imm " :! 1 Lu FACULTY ADDITIONS Named recently by tha city , school board to positions on the Rose burg senior high school faculty are fcdson S. Stiles, upper, and Leonard - Kimbrell. Stiles will serve as band instructor, replee ing Charles A. Rickets who re signed to devete tuil time to his music busineswKimbralli. re turning to the Senior high school after a two years absence, will I k . I f llM?l. ...L succeea Mrs. louis neiucK, wno resigned for reasons of health. (Picture at top by Miller-Mo-derne, lower photo by Clark's studio).. . Bullets Fell Cop, Jail Prisoner s LONGVIEW, Wash., Dec. 23-- W) A police desk clerk was wounded - seriously here last night, apparently by a city Jail prisoner who then turned the gun on himself. Both are In critical condition In a hospital here. Police Chief James Skaggs said the prisoner, Ralph Burke, 31, was let out ol .nis ceil to mane a telephone can. - rouceman James Goodman, 21, was In tne room with him. . Goodman sat reading a news paper. Suddenly a bunet rippea tnrougn ine paper ana sirucK mm In the abdomen. Police In another room heard that shot, then an other. They rushed In to una uooa man slumped behind the desk, Gurke sprawled in front of lt with a stomach wound. The gun lay on the desk. Skaggs said that Goodman mumbled, before being taken to the hospital, that Burke had shot him, then the prisoner shot him self. Unexplained was how Burke got the gun, and how lt got on the desk after the shooting. Fire Claims Mother, Four Of Her Nine Children HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 23 (IP) A mother and four of her nine children were burned to death Thursday as fire swept their three-room dairy farm nome ia miles northwest of here. Three other children were hos pitalized here with burns. Two escaped. Dead are Mrs. Pete Holcomb, 44, Llllle Mae, 10, Flodlne 9, Louise 4. and Wilbur 2. Dolly Lee, 13, who suffered burns, told reporters an explo sion occurred as Llllle Mae pour ed kerosene on a wood fire in trying to make it burn more vigorously. Boyi Die Under Dirt Pushed By Bulldozer WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Dec. 23 lF) Two tiny boys both five died late yesterday under dirt and debris apparently pushed over them by a bulldozer as they played In a shallow gully. A forlorn dog, playmate of the boys, led to the discovery of Billy Rogers and Donnle Tolton and ended a search by hundreds along the banks of the Wichita rlvpr. The two little boys had been sought five hours. The bulldozer was owned by Billy's father. It was being used In leveling Job being perform ed by his construction company. ':,( Company Lev With $379,70 Awarding Of Contract To Await Study Of Figures By Board Of Directors Bidders and interested specta tors jammed the city council chambers Thursday night for tha opening of bids on the Douglaa Community hospital construction. Todd Building company, Rose burg, was the lowest bidder, with a figure of $379,700. Next lowest bid was by Industrial Builder of Eugene at $386,600. XMine oasic oms were suDmitiea. including five by Portland firms, two each by Eugene and Rosa bur? firms and one by a Van couver building firm. Four other Portland firms bid on furnishing kitchen equipment and two com panies submitted laundry lnstalla tion bids. No contract was awarded. Tha board of directors said consider able study of the bids submitted would be necessary. Kenneth Ford, president of the hospital association, maicaiea mat vven the lowest bid was somewhat higher than anticipated by the board, and the problem of coor dinating the submitted amounts to the present plans of the hos pital will have to be worked out Ford said every effort would be made to spare sacrificing tha proposed "ideal" building as draft ed by the architect, Cleo Jenkins, Other Blddere Listed Other bidders included Donald Drake Co., Portland, $393,074: Pa cific Construction Co., Vancouver, $410,500; Malarkey and Moore, Portland, $398,500; Rlverman and Son, Portland, $400,850; H. J. Set. tergren, Portland, $423,two; How. ard Halvorson Co., Portland, $398,518, and E. A. Shannon. Roseburg, $427,983. ?' i . Up to six alternates to the basic bid were submitted by each firm (Continued oil Page Two) : Truman Doesn't Regard Ike As r Election Rival :: WASHINGTON. Dec. 33 UPt President Truman put aside problems of state today, to spend Christmas back home. After a work-tilled ' day put. ting white nous affairs in order, Mr. Truman planned, to leave by 'plane for Missouri. . In his final work day until af ter Christmas, Mr. Truman went over his State of the Union mes sage and other business with his cabinet and held a news confer ence. Mr. Truman told newsmen: 1. That he does not regard Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as a candidate for president, but agreed a lot of people have been trying to make him one ever since Elsenhower left the Army. He. remarked that Elsenhower himself had disavowed presiden tial aspirations, and said that his word Is good; that It always has been. He said he and the general are on the friendliest terms and always have been. Mr. Truman s remarks con trasted with views expressed by certain of his Intimates during his recent Florida vacation- They told newsmen that. in their opin ion Mr. Truman looked upon Eisenhower as a possible conten der for the White House. 2. The president dosen t know whether a three-day work week in the coal mines will provide enough coal for the natilon's needs. But ne aaaea mat ii qa finds out there is an emergency he will take the necessary action. He would not say whether tha short work week decreed by tha united Mine worxers amounts to sufficient seriousness to bring the situation within the scope of the Taft-Hartley law. 3. He has instructed George V. Allen, New ambassador to Yugo slavia, to tell Marshal Tito's government that the United States is opposed to aggression against any nation. He told questioners inai mis uues nut represent any change in Ameri can policy. Reds Ignore Promise To Release German Captives BERLIN, Dec. 23 The west Berlin city council last night accused Russia of holding captive over 1,000,000 German war prisoners some of them women and children. The Germans, said a resolution fiassed by the council, were be ng held despite repeated Soviet promises and agreements to re turn them. The resolution said some of the women and ch'ldren were living under sub-human conditions In the high Soviet zone. A spokesman for the British high commission reported that the western occupation powers may send a stiff joint diplomatic protest to Russia over her failure to live up to her. repatriation agreement. Lvity fact J ant By L. F. Reizenstem Celebration of New Year's advent In the customary men ntr will be quite difficult far New York City with se lltHe water te drink. 1
