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'Chewing Gum Crop Talked Oregon's chewing gum crop peppermint will be the number one conversation topic at OSC Friday, Feb. 10. To meet with mint oil market representatives and college re search personnel, the state's mint growers are being invited to attend a one-day meeting In the college museum building starting at 10 a.m. The announce ment Is from A. P. Steenland and Rex Warren, OSC extension specialists who are In charge of program arrangements. Featured speaker, they an nounce, will be Dr. L. G. Cox, Canajorharie, N.Y., a physiolo gist, employed by the Beach Nut Packing company, mint oil us ers. Dr. Cox will discuss im proved distillation methods,- dis ease and insect control develop ments as well as work underway to breed improved mint strains. Oregon is now the nation's top ranking producer of peppermint oil, which is used primarily as chewing gum flavoring. Representatives of the two largest oil buying agencies, A. M. Todd company, Kalamazoo, Mich.; and the I. P. Callison and Sons company, Seattle, Wash., have also indicated their intention to be present at the meeting. Senate Adopts Hands Off Stand WASHINGTON-P) The Sen ate agriculture committee has adopted a "hands off" stand to ward Secfetary Brannan's plan to "dump" 50 million, bushels of surplus potatoes. Chairman Elmer Thomas (D Okla) said the committee was not approving or disapproving it but had "refused to go on rec ord as a matter of principle." Brannan has authority under present law to destrty the pota toes, but he sought the commit tee's advice. Privately, some of the mem bers looked on it as an attempt to unload a "hot potato" on them. They talked it over behind clos ed doors and Thomas then an nounced the committee was not taking any action. He said that if the Agricul ture department wants changes in present legislation, or wants new legislation, the committee "will entertain" the request. Dairyman: How To Waste Money Note to dairymen: Here's how to waste the money you have in vested in your dairy herd im provement association, according to OSC extension dairy special ists., 1. Never look at the herd rec ord book. 2 Don't ask for sug gestions from the tester. 3 If the tester makes suggestions, don't follow them. 4. ' Stay away from all meetings and activi ties of the association. 5. - Tell neighbors you've received no help from the association. 6. Drop out of the association at the close of the year's testing. DHIA testing, It is pointed out is a method to determine low producing cows which may prof itably be culled. February 15 Deadline For Potato Allotment The Douglas county office of the Production and Marketing Administration has announced that Feb. 15 will be the closing date for requesting a 1950 Irish potato allotment. . These allotments are one of the requirements for participat ing in the 1950 Irish potato price support program. Anyone who intends to plant Irish potatoes for commercial use should con tact the Production and Market ing administration, Room 321, Pacific building, Roseburg, so that an allotment can be deter mined for their farm. After an allotment is determined, all pro ducers receiving allotments must plant within the specivied acreage in order to be eligible for price support. Further infor mation can be obtained at the county office. WlEEM AFTER, GATHERIfsl' IT, THEN gp?j ilFiI MATCH, I FEEL LIKE RlDIN' ifiiSEEEijEE HOMEAN' G1TTIM' ONE yfeSgsPS; -C- AN' COrvMM' BACK. AN' ,- L -fr . . ' the: warmer. ' U&zk ' OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Baker Survey To Show Community College Interest BAKER, OP) Surveys are being conducted here to deter mine local interest in establish ing a community college con nected with the extension division of the state System of higher education. The school, similar to colleges established in Klamath Falls and Bend last year, would imke grades 13 and 14 possible here in accordance with legislation spon sored by State Senator Austin Dunn of Baker. Dr. J. F. Cramer, Dean of the extension division of the higher education system, conferred with local school officials here last week. He said it was possible that if such a school were es tablished here its facilities would be shared with Malheur county. Professors would spend part of their time-in Baker and part in Malheur. Tuition would be the minimum maintained for college courses. Classes would use local school facilities after 4 p.m. thus avoid ing costs of construction which have hampered junior colleges in other states, Dr. Cramer said. Year's Welfare Costs California In Nine Figures SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP) Social welfare In California in cluding aged and blind pensions, needy child aid and home relief last year cost more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The total cost acutally was $275,893,170 or $96,285,209 more than what the same items cost in 1948. These figures, provided by the state social welfare department, represent the money paid out to the recipients of the public as sistance programs by the state, federal and county governments Not included in the totals, how ever, are administrative costs in volved in handling the programs. Biggest item in the welfare bill was the old age and blind pension item. It cost $214,086,177 as compared with a cost of $138,210,466 in 1948. Of the 1949 total, the state of California paid $126,666 "930 and the Federal government paid $85,491,247. Counties did not have to contribute anything because full pension responsibility was placed in the state by proposi tion No. 4, which was passed in 1948, but repealed In 1949. American Missionaries To Remain On Hainan HOIHOW, Hainan Island, UP) Fourteen American missionar ies intended to stay on the ex posed northern coast of this south China island whether Chi nese Communists attack or not. Their Presbyterian mission has been here since 1885. It stands In a comfortable garden Mned compound that is an oasis in this dirty, sprawling city of 250,000. . mere are ten women ana iour men in the mission. It sponsors a church school and a 168 bed hospital. David H. Thomas, executive secretary of the mission, Rays thev sometimes watch from the hospital roof as Chinese Nationa list planes bomb Communist con centrations across the narrows on the mainland. The bomb explo sions may be heard often. The mission helps run a lepro sarium where about 175 Lepers live. The National Geographic So ciety says mink farms are lo cated In heavily shaded spots be cause sunlight tends to "rust" live mink fur. Holly berries are comparative ly scarce because only female trees produce berries, and then only if weather is right. High School Grad Of Present Day Gets Low Rating SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. (.IP) Dr. Ernest C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago, summed up present day high school graduates with this one word: illiterate. He said the average high school student today cannot read and write. The present graduate is more illiterate than the graduate of 10 vears ago who was more lint erate than the graduate of 20 years ago, he added. uolwell attriDUtea tne cause to: 1. Poor teaching "No one re spects teachers; they aren't paid enouen." 2. Undefined 1 mission "There is confusion as to just what Is the teaching lob. 3. Routine Idleness 'There is too much idleness in schools. The schools take too much time to do too little." The university president does not believe everyone has a politi cal right to an education. He said: "No one has a right to educa tion if he is not competent to ac quire it." Soviet Proposal To Try Hirohito Spurned By U. 5. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. LIP) The United States charged Fri day that Russia's demand for trial of Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal is an effort to cover up "Soviet failure" to explain the fate of more than 370,000 Japa nese war prisoners. a state department statement made clear that the Russian de mand to put the emperor on trial in an International military court win De rejected oy this country. Officials also Indicated that the Soviet proposal to try foui; high ranking wartime Japanese gen erals likewise will be turned down. The State department made public along with Its statement on the Russian demand, the key paragrapns c tne Russian note which Soviet Ambassador Pan- yushkin handed to Secreary of Mate Acneson. ; This disclosed officially for the first time precisely what the Rus sians want to do. The note said that last December a Soviet mili tary court at Khabarovsk had found 12 Japanese army officers guilty oi plotting and using bac teriological warfare. It charged that the B. W. units were created by a decree of the emperor and that hlijh ranking Japanese stair onicerswere re sponsible also for the operation. The Russians therefore called for the creation of an interna tional military court presumably by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to try the emperor and the four gen erals "as war criminals exposed iDy tne soviet uecemDer trial) as having committed the most serious crimes against, humanity." No Evidence Found The Russian demand brought this comment from the chief prosecutor - of the, Japanese war crimes trials: 'There is far more reason to try Stalin as a war criminal than Emperor Hirohito." Joseph B. Keenan, a Washing ton attorney, said that Investiga tions conducted by American and Chinese officials showed conclu sively that the Japanese did not use germ warfare over China. Besides, Keenan said, Hirohito had . o real power in wartime or prewar Japan. Evidence at the Tokyo trials, he said, made it clear that "the emperor con stantly attempted to dissuade his ministers from precipitate action toward war." What's more. Keenan said. Col. Gen. M.. Golunsky, chief Soviet prosecutor at the Tokyo trials, joined the prosecutors of 10 other nations in signing an agreement not to try Hirohito as a war criminal. K. OF C. GROUPS MEET Nine members of the Roseburg council, Knights of Columbus, traveled to Cottage Grove Thurs day, to meet with Eugene and Cottage Grove councils on a "good will" mission. Those attending from Rose burg Included Rev. Conleyth KU lian, G. K. Desblens, grand knight; Pat O'Rielly, Jack Doyle, Felix Durand, Dave TomasneK. Ralph Smith, Ernest Schauer ana Jonn ruitman. Spruce Budworm Budget Request Given Approval ' SALEM (Special) Good news for the tlmberlands of Oregon but bad for the spruce budworms wag received here today by Gov ernor Douglas McKay from Sen ator Guy Cordon, who reported that the federal Bureau of the Budget had approved a request for $880,000 as the federal share of participating in budworm con trol on a million acres of t h e state's finest tlmberlands. The Department of Agriculture presented a budget of $4 1-2 mil lion for pest control, with $880, 000 ear-marked for the work to be done In May and June in the state of Oregon. While approval of this appro priation by the Bureau of the Budget did not carry an atuo malic green light, favorable ac tion by Congress was expected within the next two weeks. Er nest L. Kolbe, chief forester for the Western Pine association and chairman of the lumber indus try's Spruce Budworm Action committee stated that Oregon's delegation to Congress had been supplied with all the pertinent facts and figures. In the meantime, the working arm of the Spruce Budworm c tlon committee, the Oregon state forestry department, the US Forest service and the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar antine, was proceeding with the spraying operation plans schedul ed for late May and early June. State Forester George Spaur warned, "If federal funds are net approved before mid February It may be too late to go ahead with our plans. Contracts for more than a million gallons of DDT spray must be made, as well as those which Include the hiring of 70 or more airplanes." Mon., Feb. 6, 1 950 The News-Review, Rsitburg, Ore. f Marshall Plan Nations Still Lax, EC A Head Says PARIS, Feb. 6.-W On i.! way home to seek more money for the Marshall plan, recovery administrator Paul G. Hoffman said here Europe's nations still aren't doing enough to help themselves. The Economic Cooperation ad ministrator told lewsmen the Marshall plan countries had made excellent progress toward self-help but added: "None of the steps taken toward liberali zation of trade has been ade quate." Hoffman cited a prevalent practice of dual pricing selling goods to domestic consumers lor less than foreign customer! pay which he said must be elimi nated. . Hoffman said he was convinc ed Congress would furnish addi tional Marshall plan billions fop European recovery, but he force fully reiterated previous state ments that the Marshall plan would end In 1952 as scheduled. The U.S. Department of Agrl. culture has found benzene hexa chloride may be used to control chicken lice without making meat or eggs taste "musty." yXrVr Insure better, healthier live stock than ever before! . Yes, healthier, heftier livestock assures you a higher market price. 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That, togeth er with its outline of ambitious .plans for the next few months, came as one malor competitor in the auto industry Chrysler Corp was shut down indefinite ly by a strike. Several weeks ago Henry Ford II, president of the Ford empire, said the company was gunning for nearly 1,000,000 vehicles in the first six months of Wis year. The assembly lines backed him up by turning out 148,393 in Jan uary, the biggest monthly total in Ford history. On Jan. 31 there were 7,220 vehicle made a daily record. Now, If coal and steel short ages don't upset their plans, Ford officials are aiming at 8, 000 units a day. To make the goal the company plans to pay out a good chunk o overtime. Interstate has the model you need now! The compact and powerful HARDIE Sprayers are designed to do all general spray work ot LOWEST COST to you . . . and with the least effort. 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ROSEBURG doesn't sit down in the pasture and wait for the cow to back up and be milked. He goes after the cow. In a way, you and we are like the farmer . . . we cannot just sit and wait for customers or prospects to come and buy. Thafs why so many merchants (not store-keepers) invite their customers to buy through placing their invitation in the advertising columns of the News-Review. That's also the reason why we come to your place of business to show you how easy and inexpensive it is to advertise well. You see, we don't just sell advertising space we sell customers. There's a fellow in town eager to get you more new customers. Phone 100, ask for the advertising depart ment and talk to him. 709 N. Jackion - Phone 893
