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COMP in 0 fo) U. of 0 Library Eugene, Ore, mm mam Ml DOES WHAT .j II ?3T - POLIO DRIVE TOTALS, ill wrapped up In the form of check for $13,082.45, war turned over to county chairman Al Hen- ninger, left, by Dal McKay, city campaign chairman. Middle man in the picture it KRNR'i "Man on the Street," Bob McCarl, who aired the proceedings Thursday afternoon. McKay and Henninger thanked residents of this area for what they termed, "the most successful polia fund cempaign Roseburg has ever had. IStaff photo.) Polio Drive In Roseburg Area Garners More Than $13,000 The Roseburg area's "most officially brought to a close Thursday afternoon when city cam paign chairman Del McKay turned ' A. G. "Al" Henninger, chairman for th National Foundation tor In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THIS brief paragraph leads off I the opening of parliament story from London: ."Britain's newly elected parlia ment opened today, and Conserva tives, in a cocky mood, shouted to their Labor party opponents to 'cheer up!' " The story adds: "The Labor party has a shaky majority of only SEVEN votes in the new House of Commons." THAT last statement means that if eight Laborites were sick, or away on a vacation, or for any other reason were absent from the House of Commons when some im portant measure came up the Labor party's applecart could be upset and a new election would have to be called. You can see why the Conserva tives are feeling so cheerful. They're happy that they didn't wind, up where the Labor party now is facing grave and serious na tional problems and with only a (Continued on Page Four) Friends Slip In Sam Spot; On Breaks Leg WILLOUGHBY, O., March S-P On his way to see a sick friend, Patrick J. Moran slipped on the ice and sprained his ankle. The friend, Clarence F. Shroyer, heard of Moran's plight and got out of his sick bed to visit Moran. But walking to Moran's home Shroyer slipped on the same icy spot and broke his left leg in two places. COAL STRIKE BLAMED Roseburg Lumber Area Seems Worst Affected By Shortage Of Box Cars A shortage of boa cars, blamed on the eastern coal strike, was developing in Oregon lumber regions today. A number of mills reported delay in shipping finished lumber because not enough closed cars were available. There were still ample flat cars for unfinished lumber. The Southern Pacific railroad said the coal strike had curtailed rail service in the east, and slow. ed the movement of empty box cars to this area. irs to this area SP official, at Portland said e box car shortage was general the box car shortage was genera throughout their western territory in Oregon, California, Arizona, and Nevada. , But they held out encourage ment for lumbermen who leared the shortage might become acute ' mini pussiuiy lurce mm cnaum iou curtailment that have occui ed during the summer peak in re cent years. "We don't expect the situation i to get any worse," said an SP ' 'r w - successful" polio campaign was over a check for $13,082.45 fo of the Douglas county chapter Infantile Paralysis. The check represented the tout mount collected in the Roseburg area during the recent drive. Me Kay said the sum was appro-J mately 30 percent higher than the total collected a year ago. Presentation of the check, made during KRNR'i "Man on the Street" program, brought expres sions of gratitude from both Mc Kay and Henninger. They thanked persons of this area for the "fine cooperation" shown, especially in view of poor weaiher conditions and the many confiding events which coincided with the drive. Largest single item on the break down of total receipts was the $4,436 received from commerce and industry. The labor division accounted for the next highest amount, $2,153.50. Others includ ed $1,431.08 from special events, $1,127.99 from the area's 225 coin collection cans, and $1,013.42 from school collections. Additional mounts were collect ed from the following sources: Ad vance special gifts, $866.07; house-to-house solicitation, $696.86; mile o'dimes, $696.49; march of dimes cards, $470.08; Roseburg V.A. hos pital employes' gifts. $327.30: city sports events, $103.50; and school sports events. $25.63. Strike Threatens Labor Government In Britain LONDON. March 3 UP) Britain's labor government, report edly in a mood to soft-pedal na tionalization in an effort to stay in power, faced new threats today in its own camp from the Bri tish workers who support it. A nation-wide strike vote was ordered among -3.000,000 members of the Confederation of Shipbuild ing and Engineering Unions. They are to decide whether to strike or to arbitrate their government-re jected demands for a raise in pay of one pound ($2.50) weekly. The government has appealed for a freeze on most wagea in a move against inflation. official. The Roseburg area seemed the jnaraesi mi. uimDermen ui I TUX rV 5 SL'h "tw'r ""' "d.ih7 .1" hardest hit. Lumbermen in Eu- day m- ber areas with smaller lumber output found the car supply still adequate. The Southern Pacific appeared to be the only line affected by the box car shortage. Other roads re- nortH nvanh r.r. .till !. hi SP officials said then- aitua tion was made tighter by the fact that the bulk of lumber business is on their road, and that lumber loadings are above normal for this time of year. . Th Voa-tiMM? Mrly cteedy with HrrotN tat light rata fduy end Set- :0I e. i Soaarke ttwmrw 4:41 Ittbliskd 1173 Tollett, Fugitive Oakland Bank Robber, Recaptured Officers Nab Escapee In San Salvador Successful Break From McNeil Island Prison Made In November '49 Henry day Tollett, convicted in the robberies of the Oak land and Sweet Home banks, has been errested by police in the little Central American re public of El Selvador, accord ing to an Associated Press dis patch. Tollett wes one of t h r e North Americans arrested by Salvadorean police, ell of whom were wonted by the FBI en various charges. Tollett was named as an es capee from McNeil island peni tentiary, Washington state. The other two were Vernon Ward Morgan, charged with bank rob bery end other offenses in sev eral states; end Arthur Thomas Downes, charged with counter feiting. The three were jailed at San Salvador, pending arrival of FBI agents who will return them to the United Stetes. PORTLAND, March i. UFi Henry Clay Tollett. reported un der arrest today in San Salvador, took part in two of Oregon s smoothly executed 1947 bank rob beries. He was only a year out of the Oklahoma state penitentiary when he helped engineer the $31,431 rob bery of tne t. li. young at to. bank at Oakland, Ore., on May 5, 1947, and the $57,947 robbery (Continued on page Two) Vets Administration To Fire 7,800 Employes WASHINGTON. March iUP) The Veterans administration said today it is firing 7,800 employee because it lacka the money to pay them. The dismissals will be nation wide. Approximately 3,000 em ploye! in hospitals and homes and 4,000 in other activities are in cluded, VA said. Managers ot VA field stations will be told Monday of the number they will be required to release. Dismissal notices will be handed out by March 10. About 8.000 employes were dis charged a year ago, and similar numbers have been released in the last month of previous fiscal year, in order to bring expenses down to budget levels. Those reductions were limited, however, to non-med ical activities of the agency. Chokes To Death On Fried Egg On Eve Of Wedding WEST LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 3 iPI Charlea McCar thy, 59, choked to death on a fried egg on the eve "Of his wedding. McCarthy choked on tne egg dur ing a prenuptial drinking parly. an autopsy surgeon disclosed yes terday. Police, however, detained the bride-to-be. Mae Bower Ingra ham, 45, onetime Mack Sennett bathing beauty, and three men celebrants for further questioning. Dr. Frederick Newbarr said mat a wound of McCarthy's head, which police thought had been made by a bludgeon, evidently occurred when the man fell aa he strangled on the egg. Mrs. Ingraham is the former wife of Irving Ingraham, who she id was of the watcn and clock family. Plywood Firm Donates $5,000 To Hospital Loren Haugen, president of Ump- qua Plywood corporation, reporad today a $5,000 check had been aent bv Northwest Store and Plywood Sales company of Tacoma, Wash., to aid in the special fund-raising activities of the Douglas Commu nity hospital. The check wss received yester day by Kenneth Ford, president of the hospital board of directors. The Tacoma firm is exclusive salea representative for Umpaua Plywood. TORCH DIATH VICTIM PORTLAND. March 3. A flaming nightdress, touched off by an electric heater Feb. 18, brought death yesterdsy to Deanna Mae Cagle, 10. of Sweet Home. The girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Cagle, died In Doern becher hospital. TO RESCUE' Holland Truman (abovel of Long Beach, Calif., an attorney who claims to be a third cousin of President Tru man, is going to run for Con gress. He seys "Cousin Herry has been kidnapped by left wingers . . . when elected I shell utilise ell my efforts to rescue the President from . his abductors." Truman is Demo crat, but will seek nomination by both major parties. The White House said the President is doubtful of the relationship. (API Wirephotol Warning Given On Ignoring Bus Law Justice of the Peace A. J. Geddes announced today his office would continue to crack down on viola tors of Oregon's new "school bus motorists to come to a full atop while youngsters are entering or leaving a school bus. The announcement came after Samuel Kenneth Starmer, Rose burg, received a $40 fine in justice court for violating provisions of the law. Maximum fine for inch an offense is $100. Justice Geddes said drivers of school buses, as well as private citizens are authorized to report license numbers of offenders and that police action will follow. "In view of the newspaper and radio publicity, this office will pro secute violators to the full extent of the law," Justice Geddes said. Only exception to the .law re quiring motorists to stop during the leading or unloading process is noted when an oncoming motor ist wishes to pass the bus while traveling the outside lane of a four-lane highway. School buses are required to display a large stop ' sign to aid motorists. Six-County Council Of Scouts Scheduled Here Dr. E. D. Furrer, Eugene, pre sident, of the Oregon Trail couj cil. Boy Scouts of America, has announced that a six-county coun cil meeting will be held Ssturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Hotel Ump qua in Roseburg. Institutional representa tives, members of the council ex ecutive board,, council officers and their wives will take part. Guy P. Miller, assistant natior.1 director of camping activities from the New York office, is scheduled to be here to participate in the meeting. AU local institutional representa tives are urged by Jerry Willii. Douglas' district counselor to be present. Officer Laments Loss Of His "Favorite Sap" Last: One "sap." While In the course at per forming his duties Wednesday, Deputy Sheriff A. A. "Red" f tk hardt last his "favarite s a " north ef town, en the highway. fckhardt described the Item es beinf ef brewn leather, hav ing a weven handle, a wrigf torinf Inside. "I had it for years," said the deputy. "I never had to use H, but I em or was attached to H," he added. Only Strained Muscles Follow Nine-Story Drop KANSAS CITY, March 1 -tfo Dean Ward, a construction worker, stepped aboard a building hoist nine floors above the ground. The bout gave way, plunging all the way to the basement of the partly constructed building. It hit with such impact Ward was thrown 25 feet from the platform. Hia injuries? Only strained mus cles, ssid examining doctors. ROSKURG, OREGON FRIDAY, MAR. Truman Urges Action On Bill To Aid Schools Opposes Federal Control But Wants Congress To Let Him Do Worrying WASHINGTON, March l.-Mft-President Truman has told the House labor committee, rather sharply, that he opposes federal control of the nation's schools as much as anyone does. The President wrote the com mittee in effect yesterday to get a federal aid to education bill ap proved, and let him worry about administering it. Hia curt note was In response to a committee declaration that it would not approve such a bill until Mr. Truman relieved ita con cern about federal interference in the schools, especially by the fed eral . security agency. - Mr. Truman retorted that he, the House committee, the states, the schools themselves, and all citizens interested in education op pose federal control of the schools, while the Senate-passed aid to ed ucation bill expressly forbids it. "On this question," he said acid ly, "there aeems to be 1 general agreement. "The resolution you have trans mitted to me proceeds, however, by a process of reasoning which I do not follow, to relate this nrin. ciple of freedom of control to the position ot the office of education in. the federal security agency.. II there is ta ha ha foUr-i control in any case.- f faH to sea how any federal control can grow uui oi any possioie relationship between these two offices." Petechial Schools et Issue The Senate passed its rum nnn . 000 aid to education bill last year. Since then, the education program has been bottled up in the House committee by a row over whether private and parochial schools (Continued on page Two) ' Dr. A. F. Setter Dies At Eugene Dr. A. r. Sether. M: 'former physician and surgeon in Roseburg, and engaged in practice in Eugene in recent years, died at hia home Thursday night. He had worked at his office Wednesday. Death occurred during the night from a heart ailment. Born in North wood, Iowa in 1881, he -spent his early life in Wisconsin, and came to Oregon in 1905. He was a iraduate of the University of Chicago and Rush Medical college. Dr. bether practiced two years in Glendale as a partner of Dr. E. B. Stewart. In 1907 they went into partnership with Dr. A. C. Seely in Roseburg. Dr. Sether re mained there until moving to Eu gene in 1924 and was . active in his Eugene practice at the time of his death. He married Lurlla M. Turnell at Yakima in 1907. Surviving in addition to his widow are two children, Gordon F, and Elizabeth, Anne, and one grandchild, Alvin. Funeral services will be announced later by Simon-Lounsbury mortu ary, Eugene. DELINQUENCY PROBLEMS Parents Often To Blame For Wayward Childen. Officers Tell Lions Club Delinquent children ere in most cases the result of delinquent perents, County Judge D. N. lusenberlc told the Roseburg Lions club Thursday night. The judge and Chief of Police Calvin laird were guest speeders. They told of juvenile delinquency problems in Roseburg end corrective methods being used. The Lions club is considering a Wjl J" frrdeal of time. The person work by having certain interested individuals take over the responsi bility of boys on parole, in order to prevent them being ent to the Wood burn borne for boys. Ninety percent of the boys who C6me before him, said Judge Busen- bark, are straightened out when paroled to their familiea. The re maining 10 percent, be said, are the hard problems. In most cases when a boy or girl comes into court the second time, after first being paroled, there is nothing left to do but send him ot her to the training school, unices an individual outside the juvenile's family is willing to take over the responsibility of trying to help him or her go strsight, said the Judge- Needs Healthy Activity This usually does sot take great 3. 1950 ' l fT'vV pi it A Ll1. : , FORD BEGINS PENSIONS Several hundred old-timers whose gnarled hands turned out model-T'i for the famous $S-a-day wage veers ego punched the time clock at the Ford motor com pany for the lest time. Shown are cdward ugaen uetti, ana William Swanson as they watched the minutes of Ogden'i watch tick by, ending their long stay with company in Detroit. They will receive $IOO-a-month. IAP Wirephoto.l Nation Must Spend Billions To Replace Bad School Buildings. Education Off icial Points Out ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. March 3. IAPI Thousands of American children attend "obsolete, unsafe and totally unsuited" sehoolc, a U. S. official layt, 500,000,000 in the next 10 years to rectify this, Ray L. Hamon. chief of the school housing section of tne u. a. uince of Education, said 350,000 new ele mentary and nigh school classrooms are needed to meet the peak load of enrollment expected in 1958. He spoke yesterday to a discus sion group at the close of the an nual convention of the Amercian Association of School Administra tors. In U58, Hamon said, there will ha 40.500.000 children in the na tion's schools. Now there are about SO.000,000 in the schools, he said. "The nation is faced with tne most critical educational plant shortage in history," Hamon said. "A shortage exists in both public and non-public facilities tor ele mentary and secondary schools and for institutions of higher educa tion . "Thousands of children in every state today are required by law to attend school in buildings that are totally unsatisfactory. "Other thousands are auenaing ehnnl in overcrowded and in make shift classrooms, and thousands ot Qils . are attending scnooi on a -time basis." The cost of the mammoth con struction program is too much to be financed from the community taxation or a eombination of state and community taxation, Hamon said. PORTLAND CENSUS VP PORTLAND.. March S-lPlTt city water bureau estimated Port land's population today at 434.014. The bureau ssid there were 99, 227 water meters, each one usual ly representing 4.38 persons. .K 1. , llk , th: , CI ... tends school regularly and does not keep late hours or undesirable company, and to attempt to pro vide an interest lor tne ooy to Keep his mind away from delinquent activities. While it is not always true, de linquents in most cases come from broken homes or homes of delin quent parents, the judge brought out. He told of cases in which chil j... ... . . kn. .nrf . 'J i . " . j -M. lorcru tu of .. lima no lha at rattle Chief Baird touched briefly on the same subjects, bringing out a few different angles. He said that juvenile delinquency is really a serious problem, although the num- ( Continued on page Two) S2-S0 and the nation must spend $13,. Sanitarium Here Changes Owners Announcement was msde today of the sale by Mr. and Mrs. Quin tus Dirkerson of the Roseburg sanitarium on Court street to Mr. snd Mrs. Ray Lane and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. The new owners took over the mansgement Wednesday. March 1. They announced no changes are to be made as to policies and that uie aaniiarium will oe conunucu as a nursing home. The Matthews are long time resi dents of Roseburg, and the Lanes are at present residing In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Rhodes in Winston. Upon the Rhodes' return from a trip to the east, Mr. and Mrs. Lane will again make their home in Roseburg. The ssnilanum was opened first as a hospital by the Dickersons in 194S, about a year after their ar rival in town from Milton. Ore. They purchased the property from Harrie Booth. The place was later converted into a nursing home. Embezzlement Charged To Plywood Co. Bookkeeper KLAMATH FALLS, Msrch S W Edna Sherred McClane, book keeper at Kalpine Plywood com pany, was arrested Thursday . on a charge of embezzling "thousands of dollars" from her comapny. Officials of the plant said they could not give a definite figure until after further check of cov pany records handled by Mrs. Mc Clane. The method used was simple, they said. She allegedly transfer red company money to her own bank account. She had worked for Kalpine for six yesrs, but the embezslement was believed to have been conducted over a period ot 18 months, compsny officers said. Killing Cougars Easy, Log Rolling Dangerous TERRACE, B.C., March 3 -UP) Take it from i. Morrison Kis piox rolling logs can be more dangeroua than a pair of cougrrs Kispiox wss confronted by two cougars earlier this week while working in the woods near here. He killed them both with e aeary, a spesr-pointed logging tool. The short battle left him unhurt. Two daya later he was injured when a log rolled on hia foot. C. H. Murphy, State's Real Estate Aide, Quits SALEM. March S. Pt State real estate Commissioner Claude n. eturpny win irave his office t March 15 to devote his lime to pri- ,. k. !.... .A lwtlr .fl.r hi. .own real estate. Murphy told Governor Douglas McKay yesterday l,e was quitting after 11 years in office. He served under four governors Charlea A. Snragur. Earl Snell, John Hall and Douglas McKay. y Power To Be Ashed Today Of Congress President Acts After Senator Mono Launches Own Initiative In liH WASHINGTON, March President Truman will ask Con gross today far power to sell and operate the seal mines. The White House enneuneed that Mr. Truman will send message to Congress eaeut neon. The announcement was meet after e conference et Mr. Trw man with Attorney General Me Grarh, Solicitor General PhMha I. Perlman and Secretory ef the Interior Oscer Chapmen. A draft et lee isletiea te carry out the mine seisure will ea te both Houses ef Congress with the meeseoe. Mr Tnimii AmitlAmA mm with the miners' refusal to go back to work deapite court order and the country plunging into a deep ening eriais for lack of coal. . Deapite the step of asking Con gress for the legislation, it waa learned the White House still is clinging to the hope that actual seizure can be avoided. ine nope la that a settlement may be reached between John L. Iwia aiwt tha .A.l Morn ing the day that will avert the) ncc-Hiiy ior uie government s laa ing over the mines. WASHINGTON. March 1- The Senate labor committee today deferred action until tomorrow nm legialation to pave the way for government seizure 01 the Strike bound coal minea. The committee postponed a vote on a seizure bill by Senator Mora (it-ure) Because ot lack of quorum. Only six senators were present Seven are needed to transact btunV ness. Senator Elbert D. Thomaa fD Utah), committee chairman, called a special meeting for tomorrow morning. He said the Mora bill and possibly others would be tak en up then. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told re porters he might introduce seizure) legislation later in the day. Sen ators pougiss (D-lll) and Aikaa (Continued on page Two) Tentative Treaty Gives France Rult Of Soar Coal Area my Th AuoclaUd Preta) France today announced a new treaty with the coal-rich Saar un der which France Is to retain con trol of the mines for th next half century. The Saar was given broader au tonomy under the title of "repub lic" but France, which detached the border area from Germany aft er the last war, retains control of the Sear's foreign relatione and military security. The new treaty I not final. Th western allies have agreed to eeu tie the Saar's future at the peace conference with Germany. Franc has th strongest hold in the rich valley now. But Germany is going to demand the Saar b returned to her. Experts In Paris said France' national morale is as low as any time since the end of the war. The nation that so long prided itself on its military prowess feels im potent and ashamed of ita weak ness. American arms will be. arriving in great quantities in French porta soon. The Communists have threat ened to prevent these sorely need ed supplies from being landed. When the communists move to car ry out their threata there will be riots, many persons predict They add that this might be a good thing, in that It wm atir Franc tram ber lethargy and push th govern ment to strong action. Deceived Fireman Saves Doll As Baby Perishes OKLAHOMA CITY, Old.., March 3 (jpt Two-year-old Carolyn Thompson smothered In her crib yesterdsy as fire swept the child' bedroom. Fireman Bob Foley, grop ing through thick smoke, felt some thing in a blanket It cried like a baby when he picked it up. But after struggling bsck through flames and smoke to safety, he discovered he had rescued Cro lyn's baby doll. He rushed back, and recovered the real baby, but she was desd. BAGS RICORD COUGAR DETROIT. March S (JPt Walt Ball, Detroit's Cougar hunter, bag ged the biggest one of hia career Tuesday five miles north of here. It was 9 feet 3 inches from the tip of his tail to the end of hi nose, and weighed 180 pounds. Ball's two dogs treed the cou gar, which severely mauled one of the dogs. The dog will live, how ever. So far this winter. Ball has killed five cougara and one bobcat Levity fact Rent By L. r. IUiaMtht The Veterans mlnlstrtitie) announce It I dltcs)ea-jlj 7,100 employes becsm ef lack et funds. Some essential do mestic pftls) has te ee too rifle)), ef coarse, te stetar mW IIom ef America (Mien here Eureae d AiMk
