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V I U. of 0 Library Eugene, Ore, COMP 4 mm Wilbert Anderson Appointed Douglas County's 4-H Leader House Rejects Proposal By Tito Wootliof Rain today. Partly cloudy with showers tonight ond Pridoy. Susnot today 4:2t p. m, SimrrM tomorrow 4:10 a. m. 218 To 155 wmm mm TOW w t WILBERT "ANDY" ANDERSON, (en right) who has arrived to tilt over the Dougles county 4-H olub activities, shekes htndi with Frank von Borstel, 4-H agent the lest two yeers. Tht letter left tody enroute by fir (or Now Zetland for a- year's graduate study, undor the Ful bright act, et Messey Agriculture colltgo. (Stiff picturol Now 4-H club loader for Douglas county it Wilbert "Andy" Anderson, who replaces Frank von Borstel. Anderson, who calls Canby his home town, was graduated March II at the close of the semester from Oregon State college. He was an animal husbandry major in the school of agriculture. Not entirely new to this locality, I Anderson lived for a time in the 1 J J , Coos Bay area. He is married and , lIHurd WOrKCrS h.,.,on,Steven .geoyear, Yote FaVOfS AFL soon as he ran find housing ac- commodations. The new club leader served three years in the army in the European war theater. He was a staff ser geant in the infantry, and receiv ed the silver star for gallantry in action. Von Borstel, who likewise came to Roseburg upon his graduation from Oregon State college school of agriculture, U one of a few American college graduates to qualify, under the Fulbright act, to study in a foreign country, in ex change for waresrvices rendered by the United States. The program is under the Institute of Interna tional Education of the U.S. State department. Massey college is a branch of the University of New Zealand. Von Borstel has obtained a one-year leave of absence from the Oregon State extension service. He will study genetics and nutrition in the field of animal husbandry, in which he specialized at OSC. Korea Granted Millions To Buy American Goods WASHINGTON, March 23-.!PV Korea was granted $4,000,000 to day to buy American cotton. The recovery spending approval was announced by the Economic Cooperation administration. In addition, Korea also receiv ed tl ,001 .000 to buy lumber, chem icals and non metallic minerals from the United States and Japan. ECA also alloted seven western European countries (20,982.000 to buy agricultural and industrial commodities, mostly from the Un ited States. TOO MUCH POWER Bill Permitting Ouster Of 'Disloyal' Employes Under Attack In House WASHINGTON, March 23. (API A bill fo qive major department heads "absolute discretion" in the firing of fed eral employes came before e House committee today, elonq with eompleints that it is too broad. Rep. Reel of Kansas, top Republican on the civil service committee which is studying the bill, said he will seek to curb some of the euthority it proposes. v "It must be amended to qive some protection to the em ployes," Rees told newsmen. The bill would give heads of defense agencies the power to sus- c..,.i o.,ki;.... .. 'meT&rTn ' the'bmTotld'le iZ SJSZXZJi,?''" fire employes at will mere- inl.!r"l. h! IV'0. I ly by ruling that continued em- i'" " hed' f 0thMM nrn..ec,uiri,'y.the "" agencies, too, The House appropriations com mittee this week recommended that the same authority be given to the Secretary of Commerce. The bill would require that em ployes holding permanent appoint ments be given a written state-1 ment ot charges against them and unty agency employee. "a reasonable opportunity" to ans-1 Miss Bailey, the court knocked wer them. The employee could ' then dismissed on the grounds her demand a review of his case by loyalty was questionable. the agency head or someone dea- She sued for reinstatement and ignated by the head. challenged the validity of the gov- But in the fnal analysis, the erament loyalty program, agency head would have the last While uphold ng the dismissal of word. Miss Bailey, the count knocked "The head of the agency." Rees iOut that part of the loyalty board said, "would be both acruser and i orders which would bar Miss Bai idce. There should be more ley from federal employment for protection for the employes." three years. a y a 1 1 aU. -ml The National Labor Relations board office in Portland yesterday announced that the employes at two mills in Dillard had voted for the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers as their bargaining agent, according to an Associated Press report. The report, confirmed by the Roseburg office of the AFL, stated that the Commercial Lumber Sales company, a remanufacturing plant, voted 104), and those at the Paul B. Hult Lumber company sawmill voted 36 0 for the union. The votes were taken Thursday and Friday, respectively, last week. There are 12 employes at the Commercial Lumber plant, but two were absent. At the Hult mill there are 39 employes, but two were ab sent and one ballot was voided . A local AFL spokesman said that the employes of the two plants will vote again next Wednesday, March 29, whether to have a closed shop. He said the employes are nego tiating a contract, and that the owners have signified their willing ness to meet with the union to work out a working agreement. The union has already set up a safety committee and fs working on a safe ty program, the spokesman said., Six Months In Jail, $500 Fine For Drunken Driver John Marvin Paarsail, 40, Eugene, was sentenced to serve six months In the county jail and fined $500, following his plea of guilty to e charqe of driving a meter vehicle while intoxicated, when he appeared in the Reeds port Justice court of Fred M. Wright Wednesday, said Sheriff O. T. "Bud" Carter. The bill was introduced at the request of secretary of Defense Johnson. If enacted into law, the bill con ceivably could nullify a part of a United States court of appeals rul ing yesterday in the case of Doro- thy Bailey, a former federal sec Established 1173 Fullerton School Conversion Into RMS. Branch Sought 'Permissive' Election Set For April 17 Replacement Of Grade School Part Of Proposal; Required Funds On Hand Shall the present Fullerton school be converted into a unit of the high school and a new Fullerton school be constructed on property being purchased for school pur poses about a mile west of the Oak Street bridge? This question will be put to the voters of Roseburg School district 4 at an election to be held in the junior high school Monday, April 17, between the hours of 2 and 8 p.m. The proposed new Fullerton school would be constructed on a 21-acre site, known as the Brown-Onborn-ScotUStubbJ. Parker tract, out of moneys already on hand from the bond issue authorised by the voters Oct. 18. 1948. accord ing to Superintendent Paul S. Elliott. The land ia being purchas ed, not from the bond issue funds, but from a continuing levy previ ously voted by the people. The purchase price is about $40,000. tional moneys are being sought in merely a "permissive" election seeking the voters approval to use the funds they voted for a purpose ofter than that originally intend ed. Money Status fixplalned In explaining the action of the school board to request the change, which will materially give to the school from five to seven more class rooms than would be possible under the original plan, the board adopted a resolution staling the following facta: The original bond issue of $895, 000 was authorised by the voter to construct, equip and furnish ad ditions to the present senior high. Fullerton, Riverside and Edepbow- (Continued on page Two) Budget Board To Meet Tonight First meeting of the Roseburg city budget committee will be held tonight at the city hall at 7; 30 o'clock. Members of the committee in clude Spencer Yates, G. V. Wim berly. George Grimm, Jack Dent, Arlo Jacklin, Harry Pargeter, A. S. Coen and Leo Young, in addition to the eight members of the city council. Each city department has sub mitted budget figures which they request, and these have been com piled into a tentative budget by the council at unofficial meetings. The committee will be empow ered to adjust the figures aa they see fit. Last year a single meeting was held, and only minor changes in the original submitted budget were made. It is anticipated that the committee may be required to have more than one session in which to complete this year's ex pense account. Teen-Age Boys Confess Causing Train Mishap DUBUQUE, Ia., March 23 Two 12-year-old boys were being held today after Sheriff Leo Martin said they admitted placing spikes, bolts and angle irons along a stretch of railroad track where a Great Western rail crew motor car was derailed. Elmer Larson, 44. of Dubuque, was thrown from the car but es caped serious injury in the derail ment Monday. Sheriff Martin said the accident was at almost the exact spot of two recent freight train derailments near Durango, la., which resulted in an estimated million dollars damage. The sheriff said he had no evidence to link the youths with the two earlier mishaps. Accused Temperance Assn. Money Handler Resigns LOS ANGELES, March 23 -JJP) Dr .Titus A. Frazee. charged in a civil action with misappropriation of funds, has filed an affidavit in superior court stating that he has resigned, effective April 30, as executive director of the Cali f o r n i a Temperance foundation, southern area. The affidavit said his resigna tion has been accepted. William Leonard Miller, execu. five director of Alcohol Education, Inc., alleged in a suit that Frazee misappropriated some $75,000 that had been designated for the Alco hol Education organization. Miller asks an injunction to prevent Fra zee from collecting funds earmark ed for Alcohol Education, Inc. ROSEBURG, $7,250,000 A DAY That's Tips But Wage Low Nicer, Waitress Says WASHINGTON, March a.-4Pl A waitress testified today that peo ple in her line of work pick up about $7,2.S0,000 a day in tips. She said they'd rather have a minimum wage. Mrs. Imogene B. Wright said in a atatement prepared for the Senate finance committee that the figure ahe mentioned comes from statistics supplied by the National Restaurant association and the Ho tel and Restaurant Employea union, The Senate group ia considering I a bill to revise the present social j security setup. Among other things, ' it would include waiters and wait- restea under the law, requiring them to report tips as earnings. Foolishness, Mrs. Wright said. It wouldn't work, she added, because it "would involve making over 3,000.000 people tell the truth." She suggested that the provision waa "written by the internal rev enue people to make this class of workers declare all their tips so they can be checked on for income tax purposes." Parole Granted Q 2aYCQr TCriTI Howard Pruitt, 40, Roseburg, was sentenced to serve two years in the Oregon state penitentiary, then was paroled, following his plea of guilty to a charge of obtain ing money under false pretenses Wednesday in circuit court before Judge Carl E. Wimberly. According to District Attorney Robert G. Davis' information, Pru itt accepted one gallon of enamel paint at 7 and S4.ll in -ceah upon presentation of -a worthless $10 check at the .farm Bureau Co op Exchange on Feb. 2. Also appearing before Judge Wimberly Wednesday wss Meril Hawkins, 23, Oklahoma City, who was sentenced to serve one year in the Oregon state penitentiary, following his plea of guilty Monday to a charge of obtaining money un der false pretenses. Hawkins al legedly presented a worthless $43 check at Nielsen's market on Feb. 13, last Court Orders Working Mother To Support Kin SPOKANE, March 23 UPI A working mother was ordered yesterday to pay $.50 a month to her unemployed husband for sup port of their two children. The decision was handed down by Judge Ralph E. Foley, who denied a divorce to Violet O. Sel land but granted one to her hus band. Ole. Mrs. Selland, employ ed by an ice cream store, left the family last August. Judge Foley ordered the sup port payments continued for two years at which time the eldest boy will become 18 yea, a of age and the paymenta will drop to $35 monthly until the youngest, now IS, becomes 18. When both boys become of age, the family home is to be sold and the monthly payments refuned to the mother. The reminder will be divided between the two parents. Selland testified he has been in ill health and unable to work. Dog's Effort To Help Costs Owner His Life - EASTON, Pa., March 23-JW Joseph Keglovitz, 80, died today aa the result of having his hand chewed off at the wrist by his 2-year-old dalmation dog which was attempting to help him. Police Chief William R. Miller said Keglovitz apparently fainted hi the yard of hia home yesterday and the dog tried to drag him from the yard. The animal bit through the man's wrist in the rescue effort. Miller said. Three Patients Escape; One Roseburg Transfer SALEM, March 23 M Three state hospital patients, described as non-violent, jumped from a sec ond story window and escaped from the atate hospital last night. The men are; Lester A. Marrs. 44. Stayton: Earl Perry, 20, Springfield; and John I. Sneed, 25, St. Louis, Mo., who was transferred here from the Veterans hospital at Roseburg. TIXAS POLIO UPPIO AUSTIN, Texas, March 23 (&) Polio is threatening another Tex as rampage. State health officer George W. Cox reoorted tori a v that 248 cases have been counted in the atate . 'in through March 18. This is nearly Charles G. Ross, presidential three times last year's 88 cases in I press secretary, told reporters Mr. the comparable period. Texas had j Truman has not offered the chair- an all-time record polio year in 149. OREGON THURSDAY, MAR. Professors At California U. Split On Reds Vote' Against Putting Them On Faculty But Oppose Forced Oath BERKELEY, Calif.. March 23 -P More than 1,000 University of California professors have voted against employment of any Com munist on the faculty. At the same time, thev as over- whelmingly rejected a soecial non- Communist oath ordered by the board of regents on a basis of sign by April 30 or quit. That the controversy, which has drawn reactions from campuses over the nation and at Oxford, may be headed for settlement waa im mediately suggested by the re gents' chairman. "The result is of national sig nificance," said the chairman, Ed ward' A. Dickson at Los Angeles, where the university has one of its eight campuses. "It is the first time that the faculty of any great university in tne country has gone formally on record as supporting a policy of uuuawing suoversive teachers and influences. The one-sided vote. annnunrMt last night, was taken in secret mail ballot on two resolutions aimed at countering imposition of the special oath. Matter Of Principle Dr. Joel H. Hildebrand, whose chemistry department contributed Plutonium and who has said he would resign rather than sign the apecial oath, said: "The negative votes on either of the two propositions should not be interpreted as evidence of ap proval of Communists, for I know that certain persons have so voted necause they disapprove in prin ciple of anything that looks to them like a 'political test' or of 'guilt of associations.' " The university president, Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, and Gov. Earl Warren are among the six regents who have opposed such an oath. Warren has pointed out that any Communist would not hesitate to lie and sign the oath in order to get on the faculty. V Blind Girl Receives Key; Dog Aide Given Steak CLEVELAND, March 2S Sally Anne Green got a Phi Beta Kappa key yesterday. Shirley, her seeing-eye dog. got a T bone ateak for taking auch good care of her mistress the past 10 months. Miss Green, a 20-year-old aenior at Flora Stone Mather college of Western Reserve university, has been blind since early childhood. Her Phi Beta key, one of scholas ticism's highest honors, was "in recognition of high attainments and liberal scholarship." The blind girl, a senior in so ciology, intends to enter the field of social work when her achooling is finished particularly the field of child welfare as it relates to blind children. She has been guided by the Ger man shepherd, since last June. The steak was her way of expressing gratitude to the dog. ATOMIC POST FILLED T. E. Murray Appointed To Board By Truman As Successor To Lilienthal WASHINGTON, March 23. I API President Truman's appointment of Thomas E. Murray, New York engineer, to the Atomic Energy commission eppeered likely todey to meet with little opposition in the Senete. Meny senators said they didn't know Murray personally, but thought his engineering, business and executive beclcground qualified him for the post. There wes no critical comment. Murray s appointment to the atomic post vacated by chairman David E. Lilienthal February IS, was announced yesterday at the "Little White House" at Key West, Fla., where Mr. Truman is vaca tioning. Although Murray will succeed Lilienthal on the five-man commis sion, he will not tske over the chairmanship. Sumner Pike will continue as acting chairman until after April 13, when Commissioner Lewis L. Strauss ia due to leave and Mr. Truman will have another spot to 1 manship to anyone as yet. A num ber of names have been mention- 23. 19S0 h , r;- is " ; ! f; "" " - V ) I 1 ... '-: -:?-! n I " 1 FRED LOCKWOOD, left, was honored Tuesday night by state and local Legionnairei for sponsoring Americen Legion Junior beseball activities in Roseburg for the past several years. Lock wood is shown receiving a citation from Sam Bowes, state Legion commander from Grants Pass, during the Legion birthday party at the Roseburg Country club. (Paul Jenkins photo.) Rescued Flier Now Battles For Life In Hospital CLE ELUM, Wash.. March 23 () An amateur Spokane, Wash., pilot, his legs partially fro- zen from the soles of his feet to above the knees, was snatched by helicopter yesterday from a snow-covered clearing in the Cas cade mountains. The dramatic rescue, ended four davs of desperate survival for Vic tor C. Roberts. The 29-year-old flier had been missing since Sun day w'nen his small plane crashed on frozen Lake Waptus during a flight from Ephrata to Seattle. Dr. F. J. Rogalskl said at the Roslyn-Cle Elum hospital t'.iat Rob erts suffered also from frosted hands, severe shock and a possible back injury. There ia a danger of pneumonia. Amputation was not believed nec essary although aeveral days will be needed before it if known whe ther the limbs are getting blood and that gangrene has not set in Roberta was lifted to safety shortly after he was overtaken by two air force men Lt. Wallace L. Boyd and Sgt. John L. Robbins. They parachuted into the area late Tuesday to follow the stum bling trail which the hobbling man left in his efforts to reach Easton, a small town on the east aide of Snoqualmie pasa. Aged Woman's 'Slippery Trick Lands Her In Jail LONG BEACH, Calif., March 23 IIP) The case of Mrs. Worthing ton's er, ah, unmentionables is coming up in court. Employes of a women's store yesterday testified elderly Mrs. Frances L. Wortbington came up to them last June and asked for a aafety pin, saying her underthings were slipping. She turned her back, apparently to employ said safety pin, they said, but when she left they missed $1,350 from an unlock ed safe. Mrs. Worthington, parole violator from Kansas on a burglary charge, was held for trial on a theft com plaint after the hearing. Mean time, the jail matron is giving a party for Mrs". Worthington, who is 74 today. ed in connection with the post. Murray served as neutral trustee for the United Mine Workers' wel fare fund from April 1947 until July 1948, when he quit following a disagreement with John L. Lew is, L'MW chieftain. Now S8, he is president of the Metropolitan Engineering Co , of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a director of the Chrysler Corp.; director of two New York banks, and holds more than 200 patenta in his own name. He was graduated from Yale in 1018 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Murray ia a Democrat but the fact that so few senators recog nized his name underlined the fact that he has not been active in poli tics. He ia a Catholic and the father of 11 children. 69-50 White Cops Freed In Negro Killing LAFAYETTE, Ala., March 23 An all-white jury acquitted lw0 wni'e. ""m fhn niinl 01 negro to death, ine verdict was returned for James R. Clark, 28 and Doyle Mitcham, 24. They were accused of first degree murder in the fatal beating of 18-year-old Willie B. Carlisle. A crowded courtroom greeted the verdict with cheers. Mitcham and Clark admitted they hit Carlisle with a rubber hose and a walking stick, but said they did so only after a pulled a knife on them while tney were try ing to get him into a cell. Carlisle was arrested Feb. 18 for letting the air out of a tire on the officers squad car after being evicted from a dance. Stale Toxicologic Paul Shoffiett testified that in his opinion Car lisle could not have died of one or two falls aa the defense contended, Log Projection Saves Boy's Life Ernest Nazelrod Jr., 22-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Nazelrod of Garden Valley road, awes his life to the fact his trousers caught on projections from a log when he fell into a stream. The child was rescued by his mother, after he had lain for some time submerged, with only his head above water. According to Mrs. Nazelrod the small boy and his sister, Lynn, aged three, were playing with a five - year -old neighbor girl last Friday. She missed them and went out in search. Then she saw the two older children coming over a slight rise. Running to them she asked about the little boy. "He fell into the creek and went to sleep," came the startling reply from the children. Frantically Mrs, Nazelrod head ed for the stream nearly a mile from the house. There she found where her small son had fallen over a seven-foot embankment into the water. He was wet all over, but his head and shoulders were above water, after he had caught on the log. The boy was apparently none the worse for his experience, fol lowing his rescue. Jury Frees Husband Who Fired "Mercy" Bullet COSOURG, Ont., March 23-JP Ralph Kilbon, who admitted fir ing a bullet into hia mentally-ill wife's head after she had attempt ed suicide, waa acquitted of a min der charge yesterday. In less than 70 minutes a 12 msn jury returned the verdict up holding Kilbon's defense that his wife, Irene, was "legally and med ically dead" before the 56 year old retired engineer fired the "mer cy" bullet last November. Expert testimony which led to Kilbon's acquittal contended that Mrs. Kilbon would have died from the stomach wound she inflicted upon herself. Candidacy For Senator Follows Role In Films HOLLYWOOD, March 23 CT If you're a good boy, Elmer, maybe you'll grow up to be a movie star. And if you're a good movie star, maybe you'll get to be a senator. Like Edward Arnold. Arnold, who recently played the role of a senator in the movies, liked the fit of the suit so well he decided he'd try to buy it. He announced yesterday that he will file for the Republican nomina tion for the seat of Sen. Sheridaa Downey (D-Calif.), Action Followed ly Approval Of Fundi To Widen Present Program WASHINGTON. March 23.. Thrown out of Congress in a de feat lor President Truman, the 32,000,000,000 cooperative housing program bounced back today as a warm political issue. ignoring a peraonat pica rrom the President, the House rejected the co-op idea for middle income housing last night 218 to 155. It then went on to approve 381 to 10, a S4,000.000,000-plua expansion of the existing program. The Senate turned thumbs down on the co-op plan last week, 43 to 38. A House-Senate conference com mittee now will work out a com promise housing Dill without the co-op program. But the President's lieutenanti in Congress served notice that co op housing forthwith is a political issue for the November congres sional elections. And it may get high billing in Mr. Truman's rear platform speeches when he makei a awing to the West coast Uul spring. Jeers Prem Repufelicene Over leers rising from the Re publican side of the House, Demo cratic Leader McCormack of Mas sachusetts shouted: "You may fool the public today. but not next November. This ia going to be a live issue an issue which I hope will be used advan tageously next fall." He accused Republicana of "vot ing one way and talking the other." In the House showdown 81 Demo crats joined 137 Republicana ts strike down the co-op proooaaL Supporting the plan were 141 Demo crats, i Kepubiicana and the one American Labor party member. the defeated co-op section pro posed the creation of a $2,000,000, 000 government corporation. It would have borrowed its money from the public, except for $100, 000.000 contributed by the govern ment. Then it would have lent money at 3 percent interest to co-ops and other non-profit organizationa that undertook home building for fam ilies with incomes from $2,800 to $4,400. The mortgagee could have run as long as 83 years. The opposition shouted that the plan was Socialistic and that it discriminated against veterans and other home builders generally. They said the scheme would pro vide homes for only three percent -of the 8,000.000 middle-income fam- ' ilies, and that those who got co-op homes never would be free front some sort of government super vision. Mere details en pate 4 Flower Show Set By Woman's Club Arrangements of daffodils, cam ellias, primroses -and other flow ers in bloom at the time will be featured March 29-30 during the annual spring flower show, spon sored by the Roseburg Woman's club. Table and miniature arrange ments will form a part of the yearly exhibit and the garden group of the women's dub will display a typical garden scene. A candy and plant sale, also spon sored by the Woman's club will accompany the show. Everyone in the vicinity is In vited to participate in the flower show, with an invitation also ex tended nurserymen and florista of the area. Hours for the flower show, to be held in the Methodist chuich basement, will he from 1-9 p. m., March 2t and from 10 a. m. to S p. m., March 30. . Police Baffled In Hunt For Abducted Girl VANCOUVER, Wash., March 2S P Police conceded today they were at a dead end in their search for Jo Ann Dewey, 18, forced into a car as ahe walked along a street Sunday night. Search started when the girl'i mother, Mrs. C. N. Dewey, report ed Monday noon that she had not reached their suburban home. A police sergeant, who asked that his name not be used, said "it seems certain this was an ab duction for immoral purposes. Cer tainly it was no kidnapping for money as the family haa none." Seventh Day Adventist congre gations in thia region scheduled prayer meeting for the girl, a reg ular church attendant. Trucker Jailed, Fined For Parole Violation Norman Earl Hamilton, 23, Rose burg, wss sentenced to serve 25 days in the county jail and fined $140 when he appeared in justice court, following a parole violation involving eight charges of log truck overload and no chauffeur'a li cense, Justice A, J. Geddea re ported. levity fact ant By L. r. Itetxetitteta In Reedsport ustiee court this week aj drunken driver was fined $500 and given six months term In i L Tkot's putting 'ment' In enforcement. Restrain vow appkiut.