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2 The Nsws-Heylew, Rosoburg, OreWeo, Mar. 29, 1950 Survey Slated On Quality Of Pork Deing Sold Here Housewives will havt in oppor tunity thii week to register their eomplsints on uit quality oi porn offered them through local butcher hopt that la, it they have any complatnta. Two reoretentativea of the sgrl- eulture-economics department of Oregon State college will be in Roseburg the remainder of thia week conducting i random aurvey of the type of pork local houte wivu prefer. The local aurvey ia a part of a program being conducted throughout the atate in an effort to determine whether complainta of fat pork are well founded. The aurvey ia tinder the direction of Dr. C. W. Vroomin of OSC and ia being conducted by Ed Colea and Ed Gorman, experimental aidea in the department of agriculture-eco-nomica. Approximately SO local houae wivea will be interviewed and ahown aamplea of fat, lean and medium cuta of pork. Houaewivea will be asked to indicate which type of cut they prefer and will furnish Information for question naire!. Findings of the aurvey will be turned over to the animal hus bandry department of the college, with Dr. Vrooman'a recommenda tions. If necessary, the animal hus bandry experts will attempt to come up with a new type of hog to meet requests of housewives throughout the state. A total of 800 random surveys will be taken in Oregon. Colea and Gorman have already interviewed houaewivea in Corvallia, Medford nd Astoria. The two men emphasized that the survey Is an effort by the col lege to help homemakere in the preparation of pork in meala. They sua "we're not trying to sell thing." DRUNK DP. I VINO CHARGID Marvin Stanly Ward, Myrtle Point, charged with drunk driving, is being held In the county jail under 1250 bail, following hia ar raignment In Justice court. Justice of Peace A. J. Geddea reported. Ward was arrested by Deputy A. A. Eckhirdt. 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Would tip "criminals, foreign agenta, aubveraivea and others" on how the FBI works and put "additional ahacklea" on the FBI. 2. Would break confidence with persons who have furnished confi dential information, and dry up the FBI'a sources. . Would place the lives of some FBI informante In jeopardy. 4. Might result in an Injustice to innocent individuals. S. Would warn persons whose na'mes appear in FBI reports and some might flee the country. 6. Might be an invitation to black mail the persons involved. 7. Might disclose "highly re stricted information vital to the national security and of consider able value to a foreign power." t. Detaila of FBI reports would be subject to misinterpretation or distortion. Infant Dies After Rtscuo From Burning Homo EUGENE, March 2a tTl An autopsy waa planned today in the death of a S-week-old boy snatched from a crib in the family'a flaming rural Veneta dwelling. . Coroner Phil Bartholomew said the child's body did not ahow signs of burns. The infant waa alive when examined by a Veneta physi cisn but waa dead on arrival at a Eugene hospital, he aaid. Mr. and Mra. Arleon Tucker, Rt. 1, Veneta, were repairing their car in their yard when the fire waa discovered on the house roof. Flamea kept the father from enter ing the rear of the house and he had to smash in the locked front door with an ax. He found burning wallpaper had fallen on the baby'a bassinette. A fiullv chimney waa blamed for the fire. NOMINATION 1INT WASHINGTON, March X.-tlPi President Truman has sent to the Senate the postmaster position nomination of Paula J. Burt, Wins ton. Present postmistress at Wins ton ia Marian Jackson. powerful gasoline Yes, many of today's engines have been stepped-up . , , they call for more powerful gasoline! Now Shell gives yon the most powerful gasoline your car caa me Shell Premium it's "activated. 1 Actually, Shell splits molecules to get more power for today's more powerful engines. So you get gasoline that's "actmted"! SHELL PREMIUM GASOLINE Annual Kiwanis Meet Expected ( To Draw 10,000 More than 10,000 persons are ex- pected to attend the 35th annual convention of Kiwania International May T to 11 at Miami. Fla.. off! cers of the Roseburg Kiwania club were informed today. Maurice Newland, prealdent of the club, aaid that reports from the Miami Kiwania convention headquarters indicate that prepa rations for the five-day meeting are last nesring completion. Many nationally known figurea will be on hand to address dele gstes, representing 1,100 clubs and 200,000 members throughout the United States, Canada, Alaska, Ha waii and the Yukon Territory, New land aaid. Delegatea also will participate In panel conferences on numeroua Kl wanis-sponsored activities, ranging from public affaire, boys and girla work and agriculture to support of churches In their spiritual aims An outstanding program also u being planned for the wivea of Ki waniana, Newland aaid AnticiDatini a huge delegate reg istration, Kiwania International es tablished its convention headquar ters at Miami in January. J. Hugh Jackson, dean of the graduate school of business at Stanford uni versify, Palo Alto, Calif., and pres ident of Kiwania international, will preside over the varioua conven tion aeasions. Pardon May lo Given Boy Who Slow Drunken Parent BOSTON, March 29 Gov. Paul A. Dever today studied the case of a 16-year-old "model boy" aentenced to life for killing hia drunkard father. The governor has the power, with consent of the executive council, to cut the prison term of Francis Whorf, Scituate boy scout, or grant a full pardon. The boy pleaded guilty yesterday in Plymouth superior court to sec ond degree murder. He admitted he fired a bullet into the head of hia sleeping father, Kenneth Whorf, 49, last September. He aaid he did it "for the good of the family." The elder Whorf, irregularly em ployed as a laborer, had a long record as a wife beater and drunk ard. District Attorney Edmund R Dewing told the court the trsgedr was due chiefly to "a sordid home condition which was almost unbear able." Deere Scheduled Roseburg chapter, Order of DeMolay, will hold a special meeting Thursday, March 30, at the Masonic temple at T:S0 p. m. The initiatory de gree la scheduled. your car can Ctochostovakki Expert AP'f Last U. S. Reporter PRAGUE, March Jt -tJn- The Communist dominated Czechoslo vak government has ordered the expulsion of the laat American cor respondent of the Associated Preaa left in Prague. Information Minu ter Kopecky has hinted there may be further expulsions of the few remaining Western correspondents. A government official gave "un objective reporting" aa the reason for ordering AP'a Nathan Polowet aky to leave the country by April I. He had been the lone United States national representing the AP since chief of bureau Richard Kaaiachke waa expelled last January with three other Western correspon dents. All the expelled newsmen hsd been charged with unobjective reporting. They denied it. U a J w negro Accused ut Bearing rr omen LANETT, Ala., March 2-4Jpy- A negro wanted for auestionine in the savage beating of two white women witn an electric iron, sur rendered to heavily armed poaae- men cany loaay, "I ain't done nothing!" 26 year. old Jack: Tucker called out to a band of about M0 manhuntera who tracked him to the outskirts of thia Alabama mill town of 6,000 near the Georgia line. Sheriff's Deputy C. H. Milford of Chambers county said the fugitive held hia hands high and protested his innocence when bloodhounds sniffed him out. Tucker became the object of widespread search after the asaault on the two women became known. The victims Mrs. Ella Barrow, 66, and her daughter Sara both were reported in a critical condi tion today at a hospital at nearby West Point, Ga. The Barrowa are members of a wealthy and promi nent family. The daughter ia 15. The attack occurred yesterday at the Barrowa' large country home on a SOO-acre farm a mile Irom Lanett. Officera said robbery waa the apparent motive. There waa no indication of rape. Ike Asks College Probe Of Mental Defectives RYE. N. Y.. March 29 -UP)- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanta the colleges to undertake a atudy of why ao many American men were rejected for military service in World War II because of mental defects. There were 2.000.000 of them, the Columbia university president told an alumni meeting laat night. He urged that colleges seek in formation on the causes, and help eliminate them. No other nation involved in the war, he aaid, had a percentage one- lourtn as large as this nation's, use! No wonder Shell is winning more new customers every day. Get a tankful of "activated Shell Premium today. Your Shell Dealer is the man to see. Douglas County Flood Control Problem Studied Preliminary bearinga on possible Douglas county flood control oroi- ecta were held yesterday at Suther lin and are continuing today at noaeourg ana urain. R. Jaren and H. N. Magneaa of me rortland ofllce of the Arm Engineera are conducting the nra. liminary hearings preparatory for a public hearing to be conducted in the circuit court room of the court house at 10 a.m. April 26. The first hearine waa hlH IWs. day at Sutherlin for a preliminary uray m ine nooa conditions or Sutherlin Creek from two miles above the city to lta mouth. The hearing thia morning in Roseburg pertained to the Dillard section of yw riv, and the third to Elk and Paaa creeks. The April hearing, however, will cover the entire county. Including the Reedsport area, where prelim inary hearinga have already been maae, ana tne osrden valley Riveradale areaa. The flood control program would be a cooperative affair, with the Army Engineers doing the nro- jected work, but with the local die' tricta providing rights-of-way and maintenance. Theae hearinga do not concern a recent House appropriation com mittee authorization of JA0 0O0 for Douglas county flood control during xaoi. jaren ana Magness were not cer tain about thia appropriation, but Lbelieved it waa for levy work pre viously autnorizea lor the lower umpqua and Smith river, Eugene To Sell School Bonds For Merger Vote EUGENE. March 28. UPl Eugene's school board haa author ized aale of one million dollars worth of bonds, the remaining por tion of an authorized $2,500,000 bond issue voted by the people in November 1048. This action promised to clear the way for a school district consoli dation vote on the proposal to join wmaxenzie district 6 with Eugene's district 4. Under Oregon law, pending bond aalea are an nulled when a consolidation occurs, so the bonds have been authorized prior to any action on the consoli dation. Gambling Alleged In Glendale School Squad Information" contained in an As sociated Press report from Grants Pass announced aroused Glendale school patrona have called a mass meeting for tonight to discuss al leged gambling by their hiah school athletic squad and other matters pertaining to school ad ministration. Chairman of the citizens com mittee is Everett Skillinga, Glen dale justice of the peace. County school officials said they had no exact knowledge of the complaints of Glendale citizens and that the affair was a problem to be handled by the district school board there. News-Review classified ads bring results. Phone 100. WESTERN AUTO SUPP Sole Lasts Through April 1 Save On INNERSPRING MATTRESS and BOX SPRING EACH FULL OR SINGLI BOX SPRINQ Hot feeiewe Flexstetee In title tie e 72-eeM- wire-tied eei . . sett herder eed strep bea dle. JUST... 11. SI FULL OR SINGLI INNERSPRING MATTRESS eeterae ISO eei 22" 1 Disappearing Chickens Worry TenrnDo Owner William Erbe, who uvea near Tenmile school oa the old por tion of the highway, had 23 chick ens. But that waa month ago. Now he haa only five. One morning Erbe went to hia chicken house to find hia flock diminished by seven. Then laat Sunday, 11 more were missing. Erbe haa five members in hia family. If all the chickens lay an egg apiece, he asserts he can get by, so far aa breakfast food ia concerned, but he is definitely per turbed about the missing flock. Deputy Sheriff A. A. Eckhardt ia too. He'a making a thorough investigation. Ulster Head Hits Back At O'Dwyer LONDON, March 28 m Sir Basil Brooke, prime minister of Northern Ireland, hurled a ver nal brickbat right back at New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer to day. "During the war we entertained 100,000 American troops in North ern Ireland," Sir Basil said, "and they were made to feel at home. We never inquired whether they were Democrats or Republicans. ' The Ulster prime minister msde hia comment at a preaa conference in reply to a queation on a state ment by O'Dwyer that if Sir Basil were to be welcomed at New York's city hall "it will be be cause I am dead." O'Dwyer strongly opposed the partotio of Ireland. , Sir Basil, who leaves Friday for a two-month visit to the United States, had previoualy declined to reply to tne mayor s remarks. "I felt that aa I would be a guest in the United States it would be improper to make any com ment on Mr. O'Dwyer'a state ment," ne aaid today. "IF I were stumping the United States to try to induce avmoathv for Northern Ireland I should de serve everything I would get. But I am going aa a guest of friends who invited me." Sir Basil aaid he would try to ateer clear of political issues in the talks he will make to Ameri can Ulster groups and business ana professional organizations ia New York. Washington. Philadel. phia and Chicago. Communist Educator Denied Debate Privilege DETROIT. March 29 OPl Dr. Herbert J. Phillips, a former university of Washington faculty member who waa dismissed be cause of his admitted member ship in the Communist party, will not debate Communism at Wayne university as planned. The debate, which was to feature Dr. Phillips and Dr. Alfred Kelly, Wayne professor, was called off last night by Dr. David D. Henry, Wayne president. The school leader, ia reference to .Dr. Phillips, said: "I can not believe that the uni versity is under any obligation in the name of education to give him an audience. I do not intend to approve the participation of any Communist member in any univer sity program." 1 . . . Beautiful Limed Oak 3-PIECE BEDROOM 14, Chest m4 Veahy . strife he asn) eeii ... ef lovely limed oek. Veetoy one Chest eech hove fewr drawers, aen-tiltieo type with side eeidea. (SiatHar to Hlaattette.) 'Wee cjsjj 'i!iall Stephens and Cass Sts. Phone 97 Trust Fund For Pensions Sought PORTLAND. March 2 AFL sawmill workera are going to ask employere to finance a trust fund pension plan that would pay $60 a month exclusive of social security benefits. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the union's northwest council, said yes terday the proposal reviaed from an earlier $100 a month plan in cluding social security waa for complete financing by the industry. He said the fund would be ad ministered by a joint union-management board of trustees, under ine union a proposal. Davia aaid the council had an-1 proved the pension formula. It will come up at April contract reopening talks with operators hir ing M,000 AFL workera. The union secretary said the Jilan would permit workera to shift : rom one employer to another j without loss of righta. It would I also provide disability benefits, withdrawal rights and rulea eov- erning retirement before or after the normal retirement at eg SS years. - ' now nor finer j trvict i ROOFING V No mailer how high imlatron ojoee, . 7 wj pledgsj to lrtp .:' our prictsVeasonable and wtthin ' tha means of evarvorvt.. huwi uvnvt oMiy W001 OVAl BRAIDED ftUO ""'.ond reversible 100 ol filled. The Weather U. S. Weather Bureau Offtee Resefcurg, Ore Pair today with Inereeslnf tleueH neas tedey and Thursday. Highest temp, any March -...1 .11 Lowest temp, far any March . ' II Highest temp, yesterday SS Lowest temp, lest 14 hra. .. M Precipitation last 24 hra. Precipitation from Mereh 1 ... 4.77 Precipitation from Sept. I . J4.ll xcesa from March 1 ... 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