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ROSEIURG, OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950
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TRUMAN AT COULEE DAM President Truman inspects the
transformer deck of Coulee Dim et Grand Coulee, Wash., prior
to the dedication of the largest concrete structure on earth. Left
to rightr A. F. Darland, supervising engineer; Truman; Frank A.
Banks, district manager of the Columbia Basin Project, and Sen
ator Magnuson (D-Washl. (AP Wirephoto).
SIRENS. BOMBS DUE
U.S. Savings Bonds Drive
Will Start Monday Noon
Whistles will blow and bomb blasts will shake the city Monday
noon but Roseburg citizens need not fear sn invasion. The excite
ment will indicate ihe opening ot the U. S. Savings Bonds Independ-
r 1 ence drive in Douglas county.
County School
Budget Election
Slated Monday
Monday is the date for the county-wide
election to authorize the
Douglas County rural school board
to adopt i budget of $829,037.44
outside the six percent limitation.
Excluded from the vete will be
Roseburg district 4. and five dis
tricts joint with Lane and Coos
counties.
The election time will be 2 to
p.m. PST (S to p.m. DST) at
Myrtle Creek and Sutherlin, and
7 to 9 p.m. PST (8 to 10 p.m. DST)
in all other component elementary
school district. Voting will take
place in the elementary schools.
The published statement of me
Douglas County Rural School
budget, appearing In the News
Review Thursday, .May II, er
roneously listed item 2, county
school fund, under estimated re
ceipts, at 110,735. The figure
for this fund should have read
$107,190.
While the total- proposed budget
will be greater than that- of the
current operational budget, the
amount outside the six percent lim
itation and the total to be raised
by taxation will be less. This is
made possible by increased reve
nue from the basic school support
fund from income taxes and coun
ty land sales.
The total budget of $2,457,217.92,
provides for IS high schools, 42 ele
mentary schools, and tuition and
transportation for students in non
high school districts. It provides
for 45 school clerks, 13 superintend
ents and administrative principals
and two supervisory high school
principals. It also provides for 85
high school and 344 elementary
teachers, a total of 344, compared
with 321 for the current fiscal year.
Allowance is made for educating
an additional 407 pupils, based on
school census figures, or a total of
8,203 pupils. No change is made in
salaries or transportation basic
costs. Additional expenses result
from the additional students to be
educated ayid transported.
H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the
Douglas county committee, said
the campaign is to encourage
thrift, providing a backlog of sav
ings to insure this nation against
economic instability and increased
inflation.
The county's quota in this cam
paign has been set at $160,500,
Pargeter said. He urged residents
of the county to help maintain the
records set during former bond
sale campaigns by meeting or ex
ceeding the quota.'
Mayor Albert G. Flegel, In an
announcement to local citizens,
said, "I urge all who are able to
help the volunteer savings bonds
committee of this city reach every
possible bond buyer during the
ramDaira.
"The more we exceed our "In
dependence Drive" quota and the
more we snread the habit of regu
lar saving, the more we shall have
done for ourselves, our community
and our nation."
Fire Chief William "Dutch"
Mills reminded local persons not
to become alarmed when the rural
fire whistle is sounded Monday
noon. The siren and five "bomb"
blasts, set off aop Mt. Nebo by
n.embers of the local American
Legion post, is part of a nation
wide observance of the bond drive.
Roseburg merchants and townspeo
ple were also requested to display
Ule II M HUM 3 It" IS
PENDLETON, May 13
The Federal government s inoe
pendence savings bonds drive in
Oregon will be launched here Mon
day to run until July 4.
Gov. uougias mcivay win spea
from the platform recently usea
by President Truman, ana ring a
replica of the original Liberty bell.
The bell will be given to the
state at the end of the drive. It
is one of 53 made in a foundry
at Annecy, France, a small city
near the Swiss border.
Oregon's independence drive
quota is $5,892,000 in E. bonds.
Umatilla county's quota is $246,-
000. The dedication was set in
Pendleton because of this county's
outstanding record in earlier bond
drives.
Railroad Strike
Spreads To UP;
Pickets Active
CHICAGO, May IS. Th.
crippling strike of locomotive fire
men against four key rail systems
spread la. a stretch of the Union
Pacific railroad today.
At the same time, striking fire
men began picketing Pennsylvania
railroad yards at mrrisDurg, ra.,
after the Pennsylvania put 10
freight trains in operation.
There were unconfirmed reports
that firemen were walking out on
the Grand Trunk Western railroad,
but a union spokesman in Chicago
said be hat no information on that.
The strike was called Wednesday
by the Brotherhood ot Locomotive
Firemen and tngmemen againsi
parts of the Pennsylvania, New
York Central, Southern and Santa
. systems. The union is demand
ing a second firemen on certain big
diesel locomotives and a firemen
on small switch diesels.
A union spokesman in Chicago
said firemen will refuse to run
Union : acific trains over 100 miles
of track between Daggett and San
Bernardino, Calif., starting at 6 p.
m. (PDT) today. He said these
tracks are owned by the strike
bound Santa Fe railroad.
The union attributed the picket
ing in the Harrisburg district to
the Pennsylvania railroad's re
sumption of freight operations.
D. S. Herrick, a brotherhood
representative, said the Pennsyl
vania railroad promised at the start
of the strike that it "would not
operate trains west or north of
Harrisburg." He added:
"The management has violated
the provisions of that statement,
, , . leaving us no alternative but
to establish picket lines in the
Enola, Pa., and Harrisburg district.
ft "
Milk Fight Opponents Await
Decision From Circuit Court
Litigants quietly awairted the outcome of the recent picketing in
junction hearing as attorneys for both sides late yesterday filed case
briefs and marked time while Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly pre
pared to give his decision.
No indication was given as to when the judge will decide on the
legality of the picketing of Umpqua Dairy or whether the Umpqua
Valley Milk Producers association should be enjoined from further
picketing. Named as co-defendants in the case were officials and
some members of Roseburg Teamsters local 962.
However, Roseburg's "milk war'
Truman Backs
Power, Flood '
Control Of U. S.
FOR PECK DAM, Mont., May
IS UP President Truman said to
day that the government's vast
flood control and power program
is helping build the "stronger and
more prosperous United States"
upon which depends "the world's
best hope for peace."
Mr. Truman appeared more pep
pery than most of the people on
his cross-country tour a a he
started out on another day of
"non-Dolitical" stumping with a
prepared apeech at the big Fort
Peck dam.
"Projects like Fort Peck are
investments in the future of our
country," the President asserted.
"Just as a new factory is an in
vestment in the future of a cor
poration."
He said people who "criticize
the federal budget overlook facts
like these."
As he has done since he started
his personal "report to the peo
ple" at whistle stops through the
Midwest to the Pacific Northwest,
the President contended his do-'
mestic program is strengthening
the country for its leadership of
free nations.
RESEARCHER Ross New.
comb, above, has been ap
pointed to a new office in th.
Stat. Gam. department. H.
will serve as chief fishery re
search biologist and coordin
ate and supervise all fishery re
search in the state. His work
will be done in cooperation
with the school of fish and
gam. management at Oregon
State college. A graduate of
the University of Maine, New.
comb cam. Ho Oregon in 1938
and took post graduate work
at Oregon State. He joined the
gam.' department in 1940 end
initiated the river study on he
Rogue river. Following wartime
service with th. Coait Guard,
h. began the Umpqua river
study in 1944, and has since
been in charge of that activity.
Baby A-'Bombs
Made By U.S.,
Report States
WASHINGTON. May IS UP)
The united Miles nas oaoy a
bombs small enough to be car
ried bv let fighter-bombers yet
possibly as powerful aa their king-
sired Drainers.
Detailed information on the
bombs is a carefully guarded
secret. In fact, there has been no
official announcement aa yet that
they exist.
The first definite indication that
such weapons are in production
was cleaned by a reporter seek
ing information on discussions
among military leaders over the
oossibilitv of arming this coun
try's north Atlantic Allies with ato
mic weapons.
The discussions were said to be
based on Ihe possibility of using
"lightweight" bombs as tactical
weapons to replace expensive
ground forces In fcurope.
While the site of the "baby
A-boms is secret, the fact that
they can be carried by jet fighter-bombers
gives some hint of
their weight. The Republic F-84
Thunderjet, a typical jet fighter
bomber now in use by the Air
Force, can carry two 1,000-pound
bombs, one under each wing
Wtytrhoeustr Pension
System Announced
- PORTLAND, May 13. tV-Con'
ract negotiations for the west
coast paper industry continued
here today after announcement of
a pension system for 1.000 pulp di
vision employes of the Weyerhaeus
er Timber Co. .
Union officials said the Weyer
haeuser pension program had no
relation to the coast-wide bargain
ing still underway.
Two unions, representing 15,000
employes, are involved in the ne
gotiations. They are the AFL Pulp,
Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
and the AFL Paper Makers Op
erators of 35 west coast mills
also are involved.
Details were not announced, ei
ther for the contract negotiations.
or the Weyerhaeuser pension pro
gram. All that was said ot me
Dension Dlao was that it covered
workers at weyernaeuser s pianu
in Springfield, Ore., fcvarett ana
Longview, Wash.
Secretary To President
Calvin Coolidae Dies
WASHINGTON, May 13. (PI
Everett Sanders, 68, former
chairman of the Republican na
tional committee and secretary to
President Calvin Coolidge, col
lapsed and died in his law offices
yesterday.
ODY FOUND
ASTORIA, May 13 tPh- The
body of an unidentified man was
found near the eastern border, of
Clatsop county yesterday.
Officials said it apparently had
been washed down from the south
fork of Wolf creek.
Man Convicted
Of Manslaughter
In Dubell Death
EUGENE, May 11 im
Jamoa Lloyd Thompson, 27, Oak
ridge mill hand, was convicted
of manslaughter last night for
the March It shooting of Police
Chief Clyde Dubell, 41, of Oak
ridge. A circuit court ury took S
hours to bring In the verdict by
an 11-1 vote. The state had asked
the ury to convict him of second
dogroe murder. .
Witnesses said Thompson, aft
er an early morning drinking
party, shot the police chief who
wont to Thompson's hous te Irw
vastigato a complaint of noise.
Thompson fled, but was arrest
ed after a day-long search of
the neighboring woods.
Dubell was formerly chief of
police at Sutherlin.
was slill eliciting comment from
interested parties througnout tne
slate.
Statements made recently by th.
manaerr of a Portland milk produc
ers group in regards to the strike
and subsequent injunction hearing
were refuted today ny separate
statements from the milk producers
association and tne teamsiers
union.
Letter Written
In a letter written to Portland
papers, the producers group
termed as "errors the statemeni
issued Thursday by uene u. rosier,
manager of the Portland Independ
ent . Milk Producers association
who aaid he headed a committee oi
dairymen asked to "arbitrate" the
dispute.
Roseburg producers wrote the
lavinifin "believes it can work
out its own problems with its dis
tributors on a local level ana re-
enta interference of other dis
tributors and other people through
out the atate unless they are spe
cifically authorized to arbitrate un-
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aer ine mint niimwii ..
Ma Siv Pr-dt.:ors
Local milk proaucera saia ro-
ter and his committee were not
asked bv the association 10 meai
ate, arbitrate or in any other way
interfere with lawful collective oar
ootnino "
Both the farmers group and the
teamsters unioa called attention to
Foster's statement that "a few mis
led milk producers who affiliated
wun me . r 01 u imaici
were responsible for this city's milk
strike. .
"We farmers are not ainiiaiea
with the teamsters," the statement
said. "We are affiliated only with
the Central Labor council of Rose-
ls. '
MRS. LOUISE HUMPHRIES',
staff assistant, Oregon Business
end Tax research, aad mem
ber of th. legislative Interim
tax study committee will b. in
Roseburg May 17 with other
m.mbers of the interim tax
committee for a noon meeting.
Mrs. Humphrey is th. first
woman to s.rve on such a com
mittee In Oregon. Sh. is r.cog
nised as on. of th. bast in
form.d women on tax matters
in th. stat.
Postmaster .
Stands Firm
On Cut Order
22 Workers
In Diplomatic
Corps Booted
Act Is Retaliation
For Election Of 40
Americans ly Reds
WASHINGTON, May IS UP)
A mass ouster of 22 of the 33 Csech
diplomatic corps employes in th.
United States waa ordered by the
American government today. The
action waa taken In retaliation for
the ejection of about 40 Americana
from Communist Czechoslovakia.
In addition, the United States
ordered th. Csecha to close their
consulates In Cleveland and Pitta
burgh. The Csech embassy In Washing
ton and the consulate in New York
will continue to operate but ob
viously with reduced staffs.
The American not. delivered
In Prague and to the cieca am
bassador here amounted to an
order but was couched in the us
ual diplomatic language of a re
quest. Other Moasuroa Hinted
The United States also Minted It
mar take new aud possible more
drastic action against the Cxechs
in the future. A statement laauea
by the State department said this
government "is examining the sit
uation not only with respect to
the present but also for the future."
The mass ejection of Csech re
presentatives and their staff em
ployea must occur within a "rea
sonable time" the Slate depart
ment said. Officials added that
they have not told the Prague
government just what is meant
by that. "The Csecha presumably
will bave several weeka to settle
their affairs and get out of th.
country.
Figures Change
The State department announced
originally that there were 52 such
officials in the U. S., and that 35
had been ordered Jo leave. Uler
the department corrected these
figures with the following break
down aa to their location:
Washington IS, New York 13,
Pittsburgh 2, Cleveland 2, and on.
in the process of being trsnsfer
red from the Chicago consulate
which previously had been ordered
closed. The department originally
WASHINGTON. May 13. UP)
Postmaster General Donalds stood
firm today on the cuta he haa or
dered in postal service, saying
complaints against the action were
mspirea Dy mo icucr can ici
union. In
The union promptly fired back rail MiUCriVUIl
burg and vicinity.'
An Associates
Press dispstch
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Canyonville City Budget
To Be Discussed Tonight
The public meeting scheduled in
Canyonville tonight at 8 o'clock at
the city hall will be for the purpose
of discussing the proposed cily
budget, not the school bond issue,
as previously reported.
Three elections are scheduled In
Canyonville. Monday. Voting on the
city budget amount outside the six
percent limitation will take place
at the city hall from 9 a. m. to 7
n m
A special school election will take
place trom S p. m. io p. m. on
bond Issue of 315.000 for proposed
renovation, repair and completion
of the school gymnasium and for
ichool and Dlaveround equipment.
The third election, from t to 10
p. m. (DST) will be on the county
rural school budget.
with a atatement accusing t ie
cabinet officer of trying to shift
the blame for his own "hasty til-
advtied action" to Congress. - .
In a 3.500 -word statement yester
day, Donaldson aaid the depart
ment haa received many complaints
about the service cutbacks ha or
dered lsst month.
A lane percentage of these ap
pear to have been Inspired by the
officers of the National Association
of Letter Carriers," he added.
I do not feel thit the curtail
ments in service will greatly in
convenience any considerable num
ber of our citizens," his statement
declared.
The aervice cuts include reduction
of msil deliveries in residential
areaa to one a day. shorter window
hours in post offices, fewer pick
ups from street comer boxes, par
cel post delivery on a ence-a-day
oasis, ana an ena to mgni nanaung
of mail other than first class, par
cel post ana newspapers.
Rep. Ellsworth Sees
Long Congress Session
WASHINGTON, May 13-JfP)-Rep.
Ellsworth (R-Ore) predicted
today the present session of Con
gress will "continue well into Aug
ust." "This vear most members would
like an early adjournment not lie
cause of hot weather," Ellsworth
aaid in a statement, "but because
of hot elections. My guess is the
session will continue well into
August."
Ellsworth said the senate must
dispose of the general appropria
tion bill, both houses must act on
foreign aid appropriations, some
sort of tax bill must be enacted,
changes in the social security law
must be enacted and action taken
on reorganization plans submitted
by President Truman. , .
LA. Tremor Felt
LOS ANGELES, May lS-W-A
alight earth tremor waa felt
today in the southwest section of
the city in the vicinity of the
international airport.
Apparently there was no dam
age. The weather bureau reported
the tremor at 7:43v a.m., Pacific
daylight time, and caUed it "very
slight."
t
Senate Group Votes Boost
For Water Control Budget
WASHINGTON, May 1J-P)
A Senate appropriations subcom
mittee has voted to restore more
than half of the nearly $200,000,tiO0
trimmed by the House from 'Pres
ident Truman's $798,492,000 budget
for flood control and rivers and
harbors.
Better than $16,000,000 of the
increase would go to Pacilic
Northwest projects.
Actually, what the subcommit
tee did was to vote a 10 per cent
cut, or $79,848,200, in tne presi
dent's budget for the projects in
the fiscal year beginning July 1.
The House had lopped off nearly
25 per cent, bringing the amount
down to $599,145,000, so the effect
of the subcommittee's action was
to restore a good part of the House
cuta. The matter now goes to the
Senate appropriations committee
and then to the Senate, itself, for
a vote. After that differences with
the House version would have to
be ironed out in joint conference
The subcommittee went against
Mr. Truman s expressed wishes
ommended that no new projects
be started this year.
The new projects Include the
Skipanon channel at Warrenton,
Oregon, 5154,000, ana inanesion
Harbor, Coos Bay, Ore., $349,000
Figures for Pscific northwest
projects already underway were
placed at (amounts allowed by the
House in brackets):
McNary dam, ($37,500,000 ($35,
000.000); Detroit dam, $20,000,000,
($13,000,000): Dorena dam, $800,-
000 ($720,000); Lookout Point dam
and reservoir. $15,720,000 (siu.ww,-
nrm- Willamette bank orotection.
$450,000 ($200,000): Chief Joseph
dam, $12,000,000 ($12,000,000).
The subcommittee also aiioiieo
$245,000 for planning Ice Harbor:
dam on the Snake river. The 1
House had knocked out the $250,
000 recommended by the budget. I
Iu addition $115,000 was voted for
planning Cougar reservoir in the
Willamette valley.
Senator Cordon (R-Ore) said
work on McNary. Detroit and
Lookout Point dams and Willam
ette bank protection would not
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Woodworkers
Resume Talks
PORTLAND. May 13- -Nego
tiations resumed between employ
ers and CIO woodworkers here to
day with 1 widespread strike hang
ing in tne balance.
Unlea an agreement is reached,
the woodworkers will be on strike
Monday throughout the pine region
of the Pacific Northwest and in
much of western Washington a id
Oregon.
There were Indications, nowever,
that a settlement would be reached.
One employer group, the Wil
lamette Valley Operators associa
tion, reached agreement wun me
union yesterday, granting health
and welfare benefits ana three pa 10
holidaya. Later the big Long-Bell
Lumber company made a aimilar
agreement. '
The contracts csn lor empioyera
to osv 1 cents a msn-hour to
insurance comDanies or hospital
associations to finsnce a neann
nH welfare nrotram.
In addition, the Long-Bell agree
ment calls for a union ahop at the
Longview mill, the Longview boom
nnpralions. the Long-Bell logging
operetions at Ryderwood, Wash.,
nri at the Gardiner Lumber Co
Reedsport. Ore. The Gardiner op
eration ia a Long-Bell aubsidiary,
A NEW TWIST
NEW YORK, May 13- UP)
Here's a new twist to the cold wsr
The Associated Fur manufactur
er of New York disclosed today
it made a deal with Soviet Russia
for the exchange of 12 live Amen
ran mink for 12 live Russian sa
bles. The animals were to be used
fnr hreedina nurrjoses.
The trade was completed. But
the New York furriers said they
now have discovered the Kussisn
sablea were sterilized before ship
ment.
Airway Workers
Out On Stride- '
NEW YORK, May lS-) Sev
en hundred flight service workers,
supported by 3,000 maintenance
employeea who refused to cross
picket lines, struck today against
the hug. Pan American World
Airways.
A representative of the airline
aaid that except for delays th.
company's flight schedules wer.
being maintained througnout th.
world-wide ayatem.
The strikers, members of th.
CIO Transport Workers union,
walked off their jobs early today
after laat minute mediation nego
tiations collapsed. Main Issue in
the diapute ia the union's demand
for higher pay.
No new meetings of negotiations
were scheduled.
The company aaid the strike
directly involved TOO flight service
personnel stewards, stewardeaaea,
and purses. They placed picket
lines around the company'a far
flung American bases and th.
maintenance workers, members of
the same union, refused to cross
them.
The company said supervisory
employeea had taken over main-
tenance work.
The airline operates a fleet or
140 planes. It has a total ot 14,000
employeea.
'Actual Disloyalty"
Discounted In Talk
NEW YORK. Msy IS UP)
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sayi
she does not believe there is very
much "actual disloyalty" In our
country.
The former first lady, speaxing
on her CBS television snow last
night, also ssid she is "very un
happy" about the kind of teati
mony being used by the govern
ment in esses or suspeciea suo-
versive activity.
Mrs. Roosevelt wss in a forum-
type debate with Sen. Owen Brew
ster (R-Me) on the subject "What
does disloyalty to the Unites Statss
mean?"
At one point in th. debate Sen.
Brewster recalled that Mrs. Roose
velt had expressed doubt of Al
ger Hiss' guilt after he was con
victed of perjury for denying h.
had given pre-war secrets to th.
Soviet Union.
"Alger Hiss was never a friend
of mine," she replied. "I hsrdly
knew him ... I knew him fairly
well, but in a perfectly objective
way."
when it decided to add $10,000,000 bave to be curtailed during the
to begin new projecU of "high year If the srwnta voted by the
priority." The President bad rec-' subcommittee were retained.
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HEALTH WINNERS From 30 contestants representing Douglas county -n eiuos " '
L L. L Kk;..t k, and oirls in the county. Pictured with Dr. E. J. Weinseott,
canter, who supervised th. judging and mad. th. .seminations, th. winners pieof
.Li ... i vi.r L4wrU Creak, second Diet: Terrv Le. Lamport, Myrtle (.reek.
riqnr, mrw biuitin, mvvj, , r . . .
first place for qirls; Dr. Wainscot; Arthur Hogan. Gardiner, healthiest boy. and Lorm Mun-
sin, Myrtl. Creek, second place tor ooys. ir.iur. Dy mo..
TRUMAN JOINS TRIBI
HAVRE, Mont., May 1S-(J1
Preaident Truman last night be-,
came an honorary member of the i
Blackfcet Indian tribe. j
' At a brief induction ceremony :
during Mr. Truman's stop in this
north central Montana city, seven
Indians gave the President a war
bonnet and peace pipe.
The crowd urged Mr. Truman
te try oa th. colorful headpiece,
but he declined.
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MOTORIST KILLED
SALEM. May 13-WP)-HaskelI
Sterling Russell, 21, Independence,
wss killed early today when his
automobile crashed into the Oak
Point bridge on th. Salem-Inde-
penrienre highway.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. P. Reizenstein
Sign of super optimism: A
eouncement of scheduled Mt
doar affair that mlts
wards, "H waejthar aarmrrs.