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Newspaper Page TextCOMP mnnfo) n Afn U. of 0, Library Eugene, Ore, plans mm )lllu U , ) r ARTICE MOORE dispenses refreshments to C. J. Porter family at Max Swall't "Tk own. Artice has been employed there since the opening of the season early in March. She and her husband, Laurence Moore, live at 512 Henry street in Roseburg. The Porters (perhaps you just can see little Rosemary Porter's face I own the Tiller store. Diplomas Will Be Given 168 RHS Graduates At Tonight's Commencement, Finlay Field Commencement exercises for Roseburg senior high school's 168 graduating seniors will be held tonight at 8 o'clock on Fin lay field. The program is being .held outdoors this year, to give all parents and townspeople wishing to attend an opportunity, according to Principal Geoige E. Ericlcson. Turkey Show Is Dated; P. Abeel Chosen Manager Edward Davis, manager of Northwest Poultry and Dairy Pro ducts, Roseburg, was last night elected, president of the North western Turkey Show, Inc. Other officers elected include H. B. Roadman, Roseburg, vice-president, and Paul Abeel, manager and secretary-treasurer. The board of directors, elected in April, in clude Arthur Boner, Medford; Roy O. Young. Roseburff: Roadman: 'V M. J. Slaymaker, Grants Pass, anil. uavis. - Abeel was selected as the show manager. He replaces George Routledge, who asked to be re lieved of the duties. He has been actively connected with the show the last 12 years and manager the last three years. The board com plimented Routledge on the work he has done in making the Rose burg show one of the outstanding in the nation. The show was so rated by the judges at last year's exposition. Dates for this year's show will be Dec 4 to 8, inclusive. The . board met again today and set up a budget and made final arrange ments to get the show plans underway. .' ' ' The show will be held at the fairgrounds this year for the first time. It was held last year at the Rolletta rink. Through the coopera tion of the county court a cold room for storage and display of dressed birds will be erected. The turkey show will furnish the stor age equipment, which is owned by the corporation. The manager and directors promise a revolutionary setup for displaying dressed birds. The storage facilities will be perma nent and available for other fairs and exhibits. THREE OLDSTERS KILLED OLYMPIA, June 1. PC Three 1 elderly men were killed when their car ran off the road 6'A miles south of East Wenatchee yesterday afternoon, the state patrol reported today. The dead were: George C. Tem pers, 66, Mt. Vernon, driver of the vehicle; Frank Mandall, 66. Sedro Woolley, and Lewis Pieffer, 81, Mt. Vernon. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . OUTSIDE my window, as these words are written, the warm, bright, western sun is shining out ot a cloudless spring sky. A few minutes ago, a couple of the young sters of our establishment paused at my desk and fell into chat about a projected back-packing trip this summer into the primitive country beyond the reach of rubber tires and gasoline. A camp beside the trail at night ... the scent of wood smoke, with the odor of frying bacon stirred into it . . . the gurgle of a clear stream ... a star seen through a hole in the trees . . . pipe smoke mixing with the wood smoke and the bacon . . . blanket laid on some boughs and a little moss ... on a back pack trip you don't take much fancy gear along . . . your bed made pleasant by the honest weariness of a day on the trail. On my way to the office this morning, I had paused to see how (Continued on Page Four) members of the nn, south ot Dr. Henry Gunn, Dresident of the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth will deliver the com mencement address. Dr. Gunn, who has accepted the position of superintendent of schools at Palo Alto, Calif., will speak on the sub ject, "Time, Tension and Toler ances." The program will open with the Processional, by Wendell' Johnson and R. Cloyd Riffe. The Rev. W. A. MacArthur will give the invo cation. Miss Carmen Dysert will give the salutatory. Dick Hoskins will sing "Sunrise and You," followed by the valedictory by Miss JoAnn Voorhies. . Supt. Paul S. Elliott will intro duce Dr. Gunn. After his address, the mixed quartet will sing "Aut Wiedersehn." Principal George Erickson will present the class, and School Board Chairman A. J. Ellison will present the diplomas. Rev. Kenneth Knox will give the benediction. The recessional by Johnson and Riffe will follow. The exercises will be the high light of activities for the final week of school. Students in all the schools of Roseburg, however, will be required to come back next Monday, June S, at 1 p.m. to re ceive their report cards. The senior class has been off part of this week, preparing for their graduation services. Bacca laureate was held Sunday night, with Dr. Morris Roach delivering the sermon to a capacity crowd at the junior high auditorium. Ninth Graders Next Senior sneak day was Monday. The class members, with chap erons and faculty advisers, went to Lake Clcowax, near Florence, on the coast for their annual day. They traveled in school buses. Principal R. R. Brand has an nounced that promotion exercises will be held for ninth graders of the junior high school Friday at 8 p.m. in the junior high auditor ium. The eighth graders, who will also be in senior high next year, will have promotion exercises next Monday night. , Promotional programs are also being held for sixth graders in their respective grade schools. Republican Is Truman's Choice For Air Force Job WASHINGTON &) John A. McCone, Los Angeles business ex ecutive, has been nominated by President Truman as underseere tary of the air force. He is a He publican. . A close friend of Secretary of the Air Finletter, McCone served as a member of the President's air policy commission. Finletter was chairman of that group. He assisted in the drafting, par ticularly of the military phases, of the commission's "survival in the air age" report issued Jan. 1, 1948. He was graduated from the Uni versity of California in 1922. Defense Secretary Urges Draft Act's Extension WASHINGTON, June l.-UPY-Secretary of Defense Johnson ap pealed today for a three-year ex tension of the draft act to keep the United States "in a state of alert" aga'nst possible attack. Johnson told the senate armed services committee numerous "in cidents" in the cold war including the Russian atomic explosion make it necessary for this coun try's armed forces to be in a stale of readiness. DRUNKEN DRIVING CHARGED Sheriff O. T. Carter reported the arrest of Martha Adar Williams, 38, Myrtle Creek, on a charge of drunk driving. She was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Worrall near Myrtle Creek and was released from the county jail on $500 bail. The WMttwr Fair today and Friday with little change in tern perjure. . Sunset today 1:44 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:35 a. m. Established 1S73 Second Year Of Arms Aid Requested Of Delay Danger Emphasized By President Truman Asks Total Of $1,225,500,000, Which Is Under First Year Figure WASHINGTON. June l. UP) President Truman today asked Congress to provide $1,222,500,000 for a second year of the arms aid program. He said delay in supplying the money might "strike a fatal blow at all our efforts to create the kind of peace which the free world seeks and would lessen our chances ot continuing to live and work in free dom." The fund would finance arms shipments to more than a dozen foreign nations, including Atlantic pact allies, during the fiscal year beginning next July 1. The $1,222,300,000 requested by Mr. Truman is slightly less than the $1,314,010,000 which Congress appropriated last year to help 13 nations rearm against Commun ism. Backing up his request, Mr. Tru man said: "The momentum already gained must under no circumstances be lost, because, once lost, it is doubt ful that it can ever be recaptured at any cost." . The President gave this break down as to how the new money would be spent: North Atlantic Treaty Nations $1,000,000,000. This would go for weapons, a training program and would include spending of $75,000, 000 for raw materials and machin ery needed to boost military production in western Europe. Greece and Turkey $120,000.00 to furnish "basic capital equipment," spare parts and to help modernize Greek and Turkish defenses. Iran, The Philippines and Korea $27,500,000. The report said this would pay for equipment and train ing to help the Iranian army "pre sent a firm stand in defense of independence against strong Soviet pressures" and to help the Philip pines and south Korean govern ments to maintain internal order in the face of Communist threats. General Area Of China $75, 000,000.' The President said this money is needed "to continue and expand upon" present programs for giving help "to the non-Com munist forces in this area that are now engaged or in danger of being engaged, in active conflict with militant Communist elements." The President did not specify the exact number of countries which would share In the Ameri can arms aid program Post-Graduation Traffic Accident Kills 5 Students HARLAN. Ia.. June 1. (JP) Five high school students three boys and two girls were killed last night in an automobile-truck acci dent. A fourth boy, the driver of the car, was seriously injured. The students were celebrating gradua tion exercises held earlier last night at Harlan high school. Two of the dead and the injured youth had received their diplomas. The accident occurred on high way 59, about seven miles south of this small west central Iowa com munity. Sheriff Orrell Gearhart of Shelby county said the car rammed into the rear of a ijc-ton truck loaded with live fish. The truck driver, Robert Bruce Pugh, 21, Spirit Lake, la., was not injured. the driver or the car, Gaylin SiiiSnn, 18. was taken to a hospital in Council uluffs, la., about 40 miles from the scene of the acci dent. - The girls killed were Mary Ann Lindstrom, 16, and Jo Ann Ander son, 16, who was graduated last night v ith Sisson and one of the three boys killed, Robert Brock man, 18. The others killed were Charles Ocean, 16, and Darrel Chamberlain, of Dunlap, Ia. All but Chamberlain lived in Harlan. Court Revokes Will By Eviction Of Tomcats . PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 1 (P) Three tomcats today were without the luxury of living in a 16-room mansion they had occup ied alone for Tnore than a year. The big house, a probate judge ruled, is better suited for human habitation. So he evicted the cats. Mrs. Sophie II S. Hnwarth, who died in April, 1949, specified in her will that the cats live in the man sion and that Miss Elizabeth Ber nie be paid $10 a week to come each day and care for them. But yesterday, with the approval of all principals involved in the Howarth estate. Miss Bernie was given the cats snd $4,000 to care for tnem in her own home ROSEBURG, NEW PRESIDENT Mrs. Hiram Cole Houghton (above) of Red Oak, Iowa, was elected national president of the General Fed eration of Women's Clubs at their 59th convention this week in Boston,' Mass. - (AP Wire photo.) Drain Boys Hurt, 3 Horses Killed In Bridge Crash DRAIN, May 31 (."B A bridge collapse tossed three riders and their mounts into Elk creek yes terday, killing two of the horses and injuring two boys riding with Police Chief Vernon Pouncey. Pouncey rescued Le Roy Farley, 13, who was pinned in the bridge timbers, with his head and shoul ders submerged in the water, as his son, Donald, 16, raced for help. It later was discovered Don ald made the run with a broken leg. The police chief reported the wooden span, appeared to tall away at both ends. The horses and riders were dropped about 20 feet into the shallow water. . When the bridge broke, It snapped a water pipe supplying Drain. Service in the city was in terrupted for more than an hour until repairs could be made. Navy Plane Crash Kills 9 Occupants OUONSET, R. I., June l.-(P Nine men were killed and tWs Injured in the crash ot a navy plane today at the Quonset naval air base. Nine men were burned to death when a patrol plane crashed and burned on . a runway, the navy said. Commander Glasgow of the public information office report ed the pilot and co-pilot es caped with only minor injuries. The remainder of the crew was trapped in the wreckage. jit ? - - '3iBaawwr '. , Airiaw ' , ' - 'I f ' j i I I I .--Jfe "" "".v?; ".tl J ji'! il 'I ii -i&r ,7,viW . . (jJ- ' ' W "j ,?o liH1 v' ,- i II " ?. mM-r-r'l:!. i i,.'. ;'.''i,,W"lt 'it i iimst-V1" OCCUPATIONAL TESTING General aptitude tests ware given three applicants by the Roseburg office of the Oregon State Employment service Wednesday at the city hall. These tests, or analysis, are given and the resultant scores are reflected OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE Congress School Budget Issue Awaits Friday's Vote Roseburg District Will : Ballot On Sum In Excess Of Six Perct. Limitation Voters of Roseburg school dis trict will go to the polls Friday to vote upon a proposed budget amount of $362,778.87 outside the six percent limitation. The voting will take place at the junior high school between the hours of 3 and 9 p.m., daylight saving time (2 to 8 p.m. standard time). The entire budget totals $884, 834.89, which is for operational expenses. Of this amount $538, 541.49 is to be raised by taxation. The remainder is taken care of by anticipated revenues. The budget as presented pro vides for 250 additional students. An anticipated record high enroll ment of 3,100 is expected, based on the school census, for next year. Eleven more teachers will be needed, three in the elementary schools, three in the junior high and five at the senior high, ac cording to Superintendent Paul Elliott. These additional salaries alone will account for $39,750 of the budget. Higher maintenance costs, in creased utility and telephone rates, three additional custodians and a full time carpenter represent other items. The proposed budget takes into consideration the operation of two new school buildings in the Dis trict 4 system. One of these is the library-arts building, being erected betwien the present high school building and the Fullerton school. The latter building is to be converted for high school purposes. The other new building is the new Fullerton school, for which bids have been called for opening June 9. It is to be located west of Coates addition on property which has been' acquired by the school district. Income Tax Returns To Be Bared In Crime Drive WASHINGTON, June l.-UP) Senate crime investigators said President Truman offered today to make income tax returns of sus pected gamblers and racketeers available in the committee's na tionwide inquiry. Chairman Kefauver (D-Tcnn) said Mr. Truman promised to do "everything in his power" to sup port the investigation. He said an executive order by the President to make income and other tax rec ords available is "in the works." THEATER BUSINESS HIT PORTLAND, June l.-WPI-With the' picnic, fishing, baseball and playground season in full bloom, theater owners are glum. Oper ators here reported four second run motion picture houses will close soon for the summer months. 1, 1950 :v. ft i- v-- tjr TRAINMAN HONORED William Compton, center, was hon ored by fellow Southern Pacific empoyees Wednesday who surprised the. veteran railroader and his wife, left, with a sur prise gathering. Compton, now 65, completed 43 years as a carman when he retired May I. ing for the Missouri-Pacific. He also worked in Colorado and Idaho before coming to Roseburg. in 1921 with the SP. He worked 23 years in Klamath Falls before returning to Roseburg in 1946. Mrs. Compton was'presented a bouquet of carnations from Mrs. Thelma Greer, trainmaster clerk, and W. C. Merman right, roundhouse foreman, presented Compton with a credit certificate good only for fishing side at 521 E. Douglas and have in Roseburg.' (Paul Jenkins photo. I Record Timber Days Carnival Sutherlin's Four-Day Plan; G.A.R. Leader The first four days in July with American Legion post 121 Days carnival Sutherlin will neve Pop Wult, general chairman. , . Opening Saturday, July I, celebration will .continue through July 4, with special events scheduled tor oach ot the tour Springfield Mill Destroyed By Fire SPRINGFIELD, Ore., June 1 tP) Fire leveled the Bennett Lum ber company mill here early today with a loss of some $200,000. Flames spread so fast one of the two night watchmen had to run for his life. Only the sawdust burner was left standing. The only equipment saved were a carrier, two trucks and a fuel loader- which were driven out before the fire reached them. Half the piled lumber near the mill burned but Walter Bennett, mill superintendent, said he could not estimate the amount. The in ventory was to have been taken today. It .was Bennett who esti mated loss at about $200,000. He said it was not fully covered by insurance. Two flatcars loaded with lum ber caught fire but a switch en gine rammed into them, pushing them within reach of fire hoses from the Springfield and Eugene fire departments. , The mill, at the eastern edge of the city limits south of main street, was adjoined by the Rosboro and Guerrier lumber companies. Fire men played water on these, keep ing the fire from spreading. The mill was owned by Ben Bennett and Robert and Carl Kuhl the last two from Portland. in certain occupational aptitude : .-T :' ducted the tests for B. M. O'Connor, Mary Lltilefield and Cecil N. Thompson, see story page 128-50 Compton started in 1904, work' equipment. The Comptons re two married daughters living May Be Guest will be gala ones in Sutherlin, planning the biggest Timber ever seen, according to Walter with the annual kiddies day, the days. ' Sunday,' July 2, will be observed as all-veterans day In Sutherlin with commanders and department heads from every state , veterans organization scheduled 'to attend. Featured among out-of-town visi tors may be Commander-in-Chief Theodore A.. Penlan, national commander of the GAR and one of the few surviving Civil war veterans. Wulf received a letter from Penland recently, stating that the 106-year-old veteran will attend the Sutherlin celebration if his health permits. ' Prizes offered during the ' day will include checks for $100 and $50 to the best all-veterans musi cal organizations, $25 to the post with the largest attendance in Suth erlin and $25 to post members whose colors are carried the long est distance The first of two days of activity by loggers will get underway July 3 when entrants compete in log rolling events. Log truckers will also get an opportunity to test their skills in the trucking . con tests. Featured in the day's parade will be competition for $100 prize money, to be awarded the most ancient car to start and finish under its own power. High climbers will' vie for- $350 prize money July 4 and prizes will also be awarded winners in the chopping and bucking events. A fireworks display the evening of the Fourth will climax the four day event. patterns. K. C. Layer, left, con IS. I Picture by rsul Jenkins.) Roseburg Civic Leaders Given Information Highway Board's Plan Lists Link From City To Garden Valley Junction Tmmsliflj to nTanei 4tM ik- HH ....... sMiua ivs UIO S.UI1" struction of a four-lane highway from the Roseburg north city limits to the Garden Valley road junction are being formulated by me uregon state Highway com mission. This assurance was given a dele gation of Roseburg civic leaders who attended a meeting of the commission last week. xne commission has ' approxi. mately $200,000 available to ja spent on widening the highway to thia width and nrAviHin,, - t- turn alley from the top of the hill i me uunn city urniis to ine June tion. ; The rnmmlietnn ti nnf M,'An the idea of purchasing right-of-way ai vi ma present nignway tor an eventual four-lane limited access nignway to Winchester, the delega tion was told. Th Clrlanintf n . J would not be a duplication or waste, ii was poiniea out, Decause the main highway would have limited access. .The commission believes the need would always be apparent for the main super highway and for the Garden Valley road junction section, in view of the present population growth trend. no aeimite action has been given to acauirinff of riohKnf.u.u construction plans for the Rose- uurg-wmcnesier strip. City Plans Mulled Uxft nf Pino tr..t . . through the city is still in a tenta tive stage, me delegation was in formed. Some thought is being; ffivftn tn elimination .11 - " ........ ...... u. mi ,ainiii( on Stephens street inside the city limits, ana tnus providing a four lane highway through town. engineers are expected to be in Rnsehllrff innn in in (ai,.I tng an overall plan for the future. Attending the commission meet ing were Buckley Bell, chairman of the chamber of commerce high way committee; Walter Olmschied, member of the Roseburg planning commission; Percy Croft, chair man of the city council street com mittee, and Mayor Albert G. legel. They attended to discuss the north approach to Roseburg, an overall planning picture tor the city and the proposed Fine street by pass xor soutn-oouna iratiic. Atlanta Sets Up Jitney -Service To Meet Strike ATLANTA Tuna f lm - city of Atlanta began setting up a litnjiv frvlM inAatr 1. j j ...... ... j m mane- Shift replacement for trolleys and buses idled for two weeks by a drivers' strike. Mayor William Hartsfield last niffhl nrffomH "nnrtttntw .. .fl the streets as illegal. His action came on tne neets of a ruling by Assistant city Attorney J. Charlie Murphy that courtesy cars which charge fares or accept donations are llleaal unless licensed hi fh city. Atlanta has been without a pub lie transnnrtfltinn. ivilom fan it. approximately 400,000 citizens for iww weens. memDers or me Amal gamated Association of Street, Electric RnilwnV ann1 Mnlnn-nnanh employes of America (AFL) walked out, demanding an eight-cent hourly wage mice, me current scale for th 1740 nYivnra i. t1 ?C n I....- The Georgia Power company said it couia not pay tne requested in crease. When the operators struck, they began operating their own auiomo- ones as courtesy cars," cnargtng no fares hilt annnntlntf rfnnalinn. There have been numerous re ports of courtesy cars operated by persons other than trolley drivers, charging high fares. The Driver's union and the Pow er company are still deadlocked. Three Deer Hunters Fined; One Also Jailed Fines totaling $550 were im posed this week in two Douglas countyi justice courts on Ulegnl hunting charges. Justice A. - J. Geddes, Roseburg, reported that Jess T. Donoho, 31, charged with hunting deer out of season, and Jack W. Wilde, 19, charged with killing deer out of season, were each fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. Both are of Glide. At Glendale, Justice of the Peace Skillings reported Harry T. Cli.ie, 36, was fined $150 and sen tenced to 60 days in the county jail, on a charge of killing deer out of season. TOOT, TOOTI LONDON. June 1. MPV-Their candidate wasn't promoted from foreman to inspector and 250 truck drivers at London's largest freight yards tooted a protest. They protested because Edward Home was promoted They wanted George Blower. Levity Fact Rant By L. r. Reizenstein Speaking ef Inconslsrancles, ponder this one: Memorial day traffic fatolittaa rmsltd an In crease, but earlier In May Ore gee Insisran rates sm cotHsloia II eereessi.