The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, June 13, 1950, Page 2, Image 2

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    2 The Nwt-Rev!ew, Roseburg,
Mrs. L. O. Cooney
Taken By Death
Hri. Laura 0. Cooney, resident
of Roseburg for 20 years, died
June 1 at the, home of her daugh
ter, Misa Eva M. Cooney, in Rose
mead, Calif. She was a native of
Jackson City, 0.
Besides Miss Cooney, she is sur
vived by three other daughters,
Mrs. George Felt and Mrs. Chas.
Doerner of Roseburg, and Mrs.
Bertha L. Martin of Rosemead:
and two sons, E. R. Cooney of
Ogallala, Nebr., and Will J. Coo
ney of Medford; also 16 grandchil
dren and 22 great-grandchildren
Services were held Monday at Tur
ner and Stevens company chapel
with Rev, Gordon Whipple officiat
ing. Interment was in the Moun
tain View cemetery.
Mrs. Doerner made the trip to
Rosemead by plane. She returned
hre over the weekend.
WHALE WINS SCORE
YOKOSUKA, Japan. UP)
Japanese fishermen pulled and pull
led; their net brought up a whale.
The angry mammal twisted and
churned a sea of foam. Its lashing
tail spilled one boat, dumping eight
men and killing one.
The whale got away.
LOGGERS
1 Warco Motor Grader, good
nape. Newly Overhauled L'D
14 Motor, S427S.
1 1948 D-7 Caterpillar Cat. Doz
er. Hyiter Winch, 200 Houri
12,300.
I TD-18 Iiaaeeon Dozer, Carco
Winch, S8.500.
1 Link Belt IV, yd. Shovel Up
per, No Motor, 11,190.
1 Model K AC. Anile Dozer,
S2.500.
1 H SerlM Cat. a, Good Shape,
Stripped. 94.500.
All Prtcee Caih Our Yard
Rogue Equipment
Sales, Inc.
nifhway M Nona
Medferd, Orefon. rhene S-1S0S
IN DAILY
SCHEDULES AND SERVICES
Effective June 18
STREAMLINER "City of Portland" . . , Fastest train East. Latest
departure earliest arrival. No Extra Fart.
Eaitbound
Lv. Portland 5:30
Ar, Chicago 11:30
Westbound
Lv. Chicago 5:30
Ar. Portland 7:30
"PORTLAND ROSE" . , . Convenient through service to Denver,
Kansas City, Omaha, and Chicago . . . direct connections for Salt
Lake City, St. Louis, Texas, Southwest and East.
Eastbound
8 30
8:00
Lv. Portland
Ar. Denver
Ar, Kansas City
11:15
Westbound
11:30
5:30
6:15
Lv. Kansas City
Lv. Denver
Ar. Portland
"IDAHOAN" , Fost schodula with through service connecting with
the "City of St. Louis" Streamliner for Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis.
Direct connections also for Salt Lako City, Texas, Omaha, Chicago,
East and South.
Eastbound
Lv. Portland
Ar. Denver
Ar. Kansas City
Ar. St. Louis
Lv. St. Louis
Lv. Kansas City
Lv. Denver
Ar. Portland
The "SPOKANS"
Spokane.
Coach and
Eastbound New Schedule
Lv. Portland 9:45 p m.
Ar. Spokane 7:00 a.m.
Westbound No Change
Lv. Spokane 9 30 p m.
7:00 a m.
(All schedules shown are Standard Time)
For Compltte Travel Information, Consult
GENERAL AGENT
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Or. Tues., June 13, 1950
Locals
Patch and Chat Club The Patch
and Chat club will meet tonight at
8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C. J.
Bradley. All memDers are asseu
to be present.
Leaves For Balboa Island Mrs.
A. C. Seely of Roseburg left this
morning for Balboa Island, Cam.,
to attend exercises of the Horace
Renson school to see her 13-year-
old grandson, Hall Seely Jr. grad
uate.
Dillard Students Win
Attendance Awards
The pupils in the Dillard school
receiving special awaros irom weir
teachers for the year's perfect at
tendance were: rirsi gmuea,
Janice Harty, Patricia McLennan
and Faye Armstrong; second
grades, Mike Covey, Leroy Roberts
and Sherman Porter; third grades,
Judith Ann Roberts, Rutn Ann
Perkins, Betty Cain and Ella Mae
Rowe; fourth, Linda Harty, Sharon
Heath, Jackie McLennan and La
vern Parker; fifth, Wendy Arm
strong, Beverly Beaty, Robert
Harty, John Covey, Jerry Ec
cles, Nancy Roberta and Florcan
Yarbrough; seventh, Karen Arm
strong, Mable Buttler, Bill Tabor.
Patsy Poole, Shirley- Redd and
William Slack; eighth, Grant Feero
and Johnny Yarbrough.
Initiation Given At
Evergreen Grange Meet
Fifty-three members of Ever
green (.range attenaea me meet
ing Friday at the Grange hall, with
Muster Rubie Bloom presiding. Re
ports on agriculture were given by
Uliarics Mixora ana nonnie uanj
man.
First and second decree initia
tion was given to a large group of
candidates. The memDers voted to
send a 4-H club member to sum,
mer school at Corvallis.
Third and fourth degrees will be
given June 23 at 8:30 p.m. No pot
luck dinner will be held that night.
Sandwiches and cookies will be
served after the meeting, and
ladies are asked to bring either of
the two.
IMPORTANT
CHANGES
No Change
p.m.
a.m.
Hew Schedule
p m.
a.m.
Example
Friday
Sunday
Fridoy
Sundoy
New Schedule
p.m.
a.m.
Example
Friday
Sunday
Sunday
p.m.
No Change
p.m.
p.m.
o.m.
Friday
Saturday
Monday
New Schedule
Example
8:10 a.m. Friday
7:45 p.m. Saturday
7:45 a.m. Sunday
1:00 p.m. Sunday
Westbound New Schedule
4:00 p.m. Friday
9:30 p.m. Friday
7:45 a.m. Saturday
4:40 p.m. Sunday
new Pullman accommodations to
Phone 4440
Sav
PACIFIC
be way ahead by
Upholstery Class
Enrollment Will
Open Monday
Enrollment for the upholstery,
drapery and slip cover classes
scheduled to open next Monday,
June 19, was well over the ex
pected number, according to Mrs.
Lester Nielsen.
More than 100 persons signed up
yesterday for the course, sponsored
by the state vocational adult edu
cation program, in cooperation
with the city school department.
The classes, to be conducted in
the junior high school home eco
nomics room in the basement, will
last nine days. There will be three
classes daily, in the morning, aft
ernoon and evening, each for three
hours. Those enrolling for the
course have been assigned to one
of these three class periods.
Mrs. Mae Frye, teacher ot up
holstery, drapery and slip covers
at the state vocational school in
Eugene, will instruct. She has had
years of teaching experience be
sides being a professional uphol
sterer. This will be tne tmra sum
mer she has come to Roseburg.
At Monday's enrollment and plan
ning meeting, instructions were giv
en on the materials and supplies to
be obtained. Those enrolling were
also instructed to have their furni
ture at the school ready for the
classes to begin.
Ex-Federal Economist
Denies Perjury Charge
NEW YORK, June 13 UP)
William W. Remington, resigned
government economist, pleaded in
nocent today to a perjury indict
ment charging him with lying when
he denied to a federal grand jury
that he ever was a Communist.
Federal judge John W. Clancy
set July 5 for naming the trial
date. Remington resigned from his
Commerce department post after
being threatened with ouster pro
ceedings. Clancy set $5,000 ba.il for Rem
ington and gave him two days to
raise the bond.
Remington's lawyer, Bethuel
Webster, told the judge that pro
fessional bondsmen have refused
to post bail for the defendant be
cause "a loyalty question is in
volved." He told reporters later that 14
surety companies had been asked
to put up bail for Remington and
all have replied they ' would post
bond "for prostitutes and murder
ers but never where loyalty is
questioned."
Summer School
Listing Started
Registration for summer school
in Roseburg was held Monday,
with about 48 persons enrolled,
announced Supt Paul S. Elliott.
The junior high age registration
is full, with about 30 students,
lisls. The high school age lists,
loth to 12th grades, and the ele
mentary grades 2 to 6, are still
open.
Six to eight more elementary
children may be handled and 8 to
10 more high school students can
be cared for. bringing the total
up to maximum of about 69 said
Elliott.
Any high school student wishing
to make up an incomplete or need
ing an additional subject may en
roll. Also, he said, grade school
children who need extra work
should enroll.
The classes are being conducted
by Ruth Roberts, high school;
Margaret Adair, junior high, and
Jennie Nesscth, elementary grades
All are certified instructors.
Technicians' Strike
Upsets TV Schedules
(By tha Aiaoclated Praail
Television schedules of the Col
umbia Broadcasting system were
altered bv a walkout of 400 :erh-
nicians in New Yoric ana Holly
wood Monday nieht.
The strike affecting CBS tele
vision shows caused substitutions
last night by six scheduled pro
grams. It stemmed from negotiations in
volving nearly 600 members of the
Ar L, international urolncrnooa 01
Electrical Workers in New York.
Hollywood, San Francisco and
Washington, D. C. The issues are
wages, working conditions and se
curity. The IHEW asked raises
which would life beginning salaries
from $ii5 to $70 a week and salaries
of those with five-year employment
records from J12S.5U to $145 week
ly. YMCA Boys Activity
Period Set June 27
At a meeting held in the "Y"
room Tuesday, it was decided to
have the first activity period for
boys from 9-14 years of age on
June 27. It was decided to wait
until this time so that there would
be no interference with the vaca
tion Bible schools. The boys will
meet at Umpqua park at 9:30 on
this first day, according to Marlon
Yoder. "Y" secretary. It is
planned, if there is enough inter
est, to have the program two days
each week, on Tuesday and Thurs
day. Yoder said that the name for
the program will be selected at a
meeting on Thursday night and
then the lucky winner will be noti
fied at the first meeting June 27,
calling or writing
The Weather
Mostly cloudy with widely scat
tered showers. Partly cloudy on
Wednesday.
Highest ttmp. for any Juno ... lOo
Lowest tomp, for any Juno .. 3o
Highest tomp yesterday 62
Lowest tomp. last 24 hours SO
Precipitation last 24 hours ....... 0
Precipitation from Juno 1
Precipitation from Sept. 1. 34.47
Excess from June 1 1.11
Curtin
By MRS. GRACE THOMPSON
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hayea and
Leon of Cottage Grove moved last
week into the house on the Clay
Goldabini place.
Mrs. Delbert Otaney was brought
home from Salem last Sunday.
Friends here say thay are happy
her health is improved.
Dale Chapman spent last week
end in Portland.
Mr. Hill is recovering satisfac
torily from an emergency opera
tion last week at a Eugene hospi
tal and expects to be brought home
sometime this week.
Virgil Langham is scheduled to
enter a Eugene hospital Wednes
day afternoon for surgery Thurs
day. Frank, Raphael and Darrel Boo
her of Cottage Grove, accompanied
by Charles W. Booher of Curtin,
went to East lake on a fishing
trip last weekend. They report
it was snowing there. ,
There was an overwhelming vote
against consolidation Friday night,
uie vote oeing 31 no and 10 yes.
Visitors at the A. V. Willis home
the past was their daughter Edith
ana ner nusDand from California.
Faye Thompson of Gold Hill is
here visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Sowles.
The annual meeting to elect a
director for a three year term will
be held Monday, June 19, at the
Curtin schoolhouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gnrrlineer
have purchased an acreage from
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Stigers and
are building a home on it.
Mrs. Mabel sowles entertained
with a dinner Monday honoring the
birthday of Mrs. Dorothy Booher.
Tommy Keel Flown East
For Possible Surgery
Tommy Keel, accompanied hv
his mother. Mrs. Vern Keel, was
flown back to Rochester, Minn.,
wnere ne was scneoulea to enter
the Mayo clinic today for exam
ination and possible sureerv on
his nose.
According to Mr. Keel, his wife
and Tommy left Eugene by plane
Sunday night. Tommy, who is 14,
has had difficulty with his breath
ing, ana tne exact cause has not
been determined. It is thought his
nose may have been broken and
that complications resulted. Local
physicians advised that he be tak
en to the clinic.
Land Management Bareau
Official Visits Roseburg
Roscoe Bell, associate director
of the Bureau of Land Management
of Washington, D. C. made an of
ficial visit to the district forest
office of the bureau in Roseburg
xvionaay.
Bell was very much imnressed
with the strides this area has made
since his last visit to this vicinity
two years ago.
He is in the west making con
tacts and getting acquainted with
uie district ottices.
Doernbecher Chairman
Faces Divorce Action
PORTLAND. June 13 (JP)
Wealthy Harry A. Green, chairman
of the board of directors of the
Doernbecher Manufacturing com
pany of Portland, was sued for di
vorce yesterday.
His wife, Ada Green, charged
cruel and inhuman treatment.
They were married in King county.
Wash., in 1908.
She asked a property settlement
inciuaing ssou.uuo worth of Doern
becher capital stock and a half
interest in their palatial Portland
nome.
YOUNG GRANGE WINNERS
ONTARIO, Ore., June 13 PV-
Ihe winner of the young granners
state declamatory contest is Col
leen Kcncy, uatsop county.
Joan Deinninger, R e d 1 a n d
grange, Clackamas county, was
named second, and Shirley Ilerbst,
Washington county, third, at the
annual state grange convention
here.
MOVING
folks rely en us to b thrifty,
en obt both large or small
Roseburg Transfer
and Storage
Phono 927
AOINTS FOR
ION IITANCI MOVIN
Of ICONOMT-Ilt Ut
MAMll All ITAIU
New Officers Are I
Installed At Meet
OfB.P.W. Club
Meeting for the last time this
year, the Business and Profession
al Women a club held us annual
stabilization dinner at 8:30 Mon
day night in the Episcopal Parish
hall. Dinner was served to 20 mem
bers and guests by the Episcopal
Ladies guild.
Following recital of the club col
lect, Miss Mabel Luther sang
"Morning" (Oley Speaks) and 'I
Walked Today Where Jesus Walk
ed" (Geoffrey O'Hara). She was
accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
Marybelle Walker.
Formal installation of officers
followed the dinner, with Jean
Whittenburg, junior past president,
the installing officer. Each new
officer in turn lighted a candle as
she took the oath of office. Retiring
president V. Vivian Logsdon then
presented each new officer with a
gift, and incoming president Flos
sie Virden took charge of the busi
ness meeting. ,
New officers are: President, Flos
sie Virden; vice-president, Mildred
Herman; recording secretary.
Edyth Landis; treasurer, Edythe
Gilmour; corresponding secretary.
Iris Spring; sergeant-at-arms, Pris
cilla Clarenbach. Corsages of coral
lilies were worn by the junior past
president, the out-going president
and the incoming president. Other
incoming officers received corsages
01 sweet peas.
The tables were decorated with
scarlet roses and syringa. Mem-
oers present were: Edyth Landis,
Priscilla Clarenbach, Jean Whit
tenburg. V. Vivian Loesdon. Mil
dred Herman, Flossie Virden.
Edythe Gilmour, Minnie Clark,
Cleo Moats, Laura lies, Stella Spen
cer, Celia Day, Emily Judd, Goldie
Nickel!, Janell Yow, Gladys Foley,
Luvena Stephens, and Corinne
Woodard. Mrs. Marjorie Warson
and Mrs. Marycarol Jones were
guests.
MARINE RECRUITER DUE
S-Sgt. Richard L. Gray. U "S
Marine corps recruiting sergeant
in charge of the Eugene office,
will be in Roseburg in th'e lobbv
of the postoffice between 1 and
:30 p. m. Wednesday, -June 14. to
take applications for enlistment.
to qualify for enlistment in the U.
Marines, a young man must be
between the ages of 17 and 28
years, of good moral character.
and must meet the required mental
and physical standards.
"CAR SAVERS" KEEP SUMMER
MOTORING FREE FROM GRIEF
Let us take care of the service . . .You take care of the fun!
If you'd rather spend your time sightseeing, ready enjoying your trip, like this .
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Ex-Paymaster Admits i
Embezzlement Guilt
LOS ANGELES, Jine 13. UP)
Navy Lieut. Bascom B. Boaz,
charged with rifling his ship's safe
of ia,000 and then spending it on
a wild six-month binge, pleaded
guilty yesterday to embezzlement
of government funds.
Federal Judge Ben Harrison set
July 10 for sentencing the 42-year-old
former paymaster of the navy
tanker Navasota.
Boaz was arrested in nearby
Pomona May 25. He had only a few
dollars left after the party which
started when he left his ship here
last Thanksgiving day. He told of
ficers that along the trail, which
includes Reno and Las Vegas in
Nevada, he spent $6,000 for taxi
fares and plenty for gambling and
champagne.
On somt of his joyride he was
accompanied by a pretty woman
he met at Fresno, Calif., Pearl
Rosemary Carter, 33. She was not
held.
Grade School Teacher
Training Plan Unchanged
PORTLAND June 13 UP)
The state board of higher educa
tion voted yesterday to confine j
state training of grade school teach-
ers to the three state colleges of ,
education. !
That was the third time the
board had taken up the matter ;
this year. For the third time, the
conclusion was the same.
The vote was taken on recom-
mendation of Dr. Henry Gunn, ,
state director of teacher training,
wno aaaea nis oenei tne snortage
of teachers was not as serious as
often pictured.
He estimated there would be 1100
vacancies in the state in 1950-51,
and 1147 teachers available for the
jobs.
Dr. W. F. Snow, Hygiene
Assn. Founder, Passes
BANGOR, Me., June 13-UP)
One of the nation's leading public
health administrators, Dr. William
F. Snow, 74, collapsed on a Ban
gor sidewalk and died of natural
causes' yesterday.
Founder and chairman of the
American Social Hygiene associa
tion, he was a past president of
the National Health council and a
special consultant to the U. S.
public health service.
His widow and two sons survive.
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You may be used to the prompt, friendly "Car
Saver Service" you enjoy daily in your own
neighborhood. But when you're on a trip,
that's when you really appreciate the neat
stations, the clean restrooms and the skilled,
watchful service the "Car Savers" provide in
We take
Check Refund On
Error Ordered
SALEM, (P! The state su
preme court has ruled that the
Rushlight Automatic Sprinkler Co.
of Portland can't be penalized for
a $99,225 mistake it made in bid
ding on a Portland sewer project.
The company submitted a low
bid of $429,444 on the project, but
after bids were opened, it discov
ered the mistake. The next higher
bid was $671,600.
The Portland city council then
awarded the job to the Guy F.
Atkinson company, the higher bid
der. The city kept the $21,472 check
which the Rushlight company had
deposited with the city with its
The opinion, which upholds Cir
cuit Jaudge Walter L. Tooze of
Portland, orders the city to give
the company its check back.
The decision said that the city
attempted to "take an unconscion
able advantage of an inadvertent
error."
The average adult hippopotamus
weighs about 5,000 pounds.
SIGNAL FIREWORKS
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8404 S. E. Powell Blvd., Portland, Oregon.
BRANCH OFFICE, ROSEBURG
2035 'i N.Stephens
Betty L. King, Manager
Initial orders are being packed. Dealers are invited
to come in and select their orders for the
big 1950 season.
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on your vacation, get a "Car Saver" Lube Job.
It covers and double-checks more than 50
points that could cause you trouble on the
road. Try "Car Saver Service." It's the finest
vacation insurance you can buy.
better care of your
Flag Day Ceremony Of
Elks Will Be Public
The Elks lodge annual Flag day
ceremony is scheduled for Wed
nesday. June 14, at 6:30 p.m. Mem
bers of the ritualistic team will
be in charge of the presentation.
The ceremony, which 1 is open to
the public, takes place on the bal
cony of the Elks temple. Flag day
originated in the United States in
1777 when Congress formally adopt
ed the stars and stripes as the
national flag.
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on Melrose Road Phone 131 6-J
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