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IV Nw.Rtvlw, Roteburs., Ort Wtdnesdoy June 28, 150 Published Dally Exc.pt Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. i UUllI w Hll MUI May . '- ' ' Kaaaaarf. Oraiaa. aaar aal Marck t. ma CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Mngr Member ef th Associated Press, Or.gon Newspaper Publlihtrt Association, the Audit Buruu of Circulations htuMI ? WEST-BOLLIDAt CO.. IMO.. allleaa la Niw ark, Cklaafa, a rraaoiaea. Ul Aaaalaa. Saallla. rartlaa. Ik laala aimai-Mut-riftM n, im rt...... H. Mail far aaar IS.,, its ataalba H.M, Ura aiaalhi lt.M B Cllr Cartitr far raar III.H la aa.aaoa), aaa Mar. aar nartta ll.aa uiliM, Urataa Br Hall far faar .H. ala It's Dead, but It Can't Lie Down Erickson's 'Martyrdom' Editorial Comment From The Oregon Pren By BRUCE BIOSSAT NEA Editorial Writer When Frank? Erickson, the 54-year-old New York gambler, pleaded guilty to bookmaking charges the other day, he may or may not have thought the cardi were atacked against him. But whatever his motive, it's certain he' a hero In the gambling world today.. By avoiding a trial, he's kept the public's embarrassing gaze off not only bis own affairs but those of many other bookies in s lot of places. . Names, details of technique, cli- entele, and numerous other trade secrets would have been exposed. Now, thanks to Erickson's "mar tyrdom," most of this will lie un touched in the district attorney's files. If anyone has any doubts what withering damage the sportlight does to the careers of men on the left-hand side of the law. he need only note Erickson's behavior in a New York courtroom. Through out the entlro proceedings, the . mild-mannered, heavy-jowled gam bler was ashen and frightened. He managed to utter just one word, and that with difficulty. Frank Hogan, the New York dis trict attorney, calls Erickson the "biggest and most notorious book maker in the United States." The claim might be hard to prove. But it's clear he's big. He admitted to a congressional committee that he made $100,000 in a recent year. His income from 1933 to 1945 is gen erally understood to have been 522,000,000. Hogan is confident Erickson has now been forced from the gambling picture for all time. Again, that contention may be debatable. One thing, however, the case definitely does do: It demonstrates that the top men of today's gambling and crime syndicates can be snared, for all their clever effort to "stay legal" and operate behind a facade of legitimate business. And they can be caught on charges that bear real relation to their questionable activities, rather than through re liance on such incidental violations as federal Income tax evasion. Action against Erickson must be just a starter. Some man or group of men will try to pick up the scapter he has dropped. The gam bling business probably will go on creuy mucn as usual umesa me authorities smash his whole set' up and his rivals as well. Without this sequel, Erickson s conviction will serve little purpose. Putting Erickson behind bars for the first time in his life is a move, too, that should lend much heart to the U. S. senators now probing crime in the capital. Having seen thi slangible proof that results are possible, the Senate crime investi gating committee should redouble us efforts to unearth the full story of organized criminal operations in America. Once they begin blinking under the glare of news photo grapher's flash bulbs, the crimi nals will De on the way out. Dillard Threat To Plywood (Portland Oregonian) Representative Harris Ellsworth, Republican of Oregon's 4th dis trict, is protesting vigorously ad ministration plans which threaten tne northwests big plywood In dustry. These involve efforts to in- crease the dollar buying power of countries tne united states Is as slsting under the Marshall plan, Hence, an international program comes into conflict with domestic interests. The government nroooses. first. to lower tne import tarm on ply wood. Second, the European co operation administration has an nounced It is buynig millions of feet of Douglas fir olvwood loirs called "peelers" in the trade for shipment to Korea. The peelers could be expected to return from Korean plants to the United States as plywood at prices, reflecting reduced tariff and cheap native labor, lower than domestic plants can post. ihis is a plan reminiscent of the 'Jap squares" which Janan used to import from the northwest, slice into strips lor lacing witn Philip pine narawooas, ana return as woodenware. household eoods. fur- niture and industrial items at low prices. Washington and Oregon produce from 00 to 95 per cent of the na tion's softwood plyboards Wash ington almost twice as much as Oregon. There Is now and has been for some time a shortage of high grade peeler logs, especially in Washinton, where some mills have been moving logs from as far south as Roseburg, Ore. Prices bf peelers are high and will go higher if the shortage is accentuated by large shipments to Korea. This would tend to drive the prices of piywoon to consumers upward ind encourage substitution of other materials. The northwest already faces steady competition from imported tanauian puip, plywood and lum ber. Any program to deprive the plywood mills of logs, drive prices up and create unemployment by admission of Korea to the market certainly should be subject to re view. But Mr. Ellsworth has not received any encouragement from the administration. ( OH,Mo,6uCONT J V&J GOTTA STAY VfcdlSESt- UP MD COLLECT - In the Day's News Society and Gluki By LOTUS KNIGHT PORTER and BETTY ALLEN SDC HOME EC CLUB HAS ENJOYABLE MEETING ON FRIDAY South Deer Creek Grange Home Economics club met Friday after noon at the home of Mrs. W. H. Bailey with Mrs. Earl Duncan and Mrs. Wilbur Webb assisting hos tesses. Other members present were Mrs. S. W. Van Voorst, chairman, Mrs. Tom Bell, Mrs. Dale Haley, Mrs. Gene Mathis, Mrs. Robert Findlay, Mrs. Clarence Branton and Mrs. C. H. Bailey. Plans were made for a cooked food sale to be held Friday, June 30th, at the J.V. Sporting Goods store beginning at 9 a.m. Mrs. Tom Bell and Mrs. Bill Haley will be co-chairmen of the sale. All Grange ladies are requested to either donate food or cash for the sale. There will be no meeting of the club in July. Refreshments were served at the tea hour by the three hostesses. The next Grange meeting is dat ed for the evening of July 15 at the hall. Refreshments will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mel ton, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Webb, Mr. end Mrs. Joe Brumbnch and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bailey. By ROSA HEINBACH -Of great interest to the resi dents of this community is the new home being built for one of the well known families, Mr. and Mrs. Emery E. Baker on Highway 42 in Brockway. The construction of the five-room house with full base ment and one large room on the upper story is in charge of Charles A. McCord, Dillard carpenter. The 600 acre Baker ranch extends through Broockway inlo Dillard where he farms extensively, rais ing wneat, nay,, grain, livestock and fruit for the local markets Mr. and Mrs. Wade Gentry and two sons, Wayland and Jerry, have moved inlo the former "old home place" of the Bucll family. The Gentry's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Odie Phillips, and son have moved in with them from Ola, Arkansas. Mrs. Wally Pres ton, another daughter and three children are visiting her parents from Klamath Falls for the week. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Recce have moved from Roseburg to a new home in Brockway on Highway 42. Mrs. Reese was the former Kran cine Laurance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Laurance. Dick Recce is employed with the Antonson Painting company, painting state bridges. Donna McSorley of Sweet Home has been the house guest at the A. M. Finnell residence for the past two weeks. She is a school chum of Doris Finnell. Her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gcln McSor ley, came to Dillard on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Finnell and Mr. and Mrs. McSorley drove to G r a n t s Pass on Saturday morning to visit Mrs. McSorley's brother, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Perkins and family. The McSorley family will return to their home in Sweet Home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Meier of Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. Don Meier of Corvallis were Tuos day evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Nickerson. Mrs. Allan McLennan and three children, Jackie, Patricia and Su zanne of Brockway, left Friday morning with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilton, for Wilkie, Sask, Canada. The Wiltons have been visiting their two sons and daugh ter and families in this vacinity for the past two weeks. Mr. Mc Lennan plans to leave ip about a month for Wilkie to get his family. London Stocks Drop. At War News From Korea LONDON, June 27. (JF) The London stock exchange Europe's financial nerve center suffered a severe attack of the jitters Mon day with news of the outbreak of warfare in Korea. Minus sinus anoeni-ed hefore nearly every item in the exchange list of commodities. The financial times industrial or dinary index, which reflects the selling health of Britain's indus trial stocks, did a nosedive of 1.8 down to 113.2. It was the biggest drop in recent months. GENE BRATSCH IS HONORED ON TENTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY I Irene uratsch was entertained on his lotn birthday at a party given oy nis motner. Mrs. Harry ttratsch at their home in Dillard. Contest games were played with six prizes awarnea. rne deliEhlful v anooint ed table was decorated with candv cup favors, napkins hand decor ated with Walt D snev funnies and a birthday cake topped in the cir cus animal motif. Gifts were nre sented to the honored guest. Those present were: Larry Salo, Robert Jorgenson, Richard and Mitchel Anderson, Dean Nelson, Joseph aieeKs. Billy i nomas. Warren Hein back, David McCord, and the hon ored guest. Gene Uratsch. Winston SALLY NANEN IS '. HONORED AT LINEN SHOWER TUESDAY NIGHT Mrs. Sally Nanen of Canyonville, whose marriage to Norman Anlauf of Myrtle Creek will take place June 30, was guest of honor at a linen shower given by co-workers from the Myrtle Creek branch of the U.S. National Bank at the home of Mrs. V. V. Haney in Myrtle Creek Tuesday evening. The guests were entertained with skit entitled "Sally and Norman in 1960," portrayed by Mrs. Tang Smith and Mrs. Lester Spencer . The skit was cleverly written and directed by Mrs. Haney. Much artistic ability was shown when the guests were asked to paint original fruit designs on a tea towel, which was given to Mrs. Nannen. Each guest painted her name under her design to make up the border of the towel. The remainder of the evening was spent writing recipes and tele grams. Candid snapshots were tak en throughout the evening. Lovely linen ems were nresented to Mrs. Nanen after which refresh ments were served by Mrs. Haney, assisted by Mrs. Smith. The serving table was covered with an ivory cloth and centered with pink roses and blue candles. A color scheme of pink, yellow and blue was carried out in the beauti fully decorated cake, centerpiece and the miniature bride and bride groom. Guests included Mrs. C. E. Park er, Mrs. H. M. Anderson, Mrs. Les ter Spencer, Miss Maxine Oaks, Miss Frances Oaks, all of Canyon ville, Mrs. R. O. Chaney, Mrs. Harold Burelson, Mrs. V. V. Haney. Mrs. Tang Smith, all of Myrtle Creek, and the guest of honor, Mrs. Nannen. Those sending gifts but unable to attend were Mrs. Oliver Green and Miss Norma Duncan of Myrtle Creek. Summer Bible school has been of great interest to some of the local children. Roger Nickerson, Jackie, Patricia and Suzanne McLennan and the Lcsher children have com pleted the two weeks course pre sented at the Roseburg Methodist church. Transportation has been furnished by , Mrs. Allan McLen nan and Mrs. E. O. Nickerson. Wesley Finnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Finnell returned to his home on Sunday from Fort Lewis, Wash., where he has been train ing for'two weeks with his troup in tne national guard. Young Fin nell and Ronald Barnes also from this community arc members of lfWth infantry division of Rose burg and were encamped for train ing. Early Friday morning a group of friends, members of Evergreen Grange, met for potlurk luncheon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McDowell, south of Dillard. One of the features of the day was de corating and working on the float entered in the rodeo parade in Roseburg on Saturday. Those par ticipating In the enterprise were: Mrs. Ethel Forrest, Mrs. Marian llarryman, Mrs. Marti McCord, Mrs. Lloyd Waggler and Wanda, Mrs. r.. U. Mi son, Mis. Gar net Folmsday, Mrs. Renie Jenkins, Miss Joan Burr and Miss Darlrne Wallf and the hostess, Mrs. Mc Dowell. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Roberts and children have moved from Brockway to Glide. It being neces sary to change climate for one child that wail ill with asthma. Roberta is employed at the Doug las Lumber company. aan . , ' . By MRS. GEORGE BACHER Mrs. A. D. Fox accompaied by her three children, Gary, Carolyn and Jimmy, and her nephew, Ver non Thompson, motored to Sweet Home Tuesday where they were guests of Mrs. Fox's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson. The group returned to Winston on Fri day. Mrs, Archie Wilson and son Travis, went to Portland last Sun day where the latter took the train for San Diego to enter boot camp naval training. Young Wilson, who completed his junior year of high school in Koscburg plans to fur ther his education during the four years for , which he has enlisted in the service. He is well known in this community having spent all of his 17 years here, attending the Dillard school prior to his entry into the Roseburg schools. His parents have received several let ters from him since he reached his destination in California, and he writes that he is "very happy with the situation." Mrs. Wilson returned on Wednesday bringing with her Mrs. John Wilson who has been visiting in Portland. The John Wilsons resided in this community for many years prior to selling their ranch to their son, Archie, and moving into Roseburg. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson spent several days of last week visiting af. various coastal points. Another unusual event has hap pened in Winston, . causing much grief to berry growers. Thrips have attacked raspberries whic according to tarmers and tne coun ty agent is a very rare thing, These invaders usually concentrate on fruit orchards. Their appear ance at this time of year is par ticularly serious as such DDT sprays as are generally recom mended cannot be used without damage to the crops as berries are ready to be marketed. Most growers are using liquid nicotine sulphate sprays as a means of control. Much activity meets the eye these davs on the property of Jim Taber, Winston barber. Directly in front of his present barber snop a large new building which will house two separate business places is under way. The building, located 32 feet off highway 99 in Winston is being constructed of Lite-rock blocks by Gene Lasher, Winston contractor. Completion is planned within 30 days at which time Taber will open l much larger barber shop in the south end of the build ing, and he will be assisted by Frank Dinden. Portland barber. The other portion of the building will be devoted to a cafe which has been leased by Mrs. John Peden. To the south a new service sta lion is being erected by Bob Lam beth of Roseburg. This property has been leased by Taber to the Tidewater Associated Oil company for whom C. D. VcDermott is tne local distributor. It is planned that the station will be open for busi ness on or about August 1. By FRANK JENKINS THIS changing world note: In London the other night, an intruder broke into Marlborough house, the home of Queen Mother Mary, stabbed her housekeeper seven times and beat up the house keeper's helper. Queen Mary, alseep in another part of the house, wasn't disturbed. aaa THAT could happen in the homes of any of us commoners, whether British or American. Imagine it happening in the palace housing the mother of the King of England (whose other titles, if enumerated fully, would fill at least a couple of inches in this printed column). The first thing we know, some body will break into the Kremlin and lift Uncle Joe's wallet, aaa HUMAN nature note: The teletype tells us that "Scot land Yard's HIGHEST OFFICIALS went into an immediate emergency conference to discuss the apparent 'laxity of security arrangements around the queen's home." High and low alike, we rush to lock the stable after the horse has been stolen. aaa GOVERNMENT economy note: The Library of Congress (per haps after reading in the papers that Uncle Sam is behind with his bills and is having to increase the mortgage on the house to pay for his groceries) decided to PRAC TICE ECONOMY. It selected pen cil stubs as the object of its money- saving campaign. After the man ner of government institutions, it then issued a bulletin describing the stub-collecting process. The bulletin says: "The routine is simple . . . Mem bers of the staff should turn in stubs to the divisional secretaries , . . The divisional secretaries will consign them to the supply officer . . . The supply officer will in turn issue them on demand to the stack and reader service, serials division, E. T. C." The final report showed that in this manner 168 pencil stubs were collected. " ' ; Television Station Freeze Based On Mechanical Reasons, FCC Explains By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON-;?) A man writes in: "Why doesn't my city have more than one television station? And when does it look like there'll be more than one?" He's not the first. to ask that question, since the government has not approved a license for a new TV station since Oct. 1, 1948. It came about this way: EXPECT the pencil stubs saved in the big economy binge may have been worth as much as a dime and it is probable that the printing or the mimeographing of the bulletin of instructions and the final report on the campaign didn't cost more than $10. Isn't government wonderful? Salem Prisoner Faces Eastern Murder Charge SALEM. June 27 fPl T w o Philadelphia. Pa detectives left for the east coast last night by train with Charles Johnson, char ged with the murder of a Phila delnhia man last May 28 Johnson was arrested by Salem notice af er b e i n d identified through a description printed in local newspaper. The detectives k vV-T ' Johnson will stand trial for ui' 1 .V the murder of Thomas Rispoli. 51, I who was slain during a robbery near his home. HONORED Mr. and Mrs. Elmtr Hampton war honored at delight ful surprise houiawarmlng party at their new home at 143 Riverside Drive, Lauralwood, Saturday evening, when their lon ln-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilay Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herman entertained. Canatta and pinochle were In play during th avtning. Th rafraih manti war srvd I a tar In th tvtning from a lc-cavrd table) cen tered with beautifully dacoritad and tird ck. Biids th gutt of honor end th two host mat and hotti, thai protont war Mr. and Mrs. Eddi Dora, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sargant, Mr. and Mrs. Dallil Cernutt, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Addiion, Mr, and Mrs. Jack Farrls Sr., Lloyd Eddlngten and Jack Holmai and Bill Ward el Las Angls. (Pic ture by Fredrickien't Phet Lab) GOVERNMENT oroeress note: I The armed forces of the United States of America have decided to 'give enlisted personnel a cash in centive for taking care of their clothing." Here is how it will work: Starting July 1, enlisted men and women of all services will be given money with which to buy clothes . . . Any saving in the cloth ing .llowances will be pocketed by the enlisted men and women . . . the system also is expected to cut dow i on administrative costs." a a OU ex-GIs know how it usta be. You'd maybe snag a hole in your blouse. Whereupon you d jump the supply sergeant, and if your powers of logic were good or if the "sarge" had a headache and didn't feel up to a heavy argument, you got a new blouse issued to you. The government's thinking is that under the new system you'll get out your little old repair kit and stitch up the snagged place, thus SAVING YOURSELF DOUGH and saving Uncle Sam a blouse, aaa ALL this talk about heading for Socialism, you see, is just wicked Republican propaganda. Our good old uncle is leading his GI children along the free incen tive road. He's banning Socialism even in the army. If vou want to open a new radio or TV station, you can't do so un less you get a license, w n i c n means permission and approval, from the Federal Communications commission. The FCC is the government agency which controls radio and TV. In the fall of 1948, with hund reds of applications for licenses for new TV stations on hand, the FCC suddenly announced: No more licenses would be ap proved for an indefinite time. Since then, almost two full years ago, the FCC hadn't approved one. There are now 103 TV stations operating and six more being built. When finnished. they'll start business. But the license applica tions ot all 109 were oxayea o y FCC before its freeze order late in 1948. (The FCC has on hand 351 fro zen applications from would-be IV station owners, all waiting for the rLCs go-ahead.) Frz Explained But what caused the freeze any way? The FCC has some explan ations which can be boiled down to something like this: 1. There is interference between some of the TV stations already operating. Which means: trans mitters are othering one another because there's not enough dis tance between them. And 2. There's lack of room for new stations until some adjustments are made about distributing the air waves differently in order to give TV stations more air wave room in which to operate. Comes the question: since the freeze was put in almost. t w o full years ago, when is FCC going to get around to straightening out the air-wave problem and letting more new stations get built? There's no definite answer from the FCC. But its chairman, Wayne Coy, said some weeks ago it hopes to be able to lift the freeze around the end of 1950 and begin okaying licenses for new stations in 1951. Meanwhile, the nicture is com plicated for FCC because of color television, since color TV will be involved in the air-wave problem mat ruu linauy solves. ror more than six months. 'cov ering the latter part of 1949 and tne early part of 1950, the FCC held dreary, technical hearings on coior iv. ine question was: Is color TV sufficiently advanced to be given to the public? And. since more than 4.000.000 black snrt white TV sets have been sold to tne public, then How can the TV industry pro- viae coior snows in such a way that the present black-and-white sets in homes can continue to be uselul? . ! More than a year ago FCC asked that anyone who had a color TV system which could be fitted into present black-and-white sets step up and show it. 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CHICAGO liPt The number of men and women who work for cities in the U. S. has reached a record high. The International City Manag ers association reports the total of such employes was 1,082,000 at the start of 1950, a gain of 43.000 in one year. Payrolls have gone up, too. They totaled J219.000.OO0 in October, 1949, compared with 5i.otni.io a month a year earlier. FROZEN FUNDS BI.OOMINGTON. 111. (-T) Money, Mrs. Taylor McGinnis will tell you, isn't safe anywhere in a house these days. A burglar stole four one dollar bills from her ire-box. SOME PEOPLE LIKE SKUNKS LONG BEACH. Calif.-(.PvCar-roll Anne Vosburg, 12, reports she had 50 offers to adopt her pets after a picture of the girl and her three baby skunks appeared in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. 11 PICK IT OUT Wh I I l-h M-211. colari TAKE IT HOME HANG IT UP iimurariDrn -' VV: Th,.', .11 ,h,r. U . i,. 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