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2 The News-Review, Rjseburg, Or. Fri., July 14, 1950 Half-Year Record Set By Douglas Fir Industry PORTLAND, (Pi Record high shipments and the biggest production in 21 years were re ported this week by the Douglas Kir industry for the first half of this year. The shipment record of 5,313, 385,000 board feet was achieved despite a freight car shortage in the quarter just ended, H. V. Simp son, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation said. Fir mills in western Oregon. Washington and California cut 4, 973,982,000 feet of timber, the larg est proeuction for any six months period since 1929. Simpson said the nation's big gest housing boom kept mills in the region operating at capacity, except for those shut down by spring floods and strikes. June production of 206,077,000 feet was more than 125 percent of the .1945-49 average. At the end o' June the indus try reported unfilled orders total ing 857,860,090 feet and gross stocks of 594,367,000. Western Australia has a popula tion of 525,000 in an area more than thee times larger than Texas KEEP OREGON GREEN New Member Inducted Into Roseburg Lions Ernest Edwards was inducted as Ernest Edwards was inducted as a new member into the Roseburg Lions club at the weekly meeting Thursday night in the Hotel Ump qua. The induction was conducted by Bruce Elliott. Claud Baker, county sanitarian, who has just returned from Alas ka, was present at the meeting. Baker, who has been on leave of absence, has been doing mining work in Alaska. His principal com ment was that there are plenty of mosquitoes in that territory. Most of the business meeting was devoted to a discussion of a money raising project. The club also dis cussed plans for an outdoor meet ing soon. Food Prices Begin Climbing Because Of Korean War By The Associated Press Retail pork prices jumped as much as 20 cents a pound in some stores this week as a flurry o f price Increases extended to sev eral other meat Items, poultry, eggs, coffee, bread, sugar and other foods. ' Anxiety over the Korean war was blamed for touching off some of the boosts, which were fore shadowed by steep rises at whole sale levels last week. But many other factors also contributed: sea sonal declines in meat supplies; for example, heavier demand for sugar for the canning season, and SUMMERTIME CANDIES 1 FRESH and DELICIOUS Home Fashioned Favorites 1 lb. 1.25 Home Fashioned Favorites 2 lb. 2.45 Rosebud Mints .60 Honeysuckle Straws .29 ROSEBURG PHARMACY 241 North Jackson Street Employment In Douglas County Upped During June The totals of employed persons in Douglas county increased for the second consecutive month dur ing June. With unemployment at a minimum, it is believed the area is as close to full employment a is possible. Lumber firms that did not operate last year for various reasons are in full production and the regularly established lirmi have added additional shifts to keeo the supply in conformity with the demand, reports George T. Foster local Oregon State Employment office manager. Construction work is progressing in a like manner. A great deal of activity in this field has utilis ed nearly all of the available local workers. The various projects start ed in May and June are showing satisfactory progress and indica tions are that others are in the blue print stage. Bean picking should begin dur ing the last week in July. It has been estimated that between 800 and 900 pickers will be needed for the harvest. Registrations 'or this type of work are being taken at the local office of the State Employment service. All persons interested should list their names as soon as possible. Reports from firms engaged in wholesale and retail trade indicate that business conditions are very good. A few more employees are being used than for the same per iod last year. 1 Claims for unemployment insur ance were down considerably over the month of May. The total has nearly reached the low levels es tablished in 1948. The increase in claims anticipated because of the start of the new benefit year, did not materialiie. The additional work opportunities available are responsible. The installation of the occupa tional testing program has bee.i quite beneficial to employers seek ing workers wun specmc (jmuu- for their Darticular type o' work. Performance tests are be ins administered to clerical work ers to estaousn meir speeu nu ac curacy In shorthand and typing. This enables the employer to have a definite picture of the appli cant's ability before the comple tion of the employment interview. Mother Of Two Children Found Sadistically Slain DETROIT, July 14 i.V) A stran gles slaying of a comely house wife, mother of two children, stir red a full-scale police investiga tion today. One man, a neighbor of the vic tim, was held for questioning. Pretty Mrs. Vivian Stanley, 37, was found dead in a weed patch shortly before noon yesterday two miles from her Pinehurst avenue home in a better class west side district. She was clad only in a night gown and dressing robe. She had been garroted, appar ently with a chain, and her neck was broken. Police said it was evi dently the work of an enraged or sadistic killer. Mrs. Stanley was the wife of Crawford T. Stanley, a metallurgist. a late coffee crop In Brazil. There were persistent reports of some minor war-scare food buying by consumers in scattered sections across the nation. Some whole salers said retail store purchases in many Instances were obviously well in excess of quantities needed for normal working inventories. Many wholesalers and manufact urers themselves were buying be yond immediate needs to insure against any temporary interrup tions that might delay free move ment of foods in the supply pipe line. The sharpest advances were for the more popular cuts of pork. A survey of chain store prices for center-cut pork chops showed i n creases ranging from two to 12 cents a pound, wilh extremes of as much as 20 cents, over last week end. n I 1 ijninnaj li.A0ii1ai1v 1 I Deri aiau a.l mm..,- 1 i . l: . nn.tJ kit DUl ine uikki'si jiti'iy iihu the same big chain was eight cents a pound. American families now own 191 million life insurance policies, an average of mora than four per family. Miller's FUR DEPARTMENT Change of Managemer.: SALE In order to make room for our new, personally selected stock of furs Miller's Fur Dept. olfers you this money saving sale. ALL FURS TO BE SOLD AT ALMOST GIVE-AWAY PRICES! Miller's Frigid-Cold Storage free until fur U needed. TERMS TOO . . , Every Coat ... and Scarf To Be Sold SHOP EARLY AND SAVE FUR SAION ... 2nd FLOOR Wounded Robber Accused Of First Degree Murder OREGON CITY, July 14 - UP) -An ex-convict, shot down in a gun battle with FBI agents in a bank robbery, was indicted here Thurs day on charges of first degree Mur der. Wayne Long, 26, was charged in the grand jury indictment with the death of Walter Rucker, 28, owner of a truck used by Long in the robbery of a branch of the First National bank here June 15. He also was charged with assault and robbery, armed with a dan gerous weapon. Rucker, a Portland carpenter, was found shot to death on a lone ly road near Estacada. Long is awaiting federal grand jury action on charges of bank rob bery and assaulting a federal offi cer. FBI agent Leonard Frank was wounded seven times in the gun battle wilh Long, but is recover ing. Leonard Lindas, Clackamas coun ty district attorney, said Long pro bably would be tried first on fed eral charges. He was moved Mon day to jail from a hospital where he was treated for wounds suf fered in the gun fight. Gen. Rilea Tells Reason For No Call To National Guard Why hasn't the national' guard been called out under the present emergency? This is the question being asked by many persons over the state. Sgt. Dwight M. Pope of Co. D, ltfbtn inlantry, 4ist aivision, relay ing iiiformation from Brig. Gen Thomas E. Rilea, gives the follow, ing answer; A considerable Dart of the regu lar army is now serving outside the United States, leaving only imi 11 numbers for emergency pur poses at home. The national guards are a well-trained, well-equipped orcanization caDable of handling home emergencies, such as bomb ings, riots and otner disasters. The armv needs additional men to bolster its strength, without the need of calling upon tne guards men. The latter are trained and ready to be called if and when needed. The draftees together with voluntary enlistments are needed to supply an additional pool of trained men. Under the present emergency, said Sgt. Pope, certain national puarri units, such as air. tank and some field artillery units, may be called. The remainder, however, is not expected to be called to duty unless an auoui national pmprffpnev is declared. The approximate 400,000 guards men are organuea ana reaay io go if needed, but in the meantime it is important to have a home unit, until additional men can be trained in the regular army, he said. Sex Murderer Dies In British Columbia Noose j VANCOUVER, B.C., July 14 j (CP) Fred (Red) Ducharme, the ! millworker of many stories, was I hanged at dawn today for murder ling a woman he picked up on a I rain-swept November night. I His face chalk-white, but his step firm, the 37 -year -old Ducharme dropped through an abandoned ele vator shaft at Oakalla prison farm at 6:05 and was pronounced dead 13 minutes later. Economic Control Power For Truman Is Opposed WASHINGTON, July 14 UP) -Any idea of giving President Tru man standby authority to impose economic controls ran into flat opposition from Senator Taft (R Ohio) today. Taft, who heads the senate re publican policy committee, toll a reporter he is willing to work with the administration in preparing a bill for Congressional action, if controls become necessary because of the Korean war. "But I am onnosed to the idea of giving the President blank check or sianaDy aumoruy 10 put con trols into operation,' he said. "I think Congress ought to be on the job and approve any measures that are necessary in the light of the situation that exists at the time.' No Food Rationing Needed, Truman Says WASHINGTON, July 13 UPl Presdent Truman today said Thursday the government has und er consideration plans for every phase of home-front mobilization but will use them only if necessary Mr. Truman told his news con fprence; No food rationing will become necessary; ' No food shortage is in prospect; and hoarding is very foolish. Mr. Truman said the, sharp in crease in many food prices must be attributed to profiteering. Commercial Truck Firms Facing Audit By State SALEM, UP .Secretary of slate Newbry has ordered an audit of all firms operating commercial trucks.' He said he made his order in the belief that the state is losing thousands of dollars in fees which should have been paid on com merical trucks. He said he already had found one firm operating 12 trucks which paid fees less than required by law. AUTO KILLS BOY PORTLAND, July 14 OP) Four-year-old Philip Kail ran from a sunken driveway into a street here yesterday. 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