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
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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
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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
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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. A car killed him in
the city's. 21st troffie fotality of
the year. The driver was not
held.
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fession at least to prison officials,
nor was there a final plea of inno-'
cence.
Ducharme was convicted of the '
sex-slaying of Blanche Feme Fish
er on the night of Nov. 8 last
year. I
The body of Miss Fisher, a 45- j
year-old spinster, was found in
False creek, near downtown Van-1
couver.
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