U. cf C. Library Eugene, ire. COMP In CIAs fwHO DOES WHAT FroH " i ; j ; ;' i ... V ' ' ' ' ,: . .. . '-' . ',:.r --j j . L 1 -i .-, b , ' j tew BEVERLY NICHOLS, in charge of new accounts at the Oregon Water corporation, and Kenneth Luderman, accountant, are busy checking water accounts which they are in the process of send ing to customers from their new headquarters in the Carter building on Main street. Their office is due to become one of the major stopping places of Roseburg residents, who will find it a new experience to pay their water bills there, instead of at Copco, former owners of the utility. Copco, however, still will serve the com munity with its electricity. Large Scale Civil Disasters In Douglas County Unlikely, Red Cross Chairman States Douglas county's part in a war-caused disaster would prob ably be caring for a stream of refugees coming down from Northwest DODulation centers. That's what Brig. General T. Beecher declared Wednesday in releasing a disaster plan for the Douglas county chapter of the Red Cross. Beecher, a retired marine general, was recently appointed Red Cross disaster chairman for the county, In me event or a war uasic. the Northwest, the Red Cross disaster unit would be subordinate to the county's civilian defense or ganization. In the plan, General Beecher said that "conditions in Douglas county practically preclude the possibility of large scale civil dis asters. There are no large centers of population and no large indus trial installations. Forest fires, which present the greatest men ace to the community, would de stroy few homes." Red Cross Role Expliintd General Beecher said other nat ural disasters here are unlikely. War damage to Douglas county areas are also unlikely, he said, because there are no targets of sufficient importance. "To plan beyond the early stages of a war is, at this time, wasted effort. In the event of war, overall (Continued on page Two) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I was talking yesterday with a friend of many years standing. Our topic was the low ebb in human happiness in the world in general and the more or less obvious state ot complete confusion in our politi cal leadership in particular. My friend said: "It's a mess, but I can't do any thing INDIVIDUALLY about it. So my method, worked out for my own greater peace of mind, is to do my job each day the very best i topic of a meeting of citizens of I can. When night comes and 1 the area Tuesday night, can look back over a day's work j A committee of four was ap well done within the limits of my ' pointed to survey the area, set capacity, I find I can achieve a j boundaries and prepare a petition reasonable degree of personal hap- to be submitted to the North Rose- pincss. He went on: "Within the span of my life, I have seen the world go from a stale of relative stability to its present pass of confusion and insta bility. Thinking back over these years, it seems to me that this is what we have done that is wrong: We have abandoned SIMPLE FAITH and have out our trust in- creasingly in science, politics and (Continued on Page Four) The Weather Fair and continued warm today, tonight and Friday. Highast temp, for any Aug. Lowest temp, for any Aug. Highest temp, yesterday . Lowest tempt, yesterday Precipitation last 24 hours . Precipitation from Aug. 1 .. Precipitation from Sept. 1 .. Deficiency from Aug. 1 Sunset today, 7:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, e:J7 a.m 4 jn" Draft Of Medics Voted By House WASHINGTON UP) -The House Wednesday passed, 362 to one, legislation permitting a draft of doctors, dentists and "allied specialists" for the armed ser vices. A similar bill was passed by the Senate Tuesday, but there are dif ferences which will have to be ad justed before the legislation goes to President Truman. The one opposing vote in the House was cast by Rep. Marcan tonio (ALP-NY). Rep. Hedrick (D WVa) voted "present." The House bill permits a draft of doctors up to and including age 50; of dentists through age 45. As the measure came from the armed services committee it was 4S for both doctors and dentists, but at the last minute an amend ment was adopted raising the age for doctors to 50. If called up they would be liable for 21 months duty. Doctors, den tists and some of the allied spec ialists would be given commis sions. The "allied specialists" include veterinarians, bacteriologists and other occupations related to med ical and health care. Calkins Road Area May Join Sanitary District Possible annexation of the Cal kins road area to the North Rose burg Sanitary district was the burg district The meeting was called by Claude Baker, Douglas county san itarian. The Calkins road area is west of an area which was annexed Aug. 22 by unanimous vote. Dr. E. W. Carter heads the com millee. Members are Jim Dzia- mafia, Cecil Hugh and Leo Rine hart. About 150 homes are in the at- fected area. Fifteen percent of the ' registered voters there must sign j the petition before it can be turned ; in. : New Home Exchange Changes Owners : Mrs. Robert (Lois) Burton and ' her daughter. Miss Virginia Rieb 104 ling, have purchased the New --3 Home Exchange, 147 Sheridan I' street, from Verna Fugate, who .... 53 has moved to Montana. The name .00 of the shop has been changed to 11 1 Vi-Lo shop. New and used clothing 34.37 and all types of handiwork are to .. .72 be sold. Mrs. Burton and daughter have been residents of Roseburg I all of their lives. Established 1873 Allies Crush Attempt To Seize Pohang Pershing Tanks, Planes, Warships Join To Win Vital Battle In Korea ' By Th AuocUted PreM Death-dealing gur.s of U. S. Pershing tanks and a fiery rain of explosives from air and sea stopped 26,000 North Koreans today in their drive on Pohang, east coast port whose capture by the Reds would have opened the way for a final drive to throw United Nations forces out of South Korea, The big American tanks were reported to have rolled four miles north of Pohang after the fiercest battle of the 10-weeks-old war. At the same time, South Korean troops stalled a companion Com munist drive nine miles northwest of Pohang at Kigye. The Communists paid a ghastly price in blood for the yardage they picked up and then lost outside rubbled Pohang. The drive was stopped just a mile and a half outside the No. 2 port of U. N. forces in Korea. In eight hours, a thousand or I more Reds were killed or wounded in a frantic effort to take Pohang before the month of August passed. They failed to carry out this order of the Communist North Korean government, which had told them to take the port by Aug. 31 at all costs. The air force said it killed 1,200 Reds in two days in this eastern sector of the allied northern wall. The Reds spent lives recklessly, but stout resistance by South Ko rean and GI units, backed up by the 90 MM. guns of the Pershing tanks rushed to their support, held the precious I line guarding the route to Pusan, main U. N. base 65 miles south. Warships Join Battle Raking fire from U. S. warships in the harbor mowed down the Red attackers like wheat before a scythe. Planes belched flaming death at them, but still they came on, fighting doggedly for inches of ground. To Oieir northwest, nine miles away, the Red drive bogged down at Kigye. The defenders still heid high ground south of the captured ciiy, wnere tne south Korean capi tal division weathered a thunder ous artillery assault. A Red break through there would out the Reds on approaches to Taegu, 38 miles southwest ot I'ohang. Taegu, main U. S. forward base, is a prime Red goal. B-29s kept up their punishing as sault on Red supplies. A fleet of more than 90 ot the air giants spewed more than 800 tons of bombs on strategic targets in North Korea 600 tons of the load on industrial targets at Chin nampo, the port of the Reds' capi tal, Pyongyang. Both cities were hit by carrier raids yesterday. Night strikes were made by B-29 Superforts, B-26 light bombers and fighter planes at Seoul, fallen cap ital of South Korea. All bridges across the Han river at Seoul were made impassable, the air force said. THE TEACHING STAFF of the Roieburq school system assem bled Wednesday in the library room at tha junior high school tor instructions on school organization and procedures prior to the opening of school next Tuesday, Sept. 5. The staff this year will number in excess ef 130 teachers, needed to instruct a rec ord school enrollment, expected to be more than 3,000 students. ROSEBURG, Registration At Schools Points To New Roster High Registration at Roseburg senior high school is continuing today and Friday for sophomores and fresh men, and indications are an all time enrollment will be recorded. While no figures will be avail able until alter the opening day of school next Tuesday, the ad vance registration is running high, according to Principal George Erickson. The student body will be in creased by an addition of the freshman class, making a lour year school, instead of three. This alone will swell the enrollment by considerably more than 200 stu dents. The auditorium and stage are being converted into classroom, lo care for the extra class, in order that the school curriculum can be set up on a four-year basis. The new library-arts building is not ready for use, and the old Fuller ton school cannot be converted for high school purposes until the new Fullerton grade school is com pleted, sometime around the first ol the year. Registration was held Monday of this week lor seniors, and on Tues day for juniors. Today was given over to sophomore registration. mil Friday will be devoted to freshman registration. All students who were unable to register on one of the designated days should reg ister on Friday. It is almost imperative, said ! F.-i,lf rtn In hiua all rauiih'sliiin. ' in by Friday, in order lo make up class schedules for the opening of school Tuesday. Oregon Counties Hire Rain Maker . CONDON, .Ore. . UP) Wheat ranchers of three semi-arid Ore gon counties will hire a rain maker during September, If the one-month experiment . .i-Hcoia juiraMui, imc iniii-MEia ui Sherman, Gilliam and Morrow counties will go ahead with a 10 month program. That was decided at a meeting of the newly formed Tri-County Weather Research Corps. The grain and livestock men hope to pump enough extra mois- tine out of fall and spring cloud tormations in their counties bor dering the Columbia river to dou ble rainfall on their lands. Ralph Cruf, lone, president of the rancher group, said the bene fits would be "enormous ' if t h e rainfall were increased. A contract for one month was made with the Water Resources Development Corp., Pasadena, Calif. Oregon State college specialists are to assist in evaluation of the experiment. One yardstick will be the amount of rainfall registered by the eight government weather stations in the three counties. The area has an average of 12 inches of rain annually. Weather records of 40 years show that rain fall at all eight stations has never doubled the average in the same year. ORECON THURSDAY, AUGUST CHECKS Guard Home Front Credit, Assn. Urged Obligation Stressed By Current Crisis, County Meet Told By Speakers Members and guests of the Re tail Credit association of Douglas county and the Roseburg Credit Women's Breakfast club Wednes day night heard two Salem speak ers proclaim the need for credit and trust during the present inter national crisis. Ford Watkins, assistant manager of the Salem branch of the First National bank of Portland and a director of the National Retail Credit association, declared, "Now, as in no other time, it be hooves us to treat our neighbors with respect." He quoted banking and financial authorities who, in the main, agreed that credit and buying con trols are a distinct possibility. Out lining the steps by which the Korean incident came into being, Watkins said communism has been and is being spread by breeding mistrust among peoples ot free nations. "An attempt to upset our credit system and confuse our creditors is one of the ways this mistrust is spread," Watkins said. Urges Economy Safeguard Reviewing Watkins' claims that a danger to this country exists through undermining credit con trols, Charles E. Schmitz, man ager of the Salem Credit bureaus, told the group that credit men and women ot America make up the "bulwark of ouy home front economy." I Hf urged local credit association memoers to louow carciuuy ine rules for good credit-granting and declared it was the duty of credit ors to protect local state and national economy as a means of orotecting this na ion against the type of infiltration practiced b y Communists." The speakers were introduced by Fred L. Lockwood, master of ceremonies, who also introduced Miss Vivian Logsdon, president of the Roseburg Credit Women's Breakfast club. Incidental organ music was of fered the 75 persons present by Mrs. Gordon Stewart. Introduction of incoming officers concluded the program. Succeed ing Robert Renne as president of the Retail Credit association is William C. Neighbors. Other of ficers for 1950-51 include S. V. "Pat" O'Reilly, vice-president; Gordon SU wart, secretary, and Addye Wright, treasurer. DRUNKEN DRIVER RAPPED Arthur B. Parton, 28, of Rose burg was fined $150, given a 30 day jail sentence, suspended upon payment of fine, and had his driv er's license revoked for one year in municipal court Thursday on a charge of driving under the influ ence of liquor, Judge Ira B. Riddle reported. He was arrested hv citv notice last night on North Stevens street. Following the meeting pictured above, teachers adourned to their respective buildings for further instructions. A luncheon for teachers and other school workers was given by S-ipt. and Mrs. Paul Elliott. A faculty "mixer" concluded the day. I Paul Jenkins photel. 31, 1950 RED Douglas County's Assessed Property Valuation In 1950 Almost $5 Million Increase DISTRICT VALUATIONS AND LEVIES Town Valuation Roseburg $8,275,808 Reedsport 1,976,143 Sutherlin 1,831,262 Myrtle Creek.. lt778,9P8 Drain ... 602,225 Oakland Riddie Glendale Canyonville Yoncalla Elkton 506,651 367,780 356,624 330,673 204,903 78,562 Joe Dunne Quits Governor Race; Money Lacking SALEM UP) Pension leader Joe Dunne, candidate for Gov ernor of Oregon for 16 days, with drew yesterday at the lllh hour. An then he took a swat at the Republican party platform. The 68-year-old Portlander, who entered the gubernatorial cam paign as an independent, indicated he might try to swing pension group support to some Democratic candidates. But he said this would be done only if the candidates appeared sincere in their support of the Democratic piatiorm. Dunne said lack of money was a primary reason for his with drawal. "Our old people have no money," he snid. Then he added that some offers of support were of questionable source. Rapping the Republicans, Dunne a Republican said a'. Portland: "The platform of the Republican party reads like a P. T. Barnum circus advertisement. We have no faith in it. On lop of that, I notice a new organization formed in my party called Republican Advance. It looks to us like the way they're going to advance is running back wards. After looking over the per sonnel identified with these move ments, they're going to have to be very sure of any individual Re publican before we support him." On the Democrats Dunne said: "The Democratic platform shows an awareness that the world has changed and that we have no hopes of going back to 1929 as a means uf judging the needs of today. For this reason our people are studying the platform of the Democratic party, and the indi viduals running on that platform. If we come to the conclusion that they are sincerely supporting that platform, we will probably support them." LIGHTNING KILLS PLAYER PHILADELPHIA -UP)- Thomas Graham. 16, was killed by light ning Wednesday as he played base ball in a schoolyard. Graham was playing hall when a storm came up. There was a blinding flash and he fell to the ground. 204-50 DRIV Valuation Increase $952,083 286,103 249,497 192,538 -10 54,536 -21,935 4,164 6,833 4,403 28,832 City Levy .0186 .0090 .0345 .0210 .0292 .0311 .0392 .0269 .0333 .0105 .0132 Combined Levy .0668 .0746 0866 .0802 .0795 .0764 .0826 .0680 .0761 .0647 .0517 The assessed property valuation total for Douglas county increased by nearly $5,000,000 over last year, according to a preliminary report issued by Ned Dixon, county as sessor. The assessed valuation totals for 1950 amount to $61,213,364. Last year, the total was $56,405,365. Millage levy for both the county and rural school levies was re duced over last year. The county levy for 1950 is .0061. including .0020 for the county home, and represents a reduction of .0024 over last year. Dixon said the drop is due in part to a reduction in the county home levy from tour to two mills. ' The rural school levy this year is .0262, as compared to .0326 lor 1949. Of the 11 Douglas county cities and towns which levy special taxes, nine showed an increase in assessed valuation some of them substantial while two towns dropped in valuation. - Elkton topped (he other ten towns with a percentage increase of 36 percent, although tiKion s $78,562 assessed valuation is the smallest of the group. Sutherlin and Reedsport tied with an in crease of 14 percent Roseburg, leading ail others in total assessed valuation, had an increase of 11 percent. Drain, ranked fifth highest among the 11 towns, dropped an even $10 in assessed valuation over a year ago. Riddle was down $21,935 in valuation. Sedition Charged To Commie Trio PITTSBURGH UP) The top Communist in Western P e n n sylvania and two men identified as his aides were arrested today on sedition charges filed by a Pitts burgh judge. Arrested were Steve Nelson, chairman of the Communist party of Western Pennsylvania; Andrew Onda and James uolscn, all of Pittsburgh. The charges were filed by Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Alleg heny countv. Democratic candi date for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, who has been wag ing a spirited campaign against communism. All three men have been identi fied as Communists by Matthew Cvelic, Pittsburgh man who posed as a Communist for nine years while on the payroll of the rBI. He named the men as Commun ists while testifying before the house un-American activities com mittee. Cvetic said Onda was a Com munist party organizer, assigned to the steel mills of the Pittsburgh district. Dolscn has been named as a correspondent for the Com munist newspaper, Daily Worker. The three men were arrested under a 1939 state law which pro vides a fine ot $10,000, 20 years imprisonment, or both, for taking action aimed at overthrowing the government by force. Fifteen Injured In Two Texas Train Wrecks LAMPASAS, Texas UP) At least 15 persons were injured in two train wrecks about 100 miles apart in Central Texas early today. A Santa Fe passenger train left the rails in predawn darkness near here. At least 11 were hurt, none seriously. Near league, ahout jmt miles northeast of Lampasas, four men were injured as 47 cars of a fast Rock Island freight derailed. Ashland Newspaper Suffers Fire Damage ASHLAND UP) The rear walls and some newsprint and wiring in the Ashland Daily Tid ings newspaper building here were damaged by fire Wednesday night. Publisher G. M. Green said he expected to be abl to publish today's afternoon edition. The press and principal composing room machines were not damaged The fire spread from an outdoor Incinerator. H Fire Adds To Horror Near Cairo, Egypt List Of Victims Includes 23 Americans; Charred Bodies Unidentifiable CAIRO UP) A Trans-World airline Constellation plane carry, ing 55 persons, 23 of them Amer icans, crashed and burned today north of Cairo, killing all aboard. The airline announced thera vere no survivors among the 48 passengers and seven crewmen. Reports from the scene said the plane was so badly burned that only a small section of it remained intact. The bodies of the victims, manv' of them notables and representing a uuzen countries, were so Dadly charred that identification at once was impossible. Officials of the district gover nor's office in Behaira province placed the scene of the crash near Etay Baroud, about 75 miles north west of Cario. Eyewitnesses said they saw the big four-engine "Star of Maryland" plummet to earth in flames. Five of the crew of seven aboard the plane, bound from Bombay, India, to Rome, were Americans. The other two were French. Eighteen of the 48 passengers wera Americans, and the remainder represented 11 other nationalities. Two passengers were Indian na tionals cn route to a United Na tions meeting in Paris. Another passenger was the Egyptian movie star Liliannc Cohen, whose screen name is Camelia. She is known as "the Lana Turner of the Mid dle East." American Victims Named The Americans listed aboard in cluded Aubrey William Schofield, 52, a natiye of San Antonio, Tex., who has been living in New York. He has been manager of the east ern hemisphere foreign production division of the Gulf Oil company. Another American was listed as William C. Gist, son of Justice Ervin Gist of Lake City, la. The senior Gist is administration serv ices and transportation officer at the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Three other Americans of the passenger list were identified as Irom the U. i. air Iprce base at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The names were listed as Mclvin Hanson, Derek Owen William and Harry Richard Woods. No addresses wera given. The Paris office of TWA listed . the crew as Including CApt. Wal ton B. Wcob, a 10-year veteran of TWA, pilot; Haldon Hammitt, first officer; and Jeanne Claire Lorenzie, hostess. The loss of 55 lives would make the crash one of the most disas trous in world commercial avia tion history. The heaviest death toll in American commercial avia tion was exacted last June 24, when 58 persons died in a North west airlines plwe crash in Lake Michigan. The heaviest toll in com mercial airline history was March 12 this year, when 80 persons died in the crash of a British transport near Cardiff, Wales. Demotion Requested By State Police Sgt. Miles REEDSPORT Sgt. Richard Miles, stationed in Reedsport since 1933 with the Oregon state police, will go back to the rank of private Sept. 1 at his own request. Sergeant Miles requested the change in order to escape the de tail of office work required by the sergeancy and to get back to out door patrol activity. Sergeant Miles said his doctor instructed him to seek the change. Sergeant Miles was elevated to sergeant in 1945, and the Reeds nort office was made a state po lice headquarters post at the same time. The -office will now be a branch of the Douglas county force administered from Roseburg, as it was prior to 1945. Grass, Forest Fires In Douglas Now Controlled Grass and forest fires which had started in the county this week were in the mopping up stage to day. The Douglas Forest Protective association reported that a fire at Dodge canyon west of Sutherlin was well under control this morn ing with 12 men on the line. An other 20 men had a fire near Glide under control. The lire, re portedly of incendiary origin, had covered 100 acres in a snag patch which had burned 10 years ago. Redwood Highway Auto Crash Fatal To Woman GRANTS PASS (JP) Gloria Moore, 29, was injured fatally and Ira Lee lluddleston, 25, suffered shock when an automobile driven by the latter hit a bridge abut ment, rolled over and then ripped out a telephone pole early today. The accident occurred north of Selma on the Redwood highway at 12:30 a. m. The woman victim had been employed as housekeeper for lluddleston, a sawmill worker, for several years. Levity Fact R ant By L F. Reizensteln Jo Dunne It don. He must feel glum; Won't make the run. He lacked th 'non.' (Excuse our pun.)