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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
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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
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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.
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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.)