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aut ACCKKFT rtSrl ; vli MULTIPLICATION PROBLEM To start a new membership drive for the Junior chamber of com. merce, Leo Sevy, right, presents the rabbit, Able Mable, to Walt Ackley. The animal will remain in his care until he secures a new member. The rabbit will continue through the Jaycee roster alphabetically as each caretaker gets a new member. This is one rabbit Ackley would like to see disappear quickly, because Able Mable is expecting. (By Paul Jenkinsl Roseburg Civilian Defense Set-Up Activated, Policies Told By Col. M.Crawford A Roseburtf civilian defense organization was ac tivated Tuesday night, when the director, assistant direc tor and 12 deputies took the, oath of office at a meeting held in the city council chambers. The oath was administered to Col. M. Crawford, di rector, and his staff by W. A. Gilchrist, city recorder. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The "great debate" over what to do in Europe continues with una bated fury, I have the personal feeling that it will be a fine thing for us if it results in a foreign policy that we can all understand. One great trouble with us now is that the people who will have to do the bulk of the dying if our foreign policy gets us into all out shooting world war have only a faint and foggy idea of what it's all about. That's a bad situation. SOUND foreign policies must come from the grass roots up not from the top intellectual centers down. The Monroe Doctrine which for generations was the foundation of our foreign policy was simple and plain. It meant that if any outsider butted into our affairs anywhere in the Western Hemisphere we'd fight him. We all understood it and we all agreed with it. What we need now is a foreign (Continued on page four) Christians, Jews Given. $1 Million NEW YORK (IP) The Ford Motor Company fund has given $1,000,000 to the National Confer ence of Christians and Jews for a new heallquaftcrs. The gift is the largest ever re ceived by the 23-year-old confer ence. Henry Ford, 2nd, said in a letter to Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, confer ence president: "It seems to us that there are t few causes more worthy of assis tance than one dedicated to the elimination of bigotry, of racial, religious and other differences in a free society." Dr. Clinchy called the gift "a contribution of major importance in the mobilization of science, ed ucation, industry and religion to set men free from the totalitarian chains of tyranny and exploita tion." The money will be used for fi nancing the purchase, remodeling and maintenance of a building in East 46th street, Manhattan. 70 Of 100 Russian Bombers Can Get Past U.S. Defenses, American Air Chief Admits WASHINGTON API Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg. United States air fores chief, says there is no way to prevent Soviet Russia from getting at least 70 out of 100 bombers past U.S. defenses and over their targets. Vandenberg made the assertion in an articlt in the current issue of Saturday Evening Post magazine. The air force chief of staff incidentally indicated that U.S. military intelligence rates Russia at less than 100 atomic bombs at present. "Even if the enemy had 100 (atomic) bombs which she hasn't now she could not afford to tfttow all into one raid," Vandenberg wrote. He said this In connection with a statement that a large scale raid would probably include only a few planes carrying atom bombs. Vandenberg said Russia has "at least 450 planes that en strikejjour major population and industrial centers from 0 bases in the U.S.S.R." Those, he said, are copies of the American B-29. But, he added. Russia is working hard to match the B-36 and "she unquestionably will build It." R said the B-36 outmatches in speed, armam$t, rang and bomb load any plan Moscow can got into mast production "In the fjxt few years." r JR CHAMBER COi'i 5EKSHIP Oi '" ABLE WABLE All members of the organization were present for the initial meet ing, including, Assistant Director J. F. Dillani, and the following deputies: Verne Hasbrook, allmin istration; Fire Chief William E. Mills, fire service; Police Chief Calvin H. Baird, law enforcement; George T. Foster, personnel; Ar thur Boyer, engineering; John Crawford, public utilities; R. C. Stanton, engineer of Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Co., repre senting R. J. Henwood, communi cations; Joe Dent, health; Bill Evans Jr., welfare; Col Bob Dicey, plans and operations; Le roy Inman, information and edu cation, and Clyde E. Knight, trans portation. Others present were City Man ager M. W. Slankard. representing Mayor Albert G. Flegel; Cyril Trhing, assistant to Hasbrook; K. W. Anderson, accompanying Stanton; Rollie Quam and Chuck Friday, representing the Boy Scouts, and J. Roland Parker, rep resenting the Red Cross. The general purpose of the civil defense organization, its basic pol icies, assumptions and the duties of each of the deputy directors were explained by Col. Crawford. A detailed mimeographed outline of the plan was given to each mombor, setting forth his du ties. The meeting was then opened to general discussion. The defense organization, a c cording to Col. Crawford, assumes that war will involve enemy action against the civil population and property, with little or no warning, utilizing any method to achieve material gain. The assumption is that sabotage is a major enemy policy and cap ability; that atomic weapons will be employed only against the most strategic installations, facilities and densly populated areas; that (Continued on page Two) Winston Juveniles Held On Store Theft Charge Two Winston juveniles are being held by county authorities after be ing taken into custody Tuesday on charges of larceny of Howard's Hardware store at Winston, the state police report According to the police, the youngsters allegedly stole about $300 of property from the store. The stolen property was returned to the store after the youths had hid it under a Winston church, po lice said. - u Icq js . j- -y ft .r V- Douglas Gets $277,539 From Forest Receipts , Douglas county will receive $277.5:19 as its share of $2,230,093 in U.S. forest reserve receipts dur ing the year ended last June 30. The total figure for the state rep resents 25 percent of the forest funds. Counties use 75 percent of their amounts for roads and the rest for schools. School Districts Want More Time For Merger Study , Several school districts south of Roseburg have asked for an ex tension on the Feb. 15 deadline for filing consolidation petitions, County School Superintendent Ken neth Barneburg reports. The superintendent said the boards want more time to study the problem and decide on proper action. The Feb. 15 filing deadline was set by a school board confer ence Feb. 1. Barneburg told the conference at that time he would make up the consolidation ballot on the basis of the pititions filed on Feb. 15. Barneburg said he has passed the request on to other school boards affected by the proposed consolidation. They will decide on whether an extension date is de sirable. Many of the residents in the dis tricts south of Roseburg feel it would be best to consolidate by setting up a separate district. Other residents want to consolidate with Roseburg. Special committees have been appointed by the Lookingglass, Tenmile and Dillard school boards te study further the consolidation question, Barneburg said. They have asked the other school boards in the south to form special com mittees to aid them in studying the problem. Portland Businessmen Get Tax Paying Choice PORTLAND - OP) The Port land city council will give business men a choice on how they want to pay their city taxes this year, In an attempt to end complaints, the council approved the optional system. It is intended to raise $2,500,000. Under it Wisinessmen can: (1) Pay a tax of 2 percent on net profits. (2) Pay $1.40 on each $1000 of gross sales. Left unchanged is the city busi ness license fee, which ranges from $15 to $30. Patient Chooses Death In Preference To Bath SUNDERLAND, Eng. (Pi Th. nuru told Henry Scott it was time for his bath. "Oh, no," protested th. 67-year-old coal miner. "1 had e bath last week." With that h. divad out th win dow of hit hospital room and was killed. A coroner returned a verdict of suicid. Jury Frees Two Youths Of Beer Possession Count It look a district court jury just 15 minutes Tuesday to return a verdict of innocent to charges of illegal possession of alchoholic bev erage faced by Robert Watson, 19, and a 17-year old Roseburg youth. The two, when picked up by the city police, allegedly confessed to having beer in their possession, but later repudiated this, according to Chief of Police Calvin Baird. The Weather Mostlv cloudy with light rain expected tonight . and . continuing through Thursday. High.sjrf.mp. for any Feb 79 Lowest temp, for any Fib. ...... 3 Highest temp, yesterday 58 Low.it temp, last 24 houn ... 29 Precip. last 24 houM 0 Pr.eip. from Fib.vfl 3.38 Pr.cip. Vhm S.pt. 1 34.94 Exx.is from Jin. .99 Slfcstet today, 5:43 Wrn. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:11 e. m. in 1 1 m.iiii Established 1873 Cost-Of-Livjng Fay Given School Board $200 Increase For Employes Put In Budget Teachers, Custodians, Clerks Included; Final Decision Up To Voters All employes of the Roseburg school district will receive a $200 cost of living adjustment increase on present yearly salaries for the 1951-52 school year if the annual district budget is approved. The District 4 school board re cently approved inclusion of the cost of living adjustments in the new school budget which will be come effective July 1, if approved by the voters, City School Super intendent Paul S. Elliott said. The proposed $200 yearly pay hike covers salaries of teachers, custodians and clerical help, he reported. It is the third cost of living adjustment approved by the board in recent years. Other ad justments were granted in 1948 and 1949, Elliott said. A $200 increase in salaries will bring the total cost of living adjustments to $680 per year under approvals since 1948. The cost of living adjustment, as approved by the school board, is an average increase of about six per cent on present salaries, Elliott said. The teachers had asked the board for an average increase of about nine percent. The board established new sal ary bases for clerical and custo- dian employes. It also approved new increment raises for satisfac tory service for teachers and cus todians. New Salary Bases Litted The new base salaries for cleri cal help are: starting secretaries, $1800; junior high and senior high school secretaries, $2100; superin tendent and clerk secretaries, $2400. The new bases for custodians are: men janitors, $2100; women janitors, $1800. The custodians will receive an increment raise for satisfactory service of $90 per year for a maximum of seven years. They requested the board grant them an increment raise of $110 per year. The teachers were granted an increment raise of $90 per year after asking a raise of $120 per year for satisfactory service. Elliott pointed out the cost of living adjustments were only tem porary pay raises. Should the cost of living in the Roseburg area de crease, the adjustments on future school budgets would be de creased correspondingly. He also said the increases would not be final until approved in the budget election. Dutch Battalion Head Killed In Korean War CENTRAL FRONT, Korea (P) Lt. Col. N. P. A. Den Ouden, commander of the Dutch battalion in Korea, was killed Monday at lloengsong. The Netherlands detachment was fighting a delaying attion on the city's left flank against attacking Chinese. DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED Lyle Albert Mclntire, 30, 114 S. Parrott, was lined $150 and re ceived a 30-day suspended jail sen tence on a drunk driving charge Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle reports. CIVIL DEFENSE The initial meeting of the Roseburg civil defense orgeniiation was held last night at the city hall. The members included, left to right, seated, Verne Hasbrook, Director Col. M. Crawford, J. F. Dillard, Col. Bob Dicey, Police Chief Calvin Baird, Clyde E. Knight, George T. Foster, Leroy Inman and City ROSEBURG, ORECON nan in aai i v FIRED CAPITOL Richard C Shay (above), 19, is held by Michigan state police (or ques tioning in connection with the $4,000,000 (ire that wrecked the state office building in Lans ing. Prosecutor Paul C. Younger said Shay had signed a confes sion admitting he touched off the fire "to escape the draft." (AP Wirephoto) N, Umpqua Road Project Draws . 4th Batch Of Bids PORTLAND The Dailv Journal of Commerce says: J. W. Briggs, Grandview, Wash., Tuesday sub mitted a low bid of $82,800 for clear ing about 80 acres for an exten sion of the North Umpqua high way in Douglas county, W. H. Lynch, division engineer of the Bu reau of Public Roads, announced. Bids have been taken under ad visement. Thiris the fourth time bids have been received for the project. Bids were advertised twice for 2.3 miles of grading, and subsequently re jected each time as being to high. Plans were then revised, and bids were invited for 6.6 miles of clear ing and grubbing. Bids were again considered high and were rejected, and the grubbing portion of the project was dropped for this invi tation. The Bureau of Public Roads would like to extend the North Umpqua highway, as this road pro vides access for heavy stands of ripe timber in the Umpqua national forest. The highway is being built progressively as timber tracts are needed, and eventually it will pro vide access for some of the largest tracts of virgin timber remaining in the United States. Anti-Mask Ordinance Asked By Klu Klux Klan JACKSONVILLE, Fla. UP) The Ku Klux Klan wants to be unmasked in Jacksonville. Bill Hendrix of Tallahassee, grand dragon of the Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has proposed an anti-mask ordinance to the city council. He said the Klan wants the or dinance "to keep our enemies from committing acts of violence and laying it on the Klan." The proposal was referred to a committee for study. ........ , , ( OR , . ' 1 1 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1951 Oregon's Four Districts Not To Be Altered State Senate Votes 'No' On Move For Revision Of Congressional Areas By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (P) The Senate has decided 22 to 8 it doesn't want to change the boundaries of Ore gon's four congressional districts. The vote was on a resolution by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, Port land, for appointment of an interim committee to study changing the boundaries, Senator Neuberger told the Senate that the boundar ies must be changed to give Mult nomah county more representa tion at the expense of eastern Ore gon. He said that Congress is con sidor in a bill to force states ei ther to divide their congressional districts up more evenly, or else elect all congressmen at large. Sen. Angus Gibson, Junction City, chairman of the elections committee which recommendetl 4 to 1 that the measure be defeated, said "the resolution is unneces sary. Geographical area should be considered. Eastern Oregon, with Its 18 counties all on the other side of the Cascades, should be a sep arate district." Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, saitl Neuberger's resolution "i s a scheme to give Multnomah county two congressmen. Multnomah county is trying to absorb us." Jackass.i Decrease The lowly and oft-ridiculed jack ass li declining rapidly in num bers. The House sent to the Senate a bill to repeal the law which requires registration of jackasses and stallions. "As a matter of statistics, and contrary to public opinion, there are fewer jackasses in Oregon than there were 10 years ago," said Rep. John P. Hounsell, Hood River. Boon to Stockholders The poor guy who can't cram all of his stock certificates into a single safe deposit box won his victory when the House passetl his bill and sent it to the governor. The bill provides that when a stockholder owns more than 100 shares, he can force the company (Continued On Pag Two) Franco Spain Gets American Loan WASHINGTON UP) -The United States has grantetl Franco Spain loans of $12,200,000 the first grant made from a congres sional authorization of $62,500,000 for Spain. Against the wishes of President Truman, Congress tagged the cred its for Spain to the current year's appropriations for the Economic Cooperation administration, which handles Marshall plan aid to West ern Europe. The $12,200,000 was divided into four separate 25-year loans: $5, 000,000 for cotton, $3,500,000 for fertilizers, $3,000,000 for tractors anil spare parts and $700,000 for equipment to complete a ferti lizer plan in Spain. The loans are aimed at relieving poor agricul tural conditions in Spain, for which luck of nitrogen fertilizers has been blamed in large part. laneger M. w. slankard; standing at left, Cyril Thrinq, R. C. Stanton, Bill Evans, K. W. Anderson; at right, John Crawford, Arthur Boyer, Joe Dent endure Chief William E. Mills. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) 38-51 Boost . K. Religious Novels' Famous Author Claimed By Death 1 LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Controversy With Fime LOS ANGELES UP) Lloyd C. Douglas, 73, author of some of the most controversial and widely read religious novels of the cen tury, died Tuesday night of heart disease. Douglas' greatest books were "The Magnificent Obsession," his first, published in 1929, and "The Robe," printed in 1942. In the pe riod between diem were numerous best sellers, including "Green Light," "White Banners" and "Dis puted Passage." which were filmed. His last work was "The Big Fisherman," a sequel to "The Robe." Douglas refused to allow a movie to be made of "The Big Fisherman," apparently because of the treatment "The Robe" received In Hollywood. Handling of the book for the films was debated for years. Finally, after $75,000 was poured into the enterprise, the picture was dropped. Douglas' books caused much dis cussion because of their personal approach to religion An ordained Lutheran minister, Douglas was jn his 50s when "The Magnificent Obession" became an immediate success. It went through 51 printings in little more than a year. Family Name Of 2 First Babies Same; No Relation Parents ef th. tint two babies born at th. n.w Douglai Com munity hoipital ar. named Green. Th.y are not r.lat.d how.v.r. Th. first baby was born at 5:30 a.m. Tu.sday to Mr. and Mn. John H. Green, Dillard. Th. baby, a boy, w.lgh.d I . v . n pounds nln. ounc.i. Th. i.eond, alio a boy, not y.t nam.d, wai born at 10:40 a. m. Tu.sday to Mr. and Mn. Clinton Gr..n of Roi.burg. Th. baby w.lgh.d i.v.n pounds I'M ounc.i. A third baby, a girl was born at 4:30 a.m. today, to Mr. and Mrs. Don Hall of Roi.burg. Sh. w.lgh.d eight pounds 9Vi oun ce. Th. hospital Ii rapidly filling up, at lat.it reports. Twenty four patients hav. been ad mitted. Total bed capacity Is 43. M 1 f 1 1 .i i i e Lj Marine Kusler Victim; Two Slightly Hurt Riddle Junction Road Tragedy Scene; Seattle Man Operator Of Auto Mixln. Kuiler, 19, Myrtle" Cntk, wn kill.d In an lutomo. bile accid.nt on the Riddle I unc tion road Tuesday evening, Dep. Uty Sh.rl W. I. Worrell reports. Mill Kuil.r wii riding e pasnng.r In e convertible auto mobile operated by H. S. Riph a.l, 27, of Seattle when the car overturned on curve, Worrell aid. The deputy sheriff said no ci tation wai issued el a result of th accid.nt. Margaret McClintock, 19, also a passenger in the ill-fated automo bile, and Raphael were hospital ized as a result of the accident and later released. Miss Kusler Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Kusler of Myrtle Creek. She was graduated from Myrtle Creek high school in 1950 and was employed by the Jones Insurance agency in that city. Her parents were in Eugene at the time of the accident. Miss McClintock is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McClintock of Myrtle Creek. Raphael is em ployed by the Fir Manufacturing company at Myrtle Creek. He has lived in the area for only three weeks. Miss Kusler's body was taken to Ganz mortuary at Myrtle Creek anil funeral services will be an nounced later. Postman Piles Mail In His Room; Says Feet Ached - CHICAGO - UP) A young mail carrier and part-time golf caddy told postal Inspectors here' that his aching feet prompted him to skip making all his mail deliveries. Ho told inspectors he took the mail to his four-room bachelor apartment in suburban Palatine. The mall man, Bernhard A. Dreyer, 23, told Inspector Ray mond J. Dunne that his feet had hurt him ever since he started the job three anil a half years ago. Then, he saio he took a job as a part-time caddy at Arlington Country club. . "It was too much," Dreyer told Dunne. "I started taTting the mail home instead of delivering it." ' Much of the mall, he said, was misaddressed and he Didn't have time to take it back to the post office to readdrcss it. He was too busy at his caddylng job. Dunne said hundreds of letters, postcards anil pieces of third class mail were found in Dreyer's room. Dreyer was held to the federal grand jury in 500 bond after he appeared before a U. S. commis sioner for withholding mail from delivery. Chinese Reds Slaughtered By Thousands TOKYO (P) South Korean marines have landed at the big North Korean east coast port of Wonsan in a surprise raid under cover of a strong allied naval bombardment. Wonsan is 90 miles Inside Red territory above parallel 38 on the Sea of Japan. On the flaming Central Korean front, American, French and Dutch forces inflicted a staggering toll on Chinese and Red Korean di visions striving for a breakthrough along a 20-mile-wide sector. A field dispatch said the allied defenders shattered two Commu nist divisions "in a welter of blood, bombs and shellfire." It allded: "The Chinese dead lay by the thousands on all sides of sur rounded Chipyong. Other thou sands were heaped up also in the river valley eight miles west-northwest of Wonju where they stum bled into a murderous air and ar tillery ambush." On the western front, American doughboys mowed down 1,152 Red Korean sneak troops who had crossed the Han river and slipped inside allied lines. They captured nearly 250 more Communist sol diers. American machine-guns cut down fleeing remnants of the Red Korean force as they tried to splash back across the Han. Allied losses were reported small. DEADLIER BOMB DEVISED WASHINGTON UP) A new napalm fire bomb, smaller but moro effective than the type in service, has been developed in Japan for use in Korea. The new bomb has a 90-gallon capacity, one-fourth less than the 120-gallon tank now used. Napalm, which is jellied gasoline, weighs about six and one-half pounds to the gallon. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Rclienstcin Let's oil give thanks that the dark cloud hovering over Amer ica's economy has a nickel lin ing: Smith Brothers' cough drops still retail at S cents a package.