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fwHO DOES WHAT finas; U.S. TR00PS-T0-EUB0PE EtiM TO ' AAAHPOVtfER 1 i V L V r. " J I') LORA SLOAN approves a box of candy at the counter of tha Rich-Maid lea Cream store at 632 South Stephens street prepara tory to placing it on a display shelf. Mrs. Sloan and her husband, Harry F. Sloan, are proprietors of the establishment. They not only sell the ice cream, which they manufacture themselves, but candies and some bakery goods as well. They started the business three years ago and, not long before that, came to Roseburg Schools' Merger Needed Consolidation Means More Benefit Per Dollar, Supt. Barneburg Asserts School consolidation in the Roseburg- area would offer a much more flexible financial system, offering: the schools a greater return on the educational dollar. But it would not materially reduce the millage rate, said County School Su perintendent Kenneth Barneburg, speaking before the chamber of commerce Monday noon. explaining the need of school consolidation in this area, Barne burg said the Roseburg school district does not have the bonding capacity to build additional fa cilities needed to handle the rap idly increasing numbers of high school tuition students from non high school districts. The super intendent said the threatened over crowding at the local high school forced the board to stop accepting tuition students after June 1952. Barneburg said the outlying non high school discicts have two pos sible ways of continuing to pro vide education for their students: consolidation with Roseburg or by building new high schools. i Units May Join Roseburg Barneburg stated that it appears the districts to the north of Rose burg will consolidate with Rose- (Continued On Page Two) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The war news in a nutshell as this is written: Allied troops rip gaping holes in communist lines as they drive ahead as much as four miles . . . thousands of red casualties are add ed today to 'the 17,000 reds killed and wounded yesterday and the day before . . . A U. S. 9th army spokesman says: "The enemy seems to be high-tailing it for the hills ang our whole west-central front." Pretty good, huh? Leads to rosy thoughts like may be it'll all he over by Easter and the boys will be on their way home. We'd better keep our fingers crossed. We're killing a lot of Chi namen, to be sure, but there are plenty more Chinamen where the ones we're killing off came from. And the Russians, who are our real enemies, HAVEN'T YET LOST A MAN IN THE FIGHTING. Muttering from Washington: "Representative August H. An drcsen (Rep., Minn) said today sol diers at Camp Rucker, Alabama, (Continued en page four) Blind Lead Blind Oregon School's System Of Education Nationally Known For High Quality By ESTHER GEDDES SALEM "Can the blind lead the blind?" According to the quotation this is a very dangerous habit, but actually at the Oregon State School for the Blind it works oufevery well. At least two members of ,the I lacu iy i me u ..c blind and are performing excellent I work. I visited a csass in visited a csass in fifth grade arithmetic and, except for the fact that none of the children raise hands for the teachers at tention. I would hardly have I ';,:. .i-u:.. a-.a see. When otfe of the youngsters needed help he spoke the teacher'a name, and without hesitation she walked around the tables to the side of the youngster who had called. s- The process of work, long di vision is interesting when the tt.f ; reaas.., from Kansas. Deep South Hit By Wintry Blast ATLANTA (JP) Winter took a blustery mid-March slap at the deep south today. Snow and temperatures o f freezing or below routed a spell of balmy weather that had brought an emerald sheen to the country side and blossoms to peach and apple trees. Snow was falling or was fore cast over a wide belt from the Car olinas to Arkansas. Snowstorms swirled last night across west and central Tennessee. In Arkansas it was almost a blizzard. And the snowfall continued. Pre-dawn sleet turned to snow flurries in Georgia, and snow pep pered Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Freezing weather chilled the southeast generally. Budding flowers drooped and gar deners worried. Chilly weather moved into Flor ida with a small tornado at Tampa and thunderstorms else where in the state. The tornado dipped down on a school just as 300 children were leaving for lunch and tossed students around like straws. Miraculously none was hurt. Eight windows blew out. B-29, With 12 Crewmen, Missing In Mediterranean -FRANKFURT, Germany (JP) British air crews after an all night flare search in the western Mediterranean reported they had found no trace of a missing U. S. B-29 and its crew of 12. The plane, based at Lakenheath, England, disappeared. on a routine navigational flight last Friday. SLAYER SENTENCED PORTLAND - (JP) Frank Oli ver Payne, 48, MorMay was sen tenced to die in the state gas cham ber May 18 for the murder of H. Nathan Butler. Convicted by a ury last week of the Jan. 9 slaying, Payne was sentenced to die by Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding. nlh.n.ll,l.n "'" ' . , " . ' , ,7, .V. ..n 1 mi, i fuc n di diinun ooara. a grooved nTdl-like affair into which little cubes can be fitted in their proper position. These cubes, like dice, have the braille numbers on nice, nave K,'.? "n . J' .J" i -, a u,c juuiikiici uvea iiit- dividing and miplyin) and achieves the result as rapidly as another child writing on paper. The science tdlns was studying various forms of rock and nil for- (Continued On Two) Ettabllshtd 1873 Milk Control Act Change Law Or Get Repeal Vote, Warning Issue Confronts House Committee, Which Also Has Three Oleo Bills By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (JP) The legislature had a blunt notice from the house wives that if it doesn't change the state milk control law, then the la dies will repeal the whole law by initiative measure. The warning was given Monday night at a house food and dairy committee hearing by Mrs. Viv ian McMurtrey, chairman of Port land's affiliated milk committee. Asserting she spoke for 17,000 "angry" women of her organiza tion, Mrs. McMurtrey asked the house committee to support the bill to remove all price fixing at the retail and distributor levels. Her bill would still let the state fix prices to producers. Mrs. McMurtrey said the bill would result in lower retail milk prices. This would benefit the farmers, she added, because nilk consumption would increase. She called the 17-year-old state milk control law "socialistic, planned economy and repugnant to the ideals of the Republican party." Rep. Pat Lonergan, Portland, who introduced the bill, said con sumption of milk is decreasing be cause the housewives can't afford to buy it. He said Portland has the highest milk prices on the coast. The bill is one of several in the legislature. Others would repeal the whole law, or just allow stores to sell cheaper than the home-de livered price. Three Oleo Bills Eyed Rep. Jack Greenwood, chairman of the house food and dairy committee, said he hopes his com mittee will act on colored oleo within the next two days. He said he wants to get rid of the issue to get out from under in tense pressure brought by consum ers who want colored margarine. His committee has three oleo bills before it. One is the senate approved bill to allow oleo of any shade, but making restaurants tell their customers about it when they serve it. The other two would re strict oleo the paler shades of yel low. The committee would like t o levy a tax on colored oleo, both te raise some money for the state and to give a little protection to butter. But the committee can't add the tax to the colored oleo bill, because tax matters have to go the house tax committee. School Fund Dangles The house tax committee voted to take the state basic school fund allotments to school districts out of the state general fund. Now, this nioney comes from property taxes which are offset by income tax collections. The committee took its action because of Attorney General George Neuner's ruling that the basic school fund would be wiped out if the people vote in the 1952 general election to eliminate the slate property tax. Roseburg Merchants To Hear Price Analyst Dewey Bell, analyst of the Office of Price Stabilization, will inform the retail merchants of Roseburg on the provisions of OPS regula tion No. 7 at the Retail Trade association's luncheon Wednesday noon, March 14 at the Hotel Ump- qua. Arrangements tor tnis meeting were made by Lowell Rhodcn a director of the association, who states that the luncheon is open to all retailers regarlcsss of whether they belong to the asso ciation. NOTED PIANIST DIES MIAMI. Fla. (JP) Harold Bauer, internationally known con cert pianist, died Monday at the age of 77. A widely known interpreter of Brahms. Schumann and Franck. he spent the autumn of his life teaching and lecturing at music schools across the country. The Weather Cloudy with scattered showers today and Wednesday. Highest tamp, for any March .... 15 Lowest tamp, for any March .... II Highest temp, yesterday 57 Lowest tttrt let 24 hours 45 Precip. last 24 hours 03 Precip. from March I . 1.7 Precip. from Sept. I 37.97 Excess from Sept. I 12.95 Sunset today, 6:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, i:2l a.m. DISTAFF VICTORY Feminine Ticket Sweeps Election For City Offices MENDON, Mich. (JP) 'The women and should anybody be surprised? are in control here. The novelty, if any, is that this has to do with politics. In the villiage election a fem inine ticket swept the boards Mon day. It wasn't even close for any office. There will be one lonesome male officeholder. He is incumbent city clerk Vern McClish. He wasn't op posed. Mrs. Helen Hickmott, former Kal amazoo college teacher, was elected village president. She won over Marvin Dalrnan, incumbent, by a vote of 77 to . The women campaigned on a gen eral piauorm mat mey could do a better job of running the village government than men. A result was a rousing good vote turnout a toal of 120. This souh western Michigan community has a population of 750. "We'll do our best," said Mrs. Hickmott proudly after her victory. She and her husband run Men don's biggest department store. While it was a clearcut triumph for the gals, it was also self evident that a good many men were willing to give them the chance. Of the total vote cast, 68 were by men and 52 by women. Among the winners was Mn. Mary Male, who beat out her hus band, Gordon Male, for a one-year term as trustee, 73 to 43. Dismissal Of 17 Of Faculty Stirs College Outcry WINTER PARK, Fla. (JP) Bitter strife beset Rollins college's campus today over the contem plated dismissal of a third of the faculty. The student weekly, the Sand- spur, said the collegians had lost all confidence in President Paul A. Wagner. The board of trustees invited members of the American Asso ciation of University Professors to visit the campus and look into the dropping of 17 members of the faculty. The trustees asked the associa tion to "investigate certain faculty members who have proved emo tionally unstable and unfit to ad vise and to teach their students." In a statement late last night, the 33-year-old Dr. Wagner said: I am sorry to see that an emotional approach has been taken to a serious problem that has na tional rather than Ideal signifi cance. With thousands of college teachers losing their positions in hundreds of colleges, any profes sor who has not been aware of the plight of the small, independ ent college, has been living in a tragic ivory tower. "Caught between the nutcracker of inflation on the one hand and mobilization on the other, Rollins has one of two choices. It may con tinue its present occupational ex penditures and invile a quarter million dollar deficit or it can economize. To do the former would mean financial disaster." The slash includes elimination of intercollegiate athletics and dis missal of 17 of the school's 53 faculty members. I'll P h ajX'Txf' I - yb Wil Juii ;!n? SPEECH CHAMP Pictured above is Pat Turner, Roseburg toastmaster, as he delivered the winning speech in the Toastmaster area No. 6 contest at Eugene Saturday. Turner defeated four other speakers from the area to win a berth in the district competition 4 Portland May 19. Turner's speech was entitled "The Price of Freedom." On the fer left of lVrner it Sheldon Haat vedt, district 6 governor. Carey Stroma, an alternate speaker, is seated next to Turner. On Turner's right is Kay Loomii, area governor of Toastmasters, and Eugene's Mayor V, Edwin John son. f .X ROSEBURG. OREGON TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1951 Faces Housewives' Threat Reds Abandon Rprlniihk Mnw u.iLj Miiiiurcwiiiy Only Rear-Guard Defense Offered Allies; Six-Day Smash Costs Foe Heavily TOKYO (IP) Allied troops today chased mysteriously retreat ing Communist forces toward the old parallel 38 border separating South and North Korea. Vanguards of three United Na tions columns, driving on the Red massing center of Hongchon in central Korea, were within 25 miles of the old boundary. There was no ready explanation for the sudden Communist with drawal from the mountain re doubts where they had fought bit terly for every yard of ground. Some front line officers said pos sibly they were pulling back to make a new stand in prepared defenses in the ridges north of Hongchon. . All along the 70-mile front the Reds were putting up only a show of rear-guard resistance. But al lied commanders were wary. They did not label the Red withdrawal a rout. , Even as the Reds drew back from their front line positions their reinforcements were coming up from the rear. Fifteen miles east of Seoul the U. S. 25th division consolidated its bridgehead across the Han river. The bridgehead was nearly 11 miles deep and eight miles wide. A regimental commander of the 25th told A.P. correspondent Jim Becker: Reds' Losses at) to 1 "They (the Reds) take their wounded with them, and as many of their dead as they can carry so we cannot get an accurate ac count of the damage we have done to them, but we know they are hurting." The six-day drive that started when the Han was breached has cost the Reds more than 35,000 in killed or wounded, the Eighth army estimated. Enemy casual ties since the Allies started north Jan. 25 were put at 167,817. Lt. Gen Matthew B. Ridgway, Eighth army commander, said Monday the proportion of Red to allied losses is better than 60 to 1. In the air, allied fighters roared back into actkm Tuesday against frontline Communist positions and rear area supply points. The U. S. Fifth air force racked up its heaviest day on Monday 774 sorties (single flights) against the Reds. Navy and marine planes smashed at Communist supply lines. B-29 bombers hit Chorwon, north of Seoul, with more than 155 tons of explosives. Wrecked Ship's Crew Battles Sea For Cargo HONOLULU (JP) Crewmen are trying to pump out flooded holds of the wrecked freighter An drea K. Luckenbach In salvage $15,000,000 worth of war materiel and 5.000 bags of mail for military personnel in Korea. All five passengers and 45 crew men were saved when the 8,170 ton freighter tore her bottom on a reef off Kauai, one of the Ha waiian islands, Sunday night in. a rainstorm. Telephone Strike Threat en.ewed following Break I In New Wage SAN FRANCISCO (AD ThreaH of a walkout by 1,000 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company toll techni cians In five Western states wort being renewed today after wage negotiations were broken off abruptly. Leslie Monahan, Seattle, president of the Independent Order of Repeatermen and Toll Testboardmen, said hit nego tiating committeemen were "going home to get ready" for a twice-postponed strike, A walkout will be called, Monahan said, "when the union Is ready." "We're through bargaining," ha declared. "The tele phone company Is trying to increase the spread In pay be tween rural and city workers, and we won't stand for that." Present pay spread for the toll technicians who man long distance and leased wire news, radio and television circuits is $6, for the S77 to $83 a week. . . Monahan said the company offered a scale ranging from $83 to $90 a spread of $7. The union asked $85 to $1. Though the wage stands of both union and company represent considerable compromise from earlier positions, Monahan said agreement could not be reached because the matter of the "spread" principle was involved. States Involved in the dispute are California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and parts of Idaho. Presidency Not Eyed Gen. Eisenhower Willing To 'Spend Rest Of Life' On Present Defense Job By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) is "willing to spend the rest of my life in unifying the free world's defenses against possible Communist attack. That statement by the five-star general made to sen ators in a closed committee meeting Feb. 1 popped u p today to cloud the 1952 presidential picture. Three Schools Petition For Consolidation Vote Petitions have been received by the office of the county Super intendent of schools from Dillard, Lookingglass and Camas Valley for a vole on the school consolida tion question, reports Superinten dent Kenneth Barneburg. This leaves only Tenmllc and Roberts Creek to be heard from in the southern section. Barne burg emphasized that this petition does not mean the signers are for or against consolidation, but merely signified a desire to vote on the proposal. Thus, if more than the minimum number of resi dents have put their names to the petition, a date will he set to vote on proposed consolidation of the southern district. Senator Vandenberg Takes Turn For Worse GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (JP) The condition of ailing senator Arthur II. Vandenberg "is grad ually becoming more serious," his personal physician said. The doctor said the senator "still fatle In raltv frnm hi repent re-l.-mse."' ILL REJECTED 41-51 Negotiations Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ine eu-year-oia commander o I the North Atlantic defense forces has been suggested as a possible choice for the presidential nomina tion of either the Republican or Democratic party next year. He has disclaimed political ambitions in the past but he has not con vinced nearly all politicians. While EUscnhowej- hasn't indi cated publicly whether he would accept a nomination in 1952, he made it clear to the senate foreign relations and armed services com mittee in testimony on the troops-to-Iiuiope issue he regards his present job as one of the greatest magnitude. He told the senators he believes there is a growing awareness here and in Europe that "we still can achieve the unity in the free world that will make us secure if we will all work," adding: "When you have confidence in the plan, I say this: I have this much confidence, that I am will ing to devote the rest of my life to try to make it work." The five-star general appar ently has set the end of 1952 as his target for assembling an ef fective defense force in Europe. He said by that time "we ought to begin to feel pretty good and really over the hump" on the job. "And how are we going to as sure that we remain solvent which to my mind is one of the key questions in this whole thing," he added. Stolen Roseburg Auto Bogged Down By Thief DALLAS, Ore. (IP) A car thief, who got as far as Rick-, real from Roitburg, needed gas oline. So he pulled up beside a pump at Burton Bell's dairy barn. He filled the tank. Than for good measure he filled e con. tainor stolen from the barn and put It on the seat. Then he started te drive off. State police found the well filled car bogged hopelessly In the mud beside the gas pump. The thief had fled. The car was reported stolen from Dolmer C. Christian, Rose burg. GIFT TO HOSPITAL BURNS (JP) A 30,000-acre ranch in the Stccns mountains has been deeded to the Shrincrs hos pital for crippled children in Port land by Mrs. Mary Kucny. A member of the hospital board said Mrs Kucny had sold h cat tie and planned to retire. PIG-HEADED BLUNDER TOI.KWO, O. (JP) William Ililkcns' pig is nQ too smart, as piss to. The pig wandered away from Us suburban farm home sev eral days ago and showed up at the front door of a slaughterhouse. House Group Tables Plan By 21-14 Vote Republicans' Attempt To Force Congress Okay Will Resume On Floor WASHINGTON (JP) The house armed service committee re jected today an attempt to tie to the military manpower bill a proposal to bar sending troops to r.urope umess congress approves. The proposal was offered bv Rep. Towe (R-NJ) and promptly laoiea oy a vote ot zi 10 14. The action was announced h Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) after a closed session of the committee. He said a new effort to attach the troop proposal to the bill might be maae later on the house floor. The committee is now working over the measure section by sec tion. As it stands now, it calls for lowering the draft age to 18Vi years and setting up a long term univers.-.l military training pro gram. Vinson said the next big issue Is a proposal to put a 4,000,000 man- ' power ceiling on the armed focres. I owe s plan to bar assigning American troops to the North At lantic defense force witbout prior congressional approval has tha backing of many house Republi cans. . A smiliar stand was taken by the house GOP Dolicv committee last Friday. Hep. Arcnds of Illinois, an as sistant GOP leader, had told re porters in advance of today's com mittee meeting that an attempt would be made to hitch the troop rider to the manpower legislation. Truman Urges Okay Republicans may hold their fire until the bill reaches the floor, pos sibly this week. There they will run into opposition steamed up by President Truman, House Speaker KayDurn ana other administration leaders. In a telephone talk with congressional leaders from Key west, (la., Mr. Truman was re ported to have expressed the hope Congress would not restrict trans fer of troops to Europe. The committee, "without objec tion," as one member phrased it approved drafting men at 18Vi years instead of 19, as now and extension of draftees' service from the present 21 months to 26. A bill the Senate passed Friday would lower the draft age to 18 and extend service to 24 months. Meet Set Here For Log Truckers A .meeting of log truckers and all persons associated with the lumber industry is scheduled for Wednesday night , at the Hotel Umpqua civic room. Dinner is scheduled at 6:30. The meeting is for log truckers, lumber truckers, all truck driv ers, loggers and sawmill oper ators, truck insurance companies, all suppliers of truck and trailer operations and all persons inter ested in Oregon's forest products industry, according to the an nouncement. A program of safety, education, self-regulation, control and public relations has been worked out to meet with public favor and to improve the standing of the in dustry, it is announced. The. meeting is sponsored by Myrtle Creek Logging Co. and the Roseburg chamber of commerce, in cooperaUon with the Oregon Timber Transport operators. District officers for Douglas county are to be elected, and well informed speakers will be on hand to discuss the program and an- i swer questions. Russell Elwood Shifted To New Forestry Post Russell Elwood, formerly em ployed on the Umpqua national forest, has been made assistant district warden for the State De partment of Forestry at Grants Pass. He previously was techni cal assistant for the southwest Ore gon district, with headquarters in Mctlford. He was advanced to his new post following the pro motion of John Kincaid to the po sition of forest inspector for north ern Josephine county. Elwood worked on the Umpqua forest while attending Oregon State col lege school of forestry. He served as flight officer in the army air force during the war. Holdup Victim Uses His Head To Save Wallet EVANSVILLE, Ind. (JP) -Al-vin Barklcy was held up once be fore years ago and he's a man who profits by experience. His profit in a holdup last night was $50. Two holdup men who stopped him got about i which he had in Itis pockets. But they didn't get his wallet and the $50 in it. Barkley's wallet was under his hat, where he's carried it ever since the first time he was held up. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzenstein In spite of all these crooked -basketball games within Irn wallOlt is still called Madison S-QJuVA-R-l ttorden.