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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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ROSEBURG. OREGON TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1951
Faces Housewives' Threat
Reds Abandon
Rprlniihk Mnw
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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.