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NI JV mm Ml Ml LrL Terror Hits WHO DOES WHAT B7n; Millions; Yar Ruins Felled I ... --v v " ; mT.$S "''"SIS .""--f I- , - e -a LEO OLSON, maintenance man at Lock wood Motors' used car lot en South Stephens street, takes a peek at the innards of a middle aged Ford. Employed at Lockwood's since last September, Olson, who is married and the father of a young boy and girl, lives in Sutherlia. "Sure," he said with a grin, 'I'd like to live nearer my work; but TRY to find a place to live in Roseburg!" Dude Ranch Got Fish Legislative Committee Raps Game Commission After Probe Of Charges SALEM (AP) The Oregon State Game commis sion was in deep legislative hot water today, charged by a legislative investigating committee with "gross inefficiency and negligent disregard in carrying out its duties toward the Glide Youth Paroled On Charge Of Larceny Kent Wileox, 20, of Glide, has been released from custody on 60 days' parole after pleading guilty to a petty larceny charge, reports District Judge A. J. Geddes. Wilcox was fined $25, but a 30 day jail sentence was suspended. Wilcox was charged with stealing 10 gallons of gasoline from the ve hicle of Roy Van Dyke on Jan. 6. He was arrested by the state police. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington (written by El ton Fay, one of our top AP's mili tary affairs reporters) we get this dispatch: 'The military, which preaches the merit of dispersion to private industry, is continuing to concen trate some of its most vital proj ects in a single, comparatively small, area of the country." ' The area referred to is the Dis trict of Columbia and the surround ing state of Maryland. The area is handy to the city of Washington and the big brass that resides in Washington, so we go on con centrating military facilities and installations there. Why is that important? Well, there's nothing we'd like better than to have Russia concen trate everything around Moscow, where we could wipe it out with a few well-placed atom bombs. But the cagey Russians, from all we (Continued on page four) Wanted: Blood Donors Red Cross Issues Urgent Call, With Bloodmobile Slated Here Tomorrow The local chapter of the American Red Cross has sent out an urgent call for blood donors. The bloodmobile equipment will be set up in the Elks temple terrace room Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. The local chapter hopes that about 300 persons will be on hand t o give blo"d. To date far less than that number have made appointments. The Roseburg police department has provided for free parking for blood donors on Lane street, be tween Jackson and Rose, and in front of the Elks temple.. Prospec tive donors should call the Red Cross office 3-3255 or 3-7025 or 3 3848 today or early Thursday for appointments. The local Red Cross workers pointed out that, through the na tional blood program, the Red The Weather Partly cloudy today, mjht rain foniht, partly cloudy Thursday. u:.i . . M.,.k Lowest temp.' for any March Z. 11 Highest temp. yestWy M (lowest temp, last 24 hour! Precip. last 24 hours Precip. from March 1 Precip. from Sept, 1 Excess frem Sept, 1 Sunset today, 4:11 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:24 a.m. trace 1 1.74 . 37.M 12.(4 -J -f'V I., J I vim f j . vc4 I public. The specific charges brought by a legislative ways and means sub committee are that 40,500 finger ling trout were given by Game commission employes to the privately-owned Red Horse ranch in Wallowa county; and that mem bers of the Game commission staff have tried to influence justices of the peace and district attorneys to be lenient with game law violators. State Game Director Charles A. Lockwood resigned last week, only two days after the subcommittee questioned him. But his name was not mentioned in the report on the investigation. The subcommittee told the ways and means committee that, be fore it approves the Game com mission's budget for the next two years, it first should make the commission show it has "retained a director and such staff ,as will efficiently and economically carry out the duties placed upon such commission as provided by law." Dudt Ranch Recipient The Red Horse ranch, where the fingerlings were taken by airplane from the commission hatchery at Enterprise, is a dude ranch owrvrl by Ralph A. Higgins. The subcommittee said evidence is conflicting over whether the fish were eventually to be placed in the Minam river. But it said it would be very expensive to get the fish into the river from the ponds on the ranch, because a channel would have to be blasted from the ponds to the river. The subcommittee said it has no direct evidence that the Red Horse ranch was to retain the fish indef initely, and that there is no evi dence that members of the Game commission knew what was going on. Cross provides blood for military and civilian hospitals, for the battle-wounded in Korea and for build ing a reserve of plasma and other blood products for military estab lishments. The urgency cannot be over-emphasized, since additional respon sibilities for blood collection have been placed upon Red Cross by the board, they pointed out. Plasma must be stock eilrti for civil de fense preparedness, which will make it necessary for Red Cross to plan, operate and coordinate collection centers to provide the necessary blood. The local Red Cross office em- pnasi7.es that every healthy adult should volunteer to give blood tP .-iin require- Furthermore, the need for blood will continue to increase until world conditions have improved. Even then the needs of the sick and injured in peacetime will cre ate a tremendous demand for blood in medical practice. ' Established 1873 Pay Increase Offer 'Disappoints7 Association Slates Meet For Discussion Higher Living Expenses, Taxes Cited As Reasons For Asking More Pay The Roseburg Education associ ation has called a meeting Thurs day after school to consider salary increases set by the district 4 bud get committee, reports Robert Sa bin, president of the association. Tbe association members have expressed "disappointment" over the committee's recent action, granting the teachers a $200 cost-of-living increase, plus a $100 an nual increment based upon satis factory service and additional col lege training, he said. The teachers had requested that they receive an additional $330 to meet increased living costs, plus a $120 increment. Members of the association on March 9 acted to authorize a pub lic statement setting forth the facts upon which the teachers based tlieir requests for salary in creases for the 1951-52 school year. The statement said: "The first request was presented to the board of education Feb. 5 and the second en March 5. "On Feb. S the teachers asked for a cost-of-living increase of $300 and an increase in annual in crement given for satisfactory service and training from $60 to $120. The combined total would equal $420 above the present sal ary the teachers are receiving. "This cost of living increase was computed by taking nine per cent of the average teachers' sal ary for 1950-51. (Nine percent is a conservative estimate of the in crease in living costs from Janu ary 1950 to January 1951). Teachers received no increase in pay for the present year over what they re ceived in 1949-50 other than the $60 annual increment. The re quested increase would not go into effect until September of this year and would remain in effect until September 1952. . "On March 5, a committee of (Continued On Page Two) Politically-Torn Tennessee County Facing Anarchy BENTON, Tenn. (P) Politically-torn Polk county scene of a bloodv election in 1948 which left three persons dead was un easy today as a state of virtual an archy existed in the county gov ernment. The Good Government league, a non-partisan political group, and the Democratic party were wres tling for control. At a mass meeting Wednesday, about 700 league members voted to bold the courthouse in open de fiance of stale legislation remov ing them from power. A GGL citizens' committee seized the building Monday and barred the county court, controlled by Democrats, from holding their first meeting since they regained power. The Democrats moved into the driver's seat last month after Thomas Lynn Johnston unseated GGL member Frank Lowery a s state representative from Polk and Bradley counties. Johnston charged election fraud. When he replaced his political enemy in the Tennessee "eneral assembly, Johnston sponsored leg. islation dissolving the GGL-c o n trolled county commission, return ing the government U. the county court. League members say they will hold the courthouse until the leg islative action is rescinded. The assembly is expected to adjourn Friday. R. E. Barclay, league leader, sent a telegram to Gov. Gordon Browning which said: "Americans won their freedom through violence and the citizens of Polk county will keep their free dom if it takes violence to do it." Barclay told league members last night: "Polk county is on the verge of seceding from the state ot ten nessee." Scolded Students Kill Superintendent, Chum RUTHERFORDTON, N. C. lPl Two students who became angry over a scolding killed their super intendent and a school chum Mon day night, Sheriff Vance Wilkins reported. lie said Billy Ray Poax-ll. 18 and Hugh Justice, 19, are' in jail and will be charged with murder rged with murder. Ware Johnson Js J. Powij) and John' imates. iney admitted E. Sweatt and the sheriff added sonyere room Seoul Regained By Allies As Reds Continue Retreat TOKYO (AP) Five South Korean patrols entered Seoul tonight and raised the Republican flag over the old capitol building. The Eighth army said they met no opposition. "They will stay there If they can," an army spokes man said. Communist forces for the past three days have been reported mysteriously with drawing all along 70 miles of the Korean front. If the allies stay in Seoul, this will be the fourth time the old South Korean capital has changed hands since the Korean Reds stormed across the border last June. Elsewhere the Reds Wed nesday fought rear-guard de laying actions on the east central front but continued their mysterious withdrawal In other sectors. North of Hoengsong on the central front U.S. marines found a huge cache of enemy equipment. It was described as "the largest single haul of the Korean war," enough to equip a regiment. Speakers Listed For Log Truckers' Meeting Here Capt. Walter Lansing of the Ore gon state police and Robert H. Wil liams, promotion director of the Oregon Timber Transport oper ators, will be the principal speak ers tonight at the O.T.T.O. organ izational meeting in the Hotel Ump qua civic room. Dinner is sched uled at 6:30. Purpose of the gathering is to elect a governor and alternate gov ernor and otherwise organize the district, which comprises most of Douglas county. The district will be one of 19 in the state and will be the 10th to be formed. Captain Lansing will assist by giving the state's viewpoint toward the organization which Williams characterizes as a "voluntary move of the industry do? truckers and all persons associated with the lumber industry.) to put its own house in order." A program of safety, education, self-regulation, control and public relations has been worked out de signed to improve the standing of the industry, according to Wil liams. The meeting is sponsored by Myrtle Creek Logging Co. and the Roseburg chamber of commerce, in cooperation with the Oregon Timber Transport operators. VANDENBERG WORSE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. UP) Senator Arthur H. Vandcnbcr' was reported today in grave danger from complications that followed two major operations in the past 18 months. The 66-year-old Republican for eign policy leader has failed to rally from a serious relapse he suffered Feb. 26. FINAL CLASS Pictured above ) Q " 0 W O n 0 fJ MV&ttP U eounfc police officers who received diplomas Tueiday after j completing a six weeks' eourij in mot&rn police methods. The school was sponsored by the'v)regon Association of Cify Police Oicers, Oregon State Sheriffs Asm., in cooperation with the ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, Colored Oleo Backers Prod Legislators Petition For Initiative Dangled To Force Permit; Property Tax Looms By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM - P An initiative measure to allow colored oleomar garine hung over the heads of the legislature today. Filed by the Portland chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, it was a reminder that if the legislature doesn't legalize the sale of colored oleo, then the fight will be carried to the people. If the ADA group gets 26,000 signatures by July, 1952, then it would go on the general election ballot in November of that year. The Senate has voted for colored oleo, and the matter now is in the hands of the house food and dairy committee. Howard Morgan, Monmouth, for mer state representative, brought the preliminary initiative petition here. He admitted he filed it to build a fire under the legislature. But he said his organization would put it on the ballot if the legislature doesn't legalize colored odeo. "Unless the legislature takes the kind of action on eleo which the public obviously wants," Morgan said, "we will proceed to place the question of outright repeal of the oleo law on the ballot. Property Tax Looms The house tax committee has decided it wouldn't increase state income taxes. This action just about rules out any possibility that the legislature will increase general taxes this session, and that the state budget will be balanced by a state prop erty tax in the 1952-53 fiscal year. The committee split about evenly on the issue of repealing the $11, 000,000 annual increase in basic school aid to school districts. This increase was voted by the people last November, and the repeal bill, by Rep. Giles L. French of Moro, also would be referred to the people. The committee didn't take a for mal vote on the French bill, but indicated it would send it to the house floor. The commission also indicated it wouldn't take any action on the bill by Rep. Sprague Carter, Pen dleton, to change the school census ages from 4 to 20 years, to 6 to 17 years. The effect of Carter's bill would be to wipe out $8,000,000 of the $11,000,000 annual basic school increase. The committee also indicated it might make Oregon state income tax exemptions conform to the fed eral law, thus benefitting couples with more than three children. Federal Contract Given Roseburg Lumber Co. Roseburg Lumber Co. has been awarded a $88,430 government con tract for lumber, the department of commerce's regional office at Seattle reports. This is one of sev eral contracts awarded to firms in Washington, Oregon and Idaho last week, totaling well over $1,000,000. Contracts for lumber and ply-1 said. strong rent control law. The pro- wood to Oregon firms were val- President Arthur D. Jones said) gram would eliminate "local op ued at $650,748. The Roseburg I the figure was based on question- tion" and bring new construction Lumber contract was one of the naire replies from about half of I and commercial rents under con larger awards. 1 the association's members. trols. if the final class of Douglas MARCH 14, 1951 City Salaries Up In Budget Draft For Living Costs General $50 monthly salary increases for city employes are proposed by the Roseburg city council in submitting: its recommendations to the budget committee. The budget group will hold its initial meeting Thursday at 7 :30 p.m. at the city hall. Mayor Albert G. Flegel said the present salary base would be retained, with some exceptions wherein the council felt adjustments were needed, some up, some down. Gener ally, however, a $50 monthly cost-of-living increase would be Bill Makes Kin Of Patients Pay Costs Of Care SALEM WP The Sen tie has passed and sent to the governor a bill to make rel atives of state hospital patients pay the full cost of care, if the relatives are financially able. This cost is about $60 a month. Tbe present law limits such payments to $25 a month. Another bill passed by the Sen ate and sent to the governor would make persons who kill police offi cers subject to first degree mur der charges. The senate tax committee has recommended that candidates for county assessor be required to lake qualifying examinations conducted hv th State Civil Service commis sion, and that the office be made non-partisan. Names of those who pais the ex aminations would be published, but the bill would not prevent those who fail from running for the oi fice. Candidates who pass would be allowed to say so in their ballot slogans. A bill to establish separate state reformatory for young men 16 to 25 years of age was intro duced by Rep. John Logan, Port land. The institution would be located in Marion county. Child Scalds To Death Playing In Bath Tub MEMPHIS, Tenn. UP) A mother visiting friends in I down stairs apartment noticed water dripping through the neighbor's ceiling. The mother, Mrs. Lee Summar, rushed upstairs to her own apart ment. There she found her nine-months-old son scalded to death and his older sister critically burned in a sink. The children Michael and Phyl lis Lee, 21 months had been play ing with a toy boat as they took a hath in the double sink. Phyllis Lee apparently had turned on or had bumped against the hot water faucet. RENTS INCREASED PORTLAND UP) Apartment rents in Oregon now have gone in 1 nnrn.nl ,nf.tt IllAV Umra Ho. ! controlled in December, the Ore- j ion Apartment House association Federal Bureau of Investigation, ,.. J"-,- ,ar-..T..nnarilt(nj cation and the municipal research and service bureau. Diplomat were awarded to 25 local police officers. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) 2-51 Teachers considered. The tentative budget to be sub mitted by the council, subject to the budget committee s approval or change, anticipates 22.8 mill levy for the coming fiscal year, as against 18.6 mills tor the current year. No increase in personnel is contemplated in any of the depart ments. It is thought by the council that rather than a straight salary in crease, it is better to have straight dollar increase based on the salary of the low-paid indi viduals, according to Mayor Fle gel. Current Budget Topped The proposed 1951-52 budget would be about $350,000. as against the approximate $300,000 budget of the current year. Bui it snoum oe born in mind, he said, that in the 1951-52 budget approximately 120, 000 will be used for interest and principal on storm sewers and air port bonds voted by the people, Also included is $10,500 for a "badly needed" new street sweeper, he said. This total of $30, 500 would leave an approximate $19,500 normal increase in operat ing cost. The preliminary budect figures were prepared by the department heads, with the cooperation of the city manager and council commit tees. New members of the buJget com mittee are Dr. Bruce Hctrick, R. D. Coen and Kenneth Ellison. Other members are Arlo Jacklin, Roy O. Young, G. V. Wimberly, 11. O. Par geter and J. E. Dent. The budget committee is com posed of the eight council and eight committee members. The usual practice is to nave two members from each ward. The committee elects a chairman and secretary at the first meeting. Neither are from the council members. Each of tire 16 members have a vote, except the chairman, who votes in case of tie only. The mayor and city manager are not members of the committee, and attend the meeting in an advisory capacity only, Mayor Flegel pointed out. Rent Control Extension 90 Days Voted By Senate WASHINGTON IIP) The Sen ate Tuesday voted i 90-day, stop gap extension of the federal rent eontrol program through June 30. The measure now goes to the House. The present rent control law will expire at the end of this month unless the House, too, votes to re new it. Top mobilization chiefs were re. j ported meanwhile to have okayed I a proposal to ask Congress for a state division of vocational edu- Earthquake Followed By Winds, Gales That Drive Ships To Shelter LONDON UP) Million! of persons in northern Europe were terrified today by a violent shud dering of the earth's crust which some thought might have been caused by an atomic-sized explo sion inside Eastern Germany. The tremor, one of the severest ever recorded in Germany, was followed in some sections there by a giant blast of wind. The shock . and wind rattled windows, shook down war ruins, and tossed pic tures on tne waua of many homes. No extensive damage was reported. Seismologists speculated that the epicenter was either in the E i I e 1 mountains of West Germany or in Thuringia, in the eastern zone of Soviet occupied Germany. The terrestial confulsion. which lasted from five 'to six seconds with "echoes" of 15 minutes dura tion, was felt in varying degrees in a wide arc including Belgium, Holland, northern and eastern France, Denmark and Sweden. Besides the earthquake, tempes tuous gales and heavy rains com bined to give Europe one of her wildest 24 hours of the winter. Atomic Blast Improbable Shudders of diminishing violence continued to be recorded in Stutt gart, Germany, for 15 minutes. Officials at Stuttgart university scotched reports an explosion ot atomic intensity might have been the cause of the shock. Prof. WU helm Hitler said after a careful check of records an earthquake whose epicenter was near Eusklr chen in the Rhineland caused the tremors. Several war ruins in Cologne col lapsed and many residents in nearby Leverkusen fled to a war time air raid shelter as the ground began to shake. Walls cracked at Neueharr, He magen and Euskirchen. Huge seas pounded the south coast of England and the coast of France Tuesday night and today as ships raced for shelter. The seas, whipped up by gales, were so heavy the world's big gest liner, the Queen Elizabeth, had to stand off Cherbourg today. States Of Dixie In Freeze's Grip Br 111 AMoelaUd PrM Cold air moved across the south land today, in the wake of snow falls, threatening damage to young and tender crops and fruits. Temperatures dropped to below freezing in some parts of Dixie as the wintry weather from the snow covered midwest put a chill over the normally mild area. Snow fell In every southern stats east of the Mississippi during the last two days. Most of the falls were light and the snow did not remain on the ground except in a few areas. But there were heavy falls la Tennessee and Kentucky with more than six inches in some sections. Florida reported the second snow fall of the winter season. Frost was predicted as far south as the lush Everglades truck area by tomorrow morning, indicating the cold weather in the South was not going to end immediately. Meanwnue, snow continued tail ing over the upper and middle Mississippi Valley regions east ward to the middle Atlantic states. But forecasters said the fall was diminishing after four days and the end appeared in sight. Larceny Conviction Appealed By F. H. Monk Frank Herman Monk, 34, of Roseburg. convicted by a Douglas county circuit court trial jury of larceny by embezzlement, has ap pealed his case to the state su preme court, reports District At torney Robert G. Davis. Monk was accused of having mis appropriated funds entrusted to him by tne veterans oi f oreign. Wars in his operation of the Vets lounge. Upon his conviction, Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly sen tenced htm to serve three years in the penitentiary and gave him ten days in the county jail in which to make a written request for pro bation. Monk has posted $2000 bail, set bv Judge Wimberly. and has been released pending decision of the su preme court. AID OFFERED S. KOREA PUS AN, Korea (P) Twenty nine United Nations have offered $21,000,000 worth of aid to South Korean civilians. The U. N. com mission for rehabilitation and uni fication of Korea, reporting this, said $200,000,000 also was pledged for reconstruction projects by U. N. agencies, governments and in dividuals. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Rclzenstela On ef the bills at the Oregon "Oleolature" provide that e restaurant patron must do Told I whe j wltl jtlft HA what he Is getting wnen served with oleo. Why not stoMlsk some rule for the serving, ef ASH?