U. of 0. Library
Eugene, Oregon COi-iF
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WHO DOES WHAT
CHUCK PLUMMER. at the left above, and Vie Sanders go into a
huddle over the problems involved in making the Hi-Y paper drive
to be conducted next Saturday morning a succen. Vic is presi
dent of Hi-Y and Chuck is the organiiation's publicity man.
Collection of the paper is to begin promptly at 8 a.m. The
boys request all householders who have old newspapers, maga
zines, books, etc., which they wish to donate, to tie them into
bundles and, preferably, put the bundles in cardboard cartons;
then leave them at the curb in front of their houses. Groups in
trucks will then collect such bundles and haul them to the concen
tration depot.
Information, Please!
City Council Requests
Reasons For Votes That
Downed Proposed Budget
What was wt r.sr with the Ro.eburg city budget, turned
doxfrn by the voters Tuesday?
The answer t- this question is what the city council
would like to know. And they are going to give everyone
who voted "no" on the issue an opportunity to say why.
In fact the council is soliciting constructive criticism
from anyone and everyone which will guide them in re
constructing the city oudget satisfactory to the taxpayers.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I think we'll all agree that with
in the past week General MacAr
thur has done something wonder
ful (or all of us.
What is it?
It seems to me that the amazing
thin? General Mac has done tor us
is to GIVE US BACK OUR FAITH
IN OURSELVES AND IN OUR
COUNTRY.
How hat he done it?
The answer to that is as simple
as one plus one makes two.
He has given ua leadership.
I doubt if it's true that our people
in Washington have led us in the
wrong direction. THEY JUST
HAVEN'T LED US AT ALL. With
out leadership, a nation is help
less and futile.
That's the way I've felt ever
since Korea broight the dangers
that face us into sharp focus. Help
less and futile. Like a child when
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Degenerates Resign
Jobs In State Dept.
WASHINGTON UP) Fifty
for State department employes
resigned last year while under in
vestigation for sexual nerversion.
the department has told Congress.
So tar this year, it said, there
hae been four such resignations.
Of the 54 who quit last year
under investigation, he said, it was
"determined" they were homosex
uals. He noted the department has
seme 28,500 employes, and said
experts have said as mucti as four
pet-cent of the population may be
homosexual or have tendencies in
that direction.
Timber Party Wows 'Em
Segment Of Legislators
Eases Session's Tedium
With Banquet, Program
St
TV ESTff KR
&AL.r,.M l.wr.iny i aiscussea part or tne activities
of fond!rV at thi lofisldture. Don't think this i.sotvpical I
of the routine IM' mnrh fun isn't alwavn available.
The day, anrl h Mry. wouldn't be complete without
n . r .
inrniioninia) ine unner p?ny neiu xnai nigni. ine mem
bers from the Fourth Congressional district (including
Douglaj county) have been planning1 for week their enter
tainment of the legislature and hoping to put on a parU
half as good as tvio eastern, Oregon contingent achieved.
I believe they vtrn surressful. It was decided to follow
the timber motif and the timber lobby assisted with prep
arations, and exper-es whirh
l.fn"i;ilv embarTrsd ler'IPtors. .
The American Legion club hall
was rented for the event and decor
ated with cedar bounhs and for
estry placards and little individ
ually potted Port Orfd cedar
trees for the guests. A buffet sup
per including turkey, roast beef,
nam. baked salmon, and all the
trimmings decked the tables and
F7.ra.
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Mayor Albert G. Hegel has
called a special meeting of the
budget committee for Tuesday,
Mav l: at 7:50 p. m. In -the citv
hall. Persons desiring to be heard
are asked by the mayor and coun
cil to be nreent. The budget com-
j mittee will then analyze the pro
: posed city expenditures and make
such1 alterations as it deems ad
visable before resubmitting it to
the wjters.
The original outlay was submit
ted to the budget committee by
the city council after it had
worked long hour determining
needed expenditures, for the 1!I51
52 fiscal year. Except for very
minor alterations, salary adjust
ments and provision for a street
sweeper, the budget was almost
idertical with that for the current
year, the council has pointed out.
The budget committee approved
the budget with but one alteration,
and that was to increase the allot
ment for park equipment, which
wan upped JAW to yam.
The council, in a special meeting
late Tuesday afternoon, canvassed
the election ballots and showed the
ntlirial count to he as follows:
total, city budget, 437 yes and 521
no: for new city hall $300,000 bond
issue, 292 yes and 656 no.
Broken down, the vote by pre
cinct was is follows:
Ward Budget City Hall
1 yes 79, no 85 yes 58, no 108
2 yes 117, no 150 yes 78, no 189
3 yes 115, no 182 yes 69, no 220
4 yes 126, no 104 yes 87, no 139
ONE RED WINS OUT
TOKYO IIP) Japan has one
lone Communist mayor today.
He was the only one of several
hundred Red candidates to win as
1H2 major cities and 6.884 towns
and villages held municipal elec
tion.' Monday.
The conservatives won an easy
v ictory.
GKDDES
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was of great help to the
j. !
. . , , ,
made happy approximately three
hundred guests. A floor show, in- j
eluding a barber shop quartet from i
Eugene, some excellent accor-
dionists and one of the most out-:
(CooliDMd Ofl Plf 1
Established 1873
43 Die In Collision v
Tragic Crash
Deals Horror
To Key West
Cuban Airliner, Navy
Plane Meet Disaster
In Perfect Weather
KEY WEST, Fla. -tP) Navy
divers recovered more wreckage
and mangled bodies today from
the shattered sections of a Cuban
airliner and a navy trainer plane
which collided and killed 43 per
sons. ,
By 10 a. m. a total of 23 bodies
had been brought to the surface
and taken to morgues in this sor
rowing southernmost city in t h e
United States. Nineteen were lo
cated Wednesday after the crash.
The four-engined transport, car
rying 34 passengers and five crew
men from Miami to Havana, and
the navy plane, a twin-motored
Beechcraft with four aboard, col
lided with a noise like a bomb
blast over Key West shortly be
fore noon Wednesday.
Then, in full view of hundreds of
shocked sunhathers and resilient
of the city, the airliner power-dived
into the ocean at a speed esti
mated by witnesses at 600 miles
an hour. It landed a half-mile off
shore, not far from President Tru
man's "Little White House."
The navy craft, disintegrating as
it fell, crashed two miles west of
the transport.
Flying Weather Perfect
A naval board of inquiry was
set up in an effort to determine
why the planes collided in perfect
flying weather, with unlimited vis.
ability.
The airliner was on its course
and flying at the prescribed 4.000
feet altitude. Ita route was over a
dog-leg course from Miami over
J Key. west, thew. south ti to Cuban,
capital.
The wrecking of the transport,
operated by Compania Cubana
De Aviacion, spoiled Latin Ameri
ca's proudest airline safety record.
It was the first accident on the
Cuban line in more than 17 years.
Capt. Javier Zayas Bazan, 51, pi
lot of the wrecked airliner, had
flown the Miami-Havana run hun
dreds of times and had piloted
about 40 transatlantic flights from
Havana to Madrid.
The crash also took the life of
the line's chief pilot, Capt Orlando
Salas, 37, who was aboard as an
extra crewman.
Western Dougias
Access Roads Are
B.L.M. Proposal
Construction of access roads in
the lower Smith river, Cherry
creek. Middle creek and Paradise
creek drainages in western Doug
las county are proposed to make
possible sales of timber in those
areas in 1952.
Ross A. Youngblood, district for
ester for the Bureau of Land Man
agement, reported the road con
struction proposal at a recent
meeting of the Coos Bay district
advisor board. The board acted fa
vorably on a change in the 1951
timber sale plan to make avail
able for sale approximately 22 mil
lion board feet of old growth tim
ber in the upper Smith river drain
age this year.
The board recommended thst
the Coos Bay district, through
which Coos Bay and Oregon and
California railroad grant lands in
Coos and western Douglas counties
are administered, consolidate iso
lated tracts of public domain lands
in Coos, Douglas and Curry coun
ties through exchanges with state,
county and private owners, to im
prove administration.
Classification studies to deter
mine boundaries between forest
and grazing lands in eastern Coos
county were approved by the
board.
SLASH ACREAGE BURNS
About 10 acres of green logging
slash in the Ray Nelson logging op-.
t0n were burned over Wednesday
afternoon A six-man crew from t
" Boug'las Forest Protective as-i
trlJTJrl
ruiiun .rtr I ni j r.'
tu der control bv evening. U. F.
McLaughlin, DFPA dispatcher, re
ports. The Weather
Mostly cloudy today, tonioht and
''Way-
Hiehest temp, fer any April H
Lowest torn p. tor any April 75
Highest temp, yesterday ...... 7?
Le vest tomp. last 14 hours 47:
Precip. lest 74 hours . ( !
Precip. from April 1 Trace
Precip. from Sept. I . J 14 .
Excess from Sept. 1 .4
Sunr.M lnwraw, 1:11 . m.
Tighter Price
Lids, Rent Curbs
Aims Of Truman
WASHINGTON VP) -President
Truman's program for tight
ening food price controls, broad
ening rent curbs and cracking
down generally on violators of mo
bilization orders may go to Con
gress today.
Barring last-minute changes Mr.
Truman is expected to ask for:
1. A one-year "freeze" on farm
parity in a move to control food
prices more effectively.
2. A general tightening and
broadening of the rent control pro
gram covering homes. Also, con
trol of rents for stores and other
commercial places for the first
time.
3. "Very much stronger" en
forcement and penalty provisions
covering wage-price controls and
hoarding of scarce essential com
modities. 4. Payment of government sub
sidies on some imported agricul
tural commodities to hold down
retail prices.
5. Authority for the government
to construct defense plants in
cases where 100 percent of the out
put would go to the armed forces.
"! where private industry was
uniDie to ao ine joo.
From some sources it
learned the bill when still
was
on a
tentative basis called for:
Authority for the President to
decontrol either prices or wage
on a selective basis, without re
gard to a provision in the present
law which says wage and price
curbs must be removed simultane
ously in any given field;
Power for the President to con
trol commodity speculation; and
Credit control on the purchase
of existing housing instead of only
new dwellings as at present.
- Associated Press Chief
In Prague Arrested
FRANKFURT. Germany f.f)
The Czechoslovak Communist
government announced today it
has arrested William N. Oatis,
missing chief of the Associated
Press Prague bureau, for "activ
ities hostile to the state."
Four Czech colleagues of Oatis In
the AP's Prague bureau have dis
appeared in the last three weeks.
Two of them were reported to be
under arrest.
The government said there were
three ciares a n-is. O't .
The first was activities hostile to
th state. The second wan a,
ing and disseminating information
considered secret by Czechosiu
valria. The third was spreading
malicious Information regarding
the Czech state through illegal
news organs for which purpose he
misused Czech citizens.
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INDUCTEES Pictured above are nine Dougias county men wrfb
left Roseburg Tuesday to be inducted into the armed forces at
Eugene. Seated, tower row, left to right, are: Donald Lee Gard
ner, Glide; Lloyd Thomas Nelson, Camas Valley; Denver Ray
Metcalf, Cenyonville; end Ralph Derrold Birdtell, Roseburg; upper
row standing, Earnest Alvin Long, Yoncalla; William Rayburn
ROSEIURG, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
300,000-Man
Army Swarms
Toward Seoul
Enemy Paying Terrific
Price In Drive To Take
Capital For Third Time
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO (IP) A 300,000-man
Communist mass swarmed toward
Seoul from the north today. The
Reds surged through Munsan, 21
miles northwest of the old capital.
But farther east, a "wall of fire'-
laid down by Allied big guns
blocked another 100,000 Reds hying
to reach the main Seoul roads.
The entire 100-mile Korean front
was littered with Communist Head.
Allied commanders estimated the
Ueds had ,ost ia.nM trou .il
in the first four days of their big
spring offensive.
Munsan, recaptured by Ameri
can paratroopers only a month ago,
fell Thursday.
Allied troops streamed south
ard toward the South Korean capi
tal. There were signs that Seoul
would be abandoned to the Reds for
the third time.
As GIs rolled bark down the
dusty roads strewn with relics of
previous battles, one veteran re
marked: "Oh well, we'll fight our wiy
Lack by June and then we'll re
treat again in September,"
Retreat Saves Lives .
Kiont line commanders stressed
Bfnin that t'?y miiiti v-'ieel T.I
halt the Reds at any time. But
tlicy said the siralek.v oi relival
saved Allied lives and was more
costly to the Communists.
LTnited Nations forces were stand
ing their ground in the center.
Masses of Red Infantry maHe only
little .headway nn the Kapvnn?
bulge against overwhelming Allied
lircoower.
In the west, the Allied with
drawal was orderly.
Sudden Chinese thrusts caught
some units. Most broke free. These
included Turkish, Belgian and Aus
tralian units which had been fight
ing in the line.
Powerful searchlights and 1 1 1
shells light up the Communists'
night movements allowing the
Ali'ed artillery to lay down a
"wall of fire" defense.
USELESS HEROISM
PARIS (P Paris newspa
pers tell of SO-y e a r-old Andre
Gauthier who plunged into the
Seine river to save his two poodles
Toga and Mata. Gauthier
drowned, but the dogs swam to
safety.
Girl Of Month At
R.H.S. Designated
One of the most popular leaders
of Ro.seburg Senior high school,
Dixie Nay, above, was chosen for
Girl of the Month for March by the
Girls league.
Blonde, blue-eyed Dixie received
thi honor because of her constant
willingness to assist la any way
she can in all of the clubs to
which she belongs, her scholarship
and her dependability.
In her freshman year. Dixie was
on the annual staff, a volleyball
manager, and held high offices ,n
her home room.
As a son'iomove she b"lnnged to
GAA and was a volleyball man
ager. This year, as a junior, she be
loncs to the Honor toeietv, K.T.O.;
is vice-president of Girls league,
GAA, and nor commercial ciasj;
- home room-representative,
and did a commendable job as
chairman of the Senior Mothers'
tea. She also takes active part in
the Girls league cake salea on Fri
days. Out of school she is a member of
her church choir and president of
Christian Endeavor.
Free Life Insurance
For Vets Becomes Law
WASHINGTON (JP) Alt U.S.
military personnel In service since
It.e start of the Korean war are
to receive free $10,000 in life in
surance. Families of those killed In the
conflict will receive benefits pay
able for 120 months at $92.90 per
month.
A bill providing the new insur
ance was signed into law Wednes
day by President Truman.
Erwln, Cenyonville; Billy Eugene Massengele, Wilbur; Clint D.
Sponsler, Myrtle Creek, and Floyd William Raper, Cayonville.
They are all transfers from out of state and do not count for the
county quota because their primary registretion was elsewhere.
(Picture by Peul Jenkins)
Planes
O.&C; Lands'
Return Asked
For Oregon
Memorial To Congress
Approved; Tax For Oleo
Registration Gets Nod
SALEM (JP) A memorial
asking Congress to give Oregon
about 1,500,000 acres of Oregon
and California grant lamls was
passed 49 to S by the House. The
Senate already had approved it.
The lands, in 18 counties, were
given to the Oregon nnd Califor
nia railroad In 1870. But the gov
ernment took them back in 1915.
Rep. Melvin Goode, Albany, said
the lands are worth a billion dol
lars, and are being mismanaged.
He said the government gives only
50 percent of its profits from the
lands bark to the counties, and
that a bill before Congress woulU
cut this to 37 percent.
Goode declared the state Is right
fully entitled to the lands, and
that the counties now only get .4
of 1 percent a year based on the
value of the land.
Olio Registering Tax OKd
The Senate approved 20 to 10
a bill to tax oleomargarine manu
facturers and distributors $250 a
year to register their brands.
The bill goes to the governor.
Its purpose is to raise money to
enforce the restaurant provisions
of the new law which will allow
sale of colored oleo 90 days after
ine legislature adjourns.
The restaurant provision require
serving of oleo in triangular
shaped patties, ami makes res
taurants tell their customers when
they are eating oleo.
A senate-house conference com
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Initiatives Aim At Milk
Law, Net Fishermen
SALEM (IP) Initiative meas
ures to repeal the state milk con
trol law, and to prevent commer
cial fishing in the Columbia river
d'iring hours of darkness have
been filed with the secretary o f
stite's office.
The milk control measure is
sponsored by Nicholas Granet,
Portland, and other prominent
Democrats.
The fish measure, sponsored by
fish trap operators who have been
b.inned by initiative measure from
operating in the river, is aimed at
gillnctters, who helped throw the
tiaps out.
If the measures get 26.288 signa
tures of registered voters, they
would appear on the November,
1952 election ballot.
Liquor Price
Hike Of 5 Pet.
Major Item
Cigaret Tax Included,
Also Fair Trade Proviso
To Head Off Referendum
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM OP) The joint legis
lative ways and means committee
balanced the state budget today
for the next two years, provided
Its program is approved by the
legislature and isn't referred to
the people.
The committee voted to ask the
state liquor commission to boost
its liquor prices S percent, to bring
in $2,500,000 more into the state
general fund during the biennium,
which begins July 1.
The ways and means program
includes a Scent a package cig
aret tux, to raise $10,000,000 a
biennium, and a $7,500,000 state
building program. Neither of these
has been approved by the legisla
ture yet.
The committee gave cigaret
smokers another jolt by recom
mending passage of a senate-approved
cigaret fair trade bill,
which would add about 2 cents a
package on top of the 3-cent tax.
This bill would stop sale of cig
arets as loss leaders. It would
compel distributors and sub-distributors
to charge cost p 1 u
4K percent, while retailers wouid
have to charge cost plus 10 per
cent. Would Head Off Referendum
This bill, sought by the cigaret
distributors, has an emergency
elnuse on it. so it would become
effective as soon as the governor
signed it. Bills without these
clauses become law 90 days after
the legislature goes home.
ine cigaret distributors have
said that if they get their fair
trade bill passed, then they
wouldn't make a referendum at
tack on the cigaret tax bill.
The committee announced that
the cost of the present legislative
session is about $750,000, that be
ing the amount appropriated for
the legislature's expenses. .
A proposed interim1 committee
to study the state's circuit court
system, with a view to equalizing
the work among the various
judges, was approved by the com
mittee. Dedication Set
Monday For New
Fullerton School
"Open house" dedication cere
monies for the new Fullerton
school w ill be staged Monday night
at the school with an extensive pro
gram. Mayor Al Flegel will deliver the
principal speech for the event, on
the subject of "Education, and the
Future of Roseburg."
As part of the dedication cere
money, keys of the school will be
turned over to members of the
school board, who will be intro
duced. City School Superintendent
Paul Elliott will act as host and
introduce the schoors archi
tects, the contractor and other
guests.
Mrs. Gordon Stewart will play
introductory music on the Ham
mond organ.
Other highlights of the program.
which starts at 8 p. m., include
introduction of the 15 - member
teaching staff of the school, and
three speakers who will comment
on "Impressions of the New Build
ing." They are Mrs. N. D. John
son, president of the Fullerton
PTA: G. L. Haves, president of
the Fullerton Dads club; and Ken
neth Barneburg, superintendent of
county schools.
The Fullerton sixth grade girls'
choir is scheduled to present sev
eral selections, there will be a tour
and inspection of the building for
all interested parties. Fullerton
school Principal Lyle Eddy em
phasizes that everyone is welcome.
Registered students now in the
building total 3A2 with at least 40
more scheduled to enter next year,
Eddy said. Capacity of the school
runs at about 400 students.
Turkey Larceny Charged
To Crescent City Men
John Robert Potter, 30, and
Ross Lever Baxter, 28, both of
Crescent City, were arrested
Wednesday morning by the state
police for alleged larceny of a
turkey. The men were each re
leased on $150 bail, reports Dis
trict Judge A. J. Geddes.
Potter was driving a car about
four miles south of Myrtle Creek
end wss stopped by a policeman
for reported violation of the basic
rule. The officer noted the tur
key in the csr and investigation
showed it had been stolen from
W. P. Wetver of Myrtle Creek.
Potter was cited for the traffic
violation and both men were
charged with the larceny, accord
ing to Judge Geddes.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. P. Reizensteio
Restrain that bawl, ye old
town hall
Will be here for torn time to
coma,
Unless perhaps tht Russians
attack
And caress It with an atom