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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COhP RTi7 nn (? icn wxsiG wAznrxn n an n nra vmnn . i i r jjjS ' fctdriMjwi OSWU7 0ICOM-THUSDAY, PIC. 13. H51 " JAMES McALPINE, bovt, hai been appointed assistant chief of the Roseburg city police force. The 26-year-old officer joined the force in 1 948, and wai a sergeant at the time of hit advance ment. He fills the vacancy left by Ted Maiae, who is now chief of the department. McAlpine is married and has a daughter, April. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) Tortuous Highway Curves On Anlauf-Divide Stretch To Be Removed By New Job The Oregon highway commission announces it will re ceive bids at its meeting in Portland Dec. 20 and 21 for the grading and paving of the Divide-Anlauf section of the Pacific highway. The 5.6 mile section extends from a point a short dis tance south of Divide to the Anlauf railroad station. 'I LACK JUDGMENT' Youth Turns In Driver's License After 4 Mishaps SALEM Mb A 17-year-eld bay, who had four accidents in lets than a year, voluntarily turrondeed his driver's license "before I hurt someone," Assis tant Secretary of State William E. Htaly said. The boy reported his first ac cident with the statement "I becked Into a car as a result of my own negligence." After he had the fourth occi L dent, he wrote: "Having had four accidents In lets than a year, I feel that I : had better quit driving before I hurt someone. I am only 17, but I believe that I lack the judg i mtnt of a driver, therefore I feel that It would be better for all concerned if I sell -my car and forget ebout driving to the de gree of owning my own car." Malt Shop Cinderella, Husband Patch Quarrel TORRANCE, Calif. -UP) Mar tha Morris De Vigier, the malt shop Cinderella, Is honeymooning again with her Swiss millionaire husband. The whereabouts of Roland De Vigier, 28, and his 16-year-old bride are not known. They patched up their quarrel and left town Tuesday night, al most as suddenly as they eloped two months ago. De Vigier met Martha in a Long Beach malt shop, where she was waiting on tables. They eloped, toured Europe two weeks, and re turned last month. Martha filed suit almost immediately in San Francisco, asking $10,000 a month separate maintenance. This suit presumably will be dropped. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Munsan, Korea: The Communists today agreed to immediate discussions of pri soner exchange and moved to com promise the deadlocked issue of supervising an armistice. . .These developments sparked NEW HOPES for an early truce. "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," saith the Book ol froverDs. Washington:' Senator Fulbright (honest, able Democrat from Arkansas) lays Democratic . Chairman Mc Kinney's stock profits should be aired for the good of the party. (McKinney made $68,000 back in 1947 off a guy named Cohen who sold him some stock for $26,000 in the early spring and bought it back in the late fall for $94,000. Fulbright evidently thinks fast bucks like that are TOO fast to be entirely on the level.) Beverly Hills: ' Actor Franchot Tone was or ( Continued on Page 4) . The Weather low clouds end fog with occa sional drlixle today and Friday. nigneir remp. ror any utc. Lowest temp, for any Dec. Highest temp, yesterday Lowest temp, last 14 hours. Precio. last 14 hours 70 ... 5 39 37 .. .02 1.73 rrcip. lasr nours Precip. from Dec. 1 .... Pretest, from Sept. 1 . . 14.4 . 3.77 Excess w, roaay, p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:11 a.m. The project Is being undertaken with money secured from the re cent sale of highway bonds. It it one of several proposed major re visions in the route of the Pacific highway, the commission reports. From the north end of the proj ect southerly to the Comstock rail road overcrossing, the new route generally follows the present high way. It materially reduces, how ever, the present tortuous curva ture by crossing and recrossing the old highway and Pass creek. At the Comstock railroad over crossing, the new route stays on the east side of, and parallel to, the railroad. A major highway junc tion cloverleaf is laid out at An lauf station to provide a connection with the exisiting highway. The junction design involves a grade separation structure with com bined railroad overcrossing and bridge over Pass creek. A grade separation also will be built over the county road at Cur tain. Four-Lane Highway Later The grade will be constructed to accommodate eventually a four lane divided highway. Pavement width on the north end, for a dis tance of 4.7 miles, will be 52 feet. The southerly nine-tenths of a mile will have pavement 24 feet wide wan 9V4 foot rock shoulders on each side. The road will have a 17-inch rock base for support, with 3 '-4 inches of asphaltic con crete surface. The project involves moving 1, 200,000 cubic yards of earth ma terials, the placing of 177,000 cubic yards of base and shoulder mater ial, and 40,000 .tons ot plant-mixed asphaltic concrete pavement. Completion of construction is ex pected by Oct. 31, 1952. The forthcoming contract does not include bridges, which are to be contracted separately. ; I Lyle D. Rogers Resigns As Agent Of Trailways Lyle D. Rogers, Continental Trailways agent at Roseburg since the first of October, 1950, has re signed and is leaving Roseburg to day on an extended vacation. The new agent is James L. Lam bert, who operates Chuck's cafe in association with his son, James I.. Lambert Jr. Rogers came lo Roseburg from Yrcka, Calif., where he was agent for Trailways. He had been with the company about 314 years. A native of Canada, he said he is going north for a short while, but his plans after that are indefinite. Community Chest Drive Ends Short Its Goal The Community Chest directors have decided to end their fund rais ing campaign far short of the goal. To date only $21,907 has been raised. Originally the directors had hoped to raise $29,000, but had an alternate goal of $24,500. But even this was not raised, the directors pointed out at a meeting Wednes day. The amount collected, or 93 per cent of the revised quota, will be distributed to participating agen cies on that basis, the directors voted. New Angle Employed For Obtaining Blood If Bob Grant's noon newscast from KRNR gradually fades out Friday, listeners needn't b e i alarmed. It will be a minor th7 1 Bob will be running a little low! on Diooa. During his broadcast from the window of the Toggery, 128 N. Jackson St., he will be donating blood to the bloodmobile from l prone position. Bob's colleagues say It probably won't be the smoothest program, and they are hoping he doesn't completely black out. Truman School Units To Vote Friday On Union Plan Twelve-District Merger To Continue High School Service Waits Decision Voting on the proposed consolida tion of . central Douglas county schools will take place Friday. The school districts involved are Rose burg, Wilbur, Green, Tenmile, Lookingglass, Roberts creek, Gar den valley, Umpqua, Melrose, Win Chester, Dillard and Riversdale. Voting in each of the districts, except Roseburg, will take place in the respective school houses be tween 8 and 9 p.m. Friday. District 4, Roseburg, will vote between 2 and 8 p.m. The polling places and precincts follow: Voting in senior high school library for precincts of Brown, Fairhaven, Laurelwood, West Roseburg and Wharton; voting in Junior high school for precincts Benson, Caro, Deer Creek, Hamilton, Herman, Lane, Mill, Miller, Parrott, Rose burg, Umpqua and Woodward, and voting in Riverside school for pre cincts of Edenbower East N'os. 1 and 2 and Edenbower West Nos. 1 and 2. "Iffy" Phases Explained ' Each of the 12 districts Involved contains one or more grade schools but only Roseburg maintains a high school. The other districts of the greater Roseburg area send their children to Roseburg high school on a tuition basis. If the consolidation is voted af firmatively in the various districts, the high school pupils in the rural areas would cease to be tuition pu pils and would become resident stu dents. As the terms of the present Roseburg school board members expired, additional board members would te elected at large from any place in the consolidated district. If these several school districts are reorganized through consol idation, there would be elementary schools maintained in the same lo cations as are now in use, except in those cases where the board would consider the children might profit by joining a nearby elemen tary school. Under the plan for consolidation, newly consolidated districts would pool all outstand ing bonds for the entire area, and a tax would be levied over the en tire area to pay for the bonds now outstanding as well as any that would be needed to be issued in the future, school educators point out. Douglas County Convict, Pal Caught After 'Walk' SALEM un Two trusties who walked away from the Oregon State prison farm yesterday aft ernoon were caught in Cascade Locks Wednesday night by Mult nomah county sheriff's deputies. They are Charles Ryason, 31, re ceived at the prison from Wasco county March 14, 1947, to serve six years for larceny; and Kenneth Elliott, 23, received from Douglas county last January 31 to serve two years for assault while armed with a dangerous weapon. Both are in the Multnomah county jail. They were captured by sheriff's deputies after an automobile chase. Deputies Joe Muzyn and Don Schmidt spotted the car as one re ported stolen and gave chase. The trusties drove into a dead end road and fled on foot. Ryason was cap tured in 10 minutes hiding beside a culvert. About 45 minutes later Elliott was caught. The car was stolen at Vancouver, Wash. Truckers' Bitter Battle Against Tax Boost Bill Indicated By Their Employment Of Ex P.C.U. Commissioner Flagg By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM UP) Public Util ity Commissioner George Flagg'a resignation last week to help the truckers defeat the higher truck tax bill has set off a storm of controversy in Salem. Since Flagg's job has been to regulate the truckers, as well as the railroads, power companies and other utilities, some people thought Flagg had no right to re sign his job to work for the truck ers. But so far, nobody has been able to prove that Flagg doesn't have the right lo go to work for whoever he pleases. He's supposed o get $15,000 a year from the truckers, almost twice as much money as the PUC job paid him. "The Oregon highway council," Flagg said, "hired me to do their public relations work. There will be a big battle over the truck bill. But I want to point out that Pledges House Cleaning v9 K. D. LYTLE, division engineer of the Oregon State highway department with offices in Roseburg, has been assigned as assistant construction engineer for Oregon. He will assist in directing greatly augmented construction programs. Lytle has been in Roseburg l5'i years. His appointment is effec tive Dec. 18, but he is taking a brief vacation and will report at Salem Jan. 3. Replecing Lytle will be Tom Edwards. Frank D. hjlorgan will be assigned to the position of essistant division engineer now held by Edwards. UCLA Chancellor To Be Dr. Allen LOS ANGELES UP) Dr. Ray mond B. Allen, president of the University of Washington, will be nominated Friday as the first chancellor of the University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles. Edward A. Dickson, chairman of the U. C. board of regents, made the announcement and forecast Dr. Allen's election. Dr. Allen will take over next June, if his election is approved He already has resigned his $18, 000-a-year job at Washington lo become the $16,000-a-year director of the psychological strategy ooaro in Washington, D. C, Jan. 2 a post to which he was appointed by President Truman. The UCLA post is expected lo pay about $20,000 annually. It will give the University's big southern campus autonomy for the first time. In the past, it nas Deen governed by a provost. The last one. Dr. Clarence Dykstra, died two years ago. Pope & Talbot Logging At Dallas Closes Down DALLAS, Ore. UP) - Some 115 men were idle here today after Pope and Talbot logging oper ations in Dallas were closed down. J. E. Phillips, logging boss, would eive no reason for the clo sure. He said transfers would be given employes who wished to work in the Oakridge area. Only eight have accepted transfer, he reported. The Pope and Talbot operation here consisted of cutting timber which was dumped into the Wil lamette at West Salem. From there the logs were floated to a St. Helens mill. Some 40 truck loads of logs a day have been taken from the area. the Oregon highway council (which hired Flagg) never has had a case before me, and never will have one before any public utilities com missioner." Hot Fight Presaged The hiring of Flagg is an in dication that the truckers plan an all-out battle- against the truck tax bill. . This bill was passed by the 1951 legislature. It increases truck taxes, with the long-haul big trucks being given a tax boost of about 30 percent. The legislature accepted the highway commission's figures that the truckers are paying. 29 per cent of road costs, and that they should pay about 33 percent. The bill would make the truck opera tors pay that third. The truckers presented their own figures, claiming the truckers al ready are paying more than their Tank Collapse Kills 4, Deals Huge Damage TUCUMCARI. N. M UP) Collapse of a 3.000,000-gallon water tank here- killed four person and caused millions in damage early today. Several boura later a witness told of seeing i "fireball," or apparent meteor, alt the tana in pre-aawn darkness. He said it toppled mo ments afterward. A meteor expert said, however, that auch a phenomenon would have left a huge crater rather than merely smashing the tank. Giving way with a deep rumble, the tank loosed a flood through the business district about 4:10 a.m. Water ud to waist deep soread devastation over an area three blocks wide and. in lessening de gree as the diatance grew, a quar ter mile long. The scene was UK ened to one hit by a bomb. Lorenzo Gutierrez, about 80, whose home is amiss the street from where the water tower stood, said he saw the fireball "I aaw the light streak across the sky and land close to the tank," he related. "It hit with a roar, and then there was the sound of the tank breaking open." The dead were identified aa: Dee T. Elliott. 44. Mra. Elliott, his wife, 43. Tony Elliott, one of the couple's 18-month-old twin sons.. Steve Gallegoa, 13. r ' - Blonde, 17, Will Rule Pasadena's Rose Tournament PASADENA, Calif. wP The queen of the Pasadena Tournament oi noses, Jan. i win do oionnc, blue-eyed Nancy True Thorne. Her selection waa announced today. She's 17 years old, a junior at Pasadena City college. Her father, Chester Johnson Thorne, came here from Kokomo, Ind., and is a salea representative of a New York publishing firm. Her mother, Louise True Tnorne, was born In Forest City, la. The 43rd queen of the tourna ment was chosen from among 3,000 students. Nancy has a B-plus aver age, majors in mathematics, plans to enroll in Stanford to study architecture. Her measurements: five feet, six inches; 124 pounds, bust 34, waist 25, hips 35. "I want to acquire enough know ledge of architecture to design my own home, and marry and settle down in that home," Nancy says. She'a strictly an outdoor girl and is an excellent sailor. She owns a dinghy which ahe pilots on Bal. boa bay, likes to ski, swim and play badminton. She admits she also likes to duck as many house hold chores as possible. Although born in Pasadena, Nancy has never seen a Rose Bowl football game. She gets in free to this one between Stanford and the University of Illinois, after presid ing over a tournament parade that may attract as many as 2,000,000 persons. PARENTS UNDER BOND PORTLAND UP) Bond has been set at $700 for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hornbeck, Portland, accused of neglecting their five children. They were arrested Wednesday morning when tney returned io their small frame house cast of Portland. The children the youngest is 3 had been left in the care of the oldest boy, who is 11. The hearing will be Dec. 19. fair share of road construction and maintenance costs. Aid Prom Other States Truckers all over the United States fear the bill. Since Oregon is considered a pioneer in the field of motor vehicle taxation, they are afraid the idea will spread to other states. So truckers in other sections of the country are expected to con tribute heavily to the campaign to beat the bill. After the bill was passed, the truckers got enough signatures to refer it to the people, thus delay ing the effective date of the bill until after the election next No vember. That delay will save the truckers $2,000,000 in taxes during 1952. The truck tax campaign, which probably will resolve itself into warfare between the truckers and the private passenger car owners, Special Agency Planned To War On Corruption In Federal Jobs; McGrath, McKinney To Remain WASHINGTON CAP) President Truman today promised what he called continued drastic action to clean house in the government. He indicated he will set corruption, possibly tomorrow Allowing: himself to be quoted directly at one point on the scandals in the tax collecting- and some other agencies, Mr. Truman told a news conference : "Wrongdoeis have no who they are or how big they "I ILEW MY TOP" Samuel Hutchins, 15-year-old "model" high school student, sits in Oak land, Calif police station attar confessing the axe killing and attempted cremation ot his mother, Mrs. Evelyn S. Hutch ins, 51. "She bawled me out for not going to school, I blew my top and hit her with the axe," Sam told police inspectors. AP WIREPHOTO) Press Criticism In Politics Upheld COLUMBIA, S. C. UP) Any one holding or seeking a public office is subject lo legitimate cri lcism in newspapers, the South Car olina supreme court holds. This ruling in a unanimous opin ion rejected an appeal hy former State Rep. A. Y. Cartwrlght Jr., of York in his $100,000 damage suit against the Herald Publishing company of Rock Hill and publisher Talbot Patrick. Cartwright charged that two let ters to the editor of the Rock Hill Herald libeled him. The - circuit court jury verdict held for the de fendants. . ' : "When a citizen holds a public office or holds himself as a can didate for public office," the court said, "he becomes an object of le gitimate criticism; his policies, acts, and fitness, and qualifications for the office he holds. And any newspaper or citizen is privileged to publicly criticize him and discuss him thereabout without being held liable lor damages." CHILD'S BODY FOUND SALEM UP) The body of a child, believed to have died some lime no. was found by two duck I hunters near Independence Wednes day. State patrolmen said there was no clue lo identification of the body which was found on an island in the Willamette river. might be the most expensive po liiir.nl rnmnaien in years. Organ ized croups of car owners will jnnnnrt the bill, because what the truckers don't pay, the motorist will have to pay. Successor Praisad Flagg's successor, Charles II. Heltzel is a 37-year-old lawyer, whn it nnnular in Salem. As attnr nev for the state corporation de partment, Heltzel did a fine job of stopping me sale oi woriniess stnr-k. Heltzel Is a next-door neighbor of Flagg's, but Flagg denied he had anything to do with Heltzol'a appointment. "Hnllfl k hard-nosed fellow and win be fair to everybody, and the governor made a fine appoint' ment." Fines said. ' . The public utilities commissioner has a lot of power. In his rate cases, he's the judge, prosecutor and jury. 0h up a special agency to fight or Saturday. house with me no matter are. In response to questions, the President said he has no plans lo fire Altorney General J. Howard McGrath or Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney. Several Republican members of Congress have demanded the dis missal ot McGrath aa a result of disclosures in the house lnvestiga lion of tax acandals. Chairman King (D-Calif) of the house group haa publicly aald he believes T. Lamar Caudle, assist ant attorney general in charge of the tax division, was unfaithful to his public trust. Mr. Truman fired Caudle last month. McKinney has come under flre because of the ' disclosure that he made a $68,000 profit on a $1,000 investment in a tractor firm headed by a man whose wartime govern ment ordnance contracts were sharply criticized by Mr. Truman, then a senator. Wise Te Caudle Mr. Truman declared that the public officials recently fired in cluding Caudle all were being investigated bv the executive branch of the government before meir names turned up In congres sional investigations. He said the administration was wise to Caudle, who has been ac. cuscd of taking favors from ner sons Involved in tax difficulties with the government, long before such charges were made by the house ways and means subcommittee In vestigating the tax scandals. Caudle's resignation would have been asked even without the com mittee's intervention, the President added. Parries Pertinent Query A reporter expressed surprise at this, recalling that McGrath, who was Caudle's boss, told the house investigators only last Tuesday that he personally never had any sus picions against Caudle. Mr. iruman replied crisply that he doesn't keep the books for his attorney general. The President was asked If Mc Kinney had been correct in tellinsr reporters earlier this week that the President feels he has been "sold down the river." bv federal em ployes who have proved faithless to ineir trust. Well, who wouldn't feel that way? the President said. He went on to say that he has (Continued on Page 2) Hunt In Maryland Fails. To Bag Murder Suspect BALTIMORE UP) George F. Ross, 27-year-old accused police killer, burglar and dope addict, apparently had flown the coop to day, evading the most intense man hunt in Maryland history. FBI agents and state police of ficials said they were satisfied the hoodlum had left the area. How he got out or where he went was anybody's guess. A posse of 100 FBI men and state troopers failed to flush him from the suburban countryside around Ellicott city whero the search began late Monday night when Ross fired on two county police officers who surprised him sleeping In a car stolen in uiuo. Canada Commons Votes St. Lawrence Canal Fund OTTAWA UP) The St. Lawr ence seaway a 27 foot deep, Qfm nnl nnn anal nn (ha PnnnHlnn. American border that would open the Great lakes to ocean shipping nas wun mini appruvui iium ada'i House of Commons. Th. kill miw an. In thf, .Cnnntft where passage is regarded as a tormaiuy. . Canada and the United States signed an agreement in 1941 for joint development of the canal and hydro-electric power. Congress haa reused in almost every session since to ratify the pact. . Crash Of Plane Kills Flying Farmer, Two Kin WATERVILLE, Wash. ifl A South Dakota "flying farmer" and his father and cousin were found dead In the wreckage of their light plane in a wheat field near here. The victims of the crash were Arnold Asmusscn, 25, Onida, S. D., the pilot; his father, Roy Asmus scn, 59, and his cousin, Gene As mussen, both of Mansfield, Their plane apparently plowed Into a knoll a mile and a half west of here on a planned flight. 13Red MIGs, Probably Two Others Bagged America's Hottest Ace Runs 16-Day Total Te 12; No Progress At Parley By JOHN RANDOLPH SEOUL, Korea tfl Amer ican Sabre jet pilots won hlstory'a biggest all-Jet victory today. They bagged 13 Communist MIGs, prob ably knocked down two otners ana damaged one in two slashing air battles over North Korea. Four of the MIGs went down be fore the blazing guns of America'e nouesi jet ace, aiaj. ueorge a. Davis Jr.. of Lubbock, Tex. In 16 days Davis baa bagged 12 planes, including nine MIGs. The Fifth air force said none of the Sabre jets waa shot down, but one ran out of fuel, caught fire and crashed. A helicopter , res cued the pilot. Heavily - outnumbered aaores knocked down four MIGi and dam aged one in a morning battle over Sinanju In Northwest Korea. Nine more MIGs were destroyed in the afternoon. Pilots reported two probables. ' Sixty-four Sabres were matched against 145 MIGs in the two bat tles. The Fifth air force's total re ported score against MIGs now is 146 shot down, 31 probables and 298 damaged. These figures do not include those hit by B-29 gunners. A North Korean communique said the Reds shot down 21 U. N. planes in the past .ten days. On the ground today, a series of minor battlea tlared as Allied In fantrymen carried the war to the Reds for the second time in 24 hour Red Railheads Pushed Back Allied air attacks have pushed Communist railheads 50 to 75 miles deeper into Red Korea since truce talks started last. July. . Allied warships and naval air craft also have been pounding the north-south lines feeding Wonsan on the East coast. And the trickle of railbome supplies reaching that battered port lrom the West is con stantly diminishing, the air fore said. . The Reds have turned more and more to trucks, which travel mostly at night, because of Allied air at tacks on the railroads, . No Death March, Allied Edict The Allies today demanded the Reds guarantee there would be no "death march" ot Allied prsioneri In Korea. . '..!' -"No progress of any sort" wis reported by a. truce subcommittee on prisoners, but spokesmen for (Continued on Page 3) Consolidation Talked At Meet Arguments for and against the proposed consolidation of 11 sur rounding districts with the Rose burg school district were presented at a meeting Monday at DiUard, where a large number of resi dents of that district attended the regular meeting of the school board. Representatives from Ten mile and Lookingglass also were present. A communication sent out by the Roseburg school board In Novem ber was read. The letter placed the Roseburg board on record ai not favoring the consolidation at present, in view of the uncertainty of the school reorganization bill, which has been referred to the people, the tax situation and school revenue. The meeting, conducted b y Chairman Paul Hull, was for the purpose of clarifying the issues and permitting expressions of opinions on both sides of the controversial proposal. Ford Co. Automobiles Given New Price Tops WASHINGTON UP) - The Of fice of Price Stabilization has set dollar and cent retail ceilings for Ford, Mercury and Lincoln passen ger cars, The order also placed lids on prices of extra equipment sold with the Ford Motor Co. automo biles. The specific ceilings reflect price increases recently allowed by OPS. The OPS also extended from Dec. 20 to Dec. 31 the effective date for auto dealers to apply dollar and cent ceilings for all makes and models of used passenger cars. Bloodmobile Service -volunteers Needed The Red Cross still needs a few more persons to volunteer their services Friday, the day the Blood mobile will be in Roseburg, from 2 to 7 p.m. Persons are urgently needed who will register blood donors and help in the recovery room. Also persons who can type are asked to help relieve tvpists for short periods of time. Those willing to assist may call Mrs. R. E. Herman, executive secretary ot the Red Crosa at 3-3255. Levity Feet Rant By L. F. Reizenstcln Poland's demand for repeal of the U. S. mutual security act has been handed to the State department by Foreign Minister Sknesiewskl. Ont does not im mediately recall on what Ame rican football team ho formerly ployed.