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MRS. GILBERT DIXON as she studied a chart at her desk in
the waiting room of Bruce Tuck, Roseburg optometrist, pre
paratory to copying the information contained thereon.. At
least that's what I took for granted she was doing, and if it
turns out it was something else entirely I- hope she doesn't
tell you about it. -'
.; Mrs. Dixon hqs been with Dr. Tuck as his assistant for
three years, having come here from San Francisco, her for
mer home. "All my work.", she informed me, "has been done
in doctors' offices I must like the atmosphere!" ,Skie is
skilled in her present occupation, having graduated from o
course of study in Paramount Optical Laboratories, in Portland.
Horticulturist Dated)
For Talk In Roseburg
AH gardeners of Douglas tiounty,
both vegetable and flower grower;,
are invited to hear Dr. John Had
ley, well-known Seattle horticultur
ist, at 2 o'clock Wednesday in the
Roseburg Woman's Club clubhouse
on W. Mosher Street. Dr. Hadlcy
is being sponsored by the Garden
Department of the Woman's Club.
There will be no charge and all
persons interested are invited.
X-RAY UNIT SCHEDULE
Tht mobile chest X-ray units
will observe Hi following sched
ulo Wednesday.
Dixonville Community Hall, 11
.m.-o p.m.; Roseburg, Western
Battery Corp., 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m.;
Lookingglass Store, 11 a.m.; 5
p.m.; Riversdale School, 11 a.m.
6:30 p.m.; Roseburg, Penneys
Store, 10 a.m.-o p.m., and Glide
j Store, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
V . What's the news (The BIG mil
itary news, that is).
' Watch Indochina where Mac
(Stalin's stooge) is massing big
armies just over the border in
red China Watch Korea
where for nearly seven months
we've been negotiating hopefully
for a truce to end a war we can t
win.
Then
WATCH THE FAR NORTHERN
TIP OF JAPAN where Russian
troops are squatting on adjacent
islands in the Kuriles (some of
them only 3'miles from Japan
ese soil.) Just the other day we
had to yank our First Cavalry di
vision out of Korea and send it to
northern Japan to FACE these
Russian troops.
What's the pattern? What's the
purpose?
Only the Kremlin knows. But
If you'll get out your map (or,
preferably, your globe) you can
make a pattern of your own. It
will look something like this:
A large part of our present
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The Weather
Cloudy with occasional rain to
day. Showers Wednesday,
Highest temp, for any Jan 77
Lowest temp, for any Jen
Hiohett tamn 91 kftiir Kt
Lowest temp, last J4 hours ... 41 ;
Precip. last 24 hours 07 j
Precip. from Jan. 1 5.2?
Precip. from Sept. 1 25.90 i
Excess 7.05 !
SOnset today, 5:21 p.m. i
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:32 a.m. '
ROSEBURG,
By Paul Jenkins
Copco Engineer
Gets 1951 Award
John C. Boyle, obove, vice
president and general mana
ger of the California Oregon
Power Company, hos been
selected as the outstanding
engineer of Orecon in 1951.
His work in hydroelectric
power development, particu-
larly in connection with Cop
i co's North Umpqua project,
iwas one of the primary fac
tors leading to the award,
made by the Professional
Engineers of Oreaon at their
annual banquet in Portland
Saturday.
Falling Limb Injures
Ted Coy Of Route 2
Ted Coy of Route 2, Box 87,
has been admitted to Douglas Com
munity Hospital with injuries suf
fered when struck by a "widow
maker" (broken limb sustained in
a treetop) Monday. He was em
ployed by Cook Lumber Co. Coy
suffered a fractured right leg, and
minor injury to the right arm and
laceration about the temple.
Ruins Yield 12 Bodies;
Five Others Expected
MINNEAPOLIS I Using axes
to break apart the ice-caked debris,
firemen Tuesday recovered 12
bodies from the ruins of the three
story business-apartment house
razed by fire al the edge of the
Minneapolis loop Monday.
Fire Chief Reynold Malmqulst
said his men expected to find the
bodies of live others, '
OREGON TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1952
Blizzard
Of Ohio's Flood Refugees
Flood Drives
Thousands
From Homes
Intense Cold Covers
Streets, Roads With Ice;
Death Toll Reaches 9
MARIETTA, 0 W Blizzard
snow and ice joined the wide
spread tiood crest ol the muddy
Ohio River Tuesday to plague 8.000
to io.ooo refugees in Ohio and West
Virginia.
The blizzard-like snow struck at
Pomeroy and Middleport. O., to the
soutn before midday. Bitter cold
temperatures made roads and
streets a maze of ice.
The crest of the marauding 'Ohio
cut down somewhat by the cold
rolled toward Parkersburg. W.
Va., Tuesday morning and headed
toward a midnight date with Pom
eroy and Middleport.
Two thousand persons are home
less there as these two Ohio towns
awaited the full blow of the flood
crest. Three or four hundred other
persons climbed to higher ground
at rarkersburg.
Death Toll At Nine'
Nine are dead from a series of
floods spearheaded by the Ohio in
inree states.
Many other thousands have been
affected either with water in base
ments or first floors or with
blocked roads and streets that kept
them from work. Subfreezing cold
maae me sun more miserable.
The punishing crest flowed slow
ly through Marietta at 10 a.m It
measured 43. 7S feet, shy of the
44.47 feet predicted by U.S. Army
Engineers and U.S. Weather Bu
reau, Far downstream, from Ports
mouth, O., west to the Mississippi
River, residcnls along the Ohio had
some hope that the cold weather
would soften the blow of the oncom
ing flood crest.
The U.S. Weather Bureau at Cin
cinnati revised flood crests down
ward two to three feet from Ports
mouth west.
BATHING SUIT
She Wore That
After Theft But
'Twas Enough
LOS ANGELES W When a
woman says "I haven't ft thing to
ear" she's usually stretching the
truth a bit.
But June Bright wasn't kidding
when she told that to police Mon
day. Miss Bright, 25. a model and
wife of Disc Jockey Gene Norman,
showed up at the station in a brief,
black satin bathing suit and told
this story:
She was moving to a new home
and wore only the bathing suit
while packing in 76-degree weath
er. She put her entire wardrobe,
$4,000 worth, in Tier car. Then she
donned a coat, drove witd friends
to a cafe and went in to eat. When
she came out the wardrobe was
gone.
Officers were sympathetic, but
were inclined to agree with a detec
tive who remarked of the shapely
blonde:
"She doesn't need anything but a
bathing suit."
EMPHASIS ON LIVESTOCK AND
Douglas County's Agricultural Potentialities Told
By County Agent Parker; Processing Plant Top Need
A four-point program for real
ization of Douglas County's agri
cultural potentialities was empha
sized Monday by J. Roland Park
er, county agricultural agent.
He spoke before members of the
Roseburg Chamber of Commerce
in the Umpqua Hotel on Hie "Fu
ture Potential of Douglas County
Agriculture" during a forum lunch
eon. In his outline for agricultural
growth in the county, the a.gtnt
saw need for the following:
1. More livestock as a potential
income source.
2. An enlargement of the poultry
industry, especially on small
tracts.
3. Crops for processing snap
beans and eventual construc
tion of a processing plant.
4. Better utilization of natural
resources.
Parker said Douglas County was
One of the few &rea in the linitpH
i States where grazing land was
Increases
A. A. Eckhordt
No. 5 In Contest
For Sheriff
A. A. ECKHARDT
A. A. (Red) Eckhardt, a Doug
las County deputy sheriff for more
than four years, resigned Monday
and filed for the Republican nomin
ation for sheriff.
Eckhardt, whose address is Rt.
4 Box 254, pledged "Prompt in
vestigation day or night and 100
percent cooperation with au law
enforcement agencies."
Eckhardt started with the county
sheriff's office as a resident deputy
at Reedsport. He later was trans
ferred to Roseburg, where he
.worked as chief deputy until his
resignation.
His other police services Includes
work with the Pinkerton Dectectivc
Agency in San Francisco doing pa
trol and investigative work.
He- was a special police officer
for a time at the Indian Reserva
tion at Chiloquin, Oregon, and held
a special commission from the San
Francisco police department.
He moved to Douglas County in
1940, purchasing a ranch at Mel
rose. With ranch work as a side
line, Eckhardt worked with Rose
burg Lumber Company, later with
System Freight Company and for
a while was manager of the Rose
burg office of Oregon-Nevada-California
Fast Freight.
Backing up his campaign pledge,
Eckhardt said Monday that "if all
the law enforcement agencies will
work together they'll double and
I'll venture to say even triple
their efficiency."
Eckhardt is the fifth person to
file for nomination in the May 16
primary elections for the sheriff's
office.
Others include Vernon Pouncey,
Calvin Baird, Alvin Hughes and O.
T. Carter, incumbent.
Jail Stretch Extended
For Fleeing Custody
Ernest L. Addington, 27, released
Sunday from the State Peniten
tiary, has anolner six months to
go in the Douglas County jail for
escaping from police custody in
1349.
District Judge A. J. Geddes pro-!
nounccd the sentence Monday.
Ad(ngton escaped Aug. 26, 1949
as a jail trusty and was later given
a penitentiary sentence on a Jack
son County conviction for larceny
of livestock.
primarily adapted to livestock,
sheep in particular. He explained
Kiat the long grazing period and
the lack of overhead expense were
Ideal for livestock raising.
"For sheep raising there U litlle
need for herders, and the open
lands permit year-around pasture
feeding." he said. ' Often it Is pos
sible to winter animals without
supplemental feed."
Sheep Census Declines
But the county has not reached
ttie limit in sheep population, and
the speaker blamed added federal
controls for the lack of growth.
During World War II thene were
50 million sheep in the area, hut
it has now fallen to 29 million,
mainly because of price fixing, he
said.
By resorting to better pasture
grasses, heavier lambs can be
marketed and the number of sheep
can be increased, Parker predict
ed. Turning to the problem of small
24-52
Misery
Lumber Fall
Deals Death
To Trucker
Earl Victor Stratford
Crushed In Accident -At
Myrtle Creek Plant
Earl Victor Stratford, 36, Camas
Valley Star route. Box 600, died
enroute to Myrtle Creek Hospital
Monday morning, from injuries
suffered when a pile of lumber fell
00 nlm- that killed Paul Van Osten, 5 is pictured before his arraign-
m5,.u rLPJ""i)2""e C?-.rne.U of rnent Monday afternoon in Circuit Court. With him is Deputy
Myrtle Creek said the accident oc-l r. .,, ... . ,, . . fir u i j ni. i
currd at the Engle and Worth Lum-1 Sheriff W. I. Worrall. Judge Carl E. Wimberly sentenced Phil
ber Company, located on the North! lips to a total of eight years on two charges and fined him
Myrtle Road at the Myrtle Creek 'a total of $6,000., (Staff Picture) .
city limits. ! '
Stratford, who had been hauling
lumber for O. E. White of Dillard,
reportedly had backed his truck
under a pile of lumber that was
being held up by jacks, Cornett
reported.
The jacks, which normally are
supposed to be knocked out of place
to allow the lumber to settle .n
the truck bed when it is properly
backed in, did not fall, according
to the report. Stratford apparently
crawled under the pile of lumber
to determine the trouble when the
pile crashed- dow.i on him.
Investigation was made bv Of
ficer Earl Cornett of the Myrtle
Creek force, assisted by Jerry Mvl-
lenbeck, municipal judge. Deputy
coroner Clyde Marriott of Ulendale
also investigated.
The Myrtle Creek police depart
ment received the cal' from the
mill at 9:55 a.m. The iM was not
in operation but three employes
were there.
Son Escapes Injury
When the officers arrived, R. But
olph of Myrtle Creek, who wit
nessed the accident, was atempt
ing to move the pile of 4x12 lum
ber off Stratford. He was being
assisted by Virgil C. Barber.
Stratford was alive when rescued
but died enroute to the 'hospital.
David, preschool age son of
Stratford, was in the .cab of the
truck when the accident occurred
He was not injured.
Leaves Family of Six
The body was taken to Ganz
Mortuary at Myrtle Creek, then
removed to Long & Orr Mortuary
at Roseburg.
Stratford was born March 3,
1916, at Highland Park, HI. He
was married to Laverne Welch at
Henderson, Ky , Aug. 9, 1937. They
moved to the Winston community
from California about eight years
ago. He was operator of the Earl
E. Stratford Trucking Co. of Wins
ton. He was a member and served
as an elder in St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, Roseburg.
Surviving are the widow: five
children. Thomas John, 8, Joseph
7, David, 6, Laurel Jean, 4, and
Susanne, 2, all of the Winston i m
munity; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Stratford; three brothers,
Alfred, Leonard and John, and
two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Koop
mani and Mrs. Leslie Kempke,
all of Highland Park. III.
Funeral services will be held at
St. Paul's Lutheran Church Thurs
day, Jan 31, at 11 a.m, with the
Rev. W. A. Sylwestcr officiating.
Concluding services and interment
will follow in Civil Bend Cemetery.
Long 4: Orr Mortuary is in charge
of arrangements.
POULTRY
tracts (between 0 and 9 acres)
t'nat are not composed of highly
productive soil, Parker had this
to say:
"I'eullry raising and the sale of
eggs offer the best opportunities
to persons owning small tracts of
land, because the soil is not pro
ductive enought to provide a com
plete living.
"There is now a deficiency in
Oregon poultry products, and yet
one third of the egg crop is being
shipped out of rhe state. An en
largement of the industry in the
county would not only benefit those
persons living on the small acre
ages, it would also aid the entire
area," the speaker noted.
Processing Plan Needed
Anolher primary requisite for
realizing the fullest potentiality
from the county's agricultural in
dustry is a centrally located pro
cessing plant for truck farm prod
ucts, Parker explained.
. ;
HE'S SORRY James B. Phillips, 21, admitted driver of the
car involved in the hit-run accident south of Myrtle Creek,
Probe Of Justice Dept., And
Atty. Gen. McGrath's Office,
Authorized By House Group
WASHINGTON (AP) The House Judiciary Com
mittee Tuesday ordered an investigation of the administra
tion of the Justice Department and the office of Attorney
General J. Howard McGrath.
The investigation will be
the committee, four Democrats
designated by Chairman Cellcr, D-N. 1.
Egypt Riot Dead
Up To 67; Fire
Loss, Enormous
CAIRO, Egypt ifl Five more
bodies were found in the ruins of
the British Turf Club and Shop
heards Hotel Tuesday, high police
sources said, bringing to at least
67 the total dead in -Saturday'!
rioting and burning by mobs.
Fire brigades still played hoses
on smouldering ruins of some fires.
Flames still were flaring from
Shephcard's,
Business sources estimated the
fire losses at more than 100 mil
lion pounds or 288 million dollars.
Leading newspapers meanwhile
underlined the view that Egypt's
new Premier Aly Maher Pasha will
keep majority support in Parlia
ment only if he follows up the old
government's widely popular drive
to oust British troops from the
Suez and united the Sudan with
Egypt.
Al Misri, paper of the Wafd Par
ty, said the Wafd majority which
dominates Parliament will decide
its future attitude toward Maher
Pasha's military government "in
the light of Egypt's national de
mands." Former Roseburg Police
Chief Given Burns Job
BURNS Lloyd Larsen, former
police chief at Roseburg, has been
chosen from a list of five appli
cants as a new police chief here.
He will succeed Walter L i p
scombe, who is leaving to take
over a ranch in Idaho.
Larsen will take over the post
Feb. 1. He was an officer at Co
quirie before taking the Roseburg
job.
By way of emphasis, he stated
that in 1951 there were 104 acres
of snap beans in Ihe county pro
ducing 12 tops per acre, about four
tons higher than the national av
erage. "But," he said, "for processing
the product had to be shipped to
Salem, which means consider
ble reduction in revenue."
Farm wnodlots were the next
item examined by the speaker.
He said that in 1951 a rough
estimate reveals that about $75U,
000 were realized from poles, logs
and cordwood taken from small
farmer-owned tracts, and yet the
potential is far from reached.
"Some areas will remain adapt
ble only to Ihe raising of timber,"
Parker said. "But it works in well,
with an intensified livestock pro
gram, because It would provide
additional revenue to
stockmen
from land that is unfit for grazing
because of its steepness."
made by seven members of
and three Republicans, to be
It was ordered by vote mem-
bers would not disclose. Repub
licans had urged that the inquiry
be ordered, as a followup to dis
closures of government tax scan-
dais.
President Truman ha designat
ed McGrath himself to direct a
cleanup drive against corruption
in government.
The resolution adopted by the
committee requires no further ac
tion by the House. It stipulates
that the investigation be "nonpo
litical" and be confined to "credi
ble" testimony, not to mere sus
picion. Another House committee, a sub
committee of the Ways and Means
group headed by Rep. King D-Cal.
already is investigating the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau.
Disclosures of scandals through
King subcommittee hearings led to
demands for a more widespread
uiquiry into the entire Justice De
partment.
Rep. Keating R-N.Y., sponsored
the resolution to investigate Mc
Grath and his department.
Airplane Hunt Bags
Lamb-Killing Eagles
Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd and
Gerald Rust took to the air Sunday
to combat eagles that have been
preying on lambs in the South
Deer Creek area.
While Byrd piloted an airplane,
Rust whanged away at the preda
tors with a 12-gauge shotgun fir
ing buckshot and downed several.
To get within shooting distance
of the eagles. Byrd flew the plane
near the birds while they were in
flight. They became frightened and
licailcd for the nearest tree or
snag.
The plane then made another
circle and the eagles were fired
upon while in the tree.
Byrd said ranchers reported the
loss of several lambs to the largo
birds, which swoop among a flock,
knock the lambs over and carry
mem off.
He asked that similar depreda
tions be reported to him.
Exonerated Man Files
Action For Damages
In a Circuit Court civil suit, a
Wilbur man charges he spent 47
days in the coiwnty jail when a
criminal complaint was erroneous
ly filed against him.
Alleging he suffered humiliation,
public ridicule, mental suffering
and liiss of earnings, Stephen Clark
filed the suit against H. B. Hurley,
Canyonville.
Clark says Hurley swore out a
complaint against him charging
larcc.'iy of an automobile la.it Aug.
24. Arrested Sept. 18, Clark says
he was held 47 days and released
when Ihe grand jury returned a
not true hill.
Clark asks $5,000 general and
$5,000 exemplary and punitive dam
ages. DEPUTIES RETAINED
Robert Bellows, Roseburg and
John A. Unger Jr. Reedsport,
have been reapjioinlen deputy cor
oners by Holt Grimes, Sulherlin,
recently-apikiintcd county coroner,
succeeding the late Harry C.
I Stearns.
Court Adds $6,000 Fines
For Blow That Killed
5-Year Paul Van Osten
"I'm sorry it's just what drink
ing can do."
That was the statement Monday
of James B. Phillips, of Riddle,
21-year-old driver of the car in
volved in a hit - run accident in
which 5-year-pld Paul Van Osten ol
Myrtle Creek was fatally injured
Phillips received near-maximum .
sentences Monday afternoon in Cir
cuit Court after pleading guilty
to charges of negligent homicide
and leaving the scene of the accident.
Judge Carl E. Wimberly gave
him three years and a fine of
$2,000 on the negligent homicide
charge, and another five years and
a $4,000 fine for failure to stop.
The sentences were pronounced
just short of two days after the
accident and just 22 hours after
Phillips had confessed his involve
ment to officers.
On the verge of tears, the thin
defendant, married and the father
of a 3-year-old girl, admitted in
court that he had been "drinking
all day" on the day of the tragedy.
He denied, however, that be was
"drunk."
Young Paul, of Myrtle Creek.
died of internal injuries Sunday
morning, some 18 hours after he
was struck by Phillips' vehicle.
Under the law. the maximum
penalty for' negligent homicide is
three years and $2,500 fine; for
leaving the scene of accident it's
five years and $5,000 fine.
Judge Wimberly Comments
Judge Wimberly said the 16,000
total in fines could be worked off
in lieu of payment at the rate of
$20 per day.
"A person might as well shoot
a rifle up and down the highway
as to drive while he has been
drinking," commented Judge Wim
berly before passing sentence.
one is just as dangerous as me
other."
I don't understand why any
body is fool enough to try to drive
an automobile on the highway while
they're drunk," the judge said.
Asked it he wisned to make a
statement before sentence was pas
sed, Phillips answered, "I'm just
too nervous to talk, 1 guess."
Questioned following the sentenc
ing, District Attorney Robert B,
Davis commented:- -
"This case is a prime example
of what we have been talking about
in our safety meetings. It points
tip the necessity of immediate ac
tion on tne part oi an people i
curb the threat on our highways."
The fatality is the second sines
the safety committee's "Death
Row" display in downtown Rose
burg last Nov. 10, It is the first
this year.
The north-bound Phillips vehicle
swerved clear across the highway
Saturday to hit the youth walk-
ing with a companion alongside tne
highway, two miles south of Myrtle
Creek. They were going to a near
by store at the time.,
Two More Held
In Stolen Check
Investigation
Two more Roseburg men ere
held for investigation in the "com
mission" cashing of check blanks
stolen from Fir Manufacturing
Company, reports Assistant Chief
of Police James McAlpine.
Russcl Joseph Alex. 32, was ar
rested in Coquille Monday on a
Douglas County warrant charging
him with burglary not in a dwell
ing. AJex was returned to Rose
burg by city and state police for
questioning in connection with the
blank check robbery.
He is being held in the County
jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.
Also held in jail on a similar
charge is Hershel James Black,
39, who was arrested earlier on a
drunk charge, McAlpine said.
Saturday, Frank David Jones,
22, was arrested on Jackson St.
minutes after he had cashed one
of the checks for $132. He said
that he had been hired to cash
the checks on a 25 per cent com
mission, police said.
Merchants are asked to be oa
the alert for Firmco checks num
bered 7258 through 7309 and en
dorsed by R. L. Bronson, a forged
name.
Chief of Police Ted Mazac re
ported that the city check "flash"
system was not completed Satur
day after one of the men had been
reported arrested. Later the $132
check was cashed.
He urged merchants to com
plete their calls as soon as they
are notified of a bad check passer.
Donkhobor Hall Raced
By Arson-Type Blaze
NELSON, B. C. UTi A fire
started with gasoline-soaked sacks
Monday night destroyed an Ortho
dox Doukhobor community hall at
Brilliant, B. C.
Royal Canadian Mounted police
were investigating the fire, first
suspected work of Sons of Freedom
terrorists since late summer.
Levity Fact Rant
Ry L. F. Relzenstein
Our top banner story in to
day's issue again emphasizes
that occasionally read admo
nition: "It you drink don't
drive; if you drive, don't
drink."
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