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MRS. ANDREW J. TOWNSEND, clerk at the Form Bureau
Co-operative Exchange, as she arranged a seasonal display
of garden seeds. Male customers at the Bureau may gravi
tate to the implement or feed departments; but the feminine
shoppers sworm over the seed counters, being particularly
susceptible towards those with the gorgeous pictures on the
packets. I might say that oil seed packets have gorgeous pic
tures on them. Shows what can be done, so why can't YOU
do it.
Mrs. Townsend has been with the Bureau for over six
years. "No," she stated in reply to a question, "I don't work
exclusively in this deportment. I clerk in most of them. I even
sell baled hay, if a customer wants baled hoy!"
Mrs. Townsend is the wife of Andy Townsend, genial
manager of the Bureau. Both are making big plans for the
entertainment next Monday, the date . of the annual
stockholders' meeting, of a host of friends of the big Exchange.
Segregation Plan Opposed
A At Eugene Public Meeting
On Negro Housing Dispute
EUGENE (AP) A Eugene council of Inter-racial re
lations appeared in tho making; here Tuesday when 400 per
sons attended a meeting to discuss the housing situation
among" Negroes here.
The meeting was called by the League of Women Voters
following publicity on the plight of 18 Negro families living
four miles west of tle city. Their homes are without water
X-RAY UNIT SCHEDULE
Tht mobile chtst X-ray unit
will obttrvt Hi following sched
ule Thursday
Canyenvillt, basida honor roll,
Tarminal Fountain, 10 a.m. -7
p.m.; Gltndtl Mill mploytti
only, 1 p.m. until finished; Ron
burg (Clovtrdala), Pacific Mot
ors, 11 a.m. -7 p.m.; Roitburo,
i C Pannay Store, 10 a.m. -4
p.m.; Rostburg, Nitlttn's Mar
ket, 4 p.m. 4 p.m.; Toketet Falls,
Powerhouse, Camp, 11 a.m. -7
p.m.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In California, where these words
are written, there are two suu-;
jeets of major conversation rain
fall and politics.
As to the first, water is running
out of California's ears. In the
north, every little creek is a rush
ing little river. Water stands in
jevery low place in the flatlands.
uumg imu oairruiiit-iiiu, mc
py.pass iooks line san '"nciscu... kjri, a;...
Bay. And so on all down through
, the san Joaquin valley, mere is
valor everywhere you look.
' ' South of the Tehachapi, the mois
ture isn't so apparent to the eye.
although they've had rainfall that
in r-r,, vr u-ouM
... - .
havp spempn ttapcprine. in manv -
parts of the Southland, the precipi
tation so far in this current stream
year has reached 18 inches. Riv
ers that have been dry so long
that their dusty beds have come
to be accepted as the regular thing
are now carrying good-sized flows
of water toward the sea.
The ancient tale about the guy
who became so bored with life i
that, he is alleged to have said,
he would have jumped into the Los
Angeles river and ended it all if
he hadn't hated to got his new suit
all over dust wouldn't get even a
chuckle this year, for water is
tlialll, nniiiinn in knsl nf ,(
Up in the Santa Clara Valley,
where water has been a burning
subject for many, many long dry
years, the water table is beginning
to rise rapidly. It is asserted on
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The Weather
Fair today. Increasing cloudi
ness tonight and Thursday. A little
warmer tonight.
Highest temp, for any' Feb. 79
Lowest temp, for any Feb. 3
Highest temp, last 54 hours 48
Ltwtst temp, last 24 hours 27
Precip. last 24 hours 01
Precip. from Feb. 1 1.37
Precip from Sept. 1 27.80
fxettt 4.38
Sunset today 5:41 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:13 a.m.
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I or sewage facilities.
The Rev. Wesley G. Nicholson,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church, moderated a panel discus
sion. Speakers included Lane County
Circuit Judge William G. East; Dr.
Joeb V. Berreman, acting head of
the University of Oreyon Sociology
department: William S. Van Meter,
deputy commissioner of the Ore
gon Fair Employment Practices
Commission: Edwin C. Berry, exe-
! cutive director of the Portland Ur
ban League, and Floyd Covington,
formerly of the Los An; !es Ur
ban League, and now with the Fed
eral Housing Commission.
Van Meter said a meeting has
been scheduled for Feb 28 to tell
the Negroes of their rights.
Berry urged the group not to per
mit segregation in housing.
Berreman called for formation of
the council and said it should be a
permanent organization.
Those who wished to become
members of the council were asked
to volunteer. The group will meet
later to decide what action is
necessary.
Probe Of Disasters
NEW YORK Wl Government
and airline officials have promised
to keep disaster-haunted Newark.
N. J., airport closed pending Con-
gressional "and other responsible
nff Ha invicliostinnc
Another direct result of Ihe New
York metropolitan area's fourth
airliner crash in two months is an
agreement by 25 airlines to create
a special safety committee and to
hold flights over congested areas to
a minimum.
Government and airline officials
met here for almost six hours Tues-
day in the
wake of Monday's
smash-up of
a National Airlines
plane in Elizabeth, N. J.
The toll of that catastrophe roso
to 32 with the death of anoiher
plane passenger, Miss Sarah Aron-
ac-,wald 52 ot tn Bronx N Y
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Feoring Robbery Urge,
Ex-Con Asks Lock-Up
VANCOUVER, Wash. Ml A man
who has spent half his life in pris
on, walked into the police station
here and asked to be locked up.
Unless he was, he might rob a
bank, police quoted him as saying.
Chief Harry Diamond identified
the man as Terry Donovan, 54,
released less than two weeks ago
from the Oregon State Prison after
serving four years for armed rob
bery. Donovan, who has served seven
sentences which total 27 years
in various prisons wants to go
straight now, Diamond said Mon
day. So the police held him until they
could find a job for him.
Eitobliihed 1873
Controls
President's
Request For 2
Years Futile
Tight Restrictions
To Be Eased, Congress
Spokesman Declares
WASHINGTON UB President
Truman will get a controls exten
sion law on the books this vear.
but not with all of the changes he
is seeking.
This is the Initial Congressional
action on the controls message sent
by the President to Capitol Hill
Tuesday. Mr. Truman asked a two .
duction Actthe law that carries
-trice, wage, rent and credii con
rols plus production and alloca
tion powers for the mobilization
drive.
Republican lawmakers available
for comment .Wednesday said the
President would probably get a one
year extension of the law rather
than the two years sought by the
White House.
They also said they would try to
ease the present "stifling controls"
instead of strengthening them as
Mr, Tmman asked.
Capehart Amendment Scored
The iesidenti,il message partic
ularly criticized four provisions of
the present law which he said "se
riously weakened" controls. They
included the so-called Capehart
Amendment, which allows manu
facturers and processors to get
price boosts to cover cose increases
between the start of the Korean
War and July 26, 1951.
Senate GOP Floor Leader Styles
Bridges (N.H.) said the President
was trying to make the Capehart
and other amendments "scape
goats for his administration's fail
ure to extinguish the fires of in
flation." ' Tha act should- be extended,
Bridges said, "but our efforts
should be directed toward easing
stifling controls instead of toward
strangulation of productivity by
government bosses."
Soma key Democratic lawmak
ers also indicated less than whole
hearted support for the White
House requests.
Pusan's Black Market
Section Fire Swept
PUSAN, Korea im A wind
swept fire gutted Pusan's busiest
black market section Wednesday.
A government representative said
the loss was about $130,000.
The fire started in a house
crowded with refugees and black
market goods. In three hours it de
stroyed 100 smrJl shop-dwellings
and 85 other homes.
Authorities said a large amount
of U.S. Army clothing and Ameri
can cigarettes and candy was de
stroyed. Injured Swimmer
Breaks His Leg-In
Bed
NEWTON, la. i Carl Backus,
Jr., 29, invalided by a swimming
accident several years ago, has had
more bad luck. He broke his leg
while in bed.
Backus was doing a series of leg
exercises in bed when the fracture
occurred Monday night.
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WHERE DEATH CAME OUT OF THE NIGHT SKY Mode
shortly offer the crash of o Notional Airlines DC-6 in the resi
dential area of Elizabeth, N. J., wreckage is scattered in play
ground area of on orphanoge. Plane hit a 52-family apart
ment house and exploded shortly after taking off from near'
ROSEIURG,
Extension For One Year Probable
PREMATURE
People Quoting
Truman On '52
Plans Refuted
WASHINGTON ( Benjamin
G. Browdy, president of the Zion
ist Organization of America, said
President Truman told him
Wednesday he will make up his
mind "within the next 10 to IS
days" whether to run for reelec
tion. Browdy, after a call at the White
House also told reporters:
"Judging by his remarks, I'd say
he will run again. I personally
hope he will."
But anoiher White House caller,
who saw Truman right after Brow-
! dy, had an entirely different re
port.
Abraham Feinberg, New York
hosiery manufacturer, said he
asked the President directly wheth
er he would be a candidate, Fein
berg added:
"He said he hadn't made up his
mind whether to Tun, hasn't had
time to, and did not plan to make
his decision for some .time to
come."
And a little later. Presidential
Secretary Joseph Short, told a news
conference that Browdy was not
authorized to quote the President.
Nor, Short added, was Rep. Sa
bath, D-lll., who quoted the Presi
dent Tuesday as telling him Me
might make the "sacrifice" and
seek re-election if it would serve
world peace.
Home County's
GOP Renounces
Charles P. Taft
CINCINNATI ( Charles P.
Taft's home county Republican
party scorchir.gly renounced him
Tuesday night and endorsed a rival
of his for the GOP gubernatorial
nomination. State Sen, Roscoe R.
Walcutt.
The party's action came is Wal
cutt was urging the Cincinnati at
torney and brother of Sen. Taft.
It. -Clio, to get out of the race and
let two "clear-cut" Republicans
former Gov. Thomas J. Herbert of
Cleveland and himself battle it
out for the nomination for gov
ernor of Ohio.
The Hamilton County GOP or
ganization left no doubt that its
snub of Taft was deliberate.
It bitterly attacked the Cincin
natian's candidacy and his past
record, mentioning particularly
his "16 jobs under the New Deal
and Fair Deal administrations."
It accused him, too, of having
associates and supporters who
"have fought tooth and nail" in
the past to defeat his older brother,
Sen. Taft.
Hamilton County is regarded as
the biggest Republican county in
Ohio and one of the biggest in the
country.
Taft appeared unruffled when in
formed at Toledo of the action.
FIRE DAMAGE SMALL
A fire started by a faulty chim
ney caused damage estimated at
S25 to the roof of a house located
at 1032 W. 1st St. at 7:37 a.m.
today, reports Fire Chief William
E. Mills.
Chief Mills said a flue fire in
the Creason Hotel, 720 N. Jack
son St., Tuesday caused no dam
age. .
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OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1952
Si. Asia Goal
Of Reds, Taft
Tells Hearers
Ohio Senator Urges Use
Of Chiang Kai-Shek's
Army To Halt Invasion
SEATTLE Wl A Communist
assault on Southeast Asia Is on the
horizon. Senator Taft told a Lincoln
Day audience here Tuesday night,
and "the only chance to stop it is
by a Chinese Nationalist invasion
of Communist-held territory."
American arms and training, the
Ohioan told 5,000 persons in Seat
tle's Civic Auditorium, should be
speeded to Chiang Kai-shek o n
Formosa and the "600.000 men in
his Army, Navy and Air Force"
to effect this invasion
Will they." he asked In refer
ence to President Truman and Sec
retary of State Achcson, "prefer
to go on sending American soldiers
to the continent of Asia, wnen mi-
nese soldiers are begging to oe
sent to do the job.
The forces Chiang lus now, Taft
declared, offer the means "to pro
tect tha island chain which is our
Pacific shield and to prevent Com
munist conquest of Southeast
Asia."
Applaui Frequent
Ha asked, however, if there could
k. liAru, fw cioh 'enmmrai ftPllcP
in our national administration until
Acheson is thrown ou ot uie ue-
ffi'".. 11 ?ir?.",,.Vl
thrown out of the White House?"
He was interrupted 21 times for
scattered applause by Uie audience
but lengthy and vigorous applause
broke out wncn ne rientionea our
greatest soldier: General Mac
Arthur." Three thousand of his audience
paid $S each for ticketa to the din
ner... Two-thousand persons' occu
pied three-fourths of the free ad
mission seats in the balcony.
Roseburg Residents
Hurt In Cor Accident
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. McGowan,
residents of Roseburg for many
years, were rushed to Mercy Hos
pital Wednesday afternoon to re
ceive attention for injuries suffer
ed when their car went out of con
trol on Overlook Hill. Mrs. Mc
Gowan was discharged from the
hospital following treatment for
minor injuries, while Mr. Mc
Gowan, who suffered chtst injur
ies, remained in the hospital for
further attention.
Mr. McGowan, driver of the
car. told police that the car's
brakes failed as he driving
downhill on Vista Ave.
Arsistant Chief of Police James
McAlpine said the car crossed
Chadwick St. and struck a light
pole.
The car, McAlpine said, was
badly damaged.
A. . YOUNG STRICKEN
A. J. Young, fsrmtr Rostburg
mayor, was ruihtd to Marcy
Hospital aarly today ta ractiv
madical attention for a haart
attack, sufftrad today at hit
htm on Flint Strttt. No vititort
art to bt allawtd until hit con
dition improvtt.
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by Newark Airport. Thirty-two persons died, four of them
apartment house residents, and 41 were injured. The Newark
Airport runways were ordered closed by the Port of New York
Authority which operotes the field, (AP WIREPHOTO)
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PAUL F. MATSON, above,. The Reds list only 11,559 men in
president and treasurer of the : Red POW camps.
Federal Intermediate Credit i - A11!cd. staK officers negotiating
reaerai inrermeaiare ueou .:e,ajls for SUpervisins , truce ot
Bonk ot bpokane will be the ' fcred a two-point compromise:
speaker at the annual South--; If Communists agree to rotating
ern Oregon Production Asso-if0000 tr00P montlJ " ?di0,n
l. d- ... lo men on temporary leave, the Al-
ciation meeting in the Rjvers- I iM win drop twp demands the
dale Grange Feb. 19. Follow-! Reds oppose,
ing his graduation from the . 0n,e of these would forbid shift
i !:.,:,., iik-L ; 107? ln troops during a truce in a man
University of Alberta in iner could constitute an of-
he wos employed as superin- i fenslve threat. The other would re-
tendent of the Clagstone
rQnch in idaho SDecializina
th. nroduction of beef and
dairy
mttU nnA hnns n
1q,s . . unma . 0ff:iiQfed
with the bonk as livestock in
spector ond examiner.
Park Board's-
Activities Told
V
Inspections of fire-damaged Britt
Nichols County Park and planned
additions to Winchester Bay park
were among December activites of
the County Park Department, Sup
ervisor C. S. Collins said in a re
cent report.
One inspection trip to Britt Nic -
hols Park was made with Robert
Kleiner of the Forest Appraisal The Reds promised Tuesday to
Department and with Mr. Vrooman draft a new plan. It will be pro
of the Mar-Linn Timber Corpora-1 sented to a full dress negotiating
tion, to plan a sequence of logging . session.
and to discuss road maintenance! Meanwhile staff officers contin-
prnblems
Vandalism has been revealed at
Winchester Bay, the report said.
A latrine was broken into and a
toilet and wash basin removed.
r.-n:.. i j . ,
or acquirement of some two acres
of the lalter's property for use as
a parking lot at Winchester Bay.
Marks seemed favorably inclined
to the idea and stated he wanted
concession rights on the waters
between his and the county dock,
Collins said.
At Singleton Park, evidence has
been found of cars getting stuck
while trying to drive off the gravel
road,
Park Department expenditures
as of Dec. 31 amounted to $10,825.11
of the $25,000 budgeted, Collins
said.
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37-52
60-Day Limit
On Prisoner
Swap Okayed
Proposed Compromise
On Rotation Awaits
Acceptance By Allies
MUNSAN, Korea Allied ne
gotiators Wednesday accepted a 60
day limit on exchanging prisoners
and offered to compromise their
demands for supervising a Korean
truce.
The Communists had proposed
the 60-day limit. The exchange pe
riod is to start when an armistice
is signed. The agreement does not
toucn the key question of voluntary
repatriation.
The United Nations Command.
holding 132,000 prisoners, had want
ed 30 days more than was allowed
IhA RmI, In mmnlola (Via avhanna
..u'" weekly reports on tho loca.
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Ing MOO men M. Thev hTv.
: "' yocu una .o.vyu. nines orig.
inally asked 75,000 including men
on rest and recuperation leave to
Japan.
Ports Issue Saesawi
Both sides "meet halfway on
the number of ports of entry
tnrnucn wn eh trnnn anil wmi
would move under neutral super
vision aursng a truce.
The Allies had proposed eight.
Wednesday they cut it to seven.
The Reds had proposed three.
Tuesday they increased it u four.
. There was no word from the
Communists when they would have
ready their new proposed solution
for the fifth and final item of
armistice agenda. This deals with
recommendations to the govern-
' mcnts concerned for
settlement
I of the Korean problem.
ue working on details of the other
two unsettled armistice clauses.
But each is by-passing the most
troublesome issue.
These. by-passed points are: Shall
nrua uc miuweti n repair
u.L. ,uL ef C i?ice
the Reds be allowed to repair
whether they want to be ex
changed?
Staff officers dealing with pris
oners agreed to skip over the vol
iintary repatriation question Thurs
(lay when they start going over
the 11 point Allied plan for the
second time.
Bandit In Auto Uses
Liveried Chauffeur
NORWALK, Calif. I This In
flationarv era has Droduccd an
other first: The chauffeured holdup
man.
A masked bandit, driven by a
liveried chauffeur in an expensive
auto, neid up two service stations
Tuesday. After both jobs he step
ped to his car and commanded:
"Home, James!"
John Sala, attendant in a Down
ey station, told 'sheriff's officers
the highwayman wore a grotesque
red ncvii mask, hala surrendered
$64.78. The elite bandit got only $16
in his Norwalk holdup.
Bonneville's Income
May Ban Rates Boost
WASHINGTON 11 The Bonne
ville Power Administration had the
biggest net income in lis history
during the year ended last June
30, Dr. Paul Raver has told a
House appropriations subcommit
tee.
As a result, the accnev mav not
have to raise rates to its power
customers.
Raver said Bonnevi He's gross
revenue last year was 36 million
dollars and 14 ? million of it was
left alter deducting operating ex
penses, depreciation and interest
on the investment.
Deaths In Avalanches
In Alps Rise To 26
VIENNA, Austria (l Austria's
four day death toll from Alpine
avalanches mounted lo 2fi Wednes
day. Latest victims were three
children and a British skier.
New snows were causing the
avalanches. Communiralions in the
ntountain areas was virtually at a
standstill. International Ir.'ins were
running up to seven hours late.
Snow drifted tn 12 feet deep at
some places.
Bills Affect '
Split Of Land
Grant Money
Oregon Counties Would
Get 50 Per Cent Or Less
Instecd Of Present 77
WAsniwr:TrM m n.nAH
in revenues from O. & C. timber
lands, it was revealed here Tues
day when a House appropriations
subcommittee made public recent
testimony,
A number of Oregon counties now
receive 75 per cent of the receipts
from the sale of timber on O. & C.
lands. The remainder goes to the
federal government.
Marion Clawson, Bureau of Land
Management director, said that
bills now in both the House and
Senate proposed dividing the rev
enues evenly between the counties
and the government. That would
mean the counties' revenues would
be cut one third.
Clawson also said his bureau
would recommend amending these
bills so all government administra
tive expenses would be deducted
before the 50-50 split is made. That
would reduce tiie counties' share
still further.
Access Roads At Stakt
The matter came up during dis
cussion of a $700,000 program for
access roads in the O. & C. lands.
The House committee rejected a
similar request for access road
money last year, but an appro
priation, granted by the Senate.
remained in a compromise bill
worked out by Senate and House
conferees.
Ciawson said that under the pres
ent 75-25 split, the government has
not lost money. Administrative
costs have been less than the gov
ernment's share, he said.
Rep. Norell, D-Ark., questioned
Clawson's statement. "That is
broad statement and might be sub
ject to a.gument. Frankly I'm not
convinced," he said.
Record Training
Period For Army
Reserves Slated
WASHINGTON W The Army
announced Wednesday it will con
duct this year the biggest summer-
camp training program for its re
serves in the nation's history.
The department said in a newi
release that 160,000 reserve officers
and enlisted men will be called
for IS days of active duty, fbr
training on a "mandatory" basis.
Volunteers and other categories
will bring the training total up to
about 190,000.
In addition to the 160.000 manda
tory trainees 44,000 officers and
105,000 enlisted men nlus 11.000 of
ficers holding individual mobiliza
tion designations the summer
time total will include:
15,000 officers of the Volunteer
Reserve assigned to 15-day tours
of summer field training, other ac
tive duty or school attendance.
2,000 recruits in the Organized
Reserve Corps who are without
prior military service.. They are
authorized to serve a 30-day tour
with an active Army training di
vision. 2.677 officers and 2,805 enlisted
men who are students at service
schools. There will be an average
of 60 days of summer schooling
for the officers and 30 days for
the enlisted men.
6,774 officers and 1,954 enlisted
men who are students at Army
area schools. They will be selected
on the basis of training for future
advancement, and their summer
courses will average 17 days,
300 officers and 324 enlisted men
on the staff and faculty of the
Army area schools; 60 days for
officers, 30 days for enlisted men.
Thunderstorm Answers
Prayer Meeting For Rain
WACO Tex. 11 A thunder
storm early Tuesday dumped half
an inch of rain on Waco just a
few hours after an interdenomina
tional prayer meeting for rain.
Individuals had visited the First
Baptist Church chapel all day
Tuesday lo pray for rain for this
drouth-stricken area of Central
Texas.
At 7:30 p.m. some 70 persons
gathered in the chapel for an in
terdenominational prayer- meeting
for rain.
Not a cloud was in the sky then
but one woman brought her rain
coat. A few hours after the prayer
mecling adjourned the lightning
thunder and rain hit.
BURGLARY CHARGED
Dennis K. Bunnell, 18, Toketee
Falls, has been arrested on a bur
glary charge, the sheriff's office
reported.
Donuld S. Kelley, deputy district
attorney, said Bunnell is accused
of breaking into a house at Canyon
ville and taking $14 from a wo
man's purse.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
Nominations are being
made for the top actors and
plays of 1951 in Hollywood's
annual Oscar Derby. Our en
try for the greatest farce of
the year (and this one ai
well) if the truce wrangle in
Korea,