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U. of o. Library Eugene, Oregon I SAW V BOB GROS, director of advertising and public relations for Pa cific Gas and Electric company of San Francisco, as he relaxed at the home of Roseburg friends after flying here Thursday to address, as guest' speaker, .the annual banquet of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, held Thursday night at the" Methodist church. ' Appearing in the picture above with Mr. Gros are Miss Helen Casey and her cousin, Mrs.' Hazel Dixon. Mrs. Dixon's sister, Mrs. Joe Cauthorne and her husband, president and publisher of the San Francisco News, ore intimate friends of j Mr. Gros, and he expressed himself as being overjoyed at the. oriDortunitv. of v s tina Mrs. anxious to discover for myself," he explained, "whether all the fine things she's had to soy about it are justified. Already I'm becoming convinced that they are!" Mr. Gros is leaving Roseburg today by West Coast Air lines, "providing," he said, "we aren't fogged in and I can't believe my rabbit's foot will play me false. All together I've flown over half a million miles, and I've only been held up three times by fog in all this distance once in Los Angeles, once in San Diego, and once in Iceland!" JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Coordination Of Efforts To Meet Problem Decided On By Ministers, Officials - r' j . - , The Roseburg; Ministerial Association Thursday ap proved formation of a committee to coordinate the many programs in the county to prevent juvenile delinquency. The Rev. E. Clark Robb, president of the Association, said the idea was proposed by District Attorney Robert G. Davis. '. Davis, Police Chief Ted Mazsc and State Police Sergeant Holly V. Holcomb met with the minis ters Thursday to discuss juvenile delinquency. . The Rev. W. A. MacArthur, of the First Methodist Church, was elected as the Association's repre sentative on the proposed commit tee. The committee would include representatives of all agencies now working on or connected with the problem. This, the district attorney ex plained, would combine the efforts of the many agencies concern- ed with the county's rising delin quency rate. .-- The ministers decided their job in the program would be more than discussion of moral standards. "Our job is beyond mere educa tion or ' telling youths what the moral standards are." Rev. Mr. Robb said1. "It is to introduce them to a religious experience that will transform them to . a wholesome outlook on life." ' By "religious experience," Rev. Mr. Robb said he was referring to the layman's ideai of "conversion." Contributing Causes Told The officers agreed their task '.-went beyond enforcement of the laws and arrest of offenders. It included work in trying to elimin ate potential juvenile offenses. The availability to minors of liquor, cigarets and automobiles are contributing factors to juven ile delinquency in the opinion of Davis. Another big factor is home and family problems. Davis read to the group an an onymous letter he received deplor ing the juvenile conditions in the city and suggesting a youth center as an answer. He commented he didn't think that would solve anything because the major problem is educating the community on just how wide spread delinquency is. The group then raised the ques tion of whether a "Delinquency Row." along the same lines as the Traffic Safety Committee's "Death Row" of last November, wouldn't help. More careful attention ought to be given to' marriage counseling practices, the group felt, in view of the many juvenile problems trace able to broken homes. This will be taken, up at the Min isterial Association's next regular r- ;ng March 13, Rev. Mr. Robb said. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Situr day. Highest tamp, for any Fob. Lowtst limp, (or any Fob, Highest ttmp. last 24 hours Lowest timp. last 24 hours Procip. last 24 hours Proc:p. from Fob. 1 Procip. from Sept. 1 Excess ISunttt today, 5:44 p.m. . Sunriit tomorrow, 7:10 a.m. By Paul Jenkins MMIMIJI , i Cauthorne's home town. m.Ie? oi nve aouars is cnargea. Douglas Would Lose In Proposed New O-C Split i Bills pending in Congress and proposed amendments which would reduce the percentage of O. & C. money going to 18 Oregon counties would if passed mean a loss of about $200,000 per year to Douglas County's road, fund at the present rate. . . This was the estimate of Com missioner Lynn Beckley who used last year's O. & C. income as a basis.. i Last year Beckley said under the old 50-50 plan where the coun ties and federal government took equal shares Douglas County re ceived about 186,000 in O. & C. money. But federal legislation recently upped the counties' share to 75 per cent. However the bills now in Con gress would return the split to the former 50-50 basis . and a Bureau of Land Management official in Washington said an amendment would be recommended which would deduct about'30 per cent for the government administrator ex penses before the split was made. ITsincr last vpar'i fimirpc MniiD. las County would receive about $606,000 in that event Bockley said. About half of the 30-per cent that the government would deduct would be used for access roads Beckley estimated. County Judge Carl C. Hill said the executive committee of the Association of O. & C. Counties is recommending that the counties receive 50 per cent of the gross revenue. " As an alternative, Hill said, the association would accept a 10 per cent reduction in gross O. Jt C. revenue before the county - fed eral split is made provided an other 10 per cent of the gross is given the counties specifically for access roads. Youths Plead Guilty To Charges Of Theft Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimber ly Thursday postponed sentences on two 18-year-old youths who en tered pleas of guilty during ar raignment in his court. Dennis K. Bunnell, Toketce Falls, admitted burglarizing the home of Joan Hayes, some three miles east of Canyonville. to steal monev ... 7 from a purse. ... 3 1 William James Dewar, 1532 Al .... 54 der St., pleaded guilty to a charge .... 4 of larceny in'a motor vehicle. Po T I lire said he was involved with two 1.50 1 other youths, ages 16 and 17, in an 27.M attempt to steal tools from a park t.t j el ear. The other youths previous ly had been referred to juvenile 1 authorities. Established 1873 Suit Attacks Log Hauling ions James E. Laney Seeks Injunction Against County Enforcement By KEN METZLER Suit to enjoin the county front enforcing its log hauling regula tions was filed in Circuit Court Thursday 'afternoon. James E. Laney, 908V4 S, Jack son St., a log truck owner and operator, ' filed the complaint against County Commissioners Lynn Becklev and Elmer Metzger, Judge Carl C. Hill and Sheriff 0. T. Carter. Laney hauls logs from Little River to the Martin Brothers Box Co. pond at Oakland, using High way 99 and the North Umpqua Highway. The county log hauling regula tions in question were adopted by t,uckers hauling logs over county roads to obtain county permits. A the court in 1948 and require all In his complaint. Laney contends the regulations are contrary to a 1951 legislative enactment putting jurisdiction of county roads in the hands of the State Highway Com mission, except such jurisdiction by counties as. provided in the act itself. The regulations are "an attempt to regulate in an unlawful manner and without the authority of law the business of hauling logs over county roads," Laney says in the complaint. They are "in violation of the pro vision of the Constitution of Ore gon and the Constitution of the United States, depriving plaintiff j oi nis property, ana UDerty wiln out due process of law," Laney con tinues. Discrimination Claimtd Furthermore, the plaintiff says, the regulations are discriminatory against the log haulers because there is no attempt to regulate other types of hauling over county roads lumber trucks, moving vans or oil tankers. The legislative enactment men tioned in the complaint which includes the new schedule of fines for overweight load violations specifically repeals paragraph 10 of the county's regulations, Laney says. This paragraph provides for pun ishment for violations of the county regulations under a previous state law. Laney says that on Feb. 7 he was directed to obtain a permit to haul logs over county roads under threat of possible arrest and prosecution. In the suit, Laney also asks that, during its pendency, the defend ants be ordered to show cause why they should not be enjoined from enforcing the log hauling regula tions. It was rCDorted that the countv has issued a total of some 300 log haulers permits this year. Nountr's Opinion Cittd Last fall, Attorney General George Neuner ruled that coun ties could not require permits for log haulers and added that the counties had no authority on regu lating county roads unless the state specifically gave them permission. The County Court immediately abolished its ban on Sunday log hauling. It had put the ban in el ect despite a State Highway Com mission order opening state routes on Sundays to give loggers a chance to catch up on time lost during last summer's forest clos ures. At the lime, however, the court said all other regulations on log hauling would remain in effect un til it heard otherwise from Neuner or from District Attorney Robert Davis. Although Laney's suit is hot bas ed on Neuner's ruling, the case closely parallels the opinion of the attorney general, Laney's attorney said. Ballot On Bargaining Agent Gives Nod To CIO Approval of a CIO woodworkers union as the bargaining agent for production employees of Mar-Linn Timber Corp., Winchester, was vot ed in an election Tnursday. Ivan Vrooman, manager of the plant, reported that of 144 men el igible to vote, 76 approved the un ion, 4ff voted to have no union representation and 20 did not vote. The vote must be certified by the National Labor Relations Board before becoming official, Vrooman said. The 144 men eligible to rote were those working in production jobs as of Jan. 15, the date the NLKB authorized the election. Since then about 30 more have been added. Some 15 others work in the office. The mill was constructed last f'ear rrd began initial operation ast June and full-time production last November. During construction, the mill was picketed by AFL construction worker! for period of 107 riavs, ending last July, Vrooman said. Regulat ROSEBURG, Sen. Parkinson Will Not Seek Another Term SEN. TOM PARKINSON Says 10 Years Enough Thomas Parkinson, state sen ator from Douglas County for the past 10 years, will not seek re election, he announced today. "It's getting too complicated," Parkinson said, reciting his rea sons for retiring from the political field. "The time required for a legis lative session wrecks a whole year," he explained. "Our busi ness is expanding and is demand ing more and more time and ef fort. I do not feel I can afford the sacrifice demanded by service in the legislature. "I am very grateful to the residents of Douglas County for the confidence they have shown in returning me to the Senate dur ing the time I have served, and I appreciate the expressions from many friends urging that I try for election this year. I feel, how ever, that 10 years are enough." Parkinson, elected in 1942, has been widely recognized for his legislative work in the field of education, juvenile and social leg islation, game and agriculture. He was credited with securing passage of the junior college bill at the last session, and as chair man of the committee on educa tion at the 1949 session, spear headed the basic school support bill, later approved at a refer endum vote. He sponsored the boys camp bill. He was author of the bills, and led the fight re sulting in removal of commercial, fishing for game fish on the Ump qua river. Carrie L Dixon Passes Away Carrie L. Dixon, 79, life-long res- inent oi me Koseourg area, died Thursday, Feb. illness. , , , 14, after a long She was born March 3, 1872, on Sunshine Ranch on the Umpqua River, where her pioneer parents, R. B. and Nannie Livingston Dix on, who crossed the plains in 1852, first' settled. It was for them that the town of Dixonville was named. Excepting for ten years when she resided in San Francisco, she had lived in this community. A couple of years back she made headlines of the nation's news papers, when she was one of the passengers evacuated from a ship which went aground outside Hono lulu harbor. Surviving are two brothers, Will Dixon, Roseburg, and Selh Dixon, Ft. Klamath. Funeral services will be held in the Chapel of the Roses. Rose burg Funeral Home, Monday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m., with Dr. Mor ris Roach of the First Presbyter ian Church officiating. Vault inter ment will follow in the Masonic Cemetery. i At'' ' - :'fr-j V , - .fa n WHILE ASSISTANTS WATCHED, Normo Wood, center, unit nurse from Portland, put a donor of eose as he donated a pint of blood to the blood bank Thursday afternoon at the Elks Temple. The Elks have made a national appeal for one million pints of blood. Standing at, left is Mrs. Don Rodabough ond at right is Mrs. Ivan Pickens. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) I OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1952 Byrd Urges Budget Slash Of $9 Billion Overlapping Foreign Aid, Civilian Programs Senator's Top Targets WASHINGTON Ifl Lawmakers studying President Truman's $85, 444,000,000 budget Friday applaud ed a demand by Senator Byrd (D-Va.) that it be cut by nearly nine billion dollars. Some members of the Senate Ap propriations Committee expressed doubt Byrd's goal could be achieved but the idea of a sub stantial reduction won an election year endorsement. Byrd, a leading economy advo cate, made public Thursday night a detailed analysis and a proposed downward revision of the Truman budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. "The Byrd budget," as he de Scribed it, calls for spending of $76,800,000,000 or $8,000,000,000 less than Mr, Truman proposed. Foreign Aid Chief Target His proposals included: ' Wiping out entirely a proposed 2 H billion dollars in economic aid abroad saying any continuing need in that field would be met by "overlapping" military assistance to friendly foreign nations. Such military aid. Byrd said, should to tal $7,900,000,000 instead of eight billion dollars as requested by the President. Cutting $2,700,000,000 from the to tal of 52 Vi billion dollars he listed in the President's budget for this country's military program. He said $1,260,0000 could be saved in . salaries and overhead in the armed services. Slice three billion dollars from the $10,600,000,000 the administra tion wants to spend on various do mestic civilian, programs. , '- '. .. ... -V-. ... 7 Two Douglas Ve!2rans Win Farm Rights Two Douglas County men were among 38 Washington and Oregon veterans who Thursday won the right to purchase farms in the Columbia Basin irrigation project. They are Theodore F. Insley, Roseburg, SJid Marion C. Wine barger, Myrtle Creek. The names of 17 veterans living in the two states were drawn from a pickle jar containing applica tions from 2,641 of the nation's t.w.ivtMini. i imc men win be abe l0 buy tne ,,, 8cned. mra iu ne lrngaiea irom v,rana Coulee Reservoir, when they prove financial responsibility and farming ability. . . Theodore Insley served In the U. S. Air Force as a lieutenant from 1943-45. He is married and has three children, and is now operating a cab company in Leb anon. Insley formerly lived on Route 4, Box 330, Roseburg, Winebarger served as a serg eant in the Army from 1942-46 in New Guinea and the Philippines. He now owns and operates a log ging truck out of Myrtle Creek. He is married and has three chil dren. : COUPLE DIES AT FUNERAL BARNES Eng. 11 William Caudle and his wife, both about 70, collapsed and died within a few moments of each other Friday while watching the funeral proces sion of King George VI on television. Z C I Count U.S. Strength, Not Alleged Weaknesses, Americans Urged By Speaker At C. Of C. B a n q u e t World War III Not Inevitable Robert R. Gros Says; Peace Not Probable During Present Era "America, confident in its moral and material might, should reject appeasement of the Russian slave state," declared Robert R. Gros - of San Francisco, nationally known world affairs commentator, before the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, in a ringing challenge for the na tion "to count our strengths, not just our alleged weak School Budget Set For District Of Myrtle Creek A 1952-53 budget of $487,000 for the Myrtle Creek School District has been unanimously approved by the budget committee, Super intendent M. C. Dcller reported. Of this amount, Myrtle Creek tax payers will be asked to raise about $240,000, Deller said. The budget was drawn up this week after a series of meetings by the school, board. The board set March 13 as the date of the opening bids for con struction of the Tri-City Grade School and for conversion of a three-room additmn to the pres ent elementary school to a cafe teria. Bids are now being asked. The construction and revision were provided for by a $190,000 bond issue approved by the dis trict voters last Dec. 14. Metal allocations for the Tri-City job have been released and the dis trict hopes the new school can be completed by next fall. Deller said. Myrtle Creek voters must ap prove the new budget which ex ceeds t'.ie six per cent limitation. Last year's budget was slightly over $400,000. The election date has not yet been set. - A number, of expenses In -addU uon to in routine costs contribuie to the 52-53 budget, Deller said. Foremost is $45,000 due on bond retirement and another $15,000 on bond interest. Other major items out of the or dinary include $4,800 for the Tri City school grounds, $14,750 for land for proposed addition to the high school, $14,000 for a three room addition to the grade school to take care of an unexpected en rollment increase, and an increase of $5,000 for insurance. In addition, increases In teacher and personnel salaries amount to some $12,000 over the previous budget, Deller said. Foe's Casualties Pass 1,577,000 In Korean War WASHINGTON I - The Army Friday estimated total enemy cas ualties in Korea at . 1,577,734 through Feb. 6. That figure, covering Commu nist military losses alone, is an increase of 14,260 since the Jan. 25 eslimate. The total Included 1,142,099' bat tle casualties, 303.358 non-battle losses and 132,277 counted prison ers of war. In addition to the military pris oners, the Army also listed 37.859 civilian internees under United Na tions military control. The latest U.N. casualty report, Issued Feb. 5, put losses of U.N. forces at 306.070 up to Dec. 31. PARKING FINES DUE About 100 warrants will be Is sued soon for the arrest of per sons delinquent In the payment of parking meter fines, reports Chief of Police Ted Mazac. 39-52 nesses. Gros spoke before i capacity audience of approximately 225 per sons in the Methodist Church din ing room Thursday night. Paul Geddcs was master of ceremonies. New and old directors and their wives were introduced, and retir ing President George Luoma, aft er briefly summarizing the past year s activates, turned over the gavel to new President J. F. "Si Dillard. Ralph Church sang two solos, accompanied by . Frances Lintott. Drawing on Interviews he has had with the principal figures in ine national aeoaie on loreign pot icy, Gros described today's Wash' ington acene as "confusion worse confounded." "Give us statesmen to match our fighting men," he fileadcd "statesmen who will ook to the next generation instead ot the next election."- , Developing his topic "Freedom Is Never Free," Hie dinner speak er pointed out that our freedom was won at great cost and retained through eternal vigilance. He said, "In this era when the cost of ev erything else is going steadily up ward and the value of the dollar downward, the cost of freedom re mains absolutely constant pre cisely where it has been since the founding of our Republic. That cost is payable only in human ef fort. Nothing is free in today's be wildered and bewildering world -and freedom least -of alL, . ;..v Korean SKUmal Deplortd He declared confidence in the global outlook of the Department of Defense, which recognizes that attempting too much too soon might destroy the economy and thereby win Russia a victory with out a shot, but he deplored the stalemate in the Korean war. He said, "The State Department stands Indicted by its own record of failure in Far Eastern foreign policy ... a policy that has been appeasement, vacillation, procras tination, sterile, negative and one of consistent inconsistency." In the latest of numerous inter viewing trips to Washington and New York Gros had conversa tions with President Truman, Gen eral Douglas MacArthur, Secre tary of State Achcson, Defense Secretary George C. Marshall, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief Justice Vinson, Charles Wilson, Mike DiSalle, Bernard Ba ruch, Herbert Hoover, John L.I Lewis various Cabinet members and other high officials. His com ments on global policy were based also on talks with foreign diplo mats and on three postwar trips to Europe, the Mediterranean area, India and the Far East. MacArthur he characterized as "The most truly great personage I have ever interviewed," and re ferred to the General's "depth of character, integrity, spirituality, intellect and amazing eloquence." Gros' hour-long session with Mac Arthur in New York last summer was the first full-dress interview granted by the General following his return from Tokyo. "While it is prerequisite to have right on our side right alone is not sufficient. In today's grimly realistic . world, Right Needs Might," Gros declared. He cited as his basic premise an admoni tion given him in 1945 by the late Jan Masaryk, "In today's world, the only workable idealism is strict realism!" Offers t-Pelnt Program In concluding, Gros advocated a six point platform of "recognitions of facts and necessities." 1. That there will be no peace in our time. At worst we shall have a catastrophic World War III; at best, we shall settle down to living in a veritable garrison state for the next two or three decades. 2. It would be a profound mis take of history to assume that World War III is inevitable. All out war is possible and perhaps even probable, but we should not and dare not assume it is inevit able. 3. Demand a leadership deserv ing the faith of the American peo ple. Only thus can we have real unity. 4. Face the fundamental facts of life regarding Russia: 1. Communism is a fanatic re ligion bent on world domina tion. . 2. The only voice Russia un derstands is the voice of steel strength, power., force. 5. We are olavinff far keens in this so-called Cold War which has become warm in some spots, trag ically hot in others. Human rights are the stake and freedom is the issue. 6. Let's cast out forever the phil osophy of defeatism, concentrat (Continued on Page 2) President's Request May Be Rejected r Congress Never Before Asked To Grant Such i Sweeping Authority By B. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON I President Truman's request for far-reaching investigative powers for Newbold Morris, his government cleanup prosecutor, Friday faced prospects of rough going on Capitol Hill. Key lawmakers were quick to term it "unprecedented" and "a complete' departure from estah lished practice." So far as could be determined, Congress was being asked for the first time to cloak an individual in the executive, branch with virtual- ' ly unlimited subpoena powers, and the tremendous added authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution. The sweeping proposal, certain to run into Congresional snags, states in effect: Where it is "necessary to the public Interest," witnesses may not be excused from testifying or pro ducing records on grounds ot self incrimination and subjection to pos sible criminal prosecution. But when compelled to testify, after claiming Constitutional priv ileges against self-incrimination, the witness shall not be prosecuted. Congress' Power Limited This is a power never exercised by any committee of Congress, as far as could be determined. The only power to enforce testi mony used by Congressional com mittees is the power to cite a wit ness for contempt and this is sub ject to approval by the whole House or Senate. Similarly, the power to subpoena witnesses and documents outside as well as inside the government was considered somewhat unusual in the present case. It was said, after a quick check, that not even in the Teapot Dome hearings of the 1920 s did Senate staff investigators have the power to subpoena outside the govern ment. Mr. Truman told his news con ference that he did not know if the executive branch of government had ever sought such powers be fore, but said he had Atty. Gen. McGrath's full backing. Mossadegh Aide Shot By Gunman' ly PHM.IP CLARKE -r-.r "TEHRAN, Iran tfi . Hosseln Fatcmi, 38, right-hand man of Pre mier Mohammed Mossadegh, was shot and wounded Friday oy a youthful Moslem terrorist who shouted, "There is no God but Al lah." . Fatemi, former deputy premier, was felled by a single pistol shot fired at point blank range as ba was addressing a crowd in a cemetery near Tehran. He was speaking on the fifth an niversary of the assassination of one of Iran's first Nationalist martyrs. Fatemi was rushed to a Tehran hospital owned anu operated by Mossadegh's son, Dr. Gholam Hos sein Mossadegh. Hospital attend ants said the chest wound would not be fatal. The would-be assassin was seized by the crowd, which scuffled with police in apparent anger over po lice failure to prevent the attack. He told police only that his name was Mohammed. Bids Will Be Opened Feb. 19 On Douglas Jobs Bids on two Douglas County jobs will be opened when the State Highway Commission meets Tues day, Feb. 19, in Portland. Th include construction of a 226-foot bridge across Calapooia River at Fair Oaks near Sutherlin and for cleaning and painting the Umpqua River Bridge at Rcedsport. Principal business of the com mission will be opening of bids on its second batch of $15 million worth of slate highway bonds at 9 - a.m. The meeting will be at the Imperial Hotel. Portland Churches Join Anti-Betting Campaign PORTLAND ii The Portland Council of Churches will join in the campaign against dog and horse rare betting in Oregon. The Oregon Council of Churches announced last week it would start an initiative measure, to go on the November ballot, to outlaw the betting. The Portland council an nounced the same decision Thurs day. X-RAY UNIT SCHEDULE The mobile chott X-ray units will obstrvo the following sched ule Saturday. Downtown Drain, 1 p.m. -5 p.m.; Rottburg, Montgomtry Ward, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; . Myrtle Crotk,.. Terminal. Fountain, 10 a.m. - S p.m.; Azaloa Stor 11 a.m.-S p.m.; Rottburg, Nltl itn't Marktt, 10 a.m. -5 p.m.; Rottburg J C Ptnnty Store, 10 a.m.-S p.m. Levity Fact Rant By I. F. Reizensteln Newspaper headlines may come, and newspaper head lines may go, but those' that may go on forever are "Juve nile Delinquency Will Be Discussed."