U. of 0. Library
Eugene, Oregon
COIuP
Report Calls
For 15 River
Basin Boards
Commission's Program
Receives Truman's Nod
After One-Year Study
WASHINGTON on After year i
I SAW By Poufjenkins
RALPH MENARD, announcer at KRXL, is president of the
Roseburg Community Players, a theatrical group of young
people who meet weekly at the Armory. At the present time
they have three one-act. plays under rehearsal which will be
presented here about the first week in March; a three-act play
is planned for Moy. Recently Mr. Menard attended the North
west Dramatic Conference in Eugene as delegate from the
Roseburg Players. Delegates from Little Theater groups from
all over the Northwest were present, representing high schools,
colleges and civic groups. '
RUSSIA NEUTRAL?
That's What Reds Claim
In Korean Nomination;
Allies 'Note Statement'
MUNSAN, Korea (AP) The Communists Monday
challenged Allied rejection of Russia's nomination to a neu
tral inspection commission which would help police a Korean
mice.
The Reds declared that bv everv
standard the Soviet Union qualifies
as a neutral.
The neutral nation commission
would make behind-the-lines in
spections during an armistice.
The Communists argued that So
viet combat forces have not fought
in Korea and that if Russia cannot
be considered a neutral "there
would be no neutral nation at all
existing in the world."
An Allied staff officer replied
only "I note your statement."
Soviet experts trained the North
Korean army before the out
break of war and the Reds are
using Russian-type planes and
other war materiel.
The U.N. has nominated Switzer
land, Norway and Sweden as its
representatives on the inspection
commission. The Reds named Po
land and Czechoslovakia in ad
dition to Russia.
SEOUL, Korea I American
Sabre jet pilots, out-numbered
more than two to one, damaged
two Communist MIG jets in a bat
tle high over North Korea Monday
the Fifth Air Force said.
On the ground, an Allied tank
infantry task force penetrated deep
into the Communists' old Iron Tri
angle, in Central Korea, drove Chi
nese Reds of! a high hill, then
pulled back.
Another U.N. raiding party broke
out of a Communist trap east of
the Pukhan River in Central Korea
Sunday night and returned safely to
Allied lines.
The party was pinned down six
hours by machine-gun fire and
grenades.
The air battle matched 19 Sabre
jets againt 40 Communist MIG 15s
The MIGs tried unsuccessfully
to break through a screen of Sabres
protecting fighter bombers attack
ing North Korean supply lines. Lt
Kenneth C. Giescr of Sherburne,
Minn., was credited with damag
ing two MIGs.
An Air Force spokesman said
Operation Strangle had caused the
Chinese Reds "terrific expense"
and probably had prevented the
Communists from attempting a
major offensive.
Uninjured Man Dies
After Auto Accident
PHOENIX. Ariz, lifl A Merlin.
Ore., man died here Saturday 20
minutes after an automobile ac
cident in which he was not in
jured. He was John Voight. 66. He col-
lapsed while discussing the mishap i
which occurred while he was pull-1
ing out of a parking space. He
died later at a hospital.
The Weather
Cloudy wim thowtrl of rain er
mow today. Tuesday occasional
rain or mow and snow mixed.
"Highest limp, for any Feb. ..
Lowest temp, for any Feb.
Highest Temp, last 24 hours
Lowtit tomp. last 24 hours
Precip. last 24 hours .
Precis, from Feb. 1
Prtcip. from Sept.
tExcuts
.... 7?
3
.... 4J
.... 30
21
3.33
29.74
7.SS
p.m.
a.m.
Sunset today.
Sunrise tomorrow,
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Chinese Family! .
Voted Out, Gets
Flood Of Offers
SAN FRANCISCO OB A Cii
nese family, voted out of a white
neighborhood on the eve of hrother
hood week, was swamped Monday
with offers of welcome from across
the country.
Sing Sheng, 25-year-old air line
mechanic, said his telephone hasn't
stopped ringing since Saturday,
when white residents of South San
Francisco's Southwtod Tract voted
174-28 they didn't want him as a
neighbor.
Sheng had suggested the ballot
ing, explaining "I was sure every
body believed in democracy."
The Shengs could have insisted
on their right to occupy the house.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled
that any agreement excluding
home ownership because of race
or creed is not enforceable.
Southwood residents said they ob
jected because property values
would decline if the former officer
in the Chinese Nationalist Army
moved in with his American-born
wife and two-year-old son.
The Shengs, who are expecting
another child next week, reclaimed
the S2,950 they deposited on the
$12,300 home. They hoped to get
hack deposits on $1,000 worth of
furniture.
There were calls from Wichita
with a job thrown in; from Indiani
polis, Seattle and all around the
San Francisco Bay area.
Negress Finally Sings
At Constitution Hall
WASHINGTON i Dorothy
Maynor became the first Negro
ever to appear commercially at
Constitution Hall Sunday when she
sang as guest soloist with the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra.
Thirteen years ago the Hall,
owned by the Daughters of the
American Revolution, barred Con
tralto Marian Anderson. A storm
of protest followed and she sang
from the steps of the Lincoln Me
morial. Paul Hume, music critic for the
Washington Post, said it was a
dramatic concert. He praised Miss
Maynor's artistry, and added:
"It was no ordinary afternoon of
singing, in or did us drama lack
the awareness of the historic mo-
ment when the principal concert
hall in our nation's capital opened
its door to one of the greatest
singers
forth."
America has brought
Hotel Condemnation
Hearing Set Tonight
A public hearing on the pro
posed condemnation of the Lane
; Hotel. 313 W. Lane St., is sched
! uled for the city council meeting
I tonight at 7:30 in the City Council
Chambers. The matter was dis
I cussed at the meeting a month
j ago. and the hearing set on the
maurr. aiorm sewers ano wesi
Roseburg street paving are also
expected to be on the council
docket tonight.
Established 1873
U. S., Britain Ready Pacific
Tests Of Atomic Weapons
America's New
Bomb Possibly
Hydrogen Type
WASHINGTON I The Defense
Department announced Mondav
that preparations for new atomic
tests are under way in the Pacific.
The brief announcement gave no
hint as to the nature of the issts.
They will be conducted at Eni
wetok, remote Pacific atoll, by a
joint team of experts from the
Army, Navy, Air Force and Atomic
Energy Commission.
While there was no official in
formation, the fact that Eniwetok
was' selected for the tests sug
gests that they involve some weap
on either too powerful for testing
at the Yucca Flats Range in Ne
vada, or of particular concern to
Naval warfare.
A variety of atomic weapons was
tested last fall at Yucca Flats,
among them possibly a "baby
bomb."
Hydrogen Bomb Perhaps
The Eniwetok testing site was
lacf ..cJ in Ik. ,.;.,- nf loci
Following those tests, it was an-
nounced that atomic experts hadU-..i x c,; ft.,
gained "much useful" information
toward
creation of a hydrogen
bomb.
Some atomic experts have esti
mated that a hydrogen bomb might
be 1,000 times more powerful than
the A-bombs dropped on Japan
during World War II.
Monday's announcement coincid
ed with word released in London
that Britain expects to test an
atomic weapon her first this
year. The weapon was described
as new. The tests probably will
be in September or October in Aus
tralia. Some Details Withheld .
The Eniwetok tests presumably
will be much sooner, but defense
officials said they could not give
any information at .this time that
would point to the exact date or
dates of the tests.
They indicated that preparations
for the new series are well ad
vanced but that the actual move
ment of the various service and
operational groups that will take
part in the test series has not be
gun. Infant Born In Auto
As Car Crosses Bridge
PORTLAND 1H When Ted
Sidor started across the Hawthorne
bridge here Saturday morning;
there were four persons in his car.
When he got lo the other side,
there were five.
Sidor's wife gave birth to a son
as Sidor with two other children
in the back seat rushed his wife
toward a hospital here.
The Sidors are front Halsey,
Ore.
Violation Of Curfew
Puts Fines On Parents
The parents of five juveniles
paid $5 fines for allowing their chil
dren to remain on the streets after
10 p.m. curfew, Chief of Police Ted
Mazac reports.
Mazac said that persons under
18 years of age will be cited for
violating curfew if they remain on
the streets even though ttiey are
in an automobile.
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SLATES INTRODUCTORY CONCERT Newly formed Rose-1 concert ot Roseburg Junior High School Auditorium ot 8:15.
burg Symphony Orchestra wjll moke its debut tonight in o,Orchestra is sponsored by the Kiwonis Club. (Staff Pictuie)
ROSEBURG,
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M. L. KUMLER, above, is the
new Douglas County 4-H Club
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An Oregon Stote College grad- brjef announccme,' id
uote, he spent the war yearsoniy that the test of an atomic
teaching in inaia. tncture oy;
Paul Jenkins)
Roseburg Leads
In Per Capita
Dimes March
ftoseburg" leads the stale In per
capita contributions to the March
of Dimes. Chairman Bob McCarl
reported Sunday.
In speaking on KRNR's "This
Town Is Yours" radio interview,
McCarl said Roseburg may rank
9 hiffh a fifth up aivth in tho
nation. This, he said, was reported
by a representative of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Roscburg's contributions in the
drive, which closed .Ian. 31, Was
figured at $22,561.57, McCarl said.
The most successful single en
deavor of the March of Dimes
campaign was the Mothers March,
which brought in $3,631.81, McCarl
reported. A Rotary Club acution
netted S1.755 and the schools
particularly Senior High were
very active.
McCarl also listed other activ
ities during the campaign that
brought in considerable amounts.
Of Ihe total amount, local ex
penses will be deducted first
but these amount to only a small
fraction of the total, "less than one
per cent," McCarl said.
The remainder will be equally
divided and half will remain lo.
cally while the rest goes to the
National Foundation for relayed
use locally if necessary.
DRUNK DRIVING CHARGED
Albert Alonzo Trask, 45, Sothcr
lin, is being held in the county
jail pending arraignment on a
drunk driving charge, state police
report. He was arrested Saturday.
OREGON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1951
Near Equality
In Power Claim
Of British Press
LONDON I Britain announced
Monday she will test new atomic
weapon this year.
The probable date and place are
late September or early October
on the bleak Woomera Rocket
Range in Australia.
British experts believe their
weapon is better than any produced
to date by tb.t United States, but
perhaps not as powerful.
The official announcement did
not say whether the new weapon
is a bomb.
There was speculation that it
might be a bomb, shellhead or
some other device whose explos
ions could be controlled1 and thus
used in support of ground troops
But Chapman Pincher, well-in
formed science reporter for the
London Daily Express, said "the
weapon will almost certainly be a
high powered atomic Domo oe
signed for use by aircraft.
Allt horit atlVe SOUl'CeS 5
Authoritative sources said the
new weapon will be set off by an
entirely new but SHU secret proc
ess
Preparations lor me test inciuae
r. lik. UJU1. lie
weapon wm at ueia in nusmiua
this vear.
But London newspapers hailed
it as proof that Britain had made
a tremendous stride forward in ft
drive to restore the country to
military equality with the United
States and the Soviet Union.
Most papers played prominently
a remark by Sen. McMahon,
D-Conn., chairman of the U.S.
Senate-House CommiUee on Atom
ic Energy, that the development
could cause the U.S. to revise its
policy against sharing atomic in
formation with the British.
The principal designer of the
weapon is Dr. William Penney, 42-year-old'
chief superintendent of
armament research for the govern
ment. Penney, a Cambridge edu
cated scientist, worked for a time
at the U.S. Atomic Lalnralory a.
Los Alamos, N. Mex., during and
immediately after World War II.
Britain has been making Pluton
ium the material used for the U.S.
omb dropped on Nagasaki and
tested at Bikini Island in the Paci
ficat a plant at Sellafield, on the
northwest coast, for more than a
year. But there has been no ex
traction plant. The government an
nouncement indicated such a plant
either now is in operation or soon
will be.
34 Killed In Airliner
Disaster In Sicily
BURGIO, Sicily .1 Police
reached the wreckage of a British
airliner on the side of Sicilian Mt.
Rose near here Monday and report
ed all 34 aboard were dead.
A police communique from Sciac
ca, at the foot of Ihe mountain
where the crash occurred, said 25
of the 34 bodies had been identified
and attributed the disaster to icing
of the wings.
Many of the victims were re
ported to be families of Br'Hsh
soldiers stationed in Kenya, Brit
ain's East African colony.
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FIRST SAFE DRIVER PLEDGE
Flegel signs the first safe driver pledge in campaign launched
todoy by Governor Regional Safety Committee. Col Boird, a
member of the safety committee, looks on, (Staff Picture)
Safety Driving Promotion,
Securing Personal Pledges,
Starts In Douglas County
The Governor's Regional Safety Committee today began
it's county-wide program to promote safety on the hiEhwavs.
Safe Driver pledge .cavcis
stations throughout. Roseburg, and Toastmasters Club mem
bers were preparing to pvesent the program to civic clubs
Snowfall Fails
To Close Roads .
Snow again hit Douglas County
Sunday night and the Weather
Bureau predicts snow and rain
showers today and Tuedsay.
The temperature dipped to 30 de
grees Sunday night and is expected
to fall a few degrees below freez
ing tonight.
Snow measured .2 of an inch in
Roseburg at 9 a.m. today.
But the main roads in the County
remain open. Several inches of
snow gave motorists trouble on
Rice Hill between 6 and 10 p.m.
Sunday, State police report that I
several cars left the road, but
damage to the vehicles was slight
Police advised the use of chains
on Highway 99 south. Ice spots
are reported on the highway south
of Roseburg.
It was snowing lightly on high
way 97 this morning, but road con
ditions were not hazardous. One
inch of new snow had been record
ed, and 13 inches were piled along
the roadside.
ARNALL CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON Wl The Senate
confirmed by voice vote Monday
President Truman's nomination of
Ellis G. Arnall, former governor of
Georgia, as Price Stabilization Di
rector. Arnall succeeds Michael V, Dl
Salle, who resigned to seek Ihe
Democratic nomination for the
U.S. Senate in Ohio.
41-52
Roseburo's Mayor Albert G.
were being distributed to iras
throughout the county,
Plans were also under wav to
appear before the high school driv
ers at a later date. The High
School requested i delay 1 n
start of the program there to con
nect it with another high school
safety program.
' Starting this week, drivers will i
oe asKca to sign we pledge:
"I shall observe all traffic laws
and respect the rights of others
on the highways."
Business firms In the county
were also being contacted in
spreading the program to workers
throughout the county.
Drivers who sign the pledges
will be given "Safe Driver Ore
gon" dccals, which LeRoy Hiatt,
iimiriuan 01 ine saicty program
I suggests be placed on the dash-
just above the 60-mile-an-hour
mark on the speedometer.
Although the pledge has no le
gal weight, Hiatt suggests it has
a "psychological value it's just
one more thing to make the
driver think about what he's doing,
and if it prevents only one or two
accidents it will be worthwhile."
What Figures Show
The committee is attempting to
prevent repetition of the all-time
high in Douglas County of last
year 44 accident fatalities.
Thus fa- in 1952, there has been
one fatality.
Compared to the first 10 menths
of 1950, the same period of 1951
shows a considerable increase in
the number of accident fatalities
in the county.
During that period there were
40 deaths in 1951; 22 in 1950. The
period shows an increase in the
i)umber of injuries and accidents
in 1951 over 1950, also.
Based on national averages on
the costs of accidents and loss of
earnings due lo accidents, the eco
nomic loss to Douglas County be
cause of accidents in the first 10
months of 1951 amounts to $1,
383,592. Georgia Youth Mixes
Line On State Praise
MANITOWOC, Wis. 11 A
fluttered Georgia boy fluffed hit
lintt while responding Monday
to official arettingt for hit 20 Ma
con companions but drew a re
tounding round of applause ust
the tame.
"We come from Macon, Ga.,"
Jay Dtnnit, a Lanitr High
School ttudent told a student at
tembly at Lincoln High School
here. "It'i a city of fait women
and pretty hortet."
The auditorum of the big high
tchssl rocked with applauie and
laughter, but young Dtnnit re
covered hit compoture and want
en to tay how happy he and hit
companiont were at arriving
here for two weakt of Itudy and
entertainment in the "f a r
North."
,
H LESS COMMIES I, The report that Vienna sur
MANILA ii Philippines troops 9o"s " treated Joe Stalin
killed is Communist-lrd links In I for a heart attack upsets the
skirmishes on Luzon Island Sunday Wtantrq belief that such on or-
night and Monday, the Defense De- " , j. ilkMim
partment reported. One soldier was 9an wa 0Ben' "orn
listed as killed. tenotomy.
on President Truman's desk, a ,
plan to develop the country's wa
ter resources nas oeen Drought out
into the open.
Calling for 15 river basin com
missions to chart future develop
ment, it is the work of the Presi
dent's Water Resources Policy
Commission, headed by Morris L.
Cooke.
Saying he had the President's
consent, Cooke released the Com
mission's finai report carrying its
recommendations Sunday, although
it was given Mr. Truman a year
ago.
It does not name the river basins
for which commissions would be
established.
The proposal has been under
study in the executive departments
for months but has not been sent
to Congress.
Pro And Con Comment
Rep. Engle, D.-Calif., chairman
of the House Committee on Irriga
tion and Reclamation, called the
plan the "first definite step to try ,
to resolve the very complex prob
lem of a national water resources
policy."
"Whether we agree with all of
it or not," he told a reporter, "the
proposed bill certainly is a good
starting place. It should have been
started a long time ago."
However, a spokesman for local
watershed and conservation groups
said the Commission's program al
ready Is a "dead duck."
David J. Guy. executive vie
president of the American Water
shed Council, said Mr. Truman has
asked the Bureau of the Budget to
draw up substitute legislation.
buy said .the Commission pro
posals aim for "iron-clad federal
control" in that there would be
seven federal representatives on
each of the proposed nine-member
basin commissions, leaving only
two to be named as regional rep
resentatives. Local Units Obligated
The Commission's draft of pro
posed legislation calls for an over
all federal board of review to co- -ordinate
all federal activities relat
ed to water resources.
It also proposes numerous chang- ,
es In existing law dealing with
flood control, reclamation, naviga
tion and other water projects.
It would require states or local
communities benefitting from flood
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Nationalist Riot
Upsets Morocco
CASABLANCA ( One Moroc.
can was killed and three injured
in a Nationalist demonstration Sun
day marked by an attack on the
car of French Resident General
Augustm Guillaume. the French
News Agency said.
The General and his wife escaped
Injury.
The Agency said the car was
fired upon and stoned. The Resi
dent General's office later issued
a statement denying the car had
been fired upon.
The incident occurred during a
demonstration by about 5,000 per
sons organized by the Independ
ence party on the occasion of a
visit by touring Latin American
diplomats.
French police had order: not to
fire in return, but finally were
compelled to do so when they were
surrounded and stoned, the Agency
reported.
Sultan Sidl Mohammed Ben Yus
sef also made them a speech call
ing for Moroccan membership in
the United Nations which runs
directly counter to French policy.
Both Morocco and Tunisia are
simmering under the fire of Na
tionalist agitation. There is wide
spread fear of more violence such
as swept Tunisia at the end of
January, when nearly 50 were
slain. -
Wedding Party Of Seven
Dies In Traffic Crash
KAYSVILLE, Utah I Seven
members of a wedding party, in
cluding the bride and groom, were
killed Sunday when their car
crashed into a semi-trailer truck.
Killed were: Martin Edward
Green, 22; his bride, Nellie June
Wilson Green, 16; Ralph E. Green,
37, brother of the groom and driver
of the death car; Mrs. Edna Wil
son, 40, Ihe bride's mother; Mrs.
Phyllis Christensen, 38, aunt of the
bride and Glen Charles Wadsworth,
38, all of flgden, Utah, and Mrs.
Clarence Sharplcss, 33, of Clear
field, Utah.
The young couple had been mar
ried Saturday.
Trooper Farlin Wood of the Utah
State Highway Patrol, said the
Green car failed to negotiate a
curve on U.S. Highway 91 at the
entrance lo Kaysville and crashed
into the trailer.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein