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U. of 0. Library augcn, Oregon Comp f m m ca First Real ight Shapes Since 1932 Established 1873 KOSEBURG, OREGON 167-52 FACE K9 mm MONDAY, JULY 21, 1952 TWO A. L. Kooken, J. L White Meet Death James F. Rains, Third Swimmer, Saved, When Trapped In Current Two Douglas County men drown ed Sunday while swimming in the Umpqua River and a Dillard man caught in the swift current was - rescued by a friend. The victims were: Aionzo u. "un" Kooken. B6. a Garden Valley resident employed on me Howard Bailey ranch. Jack Lincoln White. 38. who re sides on Rose Lane in West Rose- burg. Rescued was James P. Rains 23, employed on a Southern Pacific Railway section gang at Dillard Witnesses said Kooken started to swim across the river near the forks at Garden Valley. He ap parently weakened in the swift cur rent and went down. White was drowned about 9 o.m. Sunday while swimming below the Winchester Bridge on Pacific High way. The body was recovered a' mile downstream at 9 a.m. today by Douglas County sheriff's dep uties and taken to the Roseburg funeral Home. The victim is survived by his widow and three children. Rains was swimming about 100 yards below the steel Dillard Brfttge. when the current started carrying him swiftly downstream. A friend, also an employee of aouin racmc, spotted Kains strug gling in the water and managed to pull him onto the bank. State Po lice aided in giving artificial res piration and he was taken by Mohr Abulance to Mercy Hospital. At tendants said he was unconscious for about 12 hours. Kooken was born June 8. 1886 at Fairfield, 0., and came to Doug las County in 1925. He resided south of Roseburg for several years be fore moving to the Melrose dis trict where he made his home for 14 years. Mrs. Kooken died several years ago. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Alma Kline of Ridgefield, Wash., Mrs. Norma Cook of Portland, Mrs. Ruth Cook of Port Orford, Ore., Mrs. Allie Harrison and Mrs. Grace Huntly, both of Portland1, and Mrs. Vera Mentzer of Rose burg; a son, John Kooken of Rose burg; two sisters, Mrs. Ina Robin son of Cleveland, 0., and Mrs. Maud Travis of GreshamV Ore.; two brothers, John Kooken n Lon don, 0., and James R. Kooken of Pocatello, Ida.; and 14 grandchil dren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. DST Wednesday, July 23. in the chapel of the Long & tirr Mor tuary. Concluding services and in terment will follow at tho IOOF Cemetery. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Politics: President 'Truman came home from the hospital Saturday "feel ing fine and fighting mad at the Republicans." Democratic Senator Benton of Connecticut moves to wrest from Southern senators the filibuster weapon they have used in the past as a last resort to kill com pulsory federal civil rights bills. He demands ' that Democratic platform drafters call the senate to revise its rules to provide that a simple majority of senators PRESENT AND VOTING can end a filibuster (filibustering means talking a bill to death. I Under present rules, it takes a two-thirds vote of ALL 96 of the senators, whether present and vot ing or not. If ' I know anything about the feeling of the South, that will make a lot of Southerners fighting mad. If they get mad enough, they might walk out or vote for Ike. Baltimore's Democratic Mayor D'Alesandrn says President Tru man should RECONSIDER his (Continued on page Four) The Weather Cloudy mornings, fair afternoons today and Tuesday. Highest ttmp, for any July 10 Lowest tomp. for any July 4 Highest tomp. last 24 hours .... I ' Lowest tomp. last 24 hours 57 Precip. last 24 hours I Precip. from July 1 0 Precip. from Stpt. I JI.I7 S.U Sunset today, 1:47 p.m. Sunrii tomorrow, 5:52 a.m. DST mom W Die In Small Town Of Tehachapi Demolished Area From San Francisco To Mexico Feels Shock; Slides Increase Damage LOS WiGELES I A violent earthquake, striking before dawn in the sparsely-settled mountains north of here, killed at least 10 persons Monday and left a mount ing toll of damage and injuries. As the first reports of eyewit nesses filtered out of the little town of Tehachapi, they painted a pic ture of a shattered business dis trict, brick-littered streets and a wrecked hotel. Doctors and nurses were flown in when ambulances met slide blocked roads. Amateur radio operators heard by radio station KTRB in Modesto reported the earth rocked con vulsively, debris tumbling into main street in thunderous crashes. Children and their parents rushed into the streets, crouched, stunned by the giant-shaking. A large water tank crashed, flooding the area. Another amateur quoted Carl Turner of the Kern County Sher iff's aero detail, who flew in Red Cross workers, as reporting two thirds of the city's buildings col lapsed, with one house caved in and a family was probably trapped. State Rushes Aid In Sacramento, the state capital, state civil defense headquarters ordered medical equipment mobil ized, to fly into the area. Tehachapi, with a population of about 3.000, is on U. S. 466 between Bakersfield and Mojave, a little mountain town 4,000 feet high, many of whose residents work at the big monolith Portland cement plant nearby. It also is the site of the State. Women's Prison, which was re ported so hard hit that most of its cluster of two-story buildings are unusable. A call went out for tents in which to house ' the 327 inmates, including all of California's women convicted of felonies. The prisoners were reported panic-stricken but unhurt. Sheriff's Capt. F. D. Jones said he understood most of the dead were in an old brick hotel. The town's residential district was damaged, but no deaths were reported there. . Railway Tunnels Cava In Cave-ins were reported in at least two tunnels in the area, used jointly by the Santa Fe and South ern Pacific railroads, and all trav el was blocked. The S. P.'s main line to San Francisco, which runs along the (Continued on Page Two) Survey Work To Start At New School Sire Topographical survey work and soil tests will start immediately at the Fruitvale Addition site for the new north Roseburg elementary school, M. K. Deller, District No. 4 superintendent reports. Grant and Evans engineering firm of Roseburg was retained Monday morning to do the work. Reports are to be completed by Aug. 15, after which time the ar chitect will begin locating the build ing and drawing preliminary plans. Community Hospitol -At Lebanon Dedicated LEBANON I Some 4,000 per sons attended the dedication Sun day of Lebanon's new $750,000 com munity hospital. More than a half million dollars was raised by subscription to build the hospital. The remainder was a federal grant. Attending the ceremonies were Dr. N. E. Ervine, Lebanon, presi dent of the State Board of Health; Dr. Harold fcrickson, state health officer, and Paul Patterson, presi dent of the Oregon State Senate. Patients will be moved into ,the hospital Aug. 6. Tax Computing Bill Approved By Truman WASHINGTON lfl President Truman Monday signed the last of scores of bills passed by the Senate and House in the final davs of the 82nd Congress. The act revises methods of com puting base earnings of a few firms for excess profits taxes. Its purpose is to give relief to certain subsidized shipping firms and those using strategic and critical materials. mimmm California Quake SEEKS ELECTION Blind since the oge of 1 7, Anita Blair of El Poso, Texas, told New York newsmen she hopes to be the first sightless woman elected to Congress. At present, a candi date for the Texas State Legis lature in July primaries, Miss Blair is visiting New York with her 14-year-old seeing-eye dog, Fawn. Lost Boys Found, 2 Men Missing ' ' By The Associated Press .-Two small boys, lost la widely separated areas of Oregon's tim berland, were found safe Sunday, but the search continued in South ern Oregon for two fishermen miss ing since Saturday afternoon. The two found unharmed were Ernie Lefler. 5, lost for more than 24 hours in the rugged Lost Lake region, 25 miles northwest of Kla math Falls, and Tommy Prosser, 4, missing for four hours in the Mount Hood National Forest, 30 miles southeast of Hood River. Still missing are A. M. Jones, Concord, Calif., and 0. P. Culhane, Detroit, Mich., both about 56 and executives of the United Motors Service Corp., Detroit. Their empty car with ignition key and fishing gear still in it, was found Saturday afternoon parked at Annie Creek Canyon lookout point in Crater Lake Park. Iran's New Premier. Quits During Rioting TEHRAN, Iran VPl Premier Ahmed Qavam resigned Monday night after violent hours-long riot ing in Tehran and other cities sub sided. He gave up, after two days, his attempt to form a government pledged to solving Iran's oil dead lock. Twenty persons were reported killed in the bloody rioting. No official reason was given for Oa- vam's quitting but apparently he acted to stop bloodshed. Two Sailors Drowned In Feared Columbia ASTORIA I Two men, be lieved to be sailors, were feared drowned Sunday when a dinghy overturned in the Columbia River. Two men were seen cruising in the river near Buoy 10 two miles east of the Tongue Point Naval Station, in an outboard powered dinghy. Early Monday an overturned dinghy was found near the buoy. The Coast Guard sent a lifeboat to drag the river. Naval officials at Tongue Point said they had no in formation. $1,500,000 Fire Razes Paint Factory In Italy MILAN. Italy I All of Milan's fire fighting forces and equipment battled through Sunday night against a spectacular fire that destroyed one of Italy's largest paint and dye factories. Company officials estimated the loss at more than $1,500,000. ,, Murray Accuses Steel Firm Of Welshing PITTSBURGH vji President Philip Murray of the CIO United Steelworkers charged Mooday that the steel industry repudiated a strike settlement which he worked nut with . officials of Bethlehem Steel Corporation last June 17. City Budget Faces Third Vote Tuesday Defeat Would Compel City To Operate Within Six Percent Limitation Roseburg residents will have to approve a special budget levy in excess of the six percent limita tion at Tuesday's election, or the city may be forced to operate wunin me six percent allowance. The city has already been Erant- ed a delay from the July 15 dead line until July 24 to permit re submission of the bucket to the voters, and it is possible that legal means may not be found to permit another election in case the budget is again turned down Tuesday. Voting will take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Standard time 19 a.m. to 9 p.m. DST) at the Courthouse, Junior High, Roseburg Hotel and City Hall for Wards 1. 2. 3 and 4. re spectively. Two Slashes Already Made the budget committee has al ready made two slices in the or iginally submitted budget. The first eliminated a $9043 item for a special survey of sewer needs. Again last week the budget com mittee pledged itself to reduce the proposed salary increases from approximately 12 percent to five percent for each employee, the latter representing a savings in estimated expendiutes of around $18,000. The voters will be Dassinu their judgment upon whether to permit it. i..... i .... : r ' .j wuiii.il iu icy a a ill a maximum amount, as the sum out side ' the six percent limitation needed will be somewhat less than the $123,000 stated on the ballots. If the budget excess is approved, the committee will provide for the salary cutbacks at the public hearing Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Any budget item may be reduced or eliminated entirely at the pub lic hearing, but single items may De increased only 10 percent so long as the total budget is not in creased. Bid For Harbor Plywood Won't Be Repeated OLYMPIA im Directors of the Georgia Pacific Plywood and Lum ber Company opened their quar terly meeting here Monday with an inspection of the company's new Olympia offices. S. R. Black, local manager for Georgia Pacific, said the group would travel to Toledo, Ore., Tues day to look over properties the company purchased there recently. Black indicated, the company would not make another attempt to purchase Harbor Plywood Compa ny of Aberdeen. He said his firm had made an offer to Harbor Ply wood some time ago and it was turned down. George Peck Wins Appiebox Derby ..:: ;..,;, F: pjt v, CJ ? ,S j:.. ' 'ATI 'vl ' GOLD TROPRY FOR FIRST PLACE in the 2nd annual Appiebox Derby is received by George Peck, 11, who took top honors with his rocer "Zipper." In center is Leonard Read, sec ond ploce, while Frank Webster, of left, took third spot. Trophy is presented by Grady Man kins, chairman of the derby. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) FRIENDLY FOES Democratic i J j iibuyu it yf' vy iuiii sy VIWVIU IV IIUIIWIIUI VVIIIKIIIIUM. Left to right: Averell Harriman, Vice President Alben Bark ley, Senator Estes Kefauver, Senator Robert Kerr and Sena tor Richard Russell. At right, Thomas J. Gavin, Kansas City businessman, is President i Truman's alternate delegate at the convention. (NEA TELEPHOTO) Higher Wages Or Reduced Services Choice For City's Voters, Budgeteers Assert (Editor's note: The following signed statement explaining their stand on the city budget was issued today by members of the City Budget Committee urging that a larger and representative group of city voters go to the polls Tuesday.) The undersigned members of th,e City Budget Committee feel that the people of Roseburg should understand the facts concerning our budget and then by all means vote their be liefs at the budget election on Tuesday. We are all taxpayers, and are as much interested In economy as anybody else, but do not believe in false economy. We have devoted many long tedious hours, freely donated, in determining the needs of the which we believe to be fair, equitable and necessary. We have made wage compari- sons with those being paid by other cities of comparable size and with labor wage scales gen erally. Fven with our suggested increases, our city general labor employes will be receiving less than the lowest union wae,e for common abor, and ,purcity de partment " heads, ' in mosi cases, will be receiving less than the amounts paid by other compar able cities. Our general labor will be receiving $1.67! per hour, while the lowest union rate is SI. 85. Our city manager will receive $6,930 while the one in Coos Bay is re reiving $8,100. and that in Grants Pass $8,040. Our fire chief will be paid $4,599, and those in Coos Bay and Grants Pass $5,100 and $4,800 respectively. Our secretaries and stenographers will receive less than that being paid by i)oii""s County and School Dist. No. 4. In fact the City has lost employees to the County by reason of the difference in wage, and because of the city's unfavorable wage scale the turnover in employes, is heavy and efficiency is impaired. Agree To Appeasement It was not until the budget had been voted on twice that members of the municipal committee of the Douglas County Taxpayers League consulted the budget committee to make any protest or suggest ions whatsoever. When they did, last week, they objected only to the suggested increase in wages. Against our better judgement, but to avoid controversy, we met their terms and agreed to reduce (Continued on Page Two) H&rV. KFfkVR liaa u I a presidential hopefuls line up City and preparing a budget Old Baldy Battle Not Yet Decided SEOUL, Korea W United Na tions infantrymen Monday .drove Chinese Communists off the crest of Old Baldy on the Korean west ern front in the wake of a tremen dous barrage by artillery, tanks and warplancs. But front line dispatches indi cated the crest of the hill was a no-man's land with U. N. troops dug in below the crest. A U. S. Eighth Army staff of ficer said the hill definitely was not secured. Associated Press Correspondent George McArthur at the front said the Chinese had not given up their bid for the vital hill they wrested from the. Allies last Thursday. MUNSAN, Korea I United Nations and Communist Armistice delegates met in secret for only 20 minutes Monday and adjourned without any apparent break in the protracted deadlock over exchange of war prisoners. Roller Bearing 'First' Russia's Latest Claim MOSCOW I Russia . added another invention to her long list of "firsts" Monday. The Soviet technical journal "Technics and Youth" claimed Vasilii Lindenwald of Moscow created a roller bearing device for agricultural use back In 1838. V Oregon Accidents Claim Nine Lives By The Associated Press Accidents claimed the lives of nine in Oregon last week end. . Four died in traffic mishaps, two in a fire, and one each in a plane rrackup, fall and a logging acci dent, r ; i Donna Cox and JoAnn Steen. both 16, of Albany, were killed outright and two youths, Wesley B. Price Jr. and Robert Crockery, both 18, also from Albany, were critically injured Saturday when their car collided with a truck near Lancas ter, Ore. Arthur E, Grebe, 56, Portland, was killed and his wife injured when their car ran off the road near Cannon. Beach Sunday, , ' Mrs. George Slocking, about 60 of Toledo, was killed Saturday when struck by a car as she walked across a Toledo highway. Driver of the car, Dennis Hender son, 35, Toledo, was arrested. Harry Richard Cooper, 13, Port land, fell 110 feet to his death from an abandoned water tower in North Portland Saturday. He lost his foot ing at he was shooting his sling shot. William LcRoy Brownlee, 55, in jured last week when struck in the head by a log cable at El wood, died in a hospital at Oregon City Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Waller Lee Rauch apparently suffocated when they were trapped inside their burning home at Springfield Saturday. Eleven-year-old George Pock survived a bloody note Saturday at the Appiebox Derby to win first placa, copping a big gold trophy and J100 cash award. The winner, of 1808"i Ellon Lana, says ho guesses he'll use the money to buy a horse or else put it in the bank. Leonard Read. 14. of 800 Kendall St., took second place and a S.T0 award, while Frank Webster, 444 S. Jackson St., placed third and won $25. . Leonard was last year's first place winner. This is his last year of racing because of the age limit. George ran in the first race of the morning, and crashed in the sawdust pile at the end of the 640 foot course. He got a bloody nose when he smacked againrt the windshield of his speedy brown racer, named "Zipper." The "Zipper" won the race, yet a few things (fan be improved, George has decided. Next year he'll forego the advantage of a wind shield for the sake of safety. And with a little more stream lining, George figures, he might, even squeeze another mile or so of speed out of his racer. i The "Zipper" was the result of : four days' work, George says. The trophy was provided by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, while Hansen Motor Co. put up the cesh prizes. They were co-sponsors of the event. Treats For Losers For other contestants, the ones who didn't win prizes, their conso lation was free ice cream and "Cokes" and perhaps a reassuring (Continued on Page Two) Convention Opens With Tension Prevalent Over Character Of Platform By ARTHUR EDSON CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, ' Democrats streamed into this nee hall in Chicago's stockyards Monday, intent on picking before jthe week is out a man they think can bring them their sixth straight presidential victory. This is an unusual Demncratle National Convention. For not since Franklin D. Roosevelt was nomi nated in 1932 have the Democrats had any real contest for top place on their ticket. For three conventions it was Roosevelt, then four years ago it was Harry S. Truman. Now there an abundance of candidates, possibly even an over abundance: Vice-president Alben Barkley, Averell Harriman and Sens. Estes Kefauver, Robert S. Kerr and Richard B. Russell, Oddly, with all the men around who want the job, Monday's pro gram included a speech by the one Democrat in Chicago who says he doesn't want to be president: Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. Looking In front of them, the delegates could see pictures of Roosevelt and Truman and a slo gan: "Security, for you, your fam ily, your country." Behind them was the slogan: "Twenty years of progress." Coed Behavior Enjoined The Democrats, hoping to profit by errors they think the Republi cans made during their convention, have tried to make certain that everyone is on his good behavior. Every seat had a little slip of paper which said: "YOU will be on television. . "140,000,000 eyes will watch you. The Democrats started their 31st national convention pulling and hauling In uncertainty over plat form and candidates. As to the' platform. It was again, as It has been for years, a north south battle over "civil rights." Th'u sectional war threatened for a time to break out on the convention floor at the opening ses sion in t scrap over seating of rival delegations from Mississippi and Texas. .'. But convention leaders put the issue over for at least 24 hours by program shift. - ' ' ': .1 Dixlcrats Threaten Bolt ' Backer! of a proposed federal fair employment practices act were plugging for a plank pledging the party to seek a change in Senate rules so that FEPT could not be atopped by a filibister. Southern senators have in the past beaten FEPT by prolonged debate which prevented it from, coming to a vote. Hanging over the convention is the threat that some Southern delegations msy walk out if they don't like the "civil rights" plank. A bolt in 1948 cost President Truman the 39 electoral votes of four Southern States which gave them instead to a stale's rights ticket. .. The convention won't get around to picking its presidential nominee before Friday, at the earliest. In the meantime, the delegate! are waiting: '1. For a sign from President Truman as to whom he favors., 2. For some development which could turn sentiment toward one of the candidates now in the field, or possibly to some one not yet mentioned. Deserter Gives Up After 47 Years PORTLAND l Banks C. Rod-; dey, who Sunday told police here that 47 years ago he deserted his Army post in Alaska alter embezz ling government funds, was held in . jail for Army authorities. . He told police: "It's been on my mind constantly. I should have' turned myself in a long time ago." Here is the story he told: In 1905, during the gold rush, he began embezzling government money while an Army sergeant at Fairbanks, Alaska. He discovered one day that his accounts were J300 to $400 short and that he had n ; chance of repaying the money; So ' he made up his mind "to get away ' as soon and as far as I could." He trekked 300 miles overland to a seaport and sailed to San Francisco. Later he came to Port- ; land where he made a meager living as a mechanic under the, assumed name, James T. Cost. He spent six months in the Ore ' gon State prison in the early 1930s for armed robbery. He said his desertion was due to youth, giddiness and "too much . booze." Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein To meet demands of hit re tail trode, a central Oregon egg dealer is shipping in from ISO to 200 cases of eggs per week from California. Paraphrasing on a well known slogan: "What Oregon doesn't make, makes some other state." "A
