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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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