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IAf lfe4SSisiiJ j "j-. Ettablithtd 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952 194-52
, CENTENNIAL STAGE Workmen are nearing completion
of the 225-foot long stage on which the Umpqua Cavalcade
will be dramatized Labor Day weekend. The two romps to the
left lead to a point ot the rear of the stoge on which set
tlers will fight off attacking Indians in the stage presenta
tion of the Battle Rock incident. (Poul Jenkins picture)
Special Registration Dated
At Fullerton School Because
Of Double Shift Possibility
Special registration for all children planning to attend
Fullerton School this year will be held at the school building
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon DST, Monday, M. C. Deller, District
4 superintendent, announced today.
Results of the special sign-up will show whether or not
Fullerton will need to install a double shift until work is
finished on the building's new east wing.
II a double shift la found neces
sary to accommodate all pupils,
it will be in effect for only about
two weeks, De'ler says, as con
tractors expect to finish the new
classrooms by then.
The contractor's original com
pletion date was Sept. 7.
It is essential that all Fullerton
children, grades one through shi.
come to the school to register, Lyle
Eddy, principal, says. If students
can't appear themselves, he asks
that they send someone in their
places.
All parents of first graders are
asked to accompany their chil
dren and bring birth certificates.
Registration workers will col
lect $1.25 for insurance and .50
cents for weekly readers from the
students when they sign up.
Arrangements have been made
for school buses to transport the
students to the school for registra
tion Monday morning. The schedule
follows:
Mack's Grocery to Fullerton:
Leave Foothill Drive, 9:45 a.m.;
Asee Lane, 9:47; Collett'i Gro
cery, 9:48: Mack's Grocery '(turn
around), 9:49: opposite Broccoli
Lane, 9:51; arrive Fullerton, 955.
Laurelwood Community Hospital
Territory:
Leave Library Arts building at
Senior High, 9:40; Community Hos
pital entrance, 9:42; Umpqua Ave-
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Red China note:
It is believed in Moscow that
Chinese Red Leader Chou En-Lai
will see Joseph Stalin before Chou
leaves to return to Peiping.
If he doesn't, I'd say, il will be
because old Joe won't see him,
and that WOULD be news.
Jitters-in-the-news note:
The Russians are building a new
air base in the Berlin area only
six minutes by jet plane from the
former German capital.
According to the U.S.-sponsored
German paper in Berlin, the Rus
sians have about 2,000 East Ger
mans on the job building a field
live miles long ana iwo ana a nan
miles wide.
Wouldn't it he WONDERFUL if
our foreign policy were such that
at every turn in the road WE
would be giving the RUSSIANS
the jitters instead of (as is now
(he case) the Russians giving us
the jitters?
Listen:
The United States is the greatest
nation on earth. Its people are the
freest on earth. Freedom does
something to people. It gives them
ideas. It makes them more effi
cient. IF PROPERLY LED, there isn't
anything our people couldn't do
including putting the bee on the
Russians instead of- letting the
Russians put the bee on us all the
time.
In New York this morning Jesse
Jones, a former chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion (in the da- ' BEFORE tlie
mink coats and the deep freezes)
and an able and competent Texan,
told the reporters that if the two
party system is to continue in
America there should be a
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The Weather
Fair today, tonight and Friday
with iom high cloudinosi. Cooltr
Friday.
Highest tomp. for any Aug. 10
Lowtit tomp for any Aug. 39
Highest ttmp. last 24 hours 84
Lowest tomp. last 24 hours 52
Frocip. last 24 hours 0
Frocip. from August 1 Tr.
Frocip. from Sopt, 1 v- 31.21
Eicon ...5.1
Suntot today, 1:07 p.m. DST
Sunrise tomorrow, 4:1 a.m. DST
Road Job Employee
Crushed To Death
When Truck Upsets
An employe of th Gardiner
Lumber Co. was killed Wednes
day afternoon when a heavy un
loaded gravel truck turned over
on him.
Officer W. T. Tankersley of
Reedsport identified him Irl
Ira Mays, Jl.
The accident occurred on the
Wealherly Creek Road off High
way 38, some 26 miles east of
Reedsport.
Driver of the truck, Hcrma V.
Kerth, Portland, and a passen
ger and owner of the truck, Rich
ard A. Harmon, Scottsburg, were
uninjured.
Police said the vehicle's air tank
became depleted and the driver
was unable to use his air brakes
while descending a hill.
The driver then attempted to
run the truck into a bank to stuo
it. Mays grabbed his coat and
lunch bucket and attempted, to
jump clear of the truck when it
turned over on him. The front
corner of the truck bed landed
on him, killing him instantly.
He is survived by a wife. fh!
men were working on a road job
for the Gardiner Lumber Co.
Two Blazes Blamed
On Careless Smokers
Fire fighting crews of the Doug
las Forest Protective Association
were called out Wednesday to bat
tle two bla7.es reportedly started by
careless cigaret smokers.
A fire near the landing for a log
ging operation a mile up Deer
Creek from the Grange Hall burn
ed over nearly an acre before be
ing controlled. It was. traced to a
cigaret.
Another fire along Highway 42
on Camas Mountain was believed
started by a cigaret tossed away
by a moiorist. The blaze covered
about a tenth of an acre of grass
Valley Fire Department crews
had extinguished the fire before
DFPA crews arrived at the scene,
on the edge of slash lands. Camas
Woman's Rifle Scares
Off Hammer Attacker
DALLAS, Ore. IflPolice Thurs
day hunted a man who appeared
at a farm house near here and at
tacked a woman with a hammer.
The victim. Mrs. Margaret Ben
son. 34, frightened th man off
with a rifle, quickly brought to her
by a daughter, Connie, i2.
Mrs. Benson told police Connie
answered the door and the man
asked for her mother. When Mrs.
Benson put in an appearance, the
man began hitting her with the
hammer. She screamed to Connie
to bring the gun. The man dropped
the hammer hut snatched it up
again as he fled.
Police said there was no ap
parent motive for .the attack.
Mrs. Benson said she had never
seen the man before.
Louisiana Demos O.K.
Stevenson, Nor Platform
BATONROUGE, La '.P Louis
tana Democrats have pledged the
state's 10 electors to presidential
candidate Adlai Stevenson but
have withheld endorsement of the
party's ticket.
The victory for Stevenson came
on a 77 to 9 vote by the Demo
cratic State Central Committee
Wednesday and assured the
Stevenson Sparkman ticket full
billing under the traditional and
familiar rooster emblem on the
November ballot.
Even so. members of the 100
man committee said they were not
necessarily endorsing the Illinois
governor and his vice presidential
running mate. Sen. John Spark
man of Alabama, and that they
certainly were not ratifying tht
party's platform.
School Budget
Must Be Altered
A special - school meeting of
L, line msiriei iz win bo nein ai i
p.m. (standard time) for a sup
plementary budget election au
thorizing the following expendi
tures: 1. Teacher for Toketee Falls to
take care of increased enrollment,
$3,800.
2. Seating for Toketee, $900.
3. Removal of high voltage lines
from the school site, $1,200.
4. To authorize payment of 1951
52 District transportation charg
es, $3,600.
5. Purchase of three lots adjoin
ing the new high school site, $3,375.
Supt. Byron Evans reports that
the proposed expenditures repre
sent no additional tax levy, as
monies for such payments are al
ready available. Authorization for
the expenditures, however, must
be voted by the people of the dis.
trict, as the funds were originally
raised for other purposes. The
board may not divert funds for
purposes other than those origin
ally intended without approval of
the voters.
Recall Election
Request Refused
County Clerk Roy Agee Wednes
day informed sponsors of the re-1
call-Justice Clarence Leonard pe
tition, that he must again refuse
to call a special election on a re
call proposal.
"It is not my purpose or de
sire to hinder the right of recall
of public officials granted by our
Constitution." the county clerk
said, "but 1 feel it would be a use
less waste of money to call such
election and then have the whofe
proceedings invalidated because of
defects in the petition."
Agee was acting on the opinion
of District Attornay Robert M.
Stults, who said the petitions were
invalid because of failure to sub
mit a statement of campaign ex
penditures and failure to attach
a statement to each petition as to
why the justice should be recalled.
"If the sponsors wish to invoke
mandamus proceedings, the valid
ity of the petitions may then be
determined by the court bcfoie
election," Agee said.
Improvements Being
Made At Park In Drain
Extensive improvement work is
being conducted on the Anna Drain
Park, adjacent to the Drain swim
ming pool, County Parks Supervis
or Charles S. Collins announced.
Included in the project is a $12,
000 paving program for roads in
the area. The cost is to be shared
by the Parks Department, the
Bonneville Power Administration
which uses roads in- the park for
access to its sub station, and sev
eral citizens of Drain.
Officials also .tentatively expect
that the City of Drain and the Drain
School District will bear a por
tion of the expense.
Other , improvements include a
200-foot tile drain to replace an
open drainage ditch, and a plan
ned construction of a cooking shelt
er. Thirty GIs Drown When
Hit By Wall Of Water
SEOUL, Korea t Thirty U S.
soldiers on a training exercise
Thursday were feared drowned by
a wall of water which engulfed
them suddenly as they crossed a
South Korean river.
Bodies of only 12 of the 45th
infantry division men lost in last
Monday s tragedy have heen re
recovered, a division spokesman
said.
Names were withheld until next
of kin are notified.
Rain from a typhoon which
lashed Okinawa and Korea this
week unleashed the crushing nine
font wall of water in the norm
ally knee-deep river.
Myrtle Creek Man Fined
$150 For Tipsy Driving
Municipal Judge Ira B. Riddle
today fined Eugene Arthur Hall
of Myrtle Creek $150 on a charge
of drunken driving, suspended a
30-day jail sentence and ordered
his driver's license suspended for
90 days according '.n Municipal
Court records.
CRASS FIRE DOUSED
Rural Fire District crews were
called out at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
when a grass fire w-as touch?d
off near the new Green School
south of Roseburg by a cigarette
tossed away by a motorist. The
small fire had heen extinguished
when the fire truck arrived.
Meeds Mew llood-
Ike Offers Middle
U.S. Veering
To Tyranny,
General Says
Present Government
Declared Complacent
From Too Long Rule
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
KANSAS CITY, Kan. 1 Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower says the
paths to the extreme left and the
far right both lead to tyranny
and that the Truman administra
tion has been traveling left.
The Republican presidential nom
inee set forth those views in a
speech last night in Boise, Idaho, 1
and then fle.v here for a confer
ence today with GOP leaders from
seven Midwestern states.
At Boise. Eisenhower told a
police-estimated crowd of about '
20.000 persons:
We have had for a long time
government in power that ap
plies the philosophy of the left to
government."
And he said centralization of
power in Washington has become
so great that the government "does
everything but come in and wash
the dishes for the housewives."
He got a rousing ovation at the
outset and was interrupted by ap
plause several times.
He disregarded his prepared
text, but in his off-the-cuff remarks
h stressed much the same theme 1
he has outlined in the prepared
version.
"The great problem of America
today," he said, "is to take that
irsu.M ,,H rinwn ih mlrMIe ih.
straight road down the middle, the
path of progress that will never
allow tvranny to become the fea
ture of the American government."
No Complacency, His Pltdg
The general promised that as
President he would devote all his
efforts to providing a government
"that does not grow complacent,
that does not grow away from the
people and become indifferent to
them, that does not become arro
gant in the exercise of its power,
but strives to be the partner and
servant of the people and not their
master."
When one party has been too
long in power, Eisenhower said, it
becomes so sure of itself it does
not have lo uproot the first sign
of dishonesty in government.
Instead, he added, it "goes along
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Strike Hits Harvester
Plants In Three States
CHICAGO im The independent
Farm Equipment-United Electrical
Workers Union called a strike last
midnight at 10 International Har
vester Co. plants in three states
after contract negotiations broke
off on a bitter note.
The union called 25,000 workers
off the job, declaring, "The com
pany has asked for a fight and is
going to get a hell of a licking."
The company in turn accused
the union of "irresponsible leader
ship." The union's demands included a
flat 13-cent hourly pay hike,
FRACTURES FOOT
Ernest Deeds, 57, 110 Chestnut
St., was in Community Hospital
today for treatment of a fractured
foot suffered Wednesday in an ac
cident while working at St. Hel
ens Wood Products at Dillard.
Necessity Demands Replacement Of Aged
Damage caused by a barrel of
sulphuric acid, which was acci
dentally lipped over 30 years ago,
was being repaired today by Ore
gon Water Co. construction crews
on N. Main St.
New six-inch water mains were
being installed on N. Main from E.
Douglas to E. Oak streets and
from Cass to Lane streets. The
three-block project is expected lo
be completed within a month, said
A. R. Andrews, manager of the
firm.
Earl Hcr.bcst. water foreman for
the company, said "(hat barrel of
acid has been eating at our pipes
for years" and made part of the
job a necessity.
More than 30 years ago, he said,
a barrel of sulphuric acid was
stored in the rear end of the old
Marstcrs Drug Store, almost di
rectly across the street from the
water company olfice at 219 N.
Main St.
The barrel lipped over and the
action of the acid over a long pe
riod of years has damaged the
pipes.
Othar Pipe Tracts Found
Henbest said that in other re
cent pipe projects in the down
town area crews have discovered
traces of the old four-inch jiveted
pipes used in the 1890s when Iwo
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Yanks, Japanese, Chinese,
Koreans Linked In Charge
Of Feeding, Money To Reds
TOKYO V. S. military authorities and Japanese
police said today they have arrested some American service
men and 73 Japanese, Chinese and Korean nationals in con
nection with what they called a three million dollar a year
black market ring that feeds dollars to Communists.
i ism
ROBERTO. TRIPODI, above, is
the new personnel manager at I
Roseburg Lumber Co., having
taken over the pdlitton in July.
Tripodi, a native of Tacoma,
w-i- a.!. . J. '
wain., wos reuenuy cniuycu ,
k (, c..,,i. nffir of Cnn.
rVrr, n(
''ner -OrP- " America dt
1 Chicogo. He received his A3
degree ot the Qjllege of Puget
Sound. Tacoma. and Master's
d in business administra-
e9ree m Business aaminisiro
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Harvard Graduate School of
Business. He wos visiting lec
turer in personnel and indus
trial relations at the University
of Washington last year. He is
married and has two sons.
Major Official
Of justice Dept.
Will Be Probed
WASHINGTON W A top Jus
tice Department offical was re
ported Thursday to be a prime
target of House investigators in
hearings starting next Tuesday.
Rep. Chelf (D-Ky), chairman of
the special Judiciary Subcommit
tee investigating the department,
declined to identify the official be
yond saying he is still in the de
partment. Most of the top assistants lo for
mer Atty. Gen. J. Howard Mc
Grath have resisnd or have been
given new duties in a department
shakeup instituted by McGrath's
successor, James P. McGranc.-y.
The subcommittee is known lo
have been working on one official
"in particular" for some time, and
investigators reported they now
think they have Ihe "missing link"
of evidence they needed.
Cliclf gave no indication of the
nature of the committee's case,
hut said there would be some 'sur
prising revelations."
One of the latest to go was
.lames A. Mullally, 52, long-time
lawyer in the department's crim-
inal division, who was suspended
late Wednesday pending an invesli-
gation of his "outside activities."
OLD PIPE REPLACED Oregon Woter Co. construction crews ore shown obove on N. Main
St. installing new six-inch woter pipes to replace one of the first stondord water pipe lines
used in Roseburg. This view shows the project underway looking south between WoshinQton
and Oak Streets. (Picture by Paul Jenkins)
)
-Of -Road Policy
Maj. Jack Elliott, judge advo
cate for the Far East Air Forces,
said the ring operates in this man
ner: Military payment certificates,
used in lieu ot money by U. S.
forces in Japan, are spent Illegally
by seiwiccmen in bars, hotels,
restaurants and for taxi fares. The
certificates are not supposed to be
used in dealings with Japanese.
The certificates reach money deal
ers who then pay other servicemen
to exchange them for dollar drafts
or money orders.
The money orders and drafts are
turning up in Hong Kong, off the
Red China mainland, Elliott said,
and "it's a conclusion anybody can
make that the dollars are going
to the Communists" lo give th
Reds "dollars they need lo support
their operations in dollar areas
over the world." ,
!
Whisker Contest
UCCUTS Saturday
Whiskered men from through
out Ihe countv will converge in
,,,, R,..,r c-.limlv eim.
ninl. fo. tne ontennial whisker
contest, to be held in conjunction
with the street dance.
Activity will begin about 8 p.m.
lk n . ...i
Saturday at the Courthouse when
those participating in the dance
will march through downtown
Roseburg to the site of the dance,
on Rose Street near the Library.
Participating in the march will
be Queen Barbara and her court
and members of Ihe Whiskilantcs,
Chairman Bob Elliott said.
The beard contest will begin
about 8:30 and awards are bcin"
offered for Ihe longest, the bush
iest, most unique, most colorful
and the scrawniest beards, con
test Chairman Stewart Stevens
said.
Contestants may sign up for (he
contest between 8 and 9 p.m. at
the Library park.
Only those who have Whiskilanle
cards may compete, and the beard
must have been started after
March 10.
Seth Sirrine, local barber, will
replace Roy Rose as a judge of
the beard contest. Rose was un
able to attend the festivities.
The Oklahoma Moonshiners will
play for the dance which is expect
ed to get under way about 9 p.m.
The dance, interspersed with sev
eral acts of special entertainment,
will continue until 1 a.m.
West Germon Opponent
Of Allies Passes On
BONN, Germany The strong
est foe of West German rearma
ment and alignment with Ihe West,
Socialist chief Dr. Kurt Schuma
cher, died here last night. He was
56.
The fervent leader second only
lo Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as
a political force in postwar Ger
many succumbed to a blood cir-
1 culatinn ailment. A cripple with
only one arm and one leg, he had
hren failing ever since his health
was ruined in Nazi concentration
camps.
Destruction
Toll Boosted
By Air Fleet
Two New Raids Reduce
Korean Reds' Factories
To Flaming Debris
SEOUL. Korea I U.N. B-29
Supcrforls, B-26s and fighterbomb
rrs left Communist factories, stock
piles and troop installations in
flames in two massive raids over
northwest Korea Thursday.
Thirty-eight Okinawa-based B29s
hurled 350 tons of bombs on Pyong
yang, the North Korean capital,
after civilians were warned lo get
out.
The Air Force said the big bomb
nr. mtkiiil ACtA nnM , t - .
sunolv and industrial areas and
left huge fires burning at opposite
ends of Uie city in the four-hour
strike. ,
All 38 planes returned safely, de
spite Red anti-aircraft fire and
fiehter nnnnsitinn.
More than 100 B-26s and fighter I involving uaugnur Margaret, sec
bombers followed with a daylight ret Service and Swedish newspa
bombing of a giant cement plant I Pe"- .
at Osu, about 50 miles south of ln response to a question, Tru
Pyongyang. Returning pilots csti- man said he hadn't made any per-
mated they destroyed 63 buildings
and damaged 28 others.
i Third Major Smash
The Osu raid was the third big
: Allied bombing of Communist tar-
Bcts two d''s- The Air Force
I saia 59 buildings were destroyed
Wednesday in a 200-plane -Navy
and A r Force smash at Ihe Hed
build-up area near Namyang, 25
miles northwest of Pyongyang.
Great clouds of cement du-t
arose at Osu as the planes bombed
structures used for making the
concrete of Red military installa
tions. Ifi smaller raids, the U.S. Ma
rines said their f.-icrs demolished
10 maintenance buildings at a ve
hicle park 20 miles north of Yonan
and 17 barracks-type structures
near Namchonjom both in North
west Korea.
Bank At Glendale
Assured Project
It was announced in Glendale
today that preliminary surveys,
indicating an approximate total of
$1,000,000 per year in bank de
posits from this area, have assur
ed the establishment of a bank
in Glendale, possibly by the first
of Ihe year.
Al Mohr, local merchant and
Glendale justice of peace, who has
been active in the drive, states
that the survey is far from com
plete, but that Ihe banking firm
interested has, in vicsv of com
mitments already made, announced
itself as satisfied and ready to
go ahead with its plans. Many of
the persons surveyed, in the city,
the outlying areas and neighbor
ing communities, made definite
pledges of banking business; oth
ers promised to make use of a
bank if one were established here.
It was also .revealed by those
who have been working on the
project locally that enough mon
ey had previously been pledged, so
that if Ihe banking firm presently
interested should change its plans,
an indenendent bank will be es
tablished. Water Main
No Backward
Stride From
20-Yr.Record
President Denies'Mtss
Asserts His Political
Opponents All Wrong
WASHINGTON I President
Truman said Thursday there ought
to be some new blood in the Dem
ocratic party but he knows of no
mess in Washington.
At a news conference with the
accent on politics, Truman said
he had no comment on the way the
Democratic candidates. Gov. Adlai
Stevenson and Sen. John Spark
man, have started their campaign.
He said too that:
He doesn't have to read what
Ihe opposition says he knows
-ahead of time what it is going to
say and it's all wrong.
lie thinks he knows more about
Ihe government than anvone in the
United Slates.
Certainly Stevenson can have the
advantage of the good research
which fortified his own campaign
speeches in 1948. Stevenson can
have all the information he wants
and so can Gen. Dwight D. Ei
senhower, the Republican presi
dential nominee.
Truman said he will give them
Ihe truth and if they want to use
it, it's up to them.
While the Democratic party can
stand some new blood, that doesn't
mean we are going back on what
the Democratic party has done in
,he Past 20 'Pars
Mul" On Sparkman's Job
There was no comment on Spark-
man's statement that the recent
steel strike had been mishandled.
Nor did the President wish to
go into any detail on the incidents
ports regarding charges in the
Swedish press that Secret Service
men accompanying his daughter
had used roughouse tactics.
He said no new instructions are
planned for the Secret Service
guards because they are always
right and don't need any.
At one point, he took a swipe
at the Saturday Evening Post, say
ing it is always wrong.
That was in response to an in
quiry whether he intends to ans
wer an article in the magazine
that said he gave the country false
information about a grain short
age. ----- -
Truman said he hadn't read the
article and didn't intend to. He
said he almost never reads the
Post because it always is wrong.
Asked how he knows, whether he
got a briefing on such things, the
President said all he needs to do
is look at the table of contents
and he knows.
Knows of No "Mail"
Another line of questioning cen
tered on an exchange of corres
pondence between Governor Stev
enson and a Portland newspaper
editor which referred to "the mess
in Washington." Truman said he
had no comment because he knew
nothing of any mess.
Academy Reunion
Plans Arranged
Mrs. Inez Miller, for many years
principal of Wilbur School, will
speak at the Umpqua Academy
Homecoming Sunday, giving the
history of the old school.
The academy was at one time
the only college between Sacra
mento and Salem and was a pre
paratory school for Willamette
University at Salem. It continued
for nearly half a century, closing
in 1900.
Alumni from throughout the
state and Northwest have been
invited, and the celebration is op
en to the public.
Alumni are also invited to bring
a basket lunch for 1 p.m. Qkfore
the homecoming activity begins.
Starting at 2:30 the program '
will include an address of wel
come by County Judge Carl C.
Hill.
Mrs. Harold D. McKay Is chair
man of the reunion, Mrs. Flossie
Virden is program chairman.
Nine candidates for Dowager
Queen of the Douglas County Cen
tennial celebration will be present,
and one of them will be announced
as queen.
Selection is bring made by nn
anonymous out-of-county commit
tee. No Special School Levy
In Galesville District
No snecial tax will be levied in
I alnsuilU School District 127 this
year, as it was unanimously de
cided by voters at a special dis
trict meeting recently.
Reason is that the District failed
to tell the assessor's office of its
decision in time for a special levy
In be included nn the tax rolls, Ken
neth Barneburg, County school su
perintendent, explains.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reitenstein
With the prices of automo
biles, accessories, labor and in
luronce rates going higher,
about the only cheap thing left
in connection with motor ve-
j hide operation it human life.