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Newspaper Page Textf HIGH HOPES Ldmar Weaver, 13-months-old, has spent his life so far at Grady Hospital in, Atlanta, Ga., living through condition that is usually fatal. He was born with, all his abdominal organs outside the body, held only in thin membrane bag, a condition known as oonphalocoel." He hos survived three operations with one more to go. Doc tors have high hopes that he will grow up to be normal. With smiling tot is nurse Margaret Burgess. (NEA PHOTO) . 2 Myrtle Creek Hunters Overdue; Search Planned Fog hindered the beginning of an aerial search for two Myrtle Creek hunters lost more than 24 hours this morning, deputy sheriff Ira Byrd reported this morning. H. L. Cochran, about 30, and Eu gene Faus, 40, both loggers from the Myrtle Creek area, have been reported lost after staying out over night while hunting around the head of North Myrtle Creek. They went hunting yesterday morning, planning to be gone only two or three hours, Byrd said, but they haven't been heard of since. They had no equipment ex cept their rifles and some matches. An aerial search was scheduled for this morning but "it is useless to attempt the search until the fog lifts," Byrd said. "We are hoping they will build a fire. Then we can locate them by the smoke," he added. ' A ground search will be made by the sheriff's 'office if the aerial search doesn't prove successful. Both men are experienced woodsmen and are farniliar with the mountains in this area, Byrd said. Tillamook Burn Open To Hunters Thursday SALEM It) The Tillamook Burn area, closed to entry since Oct. 2 because of high fire danger, will be open to hunters Thursday when a special deer season begins. Logging was permitted after the closure was lifted at midnight Mon day by the State Forestry Depart ment. The rest of Western Oregon, much of which was closed to hunt ers and loggers, was reopened Sun day. Sparkman In Hospital As Laryngitis Case WASHINGTON Wl Sen. John J. Sparkman, Democratic vice presidential nominee, entered a hospital Tuesday for treatment of laryngitis and what his physician termed i mud respiratory condi tinn. ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Morse of Oregon says this (Saturday) morning (in i characteristic statement about a oolumn long) tnat he will vote for Governor Adiai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for Presi dent. , ' He adds: ' "Never have I been so complete ly disillusioned about any man as I am about Eisenhower." Why were you disillusioned, sen ator? After your statement this morn ing, I think I know. You weren't concerned, it now appears, with getting new and more liberal lead ership for the Republican party. You weren't concerned with get ting a change of administration and thus checking the extrava gance, the corruption and the creeping socialism which the New ' (Continued on page Four) The Weather Partly sunny this afternoon. Foggy Wednesday morning. In creasing cloudiness In the after noon. Hightit torn p. tor any Oct. H Lowest tomp, for any Oct. - 22 Highitt ttmp. last 24 hours 75 Lowest ttmp. last 24 hours 44 Procip. last 24 hours 0 Procip. from Oct. I .K .08 Procip. from Sept. 1 4 Dofic. from Sopt 1 - 1.U Suniot today 5:21 p.m. PST Sunrise tomorrow, :JJ a.m. PST 1 Death Calls Man, 114, Thought World' Oldest CLARKSBURG, Calif. I Joaquin S. King, who may have been the oldest man in the world, died Monday. The white - haired patriarch, by family records, was 114 He was born in the Azore Is lands "end first settled in Boston when he came to this country on a whaling boat. The family said a letter from a priest in the Azores . reported the baptismal record of the church there listed King's birth date as Sept. 16, 1838. 1 3 School Units Vote Tomorrow On Merger Plan Voters from three school districts Dillard 116, Tenmile 7 and Look- ingglass 13 will go to the polls in ineir respective schools at 8. p.m. Wednesday to decide whether or no "e three will consolidate. If they do merge, high school age students from ail three will attend classes in a new high school build ing to be constructed on the Brocx- way site on Highway 42. By next fall the Dillard school board ex. pecU enough rooms to house the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades to be completed. Merger action was started when the Roseburg District 4 board of education informed the districts that Roseburg schools would be un able to accommodate their' pupils after this year. At present high school age pupils from the three districts attend local schools. Merger advocates originally in cluded Green district 5 in their plans, but Green eventually decid ed not to push for the consolida tion. Though only enough rooms fur the seventh through tenth grades are to be finished by fall 1953, Dil lard board members plan 'to add the remaining two grade in each of the two following years. It is expected that Roseburg schools will continue to house these pupils until the new . Dillard. school is ready for them. J. L. Turnbull, building consul tant with the State Department of Education recently ' made a check of enrollment figures and fi nancial capacity of the three dis tricts involved. These showed that by the end of two years they should be able to construct a n brary, science department, music, commercial and neaitn rooms, or fices, cafeteria with stage and gen eral classrooms. Only $230,600 of the combined districts' 1952 bonding capacity has been used so far, a recent sur vey indicates. $384,200 remains. 'Eisenhower Bandwagon' Tours Douglas Towns A musical "Bandwagon for Ei- senhower" celebrated the state wide opening celebration in Rose bum Mondav when it touted the local sawmills, industrial and com mercial firms of the metropolitan Roseburg area. It was sponsored oy tne "um zens for Eisenhower" committee, and will tour each major city and county in Oregon before Nov. 4, Jim Aixen. county cnairman, aiu Under the supervision of Rob tert Henningson, Astoria, they played "I like the Sunshine of Your Smile." the Republican cam oaien song, and made short speeches in favor of the presided tial candidate. Henningson, 23, is a Korean War vet. j The truck toured Roseburg. lourea noseourg.v rd, Winston 'i nunities. A .mMiz Sutherlih'.A Dillard other local communities. r ' If ' I I . s'IFaG(8 Established 1873 ROSEBURG. OREGON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1952 Rosehurg Lumber Co. Closes Mill Operations To Be Shifted To Dillard Timber Not Adequate To Justify Maintaining 2 Plants, Explanation Roseburg Lumber Co. has closed its operations at the Roseburg plant, and henceforth will concen trate its entire milling operations at Dillard. Earl Plummer, office5 manager, announced today that the milling operations at Roseburg ceased with the close of work Monday afternoon. Most of the employes at Rose burg will be absorbed, on a sen ority rating basis, in the Dillard plant, said Plummer. A second shift on the Swedish gang saw has been added at Dillard, to absorb a considerable number, and other employes will be taken into the iteration as vacancies in the plant Closure of the Roseburg plant has been on a gradual basis, and tne number of men slowly reduced to approximately 100 employed at me ciose ot work Monday. The stock pile of logs has been completely cut out at Roseburg. Yarding operations will be contin ued until aH lumber has been ship ped out. This is expected to take a month or more. Economy Reason Given Immediate plans for disposal of the Roseburg plant has not been announced. The operation, how ever, will be completely, suspend ed. It has been the Plans of the com pany for several monthi to dis continue the Roseburg plant, orig inally -built by Kenneth Ford in 1936, and since expanded to Its present sprawling size. Economy of operation is given as the reason for the closure here and concentration of the interests at Dillard. The latter plant, built in 1945, incorporates the most mod ern equipment for economy pro duction, v . i In addition, the new plywood plant, recently put into operation there, is an integral part of the overall plant. The Roseburg Lumber Company did not feel that it could continue to operate both the Roseburg and Dillard plants with : the present supply of timber, and continue production on a sustained basis, it was. explained. One plant could operate almost indefinitely under the present program, so it was de cided to concentrate production at tne plant most economical to main tain. , The Dillard plant, on a two-shift basis, will employ an estimated 225 men. This is in addition to the crews at the plywood plant and me wooas operation ol the com pny. -, , . DRUNKEN DRIVER RAPPED Marvin Garner. 42. Mvrtle Creek, was fined $300 and given a 30-day jail term in Sutherlin Jus tice Ward Watson's court on a drunk . driving . charge. Garner was arrested by state police. Maximum Development Of Timber Resources Demands By R. KENNETH EVANS This is the seventh of a series of articles to be published in the Tuesday issues of the Roseburg News-Review for the next four months. This survey of industrial, commercial and cultural activities in Rose burg and Douglas County will be written and published to show the progress that has been made over the last century and the stability of resources and economic conditions as of today. ... Jhe ;arrying out of this educational program .las been made pos sible by the support accorded it by 30 representative industrial and com mercial firms who are demonstrating their confidence in the future of this region. Each of these firms has an interesting message on pages 8 and 9 of this issue. More than a hundred years ago the primitive occupa tion of hunting and trapping in this section of Oregon yield ed to a more important vocation. The sturdy pioneers who 'P'.rV 'j incentive for ple employed U. mmii still 'no peal Eisenhower Denies Any Commitments, Hits 'Lie' On Religious Smearing ABOARD THE EISENHOWER SPECIAL UP) Dwight D. Eisenhower asserted Tuesday he still is a "no deal" man and has made no commitments to win supporters in his presidential campaign. ,. The' GOP candidate mads this declaration to a chilled" crowd of about 4,000 people at Manchester, N. H., in the wake of a statement by Sen. Wayne Morse (R.-Ore.), he was offered a "high position in puouc me. , . The Morse statement given to the Portland Oregonian carried the implication he was offered the post omy u ne would support Eisen howerand claimed to have the documentary evidence which he would produce after the election Nov. 4. Morse was one of the original Ei-senhower-for-president supporters but has since withdrawn his sup port on the grounds that the gen eral has embraced policies and candidates he cannot accept. Eisenhower made no mention of Morse in his remarks at Man chester, but he appeared to be tak ing note of this development as he said he was still a "no deal" man. He also ripped into the admin istration again with accusations lis leaders are "spreading a campaign of fear" that a Republican victory wouio mean anotner great de pression. Lies" And "Slander" Hit Eisenhower cave no indication he was ready to accept President Truman's statement that he (Tru man) had not accused the general of being anti-Catholic and and- Semitic. gain he spoke out at Manchest er and Nashua against "lies" and "slander" he said had been spread' against him and said he" Was grateful that Jewish and Catholic friends had come to .his defense The GOP presidential nominee pledged a GOP victory will mean an administration that will use every. resource of the nation to see that everybody has a decent job at good wages. Eisenhower promised to help small business to provide diverse industries for localities and thus east economic pressurs. This statement came in an area that has felt the loss of textile industry to the south with some re sulting unemployment. Man Jailed On Charge Of Assaulting Officer Clarence Ernest Fuller, 55, Is in the county jail in lieu of $2,000 bail set by Sutherlin Justice Ward Watson, after his arrest Monday by Roseburg and state police on a charge of assault with a danger ous weapon. Police Chief Stanley Olson, of Roseburg, said Fuller is accused of assaulting one of his officers with a pocket knife when the of ficer found him lying on a bench at tne aoutnern .pacific Depot. NON-SUPPORT CHARGED Boyd Whittaker 25, -Myrtle Creek logger, has been lodged in the county jail on a non-support charge, Sheriff O. T. Carter reports. came into this region, a century ago, began clearing the Douglas county forested lands for farms. From that beginning agriculture continued to be the principal developed re source of the county until the 'forced draught' development of the lumber industry, in answer to World War Two, and pnst-war demand for lumber and other forest products, gave an expansion of the forest industry in Douglas County. Up to 1910 the total peo in logging, sawmills and other working plants was little more than 15 per cent of the total non-agricultural employment. . X of 0. Library augune, urogon Corap IS))!? man v MISSING IN ACTION Sgt. Albert E. Todd, 23, Roseburg, was reported missing in act ion Oct. 8, 1952. A medical corpsman in the 1 7th Infan try Medical Company in Kor ea, Todd is a veteran-of seven years in the Army. Prior to serving in Korea he was sta tioned in Germany and served a tour of duty in the Philip pines. He is the son of -Mrs. Dollie Murphy, 341) Hooker Road, Roseburg. Passer Of Bad Checks Placed On Probation Thomas Oscar ' Franklin, 22, of Winston, was placed on probation for a one-year penitentiary term Monday after pleading guilty be- fore Judge Carl E. Wimberly to passing a Dad check. Franklin was ordered to restore the amounts of several checks, totaling some $45. i -. Edward August Volberdlng, 45 of Myrtle Creek, pleaded guilty to burglarizing the Tri-City cafe, and judge wimrjeriy postponed sen tence. Borrowing Hunting; Licenses Draws Fines Two men were fined $100 each and given five-day suspended jail sentences after pleading guilty in Sutherlin Justice Ward Watson's court to borrowing hunting licens es, j The court Identified them as James Leslie Taylor, 24, Roseburg, and Mayo Harold Nelson, 24 of Roseburg. They were arrested by state police. V US Douglas County's Great System Of Access Roads Ten years later 1950 there were 166 sawmills operating in Douglas County and the peak month of that year, June, gave employment to 3,387 workers, ac cording to the report of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Today, 37 of these sawmills are operating In the Rosehurg indus trial area, cutting 345,433,000 board feet of lumber annually and giv ing an average of 1,485 people regular' employment. 31 ore than 650 logging operations in the Roseburg industrial region logged 1,001,809,000 board feet Scnbner rule of logs in 1950. Five County Forest Unit The southwest Oregon forest re gion is composed of Douglas, Coos, Lurry, jaexson and Josepnine counties with Douglas County be ing the largest. This forest unit encompasses the largest remain ing concentration of virgin for ests in the entire Pacific North west. The rapid expansion of the forest industries in this entire re gion dates from the earlier years of World War Two. To date clear and partial cutting operations have covered only about one-sixth of the commercial forest land, and saw-timber stands still occupy close to three-fourths of the area. The saw-timber stands in the five- county unit, contain 10 per cent of tne tout quantity ot saw-timber aairdl!? CGbq! 245-52 IfhMf Drive Opens;. Goal Is $42,000 Boy Scouts' Inclusion This Year Builds Most Of Heavy Budget Boost . The Community Chest drive op ens today in Roseburg. With a $42 thousand budget this year, the Red Feather campaign begins today and will continue for two weeks. More than $14 thousand has been added to this year's budget, drive chairman Robert G. Davis said, but including the Boy Scouts for $12 thousand took up most of tha additional Increase. Prior to this year, the Boy Scouts were not in cluded in the drive. Community Chest banks have been distributed throughout Rose burg. These banks will be labeled Democrats and Republicans. A contest will be held to see which party will contribute most. Totals will be added and publicized daily, Davis said. Beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday free turkey sandwiches and milk or coffee will be given away at Umpqua Valley Appliance in Rose burg. Contributions will be ac cepted from anyone wishing to give then. At 2:30 p.m., an elec tric range will be auctioned off with the proceeds going to the Red Feather drive. Six-Way Breakdown Chairman Davis explained that a United Fund campaign was not attempted this year. "We are mov ing, however, toward that goal," Davis said, "and by including the Boy Scouts In the Chest this year, we have taken a step in that direc tion." He explained just where the money given to the Community Chest will go. The fund will pro vide the Oregon Community Chest with $6,400; Camp Fire Girls, $6, 100; YMCA, $10,000; Boy Scouts, $12,000; Salvation Army, $6,500 and the Girl Scouts $50, i - Davis stressed the importance of these agencies. "I cannot begin to tell you how much good these organizations do," he said. "While providing wholesome recreation, they are preventing our youngsters from getting into mischief; and although the cost may seem high, the value received in better citi zens makes the expense seem, in deed, insignificant." Navy Chief Says More Force Needed In Korea WASHINGTON Wl Secretary of the Navy Kimball said Tuesday that more armed 'forces of all kinds would be required to "force a decision in Korea." Kimball made this statement at a news conference in which he also. said: "If. they (the Communists) don't want peace we have got to figure out where we go from there." Kimball declined to sav how long the U. S. and the Allies would wait before deciding that the Reds do not want to end the hostilities. of the nation's total commercial in the nation and, about 1.4 per cent of the nation's total commer cial forest land area. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the volume of saw-timber in Douglas County is greater than that of any entire state in the United States, except Washington, Oregon, California, Montana and Idaho. Douglas County, alone, con tains more than one-fourth the re maining aaw-timber volume in Western Oregon and one-sixth of the sawtimber in the Douglaa fir region. The One Dynamic Resource Today, agriculture offers little room for expansion in Douglas County and this leaves timber as the one dynamic resource. Of the 3,239,680 acres in the county's land area, 1,683,400 are productive for est acres. Of this number 1,392,570 acres contain mature timber. Many of these mature stands are overmature and actually losing rather than adding annual growth increment due to losses from the various decay agencies that at tack the overmature or overripe timber. According to those close to the Industry, this condition sug gests the wisdom of cutting this type of timber as heavily, in the next few years, as sustained yield (Continued oa Page Two) i. EZRA J. STAGGS. Hold In Knifing Senator Morse To Be Candidate Again In 1956 PORTLAND Wl Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore) told- the Oregon Journal Monday that he will be a candidate for re-election on the Republican ticket in 1956. Morse, who announced Saturday he planned to vote for Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for President, said "this is a mat ter of principle and I will take that issue to the voters in 1956. Morse said he had been asked by the Independents for Stevenson to speak for the candidate "in a dozen places " but indicated he had not yet made up his mind. "If Eisenhower seta anv. lower in his campaign, I may get out and speak for Stevenson' he said. "But," Morse added. "I don't think ne can get any lower." -ine oenina-me-scenes repre sentations made to me by the Eisenhower crowd convinced me that they would stoop to anything, to gain a victory. The neonle of lh. State of Oregon are entitled to Know what kind of dealing the cisennower people nave been do ing," he said. 1 He added that there have been rumors that he had been offered the post of general counsel for the CIO. That rumor is "typical of the kind of amear tactica my reactionarv utipunEms nave neen spreading vuui uio ior years, ne said. Boy Scouts Feel Hand Of Czechs WASHINGTON l The Crech Communists report they have lust uui cunquerea ine "unnealthy" influences of the Boy Scout move ment. Before tha Cnmmnnfcta tMC four years ago, said a Prague radio broadcast picked up by U. S government 1 monitors, the Scouts sought to "befog young people about loving cooperation between rich and poor." The broadcast also said the Scouts "ornmnloH n un healthy romanticism in the young. vcnici ing on cowooys, reosKins and conquerors, instead of teaching them that it is their mission to build a better social order." These influences have not yet entirely disappeared. Radio Prague fKuuwieagea, out n said tney are fast being overcome bv the Communist-run Young Pioneer move ment. It added: "The Pioneers ar vi-v fnnA nf defense games. Our children, our roung rioneera nave no need for hypocritical, empty romanticism. They are taught to love their country and the Soviet Union which is helping us to realize the age old dreams of our people above every thing else." Missing Plane Search Launched KLAMATH FALLS Wl., Two ground parties set out at dawn Tuesday to check a clue to the dis appearance of a plane carrying a Yakima man and hia wife, unre ported since Saturday morning. ine clue was the newly sheared off top of a big tree on Green springs Mountain 40 miles west of here, reported by George Douglas of the State Board of Aeronautics. The missing people are Mr. and Mrs. Everett Logan of Yakima. They took off from Yakima Satur day morning for Medford, stopped at Redmond for oil, and dis appeared. Douglas, who flew down near dusk Monday, said it appeared that near the broken tree on Green- springs Mountain, adjacent trees were scarred. Because of dense timber growth, aerial spotting la not effective. Good flying weather came with dawn and planes took to the air in other phases of the search. Lookouts on Parker and Soda Mountains, near where Deuglas re ported his sighting, said they heard planes above the overcast at about the time Logan might have been there. Detective For Soviet Fleet To Weit Berlin BERLIN 141 Heini Tacke. dep uty chief of detectives in the So viet sector of Berlin, fled to the west Tuesday and asked for asy lum. Tacke told the West Berlin police nis conscience would not permit mm to carry oui uie orders ot nis Red superiors any longer. Tackle brought his wife with him. He is betnif held for questioning to determine if his plea for political asylum is legiti mate. The police withheld further information. Use Of Knife On Estrada Is Admitted Former Sister-ln-Law Of Prisoner Also Held ; As Material Witness A charge of second degree mur der was filed late Monday after noon against Ezra J. Staggs, 28, of Idleyld in connection with the fatal knifing of Hill Estrada,- 27, of Steamboat. ' Arraigned Monday before Suth- 1 erlic Justice Ward Watson, Staggs was ordered held without bail. Held in lieu of $5,000 bond as material witness is Kheta Barton Staggs, 40, of Glide, identified by District Attorney Robert M. Stults as the former wife of Staggs' brother. staggs aoked to see an attorney during arraignment Monday after noon. . Stults said Staggs signed a state ment admitting; the knifing earl - Monday morning at Johnny's Tav- . em east of Glide. Earlier that eva . ning Staggs and Estrada had ar- -gued but were quieted down, the police reported. Later they hap pened onto each other outside the - tavern and began fighting. . Estrada was stabbed with a - snap-blade pocket knife. . ' i Lieiense attorneys have been -named in two other homicide cas-: es. William Green has been ap pointed to defend Mrs. Mary Jew-: en diipin, accused of second de gree murder in the fatal knifing ot L. C. Parker. Attorney Aver i Thompson will assist Green. - Frank, Reed, a Eugene attorney,: will represent Charley Jefferson Lemmons, accused of second de gree murder in the knifing 'of Thomas Raymond Debolt. . , Coal Strike Hits Railroad Men PITTSBURGH vTI The coal! strike spread unemployment among railroaders Tuesday . as more than 322,000 miners-carried their protest walkout into its sec ond day. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad ' an important coal carrier, laid off 1.200 workers and the Norfolk and Western told another 300 workers there will be no more paychecks for them until the miners return to me pus. The Viriinlan rallwav It win Jlay off 600 ahop' workers if.Uul - - - - - .uiiuuuij uimuKii rriQ&y. Thousands of Pennsylvania rail road employes face reduced work days if the walkout lasts- more than a few days. That railroad ha an automatic plan to cut down work days during a coal, strike. Coal miners are refusing to work because the Wage Stabilization Board reduced their recently ne gotiated $1.90 a day pay boost to $1.50, making their new basic daily minimum wage $17.85. "We're determined to hold out for the $1.90," declared President E. B. Hossle of the United Mine Workers local in Acme, W. Va. "That's what was neentiatM nri that'a what we're going to get." Chinese Red Attack '.. Stopped By S. . Koreans SEOUL, Korea lP About 1,500 Chinese Reds attacked in hlinH. ing rainstorm Tuesday night in a renewed assault on mud-covered Sniper Ridge. . - The -Communist struck- under cover of an intense artillery and mortar barrage. But South Koreans held them at bay with heavy rifle and artillenr fire. . . Some 20 miles to the east, South Korean troops battled to within 40 yards of the crest of Iron Horse mountain at noon Tuesday. They pulled back, however, be- cause their supporting tanks could not find their targets through heavy fog that covered the valley floor. Oregon Lifts Quarantine On Minnesota Hogs SALEM ' IB The 'quarantine against . shipment" of hogs from Minnesota to Oregon was lifted Tuesday, State Agriculture Direct or E. L. Peterson announced. The quarantine was removed be cause federal official declared Minnesota now to be free from vesicular exanthema, a highly con tagious disease of hogs. Peterson said there are no knowa cases of the disease in Oregon. Oregon's general quarantine against the disease, applying to all other atates, remains in effect. This provides for inspection of hog entering the state. MONiY SUITS FILID Howard Cooper Corp, has filed suit in Circuit Court against Glen E. Heath for 5994.68 allegedly due on merchandise. General Credit Service sued Clell Auston Woodcock for $258.40 al legedly owed In bills. ORDER IN UTAH Charlea Thomas has been ap pointed administrator of the estate of Edson Arthur Shaw, who died at Roseburg last Aug. 1. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizensteln Speaking of bolts from a clear sky, coniider tha one from Senator Wayne Mane that produced ttja rainfall.