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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. Library augcne , Oregon isesihoTOi? facing 1 Approval Of Wilson Poses Cffrnnn Iceiin President NO H y I Py fad Jenkins TTTYV, I 1 : ri nn 11 S. htV- Mm I lift I irrmriTmtifi t? AoKLi C. FENTON FORD, field representative for Lane, Douglas, Coos and Curry Counties for the Federal Social Security Administration, is pictured as he iriterviews an applicant for federal security at his Roseburg stopping place in the j city council chambers, which he visits twice a month. His : headquarters office is Eugene, Most young people probably ' will find little in Mr. Ford's work to interest them; but as ; one approaches the retirement age of .65 an interest will develop, or if one is a survivor of a family head who had reached that age, he will be more than likely be glad to ask a few questions. Mr. Ford, a most affable person, cer tainly will be more than glad to do his best in answering. Eisenhower Ball Continued Into Wee Morning Hours By RELMAN MORIN ' WASHINGTON Happy Republicans wassailed on into the wee hours of today in a last great and gala jubilee marking the inauguration of President Eisenhower. And Eisenhower and his In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's big news: It's PRESIDENT Eisenhower NOW. That pretty well tells the story. The rest of the news that is com ing over the wires as mis if writ ten if chiefly fluff. His first public utterance as PRESIDENT (made a few min utes after he took the oath of of fice) reveals what is uppermost in his mind. He devoted his inaugural address almost entirely to the international situation and to a call for the free nations of the world to unite against the forces of aggression. He added: "To produce this unity, to MEET THE CHALLENGE OF - OUR TIME, destiny has laid upon our country the responsibility of the FREE WORLD'S leadership.'; . Docs that fire you with joy un restrained? Does it fill you with desire to CELEBRATE? I'm afraid not. It's too grim. But it's the truth. Until the teeth of the monster that is communism (Continued on page Four) INJURES SHOULDER Dr. D. B. Bubar of Roseburg suf fered a badly cut right hand and injuries to his right shoulder Mon day, when he 'ell. Dr. C. B. Wade took several stitches in the hand wound. Dr. Bubar was able to be back in his optometric office Tuesday. Flood Weary Winston ites Repair Damages Of Water By MRS. GEORGE BACHER Flood-weary Winstonites put their shoulders to the wheel this week in an effort to repair the damages of Sunday's deluge, while some evacuees were reluc tant to return in the face of "more rain" predictions, the ma jority had restored a fair state of normalcy within a matter of hours after the waters began to recede. ; The crest of the South Umpqua at the Winston bridge was report ed at II p.m. Sunday about a foot below the well-remembered flood stage of just two years ago. Bitter experience of the 1950 flood alerted old-timers of the area. And they in turn warned others. While most people readily responded to the warnings, oth ers did so reluctantly. About dU famines were evacuated. Knowing the tricks of the river . on a rampage, many became un easy as early as Saturday after noon. By Saturday night the more lady celebrated right along wiin menu ' They didn't lioWffiiniitffl Ui fi nal curtain at 3 a.m., but departed at 1:18, comparatively the lhank of the evening. Long lines of limou sines and taxis, stalled in traffic, were still bringing guests when he left. The new President was in fine fettle, right up to the end. He still looked daisy-fresh, although hts day had begun 18 hours earlier and had included the most impressive event any American can experi ence-Ming sworn in as president of the United States. Aides said he planned to begin worK at nis aesK around 8 o clock. He faces a big problem, the im passe over confirmation of Charles E Wilson as secretary of defense. The President, however, gave no sign of having anything like that on his mind last night. He looked like a man out for a good time, and he appeared to be having it. This was a double-jointed jubilee. At opposite ends of Washington two big. bull-chested halls had (Continued on Page Two) Peeler Handed Summons In Pearson Libel Suit WASHINGTON Wl Columnist Westbrook Pegler responded cheerfully yesterday when a man greeted him as he sat in the press section at the presidential inaugur al ceremonies. Then his greeter, special process server Hugh Duffy, handed the newspaperman a two-year-old sum mons and a copy of a complaint in a $5,100,000 assault-Ubel-conspir- acy suit. The suit was filed by columnist Drew Pearson against Pegler. Sen McCarthy (R-Wis). the Washington Times-Herald, radio commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., and others, al leging that th:y tried to drive him out ol uusiniss. experienced were chorusing "She's oouna to come." A close vigil was kept during the nocturnal hours and by dawn on Sunday rural telephone lines in the Winston area were buzzing with neighborly warnings. Actual evacuation began from a num ber of homes Sunday morning. Of ficial warnings were issued early in the afternoon. There's a gigantic job ahead roads to be repaired, bridges to be replaced, debris to clean from driveways and in some cases, homes to be dried and repaired before the occupants can return. No estimate has been msde of ficially as to just how much dam age was done in Winston Section, hardest hit of the area. But it Is known to be considerably below that of the 1950 flood. Much credit for this can be at tributed to the fact that home own ers were wide awake to the hazard and applied the preventative by moving furnishings and valuables to higher ground while there was till time. Established 1873 Communist Leaders Convicted Of Conspiracy Jury Returns Verdict After Seven Days Group Was Charged With Conspiracy To Overthrow Government NEW YORK 11 A Federal Court jury Wednesday found 13 New York Communist leaders guilty of conspiracy. , , . The jury of six men and six women reached a verdict after re ceiving the case last Thursday. The trial lasted eight and one-half months. All of the Communist leaders were charged with conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U. S. government. - The jury foreman, Miss Lucille Collette. a music teacher, an nounced the verdict after 48 hours of deliberations: "We find the defendants guilty as charged!" , They could receive , maximum (Continued on Page Two) One Brodie Twin Dies; Other's Condition Good CHICAGO W Tiny Roller Lee Brodie, Siamese twin who for 34 days amazed the medical world by surviving a head-to-head surgical separation, died last night The 16-month-old boy had been in a deep coma since the hlstorv. making operation Dec. 17. His brain circulation was impaired and bia condition had been listed, "very precarious" since the separation irom ma d rower itooney uee. Attending physicians had ex pressed amazement that ha sur vived the 12 hour and 40 minute operation. .The surgery on the. twins, who were born joined at the top of their heads, was the first time in medical history the patients had survived such an operation. Rodney, since the separation. has undergone two plastic proced ures to put skin over his brain. He has shown some signs he is on the road to recovery. However, , he must undergo further surgery and his condition still is regarded as .critical. Water Rising Slowly; No Danger Is Expected Water was reported rising again this morning at the Winston Bridge, but Weather Bureau of ficials said it was probably due to rain Tuesday in the mountains and "nothing to worry about." The 16.6 reading at Winston at I a.m. was low compared to the 30.4-foot crest there Sunday night. Forecasts were for minor fluc tuations in all streams. All but the South Umpqua at Winston were reported dropping this morning. Winchester reported a crest of 12.5 feet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the reading 11.4 at 8 a.m. today. The Sunday crest was 18.4 feet. A crest of 24 feet passed Elkton at 5 a.m. today, Bureau officials said, but the reading at 8 was 23.1. Sunday it was 44.5. Freak Flood A freak flood accident put part of Al Sanders' house In Riversdale into a hole six feet deep. Floodwaters of the swollen Ump qua River cut under the house scraping out a hole. The founda tion of the house finally gave way causing it to break off into the pit. And If that weren't enough grief, the undercurrent also scooped out a place for Sanders' ear, too. "They offered to pull out my car," Sanders said, "but I figured it would get just as wet going through as it would staying here." He said he got up about 7 a.m. Sunday and shortly afterward heard a cracking sound. The next thing he knew, part of the bouse had fallen into the hole. "We finally took a boat out," Sanders related. "Everything was flooded Uien we couldn't see land anywhere." His son was with him at the time. The flood crested about two inches above the floor of the house, which he began building last April. ( f R ACTURIS HAND, WR I ST Mrs. Jennie Fisher, Osklsnd, was treated at Mercv Hosnitai Tuesday afternoon for fractures of 1 her right hand and wrist suffered in a fall at her home. Treated for a sprsined ankle Tuesday was Mrs. Ethlyn Free man Sutherlin. ROSEBURG, OREGON 8 Mysterious Flying Objects Reported Seen : : By WILLIAM C. BARNARD A II. S. AIR BASE, Northern Ja pan (A Mysterious flying objects "rotating clusters of red, white and green lights" have - been sighted over Northern Japan by American airmen, the Air Force disclosed Wednesday night. Intelligence reports placed the sightings close to Russian territory in the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin. They added: "There am too many indications of the presence of something ... to be considered an observation of nothing." And they discounted the possibility the sighted objects were mere "reflections of light." - Col. Curtis R. Low, commander of the Northern Division of the Japan Air Defense Force, said the flying clusters were seen by fighter pilots and ground personnel and were tracked on. radar. He re leased official intelligence reports on the sighting to the Associated Press. " The reports were similar to those describing "flying saucers" in the U. S. One said the lights appeared to hang motionless at times, and at other times disappeared with blinding speed. Director Slated For Fairgrounds Promotion Work The combined boards of direct ors of the Douglas County Turkev Show. Sheriff's Posse Rodeo and' uougias County Fair agreed Tues day night to hire a full-time mana ger for the Fairgrounds. Now. all they need is man to fill the job. At a joint meeting in the U. S. National Bank, Fair Board 'Chair man Jim Myers announced that members of the three groups had agreed to share the expense, ol the X4,500-a-year job. The Sheriffs Passe will oav 3500: the Turkey Show, $1,500 and tne f air Board, xj.suu. Applications for the job as Fair grounds manager may be filed with Ivan Pickens at the U. S. Na tional Rank hv mail Th mm. bined boards asked that applicants state qualifications for screening Surposes by a board made up ol le three chairmen of the groups Involved. As outlined at the meeting, the general duties of a manager will be to manage each of the three big shows. Thus, he will serve as both a manager and a public relations man. Applications must be received by Pickens before March 1, at which time they will be examined by the screening board made up of Chairman Jim Myers of the Fair Board, Chairman W. H. Car ter of the Posse and Chairman Ed Davis of tho Turkey Board. Several Injured When Bus Plunges 15 Feet WEEHAWKEN, N. J. I A public service bus plunged over a cliff Tuesday on a steep downgrade to the Weehawken ferry, and police said some of the 28 persons aboard were injured. First reports Indicated no one was killed when the bus rammed through parapet on Pershing Road and slammed 15 feet down to the bottom near the railroad tracks of the West Shore Division of the New York Central Railroad, Accident Puts r 'v'U V V p FLOOD DAMAGES HOME - When Al Sanders of Riversdale got up Sunday morning he heard crocking noises. It wasn't long before his new home, which he began lost April, looked like this. The rampaging Umpqua River undercut it end the structure toppled over into a six-foot-deep holt. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1953 Power Cos. Spar Qver Legislation Electricity Charges Liquor By Glass Gat Lawmakers Attention .' By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM m The power com panies took both offensive and de fensive roles in the Oreeon Legis lature Wednesday with legislation aimed at the 20 per cent aurcharge on electric biHs and to make it easier to build Pelton Dam. Rep. Monroe Sweetland. MilwaU' kie, who is Democratic national committeeman, introduced his bill to require public hearings before the power companies are allowed to add extra charges to repay them for added cost of generating power in steam plants. Three Oregon companies Port land General Electric. Pacific Pow er and Light and Mountain States Power are charring 20 per cent extra on their light bills necause the recent water shortage made it ' (Continued on Page Two) First Citizen To Be Revealed Saturday Night A secret committee of local businessmen is completing - the selection of a young man who will receive the junior first citizen award Saturday evening at the Country Club. The award is presented annually by the Junior Chamber of Com merce to the man between 21 and 35, "who has contributed most to his community's welfare," accord ing to President Ernie Barker, Barker said the secret commit tee determines the choice on in dividual merit alone. Wayne Crooch will present the major award, while Sid Moon will pre' sent three member awards key man, outstanding first year man, and outstanding chairman. . Barker said the banquet and ball Saturday night, starting at 7:30 is open to the public and tickets may be obtained from members of the Junior Chamber of Com merce. A smorgasbord atyle meal la Slanned with roast turkey, baked am, smoked salmon and various other dishes. Outstsndlng men selected for the award the past two years includes Bob McCarl, and the Rev. Walter MacArthur. ' Barker emphasized that the winner need not be a member of the Jaycees. At the same time as Roseburg's outstanding young man is honored here by the local Jaycees, 2,000 other young men will be recoa- nized in similar banquet ceremon ies by Junior Chambers all over America. Meantime, in Cedar Rapids. Ia.. the United States will be saluting the group of great Americans selected as the most outstanding young men of the na tion. The awards in Cedar Rapids will oe made by Horace E. Hen derson, President of the United States Junior Chamber of Com merce. Newly-Built Highway Bids are to be received by the Oregon Highway Commission in Portland Thursday on five major projects connected with reconstruc tion of the Pacific Highway in Douglas County. They include- a start on the relocation through West Roseburg. Two separate contract v are scheduled on the Elkhead-Rice Hill unit, which will complete relocation of the highway between Divide and Rice HiU. The contracts will provide road beds of sufficient width for two lanes of traffic with complete sep arations of local and through traf fic at four county road intersec tions. Frontage roads will be pro vided at critical points to carry local traffic alongside the main highway without interference with the flow of through traffic. A bridge contract on this aame unit of the highway calls for construc tion of twin structures, 100 feet in length, to carry through traffic over local traffic on Elkhead road and a 166-foot structure to carry local traffic on the Pleasant Val ley school road over the main highway. First Two Unit The first two units of the ultl mate improvement of the highway between Deadv. about one mile south of Sutherlin, and Shady Point, Bidding Thursday Ex-President Harry Truman Takes Long Trip To His Missouri Home EN ROUTE TO INDEPENDENCE, Mo WITH. TRU MAN W Harry S. Truman, States, took the long trip home today. ' After nearly eight years aa the head of a (treat govern. raent, , he headed for Missouri Half Of Rioters spurn surrender BELLEFONTE. Pa. UH -Shouting defiance, some 325 rebellious convicts again spurned surrender ultimatums Wednesday in their barricaded cellMock at the Rock view State Penitentiary and re fused to release six guards held as hostages until their "gripes" are honored. It waa the third day of their sur prise insurrection. Tuesday night 400 of Rockview' prisoners capit ulated to a demand for Gov. John S. Fine who warned that additional jail sentences would be given to every man who coatlnues to defy authority. The newest rejection of the state's efforts to bring peace to the prison came in a yelling ex change between Deputy Attorney General Edward Friedman, stand ing on the ground outside cellblock "A" and the convict leader who peered out barred windows 30 feet above. WEEK PROCLAIMED Mayor Percy Croft officially pro claimed Jsn. 25 to Feb. 1 as YMCA Week in Roseburg. The week will be recognized na tionally. Home In Hole 15-53 Work three miles south of Roseburg, will start with the award of two separ ate grading contracts. The first will Be between Deady and Win chester. This' contract will tie in with the work now being dona be tween Chenoweth Park and Deady on the north. It will relocate the highway on improved line and grade, located west of the existing highway. It will extend a distance of 4.06 miles. A two-lane roadbed will be grad ed with complete separation of traf fic by means of grade separation structures, which will be let under separate contracts at a future date, and by frontage roads to provide controlled access, Tne second con tract will start the heavy work on the Mt. Nebo section of the new right-of-way through West Rose burg and south. The contract will provide for 1.58 miles of grading and rock base constriction and for .94 mile of oil mat surfacing, 22 feet in width, on the main road bed aa temporary surfacing to carry county and city road traffic until a future paving project is awarded. . The commission also will 1 re ceive bids for installation of traf fic signals at Lane and Washing ton Street intersections with Steph ens street to coordinate highway traffic with Roseburg' new one way grid system. ex-President of the United in the role of "Mr. Truman, 1 tne role 01 Mr. I ruman, l trte)iBltitatu,'r'--nr',n And alone with Mrs. Truman in the splendor of the private railroad car in which he had stormed the country in many fiery campaign trip, he had opportunity to reflect agnn upon an eventful career and take thought of the future. - Fir Harry Truman, despite his 68 fears, has made clear that he will be a man to reckon with in the years ahead. 111. . . they have aeldom been stirred be fore, oy the senaoff he got at Washington last night at the end of a trying day In which he surrend ered the presidency to Dwight D. Eisenhower. - Hundreds of cheering Democrat ic followers thronged around the rear platform of the presidential car which Eisenhower had placed at hi predecessor's disposal. Dis trict of Columbia Commissioner F. Joseph Donahue described Tru man as "the greatest friend" of "little peeple all over the world." An obvious lump in his throat, the gray-haired Truman, his wife and daughter by his side, respond ed that "in all my career, and it has been a long one, I've never had an experience like this." "This is the first time I've had the experience if being aent home in a blaze of glory," he went on. ''I'll never forget this if I live to be hundred and that' what I expect to do." Youth Being Held Hera On Charge Of Car Theft A 17-year-old Dorena youth driv ing a car stolen in Tri-Citv gave ui after chase by state police Tues day afternoon, just one-hilf hour after the police got the call. David Norman Crawford, 17, was charged with larceny of an auto and is being held in the county jail for the grand jury. H wa ar raigned in Canynnville justice court Tuesday afternoon. The auto belonged to Bob Alered of Trl-Clty. : State police aald patrol saw him headed south just south of Canyonville on highway 89. Craw ford saw them, turned around, and the chase was on. They followed him for several mile before stop ping him. PARADE CASUALTIES WASHINGTON 1 Two death and approximately 200 other cas ualties were listed Wednesday in the wake of the five-hour inaugural parade. The Weother Mostly cloudy today, tonight and Thursday. Some rain tonight. Showery Thursday, Hlnhest tomp. last 14 hours Lowest tomp. last 24 hours Hiohoit tomp, for any Jan. Lowest tomp. for any Jan, . Proclp, lost 24 hours . ... Proclp. from Jan. 1 Preci). from Sept. 1 , Excota from Sept. 1 SJ ... 3 ... 71 .. 4 .. .01 1i!m XI) Sunset todoy, Jill p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:1 e.m. Matter Discussad At . Early Morning Meat; . Other Topics Listed ... By STIRLING f. ORIIM WASHINGTON Ml Problem! . of the presidency began crowding in upon uwigni u. aisennower Wednesday before he scarcely bad a chance to draw a long breath : after the inauguration whirl. -. First and foremost wa whether tie could get Scneto approval lor Charles E. Wilson to ba his seer. -tary of defense. The Whit House -said Eisenhower (till intend t nominate Wilson. i The situation presumably wa the subject of an 8 a.m. conference .... the new President had with his ; attorney general-designate, Her- . bert Brownell, Jr. - But other matters were pressing in and got discussion from Jam Hagerty, White House press sec- . retary, in a meeting with news men. ; . . Hagerty told them: 1. Eisenhower intend to boll regular news conferences in the t question-and-answer style followed . in the Truman administration. No date ha been set for the first one but it probably wilt be held next week. 2. The new President Is thinking too of making tegular reports to the country by television and radio. This is something still in the idea stage but the thought l that they . mig:it he made about once a month. 3. The time for Elsenhower's- state ol the union message will b (Continued on Page Two) i Jets Down Migs; Reds Boast Of ' Tunnel ; Network SEOUL Mi-Allied Sabre let el- lots shot down seven Communist MIG let fighter and damaged three other in battle high over Northwest Korea today, the U.S. Fifth Air Force aaid.: . Two U.S. jet aces, Col. Royal N. Baker, McKinney, Tex., and Maj, Robinson Rlsner, ' Oklahoma City, each were credited with hi eighth MIG destroyed. Today's bag waa one of the big- 5 est in (Several months. U.S. pilot estroved eight MIGs last Wednes- day the most ia onot. day ainca SeSieatber; "" ;- ' " on . the ground Allied troop hurled back sharp Communist at tacks on the frozen Eastern Front while the Peiping radio boasted of an unconquerable defense line of tunnel across the Korean Penin i . .... ! The broadcast asserted thou sands of Red soldiers, working underground by lamplight day ana night, carved out the tunnel net work, which "already proved Itself an impregnable defease line sev er before seen in the history of war." . - . -..' -.. v-' Farmer Loses Foot; Drives To Neighbor's A 58-year-old local farmer, Us foot mashed off iu a tractor acci dent, crawled one-quarter mile te his car, then drove 34 miles to a neighbor's for help Monday morn ing. Clifford D. Jones, Rt. 1, Box (131. was hauling cordwood up a steep grade with tractor when he lost control, sending the tractor rolling back down the hill. when the tractor finally ended it plunge his leg waa caught between the drawbar and a stump His foot was ground completely off at the ankle. Right away, hospital attendant said, he began his slow, torturous crawl to his car. Then came the 3'.Vmile drive. The neighbors rush ed him into Community Hospital. And when he got to the hospital hi endurance was still holding out. He waa perfectly able to give hos- . pital attendant all the necessary ; information, they said. Tuesday he wa reported in fairly good condition. A email portion more of his leg was amputated at the hospital.' ..... Hospital employe ventured a guess that i tight rubber boot he wa wearing may have helped stop the flow or blood and make hi amazing trip possible. . Mill Returns For Polio Lower Than Last Year's Mil returns for the March of Dimes ar below ISM donations, Frank Voyt, drive financial sec retary, reported today. He said not all donations are In yet and believes the drop from last yesr due mainly to curtailed crews, Voyt pointed out the tiny re serve fund on hind in Dougla County this year $4,000 aa compared with last year's reserve of S12.0O0. "If any case develops such as that of Judy Bellows, we will be in bad straits," he warned. Levity Fact Rant By L. P. Relzenstein j Seeeltlng of flood control, ! there' one big answer to uaiwaub. rpbck our in letr I three letter ef that word.