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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. Library augone, ursgon . Corap , Nation; Mn . . .. m Residents Digging Out After Snovf Cold Wave Sueeps &imss 3 REPRESENTING ROSEBURC TO ASTM ASTERS in a dis trict speech contest in Eugene will be these men, John Fleck, left and Wolter Fisher. They are winners of a local speech contest which wound up Tuesday. (Picture by Paul 'Jenkins), . ,. - . . STILL HOPEFUL Legislators Confident Of Early Session End Despite Heavy Schedule By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM I Threatened with the biggest deluge of bills in his tory, Oregon's 41-day-old Legis lature still is confident it can wind up its work in another SO days. Having made ?ood progress this week with highway and liquor leg islation, the lawmakers guarantee a good show next week. Here's the schedule for next week, and it doesn't include un expected subjects that might de- velop: Monday The Senate will vote on the bill to divide Multnomah, Marion and Lane Counties into representative districts. It also would have legislative candidates run by numbered positions in dis tricts where there are two or more to be elected. Tuesday The explosive Issue of whether to keep on giving racing receipts to the fairs gets its first test in the House, which will rote on a resolution for an interim com mittee to make a two-year study of the problem. Wednesday The Senate Elec tions Committee holds its first hearing on the bill that would pre vent U. S. Sen. Wayne L. Morse from running as an Independent for re-election in 1956. . . Thursday The Welfare Sub committee will hold a hearing on the most controversial issue of ail old age pensions. The bearing will be on bills to make public, the Mayor 'Shocked' While Crowning Teen-Ager LETHBR1DGE, Alta. HI Greet ing Lethbridge "Teen Queen Don na Clock at a 'teen-agers' dance last Saturday night gave Mayor A. W. Shackleford quite a jolt. An electrical short circuit in a microphone hook - up knocked the mayor to the floor, he suffered slightly burned hands but no ser ious injury from the 50-volt Jolt GIVEN PROBATION Clifford L. Smith wai placed on probation from a one-year peni tentiary sentence Friday by Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberlv on a charge of larceny over $75. Smith, of 207V4 Rump Road, plead ed guilty to the charge. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mrs. Maria Jackson, widow of the founder of the Oregon Journal, announces the appointment of Wil liam W. Knight (A Roseburg boy and brother of our own Lotus Knight Porter) as the Journal's Subhsher to succeed her son Phil ackson, who died in Portland last Saturday evening. .She adds: "I want Portland, and all the world to know that the Journal has not been and IS NOT for sale. We long ago provided that the Journal will remain a home-owned newspaper.'; That, I'm sure, will be good news for the people of this, In so many ways unusual, state. The (Continued on page Four) The Weather Partly elftudv this afternoon, to night end Sunday morning. Fog Sunday. I Highest temp, last 14 hours W Lowest temp, last 14 hours II I Highest tamp, tor any Feb 7t Lowest tomp. for any Feb. I Precip. last 14 hours trace Pretij. from Feb. I ..- l.ft : rrecip. mm sept. I . Earns from Sept, 1 1.4 Sunset today, S:S1 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:01 a.m. names of welfare recipients, and in measures to tighten the law which requires relatives to support wel fare recipients. The Senate held its first fiatur. day session, but the House will bold its first one next Saturday. In the 1951 session that ran 116 days, there were 1,214 bills intro duced, an au-uraa record. So far. there have been 975 hills introduced, compared with 715 at the same stage two years ago. That means the committees have a hard job. The Legislature disposed of one of its biggest Dills this week when the Senate sent to the governor the 32 million dollar highway con- suutuua vuuu um. Croft To Monitor Panel Discussion Mayor Percy Croft wiH monitor a panel discussion of "future plan ning for Roseburg" at the Cham ber of Commerce forum luncheon in the Umpqua Hotel Monday. Featured on the panel are Earl Wiley, H. E. Schmeer, Art Evans and W. A. Gilchrist, reporto For um Committee Chairman Gordon Stewart. Stewart states that the program is designed to "bring to the people of Roseburg some of the values that will accrue from an objective approach to the need for a solu tion to our many problems. The forum meeting is open to every one in the city." By subjects, Wiley will stress the affect of future planning on real estate values; Schmeer, a banker, will emphasize effects on permanent investments; Art Ev ans, a mining engineer, will draw the relation of planning to civil engineering and City Manager Gil christ will indicate the value of $6,000 In engineering studies to fu ture planning. . ... High Winds Halt Jumps By .Parachute Troopers CAMP DRUM. N. Y. Wl-The 82nd Airhorn Division says , it needs to give about 3,000 addition al paratroopers a rehearsal jump before the mass drops set for next Tuesday. High winds halted jumps Friday, after 1,500 troopers had bailed out over Snow Ridge, a ski resort 2814 air miles southeast of Camp Drum. Blind School Is Shown In By ESTHER OEDDES Just how successful is the pro gram of the Oregon State School for the Blind in its effort at re turning blind children to their homes and communities as quick- ly as possible? What is the result when a blind child tries to com pete with normal children? One atriking answer to this ques tion is the case of Gayle Sandeen. who is now making quite a name for herself as a high school stu dent at Coos Bay. Two years ago my daughter Gayle Geddes visit ed the blind school and became acquainted with Gayle Sandeen. After spending a day with her blind friend she reported to me among other things "Mother, she made me so ashamed of my self. You should see her room at the dormitory not a thing is out of place. She puts everything away and knows where everything is and does things a lot better than I do." We were interested to note that Gayle S. was a finalist in the an nual spelling contest for Salem pupils that year. This was some thing at triumph tor blind stu Established fS7S HOSE BURG, OREGON - ' '- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1953 42-33 Soviet Indictment Approval Forecast River Mduth Closure Is Given Study A report by Douglas County raru supervisor cnanea a. coi-; lins, regarding the closure of the i mouth of the Umpqua River to: commercial fishing, was discussed by the Douglas County Parks Board Friday at a meeting in Drain. The report was on a meeting with the Oregon Fish Commission, and the proposal had been brought before the commission by the Port of Umpqua and the Parks Depart ment. Collins said it is "believed that the commission will look favor ably on the proposal." The meas ure is designed to conserve the supply of fish and as a companion measure to the proposed Oregon landing laws which would put fish caught on the sea or outside Ore gon in the jurisdiction of Oregon laws if brought Into the state. Consider Reauest A reauest by the Edelweiss Ski Club for flnincinl help In snow removal on the Taft Mountain Ski area was received. The board said it could not consider the granting of cash to other organizations, but that help could be given for soe ciip projects or specific narks. , The boar promised to take the matter under consideration. The board requested the Dla- (Continued on Page Two) Most Wanted Criminal Recognised By Clerk ,EL RENO, Okla. till A night clerk in the Federal Bureau of In vestigation office, whose chief duty Is sending out wanted circulars, Saturday caused the arrest of one of the FBI's "ten most wanted fugitives" after recognizing him from a picture he had mailed to hundreds of officers. Theodore Richard Byrd Jr., 27, termed one of the slickest hot check artists in the country, was arrested at 2 a.m. here at an all night cafe, the FBI said. Robert L. Harvey, who works In the TBI office at Oklahoma City but lives here, -called El Reno po lice after he saw Byrd eating at the cafe. Harvey is the son of EI Reno Police Chief Lee Harvey. D. A. Bryce, agent in charge of the Oklahoma FBI office, said that Byrd had passed more than $40, 000 worth of hot checks in the past few months. He has gotten as much as $0,300 a day posing as a doctor or Naval officer and ask ing banks to cash certified checks. Raccoon Finds Mate. Through News-Review Ad Even raccoons can find "a mate through Roseburg News-Review want ads. Mrs. Byron Hawkins of Rt. 3, Box 765, advertised for a breeding mate for her female pet 'coon Wednesday. .She had made the match before the next paper came off the press. The ad was a last resort after she had even inquired about the matter with veterinarians. "We've received four calls since the ad," she says. AIRMAN HELD Dale S. Campbell, 18, of Shepard Air Force Base. Texas, was ar rested early today and held for military authorities on an AWOL charge, city police reported. Effectiveness Illustration dents who write and read braille become accustomed to abbrevia tions and do not constantly have the visual reminder of the print ed word to bring its spelling to mind. ' This year when we inquired about Gayle Sandeen we found that she hsd gone home to her family and is attending high school and making good grades, and per haps more important she is mak ing friends and living as a nor mal high school girl should. Much of that is the result of her years at the Blind School. She was never coddled or led or assisted with anything she could possibly do. There are no ramps or extra guide rails to make the youngsters de pend on them for support. This is the new and effective way of tak ing the curse off blindness and making the blind realize that they have much to contribute to and much to gain from our world. The lovely new school building recently completed for the blind is beautiful and there are only two things I noticed that would I (Continued ei rag Two) Resolution Considered By Congress WASHINGTON W - Quick con. gressional approval was forecast toaay lor president Eisenhower's indictment of Russia's mass "sub jugation of free peoples" through perversion of World War II agree ments. - A resolution, sponsored by Ei senhower and awaited on Capitol Hill since he promised it in his Feb. 2 State of the Union mes sage, was made public Friday ay ui rresioeni. It rejects the Soviet Union's in' terpretation of the understandings presumably those made at Yalta as a license tor the subjugation of free oeoDlis. It Disclaims a hope for ultimate self-government oenina ine iroa curtain in line "with the pledge of the AUaUic unaner. ine resolution was not as strong as some Republicans had wanted, but few seemed inclined to chal lenge the President on the issue. Most Democrats were ready to go a ong w.th it, too. it , . n criticize the administration nf Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt or iarry S. Truman, nor did it repudiate agreements made at Yalta or elsewhere during those administrations. The Republican President also accepted the principles of the At lantic Charter, authored by Roose velt with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Atlantic Charter, actually a joint declaration of the two lead ers, was composed of notes they agreed upon aboard ship in the Atlantic Ocean in August, 1941, They recognized, among other things, the rights of all peoples to choose their own governments and agreed on restoration -of self-government for those who had lost it. The charter was never drafted m a formal document and had no legal force, although it caught on as a declaration of the west's principles. . Tuberculosis Victim Acquitted Of Murder NEW YORK GB-Vincent Pugh, 39-year-old tuberculosis victim whose attorney says he has only a year to live, was acquitted last night of two murder charges in the snooting of his wife and step daughter July 17. An all-male Bronx County Court jury returned the verdict after de liberating 3 hours and 15 minutes. The defense had called 56 wit nesses during the six-week trial to prove that Pugh, a war veteran, was temporarily insane at the time of the shooting. Pugh, a chauffeur, was held aft er the fatal shooting of his wife, Eleanor, 37, and her daughter, Mrs. Jane Curley Whalen, 22, in their Bronx apartment. 14 Pneumonia Cases Reported At Hospitals Fourteen cases of pneumonia are reported from both Roseburg Hospitals, equally divided between adults and children. Savon , am k-ina at Community Hossital and all are adults. Meanwhile at Mercy Hos-i The bill would also require wit pital, seven children are listed nesses to stick to the subject un with pneumonia. I der investigation. I m . mmmmmmmmmwfymm r,-"V-Y?:-':-?r-'3 SCOUT INVESTITURE Larry Berg and Kurt Norlin, standing next to Scoutmaster Floyd Wilson, were invested into the Roseburg L:ons Club sponsored Boy Svout Troop of Rose High School Thursday Night ot on impressive candlelight ceremony. The $cout$ were guests of the Lions at dinner an annual occasion. Patrol leader bars were present ed to Albert Klang and Joe Brady by Tom Prkey and Larry Rutter, respectively. A fire making demonstration wos held. Tioop Chairman George Foster orranged hg program, (Staff Picture.) - Indo-Chinese War Critical Issue Topic Possible West German Tieup Also Slated For US-British Talks LONDON W The critical Ind- Chinese war and a possible West. uerman ueup wnn tne Atlantic alliance if the European army plan fails will be among top-priority items at forthcoming British-Amer ican talks in Washington, British government sources say. ' These topics were reported last night as another hlanly-olaced Briton expressed mounting anxiety over a possible struggle for power within Russia if Stalin dies or quits. Such an internal battle, he de clared, would represent one of the biggest threats to world peace, t This Briton said the West could be fairly confident as long as Stalin was in full command but in the event of an all-out struggle for dictatorship between ambitious rivals, "There is no telling what their rashness may plunge us in- The Indochinese and German questions will be among the prob lems hashed over when Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden sched uled to sail next Tuesday for the United States meet President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles, the informants said. The British and American chiefs, it was indicated, will talk over confronting France with solid Anglo-American support for West Germany's participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if the six-nation army project founders. Jelke Willing To Take Stand NEW YORK - Minot r. (Mickey) Jelke says He is ready to testify at his trial on vice diarges, but tne margarine he.r u attorneys say they have not de cided whether to call him. Newsmen asked Jelke If he would take the stand. The 23-year-old scion of a socially registered family replied: "It wouldn't be like going to i New Year's party. But if it's nec essary, I'll do it." The state rested its case against Jelke Friday with the testimony of blonde Pat Thompson, one of the three young women whom Jelke allegedly induced into pros titution. General Sessions Court Judge Francis L. Valente, who closed the prosecution's presentation to the public and press, adjourned the trial until Tuesday. Morse Says Entitled To Witnesses Counsel WASHINGTON W-Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) says witnesses in Senate investigations should have a legal right to counsel, who could object to questions and cross-examine any other witness making accusa tions. In Introducing a witnesses' "bill of rights" measure, Morse yesterday said persons accused of disloyalty, subversion or Com munist tactics should have "ade quate assurance by law" of a chance to defend themselves. i. e- . V.. I 1 - ' X New Pro Agency WASHINGTON U The U. S. Advisory Commission on Informa tion recommended Saturday that the Voice of America and all other psychological w.irtare and over seas information programs be placed in new federal agency of cabinet level. The advisory committee Is a group of five uistinguUhed citizens under the chairmanship of Mark A. May, director of the Yale Uni versity Institute of Human Rela tions. The proposal for removing the Voice and related activities from the State Department was one of seven recommendations which the commission placed before Con gress in a report released through the department. It coincided with mounting criti cism of the handling of Voice op erations. The program is now be ing investigated by a Senate com mittee headed by Sen. McCarthy (K-W1S). . The commission's recommends' tion may have an influential effect on decisions yet to be made by White Family Pours Water CANVEY ISLAND. England Ul The White family came home this week and papa poured tne sea water out of the television set This was the report of sandy- haired Robert White, age 11. one of the thousands of refugees who Armored Shorts Save Soldiers WESTERN FRONT; Korea Wl -Two U., S. soldiers wearing the Army's new armored shorts were hit Friday night by shell fragments that would have caused serious wounds If the "diaper" bad not stoooed them. . . It waa the first reported combat test of the new armored snorts. They are designed to give the lower torso the same protection the vest gives the upper torso. Armored vesta have beta in gen eral combat use for several months, U. S. Marines have been using them for more than a year. Names of the two men were not released because they received oth er wounds and were evacuated to a hospital. Capt. Mack Strauss of South Bend, Ind., armor observer, said one of the shell fragments pen etrated to the last of the 12 layers of basket weave nylon squares. Cost Like At Alcatraz Waldorf Astoria WASHINGTON W-Senate de baters reached bipartisan agree ment yesterday that stern Alca traz Prison costs more to house a prisoner than would a plush, big- city notei. Sen, Langer (R-ND), saying It now costs twice as much to feed and house a prisoner at the Island prison in San Francisco Bay as at any other federal prison, figured the . government cooio noara in mates "in the Waldorf Astoria cheaper," . CAR FIRE REPORTED City firemen were called to Douglas and Kane Streets Friday about 2:15 p.m. by a car fire in a car owned by L, Lamer-ton, of 1905 Fairmont St. Damage was minor. paganda President Eisenhower and Secra tary of State Dulles about 'he or ganization of the government'a in formation and psychological war fare programs., The report came out as senators Investigating 1h Voice kept State Department officials on the carpet with demands ' for guarantees against any policies hampering the probe. - One clash between the Republican-led committee and the new Republican administration of the State Department apparently end ed yesterday in a senatorial vic tory. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, new under secretary of state, promised "full co-operation." Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls) and his senate investigations subcommit tee today went after a similar pledge from Donald B. Lourie, new under secretary of state for admin istration. They summoned him to a closed door conference, demand ing that there will be "no further giving information to the subcom mittee. ... ,i . . Conies Home; Out Of TV Set have returned to what Britain caUed the "Isle of Death.' - Canvey Island, in the Thames estuary, was the home of 12,000 ieopie wnen aurricane driven idea struck it at 2 a.m. Sunday. Feb. 1. Angry waters surged over the 8,000-acre island, drowning at least 62 persons along with 245 more eisewnere on Kniland'a east ern coast. Ten thousand inhabitants of Can, vey fled, leaving behind t shoat community Isolated in a lake of murny, swirling' waters. Holding his ,cat, Susan, little Kooert White cried when he got his first look at h i one trim ihunaalow home: 'Tne three (eat of water in the living room was nearly gone." he said, "but oh, tvhat a mess was left. The furniture Waa ruined and naa floated everywhere. The whole place was stinky and aloshy. "Mom had lust finished paying for the television set too and the first thing papa did was to empty the sea water out of 1L But it waa wrecked. . "There was a dead flsfa In the bath tub." The 4,000 people who so far have plodded back over the old iron bridge from the mainland, past the water-soaked sign. "Welcome to Canvey Island," have found their homes in about the same shape. For the l.OOfl OlH air tun. Inn. living out their days on the island. meant iiieume possessions were swept away. . Post Office To Close Washington's Birthday The Roseburg Port Office will be closed all day Monday, Febru ary 23rd In observance of Washing ton's birthday, reports Acting Postmaster Clyde Carstens. There will be no delivery of mall by city delivery, rural routes or star route carriers. Mall will be distlbuted to Post Office boxes. Dispatches ot mail will be made as usual. All service windows will be closed. LODGED IN JAIL Arthur Edward Kroening, 88, was lodged in the county jail on a charge of operating a motorcycle while intoxicated, the sheriff's office reported. Bail was set by Reedirport Jus tice Fred Wright at fl.OOO. Mustard Gas To Eliminate WASHINGTON Mustard gas the poison of World War I looks to some Army medical men like a promising prospect to eliminate a disease hazard involved in the use of blood plasma. An Army reioarcher said today that recent tests, aided by volun teers among prisoners In ievcral federal penitentiaries, point to this possibility: That the poison war gas may be used to sterilize blood plasma of the virus responsible for a disesse known as "serum hepatitis" 1 liver ailment usually marked by Jaundice. This serum jaundice it both 1 military and a civilian problem. A whole batch of blood plasma can be Infected It any of it is made from the blood of an unsus pected carrier of the virus. Not sll plasma Is so Infected, of I course, ana thousands of persons have received plasma without get ting serum jaundice. The disease usually develops only among those who receive repeated transfusions. A major difficulty Is that there is no known way of telling whether a supply of plasma is Infected. So scientists have been seeking a way to sterilize the blood deriva Formidable Drifts ! Stall Traffic Close Stores And Schools . ' By The Associated Frets " Numbing cold descended today upon a vast section of the nation's northern midlands in the wake of the winter's worst snowstorm. . Temperatures of zero or U below wore forecast for tonight In at least six of the 11 states -which have felt in varying degrees the fury of the four-day blizzard. Diminishing winds permitted res idents of the storm area, particu larly In deeply snow-blanketed portions of South Dakota, Nebras ka, and Minnesota, to dig out of drifts that stalled highway and plane travel and In many commu nities farced the closing ot schools and businesses. . - But the wlnda trailing the re. redlni storm, now moving into Canada at the fiend of Lake 8u nenor. were still so miles aa hour or more rmn enough to inten slfv the flidrionly fallen tempera- rures.-Tne weatner Bureau re norted euest of 57 m'lea an hour vn recorded dnrlne'the height ot he storm over Nebraska.1 Iowa. '""h T"nt and Minnesota. The wind scoured the new falll of snow. Murln xm to 15 lnchea at Huron. S. I):.' ami 12 at Rt. f iwd. Minn;. Into formidable drifts that keqt school children om. forced businesses to close fn? lack nf customers, and even burled Mehwavs w that snowplow cr-ws cotunn i rna tnem. Similar discomforts were felt In Wyoming and Colorado ,'a day earlier, where the storm - began developing Wednesday. It wai la those states the only storm deaths nine were reported. Five were the reslt of traffic accident and four... an n Denverattributed to over-erertlnn In the snow. In I the Deep South, tornadoes lashed three states leaving one person dead. 10 Injured,' and a mounting list of homeless. ... ... Allied Phr.cs Blast Center On Yalu River ' ty FORREST EDWARD! - , SEOUL . ul) , Allied , fighter bombers' blasted a Communist communications center near the south bank of the Yalu River boun dary of Manchuria Saturday and screaming U. 9. Sabre Jets downed two MIG-15S. The U. S. Fifth Air Fore re ported that three other MIGs prob ably were destroyed and two dam aged. The raid on the Red communi cations - center at Manpojin wat 6no of two heavy strikes during the day . protected by the ileek, swept-wing Sabres. Fighter-bombers earlier pounded a big Red sup ply area north of Pyongyang, apex of the old "Iron Triangle" oa the Korean Central front. The Air Force aaid 42 Sabres and 50 MIGs were involved ia the air battles. Thirty two F-84 Thunderjets hit the communications center. Pi lots reported destroying 18 build ings and damaging eight Num erous fires erupted and secondary (Continued on Page Two) Not So Young, Athlete Learns To His Sorrow Robert B. Thomas, Sulherlln, la In Community Hospital, pee slbly thinklne he's net aa yeune as he used to be. Hospital attendants saw he wa shewing his yevrn daueh . tr, about 5, how he . ceuM aland en hie head. He fell end broke Me cellar bone. , -.,...-. DRUNK DRIVINO COUNT John V. Ruegg, Oakridge, wai lodged in the county Jail on a drunk driving charge, state police report. - - May Be Used Plasma Virus tive, widely used to treat shock, against any contamination by the virus. ' Col. John R. Wood, the Army' chief medical research administra tor, said In an Interview the Army It Interested even though there is a possibility a sugar substance called dextran may eventually re place plasma for certain impor tant uses. Dextran la known to be free ot the jaundice hazard. Wood said, however, that the Army would still need plasma for some uses even If dextran should replace it for other'.. Levity Fact Rant B L. P. Relzensteln The 'Multnomah hag which used to be political figure t speech on part of the rest of Oregon, It again In the news, but this lima realistic ally. It's under federal quarantine.