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U. of 0.. Library augone, uregon Comp ays Atak Tab Ara Soviet Faith I By Paul Jenkins Yet In Doubt IiInllTOI? ' C DODC, II ITS. A.. aV - .ii. W. H. "DOC" CARTER of the Carter Tire Company studies a monthly weather forecast prepared by the National Weather Institute, Inc., of Los Angeles, through data fur nished by Western Union. These forecasts are published monthly and cover certain areas only, those in which, a sufficient number of clients, or a certain volume of busi ness, warrants the service. One is prepared for Oregon and Doc is a client, furnishing the information in turn to clients of his. i - "This is a very reliable weather forecasting service, Doc explained to me. "It concerns itself with weather trends and as an illustration of its usefulness I will cite the experience of a loggerwho planned on setting up his show in a certain mountainous section of Idaho's timber country. He discovered through use of this forecasting service that he would be able to do so fully six weeks earlier in the season than he had thought possible from all he had been able to discover locally concerning the probable or average opening of spring weather conditions there. Naturally, this proved to be very valuable informa tion for him." Pot me down for a copy, Doc; I want to know right now whether next fall's duck hunting season in the Klamath Basin is going to start out wet or not. , v County Employment Picture Brighter, Monthly Report From Local Office Indicates The Douglas County employment picture was still gloomy in December, but the signs for the future are brightening as 1954 gets underway, reports Manager George T. Foster of the Roseburg office of the State Un employment Compensation Commission. : Summine ud December. Foster Raspberries Harvested By Myrtle Creek Man Loman C. Baktr of Myrtle Creek It having raspberries for breakfast out of his own gar den. He appeared at the News Re view Tuesday afnjrnoen with a branch laden with the ripe ber ries to prove it. Baker said the bushes have continued to bear since last June. He said he has picked some of the berries for eating about once week. The bushes started blooming last spring. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower sent to congress his long-awaited farm message. In it, he makes two spe cific recommendations: 1. Isolate from the regulaT mar kets two and a half billion dol lars worth (about half) of our present farm surpluses. 2. Move into flexible price sup ports in place of our present sys tem of rigid high supports for basic crops. The purpose of recommendation No 1 of course, is to remove from the markets approximately half of our accumulated surplus es, thus relieving the pressure of them from current markets. The products thus frozen from the markets could be diverted to school lunches, puhlic welfare or ganizations (including, presuma bly, GIVING food to hungry peo ple, at home and abroad) or just storing them away for a future emergency. The purpose of recommendation No. 2 would be more far-reach- ( Continued on page Four) The Weather Mostly cloudy with oecas ional rain this afternoon, tonight Thursday. Warmer. Highest Temp, last hours ... Lowest Temp, last 24 hours Highest Temp: any Jan. Lowest Temp, any Jan. Preeip. last 24 hours and ... 44, 26 - 71 I ,. -6 .... 1.39 Precip from Jan, I Precip. from Seot. 1 - Excess from Sept. 1 ............. Sunset today, 5:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:43 e.m. 18.98 . 3.60 rrr said holiday shut downs coupled with wet weather brought about a decrease in the numbers of em ployed persons in the Roseburg area. The bright note, however, is that some firms have returned to work since the first of the year, and others have indicated that they are making plans to start operating in the near future. Estimates of unemployment from the Roseburg office placed totals 47 per cent higher than in November and approximately 27 per cent higher than during the same December 1952. Claims for unemployment insurance shot up" 120 per cent in December over November. The total for the month was 66 "per cent higher than De cember 1952, Foster said. Job Prospects Batter Turning to the future again, Fos ter said, "With some firms be ginning to resume operations, it appears the job prospects are be ginning to brighten for the first time since early November." He pointed out that some logging op- (Continued on Page Two) Eisenhower Convinced His Farm Program Is Right One; McCarthy Plan Gets Backing Eisenhower said Wednesday he is convinced his farm program is the right one. He declared, with refer ence to misgivings about it within bis own party, that time will tell whether the program is politically feasible in an election year. . Eisenhower gave his views brief ly at a news conference less than 24 hours after some GOP senators had voiced doubt whether his pro posed shift from rigid to flexible farm price supports could be adopted with a congressional elec tion coming up. Over the long run, Eisenhower's plan sent to Congress Monday would point toward declining gov ernment expenditures for farm aids. For one thing, it would permit the government to drop price sup ports as low as 75 per cent of pai ity compared with the 90 per cent support now given basic crops. In response to questions about the political! teasmurty oi the plan, the President told his news con ference be does not regard himself as too smart a politician. He went on to say be doe not believe anybody can study the farm program as carefully as his administration has studied it and still believe the present system is Established 1 873 ROSiZBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954 7"" . . 1CU54 (ores) Unhy Difficult, Says Secretory BtjIIes Claims China Incorporating N. Korea Area WASHINGTON I Secretary of State Dulles said Wednesday that Communist China is "virtually incorporating North Korea as a Chinese province," making more dififcult the prospect of peacefully uniting all Korea. Dulles appeared before the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee to ask Senate ratification for the new mutual defense treaty be tween this country and South Korea. i He said he felt certain that "in the long run" North and South Ko rea would be united, just aa he said he believes ail Germany will some day be reunified. jsui in repiy to a question from Sen. Smith (R-NJ), he declared that conversion of North Korea in to a Chinese province raises enor mous problems. Dulles also threw some cold water on suggestions that the United States negotiate an all-Pacific paot, somewhat similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pact for Western Europe. Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), committee chairman, asked whether it would be possible to form an alliance be. tween ail the Pacific nations with which the United States now has separate defense treaties, such a Australia- and New Zealand,, the Philippines and others. Dulles said that "if all these could be tied together it would have advantages" but pointed to sharp differences between some of the areas in question. He said Australia and New Zea (Continued on Page Two) Bert Owens Case First On Docket Circuit court will convene again at 9:30 a.m. Monday, with the Bert Owens murder oase first on the long list of cases pending dur ing the continued November term The jury panel for the court has been revised, with some deletions and additions. As of today, the following per sons are on the panel: From Roseburg and vicinity Birdee Barker, Marion D. Cock eraim, Frances N. Ellison, Hallie Ford, Lloyd Harvey, Harry F. Hatfield, J. Ross Hutchinson, Gay Nashua, U. O. Matthews, Leland Moore, Rosweil L. Myers, Howard B. Ott, Frank Poole, Eli Sanders, Bessie Smith, Dorothy Spires, Marie H. Steffen, Frank L. Stra der, Erma Wilson, Rett a B. Wil son and Virginia Wright. From Sutherlin Myrtle Mus- grove. From Days Creek Ralph Martin.- From Oakland Ann Manning and Emma Madison. From DiHard Dale C. Lee. From Yoncalla E. F. Kelso From Drain Grace Henderson. From Winston Marshall Haughn. From Riddle Evelyn Mann. From Brockway Jewi Nichols. workable and helpful to farmers, tie aecaaren nis conviction mat the system he proposed will work towara prosperity ior agriculture, If it is not politically feasible to adopt this system, the President sand, we will find that out. But in any case, he said firmly, ne believes the plan he put for ward is the right one. At the capitol, some Republicans were talking fondly of Sen. McCar thy's proposal to set a 100 per cent parity price goal for the farm pro gram. The Wisconsin Republican, step ping .momentarily out of his role as the Senate's most vocal Com munist hunter, appeared as a champion of the farmer with a plan to hike the 75 to 90 percent flexible price supports suggested by President Eisenhower. The senator said in an Inter view he had touched off a heated discussion of the subject at a con ference of aH Republican senators Tuesday because be thinks gov ernment supports should not go as low as 75 percent. They "ought to go higher than 90 percent, per haps even above 100 percent of parity," McCarthy said, adding: "I have no fight with President Elsenhower." Rescue Efforts Continue In Alps; 135 Still Missing VIENNA. Austria I Thousands of rescue workers struggled Wed nesday to uncover at least 135 per sons still missing under snow and ruins in the avalanche - stricken Alps of west Austria and Switzer land. There and in Bavarian Ger- many 86 already were listed among the "white dead." only minor slides, which caused no damage, were reported during line nigm, ana colder weather brought hope the snow movement was letting up. But a Vienna weather official warned that west Austria s average temperatures still were above normal and there still was dancer of more ava- lanohes. This was the toll so far from the snowslides which began Mon day, in the wake of the winter's worst blizzards: Austria 62 dead, 131 missing. Switzerland 18 dead, 4 missing. Bavarian Germany 6 dead. The center of traeedv was the 12-mile Walser Valley of west Austria, near the Swiss frontier. There hundreds of rescue skiers from Austria. Switzerland and Liechtenstein worked frantically seeking the dead and injured in homes in the villaee of Blons. crushed under two massive ava lanches. Youth Wounded By Pistol Shot A Myrtle Greek man it in the my rue creek Hospital today re cuperating from an accidental gunshot wound in the hip. At the last report, rne bullet was still imbedded in the bone. He is William Robert Spring stead, 21. He and bis cousin Wayne William Springstead. also of Myr tle Creek, were out on a gopher shooting excursion Monday when a .a. cauoer bullet was fired into the first Springstead's bip from a pistol, reports Correspondent KUtn M. Evans. Chief of Police Harry Clem- mons gave this account of the in cident. The two youths -rere bik ing in the hills southeast of Myr tle Creek off Hiuhwav 99. Wil liam Springstead had just fired his pistol and was putting it back in his hip holster. He forgot to set the safety and the gun fired. The two started to hike back for aid and had traveled on foot about a mile before the cousin, Wayne, could impress William he should wait for help. Wayne then went . for help. Clem mons and another officer hiked in "A of a mile and brought Springstead out on a stretcher. An examination at the hospital showed the bullet imbedded two inches in the hip bone. It had not penetrated through. The youth's condition is describ ed as "not critical." He is ex pected to be home in three or four days. He has a wife, Ber niece, and his parents are Mr, and Mrs. C. L. Springstead. HOUSE ENTERED A vacant house at 842 Mill Str?et was entered sometime during the past week, the owner, Marlin Holm, Glide, reported to city po lice Tuesday. A 'ndow was brok en, but nothing was taken. Ji r'M- V 7!ij. Aft AMERICAN VOICES Three winners of the Voice of Democracy contest this week, above, received awards for prize-winning dissertations on democratic ideals. The high school winners were: Wilma Argo, left center, Glide, second prize winner; Lavonne Gibbons, Glide, third place winner; and Ralph Barker, Roseburg first place winner. At far left is Glide Instructor Rod Husteod and Joycee Don Hagedorn. For right is Joy cee President Bill Miles. The contest was sponsored by the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. (Photo Lab Picture). Red Leaders Ask To Resume Talks On Peace PANMUNJOM UHV.S. Envov Kenneth Young said Wednesday allied and Red Liaison officers wiU meet rnursday in the first step to ward resuming talks to set up a Korean peace conference ap parently on Red terms. The Communists asked MnnHnv for the low-level meeting but osjly o oiscuss a aate lor reopening preliminary talks broken off Dec. 12 by the United States.- The Allies replied Tuesday with a note asking that the staff officers discuss both date and conditions for resuming the conference. The Keds answered with a new note Wednesday. When he first announced that the officer! would meet, Young said iney wouia oiscuss the conditions. He did not release the text of the Red note, but paraphrased it this way; "(The Reds) agree to meeting.. .to agree on the date for political discussions regarding a uoiinoaj ipece; conference. When asked later about the absence of the word 'conditions" in the paraphrase, Young said the latest Red note did not mention 'conditions," but only the time of we meeting. Winston Council Thrashes Problsm Of Sewer System One of the first problems to face the initial Winston City Council alter its incorporation was a sew er system. The Council has hapim in arum. pie with the knotty problem and! U0 1,1 Ru PnllVa reports actual work may beginr,e, J f - sometime in me spring. Articles of incorporation have al- ready been filed for a Winston Sanitation Oo. by Henry Hewitt, Hoy I. uummere and Howard Hughes. Its capitalization value was fisted as $5,000. At this' week's Council meeting, Mayor Paul Bender appointed three men to the sewer commit tee as another step in solving the sewage disposal problem. They are Ed Welch, Russell Tur ner and Bill Sohell. Mayor Bender reports plans for financing a sewer project call for a bond election, perhaps some time in March. Myrtle Creek To Vote On Revised Bond Issue The Myrtle Creek board of edu cation has scheduled another vote on a school construction bond is sue. Correspondent Ruth M. Evans reports the election bas been set for Feb. 4. Ballots will be cast on a revised $135,000 bond issue for construction of elementary classrooms at Tri-City and Myrtle Creek. ' Last year, a $400,000 school con struction issue was defeated soundly by voters. A citizen's committee in the Myrtle Creek area re-examined the issue and approved the ourrent issue. The board gave its stamp of approval this week. Umpquo Basin Will Continue Drive Until Feb. 25, Directors Decide By MERLE PUGH Staff Writer, News-Review ; The Umpqua Basin United Fund drive will continue through Feb. 25. That was the decision reached Tuesday night when UF directors and other workers met at the Paul Hult resi dence in Dillard for an appraisal of the current drive and of the whole plan for a united effort in raising funds for wolfarA DirAnniaa Sec. Mona Hult reDorted the cur rent drive total at $40,621.14, in cluding about $6,500 in pledges. The goal is $70,000. Most UF personnel at the meet ing admitted that the $70,000 fig ure may not be reached, but they believe they can exceed $50,000 with a little more effort. The slow progress of the drive, which began last September, is not because people are unwilling to give their support, it was point ed out. Rather, the trouble lies in the fact that many firms and in dividuals have not been contacted, so they would have a chance to give. It was generally agreed that more and renewed effort must be exerted in that area of the drive structure. Leaders will begin im mediately to set up plans for a renewal of effort about Feb. 1. Drive Must Continue From the stai'. oi the meeting to the end, it was agreed that the UF drive must be continued. Har old Schmeer, chairman of the budget committee, summed up the feeling when he said. "Wo have an otjligatKm to tnese agencies which we haven't fulfilled." In the meantime, before the J : 1 . .. .1 o.wu Bruce Elliott and John Todd will work out plans for starting the flow of money collected into the bands of the various agencies par ticipating In the fund plan. Frank Norton, vice.chairman of uie onve, staio it is ainicuu to calculate the potential still un touched. He pointed out there are many business iirmswnicn nave not as yet been contacted. Also, returns from Oakland, Sutherlin, ' (Continued on Page Two) Out-Of-Town Men Two out-of-town men are being held in the county jail following their arrest by city police on bad check charges, according to Po lice Chief Stan Olson, Held under $2,500 bail after arraignment before District Judge A. J. Geddes is Robert DeLynn Jones, 23, Sweet Home. He was picked up for allegedly obtain ing money under false pretenses. Jones is presently on parole from Kansas, where he was charg ed with cattle rustling, Chief Ol son said. Kansas authorities may request extradition of Jones. The other man held is L. D. Johnson, 30, who was picked up on felony warrants charging no account checks. He was arrested upon request of Monrovia, Calif., authorities. Bail of $1,000 was placed on Johnson when he went before Judge Geddes. Johnson had been in Roseburg about two months, working as a laboratory technician. Jones, in a statement to police, admitted passing $10 and $6 checks at Seymour's, 401 W. Cass St., and a $25 check at Robert son's service station, 459 S. Ste phens St. TO ATTEND MEET District Judge A. J. Geddes will go to Portland Thursday for the second annual convention of Ore gon's district judges. The meet ing will last two days. There are 12 judicial districts in the state. United Fund x, ; yc xxx x Beecher Offers Plan To Revamp United Fund An overall plan for revamoini future Umpqua Basin United Fund drives wa offered Tuesday night in a report from Gen. Curtis T. twecner, chairman of the 1953 drive. Beecher was unable to attend a board of directors meeting at the raw nun residence in uitiard, so his report was read to the as semblage Dy vice Chairman Frank Norton. Among other thinas. Beecher suggested each area included in the drive has its own quota, and that plans for the camoaicn be worked out well in advance of the actual drive. - One suggestion, that of appoint ing a nominating committee for tms year s ouicers. was given im- meoiate anemion oy . rresioem Marry BruoaKer. Name Chairmen Early "If the campaign is to open on (Continued on Page Two) March Of Dimes Leaders Hear Talk By O'Connor Most of Douglas County's high command of the March of Dimes campaign was in Portland today to hear reports from Basil O'Con nor, president of the National Foundation lor infantile Paraly sis. To hear the reports from Doug las County will be Bob Grant, in formation director; Dr. Verner Anderson, county drive chairman; Franklyn Voyt, treasurer; Bob Bashford, county foundation chairman; and Mrs. Walt Briltell, Roseburg chairman of the drive. They will hear one of four spceohes in the nation during the course of the fund raising campaign. He is pointing h i s speeches toward bringing the polio prevention picture up to date. O'Connor will hold a press con ference at 9:30 a.m. in his Mult nomah Hotel room at whioh Grant : will be present. The scheduled speaking engagement will start at 12:30 p.m. in the Rose Room of the hotel. Grandinette Is Fined For Reckless Driving Samuel James Grandinette, 27, of 508 Fowler St., Roseburg, was given a $75 fine in district court Tuesday after pleading guilty to a reckless driving count. Judge A. J. Geddes caid. Grandinette was also given a 10-day suspended jail sentence. He was arrested by state police on Oct. 8, 1953, and pleaded inno cent when arraigned on the charge. His trial was to have been set Tuesday, before he decided to change his plea. Riddle Man Overcome By Fumes; Is Revived Quick work by the Canyonvllle Fire Dept. saved the me ot win alow G. Knudson Tuesday morn ing, a-ocordinig to Mrs. Paul Stra ban, Canyonville correspondent, He was found overcome by car bon monoxide fumes by T. L. Branson, who owns Knudson's ca bin. Bronson summoned the fire department, which used its re- suwitator to revive mm. Knudson is recovering In For est Glen Hospital, Canyonville. He is Southern Pacific station agent at Riddle. Earl Floyd Phillips Lodged In County Jail Earl Floyd Phillips, 47. Glen, dale, was lodged in the county jail Tuesday after pleading guilty before Glendale Justice of t h e Peace A. V. Mohr on charge of driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor. Judge Mohr gavj Phillips a fine of 500 r jail sentence of 25 days. Phillips waa arrested by Glen dale police. On Big Issue President Claims His Plan For Agriculture ' Would Be Workable, WASHINGTON I '-- President Eisenhower said Wednesday thii country's preliminary atomic talks with Russia are encouraging, but n is too soon to ten wnetner the Soviets are acting in good faith. His reference to the atomic talks. which were an outgrowth of his proposal tor an international atom ic energy pool for peaceful pur poses, came at a news conference in which the President; also dis cussed important domestic issues. On the controversial farm pro gram which he submitted to Con gress last Monday, Eisenhower de clared he believes it is workable and practicable. As to whether it is politically feasible in this elec tion year, tfhe President Hald we'H find out about that later, but that he is convinced the program for a switch to flexible price supports is right. On his labor law proposal for a system of government-conducted elections among employes on the question of striking, the President said he would leave to Congress whether such votes should come before or after a strike has begun. Eisenhower said that In making the recommendation as part of his plan for amending the Taft-Hartley act he was trying to establish a principle. He said he purposely avoided spelling out details be cause that is the province of Con- 1 gress. . The Piresideat also: 1. Said Secretary of State Dulles was only stating a fundamental truth when he declared in a speech Tuesday night that the United states has made a basic decision to meet any future Communist ag- (Continued on Page Two) Six Are As Jet Crashes LONG BEACH, Catif. W-Shroud-ed in rain clouds, an Air Force jet fighter plane rocketed into a Signal H residential district rt uauUwlau nl 1 bVi mA twn Iuimai I and exploded set fire to third I home and damaged a fourth. Six I persons died and four were in- IhiV0 serioualy afr- not recover. In addition, an elderly man, hor rified at what ne saw, suffered a hnfift aflo,lr and liiA The hurtling plane ripped out tel ephone lines and broke gas maim that erupted into geysers of Same. Blazing jot fuel cascaded over what an instant before had been a quiet neUthborhood in the oil pre ducing area, which is completely surrounded by the city of Lone Beach. . The pilot, Ma. Robert A. Blair of Omtaha, Neb., wad among the dead, A boy perished in the street where he was playing. . . . "There were flames everywhere, in the houses, spread across the street and shooting from gas mains," said Mrs. Dorothy Mc Corm ick, who said she was almost Knocked oil a cnair in ner nome The F86 Sabre jot was one of two returning to the Long Beach Municipal Airport from Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., when they were enveloped in dense clouds. Both jrts raced out to sea, then swept in under the clouds. One made it to the airport, but Maj. Blair's craft sheared off the top of a fir tree in front of a borne for convalescents. This house was not damaged, but next door the home of Mrs. Shirley Roberts was d molished and- she and her infant son, Douglas were killed. Myrtle Creek Police f Capture Mental Escapee An alert at Myrtle Creek's po lice station Tuesday turned into a foot chase through the outskrt of that town and the arrest of an escapee from the state mental hos pital in Salem. . Chief of Police Harry Clemmons reported his office was alerted from Salem Monday and informa tion was received that an escapee from the hospital, was In the area of Dole Road near Myrtle Creek. Officers were dispatched and the youth was sighted behind the UPCO shops, reports Correspond ent Ruth M. Evans. The youth eluded them, but they chased him for t mile before taking him into custody at the bridge north of town just outside the city limits on Highway 99. The youth was turned over to County Deputy Paris Williams. The youth was due to be return ed to Salem Wednesday, according to Sheriff Cal Baird. ; Inclusion In the curricula for dogs i by the Dougla County Kennel Club of ability to distinguish between the animals noma - lawns and and those of the neighbors would undoubtedly elicit gen eral public approval and hearty applause. , . Levity Fact Rant Br L. P. Relzenitein
