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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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(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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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-
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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