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Newspaper Page TextU. of 0. Library cugene, Oregon Comp Dulles Rips Proposal Of Molofov Established 1873 16 Paget ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 19S4 35-54 Pin We i HOUSING PROBLEM ALLEVIATED The entrance to Roseburg's newest completed housing project is shown above. The Wesrvue Courr on Alomeda Avenue north of Roseburg contains 50 units. A novel factar of the opartments is that all principal entrances are at the rear of the building through the dining rooms. All the living room doors open on private patios and fenced in landscaped courts. (Paul Jenkins Picture). Cordon Claims Ike's Popularity Tough On GOP PORTLAND Wl Sen. Guy Cordon told about 1,000 persons at a Lincoln Day dinner here Friday night that because of President Eisenhower's popularity, Republi can officeholders are on something of a spot. "The Democrats will not dare criticize the President because of his popularity," he said, "but there will be continuous sniping at office holders at the cabinet level, at Republicans in both houses of Con gress, and at Republican office holders in every state, and to a very great extent, the truth will not be in it." In a tribute to Lincoln, the senator spoke of the "zeal, clarity, humility and rectitude" of the Republican Party's first Dresident. He compared problems of the American Revolution and the Civil War with the situation facing the present administration. "The situation in the world at this moment ia more critical, more ominous and of a complexity far greater than in the days of Wash ington and Lincoln," Cordon said. "In those days they knew who their opponents were, and where they were. Today we do not always have that knowledge." Cordon again denied rumors that he planned to resign if re-elected. The Coos Bay Times said in a story Thursday there had been reports that Cordon would auit and that , Gov. Paul L. Patterson would ap point iormer state senate president William Walsh to succeed him. Patterson also denied he was-a party to such a deal, saying: "He (Cordon) would not stoop, nor would I, to any proposition such as mentioned in the press in the last few hours." Westvue Court Housing Project Nears Completion One of the major construction jobs in Roseburg is being com pleted with landscaping now on the north fringe of town. It is the 50-unit Westvue Court, designed and constructed by Todd Building Co. of Roseburg. This fifth housing project by Todd is costing approximately 450,000. The masonry block and frame units are now completely occupied reports contractor Jonn road. Ac tual construction on the units was completed in November. Todd reports that the unit con tains 30 two-bedroom and 20 three bedroom apartments. All equip ment and heating is electric. The buildings are arranged in duplex es, fourplexes and sixplexes. Each apartment is equipped with a living room, dinette, kitch en, bath, storage room and two or three bedrooms. Each has a range, refrigerator, washer and dryer. Plans Jelling On Homes Project Plans are jelling for a 47-acre subdivision of homes at Riddle. A shopping and business district and restricted housing are planned, reports the Myrtle Creek Mail. Todd Building Co., Roseburg, has already secured lots on which to build 27 homes. Present plans also call for a 15 bed emergency hospital. The tract is located next to the Harbor Housing project. It was formerly known as the Jim Carroll ranch. The tract will be called Twin Oaks. The Riddle Real Estate re ports that starting prices for homes i il.- 4 l ...111 I ft rnrt in uie uacb wui ue ti,auv, Gilkeson To Be Chamber Speaker At Monday' Meet The Roseburg Chamber of Com merce turns to the subject of rec reation at its forum luncheon Mon day in the Hotel Umpqua. The forum committee of the Chamber has invited Ken Gilke son, long active in the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club, to be guest speaker. He is expected to relate the accomplishments of the club in furnishing recreational facilities to people of this area. He reports he will review the history of the club since it em barked on a development program. The nroeram has involved the erection of a new club house and other faculties and expansion of the club grounds to 100 acres at Winchester. GUkeson may also report on fu ture development plans of the club. N. D. Johnson, chairman of the forum committee, in announcing the program, issued a special in vitation to members of fhe Rod and Gun Club and their wives and also wives of Chamber mem bers. Glee's Offer Mds Little IHlop French Haven't Yet Received Formal Note Umpqua River Dredging Plan Up For Hearing WASHINGTON! Three Oregon harbor and navigation projects will be the subject of congressional hearings scheduled for March 4, Rep. Homer Angell (R-Ore) re ported Friday. , The. projects: Deenen ind widen the Columbia River channel mouth; improve harbor facilities at Gold Beach; and improve the Scholfield Kiver channel at Heedsport. Angell, chairman of the House rivers and harbors subcommittee, said sponsors hope to have the projects included in the omnibus authorization bill which will be presented to Congress later this session. , The Columbia River project would cost an estimated $8,538.- 000 $2,898,000 for dredging the cnannel to a depth ol 48 feet and to a width of half a mile, and $5,700,000 for construction of a etty at the river's mouth. The Gold Beach Droiect at the mouth of the Rogue Kiver would cost-$3,758,000 with local interests contributing $163,000. It calls for construction of twin jetties, widen ing the channel to 300 feet and deepening it to 13 feet from the mount to the coast bridge. A turning basin also is in the plans. The Scholfield River project calls for dredging a channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide for two miles upstream from where the Scholfield and Umpqua Rivers flow together. It would cost the federal government an estimated $41,000, plus $10,000 contributed locally. WASHINGTON Ofl Little nope was held by American diplomats today that anything would come of Syngman Rhee's offer of troops to help t rance in the Indochina war. Although the offer of a South Korean division has yet to reach the French officially, a French Embassy spokesman gave ad vance notice of a turndown Fri day: He said his government would reject it tor tear soutn Korean involvement would bring on open Red Chinese intervention in the eight-year-old war. State Department officials also were understood to view the South Korean president's threat to march against Norm itorea as a muu exactly what he said it was not intended to be. Without U. S. aid, they said it was hard to see how Rhee could figure on winning any big armed attack against giant Communist China. The French commissioner gen eral for Indochina said in Bang kok todav that his country still is ready to negotiate a settlement with the insurgent Vietminh. Maur ice DeJean, me commissioner, charged at a news conference that military help from China is pro longing the conflict. DeJean said France is trying to prevent 'another Korea" and he voiced coniiaence tnat tne viet minh rebels would be repelled from the Laotian capital of Luang Prahane. Enemv elements. lie said, are within 12Vi miles of that nilv The Indochina problem caused some political repercussions in whrp Assemblvman Pi erre Mendes-France charged last niohi in a uwiwh at Vernon ttiat Foreign Minister V orge Bldault is begging Mao Tze-tung, the Red Chinese leader, to stop backing the Vietminh. Republicans Temper Oratory In Final Lincoln Day Talks WASHINGTON The flood of Renublican oratory which each year signals Abraham Lincoln's birthday was diminished a bit today with the dropninir of some Quotations which the Democrats leaped on as "a Lincoln hoax." rostmaster Gen. Summerfield Timber Days Officer Election Is Postponed Election of officers for the 1954 Sutheriin Timber Days has been postponed until Feb. 24,. reports the Sutheriin Sun. The meeting is scheduled at the American Legion Hall. Nominated for the chairmanship are: Harry Garbcr, last year's chairman, Or ville Smith and A. E. Nicolazzi. Garber has been given the right to sign the West Coast Sliows to set up operations at the 1954 festival. Sutheriin Sets Curfew For 17 Years Or Under Starting Monday, all youngsters in Sutheriin under 17 years old must be off the streets by 10 p.m. unless they are accompanied by , adult The Sutheriin Sun reports the fire siren will blow one short bias as ..-amine to juveniles. The Sun re ports that persistent violations of the curfew will make both the juvenile and his parents liable for prosecution. Movie Losses Won't Worry Fox Co. Now HOLLYWOOD W The Twenti eth Century-Fox Movie Co. has discovered oil in its own back yard. Universal Consolidated Oil Co., "which began drilling last Novem ber on the Fox studio lot, n- nounced "a new deep oil ana gas zone at approximately 7,000 feet" has been discovered. 2 Sutheriin Men Hurt In Sawmill Accidents Two Sutheriin men are in hos pitals today recuperating from mill accidents. Mrs. Brittain Slack, News-Review Correspondent, reports that X-rays show Glen Wells is in serious con dition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene. He was taken there by ambulance this week after logs rolled on him. He was unloading logs at the mill dock at the Viking mill. Mrs. Wells said his left leg was broken in three places and nis right leg in two places. X-rays showed all the ribs on one side had been pulled loose. Several were broken and a lung was pierced. Surgery was performed Friday at Community Hospital in Rose bunr on the leg of Harold Jones of Sutheriin. He received fractures below the knee when a timber flew out and hit him while working it the Empire mill. Water Content Of Snow In Umpqua Drainage Said To Be Well Above Average removed from the text of his speech at Akron, Ohio, Saturday night what the Republican Nation al Committee described as "the disputed quotation attributed to Lincoln by reputable sources in the past." But the big guns of the GOP rolled on with speeches all over the country and as always, drew much of their ammunition from the peeches and writings of the first Republican president. it was Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell who cried noax at the yet-to-be-delivered Summerfield speech. Mit chell saw an advance copy and ac cused the GOP speaker of trying to 'make Lincoln sound like a mod ern old-guard senator" by quoting him as saying something ' that be never said." Back in 1950. the Democrats went into the same matter and reported that Harper's magazine had found tnat tne words were the work of the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, an Erie, Pa., preacher who had become a lecturer on in dustrial relations. Here are the words, which Sum merfield's text had said were "at tributed to Lincoln. "You cannot bnntf about pros perity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by puuing (Continued on Page Two) Italian Police Chisel Name Off Church Of Christ Jaycees Hoping To Make Roseburg City Of Roses A move is on foot by the Junior ChamSer of Commerce to turn Roseburg into a city of Roses. Alan Sweely, chairman of the project to promote Rose Growing, reports March will be "Plant a Rose in Koseourg monui. RujopIv savs the oroiect is one of several to be spearheaded by the Junior Chamber to maite nose burg more "rose conscious." He states the purpose of the niviipct w:ll be to encourage Rose burg's citizens to plant their roses in conspicuous places. He said the Jaycees hope to make this a year ly project. He said a meeting will be set eeo. z to lay mini piaua for the month's activities. Sweely was bothered not a wnu that the town was named after Aaron Roe rather than the flow r JIp said. "AlthouBh we all know that our city was named aft er Aaron Rose, several reasons make the rose a 'natural' for pub licity purposes." He said the rose had a natural association with the name of the town and that the climate was "wot! suited." A similar project was launched in the Twenties, Sweely reports. The Chamber of Commerce spon sored a urogram of rose planting in parkways and along fronts of the highway approaches. A mun icipal rose garden was even set t the Southern Pacific depot. Many of the roses are still thriv ing, he said. The Weather Mostly cloudy with occasional showers today. Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight ! Sun- Highest temp, last hours Lowott temp, last 24 hours Highest temp, any Feb. Lowest temp, any Feb. Precip. last Imim Feb. I rretip. Precip. from Sept. 1 Excess from Sept. 1 .... Sunset tod.y, 5:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:13 i-m. 79 3 67 ....... 1.48 28.84 .. . Water content of snow in the Umpqua River drainage is running well above average as of Feb. 1. Figures have been supplied by the Federal-State Cooperative Snow Surveys tor Oregon. Five of the six snow courses in the watershed have been gauged, and four show increases over av erage, and all reveal water con tents above last year at the same time. The surveys also forecast streamflow forecasts above the 10 year average for the April-September period. At Windieo Pass, on the Cas cade divide between Deschutes and Douglas counties, 115.2 inches of snow were lying at the first of t h e month. It contained 40.7 inches of water the only station below average. Water content there on Feb. 1 has averaged 41.2 inches in the three years the 55 ! course has been measured. Ele 43 j vation is 5800 feet. Four others show increases. They are: Diamond Lake: 69.4 inches of snow; 25.6 inches water; 14.7 inch es water average. Elevation 5315 feet. Whaleback (on the divide be tween - Douglas and Josephine counties in the South Umipqua drainage): 100.6 inches snow; 33.1 inches water; 24.2 inches average. F.Ievation 5140 feet. Champion (head of Steamboat Creek iii Lane County): 77.8 inch es snow; 30.8 inches water; 17.9 inches average. Elevation 4500 feet. North Umpqua (near Lake Creek): 51.7 inches snow; 16.3 inches water; 8.8 inches average. Elevation 4215 feet. The Trap Creek snow course was not measured, the surveys show. Average water content of snow for this time of the year is 10.3 inches at the 3800-foot eleva tion." Streamflow is measured at three points, all in the North Ump qua drainage. Assuming that the average Feb ruary and March snowfalls will occur, the following amounts will flow between April and Septem ber at the following points: Clearwa'.er River (above Trap Creek): 61,000 acre feet. Average is 65.400. North Umpqua (below Lake Creek i : 175.000 acre feet. Average is 169.100. North Umpqua (at Toketee (Continued on Page Two) School Budgets Of Two Districts Are Approved Two school budgets in the south ern end of the county have been aDDroved bv boards of education. roports the Myrtle Creek Mail. At Myrtle Creek, the budget fig ure was set at S612.342.28. The budget has been approved by both the school and budget boards. A public hearing is scheduled March 5 at 7:30 p m. in the primary school. The Mail reports the amount to be raised by taxation will be $298,- 252.28. It relates the board be lieves the millagc will be about 55.2. Meanwhile at Riddle, the board has approved a budget of $187,600, an increase of $1,920 over last year. A public hearing is sched uled, also on March 5, at 2 p.m. in the high school. In the northern part of the coun ty, Drain has also posted its school budgets. Expenditures for the ele mentary district, reported by tne Drain Enterprise, will be $159,106. 87. The amount to be raised by taxation will be $51,429.87. A public hearing is scheduled at the grade school building at Drain March 1 at 8 p.m. For the Drain Union High dis trict, an estimated S138.329.72 must be spent. The amount needed to balance the budget will be $69,- 671.62. A hearing is scheduled March 2 in the high school building. At Sutheriin, the expenditures are expected to reach $479,029.21. Only $52,575 ' is expected to be raised by taxation inside the six per cent limitation. With other re ceipts and balances, the additional amount to ne raised ny taxation is $224,349.21. A public meeting to discuss this budget is scheduled March 1 at 8 p.m. in the grade school. . a 7 NEA Tetaetnto ROME m Italian police de scended Saturday upon Rome's Church of Christ, chiseled its name off a wall and took a news cameraman of the Associated Press into custoday for photo graphing them. They vainly ordered an AP cor respondent away from the scene. The word "Christ" in six-inch-high letters, was the first word removed in this action against the Protestant religious organization, which has American financial backing. The Roman police struck quick ly after worshippers were forced to leave a Church of Christ in Leghorn late last night. AP Photographer Remo Nassi, an Italian citizen, was seized with his camera and hustled off in a police car despite protests. AP Correspondent Allan Jacks, a U.S. citizen, was ordered to leave, but refused. Later Nassi was released with out charges and his camera was returned. The sign was removed on direct orders of the Rome Questura, or police headquarters, which is un der the Italian Ministry -f Inter ior. The new premier of predomin ately Roman Catholic Italy, Mario Scelba, is the minister of the inter ior as well as government chief. Austrian Minister Formally Turns Down Suggestion For Treaty By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BERLIN Ufi Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declared Saturday Russia refuses to get out of Austria because it would mean withdrawing her troops from Hun gary and Romania. He implied that he thought Moscow had rea son to fear the consequences of such a move. Dulles ripped into Soviet For. eign Minister V. M. Molotov for his proposal to grant Austrian in dependence only with a proviso that Soviet and other occupation troops remain on Austrian soil un til Germany is unified, which now .appears in the far distant future. The secretary took up the cudg els for Austria after Vienna's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl, ap pearing before the Berlin Big Four conference, formally rejected the Soviet plan. To accept Russia's idea, Dulles said, would be to expose the Unit ed States before the world as "morally and politically bank nipt." Figl led off Saturday's session of tlw Big Four on Austria with his rejection of the Moscow plan. He told Molotov. Dulles and Foreign Ministers Anthony Eden (Continued on Page Two) Kremlin Strikes At Premier Of Asian Republic BRUTALLY MURDERED David L. Johnston (above) was brutally murdered in his Hollywood home. The body at the unemployed producer was found by a triend, Betty Levin, who- went , to his house -because" she '"felt" Johnston was in trouble. Two Mien Held For Murder Of Talent Scout EL RENO. Okla. Wl Two men being held here in connection with the bludgeon slaying of a Holly wood movie talent scout Saturday signed waivers of extradition back to California. El Reno Police Chief Lee Har vey said the men, Leo J. Dens more, 23, Los Angeles, and George Edward Long, 24, Astoria, Ore., voluntarily signed the waivers but added they continue to refuse to talk. The two were nicked uo here Thursday night while driving the car of David L. Johnston, 30, hand some talent scout. His bludgeoned body was found Wednesday at his home in Van Nuys, Calif. Harvey said the pair admitted seeing Johnston at 2 a.m. Wednes day but would not say anything more. LONDON UFI The Kremlin Sat urday denounced the premier of Kazakh &.S.R for "shortcommei Just two days ago. the Vatican and misUkes'- and launched a and the Italian government cele-1 campaign for a "speedy liquida brated the 25th anniversary of the 1 lion" of Communist errors in that Latern Facts. The pacts es-t central Asian republic ol the So- Myrtle Creek Bus, Car Collide; No One Hurt An accident involving a Myrtle Creek school bus and an automo bile resulted in about $250 damage to the car and none to the school bus Friday afternoon on Highway 99 south of Myrtle Creek. Involved were Cecil James Fran cis of Florence and Al Lockman driver of the bus. Children riding the bus were not injured. Mrs. Ruth M. Evans, Myrtle Creek cor respondent, reports the school bus was stopped, unloading children, when the car operated by Francis slid on the slippery highway, strik ing the bus at the rear. No cita tions were issued. Dying Man Identified As Former Communist NEW YORK Iff) A man found dying of stab wounds in Harlem has been identified as a former Communist wlio trained in Moscow but ater turned against the party. The vrctim, Charles wnite, 51, a Nozro. had appeared as a wit ness in deportation neannxs against Communists and was scheduled for new testimony. White was found in a Harlem doorway Thursday morning and was taken to Harlem hospital. where he died later in the day. He mi not identified until last night. when an official of the U.S. Immi gration and Naturalization Service viewed tne oooy. Dr. Millar To Be Speaker At Myrtle Creek Meet Another group of Douglas Coun ty people will have a chance to hear an address by Dr. James Millar, rapidly becoming the most sought-after aftcr-dihncr speaker in ttiese parts. The pastor of Roseburg's First Pre.ibvtcrian Church has been at tracted this time by the Myrtle Creek Chamber of Commerce, which is holding its annual ban quet Tuesday at 7 p.m. The affair is scheduled to be held in the Myrtle Creek School cafeteria, according to Al Neet, chamber secretary. Gerald Kabler Charged With Drunken Driving Gerald Kabler. Sutheriin. was to be arraigned before Justice of the Peace W. C. Watson today on a charge of operating a motor ve hicle while -under the influence of liquor, according to arresting state police officers. Kabler posted $500 bail, pending arraignment. Officers said Kabler was picked up on Highway 99 near Winchester early Friday morning. Farewell Party Staged For Home-Bound CIs SF.OIII. UBThe U. S. 45th Divi sion, an Oklahoma National Guard outfit, staged a nuge larewen pa rade Saturday for soldiers return inz to the United 6tates. The 45th is the first American division to leave Korea perman entiy since the start of the war. But nnlv about 1.000 men normal. Iv scheduled for rotation will carry the division flag and colors back to Oklahoma for rest will be as signed to other American units here. tahlish the Roman Catholic reli gion as the Italian slate religion. Foresters Hear ; . Expert Talk On European Forests Ford's cafe at Canyonville pack ed in the biggest crowd in its his tory Friday night. A total 113 members of the Society of Amer ican Foresters jammed in to hear Leo A. Isaac of the Pacific North west Forest Experiment Station at Portland. It was a combined meeting of the Coquille - umpqua and biski you chapters of the society. - Isaac told the big crowd that Riirnnean fore&ts an heintr more intensively managed than those in this country. He indicated that Europe now stresses getting the land back into immediate production. He said that one West German nursery raises more tree seedlings than all the nurseries combined in the United States. Isaac has just returned from a two-month visit in West Germany where he went at the invitation and exoense of that country's gov ernment. He made the trip to ad vise the government on torestry problems. A total of 80 members of the Umoaua-Coauille chapter were joined by 33 from the Siskiyou cnapter at tne meeting. Merle Winn, Roseburg, president of the Umpqua-Coquille chapter, reports the next meeting oi tne chapter will be sometime in March. He said it Is planned to stage i tour of the chapter mem bers through the new weycrnaeu- ser Timber Company s new saw mill at Coos Bay. FLUE FIRE PUT OUT A flue fire which spread to a nearby wall did about $10 damage at the G. W. Eckhart residence at 337 Sweotbriar St. Friday after noon, according to Roseburg Rural firemen. Firemen were called to the scene, beyond the airport, at 2:15 p.m. viet Union. Moscow bared to the world its troubles in the vast republic be hind the Urals ricb in minerals for the Soviet atomic program in a broadcast over tne onicvai gov ernment radio at Alma Ata. Kazakhstan Skaya Pravda par ty mouthpiece severely criticized Premier Y. B. Taybekov, his dep uty premiers, and two Communist party secretaries recently purged. Citing a breakdown in the "link between the tasks facing the re public and the leadership," Ka zakhstanskaya Pravda spoke of "measures for the speediest liaui- dation of the shortcomings and mistakes." Premier Taybekov took ofice in January 1952 and soon afterward was made a full member of the central committee of the Commu nist party of the Soviet Union. The same central committee last week sent two tough Kremlin henchmen into Kazakh to take over the cleanup of the party organization. Already ousted were the first and second secretaries of the Kazakh Communis party, Z. Shayakhm etov and a deputy named Afon- ov. Crackinz the whin are P. K. Ponomarenko, Soviet minister of culture, and Leonid I. Brezhnev, rapidly rising former Moldavian strongman. They quickly assailed the Kazakh leadership for ex tremely low harvest yields of agri cultural crops, especially wheat and cotton: for low productivity in stockbreeding, for seriously lag ging behind in grain, meat, milk, wool, beet, cotton and other pro ducts. t The emphasis was on agricul ture key subject of attack in recent Soviet purges under Pre mier Georgi Malenkov. But the criticism spoke pointedly of Kaz akh's "colossal reserves and na tural wealth." IS m'vt Jack Cossette Injured When Struck By Auto A 36-year-old Roseburg man was in Community Hospital Saturday, recovering from injuries received when struck by a car Friday night. State police said Jack Theodore Cossette was taken to the hospital by Motor Ambulance after being hit by a car driven by Charles Everett Hodson, 1525 Cedar St, Officers said Cossette was cross ing Chestnut Street with Allan Lee Miller, 16, when Hodson turn ed off Stephens Street. Miller was not hurt. Police said Cossette was knocked down and rolled about 15 feet. His injuries were not believed serious. The accident occurred at 6:40 p.m. INJURED IN FALL Bill Callandar, a Cepco Lineman, Is In critical condition in the Mtd ford hospital suffering from a pos sible broktn back. He was caught In a freak wind storm Friday night and fell 40 faat from a pole two miles above Tiller on the South Umpqua. FARM BUREAU SPEAKERS Charles Baker, left, will be principal speaker Monday at the 32nd annual meeting of the Douglas County Form Bureau Coopertive Exchange in Roseburg. Also to talk will be Karl Boor, right. Boker will dwell on agricultural economics, while Baur's address is on fertilizers. Membership of the cooperative is about 1200. Levity Fact Rant By U F. Relzenstein 'Home it where the heart it' - especially if a can of coffee it nearby.