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0 of o. library Eugene, Oregon o) 2) y Commode olles Bill Would Be Referred mm By Paul Jenkins C 1 y ' Comp ' r ox Approved KATHLEEN WOLFE, nurse at Mercy. Hospital, arrang es the controls on a new oxygen tent presented to the hospital as a memorial to the late W. H. (Doc) Carter. Richard Hutton of Garden Valley, a patient there for the past six weeks, and pictured above, gave it initial try out. . . The memorial was an" inspirational idea, originating during a conversation several of Doc's friends were en gaged in with Mrs. Carter shortly after Doc's death last summer. "Let's build Doc a memorial," one of these said, "and set it up at the Fairgrounds, or some appropriate spot where he would have liked it to be." Doc was always great for the Fairgrounds, you know. ' , "If you wish to do somethmg he'd really have ,;ked," suggested Mrs. Carter, "why don't you buy an oxygen tent for the hospital? They were so good to him there, and the Sisters need more tents badly." The idea caught on. It spread swiftly, by word of mouth, and loggers, ranchers, business and professional men and just plain old joe docks everywhere, as they heard the 'word, dropped in their dollars for the fund. All were friends of Doc,; everyone was his friend, and if they had been urged they'd have bought half a dozen oxygen tents (at $600 per tent). That's how they liked Doc. How everybody liked Doc. Health Officials Across Nation Prepare To Give Salk Vaccine To Children By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Doctors and health officials in communities across .the nation, cheered by success of the Salk vaccine, today turn ed to the huge task of inoculating millions of children Sweet Adelines Will Make Debut April 23 Roseburg will see its newest singing group unveiled April 23 at the annual Parade of. Barbershop Quartets in the high school audi torium. It is the Sweet Adelines, the fem inine counterpart of the Roseburg Barbershop Chorus. The 28-voice' women's chorus is directed by Bob Rains. The Sweet Adelines formed their organization last year and have been practicing faithfully for their debut at the Parade this year. They will join the tops in barbei shop singing groups on the coast. Two other choruses, including the Roseburg edition, and several of the best quartets are scheduled. Tickets are now on sale for the event. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Bnochal news: After exhaustive tests involving ncarlv two million children, the Salk vaccine against the polio virus has been pronounced bArb, IN FECTIVE AND POTENT. The report of the investigating scientists adds that there is no longer any doubt that children can be vaccinated successfully against polio. The, vaccine is officially declared to have been proved to be 80 to 90 per cent effective in -preventing paralytic polio, and Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed it, says he is cer tain it can be potentially made al most 100 per cent potent In smash ing polio's terror and tragedies. What if a vaccine ' How does it work? Well, in layman language, a vaccine is a substance that stim ulates the human body lo produce ANTI-bodics. These antibodies at tack and conquer invading germs and viruses. Just ANY antibody won't attack and conauer hist ANY germ or virus. A SPECIFIC an tibody is required to attack and conquer a SPECIFIC germ or vi - ru. .... , ! The problem in the case of polio, was to find the specific vaccine The Weather Considerable cloudintss with a fow icatttrod showtrs and soma clearing periods this afttrnoon and toniqht. Partly cloudy Thursday, Coolsr tonight with a low of 36. Hightst temp, lot 24 hours , 54 Lowest temp, last 24 hours 40 Highest ttmp. any April .. 96 7S Lowest ttmp, any Aonl ... Precip. from April 1 Prtcip. last 24 hours Prtcip. from Stpt. 1 Dtficitncy from Stpt. 1 . Sunttt tonight, e:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:33 i 1.27 M 19.44 4.34 against polio, Most local inoculation programs were expected to begin within about a week of Tuesdays an nouncement that the vaccine was 80 to 90 per cent effective against paralytic polio. From city after city came re ports that inoculations were sched uled to start Monday or sometime during the following week. A num ber of cities however, said they did not expect to begin until early May. The earliest starting date so far came from San Diego, Calif., where authorities hope to begin inoculating by Saturday. The first shipments of vaccine went out to state and local health organizations Tuesday night short- ly after the federal government formally licensed it for general use. The official approval was giv- en by Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby after Public Health service scientists evaluated re ports on last summer's vaccina field test. Opinions varied on how long the vast inoculation job would take. inoculations for nine million chil dren are being provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which ordered its sup plies long before the tests results were available. This vaccine is al located to all first and second- graders, considered the age group most vulnerable to the disease. The foundation's vaccine also will be given to children who took (Continued On Page 2 Col. 1) OTI's Growth Far Beyond Expectations, President Tells Roseburg Kiwanians Oregon Technical Institute, Ore-1 the United Stales offers such var gon's sole "college" in the voca-' ied fields. OTI, he added, is a spot tional file, has been accepted to I of progression in a "conservative" a degree far beyond expectations of eight years ago. OTI's director, Winston Purvine told Rosebiu'g Kiwanians Tues day noon that the. school bus acquired a tradition that augurs of success for the institution. That has been accomplished through the establishment of reg ; uar college subjects in the curric- ulam and through social and sports programs. It has been nec- i essarv to do this. Purvine said. o attract those who might not other wise attend a school which gradu ates persons into the technical and vocational fields. Proof of success in instilling a collegiate atmosphere lies in in crease in enrollments. When OTI was established by the Legislature in 1947, only 31 students made up ' the first registration. The number now has boomed lo 'an average enrollment of 830 this j year, a 40 per cent increase over ' last year. The student are en- ! gaged in study of 34 major course. Seventy-four specialists in trade; and vocations are instructors. Purvine said no other school 1 with less than 2,000 enrollment in Established 1873 otorisfs Sanded Drifts Pile Up Eight Feet Deep; Town Isolated CLAYTON. N. M. im Snow carried on brisk winds was piled oh highways up to eight feet deep here Wednesday, isolating the town and stranding hundreds of motor ists. The spring blizzard extended from Wyoming to Nebraska and south into the Texas Panhandle, where Dalhart, Tex., also was re ported cut off from highway com munications. Skies cleared over the area Wednesday and snowplows churned in towards the isolated towns. A Greyhound bus with 15 pas sengers and two drivers aboard was dug out of eight foot drifts Wednesday morning after one of the drivers, H. D. Prater of Ama rillo, Tex., staggered into a filling station at (Japuun, w. M. The storm covered an area com posed of parts of Colo-ado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma in what was apparently the final as sault of a two-day blow. Snow in the Clayton-Raton area was 8 to 10 inches deep, with drifts closing all highways up to 7 and s feet, Clayton police dispatcher Wayne Curry said. He estimated at least 75 motor ists were stranded in Clayton it self. Many others were spending the night in their cars on the r I h ways. National Guard crews worked out of Clayton and some of them were trapped by the drifts, Curry said. There were no reported in juries from the storm. Douglas Music Depts. Attending Conference At least two of Douglas County's high school music department! have representatives at the North west Music Educators' Conference at Eugene, which opened today. Going from Roseburg Senior High School were W ndell Johnson and Hallie Woodward, both music instructors, and Joan Phillips and Nancy Fromdahl, students. Doug las High School will be represented by Mrs. Irene McLaughlin, who is accompanied by students Carol Dowdy and Helen McGuire. A number of clinics and concerts will be conducted as the confer ence continues through Saturday and the students will appear in an all-high school choir concert Satur dav night. Robert A. Choate, dean of arts at Boston University and president of the music, educators' national conference, will be one of the speakers. About 5.000 high school students and teachers are expect ed to atend from five stales. Todd Building Bids Low On Warehouse -Building Todd Building Co.. Roseburg, has submitted low bid for propos ed alterations to a warehouse building on the Veterans Hospital grounds here, but the bid was nearly $4,000 over the government estimate. Todd submitted a bid of $16,698 and S. Ferchc. also of Roseburg, one of $18,732. The government estimate was $12,782. It had been planned to convert the warehouse for drill space for an Army Reserve unit here. state. Only 21 other vocational schools of the type exist in the nation, and 11 of them are in New York. The director delineated between a school of OTI's tvne and a trarlj I school. The difference lies, he said, in the method. A graduate of the institute is a journeyman in his field and knows elements of man agement, business and the lile. Purvine said not all who ittend are high school graduates, but some are "geniuses in a particu lar line," though they mav not have completed high school. Such students go through a short proba tionary period before being accept ed for further work. The speaker sounded a warning in the need for additional trainees in the technical fields, saying (hat the United States now tails Russia and Great Britain in the number of students graduated from the various fields each year. Purvine credited Roseburg with having the first vocational educa tion setup in the western states and said the public schools here have been progressive in that re- spect. 14 Pages ROSEBURG, REV. GEORGE COULTER .. .Nazarene speaker Nazarenes Host Delegates From 65 Churches Delegates from 65 churches com prising central and western Ore gon are in convention for the Oie- gon Pacific District of the Church of the Nazarene with the Rose burg church acting as host. Vis itors will hear the Rev. George Coulter. D. D.. of Santa Crui, Calif., as the convention speaker. The Rev. Mr. Coulter, superin tendent of the Northern California district since 1948, is recognized throughout the denomination as an outstanding' home missions worker. A native of Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Coulter has lived on the American continent since he was 11 years old. He is an active convention speaker and makes frequent 'lis trict tours. The conclave is dlYidedtntfttwo phases, the first of which' is inses- sion today. The district convention began at i p.m., wiui tne iiev. Forrest Hill, district church school's chairman and former pa' tor of the Roseburg church, in charge. The district Young Peo ple's convention of the church will convene Thursday at 2 p.m. un der the supervision of the Rev. Robert Hempcl, present o a s t o r who is district young people's pres ident. The young people's conven tion will conclude Thursday wilh a banquet at the Umpqua Hotel. More than 300 visitors are ex pected to be present for the two conventions. Timber Sales Proceeds Described As 'Bumper' A total of timber sale proceeds and volume shows last week's sales by federal .agencies in Roseburg could be described as "bumper." Combined sales by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service included a volume of 35,- 825,000 board feet. The timber brought more than 1" million dol lars. The BLM conducted one big sale of 22,720,000 board feet. The tim ber was finally sold after spirited bidding for $855,384.20. This figure was 225 per cent of the appraised total. Four Forest Service sales wetc staged during the week. Sold were 14.105.000 board feet of timber for $417,624.75. This brought total board feet sold during the week to almost 37 mil lion and 'ales prices to a total $1,273,008.95. Timber sales are continuing to pick up as the warmer weather be comes more prevalent. (Sec story page 4). Public Hearing Slated On Sutherlin Zoning A public hearing on a new Sutn erlin zoning ordinance will he held April 25 at 8 p.m., according lo Mrs. Ida Lehman, recorder. The City Council and members of the city's planning commission will meet at that time. The pu'ilic is invited to express opinions at that time on the proposed ordi nance, which was recently pre pared by the city attorney. Al this week's council session, the big item was opening of :wr line bids (see previous story), Brief discussion occurred over pos sible need for olher ordinances, and planning for the annual Tim ber Days celebration. Slide Spreads Debris On Highway Near Clide A minor slide on the North I'mp qua Highway just west of Glide Wednesday morning put county road crews to work clearing earth and debris from the roadway. One - way traffic was enforced for a time, but road crews were expected to have the slide cleared away in short order. OREGON WEDNESDAY, Molotov Sees Austrian Treaty Conclusion Hope MOSCOW 1 Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov said Wednesday he believed his current talks with Austrian Chancellor Ju lius Raab would facilitate the con clusion of an Austrian state treaty. This would end the 10-year oc cupation of that country by Russia, the United States, Britain and France. Asked whether the talks would definitely lead to negotiations in signing a treaty, Molotov replied: "Not everything depends on us. "We would like something agreed among the four powers and Austria and we believe that what will be agreed on here wilh Austria will facilitate that ultimate objective." Molotov chatted with Western re porters at a reception given hy Austrian Ambassador Norber. Bi schoff in honor of his visiting chief. . By saying "not everything de pends on us" the Russian diplo mat was referring to the need for agreement with the other occupy ing powers in order to ' conclude the treaty. Asked if his talks wi'h the Aus- trians were going well, Molotov replied: "I think so." Then n added: "The talks are going oa on the old basis but positions ire being made more precise and ibere is a certain reapprochment." Dallas Bennett And Bloodhounds Assist In Search Hopes were dimming that 20-year-old Henry Baker of The Dalles would be found alive some where on the snowy slopes of the Simcoe Mountains near Golden dale, Wash. Dallas Bennett and his two St. Hubert bloodhounds were thrown into the search Tuesday, but snow had stopped all efforts by him and his dogs to reach the scene of a Saturday crash of an airplane be tween the 3,000 and 5,000 foot lev els. The plane crashed Saturday morning and Baker has been miss ing since then. A helicopter rescu ed pilot Jack LaRocque Sunday. But Baker had apparently struck out for help. Bennett reported from Washing ton today that two attempts had been made Tuesday to tka him to the scene of the crash, hut snow had turned them back, ll'i said a low ceiling had stopped a helicopter attempt, and 2'.i feet of snow had stopped a try in an Army "weasel." He said the track on the weasel had broken. Bennett said he and the dogs were waiting today for the ceilins to lift. He said he hoped the copter would be able to take them in sometime today. He reported that between 40 and 50 men arc mak ing a search on foot, but even they have been unable to reach the scene of the crash. He said a foot of new snow had fallen sir-ce he arrived. The former deputy sheriff arriv ed in Goldendale, the base ol res cue operations Tuesday morning. He lclt Roseburg with little hope of his dogs picking up a scent be cause of the new snow, lie now has a Dair of Baker's shoes and sox to give the dogs the scent which he hopes may start them on a trail leading to the missing man. A picture showing Bennett wilh his dogs at the scene appears in today's Oregon Journal. Clyde Thrift Wins Fair Book Cover Contest A 12 - vear - old Central Junior High :hbol student was $15 rich er Wednesday and the Douglas County Fair Board had a new cov er for its fair book. Winner of the fair book cover contest was Clvde Thrift, 1213 Chatham St., Roseburg. He is a seventh grader. Fair manager Dick Turley said the young ar tist's winning entry depicted a map of the county complete with small scenes representative of fair activ ities. Other winners in the contest were Janet Bliven, Myrtle Creek Hthool, second place, $10; and Lillie May Graham, Lincoln Junior High School, Oakland, third place, $5. Turley said the fair book is now at the printers. It will be print ed in about a month. OPPOSE POLYGAMY KARACHI, Pakistan i.tl Twem?. of Karachi's leading women hive demanded that Prime Minister Mo hammed Ali outlaw polygamy. Alt PAfAntlt marrfwl a lannt ' wife, permitted under Moslem law. APRIL 13, 195S By Inleavy No Signs Seen Of Red China Invasion On Predicted Date Br FRED HAMPSON QUEMOY ISLAND UP) Only two days short cf the oft rumored target date for the Communist invasion, Que moy's soldiers and civilians alike said Wednesday they see no indication the Reds are coming; yet. i I visited this disputed island t Wednesday and saw one of its al- most daily artillery exchanges wilh the Communists a few miles away, XT-.: i i l i a couple of minutes I could hear ? the shell burst on the distant main- land or on the island port of Amoy. The Reds fired back and the thump of the shells could be heard as they burst in the distance on this 50 square mile island, one shell carried clear across the five mile channel and as much of the island before it burst on a prom ontory a mile from the airfield when we were over it. The Nationalists say there are few casualties from the shellings. The countryside is laced with ditches and dugouts. Father Ber nard Druetto, a bearded priest from Marseilles. France, and th- only missionary on Quemoy, says tne people nere an nave cellars and spend increasing amounts of time in them, ' Except for the shelling and the always busy defense builders, Que mov wore its usual deceptive air of peace. At its nearest point it is less man live miles from the Red mainland. The garrison commander. Lt. Gen. Liu Yu-Chan was absent on Little Quemoy (a satellite island even nearer the mainland) Wed nesday but his political officer, Col, Tien Shu-Sin, said the Com munists have at least 2,000. -craft of all types in this area and plenty oi men and gum to try an inva sion. ' However, most' defenders here (Continued on Page 2 Col. 3) Rice Hill-Anlauf Paving To Start; Road Closing Set Completion of paving of the Rice Hill-Anlauf unit of the relocated Highway 99 will start in a few days, and through traffic will he kot off the route. Tom Edwards, division engineer for the Oregon Highway Commis sion, said his department will close off Ihc route next Monday morning in order that paving op erations can get into full swing. Paving on the unit is about 40 per cent complete. Work was stopped for the winter before the project was finished. Edwards said completion prob ably will come in mid-July. Por ter Yott, Portland, is contractor. The northerly three of four miles of the unit also serves as a coun ty road and local traffic will be allowed to travel on it. During the winter, Edwards said, very little maintenance was needed on the section, though it was heavily traveled by through rramc. Elsewhere on the relocated high wav, grading has been resumed on Roberts Mountain and near Myr tle Creek. ' CHAMBER MANAGER ILL Roseburg Chamber of Commerce Manager Harold Hickerson will be out of his office for the next few days. Hickerson Is suffering from a back ailmctt, the result of art old injury. He said Tuesday he wo'ild be under "slow bell" for the next few days. Refusing Battleship Oregon Funds Has Purpose Other Than Aiding State Economy By ESTHER GEDDES Legislature Correspondent One said little hit of economy was accomplished for the state on Tuesday morning. The bill appro priating money for the maintain ance of the Battleship Oregon Com mission was voted down, and the $7,500 which it would have carried is left for some other purpose. To some people it seemed like making a big ado about a very little item when the senators pro tested this mediocre appropriation. But there is more to the story than that. For several sessions there has been much discussion about continuing financial aid to keep up the attempt at a museum where some of the souvenirs and relics of the Spanish-American War- are kept for display purposes. Tt.e site of the display is an old timeworn residence in Port land, and the small appropriation would have enabled it to open only two days a week for the public. 87-55 P.RICE 5e now J-' " NEW ASSISTANT Donald W. Robertson this week was nam ed Roseburg's assistant' city engineer. He comes here from Portland, where his (pmily is remaining until the end of school. (Paul Jenkins photo) Dist. 4 Budget ' Hearing Tonight; Election May 3 The budget hearing of the pro posed School District 4 budget for 1955-56 will be held tonight in the board room in the basement ol Cenlral Junior High School. It will start at 8 p.m. and will last one hour, Supt. M. C. Deller said. The hearing is scheduled to allow Interested persons to discuss budg et estimates with the lovying (school) board, according to Dell er. He said there would be an op portunity for persons to be heard In favor of or against the proposed tax levy or any part ot it. Voters will be asked to vote on a figure of $1,014,454.16 outside the 6 per cent limitation on May 3. To la' estimated expenditures for the district next year come to $2,300, 655.99. Last year's total was $2,102, 720.96. In the event of a large audience the meeting will be moved lo a larger room, Supt. Deller said. The budget hearing will precede the regular school board meeting Among the items of business sched uled to come before the board is a request from the Roberts Creek Board of Education. The request asks that senior high school stu dents in the Roberts Creek Dis trict be allowed to attend Rose burg High School next year as tuition students. Other matters to come before the board include appointment of a committee to review the insur ance policy of District 4, Dcllei said. MEETING POSTPONED The monthly meeting of the Douglas County Welfare Commis sion has been postponed one week It will he held April 20 in the county welfare offices in Rose burg. Travelers from the East Coast often have the feeling that West erners have no pride in history or tradition. Perhaps in a sense that is true. Our civilization is too new to have developed much feeling for the past. Rut it is not this lack of feeling that prompted the death sentence for the Battleship Oregon Commission. It is the conviction that this collection of relics, along with many other such collections should be amalgamated for more economical administration and public convenience. Ten years ago the commission promised not to ask Ice further state aid but each year the plea has come in. Perhaps now those people who are vitally concerned will get together with a spirit of cooperation instead of competition and the next Legislature will be presented with a plan for an ade quate preservation and display of these valuable mementoes of his tory. a -t r P fyfc! v. h To People By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM i.fl The House Taxa-' tion Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to prepare a 3 per cent sales tax bill that probably would be referred to the people of Ore- gon at a special election next fall. The committee members, saying that Oregon must find a long-range solution to its tax problems, agreed that the income tax increase only would tide the state over the next two years. Rep. Loran L. Stewart, Cottage Grove, chairman of the committee, appointed a subcommittee to draw up a sales tax measure that would reduce income tax rates, and pro vide school funds on the state and county levels. Members of the subcommittee are Reps. Ed Cardwell, Sweet Home, chairman; Ward Cook, Portland, and Charles A. Tom, Rufus. - In a poll of the committee, it tentatively agreed that the people next fall should vote on the sales tax and the income tax increase. The House voted a 32 per cent income tax boost, but the Senate Taxation Committee indicates it wants to boost it about 50 per cent. Cecil Posey, representing the Oregon Education Assn., told the House committee Wednesday that a long range solution must be found if the schools are to be main tained on present standards. He said that almost. 20,000 new pupils are being added each year, and that 25 per cent of the state's pop ulntion now is in school. Legislative committees gave ap proval to proposals to control the sale of comic books and to have V driver training in the schools. , The Senate Judiciary Committee, after studying the problem for three months, decided on its comic book policy. It would have comic (Continued on Page 2 Col. 5) Akey Trades Jobs With Lutz; Takes CV School Post J. CLYDE AKEY . . .gats new job The Camas Valley School Dis trict ' has traded administrators with Oakland. Oakland Correspondent Mrs. Edith Dunn reported today that J. Clyde Akey, grade school prin cipal al Oakland, had been nam ed superintendent of the Camas Valley district. He succeeds Guy Lutz, who has been named Super intendent of the Oakland district. Akey was the center of a con troversy with present Oakland su perintendent, James M. Cum- mings, cany inis year uiai lea i the resignation of both from th Oakland district. Their tenure emls at Oakland at the end of tha school year. Lutz will succeed Cummings, and Akey will go tj Camas Valley to fill the positim left by Lulz. , Akey has been an administrator at Oakland for two years. He re ceived his masters degree at Lew is and Clark College in Portland last summer. He is married anJ has two children. Williams Nor Candidate, Nor Is He A Democrat' No further action concerning ap pointment of a successor to outgo ing Sheriff Calvin H. Baird Sr. was forthcoming Wednesday. One man, however emphasized he was "not interested in the position." The man was Dep. Sheriff Paris Williams. Williams told the News Review Tuesday he was not a Democrat. Earlier he gave the im- j presslon to a reporter that he was not a Itcpuoiican. a siory in lues day's newspaper said he was a Democrat. A cheek wilh the Douglas Coun ty clerk's office showed that the deputy sheriff is not regisierid. Dep. Sheriff Williams was recom mended to the County Court in a letter from a private cit'ten. Just to confuse the issue slight ly, the deputy sheriff Tuesday aft ernoon said he hart always oeen reentered Republican since firs volig i California, Levity Foct Rent By L. P. Reizenstetn Add to occupational hax ards, entailing economic lost and mental disturbance: a josh over the eye during prizefight. (. ' ( ) J
