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FOUR MOVEMENTS VIRTUALLY PUT THE GUARD IN ACTION, as members of Cor
D, 186th Inf. Reg.; Douglas County, joined other National Guard units, in their test
mobilization alert Wednesday evening. JThe local -mit.' way -called out at '5:20 p.m:
and all 96 members responded. In upper left picture. Supply 5gr. Robert L, Trout issues
clothing and equipment to waiting men. Mortar platoon members don clothing in
center picture and then rush up the stairway which leads from dressing quarters to
the company floor, first formation at 6 p.m. found mortar platoon in foreground of lower
picture and recoiless platoon-(background) forming port of 62-man initial turnout,: (Pic
tures by Paul Jenkins),
Guard Mobilization Praised
Defense Planners
Give High Praise
To Quick Response
WASHINGTON Wl The National
Guard's new role in this era of
possible atomic war a minute-
was tested in a surprise mobihza-:
tion which drew praise from de-
fene nlannnrs tnHav t .i. 7i . oul s rmory oy o p.m. weanesaay
tense planners today. In the f,rst hour S3 per cent 40 niinutes after the initial mo
Guardsmen in more than 2.000. were ready. At the end of the bilization alert had been given lo
communilies from Florida to Alas-1 second hour 88 per cent were callv. It was nart nf a naiinn.u irfp
ka sprang to arms or took to the '
air Wednesday night in response
to a surprise alert flashed from
the Pentagon.
Maj. Gen. Edgar C. Erickson,
chief of the National Guard Bu
reau, said preliminary reports
gave "conclusive proof" that the
Army and Air Guard can be as
sembled by the state governors in
a "rapid and efficient manner for
service in any state or national
emergency."
It may be days before reports
are in from the 5,600 guard units
listed to take part in the big test.
But the National Guard Bureau
estimated early this morning that
280,000 men were at their battle
stations or assembly points within
two hours of the zero hour which
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Britain with a general
election just five weeks off
Prime Minister Eden's Conserva
tive party government proposes
the first cut in Britain's income
tax rate since World War II.
The reduction, as announced by
the chancellor of the exchequer
(corresponding to our secretary of
the treasury) will amount to 2'
per cent on the basic rate or
"sixpence to the pound," as the
British put it.
The old rate, which has been in
effect since wartime days, took
45 per cent of the taxable income
of those in the top brackets.
The result of these stiff rates
has been that a lot of Bntish
workers have been unwilling to
work
more and produce more be-i
' by doing so they would
panc
merely INCREASE THEIR TAX-
I
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Oregon Guard
Alert Success
PORTLAND Ml The Oregon
National Guard tested its mobiliza
tion plans Wednesday night, along
with the rest of the nation, and
officers reported success.
Thpv said 94 ner ceivt of Uie
ready for action within three hours
of tlie test call.
ready,
Telephones, fire sirens, public
address systems and other means
planned in advance for the test
called the guardsmen to duty. They
had known for some time that the
alert was coming, but did not
know when it would come. It came
at 5 p.m.
In Portland hundreds of ground
troops mobilized at the airport,
then moved in a motor convoy to
the waterfront. Two helicopters
preceded them, skimming low over
busy Harbor Drive and settling
onto a narrow parkway alongside
the Willamette River,
Lady Wrestling Ban
Bill Goes To Governor
SALEM W A ban on women
wrestlers was approved by the
Oregon Senate Wednesday and
sent to the governor, but there is
doubt whether it would affect all
cities.
After the Senate approved It,
Sen. Carl Francis, Davton, con
tended the ban would apply only
in cities in which there are boxing
commissions.
Sen. Mark Hatfield, Salem, urged
passage of the biil on the ground
that Washington, California and
Idaho have similar bans.
The Weather
Cloudy with occasional rain oai
ly tonight. Partial cltaring latti
tonight. Cloudy with fog aarly Fri
day. Partially sunny Friday after
noon. A little wirmtr Friday,
Hightit wmp. last 24 hours 50
Lowest tamp, last 24 hours 41
Hightst ttmp. any April V
l.ownt tamp, any April 75
Pracip, from April 1 2.(5
fi J nour -
f"' ,rom s,5- ' , -- M.M
from Sept. t S.52
Sunstt tonight, 7:02 p.m.
Sunrisa tomorrow, 5:21 a.m.,
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Roseburg Guard
Unit Reports
Ready Response
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National Guard training mobiliza
tion clan which had been Dubli
cized earlier
Military segments of the local
unit wore dispatched at 6:15 to
vital points in and around the city.
By 7 p.m.. an hour and 40 min
utes after the first alert, 84 men
of the company's 96-man strength
had been mobilized, and an hour
later 94 enlisted men and officers
had been counted at the Armory.
Unit executive officer Lt. Isaac
J. James reported all 96 men ac
counted for in a telephone relay
to Portland headquarters of the
186th Infantry. ;
Lt. James acted in lieu of Com
pany Commander U. Horace J.
Pendergrass who is attending an
officers school at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Twelve points were placed un
der security in and around Rose
burg. Guards and equipment were mo
bilized at the Armory, City Hall,
telephone office, Winchester and
Winston bridges, Highway 99 Junc
tion at Nielsen's MM., the new
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Myrtle Creek Explorer
Scout Accorded Honors
A Myrtle Creek Explorer Scout,
Eldon Naas, has been accorded an
other honor in a long list of Scout
ing honors. He will represent Doug
las County this summer at t h e
World Scout Jamboree at Niagara
Falls, N.Y.
The announcement of his choice
came this week to Naas and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harlcy
Naas. of Myrtle Creek. Naas, a
Myrtle Creek High School junior
has also received other high Ex
plorer awards, among them the
silver award, made a few months
ago. He is a member of the Dis
trict 1 area and will travel with
other Scouts of the district to the
jamboree.
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Chou Disturbed
Demands Time
For Reply To
Ceylon Delegate
BANDUNG, Indonesia"3' ' im
Prime Minister Sir John Kotela
wala of Ceylon denounced "Com
munist colonialism" at the Asian
African Conference Thursday. Red
China's Premier Chou En-Lai, ob
viously disturbed, immediately de
manded time to make a reply,
Sir John, appearing before
closed session of the political com
mittee, demanded that the confer
ence declare itself against all forms
of colonialism, including Commu
nist domination of satellite states
in central and Eastern Europe.
Delegates said that as Sir John i
finished Ohou leaped to his leel
and demanded that the Ceylon
premier's statement be circulari
zed to all delegates of the 29-n-tion
conference so Chou could re
ply to it at Thursday's committee
session.
In earlier debate the committee
heard Chou express the opinion
that peaceful coexistence between
nations of different systems was
possible. .
Sir John, who already had taken
the spotlight with a proposal made
outside the conference for creation
of an independent Formosa, told
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Organized Trailer Owners
Will Convene On Friday
A meeting of the Organized
Trailer Owners of Douglas County
will be held Friday in Roseburg.
The session will get under way at
7:30 p.m. at the Nebo Trailer Park
office. It is open to members and
interested persons.
Among items to be discussed is
additional information concerning
regulations governing licensing of
mobile homes, according to Ray
Noves, secretary-treasurer of the
organization.
Neves said state directors of the
Organized Trailer Owners of Ore
gon are meeting Sunday in Rose
Douglas County Sportsmen
Plan Outstanding Program
For Conservation Week
Douglas County sportsmen are
arranging many outstanding pro
grams for Conservation Week,
May 1-7.
Bruce Yeager, general chairman
of the Sportsmen's Cooperation
Committee, at a meeting in the
Game Commission district office
Wednesday evening, announced ap
pointment of Charles Collins,
James Vaughn, Beryl Oar, Bill
Pitney, Perry Thiele and Ken Gil
keson as a committee for pro
gramming events for the Rose
burg area.
He also announced appointments
by Ernest Seaton, Drain, North
Douglas chairman.
Seaton has selected as his as
sistants Walter Botts, George Chur
chill, Ray Cole H. J. Lupher, Har
old Woolley, Drain; Arley Marsh,
Elkton; Gus Peret, Yoncalla; J.
T. Powell, Oakland.
Norman E. Graham, Canyon
ville. is arranging the sportsmen's
program for the southern part of
the county.
The Sportumen's Cooperation
committees will stress fish and
game conservation features.
Vondis Miller, supervisor of the
Umpqua National Forest, and
thairman of the Fore.it Conserva
tion Committee, reports all mem
ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955
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JUDGE FRANCES COOK
has booming "baby"'
Former Roseburg
Teacher Explains
Safe-Teen Move
A onetime Roseburg resident
who less than four months ago
launched the first Safe-Teen Club
in Oregon was in Douglas County
Thursday to explain the Safe-Teen
driving movement.
She is Judge Frances Cook, a
lady justice of the peace in Bca-
venon.
This morning she appeared at
student meetings at Roseburg
High School - (where she taught
journalism and typing in the late
30's). Student body president Dan
Arensincier said the students
would examine the idea: "if they
like it, we'll go ahead."
Wiliam Reinhart, spokesman
for the local association of insur
ance agents, will work with the
students, if the plan is adopted.
Following her R1IS appearances,
Judge Cook was off to Myrtle
Creek High School, lt was her sec
ond stop in a 1,000 mile statewide
journey to tell students about
Safe-Teens.
"There's no competition in safe
ly," Justice Cook said Wednesday.
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bers of his committee, .la met
Watts, Bureau of Land Manage
ment; Fred Soulhwick, Douglas
Forest Protective Assn., Lloyd
Hayes Siskiyou - Cascade Forest
Research Center and V. V. Harp
ham, former Umpqua National
Forest supervisor, mot Wednesday
and outlined aq extensive program
for the Conservation Week observ
ance
Also meeting Wednesday was the
Roseburg section of the School
Committee under the direction of
Chairman M. C. Deller, city su
perintendent of schools. Principals
of all schools in the Roseburg dis
trict were briefed on the purposes
of Conservation Week and an out
line of conservation studies com
piled. Assisting the principals will
be a school publicity committee
appointed by Deller and including
Roy Crain. chairman: Jack Hau
sotter, Ro'cburg; Clcone Andrus,
Rose School: Ruth Bcrgcrson, Ful
lorton: Benctta Ortnn, Green; Al
via Welherell, Benson; - W. C.
Stoncbrakcr. Riverside: Emilie
France, Joseph Lane; Marguerite
Brand, Central Junior High; Glenn
Brady, Koscmirg High;
Harriet
Eddy, Melroe; Palriris Water -
field, Bertha Barnes, Wilbur-Win-
Chester.
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ves1 Changes
Violence Again
Flares At Lake
Success Plant
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
For the second day, violence and
Injuries were reported Thursday
at the strike-bound Spcrry Gyro
scope plant at Laka Success, N.Y.
And there appeared little prog
ress toward immediate settlement
of any of the nation's major
strikes. . . ,
CIO Electrical Workers restfmed
mass picketing at the Spcrry plant
and two men were reported in
jured. Several 'autos were .dam
aged as non-strtking workers tried
to enter the plant. .
A proposal by Southern gover
nors to immediately end the 39-
day Louisville & Nashville- Rail
road strike was rejected by non-
operating unions.. A union official
said the walkout would continue
until any arbitration is completed.
The railroad had said it was
willing to submit to arbitration
"if the strike is immediately term
inated," but that the issues to be
arbitrated "should be reasonably
limited." The union said it was
willing to submit the dispute over
a health and welfare plan to bind
ing arbitration.
Meanwhile,, a group of Southern
governors planned to meet in At
lanta Saturday with representa
tives of the Southern Bell Tele
hone Co. and the striking CIO
Communication Workers of Ameri
ca in an attempt to end the 39-day
telephone strike.' . The union de
mands arbitration on fringe points
and higher wages. The company
says that a no-slrike clause is the
bar to a new contract,
Youth Temperance Rally
Scheduled Monday Night
A youth temperance rally will
he held Monday at 7:30 p.m. at
the First Christian Church to com
plete the organization of a Youth
Temperance Council in Roseburg.
The rally will coincide with
Youth Temperance Education
Week, April 24 to 30, which has
been designated by proclamation
bv Gov. Paul Patterson. The pur
pose of the couvil, according to
Roseburg WCTU officials, has been
stated to unite the young people of
the community state and nation in
a proeram of Christian citizenship
to build for total abstinence for
the individual and sobriety for the
nation. The Governor's proclama
tion states. "Never has it been
more important in the history of
our nauon aim siaie, uian nuw, w
bring to our youth the truth on
temperance."
Teen-ngo youth and those in the
twenties are included in the rally.
The public s invited to attend the
meeting.
Persons Ask To Respond
To Easter Seal Letters
An appeal for persons to respond
to the Easier Seals they received
from the Oregon Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults has been
issued by Mrs. Ernest Barker.
County Chairman, who reported
that returns are more than $40,000
behind a year ago.
Mrs. Barker said there are many
thousands of Oregon residents who
have failed to make any return,
and she expressed hope that "a
majority of them really intenJ to
do something but just haven't got
ten around to it as vet." Returns
I can be made to Easter Seals, care
1 of .the person's local post office
Stale totals at the last accounting
I were $72,(44,
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. . .habitual count rvtrn4 -WILLIAM
FRANK CORY '
Court Reverses ,
Habitual Criminal
Charge On Cory
The March 1953 conviction of
William Frank Cory, 36, on an
habitual criminal charge has been
reversed and a portion of the habi
tual criminal act under which
Cory was convicted has been held
unconstitutional by the Oregon
buorome Court.
The docisiion was handed down
by the court Wednesday. Cory had
been under 15-year penitentiary
sentence. He still has to serve a
4-vear sentence on another count
however.
Dist. Atty. Robert M. Slulls was
notified of the decision. He said
the portion of the act held uncon
stitutional dealt with right. of the
Uivtrict attorney to file an infor
mation charging habitual crimi
nal tendency against a convict.
The court held that the informa
tion could be filed at the "whim
or caprice" of the district attor
ney. At Uie same time, the court
said there was no error in the
actual proceedings under which
Cory was convicted.
Stults information charging the
tendency was filed after Cory's
conviction for being an ex-convict
in possession of a firearm. The
court's decision said that the
crime must have been one of vio
lence to make the habitual crimi
nal count stand.
The firearm charge came after
Cory's arrest in August 1953. He
had been accused of kidnaping
Mrs. William H. Jones. Later, that
charge was dropped.
Polio
Clinics Facing
' Second
Postponement
Postponement of Die Salk polio
vaccine clinics in Douglas Coun
ty for another week appeared
like v Thursday.
County health officer Dr. E. J.
Wainscolt said today that as far
as his olficc knew the vaccine
"will not be available for the
clinics which are scheduled to
start Monday."
"Unless the vaccine arrives tin
rxpectcdly before Monday," he
continued, "the clinics will again
have to be postponed another
week."
Dr. Wainscolt asked persons
working on the clinics and par-1
ents to walch the newspaper and
listen to the radio to learn if the;
clinics will proceed as scheduled.
SICK MAN RELEASED
Edward Scully, 57, San Anselmo,
Calif., was released from Commu
n.ly Hospital Wednesday, attend
ants report. He was stricken Mon
day while visiting at the home of
his daughter-in-luvv. Mrs. Crystal
Freeman, Idleyld Park according
tn'Corrcsoondcnt Mrs. Arthur Set-
Beecher Calls
Byrd's Choice
Amazing'
Brtakdown Of Court ' '
Decision Shows Hill's .
Vott Favortd Hayitaaol
The Douglas County Court'j m- '
lection of a new sheriff hai won
the disipleasure of the chairman
of Hie Douglas County Republican
Central Committee.
Brig. Gen. Curtis T. Beecber
(I'SMC-Ret), the GOP chairmin,
th.s morning in a statement term
ed the appointment of Ira Bvrd
Wednesday as "amazing." . the
party committee a week ago had
recommended the appointment . of
Ira Byrd Sworn Into ,
Offict On Wadntsdsy
Ira Byrd took office as Douglas
County- sheriff Wednesday after
noon. He was sworn into office by
County Clerk Charles Doemer.
Also commissioned were all dep
uties in Calvin H. Baird'i organiza
tion. Byi'd said die commisaiona
were "temporary" and that per
manent commission would ' be -made
"in a couohs of weeka." .
Joseph A. HayUead, a ata't
policeman; Both men art Renubli- '
cans, , ,. -
- Hie County . Court, answering,
disclaimed any obligation to ap-.
point the nominee of the party
committee. : A , ,:
Byrd's appointment came in a
3-1 decision, with Commissioners
Frank Ashley, and Elmer Metegar
voting for him and Judge Carl C.
Hill casting his ballot for Hay
stead. ,
The text of Beecher't statement
follow: , . .
"The decision of the Republican
dominated County Court with re-,
speet to the selection of a sheriff! '
to nil the unexpired term of the
lormer satrm (catvin H. Baird)
is, to say the least, amazing..
"Eighty-seven Republican pre
cinct committeemen and commit-
teewomen from all over the coun-
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Presidential VetQ
Likely Over Postal
Pay Increase Vote
hood of a presidential veto Thurs
day overhung a House vote to
boost the pay of the nation' MO,- -ooo
postal workers an average of
o. per cenn. -
1 President Eisenhower last year
refused to sign a 7 per cent postal
pay increase voted by Congress on
the ground it was not accompanied
by a revenue-raising hike in postal
rates. His veto came after Con
gress adjourned and there was no
opportunity to vote on overriding
it. . ' '
The Senate last month flaunted
the President's implied threat to
veto any postal pay hike of over
7.S per cent, voting for 10 per cent.
The House Wednesday followed
suit and approved an 4.2 per cent
increase which would cost - some
171 million dollars a year. The
Senate bill is estimated to cost
220 millions.
The 224-189 House vole for the
most part followed party lines,
with Republicans lining up behind
the President and the Democrat
behind the mailmen. Seventeen
Democrats and 22 Republican
split company with their nartv col
leagues.
Umpqua Baam Council
Slates Meeting Tuesday
The Umpqua Basin Conserva
tion Council will meet TueMay
with its newest member, the Elk
ton Sportsmen'! Assn.
The meeting will be held at S
p.m. at the Elkton High School
gvmnasium, Bruce Yeager, coun
cil president, reports. - .
Yeager advises Roseburg sports
men desiring to attend the meet
ing that transportation will be fur
nished from the courthouse at T
p.m.
The Elkton club, formed only
a few months ago, has requested
a panel on conservation subjects.
Yeager reports that a question
and answer forum haa been plan
ned.
Defense Takes Over
In Manslaughter Case
THE DALLES lift The defense
took over Thursday in the man
slaughter case in which Joseph
Ferguson, Mosier rancher, is
accused of shooting his brother-in-law,
Charles Eaton, 20, Portland,
in the woods last December.
The two were on a deer-hunting
(rip in closed season when Eaton
was killed.
The stale closed its case Wednes
day after presenting 16 witnesses
in an attempt to prove Eaton died
thmush Fercuson'a neslilfnce.
The defense is expected to pieaa
I the shooting was accidental, not
I negligent.
Levity Foot Rant
By L. F. Reizenilein
With weather prophets (ore
casting a state water short
age this year, tho Logitloturo
might find it profitable to
levy a tax on the "chaser"
that follows the hooch.
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