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Canada's Family Allowance Program Marks Tenth Year; Seems Destined To Remain By A. ROBERT SMITH . News-Review Correspondent OTTAWA. Canada (Special) Canada has just marked the 10th anniversary of its family allow ance program the national bon-us-for-babies plan that Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) wants America to adopt and just about everyone here says it is here to stay. In this last decade, Canada has paid out $3 billions in monthly checks payable to the mothers of this nation's children to help fi- Neuberger Says Society May Have To Settle For Lillie Moore House Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, who has picked up the banner of the Douglas County Historical Society in its effort to secure the Lillie Moore property in Roseburg, said today he was afraid the society would have to settle for the house. . - He said the General Services Ad ministration had told him the house can be donated to the city of Roseburg, and it in turn can move the house to the desired site, where it can be operated by the society as a museum. Neuberger said this is the "only solution" under existing law for the disposal of the property which would allow the historical society to obtain some equity in it. Expressing a personal opinion, Neuberger said he would prefer to see the "entire real estate" of the Lillie Moore property go to the historical society. "It is my opinion that the remov al of the Lillie Moore house to a location provided by the historical society, through the cooperation of the city administration of Rose burg, may be the only feasible so lution which federal law will allow. I am not wholly satisfied with this outcome, but I am afraid it is the best that can be done, at present," Neuberger concluded in a letter to the News-Review. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK f OR THf HAPPY lime doo TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE nance their special childhood needs. Each mother gets from 85 to $8 per month for each child, according to his age, until the age of 16. During this period of eligi bility, from birth to 16, each child gives its mother the right to draw $1,188 in monthly family allow ances. Sen. Neuberger in the recent session of Congress introduced a resolution, co-sponsored by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and a small group of other Democrats, calling for a Senate study of the ins and outs of Canada's plan. Neuberger hopes eventually it will become as familiar to Americans as social security, but he has said he thinks it may take years to gain acceptance. That was pretty much how it happened here in Canada. No one person is credited with fathering the plan, but it was espoused de votedly during the 1930s by a French-Canadian Catholic priest, Leon Lebel, who wrote, lectured and testified before committees to drum up support for the family al lowance scheme- A decade later his work bore fruit, when several wartime government reports ad vocated the plan and finally in 1944 Prime Minister McKenzie King asked parliament to set up the Droeram. Although there were bitter poli- icai outcries against the plan when it was first put forward by the prime minister the Progres sive Conservative party leader call ed it a political bribe popular support from Canadians annihilat ed the opposition with amazing speed. Parliament adopted the bill that same year, and there wasn't one dissenting Vote cast. The observation that the pro gram is here to stay in Canada is based on the expressed attitudes of the various political elements to day toward the plan. None of them ODDOse it: but they vie instead for public favor with suggestions about Circuit Court Probate Order Will of William J. Sanders, who died Aug. 10 at the age of 69, has been admitted to probate, with Irma B. Sanders - appointed execu trix. Other heirs include a sister and three children. Shirley Stora will serve as appraiser. Dismissal Order James W. Ellis vs. Donald Pitts. Case settled by parties. Complaints Filed State Industrial Accident Com mission vs. Vincent E. Esselstrom, doing business as V. E. Esselstrom Logging Co. Plaintiff seeks $193.67, allegedly due in contributions pro vided by law. State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission vs. George M. Wilson Sr., doing business as Wil son Logging. Plaintiff seeks $339. 97, plus penalty and interest, al leging lhe amount is due under provisions of the state unemploy ment compensation commission law. Giant Skinner vs. Jack L. V. Hal brook, et al. Plaintiff seeks judg ment of $4,000 from Halbrook, fore closure on mortgage on real prop erty at Reedsport. Carl Erickson vs. Jack L. V. Hal brook, et al. Plaintiff seeks judg ment ot 511,800 from Jack L. V. and M. Greer Halbrook, foreclos ure on mortgage on property. Roseburg Lumber Co. vs. C. H. Bell, doing business as C. H, Bell equipment rjo, et al. Plaintiff seeks $4,104.88 from Bell, lien on person al property, foreclosure on chat tel mortgage on property. OSC Will Begin Eighty-Eighth Year Sept. 26 Oregon State College, Oregon's oldest state educational institution, will mark its 88th year of classes Sept. 26 when the 1955-56 year be gins, v- New freshmen and transfer stu dents start their week of orienta tion, placement examinations and meetings with advisers Sept. 18. Registration for both new and old students will be Sept. 23 and the morning of Sept. 24. Enrollment is expected to top the 5,600 figure estimated by college officials last spring. This will be considerably above last fall's reg istration of 5,234 and is indicative of the sharp increases coming in years ahead. The number of new students ad mitted to date is 18 per cent above a year ago. A new $665,000 chemical engin eering building will be ready for the opening of school and various other campus improvements have been made during the summer. Some additional space has been provided in dormitories for women. A large group of veterans is expected again this fall. Spring term, 894 ex-servicement studied at OSC. 35 per cent more than the year before. Nearly 40 new scholarships and study grants have been added for 1955-56, raising the number avail able to deserving students to about 325. Summer appointments have filled out the teaching stalf with some additions required to handle the increasing number of students. FREE OFFER MAN'S 14-K GOLD WEDDING RING INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA COST WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS 11-DIAMOND BRIDAL PAIR REG. 189.50 EXQUISITE BRIDAL PAIR PLUS MAN'S HANDSOME RING Buy a beautiful bridal pair, spark, lina with 1 diamond's , . . and get a man's 14-karat gold wedding ring without extra colt. 150" improving it, raising the monthly allowance and telling how they were really its first advocates. This is not unlike the social secur ity issue in the U.S., which sees Republicans and Democrats in Congress trying to oudo one in other to increase benefits. Gallun Dolls taken here show that In 1943, the year before it was ad vanced by the government, only 40 per cent of the Canadian popu lation favored the plan. But by 1950, this percentage had jumped to 90. 1 While Canadians apparently be lieve with only small dissent that the program here is a success, Canada they say can not claim to have pioneered this idea. When she started it in 1945, officials re call that some 30 other countries had some sort of bonus for big families. They said the United States today is the only major in dustrial nation which hasn't adopt ed any such scheme. What has been the qffect of the program on Canada? Neuberger pointed out, when he spoke for the plan in the Senate, that it resulted in greatly increas ing consumption of children's shoes and other articles of clothing, milk in poor tenement districts of the cities and canned milk in the far north trading post sectors. Officials here say this has cer tainly been the case. And since children become ineligible if they play hookey from school, attend ance in Canadian public schools -has reached new heights. One woman wrote the director of the program, Byrnes Curry, saying: 'Huiy wants me to ten you ne nas his first pair of flannelette pyjam as, 1 always made them out of flour sacks before." Another said, "When Ralphie drank the Flit the cheques paid the hospital bill. 1 don't know how to thank you." Under the law, the check is mail ed to the mother in her name, on the theory that she is more likely Latest Paternity Test Methods More Accurate By ALTON L. 6lAKESLEE EAST LANSING, Mich. Wt Pa ternity tests can be made much more accurate through discovery of an entirely new kind of blood type, two Canadian scientists re ported today. They find your blood has a "pro tein type," in addition to the usual A, B, AB or O type of blood. Your A-B-0 blood type is governed by the kind of red blood cells you have inherited. The scientists find you also in herit one of three types of particu lar proteins, never before detect ed, wnicn iioat in the scrum or liquid part of vour blood. Yout protein type apparently is not connected with your red cell or A-B-0 type. Thus if both your parents had A type red cells you are also an A type, nut if your parents protein types differed, you inherited a dif ferent Kind of protein type than they had although all three of you have A type blood. Inheritance of the protein type seems to follow exactly the same laws of genetics as does inherit ance of red cell types, said Dr. Noram Ford Walker, geneticist, and Dr. Oliver Smithies, biochem ist, of the University of Toronto. Paternity tests are based on an alyzing the red cell blood types of a man and woman and then seeing whether the child could be their offsring. These tests can only disprove that one individual man could not be the father of a child by one in dividual woman. They c'annot prove he is not the father if the child happens to have a blood type which could have resulted from the union of a different man and a woman with those same blood types. What the protein type tests can do is to refine the question further. If the child's protein type could not have resulted from the combi nation of the man and woman's protein types, it would be evidence that he was not the indicated father. Gas Theft Case Probed; Boys Forced Off Bicycles Sheriff's officers are investigat ing two weekend cases, one in volving theft of 'gasoline and an other in which two Koseburg boys say they were forced off their bi cycles near Melrose. Sheriff Ira C. Byrd said Thom as Simmons and Jack Heritage told officers they were riding near the forks of the river Sunday when three men in a car took their bikes. One man drove the car away while the others rode the bikes. The bi cycles later were found behind the Melrose Store. In the other case, 15 gallons of gas was taicen from the r, W, Hamer Construction Co. camp on Steamboat Creek, and a two-inch hose was slashed. NO MONEY DOWN A YEAR TO PAY Mrs. Avent Sentenced To Life Imprisonment' HEPPNER W Mrs. Ann Whit ney Avent, convicted last week of second degree murder, Tuesday was sentenced to life imprison ment. The 38-year-old Heppner waitress was accused of the fatal shooting of Dellmore Lessard, Portland at torney, in a Heppner cafe last June. Lessard had gone there to represent her husband in a custody dispute over their child. The conviction made the life sen tence mandatory. Make if a habit... EARLY HEWS , w," .- "' STORE HOURS rwi... o-iA. . 5:30,... ' 116 NORTH JACKSON ST. ROSEBURG mott popular newscaster Fins Monday thru Saturday 7:30 AH KRNR A 1490 Engineers State Survey Discounts Dam Hindrance WALLA WALLA Wl The fish count at Columbia River dams this year "discounts considerably the claims of the fish industries that dams on the river are a hin drance" to salmon runs, the Corps of Engineers said in a report is sued here this week. The engineers noted more blue back and chinook salmon and more steelhead passed the fish ladders at Columbia River dams this year than in 1954. Both Bonneville and McNary dams counted more bluebacks (or sockeye) and sleelheads than last year and Bonneville registered more chinooks. McNary, however, recorded a drop in chinooks. The figures on the main fish species which passed each dam's fish ladder as of Sept. 1 (with the 1954 figures in parenthesis) were: Chinooks Bonneville. 277,031 (229,354); McNary, 99,181, (116, 952). Bluebacks Bonneville, 237.740 (130,107); McNary, 173,537 (105, 670). The Army Engineers explained the lower McNary count is directly attributed to the lateness of the 1955 spring runoff which allowed the Celilo Falls Indian fishing grounds to remain unflooded for at least a full 30 days beyond the usu al date when high water inundates the Indian netting grounds at the falls. than the father to comply with the laws requirement that, the money be spent on something of direct benefit to the chiM. But Can ada has no vast supervisor force to check into the way the money is spent. They simply run down complaints received from neigh bors who think the money is being misused, like the man who told authorities the fellow next door used the family allowance to put a new roof on his house. When officials checked and found that the kids slept in the attic and caught cold every time it rained through the leaky roof, they allow ed as how the parents had prop erly used their allowance. Another result of the program,' of course, is a redistribution of wealth from the richer to the poor er regions of this vast country. Every mother receives the allow ance, rich or poor, but it is the higher salaried Canadians that pay the brunt of its $30 million yearly cost through income taxation. Sur veys have shown that the poorer familits tend to use the allowance for basic necessities, such as food, clothing and medical bills, while the middle and high income groups tend to use the money for extra benefits, such as music lessons or college educations. Recalling that some totalitarian countries nave used baby pay ments as a means of encouraging a higher birth rate, one asks how has the plan affected Canada's birth rate. The answer seems to be very little, if any at all. The wartime surge in births hit Cana da as it did the U.S. It hit a high of 28.6 births per thousand in 1947, but has dropped steadily to 27 last year. Also, when the plan was started in 1945 the Canadian fam ily averaged 2.37 children, and now it is slightly less. There are. of course, some whop ping big families collecting fam ily allowances. The champion pro creators of Canada are two cou ples in Nova Scotia and in Que bec, each eligible for 16 children under the deadline age of .16. Whereas the average family check runs about $14 a month, these larger families are collecting about $100 monthly, as their share in Canada's program to improve the living standards of the na tion's children. Thur., Stpt. 8, 195S The Nawi-Ran'aw, Roitburg, Ore. 5 Drug Responsible For Heiress' Death PHILADELPHIA it A drug con taining an herb sometimes used in abortions was introduced into the body of wealthy Mrs. Doris Silver Oestreicher an hour or two before her death, according to Dist. Atty. Samuel Dash. And since a criminal abortion caused the young food chain heiress' death. Dash said yester day "there has to be an arrest." But he indicated the arrest might not come soon. It will not be made until his office has sufficient evi dence to go into court, he said. An inquest last Friday disclosed Mrs. Oestreicher died from an at tempted criminal abortion in which a drug was administered profes sionally "by a person or persons unknown." The girl, who eloped June 24 with motorcycle policeman Earl M. Oestreicher of Miami Beach, Fla., died Aug. 24 in Philadelphia a few days before her 23rd birth day. She had returned from Miami Beach without her husband 10 days before. Dash said yesterday pathologists found that the drug administered to Mrs. Oestreicher was an oily compound "just loaded" with small hard pieces of bark or root. Rockaway Man Booked For Neighbor's Murder ROCKAWAY, Ore. 11 Huber F. Camell, 30, was booked on a murder charge here Tuesday after the fatal shooting of one of his neighbors, Clyde Lewis, 55. John Hathaway, Tillamook Coun ty district attorney, said he asked Camell why he fired two shots at Lewis, and that Camell had re plied: "My reasons are too ab stract for you to understand." Lewis died of two wounds in the head from a single-shot .22-caliber rifle. Neighbors said the two men once had an argument about property line and more recently they had been planning a uraaium prospect ing trip which one of the men had decided to drop. Integrated Public Schools Open In Scattered Areas By THI ASSOCIATED PRESS Integrated public schools have begun the fall term in scattered sections of the South but most of those accepting both Negro and white pupils for the same class rooms are at government installa tions. Three Florida Air Force bases have opened integrated schools. They arc MacDilt AFB at Tampa, Eglin AFB at Valparaiso and Tyn- aau Af B at Panama City. School principals said no count was made of the number of Negro pupils enrolling. Oak Ridge, Tenn., where public schools are financed by the Atomic Energy Commission, opened the Oak Ridge High School and Rogers ville Junior High to Negroes yes terday. About 45 Negroes regis tered al the high school in a total enrollment of about 4,700. Fifty Negroes entered the junior high school, which has a total of about 1,000 pupils. i. The high schools were the first public schools in Tennessee to hav mixed classes. Myrtle Creek Engineer To Resign On Sept. 30 City Engineer Al Mortensen an nounced Tuesday night at a Myrtle Creek City Council meeting that he is resigning his job as of Sept. 30. In the only other action, ' the Council accepted the city audit re port given by Pat Collier. The next meeting is scheduled Sept. 13. CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING Slct from over 100 frame patterns. KOOP'S Madam Photography mn4 Art Collary 222 Wait Oak In 1955, more than ever BUSINESS IS RELYING ON NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING TO KEEP SALES CLIMBING In 1955's first half, newspaper adver tising has made its biggest contribution on record to the continued growth of American business. In the first six months, business invested more dollars in newspaper advertising than in any half-year in history. Manufacturers' advertising set a new record. So did retailers' advertising including the department stores, chain stores and all the rest So did classified advertising mainstay of real estate, used cars and many another business. o Manufacturers and retailers alike are profiting from the salespower of news papersthe salespower that stems from the fact that newspapers are the shopping medium ivhere consumers look eagerly for advertising and from the fact that nowhere else can manufacturers' ads and retailers' ads werk together so effectively to increase the productivity of both. if you ark a manufacturer a retailer a distributor a merchandise broker a manufacturer' t salesman ... ask yoursilpi Is newspaper advertising being called on to do all it can to keep my sales going up? HBRK'S THI RICORD 1955 VS. 1954 Jun 1at Six Month National advertiser Up 15.9 Up 9.5. Retail advertiser Up 8.9 Up 6.8 Classified advertisers Up 17.8 Up14.4 All advertisers combined . . . ."Up 12.6 Up 9.2 In each category Biggest June on record Biggest six months on record 'SOUKCt: Medio Records 32-Cily Index. Available data (com 291 smaller newspapers reporting to the Bureau of Advertising, ANPA, indicate lubttantia! gains in there newrpaperi, too e.g. notionol ad vertising in there 291 imaller newrpaperi war up 13-8 for June; up 4.8V. for the first half vi- 1934. Thli prepared by BUREAU OP ADVERTISING, Amerkm Neirrpeper Publisher! Aatociatloo, and published la Ibe interest ot taller ttndereteridinf of nwpSetWi by I
