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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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