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Organizational Meeting Held By Riversdale Scouts By BEVERLY CHRISTIAN Icome from Ukiah, Calif, to make An informal organizational I their home here. He is workin; in meeting was held by the Rivers-' the logging industry. Until they mm a uunie iney are Slaying with iurs. uum s Drotner - in law and dale Cub Scout Pack. Scoutmaster Ray Casebeer presided. Mrs. D. I.. Nickson and Mrs. sister Mr. and Mrs. Howard Whit- Rill Tintnn uHM ho jm ..!,..' ; ten on Curry Road. The den will meet in the Riversdale Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kittleson re- multi-purpose room each Tuesday turned home Sunday from a sue- after school. Pack meetings will be the first Wednesday of each month-. Home Gutttd The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marks in Winchester Bay was gutted by fire last week. They cessful hunting trip near Spray, Ore. They met friends from Eu gene and Springfield wiich made a party of ten. On the second day of the season the party came home with nine deer. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Burkhart and to Otis Clavton. Recent visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Guiley were Mr. and Mrs. George Oakes of Hay ward, Calif. They had been to De troit, Mich., where they bought a new car. Mrs. Oakes and Mrs. Guil ey are cousins. The Oakes are in the newspaper business in Hay ward. C. E. McFerron recently spent a day at Philomath on business for the General Mills Feed Store of which he is manager. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Harmon have returned to their home after spend ing two weeks at Riverside. Calif.. where they visited the former's John Burkhart. Mrs. Duncan McLean and son, John, have spent the past two weeks in Salem where they were called to be with the former's mother-in-law who had suffered a se vere heart attack. The other three McLean children have been cared for by their grandmother, Mrs. Jurgens in Roseburg. Mrs. Stella Smoot has left for her home in Indianapolis, Ind., aft er visiting for three weeks with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Burkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Guiley accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. Don Guiley mother Mrs. Rose Harmon who! recently spent a day at Dorene was in. i uam Mrs. H. W. Conn spent three I days last week in Portland where: she attended to business. I Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Chambers Jr., and twins recently came from Coos Bay to visit Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McFerron and family. Visit Lttt Power Policies Come Under Eye Of Subcommittee WASHINGTON lyfi Adminis tration power policies will come under the scrutiny of the House subcommittee on government oper ations next week. Rep. Chudoff (D-Pa) said Thurs day Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay and Ancher Nelsen, head of the Rural Electrification Admin istration, have been invited to ap pear at a hearing Oct. 11-13 to answer questions about complaints received by his committee. The complaints, Chudoff said, "on their face" constitute "a ser ious indictment of administration power marketing practices." Chudoff said witnesses at hear ings "all over the country" report ed ". . . the present power mar keting policies of the Interior De partment have deprived them of power to which they are entitled and that private utilities are bene fitting from this failure of the de partment to properly dispose of its power. "It appears that as a result of interior's questionable power mar keting the government has lost considerable revenue. We hope that the Interior Department and REA will have some good explanations, because, on their face, the com plaints received by this subcom mittee, constitute a serious indict ment of the administration power marketing practice." Idaho Cities Celebrating Historic Lewis And Clark Arrival Just 150 Years Ago LEWISTON, Idaho I On Oct. 10, 1805 Army Captains Meriweth er Lewis and William Clark and their small party of tired explorers camped where the cool Clearwater meets the turbulent snake. . It was historic date, remembered this week by twin cities that bear the captains' names. Members of the heroic expedi tion, who had been reduced to eat-1 P.1. wfh Catholics given special and Clark party camped at the junction of the Clearwater and Snake. Friday morning there will be a modern day parade through the streets of Lewiston and its across the - river neighbor, Clarkston, Wash. Early" Fridav afternoon hiiffnin barbecue will be held in Roundup Visitors over the weekpnd af the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Lee and family were the former's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Al Bartell of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lenz and family of Portland. Lenz is a broth er of Mrs. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Dick Count and children, Linda and Johnny, have BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THf HAPPY time dog TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE Pear Picking Completed In Garden Valley Region By ADDIE SCHNEIDER Bosc pear picking has been com pleted in Garden Valley at the Booth farm and at the Diamond E. Ranch. Graham and Kenneth Ewens took their last load to Med ford Monday. To Maryland Mrs. Irene Clark, daughter of Mrs. Graham Ewens, left for Bal timore, Md., Sunday. Mrs. Clark will stop in Sunnyville, Calif., to visit her daughter, Mrs. Glen Haw kins and her baby daughter. Sunday Linda Hess. 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hess, caught her first fish, an 8 pound silverside, while fishing with her father below the forks. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Hebard and their sons, Corky and Gary, re turned Tuesday from a deer hunt east of Crescent in the China Hat Country. Mr. and Mrs. Don Evans and family of Umpqua went with them. Kirk Hardick and Dick Rhone of Sutherlin returned with a deer, shot near Homestead on the Snake river. Most successful were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blizard and Bob who hunted in the Steens Alts, with her brother and nephew of Bend. The party returned with 5 deer. From Eugtne Mr. and Mrs. Richard Zuver and daughter of Eugene, visited rela tives in Garden Valley and Rose burg Sunday. University of Oregon students who were home for the weekend were Henry Booth, John and Mary Michel and Larry Zuver. Recent visitors at the Walter Norris home were Mrs. Virginia Stillwell and Ben Halverstoff of Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Flitcroft, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Flitcroft and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ireland and boys, all of Grants Pass came to get fruit and vegetables. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Parks of Fairview in Coos Co., long time friends of the Norrises visited with them Sunday. The Parks are pro prietors of a grocery store in Fair view. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bunch of Dora were Sunday dinner guests at the Walter Norris home. Rev. Harry Hampton of the Pres byterian Church in Roseburg re cently killed a rattlesnake at the lower end of Garden Valley. The snake measured about three feet long. Steam Locomotives Give ay To New Diesels PORTT.AMn in Slnom motive No. 5021 pulled out of here Wednesday with a 67-car freight muut, uu iu mat iuii. n. a, VIdlicy, with 45 years of railroading behind uiui, whs ai uie imuuie. No. 5021 is the last of the South ern Pacific's 5000 series locomo tives. Those were built in the 1920s and were the largest ever in serv ice except for the cab-in-front type. tlrUU rMH. J , . it uu iyyj. oui;i s uepariure, me Portland-KllfTpnp iin hrrnmet nnm. pletely a dicscl-powered operation. ineie suu are a lew sieam neipcr locomotives operating out of Eu gene over the mountains and south on the Ashland run. - - ing horses and dogs, realized the Snake fed into the mighty Colum and the end of their long journey. The weaKened expedition- was thankful too that it was in the land of the fierce but friendly Nez Perce Indians. The party would have been easy prey of the proud tribe when it staggered onto the rolling Wieppe Prairie in Septem ber, 1805, but instead the sick and weary men received food and pro tection from the Indians. The expedition was able to make canoes, for the final leg of the journey to the Pacific at a camp near the present -community of Ahsahka, four miles west of Oro fino. This week residents of north central Idaho and southeastern Washington breathe life into histo ry of 150 years ago. A granite monument will be dedi cated Thursday where the Lewis Sutherlin Grange Has Potluck Dinner, Social Sutherlin Grange met Wednes day at the hall for a 7 p.m. pot men supper, wun Mr. ant Airs. Henry Frotscher and Mrs. Ella Weggner, as hostesses. Sixteen members were present. A business meeting followed. The secretary read a letter from El mer McClure. master of the Stale Grange, stating that Henry Hen deirkson, Stale Grange Deputy, will be the speaker of Sutherlin Grange on Grange Booster night, Wednesday, Oct. 26. The following committees were appointed for Booster night: Mrs. I Evelyn Frotscher and Mrs. Helen ! Cass, entertainment: Mrs. Edna Powers and Mrs. Selma Waters. decorating and Henry Frotscher, 1 nospnamy. ine ainner will De , under the direction of Mrs. Eunice Haslam, home economics chair man. Work day was set for Sundav. Oct. 9. Lecturers program was a storv told by Mrs. Leona Elliott. dispensation to eat meat by the Most Rev. Edward Kelley, bishop of Idaho. Later the same afternoon. Dr. D. K. Worden of Lewiston and Dr. Leroy Weeks of Clarkston will play the star roles in a water pageant depicting the landing of the ex plorers at the site of the name sake cities. A. B. Guthrie, Great Falls, Mont, author and western historian, will present the sesquicentennial ad dress at Roundup Park Friday night. Nez Perce Indians, who will have tepees set up at the park, will present a war dance north of Lewiston following the speech. Living bonds with the past will be on display Saturday during the Northwest Appaloosa Horse Show. The Appaloosa are the famous war ponies of the Nez Perce, only western Indian tribe known to have practiced selective horse breeding. Gov. Robert E. Smylie of Idaho and Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington will be waiting, plates in hand, at a flapjack feed Sundav morning. Other distinguished guests will include Sen. Henry Dworshak (R-Idaho), Sen. Herman Welker (R-Idaho) and Rep. Graciu Pfost (D-Idaho). Attorneys End Arguments In Contempt Case WASHINGTON tin Arthur Har vey O'Connor's trial for contempt of Congress came to a close Thurs day with opposing counsel arguing over whether he had the right to tell Senate investitfntnrs it wne none of their business if he had I tlves voted on in Washington State been a Communist. during the past 15 years were Asst. U. S. Atty. William Hitz, drafted by the Communist Party, the government prosecutor, said no; 'rs- Barbara Hartle testified citizen has a right to refuse to an- T,J?,sday- swer government investigators Tne Washington Pension Union when they ask him a question of I supported six such initiatives, two Frl., Oct. 7, 1955 The Newt-Review. Roiebiifg, Ort. 9 Communist Party Initiated Several Laws Voted On In Washington, Says Witness SEATTLE I Several initia- import to the national security He told Federal Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy, hearing the case without a jury, that the law is "onesided in favor of a conviction" of O'Connor. But Gerald P. Van Akrel, de fense attorney, said the question put to O'Connor by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) in 1953 was "an imperti nent invasion of the defendant's rights as a citizen." Van Arkel said O'Connor had been called before the Senate sub committee on investigations as "part of a stage show that Sen. McCarthy thought would add to his political luster." 3 Portland Councilmen Oppose Site Selection PORTLAND w Three Port land city councilmen said Thurs day they would oppose transfer of Delta Park in East Vanport to the Exposition-Recreation Commission. Delta Park was chosen Wednes day as site of the city's sports exposition center but it can't be used for that unless the council, by majority vote, turns it over for that purpose. Three votes would defeat it. of which were adouted. she said She said those which were adopted were Initiatives 111 and 172, meas ures which increased pension pay ments to the elderly. Mrs. Hartle, a former No. 1 Pacific Northwest Communist who renounced Communism after be ing convicted with four others two years ago of conspiring to advo cate overthrow of the government, returned to the witness stand on the second day of a Subversive Activities Control Board hearing. The government is seeking to have the Pension Union declared a Communist front. Former U.S. Senator Harry P. Cain, Board chairman, is conducting the hear ing which is expected to last sev eral weeks. Posey Kime, Department of Jus tice attorney, asked Mrs. Hartle if she knew how the initiatives she had mentioned had their be ginning. "Yes," Mrs. Hartle replied, "in discussions in the district board of the Communist Party. There were discussions as to who should draft the initiatives, and steps taken to see that the initiatives were drafted and so forth." Kime, however, questioned Mrs. Hartle in detail about only one of the initiatives, No. 141, Mrs. Hartle said that Initiative was sponsored before she moved to Seattle from Spokane to be come a major Communist func tionary. She also said she was only able to testify that the Communist Party gave all-out support for it. Mrs. Hartle testified yesterday of her associations with the Pen Asked by Kime x x x 5th pgh w29 State Workers Entitled To Vacation Privileges SALEM m State officials and employes who are not under civil service are entitled to the same vacation privileges as those under civil service. - This ruling was made Wednes day by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn ton. It means that George Spaur, who resigned as state forester Oct. 1, can get cash payment for the vaca tion he didn't get this year. Best-Known Home Remedy rorsuffenngof i l y? vvaporub Rub on Relief... Brsth9 jn Relief I Wreckage Yields Bodies ' Of Man And Young Boy 1 LA SALLE, Colo. Ifl Scat-1 tered wreckage yielded the man gled bodies of a man and a vouna . boy after a speeding auto rammed i uic sine ot a moving Union Pa cific Railroad freight train near here early Thursday. The State Patrol identified the dead as Frank Rodriquez, 34, of j uenver. ana Leonara irujiuo, 12, La Salle. Fiftten box cars of the fast Den-ver-lo-Omaha freight were derailed but none of the crew was injured. Our Scouting Program in Roseburg is Supported by The UNITED FUND The Boy Scout- Program, as well as many other fine pro grams in Roseburg, are supported by your contributions to the United Fund. This is the program President Eisen hower made his last appeal for just before he was stricken with his heart attack. The overall cost of the Scout Program Is large, due to record keeping, training programs and organizational work. It costs but $10.00 per year for the Community to keep a boy in Scouting: Compare with the cost of a correctional institution, many, many timet more. 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