The news-review., March 13, 1956, Image 1

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Eugene, Oregon
GOP Leaders Map
To Push
North-South Debate, Court
Order, Expulsion Of White
Leader Highlight Race Issue
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A North-South debate in Con
gress, another U. S. Supreme
Court order in the segregation
field, and the expulsion of a White
Citizens Council leader from the
University of Alabama highlight
latest development in the nation's
complex racial situation.
Verbal fireworks were set off
in the Senate yesterday when Sen.
George (D-Ga) formally presented
a Southern manifesto which he
said had been carefully prepared
by Southern leaders. It was sign
ed hy 19 senators and 81 House
members from 11 states.
The document declared the high
tribunal's decision on May 17.
1954, outlawing segregation in the
public schools was "a clear abuse
of judicial power" and it pledged
the signers to do even-thing le
gally possible to overthrow the
court's ruling.
As a counter proposal to the
Southerners' declaration. Sen.
Humphrey (D-Slinn) suggested that
Congress go on record in support
of the high court's ruling.
Humphrey said that such a stand
by Congress is both "valid and
desirable" and he felt that far
Real Estate Commissioner
Issues Warning Against
Advance-Fee Operators
A warning that advance -fee
operators are constantly trying to
defraud Ore Ron property owners
was given here Monday noon bv
Ragnor O. Johnson, stats real
estate commissioner.
In a question - answer period
after nil talk at the Roseburg
Chamber of Commerce forum
luncheon at the Hotel Umpqua,
Johnson said 16 or 17 such opera
tors art in the state almost con
stantly. When anyone is approached by
an advance-fee operator, "We'd
like to know about it." He gave
examples where traveling advance-fee
men have taken several
thousand dollars out of a com
munity in a single day. Usualiy,
he said, the operators approach a
property owner with a pitch for
advertising the property national
ly, but they end np by asking-for
an advance fee and give the im
pression that they can very easily
sell the real estate for the owner.
Johnson said over 300 such con
tracts have been surveyed by his
office, but that not one sale was
consumated. Anyone approached
by an advance-tee man should call
Johnson's office in Salem or a
member of the local realty board.
Johnson complimented the Doug
las County district attorney for
his work in a local case last year,
in which a Chicago man had col
lected nearly $7,000 from Oregon
property owners wishing to sell
property. The man was held in
jail until his company refunded all
the money.
Reputable real estate men do
not ask for advance fees on sale
of property. Johnson noted also
that there are some legitimate ad
vertising salesmen on the road,
but they do not promise sales or
ask for sales fees.
In his talk, Johnson outlined the
functions of the commissioner's
office, defined the term "realtor."
and pointed out the valuable func
tion realtors and chamber of com
merce men can do in greeting new
residents and visitors.
"Realtor" is a word coined by
the National Assn. of Real Estate
Boards and means the person is
active in his local board and a
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign aid project:
The V. S. government has just
proposed buying 10.000 tons of
Burmese rice 1o help meet an
emergency food shortage in East
Pakistan.
Proceeds from the sale of the
rice would be used by the Burmese
to hire American technicians to di
rect various Burmese government
projects.
It's a fine gesture, of course. If
there are hunury people in East
Pakistan, they ought to be fed and
since we are the best-off nation
on earth it's up to us. according
to all the rules, to do the feeding.
But 1 can't help feeling it would
be better for all concerned if, in
stead of going clear around the
barn and buying rice in Burma to
feed East Pakistan's hungry peo
ple, we just CAVE the food "to the
hungry Pakistani out of our own
surplus supplies, which are be-
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The Weather
Mostly cloudy today, tonight and
Wednesday. A little warmer tomor
row. Highest temp, list 74 hours .... $6
Lowest temp, last 24 hours .. 36
Highest temp, eny Mar. 95
Lowest temp, any Mar. 18
Precip. list 24 hours 0
Prteip. from March 1 1.19
Precip. from Sept. 1 43.96
Excess from Sept. 1 . 20.65
Sunset tonight, 6:17 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:28 a.m.
Through
;more than the 19 senators and 81
members of the House who signed
the Southern manifesto would sign
a declaration approving the Su
preme Court's racial edict.
j Rep. Bass (D-Tenn), one of the
signers of the Southern document,
i said Monday night his impression
jfrom cloakroom talk was that the
manifesto was "designed to re-
elect Sen. George." He also at
tributed to Sen. Kussell (D-Ga) a
; similar view.
i The Supreme 'Court handed
I down another unanimous order on
segregation. The court ruled that
: tax-supported universities must ad-
mil qualified Negroes to graduate
j schools without delay.
The court held in effect that
1 graduate schools are not subject
to the decision ordering desegre
gation of public schools.
The action overturned a ruling
, of the Florida Supreme Court
nenying a ivegro, Virgil D. Haw
kins, admission to the law school
of the all-white University of Flor
ida. The court said that its edict
for "all deliberate speed" for end
ing segregation in public schools
"had no application to a case in
ivolving a Negro applying for ad
mission to a slate law school."
RAGNOR 0. JOHNSON
. . . warns of fraud
Man Uninjured
When Car 1$ Hit
By SP Engine
A 79-year-old Roseburg man
was uninjured Monday about 4:00
p.m. when he drove his car in
front of a Southern Pacific switch
engine on Stephens Street.
Roseburg police said C. C. Fris
loe, 1344 SE Pine St., apparently
didn't see a warning signal at the
SP crossing on Stephens near the
intersection with Diamond Lake
Boulevard.
He was driving south when the
eastbound switch engine, driven by
C. L. Hayes, hit the car. The car
continued on, jumping a curb, for
124 feet past the collision scene,
police said.
There was about $500 damage
caused to the car, officers esti
mated. Damage to the locomotive
was minor.
A second collision during the aft
ernoon was between light trucks
driven by Harry Grant Huckler,
41, Olalla, and Leslie Lincoln
Frisk, 33, Roseburg. The accident
was on Harvard Avenue at the
intersection of Bellows Street.
Police said Huckler was stopped
on Harvard preparatory itf making
a left turn onto Bellows. Frisk,
driving up from behind, lost con
trol of his truck when his foot
slipped from the brake onto the
accelerator. No damage or cita
tions resulted.
Young Men Plead Guilty
To Petty Larceny Counts
Gordon Klzie Clayton. 20, Dil
lard. and Thomas Hoyt Thompson,
19. Idlcyld Route, have been given
M-day jail sentences by District
Judge Warren A. Woodruff.
A third youth, Benny Lee King,
20, was granted probation on a one
year sentence.
All pleaded guilty to petty lar
cency. reduced from an earlier
charge of larceny on property with
value over S75. They were arrest
ed on complaint of A. J. Upde
gra e. who accused the trio of
stealing auto parts on Feb. 24.
NO RAIN IN SIGHT
There's no rain in sight before
Thursday or Friday, the U. S.
Weather Bureau said this morning
in its five-day weather outlook.
But the skies will remain mostly
clouriv through Wednesday, the
weatherman said. Temperatures
will ranue below normal during
the remainder of the week.
OUT ON BAIL
A rae against Vigjjo Lassen,
4". Myrtle Creek, has been con
tinued to Monday in district court
at Roseburg, and he has been
released under $j00 bail. Lassen
wa charged by a state policeman
with operating a motor vehicle
wiii under the influence of intox
icating liquor.
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Strategy
Farm Bill
Short-Cut Plan
Set For House,
States Speaker
WASHINGTON tf Republican
congressional leaders, confident the
Eisenhower farm program is win
ning in Congress, mapped strategy
at the White House Tuesday to
speed a finished bill to the Pres
ident. House GOP leader Martin (Mass)
said that once the Senate bill
reaches the House, he will seek to
use a short-cut technique to get ap
proval there.
He explained this will involve an
effort to have the House substitute
the Senate bill for its own, and
to instruct the House conferees to
support flexible price support pro
visions in conierences with the
Senate.
"Otherwise we might have to
wait three weeks, with all the
wrangling in conference," Martin
said.
"This way, we can get help to
the farmers quickly. Even the peo
ple who want rigid supports
wouldn't object to this, I think, if
they really want to aid the farm
ers." The House, passing a farm bill
last year, voted for a return to
mandatory price supports for prin
cipal crops at 90 per cent of parity.
The administration program
calls for flexible supports mean
ing discretionary power for the
secretary of agriculture to set them
at lower rates.
In the long Senate battle over
the farm bill, administration sup
porters have defeated repeated ef
forts to junk the flexible support
plan.
Martin indicated he expected the
House would get the Senate bill
early next week.
Sen. Aiken (R-Vtt. top Republi
can on the Agriculture Committee,
said the Senate might get through
with it Friday night, but observed
that "there are plenty of unsettled
controversies."
Sen. Ellender of Louisiana, kev
figure on the Democratic side, said
so much 'lousy politics" were in
volved that he wouldn't make any
forecast.
Rumors Against
KPIC Squelched
By Manager Here
Rumors about television station
KPIC's difficulties were squelched
today by Resident Manager Gene
rierce, wno saia mat many "tales"
were being circulated.
Pierce said that KPIC had hoped
to be on the air long before now,
but the station had encountered
difficulty receiving a 100 per cent
signal irom kval-tv in Eugene.
He said that a 95 per cent signal
is received at the local station.
hut there is 5 per cent received
that isn t acceptable."
He stated that to some Deoole
the signal would look "fine." but
there would be an element of
doubt in the minds of those con
nected with KPIC.
KPIC personnel have been work
ing to ascertain the best method
for receiving a 100 per cent sig
nal. Pierce said, "It can and will
be done."
Methods of increasing the signal
from KVAL-TV are being studied at
the present time. Two methods
mentioned are the installation of
a micro-wave system and the use
of Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph facilities. Pierce said. He
said that the decision would be
"upcoming very shortly." After
the decision has been reached, ac
tual programming would be start
ed with "not too long a delay."
Pierce stated that "nothing is
wrong with the equipment at
KPIC." He said that reception re
ports had been received at his of
fice from Newport, Junction City,
Reedsport, Coos Bay, Grants Pass
and other towns. All had reported
good reception.
Meanwhile, the weekend shows,
shown at midnight Friday and Sat
urday nights, will continue, Pierce
reported. Response from the shows
has been good, he said.
Gov. Smith Greeted In Roseburg
By MERLE F. PUCH
Staff Writer, Nows-Roviow
The people who poured into the
Indian Room of the Hotel Umpqua
Monday night, mostly Republican
Party faithful, apparently had the
question "Who is Elmo Smith?"
answered to their satisfaction.
Gov. Smith said the question is
one that many people asked when
he succeeded to the governor's of
fice upon the death of Gov. Paul
Patterson.
He said he wants "to see as
many people as possible" in or
der to answer the question, and
that's what he did at a no-host
dinner, ending up by shaking hands
with everyone who attended. Such
meetings are quick! v eliminating
j the question "Who is Elmo Smith?"
I He spoke briefly to the assem
blage, mostly in an informal man
'ner, telline how he. his wife and
two children "had to entirely re-
plan our lives" after Gov. Smith
suddenly became the state's chief
executive.
I 'Little' Dutwt Told
The governor told of giving auto
graphs to 1.200 om i at one affair,
of shaking hands with a throng at
;another meeting (Mrs. Smith had
jsore muMes the next dav) and of
j other "little'' things which befall a I
man of such position. j
He spoke also of his feeling
about Oregon and its government,!
and pointed out that Ice aed 0s
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Tension Continues Against
Eirabli.hed 1873 12 Paget
NOW U. S. PLYWOOD This is the Youngs Bay Lumber
Co. sawmill in Roseburg, one of the properties involved
in a stock exchange deal Monday which makes the com
pany, its timber and a holding company subsidiary, North
Umpqua Timber Co., part of the U. S. Plywood Corp.
U. S. Plywood also has a sawmill of Green.' U. S. Plywood
No Limit Placed
Against Elections
Dissolving District
There if no limit to Uie number
of elections which can be held to
dissolve a sanitary district. This
was the ruling today 01 Atty. Gen.
Robert Y. Thornton.
The ruling came as a result of
repeated elections being held in
the Green Sanitary District, south
of Roseburg. Two such dissolution
elections have already been held.
and Calvin btroup, chairman of the
Dissolution Committee, Monday
night presented a petition for a
third at a meeting of the sanitary
atsirici.
what makes the decision tartl-
cularly binding on the sanitary dis
trict is that it nan no tax money
with which to pay for another elec
tion. Thornton ruled that no way
exists legally to make petitioners
pay for the election, so the cost
will have to be borne by the dis
trict. He said the district will have
to solve the problem of how to
bear that cost.
Meanwhile, a citizen's commit
tee report was made Monday night
at the sanitary district meeting.
The committee has decided it will
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Joseph Sands Awarded
State Farmer Degree
Joseph R. Sands of Rosebure
High School has been awarded the
State Farmer Degree, the highest
state award given to high school
youths taking agriculture classes.
The announcement was made
Tuesday at the 28th annual state
iFFA convention at Oregon State
I College. Winners will receive a spe
jcial farmer degree pin.
To qualify for the slate farmer
degree, boys must prove outstand
ing in rhantnr nit ivit if and inrii.
vidua! farming programs. They
are judged on their supervised
farming project, activities and ac
complishments in their chapter and
knowledge of farming and FFA
work.
Sands is 18 yean old and a sen
ior at Rosehurg High School. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Sands of Elgarose.
Ilntnoo W Crnu- i. Iha IP TP A rl.
1 visor at the high school.
' i
FIRST HONORARY MEMBER
(under the ox held bv Jerry
night by Bull of th Woods
ROSEBURG, OREGON
U. S. Plywood Planning Use
Of Otherwise Waste Forest
Materials In New Project
One of the significant features of the expansion program
planned by V. S. Plywood in
is a wholesale use of what is
est materials.
The expansion program came
of rumors involving the absorption of all the assets of
Youngs Bay Co. The official announcement was issued by
S. W. Antoville, president of U. S. Plywood, and Hoy Cum
mins, general manager of Youngs Bay at Roseburg.
Directors ot both companies
have approved the transaction.
Now it it subject to ratification
by the Youngs Bay stockholders
at a special meeting March 19.
Weekly Ad-Rime
Contest Starts
In News-Review
Starting today. The News-Review
readers will havo an oppor
tunity to compete for a $10 weekly
cash prize in Roseburg's Ad-Rime
contest. Complete rules will be
found in the first full page Ad-
Hime advertisement found on Page
12 of today's News-Review.
This unusual program is jointly I
sponsored by a large group of j
Hose burg merchants and The
News-Review to foster community
wide appreciation of the advan
tages of trading in Roseburg.
I hese advantages will be discussed
through a scries of messages, one
of which will appear every week
on the Ad-Rime page. The $10 cash
prize will be awarded each week
for the best Ad-Rime line rhyming
with the headline. At the end of I
the 26 -week campaign, a grand
prize of $100 will be awarded for
the best Ad-Rune oi the series.
The Ad - Rime advertisement
features a Business Directory
which will serve as a useful buy
ing guide.
All Ad-Rime entries must be
submitted in person or by mail to
The News-Review not later than
noon Saturday to be eligible lor
the weekly contest.
The Ad-Rime advertisement will
appear every Tuesday for the next
28 weeks.
of the newly reorganized Paul Bunyanj is Gov. Elmo Smith
Coen) He was tobbed "Chief Choker-Setter" Monday
Rum Osborn, in white tin hat. (Master Studio),
i
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
will tissue 275,000 shares of common stock in exchange
for all Youngs Bay holdings. At the current price of
slightly over $45 per share, the paper exchange value
is over $-12,375,000. Actually no money is changing hands.
(Paul Jenkins).
Roseburg in the near future
usually considered waaU lor-!
to light Monday after days
If approved bv the stockholders.
it luiii n it Pi,unn,i mill i.
sue .275,000 shares of Us common
stock in exchange for all assets ot
Youngs Bay. They include half
billion board feet of timber, tim
berlands, a sawmill at Roseburg i
and the North Umpqua Timber
Co., a wholly owned subsidiary.
Antoville reported the acquisi
tion of the Youngs Bay assets will
result in another large-scale pro
duction center for U.S. Plywood.
The important production center
in the company' far-flung opera
tions will include a new plnywood
plant, the Youngs Ray sawmill and
a new Novoply plant. The sawmill
will be modernized.
The outstandingly significant fa
cet of the operation is the Novo
ply plant. Novoply is a u. a. riy-
wood wood panel produced by pat-
cnted process from wood chips and
flakes, created as a by-product of
its plywood plant and sawmill op
erations. The new unit planned at Rose
burg would be the third Novoply
plant. Antoville said the need is oc
casioned by the demand for the
product which exceeds capacity of
the California units
The third major
change listed
for U. S. Plvwood here is a tre
mendous expansion in the amount
of plywood manufactured. He said
the contemplated plywood plant
at Roseburg will have an initial an
nual capacity of approximately 75
million board feet.
"Our program calls for a full
scale integration in the use of
the forest products in the immense
volume which will now become
available. This operation will he
similar to what U. S. Plywood has
accomplished at its integrated di-
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61-56 PRICE 5c
Margaret Truman
Plans To Marry
Reporter For Times
NEW YORK tjm A "very hap
py Margaret Truman says she
and her silver-haired newspaper
man fiance plan a "small, quiet
wedding in Missouri next month.
The 32-year-old daughter of
former President and Mrs. Tru
man will marry Clifton Daniel of
the New York Times in the Trin
ity Protestant Episcopal Church
at Independence, Mo. No date has
occn set.
Her blue-green eves twinkling
flU" Aru.man iaiKea 8D,0Ut ner "
mance ai a news conierence me
couple held yesterday. Her father
announced the engagement' earlier
In the day at Kansas City, Mo.
Daniel, 43, is an assistant to
the foreign news editor of the
Times. Slender, brown-eved and
handsome, he'a the son of a Zeb
lulon. N.C.. druggist.
The couple met last November
at tne nome oi ueorge Hacker,
former publisher of the New York
Tost. Daniel proposed in January.
Neither has been married before.
anct eacn is an. on;y cmid.
Miss Truman, smiling and ex
cited, told newsmen the wedding
will be in the same church where
she was a choir girl.
New Hampshire Primary
Being Closely Watched
MANCHESTER, N.If. Wl The
first primary election in the 1956
political campaigns and the first
test of strength between two Dem
ocratic presidential contenders be
gan today in Uie weather vane
state of New Hampshire.
Two tiny towns Millsfield and
Ellsworth completed their votes
only minutes after midnight.
Millsfield split lis four votts
evenly between President Eisen
hower and Adlai Stevenson.
Ellsworth, where six ballots were
cast, gave five votes for President
Eisenhower are listed on the pres
idential preference portion of, the
first-in-lhe-nation ballot.
Reaction of loading political
figures to Hio results in tho Now
Hampshire primary vote will bo
airod ovor radio station KRNR
at 9:30 tonight, according to
Aron Boo, station manager.
Camp Fire Cirls Will
Appear On TV Program
Mrs. fvan Edwards, chairman
of the Camp Fire Leaders Assn.,
and lour Kosenurg girls will ap
pear Wednesday on the Beverly
Rrunton Guest Book television pro
gram on KVAii, r.ugene. uins wno
will participate in the program
are Cindy Seavoll and Kathy Rurk-
hart, Camp Eire Girls; and Joanne
Carlson and Linda Rae Brown, Blue
Birds.
1 3-Year-Old Confesset
Series Of Larcenies
A 13-y ear-old buy arrested by
Roseburg police Monday night has
confessed to a series of minor lar
cenies from stores and vehicles.
Officers said the boy admitted
taking property from a county
owned truck and Roseburg stores.
Some of the larcenies were per-
I formed as long ago as 18 months.
( Arrested with the youngster was
la 13-year-old companion, who was
I questioned about the vandalism of
a bicycle.
CASES CONTINUED
Charges of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor have been
placed against two Roseburg men,
Howard Kdwin Newport, 27, and
Carl Alonzo Myers, 23. They were
arraigned Monday before District
Judge Warren A. Woodruff, but
the cases were continued to Wed
nesday with bail set at $2,000.
They are accused of tending to
cause a 15-year-old girl to become
delinquent.
iritish
Strike Still
On; Teen-Age
Group Riots
NICOSIA. Cyprus I An ntU
British itnke continued in Cyprus
today, keeping commercial life on
the riot-torn island almost at a
standstill for the second consecu
tive day.
The spontaneous shutdown hy
Cypriot shopkeepers and workers
is protesting Britain's exile of
Archbishop Makarios, leader of
the union-with-Ureece movement.
A few shops hesitantly opened
their doors this morning but clos
ed again as word spread to con
tinue the protest.
Business places in the Turkish
and Armenian quarters remained
open.
As tensions continued to mount,
a U. S. State Department spokes
man in Washington said the
United States has suggested t o
Britain that she find some way
of resuming negotiations with.
Cypriot leaders in the dispute over
the island's future.
Defiant teen-agers stoned police
in Nicosia, and mobile reserves
and military forceswere called up
to disperse the demonstrators. Six
persons were arrested at a church
where youths three times climbed
to the steeple and rang the bell
after stoning police.
ai iNicosia s biggest elementary
school, children from 6 to 12 years
jeered and hurled rocks at police. -
A 17-year-old Boy was sentenced
Tuesday to five years in prison for ,
carrying a gasoline bomb.
A ban on long distance telephone
calls on the island was lifted after
being in force since Friday night.
GAIL CARNINE
promoted to sergeant
Gail Carnine
Named Sergeant
By Chief Olson
Gail Carnine. milrolman in tho
Roseburg Police Dept. for the past
three years, has been appointed
sergeant, effective Thursday.
The appointment hy Police Chief
Stan Olson followed recent writ
ten and oral examinations of pa
trolmen in the department.
Carnine recently was recipient
of Mayor Ernest Barker Jr.'s pe
riodical service award for city
employes. He had been acting ser
geant since the resignation sever-
weeks ago o( Leon Alulkey,
whom he replaces. The new ser
geant is married.
Two patrolmen also were ap
pointed by Olson Monday to fill
recent vacancies in the depart
ment. One more still remains to
he named, and oral examinations
for the position were being given
today.
One new patrolman is Boh
Bramlclt, 38. He is a veteran ot
eight years with the Bremerton,
Wash., Police Dept. He is mar
ried and has three children.
The second new man is Bill
Jordan, 21, recently discharged
from the Navy. He has had no
previous police experience.
Timberjack Committee
Sets Meet Wednsday
A meeting has been scheduled
for Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the
Civic Room of the Hotel Umpqua,
for the Timberjack committee and
all interested persons, according
to Russell Oshorn, coordinator of
the Timberjack celebration.
Osborn stressed the importance
of businessmen, transportation
companies, independent Infers
and lumber concerns take part in
the Wednesday meeting, to help
formulate plans for the celebra
tion. Outlining the 'Parade of Power'
will be the main theme ot I lie
meeting. Osborn reports that sev
eral advertising companies have in
dicated that tlicy will he on hand
to photograph the torchlight par
ade and parade of power in still
and moving pictures for possible
use on television and other adver
tising media both locally and in
other areas.
Timberjack Days will be observ
ed in Rosehurg March 2il and 21.
Tht trio of Portland ban
dits who lost week pulled a
holdup, using ladies' hosiery
'for masks, appear headed
i for John Law sock.
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Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
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