Fluoridalion, flew Tax
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Fluoridation and an increased
city tax base are on the ballot in
a special election for Roseburg
precincts Friday.
A proposed increase in the tax
base will be determined by the
vote, but the vote on fluoridation
will only serve as a recommenda -
Uon to the. City Council.
It is proposed to boost the tax
base from $73,625.13 to 5265,617.67.
The council says adoption of the
second figure by the voters Willi
mean a figure closer to the actual I
Commitf eentan, Commlftaevoman Will Be
Elected From Each Party In Friday Vote
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D. GIRARD DAVIDSON
National committeemen and
committee women will be chosen
Friday by voters of each party.
The committeemen of each party
bd ome part of the national pol
itical organizations which develop
party policies and strategy. One
man and one woman will be elected
from each party.
The most hectic contest is be
tween Robert T. Mautz and John
llerrifield, both of Portland and
both running for Republican na
tional committeeman. Both back
President Eisenhower. Each is an
attorney, with Mcrrifield having
served in the State Senate.
Portland Attorney
For Re-election To
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PROMOTED
The Navy Dept. announced the!
promotion recently of Bob J. Mc-
Farland, of 714 W. Fairhaven Ave
Roseburg, to personnel man third i
class, USN, wiule serving aooara
the Atlantic
Flopt attack aircraft i
carrier L'SS Forrestal. The promo-j
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of a Navy-wide petty officer ex-iin a year haded as marking tran-
amination conducted in February. I sition to a nuclear fleet.
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yearly budget and a possibile elim
ination of the need for a popular
vote to exceed the 6 per cent limi
tation. The council calls the present
base "unrealistic" in the light of
the city's growth, pointing out that
1 the 1937 base was higher than it is
this year. It was pointed out that it
not mcan tai increase,
The base is the amount to which
6 per cent can be added each year
for city operation,
The second issue on the ballot
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JOHN MERRIF1ELD
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PAT DOOLEY
The sole candidate for Republi
can national commmccwoman is
Mrs. Collis Moore- of Moro.
There's also a contest for Demo
cratic national committeeman. Op
ponents are u. uirard Davidson,
Portland attorney an assistant sec
retary of the interior under Presi
dent Truman, and Pat Dooley,
Portland man who has served in
the legislature.
Two women are running for
Democratic national committee
woman. They are Mrs. Gladys
Last and Virginia Grant, both of
Portland.
Term of each of the offices is
four years.
Opposes Lusk
Supreme Court
I Voters In Oregon Friday must
I elect one State Suroreme Court
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justices end at the end of tho year.
Ifall S. Lusk is running for re
election, but is being opposed by
L. B. Sandblast, a Portland attor
ney. Lusk has been in the Supreme
Court for 18 years, two of them as
chief justice.
His opponent, Sandblast, propos
es that the next two appointments
to the court be made ' from the
ranks of labor unions and women."
No one filed against the other
three justices, so their return to
office is automatic, and their
names won t appear on (lie non
partisan judiciary ballot. They are
Chief justice Harold J. Warner and
Justices Waller L. Tooze and Earl
C. Latourctte.
The terms of office arc six years
each.
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CHARLES DOERNER, a Rep
ublican is seeking re-election
as Douglas County clerk. He
has been in office for four
years. Hs is unopposed on the
party ballot. No Democrats
have filed.
NAVY BILL SIGNED
WASHINGTON I -
President (
this week i
Eisenhower's signature
rounded out the Navy's authority
Base Issues
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Is one which has been brewing for
several years. Although rfluroida
tion will not be directly approved
or turned down by the popular
vote, its fate is expected to be con
siderably dependent on the result
of the vote. It will serve as a rec
ommendation to the City Council.
After the vote, the council will
take action on it.
The Oregon Water Corp. has
agreed to absorb the cost of fluor
idating the city's water only after
a popular vote and passage of city
ordinance.
VIRGINIA GRANT
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Arthritis Remedy Maker
Bitten By Ingredient
BALTIMORE Wl An elderly
Chinese who set out to make an
arthritis remedy of seven rattle
snakes and a quantity of gin is re
covering from snakebite.
Kom Sing, 74. told physicians at
Johns Hopkins Hospital he planned
to put the big diamondbacks be
lieved shipped from Texas into
jars, fill the jars with gin and
leave the reptiles submerged for
a year. Then, he said, he would
drink the liquid in the hope it
would relieve his arthritic pains.
But he was bitten while handling
one of the snakes.
Police and zoo snake handlers
found Sing's rattlers in jars, all
of which had a small quantity of
alcohol in them. Three of the
snakes were dead. The rest, un
conscious, were taken to the zoo.
Benson Orders Controls
Continued On Wheat
WASHINGTON (fl Secretary
of Agriculture Benson Tuesday or
dered the continuance of rigid fed
eral production and marketing
controls on the 1957 wheat crop,
subject to a referendum of grow
ers set for July 20.
The controls, which have been
in effect the last three years, must
be approved by at least two thirds
of the growers voting in the ref
erendum. Farmers have never re
jected whet quotas.
The 1957 program, like that of
the past two years, would limit
marketings to the amount pro
duced on 55 million acres. This is
the amount which would be al
lolcd growers for planting.
IS PROMOTED
Franklin D. Westley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude W. Westley, Rose
burg, recently was promoted to
specialist third class in Korea
whore he is a member of the 7th
Infantry Division.
Specialist Westley, assigned to
Company M of the division's 31st
Regiment, entered the Army in Oc-
tober 1954 and completed basic
training at Fort Ord, Calif. He ar-
rived in the Far East
in March
iwo.
Westley is a former employ of
Evans Plywood Co.
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Precincts In Local
Here are the precincts which
will be voting on localized matters
B'riday:
Drain Justice of the peace: Elk-
ton, North Drain, South Drain, Gun
tcr, Comstock, East Yoncalla, West
Yoncalla.
Calapooia justice of the peace:
Calapooia, Oakland No. 1, Oakland
No. 2, Sutherlin No. 1, Sutherlin
No. 2, Sutherlin No. 3, Fair Oaks,
Fir Grove, Wilbur, Kellogg, Coles
Valley.
Glendale justice of the Dcace:
Cow Creek, East Glendale, West
Glendale.
Port of Umpqua Commission:
4-H Summer School
Counselor Jobs Open
The U. S. Marine Corps re
cruiting station in Portland, today
announced plans for formation of
the 6th Oregon Beaver Platoon of
100 men to be enlisted into the
Marines on June 21.
Oregon Beaver Platoons have
been very successful in the past.
Three of the five previous platoons
have been honor platoons and the
other two have taken runner-up
honors. All have won many pla
toon and individual awards for
themselves. Boys from the same
State, the same schools, and the
same cities seem to work harder
togeiher to win distinction for
themselves.
Enlistment details on this pla
toon can be had at .the nearest
Marine Corps recruiting station
and interested young men are
urged to make application now to
assure themselves of a place with
the Platoon.
Worm Digger Digs Bottle
Cap From Sister's Throat
WORCESTER, Mass. UK Four-year-old
John Lande stopped dig
ging worms long enough to stick
a dirty hand down his baby sis
ter's throat and possibly saved her
life.
Mrs. Irving Lande said that
while she was talking on the tele
phone her 19-month old baby put
a bottle cap in her mouth and it
lodged in her throat. She said she
tried desperately to dislodge it.
The baby began turning blue and
she yelled for someone to call an
ambulance. At this point, little
Johnny ran indoors, put his hand
down his sister's throat and came
out with the bottle cap.
Johnny had been digging worms
with his bands.
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Candidates File
Three persons, two Republicans
and one Democrat, are. running
for county treasurer.
The Democrat, Bert Laurance,
Winston farmer, has the nomina
tion of his party virtually cinched,
since he's the only candidate from
that party.
The Republicans are incumbent
Oliver L. Johnson and Warren
Powell. Johnson is in his fourth
term of the office and is seeking
re-election to a fifth term. PoweU
is a Roseburg accountant, and will
be attempting to take the Republi
can nomination from Johnson Fri
day.
The term of office is four years.
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State Treasurer
Post Vote Set
Sig Unander, Orogonis Republi
can state treasurer for the past
four years, has filed for re-elec
tion, and his is the only name on
the Republican ballot for nomina
tion for that office Friday, r
Two Democratic men, however.
will have their names on the bal
lot. They are Wiley W. Smith, the
present Multnomah County trea
surer and Al M. Richardson of
Polk County.
Richardson's name will remain
l the ballot, although he has
signified the withdrawal of his
name for the nomination by the
party for the stats office.
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Voteing Listed
Gardiner, Smith River, Rccdsport
No. 1, Reedsport No. 2, Rcedsport
No. 3, Reedsport No. 4, Deans
Creek, Winchester Bay, Loon Lake,
Scottsburg, Elkton.
Roseburg fluoridation and tax
base: Benson, Deer Creek, Ump
qua, Lane, Laureiwood, Hamilton,
Woodward, Caro, Hermann, Rose
burg, Miller, West Roseburg, Fair
haven, Wharton, Brown, Hucrcst,
North Brown, Orchard.
Small Firms' Inclusion
In Labor Act Advised .
WASHINGTON UK A union
official told a Senate Labor sub
committee this week the Fair La
bor Standard Act should be broad
ened to include employes of small
lumber and wood working firms.
A.S. Hartung, president of In
ternational Woodworkers of Amer
ica, also said the SI an hour mini
mum wage provided in the prcs
ent act should be stepped up to
$1.25.
In asking that the law be
changed to apply to firms with
small labor forces, Hartung said
Commerce Department figures
show there are more than 11.000
logging operations in the United
Slates employing 12 people or less.
Such firms are now exempt.
State Socialism Cets
Swat From Hitchcock
PORTLAND' "The danger of
state socialism brought about by
certain democratic policies is a
real and imminent one," Phil
Hitchcock told a Portland State
College audience this week. Hitch
cock, seeking the republican nom
ination for u. S. Senator, cited an
example of the Klamath Indians
as "an abject and object lesson"
to support his statement.
"Eighty years ago the Klamath
Indians were virile and resource
ful people," Hitchcock said. "They
were adapting themselves to the
economy and society of the re
gionand then came security" of
fered by the white man.
Rut in 30 years, Hitchcock said,
"Their morale and their initiativa
have so degenerated that their
leaders are working out plans to
free themselves from this benefi
cent Drotection while they still
I have something to protect."
COP Candidates
Believe Morse
Can Be Beaten
PORTLAND Wl Each of the
four candidates for Republican
nomination to the U. S. Senate
thinks Democratic Sen. Wayne
Morse can be beaten. And each of
them thinks he is qualified to do
it.
The four spoke at a Republican
meeting here Monday, each telling
why he thought he had the best
chance of defeating the senator.
Douglas McKay said he had
polled more votes than Morse in
the past and that he could do it
again. He promised a fighting
campaign if nominated.
Phil Hitchcock, a member of a
Portland college staff, said that
Democrats outnumber Republi
cans in the state. He said that if
the GOP wants to win it will have
to attract the votes of Democrats
and independents.
Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman,
said he is familiar with farm
problems which will be one of the
major issues of the campaign.
George Altvater, Portland engi
neer, said he feels he is qualified
to defeat Morse on the Hells Can
yon issue.
Gov. Elmo Smith, who also
spoke at the meeting, said "it is
extremely important for every
Republican to get out and vote,
and vote early."
Russian Forces'
Arms Cut Poses
Problem In West
BONN, West Germany Wl The
Soviet Union's announcement of a
big cut in its armed forces is cer
tain to create powerful new ob
stacles to West German rearma
ment in the Atlantic Alliance.
Diplomats in Bonn believe this
to be one. of the main aims of the
Kremlin's plan, to slash Soviet
armed torccs by 1,200,000 men. in
cluding 30,000 in East Germany.
In their view, the Soviets con
sider the prevention of West Ger
man rearmament one of the main
objectives of their foreign policy.
tven oefore the Moscow an
nouncement, Chancellor Ade
nour's Bonn government faced
strong public and political pres
sure to scale down the plan to
create ' a 500,000-man army in
West Germany.
Adenauer s commitment to build
up a strong armed force to bul
wark NATO's defenses in Central
Europe now hangs in the balance
as the Bonn Parliament considers
conscription. West German mili
tary planners say volunteers alone
cannot provide enough manpower
for such a force.
Upper Klamath
Basin Pact Now
In 2-State Talk
KLAMATH FALLS 11 The
Oregon and California Klamath
River commissions this week be
gan a series of hearings on the pro
posed intorstate compact on the
use of the waters of the Upper
Klamath Basin.
The session will be followed bv
hearings at Yreka Tuesday,
Weavervllle Wednesday, and Eu-
rexa i riaay.
The hearings are the first step
In gaining final approval of the
compact draft, the subject of
negotiations for several years.
After the hearings, it must be
approved by both the Oregon and
California legislatures, Congress,
and the rresiuent.
The compacts set up a system
of priorities for use of the waters
of the Upper Klamath Basin, ex
clusive of those used by the
Klamath Reclamation District.
It provides guarantees for suffi
cient water to irrigate 300,000'
acres of off-project land in the I
basin, which includes parts ot
Klamath County, Oregon, and i
Siskiyou and Modoc counties,
California.
Butte Vallev. and the Olahoma
and Red Rock districts, as well
as the Upper Klamath Basin and
its California extension, the Tule
lake Basin, are included In the
compact definition of the basin.
Land Bank Loans
At Highest Total
Since Inception
SPOKANE Wl The Federal
Land Bank of Spokane said this
week its outstanding loans to
Northwest farmers now total more
than 114 million dollars, the highest
volume since the bank opened in
1917.
Fred A. Knutscn, the bank pres
ident, said, however, that the
farmers' mortgage debt is still
relatively low when compared to
the value of farms.
"In 1935, when the bank's prev
ious loan volume peak wes reach
ed, the total farm mortgage debt
in the Northwest states was equal
to 25 per cent of the value of
farm land and buildings," he
said. "The mortgage debt now is
only 10 per cent of the value,"
The Spokane bank extends long
term credit to farmers and ranch
ers in Idaho, Montana, Oregon
and Washington to buy land, fi
nance livestock and machinery
purchases and for repairs. The
loans are made and serviced by
65 farmer-owned national farm
loan associations which own the
bank.
SELECTED
Selected at the Naval Training
Center, San Diego, Calif., as ap
prentice petty officer second class
was Wilson L. Cottrell, son nf Mr.
and Mrs. Ward Uottrcll of 2801
N. Stephens St., and husband of
the former Miss Doris I. Swarlz
of 938 W. Nebo St., all of Roseburg.
The Apprentice Petty Officers,
scheduled to graduate May 5, are
chosen from the ranks of the sea
man recruits to assist the Com
pany Commanders. The selection
is made on the basis of aptitude
and leadership qualities of each Individual.
Wed., May 16, 1956 Tht
Ex-Governor Talmadge Best
Known s Strong Advocate
Of Supremacy For Whites
By TOM CHASE
ATLANTA UK Herman Tal
madge, former governor of Geor
gia and now candidate for Sen.
George's seat in the U. S. Sen
ate, is probably best known across
the nation as an advocate of
"white supremacy."
He makes no bones about this
and in his announcement for the
Senate pledged that if elected he
would fight for the "survival of
Georgia and the South" on the
national level just as he fought
on the local level during six years
as governor.
Talmadge says flatly that Ne
groes and whites will never go to
the same schools in Georgia as
long as be has anything to say
about it.
The state will resist the U.S.
Supreme Court decision outlawing
segregation in the nation's public
schools "even if we stand alone,"
says this square-jawed, cigar
smoking man with the falling fore
lock of coal black hair.
Now, at 42, Talmadge feels that
if elected to the Senate he will
be in a position to fight more ef
fectively on the national level
what he considers encroachments
of states rights.
His stubborness in a fight and
his devotion to "white suprem
acy" both were inherited from
his father, the late Gov. Eugene
Talmadge, as was his fondness for
red suspenders while campaign
ing among the "wool hat" rural
regions of the state.
Talmadge has proved as un
yielding as his father on the ques
tion of racial segregation but un
like his father will not cling to
a hopelessly untenable position,
Western Oregon's Timber
Region Needs Receive Kind
Treatment From Congress
By A. ROBERT SMITH conferees who handled the mat-News-Review
Correspondent tcr.
WASHINGTON This 84th Con- hi m ciimai thni timW r.
grcss has been kind to western
Oregon's timber belt In-providing
funds for timber access roads and
promising an expanded road build
in? program for the future.
thus far the lawmakers nave:
1. Doubled the amount of money
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roads provisions in the new long
range federal highway aid bill
a move that promises the Forest
Servico more funds In coming
years for roads in the national for
ests. -This two-pronged road building
program will Help botli BUM and
announced intent to increase the
annual timber cut in Oregon to
keep hungry'sawmills supplied and .Morse had urged the House Pub
payrolls stable in the state's lead- lie Works Committee to increase
JUUUMiy. t ihv nmuuiit well auuvu uiu jiguia
The latest break came Friday finally approved. Ellsworth tried
when a House-Senate conference on to get $25,000,000 for construction
appropriations agreed to give and $10,000,000 for maintenance,
BLM $2,000,000 in additional road making a total of $35,000,000 an
funds which they can start spend- nually. Ellsworth pointed out that
ins within a few weeks. This is the highway bill fails to divide con-
addition to $2,260,000 BLM had obstruction from maintenance funds,
hand for road building this year.
Reason for increasing the road
funds was that the O&C counties
asked that more of the money
from timber receipts which nor
mally is turned back to the coun
ties each year be invested in new
roads by the government. When
BLM took the idea to Capitol Hill,
they found the lawmakers gener
ally receptive In the Senate but
not the House.
But after the House killed the
funds, the Senate put them back
into the bill and Friday's con
ference settled the dispute in fa
vor of the O&C counties.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said
he was largely responsible for pav
ing the way for the favorable ac
tion by getting Rep. Mike Kirwin
(D-Ohio) to support the funds in
conference. Kirwin is second rank
ing Democrat among the five Dem
ocrats and four Republican House
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CALIFORNIA PAPER WINS PULITZER PRIZE Report
er Bill Kennedy (left) and Photographer Sam Vestal look
over copy of The Watsonville Registcr-Paiaronian (pro
nounced Pah-ha-roaneeahn) which won the 1955 Pulitzer
Prize for meritorious public service in journalism by its
courageous exposure of coiruption ie public office. The
two newsmen were held at gunpoint list Oct. 28 after
photographing the car of Dist. Atty. Charles Moore Jr.
parked in driveway of conspirator Raymond Jehl at sus
picious post-midnight meeting. They were instrumental
In uncovering link between the district attorney and his
adviser, who was later sentenced to prison.
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especially where he has lost pub
lic support.
Jn public life Talmadge can
speak equally well in the digni
fied tones of a governor or in the
rustic vernacular of his "wool
hat" followers on the farms.
He calls himself a champion of
the little man in the belief that
"the big folks can look after
themselves" and says he has 10,
000 friends in the sta.to known to
him by name.
ceipts for the year will run around
$20 million, and tho request of
the counties was that 25 per cent
be invested in roads. Congress
has cleared $1,260,000 just un
der the 25 per cent estimate of
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ence betweenHouse and Senate on
tl,e res"1" Interior appropriation
bm orsthe fl starts
July 1. Both have already approv-
ed a road budget of $4,460,000 for
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Hiahwav BUI Pendi In Stnate
As lor the lederal highway aid
bill passed last month by the
House and now before the Senate,
it increased the annual access
road authorizotlon for the Forest
Service from $24,000,000 to $27,000.-
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so the $27,000,000 figure must cover
both. He said this means t n e
amount actually available for con
struction will be $20 million or
less."
Morse had called for a $50 mil
lion annual access road program
in the national forests in testi
mony before the roads subcom
mittee. Later he Introduced a bill
with the co-sponsorship of Sen.
Richard L. Nouberger and seven
others to amend the highway bill
so as to authorize amounts start
ing at $32 million the first year,
$40 million the following year and
leveling off at $50 million annually
thereafter for 10 years.
Ncubcrgcr last week said he will
sponsor an amendment when the ,
road bill comes before the Senate
to have the Senate agree to the
House-passed figure of $27 million.
That's the amount generally ex
pected to be approved.
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