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New Stock Pue For Elodeo ' STARTING ANOTHER of her beautiful knitted garments is Dolores Johnson, 432 Leon St., Myrtle Creek. She is totally blind. Mrs. Johnson won two prizes for her knitting ot the Douglos County Fair last year, and plans to have odditionol entries in the foir this year. Douglas County Women Remain Active Despite The Handicap Of Being Blind By BEVERLY BROOKE News-Review Staff Writer "Three hamburgers, please." A trio of charming Douglas Coun ty women who'd just had their pictures taken, decided to have a shopping spree and a bit of lunch before returning to their various occupations. Nothing unusual about that, ad mittedly, but a little out of the ordinary for those exceptional women. They are blind, all three. The women are Dorothy Sken zick, 41; Joan Wallace, 30; and Dolores Johnson, 31. All have bubbling personalities and get a great deal out of life. They have accepted their handicap and are completely adjusted peo ple with many interests. At the moment they are doing their bit to publicize White Cane Week. Their pictures were taken by The News-Review photographer to show how three different blind people have accepted their visual handi cap and how they are living nor mal and well-adjusted lives. Dorothy, for instance, Has re cently taken up swimming again. She has become an expert swim mer and diver and is a familiar fieure at the Roseburg YMCA pool. She became blind because of a disease of the retina of the eye, occurring during the actual birth of her son, Steven, now 14. When Steven was about 7, Dorothy plunged into a rehabiliation pro gram which has resulted in her be coming a fine housekeeper and a dedicated worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. No household task dismays Doro thy. Her friends say she is a sup erlative cook and her ironing ii beautiful. She does a lot of ma chine sewing: too. Cataracts are the reason for Joan Wallace's visual trouble. Not yet completely blind, Joan has taken rehabilitation training at Robertson's School of Business, sponsored by the Oregon Commis sion for the Blind. She has passed her state civil service examina tions and is now read; ior employ ment as a dictaphone-typist. CHECK THESE EXTRAS You Get at CITY CLEANERS! Profeuionol dry cleaning workmanship All garments beautifully p relied Re-utable pi attic bog protection Free Pickup and Delivery Service Handy Drive-Up Window for your convenience One-day service when necessary CALL TODAY And Receive the FINEST DRY CLEANING SERVICE COMPLETE LAUNDRY SERVICE ONE HOUR Shirt Service 'forptrici'trpeope' CLEANERS n urn 1929 N. E. Diamond Lake Boulevard 0 Phone OR 3-4596 1 i.j UJ Delores Johnson Js totally blind and has been so for 11 years. Her blindness is the result of diabetes. She is well known to Myrtle Creek residents for her beautiful knitting and other kinds of handwork for which she won two prizes at last year s Douglas County Fair. She enjoys being with people and is a memDer of the Myrtle Creek Toast mistress Club. The three women are members of the Douglas County Chapter, one of the 10 affiliates of the Ore gon Council of the Blind. The or ganization is a group of blind per sons banded together to help each other economically and socially. Some of the chapter's main proj ects are to assist newly-blinded people become adjusted and help them overcome the handicap of blindness. Some of its aims are to improve conditions for the blind by widening opportunities in educa tion. One of the group's biggest ef forts is the summer camp spon sored in conjunction with the state Lions organization. The camp will be held on the McT'cnzie River in Sepuiiiiljer. - If ip?-- j SWIMMING at the YMCA pool is only one of the recrea . tions enjoyed by Dorothy Skenzick, 502 NE Hewitt. Blind for 14 years, Dorothy president of the locol chapter of the Oregon Council of the Blind ond is serving her third term on the council's state executive board. New Jersey Doctors Move To Boycott Aged Care Plan POINT PLEASANT, N.J. (AP) A movement to boycott the pro- : posed federal medical care-for- the-aged program If it becomes law has taken root among more than 200 New Jersey doctors. It could backfire, says the phy sician who started it, "But it could catch on all over the country." The physician. Dr. J. Bruce Henriksen, director of surgery at Point Pleasant Hospital, launched the movement when he wrote a resolution "as a trial balloon to see what the reaction would be." The resolution declared that its signers would not care for pa tients under the proposed Anderson-King Bill. Backed by President Kennedy, the bill tics medical care for the aged to So cial Security. Any similar legis lation also would be ignored, the resolution states. Henriksen said he circulated a codv of his propoal among 44 doctors at the Point Pleasant Hospital about a month ago and, "To my amazement, all of the doctors signed it." (7X25313 CD QHTPCTJZi; f REHABILITATION TRAINING now cbmplete, Joan Marice Wallace, 2110 NE Stephens, is ready to begin her career as o dictaphone typist. She gets a little practice in the office of Tom Porgeter of the Umpquo Insurance Agency. Women of the Douglas County chapter will be sponsoring a sale of. homemade candy Friday in front of the J. C. Penney Store. The Roseburg Lady Lions, who as sist with the monthly workshop for the blind, will help with the sale. There are 12 members in the Douglas County chapter coming from Riddle, Myrtle Creek, Win ston, Glide, Wilbur and Roseburg. Officers are Mrs. Sam Skenzick, president: Harold Baxter, vice president; and Mrs. Frank Welch, secretary-treasurer. Purpose of the National Federa tion of the Blind is to overcome three barriers: Regaining confid ence, training and acceptance. AU of the organization's officers are blind and serve without pay. Contributions support the federa tion's efforts to obtain adequate early help and training for all blind persons, break down need less barriers to employment of skilled blind workers and promote medical and social research and ricnirahle legislation."- - Since then, copies have been signed by about 100 doctors at Orange Memorial Hospital, an estimated SO doctors at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital, and 12 doc tors at Toms River Community Memorial Hospital. Henriksen said the doctors' stand should not be misinterpret ed as a strike. We will continue to treat pa tients as we always have," he said. "If they can't pay their bills out of their own pocket, or through insurance, then we'll treat them free. We just refuse to do it under the King-Anderson Bill. We know if this bill is passed it will be extended, he said. Before long we'd be completely socialized. We'd like to slow it down." nav? f to have a nest egg Machines Eliminating 2,000 Jobs Annually HARRIMAN, N.Y. (AP) At least 200,000 jobs a year will be eliminated by machines in the next decade, according to a report to the American Assembly confer ence here on technical changes. The report, submitted last week by Ewan Clague, U.S. com missioner of labor statistics, and Leon Greenberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, was described as the first attempt to reduce automa tion job losses to actual figures. It said the economy needs to create 200,000 jobs a year just to take care of those people dis placed by technological change. Portland's Elephant Fund Now At $27,000 PORTLAND (AP) Portland's elephant fund went up to $27,000 last week , leaving just $3,000 to go for purchase of Morgan Berry's four elephants for tlia Portland zoo. The elephants are baby Packy, his mother Belle, his father Thong law, and an unrelated female, Pet. The money is being raised by public subscription. President Gels Explosive By JACK LEFLER AP Business News Writer NEW YORK (AP) Another ex plosive economic package landed in President Kennedy'i lap during the week. It was a public board's recommendation of a wage in crease for 450,000 railroad work ers. The unions involved called the suggested 10.2-cent-an-hour raise for nonoperating workers too low. Railroad management said it was too high. It looked like a developing fight into which the President might have to step to get a settlement. The railroad issue popped short ly after Kennedy tried to thaw the freeze between his administra tion and business with a concilia tory address to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Appearance Mad It was his first appearance be fore a business group since he forced the steel industry to re verse itself on a price increase. In another development, Kenne dy's Committee on Labor-Management Policy recommended that the President be given greater power to head off strikes. The 11 railroad unions involved in the wage dispute had asked for a 35-cent-an-hour boost. Ihe ran roads had demanded a 20 per cent cut for some categories and no increases for others. The board said its recommenda- tion was within range of guide lines suggested by the President Council of Economic Advisers. The proposal is not binding on either side. Kennedy said, "It is now the plain duty of both parties to nego tiate a responsible and noninfla- tionary settlement in their own W mo Safe - Sound - Conservative for 72 Years 547 t. f. JaihM. aciiibiig okif inn Km rflk June 16 And 17 Set For Event The 1962 edition of the Douglas County Pioneer Days Rodeo will have several new features when ac tion opens the weekend of June 16 and 17. Fred Boyer, president of t h e Douglas County Mounted, spon sors of the rodeo, said rodeo fans will see fresh, new stock giving the cowboys a hard time this year. The Mounted has contracted this year with Ray Kohrs of Tres Pinos, Calif., the largest independent stock contractor on the West Coast. Over the past 27 years, Kohrs has competed in rodeos across the nation and consequently knows the value of good bucking stock to the competing cowboys, it was noted. According to the sponsors of the rodeo, his bucking stock is always in top shape and has a good repu tation among the top rodeo cow boys. The stock, the sponsors said, at one time or another has bucked off some of the top competitors such as Casey Tibbs, Enoch Walk er, Marty Woods, Bob Wegner, Les Johnson, Duane Howard, Billy Hand, Hurley May and others. Some of the major rodeos in which Kohrs' stock has appeared include: Salinas, Calif.; St. George, Utah (centennial); Cow Palace, San Francisco, Calif.; Las Vegas, Nev.; uaiias, icui, Denver. Colo.; Odessa and El Paso, Tex as; and Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz. In all three of the National Fi nals some of his stock has been used. One of the most famous horses of the string is "Casey," a bare back bronc who has been ridden only about 10 times in four years of competition. He was awarded a plaque for being the second great est bareback horse in the nation. Another of his horses, "M i s s Reno," appeared in the film "The Horse With the Flying Tail." Oth ers were seen in the TV film Where Rodeo Stars Are Born" on the TV program "You Asked For It." Kohrs entered the stock contract ing business through a chance meeting with a friend, Bob Barm by of Sacramento, in the 1958 fall Cow Palace rodeo. Barmby talked of retiring and Kohrs bought him out. He later purchased the John nie Jackson bucking stock of Lone Pine, Calif. At present Kohrs has over 200 head of bucking bulls and broncs. Lulu Of A Slice ST. PAUL (APWSt. Paul golfer Stanley Moucha got off a lulu of a slice Monday at Phalen golf course. , , ... . j. Moucha's drive hit a tree, ca romed right back and struck iiiiu in the face. He was taken to a hospital and treated for a face bone fracture. and in the public Interest." Kennedy told the chamber that the government doesn't want to determine individual prices for in dividual products. But he spoke of the need for business to follow "responsible" pricing policies. He didn't go into details on how this should be done. "To restore profit to an ade quate level, to maintain an ade quate level of employment, we must restore the economy to full activity," Kennedy said. "Our pri mary challenge is not how to di vide the pie but how to enlarge it." Freedom Stressed Richard Wagner, retiring presi dent of the chamber, followed with an address in which he said that business leadership must make certain that both busines and labor will remain free to make their decisions without gov ernment intervention. President Kennedy's Committee on Labor-Management Policy rec ommended that the government be given more power to deal with industrial conflicts that threaten the nation's health or safety. Under the proposal, the Presi dent, without going to court for an injunction, could declare a na tional emergency and order re sumption of work for 80 days. The automobile industry pro duced evidence during the week that it was riding higher than any other industry. Combined first-quarter profit of the five automakers totaled $509.25 million, compared with $238 million a year earlier. Only Studebaker was in the red with a $2.6-million loss. Earnings Up ?ord, the last company to re SAVINGS t IOAM ASSOCIATION fertbaJ, Om" ROUGH AND READY bronc is "Casey" one of the stars of rodeo contractor Ray Kohrs, Tres Pinos, Calif., who will supply stock for the June 16-17 Douglas County Pioneer Days Rodeo at the Fairgrounds. "Casey hos only been ridden 10 times in four year of competition and will be stirring up erouble for cowboys when he appears in Rose burg. Many of Kohrs' string have appeared in the movies. "Miss Reno", cnother out standing bareback bronc, appeared in the award winning ait Disney film, "The Horse With the Flying Tail." (Rodeo Information Commission Photo). SECOND SECTION ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, State Tax Collections 25 Higher Than '61 SALEM (AP) Tax collections in Oregon jumped 25 per cent in April over the same month a year before, figures compiled by State Treasurer Howard Bclton showed Friday. The State Tax Commission turned over $34.9 million in tax revenues through April, he said, This compared to $27,653,280 for April, 1961. This brought the total for the fiscal year to $101.8 million, up from $89,775,275 at the same time in the previous fiscal year, he said. Collections in the first three quarters of the fiscal year had bscn only 7.S per cent ohovs those of the year before. The budget wns based on a 15 per cent in crease in revenues. Economic Package port, earned $127.7 million, up 67 per cent from the 1961 first quar ter, on a record $1,999,700,000 in sales. Automobile production eased off to an estimated 147,000 passenger cars during the week after hitting the year's top level of 153,614 the previous week. Carmakers scheduled produc tion of about 660,000 vehicles this month, the highest for the month since 1955. when 7Z4,wo were built, and far above the 542,300 turned out in May 1961. Steel production faltered again, falling below 2 million tons for the first time in eight months. This meant that that industry's operating rate was down to 65 per cent from 71 per cent the week before and 80.3 per cent at the end of March. It was estimated that before or ders pick up, big users would All Aluminum SCREEN DOORS Sixes 30" to 36" Reg. $16.95 Hp Mump i pa GERRETSEN BUILDING SUPPLY CO. Flegd Bldg. Odoll St. OR 2-2636 On Block North of Diamond Lake Blvd. at the Stop Light Days Creek Club Gives Shower For Family Which Lost A Home The April meeting of the Days Creek Garden Club was held at the home ot Mrs. Clyde Schroeder with Mrs. LeRoy Benson and Mrs. Lloyd Harter as co-hostesses. Preceding the business meeting a miscellaneous shower was held for Mrs. Hayden Laurance whose home was destroyed recently by fire. During the business Meeting the club voted to sponsor a 4-H schol arship. The flower show to be held May 26 at the Youth Center in Canyonville was discussed and plans were made to revert to the old type show which will be just for fun without any restrictions. The May meeting will be held at the Center May 25 starting at 10 have to work off 4 to 5 million tons stockpiled as a hedge against a strike. Buying Trend Noted Consumers' inclination to buy more goods was evident in the March rise of outstanding install ment credit by $269 million over the $236 million increase in Feb ruary. This was the biggest jump since last November. Total business sales attained a record high in March, the Com merce Department reported. Com bined sales of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers totaled $65.3 billion, a gain of 1 per cent over February. Sales on the New York Stock Exchange in the latest week rose to 19,370,710 shares from the pre vious week's 17,424,654. Bond sales on the exchange for the two weeks were $33,243,000 and $28,345,000 (par value), respec e MAY " ' PIGGY BANK PREMIUM J 3.50 Grille Attached Kick Plot Vacuum Door Closer Aluminum Locking Knob Set Push Bar All Painting Eliminated OA5 Cash It Carry mm iaT MB MAY 7, 1962 108-62 am. with sack lunch at noon so members may get ready for the show the next day. The district director of the Fed erated Garden Clubs, Mrs. Bea Adams, and assistant director, Mrs. Brunette Wilson, both of Rose burg, attended the meeting and asked for volunteers to fill the chairs of commission chairmen for the district. Mrs. G. M. KreU and Mrs. Schroeder reported on the district meeting which wai held in Rose burg at the Broiler, where County Fair plots were discussed. Mrs. Archie Ferguson gave a demonstration of arranging ox sev eral vases of flowers. The following new officers tor the year were elected: President, Mrs. Schroeder; treasurer, Mrs. Krell; and secretary, Mrs. Clarence Richardson. 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