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hiTY EDITION CITY EDITION k Declare aceful wis (is Ready fFormula The five big "l.red themselves favor of settling their niattlully. Wity Council's six ed their new for 1, the Berlin crisis, Announced support -resolution appealing StUe their differences. a France supported cditionally: the U.S., I china made no res I the beginning of the I,, 58-nation political ta Dulles of the jo, in nis to reach agreement t Li- Mufim Kd with the Mexican L , e Hil tv to tne Luit of their strength Ejl committee wound k the Mexican prupvo litmosphere of friend hciUaUon. ,.;a vishinskv had Li" Vishinsky said chairman Paul-Henri Lium. had "been so febody agreed on the Million ana it was halting subcommittee Eon of a final text. l.-iTfAc agreed mean- le neutral formula for Berlin crisis had at chanr nf RUCCeSS. knees said the resolu U for: leal to the four powers move which mignt to Russia , to lift the hde. br powers to put into Moscow pact making tponiored mark Ber- torency under lour w. the blockade within t approval of the thi Foreign Ministers taut Immediately af- diicuss all German lilative source said to- answered the x "neutral" countries pent of the Berlin United Nations Se el Contents of the wire not disclosed stern powers study. t issioners Asked rwuesttoe the nils. f three commissioners imiamette Sanitary heinir circulator! his of the area this UtEdiar tnd CommlsRinnPrn v. . i ana m. B. McDon J failed "to legally respective offices m to perform their Petitions J and permit the f 1 appoint a new K " Petition move- r, are contend- ttata t- r-- w requires Ft commissioners LMfB wniam F AprU have failed ireouiramBH. t f; .7" " "us- LV. sanitary L " woiish." rTng bonds has i.,T' uiasmuch as on hand at all f"11 was formed. l;- aistr ct al R4 a number of I forth? 'ega fat a "J" not have fi? "ds to meet Pa th. . Ior tne 1. South Willam ,bg in the w ft'r general SS h'e matter t. - the sanitary , ilssolved. This W ha' bn an- Kg'feerthe Meynell. 98 ii LANE COUNTY'S HOME WEW8PAIEtt ... uuununa si PAGES Somebody Gives Firemen A Hot Time CLEVELAND ff) Some body stole the second assistant fire chief's brilliant red auto mobile Wednesday night. Just to rub it in he advertised his "po sition" on the chief's car radio. Radio men at central fire ex change soon sent out a broad cast: "Calling car 168 (the boss car). Where are you?" Answer: "I'm in Lakewood." ... A few minutes later: "No, I'm In Wlckliffe (opposite side of town)." . . . Later: "I'm go ing to a fire" . , . sound of siren .... then (jubilantly): "I've found the fire- chief's hat and I'm wearing it." Still later: "I think I'll leave the car at 9th and Prospect." Police cars, of course, had been whizzing around as it in chase of a murdered. But the car wasn't at 9th and Prospect. Later, it was found abandoned on the west side. Said Chief Elmer' Cain: "I really don't know what to make of it." . American Legion Votes Pf oposals At Convention MIAMI, Fla. OP) The Amer ican Legion National convention's 3456 voting delegates adopted these resolutions Thursday. Urging Congress to outlaw the Communist Party in the United States to stamp out "this Kremlin controlled menace."" Pledging a prompt, thorough, united and militant defense of freedom against enemies from without or traitors from within. Commending Congress for con tempt citations against 10 em ployes of motion picture com panies because they failed to an swer questions relative to Com munist affiliation's. Demanding all members of the Communist Party, including sym pathizers who have engaged in disloyal acts be expelled from government service and prosecut ed by the Justice Department. Recommending any person re nouncing United States citizenship be ineligible to get it back. Offering to assist in a suggest ed program in the schools for in struction in proper, handling of firearms. Advocating naturalization for the parents and wives of all war veterans. Parents of American soldiers of Japanese descent were specifically mentioned. Urging continued loyalty checks of government employes by a per manent board to be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Reaffirming a drive at the com munity level for equal rights of all Americans, regardless of race, creed or color. Approving, In the interpst of child welfare, self regulation of the motion picture industry and a movement in radio to schedule crime programs at a late hour. Asking permanent credit for time in military service toward old age and survivors insurance payments and increased payments to cmidren. : Baker Gets Scout Honor Alton F. Baker, Eugene, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of Columbia University, will be installed Thursday night as new members of the National Executive Board .of the Boy Scouts of America at ceremonies in New York City's Biltmore Hotel. Baker left Eugene last weekend to represent the Pacific North west. He has been a member of the national council for several years. The three-day meeting will end Friday, and will include a dinner honoring Dr. Albert K.' Fretwell, outgoing chief scout executive. Arthur A. Chuck replaced him. Baker will return to Eugene Oct 26. LEADS AUXILIARY MIAMI, Fla. (PI Mrs. Hu bert A, Goode of Portland, Ore., was named national president of the American Legion auxiliary Thursday. Weather V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, foggy Thurs day night and Friday morning; clear but smoky Friday after noon. Western Oregon, partly cloudy Thursday and Friday with considerable night and morning fog in valleys. Local Statistics: Highest tem perature Wednesday, 60 degrees; low Thursday, 40; no rain in 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m.; total for month, 1.52 inches; normal for month, 2.97 inches; stage of river at 7:30 a.m., minus 2.15 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m., NE 2; ' prevailing Wednesday, North 2. Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Friday, 6:35 a.m. and 5:17 p.m. Saturday, 6;36 a.m. and a:m p "ILAW TIDES! Friday . Nation Records Top Registered Voter Count About 35 Per Cent Of Citizens Sign Up By UNITED PRESS The number of persons eligible to vote in the November general election is the highest in history, a nationwide survey indicated Thursday. political observers believed neavy registrations reported by cities and states across the nation might mean a record vote Nov. 2. inis would require that the vote surpass the 1940 vote record of 49,815,312. The 1944 vote drop ped to 48,025,000 because of the number of persons serving in the armed forces. The 1940 vote was about 38 per cent of the nation's estimated population of 131,700,000. To reach 50,000,000 and exceed the 1940 figure, the vote this year would have to be about 35 per cent of the estimated population of 145,000,000. One notable exception was New York City, where registrations totaling 3,313,520 were described by officials as "the poorest in many years." Registrations in 1944, when thousands of New Yorkers were in the armed serv ices and did not register, totaled 3,556,377. Minority leaders saw in New York's apparent voter apathy a chance of electing their candidates over Republican and Democrats. American Labor Party supporters believed the light registration will give Rep. Vito Marcantonio an edge. Surprisingly, a number of states reported that they do not compile registration totals and have no way of estimating how many people will vote. Other states required registration only under certain circumstances and their figures were not indicative. 0 University Girds For Homecoming If the University of Oregon was crowded before, it will be doubly so this, weekend when an est! mated 6000 plus alumni join the more than 6000 university stu dents to. celebrate Homecoming Weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Here is the calendar for the Weekend. Friday: Jean-clad freshmen will tidy up the campus from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. 'At 6 p.m. judges will tour the campus to agpraise signs illustrat ing "The New Look At Oregon," this year's Homecoming theme. Noise paraders will commence their bedlam at 7 p.m. The par ade will form at McArthur Court, proceeding south to Nineteenth, right to Hilyard, right to Thir teenth, where the band will join the parade and go on Thirteenth to University. A Right turn on University will take the parade past McArthur Court to Eigh teenth, where the procession will turn left to the intramural field. After the parade a Cougar will be burned in effigy at the Frosh bonfire on the intramural field. The band will be present, and the rally squad will lead cheers, A rally in McArthur Court will be the last event Friday night . : Power Failure .Hits Southeast Eugene Residents in the east and south parts of Eugene were "powerless" for five minutes Wednesday night when an employe at the Bonne ville sub-station accidentally trip ped a switch. Vernon Poindexter at the Eu gene Water Board said the mishap occurred at 6:25 p.m. and that ma chines at the steam plants went down, but almost immediately re covered. Another Continent Airforce Adds Africa To Training Grounds WASHINGTON (ff) r- The United States' global airforce, al ready operating in Europe and the Far East, is aaaing anoiner con tinent to its training ground- Africa. B-29 Superfortresses taking off from American-used bases in England and Germany now are winging down to Accra, a British colony on the Gold Coast of Africa. The airfield there was built originally by the British,, primar ily for commeiuiu ucianu... With America's entry into World War II, the Air Transport Com manri Heveloc-ed the base as one unit in the ferry route to the Mid dle East and Soumeasi Asia. No Installation Air Force headquarters saio,"" uim n . v...c wu.u ,h.r no United operate from the field. States military installation at Ac-' LANE COUNTY'S EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948 . EVEN THE KIDS REGISTER disgust at this pile of refuse on Whitbeck Road. It contains everything from old car parts to decaying food particles and la fewer than 100 yards from the Stella Magladry grade school. Voters will have a chance to rid the county of menaces like this through a proposal on the ballot Nov. 2 to raise a 1H mill levy In the next fiscal year to provide 20 strategically located sanitary-fill garbare dumps together with the French Police Oust Strikers At Power Plant PARIS (U.R) Helmeted French police stormed the barricades surrounding the big electric power station at Carmaux in south cen tral France Thursday and ousted Communist-led strikers who had seized it Wednesday. ' The police forced the plant's evacuation after 30 minutes of fighting. Planes Land At the same time an estimated 100 Army transport planes landed at Lyons with reinforcements tor the 10,000 troops, And security guards already doing strike duty in the riot torn St. Etienne coal basin. The reinforcements were flown in from North Africa. Three times during the night jumpy strike pickets started warn ing sirens in St Etienne because they feared an attack by govern ment forces on the big Couriot coal pit which more than 2000 strikers have converted into, a fortress. Troops Called Truckloads of troops and secur ity guards rolled, out of head quarters early Thursday morning and fanned' out in the city's out skirts. They did not attack the Couriot mine, however, even though officials said it would be flooded beyond recovery if pump ing operations did not get under way by noon. Meantime, scattered solidarity strikes in o.her industries rein forced the costly 18-day-old strike of the coal miners. Dock Workers The Communist-controlled dock workers union called on its mem bers to refuse to unload American and British coal in France. In industrially-important Tarn Department in southern France the Communist' General Confed eration of Labor ordered a gen eral strike of indefinite duration. - - era now. The Superforts use fa cilities there for refueling on their training excursions down to the Gulf of Guinea, then turn around and head back. Under the present training program, the B-29's do not continue south or east to other warbuilt fields in Africa. The new training operation began about a week ago. Its aim Is to familiarize present day air crews with conditions in a part of the world proved by World War n to be vital to the United States. The runway at Accra is under stood to be 7300 feet long. This is ample for the B-29's and such transports as the C-54. But it is not clear whether heavier air craft now being U' cd or built by Runway length Is not so much 1 HOME WEW8PAiEtt it SlWl A Garbage Situation Gets Worse By ALTON BAKER, JR. : Garbage is not a popular .subject, but .when refuse is dumped indiscriminately alon roads in the county creating eye-sores and a health menace it is time for action. ' l This is the reasoning of the League of Women Voters, the county health department and others, in proposing a plan to raise $114,000 through a 1 mill levy during the 1949-50 fiscal year to provide county-wide garbage disposal sites at strategic points for free-of-charge - refuse disposal under county supervision. The county court agreed that the voters should be allowed Korean Army Hammers Rebels SEOUL (P) Korean army units closed in on Insurgents in the southern mountains Wednes day night, and as a high source predicted a quick end to the re volt. Within 48 hours, the govern ment source predicted, 1300 rebels in the mountains will be captur ed. And in four days or less the cities of Yosu, southern spring board of the insurrection, and Sunchon, will be retaken by the government, he said. The cabinet of President Syng man Rhee in a four hour session lifted martial law in all of the republic except northern and southern Cholla provinces. A U. S. offer of additional ma terial was rejected by the cabinet, the government source said, on the grounds the situation is under control. Loyal 'troops sealed off the rebels on the southern end of the peninsula by quick -action. Army units moved on the insurgents from four directions and blocked escape by sea from the harbor of Yosu. of a factor as the thickness of paving. A B-36 weighs 278,000 pounds loaded; a B-29 only 105,. 000 pounds. The distance to the Gold Coast from England where three groups of B-29's are now based Is about 440C miles. The B-29 training route takes the Planes over France, down across the western rim of North Africa. For refueling purposes, the American bombers stop at Roberta Field, Liberia, or at the French-operated base at Dakar In returning, the route extends northwestward to the Azores (where United States planes land unaer an agreement with Portu- 8t.w,,g , muic uvei- water experience for pilots and in navigators. personnel and equipment to operate them. The dumps would be under county supervision and would be free-of-charge for use by the public. A sanitary-fill dump Is earth covered at properly spaced time intervals and requires no burning. The ballot proposal would also relieve cities of maintaining garbage dumps. E (More pictures page 31.). (Staff Photo, Wiltshire Engraving). to decide the issue and placed the proposition on the ballot for the Nov. 2, general elec tions. It will be up to the voters to decide whether the sites, and the personnel and equipment to operate them as provided by the levy shall be acquired. ' Recently a Register-Guard re porter and photographer asked the county health department to conduct them on a tour of areas where garbage has been left under the present indiscriminate dump ing system. The health depart' ment can reel off a list of them from one end. of the county to the other, but a few in the Eugene. Springfield vicinity were sufficl ent to reveal the problem. - Most of the refuse dumping is along a roadside where it is easy to drive a car alongside and throw a box or some other refuse con tainer out, and drive on un noticed. The most striking revelation was the apparent fact that where one individual dumped some re' fuse, others would follow until a large garbage pile resulted. This would indicate that citizens, who need a place for refuse disposal, would use supervised' sanitary-fill garbage dumps if they were avail able. The first "dump" viewed was near the Springfield airport on Emery Road, and contained everything from old car parts to potato peelings and egg shells. It straddled a drainage ditch and covered about 20 yards along the roadside. Directly across the road Ches ter Chase Is in the midst of plow ing his 145 acre farm. He said the dump has been accumulating for about three or four years, Each winter during high water the drainage ditch carries refuse from the dump over the entire end of his farm adjacent to the road. He doesn't enjoy cleaning up the mess. In the center of the dump were several holes which County Sani tarian Victor Morgan said were probably inhabited by rats. There were quantities of food particles in all the dumps which would be ample to keen hundreds of rats healthy. By far the worst situation found was a large dump on the Camp Creek Road only three- tenths of a mile upstream from the Eugene water supply Intake on the McKenxle. The odor Is (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) i ; school i : Israeli Forces Announce Fall 01 Beersheba TEL AVTV. Israel OP) Beer sheba, mother city of the Arab race, was occupied Thursday by Israeli forces after a bitter battle, a Jewish, army spokesman an nounced.. The battle raged even as Israel's cabinet notified the United Nations its troops would quit the fighting in the Negev desert area of south ern Palestine 12 hours after it was assured by the United Na tions that the Egyptians also would cease fire. The fighting will continue meanwhile, a spokesman said. He indicated Gaza, capital of the Palestine government proclaimed by the Arabs, was among the goals of the Israel southern offensive. Egyptian planes bombed the Tel Aviv area Thursday, only a few hours after Israel's decision on the cease fire. Beersheba, in south Palestine, was the southernmost extremity of the Holy Land of Bible days. The Israeli air force raked Gaza and other southern towns held by the Egyptians. Their planes also struck ahead of Jewish ground forces, bombing and strafing Egyptian forces. Arabs fled to the hills under the attacks. . 1 Texas Company Gets C 10 Offer SAN FRANCISCO (JP An offer by CIO oil workers to end the 48-day-old strike, against six major refineries in California went before the Texas Company Thursday, The proposal, received without comnrft by Standard Oil Com pany here Wednesday, was taken into a Los Angeles meeting. It would accept the companies' offer of a 12 1-2-cent per hour wage increase (the union wanted 22 1-2 when the strike opened and later came down to 17 1-2) and reinstate the pre-strlke work ing agreement with a few changes, said A. R. Kinstley, union vice-president. The old base wage was $1.68. Conflicting reports came from the reopening of negotiations with Standard Wednesday, the first in 13 days. Kinstley said it was "the healthiest meeting we've had," and state conciliator Thom as J. Nicolopulos reported "sub stantial progress." Accident Kills Eugene Man INDEPENDENCE VPl Fred Sullnka, 28, 610 River Road, Eu gene, was killed Wednesday night when the pickup truck he was driving plunged off the high way 2Vi miles north of here, The car went over a 30-foot embankment on a curve, and went into a pond. The truck was almost completely submerged. The accident was not discov ered until Thursday. State police pulled out the truck, wliicfi was owned by Planter's Nut and Chocolate Co.. the firm which employed Sulinka. Phone (30t Luxury Plane Hits Power Line In Scotland Only Three of 35 : Passengers Escape TARBOLTON, Scotland CUB A Constellation, luxury transport plane of the Dutch KLM airlines with 40 persons aboard crashed into a power line in thick fog early Thursday near here. Only two crewmen and one passenger survived, all of them seriously in jured. Nine Americans were among the 37 dead. One of them, Mrs. Mathllde Katherine Rohrs of (Highland Ave.) New York, was dragged alive from flaming wreckage, but died later in a hos pital. A Dutch stewardess, Elsa Anna Maria Fey, also died in tne hospital. First on Run It was the first crash of a KLM plane on the Trans-Atlantic run. The four-engined airliner had left Amsterdam Wednesday night, and was to continue to New York after stop at Prestwick airport near here. The plane was maneuvering for a landing at Prestwick, which was blanketed In heavy fog, when th pilot dropped too low and tn great ship roared Into a power- line and went down, bursting into flames. Pilot Reports '''.'.. In the moments after the plan struck the power line and befor it crashed in a hilly pasture scat tering wreckage over a 300-yard area, the Dutch pilot had time to tell the Prestwick control tower by radio: "I have hit something. I am going on fire. I am attempting t . climb." Then the plane struck th earth with explosive violence ' so great that Tarbolton s 600 residents were awakened. Miners from nearby workings were first on th scene. They dragged Mrs. Rohrs and four others from a rear com partment of the plane befor th flames reached them. Mrs. Rohrs was pulled from th flaming wreckage by Walter Dun lop, -a miner, who ran to th crashed plane ' from his work nearby... -:si. - -.v ' Her clothes were Durning," Dunlop said, "and we pulled her out of the plane and, put out the flames." Others who reached the seen In the first moments after th crash reported they could hear screams and groans of agony from the trapped passengers before th flames forced them to 1 abandon rescue efforts. The wreckage burned for tw and one-half hours. ; Bethel Voters Approve School Taxpayers of the Bethel School District Wednesday approved $400,000 bond issue to finance completion of a new junior-senior high school by a vote of 208 to 52. Construction of the new build ing, which will provide for a stu dent body of 400 at the outset, will probably begin next February,. Marvin Hendrickson, chairman of the school board, said after the special election. "We are very pleased with th turnout of 'voters for this issue," Hendrickson said. "We feel that the community is behind us." The site being held for the new $550,000 school is a 50-acre tract on Echo Hollow Road. The 1400,000 voted Wednesday will augment a fund of $250,000 and a special three-year $50,000 tax levy approved at an election last spring. Together, these funds will build the junior-senior high school and provide improvements in the district's grade schools. i . Last School Meeting Set The last of three public discus sion meetings being conducted by the Eugene School Board will be held 8 p.m. Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Su perintendent Clarence Hines said Wednesday. An explanation of the board's. $3,250,000 bond-and-levy program will be presented. Balloting on th measure will be from 2 p.m. to T p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26. The board will present its view and answer questions, Hines stat ed, so that the public may be fully . informed as to the purpose of th program. Good Keys Are Hard to Find NEW YORK (IPl It's little things that count : A war veteran, who declined use of his name, told the Queens District attorney's office Thurs day he read an advertisement for a three-room apartment at ' $65 a month. He telephoned about it and was told it .was true. Must he buy any furniture? No. Just one thing th key would cost $2000. . . Low alisaiml Mil. ;U e-m. -.6 it
