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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. .
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