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The Weather Forecast: Mostly cloudy Wednesday night. Patches of fog Thursday morning becoming fair in the afternoon. Colder Wednesday night. Temperatures: High Tuesday, 49. Low Wednesday morning, 44. Expected low Thurs day, 35. Expected high 58. SPECIAL SECTION M Christmas section, full of gift Anting suggestions, will be In "1 Thursday's Register-Guard. Read . . head-start on the shopping rush, it M J" a LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPEft 16 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1951 CITY EDITION Phone S-155I j, Casualties Korean War d 100,000 22 000 Added to List Since Talks Opened UfoO,OOOth American has E, killed or wounded or is K5- fL-s: Ed Wednesday. Since this IS , runs nhnllt. gXK'the battle fekly summary, reporting m -i osn s nee last week. Lucres t-the total to v Em U.S. combat casualties in rr f this country's J'" vVr.w -w. TT .jaipation in tui U 59.000. Ltst Intervention tttnean ,-. . . a 09 nnn rasualties j 01 sums " t their men since Gen. Mat- f- -.-J , firct nfffH el B. Kiugwcij .li about an armisuue uu uunc ' .. Dturv 4nn ijout seven uu, m ..... ' . . W.w havo ViOon ncan imiik jier 15,000 GIs in Fighting Erf In Action 15,152 lodtd '2.40 .12,620 fionr I0IAL lUiF.no Wt Deaths (X) 16,972 mint Missing (T) . 10,871 m Includes killed in action, S&tauy wounded and 184 dead (ally reported missing. I fj) liter deducting from gross 1391 returned, 174 known Btd and 184 known dead. ted since the Chinese Reds kQtu across Ule ivimiuiiunou far into the then virtually (n Korean battlefield a little Into one year ago. i 10,000 U. S. casualtise re knr include nearly 8000 of HW0 Americans jistea at one tt or another as missing "in This tmiccintf fiotira . hn in reduced to a current total of Ml. Among these are the some Americans reported by Col. ka M. Hanley, chief of the koines section of the U.S. 8th ttyiii Korea, to have ' been fc bj their captors. General tmj has without using fig nwiithenticated Hanley's re It But the general said the fcis have been reported to the JtsBei concerned. IMat in History Wnately half of all U.S. ifies in Korea have occurred "tie bitter retreats and rear Jit withdrawals of last winter pWng the series of Bed PI offensives and UN counter I) Vhirh haVA MMrJ U Ptoe back to the center of Eke Army and the Navy, the conflict has been the W costliest in U.S. history, Win human casualties after JWWarir, the Civil' War and (rat Korean Marine Corps' ot over 1M00 make j. J war more costly in p wounded than all ' the campaigns and expeditions J ' " leathernecks fought 1,rellution. until the start '"d War H. Ust Lower show that propor 'eer Americans have "El !issin in Korea Vy World War II. f ,hose kilIed nd Junds likewise is lower W, dunn8 the last war. ,cent of the t0'al H? column- I" World ,, rentage was 18.5. K,1' " every 100 iS.'J'ed of their wounds. s nt .,' : al was JjJvery iqq. Woman Hurt With Car Pier 1 1 Z. Bcssle H. j "nuruy alter y fter she re- hitSh Jlnt0 tne de of -'""gating offlc- u V,atlns. The 11, ',, ""'tionwa. not - guises. Eugene to Start Traffic School In Safely Drive Many other U.S. cities have tried "traffic schools" as a means of reducing accident rates. Now Eugene is planning to give the idea a whirl. Police Chief Ted Brown Tues day reported the city plans to use a large storage space upstairs in the new city jail as the school site. Working with Municipal Judge John L. Barber, Jr., Chief Brown has arranged for a "curriculum" of traffic safety instruction, driving tips and reviews of the state motor laws. The school, probably to be held once each month, also will have the stamp of modern education. Audio - visual aids projection slides and sound movies will be used, Chief Brown reported. And, in this connection, he mentioned that General Petroleum Co. is sending Eugene a gift copy of its traffic film, "And Then There Were Four." Most cities must bor row copies of the film from the company for special occasions, but General Petroleum has been im pressed by Eugene's efforts to im prove driving safety. Hence, the gift, Brown said. There'll be an old-fashioned touch about the school, too. At- rtendance will be compulsory for tnose errant drivers Judge Barber decides should become students. SPIKED rt5row -'-- Sec- to . y,c' u Cord On-Again, Off-Again Cease-Fire Plans Currently On-Again MTTNSAK Tfnroa ATJ rn l J -j ', v"-; iiutc uopes Dngntenea Wednesday when Communist negotiators submitted a cease fire plan of their own that could open the way for a Korean armistice by Christmas. it was similar to a United Nations plan for creating a buffer zone along the present fighting line to take effect if an armistice is signed wunin nn j Comic Books 'Not So Bad' EAST LANSING. Mich. tPt A Michigan State College profes sor who spent six months reading comic books concludes, "they're not so bad." Dr. Morton Malter, assistant professor of education, read through 10,440 pages of 18S comic books as part of a research project. His report: "General attacks on comic mag azines are unwarranted. It is not true that they are dominated by crime, sex and violence ... 90 per cent of them would be acceptable for publication in newspapers." The professor said that by per centages, adventure, animal antics and western stories outnumber love, detective and superman stories. Adventure had the great est single percentage 15.7, with westerns second with 11. "Good" comic books, the pro fessor concluded, "greatly out number the unacceptable ones." $7 MILLION FIRE RAGES BUENOS AIRES (P) A rag ing fire in a port area customs warehouse killed one person and injured five others Tuesday. Stores of chemicals, acids and other inflammable .materials ex ploded, causing an estimated $7 million damage. 30 days. A UN command commu nique referred to the resem blance as superficial. . nut me commands oincial SDokesman. Rritf f.m William o Nuckols, said if the Red plan 'means what we .think it means . . then I think we are very close O Solution" of the hllffer nne question. The nnint In rintiht the Communist proposal means , mm iroops win De witnarawn from the buffer zone aftes an armistice is signed" as the UN has proposed. After the Communists sub mitted their counterproposal at Panmunjom at Wednesday's two-hour truce session, Allied negotiators tried to determine whether the Reds contemplated an Immediate or delayed with drawal from a buffer zone to be created along the present front. At the close of the session Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, heading the UN subcommittee, told the Red delegates "we will present- you with the necessary revisions to clear up this proposal" at Thurs day's meeting. It is set for 11 a.m. (6 p.m. Wednesday PST). At Panmunjom Nuckols said there were traces of fundamental differences between the Allied and Red proposals. He said the Com munist plan contained "rather ambiguous and vague phrase ology." But at a later briefing for tne press in Munsan he said: "I am more optimistic than I have been lor some time past. "The basic point at issue is when the buffer zone will be cleared of troops." Under questioning of Hodes, North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Song Cho said "the troops will be withdrawn after the .agree; ment is ilrned." ' He did not say' whether he re ferred to the cease-fire line pro posal now before the subcommit tees or to the final armistice agreement. And. UN delegates did not ask. They are expected to clarify this Thursday. Both sides agree fighting will continue until a final armistice is reached. But to insure this, the UN command wants the agree ment to say specifically troops will not be withdrawn from the proposed demilitarized area until all truce terms are settled. Indian Plane Crash Kills 16 NEW DELHI, India (VP) Six teen persons died Wednesday in the crash of an Indian airliner at Calcutta's Dum Dum Airport. The 17th person aboard was reported in a serious condition. The plane, operated by Deccan Airways, was completing a flight from New Delhi to Calcutta and crashed as it came in for a land ing. First reports said all 14 passen gers and three crew members aboard were killed. . A comunique later said that 15 were killed and two injured in the crash, but that one of the injured died en route to the hospital. The dead included Deshbandhu Gupta, managing editor of the Delhi Indian News Chronicle Sewage Plant Site Selected By Utility Board Willamette River Unanimous Choice A site on Garden Way about one-half mile west of Spring field was picked for that city's planned sewage disposal plant by the Springfield Utility Board Tuesday night. With a . bare quorum of three of the board's five members on hand, the Garden Way site was an unanimous choice. Voting for it were board members Ed Starr and Dean Stevens. Chairman J. W. Boeshans presided. Absent were D. W. Offley and Don Peglow. Stevens said both "seemed to be in accord" with se lection of the chosen site. Months of Controversy Final selection of the site for the proposed $430,000 Springfield disposal plant followed months of controversy. In September, the utility board went on record as opposing a pro posed Springfield tie-in with Eu gene's new disposal plant. From that time on, argument has cen tered about whether to locate the plant on the Willamette or Mc Kenzie river. Investigated Site A board committee investigated the proposed sites and recom mended the Willamette one as the most economical. It is also more feasible in terms of better service for new housing developments west of Springfield, Stevens said. The site is located on property owned by E. J. Rankin, who has expressed a willingness to sell land for the plant, it was stated. Officially, the board passed a mo tion that it "go on record as fa voring the acquisition of the E. J. Rankin property as the site for the Springfield sewage disposal plant." Secondary Treatment Sewage will be given primary and seconday treatment when the new plant is complete, according to. Frank R. Brown, utility board secretary. This Is. the "full treat ment," Brown said. ., After settling upon the disposal plant site, the board discussed the problem of easement for the sew er line from the, city limits to the plant. Tentative plans call for the line to run along Garden Way. It will be from two to five feet underground. Israeli Group Admits Failure PARIS (P) The United Na tions Palestine conciliation com mission announced Wednesday its failure to settle Arab-Israeli dif ferences. The commission said It had called off the fruitless talks begun here Aug. 10 because neither party showed willingness to make concessions. The group made up of repre sentatives of the United States, France and Turkey now is draft ing a report of its failure to the General Assembly. It then will be up to the assembly to decide whether the commission should be liquidated or continue in exis tence. All attempts of the commission to get the two sides to accept num erous compromise plans for a peace treaty have failed since the group first met in Jerusalem in February, 1949. TV for Eugene Next Spring? Radiomen Take Dim View By JAMES G. WELCH Rerllter-Qaard SUff Writer The Federal Communications Commission this week gave some old answers to an old question: When will Lane County and Ore gon get TV? However, some of the answers were apparently old only to appli cants for TV permits and others "on the inside." The FCC released a list of "ten tative" channel assignments for Oregon which will probably be available to applicants when the TV freeze is thawed next Febru ary. Seven Cities On List On the list are standard chan nels for seven Oregon cities: four for Portland, two for Medford, and one each for Eugene, Corvallis, Klamath Falls, La Grande and Salem. One Portland channel and those at Eugene and Corvallis would be reserved for education al institutions. Eugene's lone chan nel would probably go to. the Uni versity of Oregon. Th s tentative proposal ny tne FCC to leave Eugene without a standard TV outlet for a commer cial station has been the subject of a complaint by two Eugene radio station operators. In addition, this week's sum mary of the TV situation lists the probable opening of 20 UHF ultra-high frequency television channels in the state come Febru ary. There would be two each for Eugene, Portland and Salem, and one each for Albany, Ashland, As toria, Baker, Bend, Burns, Corval lis, Grants Pass, Lebanon, Mc Minnville, North Bend, Roseburg, Springfield and The Dalles. Only one of these one of Salem's would be educational. It would seem then, that as soon after February as licenses can be approved and stations built, the area would have talking pictures in many a parlor. But Eugene's radio station op erators think otherwise. UHF Experimental UHF television is still in the ex tat tace. It is known that it doesn't have quite the range of VHr (very nign irequency, II, but that it is more insensitive to "ghosts" caused by electrical in terference. ,Hj it (t alsn established that UHF stations are much more cost ly to build and operate, manuiac , . -ajmBta rnnRtruction and v-1 - - equipment costs at a quarter to half million dollars per station and say it would cost about S100,000 a year to operate one. Dual Frequency Costs More Standard TV receivers now In use would not pick up UHF sig nals, and converters cost from SIS to $50. Beginning to appear on the market now, however, are dual-frequency sets which would receive standard TV and UHF. They cost slightly more. But another disadvantage to UHF which local radiomen be lieve may keep Hopalong and wrestling out of Lane County homes is the questionmark con cerning equipment. Because UHF is new, it is not certain that practical equipment can be purchased now. Why is the FCC trying to push this expensive, and as yet, uncer tain type of TV off on the state? The main reason is that the chan nels available in the very high frequency ranges are pretty well filled and another frequency area must be opened. Locally, it adds up to a fairly long, indefinite wait unless the tentative plans are changed and Eugene is assigned one of the very few remaining regular channel!, i: . jar THIS BUG, A DISTANT COUSIN of Lane County's spruce budworm, is 32-fect long. He will be a star performer Friday morning in the annual balloon parade which will in augurate the Christmas shopping season in Eugene. Marching down Willamette St. with him at 9:30 a.m. will be 33 other balloons, 11 bands, two floats, drum majorettes and two color guards. Court Defends Own Action In Springfield Zoning Issue The county court Wednesday had an answer to reports of dis satisfaction over the body s refusal to sign a proposed zoning ordin ance for the East Springfield area. The court returned the proposal Nov. 10 with three recommenda tions of its own. County Judge Day T. Bayly has been afflicted with an almost total loss of voice since his return from Reds Challenge Air Superiority WASHINGTON (P) Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said Wednesday the allies' "complete air superior ity over Korea is now being ser iously challenged by the Migs but so far the situation is in hand. The Air Force chief of staff told a long and grim news conference that possible "serious potentials" exist. Among these he listed the f.act that "overnight China has be come one of the major air powers of the world." Vandenberg added ' that the Peiping regime obviously has at tained that status "as the direct beneficiary of another power pos sessing the essential industrial and technical resources that 'Com munist China itself lacks." . He did not mention Russia by name. Vandenberg, just back from the Korean War front, also said: "Under the ground rules estab lished at the outset of the Korean War, it is impossible for us to gain air supremacy" because "for rea sons that we all understand, we have followed a policy of not at tacking the strongholds of enemy air power directly across the Yalu River in Manchuria." King Cleared In Tax Inquiry WASHINGTON (T) A House investigating committee declared Wednesday there is no foundation for rumors that its chairman, Rep. King (D-Cal), intervened in three southern California tax cases. Rep. Combs (D-Tcx), acting chairman of a House ways and means sub-committee which has been looking into irregularities in the Internal Revenue Bureau, handed newsmen a statement say ing: . "The subcommittee has unani mously concluded that the rumors concerning actual or attempted in tervention by Representative King in these matters are completely without foundation." The subcommittee has held closed door hearings the past two days on the rumors. Most Schools to Have Long Holiday Vacation As usual, Eugene, Springfield, and Bethel, school kids can eat their Thanksgiving turkey with out worrying about going to school on a full stomach the next day. The annual two-day school holi day will be observed Thursday and Friday by all schools in these areas. Most county schools will aisn be out for two days, but no, all of them. A few districts plan to hold classes Friday. All wil) be dismissed Thursday. week-long sessions of county of ficials in Portland. However he issued this written, signed state ment of his views on the matter: "The Lane County Court Is following a concept of democ racy to the effect that the ma jority should not take undue ad vantage of the minority or even of individuals. When an area is zoned for the first time, great care should be exercised not to needlessly take vested property value from any Individuals. "The court attended two public hearings and carefully considered many phone calls and personal appearances. Just as our circuit judges are required, before passing sentence, to ask if the loser has anything further to say, we asked to hear from those, if any, who were dissatisfied with the way their property was being zoned "Letters were received from all but one of the owners whose prop erty was affected by the court s recommendation. We considered their requests just, and we think any other zoning would be tak ing property without Just com pensation. These individuals had Invested in property near a rail road track and were entitled to be protected In their judgment that any future zoning would apply the principle of the natural use of the property by a railroad track. Those who have foresight should not suffer because of lack of foresight by others." The two county commissioners concurred generally with Bayly's views. Commissioner Robert Maclay had this to say on the matter: "We saw modifications which could be made which would bet ter meet the public need. We fully intend to sign some zoning ordinance. Our recommendations Inside Today Britain approves U.S. admiral for NATO post, Page 2. How to carve yur Thanks giving turkey, Page 6, News Briefs - S Editorials 4 Women's News . 6 Comics . 8 8port 9 Radio, Theater 10 Classified 11-15 will meet the public need better than the plan first broached." These were Commissioner Lee Raish's views on the problem: "We are goint, to plan for the benefit of the whole of Lane County, not just for the benefit of a few people. That's what I call planning, not just this spot planning for the benefit of a . few. That's what the county court is supposed to do, plan to the best of its knowledge. You must look over the board area. I don't care if you live in Springfield, Junction City or Florence," Raish apparently referred to last Thursday's charge by County Planning Consultant Howard Bu. ford that the courts' action was in accordance with the will of the majority. Buford said at that time he had in his office signed petitions from 90 per cent of the residents in the affected area fa voring the zoning plan as pre sented to the court by the plan ning commission. Young Logger Killed by Cable Ernest Wilhclm Blom, 28, of 431 W. Broadway, Eugene, was killed instantly at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday when struck by a logging cable on Gate Creek near Vidn. A chocker-scttcr for Glustina Bros. Lumber Co., Blom was told to go down a hill but to stay above the main line, Fred Bucll, Lane County coroner, said the loggers told him. Blom moved too close to the line, and when it .was tightened it struck him in the. head, Buell said. The young man had been em ployed by the Giustina firm for three months, since coming to Eu gene from Kathryn, N. D. Tuesday was his first day at the logging operation on Gate Creek. Surviving are the widow, Lln ctte Blom, and two sons, Stanley, 5, and Richard, 3, all of Kathryn, N. D. H. W. Hclllckson of Eugene, with whom Blom lived, said Blom's family had planned to move here during Christmas. The body will be shipped to Valley City, N. D., for funeral services and Interment. Reds Complain Of U.S. Plane Crossing Border Craft Still Missing South of Germany T?FT.TR ATYR VnanclMria ( AP -TTlinaarv ariA Rnmania complained officially Wednes dav that a United Statps Armv cargo plane still missing aiter Deing urea on Dy line Sfltpllitp hnrHpr enlarge Mrtn- .. . day crossed over their terri tories illegally. Notes were presented to the American missions in Budapest and Bucharest, even nq U.S. planes prepared to search over lugosiavia zor tne missing c-47 transport, which disappeared Monday with four rrewmpn and diplomatic cargo aboard. The two Cominform countries maintain a tight control all along their borders with Yugo slavia. The notes were nresfnterl artA American inquiries were mads concerning the whereabouts of uie piane, wnose pilot nod radioed his base at Munich Monday af ternoon thnt he hnH upon by the boarder patrols of the two countries and had turned back westward. The pilot's reports, as disclosed by the U.S. embassy in Belgrade, am noi mention any damage from the shooting. Bad weather hnmnorwi tv.- search. Fifteen U.S.. Air Force pianes were poised at Treviso in northern Italy, at the juncture of the Italian. Austrian anri Viianelai borders, ready for the word that wouia sena mem over an area of 7000 square miles, much of it craggy mountains and wnnrlad hills. The plane, carrying a general cargo for the embassy here, was last reported somewhere north of Belgrade at dusk Monday, with Its gasoline running low. It was attempting to retrace its route back to Udine, near Tri este, In the hope of refuelling there. . , . y i . Premier Marshal Tito's govern ment gave the search planes per mission to fly over the northwest part of Yugoslavia, an area pre viously, forbidden to foreign planes which had been confined to several well-defined air corridors over th country. Yugoslavia border guards re ported seeing the plane Monday near both the Hungarian and Ro manian borders, far off its sched uled route. Belief was expressed here that the pilot mistook the Drava River for the Sava River, which it was supposed to follow. Timber Levy Constitutional SALEM (VP) It Is constltu. tional to assess penalties for fail ure to pay the state reforestation tax, the State Supreme Court rul ed Wednesday. The forest tax amounts to 5 cents an acre west of the Cascade Mountains, and 2 ',4 cents on the cast side. It is levied annually. In addition, there is an annual yield tax of 12'A cents an acre. The suit was brought against the State Forestry Department by Fred Gooch Jr. and John V. John son, Linn County timber owners who owed $574 in taxes and $459 in penalty for failure to pay. They contended the penalty is unconstitutional, but were over ruled by Circuit Judge Victor Ol liver of Linn County. The nigh court's opinion, by Justice George Rossman, upheld Judge Ollivcr. Democrats, Republicans Trade Punches on Campaign Issues Warren Has Operation SACRAMENTO I7P) Gover nor Earl Warren underwent an operation at the University of California Hospital Wednesday for removal of his appendix and a number of abdominal adhesions, the governor's office reported. He is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president By JACK BELL AMftrlKttd Prrti stitr Wrller WASHINGTON (P) Pres ident Truman, In a speech remin iscent of his 1948 "give 'cm hell" style, declared Tuesday night that the Democrats won't take lying down the "lies and smears" he said he anticipates from Repub licans and "special Interests" in the 1952 presidential campaign. Mr. Truman told an audience of party members here he thinks more money will be spent "in try ing to defeat the Democratic Par ty next year than has ever before been spent in any election in the I history of the country." Charge 'Corruption' This brought from Republicans more "corruption" charges. Mr. Truman did not mention in his speech any of the charges' of wrongdoing which have been al leged against his administration. His declaration that "the truth and the facts arc on our side" brought a retort from Sen. Rob ert A Taft (R-Ohlo) that "Presi dent Truman should certainly get the prize for political effrontery" for his speech. Guy G. Gabrlelson, chairman of the Republican National Commit tee, said Mr. Truman had "a flash of realism" when he said "A mis take in a presidential election can cause the country untold harm." 'Disgusted, Alarmed' "The reminder isn't necessary for millions of Americans," Gab rielson said. "They are disgusted and alarmed at the high taxes, high prices, corruption, crises and war of his incompetent adminis tration. They won't make the mis take again." Without naming the senator, Mr. Truman singled out Taft with the assertion that "special inter ests" had poured money into Ohio last year to reelect '.he Republican. Taft, an avowed candidate for his party's presidential nomina tion, said in a statement in Cin cinnati that "it is the Truman Party which is the beneficiary of the money of special interests and of millions of dollars of the tax payers' money used for political propaganda . . . ." Tnft said the CIO and AFL had undertaken to raise $30,000,000 rom union members "to purge all Republicans from Congress." He laid Republicans legitimately spent money to meet this attack, adding: "If Mr. Truman can ever re ceive 70,000 completely volun tary and unsolicited contributions of $1 each, as I did in 1050, his talk about special interests would not ring so false." Mr, Trumnn, who planned to return Wednesday to Key West, Fla., to resume his Interrupted vacation, outlined for his party at a banquet of the National Wo men j Democratic Club Tuesday night the kind of a campaign he said it must make next year. He pictured It as a slugging battle against well-heeled Repub licans who could be expected to put on a "dirty smear campaign." I do not expect the Demo cratic Party to take that kind of attack lying down," he declared as listeners applauded. , "I don't expect my party to run away from a fight," he said, adding: "It never did and it never will." The Prcsldcnet left up in the air the question whether he will run again. But he seemed to in dicate that if he doesn't he fully expects to have the determining voice in naming the Democratla nominee. f
