Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, March 21, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textk llwaukies Mustangs Capture Prep Title onship Score: Milwaukie 52, Eugene 44 tamp)' Third Place: Clatskanie 66, Madras 50 See Sports: Page 7-C WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY (Complete Report, Page IB) SUNDAY EDITION LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER Eyear, No. 80 FIVE SECTIONS - 41 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, MARCH 21, 1954 Phone 5-1551 huntv to Ask for $720.000 Welfare Measure To Go on Ballot By MARVIN TIMS 01 Tne RtslJter-Guard the Lane County Board of hmissioners Monday win a tax measure lor me nrlmary- ballot to raise ti nnn a vear for two Is. The money is needed rot uihnt IllPV termed Irply increased welfare re- irements. he proposal is the first in I nc lily's history to seek tax funds Lnnrt welfare expenses. Iised on the county's valuation 144,491,178, tne proposed i miild reauire a millage rate taut vt mills. lie decision to go outside the tly'j 6 per cent lax limitation hjse welfare funds was made L the Lane County Welfare Emission indicated that wel- cise loads have been rising idly. OF TOTAL (hi Dudley, welfare adminis ter, estimated last week that county will need abouf$725,- il the next two years to kica mounting costs. This Bint, although large, js only at 20 per cent of the total K. The remainder is financed tugh stau) and federal con ations. ' pmmissioiier Ralph Petersen Fnuay, J'we had no choice but to take this proposal to the people. We are anticipating a $500,000 dron in limhnr ran.!.!. and the county won't have ade quate lunds to stay inside the 6 per cent limitation and still meet welfare needs." Petersen said that if .i fare measure is rejected "we will nave to be touch" on Ihe wnlfam program to insure operation of oiner important county depart ments. HE LISTS FACTORS Commissioner Kenneth Nielsen commented, "An affirmative vote would tell us the people want Lane County In meet full welfare needs." Dudley last, week outlined some of the factors responsible for increased welfare demands. He emphasized population growth. He said nomilafinn inrrpasprl 82 per cent between 1940 and 1830 in Lane County. "If this rate of increase continue.:, thp population by .June 30, 1955, can he estimated at 150,000. Should a similar pattern of increase con tinue to the end of the next fiscal biennium period, June 30, 1957, the county population could be near 165,000." CAREFUL CHECKING Dudley said that although cur- improving, Lane County "can look forward lo a large uncniplnv- ment group next winter and early spring.- He also explained that the growing complexity of adminis- lering public assistance under a fcderal-stale-local system requires an adequate well-trained staff if the welfare commission is to ren der reasonable service. Dudley said the process for de tcrmining the economic needs of a person (checking on employ ment, earnings, savings, stocks and bonds, real eslale, pension and other income, and the like) constitutes perhaps the most com prehensive credit checking ever developed hy an agency. He added, "We probably have morn safeguards to assure the proper expenditure of public funds than any oilier public of fice spending public money." Dudley also pointed out that the average monthly caseload fori the various assistance categories has been increasing during the past three years. CASELOADS CITED For old age assistance, the av erage monthly caseload during 1951 was 1,020. It was 1,015 in 1952 and 1,045 in 1953. For aid to dependent children, the monthly case load average 1 WELFARE f Continued on Page 4-A) i (Rofflater-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) WOMEN'S RESIDENTIAL DIVISION of the Lane County Red Cross fund cam- E'Sn Will start its door-to-door fund drive Monday morning Dy visiting nnmcs wnnin ! boundaries of School District 4. One eager worker in the drive is Mrs. Bob Hill fdbovel whn m.iia h fire r.itwl cnHcllaffnn Saturday at the home of Mrs. Calvin Jrambaker, 10,11 Mill St. Mrs. L. R, Schmidt, chairman of the division, is urging all residents to help by contributing all they can .atiora. fond Vote Is Set y Lincoln PUD timbers nt the Central Lincoln Peoples Utility lho live in the coastal areas of Coos, Douglas, L llnnl .. ... .a- nnn - U Members nf .ho Pon.ra. T.inrnln PeonlPS UtililV Dis- T.anp, nl.inr.nl- i. ... . nnn Kami4 t-7.wm counties win vote on a swou.uuu revenue uuhu. ft in it,- ... . .. ine primary election May 21 French Batter Rebel Positions In Key Spots Suicidal Attack Believed Shaping HANOI, Indochina W) Squadrons of French, war planes swooped incessantly over rebel positions around Dien Bicn Phu Saturday, showering thousands of fire bombs in an effort to flush Vietminh besiegers into the open so they could be mowed down by fortress guns. Using all available aircraft called in from land and carrier bases, the French began laying down firebomb barrages in bril liant moonlight early Saturday morning and kept hammering the Communist-led rebels throughout the day. There were strong indications that another attempt by the Viet minh to overrun the fortress with masses of tens of thousands of troops was building up. FURIOUS BLASTS Circling the ovel-shaped plain in Northwest Indochina while the French and Vietminh artillery blasted away furiously at each other's key firing positions, the French fighters and bombers dropped 200 and 500 pound in cendiary bombs and jellied gas oline smack inlo Ihe heart of rebel masses and their hideouts in the surrounding hilly jungles. American-supplied B25 bomb ers also reported scores of direct hits upon rebel artillery emplace ments. Crews claimed to have knocked out or seriously damaged an estimated one-third of the Vietminh'-main-. firing position. DIGGING IN ' While air and artillery barrage went on, Vietminh troops were'al points 200 to 500 yards from barb ed wire barricades guarding the main points of entry into the heart of the fortress. They were digging foxholes and trenches despite bombardment by French planes. The Vietminh were particularly digging in east and south of the center of the fortress. Thus far, the heaviest rebel infantry as saults have been launched from the two northern outposts which rebels took in launching their big assault a week ago. The French, steadily reinforced with fresh troops, ammunition and war supplies, parachuted from planes, were ready. - ,,mi Was receivi last weeK attcr a S of the Central Lin ' board of directors at 'pott bond Issue ,Mrh Trl. Millard Martin says will not taxation measure, W lltOrt 1. J - W . " ""Prove irci ties Wam will begin July 1 I --.. 1 1 lnc work will be a ui." l""nn construction, 'Mitinn, to existing facili- Kh STUDY MADE i LL expansion is based it Z Tm,s!udy completed re 'J? pUD workers. Under iSJJIl'Wtl will linn, j ,, aal"in to prcs E:f"cJ",i' t meet the L: intmx of residents In ff'". iH be nn,y $66R,: EilJt1lJcrf' n outstanding u two-year tiroBram. f'n (nr mi h8 n : iij nspn on Ihfi pxnir due nt the ?ame time that the nntir nnoi aro ICCtied. Voters of Ihe district during the past 12 years have approven fiv hnnd issues similar to the one before Ihem in May. Alto gether, the previous issues nave been valued at $4,175,000. xtn.t nf this monev has been spent for improvements lo the system alont me coa.-i. mn ... eludes some new district offices In Florence, Waldport, and other communities. RISE IN WORTH einxa hutrinnine operafion along the coast in 1943, tho Cen tral Lincoln PUD has grown irum a system worth $735,000 to more than $4,500,000, Ihe financial tiemcnt released this year showed. Tolal assets of the dis. I.!,. .M nfAi tivt million dollars Under tho system operation, said Martin, a customers aver age cost of electricity is about i At !. a tilnwatt hour. All Of this power is purchased from the Bonneville rower m with one line from Eugene in Florence and tho other irom drt lhe "Pira-1 Florence ann mn 'far""ce of other debtabany to Newport General to Give Red Cross Appeal A former general of the Ma rine Corps, Curtis T. Beecher, and Mrs. L. B. Schmidt, chair man of the Women's Residen tial Division in the 1954 Red Cross fund campaign in Eu gene, will be heard on all Eu gene radio stations Sunday in an appeal for a successful resi dential fund drivo that starts Monday. Radio Station KUGN will slart the series with a program at 8:15 p.m. KASH will broad cast the appeal at 8:45; KERG at 10:15: and KORE at 11 p.m. Gen. Beecher was captured on Corrcgidnr during the Jap anese Invasion of the Philip pine Islands. Ho credits the Red Cross with saving tho lives of many of the captives. Inside Today Two thousand Oregon Trail Scouts get ready for big show. Page 5A. ... World-wide church meet lo lay base fnr co-operative pro gram. Page 9A. Service News ,A Editorials JA News Briefs J" Radio, Theater 4. 5R Homes and Gardens 6, IB Sporls Classified Women's News -I SO (noglslcr-Guard phnto, WMUhlr eoff.) PLAYFUL PLAVMATK Zctta and Zana Turnbull, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ncal Turnbull. of Rattlesnake Road near Trent, arc finding that a month-old black bear cub makes a fine companion. Their father, who is a log ger, brought the cub to them after the mother bear was shot by him and a companion. The twins plan to keep the cub, as yet unnamed, until it grows too large for them. Then they'll give it to a zoo. The cub is thriving on a milk diet. It is fed by bottle. Party Was Born in Ripon in 1854 Ike Clicks a Key Of Faith in GOP RIPON,' Wis. (M President Eisenhower ignited a 'Freedom Flsme" Saturday - night to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Republican Party. He lirged his fellow" Republicans to face the future with faith, nope and courage Bandit Makes Diamond Haul Of $200,000 CENTRAL1A, Mo. (in A ban dit shot an importing company official in the foot aboard the din ing car of a Wabash passenger train Saturday night and escaped with $200,000 in diamonds. The diamond robber got on the train at Kansas City and rode with his victim to Centralis. Then he suddenly poked a gun into the face of John Gray, a partner in the firm of Adolphe Adler Dia mond Cutters and Importers of New York City. TOY PISTOL He demanded that Gray give up a briefcase containing an es timated $200,000 in loose dia monds. Gray thought the man was bran dishing a toy pistol, he said. He started beating Ihe gunman over the head with a magazine. "The man fired one shot, which missed me," Gray said. He beat Ihe gunman over the head with the magazine some more and Ihe bandit fired again, this time strik ing Gray in the foot. The shooting took place In the dining car of the passenger train as It was pulling into centralis, The bandit grabbed the briefcase, jumped off the train and Into a waiting automobile. WOMAN DRIVER Missouri stats highway patrol men said the car was driven by a woman and bore Kansas license plates, beginning AG-73. The oth er numerals of the license number were unknown. A pickup order was Issued fnr Ihe car and roadblocks were set up over the atate. Gray said the action rame so fast that he didn't get I good look at Ihe bandit. . "I was so excited f ran't re member what he looked like," Gray said. to fulfill their responsi bilities." The President pressed a gold en telegraph key in Washing' ton. The impulse ignited a gas torch in front of the little white schoolhouse where the party is reported to have been formed in 1854. TORCH A CLIMAX The torch is similar in design to one that is believed to have been lit by Alvan Earl Bovay when he called a meeting of 53 men at the same schoolhouse a hundred years ago. At this meeting the GOP was reported to have been con ceived. The lighting of the torch was the climax of a cere mony that brought leading Re publicans and hundreds of other visitors to this central Wiscon sin community of 6,000. Ripon is 80 smiles northwest of Mil waukee. The President's brief greet ing and message lo his fellow Republicans was read by Rep. William K. Van Pelt (R-Wis) at the dinner at which Leonard Hall, national GOP chairman, was the principal speaker. Van Pelt represents the sixth Wis consin district, in which Ripon is located. Hall said Ihe centennial cele bration offered a challenge to .Americans to meet and sur mount the critical problems of the present and future. 'RKAL LIBERALS' Gov. Waller Kohler, of Wis consin, a speaker at the din ner, .aid that the Republican Party was born because nf the people's dissatisfaction with the Whigs and the Democrats. It was the real liberal party then and is now, he said. Political historians generally agree that lhe parly was bora at Ripon although Jackson, Mich., also lays claim to being the party's birthplace. 'People Above Party' McCarthy: I Won't Soft-Pedal' OKLAHOMA CITY (ID Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said Saturday night he has been urged "almost daily" by some "chameleon Republican friends ' to sou-pedal criticism or the Administration but that he refused to "put party above the interests of the American people." McCarthy said he had campaigned on behalf of the GOP more perhaps than any other senator except the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. "Almost daily, my good friends, I have some of my chameleon Republican friends . . . urging me not to see any thing wrong about my own party." This attitude, McCarthy said, he has rejected. The Wisconsin Republican added that "if the day comes that the Republican Farty Specific Charges (The disagreement between Ripon ond Jocl'son has been a technical one. Ripon definite!) had the tint Republican Party meeting, hut Jackson claims aho in have been the birth place became the first nj'iicial party convention was held in the Michigan city. (Further, dates as lo the por iy's birth are in dispute. The Encyclopedia Britannicn, and United States histories list Feb. 28,1854, as ihe date ot the first meeting in Ripon.) 7-. .V - nvr-" " mm""tr m does what I condemn on the part of iny good Lemocrat mends, mat day we snail no longer deserve to remain in power." McCarthy said he has no 111 feeling for President Eisenhower. WOULD SUPPORT IKE "While I heartily disagree with some of the things the Adminis tration is doing, I still think the average is high enough so that if he were running for office today, I would still be compelled to campaign for him," McCarthy said. McCarthy spoke without a pre pared text tonight at a 10-per- plate Republican dinner at Okla homa City attended by 1,000 per sons. He covered a broad field of topics in the speech, Including a review of his stand against trade wllh Red China and his "black mail" complaint against Army Counsel John G. Adams. In a news conference before Ihe speech, McCarthy rejected Sen. Stuart Symington's . sug gestion that he get completely out of his subcommittee during its investigation of his feud with the army. MENTIONS DISPUTE The dispute, reviewed in the speech, was described as not a fight with Ihe army but one with a few Individuals " in tne penta gon. McCarthy described secretary nf the Army Robert Stevens as a fine, innocent, honest" man who "could not - cope with the old time Pentagon politician." He said there apparently Is someone in the Pentagon "death ly afraid of the continued ex posure" for which his committee has been responsible. McCarthy also said he was con fident that Roy Cohn, chief counsel of his subcommittee will be cleared by the investigation nf the army dispute now being planned. Adams' report of alleged pres sure brought hy Cohn on behalf nf G, David Schine, former com mittee investigator who was drafted, prompted McCarthy's blackmail" retort. TALKED TO ADAMS McCarthy said he told Adams before the allegations against Cohn were released, "If you were to blackmail me nut nf an inves tigation into the military, the pattern would he the same tomor row in the next bureau, the next day anolher bureau." McCarthy referred to Okla homa's Democratic Sen. Mike Monroney as "your local Little Lord Fauntleroy" of the "left wing." He scoffed at Monroney's criticism of the subcommittee's tactics, classing the Oklahoman with "the bleeding hearts. McCarthy said that in digging into communism in the Army the exposure of individual Reds was secondary "we're concerned not so much with Ihe Commun ists we get, but we're 10 times much concerned with those who knew they were there and did nothing about it." McCarthy said he thinks Presi dent Eisenhower "is doing the best job he can," but added, "1 don't think he's a superman," IRtlliler-Giiard photo, Wlltihire cm.) THOSE "BE PREPARED" boyu called cm the Eugene Fire Department Thursday night to get the fed of the latest in fire-fighting equipment. These lads are aiming high for a memorable circus the nights of March 26-27 at McArthur Court, where Boy Scouts of the Oregon Trail Counril will star. Latter Day Saints troopers, No. 79, circle the water gun: Craig and Bill Wright, David Powell, and Mike Blakely. Story, Page 5A. Thornton To Help Out Vice Probe PORTLAND Hi Atty. Gen. Robert Y, Thornton released to the press here Saturday a letter in which he accepted an invita tion to help out in the Lincoln County vice probe and suggest ed Dist. Atty. William HoUen step aside. Holen said he wasn't going to walk out entirely and he got sup port on that from Gov. Paul Pat terson, GIVEN TO PRESS Thornton's letter to Hollen wai given to the press here and Hol len learned of Its contents from the press. Thornton s letter to Hollen said that "specific charges have been made against, you that you may be involved In these criminal viola tions; that you interfered with the lawful investigation of the grand jury and exerted improper pressure on both the grand jury and witnesses, IN FAIRNESS And that you altered the first grand jury report by eliminating the statement that vice conditions still existed in some instances and that public officials had been intimidated." So, Thornlnn wrote, until deter mination is finally made on these charges, "in all fairness you should take no part in this in quiry. Otherwise you would be investigating yourself." Backers Want Rhee To Hold Job for Life SEOUL (si A movement to make Syngman Rhee president ot the Republic of Korea lor life was reported In the making Saturday. National assembly sources said about 20 assemblymen had al ready agreed to support a con stitutional amendment giving Rhee a lifetime job. The 78-year-old executive's sec ond four-year term will end in 1956. Pope's Health Better VATICAN CITY Iffl Pope Piui XII appeared in "excellent spir its" Saturday after passing a rest ful night, Vatican sources said. The Pope reportedly showed "sud den improvement" after he made a public appearance Friday fnr Ihe first time since he became ill eight weeks ago. Cairo Bomb Blasts Cause Little Damage CAIRO, Egypt OB Six bomb blasts, which a government spokesman blamed on "under- ground Communists," and a wild student demonstration kept Cairo in an uproar Saturday. The bombs made noise, but did not do much damage or cause any casualties. The explosinns began popping as Ihe Egyptian capital welcomed King Saud of Saudi Arabia. TIMBER! Tha ad nrlow lolri tha timber tha Mrit night , i i l phona calls en an ad that coat 62c. Vnu too, can una Want Ada profitably. Juit Minna USSt. APPROX. 71 M, eloM-ln laral round. It.tno oah. Ph. The iegi'sler-Gunrrf in de livered to more than 32,000 Emerald Empire home daily.