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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.
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The iegi'sler-Gunrrf in de
livered to more than 32,000
Emerald Empire home
daily.