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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1948 Published Daily Esoept Sunday by the Newt-Review Company, Inc. lateral ee (a elaae Matter Ms - fa etnee e , eaetr ae el Maraa I, istb -p. IOWIN L. KNAf" Managtr Mambar of tha Associated Prau, Oragon Newspaper Publishers Association, tha Audit Buraau of Cireulatlona Basraeealae a WrST-MOI.LfDAT CO., INC., etneea la Niw Terk. CaMefe, aaa rreaeleee, Lm Aasalea, SaeHle, rerlleaS, Si. Leal. ftCBSCaiPTION BtTIS la Ortfea r Mall ra Taar II ee, ale aaaalaa K M. Laree aaaalha lt.ee. Uf Vtlf C'arrfar Par yaar lll.M Ha eSvaeaei. laaa laaa a star, far eaeate ll.aa. Oatalle Oiesae Bf Mall Tat jeer se.ee, ala eseeUa 14.11, three asealea IS.Ie. Beaeserr, Ofeiea, CHARLES V. STANTON Editor OUT OUR, WAY r Williams HIGHWAY PROPOSALS HAW' ?4letWit& By CHARLES V. STANTON Oregon traffic engineer, meeting recently in a conference at Oregon State College, were quoted in news dispatches an stating that "motoriata who feed coins into parking meters are entitled to something more than merely the privilege of parking." Now there's an idea! Parking meters are a source of considerable revenue, but think how much more they could produce if they had a one armed bandit attachment whereby a motorist could hit a jackpot occasionally. Or, we might fix them up with a lot of fancy lights and illuminated pictures of bathing beauties and have a plunger which would flip a little steel ball into slots designating the parking time. The motorist wouldn't resent spending a few nickels to gamble whether he could park for one minute or two hours, even though his stop might be only for five minutes. Or, if these attachments are too elaborate, why not install a little gadget, similar to for tune tellers on weighing machines, with an occasional red ticket to cancel out the overtime parking charge? The city might even increase parking meter revenue by selling adver tising concessions with tickets from the auxiliary gadget good for free merchandise. Think how excited mama would be if her penny won a free necktie for papa from Ye Men's Shoppe, Of course, the engineers weren't talking about such ideas. They were objecting to municipalities using parking revenue money in the general fund instead of putting the income into street improvements for the benefit of the motoring public. Roseburg's ordinance provides that parking meter revenue shall be used only for traffic betterment. Some of the in come goes for employment of trsffic officers, but the larger part is earmarked for street improvement. It is anticipated that money now accumulated will be used in a program of street widening and improving the flow of traffic adjacent to the business district. Efforts will be made to relieve con gested routes, eliminate hazards and reduce accidents. One-Way Streets Given Approval Another interesting statement emanating from the con ference of traffic engineers was that one-way streets utilize present facilities with only limited additional cost, reduce accidents, save time and improve business. This report Is of psrticular interest in Roseburg because a proposal recently has been made that one-way routes for highway travel be provided through the city. The proposal has aroused con siderable discussion, both favorable and unfavorable. It is our opinion thst a division of highway travel through town should be given every encouragement and that the project should be developed as quickly as possible. I'nless something is done soon to eliminate highway congestion through town, Roseburg msy find itself completely off the highway. There are two schools of thought among highway engi neers. One group is promoting the idea of limited access roads skirting municipalities. Insofar as Roseburg is con cerned, the highway engineers reportedly have several alter nate routes under consideration. Some of these would move the highway to the city's outskirts, while others would lesve the city at considerable distance from the throughway. Another school of thought, however, is to keep highways within city boundaries, thus giving the traveling public quick access to city centers, but speeding the flow of traffic by means of one-way streets. It might be several years before a highway would he built around Roseburg, but such a plan probably would come sooner or later unless the alternate proposal of one-way streets were adopted first. We could suffer considerable business damage as the result of being left off the highway, while we would gain from traffic division. That is why we lielieve the plan now proposed should be pushed to early development. Highway re-routing, however, should le accompanied by improvement to the dangerous bottleneck immediately north 'he Jap war. The Russians gave of town. It will not ie possible to speed traffic flow through "1 ,"P"" to Ih Chinese corn town as long as cars continue to pile up on the narrow and I mu"l,'- w hlv b"n Mn . . , , ,, , . .... , , i good me of them ever since, congested lane from Koseburg to Winchester. The increase Thi, bl01.kl(1,n, bll,ln. ,, of population in the Koseburg-W inchester section is making 1 ginning in look like a pattern. the congestion worse daily. ! By J. R. , v 1 I BORN THIRTY VEAR TOO SOON T n tie u a t. err. oe iv art attvicr war ' other regions to an extent to make It a corporation of Inter national a cope with ita head quarters In Oregon. It la, In fact, one of 'he few Oregon corpora tlona that haa ever expanded be yond the boundaries of the atate to become a major Industrial factor elsewhere, a such, the corporation la a splendid asset to to Oregon. Yet Mr. Stanton would cut It throat because It made a profit! By Viahnttt S. Martin A newspaper that haa grown known aa the Centennial, in Phil- along wilh the town It serves I adelphia. the hundredth anniver- decade after decade. Is a vital part of the community's growth, aa well aa Its best historian. That "Est. 1873" In the News Ftevlew masthead set me think ing about w hat waa going on seventy-five years ago when this newspaper began functioning. During the ten years I worked on a book which 1 laid aside during the war years, and just now have picked up again, ' put in much time on research on he TO's and 80 s, and noted down many Items: For Instance in 1873 the Finan cial Panic twept the country and lasted until 1879; tt was caused by overextension of the railroads. President Grant was beginning his second term. The "carpet bag gers" were causing what amount ed to civil war In some stalea, aix of them being afflicted with thia evil. In Louisiana two parties claimed the election and Federal troopa were present to maintain order when the legislature con vened. In 1873 the President pro claimed that In 1876 there would be a great celebration, to be sary of the Declaration of Inde pendence. All countries were In vited to participate: "All the civi lized countries," says my nine volume history," thirty-three in number, except Greece, made cor dial responses." Now what was the matter with Greece? Would n't you like to know? History leavea out so much! The Centennial when it opened in 1876 was really aomething! 9.900.000 visitors parsed through its galea in aix months. How many visited the World's Fair? Don't tell me alatistics are pain ful reading to one who has no liking for figures. In 1873 the Oregon Slate Wom an's Suffrage Association met for Ihe first time. A public land grant for a military road across Oregon was authorized. G ound waa brok en for the new capltol building In Salem. Just the p'evious year the University of Oregon received its charter. And Just two years be fore the News-Review put out its first Issue, the steamer Enter prise made a trip as far up the Umpqua as Sawyer's Rapids. In the Day's News (Continued From Pag One) each other back, we can laugh. When the two most powerful na tions In the world do It, It Is different. Ideally supposed to be. If It actu ally WAS that way, democracy' would work in a way that would amaze the world. The personal Itch for power Ilea at the root of most of our political Ills. It always has been that way. In all probability. It will he that way for quite a while yet. WK'RE hearing a lot about Ihe blockade of Berlin. A similar blockade of Changchun. In China, la under way. A dispatch from Pelplng says Chinese communist antiaircraft guns ringing the town are preventing Chinese na tionalist government planes from dropping food to the starving city, and adds that 200 people are re ported starving to death dally. The antiaircraft gunners. Ihe dispatch adds, may he Koreans or they may be Japanese. The wea pons are Japanese guns that fell into the hands of the Russiana when they boomed down through Manchuria In the dying days of Multi-Millionaire Leaves Estate To Her Native Town Blind Phone Girl Works by Touch BALTIMORE . You'd think a telephone operator would need falrlv sharp eyes to keep up with the little flashing lights on the switchboard. But Miss Audrey Berch, who has been blind since infancy, has been a telephone operator at the Church Home and hospital in Baltimore for the last 23 years. A "braille gadget" is the secret. This device about a foot square is attached to the side of the switchboard. It has rows of small metal discs, each one about the size of a dime. Each metal disc corresponds to a socket on the switchboard, and above each disc ia a braille sign, with ita dupli cate over the socket that goes with it. When a call comes In, a buzzer sounds and a small peg shoots up from the center of one of the discs. Miss Berch slides her fing er over the discs, finds the one with the protruding peg, feels the braille sign above It. and puis a switch In Ihe socket which has the same braille sign. It takes her three seconds or leas. To Miss Berch's knowledge, there are very few of these Braille aids In the country. The only two others in Baltimore are at the Maryland School for the blind and the Maryland Work shop for Ihe blind. The whole burden of Mr. Stan ton's complaint is that state tax funds were used for the benefit of the fishing industry' his edi torial would make it appear that he thinks this state money went aa a direct subsidy to CRPA. Mr. Stanton evidently consid ers it no sin that the state pro vide funds for research and as sistance to other Industries and natural resources. The Oregon blue book reveals that for the current biennium the state legislature appropriated $767,000 for the fish commission plus $1000 for the Pacific marine fisheries commission and some $.35,000 for the stale Seafoods laboratory. This was the extent of the taxpayers' support for research and management for preservation of one of our most valuable Oregon resources, our fish. The same legislature provided $499,000 for slate department of agriculture, $126,000 for coun ty fairs, and close to $700,000 for the Oregon state experiment sta tion an lor the development of agriculture. Yet no one con siders it a sin for a farmer to make a profit. Mr. Stanton does n't clamor to know how much YOU get back out of that million and more YOU paid for the farm ers' profits. The timherman whom Mr. Stanton considers such a benefac tor of the state got some $830, 000 from the last legislature $730,000 for the state board of forestry and $100,000 for the for est products laboratory. Mr. Stan ton sees no sin In this. The state board of geology and mineral industries got Slb-v 01X3. but Mr. Stanton makes no complaint. Only the commercial fisher man is to him a sinner; perhaps because Air. Manton is an ardent sports angler and it burns him to see anvone else get fish. Incidentally, the 1945-47 bien nium was the first that saw a legislative appropriation for the fish commission prior to that it was supported entirely by the poundage fees that Mr. Stanton dismisses as trivial. They are estimated at $250,000 this bien ium. Yet slate support of agri culture and forestry has gone on for years. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press NO COMMERCIAL FISHING? Astorlan Budget Reprinted in an adjoining col umn is an editorial that appear ed a few davs ago in the Rose burg News-Review and. to our mind, represents one of the most vicious and childish attacks ever made by a responsible newspaper upon one of the principal indus tries of its Own statu Mr. Stanton, the Roseburg edi tor, is aghast because the Colum bia River Packers Association. Inc.. made a million dollars prof I it last year. Rather than rejoic 1 ing in the prosperity of one of j the state's leading Industrial en- A'"H,",fDH,.',A,lg. ,-,-5:"an elimination of he mmer"i -A little coal mining town 30 rial fi.h, inn.,..-.. i , ii H.hii,.h .... m.. '. ' v.,,.,,. we woman t consider Mr. Mr. Stanton says that "dollars collecled In license fees from sports anglers also helped hatch steelheads which went into cans." Actually, if Mr. Stanton would take tne trouble to find out what he is talking about, he would learn the reverse is true. Hatcheries supported by pound age fees paid by commercial fish ermen have raised steelhead on coastal streams. Including Mr. Stanton's Umpqua river, lor sportsmen to catch. Poundage fees paid by com mercial fishermen have for years produced Columbia river salmon which sportsmen have taken by the tons at Oregon City and, more recently, here at Astoria. What have the sportsmen paid to produce these Columbia river salmon? Look into it, Mr. Stanton! miles from Pittsburgh vester- day inherited millions of dollars left It by a wealthy Philadelphia woman. Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazler. who Inherited several million dollars In 1918. left all but $210,000 of Stanton's brutal. Ill-informed out-: burst worth reprinting or ans-j werlng were It not that he repre sents a type of thinking preval-1 ent among a minority of the more rabid, selfish and narrow her estate to the village of Perry- min)pd tVemlst, of the ,rrV, Low Cost Electric Switches Devised NEW YORK -.i A new wlr ring system, designed to reduce Ihe amount of exjienalve electri cal work in homes hy pulling all switches on a low voluge bell cord hook-up. has been dec!oitcd hy the (icnoral Elect! Ic Com pany. It Is claimed lo minimize lire hazards and reduce Ihe South Mvrtlt Road Link conduits to i n ... vac area Because uselvts opolis. The bequest was disclosed as her will was filed for probate. The amount of Ihe estate was not made known. She inherited $1. IS). 1(12 in personal proper! v and a large share of $7,000,000 ... .... "'"'J ;"'?"' ""Mfor amusement. i,n mi, ir, nniru r imrr, ui feiryopolis. tlvhermen nf the atat tt ia uoil for us here who live bv the com-1 nierdal fishing Industry to know that there are people in Oregon w ho would deprive us of our live- j lihood for the benefit of dollar heavy Easterners who come here ' The Columbia river has pro duced salmon commercially since the 18t")0s. providing food worth more than a billion dollars. Its salmon production in 1946 was estimated at a value of $10 mil lion. Since then the value has grown with inflation. The Columbia river fishery alone supports 1S.000 people plus tribes of Indians, tt has an in vestment of $230 million or more on which taxes are paid to the state of Oregon. In addition, more millions of food are produced by our ocean fisheries, and more thousands gain their livelihood therefrom. The Columbia river also sup ported a sports fishery worth $12 million to the state In 1946. and undoubtedly worth much more than that today. All this Mr. Stanton would eliminate as a "farce." Thank goodness most citizens of Oregon have more sense. Mr. Stanton evidently would THIS side of the world. IVa. I fln.it Triim.n hIab.m V. I memarltv from ti. ,,hn. i,.. mid year budget review. In which lions. Front and back d.mr lights he forecasts that by next June the the nannarlia n. In. Ik. .. 1 . . . . . Alter making 18 ..wciflc ar.ni. ' V-H r m.lin. timian ,,. . i .ne eany eastern tourists and ...... ... ....... n,, .....k K fn rto, .... Ih-. unvk,,,. a S1.....W.. trust fund to pmvide j Vnd apW? f, h g'ea I " 'tm.r ,""d , con""nl, "P- vendor, can extract from then. keep lor Ihe familv mausoleum rryopolls, Ciin he controlled not only from me uooruavs. nut also from kitchen, living riMm or bedroom. .Heretofore, such cl.itnrate svs treasury will be a billion and a half in the red and we'll have tn go back to "deficit" financing i spending more than we take In amount of heavy those leading only directly lo lighting fixtures and outlets. Wall switches merely operate magnetic master switches at each outlet, so lh.it Ihe wiring to and from all switches can lie as light as onliiiHi v haitery owral ed doorbell system. The economy of iut,illallon of this remote control wumg Is expected lo increase Ihe number of switches In home., mnKing it ei-oliomically piaiilcihlc to eraie lights and outlets from a """ " xon.-e makers ,.,) hy the vacation notice in, lu.tr . swin-nen on Howard and l-ota Hniwnwn A from bedrooms when the faml-: s and Cassie Fetterman. F.i.ic y gets up. An entire house ran W, Elmore. Zella Weaver Rrom be lighted at once from a bed- lev. P. R. and Marv Ida Weaver room if an Intruder la heard. I all of Mvrtle Creek. stems have been prohibitive In : and borrowing the difference.) cost for the average small house. He blames it all on the Rcpuk m.7e!'1!;,.0', ","1'TK'"',,,0f h'"v l''" '"' "IH 'imed" five matciiHl n-i iniid bv fire coiles. . , . ,, . . .. billion dollar tax nit. The Repub licans yell bloody murder and say , the Iresldent la deliberately Jug gllng hit figures for political ef feet. The lunulas County Court has passed a resolution lo vacate a portion of the county road known as South Mvrtle Road 18 In sec tlon 21. township ."t souih. tange I west, Wlllamelle Melhlan. This Mirtlon Is deemed bv the court to he ueles. as the county has relocated Ihlh ihuIiou uf the road now known the Hi own son section, which the court ilr dares. M-ixes all residents of the vicinllv. lroprrtv owneis affect D ONT let It raise your blood pressure lo the danger point. Truman doesn't mean It. The Re publicans don't mean It. THIS IS ELECTION YEAR. WOULDN'T a govei nn T It be nice If we had ment that was solely and entirely Interested In the WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with no political ante Issues and no priv ate and personal ambitions? keep fi in Perrvopolla. Mrs. Fraier left ntire residuarv estate for public Improvements lo Ihe tlnv community of 1.300 persons Mrs Frazier. divorced wife of John Miller Fiaier. former mana ger of the Hellevue Strat ford hotel, died August tv She explain ed in her will that Perrvopolla was Ihe place where "I was born and lived, and hcie my lather and mother lived and my grand father and giandmother lived." Michael karlock. grocer, thea ter operator and fire department chief In IVrryopoh. said the money will he used to have the streets paved, public schools re paired, a library built and the Perry township high school equipped with a stadium. Hut. most of all. the- money will go for lighting purposes. "We've been talking lor a long lime about lighting up the town. I guesa well get around lo It now," he said. The village of Harrow on Alaska's lunt Harrow Is the northernmost settlrment of the United States. ' TV a t. . v. . i That ! what democracy ' longest river in the United States. We hold no brief for the CRPA and ita profits, but do resent ', the attack upon It. a maor com-1 ponent of the commercial fishery of Oregon, and upon the Industry-! Itself. Mr. Stanton's stricture's ' about the CRPA are unme. as I he could have seen himself bv j a thorough reading of the annual ! report he used as the platform ' for his assault. Mr. Stanton evidently assumed that all the CRPA "ooerationa were confined to Oregon. He 1 failed to note that In addition to $.v million worth of Columbia ; river salmon packed bv the com pany In 1947, it also packed $2 6 million worlh of Alaska salmon. $12 million worth of Puget Sound salmon. $3 3 million worth of tuna and $433,000 worth of crab. Except for the Columbia river pack, all this millions of dollars worth of foid produced bv the company came from elsewhere than Oregon and much of It was processed In this state to provide payroll and livelihood to Oregon citien. i Ihe CRPA has. 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