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Newspaper Page TextFOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 194? Publlihad Dally Exstpt 8undy by the Newt-Review Company, Ine. la'ta" ilm Millar Mar T, lata, al Ik a taat afflaa it Kaaakaff, Ofaaa. atar set af Marah t, ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON fff. EDWIN U KNAPP Editor Wm Manaq.r Mambar of tha Associated Prast, Oragsn Nawapapar Publlahari Asaoelation, tha Audit Bureau of Clreulatlana erMeata hf WI1T-SOLUDAT CO, mo, effleaa la K.w Terk, Cklaet. taa fraaclaee. Lea Aafelee. rertUni, aL Lekle, DaiCtlPTION BATti-I. Onrra-B, Mall far Tear II M, II a.nlBI M M, area nailhi ll n, Br Cll carrier Pe rear lie e (la earaaiie), Ian Ihea eae rear, ear mania ll.ee. Oetalde Oregea Br Hall Par raar el.oe. elm aaeatke 11.11, Ikria aaeatka 11.11. FLY TYING COLLEGE OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams WELL, REMEMBER YOUR HAND-ME-DOWN CLOTHES IS SO FAR FROM ME IN PLACES THAT I COOLV HAVE A FIRE AN' IT STILL WOULDN'T BE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. s i By CHARLES V. STANTON Word comes that college graduates soon will be tying flies wrapping fish rods, repairing golf clubs, and making bows and arrows. Not that some college graduates have not been engaged in these tasks in the past, but college education had no bearing on the vocation into which the graduate tended through opportunity or happenstance. Now, how ever, we read that a college course is to be offered in the field of Rports equipment manufacture and repair, thus pre paring students to train themselves for operation of sport ing goods stores or for work in manufacturing and repair departments. The course is announced by the Oregon Technical Institute, Oregon's newest school in the field of technical education and a part of our system of higher education. The school, lo cated at Klamath Falls, has outlined a course requiring 25 months for completion, teaching theory and offering actual work in manufacturing and repairing skis, fish rods, arti ficial lures, fishing reels, racquet stringing, arrow making, bow making, game equipment, uniforms, golf clubs, and mis cellaneous manufacture and repair, including repair of gas lanterns and stoves and gun sight installation. In addition to both theoretical and practical training in the departments mentioned, the student will receive instruction in retail busi ness management, advertising and rudimentary bookkeep ing. Thus he will be technically prepared to establish his own business or enter the sen-ice of a sporting goods depart-1 ment. fill f OW GETTIN' WARM BV W H Vlll J A BONFIRE AN' HE DON'T WW. W L KKIOW HIS COST'S HAFF V ! 1 1 I It I i . . i ,n7 121 IDl IT" t ILAJ ar II I !! lill'l,, V rv PEOPLE J i'11 SM DON'T COOK A f A ROAST J THE WORRY WART J.R.WH.UAM3 I By Viahnett S. Martin Inauguration of the course in sports equipment manufac ture and repair at the Oregon Technical Institute is most timely and worth while, in our opinion. Outdoor recreation is big business in this country and is steadily growing in importance. Millions of dollars worth of sporting goods are sold annually. Sales and repairs of hunting and angling equipment furnishes much employment. Technical training in this field is as important as in any other vocation. Yet it is a field that has been sadly neglected. The majority of technicians in the sporting goods field have obtained their knowledge through trial-and-error ex perience. A fly tyer starts out as an amateur. He buys a book and a fly tying outfit and starts experimenting. Per haps he receives a little aid from someone more experienced. .. Eventually, if he is skilfull, he is able to produce a fly suit able for sale. A rod maker goes through the same pro-jess. Gunsmiths and reel repairmen, for the most part, are work men who, having a flair for mechanics, have studied in this specialized field and, because of ability, have managed to attain through long experience the necessary skill to do a good job. Repair of sports equipment requires more skill and knowl edge than many people realize. We had a fish rod we liked especially. It had fine action and good balance. There came a time, however, when it needed new guides, wrappings and varnishing. We took it to a man reported to be a good repairman. When the rod was returned it was about as useful for fishing as a base ball bat. The action was slow. It was impossible to lay out a long line or to properly put a fly on the water. We then Rent the rod to the factory for overhaul and it came back as good as new again full of life and action. The differ ence rested entirely on the skill of the workman. The Oregon Technical Institute is training men to make a living with their hands a type of education which has been neglected for too long a time. Higher education has been designed to put graduate in the so-called "white collar class" and has led to much disappointment for graduates who, with training in liberal arts found it necessary to learn one of the manual trades the hard way after working four years for his education. No money spent for education Is wasted, but many men and women find vocational training of far greater benefit than advanced studies in the liberal arts. The state's vocational school, in our opinion, is an excellent complement to our system of education, and is showing good judgment in the type of instruction made availabl.'. Stu dents, for instance, may select such courses as office and business education, commercial art and design, gcnerrl draft ing, piano tuning and repair, photography, radio communi cations And repair, office equipment repair, auto body and fender repair, auto mechanics, baking, cabinet making, car pentry, welding, dry cleaning, electrical maintenance and ap pliance repair, gunsmithing, machine shop, refrigeration, diesel mechanics, automotive electricity, medical technology, clock and watch repair, sewage disposal, and others. Trained workers are needed in all of those fields and the person who has had technical training is in a far better position for em ployment and advancement than the workman who must make a cold start. A hundred squatting cooliet In long white robet were cutting al falfa, their hands moving awiftly as they cut a bunch at a time with their little llckiea. In an adjoining field I saw a 16-year-old Arah driving a tractor, cut ting aa much alfalfa aa the 100 sweating coolies at a dollar day. Until a year ago tills hoy had never even teen a tractor. But now, dressed In khaki pants, Yousef was the proud tractor driver who had been taught by the Americans." It is the story of "the Ameri cans" In Arabia hy Invitation of King Ibn Saud who foots the bills for the agricultural 'miracles,' that John Strohm, roving editor for Country Gentleman, tolls In the January issue of the maga zine. Mr. Strohm also took the pictures. One la of All, hit bar feet crossed before him on the hlg camel, fascinated by the pic tures In a copy of Country Gen tleman which Mr. Strohm car ried with him everywhere in the 60 countries of Europe and the Middle East. Ken Edwards, a Texas district county agent went first to Ara bia; then he was asked to as semble a permanent crew of 22 mechanics, county agentc, etc., who with tact and skill are show Ing the Arabians, who Import 80 per cent of their food, how to he self-sufficient agriculturally. In summer, alfalfa has to he cut every 14 days. The 40-pound mel ons, average sire, seem miracles to the Arabians; their sweetness, too, delights King Ibn Saud and his subjects. Some melona are extra-big: "Why we don't grow them that big, not even In Tex as," said Edwards with 'true Texas modesty.' Wheat at $9 a bushel In Arabia is harvested by sickle, bundles tied with a straw carried on a donkey's back to the threshing- floor, a bare piece of ground, and then hy winnowing, to w'ng In the air, and the donkey's hooves trotting over It, It threshed. Then It must be picked up almost grain by grain. The Americans are getting 60 bushels to the acre and are sowing and reaoini Kansas style, much cheaper, too, than the way the Arabians have used for centuries. The vegetables, too, delight the King all but the turnips. He sent a note about them: "don't send me any more turnips." But other vegetables they raise the year round, In 125-degree heat In slimmer. The Americans wear the protecting turbans and beards. Gill, the mechanic who receives requests from the Crown Prince to 'please fix' a broken differential on a truck 100 miles out in the desert, has a beard that is the envy of the Arabs. "Gee," says Gil, "even nails have to he shipped in from America! It's a wonderful story of a King who knows what he wants and 22 Americans who know how to give It to him and his country. A contribution Indeed to world peace. to' Sandrlngham, his Norfolk County birthplace and favorite retreat, for an indefinite atav. There he Joined Princess Eliza beth, Prince Philip, their baliv, Prince Charles, and Princess Mar garet, who drove the slightly more than 100 miles earlier in the week. In the Day's News Continued from Page On) and the power and the SPEND ING of the federal government was It. Quite properly, In line with this trend, the President advises UPPING FEPERAt TAXES FOUR BILLION HOLLARS. If the federal government, follow ing the rather clparly expressed wishes of the people, is to go on spending, It must have money to spend.' The money must be provided by taxation. Strrltmtnt Prtdlcttd In Ship Tleup Strike ASTORIA. Jan. 8. l.f) A set tlement is expected soon In the dispute that has tied up the re frigeration ship Tlnlan. The vessel came In from Cent ral American waters with 700 tons of tuna. CIO Longshore pickets went out, however, when CIO cannery workers prepared to un load the ship. Ixincshoremen pre viously had handled the unload ing. tannery workers sa.d thev were acting under Instructions of LONG that line, one of the bet- er news magazines In a re cent Issue prints one of these "pie charts" showing where the tax money goes. It is interesting. It Is significant. Out of each dollar of TOTAL tax money back In 1932 (when the trend toward leaving every thing to Uncle Sam started) the CITIES got approximately two bits. NOW, after 16 years of leav Ing everything to our old unci wtih the chin whisker and the skinny pants, the cities get onl Ihe employers, the Columbia Riv-! "," mor ,ha" nickel out of streets, schools, fire and police protection, sanitation and so on for THINGS THAT ARE CLOSE TO US, that we ourselves use every day) the problem of city taxes wasn't so acute. Taxes weren't too burdensome, anyway, AND WE WANTED THESE THINGS. So we taxed ourselves, more or less willingly, to get them. Now, with the federal govern ment taking nearly three-fourths of ALL the tax money that Is col lected, we feel the pinch. With the tax burden bearing down hard on our necks, we are Irked when our city wants more money. Since our city administrations are CLOSE TO US and the federal government Is remote and vague and hard to get at, we are in clined to take our 111 will out on the city council when It tries to raise more city tax money with which to pay for our close-to-horn city conveniences and services. Mix Sand, Soil, Peat for Winter Seed Beginning When garden seeds are sown Indoors, long before it la safe to begin outdoor operations, much will depend upon the soil used to flu the seed box. If this w not brought Inside before the ground froze In the fall, it should b dug, and placed under shelter where It will thaw out gradually- If you try to dry toil quickly, with considerable heat, vou will make it very muddy at first, and lumpy thereafter. This will be difficult when what you want it a crumbly soil. Slow thawing will do the work, to do not try to rush things. Even though you have taken the best top soil from your gar denas you thould it will still need mixing with sand to maka It looter, and humut to increase ltt water holding capacity. Peat moss or leaf mould will supply tatltfactory humus, but do not use manure even when well rot ted, In toil to be used to start seeds. Nor should plant food be used, lett' too much nitrogen be tupnlled for the health of the teed sprouts. A third tOD soil, a third Deat most or leaf mould, and a third sharp tand, tuch as masons use in concrete will make a aatis factory mixture. After it it well mixed pass it through a sieve, about i inch mesh; and keep the coarser particles in a pile, to be used in the bottom of the seed boxes. The finer soil is then filled In to the level of the box; It will settle quickly. Mosa May Ba Used Sphagnum moss mav be sDread In a layer on top of the soil, If It Is desired as a means of protect ing the seedlings from "damping off" and other diseases. If soil it prepared hy this method, there will be no need for feeding the seedling plants until they have reached transplanting size. Two substitutes for soil which may he used In seed boxes are vermiculile, a form of mica used to Insulate buildings, and sphag num moss. These are sterile sub stances which have many advan tages, being much lighter than soil; but they are entirely lack ing In plant food and if used the plants must be fed aa soon as they have made true leaves, (their second pair) with water, In each gallon of which a tablespoon of your garden plant food hat been stirred. Mass Meeting Set at Drain On Sewer Problem Report on tewer problems at Drain will be given at a mass meeting scheduled in the Com munity Hall Thursday night. All citizens and property owners of the city are invitee! to attend. There will be discussion of the best wayt to handle the problem. The Drain Enterprise, which said the problem has been studied by Ben B. Irving, city engineer, also added: Drain hat only two small sewer lines, and under existing state ' laws no more sewage lines can be built that will flow into a creek ' without being treated through a i disposal- plant. j The State Board of Heallh is ! willing to work with any com munity that adopts a Dlan of ran. struction that will eventually cre ate a complete plant, even though this cannot be done at once. j 1 the town has the plans for i the complete system and a loca-! tion for a disposal Dlant. sn that new llnm -nlH ha M..-t........4 . - .... ........ wu,u wiisu uvinj lu tie In properly with the DrnnnseH complete unit, it might then be possioie to get state approval on lines to ease the critical ronrll. tiont in South Drain and in Rat nioreiand. The last cltv council lnlrnr-iH Irving to make a oreliminarv sur. vry, us lunos were not available to obtain a regular eneineerine- uivey. nine win oe enougn In formation available to find out what is required and to give everyone interested an overall picture of the situation. The new cltv council ImialloH Tuesday night, has been cooperat- mik wiui ouigoing mavor and council on this preliminaVy activ ity so that no time will be lost In getnng sianea on this important problem. Aa Mayor Mcintosh stated to the new council in discussing the matter Tuesday nlzht. "Under state Jaws the city has no choice in the matter, It Is obligated. The prooiem is to work out some plan that the city can fulfil and that tne state Board of Hea th w an. cept." The new council consisting cf w. jc. niciniosn. mayor: ri. L. Goodmanson, Art Huckins, Geo. Chambers and C. C. Ritter, will mt again luesday night. Disease Threatens Cherry Industry PULLMAN, Wash. IIP) Little cherry disease of cherries "may be as grave a threat to Washing ton orchardists as It was in Brit ish Columbia where It wiped out the cherry Industry," a Washing ton State College scientist says. Dr. E. C. Blodgett, associate pathologist, said a survey show ed the virus disease continued to spread through Washington's cherry orchards in 1948. It threat ens a seven million dollar sweet cherry Industry In the state. Only 38 percent of the 1945 treet found to be infected during 1947 were removed voluntarily, Blodgett tald. This was "disap pointing," he said because re moval of Infected trees is the only control measure known. He said the 1948 survey of 27 counties showed 1933 or 1.16 of the treet Inspected were diseased. Supreme Court Rules Log Sheets Entered in Error Finding that certain log scale sheets had been admitted In er ror as evidence, over obiections oi tne aptendant, the Oregon Su preme Court has reversed and set aside the Judgment of Circuit Judge Carl E. Wlmberiy In the case of A. W. Tripp and M. W. Saunders, doing business as Tmip and Saunders vs. Marcus Ren hard and Judd Creek Lumber Co. It was ordered that the appel lants (defendants) recover costs and disbursements in the amount of $207.17 from the respondents (plaintiffs) in the Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court upheld judgment of the Douglas County Circuit Court in the case of P. R Weaver vs. Pearl L. Austin. The Supreme Court found "there was not error as alleged," tnd the case was remanded to the lower court for a decree to be entered. day, Jan. 17, at Kennedy's Dutcli Mill on Highway south. The dress for the banquet ' will be semi-formal, although it has been emphasized that street-lencth dresses will also be appropriate for the women attending. Tickets, two for each member and two to be sold, will be dis tributed at tonight's meeting. At tendance It urged In order that the ticketi may be distributed. This meeting will also be im portant, in that all new member are to be formally initiated. EDWARD R. BURT & COMPANY Certified Public Accountants New York City Announce the opening of accounting offices at 821 Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon. The merging of the practice of C. W. Wray, Certified Public Accountant 516 Hall Building, Coos Bay. Oregon 401 Pacific Building, Roseburg, Oregon 12 City Building, Reedsport, Oregon And the purchase of the practice of Jamet Dutton, Certified Public Accountant 821 Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon Tax Consultation Auditing System Installation Resident Partner, C. W. Wray, C. P. A. Roseburg Manager, D. D. Evans AUTOMATC SAVING 1$ SURE SAVING U.S. SAVINGS BONOS Jutt $3.75 sprinkled into U. S. Savings Bonds each week grows into $2,163.45 in ten short yearsJ And, it's the world's safest, soundest investment. So sign up today for one of the bond-buying plana where you work, or where you bank. Douglas County State Bank Mmt)r Federal Depoalt tntmranca Corp. I 7 T a A o 'fir No use saying "quick as a rab bit" to Snapper. He's very evi dently QUICKER than a rab bit. If he had a gun instead of a camera there'd.be stew at Snapper's house tonight. How. ever, what he wanted was the picture and he got It. You'll find It easier to get the pic tures YOU want If you do as Snapper does get your cam eras and camera supplies here! Studio portraits are the elite aide of our business. That'i where we make those really flattering portraits of you, portraits you will like. PHOTOGRAPHS LIVE FOREVER PORTRAITS ... IN THE HOME ... IN IHE CHURCH ... IN THE STUDIO 105 S. Jackson Phona 331 Body of Yeteran Found in Stream gUT we shouldn't complain. OUR VOTES have broueht this situation about. Unfailingly, over 1 1 1 f i,(1 ,h,'"gh denial charts pro ih io.i i ...r. ... ....! . cured from his dentist as that of the past 16 .ears. we have voted , Alhprt Thornbury. who had been COTTAGE GROVE, Jan. 10.--(Special) Information has been received from Robert Mills, dep uty county coroner, that a body found last week In the coast fork of the Willamette river about one mile south of here hat been iden Plans to be Fixed For Junior Citizens Banquet Final plans for the junior citi zens banquet will be arranged at tonight's meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in the Ho tel Umpqua at 6:30 p. m. The banquet will be held Mon- 2 ALL-NEW SONOTONES! with yy WONDER. WORKING FITTED POWER" HERE! Our smallest, greatest instruments! S0N0T0NE 7 a.m. t 7 p.m. Wadnaaday, 12th Rose Hore WALLPAPER i00 Patterna 18o to 11.20 Peg Lumber & Fuel 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 uel I J rwn mose wno nave promised us i a patient of the Veterans Hos- more federal government and : Pi'al in Roseburg for eieht vears. AGAINST those who have held out for MORE GOVERNMENT er Parkers Association. Plckeis were withdrawn after a conference between Ihe unions and Ihe C.R.P.A. representatives Indicated a quick settlement would he made. MAJOR SURGERY Mrt. J. F. Plllard hsa received word that her brother, Bert G. Bates, underwent major t'lrgery Jan. S at Estacadero. Calif. Mr. Bales, a former resident of Rose burg, now Is emploved with the newspaper at King Cltv, Calif. each tolal tax dollar. The federal government gets NEARLY 7S CENT- of It. Aksi CLOSER HOME. In a democracy, tuch at ours, we get what we vote for. over the country but Lea Allm.nt Rnfk.rlnn SPECIALLY In the rapidly! . growing Far West, whose ex-, mn9 V"Orge, KeporT pandlng townt and cities are! LONDON. Jan. R (.1) King bunting out at the aeamt -the i suffering from a grave .(,,, , -ttv ....i i K ailment, went to his country problem of CITi taxation It an ,,,,,,, ,(v to , con- acute one. j valescence which hit doctor have In the old days, w hen we spent j called satisfactory, about a fourth of ALL our tAxL T2" Kin?- "i,h Queen :il?a money in our own town, Uor ."vd T tll S On February 12. 19-tR. Thoin bury wrote from Cottage Grove to the Roseburg Veterans Hos pital that he intended to commit suicide. The body had been In Ihe water a long time, evidently tince that time. Albert Thornburv w a i born April 9. 1893. at Granger. la. H is survived by a sister, Edna B. Donahue of Eugene. He was a Mason and a Snrlner. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p. m. in Rest haven Memorial Park in Eugene. One champ for going without food was Terence MacSwinev, Lord Mayor of Cork, who went on a huncer strike in 1920 and died after b9 days. 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