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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949- o J.'.- Published Dally Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Cattrtl ti tifland elm mttttr Hy 1, lin. il Iht poit ffle aa Roitbarr. Orfn, nadir et ( Mares t, U7I CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN U KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations rftt4 bf WEST-HOLLID AT CO., INC., fNeta In Nw rrk, Chlef, t&B FnncUos. Lea AngtUt. ttlt, FaMtiiit, SL Loo la. "VBICBIPTION II ATM 1 Ortfon By Milt Fr Twr IS. St, Hi m.nth I4.M, Ihrat men Iht U.50. By City Carrier Par rar llt.ftt advanea), tan lata na yaar, par omnia SI.Aft. Oattlda Or fen By Hall Per year MM, als aiantBi 1 75, Ihraa monlbi COMMUNITY By CHARLES V. STANTON Attendance at weekly forum luncheons of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce has been fairly constant, but many Roseburg citizens are overlooking an opportunity to hear interesting discussions of important topics. Last Monday, for instance, the speaker told of experiments in wood waste utilization. One of the most serious projects we have in this particular area is that of better utilization of our timber resource, yet few of our operators were present to hear the talk. An interesting schedule of topics has been arranged for the next few weeks. Everyone who can arrange to attend these luncheons held during the noon hour each Monday, should plan to be present, for better understanding of mutual problems and projects means a stronger community. Next Monday the speaker will be John C. Boyle of the California Oregon Power Company, who will give back ground information concerning the current power shortage and tell of present operations and methods and future plans. Certainly nothing is of more immediate importance to the Pacific Northwest and to the Umpqua Basin in particular than a more adequate and dependable power supply. Jan. 31, the program will feature a speaker to be furnished by the Pan-Americttn Airways and will highlight a motion picture, "Wings Over Ireland." F. H. Young, head of Oregon Business and Tax Research, Inc., is scheduled to speak Feb. 7 on the subject of current tax legislation. Many new tax bills are being introduced in the legislature. New taxes will be imposed in Oregon to meet a greatly increased budget. Mr. Young's topic is one in which every resident of .the state has a personal interest. February 14, H. J. (Herb) Cox, executive secretary of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association, will discuss the future outlook for lumber. Here is a topic directly connected with Umpqua Basin economy. From the list of subjects above and the quality of the speakers scheduled to discuss them it is evident that the Chamber of Commerce is arranging its forum programs to give members and visitors a liberal education in topics di rectly bearing upon the welfare of our community. Last Monday the speaker told of the many new uses for wood waste. Through efforts of the forest experiment sta tion at Oregon State College, scores of new processes have been developed. Some already have been taken over by pri vate industry. The fact that numerous processes for wood waste utiliza tion are available to the industry leaves no excuse for the refuse burners seen on every hand. Our present practices criminally waste a resource that is becoming increasingly scarce. We are cutting hundreds of thousands of board feet of timber into low grades having little market value. Yet this same wood, converted into one of the many other prod ucts made possible through experimentation, would have high value. We are cutting great quantities of immature timber timber that would not be ripe for the next 40 or 50 years. We are leaving a large percentage of cull logs in the woods, when processes have been developed to utilize profit ably even the pimky wood in down and rotting logs. As an exhibit at Monday's forum program, James Mess was displaying what appeared to be a foam rubber sponge. The sponge, reported to have many advantages over the natural or synthetic rubber varieties, is manufactured from wood fiber by a newly organized concern at Vancouver, B. C. The process was developed by a German refugee scientist. The alcohol-from-wood-waste process has been proven practical. Wood molasses can be manufactured from refuse now going into burners. Food yeasts, plastics and fabrics ore obtainable from sawdust. Scores of other processes are obtainable. Something should be done to channel our wood waste into useful products. We cannot attach too much blame to the in dustry, in view of the federal scheme of taxing away profits and discouraging risk capital. Industry can hardly be blamed for skimming off the cream when conditions justify and let ting the future take care of itself. If we are to continue our present tax policies, the federal government, we believe, must subsidize the expensive plants necessary to process wood normally being wasted. It should either build and operate the plants, with a continuing offer to sell to private industry at any time, or should provide a loan fund to be repaid from profits over a long period of years. We can't forever support a policy of tax and tax and waste and waste. Oregon's Bank Deposits Decline During 1948 POnn.ANP. .Ian. 22.-M' Oregon's bank deposit declined more lhan S.Vi.noO.000 Inst year, tne slate supet 'intendent of hanks reported. A. A. kojjims said the total de posits were S1.4(i0.i!5H.2(H) at the!,, mlrd prisoner, deseri end of 1!H7, and nnlv JJl.-lfKi.407 j p! " dangerous. Is 906 at the end of Ifqs. The do-' !"l''- ,l," "rrank .1. V( posits In state-chartered hanks In-1 creased, hut were more than j J,!,""- counteracted hv a sharp decline! ne men escaped Saturday eve in hn.,'b. nlni! while enroiite to the stork- In national hanks. Loans and discounts fell from ; $100,6G3,110 to $333,.i22,4.16. j ,,-!,;. a r p.- Recruit Hoy E. Johnson, 2t. w as Fugitive Army Prisoner , recaptured several hours after the Caught at Klamath Falls "'"i"1- KORT LEWIS, .Ian. 22. -t.pi - 100 Is an easv number to re A second Army prisoner of a trio member. Phone ' 100 The News of three who broke from the post Review- now and Insert that stockade .Saturday, gave himself ; classified ad. EDUCATION up to Klamath Kalis. Ore., police Yesterday, airotdins to Army Provost Marshal Artie M. llciipe. Itecniit Marshall Then Sneo.-i- 2.1. of Coupons, s. C. sentenced to dishonorable discharge after a ', long record of offenses In the I military service, will he returned j by Army guards to Fort Lewis. A third prisoner, described hv still at 'pmmitt. convicted or assaults and de ade dining hall when they cut their way through a heavy wire fence surrounding the area. OUT OUR WAY Hi "ilillllllllllll! DOM'T NEVER AGAIN) WIL1 T 1 nwr, " i f' RIDICULE I ( FOR THE LEISURELY ' I THE BOY MUZZLE -LCADIM& V--- ' ' WHEN HE'S PAST-ITS TOO LONG JUil ' TRYING TO ' BETWEEN! SHOTS' IT'S iL. TTTlli i LEARN NOT SPEED THAT'S -v I iNi V HARDONttIR y C - I www By Viahnett S. Martin One small hoy uspd to Insist that 'upperators' should he called 'down-erators' half the time. In addition to the looking up at the light overhead to offset the drop ping floor beneath them, and the elevator games at home using a house door, I also recall that hold ing one's breath, taking a good deep breath, helped offspt the unpleasant bouncing that one ex press elevator In Detroit always had. The first haircut was a great event In our family. To be sure smaii Hoys naa tonniea along part or oi their parents when a with daddy a time or two to visit to the dentist became neces watch him have a haircut, andisary. had been casually told when they were 'big enough' they too would have a haircut like daddy's. So when the great day came the three men-folk of the family hied themselves to the barber's, and mother, of course, stayed at home, to hear all about It from the principal actors In the drama when they strutted back. The barber had to do "easy-money" because both wanted to he first. Then each In turn surveyed the grownup world from the height of a barber's chair and felt very big Indeed! The barber omitted nothing; pven to the solemn plac ing of the mirror and the ques tion "How's that?" at the end. It did seem a good Idea to hide the scissors for a few days. But fingers make very good make believe scissors for demonstration purposes. One day Small Boys accom panied mother to the dentist. How would you like to come In and sit down there In front of 1 Editorial From Tht UP JUMPS THE JACK SALMON I (The Oregonlan) Among 1!I49 angling regula tions tentatively adopted by the State (lame Commission Is one which would restrict the daily catch of jack salmon to two fish after September 30. The angler who takes a lack salmon is re quired to count it as part of his bag limit of two fish, salmon or steelhead. In adopting this regu lation, which Is neither good bi ology nor sound conservation, the commissioners with one excep tion approved the proposal of their staff of biologists, whose argument in part was that other wise the lack salmon fishermen would take trout by error when the slimmer fishing season, with its daily limit of 10 Jack salmon, or 20 in Kissession, closes on Sep tember no. lids curious llloglc would have It that an angler who could tell the two fish apart on the last dav of September would he unable to do so. or to no greater extent than a couple, the first dav of October. Yet were this true, would the device even then lie effective conservation? The late P. IV Hawlev. famous superin tendent of federal fish hatcheries, once testified that lack salmon actually "milked'' gravid she-salmon to steal their eggs. 'l"hev aiv notorious for their raiding of the spawning beds. What price con servation of species by conserv ing Jack salmon? The price obvl- decreased salmon and trout runs. It cannot he anvthinc I else. Nature s error, as our econ-1 omy considers it, would be com pounded hv the biologists. Per haps it will be well to quote this page's own oft-repeated defini tion of the lack salmon: Our western Jack salmon, which returns to the river In companionship with a spawning migration to which It does not belong, yet of the same snecles. Is a sexually precocious adoles. V MOTHERS GET GRAY "t.,,. ' j we""" mother," the dentist asked casu ally, "and see how I clean moth er's teeth?" Dr. Perils was young and Imaginative. (His two chil dren now are college-trained, out In the world making names for themselves!) As he worked he showed them each Instrument, and chatted casually with them as they sat wide-eyed on the floor In front of the chair. Some day, he said, they, too, would be big enough to. have their teeth cleaned If It should he necessary. Needless to say, there was never any fuss or dread either on their I remember the way we used to dangle carrots on a string and stick In front of reluctant don keys at Burnham Beaches (does any reader remember that place, too?) and I guess we 'dangled' attractive m e n t a 1 pictures In front of Small Boys eyes to make their path pleasanter and free them from fears and dread of re quired experiences! At any rate "when you are big enough," cas ually planted ahead of time smooths the way for both par ents and children. "When you are big enough you will go to school too. . ." They could hardly wait! And their school days were a delight to them and their par ents, who were required to learn each day the songs and games enjoyed that day In Kindergar ten. I still have some of the vi vidly drawn, colored crayon art gifts they brought home so proudly. The pictures needed no labels either! They spoke for themselves. Comment Oregon Press cent male fish, all of whose sis ters, and most of whose brothers, will remain In the sea at least another year before ascending as adulis. There Is no evidence of the re turn of any Jack salmon to the sea In common with the spawned adults, they die. and this with few If any exceptions. On one of his recent visits to Oregon, when the conservation of jack salmon was being discussed. Dr. Ira N. Cabiielson remarked that he never before had heard such a preposterous proposal. Dr. Gaorielson, as you may know. Is by way of being something of an authority, too. Whv does the com mission so bllndlv decline to see that, with trout fishing waning, the available lack salmon angling is for their purpose providential? To catch Jack salmon should not be unlaw (ul: it should he re garded as virtuous. The tentative regulation would almost wholly prohibit our enlov ment of the heavv Jack salmon runs of fall, which are in the coastal rivers until the middle of November, thus allow ins the ore. cocious predators to take heavier I describes as a "minor stomach toll of the eggs that are naturally i disorder." spawned. If the commission I Hospital attendants Jesterdav wants to he reasonable about :hls described his condition as satis problem, w hy does It not declare . factory. His secretary, Bishop Ar a sx-cial season for Jack salmon thur Haycock, said there was angling, closing on November IS? j nothing alarming about the The Jack salmon should not be church leader's condition, regarded as a paw n for the regu-1 The 79-vear-old spiritual leader lation of other angling. It Is a of more than 1.01X1.000 Mormons superlative game fish that he. came here from Salt Lake Citv to comes an economic waste and racial detriment w henever it es-1 capes tne angler. lt s thank the red gods for this fish and eniov ii won clear conscience. ECONOMIC VISIBILITY LOW t Coquille Valley Sentinel) We nave read to date exactly 17 "Forecast or Business Out- looks for 1949," Including The Sentinel s own Roger Bshson's I report on things to come, and i By J. R. Williams we're now ready for the Salem nut hatch. If you can read 'em and not w-eep, read 'em and not scrateh your head until the last remain ing hairs fly off in a rhapsody of cacophony, then you read them and tell us. To date vou get thi-s dope: Things look good. Things will drop a little, hut the pickup hv military expenditures will boost, us. Danger, it may be inflation in 1949, not deflation. And so o.i. Then some of the boys who get paid a nice fat sum to bewilder us poor yokels say the peak of inflation was reached, it s lown from now on, no depression, but some recession. And so on. So to get the real -scuttle-butt for you we took a trip across the street to Bill's Place and sat dow n at a pinochle table, and here's the forecast for 1949. - The banks will keep the money In 1949. It will be In silver, green backs, or checks. You'll have to fight like h . . to get it away, and they'll take on a nice note and Interest to boot. Charge accounts will be due In 30 days, and people will get paid or thev won't like It. It will still pay off to get 1300 pinochle, but good cigars will oe hard to find, and the salmon run on the Coquille. won't be as good as the spring Chinook run on 'he Rogue. Tourists will crab about the condition of the Coquille-Co s Bay road, and travel will be up and down, according to how many hills there are to traverse. Grocery stores will find busi ness good, and clothing will see people buying clothes to wear. A shortage of barrels will forestall any boom In the buying of such Items. The power company will con tinue to have a shortage of pow'er on Monday mornings and will continue to blame appliance deal ers for selling too many washing machines. (However, they won't advertise to get people back to the tub washing days.) Ducks will continue to be high In 1949, and deer will be low to the ground, but obscured by brush. And Roger Bahson will keep on writing, and so will the prog, nosticators such as Kiplinger and the others who write tor Nation's Business. Business Week, and Time magazine. A hit of salt will go both on the top of your beer, and on the top of all such forecasts for 194P. E. F. Wade, Prominent Timber Cruiser, Dies ABKRDEEN, Wash., Jan. 22. . Ernest F. (Cap I Wade, fi4, for more than 40 years a Pacific Northwest lumber and timber cruiser, died Thursday. He was a timber cruiser with the State Land Commissioner's office about 20 years and cruised most of the state's timber through the Olympic Peninsula. He served in World War One, both In Ihis country and overseas in the Engineering Corps, and was discharged with the rank of captain. After the war, he served In a civilian capacity as an en gineer in Siberia. Returning to this country. Wade cruised timber in Oregon and was connected with the log ging Industry In Oregon until lie came to Washington to take the state position. He never married. Mormon President III In California Hospital LOS ANOEI.ES. .Ian. 22. (.T1 George Albert Smith, president of the Latter Day Saints Church, Is in California Hospital here. suffering from what his secretary discuss plans for construction of Mormon temple. Work is ev- pected to start within 60 to 90 days. DRESSED BEEF DOWN PORTLAND. Jan. 22.-(.4? The price of dressed beet here fell sharnlv yesterday. A curtailed demand for hind quarters, trimmed loins, and rths sent the price of dressed beef down SI. I Boy Kills Mother, Brother in Revolt Against Discipline LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 22 OP) A fifteen-year-old boy charg ed with killing his mother and brother with the rifle he got for v,nnsimas, Diamea nis action on his secret rebellion against strict family discipline. Prosecuting attorney Earle Morgan said young Mike Foley loia mm tne Wednesday night shooting climaxed two weeks jf target practice with a .22 caliber rifle. Mrs. Isabel Foley, 42, and Mike's 11-year-old brother, Jack, were found dead in the Foley's home at nearby Leland. Mike is charged with first degree mur der. Morgan said Mike told him of wild dreams he had at night, and his rebellion against his strict rearing as a member of the Quaker sect and firm family dis cipline. The boy said he was not allowed to attend movies, but sometimes broke this iamily rule, Morgan related. Mrs. Foley was shot in the hack of the head while sitting in a chair watching her younger boy play on the floor. Mike's brother was shot in the side of the head as he played. Officers said Mike was in an hysterical condition when the killings were discovered. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) stray shot. His voice was heavy with reproof as he assured me there was nothing to be had and you could see he thought I ought to have known better than to go chasing around the country . tak ing up busy people's time with fool questions. Oh, well, the legislature's in session, and luck may be better on ahead. IN Stockton, the hotels are full. So I drop down to the motels. A fairish-looking one has a va-1 cancy sign out, hut there's no j place near to eat. When I get : holed up for the night, I hate to I chase off a couple miles to as suage the pangs of hunger. And I hate worse to toddle out Into the cold these chilly mornings for breakfast. So that one's out. Another passable one looms from the darkness, but advancing years are maklnp mp continue I'm getting like the wolf that has i been lured ton often hv the cleverly dolled-up trap. So i drive siowiy around the horseshoe to look and to sniff. As I approach the office a woman comes out into the dark and the rain Whv should she do that? One of the business lessons an old dog learns is to shy away from a seller who Is too eager. Too often, in such cases, the product Is inferior anrf the salesman Is trying to lull your natural suspicions with a cordial pitch. Besides, she's Portuguese. The Portuguese are wonderful nennio as all people are If you treat them ngni, dui mis one Is a bit on the fat and contented side. Hn ,n people get fat and contented? Wee-e-l-I-l, they sometimes get that way be worrying too infre Umpqua Cabinet Shop Home and Store Remodeling Bar Stools Chair . Table Ensembles Kitchen Cabinets Phone 449 R 3 or 337 R-3 2040 N. Stephens HAVE YOU SEEN 0UR r On Display This 'eck quently and doing too little work. And in the business of catering to paying guests If you worry too little and work too little, things are apt to get a leetle run-down. And who wants to stay at a run down motel, even If it has a flashy front? It beats the dickens how buy ers can get, doesn't it? And how often a sales can be spoiled by a too-eager selling approach. Anway, I poured on the coal and got outa there. EVENTUALLY the miracle we always hope for came to pass. Out in the edge of town I stopped at a service station and asked the attendant what he knew about motels. "Best one In town right kitty-corner across the street, where you see that light," he said. It turned out OK; nice and clean, nice little coffee shop, nice people running it. It Isn't such a bad world, after all even in badly crowded Cali fornia, on a raw, wet, bone-chilling night In mid January. Alaska Assured of Its First Income Tax Law JUNEAU. Alaska. Jan. 12 m The Alaska Senate passed an Income tax bill. 13 to 3. vestprriav after only 15 minutes' discussion oi tne controversial measure. 1 he measure now must eo bark to the House for acauiesence in minor amendments. The ease with which the Sen. ate decided to give the territory us nisi income tax law came as an anti-climax to lone wranidinir which preceded bringing it to the final test. The bill provides for an income tax amounting to 10 rer cent of what the individual or firm pays in feedral Income tax. It sets up withholding provisions and pre scribes collections from persons who are only in Alaska seasonally or part time. Mrs. John Dowell, Former Roseburg Resident, Dies Mrs. John Dowell, resident of Roseburg for many years, died In Portland Jan. 14, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Gruber, also formerly of this city, accord ing to word received here. Mr. Dowell, a former landscape gar dener, died In Roseburg several years ago. Besides Mrs. Gruber, Mrs. Dowell Is survived by anoth er daughter, Mrs. Caleb McGraw, and one son, who reside in Colo rado. The body was shipped to Colorado for burial. Mrs. Dowell was an active member of Neigh bors of Woodcraft here. THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST 1 INVIIt TOU TO ALL SERVICES Bible Study Wednesday 8 P. M. In Sutherlin at the Scouts Hall Sunday 1 0:00 A. M. In Roseburg at 789 Military Street Bible Study 10 A. M. Service at 11 A. M. Communion 11:50 A. M. Evening Young People Meeting 7 P. M. Service 8 P. M. GerOM A PAYROLL SAVMGSPUWf AUTOMATIC SAVING IS SURE SAVING-U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Ituuranca Cora WATCHES! RINGS! GLASSWARE! NOVELTIES! COSTUME JEWELRY! WATCH STRAPS! WATCHES! A WINDOW-FULL OF EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS IN FINE JEWERY JEWELERS Ail-Out Fight Against Reds Seen In Truman's Talk LONDON, Jn. 22 (?F The European press both Communist and non-Communist,' generally agreed yesterday that President Truman's inaugural address fore--shadows an all-out offensive against Communism. The London Times said Amer ican policy now "may well be to extend the conflict between Rus sia and the United States to other parts of the globe . . "For the first time. President Truman, laying aside sentimenlal generalities, has attacked Com munism as a doctrine," said the Communist L'Humanite In Paris. The independent Rome paper, Momento, hailed the address as "open and absolute condemnation of Communism" but suggested It might "have been opportune, bp fore making the speech, to send a dozen divisions and a hundred or so air squadrons to Europe." The speech was largely ignored by the Russian press. The anti-Communist papers in Berlin praised the speech as a V "program for peace and reeon- T struction of Europe." The only official commert came from the British foreign office. A spokesman said the president's advocacy of develop ment of backward areas "is very much in line with what we have been seeking to do." The Manchester Guardian also seized upon that angle as the foremost thought expressed in the address. Noting that Communism counts on advancing through an Amer ican depression and "increasing misery of the peoples left behind in the march of civilization," the Guardian said: "He (President Truman) offers a plan which may help to falsify both expectations at once." Board of Health Posts Filled by Gov. McKay SALEM, Jan. 22. (JPi Gover nor McKay yesterday reappointed Drs. Charles K Hunt Pimm. and O. C. Hagmeler. Seaside, to the State Board of Health: Dr. Thomas E. Griffith, The Dalles, was named tn succopH C. E. Hardwick, Portland, on the same board. The appointments will be sub mitted to the Senate, which must confirm them or reject them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meets 4:00 P. M. at Chamber of Commerce everv Saturday. Contact P. O. Box 1116 or Phone 506-L-X.
