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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949 mm G ''Mm Published Daily Excspt Sunday by th Newt-Review Company, Inc. lateral aa aecen din matter May 1, ISM, at Iba peal afflea al , Berebarf, Oreten. ander aet at Harea a, ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON g&t. EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Managar I Msmbr of the Anoclated Press, Oregon Newapaper Publisher! ' Anoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Clrculatlona esreeeate hf WUT-MOLL1DAT CO. INC, afflcii la Haw Terk, Caleefe, Sea rranclaae, Laa Aaeelea, Seattle. Peruana. St, Laala. IUBICKI7TION tATES la Orrron T Hill Par Taar KM, all Baalka MM, thraa nealha It.ftO. Br City Carrier Par rear (In eavesee), laia Ibaa warn rmmw, per raeaia ei.aa. uaieiae vreaea vr Men -r rear fa.aa, teniae 14.15, Urea mealba lt.1l. Heaven Protect Him From His Weather Friends AIRPORT ARGUMENTS By CHARLES V. STANTON From Mr. Dan B. Boone, we have a letter concerning Rose burg's airport problems. Mr. Boone frequently comments in the forum columns of The Newt-Review, particularly when an issue arises involv ing; taxes. It is well that we have people watching our tax expenditures and ready to call public attention to factors affecting the tax burden. We always welcome expressions from our family of readers. Mr. Boone's thinking on the airport subject probably is typical of that of a great many people. Technicalities of avia tion and airport development are unfamiliar to the average person and he is apt to think in terms of generalities. But the current problem is too important to permit superficial analysis and opinion. Mr. Boone's arguments are appealing to the person not thoroughly familiar with rules and regu lations of aviation, but, in view of the importance of the problem confronting the City of Roseburg, his statements should not be permitted to go before the public without more thorough study. Mr. Boone writes to the editor of The Newt-Review as follows : We often hear th statement that things come In cycles. Taxpayera of Roseburg have had their share of airport eyoles, as in the past 20 years we frequently have been told how an airport would bring big funde and aervlca to Rose burg. Every ao often a oommlttee telle us new Improvement are required and a bond muet be passed. Mr. R. D. Bedlnger of the Civil Aeronautlea Authority now tails us that th runways muet be lengthened and other expensive Improvements made. Regarding present length of the runway, I waa at the airport laat year whan a big plan landed there. It was th am kind and sli of plana used by Ooollttle In his raid over Tokyo. I asked the oommandlng officer If he had run way enough for a take-off, and h Informed me all ha would need waa 1,200 feet. He did not us that much in leaving. W hav aavaral transportation oompanles In Rossburg which are big assets In taxes, wagea and transportation for both freight and paasenger service and they pay their own way. When air servlc beoom profitable, soma company will finance an airport and overburdened taxpayer will not be loaded with more unnecessary and (xtravagant taxes. Mr. Boone's reasoning seems very sound on the surface. Nearly everyone Interested in aviation has seen large private planes landed at the Roseburg port with room to spare and casual observation would not reveal need for runway exten sion at considerable expanse. But there are several flnws in the argument. Commercial passenger flying is much different from pri vate flying. A timid passenger In a commercial airliner probably would be scared half to death If the pilot took a dive at the field, sideslipped his plane to the runway and then fishtailed to kill forward speed and thus play safe in staying within the boundaries of the port. In fact, an official of the West Coast Airlines told us recently that one of their hardest problems has been to teach pilots proper landing procedure. Most of the West Coast's pilots are fliers from the Inst World War. They have been accustomed to rapid descents, half stall?, sideslipping and fishtalling to make quick easy landings, ' until such procedure is second nature to them. They dislike the long gradual approach required for passenger landings, the slow deceleration of speed, and the long taxi to stations and return to the most distant portion of the runway. Rut passenger flight rules require low angle approaches and ample runway use to provide comfort and maximum safety for passengers. Futhermore, safety rules, set in regi:l;ilio.ii? passed by Congress, establish operational margins far in excess of actual need. No one can deny that commercial ' passenger flying muat be given every possible safety factor. If commercial passenger pianos were to make high angle approaches and take-offs, passengers not only would bc frightened but would be in greater danger than under pre scribed rules. Because of those safety regulations, longer run ways are necessitated than are required for private flying. A1 fmmJTJr By Viahnett S. Martin , Will you ever forgot the beauty of the world all about us last Fri day morning? The highway had boon bare of snow the day before all th way to Eugene, and the cold exhlllratlng; so to Roseburg I would go next day. Only I didn't. I slopped in EJ's too widely spaced footprints In the fluffy, ankle-deep new-fallen snow, leav ing Pretty switching her tall In quick expressive Jerks. No choice ot warm spots wherever she took notion this day; she must put up with the penthouse on the kitchen roof under the overhang. Pretty is expecting, too. Her last family of five, pure whit kittens, went to the same farm but that's another story. Pretty, by the way, Isn't white when she stops through the snow al though everywhere else she Is. The canyon wa a dream of loveliness; something to remem ber slwnys. Snow lay heavily everywhere It could find support. The alders and maples wore beautiful In their white casing; the firs were heavily frosted along the tops of each branch. Even the woods helped the pic ture. If only the crook had co operated so I could have quoted literally: He groined his arches matched his beams; Slender and clear wore his crys tal spars As the lashes of light that trim the stars: He sculptured " 'The little brook built a roof heard It and There's just no stopping place in the Vision of Sir Launfal. (Did you discover It with delight, too, In your school days? I learned It on the rebound through listening to an older girl memorize It for a program). Th second prelude has boon my 'winter' in memory for so long until this winter In Oregon! The words wore music In my heart as Eslrelllta rejuve nated by a new motor and every thing else the service man could urge upon her, purred down the canyon road towards 09. We waited twenty minutes past the usual bus time; then decided I should go on In to town and take the next bus If we wore unable to flag down the one we might pass. But after a mile, EJ had enough of Estrellita's skittish side-flipping of her hind wheels. He brought me home and put the chains on Estrelllta chains we had had for years but had never used. "Roseburg will keep" said EJ and departed for the offire. But I had something to add to my col lection of heart-stored memory pictures our canyon in the Sales Tax Gets Approval From Livestock Assn. GEARHART, Jan. 28. (.T) Endorsement of a sales tax was and included in final resolutions of the Western Oregon Livestock Association convention Wednes day. the measure, defeated repeat edly In past referendum! and usually opposed by agricultural groups, was approved as a means of obtaining needed state reve nue without Increasing property taxes. Charles Evans, Independence, was reelected president; Afton Zundel, Astoria, vice president, and Harry Llndgren, Corvallls, secretary-treasurer. Corvallls was named the site of next year's convention. Other resolutions passed by the 110 members at the 13th an nual session: opposed Daylight Saving Time; recommended no changes be made in the state's Bang's disease eradication law; asked federal funds up to $1, 500,000 for predator control; urg ed the State Game Commission to ell her pay for damage by wildlife or take effective con trol measures. Neath which he could house him snow! And Pretty, smug with sat-winter-proof; jisfaction, slept with her paws All night by the white stars' j hanging down over the corner of frosty gleams In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) this size can be got Into operation for loss thsn HALF the present cost. Mr. Boone points out that we have other transportation services paying their own way and contributing tax money. We might call attention to the fact that railroad lines were built through grants of public lands. Motor freight lines and passenger buses use highways built by public money. Air lines must have airports built by public expenditure. Airlines, too. pay taxes on equipment and fuel. No one can deny that railroads and motor transportation I newspaper has become something companies contribute to business and industrial welfare of a community. No spot knows this better than here in the Vmpqua -Basin where the transportation monopoly is ad versely affecting development. The question to be determined is whether public airport expenditure is justified by anticipated benefits, and whether taxpayers individually and collectively, and, considering other demands for tax money, can afford the improvement. THAT opens up an Interesting line of thought. Within the past throe decades, the number of dally newspapers In the United States has boon much reduced. As a matter of fact, the city o( 100,000 or less In which there is more than one of a rarity. This situation, and the causes that have brought It about, have been widely misunderstood. These newspapers that are alone In their fields are generally termed -MONOPOLY newspapers. In a sense, of course, they are. But It should be remembered that they Russia Not Easing Cold War, Gen. Clay Declares BERLIN, Jan. 28. (P) Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military governor In Germany, says he sees no evidence In Germany that Russia is softening Its cold war campaign against th West. He was asked to comment at a news conference Wednesday on re cent statement by Communist leaders In Italy and France de noting a milder Communist atti tude. Some quarters have Inter preted the statements as the start of a soviet "peace offensive." The U. S. military government meanwhile began lightening Its counter-blockade of 'the Soviet section of Berlin, adding 19 Items to the list of goods which may not be sent Into the Soviet area. Threals also were voiced to prosecute Berllners who got ra tion cards in both Eastern and Western Berlin and sell food sur- j pluses In the black market. Woman Dies In Burning I Home. Dauahtor Ininrorj obvious that If the capllall f:AR,R4, ni n,. t. a newspaper Is ; ,pi - ( )ne woman burned to death I the mantel. city an extremely risky venture. Almost without exception, those who have tried It have gone broke. IT Is obvious (hat cost of starling i greatly reduced the likelihood that new newspapers will be started will be much greater. Pub lishers, being human, are natu rally Interested In that possibility. This much can bo said for the ana nor daughter suriered ser ious burns when fire destroyed the kitchen of their home Wed nesday. Mrs". Hettle Lockman. a widow, was found dead In the room when firemen extinguished the flames. Her daughter, Mrs. Rob- c..:a n A. n . " hy Donald Getchell, son of Stell i-or irarric Acciaenr uetoheii. The complaint charges negll Nellie Feme Poo ("ooloy has genco on the part o( Getchell, filed suit In Circuit Court against also thai he was driving while Donald Getchell. Stella Getchell I intoxicated, and that he had pre- and John Doe Getchell, and Iheivlously been denied an operator's community of Stella and John Doe Gelrhell, asking damages of $-110 as the result of an automo bile accident Aug. 27, 19IS, near Wilbur. According to the complaint. Mrs. Cooloy was operating her car In a northerly direction, when haven't DRIVEN (heir competi tor! out of business. There Is no they'll relv on (heir own skill and struck hv (he second car. driven 1 ll,vv "mt guarantees them a 1 smartness to meet It. monopoly. They stay without com- j They are sound eneugh in their petition only as long as somebody economic thinking to rocognlre doesn't choose to come in and that an Industry that keeps start another newspaper. ' . shrinking steadily into fewer and : All that keeps somebody from ' fewer units is a DYING industry, j coming In and going Into com-! If you want a fight on your hands, i publishers who are gathered here oil M. Meek, 50, Is In the Til- in Fresno: They are taking no lamook General Hospital. She stops to hring about the passage suffered second degree burns snd "IL lw PROHIBITING THE j Neighbors heat out flames cov STARTING OF NEWSPAPERS, lering the younger woman's cloth There are no ruggeder Individual- j ing when she ran screaming to ists than the men who publish the i ,n?",r',,p'-, . newspaper, of America. This ; JZ XIXZVX writer has a notion that no mat- sene was used lo star( a fire, tor what happens you won't see j Mrs. Meek's husband operates newspaper men running to the ; a Krne here, legislatures, or to Congress. trv-' , ing to get laws passed that will "resident Of U. 5. Tied forbid other men from getting Bv Red Taoe. Hoover Savs NEW YORK. Jan. 28. i.VU- 'Single Package' Labor Bill Will Face Congress WASHINGTON, Jaan. 27 IO The administration was re ported about ready today to hand Congress a "single package" hill repealing the Taft-Hartley law and restoring the Wagner Act with "improvements" asked by Presldenl Truman. , A tentative outline of the pro posed new law was drafted at a White House meeting last night. Among those attending were Secretary of Labor Tobin, Con ciliation Director Cyrus Chlng, and Paul M. Herzog and Abe Murdock, members of the Na tional Labor Relations Board. One of Mr. Truman's aides told a reporter that the president has not yet approved the proposals. However, the chief executive was represented as being convinced that a new labor law must be handled In "one package." Labor unions have objected to (hat procedure. They want the Taft-Hartley law repealed and the Wagner Act restored In one step, with any changes In the Wagner i'.ct to come later. Mr. Truman was said to feel that such strategy would not ral ly enough votes In Congress be hind his pledge to repeal the Taft Hartley law. The "improvements" Mr. Tru man asked in his slate of the union message Include curbs on strikes affecting the national wcl fore, Jurisdictional disputes, and secondary boycotts. Beauty Contest Winner Slain; Husband Jailed SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 28. (A') The hammer slaying of a rod-halred beauty contest win ner, found nude except for a shower cap, led lo (he question ing of her husband Thursday by sheriff's officers. The body of Mrs. Anne Stewart Cut her, 23, her skull crushed, was found in her boarding house room yesterday. A few hours la ter the husband, Fred Cather, 28-year-old draftsman, was arrested. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Hutch Ins quoted Cather as saying, "My mind was blank; I beat my wife up; all I saw was red." Mrs. Cather, a clerk for the Western Pacific Railroad, was the 1947 winner of a statewide beauty contest sponsored by the company. Sacramento police theorized the couple had argued over worthless checks they said Cather had passed. Parents of 17 Children Find Living Comfortable ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28. .f) Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schacffer like children. And It Is Just as well they do they have had 17 of them. Two-day-old John Michael is the youngest. One child, a girl, died when she was five weeks old. Schaeffer, 48, an electrical con tractor, says his business Is so good that even with 16 children "I si 111 have to pay some Income tax." Grocery and clothing bills do not worry (he Schaelfers. "It doesn't cost much more to feed one more and in a family this size everyone lakes hand-me-downs as a ma((er of course," (he father said. And for housing "It doesn't get too crowded In our 14-room house. We even have a public addi-ess system (o keep (ab on them." r-WALirAKtK.--Ti 200 Patterns I 18o to 11.20 I Pag Lumber & Fuel I 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. fl Phone 242 I yOSEIURS XORE 113 W. Cass Phone 914 LOXIDE HOMES Variety of Floor Plans Free Estimates into the newspapor business. If new competition comes alonff. 1 iiart ica ini-a i iam a-if "tn-i.i . , I less 'and reckless driving" and ! P"1"0" wl,h them Is the high 1 Just try to tell a publisher or an prior motor vehicle accident or cost of getting Into business. As editor (hat the newspaper is a accidents." matters hav stood In recent 'living Institution. Those would lw years, that cost has been so high fighting words, and two minutes as to make starting another ; after they were spoken the fur newspaper In any moderate-sized would be flying. Members of the swift are the fastest flying known birds. family among Herbert Hoover says th Presi dent of the I'niled States "Is n longer In command" of the execu (ive branch of (he government. The former president said Wed nesday th chief executive has lost control because of red lap strung by Congress around many admin istrative agencies. Hoover, chairman of the Com mission on reorganization of the executive branch of the govern ment, said th Independent au thorities given many bureaus by Congress "are like the threads that tied down Gulliver." Mr. Hoover made the state ments in addressing the Economic Club of New York. ! VSS-? at "fttxe fteS -fate PXfiTS with CENTENNIAL Count On Centennial Egg Mash for real economy and gratr poultry profit. 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