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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29. 1949 Published Dally Except Sunday by th Nawt-Review Company, Inc. Keteree: eeeend elase matter May 7, IKS, at the pott efn a4 Belabors, Oresoe. sodtr eet ef Maruh S, lf:t CHARLES V. STANTON -f. EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor 5 Manag.r Membsr of tho Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations epreeealeS br WEST-HOLLWAT CO, INC., ofMo-a le New Terk, Chic.,.. S.a Fr.ncl.oe. Lea Anf.lca, Seattle, Peruana1, St. Lenle. UBSCIIIPTION ATESln Or.,on-B, Mall-Pa, rr ,,,, .1, .nlh inr.a moult, H.50. Br CU7 Carrier Par rear I10.M (In .jT.no.), I... (has J.". "" "! Br Mall Per jeer l.oe. all monlb.. fi.jj, three month. lt.7j. WE REMEMBER BILL! "Yoo Hoo, Neighbor!" By CHARLES V. STANTON We'll call him Bill because that wasn't his real name. He was a wiry little guy and played shortstop with our South End Demons. Believe me, that was a real ball club! There were many vacant lots in those days, and we all saved string to make baseballs, which we covered with leather from old boot tops, as we converted those lots into baseball dia monds. That was the year we won the city sandlot championship. At least, we claimed the championship. So did the other teams. Of course, no game ever went beyond the fifth inning. The fight always started by that time. But we were out in front before the argument which ended each game, so we claimed the title. Bill was deceptive. Being small, he usually was the fir.t to be picked on when the inevitable battle started. But rival gangs soon discovered he was dynamite, go, despite his stat ure, they let him strictly alone after they had learned the hard way what a good scrapper he was. It was after the baseball season had ended and we were starting to kick a football around, planning our strategy for taking the West Side Wildcats into camp, that our plans were disrupted by news that Bill was sick. We went by his home and saw a big red "Contagious" sign on the doorpost. Doctors didn't know much about polio in those days. They knew it was contagious and that it killed and crippled but they didn't know what to do about it. Many people were dying, and every night after school we would walk appre hensively to the gate in the white picket fence around Bill's house to see if the sign was still there, or if Bill and the sign both were gone. One day the sign was missing but our anxious inquiry re vealed that Bill had survived. A four il..,. I., ..... 1... J 1 ... i. ... " ""J" mlc' "c l'--""ii. io can on mm. grow tall and sturdy of stem, and The pale, weak figure didn't look like Bill, and the tired in due time blossomed until it voice piping up from the bed trying to wisecrack although was heart-lifting to look at them, the word "wisecrack" hadn't been invented yet made us want to cry, as we stood nervously twisting our caps and wishing we could got out of that sick room quickly. Of course, we were too big to cry, so when we got outside there was n good deal of rough-housing to show we were still hardboiled "Demons." . By Viahnett S. Martin Never mind what the calendar says. Spring Is on the way. Here's the first gaily colored flower catalogue: roses, cosmos . . . One year we had some unusu ally beautiful cosmos plants that Then we learned that Bill's legs wouldn't work. It was rather hard to understand, that Bill couldn't kick a football, or run a race, or wrestle or box or anything. And we'd lay awake nights trying to feel what it must be like not to have any legs. We'd turn back and forth, using just our arms, as we endeavored to figure it all out. But Bill wasn't whipped. We heard his mother crying in our house one day. Between sobs she was telling our mother about Bill. They had a long flight of stairs in Bill's house. He refused to let them carry him up and down those steps. lie would drag himself from tread to tread, pulling one foot into posi tion, then trying to make it force his weight upward. It was painful and exhausting. Two or three steps and he would fall on his face, sweating from every pore and crying, but he would let nobody help. It was like the day Bill fought the catcher for the North Side Bears. The catcher was twice as big as Bill. Bill's nose was bloody and his face was all cut up. Ife was crying but still fighting and he kept on fighting until the catcher was down in the dirt. One of Bill's logs recovered somewhat within a few weeks nnd he could hobble around a little. He made his folks got him a bicycle. He rigged it up so nis game leg was fastened firmly to the pedal. Then he would ride by the hour trying with all his determination to make that leg work naturally. When baseball season rolled around again, Bill was back at shortstop. He couldn't move very fast to the right, and he couldn't shift at all to the loft. He didn't field many balls and he couldn't hit the broadside, of a barn at bat. Biit we'd have whipped any guy who so much as intimated that the Demons needed another shortstop. We didn't win any games that season. But who cared? We Mill had good fights! Bill's folks were awfully poor after his illness. They both worked at everything they could find to do to pay off the doctor and drug bills. There wasn't any Foundation for In fantile Paralysis in those days to help parents with expense involved in treatment of polio, nor to give patients the type of treatment that would have saved Hill many, many days and weeks of self-inflicted physical suffering, as his deter mination forced him into an instinctive course of muscle training which today can be guided by trained therapists. Maybe it's because we remember Bill that the March cf Dimes seems so important. All day long six little finches, usually upside down, swayed and fluttered and hopped about In the cosmos, enjoying the seeds which formed quicker than I could kpop picked off perhaps I didn't try too hard? The finches were such a Joy! There wbj a prevailing west ern breeze which some days be came quite stiff. I would watch the cosmos bending their graceful heads way over, and then, the gust having passed, and many a time since I have remembered the lesson taught by the self-adjustment of the flowers. Had they fought against the wind what would have hap pened? By giving a little, toler ating by sturdy self adjustment thai had nothing of weakness or shilly-shallying about It, they even grew stronger as trees, buf feted by winds on hilltops, send down a deeper root. I refusal to make any adjustment In our thinking. We can keep our spiritual Integrity, of course, as we make such concessions to whatever winds of adversity blow upon us. If we were going on a hiking trip, how carefully we would load our shoulders, how surely we would leave out anything that would hinder us. Yet in this Jour ney of life we sometimes load our pack with thoughts of self-pity, self righteousness, self-love, self- Justification. Self-pity that would imply that a kind Father is kind- succumbed foui er to one of His children than to other was the youngest of the another: self-rlghtcousness t h a t ! Krup. uno lost hi mind and Rescued Eskimo Credits Prayers Of Companions NOME, Alaska, Jan. 29. The prayers of his two com panions, both of whom died, en abled Gregory Ayac to survive 17 days on an Arctic Ice floe, the 24-year-old Eskimo said from his hospital bed here. He finally drifted to safety at a fishing camp near Shishmare, 500 miles from where the three were swept to sea, and was flown to Nome by a weather observer. His feet are frozen, but he would not have suffered even this Injury had his mukluk not been torn by jagged Ice, Ayac said. He told his story to Emily Boucher of the Nome Nugget. Ayac said the first to die was a 30-year-old father of three. He days out. The would assume we have the right to dictate a course of action, or that we have no need to learn Job's lesson; self-love that takes refuge In "hurt feelings" for when the going gets hard "hurt feelings" give us an alibi to hide behind and so evade an honest facing of our own mistakes; there are so many self thls and self that's which we stumble over. So many lessons we learn over, and over, and over! One of the reasons why I am so sure of Immortality is that it takes us all of this experience to learn our lessons surely there finally froze to death. Ayac said he saw Air Force search planes overhead but was unable to catch their attention The Air Force gave up the search several aays ago. A devout Catholic, he attrlbu ted his survival to the prayers of nis companions. were they must be a nlace and n 11'Hl' t r ilea Sometime we find ourselves in 'such knowledge when we finally much distress through a stubborn i have acquired If In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Israeli-Egyptian Parley Totters on Failure Rim RHODES, Jan. 28 Israeli. Egyptian armistice negotiations were at the edge of failure to-dav. Failure of both sides to modify Jewish military men In the dele gation were beginning to show irritation. Alluding to the two defeats ad ministered to the Egyptians In the desert since October, one Jew ish source said, "ihev have ap parently forgotten what sort of cotton and spread it over the craggy tops of the mountain. It turns out to have been a snowstorm, which we miss by about an hour. By the time we pass over, tile pavement is dry again for the most part, but the sides of the highway are dusted with fresh snow. From 3000 feet on up the snow comes clear down to the pavement's edge, and, It be ing Sunday, it looks like maybe half of Los Angeles has brought the kids out to ski and to coast. The skis are store bought, but most of the sleds have tieen cob bled together by papa with the aid of a dull saw. Hut the kids love It. Br-r-r-r-r! The things that kids can love to do! night approach, the thing to do Is to start sleuthing a motel. As you pass 'em by, you look 'em over. It's a rough thing to say, but most of 'em are on the crumby side. They're a cinch to be that way If they were built as much as five or six years ago. The public's taste In motels has been rising rapidly, along with the standard of living, and most of the pre war ones look to our pampered post war eyes something like a share cropper's shack. As In most other business tran sactions, you must be offish and choosy. If you get panicky, let ting thoughts of what It would he like to sleep In the car run I Ayac said the three drenched from spray as drifted on the ice. "Our parkas were frozen stiff," he said. "We Jumped from one ice caKe to another, building shelters at night, huddling to gether until daybreak. We lived on raw meat from two seals we caught. Court in Chicago Dismisses Action Against S. P. Co. CHICAGO, Jan. 29 UTS Su perior Court Judge Samuel B. En- stein dismissed a $90,000 personal injury suit filed here hv W. J. Hart of Alhanv. Ore., against th Southern Pacific Railroad. The Southern Paclifc has onlv a business agent in Chicago. Hart, who claimed damages be came of the loss of a leg in a switching operation In Oregon in lfMfi, filed under the Federal Em ployers Liability Act which gives him the right to bring action at any place where the railroad does business. Judge Epstein, however, ruled that the court could refuse to hear a case here because of con siderations of convenience. "The Influx of these cases Into this Jurisdiction Is not a mere accident," the Judge said. "It com menced In 19-11 when an enter- IT'S chl thrniivh vm.f n,inj . . : pi ising group oi lawyers saw the ......,, ,,, mmn, jou re almost i possibility nf lemon. Rut If! from the Importation of them. Tin certain to pick jou keep your nerve and hold your standards high you'll come out In the chips. Whatever may be said of the better hotels, there's a buyer's market In mo tels. If you pick 'em over long enough, you'll find a moderately ciassy one with a vacancy slcn i out. unusual, and It's raw and chilly. A palm tree weighted down with snow has an Indisput ably embarrassed look, the way I you feel In a dream when you've ! CVENTltALLY, that comes to been caught out without any ! t pass. A neat neon sign pro clothes. A camellia bush is even claims that It Is the Pepper Tree worse. But don't get the Idea that Inn. It really Is tucked in under Southern California Is suffering, i a clump of pepper trees. 1 So often All the real suffering down here you know, the Lone Oak service ! lengthened this cases have been clogglrrg our court calendars, and mate rially interfere and delay the progress of other cases." The railroad asked that the case be dismissed, arguing that It was not convenient for 14 de fense witnesses, all living on the West Coast, to travel 2.300 miles to testify, and that It was equally inconvenient for Hart to bring witnesses hoit. Columbia Fishing Season Not to be Lengthened PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28. i .TV- The commercial season In the Columbia River will not be ineir stands appeared likely lo condition Ihev were In when we wreck the conference very soon. j agreed to a cease fire order " Egypt has demanded the Jews One authoritative Israeli Source ,?ive up gams in the Southern des- .-,,,1 ,.. i iL. . .. . ert whicli the Jews have refused i render!, ,V ,,; .iV. - J ! In the Negev." to do. you could put In your eye. Even ' station Is so named because there the sun-hunting tourists haven't is no lone oak in the vicinity.) too much to complain about. Com-i It has a hospitable look. More pared with what it Is where they i over, it has a coffee shop. It turns came from, this weather is rela- out to be quite on the goodish side lively comfortable. - - no Rltz or Riltmore. but com- ' I '"'''able AND WARM. The spread THE start south from Fresno Is of natural gas heating through too late even to hope for a the sunny southland has been a' hotel reservation in downtown ton to the Itching foot tribe.! Los Angeles. So. as the shades of ! There can be no gainsaying that! Arnie J. Suomela. Oregon mas- ter fish warden, explained that salmon runs have not vet been built back to the numbers de sired. In fact spring chlnook runs In the Willamette River are declin ing, and the runs in the Cowlitz River are "hardly holding their own." he said. "I'ntil the downward trend of these runs can be reversed. It was felt unwise to Increase the fish ing intensity on them." he said. Commissions In Regular Army Open To War Yet Grads Screening centers for process ing applications of former officers with wartime service In any of the armed forces for direct appoint ments as second lieutenants in the Regular Army opened Jan. 24 at the Presidio of San Francisco and five other stations in the Sixth Army area, it was announced at Sixth Army headquarters. Fort Ord and Fort MacArthur, Calif.; Fort Douglas, Utah; and Fort Lewis and Vancouver Bar racks, Wash., are the other sta tions where screening centers will be located. The new officer procurement program is one of several pro curement projects by which the Army is building up Its officer staff. This is the first time that direct Regular Army commissions are being made available to form er officers of the other services. Eligibility requirements Include one year of commissioned service In the Army, Navy, Marines or Coast Guard between Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 2, 1945, or equivalent service with the United States Health Service on wartime duty with the Army or Navy, or with the Coast and Geodetic Survey Service under specified military authorization during the war. Age limits are between 21 and 27 years, although In certain cas es credit allowed for active duty in wartime and since December 31, 1947. will permit appointments of Qualified individuals up to their 30th birthdays. Applicants must also have a bachelor's degree from an accred ited college or university, al though applications will be accept ed now from individuals who will be graduated prior to June 30. 1949. A waiver will be considered for applicants having 120 or more semester hours gained through attendance at an accredited insti tution, even though they have not received a degree. Appointments under this pro gram will be In addition to those offered to distinguished military graduates of the Senior Division, Reserve Officers Training Corps, and to selected applicants of the competitive tour program already under way. lo oe considered, ap-j plications must be postmarked prior to April 30, 1949. This new program makes It pos- j sible for former oficers from anv of the services who have fin ished college under the GI bill ' of Rights to apply their wartime service to a career in the Regular Army. Application forms and more de-1 tailed information may be ob-1 tained bv those interested from! anv United States Army and Air j Force Recruiting station. Profes-1 sors of Military Science and Tac-! tics at university ROTC units. Senior Instructors of National Guard and Organized Reserve Corps units, or anv local military! establishment In the Sixth Army ; area. Education Responsibilities Recognized by Residents Of Douglas, Mrs. Gorrell Says Douglas County residents have caught the spirit of responsibili ty for providing adequate educa tion for their children, Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, former county super intendent of schools, asserts. Mrs. Gorrell offered concrete evidence of public Interest In edu cation as she spoke at a ban quet given In her honor at the Umpqua Hotel in Roseburg Sun day. The banquet was arranged by the Douglas County B League Association in appreciation of Mrs, Gorrell's cooperation and assistance In the county's B League athletic program. Construction of new school buildings furnishes ' substantial proof that the public is willing to better conditions for pupils and teachers, Mrs. Gorrell said, pointing out the large number of new buildings already built or in process of construction, to gether with those planned for the near future. She recounted the growth of the county's school system during the past eight years and told of the hard strug gle to keep schools adequate to handle the rapidly increased en rollment. The banquet program was di rected by Chester Cook, president of the association, who present ed Mrs. Gorrell with an electric blanket as a gift from the B League. Appreciation was express ed in short talks by Lee Roy Hansen, secretary, and Omer Monger, member of the board of control, for Mrs. Gorrell's coop eration In B League activities. GT ON A PAYROLL SAVINGS PtANf AUTOMATIC SAVING IS SURE SAVING-U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Douglas County State Bank Member rederel Depoalt Insurance Corp. Georgetown, once a suburb of Washington, Is older than the capital city and was named In honor of Britain's George II. QUALITY COUNTS Qualify and precision mixed concrete costs you no more than ordinary con crete. So, why not buy the best when you buy. PRE-MIX CONCRETE CO. Phone 620 , Lover's Lane Leads Here . Many times each month Knudtson's is the shop ping place for, you guessed it. engagement ond wedd ing rings. Tb'j time honored custom ot pre senting an engagement ring and the bride with o wedding ring leads many a male to the counters of jewelry stores all over the world. Because these diamond rings have such an ensconced place in our lives and be cause diamonds ore so universally popu lar Knudtson's actually specialize in the study and grading of these gems. Knudt son's have one of the largest stocks of mounted and unmounted diamonds of any jewelry store in the west more than I.UUU ot these stones worth from $30 to many many thousands of dollars. Your choice in a diamond is particularly im portant to you and Knudtson's honor that importance because they know that the fine jewelry of today is the heirloom of tomor row. Engagement ond wedding rings made by Knudtson's of Douglas County gold more than 60 years ago ore still being worn to day. Think of the memories and pride in those bits of gold. Knudtson's ore here to help you in choosing jewelry you wish to wear or give. No customer of Knudtson's was ever knowingly misinformed nor has any piece of mer chandise been knowingly misrepresented for more thon 60 years. No wonder we are so proud of the reputotion we hold and these ethics and pride in craftsmanship ore at work for you today just os they were for the pio neers of Douglas County. Beside, the well known brands of diamond ring, such as Orange Blossom and Keepsake, Knudtson's specialize In de signing diamond rings, right here In their own shop You ar Invited to Inquire about this special sen-Ice and to ,ee the die. play of diamond, offered. Each diamond in stock I, scientifically graded for quality, co. or, cut and brilliance to the Internationally recognized" stan dards of the American Gem Society. v J
