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1 4 Th Nwi-RYlw, Roteburg, Ore. Tue., May 10, 1949 , " Published Dally Except Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. CHARLES V. STANTON pp, EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of tha Aaaoolatad Preaa, Oragon Newspaper Publiehere Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona niMlel br WEST-HOLIIDAT CO., INC.. efllui In Naw Tork, Cllo.ia, 1DB CaUrTION BATES 111 Os.gan Br M.ll Fae ' M M' !i?tLAit tor., month, li 30. B, City Bri"' '1"IJ. " ?.Y ..H .VnV-.l5 inontB i.wu. ui "i"" "i - ' - nt yti, per moma i.wo. u lOMIIll ft.iOi inn SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS Anyway, It's A Good Start By CHARLES V. STANTON Although the City of Myrtle Creek Is in ths doghouse because it is laggard in making plans for sewage disposal, other Douglas County municipalities are well advanced with sanitary plans and, in general, are far ahead of the state average, according to Claude Baker, county sanitary en gineer Myrtle Creek, it is reported in a bulletin issued by the State Board of Health, ignored a request that it appear at a public hearing in Portland recently, where six cities and three industrial plants were represented, and where warn ing was issued that legal action may be used to enforce anti-pollution laws. The State Sanitary Authority has cited Myrtle Creek to appear at a hearing July 22. Municipalities which lack sewage disposal facilities are being required by the State Sanitary Authority to submit specific time schedules for constructing and financing sew age treatment plants. At the same time the Authority is tightening its demands on industrial installations. Paper mills, dumping such large quantities of waste into the Wil lamette River that the oxygen content is reduced to zero during periods of low water, are extremely reluctant to install anti-pollution equipment, claiming that they had "been unable to find a satisfactory solution to the problem which would be economic." Laboratory reports show that industrial waste from paper mills can be eliminated, but installations are costly and mills are reluctant to add this cost to their operating expense. Anti-pollution sentiment is growing rapidly in Oregon. Destruction of fish life, streams rendered unsafe for recre ational' purposes, impairment of scenic beauty and hazards to health have caused widespread demand for a speed-up of the state's anti-pollution campaign. The State Sanitary Authority has been quite mild in its enforcement policies until recently and has been trying to secure improvement of conditions through cooperation rather than by force. But in recent months it has become a little more threatening and appears to mean business. The Authority is working on a double-barreled program. First emphasis is placed on adequate water supply. Second in Importance is sanitation and sewage disposal. Municipali ties are required to keep the agency informed on plans and progress relative to these projects. The City of Roseburg was one of the first Oregon munici palities to install complete sewage disposal facilities. Riddle is believed to be Oregon's smallest municipality with a full treatment plant a plant built cooperatively by the city and the Harbor Plywood Company. Kiddles disposal unit is nearing completion and will be in operation in the near future. Extensive plans are being made for improved sanitation in the suburban areas of Roseburg. North Riverside Addi tion is completing work on Its project planning and will advertise bonds after the new state law becomes effective in July. The new law authorizes the state treasurer to buy district bonds. Tentative plans for a sanitary district are being made in West Roseburg. The Veterans Facility will either join with North Riverside in putting in sewage dis posal facilities or Install its own plant. The community east of Roseburg is proposing annexation and is circulating petitions. Reedsport is improving its water system, extending sewer lines, and is plnnning a disposal plant. Drain has completed engineering for a disposal plant and is preparing to submit a proposed bond issue to a vote of the residents. Oakland and Sutherlin are working on disposal plant designs. . Canyonville is in a very fortunate spot. It recently nego tiated sale of timber from its watershed, raising thereby about $90,000 which will go into installation of sanitary facilities. Glendale is extending its water system and has tentative plans for sewage disposal. The county sanitarian is well pleased with the cooperation "and interest shown by Douglas County municipalities in sewage disposal planning, he reports. He is finding some difficulty, however, in getting cooperation from private home owners with poor sanitation outside organized areas. He reports he has been in consultation with state and county authorities and a "crack-down" is in prosj?ct on some of the uncooperative violators. -0 hi By Vmhnelt S. Martin Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press DAMS AND FISH The Dalles Chronicle Oregon has learned from repeat ed experience, Including Inst week's hearings before the Hy droelectric Commission on the Pelton project, that the dams vs. fish controversy Is highly com plex. Too many persons take a posi tion In favor of one side or the other In the recurring debates without helping to woik out a solution that would enah us to have extensive river develop ments and still retain much of our salmon and st'oclhead. In dollars and cents, the river fishing Industry Is not huge ex cept In a few communities. It is not so important to The Dalles that wc could not get along with out It. But we would resist efforts to destroy all or part of It unless it w-ore necessary to give It up in exchange for something of great er local and regional henefit. Part of the fishing Industry In The Dalles area already Is In process of destruction as a mult islatlve attack carried on by low er river glllnrt fishermen. Ban ning of seines will leave only Ce II lo Kails as a major fishery above Bonneville. Because the Indian fishery at Celilo Hnd other nearby points Is now a. bigger business than ever, one faction which argues against The Dalles dam will strengthen Its case. More monev will be at stake at the tribal fishing ground. The white commercial fisher men, however, have wenkened their argument by dividing forces and waging another old fashioned fish fight. Some of the upriver sentiment against The Dalles dam will shift toward sup port of the protect as the union gillnetters fasten a tight monop oly on the Industry. To this ex tent the Initiative measure pass ed last fall and the defeat at Sa lem of the fixed gear mora torium bill represent the poorest sort of strategy by lower river fishermen. In anv event. Columbia river development la on the way and production on the Columbia hor the sake of a minor addi tion to the Northwest's power supply the permanent Impair ment of the Deschutes svstem as fleh ---- i .. . . 11 I of the selfish and successful leg- nothing now on the horizon, with I extremely short sighted. The way folks fly hither and thither these days! So casual about it, too, as if hopping off for Boston or Bangkok were a mere trifle in the day's activities. Well, If ever I take off any place, I shan't be casual! I have been "up" 8,500 feet, but my own feet were firmly pushing against the floorboard, either Estrellita's or her predecessor's, and beside me "at the controls" was EJ. (I do sometimes lay my hand Rontly on his knee when the drop off on my side Is a thou sand feet or so, but I affirm, once more, I never left any black and blue marks!) To be sure we flew if that is what you do in a blimp? In the Goodyear Resolute. It was fun. But we never had a second chance because Uncle Sam took It next day. We waited on Westwood cam pus while the huge sausage-balloon with Its tiny 6-passenger cabin settled gently until the ground-crew could grab the dan gling ropes, and sometimes bounce, too. We climbed a little ladder and took our places. No one could be afraid after watch ing that blimp's coming down for a landing. Not until the roar of motors assails your ears! I near ly jumped out of my skin. I had forgotten, in the quiet, a dirigible had engines! We started up. My feet and head nearly met in my earnest effort to sit erect; until it occur red to me I could lie back In my chair, as EJ was doing, and then It was just fun. Suddenly we leveled out. The roar of the mo tors (or was there only one en gine? I forgot) ceased. There we were floating in a blue sky high above Southern California. Not even a cloud to float on. The pilot was as unconcerned about his job as a bus-driver. While we were shooting up he was scribbling in a little book. Then while we were floating he casually rolled the blimp until we were looking straight down through our window. Before we could get quite used to the idea, he politely rolled the blimp to port so the other half of his passengers could look down through their windows and find out why we had gasped. It was such fun! We didn't want to come down. But I'm still "grounder!" when it comes to these high flying planes. Congress Discovers Taft-Hartley Act Not As Bad As Opponents Painted It By JAMES THRASHER It's up to the Senate now. But as far as the House is concerned the Taft-Hartley Act Is still the labor law of the land. The admin istration's compromise between brave campaign promises and prac tical reality came too late, and the best Mr. Truman's cohorts could do was to kill the Wood bill, a sort of super-Taft-Hartley piece of legislation, and leave things as they were. The last -minute compromise was whipped up when the Lesln ski bill was clearly doomed. This was 90-odd percent Wagner Act, with a few minor changes, and at the end even its best friends didn't give H a chance. One of the most interesting things in this connection Is that the administration bill seemed to lose ground during the Easter vacation when most congressmen went back to talk to the home folks. The constituents are pret ty good lobbyists themselves, since they are the ones who keep the members In steady work. And there didn't seem to be any over whelming evidence of a "people's mandate to repeal the T H leg islation. Psrhaps Truman Deceived Mr. Truman certainly received a people s mandate to go nacK to Washington for four more years. But It does not appear that this mandate was a blanket the possible exception of atomic energy, will lessen the need for completion of the major projects. Smaller t militaries o the Co lumbia offer a unite different problem. The weakness of the i'elton project on the IVschutes is the Inadequacy of Its proposed power output. endorsement of everything he promised in the heat of the cam paign. Possibly the President, smart politician though he is, misinter preted the people's sentiment. Possibly he was deceived by the excitement and glow of victory which persisted from election day to the day that the new Con gress convened. Almost certain ly Mr. Truman was short-sighted in consulting only with labor spokesmen In drafting what be came the Leslnski bill. It was pretty well established, even before the election, that the Intensive publicity campaign against the Taft-Hartley Law was only partly successful. A great many people bristled at Its very name. But when poll-taker's broke It down for them and ask ed them what they thought of this provision or that, it develop ed that the hatred for the whole greatly exceeded the hatred of the sum ot Its parts. Not Slavery Statute The Taft-Hartley Law has Its imperfections and inequities. But it has never been the monsterous legalization of slavery that its opponents pictured it. In fact, the contrast between what the labor people said would take the crucial issue in his victory. So all the pressure and threats of patronage loss were of no avail. The administration waited too long to pull in its horns and offer the Sims compromise bill. This bill, as Speaker Rayburn said, was "about what the Lesln ski bill should have been in the first place." But the GOP-South-ern Democrat coalition, with its dander up, didn't see It that way. Germany Likely To Be Center Of Epochal East-and-West Struggle By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press Foreign Affairs Analyst The hard-boiled anti-Communist mayor of Western Berlin, Ernst Reuter, says the New York agreement among the Big Four to lift the blockade of the German capital marks the "real beginning of a tug-of-war between the East and West." Reuter means, I take it, that Guamanlan Missionaries The first Spanish missionaries arrived on Guam in 1668. we are about to see the start of a great battle between Russia and the Western Allies for con trol of all Germany. It's the old story pre-war Germany was the keystone of much of continental Europe's economy. Wes Gallagher, A.P. chief of bureau in Germany, reports that many international observers there believe victory for the West would shatter the Red iron cur tain. The reason is that Eastern Europe traditionally has depend ed heavily on the Reich for ne cessities which it is doubtful Rus sia alone can provide. We are harking back to the vast economic empire which Hit ler gambled away because of his inordinate ambition to annex and enslave all Europe and after that only heaven knows what. When Hitler launched World War II he was virtually czar of the whole of Eastern Europe up to the Russian border, because of his economic strangle-hold. I toured that whole area just before Munich, and still find it ! a matter of amazement that the : Nazi Fuehrer should have staked so much on a throw of the dice, j This strange chapter of history ' has been discussed in our column ! before, but J. revert to it now j because it's the chief explana- ( tion of the struggle which is boiling up over Germany. J Hitler held all Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the itching palm of his hand. Why? Because industrial Germany over a long i period had built up an economic structure under which she sup plied agricultural countries with manufactured articles, and took from them In turn the agricultural products which the Reich didn't produce itself. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by ' 6:15 P. M. oall Mr. Waters before 7:00 P. M. Phone 100 ' 1 a Rev. C. D. Wood Singing Evangelist REVIVAL SERVICES At The Free Methodist Church 1247 Harvard Ave 7:45 p.m. Each Evening Through May 15 Great Singing! Fine Preaching of Old Fashioned Gospel COME ! Rev. George Henderson, Pastor A Dlplomatlo Island The Isle of Man Is often re ferred to as the "British Diplo mat Island" because it is the same distance from England, Scotland and Ireland. PROMISE YOURSELF: THAT NOTHING CAN DISTURB YOUR PIECE OF MIND Roseburg Funeral Home "The Chapel of the Roses" Oak and Kane Street Rosobure. Oregon Funerals Tel. 600 Ambulance Service I I. s. MR L. L. POWERS Kven If a full 73 000 kilowatts i place under the law and what of firm power were available the actually happened caused their war around, relton could be not h- - propaganda to oacxiire. la nor ng but an unik't taking of tern-1 a nave sustained some minor porary Importance, hailing far I injuries, nut it also made sub- short of long-range nivds. Its-1 stantial gains. generators would be unneocssarv Die hysteria of organized la- when large new units came Into 1 bor's antl-T H campaign didn't do Mr. Truman anv good In the long run. either. He took the keynote of labor's campaign for his own. But the picture of enslaved labor was never tbeiv to hack him up. 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