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4 Th Newt-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thur., My 12, 194f Publlahed Dally Exeept Sunday by the, ,.'J' News-Review Company, Inc. " Baton uml cIm atlur Mr T, KM, laa rHc a4 Eattfcarf, Oracta. anar ael el aUreh 3, 117S CHARLES V. STANTON fT IDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of tha Aaaoelatad Preaa, Oragon Nawapapar Publisher Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clraulatlona BetertMBtol br WEST-H0LL1DAT CO.. INC.. meet In Ntw Yrlr. Chlaafa, Saa Fraaeiact, Laa Aagalaa, SaelUa, rarllaae, SL Laala. SB CBIPTION BATES la Oratan Br Malt rar Taar M M, all aaeetka MM, tarae maatba MM By Cltr Carrlar far jaar iie.H (la Teaea), lu tfcaa at raar, par naaia ll.W. Oatalfe OrtrtD Bj Mall Fat yaar 11.0. als Maett tLla, ikrae maallia II I. AID TO SMALL CITIES This One's Yours, I Think!1 By CHARLES V. STANTON Several months ago Pendleton's East Oregonian and The News-Review joined in an open campaign and presentation of ideas for state aid to municipalities in connection with sanitary installations. , In this column we advocated a state revolving fund from which money could be loaned to financially distressed mu nicipalities, particularly those which include many of our smaller cities in the Umpqua Basin already bonded to the legal limit to provide municipal services. The plan proposed in this column was adopted almost ex. actly by the recent Legislature in House Bill 521, introduced by the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, passed by both houses and signed by the Governor, and, through an emer gency clause, now an operating state law. The major deviation from the proposal made in this col umn was a limitation on the size of municipalities eligible for state aid. Loans may be made only to municipalities of 2,500 or less population as shown by the last federal or offi cial state census. This means that some of our rapidly grow. ing cities may still get under the wire if they complete plans and obtain loans prior to publication of the 1950 census, even though present population may exceed 2,500. The-new law provides that. a. city must submit plans for sewer system and sewage disposal facilities, prepared by a firm of competent engineers and approved by the State Sani tary Authority. The Sanitary Authority is required to furnish the State Bond Commission a list of cities most in need of sewerage systems and sanitary facilities. After its plans have been approved, the municipality must offer its bonds for sale on the public market. If there are no buyers, or if bids are not satisfactory, the State Bond Com mission is authorized to buy the municipality's bonds. The saving factor for distressed municipalities is found in the fact that the State Bond Commission may buy the bonds provided total indebtedness, including the sewer bonds, does not exceed 50 percent of assessed valuation. Otherwise municipalities are normally limited to bonded in debtedness not exceeding 5 percent of valuation, although an increase to 15 percent was voted as a postwar measure and, was continued at that ratio by the last Legislature until July, 1951. Bond companies doubtless would be hesitant to buy bonds if total indebtedness exceeded the 15 percent restriction, now permitted, or the normal 5 percent at other times. But by allowing the debt, under state aid, to go .as high as 50 percent, many municipalities which otherwise would be estopped from installation of sanitary facilities will have a means of finance available. The municipality must furnish the State Bond Commis sion a suitable plan for liquidation of the Indebtedness. During the time in which the bonds are held by the Com mission, the municipality will be denied authority for any additional bond issues without the Commission's approval. Furthermore, the Commission is authorized to pass on all annual city budgets and tax levies. If bond interest pay ments, at 4 percent per annum, or principal obligations are defaulted, the Commission is authorized to withhold monies dut the municipality from the state such as appropriations for streets and roads, liquor revenues, motor vehicle license fees distribution and others. The Bond Commission, however, may defer Interest pay ments on the bond issue for period up to five years and may provide for the issuance of the bonds with graduated rates of interest. Municipalities may redeem bonds at par value and accrued interest at any time prior te maturity date. fuJkm fcTOaw- Ait rrrri PwM By Viahnett S. Martin I j'jt- ' This plan, we believe, will be of great aid to the smaller municipalities. With a revolving fund of $1,500,000 set up to get the program in operation, and with a debt limit of 60 percent of assessed valuation, most eligible towns should be able to work out satisfactory plans without too much difficulty. Considering the fact that population growth is expected to continue, the importance of improved sanitation to gen eral health becomes obvious and it is to be hoped that eli gible municipalities will use state aid to complete their in stallation as quickly as possible. Mrs. Lou Gehrig Pleads For Federal War On Disease That Killed Husband WASHINGTON, May 12.-f.P Mrs. Lou Gehrig, widow of the New York Yankees' groat first baseman, Tuesday made a dra matic plea to Congress for help In combatting the disease which killed her husband. A Senate labor and public health subcommittee has before It a bill which would set up a foundation to atudy multiple sclerosis. "I am not an expert," f.Jrs. Gehrig said, "but it Is a tragic fact that my testimony on this subject is almost as authoritative as that of any doctor In the land. "This la not an Indication of my erudition. It Is an Indication of how little Is known concern ing multiple sclerosis even by the doctors who are most In terested in It." It is eight yean now since Gehrig died. And the widow quietly but movingly, told how It was to watch him die. Ho had not been a good time, hell-forleather athlete. On the contrary, she said, he neither drank nor smoked. And then . . . "He was stricken by this In sidious disease." "As the disease progressed," she continued, "he couldn't dress himself, he couldn't feed him self, he couldn't walk. "Two years after h hung up his old Yankee uniform for the last time, he died." Doctors estimate that a quar ter of a million persons have multiple sclerosis. The bill was introduced by Senator Tobey (R.-N.H.). His daughter, now Mrs. Sterling Dean, who has been suffering from the disease since 1930, was in the room. (Did you hear my "yoo-hoo" yesterday noon from 8,000 feet over Roseburg?) Air travel has funny quirks in It, too. If I had gone 150 miles north, making 300 extra miles on my trip, I could have flown non stop to Los Angeles In three hours. Three hours mercy! But since I'm hedge-hopping from Eugene to Medford, to Eu reka, to San Francisco, then non stop to Los Angeles, I am actu ally In the air six hours and five minutes, leaving Eugene at 11:15, arriving In L. A. at 7;10. Since the last plane for Long Beach leaves 25 minutes before I drift In to L. A., I am on my own for the rest of the trip. Well, the slower the better on the way down, says I! I like to see something even "If there's no possibility of stopping to have a good look. For that matter, even when we're driving on the high way I am not always able to have a look at a flower. "Where?" "Oh, it's way past now!" "Well, tell me when you see another" "There!" "Where? Oh, there'll be another!" Needless to say I shall be busy while In Long Beach, so the Scraps for the next few days will have been written ahead of my leaving. v If I ever have to live In a city again, I still think Long Beach Is tops over every other city. But oh, how glad I shall be to see our own little patch of woods! And feel the soft misting rain on my face! And see the rich green everywhere. I shall enjoy every second of California, but Oregon Is home. (So long as EJ feels that way, too!) And If we ever do leave Oregon, its green hills and springs and woods and mist ing rain, I shall always be a lit tle homesick? On a cross-stlched sampler I saw these words: Home Is where the heart is. The line may length en but It never parts. Once a wife was heart-sick over disposing of a lot of treasured things before a long move. She said to her husband: "I don't think you care a bit because we're breaking up this home!" Said he, with a surprised expression: "Why, wherever you are Is home to me!" Editorial Comment From Tke Oregon Press Praaldant Onca A Timekeeper Harry S. Truman was a time keeper on the construction of the Santa Fe Railway about 1901. (The Oregonian) Flsharman Ara Philosophers The opening of the trout sea son, which occurred on May day, was generally speaking a most melancholy event. Had It been a day earlier but, alack, the past Is overstocked with such might-have-beens! The day that so long had been anticipated, and so eagerly, came In with sheeted, gray rain, and rising, silt-laden streams. Few and phenomenal, Indeed, were the limit catches. In the western region nothing could be used except bait, and few finny beauties ugh! par took of this, for most anglers, except an occasional sculpln. The other side of the mountains, where rolls the peerless Des chutes, the si reams wore high and murky, too, with aqueous visibility very poor, Indeed. The vernal hatch of salmon flics had taken place, hut the unhappy In sects were too chilled for (light. The most fortunate Deschutes fisherman of whom we have heard thought himself lucky to have broken a leader on a soli tary big one. Ills was a painful experience, to be sure, but still it was better than nothing. Theory has It that all thorough going brethren of the angle are philosophers, and thus you might assume that our Oregon anglers realized It was a great May day for the trout If not for the fish ermen. The escapement was pretty danged near total. We repudiate the charge that we are punning when we declare those thousands of dampened anglers cheerfully realized that In effect each was taking a rain-check redeemable In better weather. In order to make this contribution to the conventional philosophy of angling we admit that we are stretching the truth considerably but art must be served. And certainly It cannot be disputed that a trout untaken on opening day such' a trout, let's say, as the valiant that broke a leader In the rampageous IVschutes will live to be captured In course of time by somebody, possibly a tourist from the Mississippi val ley who theretofore had thought good fishing meant setting a troulline for yellow catfish. Yes, indeed, dear fellow Wal tonlans, since there seems noth ing else to bt happy about, let us be happy about the escape ment. It's true enough that the fishing was seven degrees worse than punk, but the escapement was pretty !-Ai!! darn near unanimous. We think it Is nice that fishermen are such confirm ed philosophers. Bamboozling Tha Publla (Tha Industrial Nawa-Review) A bill has been proposed for the construction of a government dam on the North Fork of the Flat head River In Montana. The main argument Is that it would go a long way toward preventing floods of the sort which hit the Columbia River Basin last year. The National Park Service has made a careful hydrological study of the project. It finds that the dam would be of very minor Im portance as a flood control factor. On the other hand, officials sav, It would flood 15.000 acres of the most scenic wilderness areas In America. There, by destroying winter range which Is already de ficient, It would practically wipe out the big game population of Glacier Park. Wildlife Management Institute observes: 'The chief objective Is admittedly hydroelectric power but flood control is being used as an argument to justify this costly project . . . Destroying one of our finest national parks for the benefit of a few at the ex pense of the taxpayers Is not the answer. The use of the over worked "flood control" excuse to rationalize the construction of this dam is not justified by the facts." What Is true of the proposed Glacier dam Is true of the most of the rest of the federal flood control and power projects, exist ing and pending. Beforehand, the stress Is laid on flood control, land reclamation and so on. But. once the Job Is done and the money Is spent, it appears that power pro duction was the main objective. LETTERS to the Editor Grove Recalled I have read with Interest the article about the little grave near Elrod, S. Dak. I worked on the railroad section on that division for 11 years and had an active part in decorating this little grave many times. I was personally acquainted with Conductor Chambers but never knew the little boy's name. Mr. Chambers was a very kind and tender hearted man. RAY B. PALMER oshmjgjOre In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) COMMUNIST PENETRATION, of subversion and only second arily a threat of military conquest." a a THAT Is to say: The Communist plan Isn't to MARCH. IN SHOOTING. The Reds' Idea Is to bore from within, to set class against class, to in spire hatred and suspicion and Ill-will. When that process has gone far enough, they think, THEY CAN TAKE OVER. a COMMUNISTS, every where work through disgruntled, sourballed individuals whose fin gers Itch for power. Communism Is a racket. It Isn't a sincere movement for the betterment of all humanity. a HERE'S a straw in the Wash ington winds: "Democrats and Republicans alike In Congress threw support today behind a reported recom mendation by President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers for a cut in government spending." a a a SENATOR GEORGE (Demo crat), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says: "If the national Income Is shrinking because business Is shrinking, It would be nonsense to clap more taxes on a falling economy. Our only hope Is to cut expenditures." Congressman Doughton (Demo crat), chairman of the tax writ Ing House Ways and Means Committee, tells the reporters: "We should cut expenses every way possible. I agree that a big tax increase might have a harm ful effect on business." (Note that these men are Democrats, In this Congress, only Democrats count.) a a a TRY asking yourself this ques- I tlon: "If I get Into a Jam by spend ing too recklessly, how am I going to get out of the jam by i spending still more recklessly?" j Douglas Timber Included In Sale Set For May 31 Daniel L. Goldy, regional ad ministrator, Region I, Bureau of Land Management, reports that 15 parcels of O. & C. timber carrying a volume of 9,140,000 board feet, with an appraised value of $51,238.50, and two par cels of C. B. W. R. grant land timber, carrying a volume of 710.- 000 board feet with an appraised value of S1.01S.25, will be offered for sale May 31. All of the parcels will be of fered for sale by sealed bids at the Regional Administrator's of- nce .n fortiana. The timber is located in seven Oregon counties. One parcel is offered for sale in Benton County, carrying a volume of 600,000 board feet with an appraised value of $1,935.00 and consists mostly of Douelas fir culls and logs on the ground. Three Darcels of salvage timber will be offered lor sale in Loos County, carrying a volume of 1,425,000 board feet with an apnraised value of $4,188.25. Two of these parcels are located on C. B. W. R. grant lands and one is located on O. & C. land. In Douglas County, three par cels are being offered for sale which carry a volume of 2,330,000 board feet, with an appraised value of $17,114.50. The timber in this County consists mostly of Douglas fir with some incense cedar and white fir. One parcel in Josephine County carrying a volume of 2,145,000 board feet, with an appraised value of $8,507.75 and consisting principally of Douglas fir, is also being offered in this sale. Two salvage and three green timber parcels are being offered in Lane County, which have a combined volume of 1,505,000 board feet and an appraised value of $11,. 991.50. The timber included in these parcels is Douglas fir, hem lock, red cedar and white fir. Two salvage parcels are offered in Linn County. These parcels carry a volume of 775,000 board feet, with an appraised value of $1,877.50. The remaining parcel is located in Yamhill County and has a volume of 1,070,000 board feet with an appraised value of $6,642.25. The timber in this tract is principally Douglas fir. io iiuiaj-iuisy, i How can everything be hotsy- j totsy when around a third of everything we earn goes for ! taxes? a a a I EMILY POST, whose name has been synonymous with good ! manners for more years than young people can remember, has ! written a booklet for motorists. In It, she says "A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards." "A courteous lady will not 'scold' raucously with her auto mobile horn any more than she wouia act like a fishwife at a party." "Primitive, irresponsible, dis- courteous and impatient behavior behind the wheel of an automo bile has no place in society." a a a WHY do "nice" people do such things? Well, when you tromp down on 150 horsepower (or less, for that matter) you get DELU SIONS OF POWER. When you get delusions of power, you cease to be a lady or a gentleman. Truman Still Favors Taft-Hartley ' Act Repeal, AF Of L Leader Says WASHINGTON, May 12. UP) AFL President William Green said yesterday that President Tru man told him "emphatically and frankly" that he still favors out right repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to the Wagner Act witn only slight amendment. Green, talking with newsmen after a White House conference. said Mr. Truman was optimistic mat nis laoor program will go through "without much change," Residence To Rise At Glide Ranger Station Sealed bids for the construc tion of a three-room residence at the Glide Ranger Station will be opened by the Forest Service at Portland May 24. The house is to be occupied by the ranger for the North Umpqua District and his family, said M. M. Nelson, supervisor of the Umpqua Na tional Forest. Plans and specifi cations may be obtained from Umpqua National Forest offices. I despite Initial setbacks In Con gress. Green said he told the Presi dent that the AFL, representing nearly 8,000,000 members, had yielded on the Taft-Hartley re peal legislation to allow several amendments including 30-day seizure of strike-threatened plants or mines. The administration's compro mise labor bill, prepared after conferences of congressional lead ers with Mr. Truman, called for the use of Injunctions In national emergency disputes. Green said the AFL never had agreed to the injunction provision and does not want it now. "We don't like seizure either," Green said, "but we were willing to compromise on that." As he spoke, Senate Republi can and Democratic foes of the Taft substitute for the adminis tration's labor bill talked cau tiously of Joining forces. LAKE ICE BREAKING UP Ice has started to break at Dia mond Lake, reported M. M. Nel son, supervisor of the Umpqua National Forest. The ice Is break ing at the north end, local Forest Service officials were advised by radio Wednesday. 100 Miles Per Hour The first vehicle to attain a speed of more than 100 miles an hour was a railroad loco motive. Phone .100 If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:15 P. M. call Mr. Waters before 7:00 P. M. Phone 100 EC Cabinets and Millwork We have every facility for the manufacture of first class products. ASK FOR FREE ESTIMATE COEN SUPPLY COMPANY Everything For The Builder Floed 4 Mill Sts. Phone 121 3L AT STUD Registered Golden Palomino Stallions King's Choice and Desert Paradise Come See Their Foal Brown House by Store Umpqua, Oregon Lloyd Sconce Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Depoilt Insurance Cera. Make This Douglas County Institution Your Bank. Home Owned Home Operated Y OU may deny that we're in a Jam and Insist that everything Thus, we socialize our enterprise and in doing it we cause untold damage to national resources on which the future life and welfare . of the continent and its people I depend. How long will It take I the voters to awaken to the hard 1 truth that they are being bam- i boozled out of their rights and privileges by socialistic propa- j ganda? Homeowners and Builders . . . Stucco Walls Save Costs in New Homes Accelerated efforts of the na tion's building industry and the federal government to pro duce low-cost homes of high quality as the main housing goal during 1949 is bringing stucco exterior walls back into use, it was reported today by the Construction Research Bu reau, New York clearing house for building information. Less Labor Expense Savings ranging from $1.30 to $2 per square yard of sur face, depending on local labor and material costs, are report ed from all over the country where stucco is being used in stead of wood siding. For a one story 30x25- foot house, such as is being built extensively to day in the economy housing program, savings on this basis range from $140 to $220 per house. Reason for the cost differ ence is not only because the stucco material is less expen sive but also because it is ap plied more quickly than siding with lower labor expense. Builders using stucco con structior,, which was exten sively employed a generation ago but fell into disuse as pub lic tastes changed, point out that money is also saved on paint since the modern prac tice is to mix color into the ce ment, sand, lime and gravel mixture of which the stucco finish is composed. Three successive coats of the mixture are troweled over wire mesh attached to wood sheathing and the masonry makes a firm bond, less likely to crack than If applied over wooden lath as was the prac tice 20 yean ago. Thermal Insulation, regard ed by government agencies as an essential part of any type of construction, is even more Imperative with stucco walls than with wood siding. This is because heat escapes more rap idly through stucco than through wood, according to findings of the Small Homes Council of the University of Illinois. Resumption of stucco con struction is regarded with fa vor by the F.H.A., which now guarantees a majority of small home mortgages. Properly ap plied, stucco meets F.H.A. structural requirements, but the presence of insulation also is considered by the F.H.A. when evaluating a house prior to guaranteeing a loan. Bundy and Sutton Plastering Contractors 1034 S. Hamilton Phone 1094 J