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4 Th Nw-Review, Roseburg, Or. Wed., June 1, 1949 Published Dilly Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. tnWt.J iinal ilm miller Mar '. !'. ' " f"' ' Raaaburf. Or(on, Dodtr act tf March t. 117S CHARLES V. STANTON EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor m&vs Manager Member of the Anoclted Preet, Oregon Newepeper Publlehere Aitociatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Earaaiilri br WEST-HOLLIDAT CO., tNC. tttlf In Niw Tark, Chlcafa, Bib FrBDCUee, Ll Anftlci, teatlla, Porllaad, at. Lnli. UBSCIIFTION RATES In Oraaen Br Mall Far Yr ll.M, air rnanlhi II. 5S. Ihraa manlha 11.11. By Clly Carrier Par yaar 110.00 (In alvanoat, law loan na year, par monlh 11.00. Oulilla Oreon By Mall Per year Ifi.OO. alz manlha 11.15, iHraa monlhi 12.11. PARTIALLY RIGHT Congressman Harris Ellsworth forced an apology from officials of the Veterans Administration when they belittled Roseburg, according to news dispatches. The chief medical officer of the Veterans Administration was reported to have told a Senate subcommittee that trouble '. has been experienced in staffing the Hospital at Roseburg because of isolation, poor transportation and distance from town. Ellsworth's civic pride reportedly was shocked and he pro- ceeded to deliver a Chamber of Commerce oration on Rose- burg's advantages, succeeding so well that he drew an apol ogy and a promise of a personal visit to Roseburg this fall. The VA officer was correct on only one of three counts and that was regarding transportation. We'll also mark him , half correct on another, that of isolation, insofar as isolation involves inadequate transportation. Poor transportation facilities handicap operation of the Veterans Hospital as they do all business and industry in the ' area. Movements of patients in and out of the Hospital is seriously complicated by the fact that we have a train service unique for its lack of consideration for requirements of com munities served. Our airport is not suitable for commercial use except in emergencies. Dependent almost entirely upon highway travel, we must traverse the poorest sections of the Pacific Highway in Oregon going either way from Roseburg. Two of these handicaps we can overcome. The third, and the one which should be easiest to eliminate, offers the least probability of improvement. We can and probably will build a better airport in the near future. There are indications that some of our highway bottlenecks are soon to be removed. But to get the Southern (Friendly) Pacific to furnish ger train service which any live-wire, free enterprise cor poration seemingly would be anxious to do is about as hopeless as a "yes" from Russia. Reconstruction of our airport to permit feedcrline plane service would remove one of the biggest handicaps to "iso lation" of the Veterans Hospital here. Most VA officials travel by air. Accustomed to quick trips between hospitals and facilities, and working on close schedules, they can hardly be blamed for turning burg site when they must use three days to and from Port land for an inspection trip here, iri addition to suffering the tortures of a ride on the "Friendly" Southern Pacific's mid night "Jerky-Worky," or travel the "seasick sections" of the Pacific Highway in an automobile. We would think that a company, which boasts of its pro gressiveness, as does the Southern (Friendly) Pacific, would be ashamed to admit of a passenger train such as the one serving Southern Oregon. (Of course that's why it's run 'after dark so no one can see it.) But apparently the S.P. (Friendly) has no pride where a profit dollar is concerned. So, as long as our "friendly" railroad company doesn't want our passenger business and doesn't CBre what effect its lack of service hns on the welfare of the community, we'll appar ently have to spend our own dollars to find some better way of getting in and out of our beautiful Umpqua Valley. The quickest and best way to solve that problem is by means of an airport Work is progressing in engineering a field suitable for feederline use and it probably will not be long until a definite plan is submitted for financing the cost, which, heavy though it may be, will be justified by benefits. The greatest handicap to staffing the Veterans Hospital at Roseburg, however, is not found in any of the factors mentioned isolation, poor transportation and distance from town. The major handicap is in the housing shortage. Plenty of staff members could and would come to Roseburg, as is, if suitable living quarters could be obtained after arrival. But the present Hospital management has seen dozens of good men and women come and go simply because they could find no adequate place in which to live. And this condition, while a definite handicap at present, proves that one of the objections previously raised to the Roseburg site rapidly is disappearing. The Veterans Admin istration has been critical of the Roseburg site because the Hospital was adjacent to a "small town." Now, with new houses being built as rapidly as artisans can erect them, the housing shortage continues as acute as ever, showing how rapidly we are growing out of the small town class. And, furthermore, the extension of new construction completely around the federal reservation indicates that the VA official who said the Hospital is too far out of town hasn't been around lately to see how things have changed. We don't know how a hospital could be much closer to town, unless it were planted in the middle of the business district. Plane Brings Navy Man To Polio-Stricken Wife LOS ANGELES, June 1 UP) "Oh, God, I hope she pulls through." This brief prayer of hope was uttered by Navy Chief Store keeper William J. Kopytko after a 5.000-mile emergency flight from Guam to see his wife, Marlon, 30. critically Hi with polio. His wife, in an Iron lung, recog nized him and smiled briefly. Then tears filled her eyei. It was their first meeting In 16 months. Koptyko reached here by plane yesterday. After visiting his wife In General Hosnltal, he was driven to nearby Long Beach to see his nlnemorithold son, Rickey, for the first time, and for a reunion with his daughter! Sally Jo, aged three. The children are staying with relatives. any kind of adequate passen in adverse reports on the Rose Newest Community In Oregon Is 'Power City' POWER CITY. June 1. (.D This is the first story to be date lined "Power City" Oregon's newest community. Located in a fast growing dis trict between Umatilla and Mo Nary damslte. Power City got its name at a "Name Our Town" con test dance sponsored by local merchants. Suggesting the winning name and sharing prizes were William Arkell, A. M. Orvalla and Vernice Munsnn. all of Power City, and Lu cie Mittlesdorf, Hermlston. 18 SAVED FROM FIRI 1.0 SANUELKS, June 1 t.T) - Eighteen aged men and women were carried to safety Tuesday as fire swept Westvlew Sanitarium. Loss was estimated by officials at $25,000. A Lot Of Do you ever wonder if some of the letters you see printed fn metropolitan newspaper columns are "made up?" I did until the conductor of such a column In a large city asked me to answer letters of a certain type for her. Answer them personally, not through the newspaper. This I did. And as soon as the letter had been answered I burned the one I had received, and tried to forget the contents and names of the writers. "The Autocrat of the Break fast Table" warns his readers to beware to whom they entrust the key to the "side-door" of their mlndi. Almost anyone, under strong emotional strain, or seem ingly befogged with a mentally chaotic indecision, or overwhelm ed with despair, is likely to open that "side door" to one In prox imity or In some cases, take pen in hand and find release from the pressure that way. And what bitter cause thoy have to regret the choice of a confidant if that one "remem Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press PLAYING INTO HANDS OF DISASTER (Grants Pass Courier) Every wage earner knows the f:overnment takes a heavy cut n Income taxes hut few, prob ably, realize the many methods used to take from him some of his earnings so that the govern ment can spend from 41 to 45 bil lions each year. Every time one rides a train, passenger plane or an overland bus within the United States, he must pay the government 15 cents for each dollar of fare whether hli travel be for bus- iness or pleasure. The tax was established as a war measure to discourage un necessary travel so that the transportation agencies would be able to find room for war per sonnel. In Hi inception, the tax revenue was a secondary con sideration. The war has been over for nearly four years hut the tax re mains -strictly for the revenue it produces. Transportation fa cilities no longer are over crowded. The transportation tax is only one of many imposed as a war measure and retained today be cause our government spenders seek every cent of the taxpayers' money they can obtain rather than so some of their people lose thetr public Jobs, their fat ex pense accounts or their personal power which comes from having money to spend. When one questions the policy of ever Increasing the direct and indirect tax load on our peopie, the Administration apologists counter with the declaration that our Imperative national defense measures absorb the major por tion of the federal In -onie. We have no quarrel with those who raid our pockcthooks for necessarv defense funds. Our quarrel Is with those in control who refuse lo keep to a minimum other government expenditures until such time as we may be re lieved of some of the taxes for national security. Those Individuals who seek a "welfare," or an "Insured" or a Socialist state, we suspect, chortle with glee every time some additional billions are allocated Help He Turned arsaas. ife ,. JfV by showing Avr yrH ) P r iKT -v jtT -1 I S(7 'rr- . tin. r II srffZ.. djlt An1 i ' By Viahnett S. Martins bers" after the problem Is past, and even forgotten by the one Upon whom it lay so crushlngly at the moment of confidence. When one is. undergoing grief or some period of emotional stress, it seems to me, it Is a kind of nakedness. A time when the Good Samaritan who happens to be passing by will cover with understanding sympathy the one so stripped of normal reticence, knowing for that one that "this, too, shall pass," and however dark the hour, light is Just ahead. The darker the hour the nearer the dawn, do they not say? No night, however dark, can pro vent that dawn. To confide In some people Is like dropping a stone In a well, except that you forget there was a stone ever dropped in the well. My father was like that. Maybe that was why all sort of people told him their troubles? Once he said that anyone could bear what ever they had to bear at the minute It was trying to bear all that seemed to He ahead that was too much. for national security. It makes their "welfare state" spending less spectacular by contrast. It also brings nearer the point at which the taxpayer can no lon ger stand the strain and will acquiesce in any change of type of government no matter how radical through the sense of hopelessness. While retaining the multitudin ous special taxes of the transpor tation type, the Administration continues to contend for a change in the Income tax law which will yield an additional four billions. Experience teaches us that our government will spend all the money it ran get its hands on. If it gets the additional four bil lions desired, It will be only a short time until that rate of an nual spending will have become standard and our official "plan ners will have conceived audi- ,ioal tax-spending measures. Somewhere along the road of governmental "mass spending" there must come a halt. The only way to stop the policy which is bleeding the citizenry white is to examine every official proposal from the tax "cost point of view. Taxes enn't he cut as long as each segment of the nation's economy demands more for itself in government handouts, and combines with other segments to gain mutual advantages to the detriment of the interests of the people as a whole. We can't demand further gov ernment spending on the one hand and expect to be relieved of such taxes as the transporta tion tax on the other. If we don't halt the splrallng of the tax load, we are inviting an ultimate economic crash. And that Is exactly what the directors of world revolution In the Krem lin await- and expect. Damages Demanded For Traffic Mishap Injuries Alleging that he was lnlured In an automobile accident due to carelessness and nosligence on the part of a Converse Trucking Service driver. Norman Anlaul instituted action In Circuit Court this week against the company and Its driver. Paul Johnson. Anlauf alleges two butane tanks overhanging the left side of the truck struck his automo bile, as the two vehicles traveled In opposite directions on the Pa cific Highway seven miles north of Myrtle Creek a few months ago. He seeks $3'JrVSA damages and $75 attorney't fees. Out To Be! - In the Days News tContinucd from Page One) Siberia by voting AGAINST THE SLATE. That upset the Russian apple cart. CO- J 1. The Russians took advan tage of a quite legitimate strike of Western German railway work ers, acted as STRIKE-BREAKERS to prolong the strike, and in this way succeeded in breaking down land transport into the city thus, in effect, re-establishing the blockade. 2. In order to supply our peo ple and the Germans .who have persistently and at great risk to themselves stayed on our side, we have had to start up our air lift again. , . . ;- Thcre the matter stands at the moment. - c OMMENT? Well, this is all I can think Su:h is cold war. LET'S turn back, for a second, to the strike. The Russians BOSS the Ger man railroads In their zone. They insisted on paying the railroad workers in EAST GERMAN MARKS, which have , about the same purchasing power in Ger many as Confederate currency in America. The railroad workers (most of them anti-Communist) struck to enforce their demand for pay ment in West German marks, which have real purchasing power. WHEREUPON The Russians who everywhere else have promoted and encour aged and financed strikes with the idea of setting themselves up as the protectors of the right to strike as a sacred human right TURNED STRIKE - BREAKERS OVER NIGHT and used their po lice power to stop the strike and compel the workers to go on working for funny money that wouldn't buy things. (Not even the ruggedest, rabid ist, hardboiledest capitalist who ever sat at his diamond-studded, gold-plated desk and counted his ill-gotten gains ground out of the facet of the helpless worthy poor could ever have dared to oppose a strike called by workers who FOR One 10-foot Frederick Meat Case Two Barnes Scales Two Meat Blocks One Meat Slicer . . . Display Plartori On Frozen Food Cabinet Two Used Cash Registers One 10' x 14' Walk-In Box Ont 2 h. p. aircooled Copeland Compressor and tubing On of tic soft and miscellaneous store equipment WILL SELL VERY REASONABLE Contact LEHMAN REAL ESTATE Immediately Sgt. D. R. Lucks' Body To Be Buried June 3 At Riddle sT ' 1 It. . i (Picture by Clark'i Studio) The body of the late Staff Set. Darrell R. Lincks, USAAF, (above) son of Mrs. Floyd Smith 1150 Corey Ave., will arrive in Roseburg accompanied by mili tary escort at 11:30 p.m. Thurs day, June 2, and will be escorted by honor guard of the local vet erans organizations and the Gold star Motners to me Long at urr Mortuary. Funeral services under the auspices of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Roseburg, will be held in the chapel of the Long & Orr Mortuary Friday, June 3, at 2 p.m. Military honors under auspices of Umpqua Post No. 16, American Legion, will follow at Riddle Cemetery, where inter ment is to take place. Staff Sgt. Lincks was born at Fresno, Calif., Feb. 12, 1918. He was educated in the public schools at Riddle and was graduated in the class of 1937. He attended Ore gon State College for two years, wnere ne studied aeronautical en gineering. He was married to Miss Maxine Dement at Roseburg uct. 61, tyJi. tie was employed at the local Montgomery Ward store at the time of his enlistment in the Army Air Force Dec. 19, 1941. Sgt. Lincks was first assigned to Sheppard Field, at Wichita Falls, and later to the field at Amarillo, Texas, where he was an instructor in hydraulics for a year before going overseas. j He was stationed in England, ! serving as gunner with the 447th i Homo Group ot the 71l)th Bomb ; Squadron of the 8th Air Force. I He lost his life on Mar. 11, 1944, I when a crippled B-17 bomber crashed In the English Channel on its return from a raid on Munster, Germany. Staff Sgt. I Lincks was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, the Air Medal . with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart (posthumously). Surviving are his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, Roseburg; his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Lincks, El Cerrito, Calif.: his widow, Mrs. Maxine Lincks Dur- rand, Coos Bay, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Albert Tomp kins, Riddle, Ore. Child Runs Back Into Burning House, Perishes ST. MARIES, Idaho. June 1. (P) A two-year-old pirl ran back into a burning house Tuesday morning and died in the flames, sheriff's offices said. Sandra Irvine's body was found huddled behind a davenport when the fire was put out. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Irvine, and two other children got out of their burning home safely. But Sandra became fright ened and dashed back Into the house before she could be stop pod, officers said. Her father had to be remove through a window. He has bee in bed for a year with a broke back. He was injured in a loggin.t, accident. wanted only to be paid in money that would buy something In stead of in money that Isn't even good to light fires with.) CREWBALL? Of course it's screwball. COLD WAR IS SCREWBALL. (And now we know that Com munism, which talks protection of the right to strike out of one side of its mouth one day and talks strike-breaking out of the other side of its mouth the next day. Is screwball.) SALE I Four Years Of Silence Win Divorce For Wife NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, June 1. (CP) It was a long si lencingfour years of it. It was disclosed in Supreme Court here that Dr. Charles Ben well had not spoken directly to his wife, Audrey, for four years. Any messages were relayed by a daughter. Mrs. Benwell also testified she had to borrow food from friends while her husband ate steak in his bedroom. He also moved the telephone to his room. He told the court he had been forced to cook all his own meals since 1944. He ate in the bedroom; she in the dining room. Mrs. Benwell was granted a judicial separation on grounds of "legal cruetly." Dr. Benwell is a psychiatrist. FIRST JAP WOMAN JUDGE TOKYO (JP) Japan soon will have its first woman judge. She is Mitsuko Ishiwata, 4d. She is one of 123 Japanese just graduated from the Judicial Training Institute of the Jap anese supreme court. Miss Ishiwata probably will be assigned to the Tokyo Dis trict court. She first took up the law 11 years ago. She was graduated from Meiji University law college in 1944. PIANOS aldwln, Wurlltnr Gulbransan Ott'l Plans Dipt Corner of Can and Jackson Phono 1111-J JSC I INSULATION FOR YOUR HOME Don't waste a lot of money for Insulation by high powered door-to-door salesmen. Let us show you how to insulate your home efficiently and at a minimum cost COEN SUPPLY COMPANY Everything For The Builder Floed 4 Mill Stt. Phone 121 Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Mak This Douglas County Institution Your Bank. Home Owned Home Operated 'FROM THE 50 e eA? Roseburg Review July 25, 1898 We wonder If any of Lee Love's cr Mr. Guptill's descendants are living here and whether they, or anyone else, remembert this particular incident. We find many items in these old, yellow Issues that recall bygone days. Sometimes we wonder how the happenings of many years ago affect those persont todty. Much suffering and poverty can be averted, we're sure, if good insurance is a part of everyone's plans. It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Office) Bill Tipton Cause Of Divorce Goes Along With Decree LONDON, June 1. (JP) Mrs. Catherine Jane Allabakhsh told divorce court her Pakistani hus band, Eli, sicked their four-year-old son on her. She said he taught the child to pinch, bite and kick her. He'd hold her down, she testi fied, while the boy kicked her and teli him, "Go on, son, harder." Allabakhsh denied every bit of it. But the judge gave his wife the divorce and custody of the son. Committeewoman Hits 'Too Much GOP Brass' PORTLAND, June 1. (Pi Mrs. Marjorie Benedict, California national Republican committee woman, will address the Council of Oregon Republican Women to day. She said on arriving yesterday that the party must pull votes from among 45,000,000 potential electors who did not vote in 1948. She criticized what she said was "too much brass" in the GOP. Phone 100 If you do not receivt your Newt-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 1 I NEWS OF YEARS AGO I I ' eo,. ha J I I Ctrl Permln