4 Th Nw-Review, Roseburg, Or. Wed., June 1, 1949
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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
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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!
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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. -
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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
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Sgt. D. R. Lucks'
Body To Be Buried
June 3 At Riddle
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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