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4 The Newt-kevlew, Roteburg, Ore. Wed., June 8, 1949 Published Daily Except Sunday by the Newi-Review Company, Inc. tnttft ! iicond elm mailer Mr '. I". foil IMo, ! Bowburf, OrtfoB. nnde, set 9t March t. IMS CHARLES V. STANTON -nj EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Beprcitntetf by WfciT-HOIXID A CO., INC., offlcei In New York, Chicago, lUn Vranciico, Lot Atifelet, SeMtli, fortland, HI. Louli. lUBSCRIPTlON RATES In Oreon Br Mali rr Mr fH.OO, tlx monlhi 14.68. Ihr monlhi M.flO. By City Carrier Per year IIO.llO (In advance), leu than n year, ar month 11.00. Outtlde Oregon By Hail Tor year $0.00. tii month ti. 75, throe monlhi $3,75 To Be Continued OLD FASHIONED IDEAS Jim Mess, property custodian for the Roseburg School District, has some old fashioned ideas. One is that he does the work needing to be done regardless of hours, rate of pay r or inconvenience an idea which definitely dates him with an older generation. Setting up facilities for the May Fete, Mess worked so hard and so long that he went home with chills and ague resulting from exhaustion. Preparing the stage for Com mencement exercises, he went from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. with only one meal as he built platform risers, superintended stage decorations, auditorium seating and other details. Too frequently we find that people on a public payroll do not overexert themselves. But taxpayers of the Roseburg : School District may be sure they are getting far more work 1 than would be expected from the moderate salary paid Jim Mess. Now that school has ended until after the summer season, Mess is organizing for a huge task getting facilities in readiness for the fall reopening. Among some of the jobs will be to remodel the Junior High School stage and redecorate the auditorium, renovate and decorate the gymnasium, refinish the girls' shower room, build lockers for the boys' dressing room, repair and paint the grandstand at Finlay Field, build and paint a new bleacher section, repair and paint the girls' gymnasium at Senior High, and build more lockers, refinish the lunch room at Rose School and put a new roof on the annex, improve the playshed and baseball field, build a new gymnasium at Benson School, renovate floors, fixtures, desks and furniture in all the school buildings, do minor repair and painting and all general maintenance and improvement work. Then, while all the above jobs are in progress, the District will contract exterior painting at Senior High, Junior High and Benson School. Mess, who has another old fashioned idea that woodwork should be kept protected by paint, says the cost of painting the Senior High School exterior will be high because the building has been so long neglected. Had paint been applied when needed, he asserts, the expense over the long period would have been far less. He plans to use the entire utility staff janitors and maintenance men totalling about 25, in doing the vacation season work. In addition, he will be required to hire a few workmen. No one need apply for a job with one of Jim's crews, however, if he isn't willing to work, for Mess believes in lots of "elbow grease" and solid accomplishment. An inventory shows that the Roseburg School District has property worth about a million and a quarter dollars. In normal practice of business and industry about 10 percent of valuation is allowed for maintenance, repairs and replace ments. Mess says if he could get one-half of 10 percent for 1 maintenance of the Roseburg District's facilities, he would be quite happy. His current budget is around two percent. Jim could be making much more money than he is paid by the School District, but he took the position he now holds because he saw urgent need for a better building mainte nance program a chance to save a large sum for the School District. But a more compelling motive is that he "likes kids." He is most happy when performing some task he knows "the kids" will appreciate. ' Nothing arouses him more than to hear someone speak disparagingly of the younger generation. He feels that the world has never known finer boys and girls. "Of course," says Jim, "there nre a few black sheep and delinquents, just as there are delinquent adults." And he adds that in his opinion, today's young men and women, as a whole, have a higher average of intelligence, sense of responsibility and good behavior than the older generatons. aj t: -ee n. .... l . nu iiiiii nueuiiuu lor yuum is nut, unreciprocated, ion perhaps no district employee is more loved by students than Jim Mess. I mm mml ' v ' r RECEIVES DEGREE Bobhy Gene Pitts, son of Al bert Pitts, Roseburg, is one of R5 members of the 1919 graduat ing class at Multnomah College, Portland. The 52nd annual com mencement exercises were held Thursday, June 2, in the First Congregational Church in that city. Pitts received an associate in arts degree. An associate de gree Is given for the completion of a two-year prescribed course in a designated field. Certificates of graduation are awarded for completion of specific require-; ments of a particular field. Well Rapp Undergoes Operation In Portland Wally Rapp, a sponsor of the operation was performed on his Umpqua Chiefs and owner of j throat. He is reportedly getting Wally's Pastime, Is In a Portland i along fine. Rapp's wife accom hospital, where on Monday an I panied him to Portland. FROM THE NEWS OF 35 YEARS AGO Phone 100 If you do not receivt your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 lit 9 i I I I at l. .r "ei- fVw TV : r... J o. 0 "e 'if,,:: U "It L fit. ''"It, J4 Jt v10o - X fL Du Viahnctt S. Martini Although one remembers with pleasure the mnny friends one has known along Life's Trail, one just can't keep in touch with all of them! At the time I first knew Ida Lee Robertson In Oklahoma, she was campaigning for a seat in the State Legislature. She won, too! Yet prior to announcement of her candidacy at the very last second, she had had no more Idea than I of ever entering poli tics. She was genuinely drafted! Her speeches were just as one would expect them to be know ing Ida Lee! Sincere, spoken with a very marked command of the English language, a Biblical simplicity. But Ida Lee had never had any formal schooling. She had been a child on an Arkansas farm, re mote from schools, In days when the South was In a state of up heaval, In the stormy decade after the Civil War. So Ida Lee's mother taught her to read; the textbook was the Bible. "For a long time," Ida Lee Bible was the only book I had, too! I think I read it forward and backward, crossways and up side down! I had to work hard, to help Mother on that farm, but I loved to read! That was the only 'education' I had for many years." She was active in church and club, working earnestly for any thing that would better things for women and children. Espe cially children! On the day she took her seat her pretty little granddaughter, "Jinny," sat on her lap. Ida Lee Robertson was utterly fearless when she set out o "kill" a bill which she thought detrimental to women or chil dren, either directly or indirectly. I heard of Ink-wells flying through the air In the dignified assembly, but never a one was aimed or Intercepted! by Ida Lee. She was respected by the ones she opposed. She served on six committees. ' 'It doesn't matter where I find myself," I've heard her say, "I Just know I've been placed there to serve. . . After all, isn't that Two-Week Revivals Set At Light House Mission Two weeks' revival will be con ducted at the Light House Mis sion, 535 S. Stephens St., begin ning at 7:45 p.m., Sunday, June 12, by the Rev. Tommy Green, Irish evangelist and ex-prize fighter of Phoenix, Ariz. Veteran of four campaigns in the recent World War, the Rev. Mr. Green brings to the ministry "the same fighting spirit for truth and righteousness" that he showed on the battle front, an announcement states. A forceful speaker, the Rev. Mr. Green's topic will be "All for Christ and Christ for All." The meetings will be "interde nominational in character, new i testamental in doctrine, spiritual in purpose, ana oeneticiai to soul and body," said the Rev. H. K. 1 Miller, pastor of the Lleht House Mission. Auto Painting i .We'll make your old car.! ahine like new with one ofg! pur deluxe paint jobs. " JJ ' I - 1 HANSEN l! Motor Co. 1 Dak & Stephens Phone 446: Roseburg Review December 3, T914 Thii 1914 incident could very well carry a 1949 dateline because many residences today are UNDER-insured. We can all hark back to December 3, 1914, and take a lesson in preparedness. No home owner who suffered a fire was ever sorry he had fire insurance. It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R 1 j l p & oh mm mm TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE ml eg j , I - I -A " 1 mm A & Bill Tipton 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Office) Carl Permin I laughingly told me one day, "the 'why we're all here? To serve?" In the Day s News (Continued From Page One) Variety Show Is Scheduled At Yets Hospital A variety show entitled "Musi- Mrs. L. B. Boutell, Former Roseburg Resident, Dies Word of the dealh of Mrs. Laura livers Houtell, former Rose burg resident, was received here by her sister In law, Mrs. Cora Hvnr Mrc nnntitll ,HnH EVil,n, cal Charms" will be presented to ;nt Hie home of her (laughter, Mrs. ir pniii-iiis ni - riusemu j una Taylor, at Pasadena, Calif. veifrana ni5iitni June 11. A glittering 80 minutes of enter tainment Is built around an all girl string orchestra. These eight girls. "The Symphonettes," pro vide accompaniment for individ ual acts and also do solos of pop ular favorites. Vickie Vllla;il Is a vocal sollst who starred with Milt Britten's band and has been featured in theaters and supper clubs. A sllght-of-haud performance Is on the program to be done by Louise Terry, who entitles her number "maglcantles." The con versational pattern which she de livers along with her tricks is considered as entertaining as the magic Itself. Newcomers to the Hospital Camp Show are Estelle and Charles Kraft, a top tap-ballet team who have recently com pleted a very successful tour of Eastern theaters. This couple performs classical ballet as well as regular tap routines. From the radio circuit conic the Grayson Sisters who har monize today's outstanding tunes. This show Is one of the regu lar entertainment features' spon sored by the Veterans Hospital Camp Shows for patients In Vet erans Hospitals throughout the United States. She was 81 veals old Mrs. Mnutell was the sister of Mrs. Hyers' late husband, Arthur Kyers, of Koseburg. Surviving are another brother, J. P. Hyers of Oooullle, and two sisters. Mrs. William Hlssett and Mrs. Arthur C. Lander: and two daughters, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at San Jose, Calif., Sunday. Mont Idles 1,200 More On 'Slowdown' Charge SCIIENETAnV. N. Y., June 7. .T The American Locomotive Company has laid off another I.2IX) employes and blames what It terms a "continued slowdown" by CIO steelw inkers. The layoffs announced last night boost to between 2.3(H) and 2.100 the total Idled since last Thursday. The company said then "a slow, down of almost plant-wide scope" had developed. Sleelworkers Local 20M, which has been negotiating a new con tract for several weeks, has de nied ordering a slowdown. The company employes about G.000 here. Local WA' claims a membership of 4,500. may be ISN'T THE ANSWER TO MEN'S HOPES. HAT Is the answer? I don't know. I lean to the belief that STRAIGHTER THINKING Is an answer that promises more in the way of re sults than war. Most of Ihe evils we are suf fering from seem to me to arise out of unsound thinking. A tre mendous number of evils arise out of WISHFUL THINKING. Too often, when you WISH YOU HAP SOMETHING, you sit down and dream about it. Count less centuries of human experi ence indicate that a betler way security. But it Is substantially true. Suppose the founding fathers of the American republic had been obsessed with the dream of security. In that event, there would have been no Declaration of Independence. The declaration of American Independence in volved the gamble of war. The gamble was accepted, and the war was fought. The American republic, which provided the framework of the American way of life, with Its Immense contribution to human betterment, followed. If the founding lathers had been able to see no farther than Immediate economic security, what has hap pened In America would never have come to pass. Famous One-Unit Hearing Aid Little! Light I Efficient! ICome in nh-PREE DcmomlraiKHv Free Beltone Clinic at Umpqua Hotel, Friday, June 10th Mr. Mitchell of 305 IOOF Bldg. Eugene, is a member of J. N Taft & Associates of Portland hvho have been serving the lard of hearing since 1934. fresh Batteries for AH Aids Lady Assistant Hews fjBf H ERE'S a thought for you: THE SLAVE WITH A GOOD to get it Is to roll up your sleeves : MASTER HAD THE NEAREST and WORK FOR IT. THING TO ECONOMIC SECUR- ' ' llTY THAT HAS EVER BEEN i PROVERB has been well de-1 DESIGNED. ....IV....I II... ! 1..., distilled out of long generations of human observation. Here is one proverb: "If wishes were horses, all beg gars would ride." Wishes aren't horses. All beggars DON'T ride. ALONG that line, Dean G. W. Gleeson In a commence ment address warns Oregon State College graduates of 19-13 against OVER EMPHASIZING SECURITY. He said: "Campus surveys in dicate that upper classmen are anxious for Jobs with economic security." He added: 'Those who (over) emphasle security will sacrifice otherwise UNLIMITED opportunities." T HAT ought to be preachinc enough for one day, so Til sign off. Truman Signs Bill To Pay Kin Of Bomb Victims WASHINGTON, June 8 (-Pi President 'Truman signed Tues day legislation to pay $20,000 to the parents and husband of the victims of a Japanese balloon bomb that exploded near Hlv, Ore., on M.iy , 1913. Frank J. "Patke will receive W.OOtl for the death of his son and daughter; Archie Mitchell S.i.OOO for the death of his wife. J. L. Shoemaker $.1,000 for the death of his son. Einer Enger $.1,000 for the death of his son, and N. L. Clifford $3,000 for the death of his son. lite Rev. Archie Mitchell, his wife and the children were on a fishing trip when Mrs. Mitchell and the children discovered th THAT goes against the current I stream of men's thinking In a I bomb which cxoloded before world that is drifting steadily to- Mitchell could reach the place, vvard Sociallsm-whos founda- Asparagus belongs to th. lily Hon Is the desire for guaranteed famtlv. By SHERMAN PLIMPTON Some modern doctors now admit that witch doctors who visit their patients in out-sized Halloween masks and spend their time beating gourds and cooking up cl'.arms may have something besides a racket. Civilized M. D.s know a lot of sickness is mental as well as physical . . . so when the voo doo practitioner Jigs around like a hen on a hot rock and babbles a batch of backwoods double talk, he's working on the patient's mind and making him think he's going to get well Just as sure as ducks quack. So don't be surprised if your favorite Doc shows up in a mask, grass skirt and beating goatskin drum. He's willing to learn. Cowboy garb will be more to the point from now until Rodeo time, so haul out your buttons and bowt and high heel boots. Emily Post claims that "A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards." Especially if a cop is near. For stops, starts and reg ular driving your car should lie In perfect condition. 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