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4 Tht Newi-kview, Ro.cburg, Qr Mon., junt i7, i49i Anyway, It's A Lot Better Than A Wider Split Published Daily Except Sunday hy the News-Review Compony, Inc. Enttred second oUm niiwr Mj- 1, 10, at h pott oflet t Boicburf, Ore co a, uodar act ( March t, lHH CHARLES V. 8TANTON ftv EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor i Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Etprasantrd by U EST-HOLLIDAY CO.. INC., fflces In Now Vorh, Chlcaft, San Frinclico, Loi Angel!, Brittle, Portland, HI. Looli. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Oregon By Mall rr Tear SB.O0, els months $4.M, three monlhi 12.20. By City Carrier Per year 110.00 (In adranrs), leis than ne year, per rnontn al.uu uuiiioe ureioo nj mu rmr jr mnn lh H TV lhrp mnn'h " " THE HORSES ARE COMING By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburg is to have a race meet in August the longest race season in Oregon outside Multnomah County. Racing will be staged nightly for 10-days at Roseburg. Portland Meadows operates 44 days, Gresham 6 days, the State Fair 6 days. Pendleton, Tillamook and Lebanon each have 3-day meets. Whether the 10-day meet will be continued as an annual event will depend upon results from the first experiment. Some persons familiar with racing problems contend that '. a 10-day season is too long for a community the size of Rose burg. Others believe, however, that the area can support the longer season and that a large number of visitors will be ' attracted from all Southwestern Oregon. A heavy advertis ing campaign is planned in neighboring cities. One reason for the 10-day show is concerned with educat ing the public. Comparatively few persons are familiar with the complicated rules and regulations governing thorough bred and quarter horse racing in the State of Oregon. It is the plan of the local management to accompany all races with detailed explanations of procedure. To sponsor the show several Roseburg business men have formed a private corporation to be known as the Umpqua Jockey Club, subscribing sufficient capital to underwrite expenses. Fifty percent of the net profit, if the event shows a profit, will go to the corporation. Otherwise members will take a loss. It is believed, the show can be financed from admissions, Excellent cooperation is promised by horse owners who will bring their stock here with lower guarantees and purses than normally required, thus assisting to get horse racing estab lished on a permanent basis in Oregon's fastest growing and most promising community. While pari-mutuel betting will be set up as a part of the race program, under strict control and supervision by the State of Oregon, sponsors are not counting on betting reve nue to finance the show. Income from that source is too uncertain. . ' ' ' Personally we welcome horse racing to Roseburg. Readers of this column know that we have long held the theory that 1 if Roseburg desires to be the trade center for the area it has the responsibility of being the amusement and recreation center as well. We have made excellent progress in the enter- , tainment field in the past few years, but we still have a long way to go. Racing will be a big help. We hope the sponsors will not overlook possibilities for building up local competition. We have some excellent horse flesh in Douglas County. We also have some good riding clubs. It is our hope that we can develop amateur saddle races with rivalry between communities. An opportunity exists, we believe, to conduct elimination contests during the annual rodeo. Semi-finals and finals then could be postponed until the annual race meet during the County Fair. As a result we could develop much competition between communities, improve our stock and, at the same time, sustain interest between the two major shows of the spring and summer season. Naturally, professionals look askance upon mixing in amateur events, but we believe the rivalry created by proper ly managed eliminations would prove an important factor in boosting attendance and providing entertainment. Schupetpelz Park Soon Will Open In Western Douglas REEDSPORT (Special to the News Review.) Schupetpelz Park may soon be created In West ern Douglas County. Land exchanges now In process ot negotiation will upon comple tion result in opening a 90-acre tract of timber just south of the Lakeside railroad underpass on Highway 101 ns a public park. The name Is proposed to honor Paul Schupetpelz, a service sta tion owner, who has been active In establishment of public recre ational centers In Western Doug las County. Hp was Instrumental In establishing Eel Lake Park and campgrounds and the Lighthouse State park. Announcement of plans for the new park was made bv Fred Furst, supervisor of the Sluslaw National rorest, who Is conduct ing negotiations for the land. Schupetpelz at present is occu- flying unddr lease from the Slus aw National Forest a tract of land on which he has established a service station, small store and residence at Lakeside Junction. An agreement to trade a 63-acre tract of privately owned forest land for the site he now occupies has been reached between Schu petpelz and the forest supervisor, sublect to ratification from the U. S. Forest Service. Mr. Furst states that If and when the deal is completed, the acquired forest tract will be im proved with campsite and picnic facilities and will be opened for public use. Adjoining forest land will be Included In the park area to bring the total size to approxi mately 90 acres. open with a parade at 10 a. m The show at the rodeo grounds will start at 1 p. m. and will in elude: Boys' calf scramble, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, ladles' barrel race, steer riding, calf rop ing, bareback bronc riding, break away roping, saddle bronc riding, cow horse contest, bareback bronc riding, breakaway roping, wild cow milking and stake race. Campers Dodge Death In Sudden Wall Of Water Fifteen Events Listed For Yoncalla Rodeo Fifteen events are planned for Yoncalla's third annual 4th of July rodeo. The rodeo Is being sponsored by the Yoncalla Rid ing Club. The celebration at Yoncalla will STOCKTON, Calif., June 27. t.n A six-foot wah of water. rushing down the Calaveras River at midnight Thursday night, bare ly missed drowning 25 or JU camp ers In the normally dry stream bed. Almost certain disaster was averted by prompt action of the sheriff's office, which was warn ed In time and spread the word with scant minutes to spare. It was a freakish accident which caused the hazardous sit uation. At Hogan Dam, a few miles upstream, part of a huge wooden bulkhead had been re moved from a "release hole" to allow a limited amount of water to flow down to Stockton. 'Then, unexpectedly, the rest of the bulkhead gave way and a huee torrent of water poured downstream. Harold Davis, living about five miles north of Stock ton, saw the wall of water coming and phoned the sheriffs office. Deputies, without a moment's hesitation, raced down the stream bed warning the i-ampere to get out of danger. Some of them barely made It before the torrent rushed over their camp sites." Most of the campers were Itiner ants. There were numerous chil dren among them. Hogan Dam Is a diversionary reservoir hullt in 1!29 to control flood waters. The river below It is used as a ranal now to supply water to agricultural areas around Stockton. $t By Viahnett S. Martin y- I haven't been deep-sea fishing In ages. .Nothing was further from my thought until last evening. Now It looks as If, be fore too long, we shall be off shore in Oregon. But before I ever go aboard at Newport I know the trip will be really something If It beats the one I remember best! To be sure very few fish were caught and none by me. There was a Bmall boy whom I shall call Tim, because I forgot his real name, who shared my delight. The rest of the passengers . . . hadn't come for the ride! Tim and I took our places In the sharp angle of the bow, along toward dawn. It looked to us as If we were going to smack right Into the lee side of Catallna, but no, the engine shut off, and the anchor went down, Just In time. The fishermen were baited up and ready. Down went the lines, clear to the bottom. A few big bass began to come up reluct antly If you have ever hauled a big bass up from 300 feet you'll know what I mean. Then over the ship telephone came the exciting news: "Albacore break ing." We up-anchored, and away we went! Tim and I took our stand In the bow to enjoy the bounces. That channel can be as choppy as the English one if It has a mind to be, but that day It had only half a mind. But the "bounces" as Tim called them, were very nice. And. oh, how beautiful was the Inky-blue trans parent water! We swung in a wide circle, and chummed . . . over went the lines . . . but no luck. Away we went again. We repeated the performance over and over and over ... for thirteen instead of the usual eight or nine hours. The skipper earnestly wanted his passengers to get their money's worth; only two were doing that! Towards day's end a few yel- lowtall came over the side, tuna, and at last, a, few albacore. A 32-pounder was, I recall, the largest one gaffed. . Once there was a great hubbub off the stern. The engine was shut off, and tht skipper and helmsman bounded out of the wheclhouse. Tim and I hustled along too. Man overboard? No, the first strike! Then a let down. You guessed it kelp! We chugged on. Tim and I 'caught' the best fish of the day. We stared down through the-blue at a motionless swordflsh! It seemed so close! The skipper was pleased. We were, perhaps, the one bright spot In his day? In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Why Can't They Spell? Oregon City Enterprise Kim Calvin. 13. of Canton, O. "whose mother had coached him for 15 months," won the national snelllng bee championship. He won out by spelling correctly the word "onerous" after his nearest rival, James Shea of Brooklyn, had flunked out by putting an in "dulcimer." The third place boy had missed by starting encveucal wun an a. All honor to Kim Calvin, and to his mother though the per haps ungenerous thought arises that those concluding and pre sumably "hardest" words were not too difficult nor tricky, con sidering that this contest, held in Washington, D. C, was the final elimination after a lot of excel lent spoilers had lost out in home districts. A couple of generations ago the national finalists, we feel confident, would have been tussling with such words as "hieroglyphic" and "Pharmaco poeia" after wading right through "mellifluous" and "potas sium." Hut the real issue Is and we hate to bring It up right now when the high school seniors are getting their diplomas along with laudatory words Intimating that they are. at last, somewhat edu catedwhy can't today's young people spell? That they can't. Is rather gen erally admitted, by themselves and by educators. 'Offhand, the reason Is not deeply hidden. Re search In preparation for this discussion has not Ixvn so exten sive as to carry authority, but some of these young people say they never have studied spelling an hour In their lives. Spelling can by no switch of alliteration be listed among the "three Rs" on which the older generation dotes, but It does have some kinship to readln' and " 'ritln'." One might susuect that youth would, In gaining passable mastery of those arts, be some what exposed to the Intricacies of spelling. Apparently, even these subjects modernly are taught in such fashion that spell ing doesn't "take." Imaginably there will come a time when elder generations are gune and nobody will be able to spell and then It won't matter. Meanwhile for the sake of those readers who still are sensitive on the subject, the people who pub lish books, pamphlets, even news papers, try to employ a few per sons who, at least with the aid of an unabridged dictionary, can ferret out errors In spelling. Finding young persons who can do even that, is becoming in creasingly difficult. Kim Calvin's mother coached him for 15 months. There's a hint, maybe, in that. Child Aid Must Be Cut To Allow $50 Pensions PORTLAND, June 27. OP The State Public Welfare Com mission today had officially esta lished the $50 minimum for old age pensions but it had to cut cliilcl assistance to do It. The $50 minimum will go Into effect July 1. But the commission, which met here Friday, said it would have to reduce aid to dependent chil dren by $13 a case. There are not. commissioners said, enough funds to do otherwise. The budget for the 1949-51 bl- ennlum was set at $49.897,984 well above the $42,188,000 allocat ed for the current two-year period. The commission reported a sharp drop In general relief last IIV'lllll .lull! fAi,UI. Ill t10.40l. The decrease was attributed to the rule removing able-bodied jingle men from relief rolls. Old age pension payments re mained about level with the pre vious month. branches must accept to member ship ALL QUALIFIED APPLI CANTS (including colored women) or be expelled from the association . . . Action on the con troversial by-laws revision was by an announced majority of 2168 for and 65 against." THAT is a significant develop ment in VOLUNTARY, NON LEGAL tolerance. Personally, I can't get away from the feeling that we'll get farther in the di rection of tolerance by this method than by passing laws. ONE more thought along that line before we leave the sub ject: Why did AAUW do what it has done? This is the answer: It yielded to enlightened public opinion. Enlightened public opin ion can be AND IS a tremendous force for progress. IN Portland there hat been a big scandal over horse meat which is cheaper than beef and for that reason appears to have been sub stituted for beef in a lot of cases WITHOUT THE CUSTOMER KNOWING IT. ' As a sequel to the ruckus, City Commissioner Peterson asks the U. S. Department of Agriculture to put all plants selling meat In Portland under federal inspec tion. MORE federal regimentation? NO: Believe it or not,, horse meat is good meat. In Europe, where it has been a standard article of diet for a long time, there are many people who prefer it to beef. BUT You're entitled to know whether or not you're getting horse meat when you make a purchase. The purpose of federal Inspection, as asked in Portland, Is to compel horse meat to be sold as horse meat. Establishment and enforcement of standards (so that buyers may depend on getting what they are paying for) is a legitimate func tion of government. Cherry Pickers Only Shortage In Farm Labor McMlnnvllle with a call for 250 additional cherry pickers was the only local office in the state re porting a shortage of farm labor, the Oregon State Employment ; Service announced today. j In other areas, particularly I through Northwestern Oregon, the demand for seasonal agricul- j tural workers promises to con tinue active for some time, but : all present calls are being filled, , according to employment offi-; cials. Last month 10,848 farm place ments were made, a gain of 40 per cent over a year ago, 'while this month totals will be much higher. Strawberry picking and other harvests were using 28,000 workers early in June and the number was increasing. Caneberry picking already has started around Portland and in the upper Willamette Valley, but so far the labor supply has been adequate. Except in the hills, strawberry picking is completed, while most of the ample cherry crop also has been gathered. Wheat harvests will be under way in Eastern Oregon after the Fourth of July, while bean pick-; ing will get under wav in West-! em Oregon later in the month. Belore moving to other areas. : prospective farm workers should secure latest information from local and seasonal emDlovment offices also at farm information stations at Biggs and ' Goshen. Most camps are filled, but many cabins and other facilities are available on farms in some sec tions. Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank Sergeant Construction Low Bidder On School Contract fnr iha ffref- umI- f thf new RIHrtlp ptpmnntarv enHnnl has hppn aunrripri tha Qapoagnt Construction Co. of C.ranto Pace The company bid $42,685 and also iTOeiveu me electrical contract on the additional bid of $3,380. The plumbing contract, the Mvrtle Crepk Mail rpnnrtpH ureni to Harris Plumbing Co. for $6,- 4io aiiu iteming contract lo ine Rnpup Rivpr ttarHwara fni 7 . 4T1. Contracts total Q79 PnK. ert A. Miller is architect. TO TAXPAYERS: The annual meeting of the League will be held at 10:00 A. M., Tuesday, June 28th, Circuit Court Room, Court House, Roseburg, Oregon, for the consideration of the 1 950 Budget, the election of officers and such other business as shall properly come before the meeting. You are vitally interested in the tax picture of Doug las County and it is only by your attendance at the Bud get Meeting of the county that the county officials can know your attitude on tax matters. Make it a point to at tend this meeting. DOUGLAS COUNTY TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE (Signed) R. R. CLARK, President Drivers License Examiner Dated June 30, July 1 Drivers license examinations will be given in Roseburg next Thursday and Friday, June 30 and July 1, at the City Hall between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. Persons wishing licenses or per mits to drive, are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure comple tion of their applications with a minimum of delay. F ROM Astoria comes this terse dispatch: "The youth who bought a farm with a $7,000 rubber check and then eloped with the farmer's daughter In a car bought with an other $2250 rubber check is In Jail now." e AT this point, let's try to do a little Straight thinking: If you read the story, you must have come to the conclusion that In many ways he was a bright boy. He had undoubted talent as a salesman, for he was able to win the confidence ot the bus inessmen who took his checks. Ability to win the customer's con fidence is a big asset. 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