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4 Th News-Review, Rosoburg, Of. Fri., July 1, 1949 Published Dally Exoept Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. Caterer) ferond eleie metier Mey 1, 1. el the pelt effiee Beieburf. Oregon, under act el Hares 3. mS CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor y Manager Member of the Associated Preet, Oregon Newspaper Publlahera Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Bepreeeated by WEST-HOLLIDAi" CO., INC., erfleee In New Verk, Chleefe, Sen Prenclieo, Loe Angetei, Seetlle, Perllend. St. Leule. SUBSCRIPTION KATKR In Oreten Br Mell rer rear ., all menlhi (., three monlba St.SO. By City Carrier Per year 110.00 lln aitvance), leig tban ne year, per month 11.00. Outride Oregon By Hall Per year 10.00. lis nnthn t J.V Itirro mi.n.h DEATH TAKES By CHARLES V. STANTON The slaughter is about to begin. This weekend will see hundreds of persons killed, thous ands injured and millions of dollars worth of property dam aged. We are making no Idle prediction, for every holiday brings its tragic toll of dead and injured. The Fourth of July, with its heat, crowds,' fireworks and travel, is the most productive agency of death, injury and damage. Motorists will be speeding to beaches, mountains, celebra tions and other points of visitation. Everyone will be in a hurry and in a carefree mood, intent upon crowding as much fun and excitement into the brief weekend as possible. And while millions frolic, press wires throughout the nation will be mechanically tabulating the list of dead and injured. But no tabulation can portray the agony, the blood and horror-filled moments. Some motorists will die instantly; others will die more slowly despite ministrations to ease the torture in mangled bodies. Many will wake from drugged sleep to face future life as permanent cripples. Still others will spend weeks and months on beds of pain but, fortunate ly will have the satisfaction of eventual recovery. Not all deaths and injuries, however, will be attributable to motor vehicles. Drowning will claim many lives. Adults and children alike will be killed, maimed or injured through careless handling of fireworks. Sunstroke, overexertion, falls, fights and overindulgence will contribute to the roster of casualties. . We will pay dearly for our few hours of fun. Accompanying our careless waste of human life over the double holiday, will be a tremendous loss of property. The Fourth of July, due to use of fireworks, has an ex ceptionally high incidence of fires. Homes will be burned, in some cases taking lives of occupants. Grass fires will be prevalent everywhere. And there will be some forest fires. Shooting of fireworks in forest areas is prohibited by law, but we can anticipate many violations. Fireworks, how ever, are not the sole cause of fires in the woods. The care less smoker, the camper who leaves his fire untended, or who departs from a camp leaving unquenched embers and the person who thoughtlessly tosses burning material from a motor vehicle can create a blaze which may rage through thousands of acres of merchantable timber. As trees go up in flame and smoke, we seldom stop to realize that we must consider as a part of the cost the payrolls the trees would have produced as they passed through various stages of manufacture, the commodities that could have been purchased with money from those payrolls, and the subsequent loss of further circulation in various channels of trade. Too, we must consider the homes that could have been erected, business buildings constructed, fur niture produced. We must include taxes lost, both from the land and from income, together with hundreds of more intangibles. We know full well that words of warning are largely wasted. Thoughts of pleasure outweigh admonitions for cau tion. In our pleasure we grow thoughtless and careless. Newspapers everywhere are urging the public to be care ful, but, at the same time, are proceeding with preparations to publish the dire news they know will be forthcoming Hews of tragedy and destruction. If we seem pessimistic it Is because there is no escaping facts. Newspaper files year after year contain tabulations of Fourth of July casualties. The list is proportionate to the duration of the holiday. We can only hope that a FEW people will give heed. Per haps repeated warnings may save a life here and another there. Someone may be caused to stop and think before he carelessly sets a fire or causes an accident. If so, the warning will not have been in vain. But of one tiling we may be sure death will not be taking a holiday. Hoover Opposes Chairman For Joint Chiefs Of Staffs For Armed Services WASHINGTON, Julv 1 (P) - Herbert Hoover sold today It would be "dangerous, lo the coun try" to create a chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the armed services as proposed by the Tru man administration. Such an office, the former president declared, would "place too much power in any military officer." Hoover testified before the House Armed Services Commit tee on legislation lo amend the armed services unification law of 1917. Generally, the measure is aimed to give more power to the secretary of defense and Iron out "bugs" in the two-year-old law. Backers have contended the proposed revisions will permit savings of many millions of dol lars. The Senate passed the legislation May 2(1. Hoover endorsed the general purposes of the bill but strongly opposed a section which would create a chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Each of the armed services is represented on the Joint Chiefs bv its chief of slaff. Under the the present arrangement, each is equal In theory and they try to reach their decisions by mutual agreement. The proposal to create a chair man was advanced by the late Secretary of Defense Korrestal and has the specific endorsement of President Truman. Under the plan, the chairman would act as chief military advisor to the President and the secretary of defense. NO HOLIDAY Chairman Vinson (D. Ga.) snld he agreed with Hoover that the proposed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff might become, In effect, a single chief of stuff for all the armed forces, Vinson added: "I want to put something In this bill so that It can't happen." Rep. Short (R.Mo.) said lie Is "a lillle alarmed about the tre mendous powers" proposed In the but ror the secretary ot defense. Hoover told this siory today as Illustrating the need (or closer coordination of the armed serv ices: "A friend of mine is acting as a medical consultant for all three services on the same subject, and he gels three salary cheeks. He told me that a little coordination would eliminate two of these checks, and he would lie glad to see It happen. Old Tim Gospel Meets Continued At Oakland Old Time Gospel meetings ate to be continued indefinitely, weather permitting, in the little tent at the east end of the City Park at Oakland, announced Evangelist William Elmer Brown, who Is conducting the meetings, Brown announced that he win preach "God's word In Its full ness, as was preached by the early apostles and disciples." All Bible subjects will bt preached and taught. mm? i mm- m&9k. hmfflnrSMBI fist, Sfa'iSSb&cPvmeSbiSStoim The dear little wrens with their tip-tilted tails went back and forth (to continue from yester day's column) from dawn to dark, In rain and sun, while the babies held up widely gaping bills for food. Sometimes they worked, Indefatigably, until after eight o'clock In the Oklahoma twilight. The thing I remember so vividly Is the way they always paused a moment on the clothesline, both going and coming, and trilled one of the most exquisite bird-songs to be heard. , How they could sing, with a green worm on the way to the nest! They paid no attention to us, flying within a foot of Mother as she washed In the basement under the back porch; the electric washer troubled the wrens not at all! They fed the young while we watched Interestedly, And then on a Sunday afternoon, right after we came home from church, the parents decided the time had come for the wee ones to fly! Smaller than the tiny wrens were the "winged jewels," ruby throated hummingbirds, dipping their long bills Into Mother's prize scarlet gladioli, the dark purple velvet of a wall of morning-glories, every bright-colored chalice In the garden. And oh, Oregon Seventh Among States In 3-Year Highway Building Projects Durtnp the nasi three venrs (1946-47-48) the Stale Highway Commission has been contracting a three-year highway construction program which has totalled ap proximately $52 million In money and which will result In the Im provement of some l.Sill miles of roads in the extended motor trans poration gYul of the state. In com parison with the pi-ogress made in other states in the conduct of its highway construction program for this period, Oregon stands in seventh place among the 48 states of the Union. Of the SS2 million, approximate ly $40,3IX),OnO represented federal aid projects, the remaining Sit. 700,000 state projects to which no federal money Is attached. This work constitutes what is called the "first postwar program," asK.! A couple was married Initiated by the 11)44 road act of Congress, which earmarked $36 million t$21 million of federal funds and $15 million of state funds) for federal aid construction in Oregon during the three-year period. The second postwar federal aid program was authorized and ini tialed bv the Congress in June, 1(118. Under this program, the Highway Commission will have available approximately $21 mil lion In both state and federal funds for construction work dur ing the coming two years, the pro gram for which was set up, in ma. jor part, bv the commission at its May nicotine. On June 27 and 28, at a moet - Ing held In Portland, the commis- slon let contracts totalling approx imately $3 million. One of the I largest lettlngs In amount and number of protects In Ihe history of the commission. One $300,000 oi ine cumnussmn. woe ,nM,isvu.j..w . , ,-.,l.,.,t l,.i,,,l.i t. ,1,., ll.i lu r.,.. , ' "'r-' construction work on the ' Ochoco Highway and Is a segment of thej" "" unempuneu, saio no noney- second postwar program, the re mainder being remaining con struction Items of the first post war program. There will remain for subsequent contracts about .Z5n.ono of the first postwar program, of which $1,700,000 cov- ers the completion of the Harbor! But Still Impregnable By Viahnett S. Martin what , a garden! With a "bird pool" In the center made of a deep tray. There was a great oak tree near the house. Hundreds, really hundreds, of birds setled down In It every evening. It was some thing to hear! The twittering, and at last, sleepy cheep-cheeps. One night I heard the plaintive sound of a lost chick. Rather than disturb Dad, I took a flashlight and went out Into the moonlight to find the chick. I heard a chuckle. "The chick is about fifty foot up In that tree," said Dad. The mockingbird had played a nice trick on me! It was there I saw my first cardinal! I liked to watch a long line of scissortalls perched on the wires, having a noisy caucus; never saw one In the ground. I never tired of watching one shoot up, then straight down never, I think, was the prey missed! Then there were the showy Impudent kingfishers along the bank of the little creek. Oh what a lovely summer this "Oklahoma" 32-page book brings back to me! I'm sure the . Oklahoma State Highway Commission will send you one, too, for the asking; Ok lahoma City, of course, is the ad dress. Drive Improvement In Portland. Before the close of the present year the commission expects to let contracts covering all remain' ing fragments of the first postwar program construction, together with the major portion of the first year of the second postwar sched ule, as set up at the May meeting of the commission. Blindness Doesn't Mar Happiness At Wedding Rites SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 1, Wednesday night In a setting of pretty flowers they could not see and spotlights which beamed against their darkened world. All of the principals In the wedding ceremony at the Mary Bryant home for women are blind. Some 50 guests, many of them blind, attended the wedding. The bride, Ida Mae Weddle, 48, walked unassisted to the altar to the strains of a wedding march played by Mrs. Margaret Howse, blind pianist. The blind bridegroom, Clifford English, also 48, and his best man, Verne Campbell, president of the Association of ii;c glind at Spring- iinii, .ano Lampoons wile, Hon- lnie. the bridesmaid j to the altar without aid. The Rev. Robert S. Kieser, blind pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church who conducted the cere mony, was led to the altar bv a I English, an electrician cur- moon was planned. His bride, w ho has given up her lob as oneralor of a candy counter In the City Hall, said she is ready to start housekeeping. "We're pretty lucky people,' she said. I dtdn t Know anyone could be so happy." In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) port raw materials, process them and export the finished products. In order to export successfully, they must produce at a price that will meet world competition. Here is the nub of Britain's "deepen ing" crisis: HER PRESENT PRICES ARE SO HIGH THAT SHE- CAN'T SELL ENOUGH IN THE WORLD MARKETS TO MAIN TAIN HER ECONOMY. Her prices are too high because her costs are too high. in a town where all your com petitors were underselling you, you will understand Britain's problems. You have to sell to live. If you sell at a loss, you're sunk. You can't raise your prices, for If you do your customers will buy from your competitors and that will cook your goose. Your only hope Is to cut your costs. That is Britain's fix. She has to cut her costs or her economy will wither and die. - THAT brings us back to the prob lem of politics. Britain Is governed by the Labor Party, which has strong Socialist leanings. The British economy has been extensively na tionalized. In the nationalized In dustries, the government is the employer. The government fixes wages. British labor Is growing restive under present wage ceilings. It wants more money. The govern ment,, under stern necessity to hold down costs, has so far re fused Increases. That tends to shake the confidence of wage earners In the Labor government. Meanwhile Britain's exports continue to shrink alarmingly. e UIHAT will the Labor govern- II ment do about It? I wouldn't know. But It is rather generally expected that It will "devalue" the pound. That Is too complicated to go into here. Suf fice It to say that It would amount to cutting British wages by the device of paying labor In money that would have less purchasing power in terms of Imported commodities. As to that, we shall see what we shall see. HERE Is what I'm really driving at: In the United . States last No vember, postwar prosperity was still running high. The "experts" thought there had been a change in political philosophy and that Dewey would win. But, when it cttme to the pinch, the voters re fused to shoot Santa Claus. They declined to change horses In the stream. They preferred to let well enough alone. The same thing happened In Canada with per haps less surprise. But In the United States and Canada the tide of postwar pros perity was still running strong when the voters voted. Nobody has ever yet shot Santa Claus. e IT seems to me that the real test of the leave-it to papa po litical philosophy that has been and still Is sweeping the world will come In Britain. X In Britain, the tide of postwar Output, Distribution Costs May Be Detrimental To Big Firm Facing Competition NEW YORK, July 1 UP) Maybe some companies have been getting too big for their breeches. The American mass production gystem is topi when It comes to getting more goods to more people at less cost than any other yet developed. But that doesn't mean that some companies may not now be more the victims of elephantiasis than examples of efficiency. At least, the distribution com mittee of the American Society oi Mechanical Engineers suspects as much. Its chairman, enton B. Turck, New York engineer, thinks, naturally enough, mat most companies would oe better oil if they called in mechanical engineers for a good look into their uisiribution costs. Those who believe like Turck say its possible for a company to get so Dig it can't compete on even terms with smaller ones this, despite the accepied Ameri can view that big companies al ways have the advantage over small. . Some companies may have tnea to reacu out for too much since xhe war. They may be too set on blanKeling ine nation with their prouuet, when they'd do better just to be regional. After all, tne United States is a regional proposition in many ways, witn1 a variety of tastes anu needs. Too, there is the high cost of transportation, mounting steauily since the war. It costs more to service distant markets. Ignorance Can Be Costly Other companies may have strained to &ei customers they can t serve pi oiitably, meanwhile ignoring or losing some they could all with the oDject of making their business look big ger and bigger, or setting ever mgher saies records. Many companies may not know what actual uistriDUlion costs are, product by prouuet, or how to meak them down to look for bugs. Ignorance can be more costly than blissful for a business man, the engineering committee says. It suggests that if some of these companies reduced, 'hey might discover that what they lost was Ilabby flesh and that they would look better in the year-end profit and loss , state ments. It's possible, these ob servers say, that the country might be better off, too, since the business 'one company drops as unprofitable may be done gain fully by others. However, there are many to champion the cause of bigness, to point out the savings and serv ices of the large, integrated .com pany. There are those who hold that a company cannot stand still, that it must continue to grow or It will lose out. It's still possible, however, that other companies might find, If they knew exactly what each opera- Berlin Workers Charge Soviet With Reprisals BERLIN, July 1 UP) The anti-Communist Berlin Railway Union charges that the Soviet controlled railway management has begun reprisals against men who took part in the crippling 38-day rail strike. The union said 375 men were fired without notice. The 14,000 strikers reported back to work this week. The strikers had gone back to work on the promise that there would be no reprisals against them. Rail traffic remained stalled, meanwhile, while crews worked to repair damage caused by the long stoppage. The Russians released to West Berlin authorities seven tons of power plant machinery seized in a truck convoy Tuesday. The in cident had aroused a British American protest. The cargo was sent from Frank furt to Berlin for construction of a new power plant designed to make West Berlin independent of the Soviet Sector. . The need was emphasized last winter during the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, when the Western Sectors spent nights In darkness. This had made the seizure an incident which was out of the ordinary. prosperity Is ebbing. The jagged rocks of stern reality are begin ning to show above the surface. Life is already rugged for most Britons and Is getting ruggeder. And the parliamentary elections are still a year off. Unless the Labor government can pull a startling rabbit out of the hat, realities will be sterner a year hence than now. By then, there may be no British Santa Claus to shoot. In that event, it wouldn't be a case of swapping horses in the middle of the stream because the stream would have dried up. The voters might then turn to the CONSERVATIVES as having something to offer, after all. Phone 100 If ysu do not recilvo your Newt-Rsvlew by (MS P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phono 100 Active Club Will Skip Next Thursday Meeting The Active Club will dispense with its meeting scheduled for Thursday of next week, as sev eral members will be attending the Active International conven tion in Portland July 5 to 8. Delegates will be Kenneth At terbury, Arlo Jacklin and Leon ard Mclntyre. Louis Adamski, an alternate, will be the area rep resentative in the public speak ing contest. He recently won first place in the area contest held at Vancouver, Wash. The club's next meeting, It was decided at Thursday's session will be in the morning of July 14 at the Shallmar. The inter club picnic will probobly not be held until late In August, it was decided. Kenny Whitson Gets Offers For Top Booking His appearance r on a college television show in Los Angeles about a month ago brought Ken ney Whitson of Roseburg several offers from booking agents, who witnessed his performance on the tele-screen. Ken n y, a student at El Camlno College In Los Angeles, is singing at Playmor Gardens, near the Pacific Highway bridge at Dillard, this summer and stay ing at the home of his brother, Jerry Whitson. In the performance which at tracted the attention of booking agents, Kenny sang and ac companied himself at the piano. Among the calls was one from Benny Goodman's agent. tion, product and market cost them, that some of their bigness cost them more than It was worth. Or, perhaps it's just that 'one industry's meat is another in dustry's poison. KEN'S OFFICE 631 S. Stephens . SAWDUST SLAB WOOEV f PLANER ENDS DENN-GERRETSEN CO: Phone 128 Bank With. , , A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated - -' Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank ATTENTION, W. ore paying the following and eggs: LARGE EGGS, dozen COLORED FRYERS, l, Ibt. COLORED FOWL, lb. . LEG, FOWL, lb. The obove prices ore for A grade poultry f. o. b. plant We atIn w " ".nd ,roien poul,ry ond ,urky ' at all timet. We invite you to fry our poultry for vour Holi. day Dinner. Wholesaler, of Bl7e DiamonJ Tpoulry & Tu keys. Makers of Northwest Quality Feeds. REMEMBER . . You can't get any more out of a sack izt:s-You wclcome ,o in NORTHWEST POULTRY AND DAIRY PRODUCTS WHOLESALE Open Saturday Til 12:00 Phone 210 145) Neighbors Offer Practically All To Get Murderer MISSION, B. C. July 1. (CP) Neighbors of the Silver Hill kill er, Ivar Johnson, have offered a reward for his capture dead or alive. ' ' Living In dally fear of their lives, they have decided to offer all they have which isn't much financially in an effort to av enge the lives of ' two of their kin, and end the reign of fear. Between them, the simple folk in the Swedish community have offered 10 chickens, a calf, $2, an apple crop, and the yield of two pear trees. Another neighbor, Mrs. Anna Tholander, will knit a pair of socks for the man who finds Johnson. This reward is In addition to to the $200 offered by the mu nicipality. Eight days now have passed since Johnson, a 70-year-old bachelor-farmer, shot two of his own neighbors, Mrs. Maria Lindberg and Mrs. Charlotte Barrett. The shootings climaxed a dispute ov a road allowance. A twin murder charge stands against him. The organized search by police and possemen has been called off, and police believe he Is eith er dead a suicide m- the dense forest or has fled the district. Southern Coal Operators Still Mull Strike Threat BLUEFIELD, W. Va., June 30. The Southern soft coal pro ducersand United Mine Workers started their sixth week of nego tiations Wednesday faced with an ultimatum of reaching agreement by Tuesday or having a strike. The union told the operators that miners will not Come back to work at the end of their 10. Han ,,annr,nn Tuoerfa,, If than, let no new contract, President Joseph E. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers Association said. A strike at mines represented here by the SCPA would Involve between a fifth and a fourth of the nation's 400,000 soft coal miners. ... CALL KEN TODAY! Just phone 1261-R today for someone to do repairs on your typewriter or adding machines. EQUIPMENT Phone 1261-R 402 W. Oak PRODUCERS cash prices for your poultry ' 53c 32c 24c 21c and up, lb.. 500 W. Lor e