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TELEVISION PROSPECTS
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Despite the fact that facilities for transmission are now
. available, several years will elapse before television becomes
general on the Pacific Coast except in metropolitan areas.
Such is the prediction by Wendell Webb, managing editor
of The Oregon Statesman, Salem, reviewing a feature article
from the New York Times.
Says Webb:
It will be a long time before there are actually television
transmitters In areas outside of population centers. The
law of economics prevents. So far, none of the four existing
television networks has made money, and no single station
has olalmed to be getting rich. The major reason Is that
television operation is four or five times as expensive
as radio and not yet is there a sufficient audience to
warrant rates commensurate with costs.
Although residents in "the sticks" may be compelled to
wait for a considerable time before installing television sets,
inhabitants of the larger cities have brighter prospects.
Already television is serving an area covering roughly
60,000,000 population. Sixty-four stations are operating
in the country, with 10 on the Pacific Coast "seven in
Los Angeles (more than in any other one city in the nation),
two in San Francisco and one in Seattle."
Six applications have been filed at Portland, but no im
mediate construction is in prospect.
The television wave differs from radio in the fact that
while radio reception is only slightly affected by curvature
of the earth and intervening hills and valleys, television
generally serves only on a line-of-sight basis. In other words,
the television wave does not "bend" with curvature of the
earth or around and over hills. Good reception depends upon
a receiving set being situated in a straight unobstructed line
to the transmitter. This gives television a normal operating
range of 50 to 100 miles.
Some exceptions exist, as, for instance, the fact that
Seattle programs are being well received at Astoria, Oregon,
where Station KAST is considering plans to put in relay
equipment which will rebroadcast the Seattle programs.
Seattle signals, under exceptional conditions, have been re
ceived at Salem, Webb reports.
Several interesting experiments are in progress to in
crease television range. One very successful method is to
beam signals directly at relay stations located in airplanes
circling high above the transmitter, thus extending the line-of-sight
effective area by many miles and getting the signal
down into valleys which otherwise would be cut off from
reception.
Webb concludes his interesting summary with the follow
ing: , .
Television as a faotor In International relations Is re
garded as Immensely Important In Its potentialities. How
people look and live, far more than how they sound and
. and what they say, gives an Inside Into conditions the
world over. If television develops a new era of mutual
understanding Its Importance will far transcend its contri
bution to the world of entertainment.
As Webb states, it probably will be several years before
television reaches into the less sparsely settled areas. This
is due to technical and mechanical difficulties in addition to
economic factors.
The News-Review's radio station, KRNR, is watching
television developments closely and is preparing to pro
vide programs as quickly as the area can be served. It will
be necessary, however, to wait until network facilities be
come available, for it would not be possible to originate
full-time local programs.
Roseburg is on the coaxial cable system built by the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company partly to handle
television circuits. Thus television programs will be piped
into this city and it is planned to provide local transmission
just as soon as practical.
Self-Reliance Facing Extinction
In Security-Conscious America
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Fortune Magazine's recent survey of college campuses shows
graduating students more worried about old-age pensions and simi
lar security safeguards than anything else In their future.
Add to these protections a job
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the 94-foot spar tree at Sutherlin's Timber Days celebration. Leatherwood won first place in the
contest, in which seven started but only three finished.
By Vialinett S. Martin
Sleeping Beauty's palace could
have been In Oregon. The jungle
around the castle had grown so
fast and so thick and so high,
remember?
Our first year here when EJ
was spending all his time from
daylight to dark working on the
place, we seemed to be making
marvelous headway. Just won
derful! Then when he began
spending eight hours a day In an
office, the Jungle began to gain
again.
If the fairy should put Ore-
gonians to sleep for a hundred
years there would be on the map
Just one thick mass of green
marked "as yet unknown." That
Is, If she put the Indians to sleep,
too. So fast would all this labor
of man be undone by the Incred
ible force of nature! An Oregon
fairy could do It In half that time,
easily!
Last spring we had two roads
bulldozed through to the back
fence: One on a level along
Secley Creek; one going up, and
I mean up! They were Just two
red gashes, marring the beauty of
the woods for a while; then green
began to soften the harshness of
the torn up soil, and pushed-
together trash waiting for burn
ing. In another year If we want
a trail through there we shall
need a bulldozer again!
Our first Christmas we hacked
a path through to the back fence;
we had been here 10 days, and
every one we knew was far away.
But it was a happy day anyhow.
We thought we were getting
'back to the land' but what we
were doing was beginning a bat
tle with the Jungle, a battle we
are losing fast! It's lovely to look
at. yes, . Indeed. It feeds the
heart after years of city living,
But I laugh when I think of my
relieved farewell to California
"devil-crass"! Hera the whole
forest is a besieging, never let
ting up, forc! I couldn't possible
say 'enemy,' could you?
As we drive along the highway
and see cleared places, we do not
see them with tourists' un-know-ing
eyes! We know the unre
mitting toll, and courage and
faith It takes to make a small
farm out of a woods clearing. It's
all we can do to keep the house
from being covered up with the
woods crowding closer and closer
to take back what was once
theirs!
In the Day's Hews
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with a big, established company
and a wife and a few children
and you have what most college
men in tneir twenties are secKing
today.
It la alarming to realize that
securlty-mlndedness has gone so
far down the age ladder that It
now tends to dominate the think
ing of our college youth.
It Is too easy and too trite, how
ever, to respond to this situation
with the regular exhortations to
self-reliance, and then let it go
nt that. The problem isn't that
simple.
These youngsters have come of
age in a world still staggering
from the brutal blows of two
world wara and a deep depres
sion. The dilemmas that led to
these disasters are still largely
unsolved. The complexities of
life, whether In war or peace,
seem to have grown beyond
man's comDrehenslon.
While man nevertheless game
ly continues the search for solu
tions, he Is trying at the same
time to Insulate nimseu Hgainsi
a recurrence of disaster. This has
been true In many areas of the
earth.
This country'! effort to pro
tect Its people against catastro
phe was propelled swiftly forward-
by Franklin D. Roosevelt's
program of social legislation In
the 1930s.
Republicans fought the pro
gram nt the time, but historians
today say social and economic
conditions were such that cither
major party probably would have
had to find bold new answers to
the call (or security.
Since then, a struggle to widen
the domain of secure living has
waxed and waned, and it Is still
going on. But nothing has hap
pened, or seems likely to occur, to
upset the basic security frame
work of the country. '
It draws its main strength
from a mood born of haunting
fear of another great depression.
And the terrific dislocations of
war and postwar years have lined
up many more recruits under the
security banner.
mis is tne atmospnere nreatn-
ed by college students in 19-19. It
should enable us to understand
how they can be thinking of pen
sions anil a safe job instead of ad
venturous risk-taking.
Hut it should shock Us anew
into realizing that in all this
necessary attention to security
measures we have Indeed ignored
the vital need to build a society of
resourceful Individuals.
How to have security and self
reliance side by side Is admittedly
a hard nut to crack. But the evi
dence indicates that most poli
ticians are not even facing the
problem earnestly. It Is high time
more. Out of the last 20 years,
our national government has gone
in the hole during IS years. Only
in the fiscal years of 1948 and
19-17 did we take In more than we
spent.
During these years, our per
capita national debt rose from
practically nothing to about $1700.
The bookkeeping year Just finish
ed adds something like $12 or $13
to that total.
IF, as an Individual, you had
gone deeper Into debt during
18 out of the past 20 years, you'd
be figuring that maybe you'd bet
ter begin to do something about
reducing your spending. (If you
didn't conic to that conclusion on
your own account, your creditors
would do It for you.)
What kind of thinking are our
government people doing?
Here's an Interesting dispatch
along that line from Washington:
"Senator Murray (Democrat,
from Montana) urges a confer
ence of labor leaders, buslness-
they stopped ducking it.
We owe to the masses of men
a higher duty than merely to
make them secure against dis
aster and basic want. We owe
them a life where the human
spirit is free and eager to grow
to Its fullest height, where the
sum of that Individual growth
will be a society of constantly
widening economic and social
horizons.
men, farmers and consumers to
take a searching look at the drift
of the nation's economy.
"The Montana senator told a
reporter he hopes to obtain action
in this session of Congress on a
bill he and seven other Democrats
are sponsoring TO DIRECT THE
PLANNING OF A FIFTEEN
BILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL
PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM."
THAT is to 3ay, after going In
the hole during 18 out of the
past 20 years, our political leaders
are telling us that the thing to do
is to SPEND STILL MORE AND
GO STILL DEEPER INTO THE
HOLE IN THE FUTURE.
Maybe that's good politics.
But It ISN'T good business.
REPRESENTATIVE NORBLAD,
of Oregon, asks a disturbing
question in Washington. He says:
"What does the administration
plan to do about paying average
John Doc citizens for war savings
bonds due to mature in the next
few years?"
He adds:
"The total of these maturing
bonda will soon be almost equal
to our entire national budget . . .
I should be Interested In know
ing Just what we propose to do
to pay this obligation." .
do we propose
WELL, what
to do?
Start swapping IOU's with each
other?
That's where we're headed for
If we don't get some business
management Into our governmen
tal affairs.
Unemployment
Payments Drop,
But Top '48 Pace
Seasonal employment gains In
construction, food processing and
lumbering continued for the
fourth successive month, reducing
June payments to those without
work to $1,113,838 but still 38.6
percent higher than a year ago,
the State Unemployment Com
pensation Commission reports.
Payments to those usually em
ployed in the seasonal industries
dropped to less than a sixth of
the peak- February totals, while
others declined only 50 per cent.
During the first half of 1949
nearly 60 percent of Oregon
checks went to those in food pro
cessing, construction and lumber
ing or more than was received
by these same groups in 1946
and 1947 combined,
Exhaustions of benefit rights
for the 1948-49 year also helped
to reduce June payments by
$358,414 or 23.4 percent below
May. Of 100,878 who filed state
claims In the past year, 19,755
drew the entire amount to which
they were entitled, while more
than 27,000 failed to receive one
check.
New claims for the 1949-50
benefit year which starts with
the first week of July have
reached 12,189, nearly 40 percent
more than a year ago. About 45
percent of the new claimants are
from the seasonal groups.
During the benefit year Just
ended, the state paid $12,905,908
to covered workers an increase
of 66.4 percent over the previous
year's total of $7,753,773. In the
past 12 months $7,543,301 in re
adjustment allowances went to
unemployed veterans also high
er than for any similar period
except for the first winter after
the war.
The number of unemployed re
ceiving checks the last week of !
June was l.sua. a aecrease oi
2,111 or 14.6 percent from the last ,
week of May. Of 4,321 veterans
getting readjustment allowances, j
about 40 percent were expected to ;
be without wage credits for 1948, 1
which means that they will be
unable to qualify lor state pay
ments when and if the G-I pro
gram is allowed to expire by
Congress.
Adequate Labor
Supply For State
Harvests Nears
With cherry and berry picking
gradually being completed, the
next two weeks will find all sec
tions of Oregon with an adequate
labor supply for the first time
since seasonal harvests began In
May.
The mid summer farm labor i
lull may end about July 15, when i
snap-bean harvest will get under
way through the Willamette Val
ley and around Portland. Eastern
Oregon grain, also expected to be
ready for action about the samej
time, will absorb more workers. ;
although no shortage now is ap-;
parent.
Reports from 18 local and
special farm-placement offices of
the Oregon State Employment
Service showed onlv minor labor
shortages during June, and an
other peak Is not expected until
bean picking begins competition
with hops, grains, and late vege
tables and fruits for the available
supply of workers.
A "surplus of labor also has
been reported from Montana and
Alaska, the employment service
reports, and latest Job Informa
tion should he obtained before
moving to other sections.
Bass, Chinook
Fishing Good In
Lower Umpqua
By S. S. SMILEY
News-Review Correspondent
The bass derby, sponsored by
the Lower Umpqua Chamber of
Commerce has caused a lot of
interest since it started May 15.
It will continue until July 15.
Some good catches have been
made, and an attractive list of
prizes has whetted the Interest
of the fishermen.
No large run of bass has ap
peared so far, but there have
been fish in the river most of the
time for those Interested enough
to really fish for them. Just at
present, the striped bass are be
ing neglected in many cases by
fishermen who have learned that
the Chinook salmon are quite
plentiful in the lower river, near
Winchester Bay.
For the past 10 days, Chinook
fishing has been very good,
catches of 20 to 30-pound salmon
being quite common and some as
large as 40 pounds are being
caught. There's a report that a
49-pounder was taken recently.
Catches like these arouse the
interest of ardent fishermen.
Weather conditions are not
generally favorable for small
boats to cross the bar with safe
ty, but fishing is usually good just
inside the bar, where it is safer
to fish. Some upsets occurred
near the bar last year, and while
no lives were lost, there were
some very narrow escapes.
It is difficult to convince peo
ple not familiar with the ocean
that the name "Pacific" is only
a name at times, and that a
change in tide or wind can quick
ly change smooth water to rough
water, and small waves to larger
ones. Experienced fishermen try
to assist the Coast Guard in
watching fishermen who allow
themselves to get caught In dan
gerous spots.
Shad Fishing Closes
One of the best shad fishing
seasons of recent years for the
Umpqua River has just drawn 0
a close and fishermen are clean
ing and drying their nets and put
ting them away. The latter part
of the season saw a lot of moss
in the river, making the cleaning
of the nets a difficult one.
The price, the same as last
year, has remained the same
throughout the season, at JO
cents each for roe shad and three
cents each for bucks.
fhe season which Just ended
did not have the huge runs of
shad for a night or two that the
ordinary season has, then several
nights with almost nothing. In
stead, after the shad started to
come in, the supply was much
steadier and more dependable,
and the shad remained excellent
in quality right to the end of
the season.
The netting of Chinook and sil
verslde salmon in the Umpqua
River is no longer allowed.
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