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4 Thi Nawi-Rwew, Ro.ebufg, Or. Thur., July 7, 1949, Nothing Like a Moon for Starting a Romance Published Dilly Except Sunday by tht News-Review Company, Inc. Cetera .arane elase matter May 1, l2. SI the peat elflee at Heaebarr. Oieiee. end.r eel ef March I, 1811 CHARLES V. STANTON a-p- EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Prees, Oregon Newspaper Publishers ' Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations '' (IUUUU4 br WEST-HOLLIDA CO.. INC.. effl"a In Naw (art, Chlcna. S.B) Pranclaca. Laa Ansalaa. Saallla. Partland, 81. Leala. SUBSCRIPTION HATES la Oreaen Bj Mall rar Taar IS.M, al Hitnthe H.M. three aaeetha St.se. Bjr City Carrlar Par rati IIS.ee lln advance), laaa than ana peer, par menth ll.oe. Oal.lde Oreieft Bp Mall Par pear S9.S0. all SWIM MEET DATED By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburg: is to be especially honored Saturday and Sunday, when it will play host to the First Annual Southern Oregon Invitational Swimming Meet. Competitive swimming is something new to many local residents, who will find the weekend shows exceptionally entertaining. Participating in the various events will be widely known swimmers and divers, including several holders of national championships performers whose names have appeared frequently on sports pages throughout the nation. Spectators, however, will see more than a straight athletic contest, for included in the program will be the beautiful "Aquacade" staged by members of the Portland Aquatic Club. This show normally demands a guarantee of $1,400, but, in special recognition of Roseburg's initiative in spon soring swim facilities, the performance is to be given free except for the small general admission charge for the entire meet. Performers will collect nothing for their appearance and, in fact, are paying their own expenses, exclusive of sleeping quarters. The Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsoring the event, is to be commended for its initiative in promoting the swim meet the first to be held in Southern Oregon under rules of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. It is entirely possible that new world records will be set in Roseburg's Pool, which would give occasion for local pride. This is possible because all events will be conducted under AAU rules and any records will have official recognition, More than 70 participants are expected, representing the Portland Aquatic Club, Multnomah Athletic Club and its "Cody Kids," The Dalles Swimming Club and Northwest Y. M. C. A. A number of unaffiliated contestants also are ex pected to compete during the two-day event. Arrangements for the show have entailed much work on the part of Junior Chamber of Commerce membership, City and Pool officials and volunteer workers. City Manager Matt Slankard supervised installation of permanent bleacher seats accommodating approximately 850 spectators. Temporary bleachers are to be built, whije re served seats will be set up inside the pool enclosure, giving Beating capacity for approximately 1,500 persons. . Ticket sales now are in progress. As spectator capacity is limited, it is quite evident tnat persons desiring to see the show should purchase ticket as early as possible, otherwise they may not be able to gain admittance. ' ; It is the plan of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to make the swim meet an annual event. Swimmers have been found to be very' interested in coming to Roseburg yearly for com petition, and are giving all possible cooperation in making the first show a complete success, as a means of assuring future meets. . By becoming the first Southern Oregon city to provide facilities for an event of this kind, Roseburg is in a preferred spot to retain AAU sanction, although competition from Medford and Coos Bay, where pools are being planned, may be expected in the future. Incidentally, Roseburg's achievement in swimming pool construction has placed a heavy burden on City Manager Matt Slankard, who is being besieged with requests for infor mation on construction detail and procedure by neighboring cities.-Slankard's work In building Roseburg's Pool at a cost far below the normal figure for such an installation has caused widespread interest. Roseburg's Pool is paying off in more ways than low con struction cost. . Even though, foes, for .use of the Pool are extremely, low, Income to date has more than paid operating costs. Pool officials have been surprised by the income and especially by the fact that users are coming many miles daily to swim in the beautiful pool. While it is felt that income may drop sfter the newness wears off, it is quite evident that receipts are to be much higher than anticipated and above the general average for like installations elsewhere, But getting back to the swim meet, we find the Roseburg Pool furnishing another form of community entertainment, fitting perfectly into the pattern so important to future wel fare. Roseburg, holding the position of wholesale trade cen ter for the Pacific Coast's fastest growing community, obvi ously is recognizing its responsibility of also becoming the recreational center. The annual invitational swimming meet will add one more to the growing list of entertainment I features. Abstnfc t Sardines Hunted By Six-Ship Navy LA JOLLA. UP A small fish, Wildlife Service has launched the no longer than 10 Inches, has a greatest oceanographlc survey In six-ship navy stalking him along the Pacific Coast. He'a the Pacific sardine. In company with the billions of his fellow sardines that were teem ing in California waters only a short while ago he represents a $65,000,000 Industry. Sardine schools have begun to dwindle alarmingly In California water. The catch has dropped from a former high of 800,000 tons annually to less than 150,000 tons, representing a $30,000,000 loss to the California fishing in dustry. In order to determine why the sardines left and where they went a combined fleet of six ships from the University of California Scrlpps Institution of Oceanogra phy, the State Fish and Game Di vision, and the U. S. Pish and M II M - m Gems From Poor Man's Philosopher riage vow: "For better or else.' By HAL BOYLE New York. UP) Cuff notes by the poor man's philosopher: After thoughts are what we have when we don't want our fun spoiled beforehand. I A Redwood tree never hates anybody and It lives longer than i anything. I The poorest dog is an empire j to a flea. I A revolving door is the best ; example of segregation without discrimination. The only community ' without gossip is a cemetery. The hardest thing for a man to wear well is success and noth ing wears a man harder. Memory is Just life's rear-view mirror. Sex is here to stay, but you? . . Failure Is only public accept ance of a man's private opinion of himself. .W$W. gy Viahnett S. Martivffj In an Eastern newspaper de scribing the graduation activities of a high school which I once attended, one reads that a "cele brated hypnotist" was the one chosen to be a part of the mo mentous occasion. I was more than surprised; I was very sorry! However, he was an acknowl edged hynotist! There are many pressures upon us in our every day living that are not always recognized to be hypnotic, are there not? There's the constant hammer ing upon us by way of a billboard slogan which Is intended to result in our automatic speaking of the name of that particular product, perhaps without even thinking why we did. There's the too-Insistent sales person who never lets up until he or she has sold something to the reluctant buyer: what if it is more expensive than the young shopper should take? What if it does throw her budget awry? What if it does come back to the store next day? (A store back East had a tre mendous turnover. The clerks were forbidden to use high-pressure tactics. . . The turnover dropped 90 per cent.) . '" " Then there's the -'"'Oh, come on!" insistence of "so-called friends urging one who hesitates to do something. And the effect upon our young er generation of so much drink ing and smoking and sex-appeal in the motion pictures. One of the older actors fold me, one time, that the reason for the smoking and drinking was simply that it "gave an actor or actress something to do with the hands!" -1 wonder sometimes what will be the effect all this talk about Glamor Girl's plans to marry Handsome Somebody" , Just as soon as she can get a divorce from her present husband?" Too many girls are rushing Into mar riage thinking "Oh well, I can get a divorce . . ." We saw that in the war days! ... Are we keeping the Integrity of our , thinking free of hypnotic suggestions? It's revealing to question our decision sometimes! In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) history, According to Dr. Roger Revelle, associate director of the Scrlpps Institution, this massive operation is reaching 500 miles to sea and from Oregon to Lower California I n unl ul nn m.m phases of science-oceanography, I T seems that 289 persons died in traffic fatalities over tne long never been able to rationalize I got passing grades in enougn more of the upper-bracket stuff to be officially stamped as "edu cated" according to the standards of my time. But I've never had much confidence in my own figuring. Still, as I make It, 700-odd vio lent deaths in a nation of nearly 150 million people in three days Is a ratio of about lour TO THE MILLION. F somebody had told you last Friday that your chances of survival over the holiday weekend were 250,000 to one, would you have gone to bed and covered up iir head and stayed there till Tuesday morning? I doubt It. You would probably have said: "Tht odds aren't so bad after all." S I read my Insurance com pany statistics, holiday week ending' Isn't much mqre danger ous than staying at home and hanging a picture with the aid of a step-ladder and then taking a bath and going to bed. At any rate the actuaries (the sharp-pencil boys who figure the Insurance odds) tells us that fall ing from a step-ladder and slip ping in the bath tub are among our riskiest pursuits. doesn't look like a bad gamble. THE automobile Is propagandized for us in these days at the most dangerous instrument ever invented by man. "Juggernaut" is a popular word for it especially around long weekend holidays. The mere mention of it in print conjures up visions of crushed bodies and smashed bones. One trouble, I think, lies in the fact that almost none of our pro fessional statisticians Is old enough to remember the horse and buggy days. Did you ever, in a crowded street on a Fourth of July morning, with the parade Just ready to start, hear the terror-stricken cry of "RUN AWAY?" Probably not. Nobody in these days is willing to admit being (hat old. But If you ever had been In such a position you'd know about danger in the raw. A panicky team, loose from the driver and tearing down a street full of peo ple, was something to chill the marrow of the bones. HAT I really think is that we're Just a little set up about the dangers of our modern civili zation. It's glamorous to LIVE DANGEROUSLY or to think that we do. I have a notion that modern life Is no more danger ous, in proportion to the number of people involved, than life at any other period. Petain's Mind Slipping In Prison, Court Told PARIS, July 7. m Henry Philippe Petain's mind is slip ping and he should not be left to die in prison, his lawyers told French President Vincent Auriol Wednesday. In a letter to the president appealing for the old soldier's release or transfer, the lawyers said Petain's mind has entered "little by little into the darkness of the night." One of the lawyers said the 94-year-old Petain no longer re members why he is imprisoned on the bleak He d'Yeu off the Southwest Coast of France. Petain, a former marshal of France, was one of the nation'3 great heroes of World War I. In World War II he served as chief of state of the Vichy Regime. After France's liberation from the Germans, he was sentenced to life Imprisonment on treason charges. . The News-Review classified ads bring best results. Phone 100. People who always are trying to make an easy dollar generally wind up looking for a hard buck. This country'wiil never be safe until somebody invents a seeing eye umbrella. Definition of a ladies' rest room -a rouge gallery. The biggest trouble with a budget is you can't budge it. Middle age is Just a man's compromise between a growing sense of responsibility and a growing sense of insufficiency. A lazy man's boldest act is the seizure of leisure. Hollywood version of the mar- Lust is Just love out ot focus. ; Everybody wants to get what's coming to him without getting what he deserves. Most men would rather part with their convictions than their hair. The louder anyone flatters you with his mouth, the more he is laughing at you In his heart. It Is funny how many families become sophisticated in America after crude oil is discovered on grandpa's farm. An ostrich that insists on stick ing its head in the sand may have its own end in view. Daylighrers Seek More 1 Names For Referendum Portland! July e rV A commiUee working to refer the state law ban on daylight saving time to the voters stepped up its activity today. ' Lee Stidd Jr., Committee cjiair. man here, said an office-to-office canvass would be made in down town Portland to obtain enough signatures to block the state law scheduled to go into effect this month. He said the petitions would re fer the issue to the voters in the 1950 election. Of the 15,926 re quired names, only 8,325 certified names have been obtained to date. The filing deadline is July 15. Although Alabama ranks fourth as a cotton-producing state, it is the biggest heavy-industry state in the south. It Isn't life that keeps good men down, kid. It's death. All great preachers aren't hu morists. But all great humorists are preachers. The best way to praise God is to have children. More than 100 bells formerly used on locomotives, since junk ed by one U.S. railroad (the Southern Railway System), are now used by churches along the railroad. FOR SALE SMALL RESAURANT and Equipment Far Sale Good Lease Doing Excellent Business" For information eontaot Box 48, Sutherlin, Oregon New Tiny WHO SAID YOU ARE DEAF? LET MI PROVI YOU CAN HEAR! Thouiandf art amazed at tht power find clarity of the new Bel tone. Come io today and let us show you too. No Cost orOblipa- HEARING AID Hearin Book. FREE BELTONE CLINIC AT Umpqua Hotel Friday, July 1 5 Mr. Mitchell Is a member of the J. N. Taft Sc. Associates of Port land, who have been serving the hard of hearing since 1934. Fresh Batteries for All Aids The UNITED COMPANY of OREGON, INC. an Oregon corporation, drilling for oil in Harney County, Oregon, offers for sale at this time, .' to Oregon Residents Only ' 40,000 SHARES of It's " NON-ASSESSABLE CAPITAL STOCK At It's Par Value of $1.00 Per Share Information maybe secured from the following ' authorized repreesntatives: J. Vern Shangle 134 Wait Main St. Medford. Oregon. Phone 4342 or 3S9S. Dale Franklin 27 North Central Ave., Medford, Oregon. Phone 4102 or 2083. A. J. Kroenert 733 Pine Street. . Klamath Falla, Oregon. Phone 4780. H. R. Brower 314 Washington St.. Klamath Falla, Ore. Phone 6021. Ralph B. Green Ralph B. Green 100 Went Main St., Medford. Oregon. Phone 3332 or 7444, JOT South Sixth St., Granta Pass, Oregon. Phone sua. Invis! OREGON CONDINSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION JUNK 30, 1949 RESOURCES Cash on Hand and Due from Banks $ 118,597,023.20 United States Government Bonds 242.956,778.05 Municipal and Other Bonds ....... . . 36,671,658.12 Loans and Discounts 132,834,251.90 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank . Bank Premises (Including Branches) . Customers' Liability on Acceptances. Interest Earned . . . . Other Resources ..,...... 600,000.00 7,384,078.29 144,048.45 1,690,306.21 276,660.04 meteorology, zoology, botany, ami chemistry the research is fi nanced by a $700,000 grant from the California Legislature and a tax of 50 cents a ton on all sardines caught In California waters. The greatest depth In Lake C,e neva, Switzerland, goes down more than 1,000 feet. The 9IH foot Eiffel tower of Paris could stand t (he lowest point with its top far submerged. weekend. That is supposed to give those of us who survived a bad case of nerves. It "spotlights" for us tho hazards of life since Henry Ford thoughtlessly made tin Lizzies so cheap that nobody could afford NOT to own r According to my. way ot fig uring, that is a calculated ri.su of something like two persons to th million. Put that way, It Phone 100 If you do not receive your Newt-Review by C:15 P.M. call Harold Mjbley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 " $ 541,154,804.26 LIABILITIES " x Capital $ 10,000,000.00 Surplus. . ... .... .,7;; -. ... . . ... ... . . 10,000,000.00 . Undivided Profits and Reserves. . . ... '11,708,007.35 31,708,007.35 Reserves for Interest, Taxes, etc.. .7- 2,337,081.86 Acceptances 144,048.45 Dividends Declared 250,000.00 Deposits 505,591,599.34 I nterest Collected Not Earned . . 1,092,729.38 Other Liabilities 31,337,88 IT-"ZZTTT! " 541,154,804.26 This tntemm' include 38 bmwhet n Ortgon Hud Omoc PORTLAND . ORKGON ROSEBURG BRANCH THI UNITie TATII NATIONAL SANK OP OKTlANt mm COCTD ' tmsm fT MtMbw fdfwl Dcpoift fewtwiM Cfprhat