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4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore Wed., July 13, 194 Otic 31owsHcmcw Published Dilly Except 8unday by the News-Review Company, Inc. - EaUrti crond elm matter My J, IBM. at ih pout tttUt l RoMburg, Oregon uoder set f March S, ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor JjJ?" Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Kepriienlfd by WRNT-IIOLLIDAV CO., INC., offlcin In New York, Chicago, San Franclaco. Loa Ancclea. Baatlla, Portland, St. LouU. nnBi'D idtiiu d a ti' o nHnRf Mlltr fair (ft 06 aix month 14. M, thro monthi It.BO. Ity City Carrier Par year $10.00 (in advance), lata than na year, per monin ai.wu. uuiiioi urtiou j mu monina m.jo. iirea man ins ;.(. INEFFICIENT STEWARDSHIP By CHARLES V. STANTON We can never expect proper management of our public domain, particularly our western forests, until public lands are removed from the insecurity of pork barrel financing. When such essentials as wood waste utilization, erosion con trol, water retention, access roads, sustained yield, recrea. tiort,' wildlife management and experimentation are left to a Congress which has little intimate knowledge of the public domain, making appropriations without basic understanding of need, efficient management is impossible. . . Congress has established an RFC fund to aid industry It has set up production credit funds and other financial aids for agriculture. But our timber industry, in which the public has a 50-50 interest on the Pacific coast, still is subject to political pressures, pork barrel manipulations, and the whims of men and committees having only a vague conception of what actually is involved in discharging con gressional stewardship over the public domain. Offhand it is possible to point to the unrealistic attitude toward the alcohol-from-wood waste plant at Springfield, Ore., cuts in appropriations for access roads (slightly in creased through pressure from the Oregon delegation), elimination of Forest Service funds for wildlife manage ment, inadequate funds for the Madison, Wisconsin, Forest Research luboratory, subsidiary stations and field activities, while cutting funds for Bureau of Land Management admini stration, yet requiring maximum sales involving more field work than is possible with the existing staff. Here in the Umpqua Basin our timber industry last year produced approximately $26,000,000 income. One-half our timber resource is in the public domain. In producing $26, 000,000 income last year we utilized only about one-fourth the potential value of the timber we took from our forests. It would be a simple matter, given utilization plants, to raise our recovery rate to at least 50 per cent. Utilization processes would employ about twice as many workers as an equivalent volume of timber entering into rough manufac ture. Therefore by boosting the recovery rate to 50 percent we would triple jobs and income. Is there anything wrong with the assumption that the federal government, acting as trustee for the general public in management of the 'public domain, owes to the people i the responsibility of recovering as high percentage of values from the public domain as possible? And, further, should it not be the responsibility of the federal government, con trolling one-half the resource, to cooperate as a partner with private industry in setting up facilities to permit a higher percentage of recovery? Here in the Umpqua Basin we are cutting out our privately-owned timber faster than we are removing timber from the public domain. If we were to have proper timber manage ment we would be cutting from the uplands during the sum mer months and logging lowlands during the winter, thus balancing the operation. But we are effectively estopped from reaching this desirable condition because of the lack of access roads. Yet, if Congress would set up a revolving fund to build access roads, the cost would be repaid within a very few years through better stumpnge prices, and, under a sus tained yield program, the government, after a few years, would be making an annual profit. At the same time, access roads would allow better fire protection, improved manage ment, more selectivity in forest removal and many other general benefits. The history of the timber industry shows that the most wasteful period is when an area is first opened, an is now the case here in the Umpqua Basin. During the first few years of cutting, the best timber is removed with only a small percentage of utilization. As the resource is depleted the manufacturing process becomes more highly refined, with an increase in both jobs and income. Klamath county, for instance, has depleted its resources until the-remaining available timber is only a small fraction of the original supply. In 1912 Klamath mills cut 850 million board feet of timber with a payroll of $20,000,000. During 1918, Klamath, mills cut 400 million board feet less than one-half as much as in 1942 but the resultant payroll was $29,000,000. Con sidering that wage increases between 1942 and 1948 would absorb $9,000,000, the 1948 income on a comparative basis was equal to that of 1942 although less than half as much raw, material was used. That is the condition normally to be expected following the first wasteful period. T3i4- ii-ln. liOvn a .1 f, .1 9 ft- : 1 1 could be avoided if Congress would faithfully and efficiently discharge its stewardship responsibilities. Here in the Umpqua Basin we have waste materials to supply four or five molasses plants, two Kraft paper mills, one white paper mill, at least two alcohol plants, and numer ous specialized manufacturing plants without cutting one mora tree than at present except pulping species. Such is the volume of waste. "Look, One Finger!" ST By Viahnett S. Martin Who can estimate the influ ence of a newspaper, radiating outward. Into the community, per haps a county a great city, maybe the whole country, even the world! Even the so-called 'small' newspaper has a powerful Influ ence for civic growth and well-being. I was thinking of this as I read in a newspaper that comes to our mailbox each week, that the pub lisher of It had passed on to fur ther service in the Next Experi ence (I can't -Imagine a .newspa perman Inactive, passive, can you?) Besides his 50 years of service in his own community, he had built up a chain of week lies in the area. "He was always fighting for a better community. He wanted a library, a hospital, paved streets, a better water system, a railroad switch Into the valley with a freight office on Main St., an industrial growth with diversi fied interests, better schools, a park . . ." He lived to see these things materialize, I think, although it is a long, long time since I was In that lovely town In Western New York. It lies In a steep- sided valley; there is a railroad at the top of each hill! Imagine what a freight house In the town meant In the days when teams hauled loads up the long, steep sides of that valley! (My father, who was a boy there, used to tell of the Icy roads down which the town boys slid in spite of everything! But one maiden lady scattered ashes In front of her place. When a sled struck that spot there was a bad spill. In return for this service the boys hung a snapping turtle on her door-handle In place of the usual May-basket. Oh dear me, boys!) "Shortly after he (L. A. Cass) came to Warsaw, one of the older residents who was satisfied with things as they were, told him If he did not like the place that he should go elsewhere. He was dis couraged, time and time again, fighting the normal and natural lethargy of a community, but he always came back fighting again, for a better place to live In. "He was proud of his town, its people and Its institutions. He lived a full and glorious life. He often said he had lived through the Golden Age of America." . Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Television Service Will Have 42 More Channels WASHINGTON, July 12. (JP) The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced that It proposes to add 42 new channels to the nation's television service. The action does not mean the end of the present "freeze" on new itation applications, FCC aid. The new bands are In the "ul tra high frequencies." They would be out of reach of television receivers now In the public hands, unless converters are attached to sets. The commission said the pres ent 12 television channels, In that section of the siectrtim known as the "very high fre quencies," will be cotnlnued. Yesterday's action is the first formal step looking to the end of the freeze which the commls. Ion declared on new television station permits last October L PURGES, THEN AND NOW (The Bend Bullein) A few months more than three centuries ago a colonel of the commonwealth army stood at the entrance of the House of Commons. Checking from a writ ten list, he denied entrance to Ihose members of parliament whose political belief clashed with his own, even causing the arrest of some of the more dif ficult ones. When all this had been done, It was a simple mat ter for what was left of the Eng lish legislative body to bring their king, Charles I, to trial. The same soldier who had revamped the House of Commons to his own ends, was one of the judges who. presently, signed the king's death warrant. The Incident is known In history as "Pride's purge" from, the name of the officer who thus made a travesty of representative government. It Is an episode which natural ly comes to mind In connection with the directed action taken bv the state Grange convention at Coos Hay In seeking the removal irom oinee ot it Oregon legis lators who dared to vote con trary to the wishes of the Grange policy makers. There are differ ences, naturally. Col. Pride, in effect, removed an approximate hundred from the House of Com mons; Mort Tompkins would kick out only 22 Oregon lawmakers. Nor is the matter of royalty In volved here; only the fact that the 22, Incidentally some of the best of the state's representatives including Deschutes county's own Jim Short, favored a measure which would have placed certain restrictions on the operation of the Initiative and referendum. But there is enough similarity to Invite the comparison. Happily, it is to be doubted that Master Tompkins will get as far with Ills project as the soldier politician of Cromwell's time. There is more to it than the is suance of an order or the stand ing at the door of the state cap Itol with a list of the proscribed and forbidding those In disfavor to enter. The people at large have something to say about this and they will say It with ballots, not with enforceable threats of armd force. The election In 1950 will give the answer ot the voters to the Tompkins dictum. When it Is given, we believe that there will be cause to real ize that neither the people In gen eral nor the Grange membership as a whole are ready to carry out such high handed tactics as those ordered from the governing level of the convention. Americans, we still like to think, farmers in par ticular, prefer to vote as they be lieve rather than as they are told to vote. They will need no pat tern of three centuries ago to guide their conduct as citizens or to direct their divisions. Supplemental Housing Bill Sent To President WASHINGTON. July 12.-Pt The House yesterday passed and sent to the President Truman a measure designed to maintain a high level of private home con. struetlon through expansion of the market for mortgages. This put the second housing bill on the President's desk, await ing his signature. Last week Congress passed the multi-billion dollar measure call ing for construction of 810.000 publicly-owned dwelling units, with the government obligated to pay annual rent subsidies up to $308,000,000 lor low-Income ten ants occupying these dwellings. The bill passed by the House without a dissenting voice, puts emphasis on private home con struction, as against public hous ing In the big bill. It Increases from SI ,000.000.000 to SUVKUXKUKH) the authorization for government purchases of mortgages from private lenders on homos costing up to 510,000. Banking Chairman Spence (D. Ky.) said this will facilitate the construction of at least 50,000 ad ditional privately-owned dwell ings. Many GI homes are In this category. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) which threatened to upset our apple cart. Also, he wa3 consider ably set up by his generally un expected landslide election. So, like Canute, he said (in effect): "I'll fix this inflation business. I'LL ORDER IT TO STOP. I'll tell it that If It doesn-t stop I'll jack up taxes and I'll crack down on prices and wages. That'll lix its clock." SO he made his pitch. He called for the higher taxes. He demanded his price and wage controls. But the inflation ary tide wasn't bluffed. It: kept right on creeping up the beach until it reached the stage of flood and then it began to recede acting just as the tide did in the case of Canute. PRESIDENT TRUMAN has act ed precisely as King Canute did. He has retired back up the economic beach to keep from getting his feet wet. He says in his economic mes sage: "No major Increase in taxes should be undertaken at this time." He adds: "We can not expect to achieve a budget surplus In a declining national economy." UNFORTUNATELY, legend falls to tell us what King Canute did after he retired up the beach from getting wet. Privately, I suspect he shrugged the situation off and changed the subject. May be he started another war to take his followers' minds off his boner in the case of the tide. Canute didn't have to face the voters at some inevitable future election. Kings had a lot of leeway In those days. OUR President Truman Is In a tougher spit. He does have to face the voters or at least his party has to, which amounts to the same thing. ' But he does in substance what Canute probably did. He changes the subject so as to get people's minds off onto plearanter things. He says no crisis action Is needed because our economy Is STRONG AND HEALTHY. He adds: "Our economy CAN HIT A SOARING ANNUAL OUTPUT OF WELL ABOVE 300 BILLION DOLLARS IN A FEW YEARS." THINKING of the 300 billion dollar income we're going to have in the golden future, we can be expected to forget about the troubles of the Immediate present. I'd say his strategy is good, everything considered. Sutherlin By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Mr. and Mrs. Marian Heaton and children spent the 4th of July holidays at Antloch, Calif., visiting with Mrs. Heaton's mother, Mrs. Duda. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton returned home Tuesday. Buch and Bobbie remained with their grandmother for a lew weeks' vacation. Mr. and Mrs. William Davies of Port Orford were over night guests one night last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peter son. Mr. and Mrs. Davies are aunt and uncle of Mrs. Poterson. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buffum, for mer residents of Sutherlin now of Coos Bay, were weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Britain Slack, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Slack and two sons, Marvin and Michael, enjoyed a motor trip to Crater Lake and Diamond Lake last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hempeni ous and children of Roseburg spent the 4th of July in Sutherlin. Mrs. Joe Hille of Freeport, 111., Is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss Card. Mrs. Hille and Mrs. Card were schoolmates many years ago at Freeport. During her visit here a number of activities have been planned, such as fishing trips and sightsee ing. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Weber, who enjoyed several weeks vacation in Nebraska and other points, re turned home recently and report an enjoyable trip but they state they were glad to get back home again. joe Denny or the Armed Forces stationed at Tucson, Ariz., arrived home last week to spend a two weeks' furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Denny. Mr. ana nirs. Kooert tsratton and Mrs. Lillian Bratton left last week for - Vermont, where they will spend a month visiting rela tives ana irienas. Frank Norton of Roseburg made several business calls in Sutherlin Wednesday. Howard Mickeisen was a busi ness visitor in Portland Wednesday. L,arranee parson matte a busi ness trip to Roseburg Thursday. Randall Cook, representing the Leo Feed Company of Portland, made a business call in Sutherlin Friday. Jesse Himelwright and Muriel Olsen shopped and transacted business in Roseburg Thursday. Mrs. Jack Young is visiting with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Comstock in Seattle, Wash. Ed Varrell of Roseburg was a business caller in Sutherlin Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barker left Saturday for Chehalis, Wash., where they will visit with Mrs. Barker's mother, Mrs. Mary Urquhart, and other relatives and friends for a week. Mrs. Rachel Edmonds of Salt Lake City, Utah, is spending a lew weeks in butnerlin visiting with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jonn cnase. Mrs. Oma Butler and children of Winston visited at the. home of the former's sister, Mrs. Edgar black, lnursday. Garbage Can Prowler Carries $1,000 Check SEATTLE, July 13 P) Po lice reported a man arrested for prowling garbage cans was found to be carrying more than a thou sand dollars when searched at the city jail here. He gave nls name as teorge Nash, but an old-age assistance card he carried showed the name William F. Neill. LETTERS to the Editor Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank OLD TJirmtf T7l flV Kentucky Wiiskey ABlend 45 Qt. . .. m F0II GENERATIONS A GREAT KENTUCKY 7AV0KIT1' A Gentleman's Whiskey from Kentucky National DisUller. Prod. Corp., N. Y. 86 Proof 65 Grain Neutral Spirit. 4 V f 4. ART BAKER-rthe fella with the Notebook who'll be beamed your way each morning at 10:45 Monday through Friday over KRNR . . . It's "Art Baker's Notebook," a ra dio favorite since 1938. Moose Candidates To Be Initiated Tonight Approximately 50 candidates will be Initiated Into membership of the Roseburg Moose Lodge to night at 8 o'clock, according to Secretary R. L. Rains. A six-man degree team from Eugene will officiate at the in itiation proceedings. Jerry Willis, local governor of the organiza tion, will preside over the meet ing. Roseburg Moose are urged to attend. Refreshments will be I served following thi ceremonies. Exception Registered To Prizefight Write-Up ROSEBURG The write-up of the Ball-Collev bout, which took I place at the Armory July 8, is rather disgusting and certainly not accurate, as printed in your 1 paper. Davy Ball made the remark, after the bout, "How tough Col ley was." The sports writer states that Ball played around , with Colley. Anyone who has ' seen Colley box or has boxed with him knows his ability to i hit and be able to take it. Ans boxer who states his opponent is tough and can stand up and , slug with him isn't eoine to play around with him. As tne article goes on. the referee stopped the one-sided af-1 fair. He stopped the fight all- right, but It was not one-sided and Colley was not consulted as i to whether he was ready to quit as was Ball, when Cliff cut his eye open. j It seems rather odd, doesn't it, that Colley could fight Cliff to a draw in Eugene a short time j ago and still lose such a "one sided affair" as your paper puts It. when Cliff comes out with a i TKO over Ball. Of course a TKO looks better on Ball's record than a mere de-1 cision, but If that Is to be look ed at, let's please remember that ' Colley also has a record to look ' out for. I am not belittling Ball. 1 He is a good boxer and fine fel-1 low. Let's give credit where I credit is due. CLIFFORD C. COLLEY ! Roseburg. Ore. Phone 100 If you do not receivt your Newa-Revlw by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mjbley bofors 7 P.M. Phone 100 FROM THE NEWS OF 31 YEARS AGO mm-- ass? L ' fir A ,, oi0' ''o0( -') a iif. - 4V. Jr. i 'l''eA. , 0.'"e h. K "1( "'Oof ' Roseburg Review June 20, 1918 r i Note the last four words in the 1918 news story above "completely wrecking the car." How could your pocket book stand that sort of a jolt? Better that your car be in sured from bumper to bumper. Don't let Mr. Johnson's plight be yours. Insure now and let US worry. It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phont 1277-R TIPTON- PERMIN INSURANCE BUI Tipton 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Ofilce) Carl Ptrmln i