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4 Tht Newi-Rerlew, Roieburg, Or Fri., July 15, 1949 Puhllshed Dilly Except Sunday by th Newi-Revitw Company, Inc. EnUrt tecond elm mailer May 1, IKi, at th foil fMc at Bcaebnrf, Orttan. andar act af March , Ml i CHARLES V. 8TANTON -sTSt, EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Asiociated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, tne auqii BennianUa br WEBT-HOLUDA CO., INC., glllrra III Nav York, Chlcaia, lig rranclaca, Laa Angalca, Saaltla, rarlland, 81. Lanle. SUBSCRIPTION KATF.S In Oreian By Mall rar Tear S8.0S, el meniha I4.IW, three mealhe lt.SH. Br CHr lerrler Per year J10.0J l advance), Ijie the. one rear, per month SI.SS. Onlelda Orefen Br Halt Par Tear l.00. als mantha S4.1o. three menthe 11.7ft. TIMELY By' CHARLES V. STANTON Walter Frye, national president of the Izaak Walton League of America, visiting in Roseburg recently, urged ; that far western states take measures NOW to protect their natural resources. He pointed out that eastern states are spending billions of dollars in recovery programs, attempt ing to replace some of the resources they so carelessly ex- : pended. In a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post an inter esting article appeared recounting the work now in progress to restore the Schuylkill, "Pennsylvania's foulest river." The Schuylkill is so polluted, according to the Saturday Evening Post article, written by Bill Wolfe, noted conserva tionist, that people become ill from the smell. Corrosion from the acid-filled waters destroys delicate instruments on ves sels in the U. S. naval yards at Philadelphia, where the Schuylkill joins the Delaware. When British vessels anchored in the Philadelphia naval yards during the late war, paint on the warships became discolored and officers were given an extra allowance to pay for polishing metallic bars, but tons and braid on their uniforms. Consensus of opinion was that "If the Schuylkill can be cleaned up, any river in America can be made to run clear again." But the Schuylkill's color has been changed from black to a milky yellow and soon, it is predicted, will be running clear and clean. But before this is achieved, the federal government and the State of Pennsylvania must dredge from the river bed more than 40,000,000 tons of silt and waste accumulated over a long period of years. The cost will run somewhere between $100 million and $150 million, but the job is The Schuylkill's condition many years, in addition to stream by scores of municipalities, numerous collieries have straddled the river with their coal-washing plants, dumping tons upon tons of coal dust into the Water until the river, throughout its length, has been filled with coal silt and with semi-solids from other forms of pollution. Now, under orders from a tough governor, who started the clean-up campaign while serving as attorney general, collieries are installing desilting plants, other industrial wastes are being removed, and municipalities are installing sewage disposal facilities. It is costing the State of Pennsylvania in excess of $100 million to clean up just one stretch of river only 87 miles in length. What will be the cost here in Oregon, where we have thousands of miles of rivers, if we permit our streams to become too badly polluted? .. What, are we doing to stop pollution? The Willamette river is an open sewer almost from the lime it strikes the valley floor. Below Oregon City, where paper mills dump in tons of injurious chemicals, a fish will die in ten minutes if placed in the stream during the period of low water and summer temperature. The State Sanitary board is beginning to crack down on municipalities failing to start work on anti-pollution facili ties. Industries are being ordered to arrange waste disposal, but to date haven't appeared too cooperative. Portland is preparing to transfer its sewer outlets from the Willamette to the Columbia but disposal facilities seem a long time off. But we don't have to go as far as the Willamette river to find pollution of Oregon streams. Roseburg and Riddle are the only Umpo.ua Basin towns with sewage disposal plants. Other municipalities are plan ning installations at some future date. The sportsmen's club at Drain has been vigorously pro testing rock crushers which, like Pennsylvania's collieries, are washing their product in a stream bed. We have many sawmills dumping sawdust and waste into our streams tu rob. them of oxygen and thus destroy fish and plant life. The tidewater section is filled with logging debris which washes back and forth with the tide until it becomes water logged and sinks to the bottom to steal oxygen and add to pollution. The national president of the Izaak Walton league warns us to save our water resource. The cost of recovery is far higher than the cost of prevention. We should heed his words. Oldest Hippo Still Bachelor NEW YORK, July 15.-t.W-To be the oldest hippopotamus In the world is something. But Peler the Great, venerable Bronz Zoo hippo, took his Kith birthday calmly Wednesday. That is twice the age of the average hippo equivalent to an age of 130 or so in humans. Pete has never known the love Slide Kills Workman On Second Day Of His Job NEWBERG. July 15. (V) Earth piled down on a workman in a waterllne ditch Tuesday, crushing his chest and killing him outright. He was J. George Foster of Portland, working for his second day on Newberg's $30,000 sewage disposal project. Fellow workmen dug him out In a matter of minutes, but Dr. C. A. Bump said Forster had been killed by the force of the earth slide in the ditch. About two feet of earth covered him. He was employed by P. S. Land Mechanical Contractors, Port Bureau or wircuiauom WARNING well on its way. results from the fact that for human wastes poured into the On 46th Birthday of another hippo since he was taken from his mother at the aRe of three. In fact, he's really never known another hippo. He stares reflectively at his human visitors. He lowers his two tons into his pool, snorting and wallowing. He eats a gruel of hay. It's Just another day to him. land. The company reported that he had three children. Cops Turn Tables On Would-Be Nemesis LOS ANGELES. July 15,-(.D John D. Oppenheimer, 24, who had a little police trouble last November, parked his car In front of City Hall all decked out with cards. One card read that a cafe In which he was arrested last fall "feeds cops at half price." Painted red zones In front of City Hall in which cops only WMkMlk :J Ik. HI tmmmtstmwtn. art 1 m i it watmmmmmm 1 ir 'iwm4i.if!fefcF4K5iijr iT .-i.e-:s "The citizen of the future must be fitted to take his place In a much wider group, racially, po litically, culturally. . ."'I am quot ing an editorial In a copy of a unique newspaper which goes into every slate south of the Canadian border, and has over three thousand subscribers in Canada: "The Native Voice," edited by a young and attractive matron, herself of Indian parent age, Mrs. Ruth Smith of Van couver, B. C. "We must educate our children, regardless of race, color, or reli gious creeds, In the same schools," the editorial continues. "There they should learn to gether to be Canadians and then as their concepts broaden, to be come world citizens. , . . "The sole duty of a small child is to grow and develop all his faculties. A properly planned and taught curriculum helps but he must have tlmti and opportunity to play, to develop Initiative, a sense of freedom, and a joyful personality. " The Indians in British Colum bia and Nova Scotia now have the franchise. To stop the forcible re moval of little Indians from their Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press ENTER, THE GAS TURBINE LOCOMOTIVE The Oregon Statesman Tne purchase of 67 more diosel locomotives at a cast of $23,000, 0O0 is announced by President A. T. Merrier of the Southern Pa cific railway. That is a lot of money; and the makers of the en gines probably wnl respond: You're getting a lot of power. So the railroad is; and power plants that prove more efficient In operation than steam locomo tives. The trend to diesels Is so pronounced that scarcely an ord er la received by engine builders lor steam ions except Horn lor- elgn railroads. Hut in this came of manufac turing prime movers there is no standing still. The new president of the Union Pacific, Mr. Stod dard, on his recent trip to Ore gon, .said his company would put Into service a new gas turbine locomotive. It is a trial engine, developed by General Electric and American Locomotive com pany for the V. V. It uses the gas turbine type which mechan ical engineers nave been playing around with for years; and not Just playing around with it eith er. It Is in use for aircraft, and the Swiss have adapted the type for railroad use. In the ordinary automobile motor a mixture ot gasoline vap or and air is exploded under pres sure in a cylinder. The explosive force drives a piston which through a connecting rod turns a crankshaft. Thorough differential gears power is transmitted to the wheels. In a dlesel engine the same piston action Is em ployed, though in dieselelectric locomotives tii power is used to generate electricity and electric motors really propel the train. The gas turbine principle is to create hot pressurized gases through combustion of a fuel. Combustion is seeded by air may park are a discrimination against citizens, another read. The cops added a card of their own a yellow parking ticket. Oppenheimer was parked In that red lone in which cops only may park. Well, the Little Dutch Boy By Viahnett S. Martin homes and the placing of them in residential schools Is one of the things the Indian voters will work for. "Children taken from their families and put into resi dential schools suffer from a sense of insecut::y as well as a lack of the love which only a parent can give. Psychologists agree that these conditions create deep-seated emotional disturb ances which may affect them all their lives'." I wish I had space to quote the whole editorial because I have al ways been deeply Interested in the efforts towards rectifying some of the stupidity with which the first citizens of this country have been treated. Was it not Will Rogers who said his an cestors didn't come on the May flower; they were on hand to wel come the Mayflower? The be loved comedian was proud of his Cherokee blood! William Penn who practiced the Golden Rule had no trouble with the Indians. So many times we forgot that God's children are not all white Caucasians; nor Is heaven like a real estate develop ment subject to restrictions made bv certain ones. pressure (like uslrfg a bellows on a flickering flame). The hot gases flow against the motors of a turbine. The rotating tur bine produces electric energy for the traction motors. The advantages which are hop ed for from the gas turbine are lower weight per horsepower and use of low-cost fuels includ ing coal. Diesel-electrics burns a relatively light oil which k ex pensive. The engines produce about 2,000 h. p. per cab and heavy trains require an addition al diesel unit to pull them. This new gas turbine for the UP will produce 4,800 h. p. per unit. The big advantage of the diesel over the steam locomotive Is the much longer period between ov erhauls. The makers ot this new gas turbine hope to extend the overhaul Interim to 15.000 hours of service, which is three times that of the diesel. As for fuel various experi ments are under way for use of powdered coal as well as oil in the gas turbine. The coal people are putting up money to finance experiments In coal use In gas turbine engines. This summer then will see the start of the race between the gas turbine and the dieselelectric for command of the rails. Just as It will take years to replace all the steam locomotives so it will be a long time before diesels give way to the gas turbine. One thing Is certain; the rail roads are counting; on the higher efficiency of the new tvpe en gines to offset much of the dam age to finances caused by higher wage scales, shorter work weeks and diminished volume of traffic. A GOOD ADVENTURE Corvallls Gazette Times The Stale Highway Commis sion has established a Public Re lations Bureau. Ordinarily we might look upon this as a fifth wheel to the wagon, but with Ralph Watson at the head of it we can see where it Is will lie a VCI'V v.iIiihMa amircm nt Infitrmn. tlon for the general public in- lormation wnicn tt has not had analyzed heretofore. Also, Mr. Watson will be able to get more Did It! mi! I: m i.7A Vj M . ifri f J (VI W . ' i t Stradivari Secrets Are Bared By Italian Lawyer ' CREMONA, Italy t'B "Give me a man with the wonderful hands, ears and feeling for vio lins that Antonio Stradivari had, and I will show him how to make violins as good as the master's superb instruments." Thus says Prof. Renzo Bacchetta, Cremona lawyer, who thinks he has pen etrated the secrets of the man who 200 years ago brought the violin to a state of perfection not since equalled. But the genius' secret techni que, Bacchetta said, can only be turnea into superlative vionns by another genius. Bacchetta has already given the secrets to the Italian government "Anyonio Stradivari School of violin mak ing" here, and violins are being made according to what Bacchetta thinks were the mas ter's methods. The Stradivari School is open to students of all nationalities. It presently has eight students. One of these is 18-y ear-old Adolph Primavera, whose father is a violin maKer at miiaaeipiiia. There are really three secrets according to Bacchetta's i n f o r- mation: One is the :-lnd of varnish. The second is the"preparation" of the instrument to allow an absolute ly even application of the var nish. The third is in Just what order and manner the 58 pieces that make up a violin were put together. Airplane Punctured By Bullets From Nudist Camp SEATTLE, July 15 ((Nud ists apparently dislike airplanes. A small airplane flown by Leo nard Self, with John Hood as a passenger, landed at an airport near Issaquah Tuesday with two bullet holes f r o m underneath near the passenger's seat, A b Davis, co-proprietor of the Issa quah Sky Ranch, reported today. The holes were about six inches apart, he said in his complaint to the sheriff's office. The shots sent the aerial ob servers winging away as they flew about 1.200 feet over Tiger Mountain. There's a nudist camp on private.propcrty on the mount ain side. Sheriff's Deputy E. D. (Dick) Barden won the assignment to look into the matter, with ground operations. Highway Commission news Into the Oregon papers because of his know-how and the esteem with which he Is held by the Oregon press. In the earlier years of the Commission's operation, which years were confined primarily to the development and prosecution of the main state highway sys tem, it was the belief of the Com mission and Its staff that the continual statewide progress in highway construction would serve as sufficient general information to the public of the work being accomplished. As the program has been push ed continually farther toward completion it has ceased to be merely a project of state high way building but has been broad ened to include city street, coun ty roads, bridges; an Integrated, standardized system of transpor tation arteries covering the state. This program of construction and of maintenance hi being paid for by those members of the public who use the roads and highways: together with monies granted by the federal govern ment. The present commission feels that those who are provid ing the money are entitled to full knowledge of how, where and when that monev Is being spent. It is with this Idea in mind that the Commission's op erations has employed Mr. Wat non to formulate the story of the Commission's operations and to lurnish It, as it develops, to the press of the state and through that medium to all those who are contributors to the highway fund, and to all who use the roads. More Television Stations Favored By U. S. Agency WASHINGTON, July 15. UP) Some 1,700 more television sta tions may be built in the future in nearly 1,200 cities andlowns not previously allocated broad cast cnanneis. If new proposals of the Fed eral Communications Commis sion are approved Oregon would have 37 cities and towns allo cated broadcast channels. The Communications Commis sion's proposed regulations to add 42 new television channels to the existing 12 would permit the expansion. FCC officials said the present dozen channels can only accom modate 543 stations in 221 loca tions. Under the new program there could be about 2,245 sta tions in 1,400 cities and towns. The Commission's proposals are subject to public hearing August 29, with formal action planned if possible by the end of the year. The following list shows allocations to Oregon un der the proposed change. Locations which would be cov ered in the very high frequen cies (the 12 channels now in use) and the channel numbers are: Klamath Falls, 2, 4; La Gran de, 3, 13; Medford, 5, 7; Port land, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12. Locations and channel num bers for the ultra high frequen cies would include: Reedsport 18; Roseburg 31, 33. Soviet Again Withholds Manganese And Chrome WASHINGTON, July 15-fP) Russia withheld manganese and chrome shipments to the U. b. in May for the second consecu tive montn, tne uensus Bureau reported . Both metals, essential in turn ing out high grade steel, are con sidered so vital Dy tne govern ment that It buys them for stocK- piling against a war emergency. A Russian cut-on oi mangan ese for the U. S in retaliation for the 15 month U. S. ban against shipment of "war potential" goods to Russia had been threatened since last fall in Sov iet dealings with private import ers. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) agement. But that's neither here nor there. We've got to have ade quate defense, no matter what it costs. . . THE papers are full of the British dollar crisis and what will happen If it isn't relieved. If you've never paid much attention to the complicated business of for eign exchange) this thought may occur to you; Why don't we just print more dollars and GIVE 'EM TO THE BRITISH? ' IT Isn't as simple as that. Foreign trade can only be balanced by EXCHANGE OF THINGS. Money (dollars, pounds, kroner, pesos, zlotys) is just the grease that keeps the wheels moving. Only THINGS count In foreign trade. The British are buying more THINGS from us than we buy from them. That's where the rub IF we print more dollars and give them to the British so they can buy more things from us, we'll simply be GIVING AWAY OUR SUBSTANCE and getting nothing In return. ANOTHER shallow thought may occur to you: Why don't the British pay their bills with gold? ONE good reason is that we already have most of the gold in the world. For years we've been buying it all over the earth paying for It in paper DOL LARS, which have been used to buy from us the THINGS that we have produced In our factories, on our farms, etc. The net result of all of It Is that we have the gold (most of it buried in the ground, at Fort Knox and elsewhere) and the people from whom we ha'e bought It HAVE THE THINGS. ... ANOTHER thought for you to mull in your mind: What good will all this gold do us If the rest of the world fails in the future to produce enough THINGS to swap back to us for the gold? Or if we refuse to BUY the things the rest of the world produces? ... SOME points to remember: Only THINGS count. You can't eat money or wear it, or shelter yourself with i. ALL trade (not merely foreign trade) has to function as a TWO WAY street or It won't function at all. If trade flows ONE WAY too long, there will be a surplus at one end and a vacuum at the other. When that happens, we have hard times. The highway system In the United States Is estimated to be worth about $11 billion. Annual Salary of $1 Million Awaif s New Comedian Who Can 'Wow' Public By HAL BOYLE ' NEW YORK. "Wanted: One new top grade comedian. Poten tial salary $1,000,000 a year." No one has put an ad like that in the paper. But that's the situa tion today in show business. There's a crop shortage -on Broadway and Radio Row a shortage of fresh new funny men. "There's really a tremendous scarcity of comedians," said Irv ine Mansfield, radio executive producer and originator of the "talent scour program. "All the old ones seem to be falling over themselves, he said. "They imitate each other so much you can hardly tell them apart any more. "But who's coming along to take their places? Nobody's In sight." Trying to build a little-known jokester into a public favorite is no laughing matter. It's a big in vestment. "A network can easily spend $250,000 in an effort to popularize a new comedian," said Mansfield, "and end up with nothing but a lame gag artist and no sponsor. "But the rewards are high. A successful comedian can make $20,000 a week." "But he'd be lucky If he ended up with $40,000 for himself," said Mansfield. Explanation Offered What explains the dearth of fresh comic talent? Mansfield thinks the decline of the old vaudeville circuits is the real an swer. "Vaudeville houses were great incubators of comics," he said. "There's no place left today for young comedians to try out tneir material, and they have to work with audiences to perfect them selves. "A comedian doesn't need a great deal of personal originality to succeed. A writer can supply him with that. But he has to be able to sell his stuff to an audi ence. He has to learn timing it's everything. "Take Fred Allen, probably the best showman of our times. He has a perfect sense of timing, and he learned it in vaudeville." Leads "Horrible Life" Mansfield, who now produces "This Is Broadway," a "CBS net work program, has given some 500 to 600 voung entertainers a year their first break on radio. "I lead a horrible life," he said. "Midgets and mind readers run in and out of my office all day long. When I go into a restaurant somebody at the next table who wants to get on the air starts crooning at me over his soup. And on my way home magicians waylay me and want to show me how they can comb pigeons out of my hair." Once a pair of tumblers braced him for a radio spot. "What good are back flips when the listeners can't see them?" he asked. "That's easy have an an nouncer tell them what we're do ing," said the muscle men. Mansfield has a simple way to shoo out mind readers. Whenever one of these characters with tele vision heads breaks into his of fice, the producer asks: ' '"Can you read what's In my fORD REPAIRED Sy 0ur Experts ev!'wr w at..' " Lockwood Motors Rose and Oak Sts. Phone 80 FEED -FEED -FEED FEED QUALITY AND PRICES ARE RIGHT FREE FIELD SERVICE FOR FEED SEED OR REMEDIES PHONE OR CALL Roseburg Feed & Seed Co. DISTRIBUTORS H-B Centennial Feeds and Centennial lour Oak and Spruce 8t. Phone 37 Bank With A Douglos County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank , mind right now?" "Sure," replies wizard. the mental "Then why don't you leave?" But Mansfield has real sym pathy for the ambitious and tal ented kids who come here full of high hopes that end in heart break. "To be an actor or a quality performer you have to serve a real apprenticeship," he said. "The trouble with most people who want a dramatic career is that they come to New York too early. "They aren't ready. That ac counts for a lot of the misery on Broadway." INDIANS INDICTED PORTLAND, July 15. UP) Federal grand Jury has returned an indictment against Raymond C. Smith, 20, Klamath Indian of Fine Ridge, in the death of Elmo Lobert, 22. Lobert was stabbed in a fieht June 2, and Smith is accused ot wielding the knife. Another indictment names Ver non Foster, a Klamath Indian, charged with felonous assault with a knife on Frank M. God owa, 57, another Indian. PRUDENTIAL LIFI Insurance -HORACE C BERO Speeitl Agent 111 Wat Oak Offlei 712-J Res. 171-J Phone 100 If you do not recelvo your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 rv-- JACKED UP PRICES CAN HURT YOU! There's o big dollar sign on t' ot place of yours. BUT it should be a Janger sign if you're insuring for what your property wot worth rather than . for what it it worth. 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