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4 The Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, Or. Man., July 18, 1949 Published Dally Except Sunday by th Newi-Review Company, Inc. EQttrd lerond clatt matter May 1, at tha pott Met at Bom burr, Ortgan, adr Ml ! March . WIS CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor 5&iro Manager Member of the Atioolated Presi, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau .of Circulations Uprasaatad br WEST-HOI.LIDAT CO.. INC., rflrci In Nw yrk, Chief, Sis Vrapclac. Li Anealei, Beaitlt, Partland. St. Laala. IUBSCRIPTION RATES In Ore ran By Mill rtr Tear fS.M, lis man the tl.ftt, thra man tha II. &a. By City Carrier Per year SIO.M 'in advance), leta loan a year. par month $1.M, OnUide Oregon By Mall Per year S8.M. wi month U.U. three months S3.7A DOWN WITH By CHARLES V. STANTON County Sanitarian Claude Baker, speaking before the Lions club in Roseburg recently, disclosed that numerous mosquito-breeding areas have been inspected. He cited as sources of the insect pests, now plaguing many sections of the community, nearby mill ponds, stagnant pools along Deer creek, and various marshes and Stream courses in West Roseburg and in the north part of town. His conclusions were that a successful eradication cam paign could be conducted but that it would require a con siderable expenditure of money and complete cooperation from individual residents. Baker's investigation followed a flood of continuing com plaints concerning increasing swarms of mosquitoes. His findings contain little news to anyone who has interested himself in the situation. A visit to mill ponds will show shallow water along the edges swarming with "wigglers." Deer creek, which has dropped to summer level, is perfect for mosquito-breeding purposes. To the other sources mentioned by the county sanitarian might be added a few perpetually wet spots in center parking strips on Jackson street and Commercial avenue in North Roseburg. It would not be too difficult, nor too expensive, to start at least a partial, eradication campaign immediately. We must have either voluntary or compulsory assistance from mill companies, but most important, and the most difficult to obtain, we must have 100 percent simultaneous coopera tion from every household in the city. We imagine the mill companies would be willing to treat their ponds if given directions as to proper methods. The extremity of the situation would justify an appropriation from city and county emergency funds to treat breeding areas inside and adjacent to the city. Cleaning up principal breeding spots would be a partial solution, but such a campaign would not be of any material relief unless simultaneous cooperation came from residents throughout all urban and suburban areas. If, while ponds, streams and marshy spots were being treated, every household would follow a prescribed method for destroying mosquitoes in and around homes, and for a fixed time, we could gain relief in a few days. Handy DDT sprays are available for household use, to gether with smoke bombs, spray and powder for treating shrubbery. We hope the county sanitarian will not allow the project to end with a report on his investigations but will endeavor to work out a detailed program for submission to county and city authorities. If an eradication campaign is finally or ganized, residential cooperation should be voluntarly forthcoming. CVA Proponents Show Their True Purpose " When Secretary Krug of the interior department remon strated against placing the Columbia Valley administration proposal before voters of the Pacific Northwest he furnished conclusive proof that CVA planners have as their real ob jective federal seizure of the Basin. In place of an election, where people would have an opportunity to express their desires in true democratic style, Krug wants a public hearing. We've seen too many such hearings in which the federal agency involved acts as judge and jury over its own acts. How much consideration would be given opposition to CVA by a congressional committee hand-picked by an administration-dominated Congress? CVA, under present proposals, would be controlled by a three-man board appointed by the President, each of the three directors required to be sympathetic to federal control policies. Demands for representation by the affected states have been firmly rejected. Now Secretary Krug doesn't even want the people to have a voice in the matter. Thus we have a startling indication of what is in store for us if CVA ever becomes an actuality. Disc Jockeys 'Voices From By HAL BOYI.E NEW YOUK-t.W-Sweet sing ers of the golden age u( sour are enjoying a fresh wave of popularity In the Jukebox gen eration. "The favorites are Enrico Ca ruso, John McCormack, and Al-j ma Gluck, said Wally Under worth, a radio disc Jockey. "They rank In that order Just as they did in their own lifetimes." Butterworth, 46, differs from the ordinary disc Jockey In that lie plays classical or seml classl cal vocal records Instead of the current grounds. "Collecting old records Is a tremendous hobby today," he said, "and some of them hrlng fabulous prices up to $100 or more. "Probably the rarest record In the world are seven made In Italy by Caruso In 1902 for the Zonophone company. I'ye seen collectors pay $1S0 apiece for copies, and I know of only one man who has all seven." Hugo Library Butterworth, who entered ra dio In 19Ji as an announcer, has a library of 5,000 records, one of the largest In the country. Cur rently he Is engaged In nation-K MOSQUITOES! Collecting Past" Records wide search for lost or unpub lished recordings by great singers of the past. When he started his radio pro grain here more than two years ago over a local NBC station, he exected It would hold only a nostalgic appeal for old-timers. "But I was amazed at the wav vounger people reacted." he said. ''Many of them had never heard voices of thnt quality." Butterworth later held a series of evening record concerts, and found 42 percent of those who attended were under 30 years of age. Want Parents Music "Many were curious to hear more of the music their parents knew and loved," he said. "Kew people realize the sing ers of lluu time were every bit as popular as Bing Crosby is to day," he said. "Caruso made at least $.1,500. 000 out of records alone, and In the year after his death his es tate earned $(100,000 In royalties. "More than 2.000.000 people bought John McCormack' re cording of 'I Hear You Calling Me', made In 1912 and no one has ever sung It so well since. Alma Uluck'i 1914 recording ol Softer Than The Young men of the age of 12 or thereabouts sometimes find par ental restrictions and pronounce ments most irksome. When the "Issue" can he made Impersonal there seems less resentment, less friction. "But It's against the law, son!" "But Jack and Tom hunt rab bits ail by themselves!" Recently on a trip we passed two boys manfully shouldering quite businesslike looking) guns. We guessed the boys were about 12? I remembered them when I came across this item in the at tractively printed Oregon State Game Bulletin: Juveniles Not Allowed To Hunt Alone Many Juveniles and their par ents are unaware that the law prohibits any person under the age of 14 years to hunt with a gun off his own premises unless he Is accompanied by his parents or legal guardian. Section 82-331, O. C. L. A. reads as follows: "No person within the state of Oregon under 14 years of age Basis Authority Idea Dates Back To 1925; Program Has 'Just Crowded1 Over Nation By WILLIAM E. LOWELL AP SpfTlnl WmthinKtcm Service. WASHINGTON, July 18. tP) This basin authority Idea that has the northwest stirred up Just now Isn't very new to Congress. Like Topsy In the story. "It Just growed." unck in the b9th Congress (It s the 81st now in session) Rep. John McDuffle of Tennessee became Interested In the hydroelectric power possibilities of the Tennes see river. He had heard an army engi neer tell the public works com mittee more rain fell In that ar a than any other river basin In the country. Order Survey He got the committee to order the engineers and the federal power commission to make a com plete survey of the basin to deter mine how much power could ri developed In connection wilh navi gation Improvements. Joseph 11. MeGann Sr., the com mittee's veteran clerk, doesn't be lieve McOuffle had anything like TV A In mind, though an agency official testified last week that many of the engineers' recom mendations of that time have been carried Into effect by the agency. All of the 11 dams tveom- 'Carry Me Hack to Old Vlrglnnv", so'ri 1.500,000 copies at $1.50." Today the top salary at the Metropolitan opera Is $750 a night, but Hutterworth said Ca ruso was paid $2,500 a perform ance from 1903 to 1920. On one concert tour he made $10,000 a night for 20 nights. "It was a golden age In more ways than one," said Butter worth. "Hut they don't have voic es like that any move. "l'hev could have-but they don't, 'it's chiefly a matter of work. They've Injected too many Hollywood features intD the busi ness! They want the sopranos sir .amiineVl. "In the old days a singer would study for five to .even years be lore even daring to sing an opera In public. Now they study tw years and figure they are ready for the met. Brass Knuckles He By Viahnett S. Martini shall be issued a hunting license or be permitted to hunt with a gun on lands, other than his own premises, or those of a parent or legal guardian, unless accom panied by said parent or legal guardian." A person under the age of 14 years is not required to have a license to hunt except for big game animals like deer, elk or antelope. He legally cannot ob tain such a license nor use It off his own premises unless he Is ac companied by his parent or guardian. EJ recalls being "dared" by a brother to see if he could "hit that cow?" Neither boy gave a thought to what might happen if he did hit It! Both had learned to shoot on that Texas farm as soon as they were old enough to hold a gun. Both thought the cow so far away the shot would be spent . . . EJ didn't succeed in hitting the mark. But he did hit a tree within a foot of her. And the bark flew. . . . "Gosh, it scared the devil out of us! What if we'd hit the cow?" mended by the engineers have now been built. Cost Survey Ordered The power survey seemed to catch on and later the committee asked the engineers to estimate the cost of similar surveys on all navigable streams, except the Colorado river. The states in the Colorado basin already had plans for development of that basin well under way. The engineers reported the cost of surveys for navigation and power on about 200 streams would lie about $7,322,400 and In 1927 Congress okayed the expense. The next year the scope of the survey was widened to Include possibilities for flood control and irrigation. In 1934, when limes were get ting tough, the engineers had about 1,600 projects ready for con struction Involving an estimated cost of about $8,000,000,000. Unemployed Aided Krom this list were drawn many of the jobs on which the unemployed were put to work. Projects built under the rellrf program cost about $380,000,000. Some of the projects selected by the administration didn't have committee or congressional ap proval. It wasn't necessary under the emergency program. Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia was another unauthor ized project. It had been deferred by the committee because there was already a painful surplus of farm products. The big dam, as a power producer, was Invaluable during the war that broke out a few years after lis completion. It is now the nucleus of a. huge Irri gating protect. It was not until 1936 that Con gress wrote a general flood con trol policy Into legislation and It was several years later that Sen ator Murray (D-Monll launched his first attempt to create a Mis souri Basin authority and Presi dent Roosevelt proposed the "eight little TVA's'1 In the major river basins. , None has yet been created, aside from TV A, but the seed sown back In 1925 has shown amazing vitality. Formerly Used In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) bank to GUARANTEE some of the risks capital would be subject to In such oreign Investments." AS I read that, it means that not only will we give away our technical know-how to other peo ples. Not only will we build indus trial plants overseas, thus creat ing payrolls IN OTHER COUN TRIES rather than in ours. We will guarantee these over seas Investments against losses in the normal course of business! Here in our own home towns, if somebody establishes a factory and creates a payroll, he has to take his own chances of loss. 1 THINK everyone will agree that right here in Roseburg we could expand our Industrial de velopment enormously and quick ly If only the federal government or somebody else would GUARAN TEE THE NEW INVESTORS AGAINST LOSS. That raises a highly interest ing question: 11 we are going into the bus iness of promoting industrial de velopment on such an all-out scale as to guarantee Investors in Industrial enterprises against losses incurred In the conduct of the business, would you as an in dividual rather have these new (guaranteed) industries located in Afghanistan, or in Timbuctoo or in Cochin-China? Or would you prefer to see them located right here in Rose burg? I IMAGINE your answer will be that if things come to such a pass as that you'd prefer to have the new (guaranteed) payrolls lo cated as close to your front door as you can get them. But wai' a minute! You've read about the growing "dollar crisis." The long and the short of this dollar crisis business is that with a lew exceptions (such as Switzerland) foreign countries have already bought from us ALL THEY CAN PAY FOR unless we accept payment ill their goods (and most of them can't even produce enough for their own present needs.) What President Truman is pro posing in carefully chosen, vague terms is that we BUILD (AND GUARANTEE) FACTORIES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES SO THAT THESE COUNTRIES CAN MAKE THE GOODS WITH WHICH TO PAY US BACK WHAT THEY OWE US. CONSIDER this: Burled In the ground (at Fort Knox and elsewhere) we have the bulk of the monetary gold in the world. For this gold we have paid out paper dollars. With the paper dollars they have received for their gold, foreigners have bought the products of our factor ies and our farms. Monetary gold Is now more or less useless except as a medium with which to pay foreign debt. AND WE DONT OWE ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY ANY THING (worth mentioning.) They all owe it to us. That is to say, our buried gold ; hoard Is practically useless until such a time as we buy more from Committeemen Elected For Farm Conservation The work of the elected farmer agricultural conservation pro gram committeemen both coun ty and community has taken on a new Importance in preparation for the possible establishment of acreage allotments and conduct ing marketing quota referen dums. Final decisions by the sec retary still await current crop prospects but the committees have to be ready. The committeemen continue to have the big responsibility for the operation of the agricultural con servation program and now they are in the midst of getting fig ures together for individual farms as a basis for possible al lotment and tnarketing quota op erations. If and when a county allotment is made, it will be up to the county committee to make equi table allocations to individual farmers. They must administer the crop loan part of the program and are busy helping farmers with their storage problems. These committeemen, county and community, who have so much to do with the operation of the production and marketing administration in Douglas county are all local farmers. They are elected each year by their farmer neighbors. The chairman of the Douglas county agricultural conservation committee is J. F. Bonebrake of Melrouse route. Roseburg. The : vice chairman is H. J. Cockram, ! Oakland. The regular member of the committee is J. L. Aikens, j and the two alternates are R. A. , Busenbark of Melrose route, j Roseburg, and B, G. Johnson, Glendale. Elected community committee men are: Cow Creek community, B. G. Johnson, Joe W. Payne and Louis Brady, all of Glendale; Riddle community, L. C. Walsh, Ivan Worsham and Roscoe Ball, all of Riddle; Days Creek-Canyonville community, Roy V. Matthews, Days Creek, Frank Brown and John Fenn,, Canyonville; Myrtle Creek community, E. W. Holling er, A. E. Burton and W. D. King, all of Myrtle Creek; Roseburg community, R. A. Busenbark, Melrose route, J. Clifford, route 2, and Louis Kohlhagen, Rose burg, Camas Valley-Tenmile commu nity, F. Howard Milton and Ern est Wheeler, Camas Valley, and Jean Dickover, Tenmile; Oakland- Sutherlin community, Charles Davison and George Wil cox, Oakland, and Harry Norton, Sutherlin; Elkton-Kellogg com munity, George Madison and Boyd Rader, Oakland, and Mil ton Compton, Elkton; Yoncalla Drain community, Harold Tur pin, Meredith Freemen and D. C. Wilson, all of Yoncalla; Reeds-port- community, O. R. North, Carl Dawson and P. F. McAlister, all of Reedsport. The mailing address and office is Agricultural Conservation As sociation, 321 Pacific building, Roseburg, Ore. Phone: Roseburg 309. Man To Compete Against Horse In Walking Match LEBANON, July 18 UP) The townspeople here are going to see next Sunday whether the "walking man of Oregon" can out-stride a horse over a 75-mile course at the community's new race track. Last summer, the gentry and their ladies here abouts were all agog over a horse vs. man tug-of-war. The horse won in that event. The "walking man of Oregon" Is 64-year-old Paul Smith, Mill City, who earned the title in 1928, when he finished 19th in a walk ing spree from Los Angeles to New York. The horse is "Big Red," owned and to be ridden by Ralph Smith, Linn county rancher. Smith, who is no kin of the Mill City entry, will also have aboard his son, Donald, aged ten. They will begin at 6 a.m., Sun-1 day, July 24, around the half-; mile track of Lebanon Meadows, j It will take 150 laps to finish. j Mnith, on loot, expects It will take him about 11 or so hours. Smith, on horseback, believes "Big Red" can make it in about 10 hours. "Four legs are better than two, anytime," insists the owner of "Big Red." The sponsors, riders of the Santiam Wranglers, aren't taking sides,, officially. But you can get odds from innumerable fans. abroad than we sell abroad and can use our gold to pay our bills with. HERE'S what it looks like: President Truman's advisers must have been telling him that the thing to do is to give the foreigners the factories with which to make the goods with which to pay their debts to us so that they can buy more from us later! A screwball Idea? Well, that's for you to Judge. It will be YOUR money that will be used If the scheme goes through. NO, I think It would be a case of what the bankers call j throwing away good money to save bad money. We'd better take ! our losses and start all over again. But then I'm a hard-boiled real list. The day of the hard-boiled realist is passing. It may be that j what the present generation w ants is to go all out as an inter national Santa Claus even It 'WE go bankrupt. Editorial From The Spoiled by Chlielers Coos Bay Times Certain to create quite a stir is a suggestion from the office of the secretary of state that the next session of the Oregon legis lature mat ho AckpH In reneal the act allowing the refund of gasoline taxes when the fuel is used in vehicles not operating on ine puunc lllgliwaya. i jic icoawn for the threat is that the act has been taken advantage of to de fraud the state by persons claim ing refund not only on gasoline used in vehicles operated off the highways but for those used on the public roads as well. The oline tax money in 1948. But of thnt ni.at. 1000 000 UISR refunded. Heavily increasing numrjers 01 claims lor muims bear evidence 01 iraua Dy iarra ers and logging operators oper ating their private cars on tax free gasoline, It is stated. Tf la K,,f litct that oacnlinP IlCPd In vehicles not operated over pub it. 1- -I U I t tha Inv lie ruaus SIIUUIU UC lICC Ul used for building and maintain- nig iiiriiv oo. in. olt $37,000 was saved last year by slate aepartmeni auunuiH wnu denied refund claim after finding evidence of fraud. More, it is be lieved, would have been saved were help available for more tho rough audits of all claims. De nii& tha iiHnip nf crookedness aput . on the part of many, one assum- Phone TOO If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. call Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 1 V Bank With A Douglas County Institution Honie Owned Home Operated Member Federal t Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank - i " . - i DEAFENED! "HIDEAWAY HEARING" THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO WEAR IN YOUR EAR BETTER HEARING INSTANTLY! ! IMPROVED APPEARANCE! ! Now available for all "Hideaway Hearing" is a real asset in business. 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The answers to everyday insurance problems ir By KEN BAILEY n ii k ftT l A M Recently we suffered a fire loss which was paid by our insurance company, now a menu tells me that my insurance policy expired with the settlement and I must take out a new policy. Is this true? a Mawp a Mnt- entirely unless the the insurance company paid you me run amount oi me puut--y. When an insurance company pays you for a fire loss, it deducts the amount paid you from the amount of . the policy. Thus, if you had a ten thousand dollar policy and the company paid you five thousand rlnllQI-a VS11I UmllH Sflll hflVA fit thousand dollars in insurance. However, you should see your In surance agent about having your policy changed to give you ade quate protection again. If you'll addreu your own Iniurance questions to this offtc. we'll try to give you the correct aniwen and there will be no efaarte or ebllfatlen t an " ken bailey INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Pacific Bldg. 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