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4 The Niwt-R'vltw, Rowburj, Or. Thur., July 28, 1949 Family Portrait In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) Published D illy Exoept Sunday If th News-Re vie r Company, Inc. Urtl ! Hr t. 111. rii i wbari, Oi.iu, MSar t ! Mri t 111! CHARLES V. STANTON -rfrrw EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor -Slfti"' Manager Member of th Associated Prut, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Ataoolatien, tha Audit Buraau of Clreulatijns IlinnM k; BIHT.HOLLIDAT CO.. INC. ! l T.'k. CkiOfe. tianlioe. Lh Alltt III. r.Mliil. at. LaU. ttb i w-ri.iu . T-rs i- n..... M If II rav V.bp II M .la tkl SIM. krca ,.!. ft.M. Br I'll- Cnlt ptr m.lk tl.N OaulSe NEW GAME By CHARLES The new State Game commission has appointed a former Roaeburj man, Charles A. Lockwood, to the position of state fame director, a job created by the last legislature which organized the game department. Heretofore the Game commission has been an admini strative body, having no authority by law to delegate powers A supervisor has acted as the commission's executive agent. Under the new program, however, the commission will set policies and budgets while a director will handle all ad ministrative detail. Lockwood, who has been serving as supervisor, has been advanced to the position of director, his term being limited to Dec. 31, 1949. The commission, consisting that Lockwood should bo placed in the director's office be cause of his familiarity with existing operations. A change to a director unfamiliar with the department could have resulted in much lost time. But by limiting the term, the commission has made it possible to change directors next year, If such action is found advisable. Two schools of thought exist among sportsmen of the state. One group would make a clean sweep, favoring the em ployment of an "outside"' man with established scientific reputation in the fields of fish and game management and conservation. Another group believes that better service could be ob tained from a director selected from present department personnel, thus utilizing a man familiar with Oregon and its conditions. The commission, by appointing Lockwood to serve only until the end of this year, has not committed itself perma nently to either course. . It is Indicated that if Lockwood can produce desired re sults, demonstrating that he has the needed ability, he will be first in line for the job of director for a longer term. Many of Lockwood's friends believe he can fill the job ably, if freed from restrictions formerly imposed by techni cal inability of the old commission to delegate authority. While some sportsmen contend that the job should go to a man with a higher degree of scientific training and ex perience, others hold that the director is authorized to employ such scientific assistance as he may need and that executive ability is the primary requirement. Lockwood, at least, has made a very auspicious start by tossing department politics out the window. It was common knowledge that Phil Schneider, chief of the game division, was up for consideration for the office of director. Had Lockwood wanted to play politics, he would have restricted Schneider's activities, but, instead, his first act was to elevate Schneider to first assistant. Personally, we believe Lockwood has all necessary require ments to become an outstanding game department director. He has advanced rapidly in the game management field, has shown good executive and public relations qualities, and has been a hard worker. While he Is certain to meet some opposition, we believe he will be able to convince the com mission that he should be continued in the office. Evading Th Main Controversy The Marion county circuit court is hearing arguments in the suit brought against Oregon's prohibition of fishing in the Columbia river with traps and seines. Seiners and trappers are proceeding under a temporary order restraining the Oregon Fish commission from enforc ing the ban voted by the people of the stale Inst fall. The Columbia River Fishermen's union and Astoria gillnettors have been permitted to intervene in behalf of the Fish com mission. ' The Fish commission probably could be expected to make little defense. Actually, the commission, from a technical standpoint, doesn't care who gets the fish ; a salmon is just as dead whether caught by a trap or a gillnet. The really interested parties are the gillnctters. Elimi nation of traps and seines gives gillnetters exclusive con trol of the field, which is one of the principal arguments by the plaintiffs, who charge that a "monopoly" is thereby created. Another argument is that the act confiscates prop erty without due process of law. But the real point in controversy is not salmon, nor prop erty, nor monopoly. The big bone of contention, and one which no party to the suit probably will mention, is the Columbia river's run of steelhead trout According to the Fish commission's own statistics, traps and seines take more than 75 percent of the Columbia's commercial steelhead catch. The Fish commission has ad mitted that steelhead should be a game fish. But the seiners and trappers will put up a strong fight to retain the right to catch them commercially. Texas Town Discovers It Lacks State Patent DENNING, Texas, July, 2 8 The people of this small east Texas community are going to ask the state to give them buck their town. They've Just discovered they are trespassers on what they always had thought was their own property. Blamed for It all is an absent minded citizen to whom the state granted a patent on a 177-acre ft ot back In 1884. He forgot to .le the document. Officially, title never passed from the state to rr inl lllJl lie !. ! Orf Br Stt.ll " ! SS.es. tl DIRECTOR V. STANTON entirely of new members, felt the Individual. About ISO residents live In this northern San Augustine county community. Many own or thought they did the land o n which they live. State Rep Paul S. Wilson said a zealous abstract attorney dis covered only recently that the patent never had been filed. Wilson said he will go to Austin next week to "try to straighten the matter out." He thinks the state will give new patents on the land to present occupants. Three cheers for every good radio program for children! I cannot tune In to KRNR, it hap pens, but I was happy to read of the new program for children, the story-reading. Such pro grama are an Investment In the future. I wonder which stories are alated for telling? Yesterday as I prepared apples for sauce, I was listening to the radio, to a station which comes in clearly no matter what the at mospheric conditions may be, and the usual program for children came on. It was Johnny Apple- seed in which the songs and dif ferent voices are "done" by Den nis Day. It closed, In proper thriller style, with Johnny Ap plesced walking toward the In diana who were dancing about a burning cabin and the listeners were told that they must "wait until tomorrow" to hoar what happened next. It was a fine record, as are all the records in the Children's Theater. I wondered If Johnny Apple- seed came to the coast? And did he plant his apple trees out here? I forget Just how far he Jour neyed, but how could anyone forget, or fail to feel affection for, the little man as Dennis Day Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Charles A, Spragut In The Oregon Statesman The old verse tells how t h e King of France went uu the hill with 20,000 men: and then went dow n the hill and "ne'er went up again." It comes to mind with news that President Tr iman has re treated from his long Insistence on the levy of additional taxes of lour billion dollars. Hell even chisel a little off the national rev enuesthe 3 per cent tax o n freight. But Instead o f cutting government expenses to balance the budget he would let the defi cit ride. It's no time to tax; It's no time to stop government spending -both would be dcflat lmary! These are the highlights of the president's semi-annual ec onomic report to congress. But If we cannot balance the budget In relatively good times, when can we balance the budget? I he president went further on his "fair deal" lines: business should cut prices hut not cut wages. Instead the minimum wage should be increased to 75 cents a n hour. Unemployment compensation benefits should be Increased; "an improved pro gram of farm income supports'' i the costly Brannan plan) should be adopted. Thus the economic report 1 s pretty well larded with politics. We should not chide Mr. Tru man on second-guessing econom ic trends. Thai his forecast for 1918 used to demand new legis late bridles on' Inflation went awry is merely iresh proof of the difficulties of prophecy in the field of economics. There are plenty In business who made the same bad guess on 1948. What the experience points up Is the risk and the foolishness o( trying to make the president or his council of evoromic ad visers an oracle o f economics. The country hasn't gotten over hooting at Hoover for his opti mistic statements as the depres sion tightened its grip. The fac tors In the business world are so variable that predicting the fu ture still remains largely guess Bi Viahnett S. Martin presents him? I thought of another man who, In a lesser way, left trees behind him when he moved on. "You'll never get the good out of those shade trees!" said a rather blunt spoken neighbor one day. "But," said the planter, with a friendly smile in his dark brown eyes, and satisfaction In his voice, "somebody will! I don't plant trees Just for myself. And who knows, In the next place there may be trees someone else has planted for me?" All through his life whenever he stayed In a place long enough to call it home, even If rented, he planted trees, and vines and fruit trees, too. "Somebody will enjoy them even If I don't hap pen to" he would say. "I like to leave a place the belter for my having been here." And he did. How he would have loved these Oregon woods! Me always said he would like to have tree close . . . there Is a beautiful magnolia, one of his favorites, near a piece of bronze on which is his name. Of course he him self Isn't there . . . there are times when he seems very close to me as I walk through the woods. work. When governments make the bad guesses the results are apt to be even more damaging than when individual business men err In their speculations. Writing on this line In the Iindon Sunday Times George Schwartz, a British writer on ec onomics, comments that at pres ent, private business has kept its affairs in pretty good shape it is the governments who have been "overtrading" and have gotten themselves "extended", as the market reiorters say of a business that is badly bent. Ol the United Slates he writes: "The private sector is solvent and liquid, hut the state Is over loaded with debt and ha. ex hausted the benefits of cheap money just w hen they are re quired." And of his own country h e says: "Our plignt is worse." and goes on to describe the powerful Britain "rushing over t o Brus sels and Paris peddling I.O.L'. s" He doesn't think much of the "economic wisdom of the stale." The state is primarily a poli tical organism. When it tries to run the economic how whether by piecemeal regulation or by a I Unit proprietorship politics gums the gears. It seems in this complicated society we have to submi, to some forms of regula tion; but the less burden we im pose on the state for economic welfare the more viable our economy should be. In short, the fact that Mr. Truman Is a good politician does not make h I m necessarily a good economist. TWO BILLS ARE REFERRED iThe Oregon Statesman) Only two legislative bills are halted by referendum. One is the hill authorizing Increased old age grants and making such grants a prior claim on estates. The other is the hill restricting to the governor authority under certain condition to establish statewide daylight saving. These referred measures will be voted en I u November. 1150. The old-age assistance hill was thoroughly discussed during and Eagles Club For Teen-Agers Will Open Saturday Another social outlet for Rose burg teen-agers will be provided when the Eagles Junior club opens its doors Saturday at 1 p.m., according to Glenn For rest, chaplain lor the Roseburg Eagles lodge, A Juke box for dancing, shuf fle board and other entertain ment will be available, Forrest said. Soft drinks and candy will be sold. The club room Is located on the ground floor of the Eagles building, corner of Cass and Pine slreets. The club will be open to all teen-age youngsters. Parents are invited to drop in at any time to observe the club activities, ac cording to lodge members. Chap orones will be on duty at all times to supervise activities. The club will be open every Saturday aftrrnoon and evening until cur lew time. Opening at the new club cul minates four months of plan ning by the Eagles. Forrest said it is the ultimate hope of the lodge to see the boys and girls run the club themselves. Chap erones would continue to be pro vided but there would be no need for continuous guidance from members of the Eagles lodge if the youngsters ran the club, he said. after Its passage. Yet still there is much misconception regarding it. It was a replacement for the Dunne initiated measure, which was held to be unworkable, and was written to save federal aid for old-age assistance. Joe Dunne doesn't like it and secured en ough signers to referral petitions to get a vote on the bill. The daylight saving advocates In Portland were chiefly respon sible for hobbling the legislature's bill on DST. They want daylight saving so much they want the cities to retain authority to adopt it regardless of slate action. While voting on the bill will not offer a direct ves or no on statewide DST. it will so be voted on, in reverse: Opponents of clock-tampering voting for the bill; sup porters of DST against the bill. And as usual a good many voters will get crossed up. With only two bills under at tack through the referendum, the record of the 45th assemhly seems to be standing up pretty well. AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS tCorvallis Gazette-Times) Statistics from 'he Secretary of State's office show that there were 68 fewer lives lost in Oregon traffic accidents than during the same period a year ago. The six months total stands at 121 killed, which is a drop of 35 per cent from the 192 fatalities re corded at the same time in 194R June deaths total 24 as against 43 a year ago, which is a creditable reduction of 44 percent. The half year death record Is the lowest since the wartime driving restrictions of 1944. Are vou a safe driver? You are probably entitled to call yourself one If you drove 43.000 miles in Oregon last year without an ac cident. Working from 948 Oregon statistics. In which 127.768 drivers reported accidents and travel to taled 5,480 million miles, the Traffic Safety Division arrived at the average figure. Mishaps totalled 6ti.2!8 or approximately on for every 83.000 miles o f driving. Slnce the great majority of drivers i o not drive 43.000 miles in one year, it is obvious that some are driving a great deal more and that others will have far more than their share of accidents. More officials have estimated that the average tra cler nationally has one acci dent In every 55.000 miles, so It would seem that Oregon drivers are better than the average. you take their money away from them. Aren't people funny? PERSONALLY, I'm amazed, and have been for years, at the popi.lar appeal of the reckless public spending that In the short space of a little more than a de cade and a half has reduced our nation from a sound business en terprise to a political establish ment whose debts are so fantastic as to cause people of all kinds to wonder where the money Is ever coming from to pay them with. The average, hard working, cartful-spending citizen of the United States gets comparatively little direct benefit from much .1 this expenditure. Take the public housing bill that has Just been passed by congress and signed by the President as an example. It proposes (at the start, at least) to build somewhat less than a mil lion housing units. There are 40 odd million family units In the Unifd States. That is to say, on the face of It, the odds are 40 to one that YOU won't get one of these houses to be built by the gove nment. Yet this housing bill was so POLITICALLY IMPORTANT that It slid through a congress that at least pretends to be econ omy minded with almost no oppo sition worth speaking about. The general impression was that no mmber of congress who voted against It could even HOPE to l:e re-elected. IT Is plainly obvious that con gress is getting scared at the size of our mounting national debt. This fear bobs up in a va riety of ways. Yet, when it comes to the voting pinches, the big spending bills go through with surprisingly little opposition. Why? Well, at every natlonai election since l!M2 the spenders have won out. The politicians, naturallv enough, put two and two together and say that the way to be elected is to BE A SPENDER. WHY do our people vote for the spenders and turn the non spenders down? I wouldn't know. But I SUSPECT that the same odd, fuzzy mental quirk that causes people to rush in by the tens of thousands to bet their money on a vague, hazy numbers game where the odds are 1000 to 1 against them is responsible for our tendency to vote for the spenders at every succeeding elec tion. THE buyer of a numbers ticket doesn't really expect to win. HE JUST HOPES TO WIN. In the same way the people who vote for the spenders must HOPE that they will somehow hit the Jackpot or pick the magic number and the billions the poli ticians talk about so gliblv will come tumbling out on the floor at tnelr feet. It never happens, of course, but hope springs eternal in the gambler's breast. So people go on voting for the spenders, Just as they go on pulling the handle of the slot machine. I CAN'T think of any other ex planation of the strange phe nomenon of a hereditarily hard headed people that goes on year after year voting for a spending policy that buries them deeper every year under a growing mountain of public debt. New Badges Now Adorn Merchant Patrolmen Roseburg merchant patrolmen are decked out with new chrome plated badges and cap devices. Chief W. J. Hebard of the mer chant patrol said all three pa trolmen have been outfitted with new badges. The chest hardware is a six-, pointed star that Includes the Or egon seal and the lettering "Mer chant Patrol." The cap device is a shield with M.P. meaning merchant patrol, etched therein. Other patrolmen are Kenneth Hebard and Lloyd C. Leonard. FORECLOSURE ASKEO R. A. Verd has filed suit in cir cuit court to foreclose on a chat-1 tel mortgage given to secure a promissory note for S10.000. i Named as defendants are Low ell M. Anderson and O. T. Carter, ! sheriff of Douglas county. I The plaintift asks thai the dtf ' fendants be foreclosed to all in j terest, lien and equity in a cater- I pillar crawler type tractor and j asks that it be sold to cover a ' mortgage, with the defendant An-1 derson adjudged for any defici-1 ency. Sherilt Cartet has been I named as co-defendant so that the plaintiff may recover the tractor which the sheriff has in his possession on an attachment. CHANGES NAME An order by County Judge D. N. Busenbark has been issued granting Clarence Godfrey White permission to change his name to Clarence Godfrev Larson, ef fective July 27. 1949. V ! (V. W'f SI . I V . t road in the British tone of Germany near Soviet frontier by Russian speaking s-ssailanu who tried to kidnap them. Lieut. Kohnlu suf fered a slight hesd injury and his wife's nose was en before they rushed to their car and raced around the sttackers halted truck. A burst of automatic rifle fire Just missed their car as they fled. Glendale Mrs. Jimmy Doyle was taken to the hospital in Grants Pass last Monday for observation. She is better and has returned to her home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Cox, from Sacramento, visited her sis ter. Mrs. Bill Nenstiel, in Glen dale last weekend. Jim Witzer fell off a load of logs at Haywood's mill last week and required stitches in the back of his head. He Is back at his work again. Jack Rondeau was hurt recent ly while diving at Capitol hill near Glendale. It is reported that he hit a rock and required four stitches In his head and one in his arm. Bill Miller has Just returned from a stay of three weeks in the Grants Pass hospital and two and one-half weeks in a Portland hospital, where he has been re ceiving treatment for poison oak and complications. Mary Stevens, formerly of Glendale, who was visiting her daughter. Mrs. Helen Brown, and her sister Mrs. Betty Reed, here, was taken suddenly ill during the night last week and had to be taken to the hospital in Grants Pass for observation. Personal Briefs Mr. and Mrs. John Benakes entertained at a swimming and beach party Fri day evening at their home. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Aus tin Drake, and sons; Mr. and Mrs. Bill LaPrath and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carter and daughters: and Mr. and Mr. Glen Kaefer. School Bonds Approved Ac cording to Carl Sether, clerk of Protect Your Family with the B. M. A. Polio plan. Call Mr. Lincoln, 938-J-4 o drop card to Box 108 Melrose Route. Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank rVkVX A LAYER OF FAT OQ Blubber under thiir skin -TWsr KEEP8 THIM WARtt IW WlNTtR. m,i7nim'irr,TTr,4" m Lis!) .3 IL LJlliliJ'J.UU t'f.4 . I o o the District 77 school board, word was received Thursday from the office of the state bond examiner that the school bonds voted it the election In May have now been approved. Bids will be call ed for as soon as the architect's plans, which have also been ap proved, arrive. Watch Repair Service Opens Steve Kadas. jeweler, and watch repairman and proprietor of the Mobile Watch Repair Service, has moved into Glendale and set up his trailer shop on Pacific ave nue near 5th street Mr. Kadas plans to stay in Glendale as long as business warrants and will do watch, clock and jewelry repair. He also has a stock of Jewelry, watches, watch 1ands, etc. for sale. According to a Wheaton, III. daily paper, Mrs. Ann Reiman, 67, of Wheaton. who is the moth er of Mrs. McDougal of the Glen dale Seond Hand store, suffered head injuries while struggling with a purse snatcher who ac costed her as she started up the stairs to catch a train from Chi cago, where she had been shop ping, back to Wheaton. She struggled to retain the purse but failed, and the purse snatcher started to flee. He was seen bv a young man. Leonard Mitchel, who attempted ti, come to Mrs. Reiman's aid but was stabbed by the fleeing thief. Mrs. Reiman received minor first aid treatment, but Mitchel was con fined to. a .hospital for chest wounds. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:1S P.M. call Harold Mjbley befort 7 P.M. Phone 100 light now we're not worry ng about keeping warm . . . vother Nature is taking rare of that. We have more J.mportant things on our i-nind . . . supplying the citi- tens of this vicinity with iny size concrete pipes, foundation blocks, tiles, or any other cement job they need. May we serve you? Don't forget our products neet the highest specifica ions. ''Il' ill i'ii fcjf4fc