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4 The N.wi-R.yi.w, Roieburj, On Sot., July 30, 1949 Publlihtd 0 illy Exetpt Sunday ry th Ntwt-Rsvie Company, Inc. Mini Mfn elaaa aaallar Mar . f" liukm, Oraaaa, umitr act af March I. ItM CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor i&r" Managar Mambar of tha Aaaeeiatad Praaa, Oragon Nawapapar Publlahara Aaaoolatlen, tha Audit Burtau of Clrculationa bminltl ay USST-HOt-LIIM CO., INC.. atflcaa la Naw tark, Ckleafa. Saa "ra.elaaa La, Aatalaa. a.allla. rartlaat. au Lai la. aimaraiPTioN satfs la o,a 1 Mail rar Taar la.aa. an .aia. m m Ikraa aal. MM. B, CU. rarrlar ear yaar lia.M la aaaaaral. la., Ik aa raar. par waath I.M Oalaiaa Oraaaa Bt Mala far raar a. ala aaaalha M la. raa aaaalha M.ia Little Waldo's Political Education ( VOP, WAT'S J I A LIBERAL?! WOX.ScH ACCOCDWcS TO The T2E-ACTIONARIE5 HE'S ONE WW DISTRIBUTES LIBERALLY OP THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY To AW PKESSURE GROUP VWKft IS LOOKING TOR SQMETHlrJG TOR NOWIMO" SEEN FROM THE AIR By CHARLES V. STANTON Flying over the Umpqua Basin give an observer a much different idea of geographical formation than the Impress aion trained while travelling on the ground. Looking down from an altitude of 5,000 feet or more, it becomes apparent that this Umpqua valley once was flat and open. It must have been much like the Willamette valley. But pressure, which geologists say occurred when volcanic action in the Cascades met the weight of ocean water, caused wrinkles and pimples on the earth's face, creating the beautiful hills of the Umpqua valley. From the air, after gaining sufficient altitude to look out over a large expanse, one can see that the valley floor itself is comparatively level and that there is little pattern, in the way of connected ridges or chains, to the hills be tween the Coast and Cascade ranges of mountains, asid from those forming the north and south boundaries. Travelling uphill and down and in and around mountains, the earth-bound motorist gets the idea that there is little level ground in the Umpqua Basin. But looking down from a high-flying plane, one can see that this once was a very level, open country. We like it better this way! Another interesting observation from a plane is a study of reproduction growth in our timber stands. In older cut tings along the north county line and in southern Lane county, where some of the earliest logging took place, new trees promise an abundant and healthy crop for future generations. It is interesting to note how much further advanced are trees on a north slope than those on slopes with southern exposure. Another point, and one which raises an economic ques tion, is found in the apparent delay in getting reproduction started. One tract, for instance, was logged about 50 years ago, but the reproduction, as seen from the air, appeared to be not more than 20 or 25 years old. It was evident that there was a considerable lapse of time between forest removal and the start of a new growth. Foresters say that a good seed year occurs only on an average of every six years. Occasionally there will be two or three good seed years In a row, while, conversely, we may have two or three six-year cycles without a satisfactory seed year. When timber sold at $1 per thousand stumpage it was not economically feasible to plant seedlings by hand. But with stumpage at from f 8 to $15 per thousand, as at present, every year lost in getting a new crop started could result in much economic loss. Forest agencies and private com panies are doing more and more reseeding immediately after logging to get a new crop on the ground quickly. Patch logging also shows up at its best from the air. In patch logging tracts are cleared on alternate sites, leav ing blocks of intervening timber. From the air it looks much like a Paul Bunyan checkerboard with yellow and green squares. This system, a comparatively recent develop ment in logging practice, helps to protect watersheds, lowers fire danger, speeds reforestation, and reduces erosion. It is particularly valuable for wildlife protection. Open areas quickly grow up to forage and browse while surrounding forests provide shelter. But some ugly things are to be seen from the air along with the beautiful. For instance, many small streams are choked with down logs and forest debris following logging. Mile after mile of creek beds have been ruined for spawning purposes, while the rotting wood, robbing the water of oxygen, destroys the fish rearing values of what should be pure cold streams. We saw a startling sight as we looked down on the Willamette river at Kugene. What appeared to be blood poured from a sewer as if a giant artery had been severed. For miles downstream pollution left its scarlet wake. We were puzzled by the sight until we happened to realize that the odd coloring probably came from a cannery working on tomatoes. But there is something symbolic in thut bloody stream as applied to Oregon's general indifference to stream pollution and waste of resources the life blood of a state flowing down a mighty river. -as. SL Vr, , C .N in i or '-ikui " oh,hlm? that's" the label The liberals Tack oh the 'UVS WHO OPPOSE SUCH Tendencies f'vteLL-IHEM, WHAT I ) IPEACTlONAEYy y - e P$vffi B Viahnett S. Martin Do you have one of the Utile LeaveaNote gadgets on your pirch? And does it stick in damp weather? Ours did. Then I re called the magic way a friend fixed a slicking window by rub bing it with wax the kind one uses on Jellies. So I rubbed the little sliding door with the wax. Presto! It now slides easily, even on wet days. Do you have one of these wire gadgets which "hang on a door" for drying clothes? I have one that will hold an incredible quan tity of wash or ironing but oh It was a nuisance on any door I ever used it on. So EJ nailed two pieces of 2x4 on the kitchen wall near the heater. He notched out the top liece, first, where the hooks en the hanger would fit. Otherwise, of course, they would not slide down behind the 2x4. There is a space of 10 Inches between the two pieces of wood. They are about 24 inches long. Figures would vary, according to size and shape of hanger. Inspired by my delight in this In the Day's News (Continued From rtge One) HEADED TOWARD BANK RUPTCY. Its debt is already more than a quarter of a TRILLION dollars. Instead of recognizing that a debt of that size can't be trifled with, we are deliberately re-embarking upon a policy of spend ing more than we are taking In. The spending is FOR THINCS WE COULD DO WITHOUT. In other words, we're piling up the mortgage on the house to buy i frills. To prevent a hazard to eyes or heads, he placed the upper piece above his head, and used a single screw for the lower one, leaving It Just loose enough so wood turns until nearly parallel with post. In this case he reversed the notching, putting them on the front, instead of the back, and on the lower instead of the upper piece. The hanger support wires slip in these notches. To hold them securely behind the I nanger ne aooea two wooaen i tnBODY needs to be told what "butterflies" whittled out of ; N ,,, , meana If it is continued wood. Thus the hanger is steady ilong enough. It mMn, national ana nanay ana can oe wmsKea bankruptcy . It can't mean any out of the way in a Jiffy. , thing else. I hate clothes hanging around a a a in the kitcnen, so i can put tnem iiDER the wise plan provided on me nanger on porcn until i m y oT u, by the founding fathers, through in the kitchen; then EJ the congress was named as the brings the whole business in and keeper of the purse-strings. Under rehangs on kitchen support. Saves 1 this wise pian. the executive a lot of work! and time! Ironing is lighter, I can car ry It out on the hanger when I'm finished and put on porch when there is sunshine and not too much dust! We put a heater In the work shop and that was wonderful for solving of a prohlem, EJ next re-1 drying clothes until one night peated the performance on the i we left the door open! When the back porch. But he fastened the odor Is gone I'll hang clothes in two pieces of wood across a post. there again I hope! Forest Fire Prevention Need Stressed By "Oregon Green" Official At Rotary Session branch of our government could spend no more than the congress was willing to APPROPRIATE. But in recent years the con gress has ABDICATED its au thority as the keeper of the purse strings, and has more or less ap propriated whatever sums of money the executive branch has demanded. It is now reaching the point where congress seems to be AFRAID not to appropriate what ever money the executive de mands for whatever wild and woolly scheme he may hatch up as a means of keeping his party in power. wit-Kuiii mit-sia air unr vnsi ui hici r.nuuvr sii iriary m . pre powder kee." so drv that a small Keep Oreeon Green, now seere- spark could set them off, warned tarymanager of the Associated T has seemed to ( lot of us that within the past year the con- has been saying to the President : Albert Wlesendanger. executive secretary of the Keep Oregon Green association, at the Rose burg Rotary club luncheon Thursday, Wlesendanger brought a mes sage of forest fire prevention, showing a series of colored slides picturing green forests, denuded hills in the Tillamook burn. wild- Keep Oregon Green associalion was created in 13-10, shortly after the Tillamook and Bandon fires, when the state's aroused citizens asked for a program of fire pre vention. Lumbermen, foresters, wildlife life which depends on adequat- I ., " 'J1.J;' r forest cover, and manufactured ) r- 'h"mb?' ' T1 forest products. UI1U'!"1 .hr. '"'""'i' Luncheon tables n the Umpqua '"" hnlel civic rnnm a-m rleoornleil i'tl " liiuKiain. iyv,- Forest Industries. Inc. nease, sir, don t ask us to ap- Wlesendanger recalled that the : propriate a lot of money for a lot of things that we can t afford, be cause if you do ask it we won't have the courage to refuse. We'll be afraid that if we do refuse, we'll lose our jobs." Could anything be more con-ttmptible? THIS is the point: I If the congress can and DOES i iixmii . n r umiiniiii r . i i.. ' . , with Keep Oregon Green env V",. V u 1 ,aKe ov,r responsitulity of hlems. Directors of the assocla tlon's Douglas countv chapter were guests. Introduced hy V. V. Hnrpham, chairman, thev includ ed lJroy matt, t'lyde Knight HniHina u-hathA. .... ...ill a. . rfi.iior ik. ''hare our atomic secrets with As a district ranger with the' ... . l'.S. Forest service. Wiesendan- i olh,r nations. It CAN AND grr had traveled the stale for i Ji -w l AKt uvtK ITS CON- Editorial Comment From The Oregon Prait War On Stream Pollution Salem Capital Journal The state sanitary authority, in Its anti-pollution campaign to clean-up the once beautiful Willa mette, which has become a sew er for Industrial wastes and hu man sewage, has served an ult imatum on five pulp and paper mills that they must stop pollut ing the river by December 31, 1931, or shut down. At the dme time the author idea ordered the cities of Albany.! Sheridan. Cottage Grove. Sher wood. Springfield and Monmouth to report their plans for sewage disposal wltnln bu days. I'lans submitted by Corvallis and Os wego were' approved and action deferred on specifications sent in by West Salem and Toledo. Ap proval or conditional approval by other cities, Including Salem and Portland to comply with state anti pollution regulations. Newland, and Walter Olmscheld. Also a guest was Charles Ogle. partially at least such as utilizing! mmni.ia niaana. nm hM . r 1 other processes to reclaim some i pared James E. Slatterv. Rav B. Hamp-1 many years lecturing to school STITUTIONAL RESPON'SI ton. Charles V. Stanton. Maurice j children and civic groups on pre- B1LITY TO KFEP THE L'N'ITFn venting torest tires, uist year nei , Joined the KOG when Ogle re-ii'rATi-s OLLNT. signed. I Put that In your pipe and smoke Douglas county's fire record It. this season is "verv bad" com-: a a a to last year's record for -,i .,. ,,.; ..una niiiTiro uj inr oruer are : ol meir cnem cals now ost. inei'"' - ' r- nrnhjlhiv . i-, moonshine the West Linn and Lebanon waste cause, chemlcai reactions i ,h" f'r n,J5 county has had ; I babl lot r mn"'ne. plants of the Crown Zcllerbach when dumped, robbing water of ,ol' ' n caused fires Nobody yet ever kept a secret, corporation. Publishers' Pulp andiovvgen to the detriment of fishi'"' 'nould nv hrrn prevented, j obody, probably, ever will. Se Paper company (formerly Haw-1 life. I Last year at thia time only nine wtJ ,u.t naturally leak out. The ley Pulp and Pa-r mill at Ore- There Is no question that pulp j "'h fires were reported. usefulness to us will gon City. Spaulding Pulp and 'and paper mills can and will Several of the fires were caus- "m..D " "V ",''' solve the pollution problem as ed by citizens who have recently ""- they have solved the smoke and ! moved Into Douglas county, and how w hich so far has enabled us other problems. In this dav of I so do not realize the need'of be- to keep ahead of the rest of the chemical research there Is n o I Ing careful with fires on days of ; ,d n mnufarturlng bombs such problem that cannot find an low- humidity and when the east .., ., .... ., ki.. answer. I wind is blowing, he added. on va'" ,hn nbody The paper Industry is not the "A careless fire in your county else can. onlv cause of stream pollution, j today could cause another fire as The big thing Is this faint hint, There are lumber mills, canner i serious as the Tillamook fire ,hi, cloud ,hf norizon no Ur. les. tla.x plants, like that operated 1 Wlesendanger declareo. "Only w..j .m ih. .! nriaon al.nphter I complete cooperation from the er lnn m4n nand- hlch tanneries, and many ge.ieral public ran re-vent an-. Milan I indicate thai maybe con gress is preparing to reassert it self. Paper company at Newberg and the Oregon Pulp and Paper com pany at Salem. These pulp and paper indust ries are the largest manufactur ers, the largest producers, with the biggest payrolls, the greatest consumers of water and power, and the heaviest taxpayers I n tlielr rerpective communities. Thev all claim that thev have sought In vain to find some prac- i houses. tlcal method to stop industrial i other Industries that long have,oiher such disaster.' waste without entailing bankrupt-, utilized streams as sewers as do cy. I manv towns and river residents Kansas lies in the exact geo- Some other mills report that Eventuallv ali must he cleaneJ graphical center of the Unite J they have solved tha problem 1 up for public health reasons. I States. I If It doe that. It CAN sav us 1 from national bankruptcy. REEDSPORT Tuna Fishing Boats Readied Andrew Toppl of Reedsport, owner of the deep-tea fishing boat Lynn, it getting ready for the tuna fishing season. He has had his boat to Coos Bay for painting of the hull, which it too large for boat-ways here. Emll Kaleniut, also of Reeds port, will fish with Toppl thit summer. The Rex, owned by Her man Luoma and recently dam aged when struck by the lumber schooner Karen Olson, has been repaired by the steamship com pany and Is about readv for sea. The Destiny, owned by William nosKeia, is oeing prepared for fishing in the near future. None of these boats have been fished so far this season. Riley Yai brough of Reedsport is preparing the 29N75 for outside trolling. Two new boats, built at Win chester Bay during the past win ter, are also about ready for their maiden trips. They are the Helen D, built by J. H. Dunaway of Reedsport, and the Bonnie, built by Stanley Spooner of Winches ter Bay. Both boats will be fished by their owners. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jensen and tons, Mrs. J. H. Dunawav and Mrs. Virgie Brookhart, all of Reedsport, drove to Elkton Tues day to attend the funeral of Claude McDonald of Elkton. Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. val entine of Winchester Bay have returned Irom a week s outing at Kitson springs, on the Willamette river near Oakridge. Mr. Valen tine is a veteran mechanic at the Reedsport garage. An outage of electricity Tuesday caused the Bridge Lum ber sawmill in Reedsport to be closed down during the forenoon, for the rest of the day. It also interfered with the unloading of milk at the Reedsport Creamery and Cheese factory. ' Murle L. (Mickey) Rose of Reedsport has purchased the sport fishing boat Gay from Al-1 fred Shlrtcliff of Winchester Bay, 1 and is having it painted and a new motor Installed. Rose, an ar dent fisherman, will re-name the craft the Four Roses. American Seamen Smuggle Cocaine Into U. S., Narcotics Bureau Says WASHINGTON, July 30 (. "Extremely disturbing" Increas es In the smuggling of the drug cocaine into the United States are reported by the narcotict bureau. Up to now. It tald, there had not been any considerable traf fic In cocaine, or the use of It, In this country. In a report on "traffic In opi um and other dangerous druga" during 1948. the bureau said: "Quite reliable Information is at hand indicating that cocaine is available in large quantities in Peru. Chile, and Bolivia, and that American seamen are smuggling it regularlv to the United States. "In the Harlem district of New York City there appears to be sufficient cocaine available to satisfy demands in the illicit traf fic and it is indicated that a por tion of this cocaine la smuggled from Peru to out-of-the-way ports in South Carolina and Alabama and then transported overland to New York." "Previously there had not ex isted In the United States any considerable traffic in and use of cocaine." The U.S. recently got from Peru a promise that steps would be taken to control the cocaine factories in that country so the drug would not be diverted Into underworld channels in the U.S. Shanghai, Rangoon, Calcutta , and Singapore were described In j the report as "hotbeds of nar cotics activities" on the basis of ' advice the bureau said It obtain. ' ed from incoming merchant seamen. In detailing an Increase In her oin seizures, the bureau observed there is "definite indication that the Far East is again a source of supply of heroin." a French Approve Pact, Ask U. S. Backing With Arms PARIS. July 30.-(V-The up per house of the French parlia ment ratified the Atlantic pact, 284-20 Friday. The lower house had previous ly ratified It. The treaty now goes to President Auriol for for mal ratification. The motion of approval also called on the United States to back the treaty with arms. The 20 opposition votes were cast bv communists and their affiliates. Phone 100 If you do not racaiva your Newt-Ravlaw by t:1S P.M. call Harold Mjbley bafora 7 P.M. Phone 100 MIMiIiiHiW rot hit r50 Lockwood Motors Rota and Oak Sta. Love, Marriage, Labor Get New Jersey Break TRENTON, N. J., July 30t.P) New Jersey gave love and ma trimony a boost today. The state division of employ ment security declared that a worker who takes time off to get married and gets fired is def initely entitled to receive unem ployment compensation. It added, however, that such a matrimonial minded worker must have given advance notice of his plans to his boss. Taking time off for marriage after appropriate notice is cer tainly not misconduct, the divi sion held. . Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank I la A .V ,a.... .la. -av4t "-HJ confidence is a wonderful feeling! We know that no person will purchase a diamond until he is confident of the value of that diamond. He connot be certain of the value unless he has confidence in the jeweler who sells it. (Unless, of course, he has exten sive knowledge of gems.) Most folks leave knowledge of gems to their jeweler. SEE FOR YOURSELF Everyone knows how to look through a pair of binocular so it's easy to examine your diamond through the Diamondscope, a simplified binocular microscope. You can actually look right into your diamond ond see it magnified 20 or even 60 times ac tual size. Using this instrument, we can point out to you the factors that affect the value of a diamond. If you are planning to buy a diamond Knudtson's wont you to come in ond talk to them. Knudtson's don't expect everyone who is going to buy a diamond to buy one from them. They expect you to shop around, but come In to seetheir stock of beautiful diamonds before you decide. ACROSS FROM DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK JEWELERS