Theaters' Diseases Range From Low
Blood Pressure To High Admissions
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK.-.PThere 1$ a lick thing here that won't die
nd won't get well.
Many people love It and lome fear It. And a lot of folk pay
money to go and ee it
Thli tick thing li the theater, the fabulou Invalid.
The theater has had more doc
tor than any hypochondriac, In
cluding the renowned vegetarian,
George Bernard Shaw, who has
lived so long that he is beginning
to be mistaken tor a redwood
sapling with premature gray
hair.
There are a lot of things wrong
with the theater. It suffers from
diseases that range from low
blood pressure in some seasons
to high prices in any season. And
I am one of those who admire
the patient but would sure like
to see the old girl cured.
I don't expect this to happen In
my time, as I am a restrained
optimist. Part of this is probably
pure personal pique. For exam
ple, I met a fellow the other night
who bragged he had been to see
"South Pacific" twice, whereas
I, a citizen of average moral cun
ning and still two jumps ahead
of Section 77-B of the Bankrupt
cy act, am yet foreign to this
production except via musical re
cordings of Ezio Pinza's enchant
ed evening with Mary Martin.
It isn't as If I can't get a cou
ple of ducats to this particular
musical show, because I can. I
have been promised them for
the usual box office price by the
vice-presidents of two theatrical
unions and the head of a New
Jersey vitamin factory who once
met Miss Martin on a picnic in
Texas.
The only catch is that I have
a three-year apartment lease. By
the time the tickets come through
I may be living in Bangkok,
Siam. Would I feel like spending
a long weekend flying here for
just one evening of enchantment
across a crowded room? Maybe
it would be pleasanter to lie in
Bangkok sipping a rum frappe
I always drink rum frappes ly
ing down and listening to temple
gongs.
Muselt and Money Needed
This is what I think Is the big
trouble with the theater today.
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For one cent, Mr. Automobile Dealer, or even less, you can park your best
selling right on the hearth of one Roseburg family. That's the per-family
cost of an effective ad in this daily newspaper. Where else could you park
to such odvontoge? Where else will you be seen by each member of the fam
ily in such a receptive frame of mind? What other advertising medium can
duplicate the coverage of the Roseburg market? The onswers to these three
questions are, nowhere, nowhere, and not any.
Use of this relatively inexpensive, but uniquely effective, sales vehicle is just
good nuts-and-bolts common sense.
The News-Review is placed in the home of 8,000
families daily everyweekday
You have to plan your Whole fu
ture to be sure of getting a seat.
And I think more and more peo
ple are saying: "To Keokuk with
the whole darn nuisance what's
new on the television set?"
They are driving the custom
ers away by making your attend
ance more a test of your Dun
and Bradstrcet rating than your
cultural awareness. Only the
graduate of a correspondence
course in muscle building can
work his way through the throng
to buy his scats at the box office
for a hit plav. And if you pur
chase them by mail, they are
things you leave In your will for
your children to enjoy. How can
a man be sure he will live long
nough to use them himself?
Yet today there are only a ba
ker's dozen of theatrical produc
tions on Broadway, and thou
sands of eager ami able and tal
ented actors, young and old, walk
the streets, unemployed.
Bring Actors Back
There has arisen among the
devotees of the theater the cult
of the new. There are a hundred,
perhaps a thousand, grand old
p.ays that tell the sad and splen
did and terrible itory of man
wonderful plays, yet the stages
are bare, the theaters darkened.
Who wants to see old King Lear
die again when lor a fast saw
buck and a slow wait you can
watch the death of a modern
salesman who lost his family em
pire? Well. I think there are some
millions of us who would gladly
fork out $1.10 or $2.20 and climb
ud In the balcony to watch the
dying king cry over his dead
daughter:
"Why should a dog, a horse, a
rat, have life, and though no
brea h at all?"
Poor blind king!
Cordelia! "Thoul't
more, never, never,
Poor dead
come no
never, nev-
never!
Never until the theater climbs
out of the sick bed it got itself
into, takes off its stuffed shirt
and starts entertaining people by
pt'ting more actors back to
work.
The play's the thing. And the
plays are "there. '
the Price of ONE BOLT!
Vets Victims Of
Schooling Racket,
Federal Charge
WASHINGTON. AugJ-MV-
ine veterans administration Is
planning an attack on practices
under the veteran education pro
gram which It says approach
racketeering.
H.V. Stirling, the agency' as
sistant administration, said that
some of the 1.400 new private
school catering to veterans
which have opened in the last
years border on being racket.
Stirling said one means of
abuse is through actively solic
iting the enrollment of veterans
who have completed government
aid courses elsewhere but who
have not exhausted all their ben
efits. He said this practice may
throw the whole veteran educa
tional program out of balance.
Mounting unemployment is a
factor. Veteran can get from
$75 to $120 a month subsistence
while they attend classes.
"New school spring up 1 n
sections where jobs are scarce,
although congress never intended
the educational rights as a relief
or bonus," Stirling said.
Stirling said the VA has no
quarrel with the old established
schools, or with any school do
ing an honest Job for the vet
erans. "But the fact remains." he
said, "that promoters and fly-by-night
outfits have entered the
field In large number.
"They promise big-pay Jobs on
graduation, but too many only
set the boys back a couple of
years and doom them to disap
pointment." Melrose
By MRS. NETTIE WOODRUF
Mr. and Mr. Wilbur Shrader
have purchased the Taylor place
near the fork of the Umpqua,
and plan to move in this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and chil
dren have gone to New York to
live. Mr. Shrader is employed by
the General Petroleum Co. and
formerly lived In Garden valley.
Mr. and Mr. R. L. Fredrick
and family have the former's
mother visiting them for several
weeks. She resides in Nebraska.
Duane Cheek has "eturned to
his home In Texas after a visit
with his brother, H. S. Cheek, of
the Doerner district.
H. D. (Si) Simmons made a
business trip to Portland Monday
evening and returned to hi home
Tuesday.
Captain Jerry Stldham Is
spending a 45-day leave with his
parents and brother, Bill, and
sister. Mis Betty, after which
he will be stationed at Okinawa
for two years. He is with the U.S.
Air Force and lias been at Las
Vegas, Nev.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ransome
have returned from a trip to Van
couver, B. C.
Mr. and Mr. Clinton Richards
and daughter. Yvonne, of Hills
boro. Ore., were weekend visitors
at the Arthur Herman home re
cently, Mrs. OIlie Houston of Cleve
land hill road was called to Mid
land, Texas, last week because of
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NEW CITY TENNIS CHAMPS Sunday saw the final and d.cid
ing gam in the Y. M. C. A.-jpontortd city tennis tournament and
thai racket-iwingari pictured abov wound up with tha laurels.
Tha top picture shows tha city singles champion, Norman Moore,
and tha runntr-up, Glen Boyar. The lower picture (hows tha run-nert-up,
Earl Carriion and Bert Randall, laft, congratulating the
doubles champions, Royd Bruton and Louis Miles. Bruton and
Milai turned in a repeat performance of doubles action in which
they participated in I93B whan thay teamed to win the same
city doublet title. Sunday was the last game of the first city-wid
tournament sine that time. (Rod Newland picture.)
the Illness of her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. James Conn and
children are spending their vaca
tion at Yachats, Ore., enjoying
the fishing.
Mrs. Chas. Doerner and daugh
ter, Maureen, plan to take the
plane this weekend for Laguna
Beach, Calif., to vacation and vis
It relatives.
Mr. and Mr. E. R. Fenn have
the former's twin brother. Orlo,
his wife, and another brother and
sister visiting them from Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Conn and
'amily spent several days in
Portland last week attending to
business.
Johnny Hagan was honored on
'lis third birthday last Saturday,
vhen hi mother, Mrs. B. J. Ha
san, gave a party for him at
their home.
Yoncalla
By MRS. GEORGK EDES
Mrs. B. Kerlee of Salem, Or.,
!s visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Dick Thorpe, for a few days.
Mrs. Bernice Mediki and son,
Richard, spent the weekend visit
ing Mrs. Mediki's sister, Mrs. La-
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Mis. Albrecht, who has been
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seth, for the past month, left Fri
day for a short visit with a neph
ew in Salem, and thence back to
her home in Bloomer, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Scott and
their two daughters, Jeanne and
Judy, left Tuesday for a three
weeks' trip to Pocatello, Ida.,
Eastern Washington and Yellow
stone Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Darlev Stewart
and on, Reggie, and hoy Stew
art of Vancouver, Wash., and
Mrs. Grace Grass of Roseburg
spent the weekend visiting at the
Llton Grass home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lohberger
and daughter of Milwaukee, Wis.,
visited at the Eric Stenseth home
Friday, enroule to Roseburg to
visit Mrs. Lohherger'a sister and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Olger Hol
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Farmers Charge
Waste In State
Aeronautics Fund
LEBANON. Aug. 2 .W-Ore-gon
flying farmers have post
poned until Aug. 6 a meeting
planned to air their charges that
the state board of aeronautics and
ita director have been wasting
funds on useless projects. The
meeting will be in Pcrtland.
The accusations were made
public By tne Oregon Flying far
mers, the Oregon Sportsmen Pi
lots, and the Aerial Spray and
Dust operators.
In letter to Gov. Dougla Mc
Kay, the airmen accused the
board of "mismanagement and
flagrant waste of our money."
They challenged the qualifica
tions of aeronautics director W.
M. Bartlett. saying that date
law provided that the director
should be an expert in the aer
onautic field.
Claude Williams. Prinevllle,
head of the Flying Farmers, said
that while they did not question
the Integrity of any man on the
board, they felt the board had
not accomplished many tangible
results.
He proposed that vacancies be
created on the board to make
room for Ralph Scroggins. Le
banon, and Jack Loennig, Hay
ne. Board chairman Ben Ruffner
defended the selection of Bart
lett lor aeronautics head, saying
that at the time of the appoint--nent
the board's main objective
was airport development, and
nihlic work planning and air
port planning seemed a logical
choice.
Acreage Fixing
Cuts Surpluses
Marketing Quotas on future
wheat crops will largely be de
termined nv wneat growers, E.
Harvey Miller, chairman of the
Oregon State PMA committee,
said today.
"If growers thi year plant
within their wheat acreage allot
ment, they will produce In ac
crrdance with expected require
ment and we won't be saddled
with more wheat than we can
sell. In this way, it wouldn't be
necessary next year to consider
using quotas, which provide mar
keting controls through Densities
on excess marketings."
Miller pointed out that quotas
must be approved by two-thirds
of the growers voting a referen
dum before they may be used.
Quotas will not be used In mar
keting the lfl.iO wheat crop, ac
cording to a recent announce
ment by the secretary of agricul
ture, because the total Indicated
wheat supply Is below the level
at which the law says quotas
must be proclaimed. At the same
time, the secretary announced a
1950 national wheat acreage al
lotment of Just under 69 million
acres. Thl would be a reduction
of 14 million acres, or almost 17
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Howley To Relinquish Berlin Commandant Job
BERLIN. Aug. 2. UP Brig.
Gen. Frank L. Howley soon will
relinquish his Job as American
commandant In Berlin one of
the hottest spot In the east-west
cold war.
He said today he had asked to
be relieved In order to return
percent, below the wheat acre
age seeded for harvest this year,
sary this year, Miller explained,
because the U.S. has reached the
point where there simnlv is not
a demand for all the wheat our
farmers can produce. Even
though exports may total several
times the prewar level, adjust
ments are still needed in the
amount of wheat produced. Dur
ing eacn ot tne past six years,
wheat production has exceeded a
billion bushels. Before 1944 only
in 1915 had the U.S. produced a
billion bushel crop.
Farmers will be notified of
their individual farm wheat nl
lotments In the hear future. Mr.
Miller said that an Important
point to remember la that only
tnose growers who cooperate
with their allotments will be en
titled to Government price sup
ports on their 1950 wheat crop.
Extension Of Portland
Daylight Time Sought
PORTLAND, Aug. 2. An
ordinance to extend Portland's
daylight saving time until Sept.
was Introduced Monday by City
Commissioner Kenneth L. Coop
er. Daylight time Is now scheduled
to end Sept. 11, but Cooper said
the later date would match east
ern areas. Radio stations have
asked that Portland confirm with
the east, to avoid complications
in hroadcasting schedules.
The city council will act on the
ordinance next week.
See lawson's
advertisement In
Thursday' paper.
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home. V. S. Military Governor
John J. McCloy said Howley' re.
. quest will be accepted.
j McCloy said Howley' record in
Berlin was "courageous, outstand-
! Ing, and In the best tradition ot
Gen. Howley' own fine comoat
service, which was great and gal.
lant."
American military government
sources said Ma. Gen. Maxwell
D. Taylor, now chief of staff for
American army forces !n Europe,
will succeed Howley. Thl would
be a return to the American !
icy of having military govern
ment and troop command post
held by a single officer In Berlin.
His request for release. How.
ley explained. Is based on a num
ber of factors. He Is not a mem.
ber of the regular army or of the
state department, which Is about
to take over American supervis
ion in Germany. He has spent the
past nine years away from busi
ness and has had four years ot
duty in Berlin.
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