SPEED QUEST RUINOUS
Thoroughbred Horses Of
Today Faster And Slimmer
But Wear Out Too Young
By JACK
SEATTLE .n Horse racing
tell you, to improving the breed,
proving it out of existence. . . .
Bred for speed, the pipestem
legged thoroughbreds of today
outrun the wind but quite often
end up without a leg to stand on.
Sometimes the legs fail but they
reach the age of top perform
ance. Remember Blue Peter and
Mr. Busher, great as two-year-olds
but sidelined In their third
years by leg complaints?
Many great gallopers have had
to retire from the tracks to home
pastures and give their legs a
rest. Citation, Stymie, Assault,
Armed, Count Fleet and the
Irish-bred ball of fire, Mafosla,
come back. Dinner Gong, this
year's west coast sensation, had
to be destroyed.
Some students of equinology
blame the practice of sending
twoyera-olds to the racing wars.
The weights assigned the
horses may contribute to break
downs, as some trainers insist
and most handicappers deny.
More likely the real reason is the
quest for speed that has influ
enced breeders, especially In the
last half-century. Gradually the
thoroughbred has become slim
mer, faster, more brittle.
Racing in the past was an en
durance contest. Eclipse, fore
father of the modern thorough
breds, started racing as a five-year-old
back in the 1760s and
considered three miles a mere
sprint. Now the preferred dis
tance is under a mile. If they
ever get it down to two or three
furlongs the thoroughbred men
will find the sturdy little quarter
horse bred for quick starts and
bursts of speed for a quarter
mile waiting to dip into the rac
ing gravy.
HEWINS
is dedicated, all horsemen will
It begins to look like they're lm-
Homt Loans To Veterans
Show Market Increase
G. I. loans to veterans for th
purchase of homes have shown a
marked upswing during the past
few months, after nearly a year
of declining activity, the Veterans
Administration announced.
The main factors making It
easier for veterans to get loans
have been the opening up of a
secondary loan market by the fed
eral government and a renewed
interest by lending institutions
in four per cent loans, the VA
said.
Veterans are reminded that the
VA does not lend money, it only
guarantees a portion of the loan
in order to make it easier for
them to arrange financing for the
purchase of a home.
Application for a loan should
be made directly to a bank, sav
ings and loan association or. other
agency. The VA will certify the
veteran's eligibility to the lending
institution and issue the loan
guaranty if the purchase price of
the house meets VA appraisal
standards of reasonable value.
Amount of the guarantee Is
limited to 50 per cent of the loan,
with a maximum of $4000. Inter
est chargeable is limited by law
to four per cent. Eligible veterans
have until Julv 25, 1957, to take
advantage of this G. I. benefit.
Lowest official temperature
ever recorded in the United
States was 66 degrees below zero,
recorded at Yellowstone Nation
al Park, Wyoming side, In Feb
ruary, 1933.
Employment And
Pay Rolls Said
Below Year Ago
Employment and pay rolls re
ported by 17,580 covered firms for
the first quarter of 1949 were
from four to five per cent below
the same period the year before,
the State Unemployment Com
pensation commission announced
today.
Despite a prolonged cold spell
that cut into production early in
the year, wages paid to an ave
rage of about 275.000 employes
reached $206,303,631 as compared
with $215,477,491 during the rec
ord first opening quarter of 1948.
Lumber, logging and construc
tion workers received $59,151,581
up to March 31, 1949, against $73,
048,006 a year ago, but trade,
transportation, utilities, finance
and other service employes were
paid nearlv five millions more
than in 1948. Fewer than 54,000
were employed by lumber and
logging concerns in January and
February as compared with 68,000
the previous winter and the all
time high of 91,000 In August,
1948.
Wages paid to employes of lum
ber and logging concerns dropped
to 22.2 per cent of the total as
compared with 24 per cent before
the war and 27.2 per cent In ear
ly 1948. Trade concerns with pay
rolls aggregating $60,837,668 ac
counted for 29.5 per cent against
27.4 per cent last year.
Although retail stores reversed
the general trend by reporting
$2,242,888 or 6.3 per cent more
payrolls than in early 1948, ave
rage enployment remained about
the same. The financial, Insur
ance and realty group spt the pace
with a pay roll gain of 12 per cent
and employment up 6 per cent.
' Current reports to the commis
sion from representative firms
all over the state Indicate summer-time
employment also run
ning about 5 per cent below last
year with heavy industries ac
counting for most of the loss. Pay
rolls for 1948 so far tabulated are
within $30 millions of the billion
dollar mark, although agriculture,
government, domestics and many
other groups art not covered
and firms with fewer than four
employes also are exempt.
Theater Ads Criticised
By Portland's Mayor
PORTLAND, Aug. 29 (.)
Mayor Dorothy Lee said Friday
she thought some theaters were
Jumping a little overboard in
their advertising.
She asked the municipal board
of review to consider movie ads,
some of which she said appeared
"quite objectionable."
Actually, she added, the actual
movies are often not objection
able at all. "Perhaps this dis
parity between the advertising
and the picture Is something of
a fraud on the customer," the
mayor said. "If he goes to the
theater expecting to see what
the ads suggest, in most cases
he'll be disappointed."
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OUT OUR WAY
'Demokrassie'
Now Appeals To
Jap Princesses
TOKYO, Aug. 29 (.f) The
princesses of Japan are just crazy
about this new "demokrassie
that arrived with the occupation.
f rees em to go winnow snop
ping, even ride a bicycle If they
feel like It. A princess riding a
bicycle in the old days would have
rocked imperial court circles like
a Iirst-ciass earthquake.
Not now, though, under Japan s
democratic constitution which
holds that a prince is no better
than the next man.
Four princesses told how they
like their new freedom In a
roundtable reported in the Sep
tember Issue of the Home Journal
of Japan.
They are Princesses Asako
Fushlml, Nanko Kan-In, Toshiko
Kaya and Yoshikorl. (All are
members of Japan's princely
(amilles although none is of the
family of Emperor Hirohito.)
Here are some reasons they
gave for doting on democracy:
They got rid of a lot of boring
ceremony.
They can window shop, enter
restaurants, tide streetcars and
even talk with the passengers. -
They can have a hot meal. As
they put It: "Never were our
meals hot because the kitchen
was so far away the dishes cooled
while the servants carried them
down the long halls. Now we even
bring pans right to the table."
And on top of all these boons,
they point out that a princess now
can marry for love!
(All four already are married.)
Boys, Squirrels Are
Power Line Headaches
ELGIN, Ore., Aug. 29 (.P
Repairmen for the California-Pacific
Power company are a bit
tired of squirrels.
First a group of youngsters
found some unexploded 20 milli
meter shells: set them up be
neath the main Elgin power line;
and started target shotoing.
A shell tore through the power
line and blacked out the entire
town of Elgin for more than an
hour.
Just after that was repaired, a
pine squirrel scurried up another
power line. It put its feet on one
bushing, Its tall on another.
The squirrel died and the power
line went out. That, too, took an
hour to fix.
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Tickets To Demo Feast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (.
One Item on John Maragon's $9.
500 expense account when he
worked for the Albert Verley per
fume company:
Three tickets for the Democra
tic party's 1946 Jackson day din
ner at a Washington hotel $300.
At the five percenter Inquiry.
Senator Mundt (R-SDI said he
didn't want to drag politics Into
the Investigation, but that he
couldn't refrain from calling at
tention to the Item.
Pearls may he white,
pink, gray or black.
yellow,
Mo., Aug. 29, 1949 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3
Grants Pass Fire Hits
Davison Hop Yards
GRANTS PASS, Aug 29.
Fate took a hand In helping the
federal hop-control commission in
Its 1949 curtailment program
here Friday when the Roy Dav
ison dual drying kilns were de
stroyed by fire of undetermined
origin.
The owner said the crop from
nine acres, approximately 100
bales, was totally destroyed.
The wooden structures and
their Inflamahle contents sent a
mass of flames 200 feet into the
air, witnesses said.
Approximately a third of Davi
son's entire crop was lost. In ad
dition, he Is confronted with the
problem of finding drying facili
ties for the balance.
Repelled Assailant
Returns, Shoots Woman
OREGON CITY, Aug. 29-.P
A young house.wlfe was recover
ing today from a bullet wound,
which she said was indicted by
an Intruder Into her farm home
near Wilsonvllle.
Mrs. Ruby Butler, 18. said she
drove an assailant away last
Monday with a pistol after ne
had walked into her kitchen and
threatened her.
He returned Friday, she sail.
She again got the household pis
tol, but he wrenched it away
from her and fired. The bullet
struck her shoulder.
The man. whom she described
as about 25, then fled.
Protect Your ramily
with the B. M. A.
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u drop card to
Box l"9 Melrose Route.
Competive Award
Won By Ship Of
Roseburg Youths
Two Roseburg men, James K.
Neavall and James G. Armson,
both seamen apprentices, are at
tached to the aircraft carrier U&J
Valley Forge which has Just been
awarded the battle efficiency
pennant and "E" for her general
excellence throughout the fiscal
year July 1, 1948, to July 30,
1949.
Neavall lists his Roseburg ad
dress as 1454 Cedar street and
Armson as 922 Harvard ave.
The award Is a competitive
one, based on overall battle ef
ficiency. Each department of the
ship is graded to determine the
vessel's final mark in the com
petition. The pennant Is a red triangle
with a black circle In the center
and is therefore termed a "meat,
hall." In addition to the "meat,
ball" each enlisted man having
Served on board the Valley Forge
for at least six months of the
competition year is entitled to
wear an "E" on the sleeve of his
uniform and receives a cash
award as well.
The Valley Forge is presently
operating out of San Diego, Calif.
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