The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, September 14, 1949, Page 4, Image 4

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    4 The Ntws-Roview, Kosaburg, Of . Wed., Sspt. 14, 1949
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CHAHLIB V. STANTON mTtm, EDWIN L. KNAPF
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OUR NEIGHBOR PROFITS
By CHARLES V. STANTON
The Cottage Grove Rod and Gun club will dedicate Its
new clubhouse Sunday, Sept. 18. We expect the event will
attract considerable attendance from this area, for the
work of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club in procuring a rec
reational Kite unequalled in Oregon, and erecting a club
house and trap grounds, has created much general interest
and has inspired a wave of similar activities throughout the
state. Local sportsmen particularly have been very inter
ested in the successful venture of the neighboring club at
Cottage Grove and many doubtless will attend the dedication
ceremonies.
Roseburg's mayor, Al Flegel, Is to participate in the dedi
cation. The Cottage Grove club, which has a membership of about
400, has erected a two-story frame building on a 22'i-acre
site, slightly more than five miles north of town. Materials
and labor were donated for construction of the building,
which houses an indoor rifle range on the second floor. The
club also has installed four traps, has an outdoor rifle range,
and plana construction of a casting pool. The grounds are
being equipped with picnic facilities.
Throughout all of Oregon organized groups of sportsmen
are becoming interested in recreational installations. Rod
and Gun clubs are entering into the civic field, through
promotion of facilities for meeting places, sports, preserva
tion of recreational areas, promotion of better hunting and
fishing, etc.
In our opinion, this field has been too long neglected.
The successful work of the many sportsmen's groups will
be of increasing importance as Oregon's population con
tinues to grow, requiring more rcreational space and instal
lations, while nothing will contribute more to the success
of a profitable tourist industry than improved hunting and
fishing, and preservation of natural resources.
People are learning to look more and more to leadership
by organized sports groups in the increasingly important
problem of conservation. Sportsmen are not yet fully or
ganized to meet their responsibility, but it will not be long
until conservation leadership is much more thoroughly
equipped to handle the task.
Oregon has two statewide organizations, the Izaak Walton
league and Oregon Wildlife federation. Both groups are
still comparatively loosely knit Dans are in the making,
however, for an organization in which all sports groups
may be affiliated, yet preserving autonomy in local clubs,
and area control through councils representing each major
watershed.
When all sportsmen's clubs are brought into united effort,
with facilities for interchange of information and aid, Ore
gon will have machinery through which to conduct conser
vation, recreational and tourist promotional activities more
effectively.
A sample of what sportsmen are able to accomplish
through organization has been demonstrated nationally by
the Dingell bill, which recently passed both houses of Con
gress and is now before a joint committee to iron out minor
differences.
The bill will provide aid to states for fishery restoration.
Oregon is expected to obtain large sums of money during
the coming years to be used in fish conservation and propa
gation. The money comes from excise taxes on sports angling
equipment. This tax already is being collected, but has been
used exclusively for federal purposes. The Dingell bill ear
marks the revenue for aid to states. Seventy-five percent of
the cost of a state project may be paid from this federal-
aid fund; the balance, 25 percent, to be paid from the state's
game funds.
A similar bill, relating to hunting, known as the Pittman-
Robertson act, has assisted the State of Oregon in purchase
of large acreage for public shooting grounds and for con
siderable work on range habitat and management,
to LIKETOSHOW
MY CIVICS CLASS
HOW BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED IM
WASHINGTON
By Viahnett S. Martin I
Because there are no children
In tho home to got ready for
school this lovely, end of sum
mer morning, I made an earlier
tart on laundering the living
room curtaina than perhaps you
I? If you have dear, Messed,
noisy boys! How I wish there
were boyi In ours ... or even
grandchildren!
When we first heard that Son
and his year-old baby boy could
not come here as we had plan-
did if that happens to be your 1 ned, I was so disappointed. Then
as usual I resolutely cheered my
self by thinking "all things DO
work together for good" in the
divine Plan, . even If we can't
always see It. Maybe that Texas
judge wilh his "second and
fourth Saturday afternoon stipu
lation" was, unwittingly, in Cu
pid's service.
First we heard grateful, re
lieved accounts of how good the
"people" were whom Son had
found to take care of the wee
lad; then the letters were more
specific: there was a girl in the
home who "Just loved" the baby,
and whom Grandson "just loved"
too! Age wasn't specified; we
assumed the girl was a school
girl . . . but now the three are
starting life together, all very
happy, and a very young hus
band has an 18-year-old wife;
very pretty, "a country girl, Mom.
You'll like her!" I'm sure I
shall!
"first thing I do this morning
no matter what!"
But oh, even after years of a
house that is too quiet, I miss
the hullabaloo that went with
early days of school, and some
times other days. "Where's this?"
"Where's that?" "Sure I knew
I was going to need It, but gee
whlzs. . "Mom, there's a
button come off this sleeve!"
When I first arrived at the
age when I proudly sewed on a
button, my dear Pad would say
with a twinkle in his brown eyes:
"Well , my dear, the shirt may
come off the button but the but
ton will never come off the shirt!"
I sewed 'em for keeps, all
right, pin, shank and everything.
But boys' shirts lost their but
tonsor their shirts came off the
buttons? Or what was more dis
maying, a piece of the material
stayed right with tho button. But
I'm not telling you anything, am
Four Granges In
Josephine County
Nominate Boehl
GRANTS PASS, Sept. UIPI
Four subordinate granges of Jo
sephine county have nominated
Victor Boehl, Josephine Pomona
Grange master, for State Grange
master, the position now held by
Morton Tompkins.
Boehl was nominated at meet
ings Saturday night at Fruitdale
and Shan creek. He already had
lieen named by Rogue River Val
ley and Redwoods Granges. Un
der Grange rules, three Granges
must nominate to initiate a can
didacy. Boehl operates a 60-acre farm
here. He served as Redwoods
Grange master four years and
Josephine Pomona master from
19)( to the present. He has been
president of the Grants Pass Ir
rigation District board since 1913
and a member of the board since
1936. lie has served three years
as president of the Rogue Valley
Irrigation association end. In that
rapacity, has led the fight for the
Bureau of Reclamation program
lor irrigation and flood control
for the Rogue and its tributar
ies. He has been active In the
Oregon Reclamat ion congress
and in local coops. He was chair
man of the wartime Farm Trans
portation committee, a member
of the Farm Ration board and
larm member of the Selective
Service board.
Editorial Commenf
From The Oregon Press
'GIVING 'EM HELL' AGAIN
(Salem Capital Journal)
olutinn In human affairs; and in
this individual are concentrated
President Truman Jumped the , all the love and all the hatred.
ail (lit? mnilii i idii nun an iiir
contempt which he ought right
fully to show with a whole par-
gun on the 19.IU congressional
election campaign with a bris
tling defense of the 81st congress
AN
sport;
Both bills resulted from prolonged efforts on the part of l,,;,.',''1' '
orts groups all over the nation through their respective '.Mr. Truman reitem
ninsnli-arv nt the selfish in or- i.v. mm - M-ii. " iiuic iiauuii,
esls," beat the drums for the whole generation."
Brannan farm plan, the repeal of
the Taft-Hartley law. and a pre
diction of triumph for his "fair
deal'' welfare program. His
speech al Pittsburgh to Industrial
workers centered un the lalmr is
sue, Hint at Pes Moines on tile
farm issue, were in the swinging,
vituperative style of the "give
'em hell" campaign of PUS.
style lor presi-
state and national organizations. States will be enormously
benefitted.
GNORANCE OF THE WEST
(Salem Capital Journal)
Anyone who has been east of
the Mississippi river will agree
wilh Senator Wayne Morse on his
concern over lack of proper ap
preciation of t lie west.
Oregon's Junior senator, visit
ing the state fair here, is worried
over eastern senators not recog
nizing that development of the
west will benefit all the nation,
iiiiluihiig the east. It is a snug
gle, according to him. to put over
the point that industrial dovelop-
Unexplained Death
Is Being Investigated
TACOMA, Sept. 14. f.W The
unexplained death of a 15-month-old
child and the serious illness
from malnutrition of another
three-month-old baby are being
investigated by Pierce county of
ficials. The child. Laura Lee Vickery.
died at Pierce county hospital
Saturday night. The mother, Mrs.
William Vickery, said the baby
had fallen down stairs. She and
her husband have been charged
by prosecutor Patrick M. Steele
with non-support of a minor
child because of the severe mal
nutrition of Laura Lee's three-month-old
brother Bill.
The habv bov, being treated
at the hospital, is In serious con
dition. "Laura I.ee died under peculiar
circumstances," Steele said. An
autopsy was performed this morn
ing but the examining doctor has
not yet made a report.
rated his
abuse of the republican control
led KOth congress, hut strongly
endorsed the democratic control-
Ia.1 Ulct mm.inuu Ythli'h in its mhl i.f ttio ukcI will .roiln ,m
Here in our Own area there recently has been organized continuous eight months session national wealth, spurring Indus-
the Umpqua Basin Conservation council, which unites thej' ,
activities of all sports groups in the interior section of I record for an administration con-1 It is this concern over lack of
Douglas county. Close relationship exists between the Ump- 'i?1!0'1 mR'',ss """; appreciation of the west that
,. uwm. me in, pigment. Appeal to -jiriuc'.ice tends to argue, for Instance, for
qua Council and the Southwestern Oregon Sportsmen's as- and class hatred permeated his! regional development hv the peo-
ciation, which embraces Curry, Coos and Western Une and i "'IT""- , , ,, . . ' I'1!',1" ,hp ""'a wol klnK w l,1 .'
T . . . . o.,.. ,j.np p,,.s(ion' speeches and tahlished governmental agencies.
JJOUglas counties. A major project adopted by the I'mpquajhls actions, too, recall what Fish-, The people know the region. They
council is that of acotlisition nf land for m.lilie reei-.af i,,l er Ames. K.V-lStW. one of the have f.uth In what can be done
. ,. , , , r,nn,n , . iralitiers of the Constitution and in that region. And the govern
jiuiiwi;.i, mi miiivii me nuiu in lu.vivo, inrougn council ef
forts, was included in the county budget for this year.
We believe that communities served by large and active
sports groups are extremply fortunate.
representative from Massachu
setts 1TSS 97 an orator of note,
said in one of his speeches:
"To be the favorite of an ig
norant multitude, a man must
Ui . .i . r a. , i . . i nesceno io men ii-vi-i. nr inusi
e know that Cottage drove already has received much desire what thev desire, and de
test all they do not approve: he
must ield to their prejudices.
and substitute them for piinci
I pies. Instead of enlightening their
I errors, he must adopt them, and
must furnish the sophistry that
'will propagate and defend them. '
I It also recalls what Thomas B.
I Macsuley. 1SXi9. the histomn.
j wrote along the same lines, which
applies more to .he late Franklin
j Roosevelt than to his predoces
j sor: i
I 'The tendency of the vulgar Is
j to embody evervlhing. Some in
j dividual is selected, and often
as the representative
benefit from its own Kod and dun club, not only through
the recreational facility to be dedicated Sunday, but from
much arduous and conscientious work in the field of con
servation of resources. Acquisition of recreational aids is
only a minor part of the real worth of the club to tho
community.
Some People Will Steal
Anything, Police Aver
PHILADELPHIA -.rv
It seems some people will steal
anything.
Police report the theft of a car
with no foot pedals and with spe- at Bougainville.
cial hand levers on the steering
wheel.
It belongs to Lawrence J. Kit
terman. 27-year-old Navv veter
an from Newport News. Vs. Kit-
terman. who is partially paralvi- tnludinallv
ed, lost the use of hit right leg of everv treat movement of the
'public mind, of every great rev
ment agencies which have been
helping develop the area know it
well, too.
The opposite method of devel
opment, of course, is the pi-opos-ed
Columbia Valley administra
tion. This CVA is clearly a bo
re.uu'i.itic administration, under
complete domination of Washing
ton. I. C, and subject to the
whims of politics and possibly to
people who don't know the area.
Leaving development of the Pa
cific Northwest to th? region it
self. Instead of to a CVA. need
not foster a narrow- sectional
view, either. Instead it would
leave the b.isic division as to
funds w here it h.u alw.ivs lieen
in the congress. Oregon's sena
tors and rcpieseniatives. in that
connection, are of the alultty and
suture to continue to explain thrt
slates interests in light of the
n.itinn s interest.
Two Americans Released
By Russian Captors
BERLIN. Sept. 14 .?" Ma.
Victor Milner Jr.. 30. and his
father, M, were released by the
Russians Tuesday after more
than 12 hours in captivity, V. S.
authorities announced.
The news was disclosed after
unconfirmed reports had said two
Americans on their way to re
ceive the pair also had been
seied by the Russians. This re
port originated with German bor
der police and L S. authorities
said they had no knowledge of
it.
Milner and his father, both of
Hollvwood. had left Frankfurt
Saturday on an automobile trip
to Ilorlin and disappeared. Last
night thev were turned over to
I a constabulary party on the
I Amerfian-Russian rone border
'near Nov, Vavaria. authorities at
i the V. S. checkpoint at Coburf
disclosed.
Witness Says
Youth Brags
Of Shooting
DOVER, Del.. Sept. 14. (.T)
A witness testiiied Tuesday
that 16-year-old Robert Brennan
killed an elderly Virginian and
then returned to the living room
of his farm home saying calmly:
"I finished the old man I shot
half his face off."
The dramatic account came
during the second day of the lone
ly hearts murder trial of young
Brennan and his mother, Mrs.
Inez Brennan, 45.
The witness was Mrs. Dolly
Dean, 26-year-old war widow who
said she was a boarder at the
Brennan farm when Wade N.
Woolridge, 67, Bedford Vs., car
penter, was slain last Oct. 10.
Arrives At Firm
Mrs. Dean said Wooldridge,
whom Mrs. Brennan met through
lonely hearts correspondence, ar
rived at the farm Oct 10. On the
next night, she said:
"We all had dinner and then he
"(Wooldridge) went to the barn
to look it over.
"I heard a gunshot and I ran
out to the porch. I saw Bobby
come back with a gun In his
hands. I asked him what hap
pened and he said: 'I shot the
old man.' "
Mrs. Dean said the Brennan
family Mrs. Brennan, Robert
and sons George, 17, and Ray
mond, 23 buried Wooldridge's
bodv in the Brennan farm pig
pen, went through his clothes and
possessions and kept most of
them.
Sons Accessories
Raymond and George must
stand trial later on charges of
being accessories.
Robert's age may rule out
death sentences for himself and
his mother.
Under Delaware law an accom
plice can receive no greater penal
ty than the principal in a mur
der case. Traditionally, convicted
slayers under 18 have seldom
been hanged in Delaware the
state's method of execution.
The two Brennans have also
told in their statements, state po
lice said, of shooting Hugo
Schulz, 61, on his Concord. N. H
farm, bringing his body to Dela
ware for burial in the same pig
pen and then in the dump.
Honor Student Paroled
After Burglary Attempts
OREGON CITY, Ore., Sept. 14.
P A Chicago high school
honor student was paroled to his
father by Judge Earl C Latour
ette Monday after the parent
pleaded that an attempted burg
lary resulted from three weeks
in bad company.
Dean Arthur Culver, 19, Chi
cago, was sentenced to five yea is
and immediately paroled to his
father, Bernard W. Culver, a
Chicago engineer. The father
told the court that the boy had
graduated with honors and re
cently won an architectural
scholarship to the Illinois Insti
tute of Technology.
Culver was arrested at Jen
nings Lodge last Wednesday with
Leslie Allan Jacobs m, 18, also
of Chicago. They were thwarted
in their burglary attempt by Ed
ward Whlttington, owner of the
ice cream parlor in which they
were caught.
Their car was crammed with
stolen goods admittedly taken in
a series of robberies while travel
ing west.
LETTERS
to the Editor
Tournament Of Roses
Float Proposal Opposed
ROSEBURG Let us not try to
enter a float in the Tournament
of Roses parade at Pasadena.
Large and wealthy cities have en
tered floats in the past. It is easy
to stumble into something like
this blindly something we know
nothing about.
Floats in the parade have cost
from $25,000 to $30,000 and Just
the flowers alone on some will
cost $1,500 and $2,000 or more.
Our Portland Rose Festival pa
rade Is a small affair in com
parison. We have been getting too much
promotion for a long time. Let's
settle down and be Roseburg
again. Let's be our natural
selves, lest we destroy ourselves.
JOHN SMITH
Roseburg, Ore.
Non-English Speaking
Indians At Chemowa
U.m, M-fJI. J . I 1 . MCI C
were 211 non-English speaking
0'avajo Indian children among
the 600 Indians who attended op
ening dav classes it the U. a.
Indian school at Chemawa Mon
day. The Navajo children arrived
on a special four-car train from
reservations in Arizona and New
Mexico. They are from 13 to 18
years old. and have never at
tended school.
First, the Navajos will be
taught to speak, read and writs
English. Then will come arith
metic and regular classes.
After three years, they will get
vocation courses such as machine
shop, carpentry, painting and
auto mechanics.
The other Indians come from
n,nnn Mflrlliirn California.
Washington, Northern Idaho
and Western Montana.
Each new shell coll of the
chambered nautilus I s exactly
three times the size of the pre
vios coil.
PAINTS
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Some Of Multnomah's
Democrats Like Elliott
PORTLAND. Sent. 14,
One fourth of Multnomah coun
ty's Democratic Central commit
tee members support, 148 to 51,
Sheriff M. L. Elliott. He faces
a recall threat to his office.
The ballot was taken Monday
at a meeting called by Chairman
Nicholas Granet. About 200 of
the party's 800 precinct workers
attended.
Five members spoke from the
floor in favor of the young
sheriff after Granet announced
the ballot plan. No one spoke out
against Elliott. Later. State Sena
tor Richard Neuberger, a Demo
crat who has opposed Elliott's
tenure in office, criticized
Granet's handling of the meet
ing. He said the chairman had
used "Granet's rules of order
not Robert's rules." He said
Granet prevented opposition
speakers from being recognised
by the chair.
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Miss America Declines
Mrs. America's Offer
NEW YORK. Sept. 14. .IP)
Eighteen-year-old "Miss America"
said today she Isn't going to
match her curves against those
of "Mrs. America."
Jacque Mercer. Litchfield Park.
Ariz., wearer of the pulchritude
crown awarded at Atlantic City.
N. J.. last week, told newsmen
she isn't going to take uo the
challenge of Mrs. Frances L.
Cloyd of San Diego. Calif.
Mrs. Cloyd. named "Mrs. Amer
ica" at Ashury Park. N. J.. last
weekend, has said: "I'll match
my shape against her's any day."
But Miss Mercer turned down
the dare. "I'm not a missus yet,
so I'm not going to compete w ith
her."
Besides, she added: "I've en
tered the highest kind of contest
there is and I'm not going to
enter another as lone as I live."
Miss America wants to get
married hut she isn't in any
hurry and she wants "to have
in kind of career on the
stage."
FROM THE NEWS OF
51 YEARS AGO
AeT o-
On. . V..
The Ploindealer
F.bruory 17, 1898
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about the region's development
should be with the leaders of the
region and with the governmen
tal agencies in the field here.
This outline of procedure keeps
development with the people
most vitally concerned and those
that know the region. It also
avoids and keeps to a minimum
a lack of appreciation from the
already industrially developed
The initiative ts plan and bring ' east.
Small Girl Is Fatally
.Injured When Hit By Car
I KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 14.
t.T"1 An 11-year-old girl was
fatally Iniured Monday night on
, highway 97 in the town of Cres-
i cent, bringing Klamath county's
1949 traffic death toll to nine.
The girl. Barbara Jean May
nard of Crescent, was struck by
an old model car operated bv
, Robert Paul Greenan. 21. also
mf Crescent, as she walked along
the highway. Sha died In 20
' minutes.
Heavens to Betsy, Mr. Gant! A body couldn't fetl sofa
in those days, what with masked men jumping through
windows at you. Human nature being what it is we
know robbery in all its forms is as rampant and as costly
as in 1898. Play safe and ease your apprehensions with
an insurance policy that protects you from loss by rob
bery. It's the cheapest protection you can buy.
It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance!
Phone 1277-R
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