4 The Ntws-Roview, Kosaburg, Of . Wed., Sspt. 14, 1949 Published Oilly Exetpt Sunday ty the News-levle Compony, Inc. SataraS Means aisltar Msr I. la. sail afflea l iHilifi, Oraiaa. saaar Ml af Haras I. IS'l CHAHLIB V. STANTON mTtm, EDWIN L. KNAPF Editor Managar Mtmbsr of tho AtsoeiaUd Prtss, Oragon N.wspspsr Publiihort Association, tho Audit Buraau of Clreulatlono SaaraMaUa ar riT-HOI.I-IO CO.. inc. arnrn Sara. Caujaia, traaauaa Lm Aaialn. ill. rarllaaS. Sk Laala. IDIIIIirTlUN SAT'S la Oraaaa H anil par ' ' aiaataa HAS. Iktaa ..!. t.a Of 'll C.rrlrr far r.ar lll.aa la aaaaaral. Um lata aat raar Bar maata II.M Oauita Oraaaa Br Mall Par aaar I'M ui aaataa M.U. tarra aiaalka I1.1t Just Knock Twice And Ask For Joe mm vi n . k 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 All Kinds PAGC LUMBER & FUEL '.' . 2nd Ave S. Phon- 212 PHONE 100 bttwtan 6.15 and 7 p. m., if you havs not rectivtd your News Rtvitw. Ask for Harold Mobley. Bonk With A Douglas County Institution , Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank 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. GET YOUR FREE TICKETS TO THE FALL OPENING Treasure Hunt fO" ATTEND THE GALA FALL OPENING EVENING OF SEPT. 21 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 r 7 I 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 TIPTON- PERMIN INSURANCE mm - Urn, ........ 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Officer Carl Psrmln