4 The Newt-Review, Reuburg, Or Mon., Sept. 26, .94
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JUSTIFIABLE COMPLAINT
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Mr. William Person, resident of Wilbur, and a News
Review reader of 18 years standing, has some complaints
about highway conditions complaints in which we join
wholeheartedly.
Mr. Person lists "Gripe No. 1" as follows :
Recently a car waa crowded Into tha railing on Wlncheatar
bridge. It would ba a vary great help if tha yellow Una were
to ba kept painted. There la aeldom a week that aoma ear
doaan't hit tha railing. Juat walk acroaa tha bridge and ae
what a beating thoaa railing take. Try t figure eut what
damage raaulta to cara. It ia very hard to know Juat how cloaa
one may ba to tha railing when there ia no yellow lino to act
aa a guide. Not long ago a produce truck hit tha railing and
watermelon wra scattered from one end of tha bridge to tha
. other.
Mr. Person also has another complaint which he lists as
"Gripe No. 2." It concerns sawmills and business houses
that install unshaded flood lights to shine into the eyes of
approaching drivers, blinding them to traffic. He urged
that all such lights be shielded on the highway side.
We hear a great deal about traffic accidents. Caution to
motorists is voiced by many officials and agencies. Yet
many small factors contributing to accidents go untended
year after year auch items as the unshielded lights, to
which Mr. Person refers; a clump of bushes on a sharp
turn, a curve lacking a guard rail, a slick patch of non-skid
pavement (how well we know!), a narrow, unmarked cul
vert, inadequate pedestrian paths and lanes. How many
accidents have resulted from such conditions, only to be
listed as too much speed, loss of control, etc.?
Each spring highway crews renew the yellow line mark
ing the center of the highway. During the summer, when
the line is least important, it is brightly visible. But by the
first dreary days of winter that safety line has become so
obscured that it is of little value and, during most of the
dark, wet, foggy months, we grope along highways unable
to find enough of the center line to serve our need.
The State of Oregon has many thousands of miles of high
ways on which the center line is marked, and it must cost
a large sum of money every year to do the necessary paint
ing, but, in our opinion, no one act would serve to lessen
highway accidents more than frequent painting of the
center guide line.
Along the entire length of the Pacific highway, drivers
frequently must face bright, unshielded floodlights at mills,
motels, restaurants, and other bright spots. Facing these
lights, particularly on a wet night, vision of the roadway
is so badly impaired that drivers frequently get into trouble.
Many accidents could be avoided by the simple expedient
of shielding such lights on the highway side.
Many months ago, through continued harping, we suc
ceeded in getting lights installed on Winchester and North
Jackson streets in Roseburg to illuminate the spur tracks,
after several cars had been damaged and persons injured in
collisions with freight trains. But when the lights were
installed, shades were so placed as to direct a cone of light
downward. Little illumination falls on the tracks. We
have tried time and again to have this matter corrected.
A workman with a pair of tin snips to trim away a portion
of the shade on the railroad side of each light could increase
the safety margin most materially.- But to date all we have
obtained has been promises. The lights still are inefficient.
As one drives along our highways, and particularly our
county roads, he finds spot after spot where trimming a
clump of brush would improve visibility. We occasionally
find a spot where a road has been widened but a culvert is
left narrower than the road, offering an invitation to acci
dent. Dozens of other minor conditions conditions which
could be corrected easily might be cited.
It is our opinion that each city, county and the state gov
ernment should have mon especially appointed to hunt out
and correct these conditions. A man definitely assigned to
the task could be looking for traffic hazards while going
about regular duties; it would not be necessary to hire extra
help.
On Your Mark, Get Set ......
Bit Viahnett S. Marti
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READERS ASD EDITOR TO GET VACATION
Readers of this column will have a vacation for the next
couple of weeks from our views and comments. We have
finally succeeded in finding a vacation period. Being too
lazy to prepare copy in advance, we will permit this space
to be used for other purposes during our absence.
From Mr. Algernon Bltwun's
point of view their fireplace is
Incomplete. Not ao from Mr. Blt
wun's. Maybe that la because
Mrs. B remembers fenders and
hobs and receptacles for fuel
accompanying the fireplaces at
which she warmed her feet, or
toasted crumpets. Mr. B can see
no sense in a fender clutter
ing up the hearth (so the fam
ily hand me down of solid brass
accumulates corrosion In the
woodshed), and neither can he
see why a man should order a.
42-inch fireplace unit .so as' 'to
have a good big fire, then fill
up that space with a mess of
bricks? HOB, huh!
Mr. B doesn't think It Is part
of a woman' work to lug in
wood, so before leaving each
morning he always sees to it
that there is plenty on hand,
neatly stacked up against the
right hand half of the bricks,
on the cement hearth. Could Mrs.!
B fall to appreciate this? Of
course not!
Once Mrs. B did have a bright
idea; she invested in a small
green cart which would solve
the wood problem. "What wood J
Mrs. B yearned for a HOB. On
It she vlsloned a teakettle cheer
ily' singing its song, and some
thing or other keeping hot.
"What's the matter with the elec
tric range?" asked Mr. B In a
puzzled way, "Gosh, It only takes
a minute to boll the kettle there,
and it doesn't get all soot
either."
One evening. Mrs. B delighted
ly handed her husband a leaflet
received In the mall that day:
"Fireplace HOBS, Their Use and
How to Make Therrt." The pic
ture showed, Mrs. B remarked,
the housewife putting the teapot
on the hearth to keep It warm,
while Friend Husband stood smil
ing, over his cup of tea ... .
"I sent to the Standard Insur
ance Co.,. Portland, for it."
Mr. B studied the picture. Told
Mrs. B if that guy's cup Is full
of tea, I'll drink it and heaven
knout I hate tea! His cup Is
EMPTY. She's picking up the
teapot. Mr. B counted the four
sticks of wood and wondered
how long it would be with a
Hie like that before Mrs. B would
freeze slap to death. IVcxt he
counted the bricks, computed the
amount of pace the hobs would
night in the foreseeable future.
When I came down to break
fast, the mess was immersed
in the morning papers
WHOSE HEADLINES FAIRLY
SCREAMED THE NEWS OF
THE ATOM BOMB.
It was a grim and FRIGHT
ENED company. .We knew the
Japs were doomed and peace was
in sight. BUT WHAT OF THIS
NEW AND GRISLY HORROR
THAT HAD JUST COME INTO
THE WORLD?
Would life for any of us ever
be the same again?
f staggering news that Russia
must have the bomb ... If RUS
SIA has the bomb, the likelihood
that it will be USED ... il it IS
used, what next?
a a '
ELL, about all I can say Is
WELL
this:
After Pearl Harbor Day, after
Hiroshima Day, I am still alive
and my country is still Intact and
competent. Life still goes on,
much as it did before these
epochal events. People age and
die In their beds. Babies are born.
We faced Pearl Harbor Day
and carried on. We faced Atom
Bomb Day and carried on. We
can face the knowledge that Rus.
sia probably has The Bomb and
still carry on. We can because we
have to.
problem?" asked Mr. B glancing j take from the 42-inches he had
up briefly away from the News- Insisted upon having . . . read
Review. The little cart had Its a part of the detailed directions
use, but solving the wood prob- Inside the leaflet,
lem did not prove to b one of j "Hm-m-m" said Mr. B pick
them. Ing up the News-Review again.
SOVIET BOOMS DICKENS
MOSCOW .vThe Slate Pub
1'shlng House of Literature has
re'eased Charles Dickens' Ameri
can Notes. "Evening Moscow,"
reporting this, said Dickens de
scribes how quickly his illusions
rbout the so-called "American
paiadise" were dispelled.
In the Day's News
and the price of eggs and butter.
Today such things are trivialities.
(Continued from Page One)
ATOMIC-E XPLOSION OC
CURRED IN THE U. S. S. R.
I Russia I.
I l.MOST simultaneously
I came from London official
YESTERDAY, so far as we ordi
nary people knew, WE
ALONE had the atom bomb.
I Everybody knew that we would
j use It only as a last resort to pre
there serve our national existence. To
day we must assume that Russia
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. -.Pi
The Senate is scheduled to vote
Senate Postpones Vott
On Military Pay Boost
ulr
today on a proosed $300,000,000
military pay boost.
The House approved a similar
bill June 15. It would raise the
pav of almost every rank from
private to major general.
Speaking In support of the
measure yesterday, Senator
Chapman (DKy) told his col
leagues that "we still stand In
the shadow of war" and there
fore must be prepared. '
He said there will be a pro
gressive decline in the caliber of
the nation's defence forces unless
the pay is made more attrac
tive. The bill is expected to meet
only scattered ODposition when it
comes up for a vote.
Other legislation to boost sal
aries of cabinet member and
government worker making
over $5,000 is scheduled for Sen
ate consideration as soon as the
military pay bill 1 out of the
way. Strong opposition to this al
ready has appeared.
Lightning Bolt Kills
Two Children At Play
DU BOIS, Pa., Sept. 26. t.Pi
A bolt of lightning crashed Into
a group of children plavlng In a
grade school yard during the
noon lunch recess. Two were kill-
word that the British government : also has the bomb. THERE ARE
also has evidence of an atomic ex- j FEW WHO DOUBT THAT RUS
plosion In Russia. !RIA WILL USE THE BOMB AS
a a a AX INSTRUMENT TO ACHIEVE
FT'S keen th. picture rtoar If HER GOAL OF A COMMUNIST
L we can. I think the President s : WORLD.
announcement came as no sur-1 That Is what changes the face
prise to most of those to whom he of affairs.
made it. WHATEVER HAP-1
PEN ED DIDN'T HAPPEN JUST
YESTERDAY.
The first evidence must have
come in some time ago. It was
kept as a hush-hush secret. But
by last Thursday evening the
I HOPE you will pardon the use
of the first personal pronoun
in what follows. To each of us
these cataclysmic developments
are PERSONAL. Three times
within the past decade the world
proof must have accumulated to has been changed for me. I can
the point where the fact was
recognized that It could no longer
be kept a secret.
THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW.
So the cabinet meeting was ar-
tell about
terms.
it best In personal
T'
ed and four were stunned by the 1 ranged and the announcement
bolj- was made. (Please keep In mind
in- victims were jimmy r'ros
ke. 11. and John Hillard. 11.
Deputy Coroner F. I. Gillung
said the lightning went down the
school chimney and then traveled
out on the wot grass of the play
ground where the children were
playing yesterday.
The bolt struck following a
heavy rainstorm.
The original forest area of the
United States is estimated a t
820.000,000 acres In addition t e
100.000.000 acrea of non-commercial
forest. The present area of
forest i estimated at 41.0-1.000
acre.
HE morning of December 7.
I spent hunting ducks
out on the swamp. The ducks
were numerous and they flew low.
that I don't know all this. I'm Just ; It was wonderful. This was a good
assuming it. It's the way such old world to live in. We came In,
things are usually handled. It's all aglow. Just before noon,
about the only way they can be THE JAPS HAD BOMBED
handled.) PEARL HARBOR AND WE
i WERE AT WAR!
NYWAY I a a
A Only yesterday we were talk- - THE night of Hiroshima Day I
Ing about such things as the de-1
valuation of the British pound
the harvesting of the 1!M9 crop
. . . the coal strike and the Im
pending steel strike . . . the
weather . . . the state of business
T
spent In my quarters In Lon
don, sleeping soundly In a city
that was still deliriously happy
because it knew there was peace
In Europe and no enemy bombs
would fall that night or any other
The ifMwrri to evirvday
insurant, e problm
By KEN BAILEY
QUESTION: We plan to leave
on a long vacation motor trip
w ithin the next couple of weeks
and a friend suggests that we
take out a special theft insur
ance policy on our luggage,
jewelry and other valuables
which we take with us. Can
you tell me whether we can get
a short term policy of this kind
and whether its cost is low
enough so it would pay us to
huv It?
ANSWER: Ordinarily, if you
already have a Residence Theft
policy on your valuables, the
simplest and most economical
thing for you to do would be
to have the "theft awav from
the premises" clause addetoi
and to pay the small additional
premium." This coverage is
usually a good deal broader
than that given by a "personal
effects'' floater policy which
you would buy for the duration
of your trip. If you don't have
a Residence Theft policy, you
should consult your Insurance
agent about it before buying
any other form of Insurance.
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Victims Charms
Result In Arrest
Of Holdup Men
NEW YORK. Sept. 26 OP)
Two alleged holdup men were in
Jail today because of the charms
of their victim and romantic il
lusions. Police said the pair Invaded
the apartment of pretty New
York Model Donna Lee Law
rence, 22, and left with several
hundred dollars worth of loot and
a yen to see their victim again.
In fact, police said, the yen
was so strong that the men, one
at a time, telephoned Miss Law
rence for dates Friday, and of
fered to return her property.
At the suggestion of the police,
she said okay.
She was on hand for the trysts,
one in her apartment and the
other at a West 48th street bar
and grill. Police were on hand
too. and arrested the suspects.
They were identified as Sabato
Glannotti, 27, and John Carfa
gino, 31, both ex-convicts on pa
role. Both were booked for as
sault, robbery and illegal posses
sions of weapons. Giannotti also
was charged with rape.
A third man. who hadn't vet
yielded to his romantic impulses,
was Doing sougnt.
Police said the three entered
Miss Lawrence's 64th street apart
ment inursaay, tied her wrists
and stole S160, a $.)00 watch, sev
eral rings and a cigarette lighter.
foliee said Giannotti also raped
the brunette Miss Lawrence, a
divorcee.
Elkton
By PHYLLIS A. SMITH
Visitors at the L. L. Holcomb
home included a nephew of Mr.
Holcomb, Donald Reat, who left
this week for the University of
Washington where he is in his
final year. Other relatives visit
ing with the Holeombs are Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Tavlor and Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Reat, all of Se
attle, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Al
Keitchell and children of Oak
land, aClif.
Miss Shirley Knypstra left Mon
day to attend the Monmouth
normal school. Miss Donna Lee
Winterbotham has gone to Ash
land to attend the normal school
there.
Mrs. L. M. Smith has received
word of the death of her step
mother, Mrs. Addie Sprague Hen
derer, on Sept. 17.
Mrs. Clara Smith Rhinehart
has moved to Cottage Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Slagle vis
ited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mc
Cullem this week. The Slagles
are operating a small restaurant
at Gold Hill. Miss Evelyn Hudson
spoke at the Coos and Curry
Teeners Institute Thursday.
Daylight Saving Time
Will End In Portland
PORTLAND, Sept 2
Daylight aaving ended In Ore
gon. The last citiee remaining
on fast time set clocks back an
hour, most following Portland's
lead in changing th hands at
1:50 a. m.
PAKISTAN GRADUATES
BOOST U. 8.
KARACHI (JP) Pakistani
alumni of American universities
nere nave tormed a society for
promoting the cultural and edu
cational relations between the
two countries.
The society is arranging a se
ries of public lectures on the var
ious aspects of life in Ihe AmerU
can universities.
SMALL BOV DROWNS
DARRINGTON, Wash. (.m
Jack Rav Adams, three-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carlson
of Darrington, drowned in a mill
pond here Friday night after hav
ing been left in the cab of a
truck by his stepfather.
FHONE 100
between 6.15 and 7
p. ni., if you have not
received your News
Review. Aik Jor Harold Mobley.
Roseburg Man Serving
In Landing Operations
Hugh M. Bechtold. chief en-
glneman, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Bechtold of 340 West
Second avenue N.. Roseburg, is
serving as a crew member aboard
the landing ship USS 1138, which
is participating this fall In "Op
eration Miki," a large-scale am
phibious exercise in the Pacific.
The maneuvers, scheduled for
late September, October and No
vember, involve nearly 40,000
soldiers, sailors and marines, and
are designed to dislodge an
imaginary "aggressor" force
from the Hawaiian Islands. Gen
eral Mark W. Clark, commanding
general of the Sixth Army, is
overall commander.
Before entering the Navy In
October, 1939, Bechtold attended
San Bernardino High School,
San Bernardino, Calif.
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Attlee Says Inflation
To Wipe Out Benefits
LLANDUDNO, Wales ()
Prime Minister Attlee Saturday
told Britons that inflation threat
ens to wipe out the benefits of
cheapening the pound.
"There is no occasion for gen
eral price increases," he declared.
"It is the duty of every good
citizen to cooperate with the gov
ernment in preventing inflation."
In a speech prepared for a
Labor party rally here, the prime
minister said his government is
more than ever determined to
hold down prices, wages and
profits.
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