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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Of. Tun., Sept. 27, 1949 Published Dy Except Sunday ty th Ntwt-3evi Company, Inc. tatoratf hcm4 cum ailUr My 1, Itta. at lk afflca al Mbarg, Oragaa. aadar Ml al March t. till CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mimbtr of tho Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assoolation, tho Audit Bureau of Circulations ftaarataatw y fVrsT-HOLLiOA t to, inc. rfi-i la N ?rfc. Caicaga, Saa raacisoa. Laa Aagalra. Saatlla. rarll4 SL Laaia. UHai BirriUN BAf-KS tm Urem Br Mill Far Taar I M. its aiaataa MM. taraa at bib it.m d in iarrir rr r aaa ft, ft mmu ai.aa uauica uragai aaaaiaa 11)1. Uim en ilia H I John's Amazing Signal System aavaara. test tkaa Malt far ft ft at. Editorial Comment From The Oregon Pratt TRUMAN PAST REVEALING OF PRESENT (Oregon City Enterprise) At the President continues to berate hit own Democratic Con press for doine nothing, and Sen ator Scott Lucat, Administration floor leader itrivet to fix the blame on the Southern Demo crat and the Republicans, It Is gratifying to call up. a the Re publican National Committee'! re searcher! have, Home things Mr. Truman tald while senator him self. Charles L. Egenroad, for the committee, points It out in the committee's weekly newt lei ter. He goes hack to Mr. Tru man't speech March 21, 1939 be fore the Missouri State Legisla ture. At that time President Truman was a new member of the United States Senate, and had returned to his native State to tell the Lej. Islature all about hit job in Wash ington. In the course of hit remarks he said: "I found out very soon after I had settled down to a study of my duties that the business of a pood legislator is not to get things done quickly and efficiently, as a good administrator ha to do, but to prevent, if possible, the en actment into the law of the land many crazy and crackpot meas ures." That It just what the 81st Con gress la doing; preventing enact ment Into the law of the land many "crazy and crackpot meas ures" which seem to come from I the White House. As President, Mr. Truman has constantly been at loggerheads with the legislator! on Capitol Hill. During the Democrat-controlled 79th Congrest the fight be gan. He really got Into full battle array during me jicpunncan sum Congress, which he lampooned as the "worst In history, wnicn history and the facts actually prove It not to have been, making a very loose talker out of the President. Now the 81st Congress, again controlled by a heavy Democrat majority, is constantly under fire trom the White tiouse. Has Mr. Truman forgotten what he said In a letter to the St. Louis Star-Times on March 6, 1944. about the treatment of Con- cress by the late President Roosevelt when the latter talked tough to Congress in a tax bill veto message? Mr. Truman, then a senator, wrote In that letter: Had the President returned the tax bill with a plain statement hat he did not think it produced enough revenue I don t think there is a doubt In the world but what both the Senate and the House of Representatives would have supported the veto, but when he attacked the Integrity and the intelligence)! the Senate and the House of Representatives he got Just exactly what was coming to him. . ." In thlt Instance the past it quite 1 revealing or the contused present in tne wnite i louse. Workers With Disabilities Turn Out Good Production w m r agar EES&&n&l " 'Zxd s Farm Buyers And Sellers Said About At Stalemate In West States '!-'n gtf Viahnett S. Martin JjJ Ceorge Foster, manager of the Roseburg office of the Oregon State Employment Service today announced that an official gov ernment turvey of the compara tive work abilities of handicapped and non handicapped work !it had demonstrated that workers with disabilities have just as good production and safety records at able-bodied workert. Foster tald the turvey conduct ed by the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics of the United Statet De partment of Labor In cooperation with the Veterans administration covered 11,028 impaired and 1H, 258 unimpaired employees work ing side by side In 109 separate employer establishments. On the job comparisons were made, he added, of the absenteeism, pro duction, safety, and quit rates of the impaired and unimpaired workers. 'Thlt tclentlfie and compre hensive turvey should prove of the utmost value in the place ment of workers with physical handicaps." Foster said. "It demonstrates what thousands of employers learned during the war and subsequent postwar years, that when properly placed, the worker with a physical han dicap is just at productive and satisfactory an employee as the able-bodied worker. I hope that It will remove the Impression that physical Impairment means lcs efficiency or a greater risk to the employer." Foster said, workers of the same sex, age, and employment conditions were matched so that unrelated factors would not af fect the findings. The survev was limited to manufacturing indus tries, where pertinent recoids were more accurately maintain ed and more easily compared for large groups of workers. Physically impaired workers In the group Included orthopedic, hearing, vision, hernia, cardiac, tuberculosis, peptic ulcer, diabe tic and epileptic. Many of the workers had two or more of these physical impairments. In absenteeism, the Impaired group showed a rate of 3.8 per 100 scheduled work days compar ed with 3.4 for the unimpaired. This represent! only one mote day's absence per year for the unimpaired. In both the impaired and unimpaired groups, 23 per cent had no absences, while .6 percent had excessively high rates of 30 dayt or more per 100 work days. In nondisabling Injuries (those causing less than a day's ab sence!, the impaired and unim paired showed an Identical rate of 9.9 Injuries per 10,000 exposure hours. In both groups. 50 percent of the workers had no Injuries of any Kind, while .1 percent in both groups had unusually high rates. In each of seven different typos of injuries, the difference be tween the two groups was less than .1 of 1 percent. Contradicting popular belief. the Impaired workers showed an even lower rate than the unim paired in disabling injuries caus ing absence of a dav or mine. Here the rate for the phvslcallv disabled was 8.9 injuries per mil lion exposure hours, while the rate for the non-disabled group was 9.5. The average davs of dis ability were 14.5 and 1.9 for the showed a slightly higher rate of 101. The survey showed that Impal ed workers are stable workers. The quit rate for the Impaired workert was 3.6 per hundred as compared with 2.6 for the unim paired workers. In this connec tion the written report on the finding of the survey prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statis tics and the Veterans Adminis tration stated, "It Is questionable whether the difference is signifi cant. It Is interesting that the quit rate attributed to dissatis faction with the job wai identical in the two groups." Flight Training Regulations For Veterans Eased Veteran! mav now take flight training under the G.L Bill with out necessarily submitting to the Veterans Administration complete justification that the course will be taken in connection with their contemplated business or occupa tion. Instead of complete justifica tion, a veteran planning to take G. I. flight training now may sub mil to the VA a certificate in the form of an affidavit, together with corroborating affidavits by two competent disinterested per sons. The affidavits must show that flight training will he usef il to him in connection with earn ing a livelihood. The expression "competent dis interested persons" means per sons who are qualified by reason of their personal knowledge of facts and circumstances to testify concerning the use of flight train, ing by the veteran In connection with his earning a livelihood, t ut who. except as to present or pros pective employers, have no Inter est whatsoever, either personal or by association, in the pursuit or non-pursuit by the veteran of the desired course of flight train ing. For the purpose of this def inition supporting affidavits by members of a veteran's familv or by employees or owners of flight schools will not constitute evi dence of disinterested persons. In any event, corroborating af fidavits must establish clcarlv and definitely the Identity of the affiant, the character of his re lationship or association with the claimant, and the basts and source of his asserted knowledge of the matters to which he testi fies. In the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, the VA will accept the affidavits as con stituting compliance with the law. If they wish, veterans desiring flight training may submit com plete Justification that the trait. Ing would be In connection with their present or contemplated business or occupation, rather than submit affidavits authoris ed by the new law. the VA said. This is the procedure which rn been In effect during the past year. "Suffering catfish!" I've heard EJ say when the boys tried his patience, or perhaps I have tak en too long getting ready. "Suf fering catfish!" For thirty years, too, I've heard him tell how he and his father used to run a trot line across the Colorado (down there in Texas I noticed they stepped hard on that 'a' and made it good and flat). Camping out with his father was a great adventure, one he still llket to recall. "When the bell on the trot line would jingle, Papa and I would get in the boat, and pull up the hooks. Sure enough there would be a good tlzed catfish on one or another of the hookt. With nine children I gues! Papa didn't mind taking home a few fish! Best eating a person could want." Well, when EJ pulled up a cat fish at Lake Tahkenltch he was as pleased as could be! "Catfish! what do you know!" I looked at the ugly thing, and heard itt grunting protest ... I had never seen one before! But that night I cooked several, and they were indeed delicious eating! I noticed the same pleased look come Into other faces when they saw the catfish. "Tell you where you can get some catfish," said one fisherman who had tried for bass all day and had nothing to show for his labors, "Over at Tenmlle lake." So to Tenmlle lake we went next weekend. The catfish were no bigger there, but maybe the wind wasn't right?" Anyhow EJ learned a new trick about cleaning them. "A butcher whp rented one of our boats showed me," friendly Mrs. Garwood explained, delight ed to share her knowledge. She laid a fish before her, picked up Four Persons Forfeit Bail In City Court Four persons forfeited bail this morning on charges of drunken ness or disorderly conduct. Mu nicipal Judge Ira B Riddle re ported. They Included: John Charles Scnubert, 39, 628 S. Stephens street, disorderly conduct, $10 forfeited. William John Tucker, 21, Rose burg, disorderly conduct, $10 for feited. Lawrence Tucker, 21, Rose burg, drunkenness and disorder ly conduct, $30 forfeited. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. CP) Farm buyers and sellers were about at a stalemate in the wes tern states this year. The Agriculture department re ports that despite sliding crop prices, land values dropped less than one per cent In the Rocky mountain and Pacify coast areas from March to July iiid that only about 52 farms in a thousand changed hands during the year ended March 15. Voluntary sales In the Moun tain states were down about 10 per cent from the peak of 61.5 per thousand in 1946. In the Pacific states the peak was reached at 70.3 per thousand in 1947 and the ratio per thousand farms had dropped to 52.3 as of March 15 this year. Forced sales In the Mountain states were at their lowest point In the past quarter century a fraction over one in a thousand farms. Such sales in the Coast states reached bottom with 1.1 per thousand two years ago. They represented 1.7 in a thou sand this year. Volume To Drop The department's survey Indi cated most buyers throughout the country are in a generally safe financial situation and it predict ed that the volume of farm sales will drop generally during the next year, even if there are fur ther declines in farm real estate values. In the four months ended July 1, land values in four of the 11 far western states were unchang ed. These were California, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. In five others, there wai a de crease of but one per cent. Values in Montana and Wyom ing dropped two per cent, t o equal the national average. Decline Slight The average decline for the western area thus was but one per cent for the four months, compard to drops of 5 per cent in the Mountain area and 6 per cent in the coast section in the previous four months. Land values in the Mountain states are still more than double those of 1940, while those along the coast are only slightly less than 100 per cent greater. For purposes of comparison, the department uses acreage val ues of 1912-14 as 100. The bottom was reached In 1940. the top In 1948 In each of the western states. The March 1949 ratios, with comparable figure! for 1948 anil lor 1940, includes: Washington 166, 181 and 100; Oregon 151,168 and 100. WALLBOARD Flrtex Shtttrock Masonite PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 MURDER CHARGE DENIED PENDLETON, Sept. 27 VP Robert Morris. 39, cook on the McNary project, pleaded inno cent to a first degree murder charge In circuit court here Mon day. Morrit is being held without bail In the county jail charged with the murder of William Frost, 29, Hermiston. April 3, 'ol-1 lowing a dance hall fight, east of Hermiston. PHONE 100 between 6.1 S and 7 p. m., if you hav not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. JOBS AVAILABLE We have jobs for trained workers. If you have the training, we have the job. If you don't have the training, come in or coll tomorrow Fall tnrollment now u.ider way GRANT'S BUSINESS COLLEGE 112 N. Stephens Phona 1535 R Bonk With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Eank DRIVER EXAMS DATED A driver'! license examlnr will be on duty in Roseburg Thursday and Friday, Sept. 29 and 30, at the city hall, between the houn of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Persons wishing licenses to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure completion of their ap plications witn k minimum of de- the knife and the lish did a sud-, lav. orlclnal an'-" - '-ns should den flip-flop back Into the lake. 'he made before 4 p.m. "It was worth losing the fish! laughed EJ "to tee her face as she stood there, holding the knife, watching that fish .'lop Into the water I" Of course EJ hat to have fish fried with cornmeal. We had a delicious dinner that evening in our cabin at Currier-! Village: catfish fried a glinting golden brown. Good eating. Indeed! "No man can be happy without a friend" Roseburg Funeral Home "The Chanel of tht Roses" Oak and Kane Street Roseburg, Oregon Funerals Tel. 600 Ambulance Service .... MRS. L. L. POWERS In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) more and more power In the of an administration of heavy spenders to the pouring of vast sums of money into our area. Dur ing the period of construction alone, not to mention the later pe riod of utilization, this would be a potent shot in the arm. The war hands of fewer and fewer men , go rCcent that we know all In the executive branch of the about that. The construction pay federal government i rolls brought tremendous develop- "We see that illustrated In a very dramatic way by the admin istration's proposal to have three men selected by the President take complete administrative con trol of the river resources of the Pacific Northwest. "1 believe we must co-ordinate agencies, both federal and state, but we must do it without sacri ficing local rights and local re sponsibilities of government." IN all of that, I find myself in rather complete agreement with the senator. All history teaches the lesson that too much power, held In too few hands too long, results In serious encroach ment upon the llbertiet of the people. Turning over to throe men se lected by the President complete administrative control of the river resources of the Pacific North west appears to me to be a clear m nf nuttina inn much nnwer in too few hands, with the strong j Merger Of Insurance probability that it will remain i Companies Effected ment to the communities In which the war Installations were lo cated. None of us can have any delusions as to that. But so far as I am concerned I would rather take my chances on the orderly development of this region through the normal American processes of free en terpriseaided, as it has been in the past, by such reasonably normal government projects as reclamation of land and develop ment of power than to turn our area over lock, stock and barrel to a three-man government com mission to be used as a laboratory for whatever socialistic experi menting our government in Washington may want to do In the future. I think we'll be better off In the long run If we go on hoeing our own row. Pacifio U. 100 Years Old FOP.FST C.ROVF Sent Impaired and unimpaired groups, j I.V The 100th birthday of Pac- there too long. When you put that much power In the hands of only three men, you usually find that you have a SEATTLE. Sept. 27 A merger o( the Washington Na tional Insurance comtwnv and the Great Northern Life Insur- respectively, In measuring work perform ance, only those in Joba for whien there was individual production data were used. This Included Impaired and 1.407 unimpaired workert. Using 100 as the rate lot the unimpaired, the Impaired ific university was celebrated here yesterday, with Gov. Doug las McKay sending good wish es from the slate of Oregon. The university actuallv rea.-.i ed its 100th year Fridav, but centennial ceremonlet were de layed until the Sunday holiday. I hard time getting it away from nc. company was announced to them. As the years pass, they be- nay bv Kenneth Mullins, execu come so completely a part of the ,lve vloe-prranlent of the Wash system they have created that -t inn "nHM"- u , t , ,. , . . ,, Life, accident and health Insur- never seems to be possible to un-j, of t;,t,i(t No.tnorn tangle the men from the Job. , , M,.u jt, agencies and home office in Evanston, III., will be taken over by the Washington company. Combined assets of the two to tal $U2.tMS.4.'U. G. R. Kendall, president of the Washington company, will head the new organization, which will tin kll(iruia sis lk l'itViinntnn It would commit the fortune! , National insurance company. P ERSONALLY. I don't doubt that creation of a Columbia Valley administration would bring enlarged and perhaps greatly hastened Industrial development to the Pacific Northwest. Is everybody using "RPfvl"? '3J if m Bw SPEEDY TflWK The oil that stops 80 of engine wear Maybe not eivrbody, but more motorists use RPM Motor Oil than any other brand in the West. No wonder, for "RPM" stops the acid-laden moisture that condenses inside cylinders and forms corrosive rust. And that's where 807o of engine wear conies from. RPM Motor Oil stops that corrosion by covering internal parts with a moisture-proof film . . . stays on the job, even though your car stands idle for days or weeks. Try "RPM" : choice in the West. We take better care of yoarcar rHZZrA it's first us