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You Answer It!
OIL PROGRESS WEEK
By CHARLES V. STANTON
If all these special weeks we are asked to observe were
handled like the program for National Oil Progress week
we might be more enthusiastic in their celebration. In pre
senting the story of progress in the oil industry, the Stand
ard Oil company of California invited editors from a num
ber of newspapers in the western parts of Oregon and
Washington to visit its refinery at Richmond, California.
Assembled at Seattle and Portland, the trroup was flown
to Oakland, then transported in sightteeing buses to Rich
mond and through the huge 1800-acre plant, with close
inspection of the new four-story packaging plant, covering
27 acres, and the research laboratories.
Due to fog on the Portland airport, delaying takeoff by
an hour, arrival in Richmond was late, upsetting the care
fully planned inspection schedule. Thus speechmaking at
the elaborate noon luncheon in the comp.viy's cafeteria was
cut to a minimum and the visiting editors were rushed
to a projection room where they were treated to the pre
miere of the company's new technicolor picture, "Life-
stream, which summarizes the growth of the oil industry
in a most interesting manner. Copies of the picture soon
will be ready for release and made available for public show
ing. We can recommend the film to local service clubs for
their educational programs.
Following the picture, the party again boarded the buses
and toured the giant refinery, while the various parts of
the plants and the numerous processes were explained by a
company representative.
To say that we learned a great deal about the technical
phases of oil refining would be misleading. The inspection
was too hurried to give more than an impression, and this
impression was perhaps best summarized by one of the
editors who, after looking upon acre after acre covered
with fractionation towers and mile after mile of compli
cated pipes and valves, exclaimed : "My gosh, think of the
plumbing bill!"
We have always been interested in the so-called "crack
ing" process, by which crude oil is broken down into
gasoline, fuel oils, lubricants, asphalt, etc. Our "spieler"
tried to explain the procedure, but he didn't talk the kind
of English to which we are accustomed, apologizing for the
fact that there seems to be no common language in which
to interpret the highly technical processes. But we sort
of gathered a hazy idea of what it's all about.
It seems that crude oil is made up of molecules. Each
molecule is a happy family consisting of the papa, mama,
offspring, aunts, uncles and cousins.
The oil companies bore holes in the ground and pump
these molecule families through pipelines for distances
ranging up to 200 miles and collect them at refineries.
There the oil Is placed in huge towers and heated under
pressure.
This treatment ntaktw the molecules run around like
crazy. The happy families are broken up. The children
leave home. The little molecules climb to the top of the
tower. But some of the others can't got that high and stop
at lower levels. The old folks stay at the bottom.
Then the molecules are drained off at the respective levels
they have reached, so that the company obtains molecules
with fairly uniform characteristics.
Editorial
Comment
From The Oregon Pr.it
Bu Viahnett S. Martin
Have you ever looked fori they left. So, China Creek. They
again along the gravelly bed of
China Creek? Have you ever
wondered how the creek received
lis name? Or noticed the monu
ment naming the Muriel O. Pon-
ser State Park, there, and won
dered why the little two-acre
park waa named ior her?
The Oregon State Superintend
ent of Parka, Mr. S. H. Board-
man, answered the query, and
at the name time anticipated
other queries, by sending me some
Interesting material about our
state parks on Highway 101.
Previous 'Scraps' have made use
of tha material.
In April 1939, J. C. Ponsler
deeded what la now the Muriel
O. Ponsler Stale park as a liv
ing memorial to his wife. Wasn't
that a lovely thing to do? At
the same time one more precious
piece of Oregon coast line was
preserved for the people. It can
not be fenced away as so much
of the California coast line Is
fenced from the people. The Pon
slers by the way were former
residents of Roseburg.
In the early days Chinese
("chinamen") washed the gravel
placer-mined as far as Hecate
Head where the headland rises
to 520 feet.
In the state park material H.
A. Langille, state parks historian,
suggests the Spanish pronuncia
tion of HECATE: "ay-thay-tah,"
but I notice the Oregon Coast
association (address, Coos Bay)
gives It as "he-see-ta." By the
way, do you have one of the
12-page map and motor-log book
lets put out by that association?
Don't miss having one!
Speaking of advertising: have
you seen tha really attracting
folder which tha Reedsport Cham
ber of Commerce sends out?
Bright colors; fine pictures; Just
the thing to tuck in a letter If
you use the long stamped enve
lopes for letters to out of state
friends as I so often do, for
that very reason.
The Oregon Coast association
(Coos Bay, and other chambers
of commerce) gives the Coast
highway, 101, from California
stale line to Washington slate
line, with marginal motor -log
readings, and notes points of In
terest, historical and otherwise.
Fine to put In letters; fine to
in the crerk for gold; left some have at hand, or In the glove
dilapidated shacks behind when ! compartment.
Princess Draws
Rebuke For Talk
Anent Divorces
LONDON, Oct. 21 P1 Brit
ain's Marriage Law Reform com
mittee Thursday publicly rebuked
Princess tllzabem lor saying
that divorces lead to many of the
nation's social evils.
R. S. W. Pollard, chairman of
the committee of sociologists and
lawyers who want English d.
voces made easier to get, said
the princess had the wrong slant
and her comment was regretta
ble. "We have observed (It) with re
gret." he said.
His statement to the press was
unusual in that It constituted an
oen disagreement with a mem
ber of the royal family, usually
criticized only by Communists
and a very small group of BritUh
anti-Royalisis, and then only
rarely.
The princess' alatement was
the strongest ever made by nvd
ern British royalty about specific
sociological problems. Deploring
what she called falling moral
standards here, she told a British
Mothers' union rally Tuesday
that "divorces and separations
are responsible for some of the
darkest evils of our society."
Pollard said that "divorce and
separation are not themselves re
sponsible for the evils she refers
to.
"It is the causes, such aa In
adequate housing, unstable pan
nets, which lead to the breakup
of marriages and are responsible
for some of the bad effects to
which I he prfneess referred."
Buckingham palace had no
comment on Pollard's statement.
ONE ARGUMENT THAT
DOESN'T HOLD WATER
(Grants Pass Courier)
The Pendleton East Oreeonian.
which devotes its editorial col
umns almost exclusively to cam
paigning ior CVA nas been pre
senting a specious argument, as
follows:
"If a three-man CVA board
would be a 'monster.' then the
stale highway board must be a
aupermonater because that
board actually has more power
than a CVA board will have. The
highway commissioners are al
lowed to allocate funds for high
way worK at their discretion ard
without getting legislative ap
proval. The CVA board will have
to submit Its budget to Coneress
and get it approved before It can
start anything."
The East Oreponian'a lneir
doesn't stand up under examina
tion. First of all, the highway
commission is a state bodv and
the people of Oregon can bring
about its complete replacement
il dissatisfied with Its operations.
Such action was taken recently
in the matter of the state game
rominissiun.
The people of Oregon could do
no such thing with a CVA board.
That also was demonstrated last
fall. Oregon vated to replace the
kingpin CVA proponent, Presi
dent Harry S. Truman, but he
was elected anyway.
The President would appoint
the CVA board and, no matter
how objectionable that board
might be to the people of Ore
gon, they could do nothing about
it.
In this respect, the East Ore
gonian actually has emphasized
one of the most objectionable fea
tures of the proposed CVA.
The second claim of the East
Oregonian doesn't hold water.
The CVA bill provides that the
CVA can engage in multitudinous
types of business and use any
funds earned or appropriated as
it sees fit, being required only to
make a report to the President.
Summarizing, the proposed
CVA could go Into competition
with private industry, could de
termine size of farms and, in
many other ways, control the eco
nomic life of the Northwest. The
state highway commission can
engage in road building and
road maintenance.
The East Oregonian's argu
ment, in this respect, at least,
doesn't hold water.
Heroin Peddler, Seek Monty For Christmas
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 21 OPt
Alex Inojosa. 31, and his w4fe,
Bettv, 25, . gave a new excuse
when they were arrested on e
street corner on a charge of sell
ing a "spoon" of heroin for $70.
They told Inspector R. A. San-
lord of the State Narcotics bu
reau: "We were just trying to make a
little money for Christmas."
Wyoming has 1.925 mllea of
railway.
Bank With
A Douglas County Institution
3? Home Owned Home Operated
Member Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
Douglas County State Bank
It takes 30 men about four
years to paint the George Wash
ington Bridge, the suspension
span over the Hudson River at
New York City.
1
In the Day's News i;1,
(Continued from Page One)
Great Radical. The conservatives
his time shook in their boots
hen his name was mentioned.
Yet Jefferson said:
"t niBnA l-mvnrv
nlnu. l-mVllMV am. inn
the first and most Important vir-
uon, ana me cmierenn is DcinS tu ,nd PL-BLIC pEBT AS
But even these collected molecules have new faults. TheiBdd,.d t0 our national debt, it ;te greatest oV DANGERS
VERDICT APPEALED
Glenn E. Marshall, defendant
In a damage suit brought by M.
K. Brown, has filed a notice of
appeal to the supreme court the
verdict of a trial jury entered in
favor of the plaintiff on Sept. 22.
Marshall slates that a motion
fur a new trial, filed Oct. 30, was
denied by Circuit Jedge Wimber
Iv on Oct. 11. Brown was award-
n,4 o t.n,-.!,.,. ..... fn
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niiiiiiK nnu ntmc )uun;ina huh uiiiiuru m me in j c k i .-nvr. r ""; TO BE FEARED. ... to preserve ana 51, lou special damages.
tower include good little children and some delinquents j "J"'. " ' "l,u "UUK' u: our independence, we must not let
and. being separated from their parents and on their own " SI'I,''"1I' l's;(l watchdog of ollr niie,., load US WITH PER-
'. , , , . Ihe treasury if he could get an- nt-niii nrnT mutt
for the first time, their individual personalities begin to b()(1v , atlention to h s PE7UAL r we must
, . . , , :D IO 1 anenuon to nis ,),, our choice between econo-
develop. Some are busy beavers, anxious to get to work. , warning barks and growls, tells mv and ijbehty or profusion
Others are sluggish. Some are plain dullards. us that since the first of last Ju!yan"d SERVITUDE.
So back they go into another tower. And the company!"'' h"v b,vn running Into debt we run ,, slch dl.b wp
whangdofcrates the schvzidufro and aertelentorizes the !' "l rY M1LLlON must be taxed In our meat and
chambifentalator and when they get through all the good, w"na't u an,loun ,0 mort-! 0'"'
little molecules have been separated from the bad little gaging the house to pay the gro-!arnu!pmcn t lf we nn pre.
molecules. j "' b'- INDIVIDUALS i v(,nt the government from wast-
Then the experts start putting them hack together again ' ,h'"' bart flnailal trouble ap-jing the labors of the people, un
to mke irisoline 1 p'oai'1""" at W hen ' der the pretense of CARING FOR
10 mnhe fcasonne. lernmenta do It, it takes trouble THFM th ivnnl. will h hannv "
The busy little beavers are put in to make your car's' longer to arrive. , THEM, the people wdi be haPP.
motor start easily. Some of the less active are added and, I
because thev are slower burning, produce power. And a N ,h,,e ,.vi people who fear
W nf th 1, .:,,!. to into th mivti. tn knon vnne rnr debl and 1,5 consequences and
think you will agree with me
that if Jefferson were living
ihai'dil'd pnnlunH lh,l if ..-a a
from knocking on the hills. And because mixtures of mole-!lo ploU,c, the future we must
culcs can be blended to perform any kind of a task, i spend less than we take in (In trr
gasoline becomes available for any purpose. government as well as in private!
A,l .-V,;u nolln. i' lun'mr tvin.lo fr,,r.i tVio tnn m,lo . business ) are called CONSEVA-
tit to ana nie generally regaru
now and made that statement
in public he would be pilloried
as a reactionary and a stand pat-
rules, kerosene, heating oils, diesel, lubricants, asphalts,
ed as public enemies.
tars, w axes, suipliur ami suipnur compounds, gasses, etc., j ln the political parlance of our
are collected from various levels in the cracking towers and. day, those who insist on spending
go through additional rcfinerv processes. !"h nc-th hands without any
TUt .!, lDirn,l .lthnnah w .till Hnn't l-nmr m.i. Vi ' thought as to where the money
about the technique,
Maybe we'd have
interested in the glass blowers.
i Is to come from are known as
Office Of Treasurer Of
Alaska $43,351 Short
JUNEAU. Alaska. Oct. 21. -(.D
An audit report released
Thursday showed the total short
age of Ihe territorial treasurer's
office from April 1, 1P.V to May
LIBERALS and are hkhlv recom-1 JL!M"- "Mi,lr1 -V1-?1- . .
Maybe we'd have learned more if we hadn't been so mended to us as the kind of lead- L ','?, 'LT'.u.
era we should follow.
It was ordered by the last leg-
JUDGMENT SET ASIDE
Circuit Judge Carl K. Wimber
ly has set aside the default Judg
ment order he entered Oct. 12 in
favor of Clifford I-egg and
against the Roseburg Lumber
company, and the latter as de.
fendant will be allowed to file
Ihe two parties.
ADMITTED TO BAIL
Ball for Lawrence Edward
Spinier, lhanon. charged with
larcenv of an automobile, was
set at S.VK), upon his arraignment
It might as well be added here , islalure to cover the entire term
lis their
I Joyfully for a long time.
.(..,.. .i , ' nr lsrar iMson. territorial ti-eas-
fie accident Involving trucks t,f I ",r"",c "7" ""'""' "' urPr h0 resigned May 7 and sub-
an answer w ithin 13 days. The I in Justice court Thursday. report
Judgment entered, upon failure ed Justice of Peace A.I. Cedcles.
of (he defendant to answer, was5plttler was returned Wednesday
lor $10,000 as the result of a traf- 'from Albany by Deputy Ira Bvit1'.
sequent ly was charged on two
rouiits of emherlrnnt and re-
HAT I'm really leading up to Waed on MO.ono bond.
l ne a mm nunnunxi me uvses
In liniiDhm-i r...t dichii:imniila
Times change. Our thinking (rom .,.,,iiorial bank acouint hv
changes with the times. means of checks signed by Olson.
For example: I .
In his day. Thomas Jefferson' The origin of roller Is uncer-
when his name was mentioned.
tain, bul one sMrv is that It was
fircf mart irt Ahvinii aHiit i, '." "
aa generally looked upon as the .D,
(now!
Th a newer to vrvlay
Imuranr problamisfr
By KEN BAILEY
QUESTION: What advantage,
if any. is there In carrying
"comprehensive" insurance on
a car? It is always mentioned
in connection with fir and
theft insurance and is supposed
to cover about everything, hut
I notice I still have to buy col
lision and public liability and
property damage insurance
am w ay.
ANSWER: Actually the "com
prehensive" fire and theft in
surance policy is the best form
lo buy. It cosis very little more
than the ordinary fire and
theft policy and its coverage is
much broader. The insurance
company makes certain excep
tions for which it will not be
liable but assumes responsibil.
it y tor Just about any other
form of damage. Even stains,
damage from failing objects
and glass breakage are cover
ed under this policy.
A If you'll kddrt your own Ininr-
n.- qutlona u hn offir. . II
lr to tiv ou the -firre! answer
ana thr will h rkarff r
! mj Slat.
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A Reduction in Gas Rates
It is our very great pleasure to inform the people of Roseburg that
their gas rates are going to be reduced, commencing with November
bills.
By this rate reduction we are passing on to our customers the
benefit of savings in our fuel cost which have been accomplished
within the last few weeks.
Rate reductions scheduled for Roseburg will amount to 2.1 a therm.
This will constitute a reduction of about 10 percent in the average
bill and will cancel out one-third of the increase in gas rates which
has been in effect since mid-1948.
Reductions scheduled for all of our Oregon Utility Gas Properties
will save consumers an estimated $113,600 a year, of which amount
$18,900 will be saved by the people of Roseburg.
In such substantial manner a cardinal principle of our operating
policy is seen at work the policy of giving our customers the
benefit of lower production costs in the form of lower gas rates.
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