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4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Or Thurt., Oct. 27. 1949 Published 0 illy Ectpt Sunday !y tho Newt-evie Company, Inc. llUril um ! ajallar Mar I. ise. ! fMj elftae hMblri, Orafaa. aa'ar Ml f March t. CHARLES V. STANTON P EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor MW Manager Member of th. Associated Press, Ortgon Newspaper Publisher! Aueclatien, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations asraaaeta kf eaT-HOI.LID4 CO . IMC. arrtraa la tarh. Chlatfa. aae triMiu i.aa Angii. auu. rartiaa at. Lauia- irBM-'Hiri'lllN SAl'Sfa orafan Bf Mail rat Taai M. al .Ilia haa ) IIH B. HI. ( titi.f-P.r liaM 'la aOaaral. ! aa raar. aar asaale II.M Oaltlaa Orafaa fir Mall Far taar lal Maalba 14 IV laraa aiaalha II. la THE HIGHWAY PROBLEM By CHARLES State Representative Ralph aging news when he reported that the Springfickl-Azalea section of the Pacific highway holds top priority in the state road improvement program. Speaking at the weekly forum luncheon of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, Moore predicted that reconstruction of Highway 99 would be given first consideration. At the same time he urged abandonment of provincial pressure on the highway commission, con tending that an effective road building piogmin will be severely handicapped if each community uses political pres sures to obtain correction of local conditions rather than treating the highway problem as a whole. Mr. Moore's argument is sound. His words are encourag ing. But jve can't help being a little skeptical and pessimistic. We don't believe It possible to stop political pressure and we don't believe the highway cor.imission can allocate its funds on basis of need without running into political obstructions. One-third of the Pacific highway in Oregon is in Douglas county. It would seem reasonable, therefore, to expect one third of the money availahle for Highway 99 to be spent in Douglas county, if we consider distance alone. However, population also is a factor bearing upon highway construc tion. Roads must be built to accommodate traffic in and near large centers of population. Population centers also are cen ters of political strength and are better able to press demands for needed road building than are sparsely-settled districts. While the heaviest concentration of population is in the Willamette valley, Southwestern Oregon, percentagewise, is growing faster than any other Usage of roads places a heavy trucks, freighters and buses highways. These factors of growth and traffic load, in our opinion,! offset the heavier population of the Willamette valley in formulating a program for road construction. Another element to be considered is the per mile-cost of construction. Road building in Southwestern Oregon is far more expensive, because of our rough, rocky terrain, than construction In the Willamette valley. It costs many more dollars per mile to build a stretch of highway south of Eugene than north of Eugene. We also have the argument that highway construction in the southern part of the state has been long neglected: that .I.., mi. i- i I r ii l o 1 wime minions were iieing ppeiii annum i uruaim, ohi -hi, Eugene and elsewhere, to serve population centers, work in Southern Oregon was confined largely to maintenance until the highway commission recently started reconstruc tion of the south end of the Pacific highway in Oregon a job that is being well done but too slowly. Taking Into consideration factors of distance, population growth, business and industrial transportation needs, ex cessively high construction costs, etc., it would seem that Southwestern Oregon would have a moral claim to at least one-half the money available for new construction purposes. But can you imagine the protest that would be made should allocations of funds include one-half new construction appropriations? The highway commission does not have and cannot raise immediately enough funds to rebuild the Pacific highway as rapidly as it should be reconstructed, unless or until we issue bonds for that purpose. Although annual revenues for! hiirhwav nurnoses have been increased, those increases nrob- " we re o worried anout. it , yni. ably will be insufficient to meet the traffic demands created V. why should you do it to by the state's growth in population. In other words, the state yourself again? is growing so rapidly in population that traffic bottlenecks 1 0,"guIIn'yXk''lookP" adniit are forming in and around every major city, Roseburg's there was' a lot of foolish male critical situation immediately north of town being only one ; i,"lk'"ral'coup"e"o1f'tseason back of many like problems In the state. Millions of dollars must just because it wa, novel. Ky i . , i .i . i , ce. erv man wa, surprised to see it be spent to provide thorough fares ample to clear traffic in (lll.n out b(,llpr tnnn he had jPar. the neighborhood of cities and the larger revenues made ed. available to the highway department are not proportionate to the rate of growth. Thus, little money is left for recon struction of long stretches between towns. Mr. Moore pointed out economic losses resulting from inadequate highways, showing that they run into many mil lions of dollars; many more dollars, in fact, than the cost of highway construction. It would seem to us, therefore, that the resistance to is suance of highway construction bonds is based on a short sighted policy. Air Defenst Exercises To Use New Radar Screen SEATTLE. Oct. 27 .P The Pacific Northwest's newly estab lished radar screen and fighter defense grouiw of the area will be employed Nov. 4 to H In ma jor air defense exercise:. Details of the large scale ma neuvers were disclosed by (Jen. Hovt S. Vanrienherg, chief of staff of the Air Force, to Sen. Warren G. Magnuson and Reps. Henry M. Jackson and Hugh B. Mitchell. Mitchell told the Seattle Times that while the exercises will not be an actual test of the defense system, it will simulate the tac tic, which migh' be enocountcred and employed in an attack meaning that the bomber, will be the attackers and the fighter tho defenders. High altitude B 29 and B 40 bombers of the 4.)th, 12th and 1'ith Air Force will attempt to pene-1 trate the radar and fighter air V. STANTON T. Moore gave us some encour section of the state. Industrial load of lumber nd logging on Southwestern Oregon ilctenscs At least 200 planes and the ho refused to grow up and 000 otliccr and men will be act like men. sent to the Pacific Northwest , Remember? If you don't get horn w idelv scattered fields. J out the family album and take a ljrge formations of let light-1 !ink. 1 know some fami'ies that eis including h'Sii, and FSls.keep their albun on a hich shelf will lead defender groups, which I for fear the children will turn to will Include regular Army, Air j the pages pasted in during the National Uiiard and Naval re-1 ifijos and be frightened into fits, scrvist units, Yandcnhci'K said, j Never Looked So Awful i Rcmbcr now ? Remember how UTILITY PLANT BLASTED VlKlNiJ. Alia.. IVt. 27. (CP) , --An explosion which rocked Ihe district for miles around. Tues day sent one man to a hospital and caused heavy fire loss to Ihe main camp in the Northw-estern Utilities Ltd., natural gas field hete. The explosion was believed caused hy a defective pipe in one of the main lines from the field. Damage wa, estimated In thou sands of dollar,. The lines pipe gat Into Edmonton. J..,,,1 ..,.,,.Maa..a.a.l.a.l IIP 1 ' P all .Tlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxa Siecial days and special weeks crowd 10 closely upon u that one cannot give due regard to each one. Rut there are aome that have so established a place in one'i heart that no reminder is needed. Every day is United Na- nun. unjr nun me. you? During the stirring days when the United Nation, wa, material- izing from the thought to the j physical body meeting In San Francisco, It wa, my good for- tune to be In a group which met six Saturday mornings to learn more about the United Nations. One speaker In particular was 10 Imbued with the great possibili ties of the gathering of the na tion, In that way, that he Im printed upon the mind, of hi, 5l,nf,ri a cear an)j workable understanding of the United Na Hons, both physical aei up of the various divisions and potential power for peace. The speaker, Herbert J. Fenn of the Long Beach City college, was so filled with his suhject that he spoke without notes, and so Interesting- Don't Return To Gunnysack Period Of 1920's, Fervent Entreaty To Milady By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (.P Lady, say it lady. Say It Isn't truethis report that to the lflJO, for Inspiration. No, no, no! Not that! Anything done to deserve such eyeball punishment? Ant " lsn ' . 'V" . o"1;0'4'" ! i But going back to tne ih.tm ii!;iin is another thine. We can t h.uie f.ir anvthine but the worst- - because we went through that madness before. O back to the fig leaf of Eve or the bustle of Victoria's day. Wear anything ever tried in the longfmlorn history of woman's struggle fur atyle anything but what vou clothed yourself In din ing the mail, had 1920s. They call that the period of "the lost generation" and blame It on the disillusionment of the First Woild war. But It wasn't the men who were lost: It was the women. It was the time when eii-U would he hovs. No wonder the gu Is drove men out of their last refuge -the barbershop- to get those ciose-cropM noxisn bobs. Remember the short. shateles, dresses, the hats that fitted like a shield? It was the fond ambition of ev ery fashionable las, then to look like a soda straw, but natutal feminine architecture too often decree.1 that the result shou'.d resemble a gunmsack full of sug ar on stilts or piano legs. Never have lovely ladies look- ed so awful, not even since they Shine On, Shine On, Harvest Moon fly Viahnett S. Slartivl ly that I heard more than one; say "how fast that hour went:" But we had a chance to laugh, too. There wai present that day I the mother-in-law of one of tiietax was about four time, )he tax Saudi Arabia delegation (her! paid by those not in the city on daughter had met him, and was the same assessed valuation. I rr-l-H . him uhil ih-v hnth:,Rur, m' "n ,ax on ,ni hasi ... - - were students in tne universny of California). This gave the lady ; a -front scat' whenever she wished to listen In. She brought to show us one of the exquisitely I embroidered caps her son in-law wore under hi, burnoose. She also J' J. """".' ..... . , . I "e some misunderstanding by told u, of the time two ladle:. ,omPone aho, city tax rates, finding themselves near one of i Now I expect to pay more tax the delegation who was dressed, ! es in order to be in the city but ,. ih.ll-wpr.. In flnwln- white ' a." 1 5P '."!' gains will more robe, discussed him admirably. Their poise wa, shattered by hi, suddenly turning, and saying in perfect English: "But you should see me on a horse, MesdaroesI" Then there was the young Arabian prince who discovered chocolate ice cream soda and kept the others In hi, hotel In a dither of excitement. "It was sodas then the doctor alternately!" isn't so. rlease say it isn t so. female fashions are going back else -not that. What have we ! took up slacks. No wonder men slept in bathtub, wet with home- made gin or plunged on the stock market. They had been made desperate by the sight of what the women they loved had done to their ruinous beauty. And now this fahrir nightmare is on the way back. A girl who should know tell, me: "The new vogue is no waist line, no hustllne. no hips, no noth ing boyish." Pnn't do it. lady. Please! For if you do. then men will have to dress like the 1920s, too. Recall a thing called "the cake eater?" He was the drugstoie cowboy of that vanished era. Would vou like to have to co out on dates again escorted hy sometning ime inai. lam . ro. Well, save us from your l!VOs look -and we'll keep the cal:e eater under glass. It's a fair bar gain. REFORESTATION DATED SALEM. Oct. 27.-.nThe na tion's biggest reforestation pro gram begins November 7. with the State Forestry department opening hid, on planting a mil-lio-i IVmglas fir seeolinc., in the Tillamook burn. Slate Koresier George Spaur saht the first contract would le for planting 9S0 acres near Owl camp. The successful bidder will have to supply labor, personnel, serv ices, planting and eouinment. j The dcartment will supplv the seedling,. PAPER INOUSTRY BOOMS OTTAWA- V For the ninth consecutive ear. I'annta's huge pulp-and paHr industry increas eo its business last ear. It turned out produc, with a gross alue of SS2. vSisi0 in 19JS. an increase of 1K8 percent over : In my opinion the social secur 1!MT. Ihe Dominion bureau of sia itv program as set up and Listics reported. ; amended In H. R. tYi0 is both un- Newsprint made up S per - ! cent of the total paper tonnage, LETTERS to the Editor ROSEBl'RG As a resident of West Rosehurg. I favor annexa tion. I am interested in fact. For Instance. I read a Letter to the Editor" In the News Review on October 25. In which I unrier- n( as ahout the same as mv fi,,ra irome tax. I dro to the city to see if everyone had -vedo he tf j? iv in )(; cjjy a, ,he ,gx ral, I found that the city seemed fuli of several thousand people con- than exreed the expense. That Is what your look for when vou make a wise investment, I am told. The savings alone from low er fire insurance rate, and from having mv street maiotained by the city instead of out of my own pocket will just about take care of my Increased tax. In ad dition to that, I can see police protection for my family when 1 am not at home traffic patrol lo protect my family on our street, to prevent death or injury due to reckless driving, street lights for our dark street, and corner, and many other, I haven't time or space to list. This sanitary district voted In out here is a good idea, but there is a doubt that it can be financed hy our small assessed valuation. You know it take, a lot of money to do a job like this and form ing a sanitary, district, alone gives no guarantee of fulfillment if this sanitary district goe, ahead with it, plan, and then fall, short of finance, at the last what happen, then? Well. lie tax payers will he stuck with a lot of expense and not even a ditch in the ground to look at Bn(j no prospect, of one for a long time. You don't loan monev or spend money without secuntv or assurance that your money will gain you something. I say go in the city and push our sani tary district "(brought then. Fi nancing would then be a certain ty with the hiigh assessed valua tion of the city back of us, and I feel it would be completed soon er and would be more properly supervised from start to finish. This is not a short term deal. It Is a long term public utilitv, and If vou will look around you. you will see that public utlliti", require a lot of financial back ing and must be well planned snd well supervised by efficient and skilled personnel, not only now. i put in the long year, to come vears that you and I will not exist to see. SAM McGAUGHEY Roseburg. Ore. Why Not Pass Townsend Bill? Asks Writer ROSEBURG During the month Congress passed hill H.R. tSiHVI. the scx-ial secujitv bill, hv an overwhelming maiority. Why did thev not pass the Townsend bill, which Is more equitable, more practical, more lust, much easier ;nd cheaper to adminis ter and less cosily in the long j run? The Townsend plan would col lect monev immediately and hand it out on a monthly basis ; to the old people in the nation 1 tor them to spend for the neces sities of life. I ask which I, better? Which will bring more happiness o more people? Which can spend i the money to a better advantage. the federal government or our i worth v old people 1 sound and dihonest. and many i congressmen also think so. Three In the Day's News (Continued tram Page One) popular one. Among other things, ne will have to decide whether or not he will enforce the laws against gambling. Unfortunately, law enforcement officials In Ore gon have to do that. It would be tar simpler If we exnected our officials to see to It that the laws are obeyed and they went ahead and saw to It that this is done. i But. alas, wt don't do it that way. So, you see, Terry will have ; to make his decision. If he de-1 cides to ENFORCE the laws, a: lot of people . will claim he is : hurting business. . If he derides I NOT to enforce them, a lot of people will wonder how much he's getting for It. I SPENT last night In one f Oregon's pleasantest and most pious cities. A Dart of the evenlnu I spent playing slot machine in tne company of thoroughly nice people. I won a jackpot on a nickel ma chine. A nickel machine It about my speed as a player at slot ma chines. I can make a dollar last longer that way and I'm so con stituted that I can get as much fun out of winning a nickel machine jackpot as a dollar one. I can yell Just as loudly with glee and as for the cash Involved I'm getting so old that I've learn ed that gambling money ISN'T MONEY. According to the law of averages, if you win tonight you'll lose tomorrow night, so if you look upon your winnings as money you're just a sap. I HAD an exceedingly good time and I came away with no feel ing of being smirched. But IF I HAD BEEN THE SHERIFF OR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF THAT COUNTY, I WOULD HAVE FELT SMIRCHED. I would have known that If I didn't close the Joint and arrest all the players I would have been violating my oath of office. Also I would have known that every body1 thought I was getting money for letting the slot ma chines run. . IT happens that I know the sheriff and the district attor ney of the county in which this pleasant and sociable and good natured wrestling match with the slot machine handlts was con ducted. I can't believe that either of them would take money for letting the machines run. Still, YOU CANT HELP WON DERING IF THEY DO. CO, looking at the picture of J this nice young sheriff and hi. nice little family, I can't help hoping he decides to close all the gambling up and keep It closed as long a, the laws of Oregon FOR BID GAMBLING. Here is the way It will work out: If the slot machines and the other gambling rackets run, his friend, will look at him and won der how much he Is getting for LETTING THEM RUN. The time w ill come w hen EVEN HIS WIFE : will wonder about It. How would you like to have 'people thinking things like that i about you? You wouldn't like it, I'm sure. IF the fair reputation of the state of Oregon end the good I name of a lot of our law enforce- ment officials are to be protected, we should either enforce the laws against gambling or RE PEAL THEM. At least, that's the way I feel about it. RAIL LINE IS LOSER WASHINGTON (-Pi The Oregon Short line and the Union Pacific have asked the Interstate Commerce commission for per mission to abandon a II mile branch line railroad between Deelo and Denning. Idaho. The Oregon Short line owns the branch and I'nion Pacific has been operating over it. The voj rme of traffic is too low o make continued operation worthwhtl Ihe railroad said. BOEING CO. FLOURISHES SEATTLE Pi Boeing Air plane co. officials report the com pany had unfilled order, totaling $.VI2 .4fW.7S7 on Sept. 30. The quarterly financial report disclosed third quarter net earn ings of $1. 117.8215. bringing the ninth month total to Sl.7SO.175. of our Oregon congressmen have signed the Townsend petition. Our own congressman has not. Why not JOSEPH W. Lemmer Roseburg. Ore. PHONE 100 between 6. IS and 7 p. m., it you have not received your News Review. Ask .'or Harold Motley. Peactime Draft Never Required, Solon Declares WASHINGTON. Oct. 27-W Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D Coloi said Wednesday that plans of the Army to release its draf tees shows the 1948 peacetime draft act never was needed in the first place. He referred to the disclosure by Secretary of the Army Gray that beginning Dec. 1, the Army will offer discharges to 24,000 draftees and 6,000 21-month en listees as soon as thev have fin ished 12 months of service. "That certainly is positive proof that the present draft law never should have been enact ed,'1 Johnson told a reporter. "It never was necessary and I was quite convinced of it at the time but could not prove it." What's more, the blunt spoken Westerner suggested that top military and civilian leaders abandon all plans for extending the peacetime selective service act when it expires next June 24. "I have been and still am op posed to a peacetime draft," Johnson said. "There it no fore seeable need for it In the future." Secretary Grav, in announcing the discharge plan, said it wa, proof that the Army would not abuse Ike possession of a peace time draft law on the books. He urged that the law be continued, for use If needed. However, Johnson predicted that the next session of Congress would turn down any extension of the law. The vast selective service sys tem was on a going-out-of busi ness basis until the present act was pushed through a reluctant Congress in June, 1948. It required men from 18 through 25 years old to register, with thoso from 19 through 25 subject to induction for 21 months service. 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