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4 Tht Newi-Review, Roaeburg, Ore. Tub., Nov. I, 1949 ' Published 0 ifly Except Sunday f-y th Newi-Revie Com pony. Inc. EaUrct) econd olau mHtr Mr t, 180, at lta nut offlot tl BoMburg, Oregon, undar ct of March . IMS CHARLE8 V. STANTON -jjppjte EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Z&jP Managor Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publlsheri Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations BlDreientril i WBBT-HOLLIDA V CO., INC., officii In Naw fork, Cbloara. BIO rtsroUoo. Lot Anal.., Sr.tlla. rarllanil. 81. Laula. SUBSCRIfl'tUN HATPB In Oregon By Mail rer Tear IB.HO, 111 molhi H.ftS, Ihr.a moslna tl.M. By Cllr Carrier far year SI0.00 (In advance), aa than ana -ear, par month 11.00 ontalda Orefon Br Hall Par year ID 00 els moniha $4.16. Uirea monthe $.fl PLANNING FOR DUCKS What Price High Wages? By CHARLES V. STANTON An Interesting experiment in soil conservation with simul itaneous development of a recreational area is in formative stages on the Oregon coast at the mouth of the Siuslaw river. . Most Oregonians are familiar with the extensive stretch of sand dunes in the Florence section of the beach. Many acres are covered by huge dunes which are constantly shift ing.. The dunes now threaten to engulf several buildings and portions of the highway, while constituting a constant menace to both navigation and drainage. Plans now are being prepared to stabilize the sand and, while so doing, to use forces of nature to build up recrea tional facilities supplementing the already existing game refuge in which the dune area is included. Residents of the area have organized a soil conservation district, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Manage ment, state highway department, game commission and other organizations. . , ,. The work will be directed by the soil conservation depart ment of the Bureau of Land Management and will follow a pattern used successfully in recent months in controlling 3,000 acres of formerly shifting sands on the Warrenton area near Astoria. To anchor the 'dunes, various type, of beach grasses will be planted, together with Scotch broom, shore pine and other plants suited to beach soil. But the planners also expect to 'Jake advantage of Na ' ture's resistance and make use of wind and tide in creation of recreational facilities. .Through use of pattern planting, engineers hope that winds will scoop out . hollows which will enlarge as the years go by, thus creating extensive waterways parallel ing the beach. These lakeshores then will be planted with wild rice and other foods suitable for waterfowl, providing resting and feeding places for migratory birds of the coastal f lyway. The area already is in a game refuge, which abounds in deer, and it is anticipated that the presence of abundant forage in the reclaimed area will soon produce deer range. t Thus, if these plans materialize as anticipated, travelers along the coast highway should find at the mouth of the Siuslaw a spot where waterfowl may be seen in abundance and deer and other animals easily observed day and night. Truly a potential paradise for the camera fan. Persons desiring to hunt with something more lethal than a camera should be able to obtain good sport on the fringes of the refuge. , , Creation of a recreational district, of course, is only in cidental to the more practical purposes of the sand con trol program. Unless the shifting dunes are stabilized, heavy losses will occur to fnrm lands. One small settlement is in immediate danger of being covered by drifting sands. Port and harbor developments are 'stymied until dunes at the river's mouth are anchored. There is much danger to high ways. Consequently the control problem is being attacked primarily for protective purposes. The recreational work is projected only because it will add nothing to the ex pense. Yet it holds promise of large monetary returns be cause of its appeal to tourists and recreationists. The Siuslaw project, however, is particularly interest ing to the conservationist as an example of recreational planning as a part of reclamation. Until recently little thought has been given wildlife and conservation in large scale planning. Our minds have been conditioned to think only of tan gible benefits. Thus we have sacrificed most valuable rec reational resources unnecessarily in development of power, irrigation and navigation sacrifices which could have been avoided had wildlife anl. recreational resources been ac corded equality in planning. The Siuslaw project indicates what can be accomplished when all factors, including recreational possibilities, are given consideration. The organized sportsmen of the Siuslaw district were originally responsible for proposing the project but found excellent cooperation from all agencies involved. We are confident that there never will be cause to regret the development. .Wwim By S. Martin f fZ- ' Longshoremen Of Seattle Area Accept New Contract SEATTLE, Nov. 1. (VPl-Ae-ceptancc ol a now contract cover ing workers in Tacoma, Port An geles and Anaeortcs was announc ed today by the Inlcrantional supercargoes an eight-cent raise. Both contracts will remain In effect until next Sept. 30. Pro vision was made for further dis cussion of a penison plan. The When the news of his son's death In action came to Harry Lauder, the world-loved comedi an, as he was about to take his place on the stage, he carried on as usual. After all, it was his work in life, he felt, to make people happier, to make them laugh, to help them forget for a brief time the overwhelming bur den of the War not to add his burden of grief to their hearts. So he went out on the stage and joked and chuckled . . . In my copy of "College Com position (Rankin, Thorpe and Solve: Harper's) is a passage about Sir Harry Lauder, an In terview with him published in the Outlook. The theme was: "That in the breast of almost every human being are depths that the casual acquaintance never suspects ..." .. At the time Harry Lauder was going right Into the front line trenches, cheering the troops In his own Inimitable way. Said he to the editor of the Outlook: "This Is the message I carried to the boys in the trenches. I told them that if I had not had this power to trust in God and know that it was for the best that there is something back of life I could not have stood it at all. And when I told them that . . . the men said to themselves: 'If you can stand it, so can we'." The Interview continued: "There are no atheists when big shells come over their heads. And I, too, believe in Immortality yes, not only believe it but know. I am absolutely positive that my boy has only gone on before, and that when my time comes to go, I shall see him again. I shall go there with a smile on my face, knowing that I am going to meet him. I shall go with a sure expectation: it is a glory for me to feel and know that." I well remember the fire, the passion of devotion, the deeply religious faith of Harry Lauder, although I recall no specific words to quote. Our family had for him an affection; my father never tired of his records. Al though his name was in the news recently as "critically ill" I am sure that whatever the next news is all Is well with Harry Lauder. In the Day's News i (Continued from Page One) Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Longshoremen's as sod a t i o n inrrsent plan was continued with (AFL). I slight increases in worker and The agreement contained no I employer contributions. ' wage Increase, although a siml-1 Satisfaction over the agree lar contract affecting checkers, ment and course of nerjotiHiions foremen, supervisors and super- was expressed bv officials of cargoes granted foremen a seven-1 hoth the iLA and the Water cent boost, and supervisors and front Employers' association. Road Blocks Are Placed To Halt Cattle Rustling MOMTESANO, Wash., Nov. 1. (fP Road blocks to halt cattle rustling went Into effect nt sewn strategic points this week, Sher iff Mike Kllgore said. It was the first large-scale at tempt to choke off the transpor tation of stolen beef from rural areas to harbor and Puget Sound population centers. INDIAN CHIEF DIES MANSON, Wash.. Nov. 1. (.T -Chief Peter Wapato. Washing- I ton State's oldest annle crower. died at his home here vesterday at the. age of 100. The chief of the En'lat tribe Cooperating were the state na- Planted his first annle tree at this trol, state brand insper.-rs, Ma- town on Lake Chelan In 1885. He son county sheriff's dcpiMes and operated a lS-ncre apple ranch the Indian service. 'at the time of his death. All meat discovered by the of ficers was being transported in compliance with the law, Kllgore said. Several hundred cars were stopped and inspected. Grants Pass Courier Where Does The Grange Fit In The Democrats met in Rose burg recently to lay plans to el ect a Democrat to Congress from the Fourth Congressional district. There is nothing particularly startling about the fact that the state Democratic organization is seeking to defeat Congressman Harris Ellsworth in 1950. In our opinion It would be most startling news if they should succeed. We are convinced that Ells worth is fully able to take caie of himself politically and that he will continue to do so in the fut ure. This editorial is not particul arly concerned with the fact that the state Democratic organiza tion wants to replace Ellsworth with a Democrat in the lower house of Congress. It is concern ed with the elements that parti cipated in the Democratic pow wow at Roseburg. The Associated Press reports that the Democratic organiz- son, Linn, Lane, Douglas ana Coos counties which comprise the Fourth district were repre sented at the meeting. That, too, cannot be classed as s t a r 1 1 ing news. A story in the Fortland Oregon Ian Tuesday states that Monroe Sweetland, national committee man; William L. Josslin, state chairmen, and J 1 m Goodsell, state executive secretary of the Democratic party attended. That was to be expected. Now we come to the most en lightening news of the Roseburg political meeting: Again, accord ing to the Oregonlan, V o 1 n e y Martin, an American Federation of Labor executive and secretary of the Democratic state comm ittee, Chester C. Dustcn, regional director of the CIO. and Verne Livesay of the Oregon State Grange participated. Through the years, we had labored under the impression that the Grange was a non-parti san organization nd not an in tegral part ol ine emocranc party. We believe there are many others, including r nost ol Grange members, themselves who will be most surprised to find the State Grange Is a tall on the state Democratic kite. , Don't misunderstand us. We have long been convinced that, under the administration d f Grangemaster Morton Tompkins, the State Grange has been herd ed into the conglomerate politi cal mass which is the Nu-Deal or the Tru-Deal, a hybrid which has flourished under the banner of Thomas Jefferson. The effrontery, however, with which the Grange state bosses throw in their lot with the poli tical hybrids does surprise us. One would think that Tompkins would insist that the Grange be not brought openly into a parti san political organization even though, behind the scenes, he plays its game. The Roseburg affair reminds us that it is only a fortnight ago that the Grange was In the lime light along with the CIO and the Americans for D e m ota crc 1 Action. That was in the Leland Olds affair. President Truman nominated Olds for reappointment to t h e Federal Power Commission. The Senate commerce committee voted against confirmation 10 to 2. The Senate upheld that com mittee by a substantial margin. During that fight. Truman or dered William M. Boyle Jr., De mocratic national chairman, to direct all party state organiza tions to bring pressure to bear upon senators to vote for the con firmation of Olds. Monroe Sweetland received a telegram from Boyle declaring that confirmation of Olds was an "issue of importance to the fu ture of the Democratic party." Sweetland got busy. Then came a published an nouncemmit from Sweetland that the State Grange, the CIO and the ADA had pledged support of the drive to prevail jpon the two Oregon senators to support OU's. He further made the public claim that the State Grange (not he or the Democratic party) had obtained a pledge of support from Wayne Morse but that Guy Cordon's answer' was "cqqui vocal." What do the political mach inations of State Grangemaster Morton Tompkins and his man Livesay mean? Simply this: If they can help swing the Grange Into the Labor-NuDeal camp and weren't just common eating beef. They were the cream of the crop. They had been pampered In every way that a cow-brute on feed can be pampered. ' The feeder of them wasn't aim ing at just eating beef. He wasn't interested In common things like that. He was shooting for big, thick steaks, tender enough to be cut with a fork, with just the right amount of fat wrapped around them to give the flavor demanded by an epicure. That and standing rib roasts. r He wasn't much concerned with the rest of the carcass. 11HO buys such millionaire ff meat? You know who buys it, and where and why. We ALL do it, from time to time. When we buy that kind of food, we are doing it for a splurge, or we're doing It to put on a show. In the case of a splurge, we tell ourselves we're entitled to a binge now and then and in the case of a show we're probably entertaining some body in which event the thing to do is to order the highest priced Item on the menu with the idea of proving to your guests that, the best is none too good when you're asking them to put on the nose bag with you. That Is how and where, and why such meat is-sold. It is sold at specialty places, for, special pur poses, and these places come into the market and bid for the best that is to be had with . price no object,' . ' ' IN this same market, where ONE ccarload of steers brought a fantastic price for splurge and show purposes, utility grades of beef animals sold for $18.00 per hundredThese utility grades are good enough for all the common business of everyday eating. "Canner" cows sold for a top of $10.00. If health and strength are all you are eating for ,you can make a mighty good stew outof canner cow meat. It will provide as much nourishment as the fan ciest steak. So don't look at this sale of ONE carload of top-bracket hot house steers and howl about the cost of living and what it is doing In these days when costs are sup posed to be slipping off. That kind of stuff never was cheap and never will be. Its price Is set by what the traffic will bear and that kind of splurgeandshow traffic will bear a lot. ALONG time age somebody said wisely and philosophically: "It Is isn't the high cost of living that hurts so much as the COST OF HIGH LIVING." That is still true. Russia's Ability To Localize War On Tito improbable " By BRUCE BIOSSAT . . .. How long can Marshal Tito': of Yugoslavia remain & thorn In Russia's side? ' ' '' The Soviet Union and her eastern European satellites have scrapped wholesale the mutual aid and friendship treaties they had with Yugoslavia, emphasizing that stronger measures are In the making to stamp out Tito's mutiny. ' ' Foreign affairs observers be-, llcve the Kremlin has decided it can no-longer tolerate the chal lenge of Titoism. This rebellion tends more and more every day to damage Russian prestige be fore the world and undermine the jerrybuilt struetlre of Soviet re lations with its immediate neigh bors. - But it seems likely that Tito, emboldened by economic aid from the United States and the prospect of more help from other western powers, will resist all attempts to crush him by mere political pressure and economic strangulation. In fact some American and British experts are said to have concluded that Moscow can only break Tito if it is willing to use the Red Army. Tito has already shown that he can deal effect ively with Russlan-iaspired sabo tage and guerrila attacks. More strenuous tactics would appear to be the only other course open. If invasion is indeed the sole avenue left to the irritated Soviet leaders, the question is how the attack might be managed to keep It from spreading to a continent wide or world conflict. One suggestion is that the Rus sians might employ assault units dressed up as anti-Tito Yugo slavs. The aim would be to give the world the impression that the outbreak was a civil uprising pat tened on the Greek war. It could then be fed by men and mater ials pushed , across Yugoslavia's borders by neighboring Russian satellites. The approach b unlikely, how ever to fool world opinion, no less than if the attack were an un concealed Soviet enterprise. Yu goslavia is certain to ask the United Nations, in such an event, to condemn the use of force against her. . However an attack would be mounted, the United States and other western nations probably would step up economic assist ance to Tito and even send con siderable amounts of military equipment. This help almost certainly thereby bring Oregon into line po litically, there is no Question hut what the individuals who accom plished it will be in line for some fat political jobs at the hands of Mr. Truman. Both Tompkins and Livesay have had their- turns at enjoying federal plums. They very probahly hanker for more only bigger and better. In the meantime, a revolution ary change is being made In the character of the Oregon Stale Grange whether the rank-and-file Grangers realize it or not. Woman Accident Victim Wrongly Claimed As Wife YAKIMA, Nov. 1. UP) Prose cutor Ronald E. Hull was con fronted with a legal puzzler to day: What to do with a man who identified another man's wife as his and arranged to bury the woman under his own name when she was fatally injured in a traffic accident. Pending his decision. Hull said he was holding Howard A. Wright, 48, of nearby Naches, as a material witness. Hull said the woman, original ly identified by Wright as his wife, Tillie, was actually Mrs. Victor Godfrey of Dallas, Ore., and the mother of seven children. Final identification was made by Godfrey, and a son, Alma, after investigation of papers found in Wright's apple orchard cabin prompted a closer check. Hull said Mrs. Godfrey and Wright ; were walking along a Highway near Naches last Mon day night when both were struck by a car. Mrs. Godfrey was in jured fatally, Wright was hurt slightly, and Mrs. Newlyn E. Mc Donald, 37, of Naches, driver of the car, was charged with negli gent homicide. Wright identified the victim to both state police and Hull as his wife, the prosecutor said. When released from the hospital Thurs day, Wright, went to a Yakima funeral director to arrange for burial of "Mrs. Wright." A Ya kima newspaper published, notice oi tne mnerau: . . . .. Wright later admitted the wom an's true identity when confront ed by Godfrey's identification. He declined to say why he had identified her as his wife earlier, Hull said. Mrs. Godfrey's body was ship, ped to Dallas for burial Satur day, i WHERE'S I McKAY? 1 Ses Page 12 I Music-Teaching Wife Killed By Enraged Spouse DETROIT, Nov. 1 (ff) A To. ed by his wife's interest in teach ing music, beat her to death with a hammer early Monday and then fatally .wounded her moth er. V Tossing aside the hammer, he jumped in his car and raced to Detroit to tell his daughter about it. lie was stopped twice on tne way for speeding and released when he told officers he was "on a very Important errand." The 67-year-old buildiner mate rial salesman, John A. Harding, was held here for Toledo police. "I couldn't resist It," he told patrolman Walter O'Dell of Grosse Pointe Woods. "I've .had the Impulse for weeks." i Officers in Toledo, notified by authorities here, rushed to the big, rambling Harding home. They found Mrs. Mildred Hard ing, 46, dead in her bedroom. Nearby was her mother, Mrs. Maude Thompson, critically in jured. Mrs. Thompson died later in a hospital. Widow Of Butcher Of Lidice Faces Charges BERLIN, Nov. 1. CP) Five hundred Berlin survivors of Nazi persecution have signed a protest charging that Frau Relnhard Heydrich personally ordered the destruction of Lidice after the assassination of her husband. The widow of Hitler's "protec tor" of occupied Czechs was re cently adjudged a "follower," the least guilty class of Nazi, By a British zone denazification court on the island of Fehmarn. The protest was drafted by the local victims of nazism society for forwarding to the society's headquarters at Hamburg in the British zone. New York Citv has several bon a fide farms within its city limits. PHONE 100 between 6.1 S and 7 p. m., if you hare not received youf News Review. Aik for Harold Motley. Three Die When British Plane Crashes Houses YEOVIL, ENG., Nov. 1. m A new secret British navy fighter smacked into a-pair of connecting houses Monday and exploded. The pilot, a child and a woman were killed.' The blsfst of the plunging plane demolished one house, killing its occupant, Mrs. W. Brown. Ann Wllkins, 6, was killed as she pedalled her cycle in the street in front of the house. ' The pilot was Michael Graves, 28, assistant chief test pilot for Westland Aircraft, Ltd., makers of the plane, the Wyvern TF2 turbo jet fighter. He was the son of Sir Cecil Graves, former director-general of the British Broad lasting corporation. m fa " i) Reserved for You Can you duplicate that favorite ' comfortable cor ner of your home if it is burned out? Are you certain that the amount of your fire insurance is adequate? D D E sure to protect all your household goods witbiinsur ance through this Hartford agency,. . . , ' ' . . R O. YOUNG y Phoni 417 ' ' 205 W. 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