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4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Wed., Nov. 2, 194? Published 0 illy Exoapt Sunday l y the Naws-Revie Company, Inc. (ultra! end elm maltar Mar 1. ! " "l0 " Baiaaart. Omii, n4ar aat ( Mrok I, lall CHARLES V. STANTON sppv EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Aaaoelated Preaa, Oregon Newapaper Publlahere Aesoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations . Bainmlit br WEST-HOLLIDAf CO. INC. fllcai la Naw ark, Calcaia. Ill ftraaelaea. Laa Anfalra. StaUla. PorllanS. St. Laala. UBSUaUrTION lATEa la Orasaa B Mall Par Taar II.M, ila naalha U it, taraa maatna M.S9. Br CUr Carrlar Par year Sia.oa (la advanea). Ibaa aaa raar. par maalta 11.00 OaLiaa Orataa Br Hall Par raar SB oe. li aealba 14.71. Ihraa maalba li.7a NO NEED FOR NOOSE By CHARLES V. STANTON . We listened with much interest Monday to State Senator Austin Flegel's talk at the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce forum luncheon program. The senator earnestly advocated the Columbia Valley administration. It is easy to understand why he has had outstanding; suc cess in his campaign for CVA, for he gives down-to-earth, practical arguments in contrast to the visionary messages from CVA's prime minister, Girard Davidson, assistant Secretary of the Interior, who has been the project's No. 1 spokesman. ; Senator Flegel at least touched upon the bill itself, some thing most of the proponents shun. But his argument has the same weakness to be found in all advocacy of CVA a weakness inherent in the bill that of three men holding a loaded gun pointed at the Pacific Northwest. The speaker said he would have "faith" in the three political appointees, who would be named by the President to administer CVA. "Jebby" Davidson, presenting the same argument, frequently uses the word "intent." But it all adds up to the same thing three men with power to do about anything they please' with the resources of the Pacific . Northwest, Its development, exploitation, finances and government. These three men could bankrupt every county in western Oregon through their determination of money to be paid in lieu of taxes. They would have authority over land and its uses. They could virtually take over state government through reprisal if administrative or legislative action failed to suit them. This power, in our opinion, should not be placed in the hands of any three men, no matter how able or sincere' they may be. Their "intent" might be the best in the world, but no board of three men can be expected to function without error and no administrative body, bearing the responsibility imposed upon the directors cf CVA, should be vested with as much authority as provided in the Act without a better system of checks, balances, appeal and review. The proposed Act has too many provisions that decisions by the board shall be "final." Proponents of CVA dwell at great leneth unon inef ficiency, waste, extravagance, duplications, etc.; in present river development operation. No one can quarrel or disagree with that premise. In our opinion, it would be a grave error to continue the present methods and lack of over-all planning. But we believe a successful and efficient river develop ment program can be initiated and operated without chang ing our form of government and placing our necks in the noose of bureaucratic dictatorship. The Hoover commission report offers one solution a solution to which CVA advo cates object because control would be from Washington instead of through a three-man commission having head quarters within the region. Just as if we were gullible enough to believe that the three-man board wouldn't be tied to the apron strings of the Secretary of Interior and wouldn't have to take its orders from Washington on vir tually every matter of major importance. But instead of taking those orders from the Congress, it would get them from the President and Secretary of the Interior whose decisions would be measured largely by political factors. We have no quarrel with public power. The federal govern ment has assumed authority over many of our resources- forest, migratory fowl, mineral rights, irrigation, grazing, commerce and others and, having formed a policy of con servation of resources, may well include development of water for power, navigation, irrigation and other uses. CVA advocates point to the importance of this conserva tion program and the need for its expansion in an orderly rather than haphazard manner. The argument, however, does not concern the PURPOSE but rather the METHOD proposed to achieve that purpose. And, in our opinion, it would be most unfortunate if critics of CVA should succeed in beating the proposal without substituting therefore a method whereby the same results can be obtained without accepting a loaded gun at our heads and a noose about our collective necks. Whither Away? .. . ! Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press EASIER TO WRITE A REGULATION (Coos Bay Times) We heard another ancle of "L'affalre Mcsserle" today, and It doesn't look any hotter for the state department of agriculture nnd Its division of foods and dair ies than the first ones we've been writing about this wepk. A dairyman reported to us that he Inquired recently of a state department of agriculture execu tive why a rule was made pro hibiting commercial haulers of milk from using anything hut a covered truck with tight doors, while farmer-producers were al lowed to haul their own milk In opon trucks. The answer, as relayed to us, was that it is a move to got away from double -decking and evpn triple-docking of cans In commer cial milk trucks. It s-erms that for a long time milk can covers were made in such a way that holes In opposite sides of the top for wire would allow any dirt falling on top of the can to sopp and then placed on top of a can with the old-style wire holes, the chances are good that the milk in the bottom can will bp polluted. Therefore, the department of agriculture apparently reasons that a single producer will not have enough cans to double-deck them, so lie can haul his own milk. But If there are chances of double-decking, the cans must be .landled In a tightly closed truck. New-style milk cans do not have holes In the tops that will allow for dirt to seep In. There fore, why not Just outlaw the old style can lids? This may be too simple a solution, so wc don't ex pect It to get much considera tion. However, with safely closed cans, there should be no need for any worry about contamination of the milk. Another regulation would be to have a sheet of ply wood between the .decks If cans are stacked. This, too, Is simple. It Is much easier to alt down and write cut regulations that have no apparent basis on good seap ll : . Ill I SAW By Paul Jenlcins I fe: nL- fi fort 's 1 h 4 - s ? v liiaaiaii a I ilVllara innr I nil it'll lalii i J In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) IALO STEPHENS, day clerk at the Umpqua Hotel, as he passed a room key to an incoming guest. lalo has been overlord of the desk for only a few months. It must be difficult still for him to reach for a pen when a prospective customer approaches, instead of a pair of pliers; for only recently he was a garage man. Foe nearly 30 years he operated Stephens garage on North Main street. Upon inquiring I discovered he harbored just as fresh a re membrance at did I of a time when I mired my car on a side road near Elkton. It was flatly belly-deep in gummy mud and when lalo arrived and hooked on to It from a side hill elevation the winch dragged the wrecker down, not my car up. Neither curses nor prayers availed until he got a shovel and we dug out about three yards of mud from under one side of the car, which seemed to break a suction or something or other. I know this task nearly broke our backs. S tS. By Viahmtt S. Martivt down into the milk. Thus, if a and which, on the very face, are can li dragged through the mud discriminatory. Miss S snugly bundled In fur coat, a buffalo robe, with a stone pig" at her feet, was enjoying a sleigh-ride to Lake Placid with F. G. It was a lovely, sparkling day. The bells on the livery horse Jingled pleasantly. Now - and again they waited on a turnout for an approaching rig, or re ceived a similar courtesy. The snow was still near the tops of th' fence posts. So when they came to the fork where tracks led out across the lake, a short cut over the Ice, there seemed no reason why they shouldn't take that way. . The liveryman hadn't been sure about that . . . "you Just look at the tracks; you can tell that way." Soon the horse was stepping along In slush, deeper and deeper slush. What to do? They had been warned not to leave the tracks if they did go across the lake. Could be air holes and such. F. G. was from New York and was new to the country and to driving. Miss S was used to horses, but not to a predicament tike this. Both of them did a little silent praying, trying not to show anxiety both of them felt. Then Miss S remembered as vividly as If he were speaking at the moment something her father had said in telling about a narrow escape he had. It had been a blowy, rainy, dark night, and the creek was running flood high. "All of a sudden old Kit stopped and she wouldn't budge. I got out and went to her head . . . where the bridge was supposed to be it wasn't. Kit had sense enough to stop. A horse wants good firm footing. ..." Miss S told the story; they decided to let the horse have his head, and trust for the best. He Jogged steadily across to the other side where a teamster sat on his load of logs waiting, shak ing his head. "Never though they'd make It. Ain't nobody been across that lake in a week. Couldn't ye tell by the tracks? Plumb foolish, I call It!" To this day a picture of Lake Placid brings back that time when the longest way 'round was indeed the surest way home. show more willingness to join in a single economic unit." aaa LET'S put It this way: If we of Oregon had to crosa an International frontier every time we went to California, or Nevada, or Idaho, or Washing tonall of whose borders touch ours we wouldn't make much business progress. - When you cross an Interna tional frontier, all your posses sions have to be overhauled and checked for tariff duties. (Also for pistols or bombs you might be carrying to knock off the ruler of the country you are entering.) What happened even In the most unrestrained days of the Califor nia "bug" stations isn't a caution to what happens when you cross a European International bound ary. That isn't all. Every time you cross an inter national frontier you. tackle a new kind of money. Even learning how to buy things with the new money is quite a chore. When to that you add a strange language, you re apt to be up a tree without knowing Just how to get down, aaa HERE on the Pacific Coast to speak of only of ONE geo graphical area of our country trade, travel, visitation (all of the things for which people move around) move almost as freely as the air. The people of one state buy the products of other states with a minimum of trouble and red tape. They visit back and forth without hindrance. The result is TRADE AND COMMERCE on an uninhibited scale. WHAT Hoffman is telling West ern Europe is 'that until it gets to doing business in some what the way we do It is going to be a problem child and the time may come when we'll get tired of solving Its problems and PUTTING UP THE CASH for the solutions. The advice he Is giving these countries Is good advice. Appeals Court Unfair To NLRB, Charge Listed WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-A.V The National Labor Relations board has protested to the Su preme court that it Isn't getting a fair deal In the fifth circuit of appeals which takes in six south ern states. The complaint is made bv So licitor General Philip B. Perlman In petitions appealing five labor cases from the appellate court. Perlman said the cases were not ones which ordinarily would be tarried to the tribunal but would bring "to the court's at tention the special seriousness of the board's enforcement pro blems In the court below." Under the law, the labor board must go to the courts for enforce ment orders. Perlman cited what he called a "pattern of denial" of NLRB rights in the fifth appeals court and said the "inordinately large number" of labor cases before it "bodies ill" for those now in lower courts. The fifth circuit court handles cases in Georgia, Florida, Ala Texas and the Canal Zone. It is headed by Judge Joseph C. Hut cheson Jr., of Houston, Tex., bit ter critic of the NLRB. Hutcheson once complained in a speech of the "arrogance and tyrannical impatience" of the board. ' Perlman submitted figures to the Supreme court which he said showed that NLRB has not fared as well in the fifth circuit as in other appeals. (MA Fire Damages P. O. Department Bldg. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-4P) Fire, accompanied by a rumbling series of explosions, caused heavy damage to the $11,000,000 postoffice department hulldtng Tuesday and sent hundreds of government employes fleeing to the streets. , Smoke and water damage was heavy. There was no immediate official estimate of the loss, but a somewhat similar fire in 1935 soon after the building was con st ructpd caused $400,000 damage. At least three persons were in jured either by fiying glass from the explosions, or when a section of the seventh floor ceiling fell In. Three firemen were taken to emergency hospital. Thev were overcome by smoke while fight ing the blaze. Updraf t Stymies Chaplain Barney In 'Chute Descent Chaplain John Barney, captain in the 82nd Airborne division, had an unusual view of a recent divi sional review before President Truman, but he didn't overly en Joy the privilege. Making his 15th parachute Jump, Barney's chute carried him Into a thermal updraft where the rising air current stopped his de scent and held him almost motion less in the air while other para troopers were dropping around him, threatening any moment to strike and collapse his "umbrella." But he finally drifted out of the updraft and made a normal descent. Captain and Mrs. Barney and their son, Michael, are visiting with Mrs. Barney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Conmne, at Glide and will remain here for approxi mately a month. They are enroute to Alaska, the captain having been transferred from Fort Bragg, N. C, to an Alaskan post. Formerly pastor of the First Christian church in Roseburg, Captain Barney entered the chap lain service during the second World war and served in the Eu ropean theater, where he was decorated for meritorious service under fire. Following the war he accepted a pastorate in Idaho but soon returned to the Army and has been training with the air- i borne troops. He has qualified as a paratrooper, and gliderist. BAPTIST SPEAKER Rev. Harold Jackson of Portland, above, new director of Chris tian education in Oregon for the Baotlst church, will speak at the quarterly business meeting and potluck supper at the First Bap tist church at 6:30 tonight. He II also speak at a youth re treat Thursday or Friday, Rev. Harold Jackson To Speak At Baptist Church The Rev. Harold Jackson of Portland, new director of Chris tian education for the Baptist church in Oregon, will speak at the quarterly business meeting and potluck supper at the First Baptist church of Roseburg at 6:30 Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Jackson Is known as a good speaker who uses wit and humor to great effect, said the Rev. H. P. Sconce, local Bap tist pastor. He will stay over here for a youth retreat on Thurs day or Friday. The Rev. Mr. Sconce announced that all heads of departments wjll bring reports, and that im portant ousiness win oe trans acted. The supper will feature wild game and pumpkin pie. Dale Simms Back From Buying Trip Dale Simms, manager of Joe Richards store, returned here Friday after a three-wetk buy ing trip In New York and Chi cago. Joe Richards, owner of Joe Richard's men stores In Eugene, Roseburg and Springfield, ac companied Sims on the flying trip. , Part of the trip was devoted to purchasing merchandise for the new store at Springfield, to be officially opened Sunday, Nov. 6. . . Participating in the opening, in addition to Sims, will be sales men Ed John, Russ Osburn, Nate Stiewig and Merle Atkinson,- all with the local store, Sims report ed. While in Danbury, Conn., Sims told of observing the manufac ture of hats. According to Sims, Danbury is "the hat center of the world." As a guest of the president of a hat manufacturing concern, Sims told of being introduced to Robert Montgomery, the mo tion picture actor-producer, with whom he had a pleasant chat TICKETS ON 8ALE Tickets are on sale at J-V Sport ing Goods store for the Roseburg High school homecoming foot ball game Friday night with Grants Pass. PHONE 100 between 6.15 and 7 p. m.( if you have net received your News- h Review. i ..... Ask for Harold Mob'ev. Vur installations Will never go sour When you wont a tub Instead of a shower. Youth,. 11. Commits Perfect Crime Almost OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 2. (ff) The 11-year-old almost com mitted the storybook perfect crime. , But, Just like in the books, he returned to the scene of the crime. That was his undoing. The youth took a wristwatch from a drug store here. He im mediately turned it in to the school lost and found. Nobody showed up to claim it, and the watch went back to the "finder." Then the young mastermind went back to the drug store. This time the manager grabbed him, turned him over to the police, and the bright little tyke confess ed all. ' Now Available Various Sizes Safe Dcpo sit Boxes Douglas County State Bank V MEMBER Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ' Diphtheria Suspected In Medford Woman's Death MEDFORD, Nov. 2. W 65-year-old woman died here Monday of what tentatively was diagnosed as diphtheria. It would be the fourth diphtheria death In three weeks. The outbreak was believed checked earlier, with no new cases reported until Dr. A. E. Dodson said the woman's death appeared to be from diphtheria. She succumbed at Sacred Heart hospital, where she had been an invalid for some time. SHOE PRICES UPPED ST. LOUS, Nov. 2 n Price Increases averaging from 10 to 18 cents a pair are effective today on International Shoe company products. The company state ment said Increased hide and leather costs were responsible for the use. GLASS FOAM IS CORK DENVER Of) The Uni versity of Denver Industrial Re search Institute is making glass foam, which in effect is a mass of tine vacuum bottles. The pur pose is improved Insulation against heat. A chunk about as big as an ice cream cone may contain arout a million oi ine i liny jugs. This new glass material is white, strong and about as light weight as cork. It is Intened to be a substltue for cork and is a development for the U.S. Army Quarter master Corps. Powdered glass, mixed with a little pow dered cadmium is melted. The glass becomes fluid. The cad mium vaporizes. This cadmium vapor forms minute bubbles all through the glass. The hot glass rises like baking bread. When the glaxs loaf cools, the cadmium bubbles condense to metal again. The metal coats the Inner sur face of the bubble, leaving a va cuum the size of the bubble. FROM THE NEWS OF j 30 YEARS AGO! i i i Per few f "e . -my Jih, ;v - o. i. Tic - "'in u. . r '! f L '. era,. wy . la.."a"t.,"' Tu, GOES TO NEW CITIZEN ' WASHINGTON (P Mrs. Ida Roe. 60, a native of Lithu ania, went to court to get her j it came time for her to get her final certificate she had become bedridden. District Court rules were re laxed to allow Judge Henry A. Schwelnhaut to go to her home to conduct naturalization proceedings. Roseburg Review March 20, 1919. A quick check revealed that the price of $2.23 per crate for broccoli in 1919 it the going price today. Other prices and values have fluctuated a great deal more in 30 years. If you bought a house in 1919 for $3,000 chances are it's worth about $5000 today. If it's insured for $3,000 and burns you've just thrown $2,000 in the Umpqua river. MORAL Insure your home for its true value. It Payi to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R I'm i. Bill Tipton TIPT0N PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Casi (Next door to Post Office) I Carl Permln ' Jl .