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. . s 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Nov. 14, 1949 Published Dilly Except Sunday l y th Newi-Tovie Company, Inc. Enffi tarontf elm milter Miy 1, t lb Bail fflot at Boitburf, Or go a, DtUr sot f Mbcb I, ISTt CHARLES V. STANTON .STStte EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor SJUP" Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations DDll! bJ WESr-IIOlXIDAH CO., INO., .fflcei In New rrk, Ckleato, Sis tra.olae.. Loe Amain, Seattle, Partialis. 81. Leu la. .uu..uiu kj itirva I- II. ...... Km Mall Mr rll IS.nS. ill month. I4.U. tore, magma It.isO. Bj Cllj Carrier-Par rear 110.00 (In edrancel, Ijii i the. ana ,ar, per monln 11.00 Oultld. Orasan Br Mall Par rear IS 00. il menina l.ia. viree ninui as. in NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT By CHARLES V. STANTON Recommendation has been made to the State Highway commission that it set up an advertising budget of $250,000 to promote tourist travel in Oregon during 1950. Some economy-minded people probably will be critical of spending such a large sum from highway funds for ad vertising purposes. But certainly no one with knowledge of advertising will be critical because the amount is too high. On the other hand, an advertising expert might criti cise the recommendation because the amount is too low. ; The advertising budget is proposed by an advisory con inittee, which reports that Oregon was visited by approxl mately 2,500,000 tourists during the past season. : Tourist income has been tentatively estimated by the highway commission at around $110,000,000 during the past season an increase of 18 per cent from 1948. The sum of $250,000 may seem like a lot of money for advertising purposes, but any advertising expert will tell you that it is only one-tenth the amount the state should spend if it were to put its advertising on a business basis. Any good advertising agent will recommend to a business man that he set aside a fixed percentage of gross income to be used for advertising purposes. The percentage varies according to the type of business, rate of turnover, markup and other factors. For instance, a store, doing a large volume of business with a rapid turnover of stock and high markups would have a higher percentage for its advertising budget than a business dealing only in slow-moving merchandise with low markups. Many businesses have had remarkable growth by plowing a large percentage of profits back into advertising. Recommended advertising percentages seldom are below two per cent. Some businesses are spending as high as six and eight per cent of gross revenue for advertising. Naturally the rate has many variables to consider, for the percentage must be calculated on a complex formula. But few businesses should have less than a two per cent advertising budget. , A business producing $110,0u0,000 annually is a rather large enterprise. Naturally, all the $110,000,000 revenue does not go to the State of Oregon. Only a small part, in fact, is collected by the state from gasoline taxes. But the profit goes into the pockets, directly or indirectly, of virtu ally every resident. Thus, everyone has an interest in the state's tourist travel advertising program. Probably the $250,000 budget proposed for advertising purposes represents more than two per cent of the tax money and other revenue received by the state govern ment from tourist travel. But whether it rates more or less, no one should com plain that the proposed amount is too high. If anything, it is too low. "Jim" Ormandy To Retire From S. P. The Southern Pacific company (and we're not ,'needling" today) is losing one of its most valuable employees in the retirement of J. A. Ormandy. "Jim" is affectionately known throughout the division he has served so long, not only by the men with whom he has been associated in the company, but by the thousands he has served in an official capacity and many more thousands who are pleased to call him friend. We will regret discontinuance of his friendly, pleas ant visits, and we know we speak for many residents of this area when we hope for many pleasant years following his retirement and extend commendation for, the able ac complishments of many years of loyal service. The Middleman JjjjjllllP By Viahnttt S. Martin fflr German Siren Receives 3,000 Marriage Bids OLDENBURG, Germany .T) Pretty SlRiid von Haessler Is the envy 01 other uermnn rims. She claims to have received 3.. 000 man-lace proposals slni-e her photograph appeared in an Amer ican magazine (True). Now women are writing to Sifjrld from this country where war depleted the ranks of men. Thev say: "You have 3,000 wooers. You can only marry one. How about BivlnR me one of the other 2, 9im?'' The letters of proposal have come from many parts of the world. But the 23-year-old beauty Is exorcising a woman's preroRH tlve. She has not made up her mind. SlRiid. a former doctors as sistant, actress and dancer, was married once before. Her hus band was a German naval offi-cor. She told newsmen that two of the loading candidates were a Journalist in Tokyo and a chap who sent his mother to convince Sigrid that he was the man. perature In 200-deRrce flames. The suit, only one of Its kind, Is constructed of 18 layers of glass liber, and among olher materials glass filler net, neoprenecoated glass fiber, honeycombed cotton cloth, silver foil, aluminum foil and nylon. Project Engineer Abe Plotkin says the suit is only about one half inch thick. Is not that first minute of each day's proceedings at Lake Suc cess the most important of all? In that first minute of medita tion, of silent prayer In which each one, regardless of race, creed and religious affiliation, may lift the heart to the Heaven ly Father of us all, surely there Is a promise of things to come? Fijr the Father of us all cannot be circumscribed within the lim its of any one language, of any one creed. In world brotherhood, is not the concept of a common Father the underying basis? So on this Armistice Day, 30 years after Its Inception, each one of us, regardless of race, creed or color, has that undeni able right to pray, each In what ever way appears most natural and most satisfying, to pray for universal peace. Need we be discouraged If the United Nations appears to be less than a hundred per cent per fect? After all, even the mem bers of one family, born to the same parents, sometimes engage in bitterness and allow estrange ment to take hold of them. People can be In the same room and be very far apart! ' There was a day 'when what Is now England was divided up Into feudal baronies, and each man's home was his castle in deed. Perhaps you, too, have walked across those moats and have looked at the Iron port cullis that would protect the entrance, have gazed up at the battlements where the besieged fought, sometimes winning, some times losing. Yet one day there came an idea to Just one. Just one!. And the Idea- finally be came the Magna Carta, the first step towards democracy, signed way back in 1201 by King John under the oak tree at Runny mede. Now the disputes are threshed out In the House of Commons, In the House of Lords. Once we had civil war in this great country. Brothers and sons took opposite sides ... is It so strange that the United Nations seems at times a little slow? Each one of us can support it dally, can we not? After all, you and I are part of the United Na tions, and Is anything more Im portant to us than world peace on the basis of the Golden Rule? SUIT REPELS FIRE DAYTON, J. t11 The Air Force now can keen Its fire fieht- ers reasonably cool in the hottest crash flames. The AF engineering division Rt nearby Wright-Patterson field an nounced successful tests of a new glass-fiber suit that keeps fire men at & 330-degree body tern- Driver Found Guilty On Tandem Axle Charge Scott Vlnre Ferguson, Rose burg, driver for the Staley Trans port company, was fined $90 plus court costs on a charge of tan dem axle overload, reported Justice of Peace Ward C. Watson at Suthcrlin. Ferguson pleaded Innocent to the charge, but an all-man 1urv Thursday returned a verdict of guilty, said Watson. A 30-dav Jail sentence was suspended "upon payment of the fine. STRING TO OFFER HOLLYWOOD -.r B. P. Schulberg. one-time top -flight film producer, says his advertis ing blast has brought an offer here. Schulberg, who recently ran a full-pace trade Journal ail berat ing today's film executives for their Indifference to pioneers like himself, said a maior studio lead er had offered him a producing lob. It had a string attached, Schul berg said. He must first dig up some good stories to produce. Once a SlO.OOO-aweek man. Schulberg, 57, has Iwn out of work nearly three years. Drew Residents Escape Death In Blazing Wreck MEDFORD, Nov. 14 Three residents of Drew, Ore., had a narrow escape from death here Saturday night when the coupe In which they were traveling toward Jacksonville left the hlRhway, turned over In a ditch and was consumed by flames. Hospitalized are Doc J. Chll ders, 42, driver of the car; Erma Trcwartha, 24, and Ralph Brat, ten, 21. The accident occurred on the Bybee corner, scene of many traffic accidents. Childers told the ambulance driver, who brought the three to Community hospital, that he was blinded by the llRhts of an oncoming car. struck the division sign at the corner and lost control of the machine, which catapulted Into the ditch. Childers was suffering from a forehead contusion, knee Injuries and shock. The one woman pas senger suffered severe face lac erations and knee Injuries, and Bratten a broken left leg and shock. Elkton MOM GETS TOO CLOSE SHELLEY, Idaho. i.V) Mrs. Leo Searle suffered a broken leg at a football game. No, she wasn't playing. Mrs. Searle's an ardent fan two of her sons play on Shelley high school's team. flirs. searic was sirnning on me sidelines cheering her sons. A ball carrier was tackled as, he ran out of bounds. Mrs. Searle was over turned In the scramble. She was taken to a hospital. X-rays dis closed a broken knee. P. S.: The two Searle boys Dean and Duane came out of the game unscathed. Their team won, too. PLYWOOD PLANT SOLD ALBANY, Ore. -.(.) The Albany plant of the Western Door and Plywood company will be turned over to the Linn Plywood and Door company Nov. IB. J. W. Reynolds, Anacortes, Wash., who will manage the plant here, disclosed the sai to the Linn Plywood and I"oor firm. The price was not dlselosed. By PHYLLIS A. SMITH Mayor W. S. Carlson received a letter from Fred H. Paulus of the State Bond commission of fering to assist the Elkton City council as much as iwsslble In helping to find a market for the water bonds being offered for sale by the city of Elkton. The Kellogg Grange Home Eco nomics club will hold its annual Bazaar at the grange hall Satur day, Nov. 19. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Beaman and son left this week for Phoe nix. Ariz., where they will make their home. The Elkton church of Christ held Rally day Sunday. After the church services a basket lunch was enjoyed by the members. Word has been rece ved that Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hancock are leaving for New Mexico, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. Fred Riley, lrs. Emerv Stewart and L. E. Price attended a lunch program workshop at Heedsport Thursday, Nov. 3. The workshop was conducted by Mi?. Laura Wells, state lunch pro gram director. Mrs. Robert Duncan left Wed nesday for Summit where she will visit her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Goodman. The Brix Lumber company Is setting up a mill on the old Ben Hutler homestead in Long Prair ie. Betty Haines, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Haines, is te ported to be very ill at home. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Suloff, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Berkley, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Thom as, Mr. and Mrs. Arlev Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Riiey, Miss Evelyn Hudson and Gene Ander son attended the University of Washington 1'nlversity of "Ore gon football game at Portland Saturday. Word' has been received that Sgt. and Mrs. J. Zane Adams are enroute from Rantoul, III., where Mr. Adams has Just com pleted a six months' course at Chanute Field, to San Antonio, Texas. The Church of Christ Is to have evangelistic meetings Nov. 13 to 27. Bert Johnson is .he evange list, and the services will begin Nudism Booming In Great Britain; Want To Be Legal LONDON m Nudism is booming in Britain. More people are walking around naked than ever before. Not in public, of course the law frowns on that but in flour ishing "naturist" camps scattered throughout the country. Leaders of the open-air cult say happily they've never seen anything like it Britain's few hundred timid pre-war nudists have grown into a lusty movement 50,000 strong. In 1938 there were 20 nudist clubs. Now there are 60. Many non-club "naturists" enjoy life in the raw In the privacy of their own homes and gardens. The British Sun Bathing asso ciation (BSBA) biggest nudist group has just voted to incor porate nudity. It's forming a lim ited company of 200 sharehold ers. Right now the clammy British winter has driven all except the hardiest "naturists" Into long un derwear. But the BSBA hopes next summer will be the best ever for the one out of every 1,. 000 Britons it says likes to frolic naked in the sun. The burning question: Will the sun cooperate? It did in 1949. It was the sun niest summer for 16 years. ' Mrs. Sylvaia Bassam, 34, pret ty Canadian-born secretary of the BSBA, says the association is cam paigning for three things: 1. The legal right to bathe in the nude on approved public beaches;. 2. More young women nudists; 3. To teach skeptics that "na turism" is "a healthy, whole some way of life followed by in telligent people. Mrs. Bassam. whose own sun- tan, she affirms, stretches un broken from top to toe, says Brit ish nudists don't want mixed bathing with nudists and non-nudists taking the sun together. They want certain public beaches set aside. Biggest pain in the neck for British nudist club directors, Mrs. Bassam says, is the unbalance of sexes. Far more males than fe males Join, the ratio being about four to one. Douglas County Ranked; Second In 1948 Lumber Production, Report Shows Douglas county's 796,509,033 board feet output of Douglas fir lumber ranked second in the Pa cific Northwest during 1948, a report from H. V. Simpson, execu tive vice-president of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, reveals. The county employed 8,357 persons during its peak month, August, 1948. Lane county ranked first with an output of 1,311,573,154 board feet, uniy tnree otner counties in the Douglas fir section have ex ceeded a billion-foot cut in the last quarter century, Simpson said. They were Grays Harbor, from 1926 to 1928, Snohomish and Pierce counties, all in Washing ton. Multnomah county fell short by a few million feet in ita best year, 1925. lop Washington lumDer pro ducing county in 1948 was Cow litz,' with 573,915,446 board feet, third largest in the Douglas fir region. Snohomish county, Wash., with 508,733,680 board feet was fourth, followed by Coos, with 504,911,607; Jackson with 502, 810,264; Linn with 486,316,759 (all in Oregon), and King in Washing ton Wltn ib3,blA(M. Western Oregon and Washing ton's 1,675 sawmills In 1948 broke lumber production records which have stood since 1929, according to Simpson. Douglas nr region mills cut 9.4 billion board feet last year. inis record volume oi lumber was worth $690,000,000 in cash to the two states, Simpson said. It amounted to 26.1 percent of the nation's total lumber cut last year. Oregon retained its place for the 11th-straight year, since 1938, as the nation's leading lum ber producing state, and Wash ington held on to second place.. This production came from 26 million acres of rich, rain forests of the Douglas fir region, Simp son said. This compact forest re gion, wnicn makes up only o.b percent of the nation's 461 mil- ion acres of commercial forests, can sustain this lumber output perpetually foresters claim under forest management practice now being widely followed, he pointed out. Biggest consumer of Douglas fir lumber, Simpson stated, was California which took 20 percent of the total cut from the region. Next largest consumers are Wash ington and Oregon, followed by Output for 1948 topped produc Illinois, New York and Texas. CATHEDRAL TUMBLING .,' YOPK, England. UP) York cathedral is falling down. The Very Rev. K. Milner-Whlte, dean of the centuries-old church, said four tons of masonry tumbled from the west front during the summer. He had just posted warn ing notices. It will take 2W,lW 15700,000) fullv to restore the historic struc ture, Milner-White said. Mean- d PHONE 100 between 6.15 end 7 p. m., if you have not received your News- Review. Ask for Harold Motley. NEWEST DESIGNS ipap NOW AT CARSTENS 117 W. CASS ST. You'rs Money Ahead with Maytag tlon for 1947 by more than 700 million feet, the lumber leader while it remains In use. stated. Oregon's Douglas fir region (19 counties west of the Cascades) cut 6,366,466,809 feet in 1948 and Washington's fir region (19 coun ties west of the Cascades) pro duced 3,038,637,129. Simpson said the forest prod ucts industries in the 38 counties of Western Washington and Ore gon gave employment In their top momn in imih to 147,378 wage earners. Oregon s ton month of eiriDlov- ment for the 19 western counties was August, 1948. when 71.707 ier- sons were employed in the basic iimoer ana iorest products Indus tries. This included logging, pulp and paper, plywood and other wood-using industries, except furniture. Washington's Dark emDlovment period in 1948 found 61,961 per sons engaged In logging, lumber ing, plywood making and basic forest products, and 13,710 em ployed in pulp and paper making for the 19 western counties for a total of 75,671. i er FOR RENT WASHING MACHINES FOR RENT Phone 805 LBERGH'S- APPLIANCE SERVICE 1200 S. Stephens You're Money Ahead with Maytag 'Friendly Tavern' Will Open Here For Business The opening Tuesday of a new business, to be known as the "Friendly Tavern" was announc ed today by Leonard S. Zarhor, formerly manager of the Shali mar room. The new tavern, located at 535 So. Stephens, will be done In Myr tlewood 1200 feet of it. Forty feet of refrigeration, up holstered booths and a 15-stool bar will be features of the new business establishment. Food will be available at the La Fiesta restaurant next door, also scheduled to open Tuesdas-. The La Fiesta will feature Ital ian and Spanish dishes. Sen. Morse Urges Specific Terms EUGENE. UP) Senator Wayne Morse urged his fellow Kepublicans to start talking 1 n terms of specific proposals when they criticize the "welfare state" Instead of just being against all tendencies towards It. The emrjh- asls, he said, should be on con ditional liberties and guarantees oi inaivmuai dignity. He warned his own party mem bers, In a Friday noon speech be fore the chamber of commerce forum, that the ordinary man is getting the idea that the Demo crats are concerned with public welfare, and the Republicans are not. lorse declared that adoption of the Hoover commission's re port would be quick, "but not painless," in getting on the pro per road to government economy. However, if it will not be effective if Congressmen persist In being "all for economy in ev ery district but their own " Be cause of this attitude, he said the 81st Congress has not done a decent Job of cutting government A CAJJl'llUllUl US. Turning to foreign aid, he warned against slashing expen ses by refusing aid to foreign countries. "If we let them down now," Morse said, "There is only one direction in which they can turn the Soviet Union." TOUGH SAFE NORTH LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (.P) Burglars battered up a large wall safe at the Mechanics Lumber company. But next morning, a company official, found a note next to the safe, which read: "Good safe, we couldn't get in." Marine Corporal Charlie D. slerrt of Greenville, South Car olina, knocked out seven Jap tanks with sevn bazooka rockets on Saipan, for which 'eat he re ceived the Navy Cross. at 7:30 each evening except Sat urday. About 50 persons attended the Odd Fellows Social evening at the lodge hall Saturday night, Nov. 5. Th tmwcri to everyday Iniuranc problcmttV By KEN BAILEY QUESTION: I understand there is a form of automobile fire and theft insurance which specifically states the amount of insurance rather than given as "actual cash value at the time of loss." Why isn't the specific value policy a better one for the average person to buy? At least you'd know ex actly what you'd get in case of loss. ANSWER: No matter what amount is stated in the policy, the insurance company will not settle for more than the actual cash value at the time of loss. No settlement will be made in such a way as to give the in sured a profit from an acci dent or other kind of loss. tf you'll idmtM four own Inaur ance question! to true office, we'll try to five you til .'orreet anawer. and there will be ae (aarte er ..M telle, of mmr ttaa. KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Pacific Bldg. Phone 398 Various Sizes Now Available oxed Remember Lack of "Protection" means likelihood of "Loss." Douglas County State Bank Member, Federal De'posit Insurance Corp. CUT 'EM FAST AND CLEAN With Ihe Lightest One-Man Power Saw in the World ... THE PIONEER Here's a one-man power chain saw that's really light, efficient, dependable and economical. 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