Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1949)
4 Ths News-Review, RoMburg, Or. Tuei., Nov. 29, 1949 Published 0 illy Exoept Sunday ly the Nswi-3avle" Company, Inc. fUfi Henna eliu miui HF I. , ' " f 5ftMb.;. Or;., mmi mmt ( MArefc t. UU . CHARLES V. STANTON ' EDWIN U. KNAPP Editor SitfS Managar Member of tha Asaoolated Praia, Oregon Newspaper Publlahara Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona nnmui n weaT-BOLLiDAt CO.. ino. efftoH if Njw r.ra. Cktaiae. lu VreialM Aof.l.t. Blll. rorlUn. at. L.mlf. inmuKirriuN aArca r ot.i.-B, un-r t.m ss.se. ' Mar, ! H.M Oiltld. Om.i-ar Bill Hi r W H..IB. 14 IS Ulru aiaBltaf II.H OUR OPINIONS DON'T COUNT By CHARLES V. STANTON . r Public support is turning rapidly away from CVA. This trend is reported by numerous observers and edi torial writers.. -' . . As the public reaches a better understanding of dangers incident to a regional .authority, it is beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the wooing blandishments of the Depart ment of Interior and "Jebbie" Davidson the department's John Alden. Residents of the Pacific Northwest are beginning to real ize that CVA has been misrepresented in many "phases; that many of the gilt-edged promises could not be fulfilled ; that a' three-man dictatorship is not desirable, and that better methods exist to obtain all the purposes of CVA. Insofar as. the public is concerned, opposition is growing , and will continue to grow as time passes. For each day sees more and more people receiving information which turns them away from the valley authority proposal. But it should be kept in mind that what the people of the Pacific Northwest want or don't want makes little dif ference insofar as CVA is concerned. ,- CVA does not require support or endorsement from resi dents of the Northwest. While regional endorsement and good will would be preferred, residents of the region need not be convinced that CVA is a good thing. CVA must be sold to Congress; and Congress only., It makes no difference whether, the people of the Pacific Northwest want or don't want CVA. If Congress says we should have CVA, that s what We'll get. '.' The fact that public hearings on CVA have been post poned' from time- to time, arid still appear to be' a year or more in the. future, has been held by some observers to be an advantage to : the opposition. The longer the hearings are postponed, the better people will understand the CVA proposal and, with better understanding, will come more opposition. , But from another angle, the delay favors CVA. In fact, Senator Wayne Morse has said publicly that hearings are purposely being delayed while the administration devotes its efforts to. obtaining a Congress that will rubber stamp Its valley authority proposals. We: may expect tremendous Democratic pressure at the forthcoming congressional election. Large sums of money doubtless will be poured into the Pacific Northwest in an effort to elect men who will follow administration policies. This effort will not be confined to the Pacific Northwest alone. The administration naturally,' is endeavoring to "purge" all opposition. If the effort is successful, the opin ions of affected residents will make little difference we'll get CVA. Any public hearings will be stage settings, just as were public hearings in the past. rOerelicf, Harvesting Surplus Deer Crop We have heard some 'criticism from local hunters of the Game commission's antlerless deer season In the John Day country. Slaughtering docs and fawns is not to the liking of many ' Bportsmeil. ; ' J .' Many people, however, fall to realize there can be too many deer in a. given area. Furthermore, it becomes possi ble, when only male, deer are hunted, to throw the propor tion of sexes out of balance. The situation in the area' to be opened to special season is that there are more deer than the range will support. If the population is not reduced, hundreds of deer will die from starvation. When deer herds have too little forage, the ani mals become weakened and are easy prey to epidemics which, in many past Instances, have killed off virtually all deer in the section. ' ; Through controls by special seasons, the Game commission has" been able, to limit deer herds to the capacity of their range. Disease has beerj reduced. And yet the state as a whole has a deer population at an , all-time high, according to game census reports. . ; It is better, we believe, to "harvest" deer and maintain vigorous survivors, than to let them die from starvation and disease. .... ' . We are glad to observe, however, that the Game commis sion has announced plans to give the area special police supervision. We have had some bad experiences in the past because of wanton destruction on the part of hunters given privilege of shooting does and fawns. Some hunters, com pletely lacking in sportsmanship, have been "overly selec tive," Bhooting one, animal, only to discard it when oppor tunity arose to kill a larger or better deer. Any such hunter should have his license revoked and should never be issued another. 11 IPI . By ViahneU S. Martin 11- Words fi'dm a letter written a hundred years ago by Rozelle Applcgale Putnam keep coming to my thought: I'll quote them (from Wings of Their Own: Hel en K. Smith, Beattle & Co., Port land): , "When you find that any ar ticle," she counsels her mother and sister In regard to their trip across the plains, "is useless or cumbersome do not scruple to throw It away let It be what It may." , Without a doubt the young matron had learned by experi ence the necessity of lighetnlng the load by parting with trea sure dead to her; cherished pos sessions which she had felt up on beginning the Journey, she could not leave behind. But faced with a choice she did not hesi tate. I applied her Inspiring thought to the journey of all of us through life. JHow likely we are to hang on to some material possession which Is of no real use to usK is only cumbersome. It Is as If we try to put back on the growing tree the pushed-off leaves which will, by thus jiiaklng room, be replaced In spring by a bright new collection of fresh ones. So too' with our habits, our harbored resentments, our re membered disappointments. Who can live a full life without en countering much that is far bet ter forgotten, forgiven? "The hurtful word, the hate ful thought, Cast from me, Lord, as Christ oft wrought The selfsame miracle when He Freed men possessed In Gali lee." ... (As Onoe You Were: Hutchinson) This holiday season is such; a perfect time in which to give to someone the gift which takes so much more than money and fancy wrappings: forgiveness for a remembered and resented hurt. I suppose we have not truly for given until we have also for gotten? The: forgetting is so much harder! It prevents a re minder of one's own generosity In forgiving!,, .... It is an experiment which brings rich dividends: to for give another so thoroughly that we even forget . there was ever anything to forgive! Airplane Continues To Replace Work Of Stork STORNAWAY, Scotland, OP) The airplane seems to De re placing the stork in bringing babies Into the world these days. A boy was born in an airplane carrying his mother over the iso lated outer Hebrides Islands to hospital. He was the third child born over the Atlantic within 33 days. The mother Is Mrs. Margaret MacLellan, who has four other children. She was flying from her home on the Island of South Uist off the Northwest coast o Scotland to Stornaway. Mother and baby were taken on landing to a . hospital where they were reported "quite comfortable." ' A boy was born Oct. 18 to Mrs. Charles Parker, wife of a U. S. Air forces sergeant, while she was flying from New York to Germany to Join her husband. Five days later a girl was born to Mrs. Lcokadla Kolbleckl on a plane carrying displaced persons from Germany to New York. "MIKE" TO SELL OAS , PORTLAND, Nov. 28 W Marlon L. Elliott, the fo.'mer Multnomah county sheriff who was recalled from office this fall, is going to open a gasoline sta tion Wednesday. "Drop in for gas," was his an nouncement, "and see mv smil ing face through your windshield." riie ex-sherlff said he had abandoned "for no particular reason" his original plan to start a night club. More Northern Alfalfa Seed Is Balance Need Alfalfa seed production Is bad ly out of line with needs. There Is much more southern and central grown seed produced than needed and not enough Nor thern grown seed. This is the conclusion of E. Harvev Miller. chairman of the Oregon State PMA committee, after compar ing 19-19 seed production figures wnn aiaie ana uounty pma com mittee estimates of 1950 needs. The chairman sums up the al falfa seed situation this wav: In f;eneral the alfalfa seed grown 11 the southern slates Is adapted only to the South. The area is made up of the 13 states which He south of the 37th parallel. roughly the northern borders of New Mexico and Arizona. Most of California is in the southern region. In this group of states farmers would like to have about 17 million pounds of seed to plant in the year 1950. However, this year Over 26 3-4 million pounds of seed were produced, in that region. In other words, there is a surplus of southern grown seed. The central area, which Is made up of the states which lie between the 37th and 40th para llels, includes a few counties in northern California, Nevada, Ut ah, Colorado, Kansas Oklahoma, most of Missouri, about half of each .of the states of Illinois, Ind iana and Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. In these states the needs for alfalfa seed In 1950. as estimated by the state PMA com mittees, will be about 13 million pounds. However, this year the production of alfalfa In these 11 states amounted to 30 3-4 million pounds. Again this Is a surplus. In contrast the northern areas, made up of 24 states, which in general He north of the 40th par allel, is short of alfalfa seed. The southern border of the area is made up of the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, I- owa, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Pen- s y I v a n I a, and New Jersey. Farmers in this area would like to have more than 72 million pounds of alfalfa seed to plant In 1950. However, leas than 32 million pounds of the needed hardy, nor thern grown seed was produced In 1949. . , Crops Under Price Props Increased Farmers on September 30 had around 300 million bushels of 1949 crop wheat, barley, oats, rye, flaxseed, soybeans, corn, and grain sorghums under govern ment price support. The compa rable figure for 1948 crops was 200 million bushels. A recent report by the Depart ment of Agriculture shows tnese 1949 crop totals by commodities: wheat, 249 million bushels; bar ley, 20 million; oats, 17 million; rye, 481,000; flaxseed, 4 million; soybeans, 2 million; corn, 89,000; grain sorghums, 5 million; dry edible beans, 41,757 hundred weight; dry peas, 8.744 hundred weight; and rice, 94,351 hundred weight. Also reported under the reseat ing program were 4.4 million bushels of 1948 crop wheat, 1.4 million bushels of oats, and 2.2 million bushels of barley. Fig ures on reseated corn are not yet available. As of July 31, almost S2.5 bil lion were invested in Commodity Credit corporation price support programs, of which $1.4 billion were represented by outstanding loans and more than $1 billion by inventories acquired under loan, purchase aereement. and I direct purchase operations. tvu is authorized to have bor rowings outstanding at any one time of S4.750 million to carry on Its various programs. Includ ing the price support programs. As of July 31, CCC had in use S2.1S8 million of Its statutory bor rowing authority. "NO DRAFT" IN 1950 WASHINGTON OP) An em phatic "no" is expected to be Congress' answer to any request for extension of the draft law next year. Congressional leaders believe the administration will make such a request, probably early in 1950, and are confident Con gress will turn it down. They have in effect so notified President Truman and Secretary of Defense Johnson. Support Of Dairy Prices Unchanged In Plans Of 1950 Farm dairy prices, under the new farm legislation for 1950, can be supported by the same meth od as was provided for 1949 gov ernment purchases of the pro ducts of milk and butterfat or loans on these products, accord ing to E. Harvey Miller, chair man of the Oregon State PMA committee. Under the purchase method, the chairman explains, the gov ernment buys dairy products at prices, which on the average, would enable processors to pay diary farmers not less than the support price for their milk or butterfat. Manufacturing milk is being supported at a national yearly average support price of $3.14 per hundredweight for 1949, while butterfat is being support ed at a national yearly average support price of 58 cents a pound. Support action for these pro ducts is being carried out through government purchase programs for butter, nonfat dry milk solids and American Ched dar cheese. Support levels for dairy pro ducts in 1950 have not been ann ounced, the chairman advises. The new farm bill, signed into law by President Truman last week, provides for the support of dairy products at a level be tween 75 to 90 percent of parity as will assure an adequate supply- ' ' .' SALMON CATCH DROPS ' ASTORIA, Ore., Nov. 28 (m Packers reported today that the 1949 Columbia river salmon catch was at least 300 per cent below last year's. They called the ocean trolling season "a failure," and said both the spring and fall runs in the Columbia river were below last season, j In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) those who attend big official ban quets in Moscow seems to be how to keep from eating too much and being all out of sorts the next day. , . The common, plug Russians down at the bottom of the heap aren't bothered that way If they get ENOUGH to eat, they think they've done pretty well.., . .,'... AS long as things stay that way, our ultra-'liberals" (including our parlor pinks) can talk them selves hoarse without nicking my bread-and-butter conviction that I'd rather live under our system than under Communism. TH Thanksgiving out of the way, the census bureau an nounces that on October 1 the population of the United States was 149,947,000, It thinks that by now we have passed the 150 mil lion mark. It says we gained 244,000 during September and nearly a million during the first nine months of this year. UIHAT does It mean? i 1 ff Well, among other things It means that croakers who make glo. my predictions very often go wrong. For example: The population sharps were telling us only a few years ago uiau we were neaaea ior a STATIC population. In a static population (that is to say( a population that' is standing still), they told us, there are more old people and fewer yount people. In such a population, the ex perts say, if you're making diapers, or convertible cars, or bobby sox, or Jazz records, you're off on the wrong foot. You'd bet ter do a sharp about-face and start making wheel chairs and hot water bottles. SUPPOSE these population smarties had been generally believed. Suppose the makers of diapers and convertibles and bob by iox and Jazz records had ac cepted their mutterings as THE WORD and had changed over tp making wheel chairs and hot water bottles. There would have been a lot of red faces by this time. And a lot of wheel-chair and hot water bot tle factories going bankrupt. I'D say that as long as the people of this country go on working and producing and spending a lit tle less than they earn and living and loving and taking life as It coires and not worrying TOO MUCH about the future, we'll be more or less all right. I'm sometimes tempted to think that one of the things wrong with us in hese days Is that we have too many experts. Air Transport Of 100,000 Lb. Capacity Planned PHONE 100 between 6.15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask Jor Harold Mot-1-. how far does your 1 welcome reach? Does your hospitality stop short just this tide of the welcome mat? A really inviting, gracious home wears nigs or carpets on the floor like our Magee quality carpets. Whether you choose "one 9 x 12, or a sweep of sculptured broadloom, let us help you spread your welcome through tha house with famous brand rugs and carpets. your headquarters for carpets and nigs Broadloom Carpeting from. 5.95 sq. yd. Individualized Floors of Beautility FLOOR COVERINGS 222 W. Oak Phone Ml FORT WORTH, Tex.-4ff" The company that builds the mighty B-36 bomber says it has designed a transport that could carry 100, 000 pounds or 400 armed men from the east coast to Western Europe without straining a rivet Consolidated Vultee Aircraft corporation said it has submit ted its production design to the air force. - The huge transport would be called the C-99. It could haul big ger loads in both size and weight than ' any other aircraft now made or known to be planned. It was estimated that all of the men in an airborne division, now made up of 17,000 men, could be moved simultaneously in 44 such transports. Field mice will do considerable damage to young trees in the winter, particularly when the snow is thick, ihey chew ihe tender bark of the trees when no other food is available. Complete Line Of BUILDING MATERIAL West Coast Building Supply Co. Mill and Moshtr Bill Neighbors Phone 362 ' Joy Clark Safe Deposit Boxes There is no substitute for Safe Deposit Box pro tection. We Invite you to call at our bank for details. DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK , Member Federal Deposit " Insurance Corporation O.P.S. offers you a choice of 3 medical and hospital protection plans m 3 MODEST-COST PLANS: Employe Group . . .Family.. . . Employed" Individual (or self-employed) Wide selection of physicians, surgeons ; and hospitals. One of these prepaid I plans sponsored by the Oregon State ii Medical Society will fit your needs. Please use the coupon for details. Oregon Physicians' Service Sponsored and Approved by Oregon Stat ' Medical Society 1114 S. W. SIXTH, POSTLAND 4 4SS MBIT SHUT, lALtM " MiBfOBD BUIIDIHO, MIOTOID choici or hans . wain roa iirfaaruai ORfOON PHYSICIAN!' IIRVICIl PImm Mil lltoratgf. I MvtJ r Mlf-ampUyvd wl liilorwlMl III O.P.S, mdicl ntj hMnitvl cvr n an (thk m) 1 Individual benit Q Faaily bet-It Orova belli Addr;i City- Stata Mall la O.P.S. at Parlland, Salt ar Madfard. f Betlou Dont Know" 1 I This About Advertising ( 1 - 02S'''''' af TW'i5fttvi& wi)da aaw ,;..v !, QuixNo. 3 How much does it cost to advertise a Pair of shoes? Is it ?2? $3? $5? 1 .AltSWGr Lees than It of each dollar you pay covers both the manufacturer's and retailer's advertising. That's only half Cie story. Advertising lowers , your cost two ways: Cut the telling cost: And by helping make mate productionpossMe, lowcrt the production costs, too. So advertising saves you many times that If per dollar. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Phone 100