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4 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Ore.- Tun., Dae. 6, 1949 Published D illy Exotpt Sunday l y the News-Revie Company, Inc. IlWrat H elan matur Mir 1. '- la ! efflae el BaMbarf. Orasaa. aadar eel ef Maroa S. lilt CHARLES V. STANTON .OVtDm. EDWIN L. KNAPP suitor -w manager Member of the Associated Preu, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Auooiatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations IIIWIUI eT-HULLIDA CO.. INC., elflcM ID N.W (ark, Caleafe. lu tiuiUK, Lea Ani.l.t illla. rarllaa. SI Laeta. iUUKCKinlON SA ICS III UrlU-Bj Hall rar Jtar SS-M. ill Beetae MM. Uraa maalki .M B Cllr Cartlar-P.r liullUI (Is aoraBca), I ; thae aaa rear, par rnoalb 11.00 Omnia Or.ron-Br Hall Tar raar 10.00. all moalni 14.70. Ihraa moalba HOW MILLIONS ARE MADE Queerest Approach We Ever Saw By CHARLES V. STANTON A collection of the world's finest turkeys is being assem bled jn Roseburg today. i Until 9 p. m. today, exhibitors will be bringing birds into Roseburg for competition in the 18th annual North western Turkey show. That these are the finest birds to be seen anywhere has been proven time and again, as win ners in the Northwestern have gone on to win the highest national honors. Since broadbreasted turkeys from the Pa cific Northwest were admitted into national competition, they 'have consistently been sweepstakes winners. The broadbreast turkey is purely a product of the Pa cific Northwest and was promoted largely through the North western Turkey show. When this show first was started at Oakland, the broad breast was unknown. But breeders, drawn together by the show, began studying consumer demand. They began ex perimenting and soon developed what is now known as the Northwestern broadbreasted turkey a bird having an abundance of succulent white meat. No rules existed for judging this type of bird, and for a few years It had to be carried in a special class. Then, as the standard type of bird waso completely outclassed by the broadbreast, the Northwestern show set up its own rules of competition. ' As this type of bird still is confined largely to the Pa cific coast, it remains in a special class under national judg ing rules, but has been given its own standard of perfec tion. ' , The Northwestern Turkey show, the first oivthe Pacific Coast, is directly responsible for millions of idollars.'Of in creased income to the industry. Because of prestige given northwestern turkeys, 'as a result of the annual exhibit, the industry has built up a' tremendous business in eggs and poults. . ' ' : I Ninety per cent of all turkeys grown in Utah are im ported from Oregon and Washington. , California gets the major portion of its eggs from the Pacific Northwest. California has a serious disease problem because -of weather conditions,, and. does not have enough healthy birds to replace breeding stock x ,,.';', , .( " Another factor contributing to a Huge egg industry is the fact that Oregon birds, particularly, start producing eggs months before turkeys of the Mid-West. Thus mid-western hatcheries buy hundreds of thousands of Oregon eggs for early hatching. Oregon's' $20 million turkey Industry puts th state in third plface nationally. Only Minnesota and California have larger income from turkeys. Utah is .in fourth place. Prior to the Northwestern Turkey show, Oregon's turkey industry was a minor agricultural feature. Growers raised farm flocks, but few had more than a hundred or so birds. But with the advent of the show, more and more breed ers became interested In improved stock. Cross-breeding developed better birds. Better market stock was produced. The Northwestern show was the first to present a dressed bird division. Throughout the years emphasis has been placed upon marketability. . , .- . Cooperative marketing agencies developed. Growers be gan producing larger flocks. Information was disseminated concerning diseases, feeding, brooding, and other problems. Knowledge gained through contacts at .the annual show enabled growers to reduce production costs and flock losses. f'hey learned how to cull their flocks, eliminating expense f feeding unmarketable birds. They were taught to raise turkeys more suitable to market demands. Many growers turned to turkey breeding exclusively with flocks number ing into the thousands. Had It not been for the Northwestern Turkey show, the industry would still be largely undeveloped. Thus the worth of the show can be measured in millions of dollars, i This week will see the best turkeys in the world assembled in Roseburg. In attendance at the show will be principal growers and breeders from Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia. Competition will be extremely keen.' A blue ribbon will be as good as money in the bank, for eggs from the flocks of consistent prize winners will be bought at premium prices by hatcherymen of all states. Altogether, the Northwestern Turkey show, originated at Oakland and moved to Roseburg when it outgrew Oak land's limited' accommodations, is one of the most im portant events staged anhually in the stale of Oregon. In the Day's News (Continued Irom Page One) thing else, that brought about the discovery, of America. Pepper Is a spice. Europe wanted spices. The spices, then as now, were produced largely In the Indies (Java, etc.) There was no Suez canal then, and spices- were brought Irom the Indian ocean across the Middle East by camel caravan. That kept the price sky-high. When Columbus headed west Into the unknown, he was hunt ing a short sea route tp the Indies so as to get spices Into Europe at a cheaper price. He stubbed his toe on America and changed the history of. the world. ' (It hurts our pride, but the fact is that Columbus was TREMEN DOUSLY disappointed and his fi nancial backers got a staggering shock when everybody found out what had happened.) KINGS and queens and feudal nobles were hot stuff when Columbus stubbed his toe on America. As time passed and the kings and the queens and the dukes and the earls and the mar quises and the viscounts and the, rest of the "nobie" tribe swal lowed their disappointment over not getting cheaper pepper (along with other spices),, and began to colonize the newly discovered land, It became a,haven for peo ple who were fed to the chin with the Injustices of the Old World system. In time a new way of life arose here that upset the Euro pean royalty system. (Pause here to reflect that the European royalty system Is now being followed by the STATE-IS-EVERYTHING system that pro duces dictators like Hitler was and Stalin is.) a . UT let's get back to pepper and why the Europeans wanted more of it at lower prices. Be lieve It or not, they wanted It Chiefly to KEEP THEIR MEAT LONGER. Spices kept meat from spoiling. Along with other foods. That was the underlying urge behind the whole spices-trade business that so changed the face of the earth. B N U, S. Plans Sale Of Uranium Not Atom Bomb Type NEW YORK UP) Want to buy some uranium not the atom bomb kind, of course? For $50 a pound you'll be abl-? to purchase some of the stuff, good for such uses as studying tine onjects wnn electronic mic roscopes and observing the wav metals act at very low tempera tures. Two hundred pounds of ura nium metal not highly enough refined to be used for bomb mak ing will go on sale soon through regular commercial channels, the Atomic Energy, commission announced. . Wilbur E. Kelley, manager of the - commission's New Vork operations, ald "we are making this material available to assist and foster private research and development in the traditional manner by private institutions." The metal, to be produced by the Mnlllnckroot Chemical works, St. Louis, will be sold only to persons with licenses from the commission. Newspaper Carrier Saves Three From Burning Home SPOKANE. UP) A news paper carrier spotted smoke and flames In a customers' house Sat urday and called firrmrn who rescued a mother and her two small children from a second story bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Houston and the children were sleeping when the carrier stopped by the house this morning. Fourteen-year-old Dick Sharp rapped at the door to warn them and when there was no response he ran to the corner to turn In an alarm. frlgerators to keep our meat In and don't go for spices very much as a preservative. ' But still pepper la a problem. It cost three cents a pound whole sale back In 1939, and now It costs around S1.40 a pound wholesale. Why? Because we still want pepper, and the Indies supply of pepper was pretty badly wrecked during the last war anfl hasn't recovered yet. By ViahntU S. Martini Several decades ago a Filipino came to the Coast with the eager anticipation of seeing America. From the boat he went to a hotel in San Francisco where a room clerk said with brutal contemp tuousness: "We don't take nig gers here." That Filipino re turne to the islands with a bitter hatred of America and every thing American. . . When we lost the Islands to the Japanese, who was the pup pet governor Installed In power? That very Filipino I can't think of his name who had been so rebuffed by the hotel -clerk. . That was Just one of the stories told to the student body at OSC by Dr. Walter Francis White who was introduced by the president of OSC, Dr. A. L. Strand. Such a speaker Is a great asset to any cause because his command of our language was admirable; his manner of speaking so easy to listen to; his sincerity so plain in his words; his charity some thing to remember. Dr. White began with a refer ence to the Chauncey Depew quip about the "four speeches" each speaker made: the one he planned; the one he made; the one he wished he had made; and the one the newspapers reported. After the ripple of amusement had subsided Dr. White held his audience with ease aa he spoke on "The Color Line Across the Globe." The speaker had but recently returned from a trip through many countries so could talk with authority on his subject. Not once while aboard did he and the other negro member of the Town Meeting group encounter racial discrimination. But every where he found anxious ques tions about the American stress on "freedom" . which seemed to others inconsistent with the jiews in our own newspapers, reported abroad, of "Jim Crow" restric tions and emphasis-on the color line. Such questions were always given to Dr. White and Mrs. (her name escapes me for the moment but we all have, read of unselfish service on that tour to answer. It was the two negro members of the group who de fended the American people from criticism abroad for the very acts from which they themselves and their race had suffered. . . In Dr. White's fine address there was much to think about. Thinking People U. S. Need, Scout Council Is Told SPRINGFIELD (P) Amer lea desperately needs people who will do some thinking for them selves, Mathew Hill, associate justice of the Washington state supreme court, told several hun dred persons who packed Spring field's union high school Sunday night for the 25th annual meet ing and planning conference of the Oregon Trail Area council Boy Scouts of America. People are mass minded and tend to go along with the tide, Hill said In a dynamic speech In which he stressed the need for "strong minds, warm hearts, faith, and willing hands." The Oregon Trail council of Boy Scouts embraces bovs in Lin- coin, Benton, Lane, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties and the Sun day session In Springfield was a full day conference, the results of which will not be known until reports ol committees have been compiled. The program of activi ties for 1950 will be announced later. Awards were made to various persons connected with scout work. Recipients were Mrs. Al ton F. Baker, Eugene; W. B. Thomas, Porf Orford; Lee Mur- phy, Junction City; baugh, C. A. Ricka- Eugene; Leonard May- field, Coos Bay, and John Todd, Roseburg. Strongest Jet Engine Of Its Size U. S. Product WASHINGTON. UP) The United States has a new jet en gine which Its manufacturers claim is the world s most power ful .'or Its size and weight. It weighs 2,500 pounds and de livers 5,500 horsepower more than two horsepower for each pound of weight. The new engine, built by Alli son division of General Motors Corp., will first be Used in the Navy's 70-ton patrol flying boat, the XP5Y, designed for. long ranee day and nieht Datrol against submarines and for res cue operations. The big Hying boats, Built by Consolidated Aircraft Corfi., at San Diego, Calif., have been wait ing on the new engines for months. The T-40 delivers one horse power for an hour on Just over ten ounces of fuel. A thin coat of white or alumi num paint on a screen will make the interior of a house less visible from the outside. - The oldest radio network Is the National Broadcasting Co.. which opened in November, 1926. UIHY do we IT avldlv? want pepper so avidly What with refrigerators and so on, I wouldn't know. But I find , that I WANT PEPPER. I never j know Just why. I think one reason , T ....... I. I. .hot - ,.).,,, I & nun. , inn. a .iim KK naked and Indecent without pap per scattered all over It. Aren't people funny? COLLISION VICTIM DIES PORTLAND -m- Carl F. Munson. 83, whose car collided with a gasoline truck and trailer men or nis injuries in a nospuai Friday. Safe Deposit Boxes Night Depositories Don't delay . . . See us today 1 Protect Your Valuables DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance , Corporation Inflation Warninas Fail To Affect Predictions Of Good Business Period During 1950 - By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON UP) Warnings of Inflation are fluttering again In the capital, but most of the economic lookouts discount any Immediate peril. They see fairly steady, prosperous sailing through out IToO. President Trumaij is not ex- iwvicu u, revive nis acmanos 01 a year ago for drastic "standby" anti-Inflation powers. This is de spite the rise in credit to new peaks, the firming of prices, and the fall Improvement In business ana employment. Government economists and some private experts report the revival of an "Inflationary po tential." They base the report mainly on heavy in-the-red spend ing by the government and on the new round of wage-and-pen-sion Increases. Yet few of them expect a ma jor price whirl in the next 12 months. The "disinflation" it not over for some Important Industries. Truman Message Awaited. A concensus of the forecasts might boil down to this: 1950 will be another year of high income and high production, on a level of prosperity not too unlike 1949 and not far below record-smashing 1948. Inflation warnings have been uttered by the bank presidents and other witnesses before Sena tor Douglas' (D-Ill.) economic subcommittee. These have stirred speculation whether Mr. Truman win again seek controls over prices, wages, commodity trad ing and materials allocation. , The decision, if it is not already made, will come In the next month as the President prepares his annual economic message to the new session of Congress. Persons in close touch with White House planning say a new bid for controls is unlikely and, even if one comes, would be turned down by Congress. inis view is voiced by Senator Flanders of Vermont, a Repub lican manufacturer and a mem ber of the Senate-House economic committee who usually votes with the Democratic majority: "I don't see any reason for any inflation controls at all at this time. I think we are on a pretty even keel right now." The committee may recom mend, however, some change in the federal reserve board's pow ers over credit and interest a topic which touched off last week's squabble between Secre tary of the Treasury Snyder and federal reserve board member Marrlner Eccles. Eccles charged the treasury with having an "easy money bias." He said treasury's insis tence on keeping interest rates low so as to hold down tne in terest cost on the national debt makes it easy to borrow money, encourages, Inflation, and pre vents federal reserve from keep ing a checkreln on credit. Outgo Exceeds Intake Meanwhile, all ' hands admit that it is inflationary for the government to be pouring Into the public's hands $5,500,000,000 a year more cash than it takes away from the public. That is the estimated rate of red ink spending for this fiscal year, ending next June 30. Another 196X1 fillip will come In January when the Veterans administration starts handing out $2,800,000,000 In G.I. insurance refunds. Experience shows that most veterans spend such wind falls quickly. The real wallop may come when the steel, automobile and other industries have figured out the cost of the new pension pack ages won by organized labor and then decide whether to raise prices, and how much. Steel Prices Go Up One small company, Sharon Steel of Pennsylvania, already has poosted prices $5 a ton. Dur ing negotiations, U. S. Steel said tne pension plan would add S3 a ton to its cost of making steel. Republic Steel is pondering out loud whether an Increase is neces sary; Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation indicates strongly that prices are going up. Steel price boosts could send an inflationary termor throughout industry. They might, catch the auto industry, for example, at a' bad time perhaps just when it is trying to cut car prices to main- PHONE 100 bet-ween 6.15 and 7. p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley TWA, American Airlines To Start Coach Service WASHINGTON UP) The Civil Aeronatics board Friday permit ted two of the nation's largest airlines to begin transcontinental air coach service Dec. J27 for a one-year trial. Permission was granted Amer lean airlines to use 70-passenger DC-Is on that date and to Trans world Airline to use 60-passenger DC-4s with a New York-Loi; An geies iaie of $iiu one way. The regular fare is $157.85. Federal tax of 15 percent is ad ditional in both cases. The only other Transcontinen. tal scheduled airline coach serv ice is that operated by North west airlines between New Yrok and Seattle-Tacoma, Wash. , .-.' CAVALRY MAKING EXIT JUNCTION CITY, Kas. UP) The army's once great cavalry is down to its last horse. Authorities at Fort Riley, for merly the world's largest cavalry school, announced a clos d-bid sale of 77 riding and draft horses and seven mules, which will virtu ally wipe out the horse population at the fort. Bids will be received Dec. 9. Still remaining on the post, however, will be 32 horses, offi cially retired by army orders and not subject to sale. tain high-volume sales in 1951 and 1952. . ' : But . . . this would not have profound effect In 1950. 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