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NO "SURPLUS" WATER
, , By CHARLES V. STANTON
Bureau of Reclamation engineers have held "preliminary"
talks with Governor McKay of Oregon, while planning a
meeting of. governors from 11 western states to talk over
problems of water ' supply. Paramount In the forthcoming
conference doubtless will be proposals to divert water from
regions with water surplus to areas experiencing water
shortage.
Suggestion has been made through a Department of In
terior official, that surplus waters from Oregon be di
verted to California. Discussions have revealed existence
of a plan for a "ladder" of water diversion of the Klamath
river,.. to the Sacramento river, replenishing the Klamath
from-; the Rogue and Umpqua, supplying the Rogue and
Umpqua from the Willamette, and adding to. the Willam
ette Jfrom the Columbia. It is an engineering project worthy
of the .federal agencies so anxious to improve on the Cre
ator's work and ttt erect monuments to their own genius.
Little thought is given to the fact that water, like forests
and soij, , is a "renewable resource one that can be re
stored, 'through1 conservation practices. "Renewable" re
sources differ from exhaustible resources, such as iron,
coal, oil, etc., in the fact that they. need never be ex
hausted, given proper; management, whereas, minerals, once
mined, are gone forever. . .)..' ' , .
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Bu .whe're caVwe? find "surplus" water? True, the Pa
cific, Northwest has more water than it is currently using.
But the. Willamette vialley's water table is dropping rapidly.
Summertime flow fn'many 'of our rivers is dangerously low.
Central' and' eastern Oregon 'need' more water for irri
gation. Some of! our. Oregon cities actually are suffer
ing water shortages..North Bend and Springfield are short
in water supply shortages that can be remedied by in
creasing storage facilities. ..
Oregon's population is growing faster than that of any
other state. New industries many of them requiring large
volume of water are locating in Oregon. Thus, it may not
be long until Oregon, too, will have its water supply prob
lem, b . !
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If ;thB Bureau ol.JReclamation would study California's
water, problem frortr the standpoint of conservation and re
storation, rather than trying to improve on God's creation,
it would find that this restoration probably would be no
mora Expensive than its ambitious "ladder of rivers."
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Artifacts recently uncovered during archaeological re
search, in the great , southwest desert, reveal that a . tribe
of Indians managed to exist for more than 100 years after
neighboring tribes had been forced to move because of
arid conditions. It was discovered they had built huge cis
terns and reservoirs to capture and holr1 runoff water.
Archaeologists still are endeavoring to learn what caused the
tribe's; removal from the land, for evidence exists that
sudden evacuation of. villages was not due to lack of water.
Yeh, We Get It!
In many parts of arid California there once was an
abundance of water. Huge debris piles were built up through
many centuries1 at the mouths of arroyos. Brush and debris
of all kinds washed down the narrow waterways, spread out
over; the vyajley floor, rotted and turned to humus.' The
spongy material served to. capture flood water and hold
it in the soil. ,
But these lands were extremely rich in agricultural values,
and were 'taken' over for farms and orchards. Wells were
drilled '.(V' provide .water for irrigation and water was taken
faster: than' it could be' stored, thus lowering the water
table? until, in-some places, wells, going deeper and deeper,
have reached salt water. ' ' , , .
California could have much more abundant water,' given
proper conservation. Barren hillsides could and should be
planted with forage and tree crops that would retain mois
ture'jand slow run off. Every upland canyon and arroyo
shou&j have numerous small reservoirs from which water
would filter dut; into the soil; Check and spread dams should
be built to spread-flood water over valley floors to seep
into ; the soil Instead of speeding to the ocean. More up
land, rainfall could be produced if hillsides were kept cool
and greeny thus encouraging precipitation, instead of dis
sipating clouds because of heat induced by the existing
brown and barren condition.
If the Bureau of Reclamation wants to truly do a job,
let it work on restoration rather than diversion of sur-
plnses-surpluses which rapidly are disappearing or being
absorbed. . ' f
By Viahnett S. Martin
i t '
Many years ago I clipped from
a magazine (which one?) a little
story about a Mrs. Farnum who
had discovered In herself a gilt
for sculpture, and this was what
she said:
"The age when most women
think their hopes are all dead
and the chances for expressing
themselves creatively are . all
gone, is just the time in which
they could best develop their tal
ents. There really Isn't any age
limit. It's just a state of mind.
"Sometimes a woman will shut
herself up In her home to mope,
or she will spend her time de
voting herself to her children,
who may be perfectly capable of
running their own lives, or she
espouses some fruitless public
work.
"But when my friends say sad
ly, to me, 'Oh, I have always
wanted to try my hand at sculp
ture'; and then fall silent, as if
to hint that God had rebuked
them by visiting a husband and
family on them at the only mo
ment In their lives when they
might have tried their hand at
it, I get all out of patience. . . ."
Mrs. Farnum, the clipping ex
plains, did not discover her own
talent until she was In' her for
tiesa patient in a hospital, us
ing her long hours of quietude
to work with her hands.
Once I listed the age of each
woman novelist in Grant Over
ton's Women Who Make Our
Novels. Most of them began their
real work In writing in their late
thirties and forties; many in their
fifties. In other fields' of en
deavor, too, note how many are
finding means of self-expression
in the years after their Job of
motherhood seems ended so far
as one phase of it is concerned,
It makes it easier, too, for the
mother of married children to
remember that like the marl-
time law which forbids boarding
even a ship in distress unless in
vited it is sometimes well to
limit her efforts to what at sea
is called "standing by," ready to
give aid if asked, otherwise an
interested observer.
Gospel Duo To Present
Program At Green School
A gospel team, Bob Mohler and
Dale:Frankllnj will present an en
tire program of films and songs
at the Void Green school, five
miles South of Roscburg on the
old 99, highway, Thursday, Dec.
15,' at : 7:30 p. m. Mohler and
Franklin, students at the Bible
Institute of Los Angeles, are cur
rently on tour. , -The
two films to be shown are.
"I Am the Bible" and 'Higher
Flight." The Jatter is a mission
ary story.' " '
The program Is sponsored by
the Greein Community Sunday
school:Which extends an mvira
Hon toeveryone. There will be no
admission-charge, but a free will
offering will be received. A I
FINE8 REPORTED
Justice of the Peace A. J. Ged
des reported the disposition of
the following cases this morning:
Mabel Marie Garrlck. Camas
Valley, fined $25 on a charge of
larceny from a store under $35.
She was arrested Saturday bv city
police on a shoplifting charge.
She nleaded euiltv to the chaise
nui iom tne court sne nad not in
tended to leave the store without
paying for the merchandise. She
gave as her reason, worry iver
the condition of her ailing
motner.
Ellen Beatrire Biackledge. Rose
burg, arrested Saturday by city
police, posted bail of $40 on a
charge of being drunk on a pub
lic street.
Boiled grasshoppers are said
to taste something like lobster.
Jaycees Elect
Officers, Plan
Yule Activities
Highlighting last night's meet
ing of the Roseburg Junior Cham
ber of Commerce was an elec
tion of officers for the coming
year.
George Mcintosh, who has a
long list of service to Jaycees and
the community Deiunu mm,
among which is Included the
chairmanship of the first annual
Southern Oregon AAU swimming
meet, was elected president ot
the organization on the first bal
lot. Other officers who will take
over the leadership of the young
mens civic group, starting tne
first of the year, includes Gordon
Carlson. Internal vice-president;
Leo Sevy, external vice-president;
Sid Moon, secretary; Du
ane Baker, treasurer and Rod
Dotson, scrgeant-at-arms.
Elected to the board of direc
tors was Walt Brlttell, Irv Pugh,
J h n Hardiman, Tom Gum,
Wayne Crooch, and Sig Fctt.
Glenn Scott, Incumbant president,
automatically becomes the sev
enth member of the board upon
retiring from his present otfica.
Christmas Activities
The Christmas tree committee,
headed by Sid Fredrickson, and
Including Willard Reitman, Sid
Moon and Tollie Tollefson. will
add more lights to the tree, lo
cated on Cass street, between
Jockson and Main. Bill Evans
selected the tree, which was
brought In by P & B Wrecker Co.
The Mt. Nebo cross, a Jaycee
sponsored annual feature, was
lighted by a committee including
Reiman and Mel Hegge and head
ed by Don Gum.
Christmas enterprise, soon to be
launched for the second time in
two years, Is the "Hello. Santa"
project for children of the city.
Chairman Duanc Baker said chil
dren who may wish to talk di
rectly to Santa In ordering their
Christmas presents will have an
oppotunity to do so. Baker said
a special line has been installed
Horn Koseourg 10 me ncarara
gent's home at the north pole.
He will take orders starting
sometime next week.
In the 17th century. Swiss
watchmakers frequently made
timepieces in tne shapes ot doga.
lions, rabbits, pigeons and other
animals.
Bible Students Date
Series Of Programs
A gospel film team from the Bi
ble Institute of Los Angeles will
present a -program of films and
songs at the First Conservative
Baptist church, Roseburg ar
mory, Wednesday, Dec. 14, at
7:30 p.m.
Bob Mohler and Dale Frank
lin, students at the Bible insti
tute, will show films entitled, "I
Am the Bible" and "Higher
Flight." They will also show gos
pel slides, give their personal
testimony, and use recorded mu
sic which is heard each Wednes
day and Friday on the Bible In
stitute Hour over the Mutual Don
Lee network.
The Rev. Edgar B. Luther,
D. D., pastor of the Conservative
Baptist church, Invites everyone
to attend.
. The gospel team will also ap
pear Thursday night at Green
school, and Friday night In the
Glide Baptist church, Rev. Karl
Faulkner, pastor.
Petty Offenders Fined
In Justice Geddes' Court
Freeman Wlnslow, 51, Glen
dale, charged with being drunk
in a public place, was fined $55
in justice court and sentenced to
10 days In the county Jail, ac
cording to Judge A. J. Geddes.
Other cases reported by Geddes:
Ellen Beatrice Biackledge, 39,
Roseburg, charged with being
drunk in a public street, released
on $40 bail.
Richard Adall DuBell, 17, Sutiv
erlin, fined $10 for lack of an
adequate muffler on the car he
was driving.
Racy Acy Archer, 49, Winston,
charged with alleged overloading
of a vehicle, fined $97.50.
TITLE QUIETING ASKED
Ernest S. and Faye Phillips and
Richard and Cora foenhoff, plain
tiffs, have filed suit in circuit
court demanding that Umpqua
Lumher and Box Corp. and oth
ers quiet title on property near
Smith river, with the exception
of properties sold to Umpqua
Navigation Co.
ATTENDS SALES SCHOOL
Band leader and musical In
strument salesman C A. Ricket's
returned Monday from Chicago,
where he attended the Hammond
organ sales school.
Plans are to include the Ham
mond line in the Ott-Ricketts Mu
sic store.
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
and upset and demoralized by the
big money he saw floating all
around him, he started knocking
down on his office payroll.
REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW
May, Democrat, is in jail for
selling his Influence to unscrupu
lous profiteers who wanted war
contracts at high prices and
bribed May to get them.
WHAT does that mean?
. Well, it means that the evil
of too much power in too few
hands doesn't yet reached the
point In our country where we
condone STEALING FROM THE
GOVERNMENT.
That is one of the things that
brought China to its present ter
rible pass. There (for centuries)
they synically accepted stealing
from the government as a PART
of the system of too much power
in too few hands.
REPRESENTATIVE Thomas, by
the way, is a peculiarly loath
some form of political vermin.
While he was knocking down on
his office payroll and putting the
money in his pocket, he was bel
of communism and by his witch
hunting methods of chasing com
munists he was discrediting the
useful work of the house commit
tee on un-American activities, of
which he was the demagogue
chairman.
IN New York, where for years,
in the face of warnings of what
would happen If It continued, they
used water at the rate of a billion
gallons a day, they now FINE
YOU if you wash your car or
leave a tap running or put fresh
water in your swimming pool.
A lot of us old fuddyduddies
think it will be the same way
with the welfare state. Every
thing will be lovely till the well
runs dry.
POLITICAL straw in the wind:
In the by-election in England
for the South Bradford seat in
Parliament, which the Conserva
tives had moved heaven and earth
to win, the LABOR PARTY WINS
OUT HANDILY. .
WHAT does that mean?
It probably means that we
old fuddyduddies who hope the
welfare state loses its popularity
before the money runs out are
merely doing wishful thinking.
It is still true that nobody ever
yet shot Santa Claus.
Christmas Sales
Still Low; Rush
May Come At End
By RADER WINGET
. NEW YORK OR Christmas
shoppers may cross up the ex
perts by spending a record total
of dollars this year but if they're
going to chalk up any records
they'd better get started quickly.
Individual stores are setting
some peak sales records, but a
blight has settled on others, push
ing them far behind 'n the race
for Christmas business.
Every year since 1938 there has
been an Increase in department
store saies ana in total retail
sales. Last year was the all-time
record.
This year the general guess of
the experts is that sales will be
lower than last year by a mar
gin of less than five Dercent.
But Christmas is the hi? snend.
ing season. Some merchants have
been pulled out of the red at
Christmas so many times they
believe in Santa Claus.
Last year the unexpected hai-
pened. There was a final rush
Christmas week that kicked the
year to a record. It could happen
again, analysts agree, but those
dollars are going to have to roll
even faster than they do now.
The Federal Reserve Reports
department store dollar sales the
week ended Dec. 3 were eight
percent under a year ago. Dun
& Bradstreet says total retail
sales for the week ended last
Wednesday were only one to five
percent under a year aeo. Anoth
er independent survey indicates
retail sales for the year will he
off only two percent
The biggest factor In the de
cline is lower prices. They are
off an average of three to four
percent. That means the physical
volume of business is lust about
as good as last year, and people
are getting more for their mon
ey. The fundamental thing that
makes this year different is that
people are changing their buy
ing habits. They are coming back
to what the merchants hopefully
call a normal pattern.
Remember how it was before
the war? You'd rush into a store
at the last minute and do your
Christmas shopping. The stores
had everything. You could do all
your buying at once.
Changed By War
Then came the war. You had
to shop around to get what you
wanted. It was first come first
served, and late comers did with
out. ("Don't you know there's a
war on?").
But the war ended. Store stocks
grew. Prices were lower. You
could shop around. And you did.
This year there is more and more
of that type buying.
This year department stores
are making buying easier and
more attractive than at any time
since pre-war. Store hours are
longer, advertising is being step
ped up, window displays are
stressed, and customers are be
ing put in the Jingle bell mood
by carol concerts in stores.
There is no dearth of shoppers.
Reports are frequent, however,
of their cautious attitude. They
want their money's worth. They
are turning away in many cases
from high priced lines of goods.
Merchants anticipated this by
stocking more heavily on the me
dium and lower priced lines.
LETTERS
to the Editor
Philomath Publisher
Seeks Post In House
CORVALLIS, UPi L. T.
Ward, publisher of the Benton
Lounty Keview, weekly newspa
per at Philomath, has announc
ed he will be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
representative from the First
Oregon Congressional district.
He said he was making the an
nouncement early to help clarify
the political picture.
H c announced a Platform
which included opposition to the
CVA. called for repeal of the taft-
Hartiey act, urgm elimination of
federal farm subsidies when
ever possible In favor of a per
manent marketing plan, was op
posed to a "compulsory" health
insurance program, advocated
expansion of social security bene
fits and a continuation of the be
partlsan foreign policy.
Praise Bestowed On
Christmas Decorations
ROSEBURG Seems that as
hlimnns uro .a 4
......u .... ... piumpi in
criticizing anything that we do
uwi. appiuvc ui, uul let anyimng
that meets with our approval
Come forth nnri uo remain cilan,
or we let our praises ring only
very meekly.
u tnere have been any letters
in The NpWS.Rpvlpu nhnot thi.
project, I haven't seen them, so
ittiiuui. lemtun siiem any long
er. I refpr tn tha wnnlarfiit nhut.
mas decorating and Christmas
"sii"is iimi our cuy sireeis are
wearing. They are wonderful and
the sponsors surely are to be
most highly praised.
I do not believe that any town
the size of Roseburg can boast
Of Anvtllfno- mnra hpai.tif,.! T
have the full advantage of seeing
a,, na ucuiy num nign up nere
on North Jackson street.
Mni-Q nr.. .ran .... !
Roseburg!
MK3. WM. J. THOMPSON.
1331 N. Jackson St.
Roseburg, Ore.
CORTISONE COSTLY
NEW YORK- urn -.i
sone's new price, $150 a gram,
nuines 11 TOSl BDOU ID lor a
single dose for arthritis. Some
Hrvepa Hmthln that Pni.,l... I u
uuj.ii ..,. .w, iisuiic is me
I ...... au.E.iui IIUII1IUIK VWUI.I1
6tops arthritic pains of the rheuma-
um ijjjc 111 a lew uays. n ajso IS
used for rheumatic heart troubles
and gout, and some allergies,
skin diseases and the type of can
cers known as lymphatic. In arth
ritis and cancer, daily doses are
required for weeks.
Roundtable Meet Slated
By District Scourers
Scoutert of the Douglas district
will hold their monthly roundta
ble meeting. Thursday night,
Dec. 15, at the Riverside school
lunchroom at 7:30 p.m.
Troop committeemen, scout
masters, pack committeemen,
cubmasters, and den mothers are
asked to attend. A "county fair"
entertainment program has been
arranged whereby a person can
make up to "$1,000" during the
evening, depending, on skill.
Additional inlormation on me
national Jamboree will also- be
given at the meeting.
Knights Of Pythias Will
Hold flnight-Rank Night
Bob Harvie, chancellor com
mander of Alpha lodge No. 47,
Knights of Pythias, announced
Monday that a knight-rank night
will be held Wednesday, Dec. 14,
at 8 p.m.
The Dokkie-rank team from
Medford will be here to put on
the work. All members are urged
to attend. Refreshments will be
served. ,
PLANES SPOT POACHER
' WASHINGTON VP) i- Fed
eral game officials are using
aerial photographs as evidence
against commercial fishermen op.
eratlng illegally In certain wa
ters. '
The idea Is showing special
nromise in Alaska, where roueh
waters sometimes, make it im
possible for a patrol plane to land.
Albert M. Day, director of the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
says the plane has replaced th,e
dog sled in Alaskan patrols to the
extent that only 13 miles were
covered by sled last year, against
134,329 by plane, 300 by helicopter
and about 100,000 by other means.
The "BBC" in radio means the YJL
British Broadcasting Co. Ztm
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A New Year's
livedo lu lio
Start your preparations now to do your 1950 '
business with us. Complete banking services
available, including safe deposit boxes and
night depositories.
DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK
A Home Owned, Home Operated Institution
Member, Federal Deposit Insurance .
Corporation. . .
Bet low Ddnt Know
This About Advertising
t
OuizIVb. 5
How much per bottle
does it coat to advertise
America's leading soft
drinks? Is it 1? 27 Zi
a bottle?
Answer:
It costs leas than 1601
per bottle to advertise
America's big-name
soft drinks.
That's only half the
story. Advertising low
ers your cost two ways:
Cut the telling cotU. And
by helping make mass pro
duction possible, lowers the
production costs, too.
So advertising saves
you many times that
160 per bottle.
Advertising Department
- Phone 100
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in constant repair.
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"The Chapel of the Roses"
Oak and Kane Street Roseburg, Oregon
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