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4 Th Nawi-Raviaw, Roiaburg, Or. Thur., Dec. 15, 1949 Published Oilly Exeipt Sunday !y the NawiVavie Company, Inc. UC .t ItctlKl KM I. ! ! BftMbarf, Oragaa. mmitt aet ( Marea, t. U1S CHARLES V. STANTON gg EDWIN U. KNAPP Editor f Managtr Mtmbtr f th Aitoolited Preu, Oragon Nawipsper Publisher Assooiatlon, th Audit Burtau of Circulations riMalt at WHI'.HOLLIDAt CO , IMCJ. etflaaa la Naw tark, CklMfa, a., tn.olaoa Laa Anialaa. SaaUla. Parllaa4. It. Laala. IVHauairllllN lAlFS-la Oraian-B; M.ll-rai Taa, IS.M. '' ". Ihraa maalka . Br Cllj Carrla.r-fai rr I.M ( ' '" aaa Mat, par laaalft H.aa tiamaa Kanlaa 14 1A Uiraa aiaalba !. GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY By CHARLES V. STANTON Dedication of Copco's Toketee Falls hydroelectric plant is scheduled for tonight, despite the fact that mechanical "bugs" will prevent the anticipated energizing of the trans mission line between Toketee and Dixonville for another few days. The ceremony will proceed as planned, except that the switch-throwing act will be omitted. It is not surprising that engineering and mechanical ad justments must be made before a piece of machinery, as huge as the first turbine to be put into operation, is given a working load. Aside from minor alterations, however, Copco's first gen erating unit is ready to go Into production and it is antici pated that energy will be flowing over the new transmission line within a. week. Immediate effects will be noted when the new block of Bower is thrown into the Copco system. Particularly important will be a cut in the local unem ployment load, for many mills, working on off-peak and limited schedules, will be able to put their operation on a full-time basis. A few industrial plants will start double shifts as soon as Copco gives the go-ahead signal. Thus a number of persons, now unemployed, will be given jobs payrolls will be increased, and more money will flow into trade channels. Some industrial plants propose to enlarge their produc tion through installation of new machinery and new pro cesses. Until now they have been prevented from expand ing because of the power shortage. Copco already has on hand applications for industrial uses sufficient to absorb a comparatively large' part of the new block of power. Consumers should not expect complete elimination of service interruptions, although breaks in service doubtless will be less frequent than at present. Existing facilities are dangerously overloaded and thus subject to break downs. With the Toketee unit in operation, the overload will be eliminated. Copco, however, ties in with lines in Northern California, has a line operating to Coos Bay, and a through transmission system between Prospect and Spring field. A break on any one of those lines automatically kicks out switches and interrupts service. But availability of power from Toketee should enable Copco to restore service within minutes. Another beneficial factor will be steadier voltage. Due to the present heavy overload, voltage occasionally fluctuates during peak hours. With reserve power available, it will be possible to keep voltage stable, which will reduce strain and breakage on electrical equipment. Expansion of existing industries in Copco's service area probably will be sufficient to absorb most of the power to be made immediately available. But here in Southern Oregon we will be missing a golden opportunity, in our opinion, if we do not make an effort to bring in new industry to utilize power to be made available as future generating units in the North Umpqua basin are brought into pro duction, , Here is one of the few sections on the Pacific coast where a surplus of power will be available. Throughout Wash ington, Oregon and California industrial operations are handicapped by power shortages. But Southern Oregon will have ample power to supply much more industrial capacity as Copco increases its hydroelectric installations. Copco doubtless would prefer to sell its power for local use, but if we do not build the industries to utilize full capacity of the generating units, the power company can sell any surplus at wholesale rales to supply energy for in dustry elsewhere. Our job, it would seem, is to spread the word of improved power conditions to those industries seeking suitable sites. "You Gotta Economize!' King Georgt Fit And Hearty On His 54th Birthday LONDON, Deo. 15 UP) George VI observed his 51th birthday yesterday lit and hear ty. Artillery at Hyde Park and the tower of London boomed out 41 gun salutes. A year ago the Kins was flat on his back with a dangerous circulation ailment. The empire feared amputation on one of his legs and longtime Invalidism for him. Yesterday he worked at his desk, and had Just returned to Buckingham palace after a cou ple of weeks of grouse and phea sant hunting. He began picking up after an operation last March to relieve his clogged circulation. He spent his birthday quietly yesterday. There was no official celebration: Thnt comes In June, his "official" birthday. The coun try gave him a second birthday so the people could ceicnraie it with parades and festivities In good weather. The weather In December Is usually cold and wet. 1$$!$$$ By Viahnett S. Martin fP Remembering the second grade teacher's suggestion that one use some other way to handle 'bad language' than with a shocked manner, I hit upon a brilliant Idea? ("Children reach out for novelty," she had said, "and It Is the language they haven't heard at home that attracts them. They are not old enough to dis criminate when they pick up playground playmates' remarks.") So when I heard one boy call the other, "a dirty rat," I hid my disapproval and said casually: "Really, son, when you call your brother a 'rat' you are Just calling yourself the same thing and for that matter, your daddy and mother." I could see I had made an impression. Some days later the boys were concentrating on swallowing their lunch as fast as possible so as to get outdoors to their play mates; they were heedless of my attempts to put on the brakes. I lost patience and said severely: 'Boys, you're eating like pigs!" Two pairs of eyes filled with de- ltght and mischief surveyed me: "Why, mother!" there was shock, pretended or otherwise, In the tone, "When you call us pigs . . ." Yes, I had let myself in for it. I apologized promptly and then I remember we had a good laugh on me! Their daddy got caught on a boomerang-remark one time, too. He was haranguing a small son who had not behaved as he should in church: "All during prayer you were staring around when you should have been sitting with your eyes shut . . ." Innocent, wondering eyes looked up at him. Seeley asked: "Why daddy, how did you know?" Yes, Indeed we adults are so Inclined to be smug. So inclined to be sure of our own rlght-hess. It's very good for us to take a tumble, sometimes, and let the children know we are only grown up children, after all, trying our best to set an example, and Just as they do failing some times. Once the word 'synonym' came up for definition. "Oh, we know what 'synonym' means," I was assured. "It's what you put In apple pies to make them imell good." Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press Libel Action Against Newspaper Is Reinstated OLYMPIA, Dec. 15 UP) The State Supreme court In n 8-to-l decision Wednesday rein stated a $15,000 libel suit brought by Franklin county prosecutor William J. Gaffney against the Scott Publishing company, pub lisher of the TrI-City Herald at Pasco. The action had been dismissed by Superior Judge Jay A. Whit field who sustained the newspa per's demurrer. The demurrer had challenged the sufficiency of the prosecutor's complaint. The high court opinion, written by Judge Thomas Grady, rein states the action. The next slep will be for the newspaper to file an answer to the prosecutor's complaint. The action started after the newspaper published two articles in December of 1947 and Febru ary of 1948 criticizing the prose cutor In connection with an ef fort to clean up vice In Pasco. Normandv, where the Allies landed In France during World War II, was so named for the Normans who settled there in the 9th Century. The use of "tin" cans for hold ing preserved foods did not be come common until late in the 19th Century. About 10 billion class contain ers are used In the United States in one year. RADIO COSTS IMPRESSIVE Radio listeners may not be particularly enthused by the cali ber of talent provided for some of the major network programs but a survey of sums which spon sors lay on the line cannot fail to Impress even the non-listeners. As reported bv Variety, the cost chart for 1949-50 shows Jack Benny and Blng Crosby heading the list, their half-hour programs each costing their sponsors $30, 000 per week. Bob Hope, strange as it mav seem to Ihe average funny-program fan, is a not-too-near third on the list with $22,500, only slightly above Kdgar Bergen who commands $22,000. Radio Thea ter and Amos n Andy are fourth at the $20,000 level. rhere Is considerable differ ence in cost between the above mentioned topflight entertain ment and the next on the list. Red Skelton. Fibber and Mollv. and Jimmy Durante, for instance, each stand their sponsors $17, 500 per performance and the scale grades downward rapidly trom there wun Harris and t aye at $14,500, Theater Guild of th.- Air, and Screen Guild Plavers $12,500, Burns and Allen, Wal ter Winrhell and Metropolitan Opera $12,000; Cavalcade of of America and Telephone Hour $11,500, Gildcrsleeve $11,000. Duf fy's Tavern $10,500, Aldrlch Fam ily, Beulah Supper Club, Family Hour, Harvest of Stars, Railroad Hour and Hit Parade $10,000. Manv programs are listed In the lessthan $10,000 bracket, the figures dwindling down to the $750 paid lor the Arthur Gaeth comments by the United Electric, Radio and Machine Workers of America, the only three-figure program In the loi. HOW BADLY OFF IS THE PACIIC NORTHWEST? Salem Capital Journal To hear some advocates of a Columbia Valley Administration, one would think that the Pacific Northwest had no chance of be ing developed except by an all powerful three-man CVA direct orate. And the way President Truman acted a few months ago, the region would get no further development unless It went along with his valley authority plan. The Impression is given that existing federal agencies, with private enterprise, bungle along, accomplish practically nothing. A booklet has Just beon publish ed which should prove to be an eye-opener. It is aptlv named. "The Untold Story of "Pacific Northwest Progress." Despite the biased backing of Ihe Pacific Northwest Develop ment Association, the booklet is a pictorial answer to the CVA claim that the region will shrivel without an over-all authority. It is the first time the facts on de velopment have been presented simply for the average person to grasp at a glance. What does development in the region amount to now? Already In operation are 86 major power dams in the Colum hls basin. The basin area is that included In the proposed CVA. Notes the booklet: "So many power plants have been built here that already each resident of the northwest has twice as much power generating capacity installed for him as does the average American." Sentences sprinkled' among pictures of the power protects Keep repeating the story: "The Columbia basin is already the most highly electrified area in the nation. . .The average home and farm here uses three times as much electricity as the U. S. average." In addition, there are 32 major Irrigation dams in the Columbia basin. Further note: 'Thanks to projects already completed, 3, 800,000 aci-es are under irriga tion in the Columbia has in." Practically all of the 32 dams were built hv the bureau of re clamation. "Todav 20 percent of all irrigation in the U. S. is in the Pacific Northwest." In adrtllton, there are 12 maior multi purpose dams in the Columbia basin. Built by the fe deral government, they provide Irrigation, navigation, power or flood control, in planned combin ations. Is the land of the Tennessee Valley Authority, upon which a CVA is based, better off than the Pacific Northwest? The facts at the back of the booklet report a telling "no." The population increase in the Columbia basin has been ten times that in the seven TVA slates since 1940. The facts favor the Pacific Northwest over TVA land on all these points: per capita income, average pay of farm workers, income tax paid per capita, output of all power plants, average wholesale rateH for power, farms electrified, average use of electricity by homes, and average price of electricity used in homes. When the reader gets through with this booklet, he is bound to scratch his head and wonder how a triumvirate of CVA directors could have helped him any better than have the existing agencies, teamed with private enterprise. The criticism that can be said of the book is that is does not give enough emphasis on build ing for the future. After all, there still are not enough power facili ties. The region needs to continue its fight for development with out a CVA. WHO GETS DIVIDENDS? (Klamath Falls Herald and News) The announcement last week of the big dividend to General Motors stockholders, described as an all-time record dividend, probably caused a lot of head scratching and also a lot of mut tering in some circles. Car buyers would like to have seen the earnings passed back to them in the form of lower prices. Labor would like to have seen it passed on to them in the form of higher wages. Manage ment muttered that It was in viting labor trouble for that rea son. But h,ow about the stockhold ers? Year by year labor wage scales have set new high after new high. That's been fine. Hired management people have done all right. Each year the treas ury's announcement of those in high earning brackets have shown hired executives in that swim. But how about Investment money? It's earnings steadily have grown thinner. It's good for the soul, and the digestion, to cuss Wall Street. That's a nasty name, and it's a long way off. But, again, how about the re tired school teacher, the grand mother, the widow, the person trying to live on insurance pre miums? If there's been a tragedy from the soft money policy, the high price of everything, of recent years, it's fallen on the elderly person who is trying to live de cently on a little dab of savings Invested In maybe General Mo tors stock. These people have to live. too. and their earnings have to go up with everything else if they're going to stay off relief. Some of these people live in your neigh borhood, and if they had a few shares of CM, I'm happy for them. Even-body wants low prices. low wages and salaries, low earn ingsfor everybody they don't know. But- If- your cousin, the farmer, made a killing in po tatoes or barley, great? If your neighbor, the business man. had a record season, he's a sound op erator! If your buddy, working for wages, got a raise, you slap him on the back! Let's take the sin out of an honest profit whether it's from the soil, from business, or the sweat of your brow whether we know the man or not. If he's filling you wllh envy, don't worry, competition will move in and get in Ihe swim with him. Christmas Tree Caution Urged By City Fire Chief "Be careful, home Santa Clauses, how you handle that t-nristmas tree," cautioned Fire Chief William "Dutch" Mills. "It takes just a spark to turn a beautiful fir into a blazing torcn in your living room, enrist mas trees are full of inflamma ble pitch and resins, and burn furiously even when fresh cut," ne said. . To help keep Christmas merry, the National Board of Fire Un derwriters offers these safety rules for Installing and decorat ing Christmas trees: 1. Choose a small tree. In stead of a big one. It will be Just as pretty and much less hazard ous. 2. Keep your tree outdoors until just betore Christmas. In stall it in the coolest part of the roum, away irom iirepiaces, heaters or radiators. 3. Do not,-under any circum stances, use cotton or paper for aecoranon on ine tree or around the tree. 4. Do not place electric trains around the tree. 5. Use electric lipht for 11. lumlnation. Never use candles. See that all wires are in good condition. Use Christmas tree lighting outfits which have been tested by Underwriters Labora tories, Inc. These can be identi fied by a tag bearine the name of Underwriters' Laboratories Inc. attached to the wires. 6. Do not plub or unplug the electric cords beneath the tree. Provide a switch some distance from the tree to turn the light off or on. 7. Do not leave lights burn ing when no one is in the house. From time to time inspect the tree to see whether any 'needles near the lights have started to turn brown. If so, change the position of the lights. 8. When needles start falling, take the tree down and discard it. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Columbus believed he could reach the Far East hv sailing 2.500 miles west, but actually he travelled 3.230 miles before reach nig the New World. and features at ordinary tem peratures. "The process used on Lenin, also a Soviet state secret, is said to include maintaining a constant degree of sterilized moisture working through the tissues at a pressure kept constant by an elec trical pumping device connected Inside the body, and by maintain ing a constant temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit in side the glass canopy over the body." aaa NICE, cosy reading, isn't it? So far as I'm concerned, that's one state secret the Soviet govern ment can go on possessing FOR EVER. a ALSO A If I ever get to Moscow, I'm , NOT going around to the Red ' Square to take a look at Lenin's body, kept lifelike by this state secret. The same goes for Dlmitrov's body in Ninth of Sep tember Square in Sofia. THAT general line of thought brings up an interesting ques tion propounded to me by a reader the other day: "What is the difference be tween socialism and commu nism?" a LETS put the answer this way: IN BOTH NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA, SOCIALISM HAS PERMITTED ITSELF TO BE PEACEFULLY VOTED OUT OF POWER. a a a CAN you imagine communism permitting itself to be peace fully voted out of power at an election? I can't. Communism has never yet come Into power as the result of a free election. It is my guess that it will never permit itself to go out of power as the result of a free election. GOING PLACES Margaret Truman seems mighty pleased to be at the wheel of her new 1950 Ford in New York City. The Presi dent's singing daughter had just returned to New York following a five-week concert tour. She will make professional appearances soon in Washington and New York. Camp Fire Girls' Council Adds Five More Members Five new members were add ed to the Camp Fire Girls council at the monthly meeting held in tne cnamoer oi Commerce room. They are Mrs. Ray Lehman. Mrs. Harry Brubaker, Mrs. Hugh Whipple of Drain, Mrs. E. P. Johnson and Mrs. Mary Block. Leo Young, county Community Chest committee chairman, re ported on the general poor re sponse in the county to the Com munity Chest campaign, and the possible curtailment of activities of all the represented organiza tions, unless additional funds are available. Miss Barbara Lou Kitt. CamD Fire executive director. reDOit- ed there are more than 1,000 members and counselors In the county. The list shows about 938 girls, with enough leaders and counselors to bring the number well over the 1,000 mark. A report was made on the suc cess of the booth sponsored at" the Turkey show, and the secre tary was authorized to write letters of appreciation to persons who had given special assistance. A Camp Fire guardians' meet ing is scheduled for tonight at 7:30, at the Chrislian church. The St. Joseph's Bluebirds will hold a Christmas cake sale Saturday, starting at 9 a.m., at the Ump qua Valley Hardware. A com miltee of awards meeting was announced for January 7 at the Presbyterian church basement. man tribunal. Best, reading from a prepared statement, said his broadcasts for the Nazis were part of his "might and main" fight against Marxist Communism. WALLPAPER AND PAINT Largest Stock In Douglas County, PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 DRESSMAKING , ALTERATIONS Zoa Newman 925 Cobb St. Phone 387-R RADIATOR Repairing and Cleaning Lockwood Motors Rose and Oak PHONE 80 BJMUVaWKilMMiHH w 'HAT'S the connection between bodies In Moscow and Sofia? Well, communism is a GOV ERNMENT BY MEN and can't ever afford to let Its men DIE. A New .Year's $edolu tio 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. Appeal Court Studies Conviction For Treason BOSTON. Dec. 15 f.T")Three Judges of the U.S. Court of Ap- peais nan under advisement I Tuesday the appeal of Robert ! H. Best irom a lire sentence for treason. Best was convicted In 194S of comitting 12 overt acts of treason in broadcasting Nazi pronaean- da from Germany during the war. The 53-year-old former news- man from Sumler, S.C., was al lowed 15 minutes to make a per sonal appeal before the three- i Although most people In the Middle Aces thought the earth ! was flat, Eratosthenes, who lived 2.200 years ago, taught that It was round. ! Many of the things that are called pumpkins are really squashes. PHONE 100 between 6 15 and 7 p. m., if you hare not received your Newt Review, Ask for Harold Mobley HOME TOWN NEWS "DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE WITH ANY ONE ELSE BUT ME ... " Don't rely on on undependable source for your winter fuel . . . just call the ROSEBURG LUMBER COMPANY for immediote delivery of slobwood and sawdust.
