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4 Tin Newt-Review, Roicburg, Of Wed,, Dc. 28, 1949 1 . Published Dilly Exoept Sunday ly the Newt-Ravi Company, Inc. aunt uaul elm millii Mar 1, Hat laa aftloa BaMbargOrtffao, aadar aat af Marek a. UttS CHARLES V. STANTON gm, EOWIN U KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Astoolated Preee, Oregon Newspaper Publisher AssooUtlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations aanaaalar) ay WEST-HOLLIDA CO., INC., affloaa lo Naw (ark, Chloaia, Saa Vraaolaaa. Laa Anialaa. laallla, rarilaaS. Sk Laala. UHSUitlP'1'ION CATFS la Or.ion By Hall Par Taar !., ala naalka I4.e, Ihraa maatbi M.9S B Cllr Carrier Par raar 110.0 (la adace. law thaa aaa raar, par maatb 11.04 Oauida Orafaa Bit Hall Tar raar ISM. ala oalaa 14. IS, Ihraa maalka 12.11 EXPENSIVE DELAY By CHARLES V. STANTON A resident of the ) Edenbower-Riverside community is reported to have said recently that he will oppose union with the City of Roseburg as long as possible. . We wonder if the gentleman realizes that he is proposing to add a good many dollars to his tax costs, while proposing also to make taxes higher, than necessary for all Roseburg . presidents. ' By postponing consolidation of suburbs with the muni. !ciDalitv the entire Greater Roseburg area will suffer financially. - , ' j If consolidations are completed in time for inclusion in Ithe 1960 census, the Greater Roseburg area would have approximately $217,000 more during the next 10 years to ;apply toward city administration than if annexation were postponed. As anticipated receipts are used in budget making to lower the sum to be collected by assessment upon property, taxpayers would be saved that amount, which is more than double the tax that would, at the same time, be jlevied against property. The combined Edenbower-Riverside community, has 'population estimated at around 3,000 persons. i Distribution of motor vehicle taxes, liquor licenses, and 'other funds collected by the State of Oregon, results in reve jiUe amounting to approximately $7.25 per capita to each municipality. The distribution is calculated on the basis of the, last census. No provision is made for including as a part of the. base for distribution any population which may be added to a municipality between federal census periods. Thus, if consolidation does not occur in time to permit popu lation to be enumerated as a part of the municipality in 1960, benefits from state distribution of funds would not be obtainable until after, 1970. i i The most earnest opponent of annexation, we believe, will admit that it will be necessary for both Edenbower and Riverside to join the city' before '1970.' Conditions will not long permit these suburbs to continue without municipal services. ' " i Based on the existing " 3,000 ' population, benefits from distribution, of state funds would amounj; to . $21,750 an nually, or $217,500 in 10 years. The current rate of city taxation is approximately $3.50 per capita' or less than one half the amount of per capita state benefit. This latter figure, however, is very misleading, for approximately 80 per cent of all tax money raised by a municipality comes from, business and industry, leaving the average per capita tax for municipal purposes ort residential property at about 70 cents. In other words, a family of four would represent city taxes amounting to $2.80, while accounting for $29 in distribution of 'state revenue to municipalities. ..'.',' ; Taxes, of course, are levied on valuations and not on population. Our figures, therefore, based on population are for the entire community on an average and do not apply individually. For some persons the amounts would be more than quoted and less for others, determined by property valuations and number of persons per family. It is quite evident that postponement of consolidation beyond the census period will be exceedingly expensive. If annexation could be voted immediately, the city would have an additional $21,750 annually to be used in lowering the sum to be collected by direct levy on property. On the other hand, if annexation is postponed, then for every year between the time consolidation is approved and the year 1971 the city budget will be minus deductions which other wise would be available and the cost will be distributed among all taxpayers. We believe it is evident that postponement of annexation will bo far more expensive to residents of these suburban areas than immdiate consolidation. We hope they will make a New Year's resolution to pro . ceed with annexation at the earliest possible date. Just a Little Dot on the Map Most Automobiles Now Running Of Pre-War Vintage WASHINGTON VP) The head of General Motors figures that around 55 to 60 per cent of autos now running are pre-war. ; Charles E. Wilson, making that estimate, added: 'The used cars are still overpriced as compared to pre-war If you put the dollar back In Its purchasing power with relation to a new car." Among other things Wilson said he expects the next new de velopment in the 'automobile will be "the use of high-octane fuel with more efficient engines." Another way to save fuel would be to lessen a car's weight, he said, "If you can take weight out, make the car just as good a per former and Just as convenient for riding." Wilson said he doesn't expect any radical or revolutionary changes In cars In the next few years. He said also he doesn t ex pect there will ever be a less-than-$1,000 car again. XB'fOy.f CWNE4E f f ' By Vialuutt S. Martin JJr "Moving Stars Akin to Music" is the title of an article borrowed from Dr. J. Hugh Pruett, astron omer, Oregon Higher Education system, clipped from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Says Dr. Pru ett: "When we contemplate a clear night sky, artistically set with Its myraids of twinkling stars of many degrees of brilliancy, and note how the entire crystalline sphere turns smoothly westward, do we not some-times feel that Intertwined In all this perfect order and harmony Is something closely akin to exquisite music?" Since reading the delightful clipping In which is explained the theory of the Greek Pythagoras, 6th cenutry B. C, from which has come our expression, "music of the spheres," I have been try ing to find a poem which stays In a corner of my mind about that very thing: the music of the spheres. Does any reader know it? "Astronomy and music surely are not discordant, says Dr. Pruett. "Witness the great of the world who have worshipped at the shrines of both: Galileo, Her- schel, Saint-Saens, . Jeans, Ein stein. In his symphonic suite of seven tone poems," "The Plan ets' " Gustav Hoist memorized the 'harmony of the spheres'." Pythagoras believed that ' as the planets 'In order bright' swing through the firmament they emitted clear and pure mu sical notes. Since the note of each depended upon its speed and this In turn on the distance he felt that the spacing of these heaven ly bodies was perfectly arranged, for the combination of the notes produced splendid harmony; . "Why do we not notice them? Because so accustomed to them are we, having heard them since birth, that we are no more con' scious to their vibrations that is a coppersmith of the din. he pro duces. . . . The seven planets, (sun and moon included) are the seven strings of the heavenly harmony ... a heptachord. The sphere of the fixed stars fur nishes an eight." Dr. Pruett continues: "This no tion was. generally held even to the time of the astronomer Kep ler, about A. D. 1600. . . " Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Qualified Negroes Getting NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Un steady Improvement In the eco nomic and Industrial conditions of this country's Negro population is reported by the National Urban league In a year-end summary. The report said that an Increas ing number of qualified Negroes have obtained positions s engi neers, chemists, physicists, ac countants, bank tellers, telephone More And Better Jobs operators, sales clerks, Junior executives ana saics representa tives. "Most of these jobs would have been closed to Negroes before World War II," said Lester B. Granger, executive director of the league. The league, an Interracial ser vice organization, has 57 branches In 29 states. Naval Reservists To Get "Arctic" Drills In Colorado WASHINGTON VP) Train Ing for work under simulated Arctic conditions will be given more than 800 naval reserve en gineers and Sen bees during the next three months at the army's Camp Hale, high up in Colorado. The reservists, cominir from states west of the Mississippi, will get their training in. three groups 'zero. of 275 men each, with the first group going into camp January 14 for a two-week course. Army experts will show the na naval reservists the special tech nique needed If a war should be fought in the far north, Including the use of sled trains, plows, and living and working out-of-doors when the thermometer Is below THE FARMER AND CVA The Dalles Chronicle Lowell Steen. sneaking before a luncheon meeting of The Dalles Lions club, has effectively dis posed of the notion that the Ore gon Farm Bureau federation is neutral in the controversy over CVA. Emphasizing that most of his comments reflected the views of the Farm Bureau as expressed at the convention a few weeks ago in La Grande, Steen took a firm stand against control of North' west development by a Columbia valley administration or other government corporation. Among the sections of the CVA bill (SB 1645) to which the state Farm Bureau president drew spe cial attention are tne loiiowmg: 1 Section 6. Daee 10 (3) to con duct economic scientific and tech nologic Investigations and studies, to establish, maintain and operate research facilities, and to under take experiments and practical demonstrations. Section 7, page 13 (a) The administration shall be responsi ble for preparing such multiple purpose and unified plans and programs for the conservation, development and use of the nat ural resources of the region as may be useful to the President and the congress in guiding and controlling the nature, extent and sequence of federal pro grams, projects and activities in the region, and in coordinating them with related national poli cies and programs. ' Section 1, page 14 (5) foster ing the use of the mineral, forest, land, water, fish and other re sources of the region to assure a balanced and stable economic de velopment. Powers similar to those confer red In section 6 have been used by the Tennessee valley authority to conduct "experiments" which led to direct competition with a number of private businesses. Steen pointed out. Section 7 would give CVA the rlsht to assume the functions of Planning and controlling virtual ly all programs now conducted by other federal agencies. The Farm Bureau president made It clear that, as far as agri culture is concerned, he favors keeping control as close to home as possible. He cited the extension service as an agency drawing its finances from various sources but remaining subject primarily to local ana state control. bteens strongest point, one which cannot be dismissed by those who scoff at the genuine fear caused by continual exten sion of government control over the lives of us all, was this: If the government can take over the electric power business, as it has already done In a large area dominated by the Tennessee vauey autnonty, it could also con ceivably assume command of ag riculture or any other industry. Reduced to its simplest terms, that is the question which con fronts the northwest or any other area which later may be Included In a valley authority blueprint It is easy to say that such ex tension of power Is not contem plated, that CVA is designed sim ply to develop resources and con serve soil, forests and fish for the benefit of all. It could do just that, provided the all-powerful three-man board firmly believed in the American system of free enterprise In addition to their re quired belief in the "feasibility and wisdom" of the CVA act. Otherwise it could be dictator ship. unless mere are abuses which appear to be uncorrectible by any means other than federal control, no farmer or business man should advocate for someone else's busi ness a form of government dom ination or ruinous competition which he would be unwilling to have applied to the economy as a whole. Lost Diamond Ring Found In Gift Package MUSKEGON. Mich. Dec. 28. VP) The day after was Just as happy as Christmas at the Ro bert Dlllard home this year. San ta Claus paid a return call, as it were. Sometime during the holldavs Mrs. Dlllard lost her $1,000 dia mond ring. Yesterday she got It back. Mrs. Miles Olsen found the ring, which had fallen into a Christmas package Mr. Dillard had wrapped and sent it to her. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) the master speaks) and delega tions from. foreign countries. HERE was Ivan Ivanovlch, the Russian common man? Oh, he was out In the cold and the snow shivering and slaving and toiling TO PA1 FOR ALL THIS POMP AND GLITTER. That's where the common man always winds up when too much power is held In too few hands too long. ! IN Washington, D. G, the other day, Representative Mack, Re publican congressman from the state of Washington, ran Into Charlie Watkins, whr handles Pa cific Northwest news for the As sociated Press. (Gharlie prowls the halls of the Capitol and the House and Senate office buildings in search of Northwest lawmakers who are in the mood to say some thing that might make news. When they1 say it, Charlie wires it out here for consumption by the home folks.) Mack said to Charlie: 'The main effort of the coming sesslqn of Congress SHOULD BE TO REDUCE THE PRESENT WASTEFUL AND EXTRAVA GANT FEDERAL SPENDING BY ABOUT TEN BILLION DOL LARS A YEAR." That sounded O Kto Charlie, and a few minutes later the stuff was coming off our teletype. I DON'T know Representative Mack personally, but I'm In complete agreement with his statement that Congress ought to nick about ten billion dollars off the federal government's spending. Congress could DO IT, too, if it really wanted to. The wise found ing fathers made Congress the LKEEPER OF THE PURSE STRINGS. . Until Congress appropriates the money, NOBODY CAN SPEND IT. If Congress refuses to appropri ate, the administration can't spend. NOBODY knows all this better than Charlie Watkins, who Is a news hound, and a, good one; and so when Representative Mack got those winged words off his chest Charlie lost no time getting them onto the wires. a a I'M all for Congressman Mack's proposal. But I wonder. I wonder what he would do If somebody proposed to reduce the federal spending by some millions of dollars IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. That's where the shoe would begin to pinch. ONE trouble with our Congress Is that Its members are against reckless federal spending EVERYWHERE EXCEPT IN THEIR OWN DISTRICTS. J. F. Bonebrake Again Elected To Head PMA J. F. Bonebrake' of Melrose route will again head the Doug las County Production and Mar keting Administration commit tee. He was elected on Dec. 21 to serve as 'chairman for the coming year. Vice-chairman of the commit tee Is J. L. Aikins of Riddle. Har vey J. Cockeram of Oakland is tne third member of the isau county committee. The first and second alternates are R. A. Bus- enbark of Melrose and Delbert Trask of Myrtle Creek. The following is the list of the three 'committeemen elected in each of the county's ten distrlcU: District I Glendale-Azalea chairman, Louis Brady; vlce- cnairman, joe rayne; regular member, B. G. Johnson, all of Glendale. District Tf Riddle chairman, L. C. Walsh; vice-chairman, Ivan Worsham; regular member, Ros coe Ball, all of Riddle. District III Days Creek -Can- yonviUe chairman, Lawrence Michaels, Canyonville; vice-chairman, Delbert Poole, Days Creek;, regular member, Frank Brown, Canyonville. District IV Myrtle Creek- chairman, E. W. Hollinger; vice chairman, Delbert Trask; regular memoer, Fred XMeale, Myrtle Creek. District V Roseburg chair man, R. A. Busenbark; vice-chairman, Clifford Hess; regular mem ber. V. T. Jackson, all of Rose burg. District VI Camas valley-Ten- mile chairman, Ernest Wheeler; vice-chairman, Jack Parrot; regu lar member, Howard Milton, all of Camas Valley. District vil Oakland-Sutherlln chairman, C. H. Davison; vice- cnalrman, George A. Wilcox both of Oakland; regular member, Marry Norton, Sutherlln. District VIU Elkton-Kelloce chairman, George Madison; vice chairman, J. B. Rader both of Oakland; regular member, J. W. Goreman, Elkton. District IX Yoncalla-Drain chairman, L. W. Wise; vice-chairman, E. K. Mulkey; regular mem ber, D. C. Wilson, all of Yoncalla. District X ReedsDOrt chair man, O. R. North; vice-chairman, Paul McAllister; regular member, Edmond Pyritz, all of Reedsport. me county committee and the communty committeemen of each district have as their responsibili ty the job of administering the United State Department of Ag riculture conservation program. More Farmers Join Plan Douglas county has an appro priation of $64,000. for assistance to farmers using conservation practices recommended by the program. The objective of the committeemen in the following year will be to get more farmers interested in the conservation program. The program offers at least one practice that is need ed on every larm in the coun ty. More and more farmers are becoming Interested and actually participating eacn year, t ne coun ty committee would like very much to have more range land seeded to long-lived perennial pasture plants, said Bonebrake. The committee is also stressing drainage work and the removal of brush, so that wasted farm land can be utilized. For information on these prac tices or any other practices in cluded in the 1950 program, any interested farmer should contact his nearest committeeman listed above or the county office, room 321, Pacific building, Roseburg. Long Juvenile -Records Not Rule EUGENE UP The juvenile offender with a long record is the exception rather than the rule in Lane county. After one treat ment by Lane county juvenile authorities, the chances are five to one that the offender will not return. Those are the conclusion reach ed this week by Robert Blaha, a University of Oregon student who examined three years of Juvenile recoras to prepare a study on "recividism.'' i Noting each time a "twotlme loser" appeared before the juve nile authorities, the senior in psychology from Portland pre- ' pared a detailed statistical study, j He noted that after the second referral to the auhorities. "re- clvidism" dropped off unil only a handful of youngsters appeared five or six times. "Recividism" is the term social I workers and criminalogists use to describe a falling back or re lapse Into criminal habits, espe-1 cially after punishment While the boys outnumber eirls four to one on the delinquency rolls, the 1 raie 01 recivmism is 3ust about the same or 19.7 Dercent for hov and 18.5 percent for girls. Prison Doors Open For Japanese War Criminals TOKYO, Dec. 28 VP) Forty six Japanese war criminals were freed from Sugamo Drison todav They are the first to win freedom under General MacArthur's Christmas day announcement that war criminals could reduce their sentences by good behavior. Members of the etoud were serving sentences of four years or less for minor war crimes Included are Maj. Gen. Naoi Kuriiwa; and Kogyo Yonegakl, former Japanese consul general In Canton, China. Japan Given Permit To Build Merchant Marine ;; TOKYO, Dec. 28. VP) General MacArthur today gav the Japa nese government permission to spend 8,600,000,000 yen (nearly $24,000,000) to build up Nippon's merchant marine. i Earlier the allied occupation commander announced private Inverts wui be restored in japan on New Year's day. Occupation sources have long argued that if Japan could import an " export under her own steam the United States could reduce its spending in Japan. ' In authorizing private Imports, MacArthur took the final step in returning Japan's foreign trade to private hands. Exports were put on a private basis on Dec. ! Christmas is still celebrated on January 6, the ages-old Twelfth Night, by residents of Rodanthc, small village on Hatteras Island off North Carolina. Lea am moo comnsrottnnoLr tow INSTALLATION IX7M lOCKWOOD MOTORS Rose and Oak : Phone 80 WANTED Men to Train For Real Estate Appraisers Age 21 to 60. Must be resident of this county two or more years. Competent appraisers receive $175 to $325 per month. Farm experience valuable. . Write Box 135 co News-Review Look ahead 'to 1950! Let your New Year's Resolution be to do your 1950 business with a home-owned, home operated bank. All, modern banking facilities available, including safe deposit boxes and night depository service. Douglas County State Bank Member . ,. Federal Deposit Insurance , i Corp. ' ; ,, ; . taMiip jia-liM.-MaiiTJ I TflmMTt TWO POST BAIL Angeleta H. Welton. 38. Kla math Falls, charged with being drunk on a public street, was released upon posting $40 bail, Judge A. J. Geddes reported. Kevin Dwavne taton. 22. Men- lo Park, Calif., charged with be Ing drunk on a public highway. was released upon posting $40 bail, Geddes added. PHONE 100 berweeii 6 IS one) 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newt-Review. Aik for Harold Mobley o. .. 1 I I ah I -en r "-or a.' T ft "'iff . - A1 KI '"Ppe, rv. - i n i- -wjo 'e -"fe .:' cfr, . 6ues . o -,-' v It. FROM THE NEWS OF j 30 YEARS AGO Can t you just- see two thieves streaking down the muddy roadf in a 1918 model car? No wonder they abandoned it I probably got tired of cranking the beastl Modern can are easy to run, easy to start and easy to steal. Best pre- f ventive medicine is theft insurance then you can let US I worry about your car! 'o I?'0". uL' ' 'y of -e, Sean " sfo; ' "i "y '"en '"ie Roseburg Review January 30, 1919 W. IMI. to .7 7.-. . It Pays to Insure in Sure Insurance! Phone 1277-R . 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