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t 4 Th Nwi-Rvlw, Rowburg, Or. Sat, Jon. 7, 19501 Jbo flows fteview Published 0 illy Exoept Sunday I y the Nawi-3evie Company, Inc. llNnl elm m.Il.r Br 1, UPte, el ae ! BsMbatf. OrB, wit ! trcb t. till CHARLES V. STANTON sT EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor "Sils' Manager Member of tho Ateoelated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations ! it WEST-HOLLIDAT CO. INC. allien JW (era. CMras, lu rr.rolw.. La Anftlu. Sittlle. r.rllo II LaaU. Ihrn . B, Cll Orrltc-P.r re.r SI0.0J (la at par moalh !. Ooul Or Br Mill rer rear lee. eaealba le.la. three meaUip ll.la EDITOR'S i By CHARLES ! The editorial mail bag has items during the past few i Oregon's former governor, Oswald West, now engaged in the practice of law in Portland, copied from Bancroft's Hand Book for 1860-61 notations relative to Douglas county, and mailed them to The News-Review together with his personal New Year's greetings. In 1860-61, the reference to Douglas county was carried in the hand book as follows: ; Thl It a large oounty In the southern part of the state, containing an area of about 9,000 square miles, and ex tends from the Coast Range on the west to the summit of the Casoades. It Is drained by the Umpqua river which branches Into two main forks; the south fork oourses Its way through a large and fertile valley, well adapted for agrloulture and grazing purposes, and already the home of a permanent and Increasing farm population. :. County seat Roseburg 140 miles from Salem. First Judlolal District Hon. P. P. Prim, Judge oiroult ' court. Dlstrlot Attorney Rufus Mallory Roseburg. Senator Hon. Solomon Fitzhugh. Representatives Hon. R. H. Cowles and James F. Gazley. COUNTY OFFICERS ' SALARY County Judge, Andrew Jonee ' $400 , County Clerk, James Walton Feea Sheriff, John Fullerton Fees Treasurer, 8. Hamilton ' Fees Surveyor, (Vacant) Supt. 8ohools, John Dlllard $200 Attorneys, Roseburg: 8. F. Chadwlck, Rufus Mallory and Jas. M. Pyle. Douglas county has made great advancement since the his torian penned those words 90 years ago. Today's historian would emphasize the timber industry and its sensational expansion. But, actually, our wealth still lies in the rich land, our abundant flow of water and in our good, conscien tious citizens. " ' Biblical Parallel Seen by Writer '.V A Roseburg man, spending the holidays in Los Angeles, sends us a clipping from the Log Angeles Times. The clip ping was taken from the, "Letters to the Editor" column, The' writer, commenting , upon James Roosevelt, and particularly his appeal to "young Democrats," to help him, finds a biblical parallel in the story of King Solomon and his He recites the 10th chapter the people complained of grevious taxes imposed by Solomon and petitioned Rehoboam to hoboam hearkened to advice were brought up with him." taxes and the result was the Railroad Tax Report Brings Another writer sends us a ern Pacific company's report on taxes paid in Oregon, a subject most interestingly discussed in Frank Jenkins' col umn in Thursday's News-levicw. The writer, anticipating that this column might want to criticize the. S.P., as we so frequently do, offered the said about what the railroad county with so little return for passenger transportation. ; We won't "blast" the S.P. comes to our mind when we Invariably the company calls pays taxes to support public petition. But it never mentions the fact that the railroads were built at public expense, through huge grants of land, on which the railroads made cause of the way settlers and investors were being bilked by the railroads, the government found it necessary to take back title to grant lands in " Furthermore, the Southern put Southern Oregon in the "icebox" and prevent its de velopment corresponds in time with the government's re .vestment of the grant lands. LETTERS to the Editor . Sales Tax Only Way ' MYRTLE CREEK In your paper ol Jan. 4 1 saw mention of a sales tax. I believe a sales tax would be approved by the voters If thev knew where the money was to be used say one-half for schools and one-hall for old age pensions. There is no nuestlon but that property must have some relief and the sales tax is me oniy wayv A. J. STEPHENS Myrtle Creek, Ore. "Messiah" To Be Repeated 'At Veterans Hospital Members of the Roseburg Choral society were reminded today to gather Monday at 7 p.m. at the Roseburg Veterans hospi tal recreation building for a spe cial repent performance of the "Messiah." Roy Barnhart, society presi dent; aald the hour-long concert MAIL BAG V. STANTON contained some interesting days: the political ambitions of son, Rehoboam. of 2nd Chronicles, in which ease their servitude. But Re from the young men "that They advised him to increase revolt of the 10 tribes. Comment clipping concerning the South suggestion that something be company Is getting out of the in the way of accommodations today, but one thing always see these annual tax reports. attention to the fact that it highways used by its com a great profit, and that, be Oregon and California. Pacific company's effort to will precede the midwinter party nut on each year for "all mem bers past, present or future." The party will be a date affair. During the festivities which fol low the special concert, an an nouncement will be made con cerning the music and prepara tions for the coming spring con cert, he said. Glendale Students Make High Honors At SOCE Eugene Evonuk and Frederick L. Goddard, both of Glendale, are listed among the 31 students comprising the highest four per cent of the students of Southern Oregon college who made the fall term honor roll. One student, Virgil Wolff, Med ford, reached the perfect 4.0 re cord. A grade point average of 3.50 or higher, while carrying a load of at least 12 term noun. Is required for honors. First day enrollment for the winter quarter showed a 29 per cent Increase over January 1949 first-day enrollment. Indications are the winter quarter final re gistration figures Jan. 14 will fall very little below the fall term all-time record for the school. Fall term enrollment totalled 782. Poor, f$pj By ViaKnttt S. Martin r- Inventory time, Isn't it! Hard, tedious work. Not always cheer ing when the columns are added up. It's a good time to take stock In other ways, too. Any golden calves or white elephants In the home? The white elephants are simple problems; there is al ways a place for the white ele phant where It will be of use believe It or not! If you have ever read Goodwill stories or Sal vation Army accounts It will be easy to know what to do with that uselss to you item In the home. The golden calves aren't always as easy to spot. Elusive. Even dis guised, I well remember the day the idea was given to me, that the worship of golden calves didn't stop in the days when the Israelites wandered in the wll nerness. Oh, no! When I read the article In Business Week (Dec. 24) which quotes Dun & Bradstreet as say ing that over 8,500 failures were reported during the first eleven months of 1949, It set me wonder ing about the cause. To be sure, Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press DOWN WITH POLLUTION Astorlan Budget This newspaper concurs with the Portland Orcgonian in Its Monday comment that cities, pulp mills and other Industrial plants In the Willamette valley have ample time given them to correct their pollution of the riv er. Says the Oregonian: "The disgraceful condition of scores of rivers and creeks Is Ore- gon s shame. The situation has been soft-pedaled too long. There Is encouragement In the Indica tion that the state sanitary au thority, named under the law to restore and safeguard the state's greatest resource its water Is about through with temporizing." The sanitary authority has been lenient. It has been in existence five years, charged with making sure that cities and Industries quit polluting the rivers. It has granted the cities time to work out financing of sewage disposal plants and Industries time to de velop practical methods of dis posal of waste. Now It is showing signs of a firmer policy, and de serves the state's support In do ing so. Pollution Is one of the worst threats to our fishing Industry, perhaps as serious as such power dams as those proposed for the lower Snake river. Pollution has done much to de stroy fish life In the Willamette basin, which once was an Import ant salmon stream and must be made so again under the proposed "lower river fish rehabilitation plan." if this Is to be done, the state sanitary authority must get touch and must have the support of the people of the state In anv controversy with recalcitrant of fenders. It mav be hard for Industrial plants to figure out ways to end pollution, but I Is also hard on the people of Oregon to have their fishing industry destroyed ana their rivers rendered Into run ning sewers. The right to operate an Industry In Oregon must of necessity carry with It the respon sibility not to misuse the river. The people of Oregon have had two recent examples of the evils Little Lonesome the cause given In the articles Is "Competition is getting heavier.' That is undoubtedly true. The very fine article Is one which could be read profitably by any house wife and also by adolescent John ny and Mary who might decide their dad was pretty good to have kept his head above the troubled waters of business; even got ahead a bit. It might be John ny or Mary might think a little longer before Insisting they just had to have . . . tills or that? I just wonder If some of the trouble can be traced to golden calves getting mixed up In our everyday thinking. Is the Item for which we bring pressure on the budget a real need? Will It contribute something towards closer companionship of the fam ily? Will It raise our living stan dards? Or Is it just a golden-calf desire to have something like Tommy or Sally of our neighbor or somebody else? After all just what is this bud get we talk about? Let's think of It in terms of human relation ship ... of the earner, not the earnings! of pollution. There was the case of fish being killed in Tualatin river, which attracted wide atten tion, reopened as was the ease of Univcrstly of Oregon's millrace, reopened at great cost and then found virtually useless for recre ation because of pollution. The rivers must be purified and nothing can be gained by fur ther delay. ADVERTISING ON PARKING. METERS? NOl Oregon City Enterprise Oregon City didn't let it come to Issue, but where It did, as in Portland and Pendleton and sev eral smaller places, the proposal to utilize parking meters for ad vertising purposes It didn't get very far. In a number of cities where the lure of a few dollars from street advertising tempted some city officials, sounder heads prevailed generally in Oregon and meter billboards were turned down. Grants Pass is now toying with the idea with little en thusiasm. Parking meters legally are In a twilight zone anyway, for thev. In effect, appropriate certain property rights In the interest of traffic safety and convenience. To add an extra questionable reve-nue-produclng Idea to them would send the whole meter problem In to the courts where they might become vulnerable. The meters serve a useful purpose in distrib uting traffic and checking abuses. Don't Imperil them with racket. any TAX PROPOSAL FOUGHT PORTLAND tP Protests have come from Granges ami other suburban organizations against a proposal to tax Port land's "daylight citizens" $25 an nually. The daylight citizens, so named by Mayor Dorothy Lee, are those who work In the city but return at night to homes outside Port land. The Russcllvllle and ParkTose Granges, the State Grange, the Brotherhood of Railway Train men and the Parkrose chamber of commerce Joined In protesting the tax, proposed by Mrs. Lee. Lady! In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) ONLY when congress refuses to appropriate the money. F 'OUR convicts who shot their way out of the Arkansas peni tentiary last week and touched off a manhunt that made front pages all over the country are back In jail two of them In the hospital pretty well- shot up. "I'm glad it's over," one of them ,a 22-year-old, tells a Little Rock reporter. "The cold was hell." s Arkansas penitentiary ruckus sounds llki the aftermath of the late world war. Just a lot of suffering. Nothing gained by anybody. WHY do you reckon these con victs broke jail? I wouldn't be surprised if It was because they GOT FED UP WITH THE MONOTONY. I sometimes wonder if that isn't why we have wars. a SYNGHMAN Rhee, president of South Korea, finds a reporter and does some talking to him. He says: "Korea is the combatant out post of the non-communist world . . . here, every day, our soldiers and sailors, our police and our common citizens are In deadly combat with communist soldiers, communist armed bands, commu nist terrorists, all directed and supplied from the homeland of all the world's communists. "The struggle for freedom and democracy against communism and totalitarianism is not acade mic In Korea. "WITH US IT IS A DAILY MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH." A LOT of us fall into the habit of thinking that communism is just something for the news papers to talk about. It isn't. It is real, and bloody, and terrible. It will go on as long as too mucl power Is held in too few hands in Moscow. T HE Koreans, you know, could END all this daily flirting with danger and death that their president tells us about. All they would have to do would be to give up their dream of liberty and GO COMMUNIST. They'd rather go on fighting and dying. People really feel that way about their liberty when it is actually threatened. Commission Suit Filed In Sale Of Paper Plant LOS ANGELES, Jan 7 . Willard P. Hawley has filed suit against the Times-Mirror Co., and Its president, Norman Chandler, claiming a $200,000 commission Is due him In a pulp mill deal. Alleging breach of contract, Hawley contends he had an oral agreement with Chandler for a 5 percent commission for ne gotiating the Tlmes-Mlrror company's 1948 purchase of the Hawley Pulp and Paper Co., Oregon City, Ore., for $4,000,000. Hawley'i suit said an associate. Morals Wave In Italy Produces Gang Warfare, Political Wrangling By PHILIP CLARKE ROME (JPy Scantily-clad Hollywood beauties blossom period ically In movie posters plastered over ancient Roman walls. Next day, like as not, the poster pin-up gals will have prim paper patches over their feminine charms. This sly "battle of the posters" is generally waged at night by rival gangs of billboard boys: one for the movie outfits and the other for the government's morals department. Once even, the eagle-eyed M- men (for morals) spotted the naked bust of Venus on an art exhibit poster. "Away with this indecency," cried the M-men. But they hadn't reckoned on ari-ioving Italians wno rose in wratn. "Back with the bust." they chorused and back it came. Meantime, with holy year here, Circuit Court To Resume Monday; 12 Cqses Listed Continued November circuit court term is scheduled to re sume Monday morning. Judge Carl E. Wimberly has summon ed the trial jury to report at 9:30 o'clock in the courtroom. Eleven civil and one criminal case are currently set for the docket. The first case, schedul ed to open with the selection cf a jury Monday morning, is the suit of William D. and Elsie E. Mayberry vs. Duard E., and Marlon A. Peck. The plaintiff is suing to collect $50 alleged due on a promissory note, dated Mar. 22, 1948. 1 The defendants in an answer claims $70 has been paid on the note, and counter claims that the plaintiffs owe the defendants $500 for the purchase of 25 tons of alfalfa hay grown on the de fendant's Winston property, fur ther that Marion Peck earned $157.50 working for the Mayber rys, and that the plaintiffs owe $45 for pasturing a horse and calf on the defendants property. The defendants ask that judg ment for $702.50 be allowed as a counter claim, and that $180 be set off as the plaintiffs demand, leaving the defendant's claim $522.50. The second case on the docket is listed as B. A. Martin vs. Fred Lockyear. The plaintiff demands judgment of $800 for replacement of a Leitz transit and tripod claimed to have been rented by the defendant, but demolished when run over by a cleated trac tor; also $80 for two months ren tal of the equipment is asked. The third case listed is a crim inal action against W. W. Wiser. Wiser, 33, of Yoncalla, is charged by the state in a grand Jury in dictment with the theft of four truck tires, exceeding the value of $35, while acting with Richard Backus. Wiser entered a plea of innocent on Nov. 16. He has been out on $1,000 bail. Backus' case has already been disposed of. Czechs Oust Four Foreign Newsmen PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 7. UP) The communist govern ment Friday expelled Richard Kasischke, chief of the Associat ed Press bureau here, and three other correspondents represent ing news organizations in the United States, Britain and France. The expulsion order cut in half the already reduced staffs of for eign correspondents covering Czechoslovakia for the non-communist world. The Associated Press bureau will be In charge of Nate Polowetzky, like Kasischke an American. Besides Kasischke, those ex pelled by the order are Bob Roy Buckingham, United Press corre spondent; Miss Amber Bousoug lou, correspondent of the French Press agency, and Eric Bourne of the Kemsley newspapers of Great Britain. The action brings to 10 the number of western newspaper correspondents ousted from this country in the last six months. This, however, was the first group expulsion. Utilities Head Opposes Sale Of PP&L Stock PORTLAND, Jan. 7. iJPt The Oregon state public utilities com missioner objected Friday to the proposed sale of Pacific Power and Light company stock to an eastern syndicate. George Flagg said he has told the Securities Exchange commis sion that he thinks the common stock should . be distributed lo cally. He has asked the SEC, which must approve any sale to hold public hearings beforehand, and the SEC has agreed to do so, Flagg said. American Power A Light, which holds PP&L common stock, announced Wednesday a contract to sell the stock to a syndicate headed by B. J. Van Ingen & Co., New York brokerage firm. Slayer Of Policeman Is Adjudged Insane SEATTLE, Jan. 7. P Wal ter Peden, 57, who killed state Patrolman Paul Johnson and wounded three other persons near North Bend December 12, was adjudged insane Friday. Superior Judge Malcolm A. Douglas ordered Peden committ ed to the Western State hospital at Stellacoom "as long as his in sanity persists." The patrolman was approach ing Johnson's house to investi gate the other shootings whon shot. The judge said Peden may be returned for trial "if and when his mental condition Improves so that he can appreciate the peril of his position in being charged with first degree murder."- Preston Low. has assigned his Interest in the commission to Hawley. the government appears to be tightening its morals censorship a bit. An Italian film comedy on Adam and Eve was banned the day it was due to open in Rome. The Catholic press had attacked It as an "irreverent parody of the Old Testament." A grandmotherly socialist sena tor, Angelina Merlin, also re cently won a year-long parliamen tary battle to padlock Italy's houses of prostitution. Police had usually winked at the clandestine houses before that. Now, police wagons roam about nightly in search of streetwalk ers, picking up known prostitutes in oars ana cares, inev are nus tled to a medical center for exam ination. If suffering from ven ereal disease, they are treated in government camps. If not, they are lectured, listed and set free. In Italy, unlike France, hotel- keepers are charged by police with renting rooms only to mar ried couples. Passports and other credentials are closely checked. Interior Minister Mario Scelba also plagues Italy's sensation- loving press. Last summer the word went out that a Milan maga zine must not print a photograph of vacationing Winston Churchill In a bathing suit. "An invasion of privacy," said the police. Communist editors have re ceived suspended court sentences for attacking the Pope. "Defama tion of the head of a forelen state," charge the police. Glulio Andreottl. Premier de Gasperl's Christian Democrat un dersecretary, denies Communist charges that the government alms at muzzling the press. "We must safeguard our most delicate national patrimony," he told the Senate recently, "and preserve the spiritual health of future generations." Card of Thanks We are sincerely grateful to the many friends and neigh bors of the late Doctor Charles A. Edwards for their many kind acts to him through the years. Our appreciation can not be adequately expressed. " ' JOHN AND ELIZABETH EDWARDS A New Year's Resolution 1 ; Resolve to do your 1950 business with us. Let. us help you co ilidate your banking busi ness and arrange for the banking services which your needs require. Safe deposit boxes and night depository avail able at your home-owned, home-operatea bank. Douglas County State Bank ' Member . . . Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. DIRECTORS S. J. Shoemaker, Pres. M. E. Ritter, V.-Pres. H. O. Pargeter, Sec. & Mgr. A. N. Orcutt, Atty. V. J. Mlcelll, Trees. Edyth Gilmour, isst. Secretary Condition of The Umpqua Savings and Loan Association Roseburg, Oregon At Close of Business December 31, 1949 RESOURCES Notes Secured by D. R. Loans Notes Secured by Stock Sales Contracts . . Federal Horn Loan Bank Stock . Government Bonds . Home Office Building Advanced Borrowers - Interest Receivable . Cash on Hand and Due from Banks LIABILITIES Investment Stock .. Building Account Reterve . Contingent Reserve Surplus . , Deferred Profit Money Borrowed ' Incomplete D. R. Leant . Other Reservea Undivided Profits ., State of Oregon, County of Douglas, ss. I, H. O. Pargeter, Secretary of the above Association, da hereby solemnly swear that the above statement la true, to the best of my Knowledge ana Belief. ATT EST I SAM. J. SHOEMAKER, President Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th dav of January. A. D. 1950. (Seal) Navy Secretary Draws Rap From r Vice Adm. Bogan TAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 7. (Jfy Secretary of the Navy Mat thews' reaction to a letter criti cizing administration of the uni fication act was a "breach of faith," says Vice Adm. Gerald F. Bogan. Admiral Bogan has decided to seek retirement rather than ac cent demotion to rear admiral. Bogan told a press conference Matthews had invited letters dls cussing the unification act. Bogan wrote such a letter, expressing the opinion unification policies were affecting navy morale ad versely. It was this letter which Capt. Charles G. Crommelin copied and handed to reporters In Washington last October and which led to a congressional com mittee hearing. Bogan said the Navy secretary had promised most serious con sideration to such letters from flag officers. "The only consideration my let ter received," Bogan said, "was to cause Matthews to refer to me in very derogatory terms in a public statement to the Armed Services committee of Congress. "Also in a personal letter to me, he inferred irregularities on my part in handling that letter. I assure you there were no irregu larities. "It has been my practice and l belief for years that loyalty must work down as well as up," Bogan said. "Under present condition!, I ieel I can no longer carry out with complete loyalty the poli cies of the heads of our navy, and see no other course but retire ment open to me." PHONE 100 bet-ween 6.15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mob ley DIRECTORS G. V. Wimberly G.CFinlay Guy Cordon B. R. Shoemaker W. F. Harris N. Fullerton ..$1,558,434.97 29,265.11 6,636.05 12,400.00 45,000.00 24,000.00 217.66 416.92 . 69,047.56 . 1,745,41 .27 ..11,533,706.97 12.200.00 43,205.02 9,630.12 1,938.74 78,750.00 - 25,739.10 257.69 39,990.63 1,745,418.27 H. O. PARGETER, Secretary. W. r. HARRIS, Notary Public for Oregon. My Commission Expires November 17, 1952. t
