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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."
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W. r. HARRIS, Notary Public for Oregon.
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