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Newspaper Page TextI 4 The Newt-Review, Roiiburg, Ore. Sot., Jon. 21, 1930 Published Dilly Exoept Sunday ly th News-Sevie Company, Inc. . laun IMIII IIM U'J i. . f "oa " eaiakarf. Orataa. aaa.r iel Mare t, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON a". EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor 43 Manager . Number of tha Ataoolatad Preaa, Oregon Nawapapar Publisher Aaaoolatlon, tha Audit Buraau of Clreulatlona HUIIUI kr WBST-HOLLIDAf CO., INC.. fllc.i fa Na fare, Cklaaf. aaa BTaaalaea. Las infltM BMttU. rrtUa4. SI LaaU. OBauMIKNON KATES la Or.f.a-Bf thraa aiaalka t.5a B Clll Oarrlar aaa laaf, par naalh lia OallUa NELSON By CHARLES A well-deserved promotion TJ. S. Forest service for M. of the Umpqua forest. Nelson ineton, D. C, as assistant fire control director. This posi tion corresponds in rank to s regional office and is an ex cellent advancement. The chief fire control officer visited the Umpqua forest last summer, while on a trip of inspection from Washing ton, D. C, and apparently it was his appreciation of Nel son's work that caused him to ask for the local supervisor's transfer to the head office. ;"Red" has climbed very rapidly in the forest service. He has demonstrated outstanding ability in management, ad ministration, public relations, conservation and other fields of activity. ' He came to the Umpqua forest just at the time it was being opened for cutting by the timber industry, and has supervised the task of planning its working circles and the removal program. In so doing, he has carefully followed true . conservation practices, giving attention to watershed pro tection and preservation of scenic and recreational values, with a minimum of interference to industrial uses. News of Nelson's transfer is received with mingled emo tions, as we are glad for his advancement but regret his departure. He has by his friendly contacts with the public, his sincere service and his civic activities endeared himself to the people of jthis area, who,' we are confident, join us in extending congratulations and best wishes for continued advancement in the field of labor he has chosen' and in which he is contributing so much to public happiness and welfare. : Council To Study Unemployment Problem Oregon's 10-member advisory council on unemployment, recently appointed by Governor McKay, will hold its first meeting at Salem, Feb. 8, according to news reports. The council has been assigned the task of job planning to relieve seasonal unemployment and to study a long range program for full development of the state's resources. First consideration, it is reported, will be given a plan of organization by communities to promote more jobs. Pre liminary to organization will be a study of seasonal un employment statistics from each community or section in an effort to determine the average unemployment load and local causes for unemployment. From data gathered in the ex ploratory phase of the council's deliberations, it is hoped to work out plans to take up seasonal slacks. When the people in this country get to thinking more about jobs and less about handouts we'll be on the right track toward elimination of some of our economic ills. Full production and full employment will produce high wages, better working conditions, a more satisfied and happy people without continuing threat of disastrous inflation. But these conditions cannot be achieved through any socialistic hocus pocus. They must come through cooperative effort between management and labor, the removal of shackles from in vestment capital, and encouragement of honest labor and pride in craft, rather than the existing pattern of something for nothing, soak the rich, and encouragement of shiftless ness and idleness. Oregon's abundant resources hold potential for an ex pansion in jobs sufficient for a vastly larger population than we now have. But it will be a difficult task to provide those jobs under the political theories and tax structures ad vocated by socialistic planners of a controlled economy. We Second The Motion Ever notice one thing about changes the appearance of the revert to what they would like and dress in a very informal out like flowers in the spring, ties go the way of the second half ducks, and ridiculous hats make their appearance. Nothing happier than a bunch of men sitting around a business office in casual clothes. Almost worth the storm to be comfortable for a little while. Bill Jenkins in The Klamath Falls Herald & News. In the D?.y's News (Continued from Page One) under the aegis of the Fair Deal and Is going to outbrag him or bust a hameitrlng, , . - WHAT'S It all about? I wouldn't know, but when everything is lovely and the goose hangs high we're inclined to saw wood and say nothing. When we start boasting, it's often a sign that something is beginning to slip. ' I suspect that maybe human nature in Russia isn't much dif ferent from human nature else where. a a bandit gang soft-shoed its way into the inner sanctuary1 of a money transportation firm (one of these outfits that move cash In armored cars with impressive displays of uniformed guards r Nail rar Taar IF.ne. alt aiaaiaa M.ae. Far rat, IIO.M ila adnoa). la.i i tkaa Ot.iao Br Mail Tar Mat OS. all PROMOTED V. STANTON has been announced by the M. (Red) Nelson, supervisor is to be transferred to Wash a Btorm in this country thnt town? About half the men to look like the year-round fashion. Wool shirts blossom armed with shotguns), over powered the guards and walked away with a million dollars In cash and half a million In securi ties. They left another million dollars behind because they were so loaded down they couldn't carry any more. PAGE the ghosts of the James Brothers gang! They've been badly outclassed. Even In the hold-up business, the world gets steadily bigger and better. N New York a while back a wizened old character showed up with the claim that he is really Jesse James and has suc ceeded In getting himself a slug of publicity. He says the "Mr. Howard" that was shot In the back by Bob Ford was a ringer and not Jesse James at all and adds that he ought to know be cause he Is Jesse and remembers It all quite clearly. The New York reporters have What Difference Will It Make? -Ife Year I . . i ST3 If you to the south could spare a little of that "warm air mass from the Hawaiian Islands" we certainly could make good use of It In our canyon! However, the eaves are actually dripping a wee drap.now and then, and the man of the house left In fine style so the storm's "back Is broken," as an elderly friend used to say. E J Is allergic to shoveling. He hoed away the Ice-crust from in front of the garage doors, and then backed after several tries Into the road through (the iced-over, heaped up snow along the road. If ever you saw a car do a bucking bronco stunt, his final ram was just that! He did have chains on. Neighbor across the road was a half hour, first with truck, then with car, mak ing It to road. Have seen only one car, the never-llckedyct, bright red truck from the north. Wonder whose it Is? Letters from relatives In Texas and California are beginning to come In. (No mall got through yesterday, but If anybody gets Dial Exchange At Camas Valley Phone Co.'s Plan Plans for the establishment of a new dial telephone exchange at Camas Valley have been announe ed by the Pacific Telephone and iciegrapn company. A 12xl6 foot frame building to house the dial equipment will be erected on a site recently pur chased by the company on Coos Bay highway 42, about 300 feet osutheast of the Intersection of the old county road in Camas Valley, according to telephone manager R. J. Henwood. Tentative ln-servlce dale for the new office, which will be fully automatic with Roseburg as the control center, has been set for about May l. Under the new system, tele phone users In the Camas Valley area, who now are served by toll lines from Roseburg, will be able to dial local calls directly. Long distance and "assistance" calls will be made by dialing "O" for operator. These calls will be an swercd and completed by opera tors In the Roseburg telephone outer. According to Henwood. apnroxl malely 20 subscribers will be served through the new office Ini tially, with roughly 150 expected to be connected by July. The U.S. Bureau of Mines has developed a method of detecting quartz grains in rock particles. given the story quite a ride and among other things have dug up an old doggerel that once was familiarly known throughout the entire central Mississippi valley. It started off: "Oh the dirty little coward "He shot Mr. Howard "And laid Jesse James In his grave. It has been running through my head so persistently ever since that I think I'd like to do a Job of shooting on the scribes that exhumed it from the dead past Do fool Jingles like that some times ring In your head until they play hob with your normal thinking processes? jrvAiW Vv v x Via? - .... Wvvn.i wvVM- By Viahnttt S. Martin out, the mall carrier will, so we shall have some today). The Press wires must be giving the Oregon weather a real coverage! The Californians, thinking of our weather, slide over their own unusual snow-flurries, freezes, and last night's slight earth quake! Not to mention the love ly santanas that sand-blast the paint off your car in Jig-time, as anyone can testify who has had the experience. I'll still take Oregon! Texans "can't understand" why anybody lives anywhere else! Yet they have those famous northers that send the thermometers skid ding to the bottom in an hour or so, bring down hail stones so big they almost knock one out, and then in the summer heat so intense you can fry the pro verbial egg on the steps of any postofflce . . . dear, dear! Weath er! It's always good for conver sation or a column! P. S. That 90-mile wind through New York state was no zephyr. I'll see a N. Y. postmark any day now, telling about that. I'll still take Oregon! Local News Go to Portland Mr. and Mrs. James O. Knudtson of Roseburg left Friday for Portland to spend a few days on business. Visiting Here Mrs. Fred Sears returned to Mcdford today after spending the past week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Berg. Return Hera Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Shoemaker have returned to Roseburg after a trip to Port land, where Dr. Shoemaker at tended the Multnomah county Dermatologlcal society meeting. Hara For Few Weeks Mr. and Mis. Chester McGregor and small daughter of Eugene are spending a few weeks in Rose burg, while Mr. McGregor at tends to business. They formerly made their home here. License to. Wed A marriage license was Issued in Eugene this week to Warren T. Robinson, 38, Roseburg, and Esther L. Jones, 27, 1814 G. street. Springfield, ac cording to information received in Roseburg. Hera From Klamath Falls H. J. (Bud) Chandler Jr., Klamath Falls, radio director for the Southern Oregon Publishing com pany, is spending a few days in Roseburg attending to business. While here, he is visiting his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Chan dler Sr. Improving Mrs. Adolph H. Doerner of Roseburg. who was seriously Injured in an automo bile accident near Salem, Nov. 29. was able to leave Salem Me morial hospital Wednesday and is now at the Marion hotel ac cording to word received here. Her husband. Injured In the same accident, was released after a short period of hospitalization. School Lunch Program Serves 7 Million Kids By JANE EADS WASHINGTON About 7,000, 000 kids are being served piping hot noon day meals with a glass of milk for 14 cents under the national school lunch program this year. Though this is a million more than last year and estab lishes a record level, the depart ment of agriculture, which di rects the program, tells me a lot of customers had to be turned down because of a shortage of merchandise. "More schools need assistance this year, with rising food costs, and there has been an increase in applications, but we had to re fuse them because . of limited funds," a spokesman said. -" The lunches are served to about one fourth of the nation's school children between the ages of five and 17. They are nutritionally balanced, and the department of agriculture says they make a big outlet for farm products. Some thing like a billion and a quarter meals are served for the school year to the tunc of an annual ex penditure of about $330,000,000. The program, which has been in operation since' 1935, was made permanent by Congress in 1946. This year's appropriation of federal funds for the program totaled $83,500,000. States are re quired to match federal money, dollar for dollar. Actually, the de partment points out, state contri butions are much greater than this, exceeding the federal appro priation by a ratio of about three to one. Much Food Given Free In adition to federal funds pro vided to states in the form of re imbursement for local expendi tures, the department gives to schools, free of charge, large quantities of some food acquired under price support operations. These include large quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables, can ned fruit Juices and dried fruits. The average cost of preparing all types of school lunches served under the program Is 25 cents. Of this amount the state contribution totals 19 cents, the federal gov ernment six cents. The state con tribution consists of 14 cents paid by parents, three cents by state and local governments and two cents contributed by other groups. About one meal out of seven Is served free of charge to children unable to pay. Meals are served at reduced prices to those who can pay something but not the full price. Restrictions On Load Limits Are Partially Cut ' SALEM. Jan. 21. (.? The State Highway commission Fri day ordered reduced load liimts effective on five more highways, and removed restrictions on three highways. The load limits, which call for a maximum 36,000-pound weight of vehicle and load, are being put Into effect on these routes to pre vent damage by heavy vehicles: Silver Creek Falls highway from its Junction with North Santlam highway to Silverton. Cascade highway, from Junc tion of Woodburn-Estacada high way to Silverton. Woodburn Estacada highway, from Junction with Pacific high way to Junction with Cascade highway. Three Rivers highway, entire length. Salem . Dayton highway, from Dayton to Spring Valley road. Normal weight limits were re stored on these routes: Oregon Coast highway, from Pistol river to California state line. Coos Bay-Roseburg highway, from Coos countv line to Junction with Pacific highway. McKenzie highway, from Hend ricks bridge to Vida. Uncertain Phases Surround Projected Hydrogen Bomb, More Terrible Than A-Bomb By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Aaaoclatcd Praas Sclance Editor NEW YORK (JP A hydrogen bomb Is merely a lot of hydrogen gas which explodes by the simple process of fusing hydrogen atoms together to form helium gas. In this fusion a lot of energy Is given off. The amount Is seven times greater than the energy from an equal weight of the splitting atoms in A-bombs. So this hydrogen bomb rates about 1000 times stronger than an A-bomb because of possibly less trouble In handling the mass. To produce this explosion, vou need temperatures and pressures of millions of degrees and pounds, such as exist In the sun. An A-bomb gives you both but only momentarily. ine question is can science use this momentary A-bomb flash to set off a hydrogen bomb? The troubles are serious. It is true that hydrogen does Just this in the sun and stars to make their heat. But the change Is not directly hydrogen into helium. The hydrogen first changes car bon Into nitrogen, the latter into oxygen and then down the scale to helium as the final product. That process may take too long to furnish an explosion. It would also require many times more carbon in the bomb than hydro gen. There's no evidence that if you started the hydrogen flash it could continue by itself long enough to explode. In fact, some scientists have held that only sus tained million-degree tempera tures would make It possible. Short Cuts Needed On the other hand, the pros pects for success rest on a num ber of facts. One is that scarcely anything is yet known about the details of this process of nature. This means possible short-cuts to be discovered. It is a fact that there are three kinds of hydrogen to play with, plain, double weight known to the public as heavy water and a triple weight hy drogen, known as tritium, and with some mean radioactivity. These complicate and Increase the possibilities. A flveyear chain of events leads up to the present hydrogen bomb. Soon after the war ended, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chan cellor of the University of Chi cago, said new horrors in physics laboratories might make the A bomb obsolete in five years. He did not explain. In 1946, the hydrogen bomb was named by John J. McCloy, then assistant secretary of war. He said his information came from scientists who had actually worked on the A-bomb. They told him that,, working at the war time pace, we were within two years of producing a hydrogen helium type bomb 1,000 times more powerful. Dr. E. P. Wigner, of Pi'i fceton, said the hydrogen reaction would yield seven times greater energy. Next year, Dr..W. ,0. Roberts; Superintendent it the high-altitude observatory) of Harvard and the University of Colorado, wrote that a superbomb of the hydrogen-helium type for detonation by an Abomb was on the draw ing boards. The same year, Dr. Philip Mor rison, of Cornell, ope of the Los Alamos bomb scientists, was quoted that "the possibility ex ists" for a hydrogen - helium bomb. Scientists Not Definite No one has been definite. The gossip has persisted quietly. A year ago, General MacArthur was reported to have mentioned a bomb 1,000 times more power ful. How much worse is a hydrogen bomb? At 1,000 times more pow erful its concussion won't lay ev erything flat for 1,000 miles but only for 10 miles. That's a radius, meaning the possibility of flat tening most everything for 300 square miles. Will there be radioactivity from this bomb? Probably, but not likely from so many differ ent kinds of atoms. But you will have all the present A-bomb ra dioactivity anyhow. One horrible possibility Is In the published scientific records. It is that when a nuclear bomb gets powerful enough, the flash of searing heat will rise in direct proportion to increase In energv of the bomb. That, if it should come true, might mean searing heat reaching out hundreds of miles. Under the atomic energy law, only the President of the United States has the right to tell you how much of the hydrogen bomb reports are correct. Everyone else on the Inside has lips sealed by a possible death penalty. Those who talk freely are outside the know. Michigan State Signs For Contest With OSC EAST LANSING, Mich. Jan. 21 (.n Michigan State got approval yesterday to play a Sept. 23 football game with Ore gon State this year. The Spartans announced a nine-game schedule for the fall, opening with Oregon State. Ap proval was needed from the Big Ten, since the game is a week ahead of the regular opening date for Big Ten teams, Michigan State also got appro val to meet Maryland here Oct. 7, Maryland has been boycotted by the NCAA because of report ed violations of the sanity code. Approval was given on the ground that the contract was signed before the NCAA-Maryland dispute. Oregon High School Basketball Scores 'By The Auoetatrd Pri Grants Pat 31. Aihland 41. Htlliboro . Nwbrr -Ma rh field ST. University (Kugene) 44. Ia Grande 45. Pendleton 40. Medfnrd .17. Klamath Falla 33 Willamette 44. St. Mary a M (both Cu- rifle Point 44. Central Point 43. j Bend M, Albany 37. Corvallii J4. Lebanon 31. 1 Tlfard 4. MeMlnnv.lt 3T Sprinifleld .HI. Junction Cttjr W. Mil ton-Free water 45. Baker 35. I Truman Tax Plan Aims For Billion In Revenue Boost By FRANCIS M. LeMAY . WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 President Truman's tax program was reported today to call for a roll-back in excise tax rates and a "moderate" increase In corpor ation taxes the whole aimed to bring in upwards of $1,000,000, 000 more government revenue. One good source said it may not call for any Increase in In dividual Income taxes. Mr. Truman will put his pro gram before Congress next week in a special message. He called in House Democratic leaders and tax experts Friday to talk it over with them. They were pledged to secrecy and none would discuss details of the pro gram for publication. They did say that they had sug gested some changes to the Presi dent. But when the group returned to Capitol Hill there were indica tions the President will recom mend: 1. A slash in excise levies, on such things as furs, Jewelry, lug gage, communications and trans portation. It is not expected the President will call for outright repeal of many, if any, of the excises, but will suggest a mod eration of the rates. Not many lawmakers believe the $9-a-gallon excise on liquor will be reduced. 2. An increase in corporation taxes. The amount of the propos ed increase was not disclosed. The corporate tax now is 38 per cent of net income. 3. Increases In estate and gift taxes. 4. A crackdown on tax-dodgers who are escaping millions of HEATILAT0RS for efficient, smokeless fireplaces PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. 8. Phone 242 INCOME Hours: 8:30 a. m. 5:30 p. m. Sundays: 3:00 p. m. 5:00 p. m. Evenings by Appointment H0CKETT ACCOUNTING SERVICE 200 S. Pine, Corner Pine and Lane PHONE 1486-J Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain in DOUGLAS COUNTY and go to work for you. Investigate our bank-by-mail night depository service and Douglas County State Bank Home-Owned, Home-Operated Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. New Low Fire Insurance Rates In The Recently Annexed Areas The Roseburg Association of Insurance Agents wish to announce that dwelling fire insurance rates in the recently annexed areas became effective October 18, 1949. The Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau rules permit rate changes in existing fire insur ' ance contracts only if the policy has been written since October 18, 1949. See your local agent for full details. -' Roseburg Association of Insurance Agents Slayer Of Stenographer May Make Insanity Plea LANCASTER, Pa., Jan, 21 UP) The confessor student slay er of an attractive Franklin and Marshall college stenographer might plead insanity at his mur der trial, his lawyer hints. -. Edward Lester Glbbs, 25-year-old F. & M senior, confessed Wednesday to the strangle-beat-ing of Marian Louise Baker Jan. 10 after taking her on a ride to a secluded "petters" hangout. Glbbs' attorney, W. H e n s e 1 Brown himself an F & M alum nus indicated yesterday that "there is a possibility I may bring In a psychiatrist later." Brown, who 'eportedly never lost a client to the electric chair, said it was too early yet to know what Glbbs' defense would be. dollars annually by not report ing all of their income for tax purposes. 5. A closing of tax loopholes by which some taxpayers find legal means of reducing their taxes. Some of those who sat In on the White House conference in dicated the President was pro posing smaller increases than they had anticipated. Last year, he asked a $4,000, 000,000 tax rise. Congress did not give it to him. PHONE 100 between 6 IS and 7 p. m., if you have not received your Nsws Review. , Ask for Harold Mebley 'Individualized Floors of Beautility." INLAID LINOLEUM k Carpeting Rubber Til i Asphalt Tile 'ormlca Tops Venetian Blinda FREE ESTIMATES FLOOR COVERING 222 W. Oak Phone 348 TAXES plan, safe deposit boxes, other banking conveniences.