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4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore Wed., Feb. 1, 1950 Publlthed D illy Exoopt Sunday : y th Newt-levie Company, Inc. IlUnt Mount elm malm Mr . CS-'O. lb. poll offlea Raa.b.rg, Or.g.a. adr ael ml Mareb t. ml , CHARLES V. 8TANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor iJf Manager Mmbr of tho Associated Preia, Oregon Newepaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations aaraaaatcd ay WBST-HOLLIDAT CO.. INO. Meet la New Vork. Caicafa. Bss Inaelies. Lu Antalea. III. Portland 8L Uauls. UBX Kin iUN ua cr.it IB Orai.n H; Mall rar ia.e. ll untbl .. lam OI..IH. .M B Clli CarH.r-P.i ,eai IIO.M I . ilnH laai , Iba. a. Mar, p.i maala II.M O.uld. Or.fon B Hail far r.ar l 00. esantaa M.7a. Ifiraa meaUi. 12.14 ORGANIZATION NEEDED By CHARLES V. STANTON The Oregon Game commission, setting final angling regu lations for 1950, made several alterations from tentative proposals. These changes were definitely on the conserva tion side. It was Interesting to observe that changes were suggested, for the most part, by organized sportsmen. Sportsmen urged shorter seasons and other amendments, even though it meant personal sacrifice. One of the greatest weaknesses in our fish and game program, we believe, lies in the lack of organization among anglers and hunters. Organized sportsmen are able, through their clubs and chapters, to obtain conservation informa tion. They are better informed concerning whys and where fores and are not guided entirely by independent theory and observation. True, sportsmen never can reach unanimous agreement among themselves. Each angler or hunter has his own pet theories. But in the discussion of those theories, particularly when scientific data is brought to bear on the subject, a group of interested persons usually can reach an intelligent decision. Too often, however, selfish interest is permitted unde served or unmerited influence over decisions, because mass study has not been given a particular issue. An interesting example is found in the trout season In tidewater, where scientific studies indicate the season should not open until mid-June but Where weight of unorganized sports opinion brought about May 1 opening. Majority opinion among organized clubs in tidewater communities favored the June 15 date, although voting was far from unanimous. Unorganized sports anglers were very aggres sive in support of an earlier will result in heavy loss of spawned-out steelhead and cut throat trout returning to salt water, in addition to year-old steelhead and salmon seaward migrants. The Game commission has been very cooperative with organized sports groups. Meetings of hunters and anglers in their various communities afford game department repre sentatives an opportunity to meet with sportsmen to discuss policy matters. If all persons holding hunting or angling licenses would affiliate with their local sports clubs or chapters, attend meetings and participate" in activities, it would not take many years to develop strong fish and game management and introduce improved conservation practices. Through state departments, the majority of sports groups are affiliated with the Izaak Walton League of America or the National Wildlife federation, thereby having access to information on both state and national levels. Without organization, individuals and groups exert much widely varying influence upon the game department, some of this influence being contrary to sound conservation practice. A growing influence emanates from commercialized recreation. Resort owners, chambers of commerce, trade or ganizations and others interested in tourist travel and recreation, resent shorter seasons and lower bag limits. Limi tations affect income. On the other hand, streams will support only a certain fishing intensity; Population in Oregon has more than doubled in recent years. This has, in turn, doubled sports fishing intensity. At the same time, increased population, because of water pollution, more diversion of water, removal of vegetation, etc., lowers the capacity of streams to support fish life. Therefore, if we are to maintain a maximum of fish life we must keep the kill within the ability of streams to reproduce fish populations, which means that bag limits must be adjusted to divide fish equitably among the more numerous anglers. Often this results in a real hardship upon commercial operators. A case in point involves the resort owners, guides, can neries, etc., on the Rogue river, where the dangerous drop in salmon population has forced drastic curtailment of the spring salmon catch. Persons deriving their income from the river's recreational assets are very unhappy about the new regulations. It never will be possible to make fisliinj and hunting regulations satisfactory to all recreationists particularly whilo we have so many fish and game hogs. But if true sportsmen would organize into local clubs and chapters, thereby affording a method whereby closer contact and co operation with the game department could be established, it would be a very easy matter to greatly improve manage ment policies, practices and rules. Blackfeet Indians Face Starvation; Aid Slated BROWNING, Mont, Feb. 1. CP) Reports that Blackfeet Ind lans are eating skunk and por cupine to fight off starvation has spurred residents of this north ern Montana town to action. They appealed to the state and federal governments and Red Cross for help. Meanwhile women were collecting clothing and medical supplies: the high way department was trying to open snow-clogged roads. Tribal council members said thousands of Indians on the re servation are imperiled by cri tical shortages of food and fuel. Jim Eagle Head, who rode In from the reservation on a horse, said his neighbors arc living on skunk and porcupine meat. The reservation has been har assed by blizzards and sub-zero weather utmost dally for a month. Henry Magcc, tribal council, season, which biologists fear said the tribe has $150,000 in oil royalties furthcoming from the Federal government, but the money is "tied up in red tape." Baker Store Manager Says Darn The Weather BAKER .T Darn the winter weather, says the manager of the Montgomery Ward store here. A city street cleaning vehicle skidded on the pavement In front of the store and came to rest on the inside of two plate glass dis play windows valued at $200. The windows can be replaced, says Harry Woolev, manager, but it will take three to six weeks to get the glass. Meanwhile the downtown store's windows are covered with plywood, which, says Wooley. la not at all satis factory to window shoppers. Telling the ;4fm The rural reporters' items these days are fascinating . to read! Cougar tracks ... 5 horses galloping down a road and two smack right Into a standing car. killing one . . . roofs collapsed . . ". the paper-carrier reached us yesterday for the first time In three weeks . . . marooned family in Elk valley saved ... 180 trees reported Dy snow checkers as down on the road to the Cham pion mine . . . seven feet of snow in Lynx hollow ... to mention Just a few in the Cotage Grove Sentinel and News-Review. But this column has a rural re porter all lis own: "Our road has been blocked by a big slide for two weeks (letter on Jan. 23). And there were trees and trees across it from the sleet storm. Now, today, they started trying to get it opened up. . . We havn't had any electricity for so long! No phone service either, and no radio. But we get our mail every day except Sunday and I read . . . the News-Review!" But our reporter sees it all with the eyes of a poet, a helpful aid when the power is off! And she includes a poem published years ago in the Country Bard, now The American Bard. I wonder Douglas Forest Assn. Reports On Losses In One Of Its Driest Seasons The Douglas Forest Protective association experienced one of the driest seasons in Its history last summer, states the annual report submitted by Secretary H. O. Pargeter. Total loss from fires, however, was held to $13,949, broken down as follows: Merchantable timber, $75; reproduction $3,974, logs $6,400, logging equipment $500, and all other property $3,000. U.S. weather reports show the precipitation was only about 35 percent oi normal lor April, May normal, June 1 to Sept. 8, approx imately 100 days, precipitation only .38 Inches, with many days of very low humidity. A total of 88 fires occurred during the season, compared with 24 in 1918. They are classi fied as follows: lightning 22, in cendiary 31, campers 2, smokers 6, debris burning 5, logging 14, railroad 1, and miscellaneous 7. Major Improvements of the last year included an expense of ., 312 for construction of headquar ters for the Soutli Douglas area, and installation of radios on the lookouts, costing $2,077. . Total of 220 miles of telephone line maintenance during the year cost $794; 10 miles of new road construction cost $7,298; 190 miles of road maintenance cost $6,333 ; 550 miles of horse trail maintenance cost $1,200; cabin and lookout construction. $2,314: cabin and lookout maintenance. $700: headquarters maintenance $1,100, and radio maintenance $721. The association purchased one half-ton pickup, a one-ton Jeep, and a two-ton truck with a 400 portable Edwards model 120 pump. The regular patrol force con sisted of from 40 to 50 men. Emergency crews included an additional 40 to 50 men placed at strategic points. Recommendations for the cur tint year Include completion of the Qutnes crook warden station this summer. The ten-man crc v house Is about finished. A fiv room residence and a garage is Dictator Where By Viahmtt S. Martin how many others reading this, will also have been reminded of the prairies In winter? I quote a part: ' This Whiteness "Sunlight on snow! There's tightness Now gripping my heart and alone, Alone, and praying this white ness Is a theme from the past: tone From an old, old song, that tarries ' Through the years.1 Now its cadence low Is piercing my heart oh, prair ies! , Wide, unbroken acres of snow! And children, with lunch pails dangling, Trudging on through the win ter morn: A pasture, a cowbell jangling, 'A buffalo path, old and worn, Snow-covered, a coyote's foot print. Freshly made, stil holding it so. Morning sun, and prairies, with glint" Of diamonds on freshly piled snow. Mabel Madison Rader. Protective still to be constructed. The esti mated cost is $6,000. Other recommendations call for obtaining a warden station on Little River and a construction of a two-room house; completion before the fire season of a look out on Harness mountain for which the tower and house were purchased and the concrete foot ings poured last fall; replace ment of one truck and purchase of a new pickup. Receipts for the vear totalled $177,403.35, while disbursements amounted to $173,580.43. The principal income include association membership, assess ments on 409.355 acres at 10 cents per acre. $40,935.55; tax roll as sessments on lands protected un der contract. $20,343.51; allot ment under the federal Clarke McNary act. $40,422.87; and for protection of federal O & C lands. $30,000. Smaller amounts came from protection of federal public domain, county and state owned lands and other sources. Principal expenditures were for salaries and wages amount ing to $66,402.63. General operat ing and maintenance cost anoth er $53,820.30, and capital outlay $24,732.77. The association's annual meet ing will be helo Wehnesday Feb. 15. at 10 a.m. in the Hotel Umpqua civic room. COTTON BILL PASSES WASHINGTON" (.Tl The House passed and sent to the Senate Tuesday a bill allow-in? allotment of up to 1.400.000 more acres to cotton planting. to Get Off In the Day's News tContinued from Page One) sion's references to experiments with hydrogen would seem to imply that if President Truman gives the go-ahead signal to his atomic team, the scientists AL READY HAVE SOME OF THE PLAYS WORKED OUT ON THE BLACKBOARD and are ready to apply them towards seeing if they can develop a practical hydrogen weapon." ITH all the talk that has been going on, I'd say that if we haven't been doing some advanced experimental work on the hydro gen bomb business, we've been missing a terribly important bet. rt progress, television is fooling with an idea that In minor wavs is as disturbing as the atom bomb. It thinks TV can maybe be used TO DISPLACE CONVENTIONS! a THIS is the way it would work if it works: When we get television net works all over the country, con vention programs will be set up IN A TV STATION Instead of in a hotel. It will then no longer be necessary for you to leave your business and your home and travel long distances, with great per sonal hardship and sacrifice on your part, in order to keep up on the very latest stuff that every business man must have if he is to be successful. ' All this annoyance and worry of making hotel reservations far in advance will be done away with. Gone for good will be the rigors of train, plane or motor travel. You can sit in your com fortable living room, with your television set turned on, attired in your slippers and your robe, sitting in your favorite easy chair, and watch and hear everything that goes on getting just as much good out of it as if you were present in person. wc ON'T that be wonderful? No. it WONT. It will be terrible. What's the world coming to If . ....0 a o.. excuse to skip out and have a nicej trip when we begin to get bored with the tiresome routine of stay ing on the job and working every day? Amount Asked In Damage Action Is Reduced A $15,000 amended damage suit was filed Tuesday in circuit court, by R. M. Gilbreath, guard ian of Robert Lee Gilbreath, a minor, against Dorotha Bennett, administratrix of the estate of Gye Bennett, deceased. The amended suit originally named Bennett as the defendant and the original sum asked was $25,000. According to the plaintiffs complaint, young Gilbreath suf fered an injury that resulted In permanent blindness to one eye, when an auto being driven by the late Bennett collided with a car in which young Gilbreath was a passenger. FOURTH TRAFFIC DEATH POR iLAND UP) Portland recorded its fourth traffic fatalitv of the year Tuesday with the i death of Eugene R. Fischer. 75, a pedestrian struck by an auto-i mobile Jan. 23. Spokesman For Potash Firms Sees Fertilizer Shortage In Small Crops CARLSBAD, N. M., UP) A spokesman for three firms which turn out 85 per cent of the nation's potash predicts a fertilizer shortage will result In smaller crops this year. He said farmers In the South and Middlewest will be especially hard-hit. Those who will feel the shortage most are growers of citrus fruits, sugar, tobacco, cotton and small-grain farmers. That prediction was made by Rufus Poole, spokesman for the United States Potash company, Potash Company of America and International Minerals and Chemical Corp. Poole said a high official of the National Labor Relations board told him recently he con siders the potash shortage po tentially more serious to the na tion than either the coal dispute or a steel shutdown because it threatens to reduce the nation's food supply within a few months. Potash is a, vital ingredient of fertilizer. Poole estimated that up to 25 percent of aericultural pro duction is based on use of ferti lizer. Only Half Available He said Department of Asri. culture figures show about 600, 000 tons of potash are needed for fertilizer before April 1. Half that much is on hand. He sees a shortage of roughly 150,000 tons. The shortage results from a strike since Nov. 19 of some 1,- 800 workers in the three Carls bad potash mines. The workers German City Yet Rubble-Strewn 5 Years After By JAMES DEVLIN KASSEL. Germanv UP) World War Ir seems like onlv vesterdav in the ruins of this bomb-blasted German city. Bodies still lie beneath unclear ed rubble almost five years after the war. The "graves" are mark ed by weather-beaten wreaths and crosses placed atop levelled homes by friends and relatives. Kassel suffered its mortal blow on Oct. 22, 1943. British bombers attacked that night with high ex plosive and fire bombs. German officials say that 20,000 Kasselers were killed and half the city wrecked in an hour and a half. Percentage Ruined By the end of the war. the citv was 78 percent ruined by Ger man calculations, t8 percent by allied figures. Regardless of which figure you use, the 1,000-year-old, historic city in the northeast corner of the American zone presents an almost endless panorama of gaunt, ghostly buildings. Somehow people still live here. There are lights in structures that still stand. Stores have been built some just one-story affairs built in slots carved in the rub ble. Germans will tell you the big British raid was in retaliation for the German bombing of Cov entry. Allies point out Kassel was neaaquarters oi tne nth German army, a huge railway yard, and the home of the Henschel works probably the largest locomo tive factory In Europe. Guns, Tanks Made During the war it made guns S"!"8',. P'ant, never knocked out entirely, reputedly sent tanks with their paint stiil wet directly into battle as the. American army approached the city. The Henschel works and two other Kassel factories making freight cars are back In busi ness at about 50 percent capac ity. Henschel is contracting to build locomotives for South Afri ca, as well as for German use. Also still standing amid the devastation are some of the sev en huge office and barracks buildings the German army occu pied in Kassel. German officials simply shrug when asked when the reconstruc tion Job will be finished. By their figures, Kasscl's 225, 000 population had 65,146 family living units with 190,300 rooms before it was attacked. They say the war destroyed 59,752 units with 173,173 rooms. By "destroy ed" they mean uninhabitable. Yaquina Bay Ship Service For Timber Set WASHINGTON UP) The In terstate Commerce commission announced Tuesday that it has authorized Isthmian Steamship company to operate a regular freight service between Yaquina Bay, Oregon, and Pensacola, Fla. The service would be an exten. sion of Isthmian operation be tween 04 facinc coast ports, sev- en uun or Mexico ports and 13 Atlantic coast ports. The com-1 pany has headquarters In New i oi k city. The Pensacola operation was recommended several weeks ago by ICC's Bureau of Water Car. riers. The commission authority I Was dated tn hmmi affA.H.,a April 17. The commission said a large i ' percentage of the timber and I lumber produced In the Pacific I Northwest for domestic consump-1 tion originates In the Yqauina m Bay area, and that the company : I has reported an increasing dc mand for space by shippers. The Yaquina-Pensacola author I ity covers a general freight serv-1 ice but is intended primarily for the movement of timber products iiuin wiT-gon 10 riorioa, wnn pa per bags and other paper prod ucts being handled on the return trips to the west coast. The ICC said Isthmian expects to handle between 5.000 and 7,500 tons of paper products annually out of Pensacola. FINE OF $25 IMPOSED Murrel Curtis Hoague, 23, Port land, was brought here from Portland by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Bever Monday, to answer a charge of failing to transfer title !of a motor vehicle, for which he was fined S25 In Justice court, Sheriff O. T. Carter reported. members of the CIO Interna tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers demand a 25 cent an hour pay increase and improved working conditions. Union spokesmen put the aver age basic wage at $1.60 an hour. Poole says average earnings are $2 an hour highest industrial av erage in the country. , The companies resumed full : time operations on Jan. 23 and started hiring replacements for i the strikers. The union has pick eted the plants and contends onlv 1 40 former strikers have returned ; to work. Poole said the plants ! are 50-percent manned with 750 : employes, 300 of them former I members of the striking union. I It takes six weeks for raw pot ash to be Oelivered to the farmer as fertilizer. , The NLRB official, who asked not to be named, said 60 percent i of the country's five major crops ! are dependent upon fertilizer. Poole said the plants are op erating at 35 to 40 percent of ca pacity and predicted an 80 per cent output within two weeks. He Indicated farmers would have an alternative of buying pot ash from the Russian zone of Germany but said it was priced "much higher." The NLRB revealed in Wash ington it will serve papers in fed eral court accusing union pickets of violating a court injunction panning oiocKaaing oi plant gates and other illegal labor practices. ' Both comDanv and union spokesmen agreed to terms of tne order before it was signed. The potash local charged the NLRB two weeks ago with join ing with the companies in "fram ing up needed evidence they can use to seek a broader anti-strike injunction." A drive has been opened. meanwhile, by the International Chemical Workers union (AFL) to organize the potash mines. An officer of the union said he con sidered the strike "broken." Ho added that his union is "anti Communist." The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union is one of 10 unions facing possible expulsion from the CIO on charges of being Communist-dominated. A three-man CIO committee started a hear ing 11 days ago but recessed it until Feb. 4. KEEP YOUR MONEY IN DOUGLAS COUNTY , Money deposited with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. Investigate our banking services . . . our up-to-date protections against loss. Bank-by-mail, safe deposit boxes and night de pository service are a few of the banking conveniences avail able for you today. Douglas County State Bank "Home-Owned, Home-Operated" Member ... Fed. Dep. Ins. Corp. ! FROM THE 52 fabtg ,( I ... 5 Oif : 5.,"" : . i6Xi or ,!" Pit, re-,.'t a "e ' 1 I I Roseburg Review, July 7, 1898. If you think the real estate described above is a bargain (compared to today's prices) you should talk to a fellow whose car was stolen after he'd just pur chased vehicle theft insurance! If Pays to Insure Phone TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cass (Next door to Post Office) Bill Tipton ARTS AWARD WON Claude Butler and Don Foster, both of Roseburg, were listed among the winners In the fourth annual scholastic arts award ex hibition, results of which were announced yesterday in Port land. Gold keys were awarded tho 185 winners, who will be eligible to compete in the national scho lastic arts event in spring. Port land entrants won the most prizes 105. Klamath Fall3 had 27 and Salem 13. 'Individualized Floors ot Beautiliry." INLAID LINOLEUM -smAtino 4- Rubber rila Aiphalt Tile Formica Topa a- Venetian omiu. FREE ESTIMATES FLOOR COVERING 222 W. Oak Phone 348 MEWS OF ' YEARS AGO i i - :: ! '"ee,, nri or ;;oe hi J ypL in Sure 1277-R insurance! Cart Pvrmln Viin any occasion The man of the hour Is the one who buys 7y And installs a new shower. 7 I
