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4 The News-Review, Roteburg, Ore. -Tuet., Feb- 7, 1950! Designed For Peace Published O illy Exoept Sunday I y the News-9evie Company, Inc. , . Setarat teeon inattar Ma? 1, l0. al lb post afflaa at Raaabarg. Orataa. aBdr Ml af afarab I. U1S ' CHARLES V. STANTON -TT0 EDWIN L. KNAPP i - Editor Manager Member of the Assoolated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Assoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations - Sll'tuiiltl br WEST-HOI.UD CO. INO. aftleaa In Naw tart. Client. Saa traaolaea. Lai Anialaa. Saaltla. Parllaatf SL Laala. IIHIU UIVMiii, ...... .1 B. Mall tl M .1 . MftBlhl 14 Al braa maalba tl.'ia Itj Oil? Carrlar Par jaar I10.SS (la adaaca. Ijn ' jaar, a maalb SIM OaltHa Otefon Br Mall Far raar ( M. ! HEADACHE IN MAKING By CHARLES V. STANTON It. is exceedingly interesting to observe the enthusiastic ' way' .in which civic problems are attacked in the Lower Urripqua community. . : Only a few years ago that area was continually crying that it was neglected, discriminated against, forgotten and unwanted. It had a decided inferiority complex. But a few active citizens got busy, built up civic pride, organized chambers of commerce and civic clubs, brought about cooperative effort between all of the neighboring communities and, as a result, has produced an outstanding record of progress. A demonstration of how the Lower Umpqua area "clicks" Was' '.presented last .Saturday when representatives of all communities and groups, came together at Winchester Bay for discussion of needed recreational development. Naturally, there were differences of opinion. Some con flic..t.$xisted between projects. Everyone had an opportunity to. speak his mind. Each project was presented for dis cussion".. ". After' all phases of the problem had been explored, a nine-man committee was named to work out a master plan; and' we are quite sure that when the committee com pletes jts work it will have the unanimous support of every one concerned. , ' But'what amazed us was that the committee was told to complete its report in 10 days. Usually when a civic com mittee is-appointed it is not expected to organize in much less than 10 days. -But the new committee was hard at work; before we left the building in which the meeting was held. ' Big Season Anticipated This Summer We really have a big headache ahead of us in the Win chester' Bay program, Hero is a recreational development growing so fast that we can't begin to keep up with de mand. A '"'--.' iast year, for instance, carefully-kept records listed 18,600, angler days. That does not mean 18,600 individual fishermen, " for some fishermen were repeaters, but the actual fishing intensity was equal to 18,600 anglers each fishing one day. This year the figure will jump to 25,000 at least. Records show 7,400 boat days, a figure expected to increase to more than 10,000. Checks of car registrations showed .30 per cent out-of-state licenses. i PffiJlJ By Viahnttt S. Martin fj--' Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Accommodations Said To Be 70 Per Cent Short ' ..Winchester Bay doesn't have enough cabins to accommo date, the recreationists thronging the resort. It does not have nearly enough parking space for motor vehicles. There is a shortage of rental boats and motors. Facilities are lack ing for unloading and loading skiffs hauled to the bay by anglers. Mooraga capacity is lacking for the hundreds of skiffs crowding the bay during the peak of the season. In all, according to estimates, Winchester Bay has only about 30 per cent of the accommodations and facilities actually needed. More boats and more cabins will be avail able this year, but there also will be more visitors. Plans made at Saturday's meeting are expected to help the park ing problem as well as improve facilities for handling boats. Recreation Paying Its Own Way '..Many people perhaps do not realize the value of our rec reational asset. We've been living too close to the finest reel-cation in the world to Appreciate its worth. But at Saturday's meeting figures were presented to show that the Winchester Bay development resulted in $231,000 worth of new construction during the year. This property is taxable and will, alone, pay enough taxes this year to more than offset the $10,000 appropriated in the 1919-50 coUnty budget for recreational purposes. 2 The county gets tax money from improvements to land. The federal government, state and county share in gaso line taxes and a lot of gasoline is burned around Win chester Bay. The federal government collects an excise tax on fishing tackle. Licenses and taxes are collected on Boats, Altogether the Winchester Bay sports season pro duces many thousands of dollars in taxes. The more money we spend to develop our recreational assets and increase their use, the more we get back through taxation. The Government Spends $80 Million Per Month To Help People Buy Homes By G. MILTON KELLY n Aariiimui ut ) jne government is puiting out $80 million a month to help people buy homes. With the volume on the upgrade and the end not in sight Con gress is looking for a way to shift some of the burden back to private investors. Here's what's happening: Under certain conditions, the Federal Housing administration and the. Veterans administration insure banks against taking a loss on loans which go into home purchases and construction. The FHA figures that It Is In- surlng loans running to $350 1 mori, mon,,y ,0 Icmi Sales Tax Would Have Eased Load (Grants Pass Courier) MemBers of the Grants Pass Lions club, if they didn't know it before, must have been fully aware that Oregon is facing a tough battle to maintain adequate school facilities after they heard the speech by Rex Putnam, state superintendent of schools, Tues day night. A doubled native birth rate, an ln-migration which exceeds in per centage of population any other state in tne union ana a snrunKen dollar value all have combined to overtax the state's school facilities now and in the foreseeable fu ture, the state head emphasized. After hurling statistics at his audience which disclosed the pres ent swollen school population and the prospects of a still heav ier load during the next decade, the speaker snapped his hearers to attention by declaring, "At that, there is more money being spent in Oregon each year for in toxicating liquors than for school facilities." The speaker paid tribute to the many communities which are tax ing themselves to the legal limit to provide adequate schooling for their own or their neighbor's children, but revealed that some of them still are far short of class rooms and teachers. They can't now meet a situation which is bound to get worse, he observed. Here are some of the statistics presented; In 1933 there were 12,. 228 births in Oregon; in 1948 there were 36,190. In one year, ending June 30, 1948, 81,000 per sons settled In Oregon. Conserv atively estimating one school child to each six new residents, 420 new classrooms would be re quired to accommodate them. There was an increase of 73.447 in the school census from 1940 to 1947. The state school head called at tention to the fact that there Is a considerable time lag before new residents become actual taxpay ers, even though they purchase taxable property. Their children million a month. Of this, S2fJ million a month Is to help peop.e buy dwelling places, veterans loans under the GI bill run to $80 million. " Another ' government agency, the Fedeial National Mortgage assoclat.on wr.s created by Con gress to buy FHA and VA Insured mjrtgages from private Investors, I so that the investors would have' Of the $2,500,000,000 with which It started out, FNMA has $8u0 million left, and private Invest ors are turning In their FHA and veterans Insured mortgages at a rate which. FNMA says, hit 180 million In December. Easier Plan In Making The FHA savs It Is working rn a bill now, at the invitation of the Senate Bunking Committee, which might ease the situation. "The idea," a spokesman e:- Dlalned. "is to make available an additional half billion dollars or more, without having to appro priate It out of current tax revenues. We are casting about for a plan that would encourage pri vate Investors to take over some of the mortgages the government now holds, and to encourage tnem to meet some of the demands for mortgages that otherwise would fall on the government." Congress, e explained, seems reluctant to appropriate huge sums for the program, but feels the .lousing industry is too valu able a course of national pros perity to allow It to be cut back now. Luitron Loan Stirs Ire FNMA Is a branch ot the Recon struction Finance corporation. There is quiet talk In Congress of transferring FNMA to some other agency, and putting a damper on other lending powers of the RFC. There are s'.gns that this will cause a fight If It Is attempted. A complicating fnctor is he bat tle in and out of Congress over $37,500,000 of RFC loans to the Lustron Corp., big prefabricated housing firm In Columbus, Ohio. The RFC says Lustron Is in de fault on its debt, and is threaten Ine to foreclose. Lustron loans have nothing o I do w ith loans to individual home ; buyers. i Hut mention the words "hous 'ing" and "loans" in the same sentence in Congress, and vou a, . pretty apt to stir up a fight over I Lustron that may cause every body to forget the Issue before them. "It's a good thing you had me dig it up" writes one owner of an old coverlet "because the moths had started nibbling it not too bad yet, so holes clear through it. I washed it one time and the red ran into the white a little on the edges. Guess it wasn't a good dry ing day but I think that will clear up if I wash it again." The old red and white coverlet is a hundred years old. Precious, I am sure, to some people! But the writer continues: "We don't use it because it's too heavy if we leave it on at night, and too much bother if we take it off. Any way I don't care much about an tiques . ....but my daughter B does. I'll ask her if she wants itl And also ask her to send you a color photo of it." This particular coverlet was commercially woven, as many were after the Jacquard looms came into use. But even if the orig inal owner "only carded and spun the wool in it," that industrious housewife put no small amount of work into itl The same writer also says: " I have some fine woolen blankets that my father's mother wove herself from wool raised right on the farm." Another writer Mrs. J. J. K. de scribes a. lovely old coverlet with that authentic touch so valued by people interested in such trea sures. In two corners, so that the coverlet may be reversed, in a squarely arranged lettering: A KUMP HANOVER 1843 C. S. SHUEY. I am trying now to identify the pattern accurately with an expert on Pennsylvania coverlets. This work takes time (and a lot of post age), so will the ones who write me have patience until they hear further than the postal acknowl edging the receipt of their letters. It is indeed a labor of love! Another coverlet is all white, "embroidered in a crewel effect' and came to Oregon in a covered wagon in 1849 with the writer's great - grandmother, Mrs. Hoy Flourney so writes its proud own er, Mrs. D. H. But more later on! Do send a snapshot (hang it over clothesline if no better way occurs to you!) to make the work of identifications surer and easier! enter school immediately, how ever. Persons familiar with the Ore gon tax structure agree that the base now Is too narrow to meet the demands for tax revenues at the various levels. What they can't do is find a satisfactory means of widening that base. For general and school pur. poses, there now are but two ma jor sources of revenue, income and property taxes. All wage earners and business and profes sional men participate in paying cost of government through the income tax. Taxable property owners pay income taxes on a comparable scale and then take an additional drubbing through the property tax. Others may contend that they share Indirectly In property tax payments when they pay rent. However, rent schedules rarely fluctuate in the same ratio as property taxes. We have never seen any statis tics on the subject but are inclin ed to believe that taxable prop erty owners have fewer children in school than have others. Yet, the former arc hit heavily in both income and property taxes. There is only one other major source of revenue which reaches both taxable property owners and others and that Is a sales tax. For various reasons, Oregon has con sistently relused to adopt a sales tax, In contrast to most other states and many lesser political subdiviisons. In the face of the history of the sales tax issue in this state over a long period of years, pro ponents of such a tax have little heart to pose the issue again. Farmers are among those hit hardest by the taxable property levy. Yet, because the major farmer organization, the Grange, has opposed it consistently, many farmers oppose a sales tax. Labor unions consistently have opposed a sales tax, possibly be cause they believe that they have a smaller percentage of taxable property owners on their Yolls than applies to other classes of citizens. How the tax situation is to be met In Oregon remanis to be seen, tn the meantime, it is a fact that a 30-year-old frame residence on approximately an acre of ground In the Frliit'"! area costs its owner some $150 each year in taxi s. To a considerable extent, the taxable property owners have ' only themselves to blame be cause they now are bearing the major tax load, Income and prop, erty both. Colossus to the South The Oregonian If the 1950 census confirms census estimates, California will formally take rank as the second most populous state in the na tion. The economic impact o f this startling fact on Oregon and Washington is emphasized b y one of California's literary sons. Carey McWilliams, In his new book, "California: The Great Exception," published this month by A. A. Wyn & Co. Mr. McWilliams points out that suddenly the Pacific Northwest has a massive "new market at its doorstep." This market has more poeple than all of New England, almost as many as Canada. And the author adds that Oregon lumber, beef and cheese, once shipped 2.000 miles to the Great Lakes, now go in Increasing quantities to Califor nia. Carey McWilliams quotes, with indorsement, our own Leverett Richards' description of the coast states: "Washington repre sents the head and shoulders, the heart and trunk are Oregon, and California is the elongated leg." However, the writer notes one sharp difference in California. Oregon and Washington each has an "east of the mountains." Eastern Oregon Is vital to this state. Washington's Inland Em pire contains Spokane and Grand Coulee dam. But east of t h e SI erra live onlv a scattering of Cal ifornia's 10,600.000 residents. The bulk of the colossus to our south lies along the seaboard which slants to the Pacific. POLICE PREACH SAFETY CHICAGO t.P The newest Chicago police squad is known as the "briefcase brigade." There are eight officers In it. They pack up charts and statistics and go out and preach the gospel of traf fic safety before church, school, club, labor union and other groups. The missionary work is phase of the city's campaign against motor vehicle deaths. Eight states In central 17. S. produce virtually all American popcorn. Loons Obtained By 65,000 Yets In Northwest World War II veterans living In the Pacific Northwest and Alaska have obtained 60,607 G. I. loans for the urchase of homes and farms, or for business pur poses, the Veterans Administra tion reveals. There are approxi mately 470,000 World War II vet erans living in the area. Total of the loans approved for veterans by the VA since March 28, 1946, has come to $294-034,-278, as follows: Washington, $192,090,263; Ore gon, $61,366,654; Idaho, $22,545, 383; Montana, $17,320,551: Alas ka, $711,427. Ninety-five per cent of the loans were used to finance home purchases, the VA said. The VA coupled its announce ment with a reminder to veterans who have not yet used their G. L loan entitlement that they have until July 25. 1957. to use this benefit pjenty of time to shop around for a good value before getting a G. I. loan. The agency pointed out that it does not actually make loam to veterans. Veterans should apply directly to a bank, savings and loan association or other lending institution for their loan. Veterans should furnish the lender with their original dis charge papers when applying for a G. I. loan, the VA advised. . It is estimated that more than 90 percent of the energy used In the United States is applied through machines. Attention, Craftsmen! Linoleum block printing will be the craft for this month in the "Y" craft classes, which meet every Tuesday, at 7:30 p. m., In the Methodist church social rooms. Any adult interested in learning this craft is invited to at tend. The cost for the program is only for the material used. HONOR WORDSWORTH COCKE RMOUTH, England-VP) "A host of golden daffodils" such as poet William Wordsworth wrote about Is expeeted to bloom here for the centenary of his death April 23. School children planted more than 1,000 daffodil bulbs on va cant land overlooking the River Cocker in this Cumberland fish ing village where Wordsworth was born. PHONE 100 between 6 IS and 7 p. m.. It you have not received your News Review. Ask fr-r Harold Mobley Dr. E. W. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N. Jackson Phone 1170 Over Rexall Drug Store "NnhodV no tices my Sonotone 6ut-A-Slght. And I hear so clearly, nobody knows I'm deaf!" Send for free booklet, "No hndv Knows I'm Deaf" tells ell about hidden hearing. HEARING CENTER Rose Hotel . 1:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. Wednesday Feb. 3 C, R. Adamson, Dist- Mgr. T' W CONVENIENCE J ECONOMY OLYMPIC HOTEL 111 I .-.H 1 .11 IT-"1 peg T.n I 1 $ SAVE. $1 -IfS WHY PAY MORE? J V 4, f 7 ' IfeT1. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.; V " "T"'' ' Sundays, 1 p. m.to 7p. m. XfS S ' '"'"' No Appointment Necessary SfS i f'vi Jll? X ' J iNcoMEjAx j dlyy PhonV968JPora57-F-2 "r' I v x. f r. t r. f'V. t na i Jl "My goodness how time does fly! 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