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4 THo News-Review, Rooeburfl, Ore. Wed., Mar. 1, lfSO Published Dill CxMpt Sunday lylln News-levle Company, Inc. Clln4 a Maa laa BelMr Mat 1. IM. si fJ " aM.r. Orataa. a.t ! ( Huk S. ISIS CHAP.LIS V. STANTON tCWIN U KNAF dlter -. Manager Member of the Aasoelatad Preee, Oregon Nawapapar Publlehero Aaaoolallan, the Audit iuraau af Clraulatlone IlKNNUI T-aOLLIDAT CO . I.VO. afnera I aw Tata. caMf. iwa aaa auaacairriuN IIMUH LM kMMt MMM. WIMI !. li aial M lairnuN urti-n iini.i-ar ra, ss.ae. si Ilia a.aia. ltd at Cltf Cacrur r SIS a '" aaa imi, aa, Waal Sl.aa OaulSa Or(B Br Mattfa, ink 14. H Mra a,a.i IS.l - . MAKING FUNNY FACES By CHARLES V. STANTON The Southern (Friendly) Pacific has issued a cute little booklet entitled, "Why Don't Trains Fly?" It really is a clever piece of work, all illustrated with comic doodlings and taking humorous jabs at advertising campaigns by airlines who draw comparisons between travel by air and by train. The railroad company doesn't believe such advertising to be gentlemanly and tosses back friendly-like, of course a few choice bits by way of cartoon and satire. We must admit' the "Friendly" Southern Pacific has a point, uniquely presented. The point claimed by the "F" S. P. is that "everyone has the right to boost hi own wares, but not by attacking his competitors." ' Along toward the back of the book we find a list of the Southern (Friendly) Pacific'a "Name-Trains," but nowhere do we find listed the Jerky-Worky, or Southern Oregon Nightcrawler. We find listed the "Lark," "Sunbeam," "Over land," "Cascade," and many others; but no "Nightcrawler." Why, we ask, should the Nightcrawler be omitted from comic book? .... Klamath Spud Growers Givt Strvlco Potato growers in the Klamath basin have come up with a new idea in the way of service. They are marketing potatoes in 10-pound bags. It seems that mounting surpluses held in hands of the federal government, importations from Canada and other bad features of the potato 'market caused 'some concern among members of the Klamath Potato Growers associa tion. As California offers the nearest and best market for Klamath spudn some Investigations were made into San Francisco and Los Angeles markets. Investigators came up with the idea that a large per centage of housewives in both those large cities live in small homes or apartments. They shop at supermarkets and lug home their food purchases. Potatoes are marketed in 100-pound burlap bags. Few housewives, particularly in the big cities, have room to store 100 pounds of potatoes and fewer still are capable of lug ging a 100-pound sack home from the corner grocery. Too, few housewives like to carry a paper bag full of spuds in their arms, if the day Is damp, while, if toted in the car, the bag has a nasty habit of falling off the seat and breaking open. So Klamath growers are shipping an experimental four carloads of potatoes to San Francisco, with the spuds, U.S. Consumer Grade A Russets, packed in 10-pound sealed car- tons, hoping to regain the potato market from competition. We anticipate the experiment will be a decided success and the Klamath spud will again have the California market very much to Itself. ' J ' Rough Going, but Still in the Driver's Seat' BBS In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Frt Enterprise At Work Klamath basin potato growers, offering their "hometoter" bags, show how free enterprise works. Because they were losing their rich California market to competition, the Klamath growers came up with an idea. The advantage perhaps won't last too long. When the Klamath experiment proves- successful, competitors will quickly be on the market with a similar idea maybe a bet ter one. In the meantime, the Klamath growers will be planning something else to promote their product. Under the free enterprise system the profits go to those who are best able to promote their product and give quality and service. Referring back to Southern (Friendly) Pacific company policies, the railroad executives could well afford to take a lesson from the Klamath basin potato growers. The "Friendly" S. P. operates a disgraceful Southern Oregon train. It complains that it can't give better service because people won't ride the train. When people quit buying Klamath potatoes, growers con ducted an investigation and laid plans to get back the lost trade. They could more easily have taken the defeatist atti tude. Instead they plan to create a demand for'their product by giving service. If the "Friendly" Soutnorn Pacific directors had a little of that spirit the company wouldn't need to make funny faces at the airlines. National Science Foundation Bill Again In House WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 (.T) The Houae was called on today to approve establishment of a nation al science foundation. It is the second time in ai many years such a bill has come before the -House for passage. It is the fourth time since IMS that Congress has tussled with the question of putting the government into large scale scientific research. This time, however. Democratic leaders said they were hopeful of success in putting a Truman-barked science foundation law on the books. Although the bill has been block ed in the Rules committee, chair man Croaaer D-Ohio) of the House interstate commerce committee an nounced be was calling it to the floor under the House 21-day rule. This rule allows committee chair men to by-psa the Rules commit ee by ' independently calling . up measures pigeonholed more than 21 days. The bill, a substitute for one passed by the Senate would: 1. Establish a national science foundation to develop and spur ba sic research in fields of pure sci ence and medicine. 2. Create a 24-member science board under a $15,000 a year di rector to supervise the job. 3. Set up federal scholarships and fellowships tot the training of young scientists, and provide for an international exchange of scientists. The cost of the measure has been estimated at 125,000,000 a year aft er it gels going. There were advance rumblings of opposition from those who brand ed it unnecessary spending, or who balked at what they called the prospect of government controls in the field of science. . Average annual precipitation ia Utah is only 11 inches, with some desert sections getting less than five and mountain ranges as much is 40 inches. chemist of the University of Chi cago, and Dr. Frederick Seiti, physicist of the University of Illinois. TO all this Dr. Paul Elliott, Texas physicist, who did war work on the atom bomb, adds: "Several hydrogen bombs, ex ploded simultaneously high in the air, might change the earth's orbit around the sun or speed up its rotation." He added: "That would change the seasons. For Instance: Winter might be made longer and summer shorter. The days could be shorter, so that w would have 370 of them in a year instead of 365." , (Elliott's theory is based on the fact that the earth receives its energy from the sun at the rate of about four pounds of hydrogen ex ploding every second.) THE situation suggested by these scientific guessses reminds us inevitably of a band of happy quar reling children playing with a mil lion pounds of nitroglycerin. a I'VE often remarked in this col umn that our techniques of dis agreement and conflict are growing FANTASTICALLY FASTER than our techniques of peaceful agree ment. Where that can lead us to is pointed out by these gazers into atomic science's crystal ball. COAL strike notes gleaned from the teletype's chatter: "Hardest hit are needy persons in poorer sections of big cities who have been used to buying coal hy the basketload. In St. Louis, Mike Paloxiolo, a basketload truck dealer, says: Today's my last day . . . I've just driven 200 miles into Illinois looking for some fuel to buy, but didn't find any ... I guess the poor people will just have to freeie.' " IN the coal fields, many miners are spending a part of each day trying to find fuel for their family stoves and furnaces. They pick up bits of the fuel from outcroppings on hillsides where coal is near the surface. The diggers, who show no sign of going back to the pits without a contract, are having a hard time to feed and clothe their families. And so on. TOUCH? Yes, surety. Modern strikes are close kin of WAR. War is tough. It never pays. Its fruit is unlimited suffering. No body wants war ever. But when our leaders get us into a place where war is inevitable we take orders and go to war. We have to. There is no other way out. That ia what has to happen when people find themselves unable to agree and have to fight it out. By ViaJmU 5. Uartinl A balky windshield wiper set EJ and me reminiscing about early days in cars . . . Does your mem ory, too, go back to when there were bright, brass carriage lamps which re-filled now and then with a white lumpy stuff? E 4 said it was carbide. I said maybe so; all I remembered waa that it was lumpy, white powder. E J said if it waa white it wasn't carbide . . . and it was carbide. I distinctly remembered it was lumpy and white. E J ssid "Scissors" and we changed the subject to starters, old and new. When Dad cranked our Cadillac he put the crank in on the right hand side no, the left hand side (what is now the driver's side) I am sure. Well, anyway, when he finally got it started, the car shook until the passenger had a shaking up a bit like a can of paint gets nowadays when the salesman says "Shall I mix it for you?" As to windshield wipers. Was there even a windshield? Maybe so, but everybody wore dusters (linen costs in case your memory stops short of the very early lDOOs) and yards of chiffon veiling. And gog glesmercy, don't forget the gog gles! Some people who didn't come to town In an 'auto' also wore the regalia just because it was smart to wear such toggery. Merciful heavens, the dust in those days! My father was the soul of kind ness. When we met a horse and buggy, he always drew out to the roadside, and if a woman driver waa holding the reins, he would stop the motor, get out and lead the horse by. How the women did like him for it! Not all motorists were that nice! Maybe they hated to crank up again? When I was thir teen Dad taught me to drive (simpler then) and I was also po lite. Too much so. I overdid it, some thought. One farmer told Dad he had met me on the road and I had scared him half to death. In my polite sharing of the road I had been, he thought, within one of tipping over into a deep ditch. He hoped after this I'd let him do the turning out! Mother firmly announced to Sad: "You'll -never get me in that thing!" But plenty of others need ed no coaxing. In due time mother allowed herself to be persuaded . . . but on a certain hill she always de manded that dad stop snd let her walk past what she considered a danger point. Me? I stuck with dad! It' the car had somersaulted all the way down the hill I'd have thought at that age it was a larkl DRIVIR IX AMI DAT ID A driver's license examiner will be on duty in Roseburg Thursday and Friday, March 2 and 3, at the city .hall, between the hours of a.m. and S p.m. Persons wishing li censes or permits to drive are ad vised to see the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure completion of their applications with a minimum of delay. BOYS' BAIL FIX! D Bail was set at $500 each on two Yoncalla youths, aged IS and 17, who were charged Monday with larceny, when they appeared in Justice court on arraignment, aaid Judge A. J. Geddes. Both boys were lodged in the county jail upon failure to post bail. The younger of the two had re cently been picked up on a similar charge and was placed on proba tion until March s. after paying a $23 fine, aaid Geddes. NOTICE TO ALL DOG OWNERS Dog license! are due ths first of each year and for your convenience are available af the following placei until March 1st: Fronk Toylor't Hardwore Reedsport, Oregon Emma Hedden's Grocery Scottsburg, Oregon Taylor's Grocery Elkton, Oregon City Recorder's Office rvin Oregon Mrs. George Edes Oakland Feed Store O. L. Torrey'i Hardware . City Chief of Police Post Office -Yoncalla, Oregon Oakland, Oregon -Sutherlin, Oregon Glendale, Oregon Azalea, Oregon Hamlin' Market Groy's Hordwore -City Hall -Canyonville, Oregon Riddle, Oregon Mrs. Voda Meredith Camas Volley Store Hebard'i Market County Clerk's Office . Myrtle Creek, Oregon Lookinggloss, Oregon -Camas Volley, Oregon Umpquo, Oregon Roseburg, Oregon License fees are Male $2.00, Females $3.00, Spd. Fe males $2.00 until March 1st. After March 1st a pen alty of one dollar will be odded for all dogs over the age of eight months, also anyone found owning or keeping on unlicensed dog over the age of eight months is guilty of a misdemeanor ond liable to o fine of ten dollars ($10.00) for each offense. License tag must be securely fastened to col lor on dog unless dog is kept within the immediate possession of owner. George Weseman Dog Control Officer Religious Teaching To Children Has Legion's Backing William E. Mills, post command er of American Legion post It, an nounced today that March and April have been designated by Ore gon Legion posts as "Teach Chil dren Religion" months. A multi-colored poster to be dis played in atore windows through out the state will proclaim the af fair, with the worda "No child has a chance who hasn't been taught to pray and love God." Mills aaid the program is being sponsored on a state-wide basis ' as a program without any parti san or denominational connections, and can be supported with equal enthusiasm by Protestants, Catho lics and Jews." He said the campaign is to awak en all citiiena, regardless of their station in life, and without relation to religious affiliations, to the need for "moral and spiritual conscious ness on the part of our children the citizens of tomorrow." "The child whose spiritual and moral future is secured will help secure a better way of life for all and the child saved may be your own," Mills concluded. According to Roseburg Adjutant Erwin Short, this is believed to be the first time an active program of this type has been initiated and actively sponsored on a state-wide level by any department. Although the American Legion has initiated and sponsored the pro gram, aU individual citizens and other organizations are invited to participate, according to Command er MiUs. Sktwt Trap Accident Purs Editor In Hospital SEATTLE, March 1. m A "clay pigeon" put Publisher William Wilder into a surgery ward 500 miles from home. The 24-year-old publisher of the Weekly Petersburg (Alaska) Press was standing in front of a skeet trap in the northern town Sunday. Some one tripped the trigger. At point blank range, the flying disc hit Wilder in the right eye. It drove fragments of the glasses into the eye. He was flown to Seattle for pos sible surgery. His father, C. A. Wilder, mechin ical superintendent of the Las Cru ces, N.M., Sun-News, was flying north from Seattle to take over as acting Petersburg publisher. Reports For loslc Air Fore Training Pvt Boyd B. Thornton, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cari Thornton, Sutherlin, has reported to Lackland AFB, the "Gateway to the Air Force," to begin the AF basic air men indoctrination course. Lackland, situated near San An tonio, is the world's largest air force base, center of air force ba sic training for airmen and wom en, indoctrination station for prior service reenlistees and home of the AF's officer candidate school. His thirteen weeks of basic train ing will prepare him for entrance into air force technical training and for assignment in specialized work. The course will include a scientific evaluation of hia aptitude and inclination for following a par ticular vocation and career. Utility Co. Faces Damage Demands Eileen Hardiman and Michael Hardiman, a minor, filed seaprate suits against California Pacific Util ities company, Tuesday in circuit court, for sums touting $S,20S.69, plus costs, for injuries received as a result of alleged negligence m the part of the defendant, following a hot water heater explosion in the home of the plaintiffs, on June 2, 1948. Both complaints state that the defendants did not take sufficient precautionary measures to prevent the explosion, following a service call to inspect the hot water heater for possible gas leakage. Mr. Hardiman charges she re ceived injuries and suffered shock, making it necessary for her to stay in bed for some 30 days, during which time she incurred medical expenses totalling $58 8. She asks $5,000 general and $150 other spe cial damages, plus costs. Young Hardiman asks for $3,000 general damagea and costs, by his guardian John Hardiman, for bruises about the back and legs and a permanent scar on the nose, suffered in the accident, for which he, too, was required to stay in bed for a period approximating 30 days. . ' The Providence Reds of the American Hockey league register ed 44 victories during the 1948-49 season, which is the record for the circuit. R. D. BRIDGES Savings Representative Equitable Savings and Lean Ass'n. Phone 2926 Oakland. Ore. Weatherstrip Mechanic Ar you an axparlancad Wcsthsr- trip Machanle . . . Would you Ilk to so into builntM for your elf tlllnf and liuolllns Wthar trip Rock Wool ImuUtlon. maul Storm Sh and Bcreana . . . Abaolutaty no Invaatmant. wa carry all accounta . . . Tarma IS to M month, Company Insured fliutnca 6 lan . . . Exclutlva tarrltory . . Irchanlcal Sala on th Job -litanea . . . Local Advartlalnf . . . Writ giving full former experience, age, marital itatua, phone, address, to Branch Manager, Cfcamberlia Company el America 122 $. W. Jterk St., Pertlaed I, Orefoa Two Judgments Issued In Circuit Court Judge Carl E. Wimberly signed an order Tuesday awarding Frankie A. Wallace, doing business as Bonded Credit company, $750 and costs, in a judgment by de fault, naming CUude and Ethel Kellum as defendants. The complaint stated that the ac count, taken on assignment, involv ed alleged non-payment on a truck purchase. In another judgment by default, State Unemployment Compensation commission was awarded $130.73, plus costs, from Vernon and Melvin Bergstrom, co-partners doing busi ness as Mountain Side Logging company, for alleged non-payment of required contributions. CONCRETE LESSON VANCOUVER, B. C, Mar. 1 (IP) Tommy Heckler. 10, will con tent himself with playing "cops and robbers" from now on. With one eye swollen shut and a deep cut over his nose. Tommy told hospital attendants he had crawled into a cement mixer and asked a friend to turn the handle. "I guess I didn't hold on to the blades tight enough and I started bouncing all over the place," he explained. Personal Property Assessment Return Forms Out in Assessor's Offico on or bafort March 2nd NED DIXON County Assessor FOR ... . . SERVICE ... " EXPERIENCE:.. CO-OPERATION '. . . Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remoins in DOUGLAS COUN TY. All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Mmbtr, Ftdtral Deposit Insurance Corp. a When Your Linoleum and Hardwood Floors are Finished with . . mm wmmm IASY TO APPLY... LAST FOR YIARS...SAFI...NOT SLIPPERY Nothing no itaia or pentrttt a GIu kott Finish. Just ftipi it du with a damp doth. Glaakot wstof tha colon of old Itoolauma prottcia th acw. Nmr chips, -cradu or bacomas jroliow with age ltf lit ffof I Wmm Uk$ Jtm Dtctda right now to frco yoursalf of that badi-brfjakiog. haod-diigur.Dg drutigafy of arruhbing aod waxing floor tod draiotaarda. Coma ia tad act our aanpka. COLOR CENTER FROM THE NEWS OF i i 56 YEARS AGO GVt. I A- h " eV -no Tha Flaindealer May 31, 1894. ! In mullina ever the above newt of 1894 wa wondered what avar happened to Douglas county's gold mining industry. vjoio, oaing wnera you tina it, is often camouflaged at an insurance policy. It't our business to see you don't suffer a loss that COULD have been insured against. Phone ut this week, won't you? It fays to Insure in Sura Insurance? Phono 1467 IS TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 214 W. Cass (Next door to row Office) II N. Mel PkwM 9U-. Tipton . . Carl Permtn I I J
