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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.
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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
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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
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