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4 Tlit N.wi-IUvUw, Ket burt. Of Mow., Mat. 13, 1950 Published Oilly Exoept Sunday if the Nws-9vl Company, Inc. MNl oil MIUI M. 1. IMJ. tutin Ohm,. oalar Ml ol SUree t. Ill CHARLES V. STANTON Miter Mtmbtr of tht Aaeeelated Presa, Aaaooiaiion, xne w at trlST-aOLLID! CO - . i aomuairriuN extra it !-? o r ! H M OiUlb Mltl U.it. uu COUNTY COMPLIMENTED By CHARLES V. STANTON Douglas county residents are to be complimented for their growing interest in protection, conservation and develop ment of natural and recVeational resources, assert Carl D. Shoemaker, conservation director of the National Wildlife federation. Shoemaker, although he now lives in Washington, D. C still retains a personal interest in Douglas county, because he formerly made his home in Roscburg and was for several years owner-editor of The Evening News, one of the parent papers of The News-Review. Shoemaker, a brother of Dr. B. R. and S. J. Shoemaker, both of Roseburg, sfter serving as a state game commis sioner, went to Washington, D. C, to work with the Na tional Wildlife federation, now the nation's largest con servation organization. He visited in Roseburg last week on his way back to Washington, after attending the national convention of his 'organization in San Francisco. Having been connected with conservation activities for many years, Carl, naturally, is interested in learning what is being done throughout the nation to protect and preserve natural resources and develop recreational facilities. He expressed much personal satisfaction concerning local awareness of conservation and recreational problems. Conservation Interest Growing Rapidly Throughout the nation, says Shoemaker, interest in con servation is growing rapidly. The great handicap is the fact that too few people have an understanding of conserva tion fundamentals. People want conservation, he said, but too few know how it is to be achieved. There is a crying need for education, i he ' said, but not enough competent teachers. , T(ie National Wildlife federation is endeavoring to pro mote understanding, of conservation and its problems through education in the nation's school system, believing that training of coming generations is the most important factor in achieving the organization's aims. 1 Some states have conservation courses in their schools, but resistance to adding straight courses and more text books is encountered because schools already have too many courses and textbooks. ' ' . Shoemaker holds the theory that conservation is so closely interwoven with history, geography, mathematics and other subjects that its fundamentals can be included in those texts. "We once had an economy based on agriculture," he ex plains, "and we were taught to add two and two apples or calculate the number of potatoes in a 100 pound bag when the potatoes averaged a pound and a quarter. Our mathe matics can just as easily be couched in terms of fish, birds, and trees. Watershed protection, for instance, has its place ' in geography, history, science, political economy and other such subjects. We are making good progress in getting conservation information woven into textbooks as they are revised." Federation Has Had Rapid Growth The National Wildlife Federation is a loosely knit organi zation covering 32 states. It takes into membership, through its state federations, individuals, clubs and groups, interested in conservation. Each atate federation is autono mous but has representation In the national organization. The Oregon federation currently is headed by Bruce L. Yeager, Roscburg, state president Stan Wright of Rose burg is state secretary. While Oregon membership at present is made up principally by sportsmen's groups, the Roscburg Rod and Gun club being a member, it has at various times included women's clubs, garden clubs, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, and many individuals unaffiliated with any local organization. The National federation finances its activities by sale of wildlife art stamps sent annually through the mail. These stamps usually are sent out slightly in advance of National Wildlife week, which falls this year in the period March 19-25. Increasing acceptance of the stamps indicates how rapidly public interest in conservation is growing, says Shoemaker. ' As population increases and people have more and more time for recreation we anticipate that the work of the Na tional Wildlife federation will take on added importance and wjll be more widely accepted and appreciated. LETTERS to the' Editor Superintendent Of School, Takes Exception To Letter MYRTLE CREEK. I take ex ception to the letter WTitten by W J. Mattnewa The writer from Suthe-lin draws my response to his nitty, -xarenu G..nnin, , chnnl RnrfcM nnlv because ' impugns the character of school administrators ana ine integrity of board members by stat ing that a princi il padded his budget to the tune of $100,000. Does he not know that budReta are made and voted u"on by budget boards, and that these boards generally consisted of "solid" citisens of a commurity? Aa for the -est of his allegations, in which he loosely mentiona-lob-biea. "scholarships." and to the Dlace of origin of school adminis-lan Vators. they are mere guesses thatbics. Manaoer Oregon Newspaper Publiahere w , inu. min .. " II a art lata a AL. La)B(a Hoii - rer t.i .' OrafM eUll tr ' . even statisticians would carefully word, should they hazard a state ment, The only correct statement in the aforementioned editorial is that, They have interests of their own :c!Sm.nh,Pr:ud'.,.,,,V.1m.every M. C. DEI.I.ER. Superintendent of Schools, Myrtle Creek, Oregon. , Mother Dies After Birth Qf Siamese Twins . . I PORT OK SPAIN. Tr n da-. March 1J.PI Six days alter giv- ing oinn to Trinidad s first r' corded pair of Siamese twins, Mrs Kita l.ovell, 24, died in hospital yesterday. The twins, joined face to face from the chest to the lower abdo men, were delivered March 6 oy Caesarian operation. Both children are reported doing well. The father is an unemployed mason. Doctors still are undecided about operation to separata the ba- In the Day's News (Continued from Pag One) flying-saucer yarn bulked large in the chit-chat over the cupi. All of a .sudden, somebody re membered that at leait three months ago aomeone had told one of our number this same tale, man-from-Mara pilot and all, and it had been ipoofingly discussed at a morning coffee session then. So we laughed cynically, looked at the clock, emptied our cups, stubbed out our cigareta and went back to work. DID we dismiss the tale from our mind? No, we didn't. Nor, I think, did anyone els who heard it on the radio or read It in type. These are strange times. We can't believe anything we hear, nor can we REFUSE to believe anything we hear. After all, aren't our own scien tists telling us confidently that 20 years hence WE will have been to the moon and back? THERE is more strange news on the wires. This dispatch from Moscow, for example: "Three members of the Soviet Union'a Politburo have put PEACE AMONG THE GREAT POWERS as today's greatest international ob jective . . . The three men are Deputy Premiers Malenkov, Beria and Andreyev." THE dispatch goes on: "Malenkovr speaking in Mos cow's famous Hall of Columns last night, drew STORMY APPLAUSE from his listeners when he declared that the Soviet Union is ready to participate in any sincere effort to prevent a new war." Andreyev said: "Russian foreign policy is based on a consistent policy of peace . . . The Soviet Union, indeed, has been striving for cooperation with all peoples on the basis of mutual re spect for their interests and sovereignty." INTO this symposium Pravda, of ficial newspaper of the Russian Communist party, tosses this asser tion in a front-page editorial: "The Soviet Union stands for peace. It supports incessantly the cause of peace, and demands an end of the armament race and the abolition of atomic weapons." IF I were working on a deal with a man WHOM I TRUSTED and he used fair words such as these, I would feel that we were well along on the way to the making of a bargain that would be useful and profitable to both of us and to everybody else concerned in the bargain. But if I didn't trust him, HIS FAIR WORDS WOULD JVST MAKE ME MADDER AND GRIMMER AND MORE DETER MINED THAN EVER TO HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH HIM IN THE WAY OF A DEAL. The trouble is that we don't trust Russia. HERE is a disturbing thought: Can it be possible that Russia distrusts us as utterly at we dis trust her? WE are certain In our minds that her leaders are double-crossers. We can quote the page and the A Little Smoke In The EC gy ViaXtuU S. Martin ffD Stat Fair and Steamboat Round the Band were advertised on a theater marquee w passed. We wished we had time time right then to stop and see the pictures! Remember them? Will Rogers . . . and. Irving Cobb? I forget the plots, if any, but I guess I'll never forget the pleasure associated with the names of the films. It was like opening a bureau drawer when thinking jf something else and sud oral navmg one s mougnt taken back to the lovely garden in which we grew, the lavender I cherish now and use. Seeing the names on the marque brought that same sud den pleasure in remembering. I remember The Jenes Family, too. Do you? Wasn't "Grandma" a sketch I No wonder with her pass ing from this scene, the films were no longer made. Who could take Grandma's place she wasn't just a movie actress; she was some one we knew and laughed with. Re member when the stern end of the the trailer swung so precariously over the precipice? The audience knew that trailer would never take the drop, but each time it swung out ... a moan of delighted hilar ious suspense swept through the theater. We have good films now. Proba bly much better technique and pho- Ten Selected For Saving In Cave If Atomic Bomb Destroys United States By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK-.? If America were destroyed by atomic bombing, what ten living beings should be saved? This question has been posed by Lester Dill, owner of the Meramec caverns at Stanton, Mo. Dill recently asked the Reconstruction Finance corporation for a million-dollar loan to transform his atom refuge. Whether he is really looking for a loan or just more tourists it is hard to say. But he also asked a group of writera to nominate 10 Americans who, in the .event of national disaster, should be given top priority as tenants of his mod ern underground Noa'.i's Ark. Picking the forunate or unfor tunateten is quite a parlor game. I ended up by picking two lists. Dill himself isn't on either as who, forced to live in a cave, wants to be dunned by a landlord? 1 bypass ed all politicians, too, to get rid of the tax problem, once .and for ail. My first list is purely selfish: 1. My wife, Frances. 1. Me. J. Gvpsy Rose Lee. 4. Thomas Hart Benton, the art ist. V Tallullah Bankhead. Burl Ives, the guitar-twang-folk singer. A good bartender. A DsvchicatrisL S. ing; S. . oert. Oswald Jacoby, the card ex- 10. Any two year-old child. And Hare's The Reasons With a group like this you cpuld paragraph where they have double-crossed us. But how about our leaders. We haven't agreed with everything they have done and said. Do you reckon the Russians could be as certain that OUR lead ers have double-crossed them as we are that their leaders have double-crossed us? WOULDN'T IT BE WONDER FUL IF ALL LEADERS WERE ALWAYS SINCERE AND HONEST AND DEPENDABLE? Air? tography. But no amount of mar velous technique can gloss over the affront to people who are still old-fashioned enough to believe in the Ten Commandments when a re cent film was released to coincide with the flagrant advertising of the breaking of the Seventh Com mandment. We grownups can take of our own thinking. It was of the effect upon young impressionable boys- and girls I thought. What would they make of it? The young er generation is so susceptible to the idea that they are 'more ad vanced' than their parents . . . It certainly gladdened my heart when I saw what the EDITOR & PUBLISHER had to say. Wish I had room for all of it! "Did any of the large, influential, metropolitan newspapers attempt to explain to their readers es pecially the younger ones that this story is not typical of our moral code? Not one that we saw." And, continues The EDITOR & PUBLISHER: "We never thought of ourselves as prudish. But if being ashamed of the nauseating newspaper treat ment of this shoddy story is being prudish, then we are that." Editor Publisher (Quoted by The Christian Science Monitor). 26-mile-long cava into an Ozark have fun indefinitely. Jacoby would teach me how to play Canasta, I'd learn to dance with Miss Lee, and Miss Bankhead and Benton are two of the most entertaining talkers alive. The reason for including the bar tender and psychiatrist is simple. One would listen to my troubles and the other would explain my nightmares. There would be no need for a chef, as Frances loves to conk and does it wonderfully well. Why the child? Well, when everybody got bored, they could just watch the child play and feel better. Grown ups usually can stand each other better when there's "a kid around. But caves are damp and give me a sore throat, and Frances has claustrophobia. We really wouldn't want to be among the ten last refugees in a world de stroyed. So I picked a second list of Americans. It has six animals and four humans on it: A cow and a bull, a married team of horses, two happily wed ded dogs, a young minister and his wife and a young farmboy and his best girl. These ten could found a new civ ilization, and whether it would turn out better or worse than the one it replaced no one can tell. One of the four humans, how ever, ought to be able to play the violin. Any world would be dull without music. Since 1T7S, United States Marines have made more than 200 landings on foreign shores. The first radio magatine. Mod ern Electrics, was published is 1908, continuing several years. Parent-Teacher Association Methods Advance With Trend Of Times, President States There's nothing new in PTA, to far at the central ideas are con cerned, since it wat founded 51 years ago. But what it new in the organization is the methods used, the adjustment to the trend of the timea, and a new attitude among educatora. This wit the ttatement of Mrs. Audrey Hargravea, state president of the Oregon Congress of Parent- "Tick's" Tips On Veterans Hospital By L. J. "Tick" MALARKEY Mary Hess, librarian, is leaving Roseburg Veteran's hospital after a atay of nearly four years to ac cept a aimilar position at the new Fresno, Cal. VA. Miss Hess has made countless friends but the move on is an advancement. Her successor has not as yet been nam ed so Mary will stay two more weeks on this job. "Really, I'm homesick before I leave; always, will I remember the Valley of the Umpquas it's city of roses and the wonderful people with whom my work here has brought me in contact. I count my friends in the hundreds when one thinks of Die patients who have come and gone from this library." This writer had an opportunity of visiting for a short time with Hugh Hall Monday afternoon while we rode over to a bus station to gether. Hugh'a official title is chauffeur and he has taken many patients back and forth from bus and train depots. In addition he handles the ambulance when need ed. Greybeard Hall saw it all In the first war. Three of his sons got through the last affair in pretty good shape. Time didn't permit enough "yak-yak" but it was good to get acquainted with Hugh Hall. The bride came back. Only for this week. She is now Mrs. Robert Bratton of Sutherlin two weeks ago she was Rae Carl, secretary. An impromptu farewell half hour was enjoyed by those who worked with Rae. So Monday morning the girl from Sutherlin will go about her duties as a house wife and the second floor of the Administration building will have lost a ray of sunshine. Monday of this week the writer headed the bow down stream and went for a a(iort holiday to the coast. The first overnight stop was in Coquille, and there "Spike" Les lie and- myself shook hands with each other for the first time since 1918. In those days Leslie was stationed at Vancouver barracks with the medics and Malarkey was coach of the post football team. Today "Spike" handles football and track for Coquille high school in addition to other interests in that city. His football team will battle with Cece Sherwood's In diana and the Coquille tribe thinks now that they have what it takes to win one up here. That bov Leslie is an fnstitn. tion 'round Coos Bay," these the words of George "Chet" Huggins who used to run the mile for Ore gon and who opened up an insur ance office in Marshfield now Coos Bay when he returned from army service in 1919. After "Spike" went from Vancouver bar racks to the Oregon campus and was on the lemon -yellow club, which lost to Harvard 7 to 6 in the nose Bowl. When the Coauille lad turned nut for football he claimed he was a fullback. One look at his pair of hands, the size of hams, and he was shoved into the line to work at tackle. He was all coast before nis college days ended. We shall see what we shall see when the Red Devils from Coquille come to Roscburg this coming foot ball season. Nelle "Micky the Mite" "Vlrich comes out today with the announce ment that me Easter Monday dance, April 10, will be sponsored by Capitol unit Salem and the Eu gene unit. The auxiliary girls have asked if they might bring their husbans to the dance and the em phatic answer was a big yes. Hus bands will visit with patients who do not dance: and in addition to the many "bull cooking" jobs that have to be done. Jack Foster's orchestra will send the sweet tunes. "My Irene the village queen She could play on the acor-deen" There was some sort of a song that went like that. old reporter met an Irene and she is just as nice as the queen of the "acordeen" and Helen Glenn who is in "Queen Peggy" Joyce's office is responsible for this pleasure Mrs. Parmmeter, that is this Irene's last name, has a son, Dick, who was in the 82nd Airborne divi sion and is now convalescing at Vancouver from jump injuries. Getting along well. Helen, the darling, has hauled 'Private M." overtown a few times when she was going home from work and he had copv to be taken to the News-Review office. Now all of you girls in the supply office this is a start on the biog raphies that will be written from time to time. It is far from my intention to overlook a single one of you because in your department you are all queens and as a good subject it is a "must" that tribute be paid where tribute is due "30" Now "Tick". PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your Ntws Review. Ask for Harold Mobley Teachers Associations, speaking before the Myrtle Creek PTA last Wednesday night. Several atate and county representatives were pres ent. The PTA is getting away from money raising ideas and is working toward parent education, through the development of study groups, she said. There are now 170 study groups in the atate. Mrs. Hargravea told of the es tablishing two yeara ago at North western University of a PTA course, granting credit. Forty edu cators were picked for a half-year course. Its popularity has been evi dent from the start, and the course haa been lengthened to a full year A similar educational program in some of Oregon's colleges is being started. With Mrs. Hargravea, who is a nominee to the office of national vice-president for the Oregon; Washington, Idaho and Montana district, were Mrs Floyd Barrett, state magazine chairman and a Josephine county vice-president; Mrs. Robert Gass, Josephine coun ty president, and Mrs. John Muir. a vice-president, all of Grants Pass; Mrs. Sam Warg, Roseburg, president of Region 8, and Mrs Alvin Helgeson, Myrtle Creek, of the Douglas county council, as well as representatives from PTAs of Fullcrton, Benson, Riverside and Rose in Roseburg, Dillard, Oak land, Glide and Sutherlin. Mrs. Roy Denman, Myrtle Creek PTA president presided. Ray Karp, school principal, gave the welcome. The large gathering was enter tained by the Sutherlin Mothers Singer group, which sang three numbers, "The Snow," "Galwav Piper" and "So's I Can Write My Name," an a capella spiritual These are the numbers the group will sing at the state convention. The group is directed by Barbara Miller, and is accompanied by Ema Mann. Members include Cynthia Magill, Grace Pope, Ethel Watterman, May Willis, Esther Hills, June Huichins, Betty Maynard, Dorothy Norman, Jossie Riddlebarger, Bet ty Stamp, Edith Townsley, Jean Williams and Lois Winslow." Part of the meeting was held up stairs in the school. A reception was then held downstairs in the home economica department, where decorations were carried out in the spring motif. Mrs. Warg of Roseburg poured. The committee in charge includ ed, Mrs. Ted Rice, chairman: Mrs. Harlan Kline, Mrs. Art Verrill, Mrs. Gerry Myllenback, Mrs. Ray Karp, Mrs. Art Moan, Mrs. Frank Moan, Mrs. Frank O'Brien, Mrs Orin Ledgerwood and Mrs. Robert Hollinger. Dillard School Board Sets Meeting Tonight The Dillard school board and budget committee will hold their regular monthly meetings tonight at 7:30 at the achoolhouse. Three important issues will be discussed or voted upon: The budget for 1950 51, plans to acquire the I. B. Thompson property for a future school site, the selling of certain school properties. 4-H CO-FOUNDER DIES HOLLIS, Okla.. March 13. One of the founders of the 4-H club movement in the U. S., Thomas H. Marks, died at his home here yesterday at the age of 84. Marks was editor of the weekly Jacksboro (Tex.) News in 190 when a county court show was held and only two entries appeared. He formed clubs, which became HEATILAT0RS for efficient, amokelesa fireplacea PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 FOR.,, SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION... Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY. All facilities available for your individual s needs, Douglas County State Bank Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. DEAFENED! 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The second series will feature Brahm's "Eternal Love," "Unre quited Love," "Nostalgia," and "Nocturnal Conversation." Miss Paulee will do this entire group of German art songs in English, using the translations made by Milton Drake. Her first group will be con cluded with a selection from Mas senet's "Le Cid." After the intermission, William Hughes, Miss Paulee'a acoompa nist, will play Debussy's "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum," Brahms' "Intermezzo," and Chopin's "Etude." Miss Paulee will continue with a group of four love songs, and then conclude with five of the more popular selections, "If Love Were What the Rose Is," Celius Dough erty; "Modern Youth." Irwin Heil ner; "When You Walk Trhough Woods," Elinor Remick Warren; "I Can't Be Talkin' of Love," John Duke, and "This Day la Mine." Harriet Ware. 1 The popular soloist, born in Can ada and brought up in Portland, Ore., where she received her early music education, has pursued her music goal through many arduous phases. She began in night clubs and movie houses and haa gone thence to concerts on the West Coast, and a debut with the San Francisco opera. Eventually, she became a member of the Metro politan Opera company. She is now concentrating more and more on recital and radio work. News-Review want ads bring results. Phone 100. the forerunner of the present day 4-H clubs for farm youngsters. TlowifmKmw! The answrra to everyday Itiiuranc problems By KEN BAILEY ? 4 QUESTION: We'vi been told that the house we plan to buy has jikt been insured under o new three year policy and that no change is necessary to keep the Insurance in force after we buy the property. Will you please advise us if this is correct or if we must take out a new policy? ANSWER: If isn't necessary to write a new policy but the insurance company must be notified of the change in ownership of the in sured property. You must hove the written permission of the com pany In order to moke the insur ance transfer valid. 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