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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
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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
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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
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Miss Mono Paulee
Appears Tuesday
In Final Concert
Featuring I program of classical
and popular selections, M o n a
Paulee, noted mezzo-soprano, will
appear in conoert Tuesday at 8:15
p.m. on the atage of the Roseburg
Junior high school auditorium. Her
appearance will be the last in the '
Community Concert association se
ries for the current year.
Singing a series of heavier, clas
sical selections. Miss Paulee will
open with Handel's "Thanks Be To
Thee." and follow with Scarlatti'i
"Se Florindo e Fedele," and a se
lection from Rossini's "La Ceren
tola" (Cinderella).
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.
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