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4 The News-Review. Roseburg, Ore Sat., Mar. 18, 1950 Published O illy EimpI Sunday !y the News-?evie Company, Inc. galeteS M el mUM Met I. ItM. Mo f efltee M Imi Oreien. eaSef Ml el March I. ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON -ffc. IDWIN L. KNAP Idltor eeeaa. Manage! Member of tha Associated Preea, Oragon Nawapapar Publisher Aaaoolation, tha Audit Buraau of Clroulatlona limMM 7 HT MOI.I.ID CO . INC. Itlr.. IB New fori, Caleasa. Saa IrualH L aafelee aula Portlaa Ik leala UllaC'KIPTluN OArrala Uregaa Bf Mad Pa, Teat SS.eS. Ill alaalhl , Ikraa aiaaiat M M Bf Clli Cerrlar Par r.ar Sie.M it. eSeeeeel. lata Uea aaa rear, ear aiaaUi Sl.es Oyldaa Oresee r Hall fa, leer W aa Hi aiaataa SMS throe alaauta SS.1 NOW-OR-NEVER By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburg's airport 'issue apparently is coming to a head. After many years of hemming and hawing, c6ssing and dis cussing, the project is to be placed before the voters. We are presuming, of course, that the city council will accept and act on recommendations made jointly by its own airport commission and the chamber of commerce airport commit tee that a proposal for a bond issue be submitted to voters. We can share the feeling of urgency almost desperation expressed by the men who have been working on the air port project They realize the heavy tax load incident to financing expansion of a city and community growing as rapidly as is the Roseburg area. They appreciate, too, the commendable watchfulness of taxpayers over extravagance and unwarranted expenditure of local funds. But they also are aware that if the airport is not enlarged immediately, Roseburg probably will never have an ade quate port, and if it should decide to go ahead with airport development at a later date the cost would be virtually pro hibitive. During the discussion of the matter the phrase "now-or-' never" was used several times, and there is good reason for it. Roseburg's present airport has a runway of approximately 8800 feet. The Civil Aeronautics authority will not certify for scheduled airline operations such a short landing and take-off strip. The runway can be extended only to the north, where the land is in private ownership. If the air port Is to be enlarged the city must buy that land. The own er, if he does not sell to the city and soon plans to offer the property for residence purposes. Subdivision plans al ready have been drawn, the aviation committees report. Naturally the owner can't be expected to wait indefinitely for an answer. If the city doesn't act soon, construction of dwellings, and perhaps industrial or business buildings, will start in the near future. Once the land is improved, the cost of purchase for airport use would be enormous. Procrastination Can Bo Expensive Hundreds of incidents could be cited to show the cost of procrastination and shortsightedness in buying land need ed for public purposes. Roseburg's older schools are hemmed in ' because the district lacked vision to buy ground for ' expansion. Roseburg could have had excellent city parks had we anticipated years ago our present need. The State Highway commission, urged a number of years ago in this column to buy highway right-of-way north of Rose burg, because it would not be long until traffic congestion would require highway relocation, will be forced to spend many thousands of dollars more to do the job, which now has become imperative, because improvements must be bought along w ith the land. It is believed that the city's cost of buying the land needed for airport enlargement together with the extension of the runway will approximate $200,000. We may feel that we can't afford that kind of money. But if we wait until the land to the north is improved and no one conscious of the way the Roseburg community is growing can doubt that the property would fail to develop if placed on the market the cost of acquisition, alone, probably would amount to a half million dollars or more within a very few years. Conse quently we ARE facing a "now-or-never" issue. Fodoral Government Will Give Aid The Roseburg airport has been designated as a project eligible for federal aid. The government will pay 25 per cent of the cost of land acquisition and 53 per cent of the port improvement expense. Thus Roseburg's $200,000 in bonds would result in a construction job of around $500,000. Because this is a construction job, most of the money spent on it would remain in the community and would go into general circulation. Thus taxpayers would recover in direct and indirect returns milch of the money invested. Much could, and undoubtedly will, be said about the need for an airport our isolation, inadequate transportation fa cilities, stimulus to new industry and business, property val ues, increased taxable wealth, etc. but the important thing to keep in mind is the urgency of the project. While some people feel we can't afford to build an airport '. now, they should seriously be considering whether we can afford not to, taking into account the fact that the cost will be enormously increased by delay. Speaking of Spring Cleaning- In the Day's News Continued from Page One) Unions To Give 5 Days' Wages To Hospital Fund STRINGFIELD, March IS -A.V) More than 340 union worker! in five local lumber plants, have signed agreements with manage ments to work five extra days and contribute the earnings, more than $34,000, to the McKeniie- raw-' r: for upkeep of the 2500-acre family estate, which is hard hit by high taxes. She is Lady Lees, wife of Col. Sir John Lees, and she will put in her week-ends selling cold sau sages, pork pies, jellies and soft drinks to motorists from a road side stand outside their 45-room house, Lytchett Manor. "She'll do some of the cooking herself. A relative and an Estonian cook will help." DO you reckon It's the real thing? Or is she doing it for stunt? I wouldn't know, of course, but even if she is doing it as a stunt it's more useful one than this Larry Hightower's, of Ellensburg, up in the state of Washington. He's pushing a wheelbarrow over the United States, and has just tooled the thing up to the 14,100 foot summit of Pike's peak. It took him five days to make the ascent, and he figures he'U come down in two. It certainly takes all kinds of people to make i world. PROBABLY the day's grimmest joke is the New York taxpayer who listed his state senator and his U. S. CONGRESSMAN as depend ents on his income tax return, ex plaining: "My taxes support them." That's too true to be even funny. (His claim, by the way, was dis allowed by the income tax people.) IN New York, the biggest income tax payment received on Wed nesday (the fatal idea of March) was a check from a corporation for n0 J?ub,) tnt "m'n. lov ... j , , iflowers. They may greet their re- quarterly payment, and the dis trict collector says the firm's tax for the whole year was (144 MIL LION DOLLARS! By VtaXtutt S. Martin Seems so silly to say that since we came to live in a house with woods around it, I miss the birds! Might as well not be any right now for all I see of them! But when there was snow, how the foxy lit tle feathered friends did crowd around! A bit later in summer they will be around again. But now they have gone up into the woods further away from us. We had a thirteen-foot pool which was supposed to be a fish pool but the birds liked it too. At any rate it had about two hundred gold fish ranging from the orig inal six, about six inches long when last I saw them, to the tiniest newly hatched ones. E J laid it out one day when I was attending a PTA affair in Santa Monica. My only plea had been: Have it where I can see it from the kitchen sink! He made it as natural-looking as possible and very simply. It was a daily delight to ourselves, and to visiting children and adults too. The fish ate from my fingers; couldn't have been tamer! . But let me take a little net in hand to dip out three or four for a child to take home not a fish to be seen! It is a fact They seemed to know that net, or to sense my intention. Yet they would eat bread greedily, making suck ing noises, as I held it in my fingers. E. J. fixed what at once came to be known as the "peninsula" a long point built out where the water was never more than an inch deep. On that the birds moved in by the dozen! All but the blackbirds. We used to watch them solemnly pick up a piece of bread, and walk quick ly over to the pool, and dunk it. Then either eat It on the grass or fly off with. When they bathed, they swooped down into the pool, again and again, in the deeper part, then off to a fence post to finish by shaking and preening. There was a fountain spray in which the hummingbirds flew joy fully whenever we turned it on. The soil was sandy so we let the overflow keep the water fresh. The water lilies were regular clocks four colors. Other water things added to the natural ef fect. I used to wonder as I sat by the pool, noting the way each fish had the whole pool to itself because of the harmony with which they swam around, why people couldn't get along as smoothly. DIME-A-DOZEN SKETCHES By PAUL JENKINS It's my observation (and yours Merits Of Golf Told By Tauscher At Meet Of Lions Everyone can play golf, regard leu of his size or ability, Norman Tauscher, golf pro at the Roseburg Country club told the Roseburg j Willamette hospital buildine fund uons ciuo inursoay night. Agreementa were signed by four Tauscher talked briefly and ! CIO groups and one AFL group. showed two motion nirturpa one t CIO crewe r. tknt. n.n..)i on professional football and the sec-1 Lumber Co . Fall t'rk Hn aH I ond on 'olfing and goft techniques. ! Manufacturing Co., Kail Crevk Many high school boys are not Limber Co., and South Fork lag large enough or physically strong I KnK Co. The AFL group is 4t enougn to engage in tne more strenuous sports. Golf, said Tausch er, provides them a medium of ex ercise and provides them something to do in their leisure hours aside from roaming the streets. The same is true for adults who have no other form of recreation to provide physical fitness, he said. Frank von Borstcl, 4 11 club agent, who is leaving next week for New Zealand, was presented with a special cake, on which was writ ten, "Happy Landing." On the cake also was a small airplane, indica- McKentie River Shingle Co. HEN you think of that as a tax PAYMENT, earned by the sweat of workers' brows and the toil of managers' brains, it sounds simply staggering. But our national administration proposes and our congress appro priates ticky little items of 144 mil lion dollars as casually as you and I put a penny in parking meter. THAT, by the way, is one of the prime reasons why prices stay high. Taxes, whether we believe it or not, are included in the cost of everything we pay money for and so HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PBirK If taxes were lower, prices would ' T'T l '?"",. r..n .l' be lower. ninn thm Inn Th wnshine machine may rust, the skillets stay cold for days, the floors become knee-deep in litter, while they dig and plant and cultivate in the gar Hen If I onlv could aDDlv mvsetf ' t. mv urnrlr lh tn in their play, my pictures soon would hang in La Louvre and all the world (tourists anyhow) would come to marvel. Another woman I know with a lively interest in her flower gar den has developed (as a direct result of this interest) a deadly allergy for dogs. Dogs do damage spective husbands casually; main tain their savoir-raire when pre sented with a bridge prize; even try on an alluring gown and still preserve at least a semblance of restraint but show them a beau tiful arrangement of flowers and they melt into a state of complete balmyness. A feminine friend of mine, whose mother at present is mildly sun ning herslf in Honolulu, recettly received from the latter, via air mail, a magnificent orchid lei. Characterized ordinarily by one of the most practical attitudes I've ever witnessed in any woman, re ceipt of these gorgeous flowers threw her into a condition of un reckoning. dithery bliss. If she hadn't fallen ill there's no saying what folly she wouldn't have been capable of. If she could have an ticipated their arrival, I reckon she'd have sent out announcements, as couples do upon the birth of a child. Some women, although the pro- Pictures To Deal With Emotional Disturbances The second in a series of motion pictures dealing with emotional dis turbances will be featured on the Monday night meeting of the Doug las county branch of the Oregon Mental Hygiene association. Beginning at S p. m., the meet ing will be held in the recreation building of the Roseburg Veterans Hospital, with Dr. Frampton B. been heard in Winchester, he leap ed with fervor that tore out divots from the lawn. One more leap (anothr set of divots) and he was out of it and it was a big lawn. He streaked for home so fast the rush of his going was like the hum of a high wind in tele phone wires and when he got there he circled the house twice before he could slow down enough to dive through the open door of the back porch. All in all, I reckon it's a fortunate thing for men that women do love flowers. When we're in the dog house as we so frequently are with our wives, daughters or sweet hearts (seldom with our mothers, bless them) it does give us a handy means of bailing ourselves out. It's surprising how often it works. Now in case you forget yourself. Mate, and bring the little woman a luscious corsage when your con science is absolutely clear and free of guilt and your motive one only of loving kindness, if you should receive a suspicious look from her before she takes them to her bosom (as she so surely will) don't blame me for giving the show away. Women have known all about this for thousands of years. Hearing Set For Co. Roads Gift To City District Attorney Robert G. Davis was instructed by the Doug las county court to give notice of a hearing to be held in the offices of the county court at 10 a.m. Friday, April 21, at which time certain county roads will be proposed for dedication and surrender to the City of Roseburg. The court will also consider any objections to the proposal. Roads involved are located in West Roseburg and Sleepy Hollow Millers addition areas recently an nexed to the city. The order was issued following notification from the city council that the county roads now located within the new city boundaries could not be main tained by the city, unless the coun ty would agree to surrender its jur- isaiction over tne roaas. These were described as county road 113, Umpqua avenue, 40 feet right-of-way from the river south to Harvard avenue; and from Har vard avenue to Mill street, a platt ed read 60 x 2.050 feet; Umpqua avenue and Military road, 60 x 3,450 feet; county road 160. Main street. 60 feet right-of-way by 1,800 feet; county road 160a, Booth, Mariner and Marsters streets, 50 feet right-of-way by 2,500 feet; county road 184, Harrison street, 40 X 1,280 feet: county road 192. Brown ave nue, 45 x 1,300 feet; county road 193, Ballf street, 45 x 1,115 feet; county road 194, Wharton street. 40 x 1,059 feet. Alaska Highway Ready For Record Tourist Influx EDMONTON, Alta. (CP) The famous Alaska highway is set for a record year of tourist traffic. Ma jor Woodrow W. Coward, senior staff officer of the road system, says. The highway will be in first class condition, he added, and ac commodation, repair and supply facilities will be plentiful. Since the highway was "handed Josslin Scolds Party's Candidates For Governor PORTLAND, March IS IJP) -William L. Josslin, state Demo cratic central committee chair man, took his party's three guber natorial candidates to task Friday for attacking each other. Josslin, who once considered running for governor himself, noti fied Lew Wallace, Walter J. Pear son and Austin Flegel that ne would "not sit quietly by and let you throw away the governorship. He asked tne three to "confine yourself to setting forth your own record and program, and leave to tne republicans the attacks upon your brother Democrats." over" to the Canadian government in April 1946, maintenance crews have worked steadily to improve the 1,244 miles of gravel road. Major Coward said there are In dications of an early spring break up which will give road crews an early start at putting the road in too shspe. and will also lessen flood I threats. Drainage facilities have been Improved, ne saia. Longest distance between tourist accommodation now is 50 miles. -INSURANCE-AUTO LIFE AUTO FIRfc "State Farm Mutual Insurance O. L Row I S. C. Campbell P. O. Box 489 ' Phone 288 116 W. Cass Over Douglas County Bank Dog With Spring Fever Goes AWOL "Red Rover." a reddish-brown Doberman Pinscher, has spring fe ver. He recently left his home at 2010 John street for parts unknown. No one would begrudge "Red the privilege of enjoying the wide open spaces, except for the fact that his master, Milton Compton, who is suffering from a heart ail ment, depends upon him for com panionship during the long and lonesome days of his semi-invalid confinement. Mrs. Compton is a teacher at Riverside school, and their daughter, Ming, is a student in the same school. Compton explained that "Red" has been gone for about a week. "He is a good dog," explained Compton, "and the only possibility of his killing sheep or other stock would be if he got in bad company with dogs that might lead him astray.'' The dog answers to the name, "Red," if it is spoken in a strong, commanding voice. He is a large dog, stands very erect, and gives the appearance of a bronze statue. Anyone having information about this lost dog may contact Mrs. Compton at the Riverside school, or call the North Roseburg church at 220-J-4. Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses Issued ' SWIFT-COOK Ralph George Swift, Brockway, and Orlene Rae Cook, Tenmile. REE-NEUFELD Hugo Victor Ree and Esther G. Neufeld, both of Eugene. Divorce Suits Filed NORDSTEN Thelma vs. Ragnor O. Nordsten. Married June 14, 1930, at Eugene. Plaintiff charges cruel and inhuman treatment. NUFER Betty Jane vs. Joseph Arnold Nufer. Married August 3, 1946. at Ferndale, Wash.Plaintiff chargles curel and Inhuman treat ment; asks custody of one minor child and $50 per month support. Divorce Decrees Granted VROMAN-Charles LeRoy from India Lynn Vroman. GATES Margaret B. from Joe Budd Gates Jr. Plaintiff awarded custody of two minor children and S50 per month support. Property settlement made. SELKIRK Margaret L. from Fred Selkirk. BIERWARD Jessie from Joseph Bierward. Property settlement made. BENNETT Bonnie Jean from Douglas F. Bennett. Plaintiff awarded custody of three minor children and $75 per month sup port. Property settlement made. five of the mode of travel vnn Borstel will take when he leaves 1 1 rK ' charge of the movies and her flowers at times, but it is the general attend. public are Medford by plane and travels (roup discussions. tnence by air to New Zealand. He Association members nas oren a member of the club since coming to Roseburg about two years ago to take over 4 H work. The club has voted to sponsor two Hi-Y members to the model legis lature in Salem soon. A father- daughter banquet will be held on March 30. r and the invited to During their first month ,of op erations from two airfields on Oki nawa, Marine fighter pilots knock ed down 209 Jsp planes while los ing only four in aerial combat. damage which she is afraid they will do that gives her acute mental unrest. So when she sees a dog in her yard, she tosses a fire cracker under him. You know, one of those little ones all braided to gether in a bunch. She did that to one not long ago. His reaction was instantane ous and unbridled. Voicing an an Rice Hill By MRS. CECIL HARTFORD The Rice Valley grange met at the hall last Tuesday night with Mrs. Cecil Hartford acting as hos tess and Kenneth La Mar. master, in the chair. Three officers were tbsent and fifteen members pres- i ent. Refreshments were served R I Mr. and Mrs. William Castor, Mr. j and Mrs. J. G. Wales, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Churchill, Mr. and Mrs. Er vin Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walk-1 er. Mr. and Mrs. Al Fonken, Ken neth LaMar, Mrs. Ralph Emerson ; and Mrs. I ecu Hartford. A group of Rice valley grange members met at the hall last Sun day to fence the grange and yards. The ladies prepared a potlucx din- I ner at noon. The fencing was com- pieirei. Those taking part were Mr. and More U. S. Warships Going To Atlantic Pact Nations WASHINGTON. March 18 (.V) The navy has tabbed 10 additional destroyer escorts for transfer to North Atlantic treaty nations un der the arms aid program. The Navy also has announced that two submarines are being re fitted at Philadelphia for transfer under the arms aid program. Churchill, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Churchill. Mr. and Mrs. William Castor, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Churchill. Mr. and Mrs. J. G Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walker, Bellfalor Spikier. Harry Dunbar and James Kidwell. guished howl which could have Mrs. Ervin Rice, Mr. and Mrs Mrs. Wayne Rice and Mrs. Le Roy Churchill were hostesses at a pink and blue shower held at the Wayne Rice home last Monday night for Mrs. James Watson. Games were played with Mrs. Amorde winning the prize. Many gifts were opened and refresh ments were served to the guest of honor. Those attending were Mrs. Watson. Mrs. William Harms. Mrs. Ervin Rice. Mrs. Glenn Walker, Mrs. Frank Churchill, Mrs. Em milt Churchill, Mrs. Hermsn Amorde, Mrs. Archie Amorde, Mrs. James Kidwell. Mrs. J. W. Wales, Mrs. Ralph Emerson, Mrs. Kenneth Lamar, Miss Barbara Lamar, Mrs. Jimmie Wales, Mrs. Don Atkinson, and the hostesses. I Dr. E. W. Carter Chiropodist Foot Specialist 129 N. Jackson Phone 1170 Over Rexall Drug Store PHONE 100 between 6:15 ond 7 p. m., if you hove not received your News Review. 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