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4 The Newt-HeWaw, Roteburg, Of Tut., Mar. 31. 1950 Published 0 illy Except Sunday ly tha Nwt-Kevle Company, Inc. ItHkiri, Orfa. Ml ! Urh S, ISIS CHARLIS V. tTANTON -jew VVIN U KNAPP ditsr y3 Managar M.mbr f th. AtMalaUd Pr.au, Orgn Nwpapr Publlehr AMOolallan, th. Audit Buraau of Circulation hmnM rT.OLI.IP CO.. INC. i. Ma t.fk. CklMI. " w a.." iihim l.. a.him. iu. r.eiu.a. at i.i. 111 M.H. Urn MfJMtkl tU SHIPPERS By CHARLES V. STANTON Western Oresron lumber shipper have organized Ship per Car Supply committee, baiting penouic cur hui.k:b un u -Southern Pacific. These car shortages, occurring regularly each fall, cost the lumber Industry many thousands of dollars, shippers assert. It is believed the shortages could be prevented by a few changes in rules. Sidney Leiken of Roseburg is a director in the new organization. One of the regulations proposed by the committee would permit shippers, when the railroad company Is unable to furnish cars, to order from a competing line. The cars, after loading, would be returned to the competitor at the nearest transfer point. If this rule is obtained it will furnish a most effective method to stop losses to the timber industry. Normally, when the Southern (Friendly) Pacific is ex periencing a car shortage, competing lines in Washington have cars available. If local shippers could order those cars, the "Friendly" Southern Pacific would be required to return them to the northern lines at Portland. The "F" S. P. in such cases would lose the long haul and, therefore, would put forth special effort to provide its own cars for shippers. It would seem to us that little argument can be advanced against the proposed regulation. It would impose no hard ship upon the Southern (Friendly) Pacific, if that com pany were able to supply the cars needed by its shippers. On the other hand, the rule would protect shippers against financial losses through failure of the railroad company to give adequate service. ' Six Percent Tax Limitation Outmoded City Recorder William Bollman has been doing a little figuring on the city budget. He reports it would take 19 years, adding the six percent permitted each year under the law, to bring Roseburg's tax base to the level of this year's anticipated budget. The same figuring on the school district budget probably would show about 75 to 100 years to bring the tax base up to current requirements. ' , Both the City of Roseburg and the school district still operate on the pre-war tax base. The state law permits only six percent to be added annually in dollars. The fact that the city's assessed valuation has more than doubled means nothing. If our pre-war budget was $100,000 it can be increased only $6,000 per year, regardless of Increased valuation, increased population, added expense, etc. The six percent limitation can be exceeded only through a vote by the people. Thus it will be necessary for the city and the school district to hold budget elections year after year, unless the people of Oregon authorize a change In the six percent constitutional amendment. An attempt to change the law failed In the 1948 election. The six percent limitation was a good law when popu lation was more or lea static. It has proven, however, a very critical handicap during periods of expansion. It works a hardship on the people of a community, who must vote annually on local budgets. It contains the elements of disaster, for should voters through some quirk of circum stances reject budgets and force a return to the limited tax base, functions of government would be dangerously Impaired. Suppose, for instance, that the City of Roseburg, with its present population, increased wealth and activity, de mands for police and fire protection, traffic control, street lighting and other services should be compelled to return to the pre-war budget level. Or consider the same possi bility in our school system. Yet this danger exists when budget elections must be held each year. It is to be hoped that the next legislature will give some serious thought to methods of ties to adjust the tax base in Slayer Of Twin Sister Defiant At Court Hearing FRESNO, Calif.. March 21.-f.P Sally Richard, 14, 11 be buried today. A little later, psychiatrists will be court appointed to ak her twin, Alice, why she shot Sally in a fit of hatred. Alice told officers she haa no desire to attend her sister's fu neral. She said she had hated Sally for years and "I would kill her again." Clothed in a plain cotton dress and with no makeup. Alice was ar raigned before Justice Leonard J. Myers yesterday. She was defiant as she heard th charge: that she wilfully and with malice shot Sally early Sunday. A high school sophomore, she had the air of a pupil called before a principal for some infraction of the rules. She seemed (o have I notion of the gravity of the crime but no worry as to its consequences. Ask ed if she realized what might hap pen to her, she shrugged: "I guess they'll put me In an in stitution for a while and then execute me." Under California law she Is too young for execuiton but could be sent to a girl's school of correction or a mental institution. Probation officer Joha Aihjlaa ORGANIZE , Inc., for the purpose of com- permitting growing communi proportion to expansion. Rooscvelt-Gigj Rift Denied By Her Mother PITTSBURGH, March 21 I.Vt A New York columnist saya the latest romance of Elliott Roose- ! velt is on the rocks. Rut the mom I er of the reported bride-tu b says it a noi so. Daily Mirror collumnist Lea I Mortimer asserted the lale presi dent's son's love affair with show girl Georgianna (G i f 1) Durston I has fizzled. I Countered Mrs. G. W. Durston: "Ciigi has a ring and there has been no change in their feelings toward each other. Klliott said i he'll try to come to Pittsburg dur i ing the week to visit Gigi." The attractive entertainer ia ap I pearing at a Pittsburgh night club. The sentence "the Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand" ia thought to have been coined by Richard Harding Davis. said "she show absolutely no re j morse " She ate big meals yester day and told him she had her "beat night'i sleep in six years." j Alice has said ahe hated her ; sister because "she was stupid and I acted like a nut." I The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed gard Richard, said neither twin jhad been favored over the other. The Richards hav aix other chil 'dree, ranging la ag from 1 to IT. "Don't In the Day's News IContinued from Pag One) bread and mustard greens, and lest breaded pork chop fried in bacon grease that'i what Harry needs. CORRESPONDENTS: Is that all. sir? GRAHAM: Well, you might add that a broiled steak and a few vegetables boiled, not fried In but ter, wouldn't hurt him any. ( Business of correspondents dash ing frantically for tht nearest tele phone). YOU understand, I presume, what it's all about. Harry isn't much of a fisherman, and it has been a basic tenet of the American political faith that no body but a fisherman can be re elected President. In Harry'a case, they're having to scratch around for a substitute. His WEIGHT looks lika it might be it. Everybody in lush and abundant America is worried about his (or HER) weight. W all worry about extra pounds. HARRY WOR RIES ABOUT EXTRA POUNDS. So, you see, a bond is established between the President and us com mon people. Without a bond be tween the chief executive and us heavy-voting common folk, the jig would be up. PERSONALLY, I'm not ao sure that Harry needs all this wor- ried-about-his-weight stuff. In his give-'em-hell tour around the coun try in tha fall of IMS, ha displayed a talent for getting close to us com mon people and then he was still letting it be known that he could get into his old uniform without pulling in hia tummy too much. If hia ideaa about national fi nance were as sound aa his instinct for getting votes, I think I'd be throwing up my hat for him my self. You Just can't help liking the little guy. Russians Won't Officially Reply To Acheson Blast MOSCOW. March Il-JPiir Secrelary of Stale Dean Acheson's recent conditions for belter rela tions between America nrl the Soviet union are getting a flat turn down from the Russians. hoviet press commentators over the weekend, attacking Acheson's recent speech at Rerkelev, Calif made it clear that the Soviets feel it contained no concrete proposi tion for fostering peace. It ia not likely there will even h an official reply to th secre tary of state's speech. (In his speech Acheson said bet ter Soviet-American relations would be possible if the Russians, among other things, would cease "obstruction" in the United Na tions, agree to a realistic atom control plan, and permit Germany, Japan and Austria to become free countries.) There ia probably no tim since the war when mutual relations are as bad as they are now. Not only are there numerous problems di viding the two countries hut they seem to be multiplying. The Soviets evidently think war is possible but not probable. They show no outward signs of being convinced that it is coming soon, if at all. The Russians appear aa con vinced as eve rthat the economic conditions in catpitalistic United Statea and Britain art heading thos countries for a crisis. St. Roch was most frequentlv called upon among th saints to relieve plagu ia Europe during th Middle Ages. Tell MeLet Me Thirty-eight anniversary of the Ctrl Scouta th past week. What a fin group of girls belong to the Scouts! Although I had no daugh ters, I was not unaware of th Girl Scout activity. Our young neghborl kept m informed. Then, too, on friend, who had been a teacher, found in the work with Girl Scouta th outlet she needed for her talent as a teacher, and her love of auch work; and also, since she had never had children of her own, she simply mothered her whole group of scouts. What good times they had! Mra. H. was a busy clubwoman, but "my girls" came first with her. Her friends teased her a lit tle, but admired her devotion to them. Th girls had a cabin near the river where they often spent a weekend under the safe chaperon see of Mrs. H. And what a lot of good work that group of girls did accomplish! But that group was only a 'sample' of hundreds of girla all over th country who work and play In th pretty uniforms the Girl Scouta have. I do wish I might have had some such activity Morse Scored By Primary Opponent EUGENE, March 21 (.PI Lane county dairyman Dave Hoov er opened his campaign for the Re publican nomination for U.S. sen ator last night with an attack on incumbent Wayne L. Morse. "Morse should not run aa a Re publican; not as a Democrat: but as a member of th 'Morse Party'," Hoover told an audience of about 120 at the high school auditorium. "We suspect Mors for the friends he has made," Hoover de clared. "No Socialist will ever say of me that I am hia favorit Re publican." Thij referred to a re cent statement by Norman Tho mas, the Socialsit party'a peren nial candidate for President. Hoover said Senator Morse's motto principle abov politics was a "prefabricated escape hatch." He said the great men of history did not have mottoes and added that the Republican party theme Liberty against Socialism was good enough for him. New Medal Planned For i Service Men. Women WASHINGTON. March 21 UPi ! An elaborate new medal will aoon j be available for service men and women utio show outstanding char I acteristica in their basic military , training. i The Defense department an- nounced today it has accepted the . offer of the citiiens committee I for the Army and Navy, Inc., to provide the medal, beginning July I l' I The brome decoration will carry the words "American Spirit Honor Medal." and "For High Example To Comrades In Arms." Vets Insurance Refunds Reach 10 Million Mark WASHINGTON. March II Insuranre refund payments to World War II veterans ar now at th 10,000.000 mark. Treasury department officials say tha. total amount paid out so ; far is almost St .SUO.OUO.OOO, with I about St. oho .000,000 mor to go to ! about 6.000,000 veterans. Ther ar 1,500.000 veterans wh ! still tiaven't applied for their divi dend payment. Guess" when I was an adolescent. But per haps it is because I did not have that I can appreciate so much mor th opportunity available to girla who giva earnest heed to what scouting haa to offer. Th 4-H clubs, too, are making ua aware of what young people can accomplish when they set their minds to it, and have wis leader ship. Amazing, really! Th only thing that limita th Girl Scouta, and the 4-H ia the lack of mor leadership! , Right now it ia "Fill a School baa for a Friend" a wonderful idea! Over here our children take for granted apparently unlimited supply of .school needs. But even here it waa not always so! Read the other day how a teacher in an early school made a sand table, and taught the little folk their let ters, and to write, by using small sticks, and then erasing by rub bing out the "writing." Wasn't it Abraham who learned to write on the back of a hand made shovel with a piece of char coal Our school children could well have a course in gratitude not to persons, of course, but to the Giver of all good gifts. Yellow Fever Toll Halted By American Project La PAZ, Bolivia, March 21 (JP Yellow fever, the deadly disease spread y mosquitoes, haa killed 230 persona in Bolivia in recent weeks. More than 1.000 residenta in an isolated section of the country were stricken. Health officials said the disease had been checked with the aid of th Rockefeller foundation and th Pan-American sanitary of fice. . FLOORED BY SAUCER LOS ANGELES, March 21.-4 Not only has S. K. Bennett seen a flying saucer, but he's also been floored by one. A staff member og Angelus Tem ple, Bennett was helping set the stage there yesterday for an illus trated sermon on "flying saucers and men from Mars." A siage prop "saucer" got out of control, alid down a wire too fast and knocked Bennett down. He was treated for a gashed leg. ! .t rev-'00 w Surplus Crops Of Potatoes And Corn This Year Loom U7 A CUTKT-'rrT.r 1 . ..k 41 SM Another oversize potato crop this year was indicated today. Tht Agriculture department said a ailrvaai nf firmart' 1 QJ ornn plans showed that the potato acre age in my uv cuiiBiueraoij larger man me government naa recom- mriiawl tmiH jip a nmarani Amiaijt to prevent production of too large 11 up. A crop of J89.000.0O0 bushels i a possible, the department said, on uie prospective acreage, in gov ernment had recommended a crop nf nnlv 34 Ann nrm kmhal Potato surpluses during the past si year nave cosi tn govern ment neatly 500,000,000 in price support operations. The report also Indicated that farmers will not reduce corn plant ings as much as the department had recommended under an acre age allotment program. Wheat farmera, on th other hand, indicate that they plan to plant well within the government's program designed to prevent new aurplusea of the bread grain. The department said the survey indicated that farmera will plant mor acres to spring crops than a year ago. The survey will be matched against department programs de signed to set nrrvfiir... tn acreages on auch aurplus crops as Kuru, rice, peanuts, p o t a toes, and dry beans. The nlantinrr Mn-t . .j, , iiugm wen have an influence in futur farm legislation, with price aupport pro grams under sharp attack in som quartera, farm slat, lawmakers are weighing proposals to tighten production controls and govern- uii lor pric supports Th department haa asked for the following CUI in irri. th.. year: cotton 29 per cent, wheat 12, Corn 12 B rnmm.rri.l ,.,. - dry beans 20, and rice 13.7. wnn tn coatly potato aupport program in tfie rnnortfmn.i light at the moment, officiala were parucuiany anxious to analvze the Drosnertiv nlaniinrr in.. r. - , iimc ,ui U115 crop to determine whether there i a possiDinty of another big sur plus this year. Potato price supports have cost the government about $500,000,000 during the past five years. rtiso in tne government i n v e n- tOrV Of KIlrnlllttAC mrm tl W fiM each of wheat and cotton. crag Indicated The inHirateH n - tracer ,Wr turn was reported at 82,785,000 acres tun uarea wnn tne government's goal of about 78,000,000. Last Vear'a corn acreaoa u... sv run msl , i,a,v,wu compared with the ten year (1939- ; average or 09.825,000. The spring wheat acreage was forecast at 19 727 nm pared with a government goal of aouui jo.uwi.uoo acres; with last year's plantings of 22,500.000 and with the ten year average of 18 072.000. Such an acreage would produce a SDrlnff wbat ,mm -i . ' - v. g, lUVUl OUU.- 000.000 bushels at a recent five- year average acre yield. Last years spring wheat crop turned out to be 244,795,000 compared with jye"r averKe of 265,397,000. The department had previously reported 53,023,000 acres were planted to the fall-sown winter wheat crop, compared with a goal of about 55,000.000 acres and with last year'a acreage of 62,372,000 acres. The winter wheat crop was forecast at 884,658,000 bushels com pared with last year's production of 901,668,000 bushels and with the ''"-year average of 726,555,000. The combined winter and spring wheat acreage would be 72,750,000 acres. In reporting result of its sur vey of farmers' crop plans, the department emphasized that acre age actually planted may turn out to be larger or smaller than indi. cated. by reason of various con ditions. Plague was regarded by many in medieval Europe as a manifesta tion of divine wrath. INVESTORS SELECTIVE FUND IbMilthmilt m Ha 31. tt. m n iMIMw a H. K. IfADKXO, Carl Beach, Zona Mr. InvMton Diversified 8nrir. tne. 319 U. S Nat' Bink Bldf. Photic 1441-J lamlf -ov - Incorrect Fee Delay Renewal Of Motor License) Incorrect fees accompanying r- queats for a renewed driver' lie- ens ar delaying renewal service, Secretary of State Newbry aayt. In moat cases, tne incorrect amounta result from failure to use an application form, the secretary said. Th renewal fee i S1.25 in all cases and the application form on the back of your license card may be used when applying lor renewal. In the event your license baa no auch form on can be pick ed up at any police station, sher- Thirty Squads Vie At Sunday Shoot Thirty squads participated in practice shooting at the Roseburg Rod and Gun club grounds at Win chester Sunday. H. M. Shirtcliff, Henry Shirtcliff Jr., and Forrest Solomon each scored 25 straight targets. Other top shooters were: Rodney Hague, Perry Thiele, Geo. Voytella, Chaa. Klingler, Jack Culver, Kelly Brosi, Ivan Pickens, Jim Miller, 24 each; Earl Duncan, Dr. Wainscott, H. H. Hannon, Dallas Bennett, Tom Mi nor, C. J. Moody. K. L. Gilkeson, 23: G. R. Mardin, Nick Andrieff, Virden Boucock, Jim Rice, Scot Goodman, Roy Medley, Dr. Dean Bubar, 22; E. C. Chapman, Jim Boucock, 21. Next Sunday the club will hold its first PITA registered shoot for the aeason. Shooters from all over the state are expected to be pres ent for thia event. PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you hav not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley FOR . . . SERVICE ... 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