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' MADISON, N. J., Hareh M.-VP)
Drew university's trustees have
formally approved selection of Dr.
Raymond A. Withey Jr., of Willam
ette university, Salem, as new dean
of the liberal arts college.
Dr. Withiy, s Harvard graduate
with a doctorate from Boston uni
versity, will take over on July 1,
succeeding Dr. Frank G. Laniard
who resigned to become dean of
Baldwin-Wallace college.
rivals ia Uon( Konf asserted
today . . . Starving peasant banda
ia North Central China are reported
luring children into the hills to be
eaten."
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DO you believe it?
Probably not Personally, I
think it ia possible but doubt if tt
is actually happening. There's SO
MUCH propaganda in this world,
aaa
THAT brings up something else:
How much of the political stuff
we get from Washington every day
do you believe?
Again, I Imagine, the answer is
"not much."
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Newt-tevle Ceenpeny, Im.
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Member ef the Aasoolated Preae, Oregon Newepaper Publlehers
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CHURCHES EXPANDING
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Problem! of boom growth, requiring expansion of muni
cipal services, school capacity, hospital beds and many other
facilities, Include also a community churches. Koseburg s
churches are becoming hard pressed for space to accommo
date their rapidly growing congregations. Impressive
building plans are in the making, but church leaders envi
sion the time and not too fur in the future when even
the enlarged church facilities now in the making will be
inadequate.
Congregations represented in Roseburg and vicinity have
Increased from 14 to 22 during the past few years. Several
new buildings have been erected, but still church edifices
are, in general, too small to accommodate the number of
worshipers attending regularly. On special occasions the
inadequacy is particularly evident Easter Sunday, for in
stance, will find many churches holding two or more similar
services because auditoriums will not be large enough to
hold all members and visitors at one service.
The community's various religious groups are making ex
tensive plans for expansion. The First Baptist church soon
will have a new sanctuary ready for use. Other churches
are working on building plans and building funds.
Educational Plans Rtctivlna, Attention
Most people doubtless are pleased to see our church facili
ties overpopulated. Church fellowship Is an extremely vital
part of community life. But, in addition to the program of
building to meet membership needs, virtually all of our
churches are giving special attention to educational plants.
Sunday schools are being planned in connection with
each major building program. These educational plants will
be built for the future, designed along the most modern
lines to facilitate instruction efficiency.
New church buildings and schools will require a large
expenditure of time, money and effort. Church financing,
being on a voluntary basis, can be very difficult at times.
But we have no better insurance for a clean, wholesome
community than in live, vigorous churches and establish'
ments where young and old alike may receive instruction
and inspiration. ' , . i
The recent church census, coupled with the1 increasing
birth rate, indicates heavy future demands upon church
facilities. When we consider that the influx of new popu
lation is expected to continue unabated for many years, the
problem of planning church accommodations shows many
difficulties.
The various congregations are alert to the situation,
however, and are prepared to expand as rapidly as financial
support will permit
LETTERS
to the Editor
You'rt Taxed Even While Yon Rid
Every time you take the old family jalopy out for a spin
Uncle Sam's tax collectors feel very happy.
Would you like to make an estimate concerning the amount
of taxes collected by Uncle from the motoring public?
A reader of Th Newi-Review has supplied this Informa
tion in the form of a clipping from Go, a publication of
the California Motor Transport association.
Go reports excise tax collections for 1948 to Include the
following items: Lubricating oil $81,883,450.48; gasoline
$498,362,790.23; tires and tubes $158,943,936.93; trucks and
buses $135,607,898 ; automobiles and motorcycles $275,456,-
328.66; parts and accessories $129,028,527.12. These items
add up to the staggering figure of $1,279,282,931.61. Those
figures represent taxes, not purchase price. Who gets the
free ride?
DIME-A-DOZEN SKETCHES
By PAUL JiNKINI
A story I heard a few daya ago
seemed at lint merely ludicrous;
but on the aecond bounce it hit
hard on my funny bone. I filed it
in a aafe place where I keep all
my favorite yarna. In the mean
time I guess I'll pass it along
per hi pa you haven t heard it.
Jack came to work one morning
with a terrific "ahiner." Hia bosa
took one look at kirn and exploded.
"Good heavena. Jack" he ahouted
mirthfully, "how did you get such
a beautiful black eye?"
"Oh," Jack replied, hesitantly,
"I Just couldn't keep my big mouth
shut." But hia bosa wanted partic
ulars. "It waa this way," Jack told him.
"0' Flaherty and I were talking
in Bunny'a gin shop last night ana
I said something about tha Pope.
Then he hit me."
"But gee whii. Jack," aaid hia
bosa, "didn't you know O' Flaherty
la a Catholic?"
"Sure I knew O'Flaherty la a
Catholic," Jack answered, "but I
didn't know the Pops was!"
I've an idea that much of re
ligious prejudice and misunder
standing stems from ignorance.
Jack didn't know (and how many
of the rest of us, without delving
into weighty reference books,
would know) that the Pope heads
the Catholic church, that the church
was directly instituted by Christ in
the year 33 A D., that it compiled
the Old and New Testaments aa
we know them today, that for fif
teen centuries it waa the only Chris
tian church in the world and that
it now haa a membership in excess
of 421 million people?
By the same token, what do
we really know of the fundamental
differences in belief which distin
guish the Protestant churchea and
which caused them to separate first
from the parent Catholic church,
then further to separate and di
vide within themselves until now
they number into the hundreds;
eacj rejecting (or protesting) hence
the term Protestant) one or more
of the fundamental doctrines held
by the Catholic church and selling
up new teneta of their own devia
ing? I'm afraid that collectively
speaking, wa know very little of
these matters. I think, however,
that if only we would take the
trouble to learn, we would become
more tolerant each for the other
individual and hia belief in God.
Perhaps not. It may be that we'd
detest each other more than ever.
In divers wsys we are an unpre
dictable people. But I've learned
on thing from Jack, in the atory
I've repealed above: Any time I
find myself talking to someone I
know to be a Methodist, shall we
aay, I'm going to be mighty careful
what I aay about John Wesley
Hunting Season Dtath
Trial Dho On April It
ENTERPRISE, March in
Trial of William Gebhardt. Med
ford cabinet maker charged with
involuntary manslaughter in a
hunting season fatality, has been
continued until Aprd IS.
Gebhardt had previously plead
ed innocent to the charge, brought
in connection with the shooting of
Reed Wade, Loatine. last fall.
Both were elk hunting.
S. P. Railway Service
Compared With Status
Of Travel y Airlines
PORTLAND ! have closely
watched and read your editoriala
and while they have touched some
tender spots, realising your sin
cerity, I have refrained from mak
ing any comments. However, your
editorial as appearing in the News
Review of March 11 concerning
the "airport Studiea" I think ia a
little bit on the biased side and
your comparison a little bit off
color.
I have particular reference to
your next to last paragraph re
garding Mr. Frank Taylor, Reeds
port hardware merchant, telling of
hia trip from Reedsport to the Bay
City in comparison with another
gentleman who left from Eugene by
train in that the train waa so ter
ribly slow and the price ia so ter
ribly high.
Railroads do not try to compete
ith the airlinea on a apeed basis,
but instead we have tried to ap
proach tha problem through low
coat volume transportation such ss
the SHASTA DAYLIGHT.
This friend could have left Eu
gene at 10:10 in the morning, ar
riving at San Francisco at 11:15
p.m. at a coat of only $13 57 one
way, or $24.44 round trip, which is
certainly Quite different from the
cost reported by you aa of $38.50.
We Justifiably think the SHASTA
DAYLIGHT has many featurea the
airlines are unable to offer. Re.
cent surveys made on the train in
dicate that our belief is correct
Popularity of una train is ateadily
increasing and while the railroads
do not have any thought of saying
the airlinea do not have a rightful
olace in the transportation field, we
believe that we have a product to
seU which can and doea stand en
its own two feet
Aa a matter of information and
substantiating our belief in the pop
ularity of the SHASTA DAYLIGHT,
a recent five-day survey of the
passengers on this train revealed
the following in anawer to certain
questions:
Will you take the shasta DAT-
LIGHT on future trips
Yea 995 passengers tl. 01
No i 3? passengers J SI
No Answer .. U passengers 5.7
IMP"
By VtaAeMtt . UmrUn
Ml I r
1084
100.0
about the
Totals
How did you learn
SHASTA DAYLIGHT?
From some form of adver
tising 350 passengers M (
From a RR agent or
employee 265 passengers 21.1
A friend recommended
it w. . . 372 passengers 29.7
Have used it prev-
lously ... 196 passengers 15.
No answer 62 passengers 3.0
Totala ... 1254 1000
I am sure you will agree that
the answers to these questions are
very encouraging and that we are
on the right path toward produc
ing aafe, economical, comfortable
transportation to fit the require
ments of our valued patrons and
at the same time bringing about a
small return on the money invest
ed. Of course, you are quite familiar
with land granta. Poasibly if they
had not been in the offing, the
west would not be as weU devel
oped today aa It ia. But I also
know that in all fairneea you real
ize the railroads have paid off
many times to the Federal Gov
ernment the value of the land
granta. When the railroads were
built in the west, the government
granted land, then of small value,
to some of them. In return the
railroads had to carry government
traffic at tremendously reduced
ratea. and the aavinga to the gov
ernment compensated for the land
and a great deal over. The airlinea
benefit from a direct subsidy ia
dollars plus all the other aids such
aa airports provided by federal,
state and local governments.
The costly operatic of the ran-
"If everyone, remembered this,'
says the U. S. forest service in a
national foreat circular, "there
would be fewer reports of persona
loat ia the mountaina and forests
If you get lost remember a clear
head will find itself. Lois of men
tal control is more serious than
lack of food, water, or clothing.
The man -who keeps hia head has
the best chance of coming through
in safety." .
Five rules follow: First is, STOP,
SIT DOWN, and try to figure out
where you are. Use your head, not
your legs, v t -.
I. If caught by night, fog or
storm, atop at once and make
camp ia a aheltered spot. Build a
fire in a aafe place. Gather plenty
of dry fuel.
S. Don't wander about. Travel
only downhill. Follow watercourses
or ridges.
4. If Injured, choose a cleared
spot oa a promontory, if possible,
and make a aignal amoke. The
foreat service fire lookouts or ob
servers ia airplanes may see your
smoke.
5. Don't yell, don't run, don's
worry, and DON'T QUIT.
The U. S. forest service warns
new campers, hikers, or vaca-tioniata:
"It ia better to carry a clear head
on your ahouldera than a big pack
on your back. Yet in going alone
into the mountaina it la well to go
prepared for any emergency. A
fish line and s few hooks, matches
in a waterproof box, a compass, a
little concentrated food, and a
strong knife should always be car
ried. A gun' may help aa a aignal,
aeldom for obtaining food. Above
all, keep cool and the chances are
you will come out of the woods on
your own feet"
I have read many times that
white men starved in foreats and
on the desert where Indiana, know
ing every plant,- root, berry and
leaf, could keep alive with ease.
Men have laid down to die In the
desert at the foot of a saguaro cac
tus, not knowing it to be full of
life-giving water.
Soma friends of oura were spend
ing a weekend at a resort high in
the Caacadea. ,!Went for a stroll"
. a little wayl All of a sudden
we were loat It took ua two hours
to get back. Wandered, I gueaa. In
a circle. They aay one doea. We
had aummer clothes ... it started
to anowl Turned out all right and
we Just laughed. Hairdoa of the
women were the only calamity. But
. while we were walking it
didn't seem funny."
T la a terrible pity. Ia times
critical aa these, we ought
to be able to believe everything
our leaders tell us. At the very
least, we ought to be able to believe
they are SINCERE ia what they
tell ua.
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CROW Washington:
I The government's director of
civilian mobilization, Dr. Paul J.
Larson, aaya:
"Ten years and 300 BILLION
DOLLARS would probably be need
ed to make the United States aa
nearly aafe aa possible from atomic
attack."
He adds:
"And in the end we d wind up
with a GARRISON state."
a a e
PRANCE turned to that kind of
tninaung peiore tne laet war ana
bled herself white with taxee to
build the fantastic underground
Maginot line. When the pinch came,
the Maginot line bothered the in
vading Germane about aa much
aa one fly bothers an elephant
e a a
ONE scheme that haa been pro
posed is to move the federal
government into Mammoth cave,
in Kentucky, and put most of our
war industries underground.
As for me, if trouble comes, I
don't think I want to hole up in a
damp and gloomy cave for the reat
of my life. After all, one can die
only once.
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roads and strangulation through
various sources of regulations in
comparison to tha lack of such
controls in the airline traffic are
amasing. The federal, state, county
and city aubsidiea applying to the
airlinea have been a source of con
slant worry to ua in the rilaroad
field.
Just for a little resume during
the month of January while the
airlinea were down, highwaya were
blocked, the Southern Pacific waa
exerting every ounce of energy
toward keeping the rail linea open
by the addition of much equipment,
man power, et cetera, producing a
terrifically high operating coaL I
particularly recall on January 19,
we had quite a number of passen
gers on our SHASTA DAYLIGHT
which waa being held at Oakridge
mil ih line could be cleared by
Southern Pacific Railroad employ
eea so that they could proceed to
their destination, untonunaieiy, a
few of these passengers had to
make a Matson Line aailing from
San Francisco at a certain nour.
After learning of their problem,
we chartered a bus to pick up these
passengers at Oakridge. bring
them back to Eugene where the
United Air Linea had advised they
thought they could get through and
would provide a plane from Eu
gene to San Francisco to arrive in
time to make connection with the
Mataon Una.
I ran across this item la the
paper in connection with these pas
sengers: "Although detained at the Matt
Ion Sweet field for a short time
while the CITY STREET DE
PARTMENT CLEARED THE'
RUNWAYS
It certainly would be nice for ua
in the railroad field to be able to
think that we could call upon
the various citiea along our tracks
to maintain our right-of-way, build
new stations for ua, underpasses,
et cetera.
Mr railroad haa to aland on Its
own feet financially. It has to meet
the coils of operation, earn a profit
for security holders so aa to main
tain its credit and earn a further
surplus to cover improvements and
bettermeota if it ia to progresa
and give good aervice. We, who
work lor the railroad, are very
much concerned in this, for our
welfare is pretty well tied up with
the fortunes of the railroad.
J. H. PRUETT JR.
General Paasenger Agent :
Southern Pacific Co.
Portland, Ore.
Records Cited On. Rates
For Disposal Of Garbage
ROSEBURG We have read
with interest your editorial of
March 23rd concerning promiscu
ous dumping of garbage along the
public roads, and agree quite read
ily that all efforts should be made
to atop this practice, but disagree
with your reference to increased
garbage aervice pricea in the city
of Roseburg. ,
We have some facta concerning
disposal pricea here in Roseburg
which we think may be both en
lightening and of interest to your
readers.
At the time of our request for
a change in type of residence ser
vice last aummer, it waa published
that we were requesting a raise
in pricea. It waa our contention
then that this change would have
the effect of reducing pricea gen
erally and at the aame time would
maintain Roseburg on a par with
Portland, Salem, Eugene, Corval
lia and nearly all other western
Oregon citiea as far aa type of dis
posal aervice, price of disposal
aervice and sanitation are concern
ed. We now have the facta to
prove these contentions.
Our carefully kept records show
that only
averaged
SO cente
change
ober, while all othera, approximat
ing one tnouaand residence cus
tomers within the former city
boundaries, enjoyed a 20 percent
decrease in their garbage ratea.
Also, this change in type of ser
vice haa permitted ua to decrease
prices in recently annexed areas j
through the promise by annexk-1
iron, ui ururr aireeu. oeiier
ing and increased population,
All in all. approximately 1400
sidences within the present bound-
aries of the city of Roseburg have
enjoyed reduced garbage dospoaal
ratea since last September, while
only about forty have had increas
es. We reiterate that nearly all
western Oregon and Washing
ton cities give only once weekly
residence service and it has beea
proved that sanitation ia little af
fected if the garbage ia wrapped
and kept in covered metal con
tainers, aa ia required in Rose- I
burg by local statute.
It ia our Intention to give ser-1 1
vir. n,,t.,W. tha fit. xhrv.r
population and demand make the
giving of auch aervice feasible,
Because of this policy, we are
now giving service to certain areas
in which we are hardly realising
more than our costs. However,
rather than increase prices, we
are expecting eventual increases
in population to make the giving
of aervice ia these areas profit
able.
Alao. It la our intention to allow
decreases in price whenever popu
lation increases and other condi
tiona permit auch decreases. Only
recently we informed a number
of our customers in the Calkina
Keaaey road district that we are
reducing pricea in that district as
of April 1st because of increased
patronage.
we believe that in the Roseburg
area the price of disposal aervice
has little if any effect on the dump
ing along; public roads. Rather, it
ia our opinion this dumping ia done
by those who live where regular
service la not available and by
those who would not take the aer
vice regardleaa of coat. We would
like to advise these people in and
near Roseburg that the Roseburg
dump ground, even though private
ly owned and maintained, allows
the dumping of one or two gar
bage cana free of charge. Charges
on larger quantities range from
25 cents to a maximum of $1.00
for a full truck load.
It ia our opinion that In many
areas distant from the city there
are no dump grounds available.
Surely, in these areaa, the coun
ty or other public agency ahould
be able to obtain, at nominal year
ly cost, the use of some . ravine
or abandoned quarry which would
be readily accessible by car and
which the county road crews in
each district could maintain ja a
sanitary condition. We believe that
if auch dumping grounds were
made available in each district
and directional signs posted along
the public roads as well aa ad
vertising to the residents of each
district the location of their dump
ing ground, most of the promiscu
ous dumping along public roads
would be eliminated.
. KOSEBURG GARBAGE
DISPOSAL COMPANY
By NORMAN P. JOHN
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