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4 The Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, Ore. Men., May 1, 19501 Obc flows fteview Pubi.th.jd O lily txeopt Sunday ly th Nwt . Company, Inc. Cawr4 M ( Mii My I. it i Ik ttU t Mbarg. OrfB. tUr Mi ! " U1I CHARLES V. STANTON j,. BOWIN U KNAPP Editor i Manager Mimbir of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publlahara Auoclatlon, tha Audit Bureau of Clreulatlona linHl(t at WMT-HOLLIDAf CO . INC. afflrat la fart. CSIaafa, eaa Sraaalaaa Ui Abiim Baatlla FarilaaS SI. Lal aunat airrmx Itrii-u uraiaa anil ra, raa, . u - M MrH Malta IIH rill catrlar rar aa lia.aj ila aa.aaral. Ij.. ttae aa rw aat ta si.aa oauisa ota ait Mai r tt iaa i alba fats UrH aiaaika ti n The Winner And Cha Mee 77.e CANDIDATE WE MUST VOTE AGAIN By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburg; voterg must trek to city polling places Tues day, between 8 a. m. and 8 p. m., DST, to authorize a municipal budget levy for the coming fiscal year. Until we get legislative action authorizing tax base adjustments in growing municipal corporations such elec tions will be annual affairs. We are told by our city recorder that if the city's budget should not Increase above the present amount it would be 19 years before the allowable 6 per cent annual increase would bring the tax base to the level w here the levy would cover requirements. It Is certain that city expenditure will increase year by year in proportion to growth. Thus, without relief from existing regulations, we can expect to be travelling to the polls annually for the next 30 to 40 years to authorize levies in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Some newcomers may not understand Oregon's tax limi tation law a good thing while growth is static but a de cided handicap during periods of expansion. Under our state law any tax levying body is permitted to increase its budget only 6 per cent above that of the pre ceding year. This increase is in dollars and not in rate of levy. Thus, if a budget is $100,000 one year, it can not be more than $106,000 the next year, although value of property to be taxed may have doubled or tripled. Thej law is inflexible, making no provision for increased valu ation, annexation, growth or expansion. Thus, the only way growing districts or public corporations can levy enough taxes is by a special election to authorize a levy in excess of the limitation set by law. Sometime, during the years we will be compelled to at tend these special elections, unless we get a change in the law, a light vote will result in a budget proposal being re jected. How could Roseburg handle its affairs with a budget expenditure of only $55,017.88, which would be the amount permitted by law, when the police department alone will cost around $54,000 during the next year? We are facing possibility of an extreme emergency until we get a change in our antiquated tax law. jjL at aMTaN atlaal!! Th tnfomatlon foe th following Jmf. l M w 0 VL m lfc laadr r. lory ubmitted by th candidate liifWj Remanufacturinq Mill Is Reopened Th remanufacturing portion of the Trojan Wood Product Co. at Riddle ii now in production fur the first time since it was de stroyed by fir last August, ac cording to D. W. Gill, general manager. The edger and bolter, which were burned, have been re placed by i combination gang edger. The remanufacturing plant is now receiving cants and lumber from its own portable mill, lo cated about eight miles above Days Creek, and the company is purchasing lumber from other I mills in the area. Edwin G. Anthony of Lebanon I is installing a mill on Woods i creek to furnish stock for Trojan Wood Products. The company is hoping to obtain two additional i mills this spring for the same pur- ' pose. I The mill manager said he hopes to have lumber production up to 100.000 board feet daily soon. The company employes 30 men at the mill and 14 at the portable mill working five days a week. General Logging Supplies Sksokum Bloc'-.s Mall Power Sjwi Lincoln Welders Coos King Donkey ill 'at3aiSS Waco Wheel Arcl. Wire Rope 9 Dissfon Power Sows 0 Lincoln Welding Rod Expert Sled wui.jar Available Anytime 0 Splicing and Ferrule Work Expert Saw Mechanic Pitco of Roseburg, Ltd. 1819 N.Stephens dene 733-1 !eaiaas Phone 1241-R Milk Controversy Tiring We Imagine a majority of Roseburg's residents feel as we do about the current and continuing milk controversy we're getting mighty tired of the eternal squabble between producers and distributors. We have no opinion as to who is right or who is wrong. Probably, as in most cases, equity exists on both sides. This continued quarrelling, however, involving one of our most essential commodities, seems rather juvenile. If the two parties can't get together, why don't they seek impartial arbitration and try to effect a compromise based on a fair return to each? Or, if the producers feel they can't get justice, Why don't they set up their own distribution on a cooperative basis? We feel the consumer, who always gets soaked in these controversies, has been pushed around enough. No further price increase to consumers is justified. Retail milk prices already are too high. It is time for grown men to quit acting like children, squabbling over who is going to be the pitcher in the sandlot ball game. We're getting mighty sick and tired of all the name calling and public bickering. , Let's get the dispute settled and have no more of it. In the Day's News (Continued from Pago One) ruptcy. That's the way I'd feel It's graveyard on your day off. depressing. Back in Philadelphia they're run ning a charm school for teachers. It has just started and is to last six weeks. At the moment, the school marm in) twine tniK'ht hnu' tn lit. .luiii if if snm a Mmiut itm I uii ... .... ""how to stand, how to walk in a atraid of started spending nis way 1 School Expense Claims Contradicted By Writer ROSEBURG Before putting anything in print it is wise to be sure of the facta, ao 1 have taken time to check on certain facts and figures before writing this to com ment on statements made in a recent letter by Mrs. Lander, wife of our school board chairman, con cerning conditions in Green School district, No. S. I think this is necessary lest some of our taxpayers get the impression that our tax money is being misspent. Uur new school was built on the spired the title for a book that stays in one's memory the mt way that the singing words haunt the heart: The Thread That Runs So True. The author, Jesse Stuart, a Kentuckian of the hill country. present site after careful consid- use, lin rom the ver,., of the "The needle'a eye that does supply children whom he loves so intense- The thread that runs so true, ly, about politics in the school Many a beau have I let go, world, about Kentucky and Its Because I wanted you ..." problems? The second line of this Mug He wrote poetry, too. hi!e HV;dy, ,t; partner . - .......... plowing, ana scraicning ine lines of Kentucky school children, in- vs. I sent In the .Stale l.i. brary at once for "The Man With the Bull Tongue Plow," Jesse Stuart's previous book which contains those verses and many others. Love-poems in it, too, for the author waited seventeen long eration by the board and building committee because ol the eleva tion necessary for proper drain age. Had the lower site been rno.i en, it would hive had to be filled in to insure a proper sewage dis posal system. The 16.000 which she says is asked to cut down the hill to make a baseball diamond is the csti- rtnated amount needed to grade and surface the play area, build a suitable driveway in front of the building and do a little landscao ing to improve the appearance of our school. The figure of $.1,850 quoted as 'a janitor s salary." actually Davs for a full time janitor and a part time helper. After checking the transporta tion summary for the State of Oregon, which is a resume of school transportation for all coun ties in the state. I find that Doug las county compares favorably with any other county and our transportaton costs are average. Certainly they could not be cut in half by owning our own buses. We should be proud of our teach ers and the fact that we pay them a fair salary, wnen you consider their constant exposure to colds and other communicable diseases, the five days sick leave seems small. Many districts allow ten days. As for our principal's sal ary on a twelve-month's basis, this will in no way affect the cost. It merely divides the money into twelve parts instead of nine. Pro gressive districts are putting all teacher's salaries on the twelve game-song as chapter headings. The game is a little like London Bridge, but Jesse Stuart in "The Thread That Runs So True" (Scribner's 1949) sees a signifi cance in the verses of the song. I thought of an old proverb, as I read the concluding chapter, where, after seventeen years of unremitting effort, the school teacher finally gives up teaching and returns to his ancestral acre age, wild mountain land, to raise sheep and incidentally to write a novel. This is the novel. There is grim reality at times, as where his life is threatened by the "feud in' and fightin' " objectors to his advanced ideas; and he is black jacked from behind as he sits at a soda fountain. At the trial of his assailant no women were present, and the men were armed: "If a firecracker had gone off in that courthouse I wonder how many men would have died!" says the man who suffered much at the hands of his "neighbors." The proverb that came to me was "God gives the thread for web begun." I would not say that Jesse Stuart failed, or that he gave up teaching when the door months basis, which helps the . to a sincle srhnolrnom no Inner eVpVi theyVar Zround. """V opened fbl. touch each morning. Of our eight teachers, all ex-' No- '"deed. Who knows the far- cept one have from five to seven i reaching effect of plain words years and finally gave up teach ingbefore he could ask his Na omi to give up her own teaching and live with him on his hillton farm, his Naomi who so lovingly understood him, and shsred the waiting. Candidate for election as circuit judge of the second judicial dis trict of Oregon, William G. East, Eugene, was born at Lecompton, Kas. in 1908. He moved with his family to Salem in 1910 and to Lugene in 1927. He was educated at Salem ind the University of Oregon, where he received an LLB degree in 19.12. He is married and has a daughter. Sara. East is a member of the Board of Bar Examiners, Oregon State Bar, and was a member of the Board of Governors, Oregon State Bar from 1940 to 1942. Appointed by Gov. Douglas Mc Kay on March 28. 1949. to hia ores- ent judgeship. East's past exper ience is as follows: Private law practice at Eugene. 1932-42. suc cessor to the office of Charles A. in the firm of Harris. Bryson and East: U. S. Army infantry officer, 1942 46 with duty in the ETO; city at torney for Eugene, July. 1946, to November, 1947; counsel for the Eugene Water board, July, 1946 to March, 1949. East's affiliations include: mem ber of First Congregational church, Salem and Eugene: Elks lodge, Eugene; Masonic lodge. Ft. Lewis, Wash.; Eugene Chamber of Com merce, forum chairman; present ly vice-president of the Eugene Round Table; Delta Tau Delta so cial fraternity; Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity; Oregon State Bar: American Bar association and American Judicature society. ftlPIRIAl WALLPAPERS, . : il buyers look for the Imperial silver label that soys the finest in wallpapers. Guaranteed to with stand room exposure without fad ing and to clean satisfactorily when instructions are followed. If QjJ uome furnishings 1 PERSONALIZED SERVICE FOR THE HOME recklessly courts. into the bankruptcy j way ,h.t w,li put the onlooker's ; J. StonVt'xhm'nuKni i f'"y eye out, what to wear and how to , extension courses offered in Ruse- use their hands and voices more ""g through the winter and either I effectively ucmira summer scnooi last year MRS. J01IV CARILSEN Roseburg, Ore. I nr nlin tn itanil lt,,a ,.,.. C.aU. INCIDENTALLY, don't worry any I The instructor says to her class: , this proves that they have the about the "shelving" of thej "stand up. Tummy in and up. ! interest of the children at heart "house economy drive." There, chest up and out. Chin up andi?ndJ"' k'Plng up on advances .B- ( , iu, . . . . . , ,, in educational methods, never was any sincerity in it to be- Mrai(;htcn your backs." nl our Ux ,r. hjt,n gin with, .hese economy-minded The cuslomr.r, ln id to love but in this world you get the qual- congressmen have been yelling for it ,nd ,r. 0.klnff in in HroVr. for I "V " pay for. whether it be less spending until some appropria- ,k- rv .u goods or services tion FOR THEIR DISTRICT come. ..Thjs ju, whjt tin mil lhn thnv tlarl vnllinif fur . r 3 --.. j.. ne(Mi something to make us moret ' MORE spending. j at,r,ctjve l0 the children. Boys and j Sutherllal girls like pretty teachers." I By MRS. BR1TTAIX SLACK llfHAT Is this "tensini" interna-1 a a a (r. and Mrs. llarrv Karnes nf "on' tion? 1 . s.:sPlicT that ., . of f.erlm and their son. Bill, of j 1J Well, when Russia starts shooting all the Philadelphia school board Mcdfurd with the former's dauch-1 dr's-, on postcard today and ask down our planes that arc flying; will face as to teachers the problem and family, Mr. and MisJ f"r, ',So Y,ou Cln Hear." Write to over free International ai..r ih'ih,, t... i i i k. i....: vtayne Mnitn. r- i-ii. m. mrneral situation ran harHI. h. r.. I . u ' . 1 Mr- J"n Campbell was called FREE OFFER for Deafened Persons For people who are troubled by hard-of -hearing this may be the means for starting a new. full life with all the enjoyment of sermons, music, friendly compan ionship and business success. It is a fascinating brochure, called ' So You Can Hear" and is now available without charge. Deaf ened persons acclaim it as a practical guide with advice and en couragement of great value, a start on the road to happiness. garded es other than tense. Do you remember when that sub marine was reported off the Cr.li. forma coast a few weeks ago? As Beltone. Dept. 18. 14A0 W. 19th Mrs. John Campbell was ciIImI M.. Chicago 8. 111. Also show this I to Seattle. Wash.. Tuesdav bv the I important news to a friend or nall we hire A 1 I RACTIVE oeain oi ner omir.er-in-iaw ones who v ill probably get ma.ried quick and leave us or homely ones who will be harder to look at but , ,, . V . V ""! will stay with us longer?" mile limit, it had a right to be there, fiu' suppose it HAD been a j Russian submarine and suppose one i STAR OPERATED ON of our wan hips had come along and shot the bejabbert out of it. That would have added to the in-' ternational tension. I SANTA MONICA. Calif . -J.r Actress June Atlvvtin underwent minor surgery Friday in St. John's 1 through the rnnvevor nine Hospital and her husband. Dick Mrs. Kthelvne Free in a n re Powell, said she is recupcrsting turned home from Astoria Sunday satisfactorily. inr her daughter. Mrs. Harrivm, Miss Allyson's physician said her I will remain in Siitherlin with her. illness is not serious. She will be R. 1. Griffin of Comnlle. was a Uonal affairs is like walking in eia," ,r,urn nm"v ,rw fwXeVda" relative who may be hard-of-hear- Sutherlin's volunteer fire de- lnK- partment was called out Tuesday i about U:4.S p.m. to what seemed to be a bad fire, at the plawr shed of the Rock Island mill. On the arrival of firemen, smoke w.is pouring from the shed from all angles but no fire was evident. Alter investigating it was found that a back draft from the burner was forcing the smoke down 6 subject. Talking about interna- PHONE 100 between 6:15 end 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley ' I ii 'team CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION APRIL 24, 1950 OREGON RESOURCES Cash on Hand and Due from Banks $ 108.949,131.27 liitd State. Government Bonds 241.663,101.71 Municipal and Other Bonds 46.942,892.07 Loans and Discount Net 147,926.005.55 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 600,000.00 Bank Premises (Including Branches) 7.426.518.73 Customers' Liability on Acceptances 355.973.31 Interest Earned 1.719.102.73 Other Resource- 24S.590.5S $ 555,828,315.92 LIABILITIES Capital 10.000.000.00 Surplus 10,000.000.00 Undivided Profits 13.809.333.87 33.809,333.87 Reserves for Interest, Taxes, etc 2.298.510.42 Acceptances 367,930.02 Dividends Declared 250.000.00 tfeporits 817,806.416.15 Interest Collected Not Earned 1,274.414.79 j Other Liabilities 21-710 67 i 555,828,315.92 Taia ttattmtnt include 40 bmnchet in Orfnn Hao Omn: PORTLAND. OREGON aiWlaIWtlllnnal ri ROSEBURG BRANCH iiier iincm ait 'l ' ' vw a.iy cj (XDicm aim:
