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4 The Ntwa-Ravtow, RoMburg, Or. Sot., May 6, 1950 Published O.lly Cxaept Sunday I y the Nwt-'vi Company, Inc.' Iilml e. elsse .sailer .r I. la. it le e.l elrlea w ittl rg. Oreaesj. ea4.f Ml af Mere I, 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON -j-p-, EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manage) Member of tha Associated Preu, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, tha Audit Buraau of emulations limnM r WIST-HULLIDHt CO. 1N1J. efflree la H. .'. CSIeeia. inHln L.a Aeielee. ..III.. '..Ilea SL Lells. DBatnirrniN ia or.,..-t ii.ii r.. tee. sa.e. .1. aeaias M a. IkrM M..L, tl.SS- Br Cllf C.rrl.r r.r r.ar SIS.BS fla eeBBeei. I.M la.B ,J,Z. ,. ... I. 1 1 M O.I.I.. Or.,..B, U.ll-l'.l rear . HOI t4.lt. IHree aiaatt. .! Wouldn't He Be Surprised? DREAMING DREAMS By CHARLES V. STANTON The editorial job on a newspaper has noma advantages. For instance, when office work becomes unbearable, it is possible to invent an excuse to get away for a few hours. We can always insist we have to see a man about something. We had one of those spells Thursday. It seemed we couldn't stand another minute cooped up in an office, facing a typewriter. So we played hooky and did something we've been longing to do for months and months. w. knnnerl in th inlnnv and took a uuick run throuuh v nvpi'vu w i r - Myrtle Creek, Riddle, Canyonville, Ciendale, with excursions onto a few side roads. Some of our friends waved or honked at Us as we passed and we apologize for not stopping. But we wanted to see as much as we could in the few hours of daylight we had available, so made no stops. Have you driven around the Glenbrook loop and up the Cow Creek road out of Riddle lately? It is beautiful now. Well kept farms and orchards, fat stock, dogwood bloom ing in the canyons, Cow Creek inviting the bait fisherman, picnic spots without number spots we should be preserving for future public use. If you are around that Myrtle Creck-Tri-City-Riddle- Canyonville area soon, give your imagination a chance for exercise. First, as a basis for imaginative play, take a look at the possible industrial sites. Plenty of space for spur tracks. Lota of comparatively level land. An abundance of water from the South Umpqua river or Cow Creek. A huge backlog of virgin timber. Can you see sawmills, remanufacturing plants, furniture factories, wallboard plants, alcohol, molasses, chemical plants, one or two paper mills, plywood factories, etc., in your imaginary crystal ball? Can you see the dusty road you are traveling converted into a busy paved street, lined with mod ern, neon-lighted business houses? Can you look on the rolling hillsides, where sheep graze and lambs frolic, and Bee street after street lined with fine homes? Can you see in your mind's eye a continuous city, boasting 25,000, 30,000, maybe 60,000 population? You can't Bee those things? Well, maybe our imagination is just playing tricks. " Isn't It strange how jve reject old things, build something new, then find that what we rejected was right after all .' We have in mind the new highway location through the canyon between Canyonville and Ciendale. When the pioneers came from the south they followed the bed of Canyon creek, lowering their wagons at times with ropes. Then a rough, narrow, winding road was carved through the canyon, still following the water grade. The state highway department built a new paved road, rejecting most of the old grade. But now a tremendous grading job is in progress to build a new section between Canyonville and Azalea. If our State Historical society is interested, it could flag most of the new location with Oregon Trail signs. The broad highway now being built is right back on the ground stained with pioneer blond. In a few more months you will be speeding along over an ultra modern road, much of it on the same route where Harry Hildeburn of Roseburg, former road contractor, laboriously whittled out one of the first "improved" roads in the can yon for the county many long years ago. We were ashamed to admit when we reached Ciendale that it had been so long since our last visit. But the in terval gave better opportunity for pleasure in the growth of that community. The hurried busy appearance is in shnrp contrast to the Ciendale we knew many years ago when the principal asset was a stopping station for S. P. "helper" crews. And as we took the upper road to the highway and swung on down to Wolf Creek and back, we couldn't help letting our imagination piny around again. The long stretches of modern highway, the beautiful vistas of mountain, valley, I lower-lined streams, the gorgeous scenery of the canyon, the booming prosperity of com munities what will these mean to the tourists who will be streaming over these roads? How many tourists will go back into the crowded cities with determination to move to southern Oregon as soon as possible? That's the trouble with imagination we keep dreaming dreams. I I OkV AiWAyfwtiwfhf) lilt M.., f - "n, iiwi I f - In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) the Florida primary "confirms trend." He adds: "Voters everywhere are turning toward the principles for which the Republican party has been fighting . . ." That leaves ma cold. So far, I haven't been able to figure out for myself what the national leader ship of the Republican party IS fighting for other than to get back into office. I'm afraid I'm becoming a politi cal maverick. a a a n'M talking here about NA TIONAL affairs. In Oregon, I'm unhesitatingly a Republican, because I feel that in Oregon the leadership of the Republican party is striving to keep the state solvent, whereas I have the feeling that the leaders of the Oregon Democratic party are striving to make us over into a replica of the state of Wash ington, which is already bankrupt.) By ViaJmstt g. Martin f J-S It just goes to show the power ful influence the home town news paper may be exerting in an area far-away. We were chatting with the J. B. Radars in Kellogg when Mrs. Radar remarked: "The Roseburg News-Review used to come to a neighbor liv ing near us on the prairie in Nebraska; he would lend it to my father. First thing we knew were packing up to set out for Roseburg. My father couldn't get over that 'roses in winter' tne Roseburg paper would tell about! "We left Nebraska on May 18, reached I'ocatello on July fourth, and Roseburg on September 12. Four months to make the trip." Our hostess laughted at my ques tion. "Covered wagon? Of course, we came in a covered wagon! In dians? Well, I had always been afraid of Indians, but when I saw my first ones in Pocatel o I lost IN Washington, Senator O'Conor all fear of them. They were peace Democrat, from Maryland) scolds fu tnd civilized! businessmen for BRINGING ..Th. otn,r t,miue, who neon SPENDING PRESSURES ON CON- the trip with us kept droppjng CRESS. Addressing the annual1.,., ,i, u,,j . ,. to some place, but they couldn't persuade my father to stop short of Roseburg. He had set out tur there, and there he was going! "Our camping place is still there meeting of the United States cham ber of commerce, he says: "At a time when taxes are the No. 1 problem of business, business men are adding to their own woes by being against federal spending EXCEPT IN THEIR OWN NEIGH BORHOODS. They're all for federal economy EXCEPT when it comes to closing a military, naval or other federal establishment with which they do business or whose em ployes are their customers." He added: "The recent billion and a half dollar rivers and harbors bill is typical. Members of Congress id in Roseburg, almost like it was in 1893: the little ravine between Neilsen'a new market in South Roseburg and . the big Parrott house, the one with the tower room. We stayed there three days before renting a house . . . "Yes, it was hard for my moth er to leave behind so many things she treasured," said our hostess in answer to another question. "She sold some things and gave many away. I never saw my doll again, nor any of her beauti ful clothes, but I was a big girl then thirteen! Mother did bring her organ in one of our three wagons it was burned, in 1940 and an old dresser which I still have. In our party were 17 people, 7 wagons and our hack tied on behind one of the wagons, and 10 or 12 horses. "It was the duty of my 10-year old brother and myself, to unhitch, unharness and halter the team my mother drove, and oh, how we hur ried to beat my father and elder brother with their teams! We tied the horses to the back wagon wheels. To get feed along the way for the horses was the biggest problem my father bad not real ized how hard that was going to be!" Meet The CANDIDATE stata f . ; 'j War Timetable Set By Russians, General Declares SEATTLE. May t. '.Pt -The man who commanded American air forces in the Pacific during World War II said here he thinks the Russians have a timetable for war set and are waiting for a display of weakness by the U. S. "This country is now the num ber one power in the world." Gen. George C. Kennedy said. "So long aa we retain that status there is bound to bt a cold war. When we become the number two pow er there will be a hot-war." Kennedy, now commander of the air university. Maxwell air force base, Ala., is visiting the Boeing airplane company plant here "to talk shop." The general told war industry jittery norlhwesterners that it would be as easy to defend this segment of the country as any other. No section of the country, he said "is more easily or less easily defended than any other area." Seattle has been conducting a campaign for some time to pro vent removal of major Boeing plant activities to Wichita, Kan.v, where it presumably would be safer from any foreign air attacks. Women's Fellowship Hold Meeting At Surherlin The Christian Women's Fellow, ship met at the First Christian church in Sutherlin April 28. The table decorations were apple blos soms and spring blowers. Mrs. Marsha Newman led the devotional Mrs. Betty Staniford was elected vice-president, replac. ing Mrs. Laura Webber, who re signed. The group decided to send birth day and holiday remembrances to two elderly ladies of the Beaverton Old Folks Home. Attending the meeting were Mrs. Leola Hardestv. Mrs. Effie Dick ens, Mrs. Blanche Hecatbome, mrs. nuia jonnson, Mrs. Dorothy Ixmgbrake, Mrs. Marsha Newman, Mrs. Grace Pope. Mrs. Bertha San. ders. Mrs. Leta Whitford, Mrs. Eleanor Woollette. Mrs. Irene Weh. ster and Mrs. Betty Staniford. Pbola by Edrta Morrison Studio. Portland 'Tha Information for the ffnllnwin ftory was submitted by the candidate tn th. primary election. May 19. and does not necessarily slfnify endorse ment by the News-Review.l Russell J. Hubbard, nominee fnr Republican candidate for the Ore gon legislature, ISth district, was born at St. Cloud. Minn., in 1883. He was educated at Portland, where he arrived with his parents in 1891. He has a long background in railroading and public utilities op erations. Hubbard is married and has two married children, John K. Hubbard of Portia ad and Mrs. Thomas D. Stevenson Jr. of Pied mont, Calif. He and Mrs. Hubbard live on their farm at Sutherlin when they are not at their Reeds port home. In 1913 Hubbard was an officer in the Douglas County Power Co , which was later sold to Copco. He was then with Monarch Mills in Portland and later with the North Portland Lumber Co. Hubbard next went to Reedsport. where he helped form the Winches ter Bay Lumber Co. in 1918. He and his associates sold the com pany to the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. in 1941 After that, Hubbard went to Sutherlin as a partner in the Sutherlin Timber Products Co. He sold his interest in that com pany in 1949. At Reedsport, Hubbard was a member of the city council, one- time president of the chamber of 1 commerce and member of the Port of Umpqua commission, serving as chairman several years. In con nection with the work of the com mission, he made several trips to Washington, D.C., to appear before congressional committees. He was an original trustee of the Improvement Road district which built highway 38 from Drain to Reedsport This district later turned its work over to the county, along with US, 000 in its treasury. When asked for a platform state ment, the candidate said, "I be lieve I have a pretty good grasp of county and state problems, and I think I know the needs of the 15th district." , Hubbard emphasized that he fa vors fishing conservation and methods to develop the potential tourist business in Douglas county. He was a candidate to the state senate four yeara ago. Good Deed Backfires CHICAGO i A gallant polire lieutenant helped an elderly wom an down a wet stairway and then fell down, suffering a sprained back. Lt. Thomas McCann, 52, stopped his squad car when he saw the woman hesitate about walking down the wet stairway at a south side Illinois- Central railroad sta tion. With McCann's aid, the un identified woman reached the side walk safely, McCann slipped on the bottom step and fell backward. He was taken to a doctor's office in the squad car and treated f o r a sprained back. Going i ro BUILD? Before you select your new home site see us about Doug, los County's finest residential district: Jawtliorne terrace Completely Exclusive, Magnificent - View. 4 Roseburg Realty and Insurance Co. Hotel Umpqua Lobby FOR . . . SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE... CO-OPERATION . . . Investig. "j the services offered by your ''Home owned, Home-operated" bonk Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. LETTERS to the Editor Bird Tragedy Poses Food For Human Reasoning ROSEBl'RG Conch Island. Flor a. has for manv years been a everywhere were unable to resist shrimp fishing headquarters. The the pressure from every section nl "ow of commercial tides of the country for project, whoe .Wf " " i win run into nuge erary of this stopover in the jour ney of the delicate crustacean on i ''ei we sh,u.ld hav. one ."!? I us way from deep to pan. It was totals He rnnrlnrlfvl "The nnt r,..ii,i ,.,.. , .. here that the shrimp was cleaned The only possible way to avoid ,, par, of the process of (iettin serious damage to our fiscal struc- it ready for the table. Just what ture, and POSSIBLE COMPLETE change necessitated this move we COLLAPSE, is to cut government 1 no kni,w- bl't we Ho know ' " .ru.n,lina a f, 11.... iuu. a imiruy came upon tne spending drastically. tu ovulation. Robots Planned To Track, Destroy Enemy Bombers ti a cinvrmv .n Th air force is equipping late model jet I """j ' tod ml f1" ,urt . -.... ICt fichtrr tin not vt nrir th T HAT'S calling a spade a spade. By nature, as a human is taught that he must work for his food. Over and over again, I've heard ln,'se wb-fooled. aquatic birds had businessmen say of some pro-1 2r- Z' Procured i their food with . ' " . 1 I their beaks by diving down on posed government appropriation i some unsuspecting herring or smelt that would be spent in their com-lnd captured it in this manner, munity: "It's boondoggling of;1'1"' l'oncn island population of course. BIT IF WE DON'T 'fIFT J"'1', how-ever. had lost thcr apti- TIIE MONEY SOMEBODY F1SF .Sii J . K li .u.l.ty ,h lk". ' demand liifc U.NtY aOMLBODi FUSE e.rned-only too quickly-that the supp,y , form of sjle, , , ,,. "ILL. I tidbits from the shrimp which were .: t , ,,;., ... ...., stroyed so that in times of dis tress it becomes necessary to de pend on bounty. ROBERT ALI.E Roseburg, Ore. Sales Tax Need Seen To Finance Improvements ROSEBURG As there has been considerable comment both ways on the airport bond issue, 1 would like to express mine. Editorial comments by you lead me to believe you are in favor of the bond issue for the airport. I but it is physically and financially im possible for the property owners ol Roseburg to do all this needed im provement themselves. Our only solution to a just tax for all is for all to participate in the pay ment ot these needed improve ments. Oregon is receiving a mass of new people into her bor ders who are non-taxpayers. Many people are transient workers who own nothing and therefore are not taxable. I believe it is the time to call a halt on an unjust tax pro gram that just taxes the property owners. If there is enough demand for these needed improvements then. proceed with our airport and other needed civic improvements with a just and equal tax plan for all. R. W. FOYE Roseburg. Ore. PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m.t if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mob-ley ConavatulaL a lond TO ON THE GRAND OPENING ' OF ITS NEW DRIVE-IN NO. 2 AT 300 N. STEPHENS... to7c7---- fighters with new automatic de vices which will track enemy bombers through night skies or bad weather, shoot them clown, then bring the pilot home for landing. Officials said this whole family of robots ia being installed in its new interceptors to meet problems posed by the development of high speed bombers and atomic we-.-pons. The growing speed of the bomb era gives defending fighters less time to climb to meet them, and the enormous destructive power of the A-bomb makes it more Im portant than ever to destroy the I As long as that idea prevails, ! unsuitable for human consumption , eabi, to all. such as a pur- reckless federal spending will v, or,v ,'hl, h ,. ir!,. ,,V.U, ch"' 'll"1in fooA- continue i " .,i?,t' . no,lris!'m',nt stores. This is the only form of a I'ZrV. I , sddmr.me Tb' ,h" Wilh " ffort work to do also in the last stage ' ,i,k d 'd f m"n, "' made by your paper in editorials of the landing approach. I ,"r"noon- ! explaining the advantages of such in acloition lo robots, increased "" uhht .o reason, purvnasr iax. me people wouia armament is going into the new 'hu h. 0( course seagulls lack, we ; understand that it is the only solu moilels to increase their chances h"m"n' honl,(1 "J1"" " n,"' lion ' our Problem of civic im- of detroving bombers once con- i tragedy of the bird inhabitants I provements without breaking the tact is niade 01 ('oni'h island. At any rate, we j backs of the property owners with I I should be honest enough to admit 1 heavier taxes. ENLISTS IN NAVY ' lh" 0!r oecomlnK free loaders, and If this purchase tax law was de- n,. .i..im.( r ., .11.. ' h'r sccepung Ihe means of exist- i feated. I think it would also an- i. ,,h S ... i- i'nc.' " 1 n;M r,,h" ,h,m 1 swer the airport issue, as we still Kowe, 735 r.. Sixth S ., was an- o( ,f , wnlch our pnvllege must have money before we can nounccd today by the local Naval l0 participle, and lo support, to i buv. unless we wish to pattern Recruiting station. uttermost limits of our capa-lafter federal deficit spending Rowe, a former student a the , bilities. trscedy can also descend which Is taxing the people lo death junior high school here, enlisted upon us. We may even lose that and deflatine the dollar value was available with the expenditure oi only a relatively limited amount of energy. Thus they lost their latu- bombers before they reach the target. Radar to help fighter pilots find attacking planes at night was in corporated in piston-engine inter ccptors used during World War II But the air force says these planes do not have the performance jet fighters do not vet oossess the radar essential lo all-weather op erations. Into the new models, it says, are going provisions for automat ic flight, automatic tracking of the enemy, automatic firing, and auto matic approach to a landing after the battle. After taking off the pilot will be guarded by a ground radar net work to the area where his plane's radar ran pick up the enemv There the automatic devices will take over, putting the interrentnr in the Navy through tne local re- iliom,Mihin (,,, r ,, on the correct course to close with cruiting station and is now' in Sanj animal, the ability to res. on the bomber and firing its weapons Diego, Calif., where he will ie- God given natural instincts at the right moment reive three months training before should he preserved for present In case the robots fail, or ! further assignment. i and future contingencies, not de- fair tax to all. as we all must eat, buy clothing, supplies, autos. etc.. whether or not we own prop- I am not in favor of voting these bonds for the airport at this time. It's get behind a purchase tax bill. Ret that on the ballot Put it over to the s-oters. Then U' Invite Inquiries Regarding The California Oregon Power Company Common Stock A Prospectus covering the common slock is obtainable from the undersigned Blyth L Co., Inc. 222 PACIFIC BUILDING PORTLAND Telephone ATwater 3322 SAN fRANCISCO PORTLAND NEW YORK 4 lOS AMCtltS . SEATTLE CHICAGO tOSTON . WlonHIA Offices moinroHwd in twenty-frva cities
