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BOOSTING ECONOMY
By CHARLES V.STANTON
Rail and water freight rates control in large measure
the development of any particular area. Effects of such
controls were interestingly discussed Tuesday night when
a group of chamber of commerce representatives met with
three professors from the School of Business Administration,
University of Oregon.
Here in the Umpqua basin, of course, we need not be told
that transportation is vital to expansion. Fighting against
the "Friendly" Southern Pacific's stranglehold for years has
given us a very good working knowledge of the effect of rate
and service discriminations.
But it was interesting to hear case histories of how rail
roads manipulate area development to build and -control
freight business and balance eastward and westward move
ments as a means of reducing "empty" hauls.
By increasing or narrowing the spread between rates on
raw and manufactured products, the railroad .companies are
able to manage traffic flow. '
j For instance, the Pacific Northwest is shipping more
raw products east than the tonnage of manufactured goods
moving west. Thus railroads are forced to haul many empty
and unprofitable cars back to the coast. Should they narrow
the freight 'margin between raw and manufactured goods,
factories would be encouraged to move closer to their source
of supply. But a wide rate makes it possible to transport raw
materials to distant manufacturing centers.
The railroads also must balance rates between west and
east. Thus, the rate on raw materials from west to east
is lower than on similar materials handled from east to west.
Rates on manufactured goods are in reverse. If railroads
should lower rates on manufactured goods moving from west
to east, traffic flow would be thrown more out of balance.
Water Competition Decreasing
' The discussion also developed that waterfront and mari
; time labor disputes have affected the transportation picture
adversely, Insofar as the Pacific Northwest is concerned.
! Railroads once were limited in their rate structure be
cause freight was handled cheaper by water. Wage demands,
however, both on waterfronts and vessels have forced rates
on water cargoes upward until a competitive condition
largely has disappeared.
j Without entering into " the 'ethics of labor demands.
whether wage increases were justified it was pointed out
that waterfront and maritime labor has, to some extent,
priced itself out of jobs. Because it has lost the competitive
advantage, use of water transportation is lessening in volume
percentagewise, thus reducing the number of jobs and em
ployment opportunities. At the same time, the loss of com
petition also reduces job opportunities in other industries
dependent upon competitive transportation.
Adequate Transportation Essential
! The conference developed one thought in particular. Any
community is dependent upon transportation for business
and industrial growth. This, too, is a fact we all know full
well here in ths TJmpqua basin, but one we have neglected
tod long. ' : . ' , ' "
Now that industrial expansion is occupying our attention
we find that inadequate highways, almost nonexistent pas
schger service, lack of airport facilities, etc., are most
seriously retarding economic development.
A commercial highway to the coast, for instance, would
have a beneficial influence on rail freight rates should com
petition between rail, and water carriers be restored. Bottle
necks on the Pacific highway in Douglas county, which
contains one-third of that north-south route in Oregon, are
seriously affecting development. Lack of modern passenger
'transportation facilities is perhaps one of our worst
handicaps.
'; We will be voting soon on a proposal to improve facilities
for passenger transportation, as an election is to be held on
the matter of issuing bonds for airport improvement to
permit scheduled airline service. Some improvement is in
prospoct on the north-south highway, but full development
will take a long time. Construction of a commercial-type
highway to harbor facilities at the mouth of the Umpqua
river should be given every possible encouragement. Each
of these projects has a very vital part in our future economy.
Ran Into Something
In fhe Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
Suits For Money
Placed On File
The following money actions
were filed in circuit court Wednes
day: Local Loan Co. vs. Charles W.
Burk and Fred Savage. Plaintiff
demands judgment of $74. 9S, plus
$27 interest, on an assigned note.
J. M. Turner vs. M. D. Suther
land. Georce Carter and Eaele
Worth Lumber Co. Plaintiff asks
judgments on five causes of action
for $62.13, $170.45, $52.57. $49.81
and $40.00. Plaintiff charges the
sums are due for Iocs delivered to
the defendant's mill pond.
J. M. Turner vs. M. D. Suther
land, C'eorge Carter and Fir Manu
facturing Co, Plaintiff demands
judgment on three causes of ac
tion for (113.57. $285.11, $123.44,
and $110.52, allegedly due for logs
delivered to the defendant's mill
pond.
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly
issued a default judgment Wednes
day of USS frr the Oregon Unem
ployment Compensation commis
sion against Claude Kcllum. The
suit was filed by the commission
to recover contributions allegedly
due the unemployment compensa
tion fund.
'DOZER KILLS DOZING BULL
DALLAS. Ore., P A bulldoi
er 'dozed a bull into pile of
brush.
It was all an accident, but that
won't bring the registered Guern
sey back to life.
Like Ferdinand, the Guernsey
must have been reclining in the
prune orchard, sniffing the flow
ers. Along came the 'doier in a
cloud of dust and creating a din.
The driver didn't see the Guern
sey, and the animal was uncere
moniously shoved into the brush
pile. His crushed body was found
in the pile the next day.
This Ferdinand was valued at
$300.
I.O.O.F. IN SESSION
ASTORIA, May 18 (At The
Odd Fellows lodge and the aux
iliary Rehekahs opened their an
nual Oregon Brand enca moment
Tuesday.
in preliminary ceremonies, the
Patriarchs Militant and its aux
iliary conferred decorations on 85
women and three men.
About 1200 registered yesterday
for the conventions, which run
through tc jiorrow.
must regard the big political pow
wow in Chicago, which he addressed
in his inimitable manner, as a mere
COINCIDENCE. It wasn't planned
that way at aU. It just HAPPENED
to have been held at the moment
when he was returning from his
visit among the. folks. Nobody had
even thought of the fact that he
would be in Chicago that night.
a a a ,
BUT, of course, since he WAS IN
CHICAGO, he couldn't have
been ignored. It would have been a
discourtesy to the President of the
United States of America NOT to
have asked him to speak to the
faithful who were assembled there.
' That Is how it must have hap
pened. " ;
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I HAVE another reason for believ
ing it was all on the up and up.
You must have noticed that aU the
way around Our Harry never once
referred to the Republican party by
name. When he had occasion to
mention people with whom he is in
disagreement he always spoke of
them as "the opposition."
He did it that way in Chicago.
In that rousing, yip-yipping assem
blage of Democrats, he must have
felt tha temptation to speak of the
wicked, scheming Republicans by
name. But he RESISTED it. In one
of the highlights of his speech, he
put it this way:
"I wish the OPPOSITION would
come up with something and be a
real opposition. A great political
party can not survive and be
against everything."
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HE spoke of the Whig and the
Federalist 'parties, which van
ished, he said, because they ran
out of a program. Without a pro
gram, they just simply had no oc
casion any longer for existing. So
they up and died.
He must have wanted to point
out that the Republican party is in
much the same position. He must
have wanted to name -names. I
would have In his place. But he
choked back the urge to do so, and
contented himself with the pale,
anaemic term "the opposition."
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BEING the nice guy he is, you see
and knowing that the taxpayers
(which include a lot of Republi
cans) had paid for his trip over the
country, ending up in Chicago at
the psychological moment when the
big Democratic medicine show was
at its climax, he just couldn't get
political and give the nastv Re
publicans what's what by name.
He simply HAD to play fair, no
matter what the cost.
.
I HAVE just one criticism of this
whole business in Chicago. It was
put on as a Jefferson Jubilee Cele
bration. Jefferson had strong views
on government spending. Since the
Chicago binge was put on in his
name, I think it would have been
only fair to have worked into it
somewhere this statement which
the founder of the Democratic party
undoubtedly felt strongly about:
I place economy among the first
and most important virtues and
public debt as the GREATEST of
dangers to be feared ... to pre
serve our independence, we must
not let our rulers liwd ui with per
petual debt ... we must make our
choice between economy and liber-
By ViaJmttt S. Martin J
Jn the winding canyon beyond
the Curtin postofflce lives "Grand
ma" Allison, who will be 88 on
June 24. She has been blind (cata
racts) for some years, but on her
birthday, June 24, there is great
expectation that "Grandma" Alli
son will be able once more to
SEE her many friends and neigh
bors. AU because the Curtin Hobby
club,' aided by the Drain Hobby
club and others up an down along
Highway 99, from Eugene to R'jse
burg, are raising funds to pro
vide an operation and subsequent
care for this sweet old lady.
Mrs, Allison is receiving old age
assistance under the Douglas Coun
ty welfare system but the needed
$350 is not available because of
the many demands upon that or
ganization. The opthalmologist (Eu
gene) who will perform the opera
tion (he is not named) is accept
ing a fee much less than usual
for the work.
' Mrs. Allison has been confined
to a wheel chair for some time
due to a second fractured hip ac
cident: She had plunged off the
porch in her- chair while still re
covering from illness prior to the
accident. It must not be -easy
to get around in a wheel chair if
one is sightless!
"Grandma" is the daughter of
a Presbyterian minister, and the
widow of a Methodist minister.
When she was widowed in 1904
she supported her five children
on a share-croppers' tobacco farm
in Tennessee. She makes her home
with one of the children, Mrs
Norman Suiter.
On May 20, at the Curtin school-
house, there will be a benefit
pie social, the proceeds from
which will go into the "Grandma
Allison fund." Donations by mail
may be sent .care of the Curtin
posloffice. Mrs. Grace Thompson,
News-Review correspondent of
Curtin, is treasurer of the fund
Mrs. Roy Stephens is chairman
of the activity. The plan was set
up for the club by Dr. H. A.
Hagen of Cottage Grove.
Mrs. Allison left Tennessee wnen
her daughter Helen was married
and went to live in New Mexico.
She came to Curtin with the
Suiters in 1926, and through the
years has been active in church
work' and community affairs ac
tive, that is, until blindness lim
ited her activity. Quilt making
was her hobby. She loves to talk
of it, and her daughter has some
beautiful samples of her ' work.
Toastmasters' 1
Plan Takes Shape
At Vets Hospital
The "definite value" which the
Roscburg Toastmasters club will
have in establishing an associate
organization at the Veterans hos
pital was stressed at the Tuesday
night meeting by Dr. John L. Has
kins, hospital manager.
Dr. Haskins promised the whole
hearted cooperation of the Hospital
staff and medical personnel in
aiding the local Toastmasters club
form a similar organization at the
hospital.
"We have three definite aims in
seeing this plan go through," the
doctor said. These are:
1. To help these patients "get
in contact" with others and to
help them communicate their ideas
in a lucid fashion.
2. To take advantage of the
value of this type of group therapy
which would allow patients to share
common problems.
3. 'Frankly speaking," to sell
more men on the policies of neuro
psychiatry hospitals, such as the
Roseburg hospital, to illustrate
various types of mental treatments
and to provide the patients with
the "outside touch" furnished
through hospital visits by local citi
zens. The local organization recently
moved to form definite plans for
a Toastmasters club composed pri
marily of hospital patients. The
parent group's duties would be to
act as guides for prospective patient-members
and to explain the
pattern which club meetings fol
low. Three representatives of the Eu
gene Toastmasters club were pres
ent at the Tuesday meeting and
presented the Roseburg club with
a compact speaker timing device,
constructed by Lester Calder, one
of the visitors. The Eugene delega
tion was headed by Kaye Loomis,
governor of area six, and included
Ralph Proudfoot, vice-president of
the Eugene chapter.
Five Speakers Heard
Five speakers were heard on the
regular speech portion of the meet
ing, some of them filling in with
extemporaneous talks because of
the absence of several members.
Dave Moore directed his com
ments toward reasons why local
citizens should not vote for the
airport bond issue. He said resi
dents now have a "nice little town"
and that it was "no step forward"
to attempt to acquire the trials
and tribulations which greatly in
creased population would incur.
Norman Toelle told of his expe
riences with the black market of
Japan, which he visited during the
war as a merchant seaman and
Morris Corderman spoke briefly
on his new occupation as a car
penter. The value of confidence was ex
tolled by Phil Harth, who gave
that quality as one of the principal
reasons for the existence of Toast
masters clubs throughout the
world.
Proudfoot spoke forcefully to the
group by questioning the adage,
"The Customer is Always Right."
He drew from his experience as a
Eugene businessman to cite exam
ples of why "it should be a part
of our educational system to have
every person work behind a sales
counter for six months."
loastmaster for the evening was
Bill Jones and Jim Turk was in
charge of table topics. Bob Harvie
acted as evaluator and critics in
cluded Kaye' Loomis, Warren
Mack, Lester Calder, Walt Barker
and Alan Knudtson.
The last weekly meeting of the
spring session will be held at Hotel
Umpqua May 23 at 6:30. Club mem
bers voted to meet the fourth Tues
day of each month during June,
July and August.
Vital Statistics
Marrlaga Llcsiuts Issued
POLLARD-NOR RIS Jim 0:icar j
Pu'laTd and Louise Ruth Norris
both of Roseburg.
HICKS - HAMILTON Claud
Russel Hicks and Federica Ham
ilton both of Roseburg. I
The Mason-Dixon Line was sur
veyed in colonial times to estab
lish the boundaries between lands
granted to the Penn and Calvert
families.
zones of Austria and Germany.
The French closed the repatria
tion mission in 1947, charging it
was a front for subversive activ
ities. The Russians said all French
citizens in the Soviet Union have
been repatriated.
Russia's note was the latest of
several exchanges between the
two governments on repatriation
It rejected a French proposal for
a new repatriation conference, as
serting that such matters could
be settled fully on the basis of
an agreement of June 29, 1945, be
tween the two governments.
Meet ,
Sprinklin'
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You've got a thrill waiting for
you when you use "Sprinklin'
Sambo" on your lawn. Novtl!
Thorough crinkling! Se him
today or .
Kicr-Crooch - .
Plumbing Co,
316 Mill St. Phone 1242-R
Waterfowl Film
Is Presented At
Jr. High School
Restoration of lands, damaged
by drought, fire and misuse, into
productive habitat for migratory
waterfowl was depicted Wednes
day night in films presented at the
Roseburg junior high school audi
torium. The story of work now in
progress fb rehabilitate depleted
waterfowl population was coupled
with a highly scenic picture, taken
in Arkansas' Grand Prairie, where
the slow-motion camera furnished
rare and spectacular views of all
major species of migratory ducks
and geese.
The pictures, furnished by Ducks
Unlimited, are to be repeated to
night, starting at 8:30 o'clock
They are sponsored by the Rose
burg Hod and Gun club.
Major H. C. Tobin, U.S.A., Ret.,
of Portland, state chairman for
Ducks Unlimited, narrated the first
film, which contained surface and
aerial views of large areas of Can
ada, where birds breed during
summer months. It was shown how
thousands of acres of swamp lands
had been drained, agriculturally
misused, and how fire had aided
in the destruction of natural habi
tat for birds.
Through expenditures, now total
ling more than three and one-half
millions of dollars, all from volun
tary contributions by sportsmen,
swamps, ponds and lakes have
been restord, new waterways cre
ated and thousands of acres of
land reclaimed for waterfowl prop
agation. Photographed in natural
color, the film is both sceneic and
educational. The picture shows
Lake Oregon, a waterway created
through contributions by Oregon
sportsmen.
The second film has sound ac
companiment with the natural
voices of ducks and geese as they
were photographed from hidden
blinds in prairie swamp lands in
Arkansas during the migration period.
TWO PLEDGED AT OSC
CORVALLIS, May 18 (Special)
Philip B. Kaser and Oliver Allen
of Roseburg have been pledged to
the Oregon State college chapter
of Acacia, national social frater
nity. Kaser, a freshman in phar
macy, is the sen of Mr. and Mrs.
E. N. Kaser, 343 North Jackson.
Allen, a freshman in forestry, is
the son of Mrs. George Wagner,
route 3.
ty, or profusion and servitude.
"If we run into such debts, we
must be taxed in our meat and in
our drink, in our necessities and
our comforts, in our labors and :n
our amusements .' . .' if we can
prevent the government from
WASTING the labors of the people,
under the PRETENSE of caring
for them, they (the people) will be
happy."
r7
TONIGHT
"Isllalf A Republican
Better Than None?"
An address by
DAVE HOOVER
the real Republican candi
date for U. S. Senator.
KRNR. 9:45 P. M.
(Pate AdV. Hoover for IT. 8 Senatnr
Commute. Tim Wood. Campaign
Manartr, Broadway Oak Bui Id inf.
Portland.) .
Soviet Accuses
France Of Plot
To Hold Citizens
LONDON, May 18. UR- Russia
has accused France of keeping
Soviet citizens from going home
and has asked for reopening of
the Russian repatriation mission
in Paris, the Soviet news agency
Tass reports.
A Russian note to the French
government, handed Monday to
the French ambassador in Mos
cow, 20,000 Soviet citizens still
are in France and more are
awaiting repatriation in the French
Why Real Republicans have only one Choice
For U. S. Senator in Oregon Primary Election
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1 JOHN McBRIDE, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
' ' . ' FOR ' - " 1 : V
. UNITED STATES SENATOR I i
John McBride Is a lifelong Republican who believes in Constitutional
Government, Sound Money, Free Enterprise, ond a Tariff adequate to
protect American Labor, Agriculture, Mining and Industry.
He has been a resident of Oregon for 31 years; and has had 7 years
experience on Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C, in positions of respon
sibility with the Congress of the United States.
. .
His personal friendship with many members of the House and Senate
will be invaluable-to Oregon and the entire Pacific Northwest.
One of his opponents is so far to the Left that he votes more often on
important issues with the Socialistic Truman Administration than- with
the Party to which he owes allegiance A political opportunist who
works both sides of the street.
The other opponent, by his own odmission, was a Democrat until 1 933
and moved from Los Angeles to Oregon in 1 942. He is undoubtedly a
sincere ond loyal American, but has never hod any political experience,
and would be a "babe in the woods" in Washington, D. C.
If you would save your sons from the Hell of another World War ond
drive the traitors out of our Government, vote for John McBride for
United States Senator. For additional information consult your Offi
cial Voters Pamphlet. 1
"i
13 X on your ballot is unlucky for spies, traitors, political opportun
ists, and fugitives from the New Deal. VOTE 13 X McBride.
Republicans! When you go to the polls on May 19,
1950 -
'let Your Conscience Be Your Guide"
(John McBride for Senator Campaign CommiHte, Waihlntion Hotel,
Portland 9, Oregon)
5 MASONS
Why you should vote for
CARL C. HILL
for
COUNTY JUDGE
DOUGLAS COUNTY
Member Oregon State Legislature 1941-1947
with reputation .s capable statesman.
Chairman, Oregon State Game Commission.
Administering for rmservation of natural re
sources, improving conditions for sportsmen
ond land-owners.
District Ranger, U. S. Forest Service. Active
Interest in forest protection and timber management.
Carl C. Hill
I Principal and Superintendent of grade and '
high schools. Complete understanding of
school and juvenile probk .is.
P A native of Douglas County with service on
Conservation CounJl, school boards. Grange,
civic organizations and other community
minded groups.
S Active background In logging, sawmilling,
transportation, road -onst ruction. A Repub-
licon. Mature, sound judgment tempered with
experience. -
Don't forget the name: CARL C. HILL
Republican Condi late
COUNTY JUDGE
Primary Election, May 19
"aid Adv.
C. Hill lor Judo Comm.
J. Amochef, Sec