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4 The Ntwi-Reviow, Roseburg, Ore Sat., June 3, 1950 Published Daily Except Sunday by the, News-Review Company, Inc. Ura4 ! (Hi cl.M nator Mar 1, !. al tta alflca tt oMkitf. Orecaa, an4tr al Marek I, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON gm EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member or the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Ilirlll bf WMT HOLMDAT CO.. INt!., rfleit la Nw Turk, CMeaio, Ug rripolui. Lai Amllia, Saallla, r.rlliod, II. Lain in wrinu iiTit i. n...u-K MillPer aiir sa.OO, its maalhf 14. aa, Ikra maltha IJ.6I. Br CUT Cirrlir -ir Tir lla.oa (In adauaa), laaa In.a am rtar. par maalk l.0. Ool.Ua Oliaa Bf Hall Fit Mar .M, Ha raaalki sa.ll, taraa maaiaa i.n. Step Right In, Sir! AIRPORT ARGUMENTS By CHARLES V. STANTON Discussion of the proposed airport bond issue is waxing warm, indicating much general interest. It is to be hoped that determination of the issue at the special election Tues day will be through a fully representative vote rather than by a minority of qualified voters. One hears many questions and arguments. Particularly does one hear erroneous statements presented as facts. It is said, for -instance, that if the present site is lost we can find another location; that if we don't provide facilities they will be furnished by commercial airlines; that a longer runway is not necessary because the field already has handled larger planes than those commonly used for passenger purposes. These statements are not true. Existing Location Best Suited Much time and effort has gone into investigations of alternate sites for an airport.. Douglas county's rough ter rain makes it extremely difficult to find a location ade quate for commercial airline service. Investigation was made into. a proposed site in Garden valley, but engineering proved the area unsuitable. The problem revolves around extreme safety regula tions imposed by the Civil Aeronautics authority. These regulations provide that a plane must approach a landing field at a very low angle. This requirement is not only for purposes of safety but also for comfort. A low angle also is required for take-offs. The low angle is less apt 1o cause a stall and is less conducive to engine failure. At the same time passengers might be frightened if descents or take-offs were too steep. Finding a spot affording room for a low angle descent or take-off is extremely difficult in such hilly country as exists in Douglas county. The existing Roseburg site, however, does permit approaches and take-offs within the prescribed tolerances, providing the runway is lengthened to the north giving the plane additional room in which to operate. The existing runway, being too short, forces descents and take-offs at angles above the maximum set in safety regulations. ' Military Planes Not Affected The argument that the field has accommodated planes larger than those which would be . used for scheduled air line service is true. For the most part these were military or private planes, or ships making emergency landings. Military and private planes are not subject to the regula tions as to angle of descent and take off imposed on certi fied airline planes. Safety regulations are made, for the protection of the flying public and not for the convenience of the airlines. Consequently, while military aircraft can fishtail Into a fast landing, if the pilot so desires, the pilot of a. certified airliner would lose his license if he tried the same thing with a cargo of passengers. It might be argued that these rules and regulations are too strict, but we doubt if anyone using plane service would want any relaxation of safety rules. The CAA, in certifying the Roseburg airport, demands that the field be ' brought within maximum tolerances. Therefore, if we want scheduled air operation we must meet those demands. Personally, we believe safety regulations should be rig idly enforced. Airfields Public Responsibility There are those who argue that commercial airlines should furnish their own facilities. We do not expect such investment from any other utility, however. Railroads were built through grants of public land, which not only paid for construction but furnished a good side profit. The public built, and is building, roads and high ways used by farmers, loggers, buses, motor freight haulers and other commercial users. The public furnishes much right of way along roads, streets and alleys for power lines, watermains, gas mains, etc. Airfields are as essential to transportation as railroads and highways. Airlines will build their own depots, just as do railroad companies and bus lines, but they have the same right as any other utility to expect public cooperation If we fail to improve the existing airport we will have extreme difficulty in obtaining another location. Certainly we never could seure any field so exceptionally well sit uated with reference to distance from the center of town. Nearly all ports in Oregon are much farther from town than the .Roseburg field. If we want air service, we must conform to safety regulations which, we are sure, no one would want re laxed. ' '' If we want air Bervice, we must furnish facilities for landings and take-offs, or, in other words, the port and runways. No airline will provide them. In fact, no. airline thRt we know of has an operating profit sufficient for such investment, even if morally justified. The' benefits to be derived from scheduled air passenger service, In our opinion, amply warrant the expenditure we are asked to make. au ' ' 1 ' . Two Suits Are Filed , In Circuit Court Here , Two suits were filed in circuit court Friday. General Credit Service, Inc., vs. Merrill E. McMunn and Fern Mc uunn Plaintiff dpmands iudement OREGON STATE COLLEGE, w tin kj n an assiened Drom- uorvauis. tapeciai.j ine imo-ou school year at' Oregon Male is drawing to a close and many grad OSC Honors Won By Local Youth This Year Noted By ROD NF.WLAND uates of Roseburg high school have received honors. A partial list of honors that were received between picnics, parties and coast trips fol lows. National social fraternities have iledged Roseburg students as fol ows: Richard Lytle, sophomore in en gineering, Phi Kappa Psi; Jim Young, freshman in lower division, Phi Kappa Psi; Phil Kaser, fresh man in pharmacy, Acacia; Oliver Allen, freshman in forestry, Aca cia; and Bill Brady, freshman in lower division, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Brady will be a charter member of the new fraternity at Oregon State. Dick Nichols, Junior in business and technology, was initiated into Sigma Nu, national social fraternity. National social sororities have in itiated Roseburg students as fol lows: Joan Rutter and Lorraine Losee, both freshmen in business and tech nology, Delta Delta Delta; Mary McKinney, freshman in lower di vision, Sigma Kappa, and Sue Motschenbacher, freshman in busi ness and technology, Gamma Phi Beta. . Bill Brady and Dennis Samuel son, both members of Thanes, soph omore men's service society, and Joan Rutter, a member of Talons, soDhomore women's service so ciety, will be three of the leaders of the freshman mix next fall. Their first job as a leader was to select four dances for use, which was done late last month. The mix is a folk dancing method of acquainting members of the new tresnmen witn their classmates. issory note. Frank van Norman vs. mrs. r.. E. Kerton and Mr. E. E. Kerton. Plaintiff demands judgment to quiet title to land in the north-, east quarter of section 28. township i 30, range 3, west of Willamette I meridian. i In other circuit court proceed-1 ings, Judge Carl E. Wimberly dis-, missed a suit by Farrel E. West; and N. C. Green, co-partners, do ing business as West and Green Construction Co., against Wheeler I Osgood Co. The suit was dismissed with prejudice and without costs to either party. See HAROLD COX For Membership and Insurance Across from Indian Thaatta Abova Phillipi Office Supply Ph. 1321-R SEE J. N. BOOR Suvarlor loot Paints Boat Accattortof Outboard Merer Repair 924 Gdn. Volley Rd. Ph. 1734 Johnion 5a Hono Doolar Vital Statistics Divorca, Suit Filed COLOPY Myrtis Eleanor vs. Paul Edward Colopy. Married at Wooster, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1948. Cruel and inhuman treatment charged. Plaintiff asks property settlement awarding her possession of house hold furniture and livestock. Plain tiff asks former name of Myrtis Eleanor Salberg be restored. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) COKE THREATENS WINE ' STUTTGART, Germany UP) Wine growers in the state of Wuort-temberg-Baden met this week "to find a way to meet the danger of growing Coca-Cola consumption, the Sucddcutsche Zcitung reports. The newspaper said the growers decided It was up to them to pro duce better, healthier wine so the people will drink more of it. HANG TOGETHER (in this emer gency) OR WE WILL HANG SEPARATELY." a a PRESIDENT James R. Killian Jr., of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said to the 59th annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs,' in Boston: "If science is freed from the re strictions and suspicions of the cold war, I expect (among other things): "... A new stream of ideas, products and processes to improve health and living standards . . . flicker-free color television, prob ably three-dimensional ... air travel at speeds up to 1000 miles an hour or more . . . synthetic foods and better ways ' of pre serving foods . . . ". . . Increased use of solar energy to heat our homes . . . pos sible use of the earth's heat as a new major source of energy . . . efficient conversion of sea water Into fresh water" (thus, maybe, preventing dry southern California from stealing our Klamath Basin water). a a a . MI. T.'s President Killian, , speaking from the 'standpoint of the physical sciences, laid it on the hopeful side. He was fol lowed before the women's clubbers' federation by Harvard Anthropolo gist Ernest A. Hooton, who spoke from the standpoint of the SOCIAL SCIENCES and took a dimmer view of the next half a century. Hooton said (in part): "Man has acquired control over some of the forces of nature, but he has acquired no more SELF CON TROL AND NO MORE INTELLI GENCE without which human behavior cannot behave . , . ". . . Scientists are paying the penalty for spending our brains on IMPROVING MACHINES rather than ON IMPROVING MAN HIM SKLF ... ". . . Irresponsible science al ready has obliterated geographical barriers . . . and also has put into the hands of predatory men terri ble destructive weapons to arm the ignorant horNlrs these predatory men dominate . . ." a a a GETTING into his stride, Hooton went on: "If we could leach mankind to STOP OVERBREEDING, most of our domestic and international problems would disappear. We could then GET RID OF WAR, be cause (with fewer people) there would be room, food and employ ment for everyone. "The basis of warfare, apart from competitiveness and stupid ity, is OVERPOPULATION." a a a BRETTY hot stuff. Most of it I over my head. This is the way I put it to myself: We have fantastically perfected machines with which to destroy each other. At the same time, we have fan tastically perfected our techniques of argument, disagreement and group conflict. It seems to me that unless we pay more serious (even prayerful) attention to the techniques of getting along with each other, we are headed for bad trouble. By ViaJuutt S. Martin in- j majoring in physical education at Pacific. A past student body president of the hish school, he is also presi dent of his sophomore class at the university. NO DON'T BUY HERE- , . unless you want true smiling Shell Service." We're so darned conicien tious about doing a good job we wouldn't want you to wont it otherwise. ROGER'S SHELL SERVICE on Melroie Road ot S. intranc to Veteroni Hoipital LAROI OR (M Alt tMOat OtYWPM It is a pleasant, thing to hear a husband praise his wife's skill in some commonplace task which too often is taken for granted. Hearing Mr. D. today praise his wife's delicious bread, wishing that she might have taken part in the great competition a flour company recently held, I was re minded of a poem I clipped many years ago. At the time I read It I was dis couraged because my activity seemed limited almost entirely to the routine tasks in the home . . . and I was longing for a wider sphere of service. Although I make just ordinary bread, it pleased me that our boys liked it with enthu siasm. There was something about the homely task of making bread that always satisfied some spirit ual need. Then, on this day long ago, I came across the poem I sat down to copy for Mrs. D. Per haps readers of this column may like it remember it, too? Manna Oppressed by common tasks, I cried: ' "Why cannot I too paint or play, Or sing or write, invent or build? To bring forth beauty that would live I'd gladly give my hum-drum life. And here I potter all my days As' safe as any scullery maid In spite of alt my dreams of good." I slowly turned and baked some bread The best I could. , Then in my heart clear answer flashed: . "Hush, Foolishl Art is anything Which truly serves the need of man; And God made manna for the Jews Win otherwise were lacking strength To write the Law, to build the Ark And storm their Milk-an-Honey Land." "Your bread's just great!" the children said. My artist soul had found its work. I bowed my head (Helen Cain) Alan Davidson Named To Head Phi Beta Tau PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove Alan Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Davidson, route 2, was elected president of Phi Beta Tau fraternity for the coming fall semester. Davidson, a graduate of Rose burg high school, is a sophomore DEPINOASLI DAILY SIRVICI Overnight from Portion and Southern Or.jon. Sec ond morning .rom Son Francisco boy area. OREGON'S NO. 1 CARRIER f If.lMVJ.JJ.IJI.I LJIII IJJ. Ifff. For Information, Fast Service- Phone 1178 MUM J "WcSTl Need Of School Support Increase Told By Speaker Based upon available statistics, school enrollment in the state of Oregon will practically double from 2fi4,O0O to 525,000 during the next len years, Marble Cook, Beaverton, representative of the Oregon Edu cation association, told the Rose burg Lions club Thursday night. This figure does not take into con sideration population influxes to this state, he said. Cook spoke in the interest of the so-called children's bill, which was voted by the last legislature and has been referred to the voters in the November election. The meas ure would increase the state sup port to public schools from $50 a year for each child in attendance to ?S0. Cook discussed the inequalities in the cost of educating school chil dren, because of the low assessed valuation in some areas, compared with a high assessed valuation in others. For example, he said, on calla last year paid a 103-millage lax, compared with 40 9 mills in Roseburg and 19. nuns in rort land. This variation reflects the type of education that can be offered in the respective schools, he said. The children's bill is designed to equal ize the tax burden over the state and to take as great a load as pos sible off property taxation, accord ing to Cook. The $50 now allowed. Cook point ed out, represents about 26 per cent of the amount of the school expense. Bruce Priest To Be Harley-Davidson Dealer Bruce Priest, 830 E.' Second avenue, So., has been granted a dealership for Douglas county by (he Harley-Davidson Motor com pany, Milwaukee, Wis., manufac turer of motorcycles. identified as a motorcycle es tablishment by a large motorcycle sign, the store s 12x12 show room will be utilized to display the lat est 1950 model Harley-Davidsons. The lightweight model features a bucket type saddle, drop forged steering head and a four brush generator. It averages 90 miles per gallon of fuel. Big Twins fea ture a newly designed mellowed mufler and an increase of some 10 percent in horsepower. The dealer will carry an ade quate supply of parts and acces sories and maintain service facil ities. He invites all motorcycle en thusiasts to drop in and look over the new models. Soviet Reporters' Requests Rejected WASlllNGTON-.PVADlications of two II. S. State department and two Soviet reporters for admission to the congressional galleries have been turned down by the standing committee of correspondents. The committee of five corre spondents governs the Senate and House press galleries. lis action is subject lo review by the Senate rules committee and the speaker of the House. A unanimous vote overruled the State department's appeal from an earlier order denying gallery rights to two representatives of the United Slates Information ser vice. The service disseminates news in foreign countries. Its represen tatives now operate out of the per iodical galleries, which are not under control of the standing com mittee. A 4 to 1 vote tabled the appli cations of Grigorii Rassadin and Ivan A. Filippov for admission lo the press galleries as reporters for Pravda. official Russian Commun ist publication. The committee notified the State department and the two Soviet ap plicants that gallery membership is limited to resident Washington correspondents. Rassadin and Fil ippov have been stationed in New York. By tabling the' applications, in stead of rejecting them outright, the committee left open the way for later reconsideration. We Invite Inquiries Regarding The California Oregon Power Company Common Stock . 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