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4 Th New-Review, Roseburo,, Ore Sot., Junt 10, 1950 Published Dally Exctpt Sunday by Hi News-Review Company, Inc. KaUr.i u M.ni el... m.tt.r Htr t. Ittt. at tfca .fries at ftMb;c, Or.f.B. ei r March I. IBIS . CHARLES V. STANTON jfv EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor "riJp' Manager Member of the Associated P., Oregon Newspaper Publithtrt Association, tht Audit Bureau of Circulation! SrarMtt T WIBT-HOLLIDAT CO INC., .flic In Ktw T.rk, CMeiK, Baa rraacUea. Laa Anglic, B..UL. Parllana, SI. Laala VBIt'llPTION (ATE 111 Onion Br Mall Far rnr KM. .Is month! MM. tin Month. St.M Br City tarrlrr Far rear lla.fln (n advanca), man aa 7aar. par maatb Sl.ftO. Oaltlda Dr.g.n Bj Malt Par jaar t.o. .Is mania. S..f. ikraa m.nlka IJ.la. LIYE AND LEARN By CHARLES V. STANTOf When we mentioned Tuesday that we expected an "in-forest-itiof" trin in Warnpp vnllev. in Lake countv. we didn't realiw just how many things could qualify as "interesting:." With temperatures ranging in the high 80s over the state Monday, we dressed for warm; weather, and pooh poohed the good wife's suggestions that we take along some long-handled underwear and a fur-lined jacket. Why is it we men never listen to sound counsel from our wives? Joined here by John Amacher, president of the Umpqua Basin Conservation council, we took off Tuesday morning for Days Creek to pick up Carl Hill, chairman of the State Game commission, and Mrs. Hill. Do you recall Tuesday morning's weather? We're not apt to forget it! Wtather Most Uncooperative No sooner had we embarked upon our trip than the sun went behind dark clouds, and within a few minutes a virtual cloudburst struck us. We sloshed our way to Days Creek, picked up our passengers and splashed over the mountain by way of the Tiller-Trail cut-off, then into Medford, finding weather in the Rogue river valley even worse than in the Umpqua basin. The Green Springs moun tain route furnished rain and snow, while from Klamath Falls to Lakeview we had rain, hail and snow. Temperature at Lakeview Tuesday night dropped to 28 degrees, and the ground was dusted with new snow. And we traipsed around in thin slacks and a sport jacket! B-r-r-r-r! But we had it easy compared with a large group of conservationists from all parts of the state. We at least had a hotel room for the night, but fifty or more of our good friends were huddled in an unheated warehouse at Hart mountain game refuge headquarters, some of the lucky ones having down sleeping bags, while others were equipped only with light bed rolls. And, if it were not for the Klamath Falls chamber of commerce, newspaper readers of the state might see a picture of Governor McKay, dressed in a summer suit and straw hat, shivering in an icy wind at the Klamath airport, boarding1 a plane for San Francisco. Tour Conducted Despite Weather A tour of the proposed Warner valley reclamation project was conducted Wednesday despite threatening weather and a stiff breeze which seemed to be coming off the North Pole. The size of the crowd was reducing because many men, who had arrived Sunday or Monday, pulled out before the trip began. However, nearly 100 federal and state officials and sportsmen made Up a party, headed by Governor McKay, touring the valley to examine at first hnd the controversial project Aerial observation was eliminated, because of poor flying conditions, but the ground tour covered a large area, with frequent Btops to inspect various phases of de velopment plans. Then, immediately after a shivering, exhausted party stumbled back to camps, cabins and hotels, the sun broke through the overcast, the weather became clear, warm and beautiful. Next time we go to Warner valley we'll remember our wife's advice, and, thought it be in August, we'll carry an Arctic parka, furlined mittens, long-handled underwear, and a hot water bottle s'helpme! Something To Cheer About v - . s End Of Federal Interference Is Plea Of Utilities ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.-tJP)-Leaderi of the private power in dustry ask freedom to develop the nation's power resources, without government interference. They said they could fully devel op the country's natural resources, provide the nation with an ade quate power supply and lower gov ernment costs. And, they added, whjle doing this they would add 175,000.000 annually in taxes to federal, state and mu nicipal coffers. They lined up the program for 3,000 representatives of the privately-owned power companies at the opening of the Edison Electric institute's 18th annual convention. It was the focal point for dis cussion at the three-day meeting and was presented to the dele gates by Elmer L Lindseth, presi dent of the Cleveland Electric Il luminating Co. and head of the in stitute. Lindseth planned to explain the program to the private industries' 3.500,000 stockholders and 30,000, 000 customers. It is a plan, he said, that would end moves for socialization of pow er. The principles and policies nf the private industry embodied in the program were drawn up in re sponse to an inquiry from Presi dent Truman's water resources pol ity cuiiuiiinMun. Preferential treatment the power men said, gives federal projects an unfair competitive advantage and covers up 'inefficiency of gov ernment operation. In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) LETTERS to the Editor Conduct Of Students At Celebration Scored ROSEBURG Having recently moved to Roseburg from the East, I was greatly Impressed to see what seemed to be good whole some citizens of the younger gener ation. I lived under the illusion that I was completely separated from the filthy, overcrowded, gangster-breeding slum sections of which I had seen too much in most of our larger cities, and of the nightmarish districts where no sane person would dare tread after the cover of darkness. Yes, tins eemed paradise, where one could come and go as he pleased, with no fear of hoodlums and young racketeers until Friday night, June 2, the night of the Junior high school graduation. The disgusting celebration by ome Junior high students will not soon be forgotten by me or my friends, nor would it be permitted to happen again if the townspeo ple, and especially the parents of these same students, had been there to aee the spectacle. We were riding about 10:30 p.m. toward the forks of the river and on five occasions barely missed being crowded into the bank by reckless drivers coming toward us, io busy with what they call "squir reling and digging" they had no concern for other motorists. At The Forks we had to slop because there were two drunken fights in the middle of the road and other students with beer bot tle! or incapacitated to the extent of regurgitation. It was impossible to avoid bitting them had we not topped. T h o I over-indulged youngsters were guided to the side of the road by their less inebriated pals. When we lowered the window to inquire what was going on, sev eral young men became belliger ent and were in favor of roughing us up a oil. c were rescued by a more soher and sensible young man, who asked them to be quiet and tried to push them away from the car. This resulted in one lad falling down the bank, dragging another staggering friend with him. We were so shocked, and also afraid, we told them we were ing afler the police. They ran for their cars and took off with such wild abandon it was a miracle there were no accidents. A few remained long enough to warn us they would get us. We tried to call the police but were unable to get through until we reached home, w hereupon we not mod them ot the affair. How many parents knew where their boys and girls were that night? How many permit their chil dren to drive and drink? They sure ly can tell when they come home that they have been drinking. How many of the at IcaA 15 cars parked there had legitimate licensed driv ers? Where do these youngsters gei meir apparently limitless sup ply of liquor? If the parents, who permit their children to drive with out more knowledge of what is going on, do not care what hap pens to them, then, I ask you, why do we parents who live for our most priceless possessions our children permit it? As a mother of two fine little girls and as a taxpaver. voter and citizen. I would like to know if something can't be done about this situation. Parents, can we continue keeping our eyes closed to such potentially tragic situations? MRS. C. M. DALY Roseburg, Ore. for the Brannan plan. That seems to guarantee a politi cal test of the Brannan plan's popularity in one of the nation's biggest farm areas. a a MEANWHILE the Senate passes a bill authorizing an additional TWO BILLIONS for government support for farm prices under the existing system of buying up sur pluses in order to keep prices up. If the House goes along and the President signs the bill, that will raise to six and three-quarters bil lions the amount we will have invested in surpluses of certain "basic" crops. a THE trouble with the present sys tem of farm support is that in years of surplus production it doesn't bring low prices to the con sumer, thus INCREASING CON SUMPTION. The Brannan plan would let prices find their own level on the markets and if the level was too low to enable the farmer to earn a "fair" profit it would pay him a subsidy out of the Treasury. Both plans are a part of what old timers are convinced is a screw balled economy, and maybe the Brannan plan has some advan tages, but every time I think of paying somebody a subsidy out of the Treasury to make up the dif ference between what he earns and WHAT HE THINKS HE OUGHT TO EARN, it gives me the shivers, a a a JUT heck, let's get away from D these headache inducing sub jects and talk about life as it is lived in these modern days. Down in Van Nuys (California) the other day, a 23-year-old swain robbed a bank to "prove his love" for his sweetheart. She was a taxi dancer in a public ballroom and as long as his dough held out he monopolized her dances. It cost him from $50 to $70 per evening. When his financial well ran dry he went out and robbed a bank to get the funds to go on with his program. The girl, however, was a better man than he was, Gunga Din. When she found out what had happened, she turned him in to the cops and he's now held on $7500 bond pend ing action by a federal grand jury. The women, you see, ARE sta bilizing elements in our civilization. a a a JACK in Hamilton, Ohio, they O have a city conncilman who .is soured on power lawnmowers, whose putt-putt, he says, drives him nuts. He wants to know if something can't be done about it under the town's ordinance for bidding nuisance noises. By the way: Do you reckon the guy might possibly have a barking dog or a yowling cat? If so, it would weaken his case against the power lawnmower owners. mm By Viahmatt S. Martin 'Listen! The Bells!" Thousands and thousands of faces will light up at the jamboree as Boy ScouU listen with the look of pleasure that comes into a boy's eyes . . . Perhaps some of them will begin to hum, or softly whistle, the mel ody the bells will be sending out over the Valley Forge park where they are encamped. For the tunes will be patriotic and religious and usually familiar. From ten until five each day the Washington Memorial Carillon, which has been called the "most perfect set of bells in the world," and most certainly is the first car illon made in these United States, the carillon rings out: then at five comes the National Anthem . . . "At Valley Forge our Nation be gan, from Valley Forge it pro ceeds, and because of Valley Forge it will never end. The snow that stained with blood melted and went into the soil . . . nurtured the seeds of a new form of life. To love that form of life and to be true to that love, is a clear call to every citi zen of the United States." (From one of the Valcly Forge guides). The Bells have words of their own, sung to the lovely tune "The Bells of St. Mary's," written by a former Pennsylvania State Vice- Regent DAU, Rachel Springer; our Boy Scouts will likely be sing ing these words after their return and remembering . . . Tht Balls of Valley Forge (1) The Bells of our valley peal for sweet and clear, Reminding all people of truths we hold dear; "For God, Home, and Country" together they ring, Proclaiming the Freedom to which we still cling. (2) The Bells of our Valley must never be stilled While th' hearts of her children with courage are filled Our prayer to high Heaven for ever shall be, 'Protect, Oh Our Father, this 'Land of the Free'." Chorus The Bells of our valley call others to rally From temple, cathedral, and even Big Ben, While Old Independence will add its remembrance In sending forth the message of good will to men. (Words by Rachel F. Springer, former State Vice-Regent, DAR of Pennsylvania). i 4 a 8MUWf VKff MOWING HAZARD END1COTT. N. Y.-i.i William Johnson doesn't mind cutting green stuff, as long as it's grass. Rut his wallet dropped unnoticed while he was operating a power mower in a park. Patrolman Martin Dardis turned up at Johnson's home later with a handful of shredded bills, about $54. Dardis had discovered several persons rrambling for the pieces. He traced the money to Johnson through a sliced-up pay slip. Don't Wait For Fat Pay Job, Take Any Work Now, Joe College Advised By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK iP) An open letter to Joe College: class of 1950: Dear Joe: Welcome to the brave new world, kid. You couldn't be getting out of college at a bettor time. A year ago plenty of sad sacks were prophesying business would turn sour by now. It hasn't worked out that way. You can go ask for a job anywhere and nobody will break your arm. . As a matter of fact, a survey of 128 colleges by the Northwestern National Life Insurance company indicated that by October (our out of five of the class of '50 would be off their dad's back and on somebody's payroll. The pay? Anything from $175 a month or less up to $500. But don't sit at home wailing for a $400 offer, Joe. Why become a hermit at your age? Go out and beat the bushes for whatever ber ries are on them. Get used to the idea that many people work years and years before they buy their first yacht. There is no point in trying to tell you how to get ahead, Joe. ou know the formula: Just give your work the old college try. You won't go up to the boss and tell him at once that you are smarter than he is. You know enough to let him find that out for himself grad ually, so it won't upset him. Relaxation Einntial But, Joe, there is one word of advice I'd like to give you. It's this: "Relax." These are jittery times, perhaps the most jittery ever known. A census might even show there are more ulcers alive in the world to day than there are people. There's a growing habit to be afraid of shadews, which are usually larger than the things that cast them. Don't you take up this habit. Joe. Fear is a kind of reverse opium, Once you become addicted to it you may never rest again. It's harder to shake off than barnacles. It would be sad, indeed, if your class of '50 also became press agents for the two fears gnawing America the fear of war and the fear of insecurity. Tanic never yet stopped a war or made a man se cure. Scientists Seek Mystery Of Why Volcano Erupts PASADENA. Calif. UP) When you read about Mauna Loa vol cano erupting in Hawaii, do you wonder what makes volcano erupt? Well you're in good company. It puzzles scientists, too, says D r, Harry O. Wood, 71, retired seis mologist of the California Instit ute of Technology, who spent five years in Hawaii studying earth quakes and volcanic eruptions prior to 1920. Mauna Loa is 13,680 feet high but it is not truly cone-shaped. Its broad flanks slope gently and the summit crater is three miles across in one direction and nearly two miles in the other. There are other volcanoes in the world that are more like true oenes and sometimes their peaks blow apart in a tremendous blast, com pared with the slower, less violent eruption well down the slope of Mauna Loa. Dr. Wood said there are t w o kinds of activity at Mauna Loa: summit crater eruptions nearly al ways confined to the summit with out flowing down the sides, and eruptions like the present one breaking out in the fissure belt on the slopes and sending a river of lava downward perhaps to the sea. The last previous "flank" o r slope flow was in 1942 and went far enough down the northeast slope to alarm residents of Hilo, some 40 miles from the summit. There was summit activity 18 months ago. There have been "millions" o f flows or eruptions through the cen turies, he said, but in modern his torical times they have occurred- once in eight to 10 years. There appears to be some con nection, but not too definite, Dr. Wood said, between earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. There was no appreciable earthquake activity with Mauna Loa's summit eruption 18 months ago, he said, but there was a moderate earthqkake r e ported last Monday preceding this slope eruption. The same pattern occurred in 1914 and 1916. Utility Concerns Unite To Battle Public Projects ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.' -OPU. The nation's electric power produc ers have drawn into closer agree-. ment than ever Deiore. It appears they are finally united for an all-out struggle against the , advocates of public power. The single thing that did the trick was a statement of principles ori ginally drawn up in response to an inquiry from President Tru man's water resources policy com mission. The statement became a rally ing point for 3,000 representatives of privately-owned power compan-;-ies at the Edison Electric insti- -lute's annual meeting here. Private power men, who seldom , have been unanimous in accept ance of previous suggestions for an industry-wide program, took to the -statement of principles with enthu-: siasm, '. Many of them saw the statement j as a reply to President Truman's : speech - making tour last month, during which he called for greater . participation in power development. ' Elmer L. Lindseth, president of the Cleveland Electric Illuminat ing Co. and retiring head of the trade organization, hardly had fin ished outlining the program when plans were discussed to contact the private utility companies' 3,500,000 stockholders and 30,000,000 custom ers. The principles ask freedom to develop the nation's power resour ces without hindrance by the gov- , ernment. They call upon federal projects to pay taxes or tax equi valents. They object to federal power pro ects giving priorities to quasi-gov-ernment bodies. Equal rights for everyone at. tne dam head where the power is generated is also asked. . Upper Olorlla, Tenmile To Vote On Consolidation Tenmile school district number 7 and Upper Olalla district num- Der 107 will vote on a proposed school consolidation measure Mon day night, June 12, according to school district 7 clerk, Herbert Northcraft. The vote will be taken" at the schoolhouses of the two districts. STREET LICHTS This diagram ihows the location of new, mod ern street lights, which are to be extended south on Stephens to the city limits. The contract tor installation of 20 new lights, which will be the same-as those in the busines district of the city, has been let to Trowbridge Electric. Starting at Woodward street, the lights will be stag gered to be jn o s t effective along the street to the city lim its. This is another step in the Roseburg city council's plan fori modernizing the street light system. Air Search Goes On SCULTHORPE, Eng., June 10 W A dozen searchplancs skim med over the North sea today in an almost hopeless hunt for four airmen still missing from a ditched United Slates B-29 bomber. The big plane went into the sea last Wednesday with one engine burning, after failure of safety de vices permitted shells from its own guns to strike the engine during gunnery practice. ut its .11 occupants, four were rescued and three found dead. Air Force spokesmen said the search for those still missing would go on, with British and American aircraft covering an average of 10.000 square miles daily in the quest. Official sources admitted they had little hope of finding the men alive. Vital Statistics So, relax, Joe. Show the older people the example they need: That courage doesn t die in romp ers, but also wears long pants. What really is there to be afraid of? War today is only the threat of a needless possibility. Security?' There is more mass security in the united; Mates today than there was when young Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independ erce, and he lived to be an old, old man. More people live a wider, freer life than at previous period of our national story. The good old days are a legend. The good present time is here to be enjoyed. There's a job waiting for you to find, Joe. There's a girl for you to marry, and you'll want to bring up some kids. And the prospect for bringing them up in a happy world was never really better. But you don't find happiness by being tense. Relax, Joe, and learn the lesson of all champions to do hard things the easy way. GOOD LUCK. HAL BOYLE Divorce Suits FiUd HARRIS Nadene Louise vs. James Morgan Harris. Married at Reno. Nev., Oct. 26. 1948. Cruel and inhuman treatment charged. Plaintiff asks former name, Na dene Louise Burr, be restored. Plaintiff asks $.10 a month support money. SMITH Sara vs. Ernest N. Smith. Married at Reno, Nev., Sept. 21, 1941. Cruel and inhuman treat ment charged. Three Money Action Suits Filed In Circuit Court Three money actions were filed in circuit court Friday. Paul W. Barcus, O. R. Fritz and R. R. Parsons, co-partners doing business as Barcus Sales and Ser vice, vs. Floyd E. Norris. Plaintiff asks judgment of $381.18, alleged ly due on an automobile purchase contract. State Industrial Accident com mission vs. Erwin M. Smith, Har vey M. Lee, doing business as No Jack Logging Co. Plaintiff asks judgment for $232.22, allegedly due for contributions to tbe industrial accident fund. Plaintiff also asks to foreclose lien on defendant's property to satisfy judgment, Douglas Creditors association vs. Lloyd P. Burr and Jane Doe Burr, his wife. Plaintiff asks judgment for $276.22 on an assigned account allegedly due for merchandise. Western Allies Reject Russian Troop Demand BERLIN, June 10 -(IP) Tne western allies formally rejected to day a Russian demand for the with drawal of all occupation troops from Berlin as the price for hold ing city-wide elections. The three western commandants informed the Soviet deputy com mandant. Col. Alexei Jelisarov, by letter that they backed the stand of West Berlin's city government, which already had turned down the Russian demand. The Russian conditions included a demand for restoration of the Soviet veto in city administration affairs. The western commandants told Jelisarov they failed to understand the connection between elections and the withdrawal of allied garri sons. The presence of allied troops, they said, had not interfered with previous elections. PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you hare not received your Newt Review. Ask for Edythe Brown Pope Pius Says 'Hot' War Is Threatening VATICAN CITY-.! Pope Pius warned Saturday that "the ruinous cold war threatens to burst into an incomparably more disastrous hot and burning war." He said that "only a coalition of all people of good will of the whole world in a vast action, loyally un derstood and in perfect accord, can bring the remedy." Addressing 200 delegates to the International Congress of Social Studies, the pontiff called upon "the great human family" to unite in a common effort to give count less families a fuller life. Circuit Judge Awards Verdict In Title Suit Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly awarded a verdict for the plaintiff in a suit to quiet title brouzht by Anna Huey against l.owell M. An derson, I.oursel C. Anderson and others. The property was the south east quarter, section 30. township 32, range seven west of the Vtil lamette meridian. In other circuit court proceed ings. Judge Wimberly dismissed a suit brought by L. R. Gordon and George Lycett against Coyle Amul Parker and Renzo Julius Parker, doing business as Parker Brothers Logging Co. The suit was dis missed as settled with prejudice and without tost to either party. FARMERS STOCKMEN LIME We ora equipped to deliver ond spread agricultural lime to any part of the county. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. ROSEBURG LIME PRODUCiS Phone 969-R or Call AAA Office, Pocific Bldg. BILKED ON BACHELOR ClflCAGO (.Pi Police de tectives at the Central station are looking for a woman who played a trick on their boss Commission er John C. Prendergast. A woman shopper at a State street store ordered items of wom en's aod children's apparel total ing $3.45. She charged the items to John C. Prendergast. 7333 South Shore drive, and said she was Mrs. Prendergast. Commissioner Prendergast, who lives at 7333 South Shore drive, is a bachelor. News-Review classified ads bring results. Phone 100. Building Lots North Umpqua At Lone Rock Only fivt lots left, two sold lately. 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