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IMPORTANT
By CHARLES
The controversy over land and water use in Warner valley,
located in Lake county, has attracted nationwide attention
from conservationists. While the issue may seem compar
atively unimportant, on a national scale, the precedent may
have far-reaching influence.
Expanding agricultural usage of land steadily is reducing
wildlife habitat. Conservationists contend that much of this
habitat destruction is unnecessary and uneconomical; that
submarginal lands, particularly when overproduction of farm
, crops is costing the nation billions of dollars to sustain parity
prices, may better be used for wildlife propagation.
Warner valley furnishes an ideal test case.
It is Oregon's second best migratory bird nesting area,
being surpassed only by the Malheur lake region, where the
1 U. S. Fish and Wildlife service has spent more than three
and one-half million dollars to improve waterfowl habitat.
A private corporation, capitalized at $3,000,000, now is
seeking to lease 8,000 acres of swamp land from the State
Land board and is proposing to divert waters essential to
maintenance of duck nesting habitat in Petri marsh, ad
' joining the proposed reclamation project.
Wildlife Agencies Protest
. The all-inclusive plan, in fact, Involves a proposal whereby
the state of Oregon, through purchase and exchange, would
take title to approximately 60,000 acres (it already owns
33,800 acres) and would put in reclamation projects covering
about one-third of the valley floor. Conservationists fear
that the current 8,000-acre project is only an opening wedge
for the much more ambitious program.
The Oregon Game commission and U. S. Fish and Wildlife
service object strenuously to reclamation development which
would damage the capacity of the valley for production of
migratory waterfowl.
As a counter proposal, it has been suggested to the Bureau
of Land Management, which controls about 68,000 acres, that
a trade be made with the State Land board and all area
suitable for waterfowl production be grouped under federal
ownership to be turned over to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
service for game management
Game commission.
If a pattern can be created in Warner valley, giving recog
nition to the needs of game habitat and establishing values
between agricultural and game propagation uses, that pat
tern will be extremely valuable in the many similar dis
putes existing elsewhere throughout the country.
Naturally, there are extreme opinions on both sides. Radi
cal conservationists would deny all agricultural encroach
ments, while some agriculturists ignore all wildlife propa
gation requirements.
Residents Want No Change
Participating last week in the Warner valley inspection
trip, we found Warner valley and Lakeview and Klamath
Falls residents almost unanimously opposed to both the State
Land board's proposed reclamation project and the Game
commission's management program. They want Warner val
ley left alone period. They feel
project, despite the fact it would be borne by a private
corporation, would not be justified. They fear the corpora
tion plans a promotional program of colonization and ex
ploitation. They fear, too, that a game management program
would ultimately open the area
It would be our personal opinion that the state of Oregon
might well proceed with the
providing the development was
management retained by the
hay or pasture rather than
that grazing leases be given the present agriculturists of the
valley. We believe the state could obtain much higher fi
nancial returns from the land under such program than
through leases to a privnte corporation and there would be
no risk of promotional e--'oitation and the possible bilking
of colonists.
Any reclamation development also should safeguard the
water supply for Petri marsh and the further north "Pothole"
area the valley's principal waterfowl nesting sections, which,
in turn, should be made game
LETTERS
to the Editor
Disgrace And Shame
ROSEBURG I hope tho parents
and the high school boys and girls,
who acted in the way Mrs. (.'. M.
Daly described in her letter to
the News-Review of Saturday,
June 10. will be so ashamed thrv
will not try to disgrace the Ruse
burg citizens in that way anv
more. It made us all feel like put
ting our heads down in shame.
CHARLES E. THOMAS.
Roseburg, Ore.
BAND TO REHEARSE
The Roseburg city band will hold
Its first rehearsal Tuesday evening
at 7:30 in the Elks lodge. All for
mer members of the band are
urge 1 to be present. Any person in
terested in playing in the band
should call Clyde W. Moore at
1706-J or be present at tonight's
rehearsal.
Oft Tuot., June 13, 1950
DECISION
V. STANTON
in cooperation with the Oregon
the cost of the reclamation
as a public shooting grounds.
8,000 - acre reclamation project
at state expense, title and
state, and the land utilized for
grain, as now proposed, and
management areas.
Buildings At Higher
Schools To Be Improved
PORTLAND. June 1J-.T) The
State Hoard of Higher Education
went forward here with plans to
improve the architecture building
at tne university of Oregon and
the home economics building at
Oregon State.
Annan, Kennedy and Boone were
selected as architects to design a
new wing for the architecture
building. Burns, Bear and McNeil
were named to design a new wing
on tne home economics structure
Both firms are in Portland.
The board also agreed to add to
me neaiing plants at Oregon State,
and build a tunnel system to carry
all the utility lines on the campus.
Or. Harry K. Newhurn, Vniver
sity of Oresnn president, reported
on a plan for teacher training at
Oregon. Vnder the program, the
Eugene school district would co
pperaie with the university in
building a new structure for train
ing of graduate students.
r?pfTr ? onr' considered to
mat it doubled for money.
In the Day's News
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music, you never can tell what you
might do.
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STILL
If America were dying, as old
China is dying, and our rich men,
whose fortunes have been made in
America, ran away and refused to
come back and die with the rest of
ua who were staying-
Well, in that event we would
know WHY AMERICA WAS DY
ING.
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ANOTHER highlight:
The other night, in Jacksonville,
Florida, QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE
Jimmy Wilson was married to
Dorothy Mortcnson, his classroom
sweetheart. After their honeymoon
they will settle down at Boulder,
where Jimmy will enter the law
college of the University of Colo
rado. aaa
WHY is that a highlight of the
news?
To understand that, you must
understand what a quadruple am
putee is. A quadruple amputee is
a person who has lost both hands
and both feet. Jimmy lost his in a
wartime bomber crash.
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LET the teletype take it from
there:
"The twilight ceremony was a
gay affair, with no overtones of
tragedy. Jimmy walked to the altar
with steady tread (on his artificial
feet.) . . . after both spoke I WILL
in firm voices, Jimmy WITH HIS
SILVERED HOOK-HAND received
the ring from his best man and
deftly placed it on the finger of his
23-year-old bride . , ,
". . . After a brief reception, they
headed for Canada with Jimmy at
the wheel (handling it with his arti
ficial hands and pushing the pedals
with his artificial feet.)"
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A LOT of people insist on telling
us the world gets steadily worse
and worse.
I can't believe it.
There was a time, not too long
ago, at that, when if Jimmy had
lived at all he would have lived to
be a BEGGAR ON THE STREETS,
at the worst, or at the best to earn
his meager living selling papers on
a corner, with people buying from
him instead of some other newsie
OUT OF PITY FOR HIS PLIGHT.
Now, thanks to modern progress,
he is the self-respecting husband of
a girl who married him, not out of
pity but because she loved him and
thought he was all right and he is
starting to law school to learn to
be a lawyer and earn a self
respecting living.
Tell that to the next pessimist
who tries to make you believe the
world is getting worse Instead of
better.
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ANOTHER highlight of the news
that I can't resist:
In Baltimore a couple of gam
blers got into a quarrel over a card
game. They agreed to go home and
get their guns and shoot it out.
They did. .
The one who was killed in the
duel HAD HAD A GUN SL1FPER
TO HIM SOMEHOW THAT
WOULDN'T GO OFr".
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THE trouble with gambling is that
then Just doesn't seem to be
any way to make gamblers honest.
Kibitzer
As a rule I don't write this col
umn at two o'clock in the morn
ing. As soon as I finish this, put
out the cat, and take one last long
look around to make sure we are
n't forgetting something we al
ways do! we're starting for Brit
ish Columbia.
It's hard to believe it for we've
been on' the point of starting for
there so many time, for three
years! Something always pops up
at the last minute. Last week,
some folks thought they would buy
our house. We unpacked out suit
cases, unloaded the car, and
waited , . . but just wishing wasn't
enough, apparently; they told us a
day or so later they couldn't make
it.
We planned to start this week,
and skip the school election, or
rather, voting on question of con
solidation. Then we decided the
school question was more import
ant, and w waited for that. It
was this evening.
To my surprise we didn't just
go and vote. There was a regular
meeting preceding the voting, at
which anyone who wished spoke
on the issue: to consolidate or not
to consolidate with our neighboring
district?
It was a refreshing experience,
really it was! An experience that
made one feel grateful to live in a
Business Barometers Now
Point To Very High Level Of
Activity For Months To Come
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK (.11 How firm a foundation supports the business
boom and the year-old bull market in industrial stocks is a matter
of debate.
But today we find a number of leaders going bn the record as to
the prospects for their specific industries in the weeks and months
ahead. Most of '.hem are outright optimistic. Some of them include
the word caution
There are interesting guesses as
to what to expect in apparel, shoes,
furniture, autos, newsprint, oil,
steel, copper and factory construc
tion. AIo some government busi
ness statistics out today shed light
on what's making these industries
tick.
Oil production in Texas should
jump 100.000 barrels a day next
month this is the estimate of the
industry's needs by Ernest
o
Thompson of the Texas railroad
commission which turns the oil well
valves on and off in the state.
Thompson has been looking at the
rush of cars off the Detroit assem
bly lines, at the new diesels, at
the smoke of eastern factories pow
ered by heavy oil.
Auto producers say this week will
show a new record In the output of
cars and trucks. Charles E. Wilson,
General Motors president, says the
year's output for the industry will
go well over seven million units.
Steelmen say that delivery
quotas may have to be rut in July
and August because of the carry
over of unfilled orders. Even with
the mills going at more than rated
capacity the orders are piling up.
"The second quarter of 1950
promises to be the best quarter the
wood household furniture industry
has ever enjoyed." says Frank E.
Srjdman of the industry's account
ing firm, Seidman 4r Seidman.
Further, he predicts that first half
year output w ill be "within inches"
of the record in IMS. The home
building boom gets the credit.
Apparel Making Spurt
And even a lagsard joins the pa-
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By ViaJmU S. Martin
country where about fifty neigh
bors could meet and speak their
miads. We DO live in a democ
racy! (Sometimes one gets a wee
bit pessimistic, and wonder I Then
along comes a meeting like the
one from which we returned a few
hours ago and it heartens one. It
makes on feel SURE this IS a free
country)
It was a (lively meeting! Con
siderable discussion. Some thought
one way, some, the other. So far
as changing anybody's m 1 n d I
think the vote would have been
the same at eight o'clock as it was
an hour later when the hats were
passed and the ballots dropped in.
This was a bit too hasty a meth
od of balloting. Those ballots were
dumped in the wastebasket and a
more formal procedure followed.
All of which was accompanied by
lively talk. Add laughter!
Two thirds voted down the con
solidation plan. Perhaps one-third
wished they had "electioneered" a
bit more energetically! There was
some talk about a protest a ques
tion of 1 e g a 1 i t y on technical
grounds. There was lots of laugh
ter despite the sincerity underly
ing the laughter. I like that!
Laughter and anger are incompat
ible. Everybody had a thoroughly
good time. I am so glad I didn't
miss it.
rade. The women's apparel and
accessory trade, unhappy most of
the year because retail sales have
been slow, now reports merchants
doing better in some parts of the
nation.
In shoes the talk is about rising
leather prices and the difficulty in
holding shoe prices down as output
! grows. Producers say they arc
n a price squeeze-tanners
! raising the price of leather and cus
tomers DaiKing at paying nigner
prices for shoes. Production has
been on the upgrade.
The business boom has lifted ad
vertising volume and some pub
ushers are worrying about the
danger of a newsprint shortage
again. But a spokesman for the
newsprint association of Canada
says his mills can keep up with the
demand due to increased capacity.
Engineering construction con
tracts have reached a new peace
time high. So the commerce de
partment and the securities and ex
change commission are revising
upward their estimate of how much
businessmen will spend on new
plants and equipment this year.
Looking at the whole picture, the
Federal reserve bank of Philadel
phia reports: 'Business barome
ters now point to a very high if
not a record level of activity." The
bank praises "the caution exer
cised by bankers and businessmen
in the postwar period" but says
that "with prices tending upward,
business is in position to accumu
late inventory once again."
Truman Tells
Farm Group Of
'Fair Deal' Goal
WASHINGTON. June li-tJP
President Truman laid down the
goals of his "fair deal ' program
yesterday to a radio farm group
which called at the White House
to pay their respects.
"All we. are striving for is to
have business and industry, and J
labor and the farmer on an equal
basis, all getting their fair share
of the wealth of this great na
Hon," Mr. Truman said.
He recalled that he used to be a
farmer himself and he said his two
nephews at "Grandview, Mo., have
the reputation of being right good
farmers." He still listens to farm
radio broadcasts nearly every
morning at 5:30 o'clock, he said.
Declaring that "the progress in
farm organization and farm man-'
agement has been just as great
as it has been in our industrial
organization and industrial man
agement," Mr. Truman added:
"We are no more worried about
getting enough to eat. The only
difficulty we have now is with the
distribution system, and if we can
get that distribution system or
ganized on the same basis as the
farm production system and the
industrial production system, then
most of our domestic problems will
be solved.
"We are now in the midst of an
increase in that (the nation's) im
mense income," Mr. Truman said,
"and we want to keep that in
crease on an even basis, so that
the industrial production, and the
farm production, and the distribu
tion of these two productions will
be on a basis so that everybody
can have a fair share, and at a
price that we can afford to pay.
"I think that is the objective
of what you might name the fair
deal program of the present ad
ministration." Mr. Truman said
to the group.
With a pleased look on his face,
the President reminded the group
of a 1948 incident when he told
campaign crowds of seeing a pic
ture of inomas E. Dewey and
Farl Warron tha P.nP nnmin.u
posed before a farm gate that was
upMue uuwii.
"But that was all right it didn't
make any difference didn't cost
anvhnrlv nnvthino MaHo mo enmp
votes which was all right."
Sutherlin
By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Aldropp and
Wilfred Kincaid of Sutherlin were
accompanied by Ned Neilson and
John Anderson, of Eugene to Pow
ers. Ore. Sunday, where they at
tended a Norwegian picnic, return
ing home by the coast highway.
Mrs. Belle Cook is spending a
few days at North Bend, visiting
her son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Cook.
Mrs. George Green was a busi
ness visitor in Roseburg Wednes
day. Sutherlin Fruit Growers associa
tion had the roof of their ware
house repaired and fire - proofed
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Green have
purchased the Moore ranch north
west of Oakland and their son
and family. Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Green, will reside there. George
Green will work there when not
busy at his carpenter trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cracroft
left Friday for Portland where they
attended the Rose Festival. They
will go from there to Ontario. Ore.,
where they will attend State Grange
convention. Cracroft is chairman
of the forestry committee.
Mrs. Williard Norns and daugh
ter. Kathy, and Mrs. Edgar Slack
and son. Michael, shopped and
transacted business in Roseburg
Thursday.
CAR INSPECTOR KILLED
ALBANY, Ore., June 13 (IP)
Injuries suffered in a freight car
accident Saturday proved fatal
yesterday for Floyd Birch, 23.
A Southern Pacific car inspec
tor, he was injured while at work.
Surviving are the widow and two
sons.
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Ben Fredericks bought the prize
cow at the Inland Empire Guern
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rewarded with his first dividend.
The cow gave birth to a sturdy
bull calf 20 minutes after she was
sold for $1175, top prize paid for
the day.
The cow. Revile Duke's Belle,
was consigned by Earl and Sadie
Cruse of Deer Park. Cruse said
the calf was due two days ago.
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