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4 The Niwi-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., Juna 14, 1950 Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Catered at second rliu mltcr My '"' lh P" ttf't Bokeburf, Urefoo, sndcr cl of March 8, IU13 CHARLES V. STANTON atm EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager ' Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisheri Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Represented by WKfiT-ltOM.fi A t CO.. INI.., other In New Vtitk. CbJc, ban FriniliiQ, Lo Anselrt, Seattle, l'rtlnd, til. Lama -BLUM KIP1IO.N IIATKH In Oregon By Mail Per ft IH.OO. all month HUB. Ihre- rpontbt $;.:.a l.j t'ity t'arrler I'er er IHJ.Wl (In advance), lesa ihan in year per monlb Sl.no OuUidt Urefun ttjr Mall 1'cr JW It.W. tnanlba 14.15, tbrea montbi St.;a. NEVER A DULL MOMENT ' By CHARLES V. STANTON Newspapers can get themselves into the darndest jackpots. Typographical errors, misspelled names, mixed outlines, lost copy and other mistakes bob up despite the most extreme care. We can tear our hair in exasperation, demand more attention to detail, and write memorandums by the score. Still errors that "can't possibly happen" get into print occasionally. But what do we do when people get into a dispute about the name given their community and demand that the news paper confer another title, or when a reader rakes us over the coals because she didn't know where to vote? The latter asks us to explain, please, why "we voters in the recent local elections were not fully informed prior to bond-raising and tax-increasing questions as to where we were to cast our votes until it was almost too late to do so?" The writer points out that only the day preceding the recent airport election voting instructions were given for West Roseburg residents. She indicates that this was the first time such information was published. We find, however, that the same instructions appeared twice in front page news items' preceding the city budget election May 2. We assumed,. .perhaps erroneously, that West Roseburg residents were acquainted with their polling places. Wants Banner Type Announcements The'wi-iter calls attention to the exceedingly light vote at the school district budget election,-and adds: , I know that a month or io ago tho data of this coming school budgat election was printed in such a way that ona could hardly miss saeing it. But if it was called to the atten tion of the public as the time drew near to vote, I wonder how many people saw it? Or was the notice comparatively in significant? I'm merely asking. I believe-the majority of the voting population in Roseburg, and especially the property owners who must pay these in ' creased taxes (without the privilege of raising rentals on their possible rented properties to help them do so) are entitled to , be advised and fully Informed a day or two preceding local elections. In large, eye-arresting type, designed to attract wide attention that these tax-increasing issues are now at hand and also where they, without themselves inquiring, can vote if their respective voting precincts are not to be open. To the charges made by our correspondent we can offer no alibi except that tho item concerning tho school bond election, with all information on voting hours and place appeared June 1 under a bold head at tho top of the front page, and that the day before that was a holiday, and that previous to the holiday week, information on the budget had been published on several occasions, starting as early as May G. Community Name Disliked And then we have the problem of "Coon Hollow." A correspondent recently started furnishing us items under the heading of Coon Hollow news. Tho settlement, built up by subdivision of the Dee Coon property, is located between Dillard and Myrtle Creek. Some of the residents apparently feel that the name is not properly descriptive of the beautiful valley and have repeatedly asked The Nctcx Review for a different heading. Our decision, baaed on w ell-rcmembcred experiences with community disputes, was that we wanted no part in the argument, and that when the residents had decided upon a permanent name we would be glad to go along with the verdict. On one side of the dispute we have been shown a petition, reputed to represent a majority of residents, urging reten tion of the Coon Hollow name. Another resident visited .neighbors asking each to write a suggested name and seal it fn-ji envelope as a sort of secret ballot. The ballots, still sealed, were brought to this office. Wo declined to art as referee or to be bound by any vote not fully representative of the community, but, out of curiosity, after the lady had departed, we tallied the suggestions and found the names Rainbow Valley and Cmm Hollow running neck-and-necU, with Rio Dell, Round l'rairie, Dill Creek and Oakview as other suggestions, and no title having a ma jority of the vote. That's why there's never a dull moment around a news paper office! Point Of View- ,1 SOME KINO UfV ' lfM M I ..".,...;j;:-r,,.-;y?. .. .Kiuvaki : t In the Day's News (Continue from Page One) That is, according to OSS, some body in the State department had passed these secret documents out to Amcrasia. OSS yelled for the scalps of the guilty secret-peddlers, but got no where much. It was claimed that the OSS Hawkshaws didn't have enough search warrants and there fore their raid wasn't kosher. Any way, the affair was promptly hushed up. Six persons, including two State department employes and a naval intelligence lieutenant, were arrested. Two of them were given mild fines and the others were turned loose. ' Nothing further was heard of it until the McCarthy charges brought up the more or less forgotten Amerasia incident. IQERSONALLY, I haven't much r use for this current Communist baiting binge. I have the feeling that at least 90 percent of it is politics. Still, you can't laugh off the fact that this Amcrasia outfit DID have in its possession hun dreds of our secret documents, which nobody outside our State department had any business to have. By Viaknttt S. Martin ft' ' REMEMT British BER that butler in the ish embassy in Ankara who picked the ambassador's pocket while he was pressing his striped pants and found the key to the secret safe and out of this secret safe for months and months and months he filched secret documents and peddled them to the Germans? What the krauts thus learned about our inside war plans made it duck soup for them to checkmate us and the British in the tough years of 1943 and 1944. Maybe it's because I've just fin ished reading over the story of Joseph who used wise economy during the "fat years" and then drew on the stored up resources during the "lean years," but I keep thinking about the way we destroy good food with people not only abroad but right in our own coun try in need. I remember seeing a long pile of perfectly good oranges I can't recall how many hundred feet in length which the newspapers pho tographed as it was burning. Oil has been poured over the fruit to make it burn. Other food has been destroyed. Potatoes. Wheat. Hogs. Corn. I just wonder if we can expect the good Lord to keep right on pour ing out bountiful harvests if we show our gratitude, as a people, that way? I remember little children for whom the Parent-Teacher associa tion of our school BOUGHT or anges, while thirty miles away that incredibly long heap of thousands of pounds of oranges was being de stroyed. I remember our next door neighbors telling us of seeing double-deck loads of hogs hauled Washington State College Shares In Holland Will SPOKANE. ttfr-K large por tion of the estate of Uie late Dr. E. O. Holland. Washington State I college president emeritus, event ually wilt go to the college, papers filed for probate revealed. L. R. Hamblen of the Spokane law firm handling the estate, said the estimated value of the estate is over $100,000. In addition, he said Dr. Holland left about $40,000 in life insurance. His will was filed for probate in superior court at Colfax. Dr. Holland's sister. Mrs. Edith Gifford of Washington, D. C, is named beneficiary of a $20,000 trust fund. A collection of books and pictures was bequeathed to the college. Cash bequests totalling $27,000 were left to Dr. Holland s five nieces and nephews. The residue of the estate is to go to WSC in 1964. Until that time the money is to be held in trust by the Spokane branch of the Seattle-First National bank. He specified that $10,000 shall be used to establish an "Ann Chittenden Holland fellowship fund" for graduate students. Twenty thousand dollars is to go to a trust fund for the purpose of bringing lecturers of national or ipternational reputations to the college. Whatever remains is "for any purpose that will encourage high scholarship among the graduate and undergraduate students of the state college of Washington," the will said. Other bequests to the college in cluded $10,000 for the purchase of books; $1,000 for 'publication of a book containing his own addresses while president, and $1,000 for pub lication ot a college history. 1 - )!. . IN I. PHONE 100 between 6:15 ond 7 p. m., if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Edythe Brown JAPAN son of Mr. VICE-CONSUL TO Stanley R. Kidder, and Mrs. S. L. Kidder of Rose burg, will show motion pictures on Japan at the junior high'. school auditorium at 8 p.m. June 29. This program will be under the auspices of the Uni versity of Oregon Mothers club. The public is invited. Kidder has been attending a special school of instruction in Wash ington, D.C., for the last few months. With his wife and their small daughter, they are now enroute to the west coast. They plan to stop at points of inter est in Canada and in Yellow stone National park en route here. Legal Tax Dodge Saves Shippers Many Millions SEATTLE, i.T' A legal tax dodge that may save American shippers millions o( dollars was reported here. It's n method of avoiding the three percent federal freight tax bv paying freight bills in Canada with sanction of the federal bureau of internal revenue. Railroad officials here said the plan already was ill operation. The Seattle Times said the sit uation grew out of the practice of purchasing passenger tickets in Canada to avoid the 15 percent transportation tax levied by t h e federal government. Even though tickets are used exclusively m the I'nited .Stales, the 15 percent tax is thus avoided. The Times said a Seattle traffic expert, not named, got the ruling from 'he internal revenue bureau. The ruling is that if shippers send their own representatives to Can ada, or if they have a bonnfidc representative in Canada, t h e freight bills can he paid minus the tax. The federal bureau is re ported to have turned down pro posals to pay such bills by mail, or through Canadian hanks. One railroad official, declining use of his name, said at least three or four rail lines have started the practice. They are insisting on payment in V. S. lunds, refusing Canadian money. "Sure it's a cray situation." the Tunes quoted one rate expert, "but we would lie cray not to utilize all the advantages of a crazy law that should he repealed." The federal height tax is one of the wartime excise taxes. Shippers have been advocating its repeal. McKay Appointments Told SAI.EM-.Pi I'aulcn Kascherg, Wasco, was reapixunlcd ' bv Gov ernor Ooutilas McKay today to a five-year term on the Oregon wheat commission. Other appointments by the gov ernor were: Carl M. Lewis. Springfield, as justice of the peace for Sprng (i"lil district lie will succcd l.lnyd K. Millhollcu, resigned, on July I. 1 rancis I!. J.iiohbiTgcr, Port land, as architect member of the Slule Board of Health hospital rur vcy and construction committee. He succeeds the late Kred Aan d.vhl, 1'oitland. T HIS Amcrasia business was on feeling that we ought to get to the bottom of it. This fellow Lattimore seems to have the complete con fidence of our Slate department, and so far it docs look like he is an injured innocent. BUT AUSO IT LOOKED FOR A LONG TIME LIKE ALGER HISS WAS AN IN JURED INNOCENT. Hiss certainly had the State department's con fidence. Even after he was con victed of perjury (he perjured him self hy denying that he was a spy passing out secrets from our State department) Secretary Acheson went out of his way to give Hiss a hand. in trucks to the Missouri river and dumped in. Little children came to our school one morning, just at that time, whose breakfast had been chewed sugar cane ... a family of nine just driven in from Oklahoma . . . but they bought the food to give hungry children. I just can't understand waste of any kind. In a leaflet from Con gressman Ellsworth I noted this. "There is only one way that this danger, which exists now and which is being magnified daily under present policies can be re lieved. We must shake ourselves out of the dream world in wlp'ch we are obviously living. We piust tighten our belts, make certain sacrifices in the way of govern ment services to which we have been accustomed, and which we like. We should cut and curtail to the most drastic limits necessary to balance the budget and begin accumulating a surplus with which to retire at least some of our present astronomical debt. "Unless we do this, if we con tinue as we are now heading, we are inviting diaster." I just wonder don't you? California Wants Water, But Not From Northwest SPOKANE. P) Calitornias would like to have more water hut they don't want to get in a squabble with residents of the Pacific North west over it. That was the general tone of a letter received by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce from Ro bert Lee of Los Anseles. Lee is n official of the Colorado River association. With Lee's letter came a state ment from James Howard, counsel for the Metropolitan water district of southern California. The men said they wanted to make it clear that a proposal to divert water from the Snake and Columbia rivers hadn't originated with Californians. The idea of channeling water from the northwest rivers to the water-hungry Southwest "origin- ated with and is sponsored by the federal Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Reclamation," Lee said. He added: "We believe the citi zens of the Northwest would resent any move to divert water that some day may be needed for their own development. This feeling is understandable because we feel the same way about the attempts by Arizona to divert water from the Colorado river that we believe is rightfully ours." Reclamation leaders of the state have been called to a meeting at Moses Lake. Hal Baker, Moses Lake Camber of Commerce secre tary, said the group would attempt to promote opposition to such a plan. Ammonia takes its name from sal ammoniac, which according to legend was first made near the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Egypt. LETTERS to the Editor s o While I have the feeling that Senator McCarthy is' one of these characters who shoots from the h ip And while I feel strongly that when men's reputations arc at slake shooting from the hip with character-blackening charges isn't the thing to do And while I have no patience whatever with the obvious Repub lican determination to use these charges to their fullest possible ex tent to discredit the Democrats, whether the charges are tme or not I still have the feeling that some thing is rotten in Denmark and thit I we ought to find out where the smell is coming from and who is responsible. If we're going to run the world as we seem to have been elected to do we can't have Publicity On Airport Project Commended SALEM I want to take this op portunity to express the congratu lations of this office, and myself especially, in the fine job which you. your editorials, and your news paper articles did in bringing the information to the people of your area of the advantages of sched uled airline transportation into the city of Roseburg. I think it was a very outstanding piece of work, and I do know that as time goes on, the population of that area, es pecially the rural population, will appreciate more and more how valuable scheduled air transporta tion will be to Douglas county. I know also that other commit tees, the city council and interested individuals contributed to that pro gram of education. our Roseburg chamber of commerce. I think, did an outstanding piece of work along this line. W. M. BARTLETT Director Oregon State Board of Aeronautics, Salem, Ore. Cheyenne Man Says Rodeo Price Too High SALT LAKE CITY. P A Cheyenne Frontier Days commit tee spokesman says that the price of rodeo performers is too nigh. the committee met with an in ternational rodeo association re presentative to determine the cost of cowboys for the 54th annual frontier Days celebrations. The Rodeo Cowboys of America have threatened to boycott the July 25-29 event at Cheyenne, Wyo., unless agreement is reached at the meeting here. Dr. W. J. Vhan, frontier days chairman, said the cowboys have asked $700 per event daily. "It's more than we can affort to pay," he said. Ryan said the price is 40 per cent more than last year. The Iheyenne committee has offered to pay $jO0 an event. Other members of the Frontier Days committee at the meeting were ur. w. v. Harris, J. r. Pow crs and John Aibricht. R. J. Hoffman, Cheyenne, IRA president, is meeting with the group. MacLeish Hits Commie Probing Of Senate CI.AREMONT, Calif. I.TI -Archibald MacLeish, one-time as sistant secretary of state, lashed out Sunday at the Senate's investi gation of Communist activities. "The country just now is recov ering from the most protracted moral and intellectual hince in the history of the republic," MacLeish told the graduating class at P o mona college. He expressed a fear "of the people's willingness to accept smear campaigns by uninformed public officials." and added that the conduct of "minor politicians" making charges against the State department "has not been such as to inspire public confidence." a State department that leaks mili tary and diplomatic secrets like a sieve leaks water. Canada To Reimburse Nisei For Property OTTAWA-.TV-Canada will nav $1,222,829 to 1,300 Canadians of Japanese origin as a result of a two-year commission study of claims that their properties in California Receives New Paper Industry KALAMAZOO, Mich., (TP) The Sutherland Paper Co. has announced it will build a $1,000,000 plant at Santa Clara, Calif. William Race, Sutherland presi dent, said the California plant will produce cups, plates, forks, spoons. napkins and table covers adver tised nationally under the trade name berviset. Race said a contract has boen let to the W. C. Tail Co., San Francisco, for construction of a one-story brick and concrete building with 100,000 feet of floor space. He said the plant and site will cost $500,000 and that another $500, 000 will be invested in equipment. Production at Santa Clara will be under management of H. Gor don Hornibrok, and Race said it was hoped production could b e started in 90 days. The company estimated the Cal ifornia plant will employ 150 per sons and will have an'annual payroll of approximately $500,000. WELL DRILLING 6" and 8" holes. All Work Guaranteed Earl Preschern, Melrose Cleveland Hill Rd.' Rt. 3, Box 810 News Views By SHERMAN PLIMPTON Do you like chili sauce on your1 custard; or do you crack coconuts with your teeth? Don't worry. You're okay . . , according to a famous London psychiatrist. He. says it's norma! to be a little on the eccentric side. One of his pa tients worried because he counted girls' teeth while talking to them. Another complained he shook im aginary scorpions" out of his shoes before putting them on. -Another bought cabbage to go with a tor toise he didn't have. "Perfectly normal," said the doctor. This should make us all feel better . . . but I wonder what the Doc does when no one's looking? , Roseburg fathers will come into the spotlight this Sunday for their annual day ot days. We can t think of any gift more useful or more ap preciated than an accessory for the family car. Why not come in now and make your selection. A fancy men's store in New York advertised two 'linen hand kercniefs at $H5 each, but no body bought them. What a blow! We're not just blowing our horn, but the new 1950 Plymouth is something to shout about . . . and we just can't help praising it to the skies. When you see it and try it you'll know why Plymouth is the car to buy. Arrange for a demon stration at CORKRUM MOTORS, I M N. Rose St. Phone 408. timetable i, ax PCPM 8-0'5 DT ''"" ' ' "NOW DON'T GET IMPATIENT.' ACCORDING TO THE CHART, YOUR FATHER STILL HAS FIVE MINUTES LEFT.'" Don't overload your electric circuits. When you build or modernize provide ADEQUATE WIRING. See Your Electrical Contractor i FROM THE NEWS OF 60 YEARS AGO British Columbia, seized in war time, were sold too cheaply. The money to cover the claims will be asked from parliament. The commissioner. Justice H. I. Bird of the British Columbia court of ap peal, dealt in all with 1.434 claims .... v.. iiuiih.., nil ,119, UUMIIL'AS, I iiui-KS ana oiner possessions. I m As a security step at the time I of Pearl Harbor the government j " moved Japanese - Canadians from British Columbia areas. Thousands I now have been permanently set- j tied outside British Columbia. i Its report has been presented to I the House of Commons. i I l. a.. tr'TL Or Of t3o "i, "Or . .. s -or, a-iw "0S 'n. ii "n;. , , n Sou '"e , " ' o, Hi, i Tl -oj vre 00rf '"Oj, 0,. "''Hr. ' t. . 0 ?l Cf if! if . ' S SO-, Jfr,- L. f Ca ''D, o.. c . w lit. . r- "Or,:. ' u If."'' " ". ' r,r Sr,?' "S. 'Or I Roseburg Review October 16, 1890. AT WRESTLING A T Tll F A ft t J ft S SATURDAY NIGHT NEW DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME: 8:45 P. M. MAIN EVENT "GORGEOUS GEORGE" vs. EDDIE WILLIAMS SEMI-FINAL OPENER Howard Contonwine Charley Carr yt. Leo Wolliek ' Dale Kiser Who recalls the above transaction? Do any of our readers now live on any of the land described obove, that sold in I 1890 for about $6 an ocre? It's fun, looking through the files of old papers, tracing the lives of people from birth, through school, into marriage and parenthood. Makes us reel proud that we help add to the security ond peoce of mind of so many residents of the county. I I I It Pays to Insure in Sure Phone 1467 Insurance! LIU Tipfee ' ... . Carl Ptrmin TIPTON PERMIN INSURANCE 2U W Coss (Nut door to Post Office! ;5i