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4 The Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, Published Daily Except Sunday by tht Ntws-Revitw Company, Inc. UrtrJ urtnl elm nilltr Mr 1, at ikt rati trice Statin rg, Oregva, antfir ct of ftUrca I, illl CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mtmbtr of th Associated Prtss, Orogon Newspaper Publishers Association, tht Audit Burtau of Circulations ttvrwiBtci by WEST-HOI.MDAT CO- I ISC, mttlcrm la hrw Tark, L'kleafv, Saa rrantUca, La AngaU. Saattlt, Partial). St. Lain UBiLHIPTION RATES In Oregon By Mail r ykr fa. at. menint M. tbra mantba !. By t ily Carrier l'r year fl. (In aaanra), Un Ikaa at year, per mantb il.M Onttlda Origan Bj Mall Par yai IH. all tan lb 14.75, ihraa manlba Il ia. Business Outlook Bright - .. By BRUCE BIOSSAT Another business scare seems to have vanished in air. Once more the economists are flying their brightest flags; some even profess to see fair economic weather clear through 1951. This year, of course, there's been no serious downturn in business activity like that in 1949. The biggest storm warning was the unem ployment figure, which kept mounting until by February it hit better than 4,600,000. . There was talk of 5,500,000 out of work by fall, and higher totals later. The great labor federations were getting ready to demand huge public works programs to take up the slack. Now it's all different. Unem ployment has fallen to around 3, 000,000. Actually, more than 2,700, 000 additional workers are em ployed today as compared with gloomy February. But the U. S. labor force is growing swiftly, and many of those who have found jobs arc new workers. The Federal Reserve board has just struck a cheerful note. It foresees continued heavy demand for automobiles, homes, and the durable products that go with tlif home furniture, iceboxes, stoves, and the like. If the board is right, and it has a lot of company .in this fore cast, the solid basis exists for maintenance of high level business activity for many months. Does all this mean we can stop worrying about a depression? We have shrugged off so many false scares since the war ended that no one could be blamed for think ing maybo we can stay out of trouble for a long time. And perhaps we can. Some ex Congress Chat HARRIS, ELLSWORTH, M. C. 4th District, Oregon Not long ago I told of appearing before a committee to urge that the import tariff on plywood not be reduced. I have just learned that the Administration Is attack ing the people who earn their liv ings in our- plywood industry on still another front, , The ECA (European aid organi zation) has just announced that it is purchasing millions of feet of Douglas fir plywood Logs for ship ment to Korea. Our northwest plywood Industry already as dif ficulty enough in obtaining suffi ccicnt high grade plywood logs for its own use. What this latest administration move means is loss of jobs for many pcnplo who make plywood. I and other northwest Congressmen have voiced vigorous protests against the combination policy of aiding foreign plywood production even by furnishing logs which we need and at the sine time proposing a reduction in tar iff rates to allow plywood mado irom those logs to undersell our producers on the American mar ket. We have so many "do-gooders" running our governemtn policies now that I have little hope of our protests being heeded. For 16 years, excent for three years Just before the war, Con gress has annually passed legisla tion postponing the deadline lor the completion of required assess ment work on mining claims. The practice started in the depres sion days of the ,30s. During the postwar readjustment - period I have supported such "moratorium" legislation. Last year the House and Senate Com mittees extended the moratorium with the explicit understanding that thero would be no further exten sions. It seems to mo presnct con ditions may warant a return to the normal application of the mining laws. But the past winter haj been unusually bad. The snows are deep In the mountains where hundreds of claims are located. Preventing the work from being done this spring. Also many claim owners have become so accustomed to let ting tho work go that hundreds of claims might go by default if it it was required that assessment work be brought up-to-date by the end of June this year. Accord ingly, I supported a compromise proposal put through the Senate by Senator Cordon to extend the time for completing the work hist 90 days to October 1. Follow ing a Public Lands commit tee hearing at which I spoke at some length in support of the Cor don bill, it was favorably reported. The hill carries an amendment providing that assessment work for the present and coming year may be done at the same time. I as sume the House will pass it but that remains to be seen. Apparently the Administration has abandoned the idea of attempt ing to pass the whole package of socialized medicine legislation this year. It is still endeavoring, how ever, to get some portions of it passed piecpmeal. In this con nection it might be interesting to note that the British Minister of Health recently reported that in its first full year of operation the cost to the British treasury (U. S. monev?) of Britain's medical nlan was $17.65 for each man, woman and child over and above the regular payroll contributions. Just multiply that by 150 millions and you can figure for yourself what it would cost here If we were on Ore. Thur., Jum 22, 1950 perts point out that the founda tion for much of this encouraging growth of business lies in two fundamental facts: the marked in crease in population, and the still greater rise in the number of new family units. It is this latter, especially, which helps account for the unprecedent ed demand for housing and house hold goods. New homes are being formed at an almost unbelievable pace. And the end of the upward trend is far out of sight in the future. Yet, with all this healthy growth, we still ought to exercise reason able caution in viewing the future. Prospects are good, yes. But we have to remember mat me eco- nomic system we live by is a delicate machine with many in tcrtocking parts. A breakdown any where can spread rapidly to other places. That doesn't can we shouldn't maintain our optimism. It simply means we should be on the watch for signs of maladjustment, should move in quickly to repair the dam age before it can hobble the whole economy. the lower British income basis. Speaking of population figures 40 out of every loo persons are on the public payroll (Census Bur eau report). In 50 years, govern ment employment has increased more than 525 percent. No wonder we are paying such enormous tax bills. New Radio Station Construction Will Start Next Week Construction work on Roseburg's new radio station, KRXL, will be gin next week, station manager Iris Helliwell announced today. mrs. iieinweii said me necessary building site approval from the Federal Communications commis sion has been received, as well as approval by the Civil Aeronautics administration of the radio tower and its site. She said the structure, located on a five-acre site directly west of the county fairgrounds, will house the station's 250-watt transmitters, studios and offices. Address of the station is 1640 Medford street. Slated for next week is prepara tion for the ground system and construction of the 200-foot tower. Mrs. Helliwell said all survey work nas been completed and that need ed equipment has been ordered Mrs. Helliwell said KRXL will operate as an independent local station and will have no network affiliation. She said recional and world news will originate from the united press news service and lo- cal coverage will stress Roseburg ana uougias county sports events. Music and special effects will he provided by the Langworlh trans cription library. Operational plans indicate the station will be managed by Mrs. Helliwell, with Del McKay serving as program director and Lon Hunt as sales manager. All are stock holders in the Umpqua Broadcast ing corporation. Other stockhold ers include Donn Kndnbaugh, pres ident; Don Helliwell, vice-president; Margaret (i. Hunt, secretary trensurer; and Kdith Radsbaiigh. The new station will have a radio dial number 1210 K.C. Youth Nabbed In Salem As Eastern Murder Suspect SALEM, June 22 .T The de scription of a wanted fugitive in a Salem newspaper led to the arrest of Charles Johnson. 19. Wednesday in conneelion with a murder charcc in Phiadr nha. Pa. Johnson is charted with robbing and murdering Thomas Kispoli. 51, in Philadelphia May 28. Ris poli was known to be rarrvini! . large sum of money at the time of his death. Salem police arrested Johnson in East Salem after being in formed that a man answering his description, including a mooed "mother" on his arm. was stay-1 I ing in that area. Local police had i Been informed he was in the northwest. Johnson denied knowledge of the crime upon his arrest. FISHERMAN'S LUCK OKLAHOMA CITY, (.Ti Fish erman's luck has returned a lost billfold to Ralph I.. Nance Jr., 3!). who dropped the wallet a year ago in Lake Hefner here. Robert Charles Canlwell. 12-year old caster, hooked the billfold yes terday waterlogged and m i 9 s shapened and returned it. Nance happily reports the cards, clippings, and snapshots are 1 n good shape. But the money only an imprint remains. w ww " viw-' jmm m i im-Ji . m-: m i . v. i i ai a -uv-ia if.ai v. m s xi v n jt In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) 2. Branding as war criminals officials of the first government to use atomic weapons. After that they dusted off their hands and went on record "to ex press a conviction that the Soviet government will continue to pur sue its constant policy of PEACE and FRIENDSHIP among the na tions within the United Nations, and elsewhere will DEFEND IN TERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY." During tlie discussion, speakers attacked U. S. and British poli cies as "imperialist and aggres sive." America and Britain, these speakers said, are using atomic energy FOR WAR. Russia, they added, has mastered atomic energy FOR PEACEFUL, CREATIVE USES ONLY. B USHWAII? Of course it's bushwah. All propaganda Is bushwah. BUT you must have noticed thrl while Russia is preparing for war with every ounce of energy she possesses, she is talking peace nut of the other side of her mouth While we prepare for hot war, all our diplomats are talking about THE COLD WAR FIGHTING. WE ARE: . ID you ever hear of Pavlov's V experiments in conditional rc- flexes? It's a long story and it sounds like a dry subject, but this is the long and the short of it: Pavlov discovered that by ringing a cer miii urn ai a crnain lime ne could eventually make a dog's saliva and digestivc juices flow EXACTLY AS IF HE HAD PLACED FOOD BEFORE THE DOG. The dog, in time, came to as sociate the sound of the bell with the idea of food, which the dog WANTED very much. SO what? Here's what: I think the Russians are adapting Pavlov's idea to their propaganda. They are ringing the peace bell. At every opportunity they accuse us of scheming for aggressive war. They are hoping that in time they will condition people's re flexes so that when they hear the Russians talk they will THINK OF PEACE and when thev hear us talk they will THINK OF WAR. Since everybody wants peace (exactly as Pavlov's guinea-pig dogs wanted food) that will tend to turn the sympathies of millions upon millions of people toward Russia rather than toward lis. e e I'M afraid we're playing Russia's game. We talk constantly of the "cold war" we're fighting. We tell of the staggering weapons we're creating (bombs that will track down their target as a dog trucks down a rabbit, for example). I think we ought to talk more about peace and less about war. We have to go on preparing for w ar, of course. But let's not talk so much about it So far as warl' Illrnen 01" tuesday in reject - . . . . . ' ' . , .. ing a special tax levy proposal, .r. panmt.ns .re concerneo, lets- jusi siiw wmg ana say noining. When he coined the phrase: "Speak softly 'and carry a big stick." Theodore Roosevelt said something. Ride 'Im, Cowboy! SUM., J.l 5VM- J- wV Until recently I did rather well in keeping up with the letters I have enjoyed so much; it has been my intention to answer each one by mail, rather than in this col umn. But lately I must admit I have lagged in a way that makes me wish to apologize to the writers of letters in a little packet on my desk not yet answered. Please excuse the delay I'll get caught up one of these days. Letters from readers have meant a great deal to me: encourage ment and inspiration. It is an odd thing that although I go to Eu gene so often and to Roseburg less, in fact seldom, I feel more "at home" in Roseburg and feel I know many more people in Rose burg than in Eugene. This is main ly because of your many letters. Only one, I am glad to say, has taken exception to anything 1 have written at least only one has put it m lcllcr- 1 quoted that one. Frpm wriler who felt I was "misled" on the idea of "world ' brotherhood." He evidently felt we don t have a common Father.) During the 23 months this col umn has been in the News-Review there has been only one anony mous letter and that was sm- cerely written by one who I'm I sure didn't understand taat I would not use her name, or identify her! ! Bullets, Stones Hit Truck Of Men At Struck Plant i.vi "Three or four cars" of j workers at the strikebound Ameri- can Enka Corp. rayon plant were struck by bullets in a barrage of stoning and gunfire early today. a company spokesman reported. No one was reported injured. The violence occurred as the last ,of" "'ht ,n'ft of s0lne M workers , lef(ii.thl?a,ntu" 1" .!"id.night- . , v., uuuci iiuica nnc vuuinru in the cars, the spokesman added. Meanwhile, both the company and striking CIO textile workers union contend the other has off-red to settle the 12-week-old j walkout, but little progress appears io nave oeen mane. The strike began March 28 with 700 CIO strikers asking an hourly wage hike the union calls 23 cents nrt the rnninanv v eniislc 70 cents. The companv offered 10 cents. The average wage now is $1.35. r , .... Amputee Vet Accused Of Assault With Metal Hook maiu.hiwu, .Mass., June ?i i 4 An amputee war veteran was charged in district court with as sault with a dangerous weapon he cause he allegedly struck a man with the metal hook which serves as a hand. Charles Rncheford, 35, who lost a hand in the war, was granted a continuance. The complainant. John J. Finan of Hudson, was charged with disturbing the peace. Hood River Voters Turn Down Special Tax Levy HOOD RIVER, June 22 l.P ! Only 18 percent of the city's vol Bv 2,Tg 0 g2 they rejected a $29,751 levy that would have been used to build a one-truck fire de- The officer said if the air de-, week out of her salary, partment building on the heights. fense system does nothing more Her mother, Mrs. Evelyn Beau repair streets, buy a street sprint ; than assisting in casualty reduc-: mont, agreed. Her father, Kenneth jler, and put in restrooms at tht new memorial pane. MIMIC f ill I By Viaknrtt S. Martini at all if she wished to have the letter confidential. (Please, "A Neighbor" send me your full name and address. Your letter was so interesting, but how am I going to answer it if you are identified only by a postmark?) I was looking over some old letters from readers the other day, and I came to one which seemed sad at the time: "I think perhaps you were writing of people who still have a lamp lighted . . . There are so many of us whose lamp is nearly in darkness be cause we have failed to tend the wick, understanding. I loved the poem of the Umpqua Valley . . . My fondest dreams all came true there and only since I have been away have I had tragedy, illness and death." Yet in the hour which she thought so "dark" she was very close to a happiness undreamed of at the time she was writing: for a few months later there was a joyous announcement: "I am to be mar ried shortly to such a wonderful person! I know we shall be so happy!" The important thing to remem ber in a discouraged moment is (hat it may well be the last, courage-testing hour "before the dawn of brighter tomorrow.' Vital Statistics Dlvorc Suits Filtd DeMASTERS Pearl vs. Orvil DeMasters. Married at Greenwood. Ark., Feb. 21. 1923. Cruel and in human treatment charged. Plaintiff ' "ks ow nership of an undivided one- half interest in nine and a half r nnrth nt ivrtia iVool- rc. tody of minor child asked by plain till and reasonable support mon ey. DONEY Eleanor Jane vs. Al bert Doney. Married at Vancouver, Wash., August 17, 1949. Desertion charged Custody of one minor child asked by the plaintiff. Mrs. L. M. Overman, Native Of Douglas County, Dies!'"". Mark i:i-3i Mrs. Lillie May Overman. 90. i life-long resident of Douglas COtinlV died at a rest home in Roseburg. I Monday after a long illness. She was born near Oakland May 2, 1860. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Haltie Boynton, Grants Pass, I and a brother. William H. Black. KSX" mtmb"0f Services will be held in the Chrls- : tian church. Oakland, Saturday at 1:30 p m., Rev. Mr. Bristol offi riating. Interment will be in the Coles Valley cemetery. Arrange ments are being made by Stearns Mortuary, Oakland. Short Notice Needed To Cut A-Bomb Casualties SEATTLE .FLt. Col. T. R. Clinkscsles. western air defense force operations officer, said five minutes warning of approaching hostile aircraft could reduce atomic war casualties as much as 80 percent. Clinkscales made the statement 1 wnue stressing tne importance ot current training maneuvers to test i the defense of the Pacific north - I west. lion, it will have, performed a vital i service. GMC Of Canada, Auto Union Sign 5-Year Contract TORONTO. June 22. (JPU- The General Motors corporation of Can ada and the C. I. O. United Auto Workers union have signed a five- year contract providing for an an nual three-cent-an-hour wage i n- crease. The agreement also pro- vides for S55-a-monlh pensions and welfare benefits. The union estimated that the wage increase and other clauses would swell pay envelopes by 14 cents an hour for the first year, with the increases climbing t o more than 26 cents at the end of the five-year period. I he agreement is subject to ap proval by 6,500 union members in the company s plants at Oshawa, Ont., and Windsor, Ont. besides the wage increase, the new contract provides: 1. Progressive reduction of the work week from 44 to 40 hours during the five-year period. 2. Increased life insurance, ac cident and sickness benefits under the company plan at no additional cost to workers. The company will share the cost of hospitalization and surgical care for employes and their families. 3. Three weeks paid vacation annually for employes with 15 years or more service. 4. A five-cent-an-hour general wage increase for all non-productive workers. The union estimated 45 percent of those employed at Oshawa were in this category. i. Continuance of quarterly ad justment of wages in line with changes in the cost of living as determined by the Canadian dom inion index. 6. Arbitrators to have the right to alter penalties imposed by the company in cases of individual vio lation of contract terms. Judgments Awarded In 4 Circuit Court Cases Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly ordered four judgments by default in circuit court proceedings Wed nesday.. Paul w. Barcus, u. K. r ruz ana R. R. Parsons. co-Dartners doing business as Barcus Sales and Ser vice, were awarded $260.59 in a suit brought against Kenneth A. Olson. Coastal Adjustment Bureau, Inc., was awarded $268.94 in a suit against Sigle (Slim) Tabor and Mrs. Sigle Tabor, his wife. Irvin Logging Co., Inc., were or dered to pay $888.13 to the State Unemployment Compensation com mission for sums due the plaintiff commission's fund. M. N. Cox, doing business as Professional Credit Service was awarded $508.95 from Phers Nel son and Hazel Nelson. In an action, filed Wednesday, the Stale Unemployment Com pensation commission sued John C. Taylor and Goth Bozarth, doing business as T and B Logging Co., for $53.06, allegedly due for unpaid contributions to the fund. New Pastor Sets First Service At Camas Valley Wesley Durland, recently ap pointed as pastor of the Camas Valley hlethodist church, will hold his initial service Sunday, .nine a, at 11 a.m. in the Camas Valley church. The new pastor, appointed at the Oregon conference of Methodists held in Portland last week, served j last year as pastor of the Dundee j Methodist church. He was a stu dent at Willamette university and also attended the University of Or egon, Lewis and Clark college and Linfield college. He is married and has a seven-weeks-old daughter. Rev. Mr. Durland said the 11 a.m. worship service will be held every Sunday, thus being added to the scheduled church services held regularly at Camas Valley. Indiana Pastor Will Deliver Sermon Here The Rev. Allen A. Kohler of Frankfort, Ind., will be the pulpit guest here Sunday when he deliv ers the sermon at the 11 a.m. ser vice at the First Presbyterian church. Rev. Mr. Kohler. a native of Den ver, Colo., is serving his sixth ! year as pastor oi tne r irsi i-respy- I tenan church of Frankfort. He has neia two oiner pastorates curing his ministry and is present chair man of the National Missions and Ministerial Relations committee in the Presbytery. For six years he has taught at Camp Kosciusko high school young people's conferences in the Middle West. Title of Sunday's sermon is "The Flow of the Master's Spirit," and Rev. Mr. Kohler is using the Scrip- Drives 15 Years Without License; Law Catches Up NEW ALBANY, Ind., (.! Indiana's driver's license law fin ally caught up with Peter A. Wea ver. "8. Picked up after a minor acci dent. Weaver couldn't produce a driving permit and he was fined $20.75 in a justice of the peace court. The Floyd county farmer admit ted he had been driving for 15 years, trying all the while to get a license. The license examiners wouldn't give him one. he complained. Fat Contract Given Voice In 'Alice In Wonderland' LOS ANGELES i.P A British girl heard but not seen in an American movie is signed to a seven-year contract as a salary ranging from $200 to $1,000 a week. Twelve-year-old Kathryn Beau mont provided the voice for Alice I in "Alice in Wonderland." A su- perior judge approved ner con- i tract with Walt Disney's studio. ! recommending that she buy a SAO I government savings bond each ; Beaumont, radio actor, is now in , London. ECA Chief Says Red Citadel Is Beginning To Get Shaky By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Is the citadel of Communism be ginning to get shaky? Foreign aid Administrator Paul G. Hoffman voiced ine Denei oe fore the state governors' confer ence at White Sulphur Springs that tensions are building in Russia and her satellites. He declared that "once the Communist world starts to crack it can disintegrate very rapidly indeed." That isn't a new thought for this column, but it's good to get the viewpoint of a high official whose business it is to keep a finger on the pulse of Communism. Mr. Hoff man holds that "the free world can win out in this battle with the Kremlin." , "I am assured by the positive knowledge that tensions do build up in a dictatorship," he told the governors. "A dictatorship is only successful when it is dynamic and expanding. Once you stop that forward movement and that we have had some success with the mechanism is subject to strains. "The very fact that Russia must hold between 12 and 15 million of its citizens in forced labor camps is striking evidence of strain. Moreover, the tensions be tween Russia and her satellites are being constantly taunted by the Kremlin's planned policy of helping itself to the cream of satellite production and giving back little. "We have witnessed a dramatic break-away in the case of Yugo slavia. The story may be repeated again, and once the Communist world starts to crack it can disin tegrate very rapidly indeed." The only places where Commu nism has had marked success are where it has been backed by military force and secret police. That is quite as true in Russia as among the satellites. The spread of the Redism hasn't been spontaneous, on the whole. It has been imposed, although it has had the support of fifth columnists ' among the citizens of the countries ! which it has absorbed. Daily the evidence piles up of widespread revulsion against ine i Red rule in such unwilling satel- lites as Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Daily refugees are fleeing into the western countries. and thousands more would follow but for the fact that they would be leaving behind relatives who would be subject to persecution. nr( nan success Meantime, as Mr. Hoffman says, I "we have had some success" inilfAD stopping the forward movement of i v-r Communism. As a matter of fact the Red advance has been halted altogether in Europe along the tries formcd by ,he sa,cllite coun- Moreover, the gains achieved by ine communist parties in countries like Ital;- and France has been , Schwinn Bicycles W if 1 1 the beat and repair the rest AL'S FIXIT SHOP ' Between Farm Bureau and Jr. High 320 W Washington Phone 1329-8 PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., if you have not received your Newi Review. Ask for Edythe Brown Better Looking Walls When Painted With DRAMEX ... tht new ivnthcHc texture na Juit mix with water, apply DRAMEX to your walli with a bruth and vou will be surprised with how attractive the walls ore with so little effort. They will look as though they have been plottered. Easily applied on wood, paper, or fiber wall covering . . . litis cracks, scratches, dents and will not crock. Available in white and 9 different colors. Get your supply of DRAMEX from us today! We make a spcrinl effort to serve you better 04 S. Stephens Rev. Vejn W. Mortm Roseburg Church Of The Nazarene 400 E. Douglos Forrsiit Hill, Postor largely nullified. In the great In dustrial Ruhr of western Germany, where the Reds had shown much strength, Communism has taken a terrific beating in the current elec tion. The Ruhr is the most popu lous state of western Germany and is comprised largely of min ers and steel workers. Small wonder then that the for. eign aid administrator should find optimism in the situation. Small wonder, also, that he should de nounce talk of the inevitability of World War III, and declare that "our goal is not to win World War III, but to prevent it." We can prevent war by strength ening the defenses of the west ern world and maintaining unity among the Democracies. Some day we may have peace based on a universal desire for it. But as things now stand peace de pends on the western nations main taining the balance of military and industrial power which they now hold. 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