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4 Th Nwi-Rtmw, Roieburg, PublUhtd Daily Except Sunday by th Ntwi-Revitw Company, Inc. lr4 M Mconi cUm mUr M? f, lilt, si Ui it aft let l aoaibsrf, OrR, nitr c Marat I, 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON 8DWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mtmbtr the Associated Pren, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit Bureau ot Circulations - EaaraMalti br WHT-HOLLID CO., WO.. Itlm la Nw tmrk, Cklui. rrnolic. Lot Angelas liktllf, rrlUn. It. Lalt UBat-MIFl'lUN RATES In Orfn By Hail l"r fr fs.eO. ill ., iter mDtb l.60 Bj Clly Carrier l-tr rr III.M (! aet, n nr, pr imh I.M oilild Oriftn Br kUII Hr tt t.M, ill Mltat M.H. Ibrt nnlhi St.1. WE'RE CATCHING UP By Charles When an earthquake strikes it shakes down old build ings and .as new structures much better than those destroyed. This was, in suostance, a statement made by Deb for our sister paper, the Klamath tails Herald and News, The Herald and Neivs struck simultaneously by composing room crews last June 27. Since that date both newspapers have continued put lication. The management at Klamath Falls wasted no time in negotiations but started the day after the strike to organize an open shop composing room crew. Here at Roseburg we waited almost a month, engaged in wishful thinking that some settlement could be reached, finally, to get our ad. vertising sales force and news room personnel out of the mechanical department and back on regular jobs, we had to fix a deadline for return to permanent organization until Accompanied by our wife display advertising manager, Klamath Falls Friday to ascertain how our sister paper is progressing and to inspect and procedures used there, We found The Herald and News operation back almost to normal, with business improved over a year ago and a month ago. In the Bhort space of one month The Herald and News has not only recovered all ground lost by the strike, but has actually shown a gain, Processes Improve Production , The quick recovery has been due in large part to the use of new processes. Use of teletypesetters has been expanded and improved. Phototype and Varityper processes have been installed. Use of photo engraving for adver tising composition has lowered production costs. As Deb Addison said, in promises more efficiency, better service, improved appear ance, and greater reader interest, yet with favorable econ omy. The shakeup is expected by The Herald and News management to prove beneficial rather than detrimental, not only to the public's interest but from the standpoint of efficiency and economy, Here in Roseburg we are lagging behind Klamath Falls because we delayed reorganization plans. But we do not propose to stay behind. Our inspection at the plunt of our Bister paper Friday will permit us to take advantage of the knowledge gained by the staff of The. Herald and News during their few weeks of experimentation, and. thus avoid some of their mistakes. . Equipment To Speed Recovery We are enlarging our teletypesetter facilities through installation of additional perforating and operating units We are using Varityper equipment and have ordered Photo type. We have installed additional machinery to speed our engravings and improve quality. Our apprentices are gain ing knowledge, efficiency and speed. We expect to have reorganization completed in the near future. In the mean time, our readers have observed rapid and progressive improvement in appearance and quality of The News Review since the poor efforts immediately following the strike. We regret that demands made upon us forced reorgani zation. Yet, as Deb Allison so aptly illustrated our position, we feel that the shakeup, severe as it has been, will ultim ately prove good for us and for our service to the community. Shaken out of production ruts, we have been forced into invention. Advertisers have found our poster-type art ads to provide far more flexibility than the old-style displays. Tests indicate much higher advertising readership interest than before. We are steadily gaining knowledge in this new produc tion method and are learning how to bring costs down to the point where we will be able to offer this service to our advertisers at a price comparable to the old method. Our production capacity is improving steadily and will soon be back to normal." We don't propose to let us lor long. Community Urged By Official Cf VA To Continue Support Of Rehabilitation Program Continued community support of the Veterans hospital staff in the rehabilitation program for veterans was requested by General F. R. Kerr, retired, assistant administrator for special services of the Veterans administration at Washington, n.C. General Kerr, who was In Roseburg last week conferring with the hospital staff, was the speaker at the Rotary club meeting Thursday noon in the Holel Umpqiia. An outline of the special ser- vices organization, which ho was delegated to set up, was given by General Kerr, Four definate ser vices were established: chaplains, recreation, libraries and canteen. These services, said General Kerr, had been in existence for some time, but tho purpose was to coordinate them on a broader scale to belter meet the needs of the patients. He explained the problem of se lecting a chaplain, who could servo the faiths of Protestant, Ca tholic, Jews and miscellaneous other faiths, not to mention the 130-odd separate Protestant deno minations. A quota system was de vised, whereby a chaplain w a s chosen to serve the predominant i faith represented in the respective t . L Hospitals. ........ ima ..mii in- uviic nun a Two types of libraries wero set W M P10'" up, one to serve doctors and pro- General Kerr touched on the vo fcssional men on the staff, and the luntoer service program. He corn other to serve the patients' needs, j plimented the community in its Between $600,000 and $700,000 is i effort, and urged continued sup expended annually for books and port by all service organizations magazines for the hospital librar ies. I no supply ot books and mag azines, he said, is considered am ple. Recreation Plant Extended An enlarged recreational p r o gram was begun, including motion pictures, radio, stage, sports, mu sic and every phase of rccrea- Or. Mon., July 31, 1950 V. Stanton are erected they usually are Addison, advertising manager and The News-Review were work, and thus did not start July 24. and by James Turk, our and Mrs. 'lurk, we visited some of the new processes effect, the new structure our sister paper stay ahead of tional activity necessary for rehab ilitation purposes. He told of the need to modify rules in competitive sports to per mit patient participation. Canteens were formerly operated by outside concessionaries. Under the new program, Congress appro priated $5,000,000 to purchase all stock and equipment in the hos pitals to set up the canteens un der hospital management. They were to he self-supporting, and arc to pay hack the original invest ment, said General Kerr. Already one and a half million dollars has 1 been paid hack. Another $500,000 is 10 bc P,i(1 yer. nl if the run rens were to be liquidated, he Ihld flAliU ln JsnA milk and individuals willing to partici pale. As a special program feature of the Rotary meeting, Martha Jane Plimpton played three piano sel ections. A report was made on the Ro tary picnic, which w held Thurs day night of last week. Who Do You IgjjPjl By ViaJmitt S. Martin 7 ' "When we have our corn weath er," said recent visitors from the corn belt, "you can actually hear the corn grow. No wonder, for by actual measurements it grows three inches in a day." A former owner of the world's largest wistaria vine, down in Sier ra Madre, declared that as he lay in bed he could hear the great vine 'growing.' But some folks thought it was the wood siding of the house giving way to the preda tory vine which at last ruined the building. In a recent Sunday column the U. of O. astronomer. Dr. .1. Hugh Pruclt, mentions ramiliar peculiar ities of sound. As I read 1 could sec my English cousin across the great Whispering Gallery whisper ing' with her face close to the cir cular wall. Her whisper would come to me distincly, as would mine in turn go to her. Yet wo could not hear each other except our lips be close to the curving wall. (St. Paul s cathedral, Lon don). Dr. Pruelt included this phe nomenon wheri he mentioned the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and the national capitol in In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued from Page One) fought to the death at Guadalcanal and on up through the Solomons Pearl Harbor might have been fatal. You'd have thought we'd have seen to it that such a thing COULD NEVER COME TO PASS AGAIN. Yet in distant Korea outnumbered, insufficiently supported American soldiers arc standing and fighting to the death again because we made passes at a powerful enemy without having the force to back our passes up. We got away with It after Pearl Harbor. We're hoping and praying at this critical moment that we'll get away with it again in Korea. We've been lucky as a people. Maybe we'll be lucky again. But It's CROWDING our luck The stakes in this world war game are getting bigger and bigger cverv time. This time the stakes are EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT IN THE WOULD our liberty, our way of life, the future of our children. This battle with communism is no game of marbles for fun. It's for keeps. If the Russians take us, we'll be LETTERS to the Editor Protest Made Against Renaming Of Streets ROSEBURG To the mayor, to the city manager, to the planning board, io all of the above, or to whoever is responsible for this mess of trying to change the names of the streets. I wish to offer a protest for myself and everyone in our neighborhood to whom I have talked, and that is a large percent on East Lane St. and southeast Roseburg in general. If there was any sense in this change it might lie worth while. Rut what good can it possibly do? For instance, what good would it do to change I.ane street, which was named for an early-time gov ernor of Oregon? Does the plan ning board think by changing the name to Arizona street or avenue would wider, the street, take the ten tousand or so chuck holes out, or would it even flatten the old hilt down a little? What applies to Lane applies to all the other streets. Think Is Behind These Things? Washington as having places where sound was carried long distances without being audible at points in between. He also brought another picture to my mind when he men tioned listening to "the waves" in a big seashcll. As a child the giant conch shell in a certain front parlor opened only for special occasions, fasci nated me. I craved to live near the sea. The shell brought the ocean to me for ecstatic moments as I put my ear to it. It made up to me for the times I was made to sit on the prickly slippery horse hair upholstered lurniture. 1 can see every detail of that room . . . the marble topped table with its curving legs, the fancy lamp on it with long dangling prisms, the pi ano that was not square at all but rectangular, the whatnot with its collection, of miscellany that I was never allowed to touch. My hostess meant to be kind . . . she made sure my fingers were clean and then allowed me to press down the ivory keys until my very prop er mother said, "That's enough. Now come and sit down beside me. . . " How nice that parlors have gone and we have living rooms now! JENKINS. tomorrow what Czechoslovakia is today. There's no good in crying over spilled milk. If we're weaker to day than we were after Pearl Har bor, we're just weaker and that's all there is to it. If American boys are standing and dying needlessly in Korea because we got them into the jam without having the mili tary strength to back them up, there is nothing we can do about it right now but what we are doing. But this lime let's cross our hearts and hope to die, let's prick a vein and sign an oath in blood that NEVER AGAIN WILL WE HE CAUGHT SHORT AND HAVE TO SEND MEN TO THEIR DEATH BECAUSE WE MADE PASSES WE COULDN'T BACK UP. Until this Communist business is sellled, we'll have to he ready to fight for our lives at the drop of a hat. Let's GET READY. No matter what it costs. Then LET'S STAY READY! Wo have lived on the corner of East Lane and Glen streets for almost 20 years and with the very adequate (?) street signs we have, there is hardly a day someone doesn't stop and ask where such and such a street is. Being some thing of old timers in Roseburg we can usually tell them how to find their street. If the names were all changed to the screwball names suggested by the planning board, how long would it take the old timers here to learn where any hut possibly their own stret is by name. Frankly. I think the money spent on hair-brained schemes like this would be better spent on cleaning and taking some of the bumps and chuck holes out of the streets as they are than by confusing the post office dopartmcn' and all the citi zens of Roseburg, including. I am sure the planning board themsel ves. If we must change, let's get a planning hoard who can pick names that are somewhere near as good and as sensible as the ones we nov have. C. E. RICHARDSON' Roseburg, Ore. Wilbur By Elsie Brozio Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hanks of Olympia spent a few days at the home of Mrs. Hank's sister, Mrs. Horman Forsberg in Wilbur. Miss Gerry Broszio has been spending a few days at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Broszio, in Wilbur. Gerry is a telephone operator for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company in Roseburg. Mrs. Lloyd Harvey and Mrs. Frederick Brozio enterained with a double surprise birthday party in honor of Gilbert Harvey and Gerry Broszio Tuesday, July 25, at the recreational hall in Wilbur. The Boy Scout troop of which Gilbert is a member enjoyed the party and others included Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Spackman, Virginia Workman, Maryanne Stritske, Stel. la Harvey, Douglas Hart, Jim Spackman, Roger Bennet. Stanlev Barge, Lloyd Harvey, Frederick Broszio, Maria and Connie Broszio, Shirley and Laurie Harvey, Addie Van Cleve, Jessie Shirley and the hostesses, Mrs. Lloyd Harvey and Elsie Broszio. Games were played after which gifts were opened nad refreshments were served. Mrs. Baumiester of San Fran cisco, Calif., and Pamela Sullivan of San Jose, Calif., are visiting at the home of A. G. Sullivan in Wilbur. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Forsberg nave leu lor racoma and Ulympia, Wash, on a two-weeks vacation trip visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swartz and daughters, Anita and Sonia, of Roseburg were dinner guests Sun- ray of Albert Sullivan and mother m Wilbur. Everett Eliason got a piece of steel in his eye at the Wilbur Lum per Co. and had a minor eye operation Tuesday. He will be un able to return to work for a few days. Arlvn Rrnwn Afarinrv TtlnnHpll "Barney Van Cleve and Addie Van Cleve have just returned from a weeks vacation at the Methodist Youth camp at Myrtle Grove. They reported a very enjoyable time. Bereaved Mother Speaks SACRAMENTO, Calif., (P) Mrs. Randall C. Roberts wrote a letter to her newspaper. "From time to time since this war broke out," she began, "the hoarders have made the headlines. "I wonder it stuffed stomachs and nylon clad legs will win this war? Have the people of this na tion forgotten World War II so soon? Can you trade a pound of sugar or coffee or a pair of nylons for a life? , "Do you know what it is to have Octogenarians Want To Join Army For Korean War WASHINGTON, (P) The White House reports receiving letters from two Philadelphians, one 85, the other 84, wanting to join the army for the war in Korea. Samuel Barsumian, us, a native of Turkey and a long-time resident of Armenia, wrote in Armeno Turkish: "My eyesight is good, my arms and legs arc strong. My blood is clear. My internal organs are sound. My entire body is without fault. "Yes, I want to be a soldier. I beg to accept me." The other letter came from 114-year-old Samuel Deemer Gilpin, an oldlime Indian fighter. It said: ,vn...n. ,n 1 in romnanv A. 13th Infantry and Indian war veteran of the Geroni- AIRMAN GRADUATED Clarence G. Hamm, airman, l"SN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Robert Hamm of Rox 557. ; Myrtle Creek, was recently grad i uatec. from the aviation machinist's i mate school at the U.S. naval air ! technical training center, Mem- phis, Tenn. Refore entering the naval ser :vice, he attended Myrtle Creek I high school. President's Preparedness Program Just First Step In Larger Outlay BY BRUCE BIOSSAT From President Truman's prepardness proposals to Congress it's evident we are planning to garrison the U.S. and the free world against far wider dangers than war in Korea. He wants sharply higher taxes, a whopping $10,000,000,000 more for our own defense, and more money to arm friendly nations abroad (estimates on this run up to $5,000,000,000,000). If it actually comes to that, it will be a stiff dose. And with it may go rationing and price control in the event the new program drives prices steeply .upward. Plainly the American people have reached the belt-tightening stage; ahead lie heavy sacrifices from which there is no escape. Yet there's no help for it. These demands should have been made a long time ago. They amount to belated administration recognition that you can't match a toothpick against a. telephone pole. For many months Mr. Truman clung to a decision not to let de fense grow so big as to interfere with "life as usual" in this coun try. During this period Louis Johnson, his defense secretary, re peatedly asserted we could suc cessfully counter Russian aggres sion should the need arise. The Korean war demonstrates force fully the irresponsibility of those claims. Now, under the shock of Soviet action, we seem to be waking up. A few extra billions might be enough to win in Korea. The Pre sident's plans for perhaps $15,000, 000,000 additional money show we are at last thinking in the big terms the situation requires. Had this step been taken earlier, there might have been no Korean war. Mr. Truman's more immediate requests, plus action taken where new laws aren't needed, are logical parts of the basic determination to get this country on a really sound security footing while there is still time. It was obviously necessary to give Johnson power to call up re servists and National Guardsmen as the military outlook dictates. The bid for removal of existing limits on the size of the armed forces (2,005,000) fits into the same brac ket. Curbs on consumer credit, priorities and allocations for vital raw materials, devices to block industrial inventory hoarding, loans to stimulate oetense output, all these are inevitable steps on the path toward industrial mobil ization. They are aimed at making room for a huge defense program Education Aid Offered Vets Who Return To Service WASHINGTON, UP) The Vet erans administration has extend ed educational benefits of the GI bill indefinitely for World War II veterans who go back into active military service. The veterans administrator, Carl R. Gray Jr. ruled that vet erans who have started GI bill stud ies and interrupt them to return to military duty will not be bound by the July 25, 1951, cut-off date for returning to educational train ing. Instead, Gray said, such veter ans will be allowed to resume training "within a reasonable per iod" following their release from active service, even though they are not back in school until after the deadline date. Gray said the veterans will have to meet these requirements: 1. Their conduct and progress in the GI bill course must have been satisfactory. 2. The amount of training they may obtain after getting out of uniform will be limited by their remaining entitlement. 3. Their course may not extend beyond the July 25, 1956, date for winding up the GI bill program. The July 25, 1951, cut-off date for starting GI bill training applies to World War II veterans discharg ed before July 25, 1947. The VA earlier said veterans planning to study under GI train ing next fall should make ar rangements immediately. These instruction apply to veterans who are not going back into military service. Her Mind About Hoarders a loved one lost? Do you know what it is not to be able to sleep for a gnawing anxiety as to wheth er he is even alive? If he has food? "I know what it is. You see, I'm the wife of a boy who was listed as the first Sacramentan missing in action in Korea." Army Sgt. Randall C. Roberts, 29, a veteran artilleryman who fought from the Normandy beach head to Berlin in World War II, was reported missing with an artil lery battalion in Korea July 14. mo Indian campaign, southwest, ended in September, 1886, in New Mexico territory in Arizona. "My object in writing you. dear Mr. Truman, is -to achieve induc tion into the armed forces again." The White House said that Presi dent Truman has not replied to the two offers but will undobtedly express his thanks. COPPER OUTPUT SLUMPS WASHINGTON (.TV The Bureau of Mines said today that mine production of copper declined 10 percent during 1949 to 752,750 short tons. Production in 1949 by stales in cluded: Arizona 359.010 short tons: Wash ington 5,275; Oregon 20: and Alas ka 4. DECOY PAYS OFF CHICAGO. -t.Vt Four robbers surrounded Ralph De Leon as he sat in a parked car. They demanded money. He tooK a wallet from a coat pocket and showed it to them. It was empty. The thugs went a way. They didn't know that Pe Leon carries his money in a wallet that he Keeps In a pants pocket. in our already high-level civilian economy, and at softening the im pact of that expanded activity on our everyday life. As tar as tney go, tne proposals are satisfactory. But the President President should have in mock up form all '.he legislation he would need for complete mobiliza tion. If a big war came, we'd be badly strapped without plans ready for instant use. On the whole the President's pro gram is a definite stride toward acceptance et the fact that the United States is engaged in the most punishing contest for survival we have ever faced the two world wars excepted. Let's hope it guides the people to greater aware ness of the danger. Umpqua Mineral Club Hears Talk By Les Roberts ' Les Roberts, well known locally as a mineral collector and as an authority on mineral identification, gave the first of a series of lec tures on mineralogy at the regular meeting of the Umpqua Mineral club last Thursday. After a potluck dinner, starting at 8 p.m., Roberts, starting with "first things first," gave an insight into the manner in which certain elements combine to form the var ious minerals. Differentiating be tween a ' rocK and a ' mineral he explained that a "mineral" is composed of a definite group of elements, always in the same pro portion for any given mineral Halite, common salt, is always composed of one atom of sodium, joined with one atom of chlorine, thereby making it, by definition, a mineral, he pointed out. A rock, on the other hand, is a group of elements, or other miner als mixed physically, but not chem ically, and the proportions may vary. Conglomerate, a mixture of varmii, lrinHc nt nokklo 1 c I may contain a number of varia - nuns in Kiiius aim sizes or peooies and still be called conglomerate, a rock. The next talk, to be announced later, will take up collecting, how to start, what to collect, where to collect and how to keep the col lection. The general public is in vited to attend this series of lec tures and discussions by Mr. Rob erts. AWARDED COLLEGE PIN Clinton Atterbury, son of Mr J. E. Atterbury. L. G. route, now attending Woodbury college, Los Angeles, has been awarded the bronze pin of the Phi Gamma Kap pa honor scholarship fraternity. To attain this honor Atterbury maintained scholastic grades of at least three "A's," two "B's," with no grade lower than "C" for one quarter's attendance at Woodbury college, where he is majoring in foreign trade. A graduate of Roseburg high school, Atterbury served with the U.S. Marine corps during World War II. FOR . . . ' SERVICE... EXPERIENCE CO-OPERATION . . .. 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