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4 The Newi-Revicw, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., Aug. 28, 1950 Publlihtd Daily Except Sunday by tho Ntws-Revitw Company, Inc. lattrH tcoo elm msllir May 1, IKi. it tbt tt attic at MbMrg. Orcfoa, n4if act tf Marc It . 111 CHARLES V. STANTON EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Monagtr M.mbtr of tho Associated Prtii, Oroflon Nowtpapor PublUhtrt Association, tho Audit Buroau of Circulations Bapratatc4 bj WEHT-HULLIDAV CO., INU. ffleti In New Vark, Chlaafa, laa rranoiioa. Lmm Ansalia, Maallla, tarllan. Si. Laaia BUUttCKIPTlUN RATKH in Ifraion Hy Mail lai rear SH.W. all munllia At, tar m an lb .5 Ht Ctl? Carrier fr rt m.M ila a)Tan(, tttaa n rear aar mnnlh II.M OotiKU Oragan By Mall Par mi IM. Hi a ants $4.14 Ibraa mantha It.li. NOT BIG By Charles V. Stanton The Oregon State Highway commission at its last regu lar meeting entertained a large delegation urging construc tion of a four-lane section on highway 99-B between Salem and New Era. The purpose would be to speed traffic in the Salem -Portland area. There is just one trouble with the petition. It should have included the entire Pacific highway in the State of Oregon. We can continue our piecemeal, patchwork method of highway development, always staying five or ten years be hind the traffic load, or we can approach the problem from a more businesslike angle, issue bonds to be repaid from highway revenues, and rebuild the highway from end to end as rapidly as the work can be engineered and contracted. Under our present bit-by-bit method, we waste money and never have an adequate road. Lack of transportation facility is costing us far more than the annual interest and principal on a highway bond issue, sufficiently large to do the job. In addition we are losing money from inability of industry and business to expand because of transportation bottlenecks. We realize the enormity of the state's highway problem. We know, too, that Oregon has been a most conservative state and has been provincial in its approach to the road problem. It is time, we believe, we were exercising some vision, particularly in connection with our present and pros pective population growth, and getting at least one of our major highways the most used one built to accommodate present and prospective traffic use. New Roseburg Route Surveyed We perhaps should not accuse the highway commission of lack of vision, however, when we take a look at the survey now in progress for selecting a tentative route for a supcr duper highway here. According to rumors, highway engineers have been locating a prospective route which would miss Oakland and Sutherlin, staying along the west side of the railroad tracks, cutting through the Roseburg Rod and Gun club's recrea tional grounds, bridging the North Umpqua river down stream from the present railroad steel bridge, and following along the west side of the airport. It would cross the South Umpqua river a short distance below Laurelwood, and cut between West Moreland and the new Community hospital. Then it would follow along the base of Mt. Nebo, through the fairgrounds and Kiwanis park, and again across the river at Shady point, connecting with the straight tangent passing the Umpqua Tlywood plant. It would be a limited access road with four clovcrleaf. takeoffs, including one at Harvard Ave., and another on the Garden Valley road. You understand we are not quoting this information on authority only on hearsay. Highway department en gineers are non-committal. But at least we know the survey is being made. Right Of Way Is Factor We are told (again by hearsay) that the proposed new location is influenced principally by the fact that cost of right of way in following approximately the existing route and building one-way arterials through town is prohibitive; that the new super highway will be little, if any, more ex pensive and will better accommodate existing and prospec tive traffic. We won't argue the point, because we haven't the facts. We do know, however, that the highway commission was urged a number of years ago to buy right of way in the Roseburg area and hold it until needed, because it would be too expensive later. We know because we urged it, not only in this column but in personal letters to highway com missioners and in talking with them. But the commission took the position it couldn't afford to tie up its funds for long periods of time. So we simply pay more for our highways when we DO build them. The situation at Roseburg, we believe, is a good example of the need for completely rebuilding the Pacific highway for the future at the earliest possible date. Certainly the cost will not get less and it can go a great deal higher as the state continues to grow. A complete reconstruction job would be less expensive in the long run than our present piecemeal system; would promote more travel, would eliminate costly transportation bottlenecks, and speed industrial and business expansion. In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued (mm I'aRe One) Straws in the wind: Navy Secy. Matthews, speaking in Boston last niKht, says: "The tJnited States niv he fnrcrrl to alter its policy "f NKVER DRAW ING THE SWOIill UNLESS FIRST ATTACKED." "If Russia Is Koing to biini; on World War 111, lot us have it upon OUR TERMS . , . We can not afford to encage in any more sat ellite wars ... If Russian nun pets start trmihle anvwherr. THAT SHOULD HE THE S1CNAL '(!! OUR BOMBERS TO WINC. THEIR WAY TOWARD MOSCOW." Secy. Matthews, in his Boston speech, added to his statement that the time may hp here when we'll have to shoot first, these signifi cant words: "We should boldly proclaim our undeniable objective to be world peace. "TO HAVE PEACE WK SHOULD BE WILLING TO PAY. AND DECLARE OCR INTENTION TO PAY. ANY PRICE, EVEN THE PRICE OK 1NST1TCT1NC A WAR TO COMPEL COOPEPATION. "Self preservation In tiie present world can he purchased only by those capable of resisting success fully a violation of their rights." ENOUGH JENKINS. Those are fighting words. I Let's skip hack for a moment j to Secy, Mathews' statement that 1 the lime may be near when we'll 1 have to alter our policy of never ; drawing the sword unless we are ; first attacked. That policy tracks back to the days of chivalry. Sir Galahad, if his opponent's horse stumbled, raised his lance and rode by, giv ing his enemy another chance. That was all right in Sir Galahad's day, because his chivalrous oppon. ent would iiave done the same hv him. If Sir Galahad had been joust ing with a COMMUNIST and had ; raised his lance chivalrously and I ridden hv. HIS COMMUNIST OP PONENT WOULD HAVE TURNED AROUND AND STABBED HIM IN THE BA' K. There's no chivalry in war any more especially in war with com ' mtinism. ; Let's be blunt: j What Secretary Matthews is sug ; Resting and American Legion Com mander Craig is proposing is that I wo should ATOM BOMB RUSSIA BEFORE Pl'SSIA HAS TIME OR OPPORTUNITY TO DO US ANY MORE DIRT. That's a grim proposal. But It's realistic. ' Red Reinforcement" IPC OLD FRIENDS MEET Oldtimers who were once youngsters in 100-yedr-old Scottsburg had a heyday Sunday renewing acquaintances during the centennial celebration. Former residents and descendants of early Scottsburg settlers traveled from as far away as Seattle and Los Angeles to attend the city's birthday party. Shown above greeting friends are seated, from left, Louie Seymour, Mrs. James Graham, Mary Sagaberd, George Perkins and Mrs. Perkins. (Staff photo I Some people say "guardian an gel," and some say, "Something made me " some say men most likely "I had a hunch," and others say "I had presence of mind": but all, it would seem, follow up such opening words with an interesting incident in which a sudden, strong, impelling thought caused a change of direction, a change of plan even saved a life. Mrs. Edith Aekert, on her way north on !I9 with her niece and nephew, slopped in for a call. Sin was telling about the fire in her home which had damaged some books and so on. Mrs. Ackert, a former county school superintend ent, is writing a history of Doug las county based on early school records. Since she has spent much time and research on her material she was at great pains to dry that damaged by water. She was sitting near a triple strength plate glass window, one day, when "Something made me go out to see how the books were drying ... a moment later, right where I had been, that big win dow was just a pile of glass, not Development Of Oregon's SAI.KM (.V Oitkoii has, at least 104 developed picnic areas aloni; its highways, and more are under construction. Stale Highway Kncineer K. II. Baldnck said. Of these, .is are in national for ests, 44 in stale parks, two in na tional parks, and the rest are be side highways. i All of the areas provide picnic tables and garbage cans. Some of them have water, and most have I toilets. I Since the highway commission t """ " '"" Uranium Find Reported In British Isles j LONPON i.V The British1 government hs announced discov-1 I ery of the largest single deposit perhaps a million of tons or I uranium located in the British Isles. The mini try of supply said the ore. in northern Wales, is of 'e tremely low yield The ministry hinted exploitation might not be feasible The department of scientific and industrial research, however, said Dij Viahnett S. Martin a piece bigger than a thumb nail. I certainly was glad I moved just in time, before that truck crashed through the glass!" f guess all of us could tell in ! cidents coincidences. People who have experienced an earthquake i are not likely to have high cup ! boards crammed with heavy i things, even cans. Nor heavy pic i tures over the head of the bed. Nor, for lhat matter, gingerbread trimmings over entrance door ways such as many public build ings had in I.ong Beach until five minutes to six, one March eve ning. A dear friend was placing dinner on the table that evening when a loving thought for a child next I door caused her to take a little of each salad plate and take the ex- i Ira plale to the child. On her way J back, the earhqttake struck. She couldn't have been in a safer place! But oh her kitchen! All the high storage cupboards had swung open catches rarely hold and there was s shambles of smashed canned goods on the floor . where she had been. She was con vinced lhat the loving thought for the child had saved her life. Picnic Areas Progresses started its program in 1948 1o pro vide roadside picnic facilities. 13 of them have been completed. Seven more are under construc tion, and four have been author ized. Of those which have been tom pleted, there are four on the Old Oregon Trail highway, two on the Pacific highway and the rest scat tered over other routes. Baldock said the program is especially valuable to tourists who want to have a good place to stop and eat their meals. the ore is "in no way inferior' to deposits being worked by the Rus sians in Kast Germany. The sci entists calclated the ore would ! BAD IDEA FOR UNFIT BRISTOL, R. L - (T- - A 1 Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nolony scientist would grade pen. pie for admission to A-bomb shel ters "on the basis of their im I portancc to the United States." ( Prof. Clarke Goodman, a n i atomic energy scientist at MIT, I said "some people are more im priant than others and we can't build shelters for everybody." Km.-!- Morse Will Ask Probe Of Dispute In Rail Seizure WASHINGTON (.PI Senator Morse (R-Ore) savs he will Dress for a thorough congressional in vestigation of the labor dispute that led to government seizure of the railroads. Ainren cniH the tnnalp lahnr rnm. or a subcommittee should make the inquiry. In a Senate speech he suqeested that the two unions involved were being wrongly accused of break ing a no-strike pledge. President Truman told a news conference Thursday that chiefs of the train men's and conductors' unions called the walkout within an hour afler promising John R. Steelman, Mr.' Truman's assistant and labor adviser, Here would be no strike. Morse said members of the Na tional (Railway) Mediation board who heard the conversations would testify "that no such pledge was made to Mr. Steelman." Morse said, however, he be lieves Steelman honeslly thought the pledge was made. "I am sat- j isfied that President Truman al ways wants to h 'air in a con troversy," he added. ! The senator acain suggested that ! Mr. Truman call a national lahor-' management conlerence to pro duce a "no-strike, no-lockout" pledge during the Korean fighting and war mobilization period. He said the country needs a new agency, similar to the former War I Labor board, to deal with labor disputes during the period. Morse was a War Labor board member. Six Killed, ?5 Injured In Wales Train Wreck CONWAY. Wales i.T-i Six persons were killed and 25 injured in the ramming of a switch engine by the London-bound crack pas snger train Irish Mail five miles west of here Sunday. The train, a half hour behind schedule on its run from the Irish sea port of Holyhead, was carry ing many persons homeward bound from holidays in Ireland. . .tack Williams, an injured fire man aboard the Irish Mail, averted a possible second disaster by scarmbhng from the wrecked cab to halt an approaching freisht train laden with high explosives. OriginairV the wireless distress call at sea was "COD'' but this was changed to "SOS" primarily because its coded three dots, three dashes and three dots are much easier read. Navy Head's Talk On War Policy Lacks Approval WASHINGTON -l.'Pi The State department has expressed sharp disapproval of a speech by Navy Secretary Matthews at Boston in which he said the United States should be willing to start a war in the interest of peace. Reporters were told by press of ficer Roger Tubby that the speech "was not cleared by the depart ment of State." He added: "Mr. Matthews' remarks about instituting a war for peace do not represent U. S. policy. The United States government does not favor instituting a war of any kind." The White House refused com ment on the speech. White House officials said in response to a query that it was not cleared there in advance. In his addrss, at the Boston navy yard Friday, the navy's ci vilian chief said this country should be willing to pay any price "even the price of instituting a war, to compel cooperation for peace." He did not represent this view to be government policy, though it was stated by a cabinet officer with the prestige which he pos sesses. State department officials and many others in the administration have always talked very strongly against any action by the United States or the Western powers to undertake what is sometimes called the "preventive war." They contend that only by following a policy of peace until compelled to fight to resist aggression as in Korea can the U. S. hope either to achieve the kind of world it wants or to maintain its posi tion of leadership among peace fully inclined nations. Grants Pass Merchant Killed In Auto Crash MADRAS, Ore. WPI Andrew E. Krieger, Grants Pass merchant, was fatally hurt Saturday as his car crashed off U. S. highway 97 three miles north of here on Dead man's curve. Coroner E. W. Mason said Krie ger driving north alone in his car, apparently tried to take the dan gerous curve at too high a speed. The car ripped out five guard rail posts in leaving the highway Krieger was alive when an am bulance was called, but was dead on arrival at a hospital. ASSURANCE TRAGEDY SEASIDE, Ore. JP)j- A mother had just finished reading a letter from her corporal son, saying that he had volunteered for trans fer from Japan to the Korean fighting front. "Don't worry," it concluded. A telegram was delivered from the War department. It informed her that the son, Corp. John Wil liam Simons, had been killed in action. The mother, Mrs. Carroll Hat chcll, collapsed and was reported to be seriously ill from shock. '. Another son, Pvt. Cyrus B. Sim mons; has been given-leave from his army post at Fort Lawson to care for her. LETTERS to the Editor Contends United States Not Fighting Russia ROSEBURG Mr. Frank Jen kins wonders what the war is about. He should, or ought, t o know what it is about, as he has been writing about war for sev eral years. I can tell him this much, we are not fighting Russia. We are en gaged in combat with ragged, barefoot, hungry-looking Korean boys. At least that's what the pic tures look like. When we fight Rus sia we won't wonder what the war is about. Russia herself will not fight until she has to. Where are Uncle Sam's allied troops the troops he has been feeding and sending billions of dollars . to through the Marshall plan? Are they going to let "George" do their lighting? And is gullible Uncle Sam going to be the "George," and foot the bills? Mr. Jenkins is almost right when he says Russia will stay out and let the U. N. fight until they ex pend themselves utterly, then "come in for the kill," as he says. Will wars ever cease? No. Do you remember the Thirty Years war? Well, the present war is going to be something like it. as the questions involved are about the same. Until the ideology is sat isfactorily settled there will be no peace. If you do not know what the Thirty Years war was about, look it up and see for yourself. It took Germany 200 yars to recover from that conflict. D. M. MURCH Roseburg, Ore. ROSEBURG I have read in our papers that our government has increased allotment pay for military men's dependents. That is all very fine, except from the standpoint of what is fair. Enlisted men's families get just as hungry as those of commis- r sioned officers. Yet enlisted men ! are just as heroic and brave. It I seems to me it would be difficult j for our soliders to do their best while wondering how their fam ilies are making out at home. We an Know the cost of living is pro hibitive In manv cases, after rent has been paid, there is little left for necessities. i Do you not think it would he a ! fair thing for our government to allow an equal flat rate allotment ' to both officers and enlisted men. i based on the number of depend ents? I hope more mothers will write our senators and representatives to see if this injustice can be ! corrected. MRS. C. n. ALBRIGHT 1124 W. Third St. Roseburg ,;- J 1 GERMAN ART FOR U. S. CHURCH-A workman fits mosaic, section into almost completed altarpiece being made by a firm in the American occupied sector of Berlin, Germany, for use in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Lowell, Mass. Although this mosaic represents the firm's first postwar order from abroad, it shows the industrial revival now under way in Western Germany tinder the direction of the Allied powers. Boys Build 'Flying "Saucer"; READING. Pa. OF) The telephone jangled at Reading po lice headquarters. The desk sergeant nicked uo the receiver and heard an excited voice tell him: "It's a flying sau cer." The sergeant promnlly dis patched a patrol car to the spot. With sirens blaring, the patrol car reached the scene and found the saucer on a lawn. Beside it sat two youngsters the saucer's inventors. 'It's a genuine hand-painted, made-in-Reading saucer," John Insurance Firm Leases Apartments To Negroes NEW YORK P) The Met ropolitan Life Insurance company announced it has leased some apartments in Stuyvesant Town to "qualified Negro tenants." The company, owner of the huge east side housing project and the adjacent Peter Cooper village housing unit, never had granted leases to Negroes before. Recently, the company asked 35 tenants of the projects to va cate their apartments next month. The tenants said this action was taken because they publicly op posed the insurance firm's restric-tions-.agauist Negroes. ' The- 35 tenants were asked tq' vacate' under lease provisions giv ing the company the option of re: newing leases upon their , expira tion. The tenants said they had hired attorneys to fight what they called the "evictions." The insurance company said in the Negro lease announcement that court rulings established that it has a right to "select tenants of its own choice." StuVvesant Town contains 8.759 apartments and houses more than 25,00 persons. COMPLETES TRAINING Donald Burton McLain, seaman recruit, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. w. n. McLain ot niver street, Roseburg, has completed recruit training at the U. S. Naval Train ing center, San Diego, Calif. McLain, who entered the naval service May 20, 1950, served as recruit petty officer, second class. Before entering the service he" attended Roseburg senior high school. FOR . . . SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE ... CO-OPERATION ... Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. J.W-A-WAY C.S.I.A. "5j M Christmas Shopping In August a III . .TUT' i mm Rocket Coming Next Feick, 15, told the policeman last night. "Guaranteed not to fly" added Paul Fisher, 14. They explained they made the weird contraption from these in gredients: the top of a barrel, an insecticide bomb, a bunsen burner, part of a car heater, the reflec tor from an auto headlight, a sec tion of metal pipe, two pieces of wire, a round box and electric switch. Frightened residents of the area notwithstanding, the boys told po lice they plan to build a rocket next. The answers to everyday insurance problems By KEN BAILEY - mm QUKSTJON: Our next door neighbor'! nil furnao blew up and Balurited their home and furniture with toot and imoke. I understand this damage la not covered under a regular fire Insurance policy. la this true? ANSWER; Such damage as you riea cribe and where no actual fire exlHta m covered by what we call "Extended Coverage." This form of insurance (a not part of a standard fire policy but can be added at ver7 slight cost. ir I' you'll address vour own in surance questions to this office, we'll try to give the correct onswers and there will be no charge or obligation of any kind. KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Pacific Bldg. Phone 398 . -,' r' ays ' ' tf 4. - I
