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4 Tk Newi-Riw, Reieburg, Oft Wad., Aug. 30, 1950 Who Killed Coclc Robin? East Gardiner Boy Rewarded For Preventing Train Crash LOW COST RADIANT HEAT! Publithtd Ocily Except Sunday by the Nwi-Rtvlw Company, Inc. nttrcd at claw waiter May 1. al Iba ! atflet at Baaabarf, Orciaa. ni'ar act ml Marcfe t, 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editer Manager Mtmbtr of tht Associated Pross, Oregon Nawspapar Publiahart Association, rha Audit Buraau of Circulations aaraaaatea toy WEBT-HOIJ-IDAV CO.. INC.. ttftM in Me ''. Cfcloaga, taa rraoolaea. Laa Amalta, Baaiila. Partiana. i. Laaii SUBit KIF1IUN RATES In Oregon -Ht Mail Fat ri SUM. alt moolM MM, Ikra naotha t.a Br Cllj Larrler lr "r IIO.M 'In advan), Mn ana Mar. P" OtiliUU Orafaii BT Mall Par jr all aaantha (4.1ft. tarn aaaatha Si ll. We'll Have To Rebuild Korea By BRUCE BIOSSAT NEA Editorial Writer Vislory in Korea won't end our us new ones, in the political triumph in the field may be many time in sketching out our plans to A look at Korea's economic con - dition is enough to make clear the size of our future difficulties there. Korea is a land where 21.000,000 people normally live close to star vation. Poverty is the rule, even without war. But note what two months of war have done: Hundreds of vil lages have been leveled by fire and shell. Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been driven from their fields. Industrial plants have been bombed and looted. Transpor tation has been smashed. Except in the American-held sectors al most every bridge south of the 38th parallel has been knocked out. With winter coming on, every coal mine is in enemy hands. When the mines are recovered they will undoubtedly be found stripped of their machinery. Virtually no wood is available for fuel for for hous ing). Koreans arc fishermen as well as farmers great numbers of their fishing boats have been sunk. Oil tanks, warehouses, dock facilities and many other installa tions are gone. We are in Korea to rescue the people from Soviet-inspired aggres sion. But reports indicate they nev ertheless hold us responsible for the war damage and look to us to make it good when the conflict is over. This many sound ungrate ful, but its eminently practical. Furthermore, there's precedent for such an attitude. At the end of World War II we put out more than $3 billion to rehabilitate the Philippines. Most of the damage had been done by U. S. forces in In The Day's News .By FRANK (Continued from Page One) torships. But we now face a worse inrm nt mctaiorsnip, a more uan GEROUS form of diclalorship, than the world ever faced before. At the same time, democracy is weaker than it has been in the lifetime of even our older people. As a fighting force in the world, France is gone. Britain is badly weakened. China which, believe it or not, WAS a strong force for democracy in the world is OUT. We alone, if all of us know what we are fighting for and STAY UNITED, are strong enough to stand up and fight for human lib erty and democratic institutions. About all we've ever been told is that we're fighting to slop commu nism. I find, in my present sla'e of confusion, that I don't even yearn to die to stop communism. If anybody in the world outside the United Stales of America WANTS communism, let him have it. It couldn't be much worse than what a lot of Asia and I he countries of the Mediterranean have had. Me. I iust want communism TO KEEP ITS DIRTY FINGERS OFF US AND THE WAY OF LIFE WE HAVE BUILT FOR OURSELVES HERE IN AMERICA. I'm willing to fight for that, and to DIE for it, if need be because if Russian communism ever gets its fingers on our Ihroat life won't he wnrlh living anyway. Who, atler Odd Fellows, Rebekahs To Honor Visiting Official Philctarian lodge No. 8 and Re bekah lodge No. 41, 10OF, will join in a politick supper Thursday at the Odd Fellows hall at 6:30 in honor of Ross R. Killcnhoiise. Santa Cruz, Calif., grand mauler of the Grand Lodge of California, IOOF. Rittenhouse will make an oftirial visit to Philelarian lodge No. 8 at 8 p.m. Thursday. Estate, 2 Wills Placed In Probate The estate of Mrs. Mary A. Young, valued at approximately $16,800 has been admitted to pro bate by order of County Judge D. N. Busonbuk. Mrs. Young died intestate Auji. 19 and left personal properly valued at $16,500 and real property valued at about $300. The order appointed Howard A. Young, son of Ihe deceased, as executor and Howard M. Bailey, Vernon M. Orr and Leon McClin tok as appraisers. Also admitted lo probate wis, the will of Waller Vashaw. Fran-I cis M. Brown was appointed exec-i utrix by the order. Vashaw died Aug. 22. 1350 at , the age of 62. Appointed as ap- j G raisers were G. V. Wimberly, arry Black and Gordon Slcw.in A second will admitted by or der of Judge Busenbaik is' thai ol Howard Augustus Pearre who died Aug. 1. The order admitting I the will named a brother of the deceased, Ralph Walter Pearre, I as executor. No appraisers were named. i problem! there. It will merely give and economic sphere. Even though months away we ought to waste no meet the coming problems 1 freeing the islands from Japanese control. From Tokyo come signs we al ready arc recognizing the magni tude of the Korean economic pi'oi) lems. ECA officials plan to ship thousands of tons of cereals to Korea in the next few months. They're requesting preliminary surveys of immediate relief needs. Informed guesses are that J200 mil ion will be needed to meet press ing needs between now and next July. About 17 and one-half million has been set aside to provide for spring rice planting. Americans may feel like com plaining "Just another area for us to support. Aren't we doing enough lor the world as it is.' Of course It's painful, this vast iob of helping countries all over the world. But these are the bur dens imposed by war and the threat of war. Had there never been a World War II, the world would not have been so impoverished and pros trated as it has become in vast areas. Thus it wuuld not be so ready a prey of communism. Any one who has a realistic plan for averting these burdens undoubt edly would be welcomed in Wash ington's highest quarters. But in Korea as elsewhere there probably is none. We can't save the Koreans from Soviet domination only to leave them a country in ruins. They must he given the substance out of which to build a future in free dom. JENKINS. living in the kind of America we have had, would even want to he alive in the kind of America we would have If Russia licks us? Getting back to this Formosa business. MacArthur savs we NEED FOR MOSA IN ORDER TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND OUR COUN TRY AND OUR WAY OF LIFE. To me, that makes sense. Self- preservation is the first law of life. To me. It seems that our stale department in particular and our political loaders in general HAVE NO INTELLIGENT IDEAS ABOUT FORMOSA AT ALL. They sav we won't grab it. Then they say that if we are compelled to grab it we won't keep it. In practically the same breath, they order our Seventh fleet to DE- r END Formosa if the reds attack it. Then they refuse to permit even one American to set foot on the soil of Formosa lo help defend it IF THE REDS ATTACK. At the same time, they order the Nationalist Chinese, who occupy Formosa as a last stand, lo quit fighting the reds on the mainland of China. The whole thing sounds use uuer, hoiiomless contusion. MacArlhtir's proposal, on Hie other hand, makes military sense. 11 we nerd rnrmosa to help DE FEND OURSELVES AND OUR WAY OF LIFE, let's grab it and keep it. That's blunt talk, but it seems to me this is a time for blunt talking. Pigeon And Dove Season Is Dated Friday, Sept. 1, marks the open ing of the hunting season for mourning doves and band-tailed pigeons in Oregon. The season on mourning doves is from Sept. 1 through Sep. 15. The hag limit on these birds is 10 a day or 10 in possession. Band-tailed pigeons have a sea son from Sept. t through Sept. 30. The pigeon bag limit is 8 a day and not more than 24 during ihe entire season. Band-tailed pigeons arc hunted west of the Cascades, in general, and doves are sought by hunters mainly east of the Cas cade mountains. C. A. I.ockwood, Oregon State Game director, stated that he ex pected lo receive dates for mi gratory waterfowl seasons horn Ihe V. S. Fish and Wildlife service within the week. Boy Scouts Tell Of Jamboree Trip A report of their recent trip to Valley Koi'e, Pa , was Riven by two Hoy Scouis at Ihe weekly Ki w anis cluh meeting Tuesday 'noon in the Hotel I'mpqiia. (Jlenn Scoficld. a memher o f Senior Scout; troop 2;i7. sMnsored by the Kivvaiiis club, save an ac count of the trip to anil from Ihe camp area, while KonaM Graves iTKirterl on their eperiences at Valley Koiue. Starling at Kuiiene. said Sen field, their special train nicked no Scouts enrnule to Portland and east lliroush Idaho, for a first stop I iMissoula, Mont., and an out- Attired in her father's wedding coal, black breeches, boots with wrinkled lops, and a black derby on her fluffy white hair, the Scotts- burg Centennial chairman, Miss Emma Hcdden, was just signing off the program when we arrived. We were sorry to miss so much of the day there, but one can't be in two places at once. Miss Hcd den, granddaughter of the pioneer postmaster and merchant, Cyrus ilodcfcn, cmcccd a tine program, judging from comments we heard. Many oldtime costumes were in the crowd. We soon spotted the black satin dress and bonnet worn by Mrs. Dorothy Wcathcrlcy and wer j welcomed by her. Later I had more of a visit because she dis covered me reading something her husband, Dick Wcatheiiey, had put in the pioneer exhibit: "the log of Omega," a whaling ship, in 1844. It was fascinating, as is anything connected with the sea! We had looked at the exhibits, all plainly tagged with neatly let tered explanations. A large hair wreath surrounded the photograph of a couple, made from the hair of their children. Ihere was a yard-long infant's dress, aprons made of llax tnal Had Been grown, spun and woven on the farm and oh so many, many items of interest. Then I had come to a center table where an old book Comic Book Helps Soldier In Korea Kill Boredom Of Battle By HAL BOYLE KOREA Ml A soldier has to find some way to kill Ihe boredom of battle. One day I visited a forward command post in a gully near the Kaktong river. The position had been heavily shelled and fnortarcd all day. One shell burst a half hour before had killed an officer and wounded his driver. I Those in Ihe gully were hunched against its sides tor protection and their eyes held a tense expression. Rut one soldier across the way was leaning comfortably against Ihe bank and frowning inlently at a paper-bound book. I started lo walk across to him. A shell hit some hundred yards or so behind us i st then. The gully seemed suddenly wider and barer than a six-lane (leeway. "What are you reading?" 1 called. The soldier, Cpl. Lloyd A. llalin, , ot rtaiuwm ram, lain., goi up. brushed off some dust and strolled unconcernedly over lo where I crouched. He held out a comic hook called "The Matman.' I :ked him if it was very exciting. "Just so so," he said placidly, "but it help fill in the lime." Then he si rolled back leaned against the bank and read on in search of adventure. There was a kind of symbolism in another bonk 1 saw on the desk SK . of a Ma jor General the dav one of ! his reiiiments bad been rouiilily handled by the Reds. It was "Tomorrow Will be Rot ter." by Hetty Smith. "1 haven't had a chance to look into it yet been too busy." said the Rcncral lirimly. "but I sure like the title." There are almost endless stories door meal. I'm to Livingston. Mont., they took a side trip by1 bus to Yellowstone .National park. Proceeding thence to Hannibal. I Mo., they visited Mark Twain's birthplace, and then traveled on to Washington. II. C. for a dav s stop, before going on to Vallev 1 rorge. Craves took up the report there and recounted their week's stay : days he manages to get in about at the jamboree, after which Sen- an hour of practice drives, field told of their visit to New 1 Whenever he comes to a cumin York, and relurn by way of Chi- i ber patch he puts down his pack cago lo Salt Lake City and on to ! and nonchalantly lees olf using San Francisco and return 1o Kti-1 the cucumbers as golf balls. There gene. The entire trip took them i is no need to cry "fore" as the it, ooo miles. ; course is quite nncrowded. Bji Viahnett S. Martin i was opened to a neatly written page: a ship's log! I wanted to sit down in a corner and begin at the first page and read lo the end! But I could only snatch at bits here and there. I soon learned that a sketch of a whale meant one had been sighted, stuck and perhaps lost! One entry was "Sighted whale. Noble fellow . . . towed to ship. Put down 90 bbls." The entries, all neatly spaced by days, always began with the weather and ended with same. Latitude and longitude, too. One day Omega shared a whale with the ship "Walter Scott," Omega getting 45 bbls. Said Mrs. Weatherley when she found me bending over the book: "It was in an old trunk . . we just found it three weeks ago. We haven't had time to read it yet. We don't even know the name of the ship." Imagine my delight when I could turn to the page and show her. A piece had been torn from the flyleaf just where the ship's name had been. But sharing a whale had caused the inclusion in the log entry months later. For tunate people who have attics and trunks with fascinating treasures in them such as ship logs! Well, I don't have an attic but I've been invited lo "come and take your time" reading the log of Ihs whaling ship. Omega! of narrow escapes during Ihe see- saw battle for "Atrocity ml i north of Waegwan on the Naktong ! j river line. Some are almost unhe-j nevame sucn as me siory gi two . men who escaped by temporarily ! joining the Reds. "Two of our boys not lost during i a night," recalled Cn. Wade M. Young of Tori Wentworth, Savan- i nan. ija. "A column of enemy soldiers came by and they fell into line with Ihem. They didn't know what else they could do They marched for about an 1 hour until they saw a familiar i landmark dropped out of the column and made their way safely to our lines," j lA. Donald Munro of Chicago, , told of our other First cavalry division troopers who were held 1 prisoner for 20 minute and then saved by a counterattack while their captor still were arguing i over whether lo kill them, j "The Rooks took away their 'shoes, cigarets, rifles and ammo.' : ho said. "Thev also took a Hihle , ' -r.-.. i . ... . "lH" "ne ' 1 T '""MI,K ai II a 1 1 mil in 1 1 ,iiic ii imv rv. 'One man said he heard them mention President Truman and an other say. 'no kill.' "But before the Reds could make up their minds our troops drove back and chased them away." Other American prisoners on Atrocity Hill weren't so lucky. Re tween 40 and Ml were shot to death by the retreating Reds. Troops at the frontline have to strip down lo the barest essential gear. Only the things that help a man stay alive and ficht can he carried into the assembly lines of the industry of death. But a soldier in one outfit who is an ardent golfer insi.sied on taking a golf cluh to battle. Most LETTERS to the Editor Consideration Shown Sons Pleases Father EUGENE My son, Cecil Jr., left last week for active duty as a member of the local battery of the marine corps reserve stationed in Eugene. At the time he received his or ders to active duly he was in the employ of "Bud" Porter and George Aker. owners of the Tiller store. He had been with them less than two months at the time he received his call lo active duty. When they learned of it. Bud and George immediately gave him two weeks vacation with pay. They also loaned him their truck to move his personal effects to Eu-1 gene, lhcy assured him that, if he desired, he might have his job hack at the termination of his mil itary service. It is my opinion that their conduct sets a high standard for employers of the boys being called now for military service. I wish you would publish, these facts in your newspaper, as I would like the people of your com munity to know of the consideration shown by Bud and George towards my son. CECIL STICKNEY J Eugene, Ore. Cost Of Living Increase With Not Definitely By SAM DAWSON ! NEW YORK UP) The value of your dollar is going down again, i Some think a floor will soon be put under it by increased production of ' the foods and goods you want to buy. Others think inflation is going to get much worse before it gets better. The drop in the value of the dollar is just another way of saying that the cost of living has jumped sharply since the outbreak of the Korean war, now in its tenth week. Most observers see no way for prices in general to g for the rest of this year but up. However a few government, officials think the big jump has already taken place, and that while some things, like rent and house furnishings, may continue to climb, others, par ticularly meat, are due to drop Scare buying has played the vil lain's role so far. The greatest damage wasn't done by the hoard ers who Hocked to retail stores, but by the merchants, wholesalers and manufacturers who flooded the primary sources of commodities with anticipatory orders. These multiple orders in excess of actual needs brought about the shortages that caused the gray markets and the prices hikes. The effects nf these increases in the costs of raw materials are still working their way along the pipe lines of distribution toward your retail stores. The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds the cost of living went up three percent between April and July 15. But BUS commissioner Kwan ClaKue says living costs "prettv definitely are leveling off." Price-Hiked Itemi Lilted However, here are some of th? finished products on which price hikes have been announced (not by all producers nor in all citie) dui.ng August. Kach adds a little to the cost of living since the period covered by the IMS report. Cigarets. tires, shoes, fuel oil, toothpaste, bandages, paint brushes, typewriters, washing ma chines, rotary ironers, baking equipment, coffee brewers, car pets, pe.icils. writing paper, tele vision and radio sets, heavy under wear, cotton piece goods, woolen goods, and movie film. And here are some of Ihe pri mary commodities on which prices have gone up in August: indus trial alcohol, tin, rubber, steel scrap, lead, platinum, copper and hrass products, cellophane, sodi ash. rayon yarn, sugar, and some iron and steel products. The Associated Press index of DON REAVIS is congratulated by W. J. Conier of Eugene, Engin eer of tha freight train Don saved from probable accident. L. P. Hopkins. Superintendent Portland Division, holds wrist watch which he presenled as a token of appreciation from the Southern Pacific Co. Alertness of Don Reavis, 17-year-old high school boy of East Gardi ner, was rewarded last weekend when the Southern Pacific com pany presented him with a hond some gold wrist watch for prevent ing what might have been a ser ious derailment on the Coos Bay branch. Northeast India Earthquake Has Terrible Results NEW DELHIA, Indna-t.PI The face of Northeast India still was was changing today in the wake of the devastating earthquake 13 days ago. termed by scientists the world's fifth most severe recorded shock. Spreading flood waters pushed further over tea gardens in Assam province, where the quake hit hardest. The death toll was in the neighborhood of 5,000. Minor shocks continued in the province. Millions prayed in the streets and fields. An estimated 5,000,000 persons were reported homeless. Property damage was placed at $20,000,000, Damage to crops, farm animals and natural resources was ex pected to push this figure much higher. The throwing up of the rich subsoil threatened permanent ruin to Assam's tea industry, a maior contributor to India's export trade. Swollen streams, their courses changed by the upheavals, also menaced the plantations and vil lages with waters contaminated with injurious mineral oils and sulphur. Hundreds of villages along the flooded pihang and Bra'rn.hapulra rivers were under water. .Roads, bridges and rail lines were sunken or covered by landslides. The disruption of transport seri ously, hampered rescue work and surveys of the damage. The' quake area covers 35.000 square miles. Throughout the re gion pollution of streams caused grave shortages of drinking water. It was Assam's worst quake since 1897. In that 1,542 persons were killed. Continues To Ultimate End Predictable 35 commodities reveals how much some of these price hikes were at wholesale, comparing August 25 prices with those of June 25, when the Reds chargpd on Korea, Lumber is up S13 a thousand feet. Rubber is up 2.V3 cents a : pound, and tin 28' cents 0 pound. Scrap steel has advanced $2.50 a ! ton. I Raw sugar has gone up 4'i cents a hundred pounds, and cocoa beans ; up 10' cents a pound. Green cof- fee has advanced 7li cents a ; pound. Hides are up 71? cents a i pound. Flour cost 25 cents more a hundredweight. 1 Hogs, highest since Oct. 1948. are up $5 a hundredweight from , June 25. But lambs bring less now than then. Corn is 3 cents a bushel higher, and wheat is up 10 cents. ' But oats brings 12 cents a bushel 1 less and rye is off 2' cents. I One thing that could hold prices down is increased production. The Federal Reserve board thinks that industrial production this August i will be about percent of the I 1935-39 average. It nu's June pro duction 3t 199 pe cent. This steady , gain in production will mean more ! goods a.id more goods will act f ' a brake on inflation. THEFT, DESERTION CHARGED William Harold Prather. 20. of Hutchinson. Ka.v. arrested hy the state police, was turned over to Granls Pass Deputy Sheriff I.otiis i P. Rincuette, reported Sheriff O . T. Carter. Parther was returned on a war- i rant charging him with larceny ! of an auto armed with a deadly weapon and also marine corps de- , sertion. j The first sponsored radio broad i cast over WF.AF of New York in j 1922, cost S100 for a ten minute ; sales talk on real estate. The Inter-American Highway in Central America is lined with Coney oaks, a variety nf white oak. Working on the Dawson farm two miles north of Reedsport on the opposite side of Smith river from the railroad in the early morning of July 15, Don saw and heard a large tree fall across the tracks. By hurried effort he reached the right-of-way by boat in time to flag down an oncoming S. P. freight train whose engineer. W. J. Gonier, was unable to see the fallen tree because of a curve in the track Later it was discovered the tree had thrown the .'ads out of align ment so that a bad derailment and possible loss of life was averted by the lad's action. Presentation of the watch was made at Reedsport by L. P. Hop kins, superintendent of the Port land division for the railroad, ac companied by J. H. Pruett Jr.. general passenger agent and Harry Williamson, division engi neer, all of Portland; I. O. Under bill, trainmaster and Engineer W. J. Gonier, both of Eugene, and J, W. Davis, roadmaster, Coos Bay. Don is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Reavis of East Gardiner, residents of the Coos Bay area for the past 50 years. A native of Reedsport, he will enter his senior year at Reedsport high school this fall. 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