9 4 The Nowi-Keview, Roseburg,, Ore. Thurs., Dm. 28, 1950 Published Oaily Exetpt Sunday by tht Ntws-Revlaw Company, Inc. Inttrtd M iirn mtiUr May 1. IV1K. at Iht pnil ifflt tl Rtttburi, Oregon indar act tf Harnk t, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mtmbar of tha Anociatod Prti, Oragon Nawipapor Publiihora Allocation, tht Audit Burtau of Clreufltiont l0rinU(l bj WKRT-HOLLIfM V CO., IMJ., fflr in fork, Chtwtf an FranrlKi. Loa Angtlrt. aaattl. frilan. at. Lula UB Htm I PI! ON RATFU-ln Orcfnn Hr Mail Pat ftai IK iM tit mnnih I Ml. tfera rnanlba It.M Bt (Ht Carrlrr l-'r IIh.m In advanra). Itn lln na ftr par mntb IIM nnuid Orajan By Hall Par fair IM. all aaastha 14.11. thraa monthi ft. J. ACHIEVEMENT" REPORT By CHARLES V. STANTON We have before us a year-end review of the "Friendly" Southern Pacific's "achievements." The "achievement" report is made by President A. T. Mercier, covering the year 1950. It is a (food report, showing- much progress. We can't blame any business utility or otherwise for putting on its best dress at a public appearance, but, excuse us, the S. P.'s slip is showing. "Southern Pacific rolled up more ton-miles of revenue ' freight movement in 1050 than in any other twelve-month period with the exception of 1948 and the peak years of World War II, and set an all-time operating efficiency rec ord," says Mr. Mercier's review. We are intrigued by that "efficiency record." Does It include the millions of dollars of losses to Oregon's savmills because of inadequate transportation facilities? Does i t cover the fact that, when the "Friendly" Southern Pacific couldn't furnish cars, lumber mills piled up millions of feet of lumber which could have been moved at a high price, laid off crews, although books were filled with orders, and then had to sell accumulated products at a bankrupt price because the lumber price skidded during the car shortage? But, back to Mr. Mercier's "achievement" report. It says : 1 "A heavier volume of traffic; starling in March, was raused by a greater demand for 'goods and materials throughout the nation. The Korean crisis Rturted a buy ing1 niRh in June which resulted in a sudden demand for transportation ' services. Never in Southern Pacific's history had business activity attained such high levels in territory served by the company's lines." ' That will be welcome news to the hundreds of Douglas county mill workers who suffered payroll losses from lum ber production curtailment because the "Friendly" South ern Pacific couldn't furnish freight cars when needed. This We Find Interesting Mr. Merrier continues: "More streamlined passenger train cars were placed in service by Southern Pacific in 1050 than in any other year. New streamliners inaugurated were the five romplet" trains necessary to maintain daily Sunset Limited service be tween Los Angeles and New Orleans, and the twin Cascade) night trains between San Francisco and Portland. South ern Pacific now provides the most modern streamlined sleeping car and streamlined roach wi-" m of its four transcontinental routes." ,. Ain't that swell? , , ; . And we might add that the pood old Southern Oregon Nightcrawler continues its bumpy wav, with all it? milk cans. During 1050, one of the "achievements" of the "Friendly" Southern Pacific was to remove the NightcrewU er's buffet car, thus denying its suffering passenjrors, the solace of a cup of coffee and the possibility of warm milk for hungry babies. The saving thus obtained rou'd have been used to much advantage in one of the streamlined club cars on the Cascade route. Investment Earnings Low "In spite of the heavy freight traffic, in 1050, the n"t op crating income of the Southern Pacific Transportation svs tem for the calendar year, according to best present esti mates, will equal a return of only a little more than three and one-half percent on the value of the transportation prop erties," Mr. Mercier states. This falls far short, he says, of what a railroad should be permitted to earn in order to maintain and properly improve its plant. We can agree with the "record' on that score. A rail road company is entitled to adequate earnings on its invest ment. F.arniugs, however, are in some measure affected by service. In southern Oregon, the railroad company's service certainly is not conducive to promotion of good will and good will is a necessary ingredient of profitable op eration. Mr. Mercier reports heavy investment in new freight cars a total of 4.1 IB added in 1050 but the question arises whether 4,1 Ifi cars are equivalent to the increased demand in this rapidly expanding area. President Merrier says he notes "with enthusiasm the continued exceptional growth of the territory served by the Southern Pacific". We share in his enthusiasm, but wish the "Frieivl'y" Southern Pacific would express its sentiments by a little more attention to our transportation bottlenecks, particu larly in the field of passenger service. Despite our criticism of local conditions, however, we congratulate the Southern tf.icil'ic companv on its gains fori'0 do. Said President Tinman II,. ,.Q.. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued From Page One) SMAI.I, military force is apt Hi be vanquished by a BIG military force. Here's a big question: Are we going In risk the same situation in Europe Our leaders talk as if we ARF. going to. Rut remember this: OUR f'Pl'ER RltASS CAN'T TALK ANY OTHER WAV. 1 Suppose we announced officially i that we're going m pull back In j the perimeter of our islands Brit ain in the Atlantic and Japan, Oki nawa and the lilippmes in the Pa cific and fiht ao. DEFENSIVE war. That would take the heart out of the peoples of Western Europe. They'd curl up right now and quit. You and I ran say we ought to pull back to what we can held and .GET STRONG before we tackle 'any more. But our leaders DARE NOT say that. It )mil lip the enemy nff tn somriKingWe mustn't tip him off tn. No good soldier JENKINS 1 ever yet C.ivp his enemies a j print of his battle plans. blue- At this critical moment in our history, let's keep our shirts on. We have good militarv lenders battle trained in World War II. We have the bilges, the MOST EF FICIENT production machine on earth. True, we made a blunller in Korea a bad one. Hut 1 can't imagine our militurv lender RF. PEATING such a blunder. Pel's 1 face the future with the grim am confident rictcrminatinrun dn what ever we have to dn hrkcop com munism s heel off our necks. Vital Statistic? KERN JONES I.vle Kerr and rtuny Mary Jones, both of Drain KEI.PAR JOIINSON H.iv Ray. mond Kellar Jr. and Rarhari Joan i Johnson, both of Glide. i'itie and psychological f.onts pfnerallv. DANCER WAFER I'ele N : Only Moscow knows, nf course. Dn.irer and Ora Louis Waler, both j when this weiai sir tsle mav en nf Camas Valley. I ter iQ siv "shooting phase, it He's : Nr r, acaftfcJK.!! H lx WW$M ' ?V Viahne.tt S. Martin WJ "J- ' f ;"-,. J Dear Earlcne, Harriett, Janet, Alice, Gregory, Gil, Harry and Hairy M; and also Ihe other first graders, too, whose letters did not, for one reason or another, find a place in the fal envelope that sur.irisod me recently. 1 really should ay, one day before Christmas: for you will not read this on Ihe Hay I write It. If you do not see it before then, M r s. Coons will read it to you for me, I know. I liked your letters very much inderd. You print very well! Isn't it just wonderful to he able to draw some lines on a sheet of paper, put stampwings on the! letter, and then no matter low far away the letter goes knew that the one who opens that enve lope will he able to know just what you wanted to say, did say, in act, when the pencil was in your hand! When I was a little girl I learned In print, too. My mother saved ......... ... initi,, Jiwi da V"IU i mother will save some of voui-sJ probably, and just as 1 now have some of those nnnled bv tWO tne little boys. (This was in country where children had six pencesremember?) ror praetiee we used slates. Each child had a slate, a li'lle. tin covered box in which we kept a wet sponge, and a nice slate pencil. Sometimes when a boy fell like stirring things up a little he would squeak his pencil on his Gen. Eisenhower's Task In Europe Much Tougher Than In World War II By BRUCE BIOSSAT Better than almost any man alive, Gen. Dwlght D. Eisen hower has come to symbollie the hopes of free men. There will be supreme faith in him as he begins building e unified European aeiense rorce. . Accepting this crucial responsi bility undoubtedly represents a leal sacrifice for thp general He l.'ies his job as president of Co lumbia I'nivejsity. Recently he bought a (arm near Gettysburg, I'a., and he was planning to spend a lot of time there. Moreover, he's past fio, and he's troubled by hiijh blood pressure. Rut he was the unanimous choice rf Ihe 12 Atlantic Pact countircs ,-r.d he has responded In the call ef duty ns one would expect him rnnoimcmg his selection: "Hi Itrience and talents make him uniquely qualified." Some military men believe Eis tnhower will have more authority in his new post than he did as ,'llied commander in Europe dur ii,. World War II. He probably will need it. for he faces a task of extreme difficulty. In World War II. the general s (iiemy was already declared when he took over. He knew what .he was up against. He Knew. too. that (it i many was being engaged hi av ily by Russia in the East, and that he wouldn't have to combat tne N7is' full power. This time that same Russia Is the po'enlial, thnu.ih not the dirlared enemy. Rut Soviet forces cie not now actively engaged anv- wnrip. nnr is anyone iikciv in ni (t rt their attention seriously (rom Ihe West. China. Ihe onlv big na lion at Russia's back door, is a Uiend. Furthermore, the Soviet t'nion, though her soldiers ire doing no shooting, is waging a strange, un rrlhodox kind nf warfare agiinst the West. Sh prods her satelli'wi aed other friends to embroil west ern armies in combat that fritters rway their strength. Meantime, she indulges in an endless ;am- aign of harassment in 'he I nited Nations and on the political, diulo Not Fireproof, Either slate and make a loud noise. For that he would be invited to "stand in the corner" with his back to the other children. Come to think of it, 1 had turns standing in the corner, as I can well remember. We sharpened our slate pencils on the stone window sills! Each little girl carried hr doll to school. And when we entered the room where our teacher was waiting for us, each little girl curtsied, and each little bov bowed politely. Since this w a -exactly what our mothers taught us at home, the teachers were ills! helnino tha mntherc hv re. minrtini lis nf nur manner nst as Mrs. Coons reminds you of please and thank-yous. When my mother had a Christ mas tree party for me, there wero many presents on the tree, each one numbered. The quests drew a number and then each was given a present from the tree which ; matrhrH thp nnmhor ITnur littlo . . . . in iu.i j i ! . " . ! I should be in Oregon, living where t ... ... ,,unl rvriy WlllllUW, 1 (Mil I Christmas trees growing! 1 love j Douglas county don t you? Now, I shall pin your letters up on the screen with all the other Christmas greetings and enjoy them all through the holidays, I hope you are having just Ihe hap piest Christmas vacation. With love from your friend, Viahnett Martin is for that that Eisenhower must make his army ready. tinder present plans he will command a force of 55 to 60 di visions, hacked up by Atlantic and .lediterranean fleets and large an elements. But only a small fart nf the ground forces, esti. mated at one million men. is now in being. The remainder will not he ready until late 1953, accord ire to existing schedules. One of the first hinns Eisen hower will need to determine is whether this force and Ihe :me table for its establishment are ari quale to meet the possible peril if the days ahead. PMsenhowcr is a genuine leader, vilh the qualities of both general rid statesman. High among those ettrihutrs is a herd-headed ..ense ef realism. Free men here and in Europe are counting upon nun to give it to them straight to tell Hum exactly how big their ar mies must, be and how fast ihey n ust be built up to be reasonably safe against Russian attack Boy Try Out Yult Gun, Ont Goef To Hospital MEDFORD (.P Jo Neil Jr., 10. could hardlv wait to trv " management was concerned, the .22 caliber gun he got for ! "t dded that the continued pick Christmas. His cousin. Gary Neil,!1"" ' damaging to the hotel. 10. of Portland, was almost as ex-1 DnRes of $2500 were asked, cited over it Ihe suit said the unions de- The bova took the gun outside It i mtided that all employes be re was fired accidentally. The hnllet ' l'retl tn join a union, and Gent- struck Gary in the right arm and stomach. Hospital attendants here ported him in fair condition. TWO DRUNKS FINED Charles Francis McMann. r5, of Oakland ti Lloyd E. McCili. Si. ef Roseburg were fined each and then released after plvding guilty to charges of beine, .trunk on a puhlic street, reported Justice of Peace A. .1. Geddes. McMann was arrested br Ihe slate police and McCall by i deputy sheriff. U 4 - vvvfu' ' 't I 1 St 18 v PFC. PAUL HOLTEEN. ion of Mr. and Mrs. C. Holteen of . . i " iiihwii, iiuins u ii ueiav en rou, Pnor TO repo"'ng to Ira- ..I. fnr.a k... . 1 1 J OC. " iwtw waau, vaitl. , Holfeen recently completed 10 months in B-36 school t Shep. pard At-B, lexat. (Staff photo), Money Suits Filed In Circuit Court Catherine G. Parcells has filed suit in circuit court for S1.4CH al legedly unpaid on monthly si.pport money by William J. Huf-h The plaintiff charges that tne de fendant has not paid support money since May 1, 1948. The de cree allowing the money for sup port was issued from the Washing ton slate superior court for Oow liti county. An amended complaint has been tiled in Ihe court by P. E Sinner against Winter Rrothers Logging Co. On two causes of action, the plaintiff has asked a total 51 lKfi ST. This money is allegedly due for laboi and services rendered in fall ing and burking timber. The Embrey Roofing and Ma terial Co. has started action against .lark Boxiey for a total $652 r. 7 o two causes of action. The de'end ant allegedly owes $352 67 on a loan and $300 on a promissory note. Walter L. Roser has asked $50. 2S damnges from William Gove, al legedly resulting from an auio col lisit.n Aug. 26 on the fish hat.-hery road west of Diamond lake. Injunction Sought To Halt Picketing PORTLAND (.P An injunc t on to halt picketing nf the Im perial hotel here was asked ir. cir cuit court here. Albert W. Centner, owner of the iletel, alleged that the picketirg by unions of he AFL Culinary alliance was for the purpose of forcing his employes to join a union, which the employe's have declined to do. Th suit said the employees were ,re 10 Joln or not ' )01n' ,0 ner said the hotel would not re quire them to do so. The hotel has been picketed for nine months. Also picketed is the Mallory ho tel also owned by Centner. H said a similar injunction suit might be filed in connection with that picketing. Cecil W. Jones, executive (fcard president of the CulWry alliance, said that when Centner bought Ihe Imperial from PW Metschan there was a full union siaff and that as a result of actions by Centner non union help grsdually moved in. im TOunjjton mj Report ly FULTON LEWIS JR. (Copyright, 1950 King Ftturi SyndietU, Ine.l WASHINGTON Whin peeil commifte. report! tht a governmant department could lop off mor than IS per cent of iti penonnel without having any ill effect on id operations, the natural essumption would be that the committee wet not eon trolled by the seme political perty ei the government Ifself. Than what lend special crcd-1 ence to recent report by a House Post Offipe and Civil service subcommittee, which stated flatly that the Treasury department's fiscal services could function just as well with some 7,850 employees as they do now with 9,432 employees. A maturity of the members of the subcom mittee are Democrats w'.o tike an exceedingly dim view of feather bedding and over-staffing in gov ernment departments and agen cies. For example, the subcommittee admits to some difficulty in find ing out why the Treasury needs to maintain more than 100 differ ent offices in each of the nation s six most populous states. T h e various branches and divisions of the Treasury, the report dis closes, have 1R8 different offices in Pennsylvania; 161 in New York state, 14R in California, 127 in Illinois, 117 in Texas and 106 in Ohio. It wouldn't require much cogitation for one to reach the conclusion that considerable sav- ings could be effected by some Holiday In Portland Mr. and judicious consolidation of some j Mrs. E. C. Patterson and daugh of these hundreds of offices. I ter. fis, and Mr. and Mrs. I F liir iun?,i uudiu, wiiiiii mill' tions in peace time as a unit f nu. a- . r 1 ...u:.u thft Tpp.wipv tfpnarlmpnt IK Kiven a slight going-over in the report. The sub-committee gives it credit for maintaining in its headquarters "the most unsatis factory staffing idea in the Depart ment of the Treasury," and finds its headquarters staff is "grossly over-graded. "The rank of the headquarters militarv personnel," says the re port, "is far above both the qual ity and quantity of the work to which the commissioned officers are assigned." It says this "grossly over graded personnel includes no less than eight admirals, 32 captains, and 59 commanders; but that the number drops sharply for lower ranks 49 liei tenant command ers, 33 lieutenants, 22 lieutenants junior grade, and only two en signs. "Admittedly, a greater propor tion of the top rank is required in any headquarters, but this dis crepancy is too marked to be easily reconciled," it says. The Treasury's various admin istrative accounting units are given credit in the report for un necessary and duplicative work. "A large part ot the time spent in accounting in all bureaus," it says, "is devoted to the compil ation of extensive and detailed re ports, supposedly for the use of top management. Some of these I reports are advantageously used. but others are placed in lues ana never utilized. More often than nnt Ihe reports are filed away as historical records even though they contain valuable data which could be used as a means of attaining operational economies." Another report issued by this same House subcommittee does a similar dusting-off job on La bor's department's prices and cost ot living division. This one calls attention to complaints re ceived by the subcommittee from several employees of this n i g It sounding division complaint o f inept supervision, of employees who could find nothing to do but were told to fill out hours-worned forms anyway, and of feather bedding in general. "The subcommittee," the re port says, "find that a substantial part of the $1,000,000 initially ap propriated for the revision o! the consumer price index by this division was dissipated through gross over-staffing, inferior plan ning, untrained supervision, and improvident administration. The subcommittee believes that the supervisision prevalent in this division has been inept, poorly qualified, and withoui the proper concept of the taxpayers' interest in the responsibility it has assumed. . The subcommittee concludes that the allegations made by the employees who appeared vol untarily before it are justified and that these employees rendered a distinct public service in bringing these conditions to the attention of the committee." Times being what they are, and the country embarking on a war economy basis, it would seem proper and lilting that government agencies, not directly connected with re armament could do their j bit by cutting nut all non-essential spending, wnetner iney no so or not is something only time will tell. On the basis of past exper ience, it will take a lot of prod ding by conscientious groups such as this House subcommittee to compel them to do so. G.E. Reports Top Yor In Sal Of Appliances NEW YORK (.?" General Elettrie Co. reports that lftVi was its .reatest year in his'orv 'n- the I production and sale of household electrical appliances. H. L. Andrews, vice-president of I G. .'s appliance and merchandise demrtment m Bridgeoort, (onn.. said thf company built and sold approximately 12.000.0no ippli anccs during the year. ' This output, he added. wa the equivalent ot one appl'ince for 'ev.'iy three wired homes i.i the L'ni'ed Sieif s. ' AndrewV said it also was the best year on record for the entire appliance industry, which sold shout M.TOn.OO units. This was 12, ' ,100.000 mnre than G. E ' p edie i Ucn for the Industry U Jicjiry i Local News r t. c . . ,! . it... if Wilson of Lookingtlass left today!?"!!'" ""??' ' for Seattle to spend a few days j National bank s Koteburg visiting friends. branch. He will report hee California Visiter Margaret Jackson of Santa Monica, Calif. I s " Rosebmg visiting her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rob erts, over the holidays. H.re From Ft, Ltwis Pfc. and Mrs. John W. Resner came to Itiseburg from Fort Lewis, t o spend the weekend with Mr. and im ' inulay 01 e-easey roau. Criteser motorea to rortiann to . , . , , .,, ,l ! Tndhf. Chr'Vma"1!n1h " I .uriai, b "Billy The Kid" Poseur Dies At 90 HICO, Tex., i.V) Brushy Bill Roberts died Wednesday with his ah mwA fa tmn tha Irnntior laml he c,imed he roamed as Billy the Kid. The aged cowboy dropped dead , d epar,ments and in the branch op of a heart attack as he walked erations !ection. the streets of Htcn. He was . .,.:. nronr.i,n n3t,w u. dressed frontier boots. as always, in shirt, cowboy fringed hat and He was known here as O. L. (Brushy Bill) Roberts, but he claimed he was really Billy the Kid, the boltl young desperado who has become an American legend. Gov. T. J. Mabry of New Mexico recently refused Roberts' plea for a pardon as Billy the Kid. Rnberts claimed the story nf the Kid's death at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N. M., in 1881 was just legend. The accepted story is that the Kid. or William H. Bonney, was killed by Garrett in a rooming house.' The man who died here told people he was 90 years old. He and his wife had moved here from Gladewater, Tex., a dozen years ago. FORESTERS TO RESIGN PENDLETON iPt Carl M. Ewing, supervisor ef the Umatilla ntional forest at Pendleton, will re tire Dec. 31 after mnre than 30 years as a federal forester. His successor was not announced. Also retiring after almost 40 years in the national forest service is Royal (Doc) Cambres of Pen dleton, who has been working as a forest service lumberman in tim ber sales work in the Umatilla national since 1935. FILE YOUR TAXES EARLY HOCKETT ACCOUNTING SERVICE - Ten Years In Roseburg Let Mortensen Bldg. 200 S. Phone FOR . . . SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION Investigate the services owned. Home-operated" deposit with us remoins All facilities avoiloble for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member fedtral Deposit tnsuronce Corp. NOTICE The Hotel Umpua Coffet Shop Will Bt Closed All Doy, Sunday, Dteembesj 31st, 1 950, For Repairt. t We will bo open to servo you Now Year's Day, January 1st, 151. Plan yowOJew O Year's dinner at the Hotel Umpaua Coe Shop. Happy New Y&r TAII! U.S. Natl. Bank Announces New Asst. Manager 4 .w ASSISTANT MANAGER C. W. Begley, bank manager et Amlfu Dr.nnn ki tmn fiiimiid ' ' ' . .. ... I. Appointment of C. W. Bagley, now manager of the U. S. National bank at Amity. Ore., to assistant manager of the V. S. National's Roseburg branch, is announced by E C. Sammons. president. The appointment is effective Jan. 1. Increased business, in wh'ih loans at seasonal peak double the totals of th-ee years ago. make the addition of Mr. Bagley to the staff of the Roseburg branch particu larly welcome, says Harold E. Schmeer. manager at Roseburg. "Mr. Bagley will be of great as sistance because of his varied ex perience in banking and his knowl edge of t'.'e lumber field." said Schmeer. "He should be of much heln in enabling us to give our customers improved service." Prior to being made manager at Amity, Bagley spent four years in the head office in Portland. He has worked as commercial teller, in the chief clerk's department. born jn Bikfr He a'ttended high school in Oakland, Calif., r,nd he- ?an his banking career in San Francisco. In 1944 he joined the United States National bank at the St. Helens branch. He is a mem ber of the American Institute of Banking and has taken several courses offered by it. Mr. Ragley is married and hai four children. CAT GETS NEW TEETH , LOVELAND, Colo. (. Mrs. Ella Hagler says her 27-year-old cat. Little Sister, cut a new set of teeth after several years of bare gums. The cat drooled like a hu man infant until the new teeth were in, Mrs. Hagler reported. GOT A KICK? If your paper has net. been received by 4:15 p.m.. PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p.m. ONLY Pin offered by your bank. 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