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4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore.--Friday, Jaw. H, 1851 Publiihcd Daily Iscipt Sunday by iha News-Review Company, Inc. Intent nn elm ntillrr Mir 1, C9H, tin p.l llle Eoieburl. Oron, Hnder et t Mmrrb I, Ml CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Mnotr Member of the Auotiotcjl Preu, Oregon Newspaper Publiihere Allocation, the Audit Bureou of Circulation! (tr.riiml'4 by wr.sr-HOI.UIii TO., INT.. tlllnt In N.w York. Cblcnte, San Prnnrlicn. L ,AnilM. Seitllr, I'ortltnd. 81. I.oull IIBSC RIPTION RArt H In .Orff.il By Sl.ll Pr r.r, IS.On; ! rannlhl. M Wi Ihrr. minlb It.JO. Br N..R.vl. '."lei- 'A'' ' 2 "S S .nel. Ins Ibin n rir, p.r month. 11.00. Onl.ldt Oft(n By Mali rtt rur, 19.00; ill month.. 14 IS; Ihr.o month!, .!. PAPER MILL COSTS By CHARLES V. STANTON Why are w no slow tretling paper manufacture tied in with nur rapidly developing timber industry? How much does a paper mill cost? What physical requirements are essential to paper pro duction? Is capital available, for paper mills? Answers to these questions have a vital bearing on our industrial development. ' We recently presented some of these questions to Dr. Phimister B. Proctor, managing director of th,e Oregon Forest Products laboratory at Oregon State college. Dr. Proctor has been very active in preparation of the unique study now being completed covering the industrial inventory of the Roseburg, Myrtle Creek and Riddle areas. Dr. Proctor didn't have the answers, but he promptly started inquiries. From Dr. C. E. Libby, professor of pulp and paper manufacture, College of Forestry, State Univer sity of New York, he has obtained some interesting facts. Included is a report on mill investment and. construction costs prepared by a senior student as a required -project in one of his courses. The report covers a vast amount :f technical research into costs of mills and factories engaged in various types of paper and pulp production. Paper Mills Expensive The report shows that the paper industry, ranking sixth in the United States, "has one of the highest investment rates of all industries." The Kraft process is one of the cheapest in construction and investment coat. The Kraft process is the most writ able for this area, as it utilizes Douglas fir. Kraft paper and Kraft board are used chiefly for containers, corrugated cardboard, coarse wrapping paper, sheathing paper, etc. Chemical pulping processes are used to produce Kraft paper. Some areas, particularly in the East and South, are building ground wood mills. Instead of reducing wood to pulp through use of chemicals, the wood goes through large mechanical grinders. This process, however, though cheaper than chemical pulping, is not well suited for utili zation of wood and mill waste in this area. Available information indicates costs ranging from $5 to $12 million for a Kraft mill, depending on capacity. A mill producing 200 tons daily is the minimum recommended for economical operation. Operation Costs High ' . While ground wood mills of 50-ton capacity have shown profits in New York state, Kraft mills should not be consid ered on a basis of less than 200 tons, because of "recovery" cost. In the Kraft mill chemical used to produce pulp are recovered from effluent. Kquipment to recover chemicals is expensive. The Kraft mill, or sulphate process, however, has the great advantage locally in that the effluent does not pollute waterways, -whereas the sulphite process, used by mills making white paper, is very detrimental to streams and fish life. Physical factors also are involved. A paper mill, either sulphate or sulphite process, requires a large volume of fresh, soft water. It must have handy transportation, facil ities. Here in Douglas county we can meet these require ments in exceptional manner. In addition we have a large abundance of raw material now being wasted. It is quite evident, however, why we do not have paper mills now operating in the county. The high cost is such that only very large concerns can provide the capital. Furthermore, our federal tax strucuite discourages investment of risk capital of such magnitude. Sulphite mills are out of the picture until some arrange ment is made to eliminate the pollution factor. Strong re sistance would be met if an industry, desirable though it might be, proposed to pollute our streams. While we have sites, water, materials and transporta tion in excellent combination for Kraft paper production, we also have an unfavorable rail rate structure and rnil monopoly to discourage prospective investors. If the defense effort gets into high gear, it is possible that assistance will be given in financing production of Kraft paper a vital defense material. In (hat case, the obvious advantages of sites in this area might overcome the minor handicap of transportation costs, or even force revision of the rate structure. 7 . . n By Ymhnett S. Boiler late than never. Acting on that adage, 1 have Just now finished acknowledging (ho last of the Christmas greetings. I took them just as they happened to lay In the basket. So If any reader friend remains un-thanked, or if any letter-writer (to date) remains unanswered, please believe it an oversight, not my intention. My desk piles up with so mart! things! A letter can slip In and get lost, as I well know when a missing letter or paper remains elusive after a hunt. KJ whose idea of a desk is a flat surface unlitleretl by anything except its glass lop, a light, and a telephone, takes a dim view of what he sees here at home on my desk! To one whose work is with books, the ledger kind and such, and cost accounting, the amazing conglomeration of odds and ends I collect Is incomprehen sible. Clutter! Willing a column takes a good deal of lelter-writing of on kind or another. Then, loo, material of all kinds comes flooding in without a request, once "tie's name on a mailing list h or thereVone must glean scraps from the pile. One must also hake pies, ,ash and iron, and dust, but fnrlurcly none of that interferes with mull ing over what to write for The ai yji av ' 6. Martin Ji y Mending Basket. In fact, it often helps. As one works around the house, one thinks of reader-friends, many as yet unseen, and letters from them. One reader had worked all sum mer with a garden, thriftily frozen all she could lor winter, added meat, too. Then while she was away "doing a good deed," one of the children turned off the switch. "All 1 could llo was lake the stuff out and bury It." She is , widow with several children, managing with so little. How warmly she wrote of her friends and neighbors who have helped her: "I didn't know how I could have l.rpt on without them. The past year has been so hard." M any letters. Remembering them one Is inspired anew bv the courage and faith anil siamina of I the writers. Humor is not missing. And how eaclnone of us, nowadays, i needs to lessen tension by a good ! laugh! I ICI BREAKS; It DRauN WARSAW, Poland - tVL The Ire on a lake near Bydgosres (Brombrrg) collapsed beneath the weight of three horse drawn sleighs and IS persons in a wed ding party drowned. The bride and groom were among those who per ished. I m 3EEN PRETTY QUIET ' 0- fUl 'JtZJ m ABOUND HERE, JOHNNY! m2k T.lAf PON-T GO GETTING 'iJtfAx Fulton Lewis Jr. (Copyright, 1951, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON AP The State department has complete authority to bar alien Communists from enter ing the United States as representatives of the United Nations. The Central Intelligence agency, highest security or ganization in the government, as related herein before, informed the U.S. Senate that 29 UN officials are high ranking Communist party officials,' all of whom are en gaged in espionage in this country. In each instance the State de partment declined to bar the Reds. Officials have admit I oil that the department has a policy of per mitting Communist agents to en ter the U.S. for jobs at United Nations headquarters. The 29 are already here, helping formulate UN policies relating to Korea and other areas where American fighting men are sta tioned. Additional Soviet, trained, Com munist party aids are allowed en try into the U.S. every month by the Slate department. Herve .1. L'Hcureux, chtef of the visa division of the Department of Stale, and Senator Ilomer Fer guson, (R., Mich.; were discus sing the State department policy of permitting Communists known as espionage agenls to enter the U.S. and the following conversa tion ensued: Ferguson: "Approximately how many doubtful cases are referred to the department each week or month?" L'llcurpux: "I would say an average of about eight a month." Ferguson: "Out of those 8 or 10 a month, you have never turned one down; is that right?" I.'Ileureux "That is true." Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of stale, anil Louis llenkin, in the office of United Nations affairs in Ihe State department, pull the switches on the policy of admit ting Communists, according to the testimony heard by the Senate. The State department has a se curity division, which confers daily with the Central Intelligence agency. Agents have access to re ports on foreign Communists seek ing entry into the U.S. They were aware of the 29 high Communist party officials now employed by the UN. In several instances the CIA has protested vigorously over allowing the Communists across our bor ders. In each instance the State department overruled the CIA. In several cases the disputes were taken to the secretary of slate Dean Acheson. for final action. Senator KeiKuson along with otSVr senators investigating Com munist activities among alien groups in Ihe U.S. was so dis turbed over the State department action that he pressed for an ex planation. He got one. L'lleureux said: "The responsible officials of the department have to consider the different stages of negotiations and different matters pending with that country, and reciprocity, ex change of personnel and so forth. So that, while 1, as an individual. or as the chief of the visa division, vdy is charged with the admin istration of the law, or as just a plain, good American citizen, should say, 'this person should not come in.' when you tie that a verse information in with the con duct of foreign relations there may he another decision made." There has never been anything hut "another decision made" by Ihe Slate department in regard to letting Communists trot around the U.S A. Note that l.'lleureux also drags You Said It, Sa m! i WASHINGTON REPORT up the old chestnut about reci procity. It's all onesided between the Soviet Union and the U.S. no body gets to run around Russia at will, a fact even the State department janitors know. Yet Acheson and Company maintain the fiction that Americans have free rein in Russia, so we must allow the Communists the same thing here. And as long as Ache son and Company stay in charge the fiction will be maintained. It's their policy and the U.S. A is stuck with it, including the kids in Korea. Fullon Lewis may be, heard daily at 4 avd 9:15 ji.m. over Radio Station MINT!. Cities In Oregon Allotted Millions To Better Streets Portland is not the only city in Oregon which has benefited very materially through Ihe use of state highway aed federal allocated funds in the construction and maintenance of city streets. The Highway commission, as directed by Ihe legislature, has expended approximately $35,990, 1K9 of stale road-user and allotted federal funds in construclinn. and main tenance of city streets since its creation in 1917 and the end of 1949. Federal funds were spent for construction only. This total does not include the additional approxi mate S12.939.762 of stale funds which have been allocated during 1944-1950 inclusive, in proportion to population for use on city streets. The obvious result of these advances, however, has been the financing of city street construc tion and maintenance to the tune of approximately $18,292,931 dur ing a 33-year period with a cor responding reduction, in most in stances, in tax levies on municipal property. Coos Bay. and North Bend, so far as street construction is con cerned, form just one community. The Highway commission has spent $1,982,671 in the construction and maintenance of North Bend sfreels, and $618.9.r6 for the same purpose in Coos Ray. In this joint endeavor. Coos Bav streets got S375.1.V) of Slate and $243,801 of federal funds. North Bend's im provement cost $1,391,277 of slate and $591,394 of federal fuaiuls. As a result Ihe community taxpayers benefited to the tune of approxi mately $2,601,627 lo which must be added the $219,430 received under Ihe 10 percent allottuienls during 1944-50. Proportionately the same story runs all through the municipal al phabet. Ashland taxpayer?, have benefited under the two plans to the approximate sum of S413.fi.S5; Astoria, $9(2,422; and Canny, $283, 59.V Bend has around $632,697 o f ! slrreta and street monev which cost the local property taxpayers Washington Chat By Harris Ellsworth, M. C, Fourth District, Oragon It always takes three or four weeks for a new Congress to get organized and ready for business. Indications are now that this new 82nd Congress will get committee assignments made and legislative work started just a little speedier than usual. As a matter of fact, the house armed services commit tee is already in action. It has re ported a bill authorizing a naval expansion program at a cost of $2,000,000,000 (billions, that is). This program calls for the conver sion of 201 ships lo strictly modern standards and the construction of 173 new navy ships. The biggest item in the Naval expansion pro gram is $253 millions for a super air-craft carrier which will take probably three years to build. Con gress previously authorized the construction of such a giant car rier which was started in 1949. Sev eral millions were spent on it, and thrown away, when construction was canceled by the then secretary of defense, Louis Johnson. Now the ship will be smaller, but will cost about sixty millions more. Incidentally, the armed services committee of the House is headed by Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, who is beginning his 20th term of continuous membership in the House of Representatives. Twenty terms is forty years. New political definition of the word "unity": "If we make a mis take, or about to make one, don't say anything about it." Nobody here knows or can really make an intelligent guess as lo what the future holds in :itore for us. Many of us are depressed be cause our course in international affairs is still being laid out by the same people who insisted upon making the blunders that have brought us lo Ihe brink of disaster. But we cannot go back and undo thinas which have been done. We simply face the grim reality that we must arm and get ready for what may happen. 'The National Production author ity (NPA), present counterpart of the War Production board of World War U, is getting organized rap idly. In, fact, it is already in ac tion. Production of needed military re quirements is being speeded b y i plant expansion loans as provided , for under Section 302 of the Dc-1 fertse Production Act, which wasj passed last fall. Procedure for ob taining such loans is entirely dif ferent than in WPB days. Small manufacturers, who can produce something needed for the Depart ment of Defense, should acquaint themselves with the details. The set-up looks to me like a field day for the "five percenters" people who offer to take care of such things for a fee of five percent or more. Feet Blown Off, Gl Saves Tanks; Gets Award TOKYO (.V) An Arkansas corporal who crawled down a Ko rean road after his feet were biown off and saved a column of tanks has been awarded the Dis ti.isuished Service Cross. The award went to Cpl. William C Karnest, of Route 2, Pine Blutf, Ark. The extraordinary heroism was displayed near Suwon. 17 miies south of Seoul, last Sept. 20 when I nitcd Nations forces were on the olfensive. When medical aid arrived. Ear nest refused to be evacuated un til other wounded members of his lank crew were treated. nothing: Kugene is $3,157,349 bet ter off than it it had depended on its own local resources; Klamath Falls is ditto in the round sum of SI .053.507: Oregon City is SI ..15,1,999 better underfoot: Salem already is $1.212. 727 to the good with more to come. These are Jnt' th larger examples. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from page One) door and the back door AT THE SAME TIME if you can avoid it. If we HAVE to get into Europe in a big way (in order to save Western Europe's resources for OUR use instead ' (he Russian' use) wa wouldn't want to be in volved in a big land war, in Korea and China. Meanwhile Keep your eye on our "walled fortress" project that seems to be taking shape at the lower tip of the Korean peninsula. Field reports from the front lines say the losses suffered by our counter-attacking forces have been held to Ihe barest minimum and at the same time we have been inflicting heavy carnal ities on the reds by our air attacks. The slory adds: "The bitler cold of the Korean peninsula has been reported taking a heavy toll of ill-clothed red troops. Air force planes, including navy carrier-based fighters and bomber... have been wrecking every enemy-held building where the freezin? red troops might find sanctuary. Many reds were report ed by civilians throwing away their guns and moving unarmed down back roads." Keep your fingers crossed. Don't believe everything you read. From the beginning, the situation in Ko rea has been officially painted BRIGHTER than it has later turned out to be. But let's not overlook the possi bility that by A lied use of our air force and our .assed artillery we may be able to kill so many Chi namen as to convince old Mao that fighting us won't be duck soup. On the home front, we get this from Miami: "Hialeah race course opens its 40-day meeting today with prospect of belter racing, 'ligger crowds and MORE BETTING than last year." I offer no comment. Make your own. Personally, I doubt if bigger and better race meets, with bigger and better betting, will help us to lick the communists. Also on the home front, we're hearing a lot about a three billion dollar appropriation to build new louses lor defense workers. Cynical thought: The GIs in Korea will continue to be housed in foxholes without heat or modern, plumbing. Still on the home front. President Truman opens National Thrift week Argentine Fire Razes Part Of Swift & Co. Plant BUENOS AIRES VP) A Mys terious fire during the night des troyed part of the huge meat pack ing plant near here owned by S .vift and Company of Chicago. - Sabotage rumors concided with the arrest of a number of poisons for police questioning. The packing house was Swift's main Argentine branch and the lar- t est of four foreign-owned meat ' plants in Argentina. It was the principal supplier of meat for ex port. Unofficial estimates said the damage ran into millions of pesos (quoted on the free market at 7Vi cents in U. S.). TV SETS TO BLIND INDIANAPOLIS (& The north side Lions club presented two television sets lo the Indiana School for the Blind. It wasn't a case of bad judgment. Supt. Robert Lambert said TV was what the 120 pupils wanted. "Sixty-five percent of those here can see enough to follow television and the remainder like to attend and have the action explained to them as they listen," Lambert said. Phone today afQ ask about our other convenient serv ices, too . . . services that insure good grooming at ell times. ' has not bean 1 u delivered by I 4:1 S p.m.. phaiw I 100 b.tw. i:l$ Ik or1 7 p.m. J VV: Sire JENKINS with a letter, to the National Thrift committee in which ha says: "If Benjamin Franklin were still about, I am sure he would join me enthusiastically in sayin? that THRIFT builds success for the in dividual and economic strength for the nation." I can't help being reminded of Dickens' immortal Mr. Micawber, who was always preaching the wis dom of thrift and always spending every shilling he could lay his hands on. NIGHT SERVICE FOR PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS From 5 P. M to 8 A.M. Alto Saturday Afternoons. All Day Sunday and Holiday!. To Loeatt Your Physician or Surgeon ... 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