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4 The News-Review, Roseburg. Ore. Wed.. Fab. 21, 1951 A Good Pair To Represent The Party Fulton Lewis Jr. Publiihtd Dally Except Sunday by tht News-Review Company, Inc. InUrf.4 itroatJ data malUr May 1, WW. at lb pnl f flc ft! RoubiUf. Urctou. undtr act ( March 1. 1171 CHARLES V. 5TANT0N EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations ftvorMiDtr tr WKft r-HOM.IHA t CO. INT., fflrrt ! Krw Vrk, Chlcact. San trtaclieo, l.oi Anfrlci. laaltU, fdrtland. SI. Laula VBiritlPTION RATrVfl In Oregon A Mall Pur fear. Id. OS; ill mnnlbi. ft M; Ihraa month It 30 Hi Nrwa-Kevirw f'arrUr Per rr. tit. lift fin a4 tinr), ) than ana Tar, pr month. l.0. Outildt Urtfoii By Mali Par roar MM. jv aiantha ft IS: Ihraa nonlhi, ti.li. ACCESS By CHARLES V. STANTON Traveling north on the Pacific highway, have you ob served the difference in loads hauled by log trucks in the Roseburg area as compared with those around Kugcne and Albany? In Douglas county an average load is three logs. Oc casionally you see a truck carrying only one log, but such a monster that it constitutes a legal weight limit. You will, of course, sometimes see a truck carrying five or six small logs, but such loads are infrequent. However,' as you travel north you see more and more logs per load six, eight, ten logs per truck. Naturally, you observe some big logs, but the average number of small logs going to mills is far higher than in Douglas county. Why should this be true? Lane and Linn counties have lots of timber much of it virgin, mature, old-growth tim ber. Why, then, should so many small logs be going to mills? Persons who heard Regional Forester Andrews speak Monday at the chamber of commerce forum luncheon and at the evening conference with operators know at least part of the answer. There are other factors, but one of the prin cipal reasons Willamette valley mills are getting small logs, while old-growth mature timber may be seen on the sky line, lies in the lack of access roads. Here in Douglas county we may anticipate the same condition within a very few years unless action is forth coming soon on an improved access road program. We are critically overcutting lowland timber while removal of trees from high areas is far behind sustained yield allowable cut. Unless we can balance the cutting program, our industry will become more and more seasonal, with reductions in both volume and quality. More Timber Available Lowland timber, known to the industry as "face" tim ber, has a varied ownership pattern. Much of it is pri vately owned, intermingled with Oregon and California land grant tracts. A large part of the face timber can be logged and transported during winter months. Upland timber, coming from the high Cascades, can be logged only during a comparatively short season five or six months at the most. Snow handicaps transportation dur ing winter months. The best management plan calls for upland logging dur ing the summer months, and lowland shows in the winter. Were we able to follow such pattern, we could balance our cutting program. We have existing sawmill capacity sufficient to handle our allowable cut. ' The Umpqua national forest could sup ply approximately 100,000,000 board feet more per year than now being cut, providing we had access to the timber. But, because we can't get that timber now, we are drawing on face timber to supply our mills, thus overcutting on the low lands approximately in equal volume to the unused surplus on the national forest. Future Volume Endangered Without access roads into upland timber within the next few years, we face serious curtailment of timber production volume. We will be in the same condition as our neigh boring counties to the north, largely dependent upon low land second-growth trees trees which should not be cut for another 30 or 40 years. Yet only a few miles away old growth forests, overripe and deteriorating from nge and dis ease, will remain uncut. If we wait until our face timber is gone before getting access into high limber our logging industry will be limited to a half-year, or less, while we will have insufficient raw material to support the installed sawmill capacity. A good example may be found in the Portland area, where large mills have been closed and dismantled despite the fact that only a few miles away, in the Clackamas and Mt. Hood forests, mature timber is deteriorating rapidly. The forest access road problem is acute in Oregon. It is time Congress was changing its ideas of pork barrel man agement of the public domain and substituting businesslike, realistic policies. Hearing thai five members of the New York State legislature are here studying Oregon highways, I was reminded of an editorial I clipped from the Wyoming County Times (N. Y.) which comes to this ex-New Yorker, Jan. 4 issue, about the GOOD HOADS Associa tion. It seems that 25 years ago when the first N. Y. Slate gaso line tax was imposed the motorists of the State were assured the money would be used for highway purposes. . . . After a bit the money was diverted into utber channels and the practice was con tinued by succeeding administra tions. Says the editor of the Wyoming County Times: Another movement, this one de signed to eventually become an amendment to the State Constitu tion, to insure that funds collected from motorists for auto registra tion or operator license fees and from gasoline taxes will be used for nothing but highway purixises was instituted at t ho first annual convention of the New York (lood Roads association at Syracuse, re cently. .... The Good Roads organization, apparently has the idea that the state can shift over to a pay-as-you-go road basis. It probably will take a bit longer than that but if New York's high ways can be put on that basis in ten years the motorist will then get a break. As far as taxes go the motorist has been really Retting slammed land taxes the same as anyone TO TIMBER Bg Vmhnett S. Martini I for years and years. He pays his lana laxes uie same as anyone else and he has new taxes slapped on his car and ils operation al most every time he turns around. And, in return for this, he gets man-killing roads. We mean that literally New York's highway system in general is man killing. One ride upstate, and not so very far upstate, will convince just about anyone of the truth of this statement. The peopleof the slate are en titled to good roads. They're pay ing for good mails and they're not getting them. Let's all do something about it. So the people of New York Slate are doing something about it. Wy oming county was the 53rd chap ter oi me l.ood Hoads associa tion to he instituted in 14 months. ( harles II. Sells executive di- j rector of the association, speaking I in Warsaw, (N, Y.), where L'(K) j charter members were to begin j the work, said: as minted in the ! limes' report of Ihe meeting. Minhciship in the New York j Good Koads Association is open to j all citizens of the stale who are j at least 18 years of ace, who sub scribe to the principle that good I roads are needed and who pay j their annual dues of one dollar, i "It should be made clear," said Mr. Sells, "that the New York I Good Heads association in a pco- I pie's organization and, inorder to ' keep it so, no person who is em- j ployed by government or by any j company or industry interested in I STUBBORN' MV BoTrt iARE In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from page Onei wide probe of armed services train ing centers." Personally, I think the charge that the air force is "greedily grab bing" the cream of the manpower is tommyrot. Who made the law? Why, CONGKKSS, of course. If Ihe law isn't good, the fault lies with those who made it. In stead of yelling bloody murder, the members of congress should MAKE A BUTTER LAW. One personal gripe I've had with congress for years is that it cries and cries because the President spends too much money. WHO AP PROPRIATES THE MONEY? Con gress does. If congress, which un der the constitution is Ihe keeper of the purse, didn't appropriate the money, the President couldn't spend it. This college basketball bribery scandal, which follows scandals in fool ball and baseball, has a per fectly logical cause. The cause is this: Under our spectator sports svstem, sport events BRING IN TOO MUCH MONEY. Too much money is like too much power. It CORRUPTS. Russian Attack On Tito's Yugoslavia Would Likely Touch Off World War III Ry DeWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Yugoslavia is definitely spotlighted as the most danger ous area in Europe from the standpoint of being the poten tial focal zone of another war. Marshal Tito's repeated warnings that Russia was pre paring to strike at his country through neighboring satel lites has been followed by a declaration from Secretary of State Acheson to the effect that any Hed attack on Yugo slavia would dangerously strain the fabric of world peace. Put in less euphemistic terms, this means that if Rus sia should commit aggression against Yugoslavia, it might produce war. I This warning collies after a long period of Soviet maneuvering ami Russo Yogoslav tension which scarcely could proceed much fur ther without an explosion. The conflict grows out of General Tito's revolt against Moscow's domination of his country. The marshal refused to delegate Yugo slavia's sovereignty to Moscow and inaugurated a policy of national ism. This glaring deviation from the Bolshevist brand of commu nism, which makes Moscow the rul ing power over all Rod countries, has come to be known as "Tito ism." Revolt Spreadinq And the revolt hasn t stopped with Yugoslavia. Powerful Com munist parties in some countries like Italy and France have become impregnated with "Titoism," and it even is penetrating satellite states Czechoslovakia, for exam ple. Moscow has watched this de velopment with mingled anger and anxiety. Obviously "Titoism" was a threat to the structure of the big Communist bloc which Russia had built, and which it expected to continue building. Accordingly Moscow started pow erful cotinler measures. T h e s e included efforts to create a revo lution within Yugoslavia itself, and harassment of Tilo bv his satellite neighbors Hungary, Romania. Bulgaria and Albania. Satellite troops have been masked at his borders, and manv untoward in cidents have been reported. Moscow has proceded prcsisletit- road construction may hold any elective office in the State associ ation of any of its various county chapters. JENKINS Even the case of the basketball player who wouldn't be bribed and spilled the story leaves me a little cold. His admirers went out an, raised a lot of money to REW ARD HIM FOR HIS HONESTY. I suppose I'm too old-fashioned, but I don't think anybody shoulU oe paiu mont-y merely ior oeing honest. People OUGHT to be hon est. A test engineer at the navy's guided missiles base at Point Mugu, down below Ventura, tells a reporter: "Space (interplanetary) travel is closer than most people realize." In support of his statement, he describes plans for a five-stage rocket which he says could carry two men to the moon, land there anil return. He added: "This de sign, while not yet in production, is practical with the application of techniques already at our disposal. ' The ."spaceship," he said, would tower 325 feet into the air above the launching site, would weigh 360.000 pounds and attain a speed of 25,000 miles per hour. When they call for volunteers to man that monster, I think I'll pass. I like to travel, but not that fast or that far. ly but cautiously with this program, apparently being careful not to make any rash step which couldn't be retraced. And what is the western powers' special interest in Tito, who still clings to his own brand of com munism? Well, he has firm con trol of a powerful state which lies against the Aegean sea and so is a gateway to Ihe Mediterranean. Yugoslavia could be a great barrier against the right wing of the west ern powers in Europe. Moreover, Titoism renresents a i step away from Muscovite Bolshe vism, it could be the ferment which would disrupt the Soviet sa tellite bloc. Marshal Tito is the proud posses sor of the second most powerful army in Europe Russia having the first. The Yugoslav fighting force comprises 32 divisions, total ing about 700.000 men. The troops are well trained and are soecially prepared for guerrilla warfare a bie item these riavs Tiln' niitil.irv ' weakness is in air power, heavy tanks and heavy artillery. And of course he lacks economic resources for ma tor conflict. The fcyearold marshal is said to be held in high respect as a fighter by his men. He always has been an active leaA'r on the bat tlefield, and fought in the last war Tito's personal position appears to be strong on the whole with his people. He not only has the loyalty of the army, but his minister of interior, Alexander Ranknvic. has the security police well in hand. Tht the highly independent and hanr. boiled Tito is not a man to be regarded lightly by a po- tential aggressor. And bv the same .pending clarification by her attor token he would make a nowerful ney ot the loss of nationality state ally for friendly nations. 1 ment. 1.AE4 To triw, 2. 'COUNT TO Constance Keene, Pianist, Dated Here On March 3 Constance Keene, gifted young American pianist, is the next art ist scheduled to come to Roseburg in the Community Concert scries. She will appear on the stage of the Junior high school auditorium March 3. Miss Keene has been winning j prizes since she was a liftle girl. At seven she won the gold medal award of the National Federation of Music Clubs ami then kept right on winning that same award for four successive years. During this period she also received the gold medal of the New York Music Week association and a recital prize of fered by the New York Madrigal society. Finally, ready to start on her career, she was launched with the coveted Nautnburg Foundation award and its prize ot a New York recital at the Town Hall. She was born in New York in 1923. At 13 her high school music teacher brought her to Abram Cha sms, who was so impressed that he offered Constance a scholar ship and taught her composition as well as piano. This work was supplemented by intensive course in counterpoint. In the summer of 1941, Serge Kotissevzky gave her a person ally contributed scholarship at the Berkshire Music center. The Naumburg Foundation award fol lowed ami in the autumn of 1943 Miss Keene made her formal debut at the Town. Hall in New York. She participated in the Bach-Mo-lart festival in Tanglewood in 1945, and climaxing her 1945-46 season, scored a triumph in Springfield, Mass. She has made many radio and personal appearances since. 2 Stepbrothers, Arrested, Admit 20 Burglaries LONGVIEW. Wash. (-P) Ap proximately 20 burglaries, scat tered from Vancouver, Wash., to Seattle, were cleared by Longview police following 12 consecutives hours of questioning two Long view stepbrothers. The men, Charles F. Wessman, 25, and Emile Joseph Plourde Jr., 18. were arrested by officers about Monday, shortly after the safe burglary of the Longview Concrete Pipe Co., police Chief James D. Skaggs said. Chief Skaggs said they had been under suspicion since the first lo cal burglary on Jan. 1 when the safe of the Longview American Legion club was carted awav. Since then, seven successful safe jobs were carried out in Long view, another in Kelso and others in Chehalis, Woodland, Vancouver and Seattle. Break in the case came when police were canvassing the city early Monday and could not find the auto the brothers were known to be driving Less thau four hours after the concrete firm burglary, police dis covered the auto parked in front of their Longview residence. The brothers were brought in sepa rately for questioning and admitted the 20 burglaries, Skaggs said. Oregon-Born Japanese Girl Loses Citizenship PORTLAND IT) A petition for restoration of U. S. citzenshm was denied Yukio Sato, an Oregon-born Japanese girl, here by federal .ftidge James Alger Fee. She said in the petition that she went to Japan in 1940 and voted is i . m i the 1946 Japanese election becauseland doig bodily harm to tne carl ni ti--iiMM ti in. mutton nor imw- ail if she refused her foodTMosser family Of five from At ration would be lost. In 194S, Miss Sato said she ap plied to the U. S. consul for a pass, port for return to the V. S but that instead he issued a loss of nationality certificate. he said she was bom in Ontario iriP-1926. Judge Fee denied the petition WASHINGTON Ever since last May, President Tru man has been sitting tight on three lush appointments paving S17.500 a year each that have hungry lame duck politicians drooling. The jobs are on the new court , very hopeful. They are on rec of military appeals. A little known 0rd, however, with strong recom facet of the law passed by Con- mendations on behalf of Ihe men gress to modernize military justice ' and women in the military, the same law which permits en-1 Military leaders and spokesmen Ull lllllliaijr vuui i-iiipi anal yaiivio. The three-member court of mil itary appeals is a sort of supreme court for military personnel. As a court of last resort, the appoint ments should be made on the basis ot extensive legal competence preferably federal judges in the opinion of several outstanding bar associations in the country. With mobilization plans calling for a 3,500,000 man military force, the need for top caliber men in the posr is obvious. So far nothing but rumors have come from the White House re garding the appointments. And, un fortunately, they all hinge on the horrible prospect mat tne Presi dent is going to appoint three pol iticians who are owed a favor by the Democrats. The American Bar association 1 has made recommendations. The special committee on military jus ice of the New York County law yers association has also been m the forefront of the fi'jht to secure competent men for the jobs. As of the end of January, of this year, the White House had failed to con sult either of these organizations or any other association in the le gal profession. Richard II. Wells, a member of the special committee on military justice of the association of the bar in New York, recently uncorked a blast at the White House re garding the three - man military court. He is the way he puts it: "The administration can give an example of real leadership if it makes the sacrilice, which it asks so many others to make, of putting aside personal and political ad vantage in the interest of the na tion. It can do this if it makes sure that the judges, who will ex ercise power over the lives and destinies of the young people in blue and khaki, are great judges in the pattern of Holmes, Cardoza and Patterson, and not the political hacks and lame ducks who would turn military and naval justice into a pork barrel." There is more than a hint from the White House that the three high salaried jobs will be filled with an eye on the 1952 elections. Such a prospect has disturbed the House Armed Services commit tee. Members insist that the suc cess or failure of the new court and its many reforms of military justice depend on the character and capability of the three named for the judicial posts. The new military code of justice becomes effective on May 31, 1951. inousanos ui nuurs ui wuiil, iiuui top legal taieni in tne nauon, weiii. into rewriting the code to give the fighting men and women a better break in military courts. Trial runs with enlisted men on court marsnal boards have proved effective. All that remains for Mr. Truman to do is name the three judges. As of this writing he has not consulted the American Bar asso ciation, olher than to acknowledge the list of recommended indivi-, duals sent to the White House. In view of the President's appoint-1 ments to Ihe Supreme Court of the United States, legal leaders in Washington and elsewhere are not Juvenile Court Takes Woman's Third Child i PORTLAND (JP) The third child of Mrs. Eleanor Echelburger Valley became a juvenile court ward when a baby sitter turned the two-year-old boy, Dennis, over to Waverly baby home. 1 Police Capt. Elizabeth Moorad obtained a warrant charging Mrs. Valley with contributing to the de linquency of minors by reason of neglect. It couldn't be served, though, be cause Mrs. Valley wasn't home. Neighbors said they thought she had gone to join vr husband, a soldier at Kort Lewis. She married the soldier. La Verne Valley, two weeks ago and left her two youngest children with a baby sitter while she went on a weekend honeymoon. She took Dennis with Jier. The baby sitter turned the children over to i police when the mother failed to return. Another baby sitter reported Dennis was left with her for a "few hours." Mrs. Valley had not returned, however, .when police arrived to serve the warrant. Legal Move Made To Save Murderer From Death OKLHOMA CITY (.V) De fense attorneys have filed a mo tion in U. S. district court asking that the admitted slayer of six per sons be judged mentally incompe tent to assist in his defense. The move if successful would save William E. Cook, 23. Joplin Missouri ex-convict, from a possi ble death penalty under the Lind bergh kidnap act. Cook is charged with kidnaping wood. III. He admitted kidnaping Ihe Mosser family Dec. 30 in Okla homa county and after forcing i them to ride with him at gun point in a three-day trip of terror, killed them. He dumped their bodies in I an abandoned mine at Joplin, Mo. Cook also knitted slaying Rob ert Dewey. SeatUe. in California I after he killed the Mossers. He , was captured in Mexico Jan. 14. partment of Defense have failed publicly to suggest capable candi dates for the Ihree posts. They owe the enlisted personnel of the nation their support in keeping the jobs out of the hands of political hacks. With thousands of eighteen year old boys coming into the service, the need for wise justice in hand ling their troubles is apparent. It is apparent to the mothers and fathers sending their sons into bat tle. It is apparent to the Congress, which approved the rewriting" of ! the military code. It is apparent to the various legal associations. : It should be apparent to the White House. I fi item June t, 1918 Roseburg Review ill Tipton DRIVE- CAREFULLY tntifri -Vr Y ko Mt heee 1 I 4:15 p.m., phono I lM Mlwa till Jj WONDERING "WHERE TO TURN" FOR CASH? TORN IN OUR DIRECTION! Hre you will find a quick cash loan sorvice to holp you moot any emorgoncy at any timol lust como in or phoned CALKINS FINANCE CO. PHONE 466 307 (3rd Floor) Pacific Bldg. 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