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RESUBMIT CITY BUDGET!
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Jt is difficult for u to interpret the vote at Tuesday'
frDecial city election.
We can uii'ierrta.id the defeat of the city hall bond is
sue proposal. Voters had various reasons for objecting to
the bonds. People arc fed up with hijrh taxes. A few are
still unconvinced of need Others felt they should have
been given move r'pecific information concerning site,
building plans, etc. A few others will alwayg vote against
any project costing taxpayer money.
We can find no adequate reason why the city budget
thould have bee'i rejected. It is a most conservative bud
get. It has been trimmed of all excess "fat." While it
included a cost-of-l'ving increase for city employes, that
increase still does not bring compensation into line with
private industry Jf we are to expect efficient employes
in our city government, we must pay enough to keep
good men.
Despite incre...ed expenditures proposed by the bud
get, the rate of taxntion actually Mould decrease.
Efficiency Endangered
It will be impossible to handle the city's business and
services efficiently with any less money than called for
in the budget proposal submitted to the voters at Tuesday's
election. If we trim t! e budget further we will be elim
inating services th city needs and which residents de
mand. It Is quite probaole that the budget was beaten be
cause it was submitted Ht the same time as the unpop.
ular city hall bond issue proposal. Perhaps some voters,
feeling in a "No" mood, marked their ballots through re
sentment rather thtn reason. We ain't believe that any
voter could conscientiously oppoe the budget if he studied
it carefully and understood the city's financial need.
We suggest to the city council and the budget com
mittee that the biutpet be resubmitted; that a public state
ment be given throrgh the press explaining the needs of
the various departments and services, and that voters be
asked to reconsider their verdict.
As for our antiquaied, dangerous city hall, it appar
ently must remain in use until it falls apart, unless some
method of fin.-incing, other than tax levy, can be found.
It may be necewiry for the city to include In its next
year's budget, money to secure outside office spare t o
house some of its departments. It appears useless to re
submit the bond nroposal, at least while the present build
ing remains standing.
Tax Lead To Heavy
We hear widv;-ead complaint from residents concern
ing the lack of city improvements. People want parks
and playgrounds, civic auditorium, off-street parking lots,
wider streets, more street lights, etc. These things, how
ever, cost money, and taxpayers, already overburdened
with levies, are rrli;ctant to add to their burden.
We can't argn with a decision made by voters. It Is
not ou? province or purpose to scold. We do believe er-
rors were made, the will of the people remains su
preme. Krrors can be corrected. We believe that Roseburg
people want their city business conducted efficiently; that
they want competent municipil ervires. We believe that
if they are affo'dH opportunity to seriously reconsider
their action on the bud'ret, and if that proposal Is resub
mitted without ary complicating issue, approval will be
given.
Perhaps we are mistaken. Maybe there are reasons
for the budget defeat which we have not learned. If so,
those reasons slwu'Jd be "(''red. The columns of Thr ,
Rfview are open to the who disagree with our opinions.
It Sure Gets Around '
Fulton Lewis Jr.
VP
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WASHINGTON' During World War II, due to the ef
ficiency of V. S, nvy pilots and submarine crews, Japa
nese shipping was wiped from the face of the sea. This
created a transportation vacuum which the Japanese, un
der allied surrender term-, have rot been able to fill.
The British lll be more than
InThe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Id
Firemen Rescue
Girl Newport
: NEWPORT, Ore. A 12-
year-old girl clung precariously 10
th. nr.1. n( a cliff here for a half-
(Continued from Pace 1) looleonie Franc before which all hour Sunday before firemen
. .,. , . , I of Europe was trembling, and get arrived to snatch her to safety.
e.rt?m .IS ?reC MU"f 'nd UnJ!wv with ... WK CAN DEFY j One of the firemen, Joe Cuerin,
dec.s:?e "JctiSn'i ? thi f'c.'of COMMUNIST RUSSIA TODAY. Cn"t over the "id, if t h . cliff
threatened danger I " nave to' 'n Jllst c,uli Wl,h a rope tied to his waist. Five
Tt.. . . . that commands our fighting faith, 1 others lowered him 15 feet to a
I.hIn i!acr'hur "me back- I we can loruet our weak and shi ledge, where the girl, Mary , Jo
from its different Without yetjvering and reluctant allies to go Vincent of Newport, was clinging
knowing why. 1 have the feeling i it alone. The America, of today above a sheer, 70-foot drop.
iV' yL'Te.g0'n? 10 llck thi "on-iis relatively far stronger In the, wilh h-r m his arms, he awung
lace of Malin s Russia than was to safety on a slope 15 feet away.
!H! " 1 The girl was at play on tb cliff.
last night I re-read a fascinat- , known locally as Jump-Off Joe,
ing passage in our history. It came In the Louisiana crisis we had Sunday afternoon when stu I .fell
ui Jefferson s time. 'IEADFRS1HP The neonls hp. over- ff'ecn feet down she Bit a
We were then li.tle and weak, i Ueta" Jrfferaol ThflievH L,$r
The Mississippi river was our west. j lhe cause for which he risked She , ablf 0 ?' "J,dJl;
em boundary lhe land from the war with mighty Napoleon.. 'n'ff ,d'rt , "'v',"?,
Mississippi to the Rockies was held w. hii. in b"ve the 70-foot drop below.
by Spain. Spain didn't botner usV , ev? "I our causeK T '! A playmate rah to the beach be-
much. She was .Ueadrgetting;?,veil'-fle',,Th'P.We bel,!velow to, notify Mary Jo's mother,
old. " ln and ,f we Xf to wt,can stP !rs. J. J. Vincent, who was walk.
Then- I communism all by ourselves. :fng there she cljmbed , ,iope Dear
In one of those sudden shifts of, T,tP RIr pTTT? ,a TIIiT , 1 Mary Jo, but coulU get no closer
Old World diplomacy, Spain over- thf virr m irmSv's ,h1 15 fwt- Wnlle the olher glrl
Iter that tnreatens us.
That's what leadership does.
night ceded Louisiana to France :
DF.USIVE AND DETERMINED
ran for help, Mrs. Vincent encour
aged her daughter to hang on, in-
ikaC.n. n(uiunirni ru : urAnME, n.
were disturbing rumors that Na-1 f rKKlnowv Ivn VAnF ' ting her which way to shift
poleon planned to conquer ALL OF .22 ..."AP,?. feet whenever ' dirt crumbled be-
AM ERICA including the new re-1 Si'.""1
public of the United States of Amer- iaocucs IP LS.
ica!
neatb her toes
Jefferson, a man of peace but
also a man of vision and COUR
AGE, acted decisively.
lie wi'ote our minister in Paris
to tell Napoleon that these rumors
were greatly disturbing our people,
that the port of New Orleans at
the Mississippi's mouth, was ES
SENTIAL to our development, and
that unless steps were taken to
assure us that no such thine was
contemplated WE WOULB FIGHT
FRNACE!
It worked. For whatever reason,
Napoleon abandoned his scheme
and sold Louisiana to us at a stag
gering bargain. From the Missis
sippi, we followed our destiny to
the Pacific.
That was leadership!
The moral?
I think it's this:
If in Jefferson's day little and
still weak from loss of blood spilled
in the Revolutionary war we
Controls Eased On Needs
For Canning Season
WASHINGTON m The gov
ernment has loosened controls on
jars, glasses, lids and jar rings
used by housewives in canning
iruits and vegetables.
The order, effective April 26,
would allow wholesalers and re
tailers to fix ceiling prices on such
ilems by adding to current costs
the average percentage markups
they used from May 24 to Juna
24, 195.
hai not bM 1
I :ISp.m, phM I
MlilbthnM
:lSI7p..
Hood River 1300, Milton-Freewater
$300. Nyssa $300, Roseburg $290,
Ontario $200.
Since the list was published,
Roseburg added $10, making a
total of $300, so we now tie for
second from the bottom.
In the naraffranh ahnitt th. far.
penlers' pay, the inaccuracy is could defy the mighty France of
really glaring. Let it be thoroughly 1 Napoleon's day, the menacing Na
understood that I compared teach- J
ers to carpenters because we, too, i guna, they called on Mr. and Mrs.
re skilled laborers, and 1 as-; Hand )lpn Flag-! in their new home
sumed that the years of their pre- on Le Bosque avenue. The Flaggs
liminary training would appioxi-1 formerly resided in this citv. They
mate the three to seven years of, visited the Lee and Ira Wimberly
college training that teachers have families in Ixis Angeles and spent
had. Actually, I matle a small er- some time in Long Beach. They
,rur in usiing carpenters mi k ju aSO visited their son and naugh
; per hour instead of $2 25. Anyway, ; ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
to use tne ngures 1 gave tne JCs.
and which 1 understand will be
right for carpenters after June 1.
fcV'hnL0.!" Vr.i!!! Thi In' die,, had no apparent trouble sell.
TVZV:;n;?rl 'ZJZl ; ';-t.nt. Trum'n on ,he Bri-
been doing their best to replace ; ,ls'''"1 "",, . ...... ,
the missing Jap merchant ,eet. ,he ,,' ,, if s()lol,,y ,",
Of course, most of the trade car- ...,,.' loM ,. Rr;h', w
pin h that K fit Kih thins hit iin ' . K
-,.. . : their noses out of our business,
Now, however,
g iheir noses out of our business,
ih. h.Vntnl Hr t.sh ; And " P"bally impossible, any
ih'.n ,hPI '-,.' hi 80 '" a we keep on mes's-
are ready to go all the way, by
supplying the Japanese with
enough ships to take care of that
nation s needs as well.
The British propose to do this
by banning Japanese merchant
ships in the peace treaty which
they are helping State department
ide, John Foster Dulles, write at
this lime. In other wurds, the Bri
tish found tlio Japane " surrendar
ban on shipping such a good thing
that they are now willing to extend
ing around with the United Na.
tions. This idea of collective secur
ity was spawned by U. N. char
acters. But it didn't take the Bri
tish Ion? to twist that idea round
1 to where it is today. Now it is
1 collective "gimmie" for British
security, which may be one way
to peace and security for the U. S.
It may be, but 1 doubt it.
Anyone who puts out a pair of many olher proofs of what a bahy
treasures for children such as we can be getting from a picture.
the prohibition or. into eternity. "jTFSTV- f "r N' ifl
It's good business for the British. 1 fjt Zal X'- r,U" M
One olher clever idea British yt v :' 'JA '
diplomats have concocted, con- gflff iff F(a ' li
cermng Japan, is to ban textile T-tTJ34t'i( ' V "' -I
mantifucturing bv the Japanese. ' JZ,9i'i t . ;-. i - --v'
This litlle protwKiil, along with the ' ' f tXTk X ' i ( - l
shipping ban, will be made part at
the prace treaty, if the British
hivt their way.
Kven hy trying hard it is doubt
ful if Prime Minister Clement Att
ire and his Socialist comradrs
could have found any quicker way
to break the bank of Japan's econ
omy. For generations Japan has
survived on textiles and shipping.
Of course, so long as Secretary
of Stale Dean Achton continues
to take jrderi from No. 10 Down
ing street in Loudon, the British
have every reason to believe
their proposal will be accepted.
All ue taxpayers hav to no
came upon in Itnschtirg ten-cent
store- certainly deserves a vote of
thanks from parents and teach
ers. Hepresentalives of both were
exclaiming over the two we found
there Saturday on our way home
from Myrtle Creek.
The little hooks are railed "The
Red Book of Trees" and the "Blue
Hook of Trees." Twenty five rents
each. About 31 by .V inches.
Nicely colored in brow n and
green. (Whi'man Pub. Co., Racine,
tsconsm)
Each tree is given in its entirety
so the child can learn to recoume
the tree by its shape, usually char
aclcruOic, as well as a spi ay of
its leave, and blossoms and fruit.
All picture? are very clear.
The Red Book is a guide to ce
dars, firs.- hemlocks, pines and
spruces, and other narrow leaved
trees. The Blue Book is a Kiude to,
the ashes, birches, elms, maples
nd other broad -leaved trees
1 have always felt a child should
have a hook before he is "ready"
for it. Have it lo handle and lk
through without any one urmng
him to do any more than that. Per
haps it is because I remember so
vividly how our boys ptoved more
than once that they were takin'j in
pictures In a very definite way.
One baby came to me with an
advertisement in a woman's mag
azine and pointed to a young
housewife baking. "I. o o k . , .
Mo'er! Hitlits'' lie was so tri
umphant! Another time the other
one got a package of raiMtis and
carefully spilled the package on a
magazine advertisement no that
the box and the spilled raisins
matched perfectly There ere
used 11 nurse ves: and nrvr en
couraged the children to continue
it.
Although the child might sav, ex
pei imentally. lo me, "Hit his," my
reply would be "Ves, that's it! Bis
cmt'' 1 ssii met he was Irving to
sav it correctly. Then was the time
m help him' 1 still think it a good
and several teacher friends.
Mistakes In Reported
Version Of Talk On Local
School Status Corrected t
ROSKBt'RC.-f realize some of
the difficulties involved in secur-!
ing accurate reporting for a daily
paper and 1 am sure that such re
porting is not easily done. How
ever, the article (the News-Re-
to keep on supporting Japan with view, April 24) covering my talk
large appropriations out of the with the Junior chamber of com-;
public treasury, while the British merce on Monday left much to be
skim off the gravy by handling desired in a matter of accuracy, t
all the trade Because some sharp comment
In Germany recently, the allied around town has been based on
powers rained the ban on Herman that article, I am aking for the
ship building. This was a jarring publication of corrections.
wrench to British diplomacy, but I am sorry that the headline,
the Socialists managed to keep "Rosebi'ig School System Lags n:
up tneir cnins long enougu to race omparison with others, was
to Japan and drop the two ideas misleading and seems to imply
in the hopper so they could cash that I spoke critically of the school
in on that nation's economic plight, itself rather than its salary policy
f.verything coming out ot our tor the next year. J ( C. members
that 1 made no
the carpenter would receive for
3A weeks (notice that I stick to the
average teaching time.) a salary
of $3,312. But the state average
is about SO hours per week. Now
50 hours, at a straight wage of
$2.30 for 36 weeks, figures out to
be $4,140, but if we figurt it at
the usual overtime rate, the teach
er's pay for 36 weeks would need
to ha $4,554 to be comparable. In
asmuch as the average Roseburg
teacher at present gets something
over $3,500, I pointed out this great
difference to the JCs.
The article states that I said,
"the Oregon Education association
will do nothing about salaries." I
said nothing of the kind. The JC
members u ill recall that I said
the OKA. while an excellent or-
ganiatmn in some ways, exerts
but little influence on salaries and
working conditions, olher than
compiling lists like the one from
which I have quoted the increases.
' The last part of the paragraph
that deals with "$25 on $5,000
assessement" will make no sense
to, anyone. I pointed out that Rose
burg COl'1,1) raise salaries an
other $500 per teacher, and haye
the first choice of teachers in the
state for about five mills addi
tional tax, or $25 on $5,000 as
sessed value, which is only about
two-thirds actual value.
1 found the JCs an alert and
pleasant group. They demanded
answers, and I hope they believe
that they received some.
WARREN EWINO
312 E. Cass St.
Roseburg, Ore.
C. Wimberly, and family, in Berke
ley. The Donald Wimberlys a c-
companieoV them on a trip to Yo
senite park over the weekend.
moDERn
FURNITURE CO.
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idea
Incidentally, whenever ! talked
to our babies I always spoke even
more carefully than lo an adult.
I figured that if a child learned
the correct way to speak a word
the first time, it would make things
easier for him. It still seems a
good idea to me! Hahy talk is
cuie and in mat. but we never .t-i- HAn.ri.-ni ri,. h.. ... u-ii
a Hritish label on it. he nrauing
room warriors in that racket won't
make a move without telling Att
ire. Nobody, it seems, even con
siders Cncle Sam first. That's
grubby business, apparently, and
not quite cricket.
Just like Cermany, we've had
Jap.ia around our neck ever since
f luked them. It could go on for
ever, but shouldn't. In writing the
peace treaty. Congress should in
struct Dulles and the Slate depart
uo too much time. 1
n(l should ne restored ana rasi. i ne used only ngui es for the high
n quicker it's done the less it's going schools. In all instances, except
lo cost you and me japan can i
f survive without a textile industry
, and a Int of merchant shipping
The British know this, but when
- you're greedy a lew economic facts
are no stumbling block.
We can't get tough with the thi- mentary teachers, but Hie fre
nese because of ine nruisn; we gien an increase of $2mt since
can't get Japan back on its feet the first of 1151, so 1 assumed
of the British: iruman $4.0 as their actual increase. (
has to fire tien Douglas Mac- lhe tahle shows the fo! Luring an
Arthur because he disturbs the nual increases- YAoodMirn Stiifc).
casu- ' British. Portland $tinj. Klamath Fails $.V,
Loca
News
Pacific Telephone 'i five-year expansion program it the largent ever executed by an operating public utility,
HOW A NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM WAS BORN ,
Five-year expansion in West topples all records for telephone growth 4V
la lulay. whom I a.krri
liienl II hcl(K-d child lo do li
lh.it Hav
To reply to a child in aocallrd n""nl ,h,t Japanese economy have tak
oaoy talk i to defeat uhat
such comment.
"he third paragraph l hadlv
Karhlcd We have reports from ii
Oreson district of the first clasa.
I made an error before the JCa
when I said RoseburK a at the
lioltom II ivn't, quiir Ontario is
lower. The figures hy the way are
from the Orenon Kdtication asvo
cialion journal and they show the
lutal increase in each district for
next year. Inasmuch as a com
plete digest of the tahle would
u tryin-! to ilo In adlilion if
ever ijets lhe idea it s "cule ' .
need I say any more?
U.S. War Casualties
In Korea Pass 61,000
no rural union hich school, the
increases for elementary teachers
were equal or itreater than those
1 used, so you see 1 was hein con
servative. It fs true that Kedmnnd
lists only $.'70 increase for ele-
- An-
WAS1HNGTON
noimce.1 v. comh.it casualties , i" ' .,"
in Korea 'hat. iA ai t,euse
..-. . ....... ,v ni.,aa, an
increase of ti! unce last week
The cumulative total of
.... ".Miiiiauoiis inrousr. April 30 it niobablr wasn't hnrd to do, Alhanv Burns $.vJ. l orvallis
iniiuorn .vio miiecl. 4I.4:' but somebody really sold Acheson .soo, Orewn City svw North Fend
wounded and I0.9M missme n the need to maintain British $;.S. Mcllord S472 liresham Sthrt,
i j n""del. 1 ! auhse- Socialists in manner they want Tillamook MM), Mvine I'omt US0
quenily died and UK) of those re- to become accustomed to. Ache- Heaverton S4;c Dallas SM2 Sweet
poitcl missm are known dead,, ton. ol course, while spinnm Home SU.v Beihel S41S. Husene
inJ? Mmbat deaths In Ko- around to keep from turning his 40H. St Helens J400. Junction City i
" ,l'- back on Al(ter Hiaa and hu bud- .V, Astoria $.160, Hillsboro $3ii,
Attanding to Bulkiest Mayor
Albert Klegel of Roseburg i
apendinK few days in Portland
on business.
Confined Ta Home Kenneth
W. Ford, of the Roscburij Lumber
company, is reported confined to
his borne in I.auretw-ood by illness.
Home Prom Portland Mrs.
W. Sherman Plimpton has re
turned to her home in Rosehurf.
following few days spent in
Portland. j
Return Heme Attorney and
Mrs. Dixler Rice are bark at
their home on South Kane street, '
Rosebure, following $ stay of aev.
eral weekt in the I mpqua hotel, !
while Mrs. Rice convalesced from
a aevere illness.
Will ' eave Friday Captain
Dale Rnrgcn will leave Kriday for
San Krancisco tc report for over
seas duly, following a visit here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I
Kd Boriten, and other relatives, i
also with friends. His. wile and;
their young son,,' Dennis, w ill re-1
i)i t here. Captain Roincn was '-
uoneei a, van Anioniu, lex. j
Wimberlys Home Mr. and
Mrs. li. V. Wimberly have re
turned to their home on 1. left
street in Roseburg from vaca
tion trip to southern California.
Vtt visited in San Clemente with
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Real. Mrs.
Real wis formerly Miss Harel
Kuykendall of Roseburg. At La-
i 'teffeM?! .! 1 fori 4
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new system that s Pacific Telephone 's growth record
in the five years since World War II. To meet the tele
phone demands of the West's booming population,
we've iJJcd l.ftOO.OOO new telephones ... .more than
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ing amount of equipment. ..700,000 local telephone
lines, as just one example.
3. To pay the tremendous expansion bill, well over
half a billion dollars has been put into the telephone
business by investors. That's roerethan all the money
we raised in the previous sixty -eight vein. But in spite
of this big financing burden, in spite of much highet
operating tosts, feicphone rate have gone up only
moderately. Since before Worl4 War II, they've gone
up less than half ss much as the cost of living. Your
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job we ever had. Together, the new people and the
new equipment have helped give the West a stronger
telephone system than ever before... an asset which
is proving of particular worth in these critical times
w hen, once again, the telephone is called upon to
help build our nation's strength.
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