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4 The Newi-Reyiew, Roseburg, Ore Thurt June 21, 1 951 tMbl.iht1 Daily laws J by Hi News-Review Company, Inc. later! alsw nttur Mm 1, lt tl tta ffl l ," r. Orf. atat acl af March S, 1111 CHARLIS V. STANTON IDWIN KNAff tditoe Meetr Msasbar the Aitociotto Prtu, Oretoa NowimM' Publishtrt Aisociatio. Hit Audit lutna of Circuletioet BaorSMaUt tT.HOIJ.ID CO.. INC. .III"! i '. Collate, l.i.... t.r.. cu m..u, i. mj. r.. oili.. u BaMMrf, OffB- tmimt of MMO S. ISIS. SimtrtirTinN MUM. or.,.Br .ll-r ""!!'. ? ,?t'i??if2l: Um MIS. Br K.W.-B.TI.W C.rr..r-f.F . . ll r. !. mm m I.e . ts-tt. THANKS FOR By CHARLES V. STANTON Harry Pargeter has resigned hi job as chairman ot the county defense bond committee. For the last 10 years Pargeter has led the local bond campaigns. Throughout the years of the war he kept Doug las county at the top of Oregon counties in per capita sales, despite the fact that for the greater part of that period this area wa. far down tne list in per capita income. Since the war he has maintained high standing in savings and defense bond campaigns. Pi.rireter. of course, has not accomplished this excellent record without help. He has ficient sub-chairmen and other volunteer Helpers, am credit for much of the success in the bond effort must be given his inspirational leadership and basic planning. Many people owe him a personal vote of thanks, in ad dition to the gratitude due from every county resident for the excellent and exhausting service he has performed. There are hundreds of individual cases in which people prob ably would have gone hungry or would, at least, have suf fered s'.rained financial difficulties, had it not been for the bond sales campaign engineered by Pargeter and his aides. Because many peopl were induced by strong sales ef forts to buy more bonds than they would otherwise have purchased, even under patriotic impulse, there still exists in Douclas county a large backlog of savings to cushion economic emergencies, such as unemployment resulting fron? adverse weather, illness, accident or other causes. Harry Pargeter has labored harder at bond sales than at his own successful business He has given freely of time, money and effort into a patriotic cause. In serving the patriotic purpose, he also has encouraged many individuals and families into habits o' thrift that will continue to show good economic results for many years to come. He surrenders to his successor, George I uoma, a func tioning and trained organization, phis a large population segment regularly practicing the purchase of bonds as a continuing thrift program. Psrgeter has a right to feel nroud of the service he has given. We believe we ar? able to bespeak the unanimous thanks of Douglas county's residents for a job well done. THINGS COULD BE WORSE We were amused by .in item appearing recently in the AthUind Tiding, an item the editor reported was received as a contribution. Presented verbatim in the form of a let ter, it reads : . Mtnager, Four Corntrt Co-ftp Door Siri I htvt your statomont thawing that I awa yau S7a.M. I am enclosing chack for $5.00 far which please land ma raiaat, I am lorry that I can't pay any mara new but my living expenses ara high an4 I belitvo I should look out tor my famaly bafora warrying about rha faad bill tor my cows. Will try and (and yau inathar IS. 00 whan I tall tama calvat In April but dan't caunt on It too much at my daughter graduate! In June and yau know that takat quit a little meney. I thaught I ceuld tend yau a check latt menth but It took all I could raka tcrapa together to put in the Delca light aa my wife dIJn't have electricity to run tie teparater, the tewing machine and vacuma cleaner, then toe we had to build a thed for the Ford at we had to put the new Cadellac In the garage, to you tee It takat all the money we get from the cowt and the chlkkent to got along an. I can't tend yau the turkey money next fall at my boy it go fiH ta college and altha the tadt at today are very ekonomical about hata tigarattea but roontkin reatt catt the old man a lot tr.e even lunkyard Fardt came rather high by the time they are deceratad far aallege. I might tend yau the hog money but the mittit 1 I have planned a trip to Honolulu and after her working hard all thete yeart I f-lnfc the detervot the trip. Thit It a t.rribla ttraln an my finance!, at the new car and the light tyitem have to be paid for. All the farmart hare ara pressed financially with eggl thit sprint anly Sic a doien and gateline the price It It. Maybe nait year things will leek brighter and then I can pay yau a little mere on act, but right now thlngt ara mighty black for the farmer but don't worry abeut thit account at wa ara hanott people and will pay yau every tent we ewe you. Send 1 ton mlllrun 1 tent alfalfa 10 ta cracked corn 10 tx wheat cheap at yau can. Very truly, your cooperative member, JACK CILLACUOY. In The Day's News By MAN (Continued frjm page Onei Civil war NOBonv em pvi-p INt,H)rn c,n EX l R whip us Here's another of these Im mensely significant lights and shadows in the news. It comes from Washington: "A senate subcommittee has callwl hearings on the ticklish I approve the id.-a of a com queslion of whether ethics in gov-1 mission of distinguished citirens ernment and the moral standards to study moral levels in our gov of Congress itself need an over-1 eminent and to propose sleps to "At issue before the sub cum- everything else is to bring back mittee is a resolution proposing into our government the influence the creation of a commission of ' rlistingineted ciirn of high dislinguished cituens to study ' intellectual fcnd MuHAI. rharac moral levels in government and 'r. Our atruicglinc. little 13 origi to propose steps to raise them." i nl Vlonie grew 'into the great- 1 est nation on earth largely because A scsiching question at t h i I ' W he intellectual quality l the point: i high moral chaiacter of the men Why did we win the Revolution-i 'ho were theoHiur leaders the ary war in the (are of what looked founding f athers. n like OVERWHELMING odds ou rome right dowV to against us? j it. It takes great leadership to This, I think, is the answer: Our ttrrtlh'h was as the streniiih of len RKXAL'SK Ol'R HEARTS WERE PIRE. Following the shocking irvela nons in nan t doen or sAJ.ie ings inJWashington and elsewhere. I STAMR.S WE HAVE REASON a lot of people in this country are i TO SVSI'ECT we can exerciser beginning to wonder just how'f ure ' now erf ul influence for good upW our heartt art in these dayt. 'our government. A GOOD JOB had many energetic and ef JENKINS Hence this proposal to create a fl,"1 of distinguished cm ens lo study moral levels in gov ernment and to propose steps to raise tnrm. In the trnuhlrd world of today . WK NEKII THK si ki.'i:th iif ! TKN that eomi-i with pure hearts. l raise mem vsnil we nirf ihnv. make t nalion great. Hut I d like to suggest to us commoners out in the sticks that WE CAN HELP, too. If we'll Invariable VOTE AGAINST ALL CANDIDATES WHOSE MORAL AM) ETHICAL AMENDING ?( Viuhtiett Martin "It is my hope," Governor Doug las McKay states in his prod a mat ion regarding the intensely in teresting Oregon Historical Cara van, "in issuing this proclamation that I shall exert at least some small influence in directing pub lic interest toward the Oregon His torical Caravan. It provides the background for a fuller realization of the cost at which our progress was attained, and offers inspiration to the seekers of the closer na tional unity we must have to carry on in the spirit and example of our pioneers. . . " EJ and I enjoyed having a good look at each item in Uie two-part exhibit which was In Drain. Do hope you find time and opportunity to see it, too when near you. Oh, I do hope every school child sees it! Don"t miss the $10,000 in "bea ver money" exhibited in a glassed over safe: two gold coins with the dies that made them! I was so in terested In the reaction of teen ager who viewed them. The wed" - shaped section of a Douglas fir 528 years old made one stop, look, and think! "The seed was sprouted in 1422, nine years before Joan of Arc was burned at the slake". How plain the tree rings were! Abigail Scott Duniway's type writer, and the first telephone di rectory printed in the Oregnnian Industry Booming Despite Raw Materials Restrictions NKW YORK (AP) Industry gave an excellent account of itself last week despite restrictions on raw materials and price control battles. I'nited States Steel company, for instance, reported a new all-time monthly record in May 2,056,302 tons of ingots from the furnaces of its Pittsburgh and Chicago district plants. t a Dia.i turnare at I . s. veers Ohio works WmKst.mn was I rebuilt in a record breaking for months and IS days The job us ually take, nine months to a year. Miracles Commonplace The comment ol lion Aiie. na tional metal working weekly scmed apt. Production miracles .r-. h,,, i steel induatrj, the trad. m.g.,.,ne i said But there were some not so happy days in the oiling as an increas ing amount of the goods from the nation's factories were earmarked for defense. Re.slnrtiiint nn r.w m. ri.u threatened lav-ofls in many a busi- ,n country generally. Price cut ness and industry. '"" reported their sales up many i General .Motors said most of ,lm" '"' figure. jits army of workers would be1 lucre were other price declines laid off (or six days (rom July 28 during the week outside the ! through Aug. S because o( govern-1 Pri,e war field. Kor instance. Dun inent restrictions on the use o( I ,nd Bradslreet said ita wholesale j critical materials for passenger '"d P"ce index showed the cars. j sharpest decline in eight months. i At Richmond. Ind . the Croslev ! On Jhe New York slock ex division of Avco corpoiaiion. which1 change traders looked the situa m.ikes relncer.ilors. said l.:Mu em-1 linn over ended the 'week with ploves would he laid o(f starting prices a liltle higher. Two days o( " ""f urs-u-.e m rrMricuons on raw materials. Steel, Aluminum Cuts Set The private and public electric utilities industry was advised that! rt laced steel and aluminum cuts in the third quarter. j A battle ov.t price controls on heef resulted In idleness at the lug packing plants and m cornier- nsiion among consumers. O O The rj t meat packers stopped PARIS (. A French gen slaughtering or operated far below' "rw hon' 'r0 ,h " s' normal, contending goernnient ! w?"r "h "" boi(y 0( on' of n" cei'ings w fore..., them out of , 1l'T. h'r0 ""only son -the maikct C) ! killed in action tgainst Communist In Washington, government of i '""' .... r,. ,,,. n. IP;"b? oVrii'v ? bwUrd ' i nT,h, The isomer Q . I o( 'nch Lieut. The consumer was faced W.h I Bernard De I.attrt De Tassignv to the worst beef shortage in retail D met by aiost of France s mill markets since wartime days. Pack- tarv leaders and representatives ing industry spokesmen said the 0( the rest itKthe weslern Allies, shnrltgei would tpnesr in butcher Young DM.attre fell two davs sh,js in some sectiont next week: 1 ago whilt lifMng hit infantry unit The Road Back dated August 2. 1878; Henry Mil ler's map of the plains, and a let ter in Jason Lee's handwriting tell ing of his bereavement; a letter bearing cancelation of the first post effice on the Pacific coast, March 1847, addressed to General le; the first newspaper published west of the Rooky mountains, the Spectator, in Oregon City with a worried question In 1 1 a editorials: "The passenger list of the Great Republic is something immense! How can all these passengers be f-rovided for?") John McLoughlin's Letter Book, open at the copy of his letter to Captain John Minovs, which gen tleman he was was relieving of his command of the Hudson's Bay brig "Dryad", dated October 6, 1830, and ordering him to return to Kngland forthwith on the "r'agle," to answer to the board of governors. . .( he would talk back to the Factor, would he!). Joe Meek s own rifle, the toma hawk that scalped the Whitmans many, many items in a fascin ating exhibit provided by the Vnited States National bank of Portland. To further quote Gov ernor McKay: "With an appreciation of the past, we are belter able to accept the grave challenge of the present and to chart an unfailing way through the uncertainties of t b e future." rh.ir,. vi. k . . t i k. ... r..meiy acarce by Monday. The retail, price war faded. It spread sporadically to many cities hut its greatest impact was con fined to New York, where it be gn. The last word hadn't been said imwever, on uie price war. A ""V" "''hood 'iggist sought a temporary iniunction acainst Mary s. the world's largest depart tnnt store. Store Sales Up The federal reserve board said department store sales were up dve percent above a year aco for easing ott and three davs of .rf. vanrea made up the market's vers. The traders however, and tcted cautiously, activity was slow. French Generol Returns Fallen Son From Wars "" Congress Chat By Harris Ellsworth, M. C, Fourth District, Oregon In our heavily wooded country there is a method of fighting for est fires which is sometimes used j in desperation. It is called "back-! firing, frires are not only fanned Ly the wind but generate their own wind which speeds them along. The back-fire technique is to go into the green timber a quarter of t mile or so ahead of the running fire and set a series of small fires across the path. When the big blaze reaches the line of small fires its momentum may be broken and the fire brought under control. If the back fire plan fails to work and the fire sweeps on, no harm is done since it would have gone ahead anyway. So the administration has set up a "back-fire" against the sweep of public opinion against its for eigh and domestic policies against the public resentment over the firing of General .MacArthur. The backfire consists of some thing they call the "China Lobby." There might be such an organ ization. If so, it is supposed, ac cording to administration spokes men, to have used sinister o r other influence in behalf of Na tionalist China. If there is such an outfit I have never heard of it except from administration sources, and it surely has been a complete flop in its activities judging from the present pitiful condition of the Nationalist gov-j ernment. i Keferring to the so-called China j lobby the following was stated by one of the back-fire builders: "It is alleged that from 1946 to 194 the Central News Agency, a ' w holly owned instrument of the Nationalist Government, spent in the neighborhood of KM.OUO.OOO to influence American public opin-1 ion." 1 Now just think of how absurd ; that statement is. The sum six I hundred and fifty million dollars equals many times the total ; amount expended by all the news agencies in America which oper ate on a complete nation-wide basis. I mean several times more than the combined cost of oper-! ating the United Press, Associated i Press. International News, Trans-1 radio Press, etc. Well, enough on the subject of back-fires but it is my guess that when you hear or read something I called the China Lobby, that's what it is, a back-fire set for the purpose of slowing down the big ' blaze of public opinion which is ! about to consume the administra-! lion people. I The House is about to begin consideration of the new tax bill. ' It will come to the floor under 1 what we call a closed rule. That j means no amendments can be! made on the floor. It will merely i be debated and then the vote will oe tor it or against n as is, jnsi : as the committee brings it to the j Door. I do not like that procedure! but mus admit that when the end' product is considered the people ! will get a better tax bill if se, take the one worked out by the I committee of experts instead o( ; trying lo write it on tht floor ' with amendments. Ttie appropriations bill carrying fumlt for work on rivers and har bors was pauced by tht? Unix. Although tht? tolal rqueted by the Bureau of the Budget was rut mor than twenr percent, t h e fund allowed for work on the two bin dams in the Willamette Val ley flood control proiect Detroit and Lookout Point - totalled Jl.V 000.000 each., which wilt allow work on both those important dams to proceed toward comple tion for the earliest flood protec tion and production of much needed power in .the Willamette Valley. atiainst Communist led Viet mini, forces in Indochina. It was hut first ma tor engagement as an Infantry commander although he had been a soldier for eight years. Fuicj Lewis Jr. Georire F. Kennan, retired State department brain who once headed the department's policy planning staff, is re spo'ifibie for the U. S. global policy of "containing" the So viet Union. The policy is a flop. Kennan's plan, which Secretary of State Dean Acheson bought and American boyc are paying for in Korea, was a sort of diplomatic sit-down strike based on the theory that it is best to wait until Russia belts us before we strike back. He meant diplomatically, of course, but since Acheson and the Str.te department politburo have taken over the mili tary, it now includes the use of troops. Lieut. Gen. Albert Wedemeveri waa the first military man with Ku,a enough to .ay what he thought about the policy of trvin to con tain Russia. He said all we are do ing under the Acheson Kennan plan it fitting around waiting for Rut- sia to strike and then rushing in aiaie Department -'experts" or troops, as the need arises. He im plied that the Russians will run us silly and all we will have to show for it it a field of white crosses marking the graves of our nnesi lighting men. The big fallacy in the oolicv of trying to contain Russia is that you never get at the Soviet Union it self. Acheson's politburo wants us to keep on nipping the heels of So viet satellites, while the mother land of communism continues to build up her military forces. Oen. Wedemeyer thinks the time has arrived to once and (or all tell on me Kremlin, lie thinks we should notify Stalin that the next time he orders a satellite nation to fire a shot, our strategic horn- bardment air force will be erdered to give. So long as we sit around to drop an atom egg on his home-, on the fringe of Russia talking stead. tough, we are going to let hurt All you have to do is convince ; where we are weakest. And no President Truman that this is the body is silly enough to think we way to peace. J he Russians know Mr. Truman is just hair triggered enough to pull the plu! on them. In tact the most salutory blow for peace that could be delivered would be for the President to fire Acheson and let the Kremlin know that he is now running American foreign policy himself. If this doesn't do the trick, then nothing Is going to convince the Soviet pol- itburo that we mean business. The Russians must have almost Two Disability Suits Are Decided Two circuit court suits against the State Industrial Accident com mission were decided by juries Tuesday evening and Wednesday. A jury, in a directed verdict, awarded James D. Carter perma nent disability for 40 percent loss of function of a foot. The injury was the result of a logging acci dent on Sept. 20, 1949. He was given li t percent permanent dis ability by the commission on Nov. 21. 1930, but had been denied sub sequent applications for further dis ability. A second jury denied Ralph R. Firman any disability payments in bis suit against the commission. He had claimed 100 percent loss of function of an arm resulting from an accident April 18, 1950 when a gas drum fell on him. The com mission had given him temporary disability payments and closed payments on November 30, 1130. Contract Suit Filed Four partners in the BBD It T Logging company died suit Wednesday against John F. Bu chanan and Jan E. Bauer, part ners in Central Lumber, Oregon, Ltd., to recover $1187.25 allegedly unpaid on a contract agreement. The plaintiffs are Layton Daugh erty, John Ballew, A. V. Turnidge and llartand Jeffords. A suit against William E. Zid rich, R. L. Cyrus, and Emil Ny berg filed by Mildred Brooks was dismissed by Judge Carl Wimberly on motion of the plaintiff. Talk On Fires Set For Timbermen Central Douglas timber opera tors are invited to attend a meet ing tonight at Carl's Haven on Gar den Valley road, sponsored by the Douglas Forest Protective associ ation for the purpose of acquaint ing operators with their responsi bility under fire regulations. Dinner starts at 8 p. m., with the meeting to follow. Representa tives of the state forester's olfire in Salem will be available to an swer any questions of immediate concern to the operator. Such problems as the operator's' responsibility under Oregon forest laws in the event of an "opera- i tor'a fire." and the responsibility of the operator on slash areas not released by the stae forester, i will be discussed. i A meeting for operators of the north Douglas region is slated for I Friday night at Roaring Camp oa the Drain-Heedsport highway. 1 , ft i. ; ' I .Vt'" v. j i I A .j ,,.A . T,, -r ; &t!d , "J L?." " But Ache.ion would never sacri fice himself to U. S. security. And he and his pals in the State de partment are the only ones who can get the presidential ear, out side of Gen. Harry Vaughan. Vaughan is good at drawing inside straights but no reat shakes at other strategic matters. Most of the President's diplo matic and military errand boys who trotted up to rehabilitate his foreign policy before the senators who are trying to figure out why Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur got fired, trembled over the prospects ot get ting into a war with Russia. No body seemed to think about this at the time we went marching into Korea, and neither did Kennan ap- Parentl when he came up with the idea of containment. You can contain air in a pres sure tank until there is too much of it there and then something has i are strong enough to police the en Ure globe, or even able to rush adequate forces abroad whenever Russia liyhts another firecracker. To cool off the Kremlin we've got to quit fooling with all o( these I second teams and let the big boy ! know he is next, I Korea, of course, is a limited j war. It's a pity that in limited wars we can't have limited deaths, ! But there is no such thing, nor I enough trained men even to re place those who have fallen. Ever since the inception of the policy of containment the stress has been on reducing U. S. mili tary atrength. It was the same way with the atom bomb. We were lulled into sleep by Mr. Truman and Mr. Atom Senator Brien Mc Mahon. who prattled on about how we had the bomb and Russia did not. All along either one of them could have read the Canadian atom spy report and saved his breath. But this propaganda along with the containment policy prop aganda worked for Hussia. We have to know more than we do now to honestly say whether this was intentional or not. But in tenlional or not it worked for the benefit of the Soviet Union. In stead of getting tough with Russia, we sat around waiting for a bloody nose. When we got it, Acheson and Mr. Truman and the military leaders were scared of the blood. God heli us if they don't get aome spine before Russia lets us have it again. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRS'R, 4:00 PM. Atid9:15 P.M. I MvaroW by I I 4: If pjiu, paowo I 1-26)1 botsnew fcllaaaWB.as. FOR . . . ' SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION . . . Invesfigote the services offered by your "Home awned. Home-operated" bonk Money left on deposit with ut remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank . Member Federal Deoosit Insurance Corp YOU ARE INVITED TO HEAR Rev. B. Martin Gale lack Night at t m 9 : Roseburg Churdi of the Nazarene 00 East Douglas Street JUN20th TO JULY 1st Forrest Hill, Paster Key. I. Martia Gala Polio Symptoms Alert Advised By Health Officer Now is the time to be on the alert for symptoms of polio. This was the advice ot County Health Officer Dr. E. J. Wainscott, who met with the Douglas County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Wednesday noon. So far this year no polio rases have been reported, said Dr. Wain scott, but he advised parents to take the ordinary, common sense precautions to guard against tht disease. These, he said, are to see that children get plenty of rest and sleep.' eat proper foods, avoid over heating or exertion and chilling, and avoid swimming in water that may be contaminated. He advised also to see a doctor promptly i f symptoms of the disease appear. Report was made by the secre tary, Mrs. V. V. Harpham, that $600 had been received from Myr tle Creek as its contribution to the county fund. Mrs. R. D. Coen ajain accepted the vice chairmanship. Bob Mc Carl and Vic Bakala were invited to membership on the council. Pre viously E. M. Murphy was invited to membership. This was the first meeting pre sided over by the new president, Bob Bashford. Destitute Family In Need Of Help . Mrs. Alice Collman and her 12 children are in desperate need of food, furniture, clothing and shelter because of a fire which destroyed their home on the Flat I road five miles east of Sutherlin last Friday, reports Mrs. Jim Grover of Suth erlin. All of the family's possessions was last in the blaze. The father of the family is reportedly not available since the parents are separated. Mrs. Collman and her children, ranging from two to 16 years of age, are now eating and sleeping on the ground near their former home, and cooking in a brooder house. Aid has been sent from the Douglas county Public Welfare commission, the Red Cross and Sutherlin neighbors. A move is underway among Mrs. Collman's Sutherlin neighbors to start a community building proj ject for the destitute family, it has been reported. Shelter it the most pressing need but clothing and food are also needed. The Collmans had lived in their former home for six yeart. SPANKING COSTS 10 OKLAHOMA CITY .UPI A theater usher spanked i six-year old movie-goer and was fined $10. "1 warned him to stop running up and down the isle," Harley Ver non Duncan, 16. told Police Judge Mike Foster at he appeared in court on an assault and battery charge. "Then," he added, "I tapped him a few times." But Foster took this position: "You fellows are in tht catering business, and you have to put up with some of these things." HARRY C. STEARNS Funeral Director Our servict ii for oil and meets tvtry need. Any distonce, ony tim Licensed Lady Assistant. Oakland, Oregon Phon. 2711 or 271 11 a.m. en Sundays 0
