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4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Or. Saturday. July 7. 1a51 litritd Daily lxcft Sander by Hie News-Review Company, Inc. I.U. ami iur M.I I. Ittl I Ik; i ktllM l E.brs. 0rs. aoSM Ml ! Mfttcb S. 1111 CHARLES V STANTON "WIN l KNAr Iditer . ' Member ot the AiKHi.lt. Press. Ones NmMMi PWblwi Association, the Audit Burioe at Circulations ,IIW,M T mm-HOLLIDAI CO.. INC.. illM u ". Cktokf .,I.W.I.. .7 Ai.f.1.1. uu. r.nl4. -I.- I," a.,... cum M.ii" m., . lew. r.t onto. UHlin, Ottf.L A.I .1 1. IS.S. lUBSreiPTlOM AT-1. O,.,. Br rj.ll-r.r ' ?' .fS."?: Ikr.. ...Ik.. I r m-i i,"A"'a'Su, o r i.u- ' r" HI Ml kr.. ... MM. THE $64 By CHARLES V. STANTON Perhaps you are getting bored with our continuing dis cussion of need for access roads into our timber. During our recent "Show Me" trip into the Umpqua forest we were filled so full of the subject by Supervisor Bob Aufderheide, angers Georee Churchill and Don Allen, Bill Benecke. in chargf of timber sales, and Alton Saunders, engmeer, that we must pass on some of their enthusiasm. We had access roads with breakfast, lunch and dinner. We hr.d briefing sessions at every stop during our three-day trip, and at evening "bull sessions." The only relief was the impromptu, unscheduled discussion by Ken Ford and Russ Briggs concerning the relative merits of various makes and sizes of tractors for use in logging and road building oper ations. This subject of access roads can t be overdone. It Is extremely important to every man, woman and child in our area, for It controls our economy, present and future. Our economy is based very largely on the timber in dustry. Proper management of timber assures a perpetual industry. Improper management means serious cutbacks at some luture date. Most of the timber in western Oregon has been improperly managed. Many communities are now ad versely affected. The industry in Douglas county still is in its infancy. We are in an exceptional position to place our program on sound principles, proven by experience. The key to proper management is found in access roads. Public ownership controls 70 percent of our raw ma terial supply. We are cutting four times asi much timber from the 30 percent of our privately owned resource as a sustained yield program allows, and are undercutting 32 per cent on the public domain. If private and public timber could be brought into cooperative management, a better balance would result and we could perpetuate our industry at near the current level. Without such balance, it will not be too many years until many mills will be shutting down for lack of tim ber. Other Counties Affected Most lumber centers in western Oregon are in a worse position than Douglas county. In the Portland area, for in stance, virtually all privately owned timber lands have been tut over. Large mills have been forced to close. Yet one can stand or the sites of these abandoned mills and look into neighboring mountains where 100 million board feet of vir gin timber could be harvested annually on a perpetual basis. The timber cannot now be harvested because no roads are built into it. Lane and Linn counties have critically reduced their stands of privately owned timber,.but the public domain is not yielding its allowable cut. We are fast approaching that condition in Douglas county. The House of Representatives lopped more than $1, 000,000 off forest highway funds proposed in the appropria tions bill. The cut was made despite vigorous protests from western congressmen. The Senate appropriations committee, of which Senator Guy Cordon from Roseburg Is a member, has voted to restore the monev. The datlon stilkmust be adopted by both houses of Congress. Kven then the access road appropriation for the entire Pacific Northwest is loss than enough to do the work immediately needed on the North Umpqua district of the Umpqua forest alone. We could use all of the money allotted for the North west right here in the Roseburg area, and still wouldn't have enough to do all the work so critically needed. It would help though. H Project Self-Liquidating The access road problem could be solved easily if Con. gres could be brought to a realization that the public do main shoul. I,e handled on a business basis instead of on pork bi.rrel" policies. Congress is evtremely jealous of its control over public purse Mrmgs. We can't disagree with that program, except when (ongress fails in its trusteeship. The access road program is purely a business proposi tion. U is essential to proper management of the timber re source on public lands. When access roads are constructed the stumpiige value of timber, sold on competitive bids, im mediately increases in proportion to accessibility. Invest ment in access roads would be amortized within a very few years through increased stumpage values, plus returns from additional timber which therein' could be harvested The roads however, would be used in perpetuity and, therefore, would leturn ninny times their cost. It: some manner we must get this concept before Con gress Just how it is to be accomplished is the $t4 question. I lull eastern congressmen, who have no realization of the ZZ' l"ir.f Ur ',r " Hml HUr fme'st i"lwtry. are made to see that businesslike handling of the resource is demanded, we hao little chance of freeing the access roads issue from the pork barrel classification. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from P;ige 1) President Is merely doing his job '. when he says: ( "We cannot ignore the danger of; military outbreaks in other parts' of the world. The greatest tin rat j to world peace, the tremendous ' armed power of the Soviet In ion, will still remain, even lit the Korean fighting stops . .He must continue, therefore, to build j up our military forces at a rapid rate." j Those are tilings we mustn't for- get. I I find T,-can't. however, go alon'tf with "aditiiiiistnitutn rmuvrn over WANING ll HI.IC INTEREST in rr.lional defense nif the shooting war in Korea sliSf's" As one of this "public," I'm mow concerned oer what Ol'R OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON, including both the administration and meii,SJti of crnress. will do. U they'll give uf sound, wise QUESTION JENKINS leadership, I think they'll find that we will do OCR part. The President, in his speech. went on: "We have the hard task of In creasing production and controlling inflation in order to support the strong armed forces we must have for years to come." Quite true. Hut how shall we go aliout it? I d say that the best way to go about it would he for our govern ment tocutotf EVERY PO.SSIIII. K IMM.LAR f non-defense spending, so that the cost of arming our selves to fight a w ar of surviul. if that is whst we have to do even tually, can t met by taxation so that we will not be forced deeper into debt. A program such ai that would fix inflation cluck. I doubt if ai$iing else will. .Making speeches alio'it inflation and its horrors certainly won't turn the trick I. irking inflation takes l'F.EIf not words. MM c Fulton lewis Jr. WASHINGTON "Men who have made the oil busi ness a life work and who have amassed fortunes, some run ning into the millions, have put the stamp of approval ipon the properties and success of the Morgan Oil and Refining company by investing their money and becoming actively identified with the management of this company." On April 1, 1917, the above para graph apparert in a large adver tisement of the Kansas City Star. President Truman wss one - third owner and treasurer of the oil company. It is impossible to find any Mor gan Oil and Refining company fi nancial records now, if any ever existed, so I can't tell you accur ately how many suckers paid from $5 to $25 for the oil stuck. T h e iTCSiueni aoia some or me snares to friends he met on the street. When the company evaporated less than a year later, and the Presi dent was asked by stockholders about getting a litlle cash back out of the concern that had tanta lized oil millionaires, he replied by stating he had lost money, tuo. That was not the case according to his long time buddy and presi dent of the oil company, 1). II. Morgan, of t'ureka, kans. The President made a profit, according to Morgan, but for the life of me 1 can't ligure out how he earned it. There s no evidence tnat he put any money into the company ; only notes, countersigned by lv i s i mother. Notes wouldn't buy oil der-; ricks or lai'Ke newspaper ads, or pay for printing stock certificates. The truth is that the President got a pocketful of slock cerlifi- j the rompany, along with a com- mission io sen snares 10 ins acquaintances. The noles were a Rimmirk. The President bouunt pa per with paper and, as far ai I ran find nut. didn't put in a cent of cah. In return h sot paid, but iim there are no records around, only the word of President Mor gan of the Morgan Oil and Helm ing company. "Harry made a profit,' Morgan assures me. In the Kansas City Star adver tisement the Truman-Morgan oil empire so the promoters said claimed leaves on 20.000 acres of land in Kansas; a refining plant at Kollin. Kans.: ownership of 1.S00 acres in Oklahoma, plus two drilling rigv near a lO.ooo barrel t day "gusher." and 10.000 Texas acre. As it turned out, it was mostly gas. Head this, from th same ad vertisement: "In the event this country is un fortunately brought to war. the ab solute necessity of gasoline and other by-products of crude petro- leum are bound to come to such ur- gent demand that the price will soar beyond all expectation and an investment in the shares of any oil ronipanv that has production and large holdings ot proven prop- ernes such as are held and owned br the Morgan Oil and Refining company, is beyond question an in vestment of rare opportunity." it was shortly atler war broke out that the Morgan Oil and Relin nig company folded up. The part ners even quit selling stock. By lyin Mr. Truman and Morgan sold out to J. S. Mullen, of Ardmore, Ok!a. "There was a war on." Morgan explained. "Harry was In the ai my ," Morgan says the President .ittil writes him letters every few weeks and sends h'n fancy, auto graphed beach shirts from Key West when he is vacationing there. He's likely to be writing hira oftener in the next few davs, since this is going to refresh a lot of memories. If Tnimge and .Morgaa sold the God Is Not A Comrade ..... vrS 60.000 shares of stock at $5 t share, somebody had a cache of $300,000. If they sold all of it, minus the 1,000 shares the three founders grabbed at $1.00 each, for $25 a share, somebody pocketed $1,425, 000. There are no records anywhere on how many shares were sold. j From the way the boys went at it I figure conservatively that they lifted $200,000 out of midwestern pockets. Mullen, as I noted here a few days ago, told me he bought out the Morgan Oil aud Refining company in late 1917. lie says he got a lease on 2.rHXI acres of sagebrush in Okla homa for his money, nolhing else, 'lucre ain't a drop ot oil under neath it. as far as I've been able to learn. Morgan is hary about what hap pened to the oil rm, the Texas leases, the 1,500 acres near the gusher that was producing 10, wu barrels of oil daily within spitting dislance. He is speechless about what happened to the refinery at i Rolhn. Kans. 1 was. almost, when i I couldn't even find Rollin, let I alone a refinery. But more about, Monday. Zcw Fulton Leivis Daily On KRS R, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P.M. Church Official To Speak Here Dr. Merlyn A. Chappel. secre- ber of renter occupied units In tary for the division of Missionary crcad bv only i percent in the .Support in the Board of National , same period. Missions, Presbyterian church inj ' the ISA will speak to the women t and -iriends of the Presbyterian church Roseburg at a potluck dinner to he servi ved at 12:30 July 12 in the church parlors. ' Dr. Chapprl'a work, both in the lulled Slates and in Latin - America, has given him an excep tionally wide range of knowledge ' of economic and educational as ! well as religious conditions in these ' areas. He spent ten years in Chile. Venciiiela. and Cuba, while as ad- ,v,ry ,ft,,lon o( lh, i,n, Sl Dr. Chappel recently visited Alaska, fling to the Arctic at Harrow after seeing the southern Prt the territory as well. In the spring of 1WS he was one of the directors of a study seminar visiting the West Indies, where his knowledge of Spanish and of the Caribbean area was invaluable. J Maws.H.letf sj W wet ewe I m I MwWtr 1 I 1 4: 1 1 sum, asWe ; f 1-711 Wwm .-"A fell east? sua. Pick-Ups By PAUL JENKINS Deluxe reserved seats for the fireworks display held the night of the Fourth at the fairgrounds were enjoyed by the throng of people who occupied the bluffs overlook ing the river from the east. Parked cars, bumper to bumper, lined the Pacific highway from the south end of Stephens street to Shady Point, and all adjoining open areas were jammed with cars. As near as I could make out, everyone enjoyed everything until it was time to start home, when terrific traffic ......I. AavannoA hur. and there. i , lh. the fair- ! grounds were delayed nearly two nours. . The amateur rodeo promoted at VoncaHa and staged there July 4th and 5th by the Voncalla Saddle club succeeded in capturing more of an authentic rodeo atmosphere than any I've seen outside of a bona fide cow country. This, to gether with the fine new facilities in the way of bleachers, concession booths, arena, stock pens etc., just completed, promises much for the success of future rodeos which may be held there. Business and professional men who swelter out the hot summer months immaculately cloihed as their concept of social tradition de mands, may find some mental compensation for the physical dis comfort involved. I wouldn't know. But to the most of us who go native in shirtsleeves and slacks or jeans, comfort seems to mean more than anything else. ! hsd my pulse taken once by a doctor who was in his shirtsleeves, and as far as 1 know neither of us ever came to any harm be cause of his not having been so cially correct in coat and cravat. From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves, they say. in three generations That's something else I wouldn't know about; my branch of the lam ily never has gotten away from its shirtsleeves. I The number of home owners In the t nited States increased 71 per- I i.nt frnm 11UO In lq.O The num. REMEMBER Howard Hardware (Winston) It Your NORGE Dealer. . . HOWARD HARDWARE (fTORE Alt hi Rfatfjrf Mm 1771 WiflitM It Oh Sun4r to Yr Ciivfitfic. (:'v;SX;j Bv Viahnttt Martin When our boys were at home we sometimes found it interesting to check the labels on things to see how far the ingredients of the vari ous parts of the menu had come. Makes for interesting table talk at any age. Just now I was thinking about the way things richochet around the country, adding to their price, and wondering if the distri bution could be perhaps a little more intelligent I remember a man in California who said he could buy candy from New York cheaper, even if it came round through the canal, than the same grade in Los Angeles. , I wouldn't know about that, but I was just looking over labels on our pantry. Here's oil. yams, and shellfish from New Orleans, and pepper sauce put up in New Iberia, La. Now why couldn't they do that here on the coast? Ship the dry peppers and add the vinegar here, and save expensive handling of glass Wonder where they bought the bottles? Like as not from Corning, N. Y. Then here's mustard from Eng land, "distributed in Rochester, N. Y." You can't beat the mustard, we may say, if we like it hot and tangy, and mixed to our own taste. But why can't we make the same grade of powdered mustard here? The California hills are covered with it though not the way they used to be a hundred years ago when it was taller than a man's head when he was riding his horse! Mustard it's everywhere, I guess. "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed , . ." Why Is this English mustard "distributed in Rochester" instead of N. Y. or some other seaport? Certainly I've nothing against Rochester, for I lived there some years and liked it fine. When I pick up my camera sometimes I think of George Eastman and his wonderful home there, and all the millions, which, somehow, failed to give, him something he lacked for happiness, and one day he ad ventured into whatever comes after we finish with this material living. I'm also reminded of a young friend who "had everything" or so Czechoslovakia Frees Detained Jet Fliers WIESBADEN, Germany M Czechoslovakia has released two western jet fighter pilots an American and Norwegian held by the Communists since they got lost and made a forced landing near Prague nearly four weeks ago. The Cischs delivered I.t. I.uther G. Roland of Hummelstown, Pa., to U. S. officers at the German Czech frontier town of Waldhaus. IX Bjoern .lohansen, the Norwe gian pilot, who was training with Koland at a U. S. jet air base in Bavaria, was landed at Copenha gen, Denmark, in a Czech airlines plane, enroute to Oslo. Boycott Against Beef Prices Planned In Portland PORTLAND (m Support from housewives for a boycott against beef to protest high prices is sought here, Mrs. Drew P. Lawrence, who previously organized similar con sumer boycotts, said she was urg ing housewives to pass along word of the move by telephone. But market observers expressed the view that a housewives' boy cott against beef already was in effect. Slight demand for beef at present prices was reported by both wholesalers and retailers. Diraters $. J. Shoemoker, Pres. M. E. Ritur, V.-Pres. H. 0. Poro.fer, See. -Mgr. A. N. Oreutr, Attorney V. J. Micelli, Trjrjl. Edyth Gilmour, At Secretory The Umpqua Notes Secured "by Loonj Notes Secured by Stock Sales Controcts Federal Home Loan Bank Stock Government Bonds Home Office Building Advanced Borrowe-i Interest Receivable Cash on Hond and Due Investment Stock Building Account Reserve Contingent Reserve Surplus Deferred Profit Incomplete Loont Other Reserves af of Oregon ' County of Doug 'ot ) )SS I, H O Coroeter. Secretary of ft obove Aoc,atron totTm is true, to the best of my knowledge oed beint. ATTEST: 9 $. J. SHOEMAKER. PrfsnWnt Jubienbed ond swam to before me this 3rd day of July, A D , 111. W. F. HARRIS. Notory Public for Oregon. Wy Commission ep"M November 17 151. I 'thought. She was so confident she could drive safely as fast ai she liked, would heed no restraint. She was picked up one day in the wreck of her sporty roadster, la tally injured. Not all my memories of Roches ter are like that. There was the time the dignified Mrs. C was rid ing along in her electric brougham and suddenly, on the slippery, wet pavement. Mrs. C was facing the way she had come! Calmly she turne dthe brougham around and continued on her way down East avenue. Rember the funny little glass boxes on high wheels? They were the last word then. I "last words"! Paint with PABCO You can repaint your home for only Average 28'x30' tiie. Shake exterior slightly higher. Use finest quality PABCO "Professional RetuhH Everytime" Home Builders Lumber Co. Highway 99 N. at Garden Valley Phone 3-4156 A Tribute To--- OUR MILKMEN! Those cheery, white-clad men who de liver your milk every day ... do you ever consider the part they play In your family life? Dependable at the rosy morning, at your door daily 36S timet t year, eager to pleaie you ... does ANYONE give you more important ser. vice? Next time you see YOUR Milk, man, give him a friendly slap on the beck and tell him what e grand job he's doing. He'll beam with happiness and tell his boss what swell folks you ere. And, incidentally, on Christmas morn. v tng, you COULD put out e nice gift for him. You always do? Final WE SALUTE DOUGLAS COUNTY! 97MO-9Ikuc Manufactured and Distributed by Douglas County Creamery Established 1899 Dial 3-3237 Roseburg, Oregon We Salute Douglas County! tuecnt mni tve Sprinter Condition of Savings and Loan Roseburg, Oregon At Clue f Sutintis June 10, I9J1 RESOURCES $1,853,552 31 5,070.90 904.03 30,400.00 100,000.00 24,000.00 298 55 89.28 203,443.97 From Bankj LIABILITIES $2,089,674.04 13,800.00 75,205.02 . 1 1,839.80 1,928.79 23,06237 2,249.02 do hereby 0. fARGETER, Secretory. Bring Cards For Final Entry, Blood Givers Asked ' y The following is a list of people who have blood donors' cards trem previous donations and may bring th rsrds int the American Red Cross in the armory building to have the last donation recorded on them. The new cards may be obtained here also. The list includes: Mrs. Leah Crafton, Mrs. Echo Heard, Mrs. Hazel Buell, Mrs. Beth Wimer, Mrs. Franoes A. Young. Ruth Addison, Hildred Chipmiii, Ira Hudson. Mrs. Beatrice Adams, Mrs. Belle Crenshaw, Mrs. Elsie Broszio, Mrs. Hanna Hansen, Mrs. Olive Elliot, Mrs. Vera Stumbo, Theo Mark. Arthur DeMott, Mrs. Edith Ott. Paul Jenkins. Mrs. Fran ces M. Walker. Merlin Wills. Keith Carter, Mrs. Doioihy Pocock, El don McLaughlin, Norman Wicks, Burrell Routh and Mrs. Ethel Oakly. The Egyptian chariot wai highly perfected by 1500 B. C. Directors G. V. Wimberly G. C. Finloy Guy Cordon W. f. Horns 8. R. Sboemoker N. Fullerton Association . $2,217,759.04 $2,217,759.04 solemnly sweer rftet the IP Mi o Z o