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Newspaper Page Texto o The Newt-Review, fjs burg, PuklithW Daily bupl Say by Ik Nwt-Rviw Company. Inc. latsrs .. MM ! Mss ' ','. ' Btukrri Or(.a. l ! Hereto t. ISIS CHAKUS V STANTON fOWIN L. KNAPP Miter Mtr Member' th Associated Press, Octf Nsep Publishers Association, th. Auslit Buftoy at Circuletiens B.b,f. Ot.g.B. L'.S.r Ael ! Slsrea S. U.S. UBrlPTloN aTr-l. o,.,..-. ss.il-e.. f..r sis .1. .m r., t..r. SllSSi lis. ISM' " HOW TO BUILD A BAND By CHARLES V. STANTON This column made inquiry last June 30 as to why Rose burir could not support a. larer municipal band. Lem liitner, who has been directing; the band for the last four years, has written us a letter answering our questions and dumping the problems into the laps of the people of Roseburir. We believe Lem's letter deserves equal presentation with our questions, so we are using it today as a guest editorial. Lorn writes : In answer to your editorial regarding what has hap pened to the Roseburg Municipal band, as band leader for the last four years, I would like to try to explain what has happened and is happening to our band. We have the musicians, the instruments and the music to have a wonderful band, one that could be invited to par ticiple in any state function. But the vital spark that makes a band is missing. That little spark is in reality a big bonfire when properly used and it is nothing more or less than civic pride. I em not a pessimist, nor do I avoid complaints and criti cism when due, but I would like to state a few facts as I know them and have seen them since 1942. When 1 first joined the band I received a cap and nice looking uniform that had so many moth holes in it I nearly had to wear black underwear to keep the holes from showing. Needless to say, none of the members wore uniforms except at concerts. Since that season the moths have finished their work. I doubt if you could find a whole uniform in the city. A nice uniform that will last two or three years with care vill cost about $45. The band canriot afford to buy uniforms with thp mnnev allotted to it. Since 1925 the highest band budget allowed was JUiOO ; n t i i j i j ., , per year. (This was all I could find, so could possibly be mistaken a lew dollars one way or the other. ror two years it was cut to $365 or $1 per day. In the last three years we have been paying members of the band $1 per rehearsal and $1 per concert during the concert season, which ordinarily runs eight or nine weeks through the summer months. A twenty-five piece band, paid $1 each for one rehear sal and one concert per week, costs $50 per week and $200 per month, or four times the amount of money allotted us each month. Last year we played nine concerts and our band had enough members to cost us $759 or $159 more than a year's allotment. Many times we played some really good concerts in Li brary pBrk and never had more than 75 in the audience. Lack of civic pride? The firemen and the polite all of them good fellows go out of town for music for their dances, thereby sending out of town several hundreds of dollars that could have been better spent here. We have just as good musicians here, but there !sn't enough of that kind of playing to warrant the ex pense of organizing and maintaining an orc hestra. The high schools, who have some darned good musicians in their bands, send out of town for music for their dances. All of these things reflect lack of civic pride In what we have right here on out own doorstep. Surely we have in this city twenty or more businesses each willing to hire a musician, hold a job for him, allot his working hours so he can attend rehearsals and concerts and the ff" civic affairs that the city would like to have a band play lor. We would l:ke to have a marching band, but when there is only about ten or twelve, you have to keep them close to jjether on a truck or they wouldn't sound as good as thev do. Our hand is composed of about ten steady, dependable men who meet and play for the pleasure of playing and, de pending on the time, are ready to play anytime for monev, marbles or chalk. During the summer we pick up a few high school musicians, and some of the boys returning from col lege. Without these boys we would not be able to put on con certs, other than circus style ballyhoo. Give me 20 jobs at livable wages and I'll fill them with the tyie of musicians who can make a band and, at the same time, hold down their jobs as well as anyone else. To have a good band one that will attract musicians as well as interest I feel that we should do three things, and the present band will help in any capacity it can: Appropriate money or provide some wav to buy good uniforms. 2 Supply enoiiKh jobs at livable waitp to entire good band members here. 3 Show erotiKh civic pride to turn out w hen our band is playing: concert. Kirni now i won in HKe to tnaiiK our clnof of police for the njrht of way on Kose street for our concert, unit the park department for cleaning our band shell, fixing benches and cuttinrf the grasa. I.K.M 1'ITNKK, Conductor. Risrht now I would like to .Local News Visiter Mr Mrs Kay Sim- T Meet At Pollock The f. S mon, of Monterey Park. Calif , is club will meet at a o'clock put in Roseburg visiting her son and lurk luncheon Tuesday. July 17 at daughter in law flerry Oliver. sir. and Mrs. R ara rra Mi J.rse Til Intsrin of I.a Graasl has rHirnl tame folio in saint iil tit jialaa lad li. Cfrl I. iil O r i. rsa Astat - ay ts4 r fra l.slrl f lsK' r )' I4lis ratita t 4a Tinaa, jt lack m wr M. -Mrrmott ( svtirM if their home in Rosinnj folio, t( a werVi vacation at 1 1 T(l. Calif. O O Bern' Hem Mr. and Mrs. r, u r U....I..,,. r -. . "'PS " " L-s- ......a "lurned towthtaV h"ny I4" a combined business Ml sc?tion trip to Winchester Bay and sV.her coast points. Or.- -Friday, July 13. If SI thank our chief of police for the home of Mrs. J. H. I'struk, SI 7 Hourk atreet. c Dais' Neighbors of ceidrraft numbers and their fam iliH si Invited to pirnic supper 41 I :ti o'ci.ek Sunday night in iliHn it is horn of Mrs. Hat s' el. 'i sms (ti?nilmg are asked t t !"' vu o 4t)"a fm tiuaf Major Sri Ht K. ii.elratj, M f i fi'tr left tor I'orl- t, Iii!Iosm) KnDivks visiting; a Vuvfitta) a ii h ihe lot iner s par- I nd lh oiher rr!aties and j fr Otils. He is the Hn ol J. K. I Honehrskes. Mtor Itunehrske was statiots-d in Julian at Ihe fsne of the.Korean outbreak and served w , V il. ,...!,,.. I v . . n.ir- i squadron In hVm lmi1 rcase torn overseas riuty -in eai-'or , rJune. we. is now assignpfl tn vo A3 Wrr aqiiadttH in PortlaiW. Fulton WASHINGTON Every time a congressman tries to shave a million dollars or so off an appropriation bill, pres sure and insulu from big spending advocates leave him feel ing like a drunken father caught with his hand in junior's piggy bank. We've gone beyond the point of trying to figure out why a $5.400-a-vear bureaucrat gets a thrill out of spending $200,000,000 more this year than the year before. What is disturbing, however, is to find the virus infecting news papers, especially editorial writers and cartoonists. In Washington recently the Eve- ning Star made a big joke out of the fact that Senator Paul Doug las, of Illinois, and Senator Homer Kerguson, of Michigan, were try ing to knock off a few millions from the record S71 billion budget, for the life ol me I can't work up a laugh over anybody trying to save us taxpayers that much money. What is so funny about saving $1,000,000? That's a whole lot more than most of us will ever see in our lifelime, let alone save. Now adays, in fact, if we can save a few bucks to buy bread and butter in our old age we'll be lucky. And j if you think Im stretching a point. wait unitl they start collecting the new $7,000,000,000 tax bill that is on the way. Practically everybody in the U. S. must be convinced by this time that big government is here to slay, whether we. like it or not. But how big shall we let it grow? That seems to be worrying a lot of sensible citizens, including mem bers of 21 state legislatures. These 21 legislative bodies have passed resolutions calling for a limit on federal taxing power of 25 per cent of personal and corporate in come. That would shackle the growth of big government in Wash ington, but good. The current defense emergency is soaxing up a lot ol dollars; so 1 lon " i Pnt wisely few of us will complain. The tragedy is however, that instead of curtailing their demands the normal peace time agencies are continually ask ing for more cash. I Let's see if this makes sense to you. Since World War II the fed eral security agency budget re quest has increased l.12 percent; Interior department 123 percent; housing and home finance agencies, ISO percent; general services ad ministration. 1K5 percent: TVA, 88 percent. M.HB, 88 percent. Some wartime agencies have been liq uidated; several including t h e i Veterans administration are spend ing less today than during the war. But not th old line bureau crats, who ar wallowing in a quaginir of government tax col lertions. In fiscal 947, for instance, the FSA spent $1128.077.000. Kor fiscal 19.W it is asking for $2.1M.483.not. Osrar r.wing, administrator of the ! FSA, might consider it bad taste ! to ask what we ai gelling for A democratic senator who de that kind of money, but I think clined use of his nam told news it is a legitimate question. What men he doubts any lax billwill be does the KSA do for you? What ' approved finally by congress until uvra ii im, iur any iieiwioor you t know? Do you know of any poll or election in winch Ihe American people have demanded a 123 per cent increase in sue for the KSA? I don't. Representative John Phillips. Republican of California, recently balked at voting for the $7,000,000, 000 increase in taxes. One of the reasons is that the congressman doesn't see much sense in contin ually appropriating more money just to make a roster full of federal agencies bigger than thev are. He wants to choke off the cash at the source and let the bnreaucrats In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from P.ig, 1) and the rest of it is on the scale that inn ,,ih . ik... home In addition, there are serv. Ire quarters with another bath- room. They pay m a month rent for At this point, ladies, hold onto I .i""1- "' "o ! yo!' ."' . . , . ', ?.",;,"' ,? we'rv. : i if, ,n, m,nfl, ij "" rd ' in these modern dsvs). n 'f ."nsists of three person, , a rook, a chambermaid and what, in the old days when there were such things in Americs we j used tn call a second maid. Thev are all happy and contented, like their jobs and give every sign of wanting tn kern them.' The wane hill for the three tacks up to the st.igcrring total of S-5 a , week I . fo eating costs: When you eat out. l.es says, and are hungry, you get a filet mignon sleak smothered in mushrooms. nh all the trimmings that nor mally go along, for the equivalent nl CI 1,1 A Kor "home consumption, a kilo of tenuerioin ste:ik la kilo is 2 2 pounds! sets vnu bsck th peso equivalent of il IS. , A car wah Costa von 72"t cents A shoe shine (including tip) comes s cents. O I mri to ak l.es about df).e price ot hancuts, but forgot it. How to get there" Well, Mr. anil Mri stcbbins and their three children drove from Mexico City to H Pao in two and a half comfortable days. The road is paved all the way and nin fine condition, probably heard th same Lewis Jr. fight it out fur what is left. In a recent house speech Phillips said: "'.et me call your attention again to the tact that these increases are all post-World War II increases, and that the rate has been accel erating. So great indeed has been the increase in government spend ing for civilian payrolls alone that today the total is at an annual rate of $8,300,000,000. This is equal to the rate at the peak of World War II, when government spend ing reached an all-time high." That's the sort of thing that gives our big spending bureaucrats loud laugh. How funny do you think it is? You're paying for it, Hear Fulton Leicis Daily On KRR, 4:00 P.M. And 9: If P.M. Dividend Phase Of Tax Proposal Target Of Blast WASHINGTON (VP) A spokesman for investors said to day a house - approved plan to withhold 20 percent of dividends 'or income taxes is "a police state proceaure. William Jarkman of New York, president of the Investors league, Inc., told the tax "writing senate finance rnmmillea lh- n.....-.! "Is not only discrimination: it U in-! suiting to at least 10,000,000 loyal Amercans. "It says to this group, in effect, I do not trust you to pay taxes on the income which you receive from dividends and interest pay ments, "I believe you will chisel on Untie Sam at this time when rev enues are badly needed. In other words I think you are a crook." The witness told the senators "I know and you know that our up wards of 10.000.nno investors in the United States are not crooks." Th committee is studying the I nouse-approvra dim to boost taxes $7,200,000,000 a year. The dividend withholding provision was put in ot the measure at tin request of in ireasurv which estimated it would produce $.123,000,000 an- nually fan President Truman Wnlarw f the Treasury Snyder and other administration officials hav been prodding congress to act swiftly on th bill. They want th hous figures In creased so that the new rates will raise $10,000,000,000 more a year. And they want to collect high current fiscal year which stsrted percentage of that amount in th-. July l. So far more than 200 witnesses have asked to be heard br th finance committee and more re quests are coming in daily. JENKINS , , , h,v, . . . ' w,'rd n rugged roans, ihe vast distant, k-, i ?p!!". pl''"- " bandits that " .. f To' don't watch " absence of garages, and Ve, fust laugh,, and point. , ,h, j ?' "mfortabl days it look them . T...," ' r".,- ou "l 'md a motel every hundred yards f rse. he savs. But. eiieciil'v m ohfe.cr:mod:,,;,,h'r P'CT ... "! k .' , J.?. ,hr' !'h"' instanc. a 1 ,h' ' ' ' ' ,h,e " ' very icry nice hotel cost $. One common tale he does con firm the one about the Mexico ily droers. They're fantastic, he says. The way they can hop lanes on a six. lane highway and still stay alive is something to see. he re ports. Her comes th very nicest part of it Throughout Mexico (he travels widely as a Part of his job) Amer icans are liked and respected. It wasn't always that way, you know. We've had some nasty spats with our neighbor across th. m. Ji"nilc' " ?0"'" v read vour his. toiy carefully and tnleramiv you 11 have to admit that we delih erately provoked Ihe Mexican f as a war of conquest. W came out of it with a i lot of booty not only Texas. b..V California. Ana New Mexico. Nevada. Vtah and quite a chunk of Colorado We"e been snooty. We've called the Mex icans "greasers " And so on through a long list of unfriendly actions B u, lis reports, all that is be ing wrgotten and relations between Americans and the people of Mex ico are getting onto a basis of friendliness and mutual f.pect. Thai s certainly something that we can hail as progress. ssssssssssssfjsfaswsssssssssssfsssssssssssssssl Panic Potentialities Seen In Display Crowd ROSEBURG I attended your fireworks display July 4 and saw a grand display and also some thing els perhaps others did not notice. First, I climbed up near the top under the roof. Those up there did not sec the display very well. Some of it we did not see at all th explosions and bursts of var ious kinds which are most beau tiful high above the ground. W did not see the airplane stunts at all, only beard it above the roof. I have never seen such a crowd at a similar July 4 celebration, nor such awful congestion, both in the stand and the parking area. I have never in my lifetime any where observed such an ideal setting for a panic or stampede with all its tragic consequences than that I saw Wednesday night. There was such a crowd that it was difficult to move about when people were orderly. It took us 30 minutes to get to our car. Then we sat in the car 15 minutea before we could get in line. Then, by the clock, we were It minutes in mak ing the Melrose highway, a dis tance of one and one-half miles. No panic or stampede may ever occur. But what if one did occur? Heppner, Oregon, did not figure on being washed away by a Hood in matter of minutes. But th flood did come without warning. Here in your grandstand it would not take much to cause panic. A fire, a terrific wind, or lightning bolt, or even if some thoughtless person should yell "fire," or start any undue excitement below or outside the grandstand. II any things can start a stampede in a building like that. There is hardly any way of rapid exit. As I saw it, it would be a horrible jam at best. No imagination is needed to picture the consequent result ot a stampede under such conditions. 1 shudder at th thought of it. Sure there may never in a life- , time be anything to start a panic at the place, but the conditions are only too favorable. The crowd in Lh.e jj??' T?US b I'"""' It we could only move at a snail's pace under normal and sane con- ditions at best, what would it be 1 like during panic? Certainly it can-: not discomfit us to consider the matter. Next year, if I desire to see anything at the fairgrounds, I will see it from outside the grand stand. I have attended the St. Paul, Ore., rodeo. July 4. several times, and, while the crowd was as large as the one here, there seemed more room to get about quickly and we simply got in our car and was on our way in 10 minutes. We enjoyed Ihe show you had. It was well worth coming to see. BF.N FRAMES Elgarose Rt. Roseburg. Ore. STRIKE GRIPS GREECI ATHENS. Greece (.Pi - Th strike of 100.000 Greek civil serv ants went into its sixth day today with no signs of an early settle- I ment. The strikers are demanding a 50 percent wage hik to meet inflated living costs. The strike has thrown stat ma chinery out of gear and paralyzed the country's economic lit. mi In A For o cor you'll bt proud to drive In tht years ahead, and for a vacation you'll always remember, go East by train, plan or bus to Willow Run, and drive home the car of your choice ... the brilliant new '51 Koiser or the smart, tough and thrifty Henry J. Enjoy vocation and your new cor for the price of the car alone; freight sov ings will pay for the vacation of a life-time. We'll make all arrangements here before you start) o - You otso ment on Henry J ' - --- FromM t& ( Th new 'heading on this column I was a nice surprise when I opened Tuesday's News-Review. 1 n Drain chamber of commerce shouldn't mind a little extra pub licity for Drsia? It doesn't seem possible that The Mending Basket begins its fourth year her in Oregon on July 1. After we had been in Douglas county a while it dawned on us that we knew very little about what was going on in our own county, so we subscribed to the News-Review because it was pub lished in Douglas county. Then the idea occurred to me to hunt up som old clippings and send them to the News-Review editor with a query about using the column. (When I dropped it I was con vinced I was "never going to write anything any more" but Oregon and life her in the woods changed all that.) Well, when Mr. Stanton directed me to begin sending copy we had company from Texas. But com pany or no, I started perking out copy. Then one day J. W. (he is EJ's brother, with the same no tion about- using only his initials! brought in the mail, and discovered his sister-in-law's picture on the front page, with the nice intro duction to the readers of the News Review. Well, a good time was had by all, even if w had burned pie as a result. Th first word from a reader was from another Martin, Mrs. Mary Martin of Roseburg who said she liked the allusions to the Bible: had a radio program Good News; and closed with: "May God ! bless you and inspire you as you continue. . . I kept that card. Other letters came, and how much I have appreciated them all. After all. a column is a two-way affair. What would it amount to CONTRACT FOR OIL, INDEED OJ CAN PAY FOB IT OKI THE MONTH LV PLAN Peopl sey rKty Ned ur budsjef fval il plan vary cofivinitnt. May we explain it t you Di4 1-IS22 this mt, Yeur Guarantee at Quicker CUeeer Hear. 100S DISTIUID. TOOl JIM MYERS Donates Ceunry Distributor Of SIGNAL PRODUCTS US N Stephens DIAL J-IS22 Here's Better Car! $254.05 FREIGHT on $197.25 poy less down, less eoch monm, when you tale factory delivery. the Henry J is $4J5o(ot the foctory) o saving of $66; monthly has the lowest down poyment, lowest monthly ftpyment of!ny JIT HE BROS.0 K-F St NORTH JACKSON (BASKET without friendly suggestions, en , couragement and inspiration from its readers! (Perhaps I should say j "thank you" more often than 1 1 do. You can't hear a silent thank , you, no matter how often I think , it!) I appreciate your tolerance ol I know your agile mind can rope the right pronoun to the ngnt antecedent. ven if. taken as gram - mar dictates, the literal linking oi some of mv "he's" might change the number of legs from two to four, or vice versa. But I warn you, you can expect worse the next few weeks. Moving day is ahead ol me. If you can't figure out what I mean, just know I m either pack- ing, unpacking or just going around in circles. 11 NIGHT SERVICE it FOR PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS J From 5 P. M to I A.M. Ill J Alto Saturday Afternoons, All Day Sunday and Holidays. I To Locate Your Physician or Surgeon ... I '' , Phone 3-6373 jj THE DOCTOR'S EXCHANGE f r?rr FOR . . . SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE .... CO-OPERATION . . . Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned. Home-operoted" bank Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Mtmbtr Ftdtral Depotlt Insuroncs Corp. how to have A BIGGER VACATION FREIGHT on a Colliers Engages Dewey For Series NEW YORK P Collier' magazine says it has engaged Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to write a series ot articles on his trip to the Far East The magazine's editor, Louis Ruppel, announced that the New York governor would do six ar ticles on his impressions concern ing the present situation -and th outlook in Asia. Runnel declined to sav when the ' articles would appear or how mue i the governor would be paid. H i did say, however, that "we (C o 1- lier's) helped finance th trip." Dewey, who now Is in Tokyo, ! will visit nine countries during nil , nx-week. 29,000-mile tour. . ,j.h. IVl T.. 1 PRE15TNj1 'dhrhTrriretn T feH , l'" , c?' "Vm h.r '"to n irrigation atream near her "ome here In her arms she held ' 23 lnch lon rublr ' ioU ! A neighbor found the child M ! feet down stream, still clutching j the doll. He said the girl likely would have drowned if she had not had the doll. Its buoyancy kept th 1 child afloat. moDERn FURNITURE CD a KAISER HENRY J For instance, down poy. sairgs ore $9.25. The full-sized cor in Americol o A O (!) 0 (2)