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4 The Ntwi-Riview, Roiebupg, Ore. Mon Aug. 13, 1951 Dawn Will Come Up Like Thundet In the Day's News PublfihU Doily Exctsi Sunday k Iha Newt-Review Company, Inc. Rtborc. Ortf .Q inter Ml ! Hsrcb S. (Ill CHARLIS V. STANTON IOWIN L KNAP Editor M.nojer Mtmbtr ot rht AimcIouJ Prtu, Ongori Ntwip.par Publiihtn Auoclotlon, thi Audit Bur.au ot Circulation! Borltof Or WEBT-IIOI.LIDAY CO., INC.. ffloci IB lew ffrk, Cblcftf I.n rrolic. I.i Annm. ImiIIo. Prllnd. I.r.4 .conJ CI... M.ll.r M.i 1, IMO. .1 lb. Foil OHIe. .1 unbare. Oreion. Undar Aol ! Mkrak . 111. inmriininN batmIb Or.tnnHv Mill Pf TMr, Ili.Mi ill mtnlrn. IS.tl Ibrt. nanlbi. B N.m-Klw t'.rrl.r P.r Ve.r ".I men Ib.r, T.ir. I m.blh. H.oo. Oulild. Oroii-U fr !. II 1.8 01 ll Bimlbi. lt.Mi Ibrtb LET'S FACE FACTS By CHARLES V. STANTON Residents of the Winchester area don't want a puip mill fn that locality. We can't say that we blame them in the least. If we had a beautiful home on the banks of a beautiful river, we too would be unhappy if a pulp mill should be set in our hnrV varH. It is unfortunate that, under existing conditions, there is no other site available. Winchester is the only place in the county where there can be (iHiopont tn mil nnrl hicrhwav Winchester residents are tion nf a miln mill. Their action lion into possible sites has been made by the Container Cor poration of America, one of the nation's largest users of Kraft paper. While the action taken by Winchester property owners may come within the compass of the old adage of not cross ing bridges until you come to them, it probably is just as we!! that it be determined now wnetner enons 10 Keep ijuiij mills out of the county are to be successful. We have no as R.imncB that. Container cornoration will locate a plant here. It has several sites under consideration. But it is our opin ion that if the company now investigating sites docsn t se lect this locality, some other outfit will. It is only a matter of time, we believe, until pulp production is started. The opportunity is too great to Keep tne Dooming muuaujr unless widespread resistance is developed. Best Long-Range Outlook No timber center on the range advantages for pulp production. Our ma.ior disad vantage is found in our limited sawmill capacity. Pulp mills prefer to use sawmill waste, rather than bother with logs. A pulp plant located in the Roseburg area probably would be compelled to supplement its supply of mill waste with log utilization. Waste from tributary sawmills probably would be in sufficient to keep a pulp mill operating at capacity. Some of our neighboring counties, however, are cutting two or three times as much lumber as Douglas county mills. But these neighboring counties have passed their production peak. A pulp mill might be able at present to obtain a larger supply of sawmill waste in Lane county, for in stance, than in Douglas county, but .a few years hence might find it extremely difficult to get either waste or logs. Douglas county's timber resource has barely been tapped. We have an assured perpetual operation, because of the heavy preponderance of publicly-owned lands which must be operated on sustained yield basis. A pulp mill on the ground floor of this development would be assured of long life. We face another of those frequent problems which ac company progress. Do damages outweigh benefits, or do the benefits justify acoompanying injuries? Many beautiful homes have been built in the Winchester community. Land and water have many recreational uses.Would the dam age to people living in the Winchester community and en joying it recreational advantages be a greater loss to the community than the benefits of a $16,000,000 industrial in stallation and continuing payrolls? Damages Exaggerated We believe there can be only one real objection to the location of a pulp mill at Winchester. That, however, is a solid objection. A pulp mill "stinks." Anyone who has ever beer, aronnd a pulp mill knows that the odor is far from pleasant. From all the information we have been able to gather, a Kraft mill does not seriously pollute a stream and the pollution reaching the river is not materially detrimental to fish life. Lurid descriptions of destruction of fishery resources quoted by opponents refer to conditions resulting from mills using the sulphite process rather than the sulphate process of Ilraft mills, such as would be located at Winchester. We have been told by what we consider competent authority that a Kraft mill would not necessarily impair the fish pop ulation of the Umpqua river. This column has consistently fought for the sports fish ery of the river. We have turned thumbs down on any sul phite mill unless it is equipped with anti-uollution devices. We have, at tho same time, urged a higher degree of wood waste utilization. We have been crying for processes to stop the criminal waste of usable wood now going into burners. We would hardly be consistent if we opposed an installation which could utilize this waste, providing the fishery resource is not seriously endangered. It is unfortunate that no suitable site exists in a less pop ulated area. But unless some more favorable site can be de veloped, we are almost certain to have a pulp mill even tually at or near Winchester. Other communities live with pulp mills and seem to prosper. We hear much complaint concerning odor, but we imagine a sustained roar of protest would develop if any manufacturer were to propose moving his plant. This business of building a house on a slanting two acres of pasture is like putting the pieces of a big jigsaw punle into place, isn't t? Or havenJ you experienced the throes o building? (I paused just men to see n tnmes was the right word? It says here, "in agony")(jSe Well, at present our trouble is only Impatience. . .but who can tell about the future? There are so many things to be done at once, or sooner. Seems you flon't just stand off and squint at your land and say "we'll ha9t)i Mtll found a suitable water supply transDOrtation. organizing to fight installa follows news that mvestiga. Pacific coast offers better long driveway there!' You Inquire of the State Highway department first, and their representative (Mr. tarter, urain, in our rase) checks the spot and says, "That will be O. K. If we trim up that fir so as to give better vision, and may- Knock off some of that bank!" Then he fills out a lentthy form and sends into Salem. You are then ready to find some body to put in ti'r (costs $1.50 per foot, I heard. The Stale Highway doesn't do that for you any more) so you can get across tlie itch. fBASKET jncgjsfe8frdglMiiiii"'1' J; r;'jZv'&s$--iJ;-lr: Oh yes, EJ put I "gap" In the fence last night. Not a gate, a "gap." Serves the same purpose at the moment, which Is to keep the stock in bounds until owner can, with EJ's cooperation, get the cross fence in, between his part of Ihe pasture and ours. From what I hear, Ihe bull dozer that is going lo level a site for the house is a humdinger as to size, and is operated by an ex pert in such mailers. But we hav to wait until Mr. Maupin, Drain, can get around lo it. And one wonders about the rain it will rain some time surely? We said we'd never, no never, remodel another house! But at least, here in the wooer's, if we wanted a post it was handy, and we did have a roof over our heads while we were doing it. Merry-o is clicking up mileage at an aslonish Ing rale, just shutting back and forth (he 13-mile strip! of highway between where we are and where wo hope to be. Then there's the mailer of water for the concrete. The previous owner, and the owner previous to him, are both sure if "lhat spring Is dug out there will be all Ihe water you need." But somebody else said dubiously, "Looks like just a wet spot to me." Would you have an opinion? Everybody else has had on the subject of springs! Well, the man who saved EJ from a berry picking (?) expe ditionwe have 20 quails in Ihe locker now. so E.I won't hear any more about berries is going lo tackle the spring with a shovel. Mere's hoping! Colonel R. L Bell Is Transferred To Wyoming Base Colonel Raymond I.. Boll, for merly deputy director for services of the Human Resources Research center at Lackland Air Force base, San Antonio, Tex., recently arrived at Warren air base for a staff assignmenl. A unlive of Koseburg, Col. Boll joined the psychological research center's staff at Ihe Texas base in July, llttO, after graduating from the Naval War college at Newport, It. I. lie had been sta tioned in the Panama Canal zone from 1146 until he entered the war college in 1949. Col. Bell, a graduate of Ihe Uni versity of Oregon, received a re serve commission in Ihe V. S. army In June, 1931 lie was tam-u lo active duty in 1940 as a lieuten-1 ant and entered the Command and Ccneral Staff school at tort Leav enworth, Kan., the following year. Wartime assignments included duly as materiel officer at Sic Chord Air Force base, Tacoma, Wash., and wilh the operations di vision. War department general staff, Washington, D. C. In 19IS he served wilh the stra tegic air force in Europe and wilh the military government of Cer- many in Berlin. Upon return lo Ihe Unlld Slates, he enrolled in the i University of Michigan's course in Latin American affairs in Octo ber, 194.S. Six months later he re ceived his Panama assignment. A graduate of Roseburg, Ore., high schonl. Col. Boll attended Ore gon State college prior to entering the University of Oregon. He Is a Phi Beta Kappa and t member of Helta Tau Delta, col lege social fraternity. Browning Sentenced, Fined On Two Counts lohn ParrcU drowning. .11. Myr tle Creek was lined a total of $100 and sentenced to 30 dsvs in the county jail on tv charges Friday j district court, according t 0 Judge A. J. lieddes. ences. and we often lose our fight He was given 30 days and $350 in the end. () fine on a drunk it) (M): charge j The philosophy of the "Mmomy and an additional J"h) fine for fail-1 group ' is lhal of the efficient lire to stopjTit the scene of an housewife. We believe the govern accident. ; ment sho,'d live within its i n- Til-owning was involved in an ac-joome. WeHielieve this can be done eidei July 5, state police report, by cutting living expenses rather He Imneriiimselt-in at the stale 'than increasing government in- police offii iT Thuiw.iy night. Fulton Lewis Jr. By STYLES United States Senator WASHINGTON This cal picture confronting the President Truman submitted contained requests for spending authority totaling 94.5 bil lions of dollars.' This was a the Congress to consider since all-time high of 2n7 billions, Various members of Congress, including the writer, seized the budget message as an occasion to inform the American taxpayer that his fiscal house was in poor order that drastic reductions in fed- ( Editor's Nott: While Fulton Lewis Jr. is on a four-w.ekj re porter's tour of Europe, guest columnists will write for him.) eral spending were required. Presi dent Truman denounced his critics. He said his budget was a tight budget. He dared Congress to squeeze any water out of his spending proposals. ! llnmUr. nf hnth mnhae nt Pnn. gress stated they would accept his challenge and would cut his budget. Then the tortuous preress of spending the taxpayers' money got underway. This is how it works. Each executive agency has a budget officer who estimates the requirements for his particular bu reau. These are submitted to the Bureau of the Budget, an arm ot the office of the President. The budget bureau. Iheorclically, squeezes the water out of the re quests before approving them and submitting the budget documents to Ihe White House. Alter the Pres ident approves the budget, he sends it to Congress with a speech called a budget message. In the message he outlines in broad gen frnlitii the amount reauired and (ne pUrp0scs for which it will be spent After Congress gets the budget it Is referred lo the appropriations committees of both houses and hearings are conducted. The var ious departments and agencies testify as to the necessity for spending as much as the President has proposed. About the same timt the budget is received in Congress, the President also submits a tax message. He asks for more taxes, or less taxes, in accordance with his estimates as to revenue bal- nced against expenditures. This year President Truman asked for 16 billions In new taxes. Members of Congress are fre quently portrayed in cartoons as men who hate to vole new taxes, hut dearly love to spend the tax dollar. This impression is not alto gether correct. In 15 years in the Senate I have found many of my colleagues are becoming Increas ingly alarmed by the gradually worsening fiscal picture: the mounting taxes, the mounting spending; the mounting debt. There is a group of us in the Congress who have been fighting for years to achieve economy in the operation of the federal gov-j ernmenl. We scrap in subcommit-j tee. we argue in committee, we take amendments to the floor, we I carry our fight to the conferences j between the two houses on differ- ieome tUkcs). icome (Ukes). Ve(5)i I)i d some suc- BRIDGES from Xew Hampshire is a thumbnail sketch of the fis United States. Last January his budget to Congress. It truly astonishing request for the national debt stood at the cess during the 80th Congress when 1 was chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee. By cutting spending we succeeded in balancing the budget and actually reduced taxes. Since that time, the "economy group" has had rough sledding. This year there appears to be a groundswell of public opinion against the frills of federal gov ernment. It has helped those who work for economy. We have con sidered only a fraction of the budget as this is written. Only one of Ihe spending bills has been en acted and sent to the While House for signature, but the floor action on five other bills gives in a fair picture of the trend. The bills coer a total of 14 billions requested bv Ihe President. Congress a p proved 12 6 billion. This is squeez ing 1.4 billion out of the budget and represents about a 10 percent cut If the "economy group" could maintain this average we would make an excellent showing. I se riously donbt if we can save as much as 3 billions. 1 would expect that the total savings will be between 4 and 6 billions and this is still a very respectable saving. The administration has trimmed its request for new taxes since President Truman asked for 16 billions in new lax money. Secre tary Snyder came before Congress and announced that revenue esti mates had been raised (largely, I might sav, as the result of infla tion) and that 10 billions in new taxes would be enough. Thereafter, the House of Representatives passed a bill calling for 7 2 bil lions in new taxes. This bill is now , in the Senate Finance committee. I am in favor of waiting to pass the tax bill until we see how the economy drive succeeds. Each dollar we save in appropriations is a dollar we don't need to raise by taxation. The two largest items in the budget have not been considered on the floor of either house. One is the 60 billion plus defense bill and Ihe other is the foreign aid bill. One would naturally expect the largest savings lo come in the largest requests. The drive for economy is slill in Ihe balance. Any lack of interest on the part of the folks back home will be re flected in the votes in Congress. We are striving for roll call votes on economy amendments. They should make interesting reading in 1952. Figures recently released by the Commerce department indi catp we have spent over 80 billions in foreign aid since July 1- 1940. During the 1951-S: fiscal year the Tnian administration proposes we spend another 8.5 billions fur foreign aid. I have supported the various aid programs, l Dcneve the theory of collective security is worth trying. But I feel very strongly that our aid programs, should show definite results. The free world and the admin istratien must realize that our re sources are limited. We are scrap ing Ihe bottom of the tax barrel today. Our domestic spending has reachcJK dizzy all-time heights. America finds itself short of steel, short of oil, short of rubber, 1 (Continued from Page 1) move in more troops ind supplies.) Question: If you were engaged in a big deal ajid both sides were as suspicious of each other as we and the reds obviously are in Korea, do you reckon there would be any chance to put the deal through? I doubt it. And if we should put through a truce deal at Kacsong, in this at mosphere of clabbered suspicion, do you reckon it would stick? Maybe so but it's hard to be lieve. BUT American battle casualties In Korea were only 351 during the last week 21 killed, 317 wounded and 13 missing. That's the small est total since weekly casualty lists were first issued a year ago. I'd say that working on a truce that hasn't much chance to sue i ceed is at least better than going 1 on fighting a bloody war we can't ' possibly hope to win. I How bloody is the Korean war? As of the end of last week, U. S. battle casualties in Korea total 80,430 of which 11,954 have been killed in action, 56,215 have been wounded and 12,261 are missing. Those are COMBAT casualties. In May, General Bradley told a senate committee that the non combat (sickness, aecidents, elc.) casualties in Korea totalled 72,679, including 612 deaths. On the basis of those figures, you could hardly call Korea a mere skirmish. From Washington: "Some Republican congressmen think President Truman should set an example of simple living and saving by giving up his Presdent ia) yacht and airplane. "Representative Scrivener (Re publican, from Kansas) said about 5500,000 of the 56 billion dollar de fense appropriation bill now under house consideration is earmarked for operation of the Presidential ! yacht Williamsburg." That crack, I'd say, Is POLIT ICAL SKIRMISHING. If the Republicans think the President should not be permitted to spend half a million dollars of defense funds for operating his yacht, the Williamsburg, they should pass a law doing away with the Presidential yacht and thus saving that much monev. That would be a DEED. It's DEEDS that count. and short of many of the other materials needed for defense. Un der such circumstances, our ef forts to help others must be very practical. As an example of the impractical nature of the present program I can cite my mandatory labeling amendment. It was a very simple amendment which I offered each year to the ECA bill. It merely re quired that goods shipped from the United States under the ECA act be labeled so lhat the recipients would realize that Uncle Sam was the person who was helping them. It is inconceivable to me that the administration should fight against such an amendment. Yet, my la beling amendment has been de feated three years running. I am hopeful that Congress will be more realistic about foreign aid this year; that at least we will Insist that the people of other nations give the American taxpayer credit for helping them to arm them selves and improve their lot eco nomically. RETURNS TO BASE Cpl. Bill E. McFarland, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. McFarland of Roseburg, is leaving Monday for reassignment at Fort Ord, Calif. He had been visiting his parents for 30 days after spending 11 months in Korea. His brother, Pvt. Ken neth McFarland, is stationed i n Honolulu. TALKING ABOUT A HOME? So mony people do noth ing but folk obout it! But if you really want to ow n your home, consult me now. Personal attention. Economical terms. Ralph L. Russell Loom and Insurance Loan Rcprcientativ aitabla Savings & Loan Ats'n. E. V. LINCOLN Room 212 Phone 3-4311 Deugloi Countv State Bonk Bldg. 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