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O O 4 Th NQi-RevlwpRjeburg, Ore. Frl.. Spt. 21, 1951 . Published Dolly Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Intarad i.i-dj elan mlltr Mar '. I""' ' ' Koaeburf, Orefon, under act ef Match f. 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L KNAPP Editor Menoaer Member of Iht AssocloteeJ Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Auoclotion, tha Audit Buraou ot ClrculaHoni Bepreaentea by WESr-HOlXIDAT CO., INC., elflooi In New Ta,k, Chlees-e, San francliiiO, Loe Anielea, Seallle, raHlanJ, InKrea a. Second Cla,. Malta, Mar 1, 1920. el Ilia Peal Otflee al Roaeburf, Oregon, Under Act at March S, lilt. SUBSCRIPTION RATE la Or.ien-BT Mall Pe, Year, SH.OOl all rnanlbi. IS.M: lh,aa monlbe. Br New.-K.vlew l a,,lar-Pe, I,.,, KIM (In ad- ranoal. laa, than one rear, pa, month. 11.00. Ouliide Orefon Br Mall Par Tear, 111.00! all month,. .50 three month,. II. 0e. WHERE'S THE SURPLUS? By CHARLES V. STANTON Restrictions hiive been placed on the use of electricity because water in the Columbia river is 'too low to gen erate enough hydroelectric energy. Can this be the same Columbia river our federal gov ernment proposes in its "ladder of rivers" plan to move to California? Where now is the "surplus" water that our Washing ton planners would divert through multi-billion-dollar ca nals to California hydroelectric and irrigations projects? Bonneville's power shortage has forced cutbacks in the Columbia's light metals industry, tossing a limited number of people out of work temporarily. Restrictions have been placed on the lighting of athletic fields. Brown outs are threatened ir. the area dependent upon Columbia river power. Utilities are using steam-powered genera tors to augment the dwindling supply of hydroelectric power. Unless the Northwest receives a substantial rain in the very near future, the power shortage may become critical. Yet, we are told, the federal government still is de veloping plans for its "ladder of rivers" and the diver sion of Oregon water to California. Umpqua River Involved Personally, we have always doubted any serious in tention to include the Columbia in this announced scneme. It has been our theory that the "ladder of rivers pro gram is strictly a power threat, designed to force The California Oregon Power company into the Northwest power pool. Bv building dams in the upper Umpqua and P.ogue rivers, and in the upper Klamath, diverting those waters southward through canals and tunnels, the fed eral government threatened to steal water supplies from Copco's generating sites at Toketee, Prospect and Keno. Copco has entered into a cooperative agreement with Bonneville. Since the agreement was signed we have heard littlr discussion from Washington on the "ladder of rivers" idea. But, whether serious or not, the proposal to take sur plus water from the Northwest to arid California shows its absurdity in the light of present conditions, for where is the surplus? A Coy Trick Invented By Democratic Presidents "7 ' I . HUNTING SEASON BEEFS Covernor McKay and the State Game commission have been absorbing much criticism because of the sud den closure of special deer season. Hunters also are fearful that the regular season will be postponed. We believe most thinking people will agree that closure of the special hunters' choice seasons, set in five areas m advance of the regular season, had to be post poned because of the fire danger. Critics are loudly pro testing that insufficient notice was given. But wouldn't the governor and commission have been in a far more dif ficult spot had they issued an ultimatum earlier only to have a welcome rain fall before the date of the sched uled opening? Game commission officers and forest protection agency officials have been conferring all this week with the governor. It is obvious that the regular deer season must be postponed unless the fire hazard is relieved be fore opening date. The Game commission is reluctant to extend the deer soason beyond the scheduled closing date. Its program calls for a six-day interval between the end or the deer season and the opening of the elk season. It has been found by experience that the overlapping of these two seasons results in much wanton slaughter while adding many handicaps to law enforcement work. The plan of keeping an interval between the two seasons has worked out very satisfactorily. The commission would prefer to continue the practice. - Hunt?rs, however, are demanding extra days equiva lent to any canceled part of special or regular seasons. Thus- the Game commission is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. Rescue Of Wounded In Korean Bottle Earns Medal For AP Correspondent U.S. KIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea (AP) The field commander of United Nations forces in Korea Monday pinned the silver star on AP war correspon dent John Ranc'olph for heroic action. Randolph carried wounded to safety April 23 during a wild, four-hour battle. Gen. James A. Van Fleet bestowed the award on the 23-year-olcl newsman In front of 100 correspondents. He told them : "The press is part of the United Nations army in Korea. We are honored at having you as members of this command. 1 know that this gallant incident was one of manv in which correspondents have distininiislicd thr-msnhn., Tb i;r wry long. Randolph's aclion, in disregard of his own safely while wilh a cut-off American battalion, was first brought to public attention by the battalion commander. Ran dolph had passed over it lightly in his dispatch, Wednesday he was given, along with the modal, a citation auto graphed by Tresidi'iK Truman concluding: "The courageous and aggressive action taken by Mr. Randolph re flects great credit upon himself and the United States army." "This is a vory great honor," Randolph told Van Fleet. "It is altogether 10 much for anvthintr I did. It was a real m i. vilege to be with the infantry in( that action Uie greatest privilege in my life." Dilsuasfon Urga Ignored Randolph, whose stories about Grady die cow that fell into a Yukon, Okla.. silo drew attention throughout the United States in est award given bv Uie armv for gallantry, cited Randolph for help ing cany wounded infanrymen to safety m the battle of he Imjin. Randolph and Barnard Ullmann, of Agency France Piesse. joined the first battalion. Seventh infan try regiment on the second night of a heavy Chinese Red offensive on the western front. The battalion commander. I.t. Col Fred C. Weynud. llealilsburg, Calif., tried in vain to talk !!an dolph out of s'oin i with ihr hat. alion on an attack aimed at tak ing pressure on a trapped Belgian battalion. Several Llvtl Saved The American battalion, while lelping the Belgians escape, was almost surrounded and cut off for four hours. Several times during the bitter fight i4) hill, Randolph and Ull mann carried wounded down to an ambulance jeep. Later as the hat- Fulton Lewis Jr. bullet went through the jeep hood. Aided by two infantrymen, Ran dolph lifted the dying man into the jeep. He carried him and two other soldiers back to a medical aid station. The sergeant died from loss of blood. The first real word on what Randolph did came three weeks later from Colonel Weyand in a letter to the Associated Press: "Several men in his battalion undoubtedly owe their lives to his efforts to get them immediate medical attention . . ." Force Must Be Met With Force, President Says By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON (IP) Presi dent Truman said Thursday the oniy way 10 deal with the present world emergency is to meet force with force. He added that he dis likes this necessity very much. The President told a news con ference the United States will con tinue to seek agreements with Russia, but will continue to build up its armed strength to see that these agreements are enforced. Ho said the United Nations was organized to settle difference with out the use Of force. But, he added, Korea is just one example of how the Communists have made this impossible. He said there is a stronger pos sibility of peace now than ever before If the nited States sticks to its knitting and goes ahead with its defense program. The President also: 1 Says he has the word of Chairman William M. Boyle Jr. of the Democratic national com mittee, that he took no fees in connection with RFC loans and he believes him. He added that com mittee officials should do all they can to introduce prospective bor rowers to government agencies as long as they receive no fees for it. Predicts Damo Win In 19H , 2 Predicted a Democratic vic tory in the 1952 elections. He said the Republicans have no issues and have resorted to misrepre senatation and smears. He ex pressed agreement with Demo cratic prognosticator James A. Farley that no administration can be thrown out when the country is prosperous. J Wrote Vice President Bark ley, renewing his plea for $10,000,- 000,000 in additional taxes and urging increases in the pending senate bill on individual and cor poration incomes. He said the sen ate bill now being debated would produce only $5,200,000,000 a year in the face of a prospective deficit oout twice that much. The sen ate finance committee has esti mated the bill would bring in $5,506,000,000 more a year. Said he is standing by his nominations of two federal judges for Illinois despite the action of the senate judiciary committee in bottling them up. ihe President said he has no Intention of submitting new nomi nations, because he is satisfied with the ones he made. Mr. Truman and Senator Doug las (D-lll) have split over the nomination of the two judges. Mum On Own Plans The President laughed off a question regarding a statement by tdward J. Flynn, New York" Dem ocratic national committeeman, that Mr. Truman could beat all comers if he runs next year. The President said he was happy 1 0 have Flynn's opinion because he Is a very able politican, but de clined further comment. Are you going to run for President in 1952?" a newsman asked. The President said he had no comment and reporters would be Informed of his decision in plenty of time. That means, he explained, sometime before the Democratic convention meets next July. ENDING BASKET As a hobby, have you ever tried a collection of epiphyllum with their lovely blossoms, red, white and pink, growing pendant fashion on the long strap-like leaves? I love to think about the one I had and who knows? maybe I'll try that window garden idea again, only on a smaller scale. Should do fine In Oregon so long as not subjected to freezing. EJ made a framework on legs irtto which he fitted a six-foot long galvanized tray, about two feet wide, four inches deep which we filled with peatmoss. The tray was made a little deeper at one end to slant for drainage so no mois ture would be stagnant. Since we heated the glassed-in porch from the living room, and burned nat ural gas, there had always been moisture to contend with until we had the window garden. Never again did I have to wipe rivulets of water off the windows. The moss absorbed extra moisture, and since the "garden" was on the west end of a north porch, all kinds of flowers, bulbs and plants thrived In it. ' An azalea was a ""thing of beauty" for ever so long, and when It finished blossoming I lifted the pot and removed it to the lath house, replacing it with something else. Many things were planted right in the moss without a pot: bulbs, ferns, epiphyllum, san severia, jade plant, and I don't know what else. More epiphyllum were in hanging baskets over head. At first the little tube, soldered under the lower end of the metal tray, was allowed to drain into a big fern setting on bricks under neath the window garden. But later a hole was drilled in the porch and the tube extended to drain back of a shrub. We were away one summer for three weeks, and what a thrill it was to see the way everything had almost run wild in exuberance! Just before we left we had poured a bucket of water into the peat moss, know ing excess would drain off. Epiphyllum, as you probably know, are so named because epi means "on" and phyllum means "leaf" in Greek. A jungle plant, really, not a cactus. They like moisture and thrive in shade, too. African violets did well, potted, set in the moss. Anything 1 ever tried in there did well! talion retreated after dark. Ran. 1049, became a war correspondent I dolph stopped his jeep and, under last December. fire, helped pick up a mortallv The silver star, the third high- wounded sergeant. A machinemn POLIO ON DECLINE WASHINGTON .V Polio was on the decline last week. The public health service said that new cases numuereci i.isi comparai to l.Ol reportedo the week before. The cumulative total since last March'! seasonal low is 17.533, just 38 cases less than for Uie is me period last year. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page 1) problems told congress Tuesday . . . The council, headed by Secre tary of the Treasury Snyder, sub mitted its report through President Truman." That's a lot of money. On the standard assumption that every billion dollars spent costs each in dividual about $7, it means that since the end of the war you have punglcd up roughly $200 out of your own pocket to help the foreigners. (Add $200 more for each of your dependents.) Well, IF IT WORKS, IT'S WORTH IT. Let's not expect the foreigners to love us just because we've dug deep down into our jeans to give them gifts. H you want to lose friends, the sure-fire way to do it is to start giving away money. While you're giving it, the re cipients will flatter you all over the place. But when you QUIT GIVING IT they'll be mad enough to carve your liver out and throw it to tha dogs. From London: "Worried Britons speculated to day on King George's illness as they waited for more details on the lung disease affecting the 55-year-old monarch . . . Doctors for the tired sovereign disclosed last night that 'structural changes have de veloped' in one of his lungs, indi cating a serious ailment . . . Starting at dawn, London news stands did a land-office business as commuters snatched papers carrying headlines like 'Serious News' and 'King's Lung Af fected.' " I find it grieves me personafty to read those words. King George, called unexpectedly to thf throne when his spectacular brother ab dicated to marry an American grass widow, has been a sincere, kindly, hard working individual. When he speaks, ONE BELIEVES HIM. It's wonderful to have someone like that around and it's pleasant to know that the British people have deep affection for him. Here's an interesting example o( what thoughtlessness does: 'Portland Some $75,000 has been spent in the last 12 years to repair rifle-damaged power trans mission line equipment in the Northwest. "The Bonneville administration reported Tuesday that last year alone it cost $15,000 to repair a transmission line and 553 insula tors on which marksmen had scored direct hits." I'm quite certain that no single shooter of all the rifle-packing lot that did all that damage had any really malicious intent when he drew bead on the insulators and let fly. They're glass, and they do make a lovely and satisfying crash when a bullet smacks them dead center. But it's well to remember that if you pull a trigger thoughtlessly and somebody gets killed as a result he's just as dead as if you had done it on purpose. Union Organizers Draw 20 Years For Assault MIAMI, Fla. (IP) Two union organizers, convicted of assault with intent to murder a Negro by taKlng him for a gang-style ride, face 20 years in prison. A criminal court jury convicted Dave Kaminski, Alias Dave have 39, and Sol Isaac, 37, organizers for the Laundry Workers Interna tional union (AFL). Judge Ben C. Willard imposed the maximum sentence and de fence attorney Ben Cohen said he would appeal. Willard set appeal bond at $20,000 for each prisoner. Kaminski and" Isaac were charged with taking Holton J. New bold. 25, to a canal bank south west of Miami last Feb. W. shoot ing him five times, beating him with a rock, and leaving him for dead. Newbold testified that Kaminski and Isaac took the "ride" because he knew too much about tactics used in trying to organize Mi ami laundry and dry cleaning workers. Tha two organizers came to Miami from Detroit. O 'i and large from corruption we built a great country devoted to per sonal freedom. What it boils down to is this. If the ABA isn't stam peded by the wails of the Com munists and left-wingers caught in a crack with them, it will help kick the Communists back" to Moscow whether they are legal brethren or Soviet agents. Nobody esle is going to do it for them. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 4:00 P.M. And 9:15 P.M. News-Review has not bean 1 I delivered by I 1 4:ISpjn., phone I 1 2.263 1 betwaen I : IS and 7 p.m. WASHINGTON Austin Canf ield; a Washington, D.Q. attorney, head3 an American Bar association special com mittee on Communism. He has rejected handling the prob lem of Red lawyers in any way but booting them out of the ABA and having them disbarred from legal practice rne aba- meeting in New York now has an opportunity to act on Canfield's proposal. The house of delegates of the ABA has examined the ouster suggestion since last February, and over 40 percent of local bar associations belonging to the ABA have agreed that being a Communist js reason enough for getting booted out of the ABA, The ABA itself cannot disbar a Red attorney from practicing law. An indorsement from the ABA, however, will go a long way in encouraging bar associations at community level to file disbar ment charges against the creeps who haven't the decency to be respectful in court. There is no reason for further ABA delay. In 1934 the Communists pub lished a pamphlet entitled "Un der Arrest." It's a dilly. They distributed it among the com rades in case any of them ever got pinched. Plenty of them have and they've all acted as though they'd read the pamphlet. "Under Arrest" explains just how the comrades are to behave when taken before a magistrate or judge. They are instructed to shout, lie and denounce the courts. the police and the U.S.A. irrespec tive ot me cnarge against them. A lot of people have been intim idated by the antics especially since the comrades always man aged to stir up a dozen or so bleeding hearts to come to their defense. When a lawyer is disbarred he's bound to start hurting in the re gion of the pocketbook. But in the case of the Communist lawyers, we can save our tears. The So viet Union and the Communist party, U.S.A., will find other work for them to da. The Communists here, in fact, have a $6,000,000 kitty they can tap to keep the Russian-loving lawyers from starv ing to death. If the ABA moves to clean up Us own nest, other attorneys and courts won't be the only ones to benefit. Things will be a lot quieter around Congress as well. The Communist lawyers have had a field day in appearing before committees of Congress. They have an opportunity to lay down a barrage of propaganda and al ways take advantage of it. Some of the tactics are insulting, not only to members of Congress, but to the American people as well. But Congress is helpless to do much but sit and take it. We still allow ' traitors and Stalin's stooges the right to be repre sented by attorneys although this is denied comrades 'hauled into Moscow courts. The ABA may get squeamish about booting out the Communists, since members meeting in New York are going to have to sit through a long list of windbags who bleed every time they get hit with another spy ring or fed eral employee on Ihe party pay roll. ABA members are getting an earful about civil rights. They must have wanted to hear it, though, since some of their own members invited the speakers who are opposed to doing any thing about Reds except admire them. Cody Fowler, president of the ABA,' sounded the keynote when he said it was up to the nation's lawyers to serve as watchdogs over- traditional American liber ties. For my money to start pro place like the courts to start pro tecting those liberties. That is where justice begins and because we have protected our courts by Curious Cop Finds Own Child Accident Victim 0 CAMDEN, N. J. -UP) Pa trolman William J. McDade, walk ing his beat, stopped to talk to two policemen in a parked patrol car. Suddenly the police radio reported an accident "child struck by auto." McDade, perhaps curious, went along. The Injured chold was Mc'Dade s si:: year old dauhter, Sharon. suffered a cut chin and bruised foot. C WE HAVE THE OIL FOR WHICH VOURE YEARMIW THE BEST THERE IS Steady burning ii right. - Ask us about our budget plan for spaced fuel oil delivery. Your Guorontee ot Quicker Cleaner Heat. 100 DISTILLED, TOO! 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S. cannot "create or maintain effective defensive fron tiers abroad by keeping our weap ons and our troops within the con tinental limits of the United States." He asserted: "Air attack alone will not stop the advance of the Russian army against Western Europe. In Korea there has been no appreciable en emy opposition to our use of the air and though we have had a zone of approximately 150 miles over which our air effort was free to operate, there still has been no ef fective retardation of the enemy advance by means of air alone, including naval aviation . . , "In aU sincerity and with great emphasis, I suggest to you that the next war. if it comes, will be fought by persons who will be, and will remain, at or near the scene of action and that the conventional type of warfare with which we are all familiar has not become olaaolete. u "I do not mean to leave the Im pression that 1 am not fully con scious of the value of the airplane - as a weapon, it is ot great impor tance. 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