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a 4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Publiih4 Doily licae Sunday by Ik News-Review Company. Inc. laWrai H el... aialt.f Mtr t. i; th ' ' fta.aar. Or.a.a. BBi.f cl af M.rch I, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAP Mitor MtM ' Mambar of the Atwclottd Prtu, Orasoii N.wipopar Publlilun Allocation, th. Audit Bur.au o Circulations raMal.a T WIsr-HOIXIDAr to. INC.. .flu-.. I. N.w f.I. Cklcafa. I, rraa.laea. L Anf.l... III., r.cll.a., al.ri .. .!"; CI... M.U.r M., 7 IS8J. Bl U.a Part Ofll.a at .... ,...,,, oi.i.b. U.a.f at M.r.B I. ISIS. trati-.ipTinM SATPI la Or.f.a Br Mill P.r Star, ! a's an.alh.. fS.tll V... a?..la. "11 " .' '"'-'' fa. ,..,. ".. ... .. a r..r. 1.M 0.1.11. 0..1..-B, 11.11- P T.ar. til -Mi all aiaalka. M-Ml "".a .ata. SS.se. IKE-THE QUESTION MARK By CHARLES V. STANTON General Eisenhower continues to be the controversial figure in the forthcoming presidential campaign. Objections are raised that we do not want a military man for president; that he is internationally minded; that he may lead us into a federation of nations; that he has no political experience; that we know too little of his ad ministrative ability; that he will follow the New Deal and Fair Deal pattern. We can dismiss the argument about his policies until we ; have heard his declaration of program. We can then make up our minds whether he is too far to the left or right. An argument that we do not want a military man, per , for president is not sound, in our opinion.. A lot depends on the man. As a general principle, we would be inclined , against a professional military man for the presidency, all else being equal. But in this particular case a military man, and particularly a man of Eisenhower's character, might be just the answer to our problem. We are confronted with wars and threats of wars. We are being pushed around by military powers. Many of our important decisions of the next few months must be based on a knowledge of military strength strategy and ability. Eisenhower is perhaps better able than any other man in the nation to weigh and balance military factors. Dealing With International Affairs As to Eisenhower being internationally minded, we be lieve this to be a desirable attitude. Whether we like it or not, we must become more and more internationally minded as a nation. We can no longer keep ourselves aloof from world affairs. We can no longer let the Old World go its way while we do as we please. Domestic actions must be calculated with their relation to world affairs in mind. Cer tainly there are few men better versed in international af fairs than Eisenhower and few men more adequately pre pared by personal experience to know political leaders of friendly countries more intimately, or to better know the thinking of the people of those countries or the help most needed to strengthen their position as our allies. That Eisenhower might lean too heavily toward interna tionalism is something we must consider. We must learn his opinions and the program he proposes. A lack of political experience can be interpreted as an argument either for or against the general. Political ad ministration is a science. Men having long experience in politics are, as a rule, better qualified for the executive job. On the other hand, by the time a man has gained political experience he usually has built Taft, for instance, possesses the political experience to be well qualified for the presidency. Dut while becoming experienced, he has caused the enmity of the opposition party to be centered upon him, while he has the leadership of organized labor solidly arrayed against him. Eisenhower, on the other hand, has no political friends and no political enemies, except as concerns personal opinion or prejudice. Program Still To Be Learned We have yet to hear his program. We must know where he stands on major issues of the times before we climb aboard the bandwagon. We have no doubt but that all issues will be clarified prior to the Republican nominating con vention. Should he receive the party endorsement and be come the Republican candidate for the presidency, he still must submit his case to the people. His personality, proven ability in organization, his knowledge of conditions at home and abroad, would appear to give him many desirable qualifications for the presidency. The fact that he is a military man does not, in our opinion, weigh too heavily against him and may in fact prove ad vantageous. That he has no political experience might operate against his candidacy in some respects, yet, on the other hand, he might be the man having no commitments, no organized friends and no organized enemies upon whom the country could unite in a spirit of harmony long absent from our political life and experience. How Important to the life of a community is the schoo Not on v in the "Rood old cloys" was the school the community center (or every sort of neighborhood net to gether for entertainment, hut the school often served as a place of worsiilp until a church home could be established. Drain is carrying on the tradition right now, for three different church groups use the Grade School auditorium for morning worship on Sundays. At eight o'clock the Episcopal! ins. pending a churcli of their own. meet together in the school on the mil. At ninc-tlurty, the Catholics, also looking forward to a church of their won before too long, gatder in the same place for their own service. At eleven the Christian Scientists use the auditorium. Isn't it nice to share that way? And isn't it a sign of community har mony? In fact it Is nice for every body except maybe Dennis l.ove lace, the caretaker, who gets up at five 0 clock Sunday to make sure the auditorium Is warm for Hie worshippers and he makes no complaints other than to say it ii a trifle early for a Sunday rising hourl And it is! However, says he, "It would be a cruel world If we didn't have churches . . ." In some such way, each denomina tion has its beginning and grows into ownership of a church build ing of Its own. "Freedom to Wor ship God." The Methodist are enjyoinf a Ore. Mon., Jon. 28, 1952 up strong opposition. ENDING BASKET fine new church yet it was not so long ago they were meeting ill a hall, the one the Christian church congregation is now using. The Assembly of God church is new, too. A town with livelv, growing church groups is a nice kind of a town, and it is as pleasant as I had imagined. The clerks in Hie stores seem neighbors by now, and there is nothing impersonal about the tele phone. The only drawback is the poor radio reception. We have to take potluck or do without, some times, yet the radio man savs "there is nothing the matter with the radio when it is here in the shop." ESTATE EVALUATED The estate of Charles Clyde Hen derson, who died at Sutherlin last Nov. 26, is valued at J27.134, an inventory disclosed Wednesday. The estate consists of $;,000 real ann j-u.kh personal property in cluding $13.61 1.47 savings In a Roseburg bank. Appraisers were Leslie Gleson, Charles Wahl and Floyd Bringle. O. W. French is administrator. The estate of Charles c. Mc carty, who died In Idaho last Sept. 30, leaving property i n Douglas County, will be admin istered by Jack Noyes, accord ing to a probate order. It Can Mean Nothing but Good Luck N Fulton Lewis Jr. frnriMTirrrf: SAN FRANCISCO Rebel California Republicans who are refusing to go along with the "Favorite Son" presiden tial candidacy of the golden state's Gov. Earl Warren think they really have a chance of beating him in his own home state. Impartial observers give them only an outside chance. But lead ers of the rebel movement claim constantly growing support among Republicans who look with some thing less than favor on Gov. War ren's socialistically-inclined poli cies. Overconfidently or not, they predict a close race. The "rebels" are basing their fight on two principal charges one, that Warren actually is more "Fair Deal" in his program, with its socialized medicine, public housing, and other planks, than he is Republican; and second, that he wants the California delegation to the GOP national convention pledged to him so that he can deal with other convention leaders and swing the votes as he sees fit. Publicly identified leaders of the rebel faction are Rep. Thomas II. Werricl, a second-term member of the House whose district embraces Central Valley, and John Francis Neylan, prominent San Francisco attorney.' Werdcl is the nominal head of the proposed anti-Warren slate f delegates to the national conven tion. A veteran of many anti-Warren battles when he was a member of the Slate Legislature, Werdel has proclaimed publicly that he does not expect !o receive any voles at the convention and that members of his slate would be completely free to vote there ac cording to the dictates of their owr- consciences. Wcrdel argues that Warren has led the California delegations lo the last three Republican nalional conventions, and that in so doing ha has accomplished nothing but to compound successive "Me-loo nominees for the Republican party who have regularly gone down lo deleat. 1 Thus far. the Warren forces on the surface, at least have been pooh-poohing the rebel move ment as something not worm hom ering about, iney may he ngnt, hui nnlv lime and the June 3 nrl-1 mries will finally furnish the an- swer. I The rebels put on their biggest I show to date just two days before Ihc recent Republican National Committee meeting in this city.! when they staged a dinner rally in the Palace Hotel here. Some Hoover Opposes Phase of Revenue Bureau Shakeup WASHINGTON LP Herbert Hoover is opposed to any reorgani zation of the Internal Revenue Bu reau which would put political ap pointees under Civil Service with out investigation of qualifying ex aminations. Such employes, the former presi dent wrote the House Kvpenditures Committee, "should, before con tinuing In tho Bureau, pass the civil service requirement on the same basis uf any new applicant for employment." Hoover's letter was made public by the committee Tuesday. The group Is studying proposals for reorganizing the Internal Revenue Bureau in the wake of scandals involving bureau employes. A reorganiiation plan submitted by President Truman would place top man in the bureau under Civil V 200 persons gathered to hear Wer dcl and Neylan castigate the Fair Deal, the governor and "me-too-ism" with equal fervor. The crowd was somewhat disappointing, but that was generally ascribed to the fact that the meeting came in the midst of the worst storm in recent California history. Efforts of some leaders at the ensuing National Committee meet ing tc bring about a semblance of peace between the state's warring Republican factions were futile. Nor does it appear likely that there will be any peace until the issue is settled by GOP voters in June. Oi.ly two top California Repub licans appear to have come through unscathed by e ther side thus far. One is first-term Senator Richard Nixon, who got a few caurtic commen.ts from the reb els because he had signed a tele gram several weeks ago urging Gov. Warren to run but who other wise was unhurt. The other is I. Untenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who has been waiting pa tiently for several years for War ren to move into higher things so that he could accede to the govern orship. Knight so far has stayed in a political shellhole and avoided any sniping fire from either side. Inas much as Nixon and Knight both seem bound lo give at least lip service to the Warren candidacy, it's somewhat of a mystery why they escaped the wrath of the rebel group. But they did, both in pub lic addresses and in back-room conversations. California's other U. S. senator, Wil'tcm F. Knpwland, came in for a bit more criticism than his col league. Knowland originally went to the Senate in 1945 on an appoint ment by Warren to fill the unex pired term of the late Hiram John son. He since has been a Warren supporter, and was his floor man- accr at the 1948 Republican Na tiona; lonvenuon in rmianeipnm. itecenny, nowever, mere nave boen reports that his enthusiasm for the governor is on the wane. . .. Hear I UltOll LeiVIS DdllX y-j envn O-lt P 1 A"'"ti y.lJl.ui. Service. They are now appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Hoover headed a commission a few years ago which proposed various ways of streamlining the executive branch of the govern ment. SUCH EXTRAVAGANCE I HONG KONG t Madame Shih Liang. Red China's minister jot justice, has confessed that she I spent 70.000 yuan, or $3.50, to bring i her icebox from Shanghai to her .new home in Peiping. She admit ted it was a wasteful extrava I gance and promised not to do it again. Her confession was publish in Pciping's official Peoples Daily re ceived here Thursday. SETS X-RAY DISCUSSION Deputy Sheriff Ira Byrd will dis cuss the Douglas County chest X ray program, of which he's gen eral chairman, over K R N Rs "This Town Is Yours" interview Sunday at 4 p.m. Idleyld Park . By MRS. ARTHUR M. SELBY Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lewis and daughter's, Betty and Arlane, mot ored to Creswell, near Eugene, Sunday to visit Mrs. Lewis' mo ther, Mrs. Steeprow. Returning home in the snowstorm, Mrs. Lewis reported seeing many cars that had skidded off the road on Highway 99. When they were nearing (Slide on Hie North Umpqua, a car just ahead of them went in the ditch and they stopped to offer assist ance. The occupants were Mr. and Mrs. Dick West and daughter residing at Lone Rock Cabins. They were returned to their home by the Lewis family. The Douglas County Lumber Co. closed Kieir sawmill operations Wednesday for the installation of a new carriage. The estimated time of closure will be two weeks. Mr. and Mn. Dick Silman, for mer residents of Idleyld Park, are the parents of their second child, Daniel Guy, born Dec. 26, 1951. The Gilmans left in October to visit Mrs. Gilman'i mother in North Dakota. After the heavy snowfall the first three days of mis week, residents of the district welcomed the warm sunshine of Thursday, joggers who had to keep on working despite the weather, wiere felling trees in snow knee deep. Now, as welcome as the sunshine after bleak days, are the signs of early spring for tfie pussy willows are bursting their buds. Rules On Imported Mexicans Tightened WASHINGTON Wl -, The House Judiciary Committee voted Thurs day to tighten regulations on the use of Mexicans for farm and ranch work in the United States. It approved for House considera tion an immigration bill making it a felony to bring into this country an ineligible alien and making it a misdemeaaor to transport, har bor or conceal an alien illegally here. Conviction on the felony charge would be punishable by five years imprisonment and a $2,000 fine en the misdemeanor charge by one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. In The Day's News By FRANK By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page 1) TEF.N-AGER wht risked her life to save four children from a burn ing log cabin." Margaret Frye (the teen - age heroine) was acting as a baby sitter for eight children when fire broke out in the log house. She saved four of the eight, suffering such severe burns that she was in the hospital for three months. At the same session, the Car negie Hero Fund Commission awarded the Bronte Medal te Don al Wallace, ot Portland. Donal saw a little girl walking along the rail road tracks at Multnomah Falls, up the Columbia from Portland. A train was thundering toward her froln behind. She didn't see or hear it. After a wild sprint down the track, Donal snatched her from under the engine's wheels just In the nick of time. Whatever you do, DON'T SELL OUR YOUNG PEOPLE SHORT. There may be an occasional bad apple in the barrel, but I'd bet my life the percentage of bad ap ples is no higher now than in the past. Just for a change, red this one from Sydney, in Australia, down under the equator, where it's SUMMER when it's winter here: "A sever heat wave scorched the entire eastern half of Australia today, with temperatures of more than 100 degrees for the eighth straight day." Need Of New Highway On Lower Umpqua Cited Reedsport I II I long time resident of the lower Umpqua sec tion of the county, I am intensely interested in the highways of this section and especially so in Ore gon Highway 38, better known is the Drain Reedsport highway, which is carrying an enormous load In fact, too much. For years I have been advocating a new, better and more acceptable high way that will open up a vast country which needs nighway trans portation while relieving the pre sent narrow and overcrowded high way from Reedsport to the inter ior. The highway that I believe should bt built, with money that will in my opinion be wasted on improvement of the present high way, should be built on the north side of the Umpqua River, across the Smith River, from East Gar diner to Scottsburg. Oregon's two lane highways are handling more freight and travel than average highways throughout the country. This fact is now com ing close to home because you can not find another water grade high way, like that of 38, connecting 99 and 101. As a result many Grey hound buses, school buses, mail wagons, freight and logging trucks are running independently and on fixed schedule, together with pleas ure and business vehicles, all crowded on this narrow highway daily and leading up to serious traffic jams. The poit I am try ing to drive home is that schedules will be cut to 20 to 25 miles per hour if this overload condition is not taken care of soon. The way to stay off the hook always has been not to get on it. Therefore, the proposed eastside highway would make possible the right hand turn and clear the way for increasingly heavier traffic. This proposed highway is most feasible and will open up hundreds of acres of homesites. Looking over the records, I find that these now inaccessible stock : ranches, farms, dairy ranches and homes were, in aome instances, ! settled in the 1850's. Some patents were signed by President Grant. ' All these years these good people have been without roads; not even a good Indian trail. But each year they get their taxes notices and pay taxes as they come due. For years they have tramped many cross-country miles to embark on a river boat to secure the neces sities of life from another com munity. Last year the mail boat was taken off, leaving them with out river transportation, other than their own craft. ROBERT GRUBBE Reedsport, Ore. 1 Weight-Distance Truck Tax OKd By N. Y. Court I ALBANY, N. Y. Ml New York State's controversial weight-distance tax on big trucks was up held by a state Supreme Court jus tice Thursday. Justice Harry E. Schirick reject ed contentions of truckers that the law was unconstitutional. They said i it discriminated against larger ve hicles. ' ! The tax ranges from 0.6 to t.4 cents a mile on the loaded or un loaded weight of trucks weighing, more than 18,000 pounds. The law was enacted by the 1851 : Legislature as part of Gov. Dew ey's program to make the larger , vehicles share more of the cost of state highways. The tax applies to in-state and out-of-state trucks op-1 erating in New York. ! The action challenging the law was brought by the Empire State Truck Operators and Allied Indus tries Committee. j The truckers are expected to ap-, peal the decision. I Schirick said none of the truckers arguments "were of sufficient weight to warrant holding the law unconstitutional." i JENKINS Tlianks! It's nice to read about it, any way. By the way In these days of weird wonders around every corner, when we talk casually of making rain by hand whescver it is needed and flying to the moon for a week-end holiday, why doesn't somebody figure out a way to make the apple that is the terrestrial globe FLIP OVER END FOR END every other day? That ought to mix summer and winter in just about the right pro portions. You'd know this one is from Washington, even if 1 didn't tell you: "Dr. Walter P. Bowman, head of American University's depart ment of communications, an nounced today a course DE SIGNED TO TEACH GHOST WRITERS TO PATTERN THEIR WOHK TO THE MAN FOR WHOM THEY'RE WRITING. "Dr. Bowman called the once scorned ghost writers 'indispens able artisans.' He said it is time the public recognized that 'most of the great speeches we hear are written in whole or in part by somebody btckstage." Where's my ten-guage shotgun and the buckshot shells! Anybody who proposed making more and better ght writers to write more speeches tor fat-headed big shots who are too dumb or too lazy to write their own ought to be made a sieve of, and I think I'm just the boy to do it. Glide By MRS. ARTHUR M. SELBY The snow, which started falling last Sunday ar.d did not stop until Wednesday, piled up a lot of fun for the youngsters of the com munity. However, two of the young frys suffered minor injuries, uanny Kelly (1st grade) was hit in the eye by a snowb.il Tuesday on the school playgrounds and his father was caned to lane mm no me ior beefsteak applications to the in jured eye. Wayne Kennedy, on his way to school Wednesday, was hit on the nose by a snowball and it was necessary to take him to Roseburg for medical treatment because of severe bleeding. Caroline Kinne is confined to her home with measles. Caroline, 10, is in the sixth grade. Bill Steadman, Glide's basket ball center, who chipped his ankle boae at last week's game with Canyonville, will be unable to play the rest of the season, by order of his physician. Three weeks ago, work was started on repairing the approaches and the redecking of the Lone Rock Bridge. The first week, traf fic wts held up daily from 45 min utes to an hour, as it could not be rerouted over the, river. Last week (the second week) residents of the North Umpqua Road were given a, break as the crew only worked every other, day, but traf fic was held up longer, over an hour. Milk and bread deliveries had to keep their regular sched ules to the stores east of Glide but the wholesale grocers stoDDed deliveries. This week, work on the bridge was again resumed, but Thursday the workmen stated the redecking was completed. . MKSTORa MUTUU WtfOTOK STOCK fOND - ' MNVW0MtTHOttT0F(iatlC 1 I - : ! h,iaWh.MdMIMra INVESTORS DIVERSIFIED SERVICES btablbM 1194 fa, temtfOTi Syndicot.1 aWfATOUS. MlttlESOT CARL BEACH Zon Manager and Savingt Rtprattjntatfva Rosaburf-Phona fv. 3-3243 - Watch for Notica ot Dividend! Each Month T'NawvVa4aw he. aof baaa I aSaffveree'by I 1 4:IS,pMie f 1-2631 bawaaa fclSaaaUpjB. 90&9 NINETY and NINE MEN of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH INVITE The MEN of ROSEBURG to A Talk and Discussion on NARCOTICS Monday, Jan. 28th at 7:30 P.M. CHRISTIAN CHURCH Basement WE NOW HAVE A COMPLETE SELECTION OF MODERN HOUSE PLANS. SEE US FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING NEEDS! WEST COAST BUILDING SUPPLY CO. Mill and Mother A-Bomb Vastl t Over-Rated, Officer Says S.W ANTONIO, Tex. W The chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project says the atomic bomb is vastly over-rated in the public mind. "People must become aware that the A-bomb is cot as all powerful and all destructive as it is reputed to be," Lt. Col. Gerald M. McDon nell told the 16th annual interna tional Medical Assembly here Wednesday night. "We'd all be dead right now if the bomb could do everything that has been attributed to it," he said. "It is a conventional weapon, subject to the same laws of physics which control all other explosives." McDonnell to id that radiatioi danger especially is misunderstood. "If you're caught in the field of radiation, you'll be killed anyway by the effect of the heat and blast," he said. "So, there's no point of worrying about radiation." He said the best A-bomb shelter is a hole in tht ground. 'More Me RyThan Anijlxyjjf FLY TO: PORTLAND 2 Hours, 7 Minutes 2 Flights Daily On business or pleasure travel in Western Washington and Oregon, always FLY LEWIS TIAVEL SEBVICI H.m"HUI rh.a. S-il WEST COAST AIRLINES K.i.trart Manirlp.l Alra.rl Fh.n. I-S7SI fly ' " uj Phone 3-661
