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By CHARLES V. STANTON
A reader of The News-Review spoke disparagingly, in
a letter recently published on this page, of the project being
undertaken by tha Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce
to rjrov de a luvenile fishing area along Deer Creek,
There can be no disputing some of the facts presented
by the writer. Deer Creek is worthless for a summertime
fishery. It becomes stagnant and polluted. But the Jay
cees propose to do something about it and, if they succeed,
they will be performing a service ol extraordinary importance.
The Jaycees are fully aware of the problems posed by
the writer. They know that the stream will have fishing
value for only a comparatively few months under existing
conditions. But even in those few months it will be pos
sible to provide lessons in sportsmanship and conservation
to many youngsters.
Junior Chamber of Commerce members have contacted
all affected property owners. They are extremely grateful
for the cooperation shown by land owners in granting per
. mission for juveniles to cross private lands within the fish
ing area.
If the project does nothing more than create respect
for property rights it will be well worth while. Viewing the
Vandalism and abuse of property rights throughout the
county, it is obvious that if the stream can be used for no
more than a month, and if youngsters learn lessons or good
sportsmanship, the scheme will have fully justified its pro
motion.
Stream Improvement Planned
Deer Creek once had abundant fish life. It carried a
summertime flow of clear cold water. Early settlers tell
of salmon and steelhead runs in such volume that the
stream was black with them as' thoy crowded one another
out of the water.' Deer Creek is one of the thousands of
; examples to be found in Oregon of the abuse of watersheds
and the destructive effects of our carelessness and negli
gence. . '
' . Because of poor farm and forestry practices, the stream
carries a tremendous volume of silt rich topsoil in its
winter floods. In the summertime its flow is reduced to a
mere trickle. Water is polluted and stagnant. The stream
bed is littered with all kinds of garbage and refuse.
The Jaycees plan to carry on a program of stream im
provement and rehabilitation. It is not a program that can
. be achieved in one year or even five years. It is one thut
will take many years, .It can be accomplished, however,
i if the organization', has ' the perseverance to stay with it.
. To accomplish, the restoration of a stream as badly abused
as Deer Creek would be' an achievement which might be of
outstanding inspiration for an improved water policy for
all of Oregon. j
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Deer Creek Not Hopeless
Deer Creek is not a hopeless stream, insofar as pos
sibility exists for rehabilitation, It has a comparatively
small watershed. The upper watershed has not yet been
too seriously damaged. The greater damage is to be found
in the lower levels. Through planned water conservation
policies the Btream can be rebuilt. These same policies,
if given cooperation by the land owner, will prove extremely
profitable through reduction in erosion, preservation of top
soil, improved subirrigation, and better values for submar
ginal acres. The program must include reforestation of
acres best suited for growing forest crops. With the coming
of the pulp industry, the farm woodlot will be in a position
to yield annual revenue. The wise land owner today is plant-
ing his submarginal ground to trees, because he will be able
in the near future to start harvesting a crop of more value
than could otherwise be procured from other use of the land.
Every tree grown in the watershed will increase the volume
of water flow in Deer Creek, 'will serve to slow run-off, thus
reducing erosion, while putting more moisture into the soil.
The program will require better ground cover, construction
of trickle dams in small tributaries, stream bed cleaning and
clearing, and many other improvements.
It is not an easy task nor a quick one. It will take years
to achieve. But there is no reason it cannot be accomplished.
If the Jaycees are successful, they will have, through their
efforts, trained hundreds of children to be true sportsmen
with a respect for the rights of property owners, improved
productive quality of the agricultural lands of the basin,
helped land owners in developing a new source of income, re
duced erosion losses, and turned a dirty, filthy summertime
stream into an all-year freshwater playground. -
Perhaps that sounds fantastic. We assure you it is not.
Similar miracles have been performed elsewhere. More
and more streams are being rehabilitated in many parts
of the country today. Some were or are far worse than
Deer Creek. The Jaycees can do it if everyone will lend
a hand.
More power to them, we say.
NEW HEADQUARTERS Mrs. 0. E. Amundson poses at her desk in the new office of the
Camp Fire Girls, which was moved Tuesday to Room 2, Masonic building. The office for
merly was located in Miller's Store. (Picture by Paul Jenkins)
Fulton Lewis Jr.
In the Day's News
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It's hard to believe wo could
have any more winter weather
when a day like today gives us all
apring fever. Such a heavenly day I
For two weeks now there has been
a flock of robins, a big flock,
making our lone oak on the sky
line seem all blossomed out in
birds. The bulbs have buds. All I
needed today was i handful of
pussywillows. The sunshine
brought out three of my nearest
neighbors, so I enjoyed a little
visit with each.
The Sleinmuellers wore out
watching a streak of vapor whizz
cross the sky from north to
south. We couldn't see the plane
so it wasn't a skywriter. Did you
see the trail it left, like a long
narrow ruffle all ready to be
sewed on? Mr. S. thought It was
some kind of a rocket. But the
young man hauling rock to our
driveway was sure it was a jet
plane. . .Well, it was fascinating
to watch and think about: man's
dominion over gravity as long
as uie engine Keeps operating!
The school bus' balked this mor
ning, so Rufus Pfister summoned
aid by telephone. (He has been
driving I school bus for twenty
years. "Hauling the second gen
eration.") Merry-0 was one of the
eight or nine cars that shared the
nrecious load usually carried in
the bus, EJ picked up the nearest
WASHINGTON The Army Quartermaster Corps,
with an assist from several pork barrel-minded congressmen,
has demonstrated again that it will soon surpass the Army
engineers in the art of acquiring cash from Congress for
boondoggling purposes. i
Since 1947 the . QMC has been
heckling the House Appropriations
Lommiuee lor lunils lo construct
a research center at Natick, Mass.,
about 30 mile3 from Boston, dc-
spito Hie fact that both the military
and private industry already oper
ate numerous testing centers for
Army clothing and supplies.
QMC started out by asking $5.-
760,000 for the Boston research
center, which will be known as the
Institute of Man. In 1951. aa a
result of pressure from House Ma
jority Leader John McCormack of
Massachusetts, and other members
of the state's congressional dele
gation, QMC was authorized to
spend n,uuu,uuo lor me project.
Actually, the research center will
cost from 140,000,000 to $50,000,-
000 to complete, construction ex
perts estimate.
The expenditure Is unnecessary.
In fact, the basic planning for the
prject sot off to such a ridiculous
str.rt that economy-minded Appro
priations Committee members
(nought they had it licked for good.
The first survey in the Boston area
for a land site resulted in a fiasco.
Construction engineers selected a
site as Ideal but had to change
their minds when warm weather
arrived. They had decided on a
swamp area that looked fine until
the thaw set in.
QMC has' a large research cen
ter at Philadelphia. It aslo has the
use of other government research
centers, such as the Bureau of
Standards in Washington. Phila
delphia Is centrally located inso
far as Army clothing mills are
concerned. It has adequate trans
portation facilities and housing. To
move research efforts to Natick
would require construction of
homes for 600 families. It would
also requiro construction of a spur
railroad ling and perfiaps 1. new
airfield.
The Philadelphia QMC Installa
tion is valued at many millions of
dollars. Laboratories there test
chemicals, plastics, leather, and
textiles, and include a fully equip
ped dye house capable of dyeing
small production lots of any type
of cloth, either for research and
development or for tho manufac
turing division of the depot. There
is a general laboratory, also, which
does basic research on bacteria,
mold, ar.il mildew for the entire
Defense Department.
QMC insists that it needs the
new research center so that it can
bring all of its testing efforts un
der one roof. It also has other
ideas about the center, which ap
pear somewhat removed from its
basic function of supplying fighl-
iiik men wmi cioimng em) equip
ment. Here is a sample of what
the Institute of Man will be if
Q.MC has Its way:
"The Quartermaster General
will conduct basic research on all
aspects of the relationship between
man and his environment. Man is
frequently the weakest link in a
military operation conducted1 un
der extreme environmental condi
tions. All environmental conditions
will be studied at the Institute of
Man. This research will consider
the psychological as well as the
'physical environment. Mass reac
tions, psychological warfare, pan
ic, and the like will be studied, in
cluding personality and social fac
tors involved in fomenting and pre
venting wars."
That's quite a chore for the De
fense Department's supply branch.
Quite a jump from beans and ba
con. An $11,000,000 jump as a start
er, and one that is completely a
waste of taxpayer money.
QMC already has adequate fa
cilities for testing material. It
maintains six centers, including a
huge Installation in Chicago for
testing meats. And as for going
cosmic, QMC can get Us advice on
psychological warfare and social
factors from dozens of private and
governmental studies now under
way. In Colorado, for instance,
there is a highly secret research
center where detailed studies are
being made of mass reactions,
panic and other human reactions
of interest to the military.
To date, several thousand dol
lars have been spent acquiring a
lease on land near Boston for Hie
Institute of Men. That's enough.
Despite the political fortunes of
Congressman McCormack and oth
er Massachusetts politicians, the
Institute will be a waste of money,
scaice materials and manpower.
Congress ought to recall the au
thorization for $11,000,000 and
knock tht whole project in the
head.
Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
On KRNR, 9:15 P. M.
Potato Black
Market Charged
SEATTLE UR The Office of
Price Stabilization asserted Tues
day that "a vicious black market"
In potatoes has developed in the
past week in major Pacific North
west cities.
The statement was quickly chal
lenged by spokesmen for Seattle
stores, wholesalers and produce
brokers. They said there was no
evidence of a black market in or
near Seattle.
OPS said the black market at
the .shipper level is concentrated
at Klamath Falls, Ore., and Twin
Falls. Ida.
Hamilton C. Dowell, chief en
forcement officer lor the regional
OPS office, said the agency is
launching a drive against black
marketing in potatoes in Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho.
William B. Moorhouse, manager
of the Northwest Produce Assn..
was one of those who disagreed
with the OPS report.
By FRANK JENKINS
. ' (Continued from Page 1)
good authority that it is already
back to half the normal height of
years -when the rainfall was re
garded as normal, and is still ris
ingwhich is causing the smiles
on the faces of pump irrigationists
to spread clear around behind their
ears.
Old timers, questioned on the
subject of current rainfall, shrug
their shoulders deprecatingly and
aver that shucks! this isn't any
thing at all. Why, they say. you
should have seen it when it really
used to rain down here. -
They relate that away back in
1918 there was a rain that really
was a rain. One of the main
bridges on the Santa Ana River,
they chortle, was so thoroughly
washed out in a minor couldburst
that no single trace of it was ever
seen again. Searching parties were
sent out to look for the wreckage,
but no dice. Not so much as a
splinter of it was ever found.
They then go on to tell you that
in the same year, over in the
upper end of the Imperial Valley,
20 miles of railroad track suffered
the same fate. Not even the rails
ever turned up. They are supposed
to have been buried in the sand
washed down by the swirling wat
ers. T hope that story is told over
and over- and over again down
here this winter. We'll remind
them of it if as and when they
start making sheep eyes at OUR
water.
As lo (he political talk. It Is all
on the Presidential side, so far.
There is plenty of it. So far, at
least in the places where I've lis
tened, it is free from rancor. It
is largely on the Republican side,
as it seems to be taken for granted
that Truman will either run him
self or will dictate his successor.
There is almost no talk
AGAINST any of the four Repub
licans whose candidacies have
been more or less formally launch
ed. That is to say, people tell
rather freely why they are for
whomever they are for, but
spread no poison about the others.
You hear it widely said that any
one of the four would make a good
President.
There is plenty of backing in
California as there should be
for Governor Warren, but there Is
also a lot of outspoken talk for
General Eisenhower. He seems to
command, in California, as else
where, the faith and the confidence,
and the trust of large numbers of
people. Senator Taft has a large
following in all the casual talk one
hears. There is little mention of
Stassen.
MBMIHIHIffl
children, Bonnie, Barbara and
Tommy, and kept on until the car
was packed lull. Guess ho had
fun. When Bonnie learned that
he was at last about to complete
the fob or getting our blinds up.
she remarked approvingly: "That's
good. Now we won't have to look
at an old bare house any more."
Living on the south slope as
we do. with no trees near, it was
a choice of shutting out the sun
and view with shades or curtains,
or having slatted blinds. But I
don't like Venetian blinds! Too
much like bars. And dust catch
ers! What's the use of having win
dows if w are going to cover
up the glass? But come summer,
and the sun blazing in, I guess I'll
let the blindi stay down, very
thankfully.
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Belgian Cabinet
Out; King Snubs
London Funeral
BRUSSELS, Belgium UPi The
Social Christian Government of
Premier Jean Van lloutte was de
feated in vote in Parliament
Tuesday over King Baudouin's de
cision not to attend personally the
funeral of King George VI of Brit
ain. A Socialist-Liberal motion ex
pressing regret at Baudouin's ac
tion and blaming the government
was not presented as a vote of
confidence, however. The vote was
91 to 84 with one abstention.
Young King Baudouin has depu
tized his 17-year-old brother,
Prince Albert, to attend the Brit
ish King's funeral.
The Socialist Newspaper Le Peu
ple said the decision "will surprise
and distress" Belgians. It said the
government tried to persuade the
King to change his mind.
One explanation is that Baudouin
did not want to go himself because
the Prince of Wales, now the Duke
of Windsor, insicad of King George
V, attended funeral services for
Belgian King Albert in 1934.
Another explanation was that
Baudouin resents British criticism
of his father, the abdicated Leo
pold, for surrendering to the Ger
mans in 1940.
BAKER LEADER DIES
BAKER ld Joseph Jacob Heil
ner, 74, the man after whom
Baker's air field wai named, died
here Monday after a brief illness.
A native of Portland, he was an
attorney here for 54 years. He was
active in civic and fraternal affairs.
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