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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thur., Feb. 21, 1952 ,'''.. PabllikW Dny heap! Juaa-.y fc Hi . News-Review Company, Inc. ' lilinl as Me.ll ! SsalUl Maj 1, IIM. al tta fast afflM al wbit(. Orsasa. aaast Ml af Mareh I. U1S Charles v. stanton idwim u knap Mambar of the Alsoclotad Press, Oraf Nawiaaaa' Publishes i Association, tht Audit turoau ot Circulations KfiriMII.I Of BESr BOl.blDAt CO. INC.. allloas la Nsw task, Cklaasa. , L Aof.U.. Ssstlia, rsrllaaa, (ataraa I ..".'and class Sta.l.r Ma, J. 1MJ. al t.a rasS Olllao at Kassbarg. Oraiaa. Ifadsf AaS at Marcb S, lata. DBfOKIPTION STATES-la Ot.,.a-BT MalU.Pat Taat. IH.Ml sis naslas. Sl.tll shraa neatas. SS.U. Bf Naws-Esslsw Carrtar lsr Tsar, lis.at (la ad. "a."), lass bsD aaa T.ar, a.r m.alh. Oalslda Or.f.a-B, Mall- rat Taw. 11.001 sis asaalbs, 3.JiSi Ursa ssaatas. Iiaa. REASON FOR THANKS " i By CHARLES V. STANTON A long-delayed project at last is being undertaken. Charles Collins, county parks supervisor, has announced a meeting to plan recreational use of public lands bordering the North Umpqua River. Representatives of the U. S. For est Service, Bureau of Land Management, the parks depart ment of the State Highway Commission, National Park Service and various local agencies will meet to discuss a cooperative program. Efforts will be made to work out a master plan for recreational development and use of sites. This project has been in the making for a number of years. It has received consideration from numerous agencies and individuals. But getting down to the actual planning stage ha3 taken a lot of time. " .. Douglas County is extremely fortunate more fortunate than a great many people now realize in having reserved for the public a most valuable recreational asset. Through federal, state and county agencies we have succeeded in setting aside many miles of river front a" camp sites, picnic areas, etc., throughout the entire county The County Parks Department now is working to add other su.t Se sites and has had marked success in its efforts to date. Access To Water Preserved ' The long-range vision of the Douglas County Court re sulted a few yearfago in extensive land exchanges saving Sribto ZL the greater part of the r verfronUge be tween Rock Creek and the boundary or me umwu St The Bureau of Land Management, at the same time JavTrecreation a priority on river frontage in ermngled with county and forest ownership. Inside the National For est, river access is carefully preserved. . It has long been planned to work out a program ot Joint and cooperative development of the recreational re source thus preserved. But many things have delayed action. It took time for the county to clear titles on its exchange lands. Bureau of Land Management policies had to have approval from Washington. Surveys had to be run to deter mine property lines. Then the Bureau of Public Roads re aligned the North Umpqua Highway, making it necessary to await the completion of road relocation before site determinr ation could be made. . . :' Various agencies now believe that the situation is sta bilized sufficiently to permit making a start on the overall recreational plan and the first meeting hns been scheduled. Perhaps it may not mean much to the general public today. But within a' comparatively few years the public will have reason, time and again, to bo grateful for the vision and enterprise of the individuals and agencies now en . gaged in preserving for the public the great scenic and recreational resource of the beautiful North Umpqua region. As population grows and lands become more and more crowded, the fact that there has been preserved access to the river without paying a fee to cross private land, a place to, spread a picnic lunch, a spot where Nature is unspoiled, will be far more appreciated than today. Planning Is Complex Job Working out the master plan is not to be a quick task nor an easv one. Determination must be made of lands to be set aside for commercial installations. Such'installatlons are needed to care for tourists and for local residents who desire the comforts of cabins and service, rather than open or primitive camps. At the same time reservations must be made of campsites to serve those who like the more rugged type of outdoor living. Access must be saved so that anglers may reach fishing water. Some lands per haps will be opened for summer home use under lease ar rangement All these uses must be considered and prop erty piacea. Excellent progress already has been made on public camps along the North Umpqua. Much remains to be done, . however. I he forest Service made a most valuable con tribution with camps built during days of the Civilian Con servation Corps. But the CCC camps have fallen into a bad state of disrepair and Congress has objected to appropria tions for restoration or enlargement. Many more camps could bo built if funds were available. Bills now are before Congress authorizing appropria tion of 10 percent of forest revenues to be used in develop ing recreational uses of National Forest areas. These bills possibly will find some objection from counties which now receive 25 percent of revenue from the forests. They may object to any reduction in the amount they receive. On the other hand, the proposed measures are getting strong support irom organized conservation interests. Regardless of whether or not money is immediately nvauaoie ior development of recreation.nl resources, both inside and outside the forest, the fact that the land has ueen reserved and that a master plan is to be devised upon which improvements can be coordinated is assurance that future generations will have opportunities in the Umpqua Valley that would be denied them in many other parts of the nation. TXei to' Recede About MarchTwelftr v t life uAMf-. m In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS mr IB. 'ii ENDING Morning, noon or night, rain or nine, tog or snowanu wo had all four this afternoon and evening me mgnway aiong me umpqua Is our favorite drive and never is twice alike. Oh, I wish they would leave the Mill Creek covered bridge, even if it'a blocked off. Vis itors are so enraptured by a cov ered bridfie. ' About lour thin Sunday after noon, EJ, refreshed by a nan, suggested heading for the coast. How muddy the river wai. High, I too. Flood tide. We were 10 sur prised to find lawns, trees and roofs white with snow after we went through Reedsport. (and from Hancock Mt, home we drove in a heavy snuw storm!) It was dark before we finished our prawns and french fries at the Neptune cafe at the Bay, and Started for home. Except at the cafe we never aaw soul In Win chester Bav. And what a mnta ,,t debris, logs and such, piled on the boat ramp. "No wonder," laid the propriet or of tht cafe, Cecil Willadsen, "considering we had a wind that blew lis miles an hour!" We watched the tropical fish they keep in an aquarium heated electrically so the water is always 76 degrees. Fascinating. There were coal black "mollies," tiny thine, about an inch lorn. Snmn odd little fish with a tin for all the world like a sail that wiggled back and forth on top of the back as the wee fish swam. The "sail" was large for the size of the fish, black, while the rest of the fish was silvery. Had a long name which I forget. But the stars were tiny catfish, about an inch long or maybe a little more, with the same ugly wide mouth the bigger specie has, and the same "dig gers" below the mouth. "They nev er feed at the top," explained Mrs. Willadsen, "but are scavengers and help keep the water clear. The tiny catfish are five years old. be lieve it or notl" There were snails, too, which multiply so fast the owner often share with people who have the ordinary goldfish. The tank is Il luminated prettily. The green fish plants furnish a natural habitat for the tropical fish, and a place for the pin-point size young to hide in until they grow to a braver size. "We were surprised," said Mrs. Willadsen, "to see how interested our patrons are in our fish. I'm glad I thought to bring the aquar ium in here." Congress Chat By HARRIS fcLLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District There has been very little act ivity on the floor of the House of Representatives thus far this ses sion. If my memory serves me correctly, the roll has been called only twice for record votes on legislation. One of those votes was on the Treasury re - organization plan which did not amount to much anyhow. My own opinion about legislative bodies in our country either the state legislatures or the Con gress is that they may be crit icized for passing too many new laws rather than too few. Accord ingly, I see no harm being done to the people of our country by the present slow - bell Congress. A few major problems must, o f course, have Congressional action. Some decision must be made re cision must be made reeardinir military training. The Defense Pro duction Act, which contains the control provisions, expires soon and must either be renewed, killed or amended. Appropriations are made annually and those bills must be passed. These items and a few others should and undoubtedly will oe acica upon oy the House. No vast amount of time will be re quired on each. Even in slow mo tion there will be ample time in the next four or five months to complete and pass all of the pend ing legislation met is actually neeoea. Most neoole do not rcaliza It. 1 know, but every law passed by Congress costs money some of the laws cost a vast amount of money. But even a minor one must be administered and it is a minor law indeed which does not actually require me employment of more people in the government agencies and bureaus. It would be an Interesting news story if some ambitious and en ergetic reporter would take one of the minor and innocent looking laws passed during the last year or so and find out just how many new government employees were recruited to enforce it and how much the administration ot lh law Is costing. just for fear some spending minded Congressman or- hureau- crat might grab on the above pnr agraph as an explanation for gov ernment extravagance, I hasten to oa that it surely cannot exnUin the following: In 1940 the Depart ment of Commerce cost. $37 mil lion their present budget re quest is for S91T million! In 1940 the Department of Labor speiit only $29 million now it wants $263 million The SUta Department Fulton Lewis Jr. eiieG0 WASHINGTON - Senator Robert A. Taft, despite pres sure from "me-too" Republicans, continues to be candid with American voters regarding his opposition to large segments of the administration's foreign policy. , one of Tail's recent blasts oc- (Continued from Pag 1) solum in a foreign soil. They want ed to know the kind of people for whom and among whom be bad fought. Trifles? OH, not Such things aren't trifles to the parents of sons who have fallen in wr. They are terribly, terribly important. . We can now, I think, get on with our story which, in the main, is this: Americans are NOT popular ANYWHERE IN EUROPE. They ar lAavt nnnnlni' thaA frionHa I've been quoting think, in France. Americans are 1.BAST unfuru LAR, they add, in Spain and in Portugal. i That, of course, is very, very interesting. We haven't been in Spain very long and in Portugal hardly at all. In these two countries we are readying the sack from which we shall later toss lareess. That is to say, the attitude of tne (Spanish and the Portugese toward I us is a lively anticipation of ben- ems yet TO gOME. Elsewhere in Europe, We've pretty much done our do, and are beginning to talk of cutting down. If the Russians move, will the Europeans fight? - My friends doubt it very much indeed. Nowhere in Europe, they say, did they find any enthusiasm whatsoever for fighting under ANY circumstances. The opinion rather generally seems to be, they re port: "If there is going to be an other European war, let the Amer icans fight it. We've done our fight ing." Over here, war is the generally prevailing subject of conversation. Over there, it is practically never mentioned. Are th'e Europeans really in bad shape? That is, are they hungry and shabby? My friends say in answer to that: "We never saw so many fur coats in our lives. As a matter of fact, we didn't know there were so many in the world? "As to food, there is plenty of it.'' How about the English? - Well, the English, they say, are more courteous in the expression of their dislike of us than the peoples of most other countries. And the English do realize not only Oat we fought beside them in the war but that we have stood beside them unfailingly in the great problems of peace. But THEY DONrT LIKE US: Nobody in Europe likes us. Let's put it this way: Suppose the last war had been fought on OUR soil, in OUR cities. Suppose the British or the French, or the Germans, had come over and saved us and after saving us i curred on the Senate floor, when he favored amending the North Auantie Treaty Organization so Uiat President Truman would be restricted legally from sending U. S. troops into foreign areas that would involve this nation in war. The Senate never voted on the issue, although it is conceded that the amendment would have been defeated had a vote been taken. The point Taft made, however, was not whether the Senate ma jority agreed with him, but that he minks the same way now while running for the Republican no mination as he does while serving in the Senate as just another GOP member. This consistency struck a num. ber of presidential-minded Repub licans, and a great many Demo crats, as unusual. Most of them are accustomed to backing and filling on major issues while in volved in a political campaign. Taft, however? will stand on his voting record as a Senator in his race to convince Republicans he should be their Presidential nomi nee. There is a close parallel to Taft's actions involving another long-time member of the U.S. Senate. While Taft sticks to his convictions. Sen ator Tom Connally, the Texas Democrat and chief foreign Dolicv spokesman for the Administration, Is gyrating faster than a pinwheei in relation to his voting record. Connally, whose aging irritation with the Washington press corps gets more noticeable every day, now warns the nation in eeneral and Texas voters in particular of the dangers of huge foreign aid spending, unnecessary foreign entanglements and Communism in general. Until he discovered he was in serious political trouble, Connally never appeared to give the subjects a thought beyond reading what the White House or State Department sent to bis of fice. , Connally, of course, " Is not a candidate for the Democratic Pres idential nomination. Some Texans hardly consider him the Demo cratic candidate for the Senate from Texas, although he Is run ning for that nomination. But Con nally and Taft are of comparable puuucai siaiure in me senate, in sofar as party prerogatives are concerned. So an examination of their behavior is enlightening. Less than a year and a half ago, Taft won re-election as a senator by a huge majority, after touring his state day and night, talking to fiiends and political foes alike. There is a growing conviction in Washington now that Connally will avoid visiting Texas during his campaign for re-election. Some of his advisers think Washington and the Senate floor will provide him with a better sounding board for rebuilding his political fences than the usual sagebrush and buckboard tour of his home state. And there is another difficulty that must be taken into account his age. Tex as is hot in the summer and it is a long and dusty road between water holes. Connally is 75, and the sagebrush-and-buekboard cam paign would be wearing, to say the least Besides, the Connally temper would be hard to control in the face of sharp heckling. The Republicans who rejoice when Taft expresses his opposition to Administration foreign policy boondoggling are of the Eisenhow. er Willkie - Dulles Dewey Cuff Lodge variety. They are fanning out across the country trying to breathe life into Eisenhower-for President clus, while avoiding di rect answers as to the general's views on the Truman administra tion spending and war policies. Until Eisenhower speaks out we must accept the political logic of. his backers. This means that there would be little change in either foreign aid or diplomatic policies if Eisenhower became President. We will have to wait and see if this is what Republican voters want. Taft has long called for many changes, and still does. This gives Republican primary voters a di rect choice. Taft says he will fight to curb the President's power to make war at will, without consult ing Congress. What will Eisen hower do? We haven't heard di rectly, but we know from the NATO argument reeently in the Senate that pro-Eisenhower Repub licans like it the way it is, ap parently even up to and including Korea, vanere me Dest me Admin istration can do is puff up ima ginary, progress at truce talks while superior U.S. manpower is chewed to bits by Communist gun men. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P. M. Frank Monk Case Again Scheduled For Grand Jury . ' The State's- case against Frank Monk, accused of embezzlement, bounced back to Douglas County Wednesday when a state Supreme Court mandate directing a new trial was received here. Deputy District Attorney Donald S. Kelley said the case would be re-submitted to the grand jury next May to correct a defect in the in dictment and was then expected to come to trial for the second time. Monk is charged with embezzling $257.25 of Veterans Lounge funds. . Almost a year ago Feb. 27, 1951 Monk was convicted by a Cir cuit Court jury on the charge. Ap peal was made to the Supreme Court and the conviction was re versed on the contention that Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly's in structions to the jury- were im proper. The case was slated to bt tried again this month. However, when tha Supreme Court's mandate was received here, it made no mention of whether the case could be tried again. District Attorney Robert Davis ; then moved the court for recall of j the mandate and issuance of a new one directing another trial. This was done in the mandate I received Wednesday, Kelley said, functioned smoothly in 1940 with an expenditure of $24 million, but must have $338 million for the coming fiscal year! I could list some others but I think these give the general idea. My good friend Congressman John Phillips of California has the following gem in his own weekly letter: "When I was home last summer, one of my Riverside friends, taling about the tax in crease, remarked he was mad enough 'to blow a gasket.' H e needn't worry, if he does. The Army had on hand, on a recent count, 921.602 gaskets for the front axle housings of jeeps. The peak demand in any year, since 4he Army started using jeeps, was 8.- 846 gaskets. At that rate, we have enough on hand to last 104 years. Any taxpayer, who feels a gasket blowing spasm comir m, should write the : Army Qu -master." PhilliDS knows wha is tnlkine about because be is a .nember of the committe which handles armed forces appropriations. s NasrtRaiw s s kaa He4 S'teff e I alaRvfd by I 1 4:l$fjavplioM I 2-J431 batwaaa fclt aw17sMrs. a Soviet Savant Gives New Shape To World LONDON W Russia is reshap ing the world geographically as well as politically, according to Radio Moscow. A broadcast Friday said Soviet Scientist Alexander Izotov has proved that the earth is 2.550 feet thicker through the middle than Western scientists have measured it. The radio said he had also proved that the earth flattens out around the equator, giving it the shape of an ellipse rather than a circle. Radio Moscow said that these "ridings wou' ' lp Russia build iter hydro ...ctric stations. is vcirs and canals. It did not ay STEARNS MORTUARY HOLT GRIMES Funeral Director Mrs. Harry Stearns Licensed Lady Assistant Our service is for all ond . meets every need. Any distance, any time. Oakland, Oregon Phone 2711 or 2713 had stayed on, living In our houses and in our best hotels, eating up our food, corrupting our manners and generally losing no opportun ity to point out to us bow much they had done for us and how hugo is the debt of gratitude we owe them. Would we love these interlopers? WE WOULD NOT! I! We'd despise the ground they walked on, and we'd lose no op portunity to pull their noses and tweak their ears. Nobody ever loves anybody that he owes any thing to. That's one of the fund amentals of human nature that we too often lose sight of. WANTED CARS TO WRECK "WE PAY TOP PRICES" DOYLE'S Sales & Service Hiwey 99 at Gdn. 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