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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
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In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
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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.
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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
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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!
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we too often lose sight of.
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