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4 The Nawi-Revlow, Roieburg, Or. Sot, Mgrch 1, 1952 .'Where' d They Ever Get That Idea?' -A In The -Day's News TraKWRWiaaa ujni'ii-nyT'i ; - iRL. aaPfl Published Dally Eictpt Sunday by tht News-Review Company, Inc. ' tmUf4 Hen4 elm matUr May 1, lM. lb ffle tiHDl'L Orca andar el ! March t. Mil CHARLES V. STANTON Editor EDWIN 1 KNAP Mnfr Mtmbar of th. Aueciotid Prtti, Oron Nmpapn Publiihtrt ' Auociation, hs Audit Buraou of Circloloi rMU F WISr-BOLLIUAt CO. INC.. .(Ileal, la N.W fark, CkleifR, lu rriactM. Laa Anfalaa, Raallla, Partl4, . . IlltlM 8.0.11J Claaa Mallar Mar 1. Ill, ! Iba Tart OIMeR at Baiabirg, Ora(an, Undar Aot vf Hatch S. 1171. . . IUBrCBIFTION BATM Ir Or.ran Br Mall Far Ta.r, tll.Hl al majUa. M.tll laraa m.iilba. tt.ll. Br Nawa-Rayltw Ctrrlar Far Taar. lit M (la a, aaoal, Itii 'nan hi raar. art mult, II.M. Oilataa Oraiaa By Mall Far Tasr, 111.901 als moRlha, 18.691 Ibraa maalha. ll.M, WORTHWHILE EFFORT By CHARLES V. STANTON The Inter-Service Club Committee, if it makes a suc cess of its current venture, will have completely justified its existence even though it may never again chalk up a major achievement We have no doubt that the com mittee will spearhead many worthwhile projects in the ' future. The effort on which it now is engaged, however, that of encouraging the people of the county to register and vote, is sufficient justification. The committee is to be commended for accepting the task. Embracing representation from Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs, the committee is designed to bring those or ganizations Into united effort on joint programs. In the register-and-vote campaign the committee will be aided by the Roseburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Junior Chamber of Commerce is scheduled to con duct a house-to-house campaign designed to ascertain that all eligible voters are registered. The Kiwanis Club will work through the schools to assist in the civic training program. Promotion Events Planned The Lions Club will arrange an old-fashioned torch light parade the kind that marked elections many years ago. Various other promotion events are planned. The Rotary Club will be responsible for a telephone campaign just prior to election date and will provide baby sitting and transportation service election day. Efforts will be made to get every eligible voter to the polls. We can think of no more important or needed project. This year's elections are vital. History will hinge on decisions made by the nation's voters this year. It is the duty of every voter a responsibility of citizenship to give his counsel, through his ballot, in determining fu ture policy. Last week we heard Charles A. Sprague, former gover nor of Oregon, publisher of Th Oregon Statesman, Salem tell the state's editors at their mid-winter conference that Oregon's voting record was disgraceful. He pointed to the fact that less than on;:-half the qualified voters had cast bal' lots at the last election. Ho urged every possible effort to improve our voting record this year. The work planned by the Inter-Service Club Committee should be a valuable contribution to this program. It is to be hoped that similar activities can be planned to reach every voter in the county. The project should not be confined to Roseburg alone. Perhaps the plans of the Roseburg organ, ization will stimulate similar work elsewhere. Douglas County Has Problem ' Douglas County has a problem in connection with its elections, particularly with regard to local candidates. This problem is quite general in all counties of Western Oregon. During the past ten years we have more than doubled our population. Perhaps as many as TO percent of our residents have entered the community within the past 10 years as we consider removal of older residents by death or transfer. About 60 percent, we would estimate as a rough guess, have moved into the county during the past five years. Many of these persons, busy in various phases of lum ber production, have not become acquainted with the local political picture. They do not know candidates for local offices. They are not familiar with local issues. Most of them will have their ideas concerning presidential nominees. With only little interest in local campaigns, how ever, some will not trouble themselves, unless urged, to go to the polls t vote the presidential ballot only. As the elections correspond to their busiest periods, many persons, we anticipate, will not even endeavor to inform themselves. Because of this condition, any effort directed toward the encouragement of prospective voters to study candidates and issues and to exercise their right of franchise will be extremely worthwhile. ENDING 'BASKET Forty Easter hats, place favors when Uio Drain Study Club enter tained the Yoncalla Study Club, weie identical until they were tied on. Then tht hats became indi vidualistic indcedl The paper plate, paper pompom creations, with their bright ribbon ties, start ed Uie fun. While still at the table, band leader Bessie Lakey, using a large printed list of instructions, led the group through the intricate orches tration of "The Country Garden," a gay tune played by Dorothy Randall on the piano while the rest tapped knives on glasses, clapped hands eight bars to each variation or tried to whis tle when all one could do was laugh. By then the party was all set for what might be called Animated Anagrams, very unlimited ana grams. Ever play it? Klrst Mrs. Lakey made sure she hod "enough voweV in the first names of those present; then she asked each play er to print the initial of her first name on a slip of paper and pin it on herself. The idea was to form words having three letters or more. Each one in the "word" wrote down the word on her own list. To illustrate: Slesdames Anna Kruse, Edith Bu.xhey and Lucille Phelps anci 1 were happly forming our second word by reshuffling our first one, VALE, Into VEAL, when Mrs. Kruse was snatched away by a group needing an A. Irene Pinkston was handy so we hooked on to her, and made LIVE. Before we could make VEIL, our E was taken away. But we got Mrs. Kruse back, and Nora McArthur and another L lear me, who was it? and triumphantly made VANILLA which was quite a feat consider ing the hubbub and rushing about, and the difficulty of hanging on to a "vowel" long enough to make the word. Ever play it? Fun It occurs to me to wonder If a time out period for Animated Ana grams might not be time well spent wien a group of people get all tied up in knots of discordant discussion, and are not getting anywhere. After such a loosening up, I'm sure the discussion would proceed much better. Tnke Con grcss, for instance. , . Can't you just see them? Well, thv do ev. erything else In Congress, don't they? Oregon's Toughest Convict Sent To Folsom To Prevent Others From Slaying Him By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (AP) The Oregon State Penitentiary's toughest and most troublesome convict has been paroled so the other convicts can't kill him. He is John Edward Ralph, 31, a confirmed and hardened criminal who suddenly had a change of heart. He exposed an escape plot, and that's why it was unsafe to let him re main with the other prisoners. So, at the request of Warden Virgil O'Malley, Ralph was trans ferred last week to Folsom, Calif., Prison, where he was wanted as a parole violator to finish a five year term for auto theft. During his four years at the Ore- ?on prison, Ralph was involved in ust about all the trouble the prison had. He entered Dec. 4 1947, to serve 12 years for beating a man up in La Grande and robbing him of J100. Ralph was mixed un In the big 1948 escape atlcmpt, when some convicts set fire to the prison flax mill. He was chairman of the con vict committee that led the prison hunger strike last summer. Ralph tried many other times to conceal weapons for nttempted breaks. Last October 31, he was one of the 10 convicts who locked their guards in their cells and tried to get out. They didn't get out, though, because they handn't fig ured a way to get out the main prison gate. For this last attempt, Ralph got another 30 days in isolation. After that, ho was transferred, along with the olher escape artists, to segregation cells. Atk For Execution When Ralph was sent to isolation that last time, he said "1 wish they would put me in the gas chamber." Ho added that his chief ambition was to kill guards. On November 28, from his isola tion cell, Ralph sent this letter to the warden: I'm in a hvine hell, prepared to die. ... 1 believe a dead man has the best go anyway no wor ries, no troubles. Let's come to n understanding or 1 11 give you the chance to carry me out In a box." But only two weeks later, this man, so bitter at society in general and the prison management in par ticular, reversed his Held. A guard slipped a gun, dagger, ammunition and dynamite to the desperate men in segregation. And Ralph told the other guards about it, thus blocking an escape plot in which somebody might have been killed. Warden O'Malley wanted to keep it secret how. Ralph exposed the plot. But a newspaper told about it briefly, and all the convicts soon knew about It. "From then on, Ralph's life wasn't worth two cents around here," the warden said. Started In Crime At 16 The warden got him his parole and rushed him off to the Multno mah County Jail. The California officers picked him up there a tew days ago. Ralph has a long record of 24 arrests for vagrancy, burglary, robbery and auto theft. He left home at the age of 12, started his criminal career at 16, and was in the reformatory a year later. He has a deformed hand, and the psychiatrist says that makes him bitter. Ralph is a psychopath, meaning he is morally defective, not knowing the meaning of hon esty, truth and decency. Most vet eran criminals are psychopaths. Another reason Ralph was sent to Folsom is that it has better facilities for giving psychiatric treatment. At Folsom, Ralph might get rid of his delusions of persecution, his suspicion and his vindictiveness. OREGON PAYROLLS U P SALEM in Oregon's business and industrial payrolls last vear totaled more than $1,200,000,000, the State Unemployment Compen sation Commission said Friday. That .Is 140 millions more than ever before. TI.e commission said the average employment during the year was 336,000 persons. SUTHERLIN PTA BOARD HOLDS RECENT SESSION The Parent Teachers Executive Board meeting at Sutherlin was held Mnndav evening in Arthur Treman's roon at the Junior High School building. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Ethel Wattman, vice president, in the absence of the president, Mrs. Jean Smith. Vari ous chairmen gave interesting re ports and Mrs. Smith extended her thanks to those who helped with the dance. The winner of the prife walti was Mr. and Mrs. Charles Be guhl. Mrs. Allene Smith gave an in teresting report on the county council meeting which was held at Yoncalla Saturday. Those at tending this meeting from Suther lin were: Mrs. Allene Smith, Mrs. Jean Smith, Mrs. Evelyn Frots chcr, Mrs. Velina Brauningcr and Mrs Ema Mann. Plans are well under way for the mother and son banquet, which will be held March 15. After the meeting closed, cherry pie and coffee, furnished by Mrs. t'orwm Lovins; and Mrs. Jean Smith who weie assisted by Mrs. Evelyn Frotscher, were served to: Mrs. Allene Sklmh, Mrs. Jeanette Ixierts. Mrs. Martha Gwvn, Mrs. Ethel Wattman. Mr. William Rid dlcbargor, Mrs. Vlema Brauning er, Mrs. Kathryn Karcher and Mrs. Leona Elliott. PINK AND BLUE SHOWER IS HELD IN YONCALLA Mrs Mildred Moody, Mrs. Clara Shirley, Mrs. Jean Carney and Mrs. Fern Means were hostesses at a pink and blue shower honoring Mrs. Eiinore Morris Tuesday eve. ning. at the C. W. Cook home in Yoncalla. Sweet Peas and daffodils were used in decorating. Mrs. Mor ris was presented with a beautiful corsage of violets. Games were played with prizes going to Mrs. Fred Lee, Mrs. Har old Turpin, Mrs. Dean Hall and Mrs. Louise Snider. Consolation prizes were won by Mrs. Daggs. Lucy Shields and Hazel Wright. After opening the many beautiful gifts, delicious refreshments were served to Mrs. Eiinore Morris, Mrs Opal Kelso, Mrs. Mamie Lee, Mrs. Neljie Stenseth, Mrs. Viola Vian, Mrs. Ira Vian, Mrs. Dorothy ! l.oyd, sirs. Hazel Wright, Mrs. ; Waneta Meston. Mrs. Gertchen Wil I son, Mrs. Lorraine Wamslev. Mrs. i Maude Tobin, Mrs. Erankie Stapp, Mrs. Mary Van Krevlin. Mrs. Shir I ley Wise, Mrs Roberta Shields, Mis. Joanne Wise, Mrs. Lucy iMiieicis. .Mrs. Marie Lewey, Mrs. ; Bea Conaway, Mrs. June Bowman, i Mrs. Faye Herring, Mrs. Opal Her ring. Mrs. Etta Wallace. Mrs Julia ! Daggs, Mrs. Ixiuise Snider, Mrs. ! Marian Hall, Mrs. Georgia Mae Turpin. Mrs. Edna Cook. Mrs. I Mildred Moody. Mrs. Clara Shir- iley, Mrs. Jean Carney and Mrs, I Fern Means. Dillard By ROSA HEINBACH Mr. and Mrs. O. D. McAllister, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. E, A. Krewson of Myrtle Point, left Feb. 17 for Auburn, Wash., to at tend the funeral of Mrs. Ann E. Hael. Airs. Hacl was a sister of Mrs. McAllister and Mr. Krewson. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Martin of Grants Pass were Sunday callers at the O. D. McAllister home. Mrs. Paul Hult and Miss Ann Armstrong of Spokane, Wash., at tended the Camp Fire leaders meet ing Monday afternoon in Drain. Miss Armstrong is the Campfire Regional field advisor of this dis trict. They also attended the PTA meeting in Drain where Miss Arm strong was guest speaker. Miss Armstrong and Mrs. Hult were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Whipple, for merly of Roseburg. Mrs. A. A. Friesen of Salem, re turned to her home Monday after spending a week visiting at the home of her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rummell. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Campbell and children, Michael and Carol, of Bremerton, Wash., arrived Fri day at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Nickerson and son, Roger. Saturday, they visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Walker and son, Larry. Mr. and Mrs. Camp bell are well-known in Dillard and Rosebur, having lived there about a year ago. Campbell is employed with the Nalley Foods Corp., at Bremerton, They returned home Sunday. Mrs. Susie Winston is expected to return to her home on Robert's Creek Wednesday after spending three weeks in Sacred Heart Hos pital in Eugene. Mrs Winston fell at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna French on Robert's Creek and broke her right leg and her wrist. C. C. Fosback. daughter, Lois, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jimmy Fosback motored to Portland Fri day to spend the week-end with Mrs. Fosback's mother, Mrs. Em ma Fosbacjc, who has been ill with a severe attack of flu. They were joined in Portland by Mrs. C. C. Fosback who had been spending the week visiting relatives. The group were guests of Fosback's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Baker and daughter, Patsy, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fosback and children, Norman and Gayle. Since her return home Sunday, Mrs. C. C. Fosback has been suf fering with a barilv infected fi She has been having it lanced and ireaiea in KoseDurg. Roger I.vnn Melcalf lfi.mnnil,. old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. meicau oi iJiiiard, has been ill with pneumonia in Mercy Hospital since Sunday. He is reported im proving as well as can be expected. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Halverson By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page One) IS THE GREATEST PRACTIC ABLE DEGREE OF LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT.' " That, Lloyd, is NEWS. It ought to stop your yawns for at least an hour. WHY is it news? Well, here is a good man who announces himself as a candidate for President and then puts his finger on the thing that in the past couple of decades has led us FARTHEST ASTRAY FROM THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE as the Founding Fathers envisioned it. Our ancestors were wise. They wanted government kept CLOSE AT HOME, where they could watch it and control it. They started, in New England, with the town meeting. The town meeting was government on a scale that could be handled by the people. our, raauauy, population spread beyond the villages. When that came about, there were COUN TRY people as well as TOWN people. They were entitled to their share of the say in government. so we extended the scope of government to include the COURT HOUSE. In time, as we continued to grow, we widened our circle to include the STATE HOUSE. So, as one individual I'm im mensely impressed by Senator Russell's statement that he be lieves in the greatest practicable degree of local self government. All in all, I think that is the best platform that has yet been advanced by ANY candidate for the Presidency. 'jT NRWS-riRviRW 'w hm Rvt bn .. 1 I : . lBvRrRtby I R t:IS pan, pkoM I J-63lbtwRR fctSd'Mk There, for a long, LONG time. we stopped. It is true that one of our first acts as a new-born na tion was to create NATIONAL government. But. in our thinking, we limited its powers sharply. We gave it control ot foreign rela tions and foreien nolicv and NA TIONAL DEFENSE. We permitted it to levy tarifl duties partly to protect our youthful industries against foreign competition and partly to enable our national gov ernment to finance itself. We gave it a few more modest powers. nut mere we s opped. We were inherently susnicious of BIG government. We wanted government kept close enough to us so that we could handle it. That was the root of our think ing until the REVOLUTION OF THE 1930's, which arose out of the Great Depression and was spearheaded by the New Deal. In the course of time a sur prisingly SHORT time the New Deal moved the court houses and the state houses to Washington. The result of it has been to move the bulk of government so far from the people that they no longer can control it. In recent years, I think I must ' have heard ten thousand people say: "I don't like what's going on, ! BUT WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT j IT? What can ONE PERSON do?" i It is true that when the bulk of our government is centered in ! Washington one person can't do very much. Washington is so big and so remote, and so impersocii ; that one person simply can't do much there. ! But in the old days, when the bulk of government was wisely 1 held close at home, in the city ' halls, the court houses and the J stale houses, even one person could do quite a lot and a dozen persons could always make them selves heard. Government was then close enough to the source so that it could be handled by the people. Now it is so far away that it RUNS the people. PERSONAL SHOWER HELD IN RIDDLE WEDNESDAY Mrs. John Bingham Jr. of Rid dle, was the honored guest at a nprsnnal thnuo. a, ..an u:n.. by Mrs. Norman Chapcll and Mrs. i juiui niamnam jr., ot Kiddle at the Chapcll home in Canyonville. I ManV lovelv eifl won nrACAnt. ed in a basket decorated in the Valentine motif. Guests were Mrs Pat Met7ger. Mrs. Howard Schol enicke, Mrs. B. O. Bordeaux, Mrs. Robert Proctor, Mrs. Robert Lil ly, Mrs. William Markham of Rid dle: Mrs. John Bingham Sr., Mrs. Charles Dowd, Mrs. John Theiss, Mrs. Olive Homme. Mrs. John Norman of Canvonville; Mrs. Jo seph Tomascheski, Mrs. H. W. Shiltz. Mrs William Kinard of Myrtle Creek and Mrs. Raymond Hayes of Days Creek. DINNER PARTY HONORS WASHINGTON VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Nickerson of Dillard entertained Saturday evening with a riinnpr nariv in v,nn .or of the former's cousin, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Campbell and children, Michael and Carol of Bremerton, Wash. The six o'clock dinner was served on the lare covered table to: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Walker land son. Larry: Mr. and Mrs. .('amnhell and hililpAn . n J I host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs I Nickerson and son, Roger. and son Vrigil snent the Dast week end in Coos Bay visiting at the homes of their son - in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dwain Ma nasco, and Mrs. Halverson's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Smith, and her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. ann Mrs. Ralph Newton. Mrs. Fred Burks has been con fined to her home with throat infection, Ms. George McDowell is ill her home with flu. Mrs. E. 0. Nickerson has been ill with a bronchial cold. . Mrs. A. M. Matlock of Eugene and Mrs. L. E. Weeks of Salem were guests Thursday of the for mer's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Andrus, and chil dren, Sharon and Chris Slewart. The Ladies came to visit baby Chris who is Mrs. Matlock's oniy grandson and Mrs. Week's only ; nephew. He was born Dec. 26, in' Douglas Community Hospital. Mrs. Gene Hathaway. Mrs. P. L. Manley of Dillard and Mrs. Virgil Batman and Mrs. Al Crook o f Winston motored to Eugene Tues day. They spent the day attending to business ana shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hathaway spent Thursday in Portland attend ing to business interests. Mrs. Mattie J. Collins, Mrs. Frank Lowell and son, Kenneth, of Klamath Falls were guests Tuesday and Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Col lins and children. Frankie. Perley and Andy. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Dowell are the mother and sister of Dean Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Dean Col lins, Mrs. Zella Jorqenson and Mrs. Doris Roark motored to Eugene Thursday. They spent the day shopping and attending to business. ft Ii?L JJ 7 : 01i?Ts.rZl?M HEAR Rev. A. C. Roper from Portland, Oregon March 3 to 9. Nightly - 7:30 AT THE HURCIVGOD REV. A. C. ROPER Rev. H. A. Schlatter, Pastor CAR OWNERS ATTENTION! . RE-OPENING OF D & D GARAGE Complete Automotive Repairs Specializing In: Motor Tune-Up Engine Overhauls Credit Available on All Jobs, large or small All Work Guaranteed OPEN SUNDAYS D&D GARAGE 2344 North Stephens ' . Phone 3-3163 ANNOUNCEMENT... CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERSHIP FORUM LUNCHEON Monday Noon Hotel Umpqua SPEAKER: MR. FRANK L. BALLARD Assistant Director Agriculture Extension Service Program arranged by Agriculture Committee in the interest of Agriculture Development in Douglas County. FORUM OPEN TO THOSE ENGAGED IN FARMING. This Announcement is Financed by the BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS W. Washinqton ot S.P. Track j WSR noscDurg, vregon PHONE 3-5022 FREE PARKING AT THE FARM BUREAU A Tribute To- OUR PRIESTS! As we rush through the days in this modern tempo of Twentieth Century liv ing, let us pause now and then and thank God for those patient, consecrated fath ers of the Catholic Church whose lives are devoted to things of the spirit. They are truly the shepherds of today . . . lead ing, comforting, feeding their flocks with spiritucl sustenance . . . administering to the poor . . . and carrying on the work of our Holy Father. Our community is a better place in which to live and worship because of these men of the cloth. They richly deserve the plaudits and support of oil of us. We salute our Roman Catholic churches and their understanding priests! 97MO- 7taidL Manufactured and Distributed by Douglas County Creamery Established 18?? Dial 3-3237 Roseburg, Oregon We Salute Douglas County! Eugene and Iva Springer
