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4 The News-IUvlew, Koteburg, Ore? Wed., May 21, 1952 Published Deily Except Sunday fcy the News-Review Company, Inc. latere si rone eliu mitler Mjr 1, Iff, si lb pail office t RoMburf, Oregon, ester Ml mi March 1, CHARLES V. STANTON Editor Mtmbtr of tht Associated Press, Oreeon Newspaper Publishers Association, tht Audit Bureau of Circulations EprMlto4 br WEST-BOLLIDAT CO., INC., effiooi le New York, Cslotgo, 8a FranciH, Lei An(ales Soettle, Forllsml, 81. LoaU UBICB1PTION BATES 1 Orofon Br Moll For Yter, Slf.M: tlx nioBtba. U.tS; tbrao month, I2.lt. Br NiwfRtriiw Carrier Par Taar, flS.t Urn ad vtnoo), ! Ihaa ana yoer, pr month, I1.2A Outalde Oregon Br Mall Par Veer, IU.0O( lx man tat, S.6t tar a man Ida, Sl.fe, REASON Charles Bill Pitney is keeping his Ing black cats and is walking no chanoeg. Bill is resident biologist He is in charge of fishery studies on the Umpqua River syg. . tem. He now is invoking all the good luck charms he can ; find because there is a prospect a faint prospect at least that the Umpqua River's spring chinook runs may be on the upgrade. Spring chinook are five-year fish. That is, it requires a full five-year cycle from the time they are spawned until they return as mature fish, In 1951 we had the return sration. The total run through the Winchester counting eta tion in 1946 was 1,974 fish. In an encouraging increase. The migration of 1947 has had since the count started. The total was 2,994 fish. ' On May 15. 1947, the Winchester station had tallied 1,593 chinooks over the counting board. By May 15 this year, the count stood at 1,528. But since May 15, Pitney reports, the run has gained in tempo and . on daily count. ": This doesn't mean, of course, that it will remain that way. It may slacken off tomorrow. Maybe most of the fish are already upstream. Perhaps we will lag from here on out. That's why Bill is keeping his fingers crossed. If we can show a gain two years hope of repopulating the river chinook salmon. Cooperation Is Required It is a task requiring much patience. If we gain only 10 or 20 per cent each five years it will take a long time to get the chinook salmon back But so long as each succeeding migration shows improve ment, we can continue to hope. In 1947, we passed a law the lower river. But the law dental catch" clause. It wasn't until the legislative session of 1949 that the joker was removed, and, in the interim, the ' netters continued to prey on the spring salmon. So, it will be two more years before we know the effect of net removal. We also will begin to know soon the benefits from hatchery releases, particularly the plantings of fish held in the hatch ery for ,18 months and sent to the ocean with apparently a ; better chanca of survival than would be expected of finger- lings. V The Umpqua River's salmon run is dangerously near depletion.' The indication that toration is encouraging. But given aggressive promotion the utmost cooperation by sportsmen and conservationists, Protection Is Issua We demand of our Game thing nossible to Drotect the are aware that the spring chinook salmon runs are danger ously low. We know that through reduced bag limits, in creased hatchery operations Game Commission is striving the Umpqua River. Many restrictions have Bag limits have been reduced ted. These rules are held to of the various species of fish If sportsmen want the river's salmon and steelhead runs rebuilt, they must be willing to make sacrifices until migrations are restored to the stand more fishing intensity. while refusing cooperation. It may help to lessen our resentment against limitations on our recreation if it can be shown that the sacrifices we are called upon to make are All indications to date give reason for hope, but we may have some disappointments too. We won't know until 1955 what effect the 1950 flood had on that fall's spawners. Nor will we be able to learn for ' if any, by siltation from Copco's hydroelectric construction work on the upper river. But, with the evidence now at hand, we have reason to - hope for eventual gains. Wl fTI'" jj" Did you ever leave the baking ; powaer out or. a cane unce nulled (he Din out ot the oven t scraped the batter back into the bowl, and somehow inserted the ' miesing ingredient And wouldn't you. know that cake was a dan ; dyl While the one a person hovers over and does want to be a little fiDecial well, it isn't alwavs. The other day I dropped the last two cups of our dinner set. Can't match them. Who hasn't dropped a dish like that with a bewildered feeling wondering just how it ever happenedl ' So in this column when you read that the State Archivist is Mrs. David Duniway, and a piece of a poem is missing, or an extra syllable put in so the scansion is out of whack, just laugh and re member that they have their troubles in a newspaper office, same as in the kitchen! I don't expect ever to think of the putting together of a daily newspaper each day as anything short of a modern miracle. To EDWIN L KNAPP Mafr FOR HOPE V. Stanton fingers crossed. around ladders, He is avoid He is taking for the State Game Commission ripe for spawning of progeny from the 1946 mi 1951 the count was 2,940 fish was the largest run the Umpqua now is ahead of the parent run in a row, there may be some with the once abundant spring to even relative abundance taking commercial nets out of had a joker in it an "inci there is a possibility or res the effort can succeed only if by the Game Department and Commission that it do every fishlife of our streams. We all and by protective measures the to bring the salmon DacK to been Imposed upon anglers. and various restrictions adop be essential to the protection suffering from depletion. point where they will with They can't demand results paying off. several years the damage done, ' ENDING BASKET " start out with a roll of newsprint, a pot of ink, some hot lead and to on, and in due time, a mailer of hours, have that newsprint paper covered with print, and folded, and on its way to tha readers well. It's a wonderful bit of skillful doingl Don't you think so. too? Suppose you were fitting a patch work omit together with a aeaa line on it, and someone upset vour sorted d eces. Or maybe you have it all put together and for some reason you just nave to yank a block out and substitute a new block. Or well, fifty different things like that can happen in a newspaper office. That s the way l wink aner ine first moment of exasperation when something is not just right in this column. Then too. you know, audience participation ii the thing now, so I count on little read er participation to punle out what seems "queer." (Maybe it was tht sight of lovely St. Shasta last weekend, gleaming Fulton Lewis Jr. CHICAGO The idea always been an unpleasant characteristic of any intra-party political struggle for power. Seldom have such tactlct Wn reduced to the level of thns by the White House hatchet man, reuerai security Administrator uscar twins. The intended victims are Sena tor Estes Kefauver, Democrat of lennessee, and Senator Richard Russell, Democrat of Georgia. Both are seeking the cartv Dresi- aenuai nomination. The Kwing technique is to play the racial issue for all tha bias and bigotry that the tune will ytcid. it Is a nasty business and Ewing has been giving it a maior tryout in California. It indicates the desDeratlon nf northern Democratic machine bos ses, who preach racial tolerance three and one-half years out of very four. There probably never nas been a more open appeal to a race for political siiDoort. and I await the reaction of Mrs. Eleanor Hoosevelt with interest. Actually, Ewing could well be making a test run for political support of his own. desnita hit denials that hit time spent in Cal- irorma was for any such purpose He is, however, a While House ad visor on political matters and has indicated privately that Mr. Tru man would probably have a creat deal to say about what the Demo crats do in Chicago in July. wnai twing means, of course, is that Mr. Truman exnects the machine Democrats in the bie cit ies to run the convention. He won't oe doing anything but following the orders of Frank McKinney, chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, who in turn gels his from Edward Flynn, of New York, and Frank McHale, of St, Louis, Missouri. One other ancle In ih ri.. visit adds substance to the theory that he might be testing out voter reaction with his platform appear ances in California. Kefauver has Irritated a number of Califnrni. residents with his stand on th. tidelands oil dispute, and he has not taken a popular stand in the Ariiona-California water fight, ije is, however, a match for Ewing iu urn matter ot public water projects both for power and irri gation, which has been a bio nnlil. leal selling point for the adminis tration since the first term of the late President Franklin D. Roose velt. Despite this. It is obvious that at least the California Dem ocrats are skittish about the Ten nessee senator, even if tha White Htui.se isn't. In allowing Ewlnu in the ntnt the Democrats are riskinir the wrath of the powerful groups of mcaicai men and women In the state who object to his socialized medical plan, in California that is a considerable bundle of wrath, at least sufficient to hold Gov. Earl Warren at bay. Warren would like to adopt the Adminis tration's plan of a bureaucratic program of medical services, but ha has been frightened out of it more than once. Ewing has also been quiet of late about socializing the doctors, nurses and dentists. but that doesn't mean ha hasn't been busy pouring out propaganda from the FSA. From a practical standpoint, Ewing actually fails to improve the Democratic search here for a man on horseback. There just isn't so beautifully In the sunset. At any rale, here we go for a closer 1 look, down into California this time.) oh't Change d WordPrint It All!" iff of cloak and dagger tactics has anyone in tha state, or anyone coming into it, outside of Kefauver and Kussell, who is well enough known to attract the kind of at tention needed to start a ground swell. The White House, however, is smart to pay attention lo Cali fornia's 70 convention votes. They now rest in the hands of Attorney ueuerai r-.umu.na u. Brown, little known outside of his Own state. He too is attacking Kefauver constantly in public speeches, but there is some concern in Demo cratic circles at to whether voters are paying any attention to him. At best, California Democrats can keep on scrounging among the voters for a popular presidential possibility at least, one su fficiently popular to help keep the 70 delegates In line for Brown, McKinney, McHale and Flynn once they get to Chicago. Hear Fulton Lezvis Daily Un KHNK, 9:15 P.M. All Of Oregon's 18 Delegates Won By Eisenhower PORTLAND W Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower snagged all of Ore gon's 18 delegates to the Republi can national convention, and piled up a record vote in doing It. Slowly-mounting returns Monday from the state primary election gave Eisenhower the largest total ever commanded by a Republican presidential candidate in an Oregon primary 152,272 votes. The count was about 90 per cent complete. He far outstripped the combined vote of his six opponents for the Republican nomination. Eisen hower won nearly 70 per cent of the total GOP vote. The few Taft delegates who were in the running were defeated. Gov. Earl Warren of California had 37,187; Gen. Douglas MacAr thur 16,324; Sen. Wayne L. Morse of Oregon 6,611: Harold Stassen 5.1)04; Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio 3,.'. write-in votes; and William K. Schneider nf St. Louis 346. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see won the state's 12 dclesates to the Democratic national conven tion, getting about 73 per cent of the total Democratic votes. He had 128,970 votes while his two unwilling opponents ran far behind. William O. Douglas, asso ciate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, had 26,671, and Gov. Adlai Stevenson ot Illinois 18,615. McKay's Victory Upsets Pre-Election Forecast SALEM W Gov. Douglas Mc Kay said Monday he didn't spend a penny on his campaign for dele gate to the Republican National Convention. The governor, who got more votes than any other candidate for delegate, was extremely happy be cause of the huge vote he received. Gov. McKay received many threats that he wouldn't even be elected as a delegate because he refused to put the state on day light saving time. tie not only led the enure del- gate ticket, but also led it in Mult- nomah County, where the daylight saving urn clamor was loudest r In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) political party to which I have given such allegiance as a soldier can." Personally, I like that. I like It because I think Ike means it. If he didn't mean it, it would be ten times worse than useless. If he does mean it, it will be wonder ful The big trouble with government In our country, as I see it, is that the struggle for public office has degenerated into a struggle tor personal or GROUP power. That has been going on all over the world all down through history, and the net result of it has been BAD. Only in the occasional golden in tervals when GOOD and ABLE men have accepted public office out of a sense of duty and have given their best to the job have tha people made progress toward peace with liberty and the ines timable blessings that go along with peace and liberty. How can we know that Ike is the man we need? We can't know it. We'll just have to take him on faith, if we do take hin, and hope for the best. AND Give him the best WE have if he becomes our leader and gives us the best HE has. A loyal lead er who gives his best to his fol lowers needs loyal followers who will give their best to the leader. From London: "ivy Wickent is a free woman after getting a divorce on grounds of desertion. She told the court her husband had himself committed to a mental hospital shortly, after their marriage, and for 20 years has refused to come out." Maybe the guy is smarter than he sounds. . There was Solomon, for exam ple generally described as the wisest of the kings of Israel, son of David and Bathsheba. He says (Proverbt XXI, 9): 'It is better to dwell In a corner of the housetop than with a brawl ing woman in a wide house." Maybe this Wickens woman was a brawler and her husband sought the refuge described by Solomon, choosing a mental hospital as the nearest modern approach to the wide and sunny housetops of an cient Israel. . On second (and soberer) thought, I don't like that sugges tion. It savors of the cynical male philosophy expressed in 'the French phrase, "Cherchei la fem me," meaning that if you get into trouble and want to find out why search for the woman who got you into the hot water. That school of thought holds that women are responsible for ALL the trouble that men get into. It is very old. There was Adam. He got Into trouble, and when called upon to explain he up and said: "The woman she tempted me." Adam ought to have been ashamed of himself. The millions upon millions of generations of men. who have followed him and have used his same old ex cuse ought to be ashamed of themselves. I rather imagine that if some research outfit would turn in and make a careful study of all the trouble men have got into In these thousands of centures it would be found that for every mess of trouble women got men into there was another mess of trouble that women GOT MEN OUT OF. Anyway, the men haven't got too much to be proud of in this world they have been running so long. I'm coming to think that probably we'd better take the women into the job of running the world in an increasingly big way. They cer tainly couldn't do much worse than the men have done. , Contempt Seen In Fast Time Action By 'Few' ROSEBURG Let's not, as Mr. Jenkins suggests, refer this time confusion to federal authorities. They are very poor managers, as the condition of the nation proves them to be. Please don't suceest that they take any more of our rignts away from us. , There was no confusion about this matter of time until a very few people decided to run things to suit themselves. And most of those few are new to what was our peaceful little town. I got a very nice letter from Governor McKay. As long as he proclaimed standard time, it sounds like conte.mpt to me when some little group proclaims some other time, which there positively is not. Twelve o'clock noon is rec ognized as midday all over the world. Screwing the clock to some other hour is just as unreasonable a thing as anyone could do, es pecially when they proclaim it to be the time people must live by. True, we all are entitled to our opinions, so please do not expect the majority to give up their opin ions in favor of a fetf when no good can possibly come of it. Sure it is nice to put in an hour in the garden. I do. I love to work among the flowers and I do it in the morning and enjoy my break fast much better for it. And I do some more in the evening when it is cool again. I do not enjoy working out there in the hot sun. No, let's not have any more de cisions made by the state or fed eral bureau. We had a first class dairy start un here a few vears aeo and I did a lot of work for them. I asked if they would let me be one of their first customers. I liked the setup and I liked the peonle. Their product was clean and rich; right around 6 per cent butter fat. So the sate bureau, or commission, or something, stopped them from delivering whole, honest milk, just as 11 came irom that nice herd if Jerseys. They had lo skim it down to conform to the poorest milk on the market. No, let's not have any more things decided for us. Let's decide things for ourselves. The newspapers are the best weapons we have. Editors have died, lots of them, fighting for an issue they believed in. Now when we have lived quite a spell under law and order, made in most case.s by the will of the majority, let's not turn in contempt from it. Or shall we all turn back to the old six-gun until people will cry for law and order again. editor Charley Slanton has In vited you to write in your opin ions, so come up out of the brush. Tell the world how you feel. Don't lay down now and say it is no use. Come up and bellow until some Body opens the gate for you. Don't let these little things pass by any more. &very one you give up on is another string in your hands. There are a lot of things we can't do today because we let them slip another string on our hands. If you don t think this true lust eet some worms and go fishing above Rock Creek. Who and how manv decided that for us? I can tell you, ior i naa a membership card in that organization ever since I came to Roseburg back in the '30s, but no more; never another dollar do they get from me. It has been gratifvine to me to read so many opinions in the pa per. Write 'em folks! If there ain't j room on the regular oaee. mavbe Charley will print 'em on the so- ! ciety page. I think it would be as i interesting to most folks anyway. 1 Well, being a sort of an under-1 sized, weakling, I have suffered J quitee bit lately from big fellows I shaking my little hand and slap-1 ping me on the back. And the street I mentioned before is clut tered up worse than ever and only a couple of blocks from the city hall, where law and order are supposed to come from. Well, don t quit on this like vou did on MacArthur. We really got some smoke on him for about a week. Then it was dropped. Let's keep at this until something Is done. DAVID H. SCOTT The Village Blacksmith Roseburg, Ore. Useless Voting Seen In Fast Time Switch GREEN In reading Mr. Stan ton's editorial Thursday night it gave me courage to write. He doesn't seem to understand that the reason people have lost in terest in voting is because when they do vote it seems to do no good. Also, if he will inquire, he will find that we, the people, who have been fighting daylight saving time through the paper, are also out fighting for our government. The reason we are fighting so hard is not for the setting ahead of the clocks but that when we voted daylight saving out 5 to 1 we are still forced to stay on it because of a few. My husband Is a logger. He has to go to bed while the sun is shin ing. 1 wonder If you business men NOTICE CEMETERY MONUMENTS Our truck will be in Roseburg and other Douglas County points Wed. May 28th, with Memorials for Decoration Day. Give your order to Frank Church, 1630 N. Stephens, by Friday, May 23rd to get it on this load. THE OREGON GRANITE CO. Fine MONUMENTS Since 1898 1630 North Stephens Roseburg, Oregon have tried It. You should. Also try to get children to go to sleep before dark. They'll go to bed when the clock says it is time, but not to sleep until Mother Nature says so. They still have to get up by the clock. The people here at Green are pretty upset about the whole mess. So please let us have standard time for the sake of the working people. MRS. .BETTY FORTUNE C.V. Route Roseburg, Ore. Aid Fund To Spur Home Construction Approved WASHINGTON WI The Senate Banking Committee Wednesday scaled down and then approved a bill authorizing federal aid to en courage construction of homes. As introduced by Chairman May bank (D.-S.C), the measure called for about 2 Va billion dollars worth of incentive such as government insurance on home loans. The committee trimmed the total authorization to an estimated 1 ft bil'ion dollars. As approved, the bill provides for an additional 400 million dol lars worth of government insurance of home loan mortgages under the Federal Housing Administration IFHA) program. The original bill called for an additional authorization of one bil lion dollars. Another section called for provid ing an additional 100 million dollars for community facilities in defense housing areas. The committee ap proved 40 million. Guglielmo Marconi was granted the basic British patent on wireless telegraph in 1897. ki not b : 1 I dffvardby I 1 4: 1 5 pjtu, phot I 2-2631 btwM I :l5ed- Over 51 billion board feet of Douglas County Timber is threatened by the TIMBER BEETLE THE ROSEBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES ALL INTERESTED IN SAVING OUR TIMBER to attend meeting to discuss plans for war on timber beetle, and salvage of infected timber At 10 a.m. PDT in Douglas County Court House Thursday, 73 ,Tin ! in V;r same families J I J MX"' aMw,. I S TI ! Is M- ' 1 Timber Beetle Meet Thursday Roseburg area timber owners will map plans to fight the Doug las fir beetle at a meeting at .10 a.m. PDT, Thursday at Doug, las County courthouse. Methods of salvaging billions of feet of beetle-killed timber and plans to stop the ravaging insect from continuing their feast on the trees will be discussed. W. D. Hagenstein, chief forester of the Industrial Forestry Associ ation, and a five-man sub-committee of the Northwest Pest Action Committee will attend the meeting. need reliable answers to your "crisis questions" this yeorl ... get them in Often referred to ct "a newspaperman's newspaper" th MONU TOR covers the world with a network of News Bureaus and corre spondents. Order a special Intro ductory subscription to day 3 months for $3. You'll find the MONI TOR "must" reading and as necessary os your HOME TOWN PAPER. The Christian Science Monitor . One, Norway St, Boston IS. Moss., U.SA Pleat send me on-introductory Monl.' tor lubxnption 76 itiuet. I enclose S3. I (nome) loddiesil icilyi '"Viooel 'itot.l PB-IO May 22 MtVi1ai2 Phone 2-2611
