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4 Th Nwi-Raviw, Rotaburg, 0r. .Fri., Jon. 8, 1954 Publithad Doily tacept Sundoy by the " - ' . ; News-Review Company, Inc. Kater4 as eeaene elaat metl.r Stat I. Ie. el too ..A lllet ol ni EaaebarK. Orc ene.r eel .1 Match S. CHARLES V. STANTON Editor and Monoger ' ' , Member ef tha Auaciatad Press, Oregon Newspaper Publithtn ' Association, tho Audit Burtau of Circulations ! ar WHT-HOLLIDAl CO. INV, .fflaea la New lark. CMeace. Su frenclKO, Los Anfeles. SeatUe, Portland. Denver SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orefon By Mall Par Year. SlJOOi ilx monthl. 6.M; three monthi, 3 as. Outelde Oregon By MaU Per Year, S13.00; alx monthi. 7.00; three months, S3.50. " By News-Review Carrier Per Yr, $13 00 (In advance), leaa than one year. per month. $1.25. " STATE OF THE UNION Charles V. Stanton 1 1 n 1 1 -s ' I -1aIa nf 4-It a T Tninn wi fka a it ira we imagine, will please no one otner xnan me majumy of the American public. . ' . v" Pnlit-al lAHrfem of both Darties doubtless will view ' ' witti alarm" tho President's middle-of-the-road policies. " With a mighty struggle for political power shaping up Ike gave little comfort to either party in lus message opening the session of Congress. It doubtless will be found disappointing to Republicans, in that it failed to provide '.c th "r.lenn nweeD" strateev demanded by conservative G.O.P. ' leaders, who would toss into the discard all vestiges of the New neat-Fair Deal administrations. It will likewise disappoint Socialist-Democrat party leaders because it pro- . vides so little target tor tneir propaganda Darrage. The first year of Ike's administration has made the -" -conservative wing of the Kepubiican party very unnappy. He has insisted upon gradual and carefully studied change. TWiich of the nartv leadership insists on complete and im- mediate change. The state of the Union message indicates that Eisenhower is determined to stick to his slow and de liberate pace. " I i . "At this moment we are in a transition from a war time to a peacetime economy." he told Congress. , I am : confident," he concluded, "that we can complete this transi- 4-fUUniir BAninlio inrnMWll n I r Y ill Mlf anfVrYYn fTVfWVth f Abrupt Changt Dangerous Tmr.nti.mf Uannh inona ohnil rf ran I7P IhflT flnriirtr. PnnilCr. en in political policy would seriously threaten our economy. We have for 20 years stimulated inflation. We have built ud a fragile inflationary economy which, without careful handling, could collapse like a pricked balloon. The Eisenhower administration has succeeded in halting the upward sDiral. It has brought a levelling off. A situation now; exists in which wages remain comparatively high. while cost-or-iivmg is holding level. That he proposes to continue the gradual and deliberate process of political policy change was made quite Clear in his report to Congress. Yet he made it equally clear that change will be brought about in due time. He outlined a program of "partnership" rather than dictatorship; aid where needed, regulation where needed, guidance and assistance to encourage private industry to take over business functions now usurped by government, gradual adjustments' of agricultural economy with standby subsidy if required, orderly and efficient management of natural resources on cooperative basis. This trend away from government regulation and to- ..m.J nn.n...u;n ...:it j . . : i : c. c . u nom uoi vuciEiiiiw win uiuviuc niuiiiuiui.iuii iui wic mi lii coming propaganda barrage. The President undoubtedly is fully aware of the opening afforded the opposition. But, disregarding this factor, he proposes to hew to the pattern drawn for the political structure he is endeavoring to erect. No Quarter For Commies Particularly interesting was his oblique reference to the "Communists-in-government" issue. He hinted of dis satisfaction with the present headline-seeking policies now in operation, but offered evidence that he proposes to deal more sternly with subversives than has yet been attempted. Reporting that more than 2,200 employes have been weeded out of government for security reasons, he announc ed that a new program for locating "Reds" within the gov ernment family was to be recommended. This statement could be taken as a backhanded slap at Senator McCarthy's tactics. But, at the same time. Eisenhower said he would propose legislation to strip American citizenship from per sons convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government by force. , ' Here, we expect, is a policy the public will applaud vigorously. Ike's state of the Union message, we believe, will arouse plenty of comment from politically-motivated critics, but will give a sense of security and satisfaction to the . average citizen. TWFCouIci Prove to BtFfutiy Expensive. To visitors from the 'New Eng land stales, it scorns incredible that less than one hundred and thirty years ago there was no settlement or white men above the mouth of the Columbia River. Our great hydroelectric systems. our huso lumber mills and ships crowding the docks of the Colum bia, are developments witnin tne memory of any of our senior citi zens living here today. When Fort Vancouver was established in 1825 by the British, its founders did not dream that the things they wrought there would fire the minds of visiting Americans, who wrote home to the east coast about the unlimited possibilities this new land posses- sea. McLoughlin did a number of things at Fort Vancouver for which our generation owes him a vote of gratitude. He built and launched the first ocean-going ship, he built the first flour mill. and tho first sawmiu in tne Ore gon Territory. But more import- nt, he was the Iirst to introduce agriculture in the Northwest. He was Hie first cattle breeder in the Northwest, and the first to export the products of his farm and for est lands1 to a foreign land. So soon as he became establish ed at Fort Vancouver, McLaugh lin started the construction of J small forts throughout the North west as outposts for his fur trade. His only post in Orogon was two hundred miles south of the Col umbia. Bancroft says. ". . . .(it) was situated near, the confluence r.f F.Ik Creek with the Umpqua Hiver. . .and occupying a fine po sition among the hills of that beau tiful country. It was but a small place, with a twenty acre farm attached, under the charge of a French trader. The neat dwellings and other buildings were surround ed hy the usual palisade, with bastions at the corners, for the Indians n this nuarter were more savage than those in the vicinity of the C'c imbia." HOMETOWN, US A. ( -"What nakei men hold on to their monoy demand Trellis Mae rbi. America's most average itKMrw.it. Wfliwr lowered bis morning news paper until their eyes met across toe brettfstt ubie. "Deir," be said, "a wife's ron reruticm Is like a jigsaw puzzle it takes a fettotr some time to make any kind of pattern out of it What are you trying to get at? I don't know ot man who is hold ing on to hi money." WH, Winthrop Rockefeller is. I read it in tne newspaper before you got up." "fs he? How does he do it?" "By refuting to give it to Bo-bo." "Wham a bobo?" "Oh, don't act so dumb. Bobo is Winthrop's wife," said Trellis Mac, who always spoke of famous people by their first name. "Why won't he give It to Bo bo?" replied Wilbur, who was try ing to read an article abnut the electric power problem In India. "Well, they art separated, and Winthrop moved to Arkansas to forget it all. Now he wants to set tle six million dollars on her. but his lawyer says Bobo is holding out for ten million dollars, Isn t that a silly thing to quarrel over?" "It could be a matter of prin ciple, said Wilbur. "And four mil lion dollars is a pretty big prin ciple." "If she takes the six million dol lars," mused Trellis Mae, "it says she could invest it so as to get about 120,000 tax-free dollars a year. That's not so much, is it?" "Only about 323 bucks or so a day, including Sundays and the 29th of February during leap vaarl " rirvlv rnmnrlrfvl hnr ml. band. "But, of course, if she took it in silver dollars it would make quite a jingle in her purse." f "Whose side are you on, any way?" asked his wife. "I don't believe in mixing in family quarrels. I wish they'd kiss and make up even if it put 50 divorce lawyers in a breadline." "Well, I certainly think you'd be more generous than Winthrop. Remember what you told me when we had our first big quarrel and I threatened to leave you?" "No, indeed," said Wilbur cau tiously. "You told me I could have half of everything you owned." "Yeah, that was nice of me. But what did 1 own then?" "You didn't own anything. You were even overdrawn at the ! bank." ! "Well," said Wilbur, "if Win- throp was in the same spot I was, I Ml bet he'd be just as big a sport about it. You always have to take the circumstances into considera tion. Why didn't you leave me any way?" "With no carfare and mother 300 miles away?" laughed Trellis Mae. "A girl has to be practical. I wouldn't leave you even if you made the same offer again today to give me half of everything we nave in me bank. Wilbur looked at her suspiciously- "Is our account overdrawn again?" he demanded. Trellis Mae nodded. "I thought this conversation fi nally would load somewhere." said i Wilbur crossly. "Why can't von I be more careful about jour check stubs." "I will," promised his wife. j Grumbling as he started to leave , for work, Wilbur held out his hand ! for his usual two-dollar lunch mon ey and cigarette allowance. Trellis Mae put only a single dollar in it. "A buck for lunch," griped Wil bur. "A mouse can't live on that." Long Auto Plunge Kills Safety Man OREGON CITY W - A Crown Zellerbach safely supervisor from Olympia died Thursday shortly after being rescued from a river bank ledge following a 75-foot plunge in his car. The victim, Fred Pontin, f3, was rescued by boat and brought across the river to a hospital here. Res cuers said when they reached him his pulse was strong. But lie was dead on arrival at the hospital. There were no witnesses to the mishap in which the ear plunged over the cliff at the rear of the West Linn Inn, but from tire tracks this was learned: I'ontin's car went over a 10-inch limber edging a parking area, rolled 30 feet down a bank, crossed a board walk, crashed through the walk's wooden guardrail then drop ped to the river. I'ontm was seen immediately afterward but brambles ami the steep bluff made rescue from the I river tne only practicable route He was at the firm's West Linn paper plant on business connected with his work as assistant general safety supervisor. He has a son and a daughter, both married, at MuMlon. ICALS BV WK PEERV From this we learn that farm ing in Douglas County was intro duced by the Hudson's Bay com pany in iheir fort near the pres ent town of Scottsburg. Michael La Framboise, head trapper lead ing a pirty out from Fort Van couver selected the site. That was somewhere around 1834. That was the year Jason Lee and his Methodist party started west from Missouri. There is nothing left of this fort on the Umpqua. Time and the elements long past swept over the site of the old fort. But the company proved that farm crops could be raised in Douglas Coun ty. This information was doubt less passec on to the Americans when they straggled down the locky bed of Canyon Creek with their ox-teams and wagons, and came into the beautiful valley of the Umpqua. Before that, others, like Jesse Applogate had heard the same story about the produc tivity of the better lands of the area. Hudson's Bay had set in motion forces we feel here to this day. It must be acknowledged that the great company had no inten tion of promoting agriculture and the settlement of Oregon when they set up the farm.s at Van couver and surrounding forts. This was done for the sole purpose of making these establishments self supporting. London was far dis tant, and if the company had been compelled lo ship all the food supplies necessary for its posts from that point it would have destroyed the profits of the fur trade. All posts must be self sunporting. But in developing agriculture and stock farming, the Hudson's Bay Company unconsciously plant ed the seed that would bring in a flood of American emigration, a flood that would sweep the Brit ish away from the Columbia. All this for the reason that the Mctho dist and Prcsbvtcrian missionar ies, along with other visiting Americans, were a pioneer peo ple on the lookout for new lands and new crops. They were an ob servant lot. In their letters home they told of the wonders of the Oregon Canaan. In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) tie were steady to higher in the early trade. Why is that interesting enough to print? Well, if people are hopeful enough to bid up prices, it indi cates that they tbink the country isn't going to pot- Personally, I'm pretty sure that what the people think and do in tms year o: re adjustment of our economy is more important than what the crystal ball gazers tell us. The livestock markets are par ticularly interesting at this mo ment because they are influenced by the play of supply and de mand and not by government sub sidies. Hog prices are rising be cause fewer pigs were born last year and as a result fewer hogs are coming on the slaughter mar kets now. Pork prices are still within the range that consumers are willing to pay; and so pork is being EATEN UP faster than it is presently being produced. That is a sound economic reason for a rise in prices., Mrs. J. Edwards Drive Chairman In Oakland Area By EDITH DUNN U Inhn Frt wards will again have charge of the March Dimes drive in uaKiana. Various activities will be con- uitcieu, iiiuiuuiib wie B....M -ner and kangaroo court. Oakland is prouu oi ire pasa. iwiui -has been one of the leading con- ,.:K..tn. thA nnnlv fnr several years. More money is needed this year, oniciais repon, vo fj the serum tests that may stem the disease. Returns Horn . Mrs. Lloyd Davis has returned from several weeks visit with rel atives at Riverside, Calif. Sue ex pects to return to Riverside later to make her home. Her aous, Floyd and Gene, and their families will also make thsir homes at River- Mr. and Mrs. Francis Crist are spending sev-ral days with Crist s relatives at Seattle, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark Carol and Ricky spent the holt days with relatives at Eureka, CTho theme of Dr. Homer M. Noble's sermon at Oakland Com munity Presbyterian Church Sunday will be "Jesus, Paragon and Paradox." Members and friends of the church will have a potluck dinner at the' parish hall following church services. The annual meeting of the church will be held in the afternoon, with re-nni-u for the vear and an elec tion of officers. IN COUNTY JAIL Wiley D. Scruggs, 24, Myrtle Creek, was committed to the county jail Thursday in lieu of S500 bail set on a laceny by bai lee charge, according to Canyon ville Justice of the Peace Nina Pietzold. A deputy sheriff took Scruggs to Canyonville for ar raignment Thursday. The charge involves sale of an automobile. . Order Your Wood Supply Now , SUPPORT THE INDUSTRY THAT SUPPORTS YOU! Ploner Endf Peeler Core, 16" or 2' Sawdust 16" Green Wood over the markets like a black cloud. So far. we've been talking about supply and demand in the mar kets. Let's talk for a moment about POLITICS in the markets. There is a surplus of cotton a rather big one. To prevent the surplus from swamping us, Sec retary Benson sought to cut cot ton acreagcto approximately 17 million acres. The cotton areas yelled bloody murder, and in re sponse to heavy political pressure the senate agricultural committee agreed Wednesday morning to UP the permitted cotton acreage to a little over 21 million acres. What that means is that with too much cotton already, we will grow STILL MORE COTTON if the senate committee's action is backed by the congress as a whole. treat "yourself to a taste delight with CANDIES 1.25 per pound l$o6el)urc pharmacy 241 N. Jackson Dial 3-3415 Incidentally A permitted up in cotton acre age is good for the areas that don't grow cotton. Everyone in these areas has been wondering what the cotton people would grow on the acres they had to take out of cotton. Maybe they'd groWj potatoes. Maybe they'd grow bar- ley. Thus they'd come into sharp competition with us who grow j these crops as a regular business. ; Political agriculture is a strange I creature. j The Gulf Stream flows through ; the 100-mile-wide straits of Florida i at an average rate of 7,245 million gallons a second says the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. i C. B. A. Presents "THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER" Fascinating Romantic Intriguing Hilarious SAT., JAN. 9, at 8 P. M. , ADMISSION: Adults, 75c Children, 50c Canyonville SCHOOL GYM Slaughter cattle prices were steady to higher when the market opened in Chicago Wednesday morning. That also is interesting because it means that at the mo ment supply and demand for beef are roughly in balance. Fortunately for the cattle Indus try, no HUGE STORED SURPLUS of beef hangs over the market. There has been no cattle subsidy. The government hasn't been buy ing up dcci and stasmng it away to keep prices up. As a result, beef prices are down and people have been eating a lot of beef. Apparently, we ate about eight billion more cattle and calves in 1!)S3 than in the preceding year. Eating meat is far aounder than stashing it away. As to the farm products that HAVE been covered by govern ment subsidies, the situation is not so sound. The government now has on hand, according to the lat est figures available, about five billion dollars worth of these products that have been acquired in the course of the price support program. That unconsumed surplus hangs TO START ENFORCEMENT SALEM i - The State Agricul ture Department said Thursday it would begin active enforcement Jan. 22 of the law requiring that imitation ice cream be labeled "mellorine." The law went into effect last July, but the department has with held enforcement to enable the manufacturers lo get properly la beled containers. Most imitation ice cream is made from vegetable fats. "My mouse can," said his wife. She kissed him. "O'bye, Hobo." he said. 'U'bye, Winthrop." 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