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4 Th Ntwi-Rtviw, Roteburg, Of -Wd. Jan. 13, 1954 3 . . 7 ! Publish.4 Daily Ectp Sunday by Hi. News-Review Company, Inc. Hunt u olrn auiiti nr i. isa. i u. alflaa at ban. Ortca. aaa"ar aal af Marc, t. IS7S CHARLES V, STANTON Editor and Manaaar Mtmbtr of Hit Auscisttd Pun, Oraaon Nawipopar Publiitiart Auociotlon, Hit Audit Buiaau of CirculaHeni Mmmt r KiTMOLUUAT CO.. INC.. affleai la N.w rack, Ckleaia. San rraaelKO. Lea Anj.lei. Seiula, I'orlland. Oanvar SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Oraion By Mill Par Yaar, 1S 00; atx montlu. M M; thraa moniha, 13 35. Outald Orafon By Mail Par Yaar, SlS.OOi alx monthi. H OO; raa monlhs. ao.JO. By Nawa-Rawaw Carrlar Par Yaar, I1J.00 (In advanea), lan than ona yaar, par month, tl.as. ' ROAD COSTS DROP Charles V. Stanton The State of Oregon is engaged in a huge highway construction program. It is rebuilding its major highways - with revenue derived from sale of $72,000,000 worth of highway bonds. It will be welcome news to taxpayers that during 1953 ' the State obtained approximately 20 per cent more construc tion for ite dollars than in the preceding year, the best record since 1950. A statement of comparative highway construction costs made by the State Highway Commission recently shows present costs to be 183.4 above the 1940 index of 100. By 1950 costs had mounted to 170.8. The war in Korea caused a decided uptrend in the cost of highway construction, ac cording to the index, reaching the maximum in the final quarter of 1952. The 1952 average was 202.2 with the i high point of 207.2 in the last quarter. " Poor weather conditions and general unemployment resulted in a drop to 176.3 for the first quarter of 1953. But by spring and summer the cost had moved upward to 184.2. It dropped again for the fourth quarter, standing at 183.4 at the end of the year. Inasmuch as many hundreds of miles are involved in the cmmrrtinrmn nroirram now in raroeress. taxpayers can find comfort in the fact that highway construction dollars are building more road. Contrast In Cost We frequently hear criticism of the Highway Com mission because it builds so many miles of good road in Central and Eastern Oregon compared with Southern Ore gon' . There is no denying the fact that southern uregon has been sadly neglected in highway programs of past years. Particularly neglected has been Highway 99, the Pacific Highway. This route carries approximately per ceni of the state's north-south travel, yet has remained a bottle neck for manv vears. , It must be taken into consideration, however, that the Highway Commission has had very limited funds with which to work in the past. In .many parts of Central and Eastern Oregon it is possible to build scores of miles of road for the same amount of money needed to construct one mile of comparable high way in sections of Western Oregon. The job now in prog ress around, the base of Mt. Nebo, here in Roseburg, Is a good example. The hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent in carving out less than a mile of road from the face of a solid rock cliff would spread many miles of pavement in Lake or Harney County. One-third of the entire Pacific Highway in uregon is situated in Douglas Cpunty. The Highway Commission now is engaged in rebuilding almost the entire Douglas. County section of that highway. It is by far the most costly job ever undertaken in any one county of the state. But completion of the project will benefit every part of Western Oregon and will relieve the great bottleneck that has im paired economy for many years. Messenger Boy Delivers Two Messages BOOM TOWN. PA. Schools, Factories Team To Produce New Workers Pair Suspected In Smuggle Try Bonds Good Investment While only a small part of the reconstructed highway within the county now is available to motorists, enough work has been done to show that the new road, when fin ished, will be of great economic benefit. Both local and through-traffic will be speeded. Removal of congestion re sults in saving in cost of gasoline. Better alignment and grade saves wear and tear on vehicles and per mile fuel costs. Yet, while fuel costs are less per mile, existence of better highways promotes more travel, thus increasing the state's revenue from fuel taxes. Oregon should modernize its entire highway system at the earliest possible date. Experience has shown that road improvements are obsolete almost before they are complete. Doubtless this same condition will be experienced on High way 99. By the time reconstruction is finished, increased flow of traffic will make more construction necessary. Because investment in good roads actually is a saving rather than an expense, Oregon should not hesitate to as sume Indebtedness to improve its highway system. From Tokyo comes a report (hat the Japanese will try in J954 to repair the bad relations they now have with several of their Asiatic neighbors. If true, the news is good. The Japs are said to be contem plating negotiations with the Philippines, Indonesia and Bur ma, all countries which their armed forces overran in World War JJ. These talks would inev itably embrace the topic of Jap anese reparations for war dam age inflicted. Up to now the Japanese govern ment has been .unwilling to dis cuss this touchy subject in terms big enough to naUsty the still em bittered people? ot tnese neighbor nations. But evidently a new at titude is developing. Since the big war ended, Japan has been sustained economically by outright American aid and the heavy expenditures incident to prosecution of the Korean war. But now that aid has dwindled and the Korean conflict is over and seems unlikely to be resumed. At the same time, the Japanese population has continued to mount at a swift pace. The increase can only be fed through greater im ports or by taxing Japan's limited area of cultivable land more se verely. If imports are to be the answer, t'hfn Japan must sell more goods abroad to pay for them, and this in turn means further imports of industrial raw materials. So any sound economic future for a grow ing Japan must be defined in term of enlarging trade. The United Slates and other Western powers appear unwilling to absorb much additional Jap anese output. They do not want Japan to deal in volume with Communist China Consequently, the nations of Southeast Asia of- NEW YORK W) "Anything you do tor kids takes lots ot tune And while we are willing to give them everything else, that is the one thing we are reluctant to give tnem time. "And that is probably why we hive so much juvenile delin quency." I think that remark pretty well sums up the problem of dealing with children. 1 wish it were my observation, but it isn't. It belongs to Frank Blair, who discovered the truth of it by liv ing. Frank, who was a transport pilot in the last war, has seven children and makes more money than a successful counterfeiter except Frank makes his honestlv. He is newscaster of the NBC-TV network show called "Today." But having and loving seven children and earning them a good living Frank found wasn't niule enough. Ton mnrh rtf thp htirrtan ' fell on his pretty wife. Lillian. "With my odd workins hours. he said, "I couldn't spend the time witn my Kinds that I felt a dad should.'' But Frank, who at 38 looks like a handsome older brother of his children, found the answer jn a family corporation in which each member has a voice in the tarn ey decisions. Here's how it came about: "Lil and I discovered the kids liked to have bull sessions to dis cuss where they'd got out of line and done wrong or to talk over family projects. We found they didn't mind being punished if they had a voice in deciding whether the punishment fitted the crime. "At their own suggestion we stalled having these 'Let's talk it over sessions and they developed into mock trials, and Lil and I found ourselves on trial, too, some times. We found out what the kids thoucht we were doing wrong. particularly after one of the kids got the idea of keeping minutes ot rue meetings." Then Frank decided to create a family corporation to rule on all family questions with each mem ber being allowed one vote for each year of his age. The current voting status is as follows; Frank, 39; Lil, 37; young Frank, 17; John, 15, Tom, 13: Mary 7, Theresa 4; Paid 2; Bill 1. Currently the senior partners are able to outvote the junior partners of the Blair corporation 75 to 59 m a showdown but Frank says it doesn't often come to that. "The kids don't vote as a bloc against us," he said. "The first thing we found out is that they won't take advantage of a situa tion if you give them a sense of participation. That is Uie wonder ful thing about children their real sense of honesty and fair-mindedness." The family corporation meets every Sunday, and no outsiders arc allowed. The members vole fines and penalties and punish Airline Protests Rival's Rate Cut WASHINGTON W - Alaska Air lines has asked the Civil Aero nautics Board to suspend immed iately reduced fares which Pan American World Airways plans to introduce Jan. 24 between Seattle and Fairbanks, and Portland, Ore. ami f airoanKs. Alaska also asked Hie board to reject the existing Pan American fares between those cities except for Pan-Am's southbound DC4 car go-plane service. The Alaskan firm complained that since last Oct. 1 Pan American has been offenne. DC6 service at rates charted all a,ong for slower DC4 service. Alaska Airlines asked the CAB to reject any DC6 fare that is not nigner man the S90 l)C4 fare be tween Seattle and Fairbanks again, except for Pan-American's southbound DC4 cargo-type serv ice. The complaint, filed Monday, said Pan American's proposed fares are below cost and would "destroy the entire U.S.-Alaska tariff structure at substantial cost to the U.S. taxpayer." fcr the only reasonable trading ground. This possible economic tie-up be tween industrial Japan and unde veloped Southeast Asia has long been viewed by experts as a na tural. But the inherited hostility from World War II has stood as a practical barrier to its real iatizon. Initiative for improved relations necessarily had to come from Ja pan. It could not be forced by the West. In fact, so long as Amer ica was pouring dollars into the Japanese islands, the effect was to reduce pressure upon Japan to patch things up with its Asian neighbors. Now, however, the heat is on. The whole free world must wish at this juncture that Japan is in deed serious in seeking fresh un derstanding with its wartime vic tims, for a solid trade equation between this progressive indus trial nation and its raw-material-producing associates in Asia would introduce into the Orient a power ful factor for stability and hence for peace. In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) ing. Under a flexible support pro gram, government price guaran tees would be HIGH in time of shortages to encourage more rjro. duction and LOW in times of plen ty (surpluses) to encourage consumption. (NEXT The York Plan.) Roseburg, Oregon work with every family," said Frank, "But this corporation game nas neipcd bring us closer togeth er, and we all have learned a great deal from it. , "It has given us a real insight into our children's minds, reallv opened a new world to us. You type of new car to buy and where I "n't !'"s,n yllr kins out the front to spend vacations. door- ,c" u,e,n to come back in Tito Itirtc hnvA rnnlin plmrAi I three hours, ami then forcet them. they are expected to perform, but j Thal 's how they get into trouble, are paid for extra duties such as ou nave to find a way to give baby sitting. Each member of the I 'nem something to do and a feel family pavs a Dennv a week forlmK of responsibility." each year of his age, and the pot When 1 asked Frank whether the is divided among the kids just I Blair corporation had closed its before Christmas each year, in- membership rolls, he laughed and ciuaing as i bonus the money chipped in by dad and mom. Lil acts as treasurer by popular de mand "I don't know whether it would said "Well, you never can tell. 1 haven't been home since hreaV. fast. J don't know what', out there j dor suoh operations to the school now I lunch program and other public in- Eisenhower's Farm Proposals WASHINGTON l Here Is what President F.isenhower's farm program propose: as to major commodities: WHEAT Substitute flexible price supports 75 to 90 per cent of parity for present rigid 90 per cent price supports after the 1954 crop. Production controls includ ing acreage allotments and mar keting quotas would be used as a suplementary measure to help keep supplies in line with market needs. The modernized parity for wheat which would be about 20 per cent lower than the present parity would begin to go into effect Jan. 1, 1956. The reduction each year could be no greater than S per centage points of the old formula. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Use present funds from customs receipts for purchase and remov al of surpluses of these products from markets. Purchased supplies would go to school lunch programs and to the needy abroad. Also au thorize broad use of marketing agreements to help stabilize prices of these commodities. Under such agreements, low quality products are kept off markets. POTATOKS Use the same measures for potatoes as for fruits and vegetables. At present, pota toes are ineligible for price protec tion. WOOL Abandon the present program of government buying and making loans at a predetermined price support level. Instead allow market prices to move freely in relation to supply and demand. Producers would get treasury pay ments to make up the difcrence between "average market prices and 90 per cent of parity. Funds : to meet wool payments would be taken trom general revenues with in the amount of unobligated tar iff receipts from wool. DAIRY PRODUCTS Continue present provisions of the law pro viding for price supports between 75 and 90 per cent of parity 'as are necessary to assure an ade quate supplv." MEAT ANIMALS - Conlinue present programs, under which price supports are not required but which permit the government to buy meat in times of depressed prices to help bolster prices. Such: meat would be diverted to the school lunch program and to for eign aid programs. EGGS Continue present law providing for discretionary author-: ity for the secretary of agriculture i to support prices at not more than 90 per cent of parity and divert1 any eggs or poultry obtained un-; That is to say, freezing from the markets HALF of our present accumulated surpluses would be a stop-gap device to help in stabil izing PRESENT prices, and a shift from fixed high supports to flexi ble supports would be a longer range effort to brine suoolv anH demand for farm products more nearly into balance over the long FUU. There are two sound ways to dispose of the foods we grow on our iarms. one is to eat them ourselves. The other is to sell them abroad. There is of course, ANOTHER way. We can go on piling up sur pluses under fixed high supports and then we can give them away or destroy them. That's about the long and the short of it. There was an interesting reac tion on the commodity markets this morning to the President's farm proposals. Hogs opened active, with prices up 75 cents to $1 over last week. Cattle were steady to higher and wholesale meats were steady to higher. Grain prices sagged, with sluggish dealing on the Chicago uwam Ifl 1 1 Hue. There was cause and effect in this situation. When grain prices are too high in relation to' prices of livestock, nobody can afford to era grain 10 animals. Grain (especially corn and wheat) is in large overproduction and would therefore suffer most in the way of price from a system of flexible supports. If grain prices go down, feeders can afford to pay more iur ieea animals. That is another way of saying: it is pretty hard to get away from ! supply and demand as a control-! ling influence on the markets. Highway Construction j Costs Down In Oregon ! SALEM Of) ' Oregon's highway construction costs are down con siderably from a year ago, the Highway Commission reported monoay. Using 1940 as an index of 100,1 construction costs rated at 183.4 in ! the last three months of 1953. The all-time peak of 207.2 was1 reached in the last quarter of 1952. j Construction costs now are at! the lowest level since late in 1950. j a DARCQT CMITU N.yy. ff.vl.y. Carr.tnondant brought visiting industrialists to N.w.-R.vi.w Corr.ipond.nr York for their first look was that (Third in a series) th nad neard 0f anrj been in- YORK, Pa. York's educators trigUed by "The York Plan." and industrialists have teamed up, .j,he york Plan" is the anti to give this manufacturing city tnesis ot instances in which a what many towns cant offer new, u town' business leaders con industrial prospects a steady sup-, jre ,0 kPpn out new industry for plL t'Jski!lea vlajor' , !fear of driving up wages. York The educators believe that many ufac,urers instead, have a boys will and should go from high . f pooling resources and several hundred small or large tive manner which has helped enterprises. So they prepare them puu m new industry. ior SKiuea iraaes wnne suu m hi?h school. York High School's industrial department has a unique program wherebv the student alternately works two weeks in an outside shop or factory as an apprentice earning the going wage and learn ing his trade, ana attends classes at school two weeks to earn his diploma. He must be 16 to start this cooperative course, but from the time he is 14 he is given basic training in York High's own vo cational shop. His specialty will be determined by industrial de mands in York .at the time and the boy's preference, but his choice is wide open to all trades that are apprenticeable. FOR THE BOY this program offers an early start in his chosen vocation and a job waiting for him when he leaves high school. The 8,000-4iour apprenticeship pe riod is about one quarter complet ed when he leaves school. He then goes into his employer's shop for a minimum of 5,500 hours af ter graduation to complete his trailing. Although this vocational course does not fit a boy for college, it does contain a sprinkling of aca demic studies in his last three years of schooling English, Amer ican history, chemistry, algebra, plane geometry, ligonometry, physics are all required courses along with trade mechanics, me chanical drawing and other shop specialties. York students have received their industrial diplomas in such diverse occupations as jewelry re pairman, welder, paper maker, plumber, steel worker, glazier, body builder, ornamental iron worker, pattern maker, sheet met al worker, surveyor, upholsterer, cabinetmaker, machinist, mechan ical draftsman, architectural draftsman and carpenter. The city has shops to absorb these and many other trades. During the last high school se mester. 41 different York indus trial concerns participated in this program on a cooperative basis with the school and its students. YORK has operated this pro gram since the Pennsylvania school code was changed in 1911 to allow it, which means it has had it longer than any city in the country, its officials said. In more recent years part of the financial load of shop training has been borne by the federal government through the U.S. Office of Edu cation administration of the George Deen act of 1936 and the George Barden act of 1946. Not only does this program pro vide local industry with a steady stream of young men well along on their apprenticeship training by the time they leave high school, but statistics show that about three out of every four graduates of the course stayed and worked in their home town steadily thereafter in stead of heading for larger, near by cities in search of opportunity. THIS PICTURE seems to appeal to touring industrialists, Yorkers have found. But they have also MONTREAL 11 The Canadian Mounties said early Tuesday they are holding a European and a New i York resident in connection with I a suspected attempt to smuggle : nearly $200,000 worth of uncut di amonds into the United States. , , . . , , ,m- ,.( ' Neither man was identified but learned that one of the U ungs that were exDCCled to grrii ' ed here iater today. Inspector Rene Belec, head of the Mounted police's investigation branch here, said the European, a 25-year-old native of Poland, ar rived from Europe at Dorval Air port Friday. Police visited him at a midlown hotel several hours later and found a parcel contain ing "thousands" of the uncut dia monds. The New Yorker was picked up at a Montreal home Sunday. Belee said it was believed his job was to carry the diamonds into the United States. PHONE 3-5553 stitutions. At present there are no1 price supports for poultry and eggs. l STEARNS & LITTLE MORTUARY Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Little Managing Owners Our service is for all and meets every need. Any distance, any time. Phone 2711 or 2713 OAKLAND, OREGON i s 1 1 .mi II ANNOUNCING That Dr. R. L. Dunn, who formerly conducted a Mon day night clou in Bible study in Roseburg, will start a special class in the study of tht Prophetic Book of Revelation at 7:00 P.M., Wednesday, Jan. 13 Meeting place will be in the adult classroom tp the new onnex to the Christian Church. Enter the basement door on Kane Street. ANYONE INTERESTED IN JOINING THIS CLASS WILL BE HEARTILY WELCOME SALE FOUR DAYS ONLY SAVE ON RIVERSIDES 6.00-16 6.70-15 12.35 13.25 With tht old tire Irom your car pui Fed. Tax. Why buy 2nd or 3rd line quality tires? Buy Ward Riversides and save safely. 1 00 first-quality mate rials. Full size Full tread width-Full non-slcid depth. RIVERSIDE TIRES DELUXE TUBES Tir. Tab. 5 Pric. Prfo. O.40-15 1J.85 2,45 6.50-15 15.2s 2.65 670-15 13.25 2.oS 7.10-15 14.75 2-75 6.00-16 12.35 2.35 6.50-16 15.95 J6S Wim fad. Ta, and Ih, old lir, tnm your car. pki fed. Tax. ALL TIRES MOUNTED FREE OF CHARGE AVAILABLE ON WARDS MONTHLY TERMS
