4 The News-Review. Roteburg, Ore. Sat. Mar. 13, 1954
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SUBSCMPTiaN RATES In Oregon Br
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By N.wa-JUvMw Carrlar Par aar.
THE FAT AND THE LEAN
Charles
Encouraging news is contained in the monthly report
By, George T. Foster, manager of the Stat Employment
Service office in Koseburg.
i ;, -. Foster reports that the
J in progress locally and is gaining momentum, run en-
i Tilnimint. in in nrnanect. within the next 30 days. In fact,
: Foster says, there is possibility of a labor shortage' in the
f comparatively near future. ..
Tlnomnlnvment in Oreiron was serious during the winter
months. The situation made
' da. ,The political "Fear Dealers" managed to tnrow a
5 scare into the public such a- scare, in fact, that business,
i always xiervuua, wna nuvcmcij
f Actually there were some
' nlAumanf niptiifA tlinf npprl final
I ; Throughout the entire state there was a heavy load of
3 UllClIIJJlJ MIC lib VIOIHIOl " "W
' upArria.in anmo roRPs. thft
1pm thnn the rate of nonulation growth. In
I other words we maintained jobs for fixed population on the
'normal pattern, and the larger number of unemployed
i above.tne average represented principally ik u "
j yet unestablished residents of
; Must Plan Seasonal Work
' While Oregon's economy
. ber industry we must expect seasonal unemployment, we
: can't expect logging to continue during bad weather.
Construction trades also are affected by winter weather.
This problem of seasonal unemployment, must remain with
' -us for many years to come.
It would be possible to improve our economy in great
measure by wider diversity , of wood utilization. , This
till hnwcvr. would not solve the problem of unemploy
ment in the woods and outdoor construction. If we hud
more factories it might be possible to absorb a minor
fraction of the unemployed load during winter months, but
it would be a negligible fraction. Payrolls from year
around operations, however, would cushion local econ
omy and would tend to partially level off the peaks and
valleys in business..
It might be possible, through advance planning, to ar
range some of our public works for the winter season, thus
absorbing another fraction of unemployed workers. We
should neglect no planning to lighten the load and should
endeavor to-diversify our industrial operation to the great
est possible extent with a view of stabilizing local econ
omy. But we must prepare for seasonal unemployment so
long as jobs are affected by weather.
Prospects Are Bright ,
Job opportunities existing during good weather only
serve to further complicate matters.
During the summer months the western part of the
state is a labor short area. Particularly is this true in
Douglas County. Labor shortages results in high wage
scales which, in turn, attract workers from out of state.
These workers, after a few months of labor, join the
ranks of the unemployed during the winter season, adding
eaoh year to the percentage figure. . '
The coming summer, insofar as Douglas County is
concerned, promises the binge that will produce the head
acn6 While lumber prices remain comparatively low, the
market is steadily improving. Many of our mills are
behind on orders. It appears they will be able to ship
lumber as fast as they can produce it during the coming
season. Prices are advancing, giving every indication of
one of our best years.
We will, at the same time, have available all the logs
we can get to mills and cold decks. In addition to the
normal sustained yield quotas from public lands, the For
est Service and BLM will be selling off salvage.
We will have a tremendous amount of highway con
struction and bridge building, coupled with above average
erection of school buildings and business properties.
It looks like a big year in Douglns County, but as we
boom during the summer months we should be looking
ahead to the prospects of larger unemployed lists next win
ter, and set aside some of the summer's "fat" for the win
ter's "lean."
Aboard the Mauretania at Sea ( A ship is a small
world and there is no better place to study human nature
than a deck chair.
It beats a house by the side of a road because you don't
get dust in your face as you watch the race of man go by.
"Why do people go on pleasure cruises?" 1 thought,
sprawling out on a deck chair as this 35,000-ton Cunard
Liner headed toward the Caribbean.
It wasn't hard to find out. A ship
In a warm climate has an air of
easy intimacy. Strangers come up
anA lull win Ihinoa nhint (ham.
selves they'd never admit to a
next door neighbor, confident they
can unburden their secrets at sea
because they'll probably never sec
you again ashore.
. They all had one reason in com-
mon to be together. They were ail
looking for something. ..joy. ..health
...romance ...forgetfiilness ...an es
cape from boredom... to try to
repair a tattered marriage ...to
buy custom-free scotch whisky in
the Virgin Isles at $2.75 a botUe
...or merely to have something to
brag about besides their last ap
pendectomy. One lady is making her 50th
cruise, reportedly because she
enjoys nothing in life more than
lauening at tourists And be-
cause sne nas aeveiopea an auor
gy to dry land. The crew loves
her.
A middle-aged widower told mc:
"I look my 20-year-old daughter
on this trip to cure her of a brok
en heart. Her boy friend barked
out on her. I'm just going along
for the ride myself."
Later I noticed his daughter, a
pale, thin girl, dancing happily
with another passenger. When I
remarked on this to the widower.
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Exctpt Sunday by Hi
Company,
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laatUa. Portland, Danvar
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back-to-work movement is
excellent political propagan-
n.
bright spots in the unem
vsift.
aa.aw - - ,
Tjercentacre increase was in
the state.
remains based on the tim-
he replied: -
"Yeah, she's doing all right
and I don t mind adding thai so s
her old man. This moonlight kind
of gets you. doesn't it? Maybe
what my girl needs is a new
mother instead of another boy
friend."
One businessman said lie was
making the trip in the hope Uiat
"my partner will work himself to
death while I'm gone, but maybe
I should have taken a longer
cruise, a 100-year one, consider
ing how little he works."
When I mentioned to my wife,
Frances, some of the odd reasons
why some of the passengers were
taking a voyage, she said:
' "Well, Rover, I guess I might
as well tell you why you're aboard.
It's because after 16 years I just
wanted to know where you would
be 18 nights in a row. do any
where you want to but don't
jump off the ship."
Odd people wives.
Who goes on pleasure Cruises?
People ol all ages, all occupa
tions, and all two sexes. Among
our fellow passengers are people
probably rich enough to buy the
ship, others who scrimped for
years for these few days at sea.
There's a steeplejack and I man
who runs a steel plant. Lady mil
How often we visit a town or lo
cality within our state without
learning the historical background
that gave the spot its name. One
of these is Bonneville Dam on the
Columbia river. It was named aft
er one of the most colorful char
acters in Northwest history, but
few people know about the man.
Washington Irving, who wrote Kip
Van Winkle and other New York
legends in his Sleepy Hollow tales
found Bonneville such an interest
ing character that he wrote a book
sabout him "Adventures of Cap
tain Bonneville."
Captain Bonneville was a French
man in the United States army
Who was lured by the possibilities
of a fortune in the fur trade. Un
der the guise of making explor
ations for the United Males gov
ernment, he secured a leave of
absence from the army and start
ed west in 1832. Within a period of
three years he had covered most
of the Snake river country and
had sent some of his men to Salt
Lake and into California, where
some of them remained and set
tled. There is little evidence that Bon
neville contributed much to the
development of the Oregon coun
try, beyond a few place names.
He was later in command at Fort
Vancouver and it was at his or
ders that regular troops were sent
from Port Orford and Vancouver
to join Douglas County's General
Joe Lane, to meet tiie Indians at
Table Rock, near Medford.
The army impressed the Indians
with their equipment, and the how
itzers of Bonneville s regiment
were special objects of fear. Al
though the Indians outnumbered
the whites seven to one, they call
ed for a pow-wow to discuss terms
of peace, but with the stipulation
that the white troops remain in
the valley.
otticers from both the volun
teers and the regulars warned
General Lane that it would be
foolish to meet the Indian request,
but Lane said he would go. Ne
smith, a member of the volunteer
contingent reminded Lane that the
name of Rogue, given these In
dians was not by accident. They
had gained the reputation of nev
er allowing a white man to got
away with his scalp. But Lane
said he had promised the Indians
he would hold a meeting with
them, taking along only a few of
his aides, and he would keep his
promise.
1 lungs went well enough at the
meeting until an excited Indian
runner ran into the conference
and shouted that a prominent In
dian chicl had been tied to a tree
and shot by the whites. The In
dians were immediately in the no-
lionaires and playboys. Guys and
dolls. Those who make it the hard
way, the easy way. People.
Hut it isn't true that girls run
after men on a cruise. I've been
watching them. They walk after
them at a firm, brisk, ladylike
gait. CatcJ 'em, too. Never saw
so many slow, meandering men.
One of the unusual personalities
aboard is Watterson Lowe, a chub-
uy, wnue-muslachcd gentleman
who is billed as "official human
izer and ship cruise lecturer for
the Cunard Line."
I am not sure just what a "hu-
manuer is. Dut each morning
Watterson presents a small arti
ficial flower a different color
eacn morning to everv pas
sengcr. If you are the thnft'v tvDe
you can hoard your flowers and
mane them into a souvenir bou
aiiet
Watterson has made some 450 ! discipline the question of security
cruises himself and estimales he1'" he accompanied bv the other
ha nri.i!H nm a;n nAn : questions of service and respon-
or bouquets to travelers since he!
began the custom vears ano. He
also distributes slips of paper
bearing a mimeographed "thought-! "f important. But. as Dr Carl
for the day" for people who like I "enninger, psychiatrist, said "Al
io think deep thoughts after lunch, i :lUl,dp,' are more important than
I have his thought for todav in . '
my hand. It says:
"Make haste to live and consid
er each day a life. Live today so
that you can say tomorrow, 'What
a lovely yesterday.' "
You can brood over that if you
want to. But I'm going to take a
nap in my deck chair.
Via Al.i9
BVWK. PEERV
tion to tie the American agents
and their aides to trees and give
them the same treatment.
Lane was defiant and called the
bluff of tne Indians. A settlement
in blankets was made for the loss
of the chief before a treaty was
drawn up and accepted by both
sides.
Immediately after this incident,
Bonneville ordered a fort con
structed on the Rogue river. It was
around this fort that the bloody
Indian wars of southern Oregon
surged in later years, and where
a number of Douglas County peop
ple fought against the natives.
Islanders Subjected
To Slight- Radiation
WASHINGTON itf Twenty
eight Americans and 236 natives
of the Marshall Islands were sub
jected to some radiation during
recent atomic tests? the Atomic
Energy Commission said this
week, but all are "reported
well."
AEC described the tests as rou
tine. "The individuaLs were nnpyni.
edly exposed to some radiation,"
it said. "There were no burns. All
are reported well."
At Sharonville. a suburb of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, Mrs. G. R. Whitaker
said her son, Don, had written
her that he had seen natives who
were affected by radiation. His
letters were dated March 3 and- 5
Mrs. Whitaker said one of iho
letters told of two destroyers ar
riving at nwajajein island and
bearing natives who were "suffer,
ing from various burns and radio
activity."
Editorial Comment
From The Oregon Press
SECURITY
CAN'T BE A GIFT
Damocrat-Harald
Albany
It was most reassuring to read
what the principal of The Dalles
high school. Clyde H. Beard, had
10 say in me annual meeting ui
Oreaon elementary principals at
Salem the other day. It is fair to
presume that the great Doay ol
principals ' present agreed with
him thoroughly on fundamentals.
The news dispatch noted that
he "stressed the importance of
character, moral, spiritual and
other abstract values in the face
of current fears and anxieties."
"People are becoming so con
cerned over security," said Mr.
Beard, "that thf are losing their
sense of obligation to and respon
sibility for self-government in our
democratic society."
Security is not somctning mat
can safely be bestowed trom
above. It has to be earned. Other
wise it can't be kept except on
the condition ol control ny tne
agency providing the security. It
has often been said that the man
in the penitentiary has no security
problem. His area of responsibil
ity, too, is narrow. He is fed,
lodged and controlled.
Good teachers are impressing on
their students that the question
"What do I get?" is not the only
one the young man out of school
should ask. There's that other ques
tion "What can I do?"
If the teachers can encourage
and develop interest in essential
phases of training for life, dis
cipline will he largely self-impos
ed. With adequate interest and
s,b'lily- Th' slld'nt learns, in the
00(l school, to contribute, in or-
der that he mav receive. Facts
THE DRIVER
AND THE ROAD-SIGN
Albany Damocrat-Htrald
The Oregon state highway com
mission has adopted two changes
in road markings, to go into effect
American Spirits
Family Out Of
East Germany
BERLIN HV- Peter K. Grimes
arranged Friday to fly his family
to the United States after spiriting
his two German-born step-daughters
away from their American
hating grandfather in the Soviet
Zone.
Grimes, 32 - year - old Harvard
graduate of Belmont, Mass., and
his German wife, Irmgard, suc
ceeded on their third attempt in
bringing Moica, 14. and Evelyn,
11, to West Berlin a week aio.
The girls had been living with
Mrs. Grimes' father, a life-long
Red who sent them to East Ger
man Communist school and near
ly succeeded in indoctrinating
them with his hatred for America.
The grandfather had blocked all
efforts since October, 1952, to get
the children to the United States.
Grimes and his wife returned to
America after first failure and
came back to try again last
October.
After convincing the reluctant
daughters they should come along
to West Berlin to sec an Ameri
can movie, the family now is stay
ing with an uncle of Mrs. Grimes,
Willi Czech. -
The daughters agreed Friday
morning they are not satisfied
with being here with their parents
and are anxious to see America.
Grimes married his wife in 1951
when she emigrated to study in
New York. Widow of a German
army officer who died in a Soviet
prison camp, she had left her two
daughters by that marriage with
her parents in East Germany.
Grimes gave up his job with
the American Expres's Co., in Bos
ton, to accompany bis wife last
October for a new try at getting
custody of tie daughters. The
couple had a 10-day permit to stay
in the Soviet Zone, but they re
mained until their final victory
last week.
as soon as practicable within the
next three years. The yellow stop
signboards are to be replaced by
red ones, and the yellow line down
the middle of the road is to be
white.
These chan;vs are in line with
the opinion of highway authorities
after experience and observation
of the several colors. The aim is
for greater visibility and attention-Betting.
Very likely the changes are well-
advised. The greatest change need
ed, however, is a better driver
attitude toward the safety marks
and signs. It won't make much dif
ference which color the sign is
that the driver ignores.
FEDERAL HIGHWAY AID TO
STATES
Salem Capital Journal
The House has passed by a voice
vote and sent to the Senate an
administration sponsored highway
bill calling for $1,750,000,000, re
jecting all amendments.
The measure would authorize un
precedented federal spending on
roads of S875 millions annually for
two years beginning July 1, 1953.
The bill calls for $225 million a
year more than existing law.
Personally endorsed by Presi
dent Eisenhower the measure
would give to states matching this
money more leeway in some re
spects in how it is spent. The
principal new feature calls for
spending $200 million annually on
interstate highways. ;
Northwestern congressmen pre-i
dieted during the debate in the.
House that the federal aid bill ;
would result in "tremendous hish-l
way Duitding boom in Pacific
coast states, as it allows about
S40 million in additional funds for
'he next two years in Oregon.
Washington and California."
Figures prcnared bv the Rureau
of Public Roads show that Ore-1
gon will receive a year for twoi
vears $11,685,000 compared with i
5H.302 000 under the present law: I
Washington will receive $12,805.
COO compared with $9,148,000: Cal-I
ifornia will receive $45,061,000
compared with $29 912.000.
The federal gasoline tax will
WASHINGTON (NEA) In
spite of all the bright-and-smiling
earlv - spring - sunshine optimism
that pervades the office of Secre
tary ol Agriculture tzra ran nen
son, doing something about the
U.S. farm situation in Washington
seems to get more complicated
every day.
Sen. George D. Aiken of Ver
mont, chairman of the Senate agri
culture committee, is scheduled
to introduce legislation to carry
out the Eisenhower administra
tion's new farm program any day
now. But it faces ar. uncertain fu
ture. There is so litUe support for
(he administration program in
the House that it cannot be intro
duced there.
Rep. Clifford Hope of Kansas,
chairman of the House agriculture
committee, has his own plan to
let farmers decide what kind of a
farm program they want by na
tional relerendum. He would then
put into law the two most accept
able programs for each commod
ity. To top this, the Congressional
Joint Committee on the Economic
Report has thrown more cold wa
ter on the administration's pro
gram. "We are doubtful whether
any program which seeks to bring
about a balance between agri
cultural production and consump
tion. . .through the contraction of
acreage can, in the long run, be
successful," says this committee.
Price supports without produc
tion controls having been proved
completely unworkable in the pota
to program, a removal of acreage
limitations on price supported
crops would obviously throw farm
economy into dizzy over-production.
Meantime, under the existine
programs, the surpluses continue
to pue up cotton stocks are now
estimated at $90 million, dairy sur
pluses at $382 million, vegetable
oils at $235 million, naval stores
at S25 million, wool at $62 million,
grains at $1.91 billion. The grand
total is over $2.7 billion.
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
liamentary procedure, it consists
in cancelling off opposing votes
That is to say, a couple of sen
ators or a couple of representa
tives who are going to vote on op
posite sides get together and agree
to abstain from voting on that
particular issue. It is then an
nounced that they are "paired."
It is a useful device for more
reasons than one. Suppose, for ex
ample, you're a senator (or a
congressman) and a measure is
coming up on which the people
of your state or your district are
divided and you don't know which
side the most votes are on. You
hate like the mischief, therefore,
to go out on the limb, and YEARN
to pussyfoot.
In that event, you hunt up some
colleague who is in a similarly
delicate situation and the two of
you agree to "pair" your votes.
There are tricks in all trades and
"pairing" is one of Hie minor
tricks of the political trade.
(Pairing, of course, isn't always
a shenannigan. There are many
times when a member of congress
just HAS to be away when the
voting takes place but doesn't
want to lose his vote. In that
event, he can make his vote count
by finding somebody on the other
side of the fence who will "pair"
with him.)
If a deadlock ensues, it may
be assumed that Hawaii and Alas
ka will be "paired" for admission
so that either both will get in or
neither will get in. But, up to the
last minute, the Republicans will
be hoping they can sneak Hawaii
in and leave Alaska out and the
Democrats will cherish the thought
that maybe the converse can be
brought about.
At the moment, it looks like a
toss-up.
Thimblerigging, you say?
Maybe so, but at least it has
been going on in our country for
a long, long time. There was ap
proximately a century when the
slavery issue dominated the ad
mission of new states to the Un
ion. The South wanted more pro
slavery states and the North want
ed more anti-slavery states.
The result was a Donnybrook fair
every time a territory came up
for admission. Eventually the de
vice of admitting them in pairs
was adopted and states came in
two-by-two or not at all Indiana
and Mississippi, Maine and Mis
souri, Florida and Iowa. And so
on.
The "pair" system at least made
it possible for territories to be
admitted as states whereas it
might not otherwise have been
possible.
This whole business of political
finagling over the admission of a
territory as a state (wirh the ac
companying connotations of Polit
ical upsets in congress) has a
lingering odor of skulduggery.
But
That isn't necessarily true. .
There is the case of Nevada,
which was admitted in 1864. There
is fair historical authority for the
statement that Lincoln wanted Ne
vada admitted because Nevada's
vote was needed for ratification of
the 13th amendment, abolishing
slavery. Anyway, Nevada got in
and the 13th amendment was add
ed to our constitution.
You never can tell. Sometimes
the end justifies the means.
drop to l1 cents a gallon April 1.
unless congress votes an exten
sion. A bill is before the House
lo retain the tax at 2 cents a gal
lon. Its advocates urge that all of
!he 2 cents a gallon tax should
be returned to the states for high
way building.
The new bill closely approxi
mates that goal. It authorizes $875
millions in matching funds for the
states out of federal gas tax col
lections estimated at $906 millions.
The No. 1 riddle in Washington
is how to get rid of 'em.
ITnHer tha Fispifhnwpr Drndram.
a part of the surplus would be put '
in a strategic reserve, uui tne
rest of it would have to be sacri
ficed. And here Secretary Ben
son comes right out and says 'it
will have to be disposed of at a
loss.
Among the proposals under con
sideration are greater sales to
foreign countries at world market
prices. These are well below U.S.
prices. So any such sales would
have to be matched by corres
ponding sales to American con
sumers at the same price to keep
them happy.
Nevertheless, Secretary Ben
son now says he is ready to rec
ommend that the decision not to
sell behind the Iron Curtain be
reconsidered. He would sell U.S.
surpluses for dollars or barter
them for strategic materials need
ed by the US.
There is increasing pressure to
move more of the surpluses into
school lunch and relief programs.
Other idea? include one plan to
use the dried milk as poultry food.
Selling the surplus cheese abroad
at world prices is risky business
because it would upset foreign!
markets of countries such as The j
Netherlands, which have a big ex.
port business in cheese. As if this ;
wercn t headache enougft. dairy
state congressmen, headed by
Senators Edward J. Thye (R), Hu
bert H. Himphrey (D), and Rep.
August H. Andersen, all of Min
nesota, have introduced a bill to
prevent the Secretary of Agricul
ture from reducing the dairy pro
ducts support-price level from 90 ;
to 75 percent of parity. The idea is 1
to limit the change to 5 percent
a year.
But the big question now Is
whether President Eisenhower will :
veto a bill to continue all support,
prices at 90 percent of parity, if
Congress passes it against his rec
ommendation. .
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Subject: "Your Community Hospital"
Speaker: Harry V. Sanislo
Program Chairman: Kenneth W. Ford
The construction and equipment of the hospital was a
community wide project in which all types of organi
xations participated. This program is presented so that
the people of this community may learn the important
part the hospital plays in our community life.
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porant event scheduled you ore invited to moke use
of our "Man On The Street Program" to publicize
that event.
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No Sidewalks Along
Rose School Deplored
ROSEBURG We harp so often
on the subject of safety traffic
safety. I wonder if we ever think
of the place where it should be
taught. I would say first at home
and then at school.
It seems odd, however, that peo
ple would erect a nice school build
ing such as we have on Jackson
Street and not think of safety out
side the school.
We have two blocks on one side
of the street and one on the other
without sidewalks. Children must
be herded down the middle of the
street like sheep or cattle or must
go several blocks around.
Can we expect too much respect
for traffic regulations when we
have these conditions?
A. C. EDWARDS
Roseburg, Oregon
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