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4 Tht Newt-Review, Roteburg, Of. Mon. June 21, 1954 I Publishad Daily Except Sunday by th News-Review Company, Inc. litirU M wen elit mftiur My 1. lit. lb Mrt t Battbarf, Omsb in4tr el ! Mttcb t. Hit CHARLES V. STANTON Editor and Marugar Mambar of tho Associated Press, Oregon Nowipopor Publishers Association, tho kudit Bureau Circulations BWMUltt WEST-HOLLIDAI CO., WO, (ItoM la Mtw (ok, Cklof. tanMieo. Lot AaiMM. SMItlt, Portland, tan IUBSCB1PT10N RATU In OrafoaBr tbrM mono Bias OutrtH OwaooM am- . ST.QO; thru montol. 13.90. Br N.wlUvuw Crrl-P Xm. 100 Ua. advuctl. I"""' so notta. 01.U. . COMPOST FROM SAWDUST Charles V. Stanton A process by which sawdust is converted into commer- n...nH faff io PUIWir tnH hv t.hp. Kant Orefionian Pendleton. It is reported that a company is considering Pendleton as a site for a production plant. Pilot plant operations, it is stated, show sawdust to be an ideal raw The process, according to used heretotore on a large scaie in convening fertilizer. , Municipal garbage is subjected to a bacterial process lllirimuuMuii ul oycii. v , position. Garbage is digested, deodorized and converted :A fftwt i 1 innw urifViir, OA in 3fl Viniirn. IIIMJ cuiliiueiiiai it-iuiii niwJ'ii vv ww .. Thousands of strains of break-down bacteria are known to exist, but in the process used for conversion of sawdust into fertilizer, 56 strains, proaucea oy an eastern t ..t.-K,,l lUiy, DID UWllflCU. Describing the process as z,asi yjregoman says ; Trueko dump tho row garbaa Into o hoppor from which It it convoyod to tho top section of tho dlgoitor whoro It it baetarially Inoculotod. Horo tho essential oniymoi form, creating ttmpr etur.s of approximator 80 to 100 dogroot. By meant of ipocial plow mechanism tho matarlal l circulated long enough for theto bacteria to become predominant, and then patett to tho next toction where tho proteolytic bactorio raiio the temper, turo to 100 to 110 dogroot, and decompose the proteins to amino acids, ammonia nitrate and nitrate.. The third toction has tomperoturet of 110 to 130 degrees for tho cellulose bacteria to break down tho hemi-cellulose, olphe-celiuicses and finally digest tho lignln. ..Thence to tho fourth section, whore tho tem perature rises from 130 to 184 degrees, at which time tho heat, loving or thermic bacteria take over, further granulating, dry ing up, and pasteurising the material. The bactorio create tho heat by oxidation; tho heat it maintained by thermostatic con trols which regulate tho air Intake and exhaust dampers for each taction. . The lest sections servo to further dry tho material. At tho material omerget It it ground, and can be told as o superior typo compost. Sawdust Value Well Known The value of sawdust as a fertilizer is well known. Here in Douglas County tons of waste material are used for that purpose annually. The great drawback irr the use of raw sawdust is the time required for elimination of the various resins by nat ural process and the decomposition of the cellulose. The bacterial process described by the East Orcgonian is said to work exactly the same as the method Mother Na ture uses in converting sawdust into good fertilizer, but the result is achieved in a few hours rather than in one or two years. The process is secret and a royalty must be paid' io the laboratories furnishing the bacteria. If, as officers of -the new corporation claim, the process works as efficiently on sawdust as on raw garbage, the way is open for a new industry, utilizing materials now going to waste. The corporation proposes to start produc tion with pine sawdust, which, renortedly, is more adapt able than sawdust from Douglas Fir. Undoubtedly how ever, the same process can be made applicable to Douglas Fir sawdust, thus affording commercial outlet for a type of material now being burned in hundreds of burners scat tered throughout Douglas County. It is another way in which we can see opportunity for making more jobs and producing more income without cutting one more tree than is now being cut. PARIS W A man stepped into the hotel lounge and said quietly: "The government has just fallen." Porhans there was frenzied excitement in French circles over Premier Lanicl's downfall, but the collapse of France's 19th post-war government created less stir in the hotel lounge than if a patron had risen and accidently upset an ashtray. The barman looked no impas sively at the news, then bent down and finished mixing his drink with out the slightest change of ex pression. It was as if he were an American League fan and some one had just remarked a game in the National League had been rained out. The American tourists in the lounge, including a number of lormer war correspondents, began taking inimatcdly about what the new government crisis meant. A few Frenchmen present listened curiously lo the conversation. None volunteered a comment. None said I.aniel was a bum and deserved to topple. None protested ne was a hero. None gam he was Bood n an trvins lo carry out .VN'o. not DeCmiNe. It is not ncce- bad program or a had man stuck with a Bond nroeram. Thov bad or so it seemed to me the half-bored, half-amusrd Irdiffrrence of a group of Broad- j way characters at a night club casually cavesdropo.ng on a table of Texans talking about how much "' "" ' jam ram. ,,r, W(rc pedling blooms as A waiter rente hy. I ordered a , Tllf h ,u, were bu,v drink and asked "have you hearo I Th, on,v k , f , , r,vs J! h" lu" na,lcn? !"e waiting ior the bus to tako iiv-!.' -n ' ""'m lonH voyage home, n,i2 d 1 "Cm ' " ind Ihey studied their newspaper pri$, i" silence. "You don't seem verv concerned I ,. A!0,n ,he Sl'in' f"' either. Doesn't it worrv vou that !'"t fishermen .y! patiently lots another French government ha. '". ''D" Jn,. lhf "ream, philoso- fallen "Why should II?" he shrugsrl. "I worry about what concerns me. 1 take care of mvself first then the other fellow." "Is that the way most Frcncn men feci'' "I would say ves." "Have most Frenchmen alwavs felt lhat way?" "Perhaps not." He said, after a moment of reflection. "But it is the way they have felt since thi last war.' 'Who would vou like lo see run the government of France Gen eral DeUaulle?" "No, lot DcGaulle," he said. mU - Pe ar, OlJOOt tut mnh . the Eaxt Oregoman, has been it is applied to garbage, the 'But it is a matter of little mo- .nent to me. They are all out for lite money. Me, I take care of my self first, too." Later I asked an assistant man arr of the hotel tho same ques I'ons. He had much the same at- i litudc as the waiter that the gov ernment cf prance was nanny ni. personal problem, and he had his own life to worry about. When I asked him what he thought of present French pnlilica', leaders, he said very seriuisly: "They are all lor. small. France ne'ds a stronger man." "How about DcGaulle?" DeUa.ille?' he looked pai.icd. sary to be a general to be strong. Fiance needs a strong man like Clemrnceau yes. another Clr meneeau. But one docs not meet manv Ck-mrnceaus in a lifetime, isn't it so?" n,.f . .. a. . I it, nnrni'il ,,.,, o( parj Ued The nower hose overgrown minnows which" is alxiut all you ordinarily ever see anyone catch in the Seine. The dropping lines make Small rippies in the water. And, for all a guy fn.m oul of town could tell, that is abmit all the Lill of France' 11th post war government did. It made a ripple on the common p'ace. No more. In the tidal limes we live In, it would have been more encourag ing lo have seen si-mothing bigger than a ripple. There have been times in Fiance's pa. I when the fall of a government stirred waves of purpose throughout the world. I'l.i, , , mil i iw m jnartj unr ji That's Why "-(I2ruce The frieht felt by many Ameri cans in the face of the Communist menace is genuine. And mere can no doubt that it is sounoiy based. We have seen enough of the Reds' pattern of world con quest and their internal depreda tions to realize we are not in volved in a child's game. Still, many signs exist uiat wr.a lot of us these fears play too great a daily role. One would think America had no strength, no re sources of its own, to throw into the steady combat against the Communist peril. A Democrat walks out of a House committee hearing in pro test against what he deems unfair besmirching of men's reputations. visitor obviously equating the Democrat's action with treason. addresses him as "Malcnkov as he leaves. This same group, the Reece committee, appears to lie engaged in trying to show that new ideas are to be dreaded like germ war fare. Its evident thesis is that men who dare In advance new ideas, nr merely Io accept Ihcm, are guilty of some sort of massive plot against "the public interest Over and over we are told of purported plots and conspiracies, in terms which suggest we are at ihe mercy of the Communist dev ils and that our democratic idea'.s :annot stand to he held up be side the moth-eaten garb of tyr anny. What kind of people are we. any way? Are we so timid that we must listen to jittery counsel which tells us there is a Commu nist under every bed and maybe Private Power Offers Greater Taxation Return SITHF.RLIN The reason thai Washington state has more alum inum plants than Oregon is be oa'ise (he Columbia River runs he full width of that state and furnishes the electric power nec essary lor production of the metal. he issue ol privaie power vj public power has two side, to the debate, winch is frequently over- 'ookcd? In the V. S. about fifty- five per cent of the electricity meliorated is in private corporale p'ants, nearly forty-live per ce.il pihlic plants such as the federal government, power districts and municina'ities. From both kinds i the federal government or treas ury receives a net of slightly less than a billion dollars in net profiis and taxes Of this amount 750 mi; j I'cn is paid by the private enter i nn'-e plant, something over 200 j " n , nro'-ts ' " in' ; power project-' In addition the ...v-ie v-nicrprise companies pay alioul twenty times as much to stales, school districts municipal aeencies as do the public power interests. In addition to this any dividends paid hy private corporations are ivubect to income tax. and Hie II. S. gets another whack at the glins. The general taxation bill of pri vate ulilily engaged in the power eneratiop. runs twenty per cent or more While public federal projects receive tremendous ap propriations from the public funds. Public power has creat advan tages over private poer; but just like most Rovernnient business it has one handicap. Public business is politics, private business n survive must he efficient sod sue-1 ressful in balinrini income and outgo. W. J. MU'IIKWS, Sulherlin. Ore. It's So Hard to Get $2io55at' even under every Army cot? We hear much these days about men who are "soft on commu nism." Beyond doubt, some men heve been just that. But the fears of that menace would not be so greatly magnified if there were jot a lot of people in this coun try who are soft on Americanism. This is a country renowned for uearly 180 years for the power and example of its democratic idea's. us aevouon io uDeriy in au us forms. This is a country with the ma terial might and the human ski,.s to outproduce as it did toward the close of World War II ALL its allies and enemies combined. This is a country which giv?s a, higher standard of living 'o more people over a wider area than any other nation on earth. This is a country which in us every characteristic act and mood is the living refutation of the Com munist myth. Americans prove every day they get up and work and think that the free do best in this world. This is a nation, too, which must he acknowledged when all its assets, the material, the human and the spiritual, are added to gether as the greatest power on the face of the globe. Let us be alert and prepared for our very real perils. But let us meet them as the men of slrength and vision we really are, not as fightened children who i.nagine Ihey have no safety from the world i cruelties. Two Witnesses Are Friendly During Hearing PORTLAND un Tin. Vp1.Ii committee had on tap Saturday for testimony in its hearing into Communism here, a dozen wit nesses who were expected to be balky. There was a foretaste of this late Friday after two star wit nesses had filled most of the first day of the hearing with fricndly-to-the-committee testimony. Barbara Ilarlle, convicted Com munist who through the week at Seattle had told the House t n Aiucrican Activities Committee the names of persons she said were engaged in Communist activity in Washington state, was flown here and talked largely about Commu '; J " T. a.d h duln t kn b' on P" L'""1 h' "':'" nist philosophy and organization. know loo much activities. omer Owen. 30, told of his membership in the party while a Reed College stu dent and he named a score of for mer students he said also were party members. Three witnesses, wluise names had been mentioned earlier by Owen, refused to answer the com mittee's questions. They are John McKenzie, 30. a former Reed stu dent who Owen said had been ex pelled from the party for "anti leadership'' views; Kenneth Fitz uerald, 46, a free lance writer; and J ami Dyhr, 40, an automo bile salesman. vetde said their refusals may lead to eoniempt citations. Daniel Martin Ordered Held For Court Trial PHOENIX, Arir Of - Daniel J. M.irsin, an unemployed welder, .talurilay as ordered held for su perior court trial on a charge of kidnaping for ransom. The 41-year-old Marvin was ar rested a week ag.i following III-' alHluetion and release of Mrs. Kv- elyn Ann Smith, wile of a Phoenix industrialist. Her husband. Herbert, said he oaid Vh OHO as directed hv several notes. 1e money was found near ilhe pavoff seene in Uie Supcrsti - 'tion Mountains. Rid of Him! ' r v In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Senator Potter of Michigan say; (with a biting touch of sarcasm; that he thinks the principal accu sations of both sides in the Mc Carthy controversy have been borne out. I- At any rate. It has been a big was lung ot dirty unen in puonc. About the only Consolation that can be drawn from it is the fair'y well established fact that if the htuse is full of dirty linen it bet ter be washed and hung on the line out in the sun. Dirty linen, when hid away, gets smelly. Radio and television people esti mate they have devoted ten mil lion dollars worth of time to the hearing. Radio and television are primarily entertainment enterpris es. Their estimate indicates the value they placed upon it as a big show. I'd lik to add, however, that the fabulous play that was given to the McCarthy hearing by ra jio and television has been a good thing for the country. People have felt that direct viewing and di .'ect listening have given them an accurate picture of what has been going on. with no personal shad ing or slanting. That lends interest to the con clusions of George Gallup, the best known of the professional pollsters. He says McCarthy's pop ilarity hit its peak in January of this year, when M) per cent of those questioned by his intervie'7- ers were pro-McCarthy. 29 per cent were against him and 21 per cent had no opinion. Between January and May. he dropped 15 points, the May figure being 3S per cent in favor of McCarthy, 45 per cent against him and 16 per cent hav- ine no opinion. In early June, the situation more 3r less iPvelled otf. with 34 pr cent favorable 4;i per cent un- fsvorahlc and 21 per cent no on in ton. . iai;up repons mat in ia;e May and early June there was a marked drop in Republican senti ment favorable to McCarthy and a rise in his favor among farmers, residents of the Middle. West and rank-and-file Democrats. Bouncing from our big national seandalfest. South Korea's prime ninister has resigned. President I QUANTICO, Va. 11 Adm. Ai Rhee accepts his resignation, ana ! tlmr Radford, chairman of the adds: Joint Chiefs of Staff, said todi y "Let's not have a prime minis- 'America s military planners can ler at all. Korea should operate1 not be certain when "the next with a oresident alone. I'M (he war" migtit come or if it does. i . .. I PreMaf Louis XIV of France, known in drawn-nut affair." History a.' the Magnificent Mon-; Radford was scheduled to lay arch, felt the same way about it ' this and other military planning md spoke in similar words: ; problems on the line before the na "L'etat e'est MOI!" (the state Finn's defense leaders in a secret that's MF.ll j session of the Dcfeiio" Secretaries' Look at France now. Annual Conference here. ! In excerpts from his prepared But. you say. the trouble with remarks that were made public, France is poer divided amonj ! Radford made clear he belitvea too many hands with NOBODY ; the uncertainties of the world a t having power enough to do AN'Y- uation put this country in a post THING, rather than too much pow-: tion "where we have to place er in too few hands. greater reliance on eomhal readv True enough, I suppose. : forces in being." He also said But atomic power by itself is not France got into her preser.t enough. mess as j revolt against too much , power in too few hands over Iod Five Americans Held n.anv centuries and as so often D w- . l b l i happens has gone to the other ex ! Dy Vierminn KeoeiS treme. Over the long pull, too much power in too few hands ALWAYS causes trouble. LOGGER KILLED F.t'GF.NK i Almo Beck. 0. Wostfir, Ore., a bucker for tne F.dwin Hines Lumber Co.. was Tslally crushed by a log Fridav while wo.kinj at a woods operation 14 miles northeast of Westfir. Survivors include the widow, a daughter and four sons. PROTESTER JAILED WASHINGTON .f A tall. ibie totintr man came to the rsmiol Fridav to irotest the end of the McCarthy - Army hearings 1 He was taken In a hospital for I nenlal observation. Editorial Comment From Thtj Onon Prei AN IMPORTANT OREGON t0! i Medford Mail-Tribune One of Oregon's most profitable crops is not considered as a crop at all, at least not as a product of the soil, but it deserves consider- aUon as a crop just the same, lor year aSer year it brings a rich return. It requires no planting. very little care and yet engages the attention of many thousands In its harvest. Unlike other crops, most of those who engage in the harvest pay handsomely, one way or another, for the privilege, in- Head ol receiving pay. ..alhumoer croo this vear too. the The croc we w - nual deer output. Last year hunters Drone au pre vious state records in their "har vest," bagging 105,601 animals, ac cording to figures compiled by the Oregon State Game commis sion. Of the 196,351 hunters who took to the woods last fall over half were successful in getting a deer. Bucks represented 64 per cent of the total kill. Mule deer bagged east of the Cascade mountains made up ap proximately two-thirds of the to- Senator Mundt Urges Speedy Pentagon Action WASHINGTON OB Sen. Mundt (R-SD) indicated today he would go along with a Democratic de mand that the Pentagon speed an swers to requests for security clearances on two Senate Investi gations subcommittee appointees of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis). Sen. McClellan of Arkansas, sen ior subcommittee Democrat and speaking for the three minority party memoers, demanded pudiic ly yesterday that the subcommit tee move fast to find out why, as he out it. the two have not re ceived Defense department secur ity clearance on classified docu ments for which application was marlp more than a year ago. "I will second it," Mundt said in an interview, if McClellan will ask the Pentagon "lo take up these cases and say yes or no. on applications Aside from Mundt's comment there was little sign of harmony hetween the Republican and Dem ocratic members in the wake of the erouo's first closed-door meet ing yesterdav following the hear ings' end Thursday. The group plans future similar get-togethers for the job of writing up their report. , , Mundt said he understands the two subcommittee staff members, who have not been named, have not specifically been denied clear ances despite a delay of 14 months in one case and IS months in the other But he said "it is manifestly un fair to the individual to take so long" because - the delay raises possibly umair questions aooui them. Mendez-Fronce Names Cabinet PARIS ii Premier Pierre Mendes-France Saturday named his new cabinet the 20th since France's liberation 10 years ago of 16 ministers and 13 secre taries of state. He kept the for eign ministry for himself. Two members of the cabinet were from the popular Republican Movement which had ordered its members to abstain from tho vot ing when Mendes-France was eon firmed. The two MRP members named were Robert Buron, minister of overseas territories, and Andre Monteil, secretary of state for the navy. Mendes-France named Edgar Faure minister of finance, a job he held in the f,aniel government. Gen. Pierre Koenig, a follower of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, was ap pointed minister of defense. Francois Mitterand, who re signed from the Lanicl cabinet be cause of differences of policy on French Union affairs, was named minister of the interior. Radford Says Military Planners Job Tougher whether it would be short and "violently destructive'' or a "lone SAIGON'. Indochina m Author. ued French military sources said today five American Air Force t technicians missing since Monday I have been captured by the Com I munist-led Vielmmh. A French command spokesman i said that the men were captured j in the village of My Khe about a j mile south of the beach where 1 they had gone on patrol. The men, stationed at the i French Air Force Base of Tour, ane 450 miles east of Saigon, were taken into the village, then march ! ed southward by their rebel rap I tors, the spokesman said. Thov were reported last seen by villag- i ers about 10 miles soum ot Mv ! Khe trudging along wilb ?o French 1 1 mon war prisoners. None art Ifrom Oregon. ul kill, the remainder being black- lain irom western iicgun. It has been figured that the average successful deer hunter pays out around $2 40 for each pound of meat he brings back. It has also been figured that the average hunter, whether he gets a deer or not, spends in the neigh borhood of $120 per hunting trip On the above basis it is easy to class harveting last season's deer crop as big business, almost two million dollars being put into circulation in the process. Prospect are good for another n - m a limsrifl game supervisory bodies of Ore gon and California, sportsmen's groups and others interested have it tigured. Meeting recently in Klamath Falls the state, federal and sportsmen's representatives reported that production of fawns last summer was the highest evei recorded during the ten years that comoarative records have been kept. An average of 97 fawns per I 100 does was noted. Due to the exceptionally mild winter, a hish survival of deer resulted and 17,615 tracks were counted crossing the stale line from California to Oregon summer ranee in the annual migration. The track count is made along a 20-mile stretch running parallel to the state line roao. a oust uau is made by means of a spring-tooth harrow and drag and smoothed out after each day's count. The count this spring compares with a previous high of 17,570 in 1951 and a low of 9,665 in 1948. Six thousand more deer were counted this year than in 1953. -E.C.F. Hanford Atomic Agreement Made On Wage Issue RICHLAND 11 Contract rev!-! sions cailing for wage increases totalling approximately $1,200,000 year for 8,700 General Electric employes at the Hanford atomic project nave been agreed upon, the company, announced Friday. Contract modifications affecting holiday pay and liberalization of a vacation plan also were included in the agreement. The agreement, which will make the annual long rate of payroll 'or the company approximately 350,720,000 a year, is subject to approval by the Atomic Enerjy Commission and i membership vote of the unions Agreeing to a company proposal made May 25 were the AFL un ions, the Hanford Guard's Union, the Building Service Employees international Union and the Han ford Atomic Metal Trades Coun cil, which bargains for about 20 smaller unions. While the unions represent' only 3.500 employes, the company offer llso applies lo the remaining 5,M0 employes The -encral wage increase raises the average pay approxi mately $2.68 weekly, with a mini mum increase of SI .60 per week. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Umpquo Savings ond Loan Association will be held at 147 North Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon, on Wednesday, June 23rd, 1954, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. for the election of directors and for the transaction . of such general business as may properly come before the meeting. UMPQUA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. H. O. PARGETER Secretary-Manager Order Your Wood Supply Now SUPPORT THE INDUSTRY THAT SUPPORTS YOU! Planar End Petler Cara, 16" er 2' Sawdutf 16" Green Woad iii ii mmmm ?.'v W i.l-.V viv.-v-.1-. m Morie Attacks Atomic Energy Disposition WASHINGTON JH "Monopo lUtic forces see an opportunity for a quick economic killing" in atom ic energy, Sen. Morse of Oregon taid Friday. Discussing a bill now pending in the Senate-House Atomic Ener gy Committee which would permit private industry to own reactors or atomic energy plants under government regulation, Morse said it would lie a "great mistake" to give industry "carte blanche" con trol over atomic development. Private firms which enter tne atomic energy power field should be required to pay "dollar for dol lar" for the public investment which Monse said totals billions of dollars. Referrir.g to the current contro versy over administration of tho Atomic Energy Commission, Morse said that as understood the oolicies of the AEC chairman, i.ewis L. Strauss, it is essentia, "that a check be kept on Strauss' authority." FILM FINISHING In by 9 om, ready at 5 pm Roseburg Pharmacy 241 Nerth Jeckiea , Wake up with a smile... MS WITH THE HARRY BABBITT SHOW Music Fun Wtathtr Monday-Friday 7:45 am KRNR YOUR CBS STATION was 1 S W4
