4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed. July 21, 1954
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KEEP FINGERS CROSSED
Charles V. Stanton
Interest appears to be growing daily in renewed efforts
nf a local orronn nroDOsing to prospect for oil. The newly
organized company, Community Gas and Oil, is meeting
good success, we are told, in its appeal for funds with
which to bore anotner test noie. it is anucipmeu
ficient money will be on hand in the very near future to
finance drilling operations, officers report.
Community Gas and Oil is the successor to Oil Develop
ers, Inc. Oil Developers financed a test in Coles Valley two
years ago. Although oil was not found, the hole proved
the presence of marine beds of the type in which normally
oil Js found, and disproved some previous geological theo
ries that the area was covered with volcanic extrusions pre
cluding possibility of oil in commercial quantities.
The Coles Valley hole -was bored to a depth of approxi
mately 8,000 feet and no volcanic rock was found. Instead,
the formation was entirely of marine character. It was so
badly folded, however, that further drilling became too ex
pensive. In the event oil should be discovered elsewhere,
it is quite probable that the Coles Valley hole would be re
opened and continued to greater depth. ,
New Sir In Prospect
Les Childs, local geologist, who has conducted exhaus
tive studies of the area, and who has had his ,work checked
by representatives of several large oil companies, has long
wanted to explore the Melrose - Lookingglass area. He be
' lieves oil, if present, can be tapped at much less depth
than at Coles Valley. He also believes it possible that gas
in commercial quantities may be found, basing his theory
both on the geological structure and the fact that gas is
found in many wells drilled for water in that section. His
long studies in southwestern Oregon lead him to believe
that oil exists in commercial quantities in Douglas County.
But, having had wide experience in wildcatting for oil, he
freely admits that exploration is a long-shot gamble.
Childs explains that the sea once extended far inland
and that marine beds from which oil comes, were folded
by pressure. It is in such formations, he says, that oil is
trapped and held in basins. Numerous seepages 'in the
Lookingglass, Melrose, and adjacent areas lead him to be
lieve in the existence of a substantial pool of oil somewhere
in that vicinity. ,
Some geological studies in the past have presented the
theory that extensive volcanic extrusions from the Cascade
range of mountains had covered the ancient sea beds, in
which case the heat would have destroyed any captive oil.
The theory also has been advanced that the pressures
which created the Coast Range shattered formations to
such an extent that any captive oil would have seeped out.
These theories have largely been disproved by the Coles
Valley test hole, Childs asserts.
Locs! Men' Determined
The first test was made by a group of Douglas Coun
ty men who determined among themselves that the Coun
ty's oil possibilities should be explored. They agreed the
work should be done by local people rather than by out
side concerns.
Contributions were obtained;. to make the first test.
The venture had to be abandoned. But, undiscouraged,- the
chief investors retained their leases, went out and leased
more land, set up a new corporation -and now are planning
another test. ' '
One thing we like about their program i3 the fact that
they make no attempt .to hide the risk assumed by invest
ors. They openly admit the. venture is highly speculative.
They seek contributions only from those willing to gamble
on long odds and who can afford tfii lose.
Contrasted with operations in which glib salesmen seek
the life savings of the persons who can ill afford to gam
ble, the local operation is deserving of commendation.
Should the venture be successful the results would be
sensational. A cheap source of fuel, either gas or oil, or
both, would stimulate tremendous industrial expansion in
addition to the excitement and income from an oil boom.
Let's all keep our fingers crossed in the hope the proj
ect pays off. .
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NEW YORK W Fighting between married people of
ten ends in black eyes and divorce suits.
But 22 years of almost continuous verbal warfare have
made Albert Hackctt and Frances Goodrich Into one of
Hollywood's most successful husband - and - wife mar
rying teams,
Their long wordy quarrel has re-
ftuuuu in jtcveiai jointly wnuen
Bndway Dlay. 25 movie scriDts.
and an annual income in the high
ciear tinancial stratosphere some
where above $50,000.
"But if we take time off to do 3
play, as we have this year, we
someumos aon t earn a nicnel,
said Miss Goodrich. '
Both started out as actors. Thev
turned to writing during lean sec-
sons. Alter mew inira piay, "up
Pops the Devil." made the erade
. on Broadway, they went to Holly-
wooa, marnea, ana settled down
with uie M-G-M studio.
"We were in tha dnphnut far
long time," Miss Goodrich re
called, "it was easy to get lost out
there then. The studio had IS
writers, and everybody was taking
l fling at everybody else's script.
"Now they have only 30 writer?,
and they cast a writer almost n
they do an actor for a part. Thev
try to fit the writer to the kind of
material he is best at."
Frances and "Hacky" hit pav.
dirt first with "The Thin Man'
Among other well-known screen
plays they fought out together are
"Ah, Wilderness," "Father of the
Bride," and their recently com
pleted "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers."
For mutual safety many colla
borating tcwni divide a script into
lets, and the partners write alter
nate Irenes. But the Hacketts he-
Each does the same scene, and
then comes the nerve-wearing job
of piecing them together.
"We fight, fight, fight every
line of he way," said Frances.
"And rewrite, rewrite, re
write," murmured Hackett.
"We used to have separate
rooms, but now we write together
in the same room, and that s bet
ter," continued his wife. "We're
closer in the clinches. We don't
have so far to walk to fight, do we,
Hacky?"
"Um-m-m-m," murmured Hack
ett. "I think It's a good thing wa
fight so much over our work,"
said Frances. "That way we avoid
the quarrels that other married
people get mixed up in. We never
tight at any other time, do wc,
Albert?"
"Oh, not much anyway," mm
mured her husband.
"Listen, Hackett," said Frances,
"that three days I didn't speak
to you it was quarrel about work.
Remember? It's more interesting
to fight about work than about
whether you can afford new
dress."
"M-m-m-m-m," murmured Hac
ked. In 1939 they both wearied of tnt
writing strain and let their type
writers rust for three years.
"It Wll a Iftvalv narvAiia hr9lr.
down," said Francei. "And we
"joyed it together. We Just broke
WASHINGTON - ( NEA) - It
is highly significant that as the
noisy clamor increases from a mi
nority who want to take the United
States out of the United Nations,
Soviet Russia is stepping up its
activities In the world organization.
What seems to be shamne up
here is a struggle between the
Communist bloc and the anti-Com
munist nations for UN control.
If the United States were to
give up the struggle by withdraw
ing from the UN, it might be just
as mucn ot a surrender as pulling
U.S. troops out of Korea, Japan
or Western Germany,
On the other hand, if toe Rus
sian imperialists can gain control
of the United Nations, their pro
gram of world revolution will be
greatly advanced. Communist
domination of the Security Coun.
cil. for instance, would Rive the
Russians a ready-made politburo
tor running the world. .
THIS MAY EXPLAIN WHY the
Russians joined the United NaUons
Educational. Scientific and Cultur
al Organization, UNESCO, after
Boycotting it tor eight years. UN
ESCO has a big program of fun
damental education for the more
backward countries.
This may also explain why Sov
iet Russia, Byelorussia and the
Ukraine .showed up at the recent
Geneva conference of the Inter
national Labor Organization, seek
ing admission. Russia has boycot
ted ILO since. 1939, when she
walked out of the League of Nations.
Any XM member may become
an ILO member on application.
Each country s delegation is made
up of two government represen
tatives, one employer and one
trade union member.
In the case of the Communist
countries, there was naturally a
question over whether employer
and trade union delegates could
be accredited in good faith, since
the Red governments have abso
lute control over both their man
agement class and employes. ,
SO HERI WAS THE making ot
a lirst-class fight in ILO. Amer
ican delegates Gov. Arthur B.
Langlie of Washington and Assis
tant Secretary of Labor Ernest
J. Wilkins, who have just return
ed from Geneva, have filled in
some of the detail not fully report
ed in the cabled news.
A two-thirds vote was required
to upset the two-to-one majority
report of the credentials commit
tee, which favored seating the
Communist employer and em
ploye delegates.
The United States, whose spokes
man was Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Warren E. Burger, took the
position that while the Russian
bloc government delegates had to
bea seated under the ILO constitu
tion, employer and employe dele
gates did not,
THE IDEAS OF ILO are not
compatible with the slave labor
camps of the Communist coun
tries, he pointed out. The ILO
would not survive at all if its rep
resentatives were all dominated
by monolithic governments like
Russia.
In spite of these arguments, the
United States lost the fight. Out
of a total of 2lt delegates from 69
countries, the votes were 105 for
seating all Communist delegates,
79 against, 28 abstaining.
So now the Communists have
another foot in the door to work
for the subversion of union labor
all over the world.
For the United States, however,
this offers a new challenge. It is
to require the Communist coun
tries to bring their labor standards
up to the. required ILO minima,
to end the slave labor camps, and
to free labor from totalitarian dic
tatorship. This can be done, however, only
by staying in the UN and its sub
sidiaries. It cannot be done by
walking out.
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
lieve lighting makes good writing, down at the typewriter and started
crying, and neither of us could
stop crying."
"In a relationship like ours."
saM Hackett. "if one partner gets
sick, he soon puts the other one
in the same condition."
Nov they pick the scrips they
want, knock off often lor long va
cations abroad together to Tteep
from getting into a writing rut.
"We do everything together,"
said Frances, Smiling. "Poor
Hackett. He never gets away from
ma 1m nur eala In . . k j
vantage ot all the opportunities in
noil) wow ana lain are so
many."
"Um-m-m-m-m-m!" murmured
Hackett, a look of distance on his
face.
soybeans shot up ten cents a bush
el ana corn went up eight cents.
??;?????
Have you been reading the
weatner , -reports lately? it has
oeen tiur-x-x-r Ml! (ana dry)
back in the corn and soybean belt
for days and days and when it's
hot and dry back there for days
and days at this time of year it
means less corn and soybeans
come harvest time.
With less corn and soybeans in
sight, buyers BID UP THE
PRICE.
But ' " '
You say
How about the huge surplus ot
price-supported corn piled up in
previous years? Doesn't that ex
ert a bearish influence on this
year's corn prices? If there is a
drop in corn production this year,
due to heat and douth. won't this
huge stored surplus come onto the
market and keep the price from
going up?
Let's not be childish.
This is an election year. Do vou
think it would be likely that in an
election year (with corn belt votes
at stake) the stored-up SURPLUS
ot corn would ne permitted to
come onto the market and. PRE
VENT CORN PRICES FROM GO
ING UP because of heat and
drouth?
At any rate, the traders in Chi
cago didn't seem to think so. In
tlie face of a probable reduction
in this year's corn-production they
went right ahead and bid up the
price.
But
You say again'
If that's the case, how are we
EVER to get rid of the huge sur
pluses that accumulate when
prices of certain basic crops are
guaranteed at a figure high enough
to result in continued over-production,
regardless of supply and de
mand? I wouldn't know.
Maybe the surpluses will ROT
someday and thus solve the prol
lem for everybody but the tax
payer, I hope you'll pardon those cyni
cal cracks. I must have got out
j of bed on the wrong foot. Let's
turn to a more hopeful side of the
j picture.
The census sharps say that U.S
population is increasing at a phen
; omenal rate. By 1875 (only two
decades in the future) rising birth
rates and declining death rates,
they tell us. are expected to add
from 40 million to 60 million to
our present population, bringing
the total up to 200 million or over.
That would be half of China's
present population.
China is NEVER troubled by
find surpluses.
Her troubles arise out of food
SHORTAGES. .
So maybe we'll coma out all
right in the end.
Affected Area's Approval
Necessary To Further Plan
For Libby Dam's Erection
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Niwi-Rivmw Correspondent
WASHINGTON Secretary of
The administration has been un
der fire from New York for its
long delay in filling the IJC posi
ton because, of these two major
problems. McKay's mission to Bot
Interior Douglas McKay, Oregon I j " Llnd'i was designed, then,
V.onuarann hmw tti A in. norcai aria i . i i i . t
COP Interceded
To Oust Powell,
States Builder
a New York builder of government
inaitrpt n ra rt m onto ta of ifi art
Senate probers Tuesday that the
Republican National Committee
naa iitierceaea to gex Clyde ij
PoWtfll Ousted frnm hit tnn hnnc
Muss told the Senate Banking
vsuminiuee inai uuy r. noiiyaay,
lurmcr neaa 01 ie f ederal hous
int Adminictratmri hiA cant Dnt
ell a letter .last March asking him
a acavc.
Enclosed in that letter, Muss
said, was nnnfhor frnm tha nM)
niuonu uommmee. muss de-
scnoea me committee letter
saying, in Muss' own words, thil
the GOP committee had "been
waiting for some time" to have
Powell dismissed.
Muss said Powell showed him a
copy of that letter shortly after
wards, at a time when Muss and
his partner, Norman K. Winston,
were considering hiring Powell at
S12.000 a vpjir nine email
est in the Muss-Winston building
uusmess. mat was about the
amount of Powell's government
salary, Muss said.
Powell twice has refused to testi
fy before the Banking Committee
headed by Sen. Capehart (R-Ind).'
Both times he stood on the fifih
amendment, ivhieh mv, nn n..,.
shall be compelled to testify
mkiiusi nimseil.
Muss said that when the housing
scandal, hrnka nn inril e 1.. i
Wiston gave up all interest in
hiring Powell, now 57, who had
gotten in touch with Winston early
this year.
i Actually, Powell never was al
lowed to resign. His resignation
was first accepted, then rejected
after the hnusinar onri!ii hMk.
Then in late April he was formally
micu uy ruoen ra. uie, nead of
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency.
ex-xovernor. has tried to persuado
Idaho's Gov. Len Jordan to resign
to take a federal job, in order to
give the Eisenhower administra
tion a better appearance of action
in getting lomething tangible ac
complished on Libby dam.
Gov. Jordan is the announced
choice of President Eisenhower
for the vacancy on the Internation
al Joint Commission, but be can't
hold both jobs at once. So he has
elected to complete his term at
Boise,' which runs to the end of
this yearj and the President has
indicated the UC post will be kep
open for him.
The trouble with this set of cir
cumstances, as McKay and other
Northwest Republicans see it, is
that they may have difficulty per
suading citizcoi in the region that
they are really pushing for ap
proval by the UC of Libby dam
when it will be another six months
before the White House fills the
existing American vacancy on the
UC.
McKay made what he consider
ed to be a major announcement
lar.t spring when he said the ad
ministration was resubmitting to
the IJC for its approvjfi the Libby.
dam proposal. Adlai Stevenson and
other Democrats have since chal
lenged the sincerity of the admin
istration in that move, pointing
out that only last year the admin
istration withdrew Libby from the
lame IJC because the nroiect had
been criticized due to ita location
near the Canadian border. where
it would inundate vast private tim
ber holdngs and Great Northern
railroad trackage.
B'cJfwatar Is Problem
In the past year, however, the
Corps of Engineers picked a new
site where the reservoir will do
less damage to private property
and it is that site which has been
sent back to the IJC, which must
OK it because the dam would
back water into Canada.
McKay early last week went to
Bolton Landing, N. Y.. where the
annual confab of governors was
meeting. An Interior Department
aide passed the word that he was
going there to speak to Jordan
about leaving Boise to take the
IJC post as soon as possble. No
announcement has come from the
Idaho governor on the subject, nor
is it known here what his decision
may be.
But from the standpoint of tne
engineering as distinct from the
political considerations on Lib
by dam, government officials here
explain that it matters little wheth
er Jordan takes the IJC lob now
or next January, as far as getting
action on Libby is concerned. The
reason is that engineers still have
so much staff work to do at the
Corps of Engineers' level that it
will be January before the IJC
can take a serous look at the
implications of the new site for
Libby dam. '
But Democrats are bound to
make political capital of the lan
guishing Libby proposal when they
point to the vacancy on the IJC
which has existed since last Feb
ruary. Meanwhile, the IJC has numer
ous other problems to deal with
the navigation and power features
of the St. Lawrence Seaway act
recently passed by Congress, as
well as the Niagara power develop
ment which Congress is expected
to take up before it quits.
Washington Motorist
Plans Radar Court Test
SPOKANE M A Spokane
motorist Dlan U Sfatp Qunrnm.
Court test ot the legality of the
State Patrol's use of radar in the
arrest of highway speeders.
Theodore Ryan was convicted in
Justice Court on radar evidence
of speeding 55 miles an hour in
a 35-mile zone. He appealed but
Superior Judge Louis Bunge up
held the conviction, ruling, in ef
fect, radar is accurate and can
be admitted as evidence in court.
Gates' attorney, John Cham
pagne, said Monday Gates will
carry the case to the Supreme
Court, contending the state speed
trap law is violated by using ra
dar.
The appeal also will challenge
legality of the law creating the
State Patrol, Champagne said, on
xrounas it gives 10 appointive of
ficers the riulieR anri nuthnritiat
of elected sheriffs.
to stamp out political brush fires
in the east and west that might
singe some Republicans in this
fail's elections.
Whether he sold Bis lormer guii
ematorial cclleague from Idaho
remains to be seen. '
Tennessee Ernie and
Helen O'Connell
make beautiful music
together on...
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