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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Published Daily Except Sunday by rh . ' News-Review Company, Inc. KsUra u ihuI ilui millr Star , ban. Or.f.n, ular ftet ( Mint I, ISIS. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor nd Manager Mtmbor of tho Associated Proit, Orogon Nowtp.por Publishers ' Association, tho Audit Buroau of Circulations fepreMnte r WEBT-H0LUDA CO.. INC., .Illc. I N.w T.rk, CHom., . g.. rrinelM, Li Aul, Inttto, rrUu, "T SUBBCMrTlON ATM-I Onvn-T M.ll-P T..t, SU.SSl .1. !, M M; thr.. m.ntn. .. O.UUt Or..-r M.U-nr Tr, iu.ni tlx m.Uu, SI-MI (bra mnhi, IS.at. '" Br Nw-Btiew Cirrltt Ttr Ttir, 111. (la ), ton t jiu, .r Mill, 1S. ' ' . ' ' SUPPORT FOR SALES TAX By Charles V. Stanton Editorial Writers throughout the state are expressing surprise at the action of the Oregon Farm Bureau in en dorsing a sales tax proposal. The Bureau went on rec ord at a meeting in Medford recently as favoring a sales tax earmarked "for education purposes and property tax offset." ',. The action is somewhat surprising considering the fact that the farm population has been credited with being the chief factor in beating sales tax proposals in five pre vious elections, the last in 1948. ! The Oregon State Grange has opposed a sales tax con sistently. In late years, however, we have heard a good many- grange members express the opinion that they had, as art organization,' been "sold a bill of goods." - s In the beginning the Grange formed a political alli ance! with organized labor. Labor always has fought a sales tax. Labor's opposition is understandable. It is more 'difficult, however, to comprehend why farmers should be on that side of the fence. .. -When'a sales tax first was proposed in Oregon the timber industry was just beginning to hit its stride. Labor in mills and woods, although highly organized, was trans ient to a very marked degree in those days. The timber industry was constantly on the move. Industry Mora Stable The rule was to "cut out and get out." Few woods or mill workers owned property. They seldom remained long in one place. They paid no property taxes, except indirectly. . ' Wages were low so they paid little or no income tax es. Passage of a sales tax would have moved them into the taxpayer class, a position they preferred to avoid. Back in those days organized labor was not as strong politically as it is today. Oregon was an agricultural state. The farm vote was of much influence. Municipal ities, however, were growing. The farm vote was threat ened with loss of its commanding position. It was only natural, therefore, that farm and labor leaders should get together on political matters. A combined opposition to creation of sales taxes was organized. But conditions have undergone a great change since Oregon first started talking sales tax. There even has been much change since the last vote in 1948. 1 The lumber industry no longer is transient. There is no place left to go. Only a small minority of the worker population remains migratory. Woods and. mill workers, for the most part, are Tiroriertv owners today. They must pay- property taxes. These taxes are increasing steadily. They, also paylncome taxes, being among the beat paid workers. . Farmers Would Benefit A good many laborers have changed their minds about sales taxes. Labor leaders, ' we believe, can no longer . deliver a solid labor vote against a sales tax. 'At the same time, many farmers aw reviewing the traditional stand of their organizatons 'in opposition to the tax measure. The action of the Farm Bureau points up thisrchanging sentiment. The farmer is the one who suffers most as property taxes keep going up and up. Either he has been drawn into consolidation with abig school district, constantly pressing for ..more money, "or is contributing to the cost of an uneconomical, and often inadequate, small school. S . Pressed between mounting taxes and a rate of income normally below average, the farmer takes a beating. He would pay considerably below the average in sales taxes. If a sales tax were to be used chiefly for educational pur poses and as an offset to property taxes he would be the one to benefit most. Oregon must raise more revenue from some source. Unless new methods of taxation are devised, the Mow will fall heaviest on property, which can least afford the addi tional burden. NEW YORK UP) - Tup, I had lunch with Gary Cooper. Nope, he didn't bend my ear much. But it isn't true that the conversation of the screen's strong silent man "the cowboy's cowboy" is limited to such expressions as "Yup" and "Nope." "That idea got started yean ago I when I used only those two words , ., ,;j ., . in a gag radio interview with Ed- ' 'he WJ?,0W or w" " her gar Bergen and Charlie Mc- m?,l,gaRe? Carthy." said Coooer. irinnin ! ,V.P"- n ""P" co-starred ann running nis enm Actually, Cooper likes to talk as wen as me next man-provided ' the next man isn't the kind of a ! guy who just opens his mouth for tne pleasure or making sound waves. He slmnlv believes that waves. He simply believes that actions really speak louder than words, onscreen as well as on The rrienn,,. ni rii. !,, ih., has made him one of the most' ntsu'e' durable successful film stars!, "0n if J'ou hang around for a comes naturally. I long time, people just get used "In a stage play, where you are 1 10 'u." he said, then hesitated umuca in scone, you have to re v on dialogue largely to tell the plot. But in movies action tells the siory. ' "The best dialogue is tic short est. I feel the same thing is true In literature. Take Lincoln's Get tysburg Address. It isn't long - htll tt'a trrnaf " "Coop," as his friends call him, is ono of the most highly con scious artists in the film indus try, but he doesn't act like an artist. After 30 yeara before the cameras, he still is quiet, friend ly, hard-working. None of Holly wood's flamboyance has affected him. He learned range life as i boy in Montana, and starts) his ca reer as a $50-a-weck stunt man! "fighting Indians and eharfiins me enemy. "I Oniv ;ilawrf ltlf villain nnr ' I he recalled. "It was in a two-lot his films have been top box reel quickie made on poverty r"w. office draws, t played th heavy who set firs "Sure you can make mistakes," Of. Man., Doc. 13, 1954 i with Burt Lancaster in "Vera if111'" hJs boeVi moie th,n "2 JV iiiT- j i i j . ' ,u 15,ml" on " Industry sources !"e . 1,15 lncome . "J01!? 7.::' t ,, T ln Jf""? hands over to hupodncr, the Bureau of Internal Revenue. How has he managed to stay on top for so many years? Cooper Mu ":u; "But there is such a thing as keeping up with the parade. There's an awful lot of luck in it. Getting established in the right roles is good but you have to stay beyond them too, so you don't become monotonous. "I think, for example, it would be a mistake to do nothing but Westerns." Although many fans think nf Cooper chiefly as a cowboy hero, he has played an amazing variety of comedy and romantic roles. He is one of only three male actors who have twice won academy awards. He received his Oscars for "Sergeant York" and "High Noon." Kor the last 20 vears CooDer has shown astute iudsment in I picking roles he felt were right fop him mnii m Utah iu.Mnla It's Good Exercise But Is It Good DAILY BIBLE READING Message By Roseburg Ministerial Assn. Today's Text John 10 Today you are probably won dering what life can possibly con tain that makes people believe it is a gift of uod. if not today, it was not very many days ago that despairing thoughts conquered us. wnat can me noia? wnat can me give? What can life be made of? To people with the same prob lems, some even worse than ours, came a Man to give a Way ot Life. He spoke of hope and people could not turn a deaf ear. He made them believe in Him. Somehow after knowing and listening to Him, their attitudes changed and lite was viewed with new brightness and enthusiasm. Thoughts of despair did not pass away entirely, but He caused them to fade so that beams of hope might shine through. He is the Good Shephard offer ing hope. "I came that they may have life and have it abundant ly." The hope He offers is faith with a future. It docs not look for the impossible to happen, bt'. meets whatever life may take or whatever life may give. Our faith in His guidance and care project ed into the future is our hope. Such a hope endures all things and stills all fears. He is the Good Shepherd for all of life. It is through Him one enters into and enjoys the peace which passes all understanding. It is through Him one gains that joy that is our strength. It is through Him that one attains to life that is life indeed. All of which is sum med up in the triumphant shout of Paul. "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." , -DONALD R. OSCARSON Faith Lutheran ChuSoh Thalia Players Request More Members To Join ROSEBURG Hear yel Hear ye! Ciliicns of Roseburg. Know ye that within your gales dwells an organization, Thalia Community Players. We are a small but verv en thusiastic group. The fact remains ; that we need more such members. I Some of us believe in a dream I that of bringing Little Theater to Roseburg. Small hamlets and, large cities have their civic the- j atcrs. Can Roseburg say the same? We feel Uiat acivic theater adds culture lo a city and that Rose burg needs us. Will you help make 1 the dream come true? There is no age limit; no exper ience or ability asked of you. al though it helps, of course. Every one is welcome. If you are inter ested, please contact bv telephone Mrs. Dick Ogden at her home, or "Chuck" Reinhart at Radio Sta tion KRXL. THALIA COMMUNITY PLAYERS By Mrs. Dick Ogden Publicity Chairman he said, ruefully rubbinu his chin. "And i made a dilly. Once 1 had a chance at a part that really inerestcd me. bijt I was snarled up with other commitments and it wasn't altogether certain at the lime the picture would be made. Nope, it really wasn't." Later Clark Gable took the role. It was in i little picture called "Gone With The Wind." tho big gest money maker in history. Yup. - feeler cLon WASHINGTON . (NEA) With the announced purpose of gel ting rid of everything not consid ered absolutely essential for ef ficient government operation, the first full inventory of Uncle Sam's real estate holdings is now ncannu completion. The inventory must be turned over lo the Senate Appropri ations Committee before March 1, 1955. . Detailed property surveys are now being made by the 10 major government departments and eight other independent agencies in whose names nearly all U.S. prop erty is held. These surveys are being turned over to General Serv ices Administration, which is Un cle Sam s housekeeper, for. assem bly in a master inventory.. Then for the first time, Uncle Sam will know for sure just what he really owns and what it's worth, or at least what it cost. .. THE NEXT TASK WILL bE to determine which of these proper ties are no longer needed by the government as "excess" and which can be disposed of as "surplus." The purpose here is twofold. First is to reduce government costs by cutting the expense ot maintaining property it doesn't need. Second is to transfer back to state and local government tax rolls such surplus property as is now carried tax free because of federal government ownership. To shape up policies for this pro gram, a Surplus Real Property Dis posal Project was set up in the Bu reau of the Budget last "Decem ber. In July David II. Brill, Chi cago real estate lawyer, was made administrator of the project. Mr. Brill says he hopes to make a final report by next October. There has been some misunder standing and misrepresentation of this project. It has been looked at somewhat askance, as the open ing wedge for a great give-away or bargain sale of public lands, national forests, reclamation proj ects, Tennessee Valley Authority dams, or even Atomic Enercy Commission installations. That isn't in the picture at all. SPECIFICALLY EXCLUD ED from this program are the pub lic domain, the national forests, national parks and all properties leased by (he government or held under mixed government-private enterprise ownership, such as de fense plants. Also, the survey is limited to the continental United Stales, which excludes the vast government land holding in Alas ka and the Panama Canal. The best estimates now avail able are that some 13.500 prop erties wilt he reported by the GSA inventory. Four thousand of them will be under Army, Navy and Air Force ou'nohin and management. The other 9500 are largely owned and managed by 17 other agencies Post Office department buildings. Department of Commerce airfields and lighthouses. Federal Housing Administration hosoil.ils pnd so on THEIR COMBINED ACQUISI TION COSTS arc very roughlv put at $30 billion to S40 billion.' How much of this volume might ultimat ely be disposed of. and at what savings or what tax benefits to lnral government, no one can now estimate. If the number 13,.r)A0 seems small, it It explained that the 90- U.N. Assembly Fund To Pay Discharged Men UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. Ifl The U.N. General Assembly's budg etary committee has voted Thurs day night to set un a fund to pav 179.420 in indemnities to 11 Americans discharged from the United Nations last year. The em ployes of the secretariat were fired after they refused to tell U.S. investigalors whether Ihey were Communists. The committee at the same lime threw out a U.S.-backcd plan to provide a system of reviewing de cisions by the U.N. administrative tribunal, which had made the in demnity awards. tor the Elephant?. mile-long Hanford, Wash., atomic energy plant is listed as one in stallation. An Army base with a hospital, housing development and research center is counted as 'on installation. Eighteen bills were Introduced in the last Congress to transfer government property to local tax rolls. None passed because no body could agree on what was nec essary property for government op. eration, and what was surplus or excess. Tho Brill project studies hope to change that situation and get some ground rules established for reduc ing Uncle Sam's property inven I tory in a big way, by removing i red tape roadblocks. Gen. Van Fleet Has Broken With Sen. McCarthy ; AUBURNDALE, Fla. Ufl Gen. James A. Van Fleet has broken with Sen. Joseph McCarthy over the Wisconsin senator's statement against President Eisenhower. Van Fleet, who was a member of the committee which went after 10 million signatures of persons backing McCarthy in his fight against censure before the U. S. Senate, sent McCarthy a telegram yesterday renouncing his support. ine telegram said: "I am shocked by your bitter attack against the President of the United States, a full copy of which . I have read today on arrival home. I "In the past, I have supported : you in your light against interna ' tional communism but never have i agreed with your methods. This last attack on our great President causes me to withdraw all sup ! port." Van Fleet, former commander I of the 8th Army in Korea, said i he considered McCarthy's talks 1 during the censure hearing "insult ! ing and blistering." i He said in a interview that Mc 1 Carthy had done some good. "I'm against communism. He's : against communism. So that basis i alone gave him my support. But I ! cannot stand for his attack on the I President." Payrolls Of Firms Show Decrease During First Half SALEM W Payrolls of firms covered by the Oregon unemploy ment compensation law decreased 2.56 nf r cent in the first half of this year, compared with the simi lar period of 1953. The Unemployment Compensa tion Commission said the payrolls of the 18,000 employers totaled $(06,298.467 in the first six months. The total was $622,206,355 in the first half of 1953, and $593,539,441 in ihe first half of 1952. Payrolls in the logging and lum ber industry were $162,423,654, about $11,000,000 under the pre vious year. Construction wages totaled $40,337,337, a drop of $2,- ooo.ooo. Food processing payrolls were $25,579,200, a gain of two per cent. Payrolls in the metals, paper products and textile industries weie higher. Thirteen counties had larger pay rolls. Most of these were, in East em Oregon. Counties with the biggest in creases were Sherman, up 23.7 per cent; Curry 21.2, Gilliam 18.7, and .Morrow 15.2. Multnomah County, with a six month payroll of $278,758,991, had 46 per cent of the state total. It was down less than one per cent. Clatsop, Hood River. Polk, Tilla mook, Umatilla. Wheeler and Yam hill counties had declines of more than 10 per cent. I.ane County had the second larg est payroll. $51,598,479. This was a drop of $2,400,000 from a year earlier. . IN THE DAY'S NEWS By FRANK inz us ii that scientific progress can bring GREAT GOOD to hu manity. How does the Salk polio vac cine work if it works? ' That's a highly technical sub ject. Let's see if we can simplify it. Our bodies are wonderful ma chines. They are renewed and re paired by substances in the blood stream. But the bloodstream car ries destructive substances as well as protective substances. These substances WAR against each other. When the destructive sub stances win, we die. When the pro tective substances win, we LIVE. These destructive substances are called germs, viruses, etc. Some of the protective substances are called antibodies. These anti bodies have specific jobs. They fight specific viruses and such. When certain viruses, such as the polio virus, vastly outnumber the antibodies that fight them, the victim in whose bloodstream the battle is being waged dies or, as is often the case in polio, sur vives with terribly crippling handi caps. Once that fact was established by Jong and patient research the problem was to INCREASE the number of antibodies whose job is to fight the destroying virus. Dr. Salk and his associates think they may have learned how to do that. That is the long and the short of it. The job of research is to FIND OUT FACTS. It is a strange and wonderful job. Each step, when it is accomplish ed, points out OTHER steps that may be taken. For example: When it was learned that th polio virus (maybe) can be fought and destroyed by certain specific antibodies and that these anti bodies, when lacking in sufficient numbers in the bloodstream, can be stimulated and increased by certain devices, it became 1 appar ent that the next logical step was the stimulation of antibodies that fight the viruses that cause com mon colds, influenza and such human ailments that so far have defied successful control. That is what Dr. Salk means Associated Press Names Two Assistant Managers NEW YORK Ifl Appointment of Wes Gallagher and Harry T. Montgomery, as assistant general managers pf The Associated Press has been announced by General Manager Frank J.' Starzel. Gallagher,, a general executive ince 1951,. will continue in ckarge of the personnel department, AP Newsfeatures and Wide World Photos,, the latter a AP subsid iary. i ; , . : Montgomery, traffic executive since 1951, has responsibility for newspaper membership relations, communications and business af fairs.' Starzel said the promotions re flected -the "broadened scope of their assignments." Gallagher .and Montgomery joined the AP in 19.17 6-Way Floor LAMPS 10.95 I 4-WAY FLOOR LAMP Tri-lite reflector and adjustable spot for reading. Brass colored 1 ft Qr base, assorted colored shades. I 07 J JENKIr.. by his statement this morning that maybe we can now find out how to control common colds and in fluenza. So, you see. science (which the dictionary defines as "any depart ment of SYSTEMATIZED KNOW LEDGE") U working steadily to ward GREATER HUMAN WEU FARE as well as toward such de structive things as atom bombi and hydrogen bombs. It is uo to us human beings t decide whether we shall place the greater emphasis upon the DE STRUCTIVE aspects of science and . basic research or upon the constructive aspects of them. SHOP FOR CHRISTMAS . GIFTS ; Bergh's Appliance we Will be Open Tues.-Wed.-Thurs. 'TIL 9:P.M. . 1200 South Stephens I JUST RECEIVED FRESH SHIPMENT! Whitman's Chocolates Brown & Haley Chocolatei Including famous Almond Rocca Hoeffler'i Chocolates , ; PARK FREE AND CHURCH'S Rote Hotel Annex Oil GIFT Make the brightest gift under tht Christmas tree a gift of a new Lamp from Judd'i. Come in and maka your gift selection todoy . . . . you'll find the traditional styles to the very new moderns in rable and floor lamps. 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