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4 Th Newt-Review, Reitburg, Ore. Frl., Jan. 7, 19S5 The Fliers' Lives Are Not Alt That's at Stake Peter iJLon ; Published Dally fxcept Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. lalirii u clKM mUt MT V UM. i a Ml ertlaa U ftatabarff, OragaB, arfar aat af Mtrek S, ISIS, CHARLIS V. STANTON, Idlttr and Manager , Mambar ef Hi Atuaietad Prasa, Orefen Nawapapar Publishers Aitaclatlan, fha Audit Sureau Circulaliana Eafraaaala W WHI-HOLLIDAT CO., INC., affiaaa la Naw lark, Cklaaia, a rraiabaa. Lai Aatalat. Saaltla. rarU, Daaaar UBSCBIFTION BATE la Oraiaa Br Mall Par raar, HJ.Mi als waaias, M M Ikraa nantki, IS.S. OataMa Oraiaa tl.aai Ikraa mantli. 11.5a. Br Nawa-aavlaw Carrlar Far laar, far maatk, ll.SS. REASON FOR V By Charjes Paul Harvey, Associated Press reporter at Salem, an ticipates the forthcoming session of the legislature will set 4 a new record for longevity, mat auDioug nonor now is lield By the 1951 session which lasted 116 days. In 1953 legislators "went home after ,100 days. ' Harvey forecasts that one of the reasons for a prolong ed session will be found in partisanship. Democrats hold more seats than ever before.; Oregon's Democratic leader ship has been making a big issue out of the preponderance of Republicans in the state legislature in the past. It is to be expected that this leadership will be taking advantage of its larger representation at the current session to stir . up partisan battles. Efforts to embarrass the Republican side of the legislature possibly will result in Republican stubbornness. So, despite the need for economy, taxpayers will shell out dough to finance party wrangles. Personally, we haven't much patience with that kind of partisanship. It is an altogether different matter when onDosinir theories and Dolicies of government are at issue. Honest differences of opinion are desirable in government. When there is party difference on a certain policy, and iuivca nia ill licai vaiauie, nui:u uiixclciiv.c jicvciii.o cv trcmes in either direction. Conservative compromise re ' suits. -v , ' Party Ahead Of Government We have too many men today and we find them in both parties - who place their responsibility to party ahead of their duties as public officers men who apparently are more concerned with cartv welfare than with state or na tional welfare. We find certain officials who are Republi-. cans or Democrats first and Oregon's finances are in ury surplus accumulated during war years has been ex hausted. A growing state needs more money for adminis trative purposes. The public , in late years has demanded more and more from government at all levels. We cannot expect more agencies,, departments, assignments and other activities Without providing more revenue. We are incon sistent In demanding tax reductions while . constantly in sisting upon more governmental controls. The legislature will be faced with a critical tax prob lem. Either it-must eliminate some of the expensive func tions of government, which will not meet public approval, or increase tax revenues, which also will be unpopular. If in the face of need for strictest economy, the legis lative session Is prolonged by unnecessary partisan politics, the state's taxpayers, who will be forced to nay for the extra days, spent in demagogic wrangling, will have good reason; for vehement protest.; . . , COMMUNITY BUILDING PROPOSED An interesting project now is under consideration in Douglas County, --' It is a proposal to erect a community building at the county fairgrounds. If the improvement can be made without adding excessively to the tax burden, construction certainly should be undertaken as soon as possible. ' Douglas County has a considerable sum of money in vested in the fairgrounds property. It is a most worth while investment. Considering the amount involved, how cver,"and the crying need for recreational facilities, the property is not getting as much use as it should have. Dick Turley, manager, has worked hard to provide in creased utilization. More and more events are being sched uled for existing facilities. There is little reason why the property should not be developed for year around recrea tional use. Rut to accomplish this result it is' necessary to provide buildings, athletic fields, courts, and other accom modations for the varied activities which could be orovided. The proposed community building would be a very valuable addition and should be erected, in our opinion, pro vided a practical program for financing can be developed. J4ai (J3oyie By SAUL PETT ' ' ' For Hal Bovle ' NEW YORK UP) - A friend of mine has a problem which is relatively rare but quite human. His problem Involves an expensive automobile not how to pay for it but how to live with it. You see, my friend Don lives in a small, middle - class suburb, which means nobody is really loaded or really hungry. There are very few $5,000 chariots in town. Don runs hit own business. I mum piwviuca i-ijimurtauie w-i .... . out HI. . ' VUlltV. BUM, II S 101 H DIB IVDC income. But Don'a wife's uncle has inch an income, and the cars to match. He's so proud of his four-wheeled light cruisers he'd be extrcmelv pleased If his favorite niece's husband owned one. And sn it came to pass that Don'a old ear was dying with iht shakes and shudders. To replace it with a new model of the same brand would cost almost S3.0U0. So his wife's uncle said, "You can have my "54 car (or $3,000," which, as every boy en a scooier knows, is a bargain. Without think ing, Don said, sure, he'd take it as soon as he could sell his old car. Since then he hasn't been sleep ing well. He and his wife have had some healed discussions. But she insists he can't back out of the deal now because it would hurt uncle I feelings." Besides. their younger children! nave irica ine pusn-Dullon a in n,.!. k..i,n- dowi and the gadget for railing and lowering the radio antenna and the gismo that squirts water on the windshield and Uiey won't hear of any other car. But Helen, their eldest child, in sists, "I positively will not bt driven !o school in that car. Every body will say we're trying to be too fancy." Br Mall rat Taar, IIS.M ilz ai.alhi, lll.aa (la aSraaaa), laia tkaa aaa raar, ' : COMPLAINT V. Stanton t public servants second. critical condition. The treas Don has measured and re-meas ured his garage. While the car is shorter than the Queen Mary, it positively won't (it his garage even with the bikea and power mower removed. He could lengthen Ihe garage. Yes, but will the local building code allow him to build out in front of the house line? Or will he have to get a new house? Don has oUier misgivings and has tried o prepare the neigh borhood by apologit,ing In advance. "But you see. it was such a good buy. I couldn't pass It up. After all, it's a great car, easy on gas for a big job, smooth-riding, dou ble the horsepower of my old heap." While he believes this. Don is Mill uncomfortable. Just what will the neighbors think? He wonders. Will thev make jokes about the trunk being big enough for a kids Playroom? Will there be cracks I .thnitt l-rlain n,lan(.(inn, nn.,l I Will ihcv think h. .... - -. ..v in1 norsesr Will he feel silly slill collecting a half hurk from his car fmol riders a man who could affoid such a ear? Will his church group expect his contribution to be dou bled? Will the Bov Scouts fo,it their good manners if he makes his usual donation? And what of his business asso ciates? Don travels i great deal. MAItMwe. Na Highlights Of State Of Union Message Are Reported WASHINGTON I Textual highlights of President Eisenhow er a prepared State of the Un'on message to Congress Thursday. (Topical subheads are not the President's): - Unity-Peace In the past year, there has been progress justifying nope, both lor continuing peace and (or the u'.li mate rule of freedom and justice in the world, rrce nations are col lectively stronger than at any time in recent years. Just as nation. of this hemisphere . . . have closed ranks against imperialistic Com munism and strengthened their economic ties, so free nations else where have (orged new bonds of unity. Soviat Threat The massive military machines and ambitions of the Soviet-Com munist bloc still create uneasiness in the world. All of us arc aware of the continuing reliance of the Soviet Communists on military force, o( the power of their weap ons, of their present resistance to realistic armament limitation, and of their continuing effort to dom inate or intimidate free nations on their periphery. ... To proteot our nations and our peoples from the catastrophe of a nuclear holocaust, free nations must maintain coun tervailing military power. ... If Communist rulers understand that America's response to aggression will be swift and decisive . . . they will be powerfully deterred from launching a military venture en gulfing their own peoples and many others in disaster. Foreign Trade We must expand international trade and investment and asL-ist friendly nations whose own best efforts are still Insufficient to ;ro vide the strength essential to the security of the free world. . . . Rarriers still impede trade and the flow of capital needed to de velop each nation's human and material resources. Wise reduction of these barriers is a long-term objective of our foreign economic policy. ... Military Strength We maintain powerful military forces because there is no present alternative. ... we must stay alert to the fact that undue reliance on one weapon or preparaion for one kind ot warfare simply invites an enemy to resort to another. . . . Our military planning must V flexible enough to utilize the new weapons and techniques which flow ever more speedily from our research and development h grams.... We must continue to improve and expand our supplies of nuclear weapons for our lard. naval and air forces while, at the same time, continuing our encnur aning progress in the peaceful use of alomic power. Antl-Communltm We shall continue to ferret out and to destroy Communist subver sion. We shall, in the process, carefully preserve our traditions and the basic rights of our ?iti lens. Bipartisanship As never before, there is need Will the motels raise their prites when the super car rolls up? Will his clients say, "That hoy Is too expensive for us; anyway, he cer tainly doesn't need our trade." Or will they, on the contrary, say. "Must have a solid business there." And most important, will Don's wife try to live up to the c.r? Will she bsist on a mink stole, forgetting that her husband earns, peshaps, a, Persian lamb-type In come but certainly not mink. Even Don has found himself looking at his own overcoat anil wondering how the thread-bare col lar will look In the super deluxe job. But all things considered espec ially his wife and her fcclinm about her uncle'a feelings Don has decided to accept the car and make the best of it. Could you be that brave? President Eisenhower's (or unhesitating cooperation among sion to statehood of Hawaii. I the branches of our government, again urge approval of this meas . . . In less perilous days of the ure. past, division of governmental re sponsibility among our great par ties has produced a paralyzing in decision, we must not let tms hap pen in our time. ... In all areas basic to the strength of America, there will be to the extent I can assure them cooperative, con structive relations between the ex ecutive and legislative branches of this government. Economy The past year 1954 was one of the most prosperous years in our history. Business activity now surges with new strength . . . the transition to a peacetime ec.on.oiny is largely behind us. The economic outlook is good. Taxes Last year we had a large lax cut and, for the first time in 75 years, a basic revision of (edral tax laws. It is now clear that de fense and other essential govern ment costs must remain at a level precluding (urthcr tax reduction? this year I am hopeful that such reductions can be made ncx! year. Farm Farm production is gradually adjusting to markets, markets are being expanded, and stocks arc moving into use. We can now look forward to an easing of the influ ences depressing farm prices, to reduced government expenditures for purchase of surplus products, and to less federal intrusion into the lives and plans of our farm people. ... We arc headed in Ihe right direction. 1 urgently recom mend to the Conafcss that we con tinue resolutely on this road. nlo ! Housing As part of our efforts to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing for low-income families, we must carry forward the housing program authorized during the 83rd Con gress. We must also authorize con tracts for a firm program ot 35,yoo additional public housing units in each of the next two fiscal years. Health By special message on Jan. 24, I shall propose a coordinated pro gram to strengthen and improve existing health services. This pro gram will continue to reject so cialized medicine. It will empha size individual and local responsi bility. Under it the federal govern ment will neither dominate nor di rect, but serve as a helpful part ner. School Aid Such (actors as population growth, additional responsibilities of schools, and increased and long er school attendance have pro duced an unprecedented classroom shortage. This shortage is of im mediate concern to all of our peo ple. Positive, affirmative action must be taken now. ... 1 shall for ward a special message . . . pre senting an affirmative program dealing with this shortage. Labor-Minimum Wag In the past five years we have had economic srowth .which will support an increase in the federal minimum wage. In the light ot present economic conditions. I rec ommend its increase to 90 cents an hour. I also recommend that many others, at present excluded, he given Ihe protection of a minimum wage. . . . I renew my recommendation of lt year for amendment of the (Taft-Hartley Law). I especially call to the attention of the Congress amendments dealing with the righ! of economic strikers to vote in representation elections and the need for equalizing Ihe obligation under the act to file disclaimers o( Communist affiliation. Statehood As ihe complex problems of Alaska are resolved, that territory should expect to achieve statehood. In the meantime, there Is no justi fication for deferring the admis- Suffrage .. We have three splendid oppor tunities to demonstrate . the strength of our belief in the right of suffrage. First, t again urge that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the states to reduce the voting age (or federal elections Second, I renew my request that the principle o( sell-government be extended and the right of suffrage granted to the citizens of the Dis trict of Columbia. Third, I again recommend that we work with the states to preserve the votinz riahts of citizens in the nation's service overseas. House Interior Committee Seat Sought By Rep. Coon By A. ROBERT SMITH Nawl-Ragiaw Correspondent WASHINGTON Hep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) of Baker is going after a seat on the House Interior Committee, which is expected to be the scene of stormy hearings this coming year on the Hells Can yon dam controversy. coon, who as a freshman in the 83d Congress gained a place on the House Appropriations Commit tee, will very likely be bumped from that group when he Demo crats organize the House this week and take control of the committees. This is simply because the major ity party is allowed 30 scats and the minority only 20 on the Appro priations Committee, and Coon is not among the 20 most senior Re publicans who will hang onto the minority positions in the neW Con gress. The prospects of Coon picking up a seat on the Interior Commit tee are considered good, for a num ber of the Republicans on that group won't be back on it this year such as Sen-elect George Bender of Ohio, Wesley D'Ewart of Montana who failed, to unseat Sen. James E. Murray, and Wil liam H. Harrison of Wyoming who failed in his contest for the Senate with Sen-elect Joseph O'Mahoney. i Coon explained that he wants on the Interior Committee oecause it mala son of a Swiss father, is deals with public lands issuts, and claiming Swiss citizenship. If he easlern Oregon is therefore bettor Se's would be liable for served by his being on that-com- an immediate callup for army mittce than many others. The big training. public land issue of the last Con- The 40-year-old central Ameii gress involved grazing lands, with i can politico arrived in Lausanne I bills designed to give stockmen greater control over public domain and forest grazing lands failing to gain enactment. The bills were sponsored by Republicans in the House. - llells Canyon, instead, is likely to be the biggest issue in that committee this year, in the wake of an agreement reached between Chairman Clair Englc and his! counterpart in the Senate, Senator j 'Murray, to push an omnibus rcc-1 llamalion bill that would include I the Snake River project. toon, wno has returned to the ! House this year after his first re-! election bid, defeated an opponent, 1 Albert Ullman of Baker, whose I major issue against Coon was the i liens vmijuii '"'-' ui.utau : ors the high federal dam as oppos ed to the plan of Idaho Power Co. I to build three low head dams there. 1 Coon says he has no preference for either the high dam or the I low dams, but thinks the federal Power Commission should decide which scheme is preferable. "I still have confidence that they will do that," Coon said. He de clined to suggest what his attitude would be if the committee opens hearings on Ihe Hells Canyon mat ter before the KPC renders its de-. cision. Oregon's other velerjn repre sentatives, Rep Walt Norblad and Rep. Harris Kllsworlh. are expect ed to maintain their present com millees Norblad on Armed Services and F.llsworlh on Rules. J of ground-controlled automatic in Congresswoman elect Edith i struments, WASHINGTON (NEA)-Signs now indicate that the Russians may be abandoning "Peaceful Coexia tence." i ' For the past several years this has been the theme song of the Communist slumber-hour propa ganda. Its commercials have been intended to lull the non-Communit countries into a false sense of se curity by lessening the tension But now there h an apparent shift in the Moscow line. Commu nist spokesmen seem to be tighten ing the tension. There is a note of violence in current Communist statements-in Europe as well as in Asia, Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles declared after his return (rom the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion Council meeting in Paris. It may well be a shift from the cooing dove of peace to a more -threatening show of force, the sec retary observed to his press con ference, after reading a prepared statement on the results of the Pans NATO Council session. SECRETARY DULLES does not believe that this shift in Commu nist tactics makes any difference or means any change in the ulti mate Soviet objective of world con quest. v He was asked what the effect would be if Soviet Russia should carry out its new threats to break the 20-year alliance with France and a similar treaty with Great Britain (or mutual aid against a new German aggression. For answer the secretary recall ed a long series of ineffective threats made by Russia over the past 10 years in its effort to pre vent a build-up of western strength. First were the Soviet threats against the Western European countries to prevent them (rom joining the Marshall Plan. This was followed, by a similar attempt to prevent these countries from ratifying the I'arth Atlantir Treaty. When Turkey and Greece Joined NATO, there was another Soviet bluff to prevent this further exten sion of the western mutual defense alliance. WHEN THE UNITED STATES, Britain and France proposed to create the new Federal Republic of Germany out of their three zones of occupation, the Russians tried to prevent it. Their threat then was that this act would make Impossible the ultimate unification of eastern Germany with the west. This was a bluff to slop West Ger many's acceptance of independent status, but it failed. When the Japanese peace treaty was signed, Russia refused to ac cept it. The Communists said that since this treaty violated the ar mistice agreement, they would be free to resume hostilities against Japan. Of course the Russians haven't taken this step at all. In stead, they are now trying to es tablish more normal diplomatic and trade relations with the Jap anese. Green of Portland, the Democrat who takes over the seat of ex Rep. Homer Angcll, won't say what committee sue pre.ers. '.ior assignment is up to the Democrat ic members of the House Ways and Means Committee, who shut-; fie the assignments of- their -col-j leagues until the senior members arc content and the junior mem-' bers have filled the vacancies. i On the Senate side, assignments of both Oregon senators, Wayne : Morse and Richard L. Ncuberger, I must await the decision ot .the Democratic Steering Committee, ; which is expected to take a week ! at least. Ncuberger has told his seniors he wants Agriculture or In-; terior, and it is certain only that ; he will get at least one major com-1 mittce. Morse says he nasn't told the Democrats formally what he wants, but publicly he has said Foreign Relations, Interior, Judi ciary or Appropriations would be his preferences along with his old seat on Armed Services. Arbenz Said Claiming Swiss Citizenship BERN, Switzerland utl The Swiss government disclosed Wednesday that former President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Ouato- from Hans Wednesday, en route wilh his wife and three childrln to the winter sports resort of Zcr- matt. They took refuge in Mexico after the revolution led by U. Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, now Guatc- male's president, overthrew Ar- benz and his regime last summer, A Swiss government spokesman said Arbenz while in Mexico had applied to the legation there for a Swiss passport. The legation passed the renuest on to the ; federal government In Bern, where jit is now "under consideration bv government leeal experts," the spokesman said. ' Canadians Start Sub-Zero -T.-i! . i-V f n -I lesnng ur rrojccrne WINNIPEG, Man. 11 -The Ca nadians have started sub . zero wealher test firing. of the U. S. Army's 1.500-mile-an-hour anti aircraft Nike projectile. , A small Defense Department ad- ! vertisement in Winnipeg newspa- pers this week announced thai the ! test, Operation Frost Jet, would continue until March 31 s'. 'he newly completed Ft. Churchill . launching site, on Hudson Ray 610 miles north of Winnipeg. The pencil-shaped Nike missile has a range of 30 to 50 miles and an effective altitude of 60,000 (eet. Launched from a steel and con crete base, its aim is locked on the annroaehina airerafi hv m-,. RUSSIAN PRESSURE TACTICS , are now being employed against . the western European nations who . are on the verge of ratifying the ' Paris agreements to rearm west- i era Germany. They are being be-! rated in diplomatic notes for re-! (using to attend a Moscow-inspired, j counter European security confer-1 ence. . i But having heard the Russian "Woltl" cry so often, the western European countries are no longer frightened by it. This is not tcken to mean that western Europe can let down its guard. As made evident by action taken at the NATO council meeting in Paris, the western European gov ernments now seem convinced that the best way to meet Soviet threats is to maintain their own de fensive strength. By this they can resist any Communist ' external pressures or internal subversion. III I FLEGEL Transfer & Storage Phone 3-4436 Til tnamiiuiiiiis FOR TV service; SEE OR The "Radio ' 408 WEST LANE STREET Across from the Roseburg Hotel Immediate sarvle . . . 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