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Newspaper Page Text4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Fri., Jan. 21, 1955 . , .. Published Daily Ex wot Sunday by tha ' News-Review Company. Inc ; hlml u iinil ilu MIW 1. U. kl ul itlln M RMtbvrff, Ortf.n. and.r ct f kUreh t, If 11. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager , Mambar of tha Associated Prasi, Orogon Nawtpapar Publiihari ,. Association, the Audit Buraau of Circulations . .pr.Mt.4 kr WEBI-HOLLIDAI CO., INC., Illeai ia Niw Talk, Ckle.i., f- Sta Iraaelaoi, Las Aasalaa, .III., Finland. U.iiT.r 'lUBSCBIPTION BATES la Or.rn Br Hall Far Taar, S1X.S9; all mantka, S8.SS; Ibraa month., Oatalda Orasaa Br Mall Far Vaar, llS.OOi ais m.nloi, lMi tkraa maatka, SS.5S. Br Newa-Rarlaw Carrlar Far Taar, III.OS (la adt .no, leu tkaa ana r.ar, ft aaaalk, SI.!, RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE - . r - Tha Dallas Chronicla Over in Hood River is a 90-year-old attorney who has given his many friends in. The Dalles and elsewhere throughout Oregon his formula for long Jiving. ' He is John Baker, a practicing attorney in our neigh boring city from 1910 to this day. Relatively few of us reach 90 years of age; still fewer who do remain as active as this elderly gentleman. Born Alarch 1, 1864, at Ashland, 0., he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1893 and practiced law at Findlay, Ohio, until 1910 when he settled in Hood River. .; .' In a New Year's greeting to his friends, Mr. Parker attempts to answer those who have requested his recipe ,or formula for longevity. His suggestions have stood the test of time in a life approaching the century mark as well as during long-past ages. They are: 1. Fear is our most , deadly foe, especially fear of death.. While it is just as natural to die as it is to be born, we, as children, are taught to rejoice at birth and mourn at death. It has been well said that "one afraid to die is not fit to live." A coward's race with Father Time is ' never a happy one. ' , 2. Living in the past brings one nothing but sorrow. True, the high spots of the pleasurable incidents along, your way should not be forgotten but called to mind frequently. 3. Never envy or begrudge anyone anything. That hurts you only, not the other fellow. 4. Eat and sleep right. Go to bed to sleep, not to worry. This may be accomplished easily . if you just think bo. My formula is, first to relax every muscle in my, body, then recite in my mind the Lord's Praver, the Twenty-third Psalm, followed by Kipling's "If." If not yet asleep, I start over again. You will be surprised how easy it is to forget your troubles and have a good night's leep. ;.:: . " '; .5. Keep busy at something and do something for some one every day. An act of kindness costs nothing and is never forgotten. Make home life pleasant. 6. Do not tell your aches and pains to those ou meet. They will cross the street to avoid meeting you. 7. Make friends With Father Time. You will be a long time dead to this world but alive forever in tlnS spirit world... ,,: . . . ;'. 8..Have implicit faith , in God, the creator and giver of all things. ' A ; BILL THAT SHOULD PASS One good bill that should become law has already been introduced in the senate. It would authorize the board of control to enter into contracts or agreements for purchase or donation of fruits, vegetables or other crops for use in i atate institutions and authorizes the use of prison laborfor harvesting and transporting to the prison. The attorney general's . board of control lacks authority to enter into such con tracts,, which we thought then was not good common sense, ; though it may have been perfectly sound law. .' The bill just introduced contains a ban against use of i prison' labor for cultivating private lands, a southern practice that would be opposed here. It seems to have the needed safeguards against abuse. If passed and signed by the governor it will save the state some money 'and make gome additional useful work for the prisoners. We do not share 'the belief of some that use of prison labor takes work away from the free workers on the out side. Whatever useful work the prisoners do. helps reha bilitate them and saves the state money. This means that the taxpayers will pay . less. What they retain will be spent in numerous ways that vill employ just as much labor as the state would employ by leaving the convicts Idle. " ,- '.'' ' It's something like imagining that every new family that enters Oregon deprives a local family of a job. There used to be people who thought this. Now we know that while they take a job their spending helps make a job, so the more of us who are here, gainfully employed, the better for all. If you doubt this contrast the well-being of Oregonians today with the past eras when tVre were a third or half as many of us. Jaf ij)oijfe By PRESTON GROVEK For Hal Boyle CASABLANCA, French Morocco -T) This is the. sad story of Coca-Cola in Morocco and how a pip; (rot jnt0 the picture. , . , . Coca-Cola sent specialists in Morocco soon after the war to get the soft drink business tfoinir. The jijrht mil lion thirsty Moroccans, barred as Moslems from" drinking alcoholic beverages, looked like good prospects. Bottling plants .were sold to operators in a half dozen cities. y lyat mo operators were in fair way to make real money out of the deal Then a paper In Casablanca, Al Alham, with hut a thousand cir culation, earned a smsll story i- n.u: hv, . '"T-"'"- lm 'ncr'caniwntc a story about how delightful bevciagc, the paper said, was 1 ji a, n, h rM h ,... " flavored with pig's blood. Now to Moslem there is noth ing more abhorrent than a pig. He wouldn't wear pigskin gloves, let alone cat pork. The report, utterly falst, sprrad like wildfire. The circulation of the little paper mounted. Its advertis ing increased. 1 Other soft drink dispensers began buying space in Uie paper to show how :hcir bev erage could be drunk by all good Moslems. As the news spread through Mo rocco, Coca-Cola dealers began hauling their unsold bottles bark. Bottlers had to buy them nil hark, and sales dropped almost to noth ing. - v . . The wildest kind of stories were circulated. The company waited, postponing a denial, hoping the story would die down. But in Mo rocco there Is a saying that what such products from the fields office ruled last year that the js nol dc.iicd must be true. So tha story continued to spread hinally, a venerable ami well known pilgrim who had made his journey to Mecca consented to U"ul"lV " .Hllvn curl aiong uie not route arruss North Africa. He could buy it in Cairo, a great Moslem center, he said ana even in .Mecca. That began to help. Th.-n the sul tan's son. Moulay Hassan, allowed himself to be quoted al bicvele tournament as saying he would like a drink of Coca-Cola. Sales began slowly to climb. But the end was not vet. Na tionalists moved in. They declared a boycott against any beverage ! wnicn used sugar, because sugar Isured him but sales in 1954 were in Morocco is a French monoil about 10.000 cases. With sales of oiy. me nationalists were ca'-'er to do anything to harass the French. Terrorists backed up the boycott by burning stores and shooting merchants who sold to bacco and sugar products. Down went sales again. , This reporter talked to one bot tling plant owner who said annual We Think We In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) there is no reason why we should go to war to defend them. How about Malta, which is a mere speck in the Mediterranean but for generations has been an anchor of British power in that area? That was in pre - atomic - war days. I suspect that one hydrogen bomb, accurately placed, would put Malta out of business. The same is true of these Utile Islands in the East China Sea. Answering a question, Ike says at his press conlerencc that he'd like to see the United Nations use iti offices to get a cease - fire between the Chinese commies and the Nationalist Chinese. So, I think, would we all. The cease-fire in Korea is a shaky affair, but it's better than Uie shooting thai preceded it. Whilo we're talking about t h e Orient, here's something to t u r n over in our minds: Japan's foreign minister Shige mitsu lays on the diplomatic table (which, in many ways, is not dis similar to a poker table) a state ment to the effect that his govern ment wants to make peace with the Soviet Union and restore Tok yo Moscow relations to the pre war level. He docsn I commit him self on recognition' of red China, nut ne anas: "JAPAN WANTS TO ENCOUR AGE TRADE WITH THE CHIN ESE COMMUNISTS." Nat so good? E W-e-l-l-1-1- The rough, cold economic fact of the situation is that Japan must iKAUK UK STAKVE and we won't let her trade much with us because her production costs are so low that she can undersell us disastrously. Communist Russia and Commu nist China, between them, control the trade of Asia. Another straw in the wind: At a place called Maebashi (My-BAH-shee), northwest of Tokyo, police had to be called in to CON TROL A MOB that was protesting establishment of an American mil itary training area in the Maeba shi area. Until the police arrived and took hand, the local . citizens were ready to USE FORCE to prevent surveyors from laying out the camp. A thought: Our troubles with the Japanese began about the time that General MacArthur was "busted" (to use the colorful Gt phrase) and brought home in disgrace. Eisenhower To Continue 'Progressive Moderation' 1 WASHINGTON UP - President! F.isenhower wants the Republican Party to continue along the path I of "progressive moderation" he 1 has charted for It. ! Starting his third year in office I Thursday, he declined an invita tion to special ceremonies at !he Capitol Hill Club, a GOP social; organization, but sent along a ' statement of what he said "must , Ik- in my judgment the standard j of the Republican Party through the coming months." He summariml it this way: "A program of progressive mod eration, liberal in its human con cerns, conservative in its .econom ic 'proposals, constructively dy namic and optimistic in its ap praisal of the future." . sales of 500.000 cases had been as 30.000 rases a year a man can't support a factory able to bottle 500.000 cases. Some are laking in side lines of beer and fruit juice. The reporter loured around in the bazaars o( several cities andi tried to buy Coca-Cola. The signs j were still up, glossy and red. but the drink was hard to come by. I Understand the Bowman's Dilemma! J-etet WASHINGTON (NEA) Re publican National Committee head quarters thinks the Democratic congressional investigators will have a hard time digging up any convincing evidence of GOP pa I tronage abuses. This won't be be- i cause the evidence has been cov- ered up, say the Republicans, but Because me evidence isn t there Frankly, they admit they haven't done a very good job of replacing ucmocrauc oiucenoiaers in gov ernment with Republicans. Estimates have been made that out of the 2.500.0O0 government civ ilian employes, the Republicans in two years in office have oecn able to place only about 2500 mem bers of their party id noy jobs, Ohauncey ltobbins, who has been in charge of the personnel division at Republican National Committee headquarters in Wash ington lor the past year, says he has no idea where this 2500 num ber came from. He has no central file of job placement cards to show whether this number is right or wrong, high or low. AS AN EXAMPLE OP WHAT he has been up against :n trying to place deserving Republicans ia government jobs, Mr. Robbins points to the 40 top personnel of ficers in U. S. agencies. These are the people who supervise govern ment hiring. Only eight of them are Republicans, One was appoint ed in President Taft's administra tion, four in Hoover's and three in Eisenhower's. All of (he 40 are covered by Civil Service regula tions and can't be budged. Republican National Committee headquarters has tried to estab lish one top policy official at the assistant secretary level to over see personnel appointments. This official was supposed to be con tnct man for GOP headquarters, notifying the Republican high com mand of vacancies and insuring the party command that only Re publicans got the policy - making jobs. Former Congressman Ross Rid ley of Oklahoma had such a per sonnel policy job as Assistant Sec Formosa Situation Talked By Hamitiarskjold And Chou By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON un- Dag ham marskjold is reported to have told Premier Chou F.n-Lai two weeks ago that Red China's threats to ward Formosa gave evidence of far-from-neaee'Ml intcnllons. llammarskiod the United Na tions secretary general, wont to Peiping on a mission for the U.N. lo try to obtain the relear.e of 11 American airmen jailed as alleged spies and any.other U.N. personnel held by the Chinese Reds. The fliers fought for the U.N. in Ko rea and were not repatriated fol lowing the armistice. While that was his major pur pose, the discussions of the two men ranged over a wide variety of subjects during the more than 15 hours they talked. One of those subjects, it was authoritatively reported Friday, was the Formosa problem. Chiiu was said to have denounced the defense treaty which the United States recently signed with Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Nationalist gov ernment on Formosa. Chou is understood to have taken the Jine that Red China's strongest wish is for peace but that the Formosa situation has been created by the United Stales, contending that island and other Nationalist-held islands belong to Red China. In public statements the Red Chinese have repeatedly declared their intention of seizing Formosa and the other offshore islands. They have recently stepped un st tacks on Nationalist-held islands along the roast, capturing Yikiam shan and bombarding the Tarhen group. According to authoritative In formation, Itatrtmarskjold expres M Son- retary of Agriculture, He has now resigned. It was his experience that in loo many cases, agency heads picked out the man they wanted for a particular job. then put the pressure on the Republi can political organization to okay him. THIS IS THE EXACT RE VERSE OF the way a smooth-running, political job - placing ma chine should work. The old-time political patronage system was supposed to work by first listing the people who wanted a job, then finding something for them to do. The trouble with that today is that many political job s kcis want jobs (hat don't exist. They are not qualified for the jobs that do exist. The government could use 2000 trained stenographers any time. It always needs doctors and train ed technicians. But to qualify for these jobs, applicants have to pass Civil Service examinations and get their names placed on the register. If there are no names on a re gister for any job classification, ana there is a vacancy, the Civil Service Commission will authorize any government agency to hire anvone it can find to fill it. THIS IS KNOWN AS Section 303 authority, There were about 65.- 000 of these 303 jobs filled in the last fiscal year, according to Civil Service records. But iicpublican headquarters in Washington says it has no idea where these jobs were, or whether they were filled by Republicans. The reason is that the local hiring offices don t re port to Washington GOP head quarters on such things. There were some 35,000 people hired for a new census of agri culture. Most of these jobs lasted only a few days. But many of those hired were Republicans. This temporarily satislied local Republi can machines that wanted a .e- ward for' faithful party workers. There is still loud dissatisfaction, however, that the GOP has not been able to hand out more patron age. sed belief in Chou's avowed wish for peace as reflecting his basic long-term intentions. But the U.N. secretary reported ly said Chou's acts and attitudes towards Formosa seriously add to present tensions and may well be described as indicating intentions which are far from peaceful. Furthermore, Hanimsrskjold is reported to have argued that Chou could not divest himself of respon sibility for his own actions by try ing to place the responsibility upon the shoulders of others the United States. This, Hammarskjold is said to have contended, is politically and morally unjustified. SHIPS OFF SCHEDULE NORFOLK, Vs. Got troubles? Consider the plight of one Nor folk shipping company operator, who has one ship ashore at Ber muda, another out of fuel and be ing lowed In. two out of fuel and awaiting bunkers in Bermuda, two others returning to the Azbres he cause of fuel shortages and all others running 3 to 10 days late. HOW'S THAT AGAIN? PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss, iv-A Chancery Court decree yesterday changed the city's northern bound ary from the north side of North Street to the south side of North Street. North Street runs east and west. BRAZILIANS KILLED RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil i-A Brazilian air foree nlanr eraslieii this week near llheus, the Meri dional News Agency ssid, killing eight airmen. ISCIIiy) IIUI tJlluvwuiij huiiu On Procedure Opposition To By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON I Democratic efforts to stimulate opposition to the Eisenhower farm programs in the hope of winning the 1956 farm vote will get a lot of attention in the new Congress. i There will be moves to repeal the key feature of that program flexible farm price supports and restore high, rigid price floors. But whether the Democrats will make an all-out effort to wipe the GOP program off- the books this year .or next is a matter party leaders have not yet announced. Some Democrats argue for action next year, just ahead of the pres idential campaign. They say farm pra hv 195(1 "will have suffered a year'1 of flexible price supports and be eager to vote tor a cnange at the White House. Administration farm leaders dis-; pute that, saying farmers will be; pleased by the working of the new system. They say too that Prcsi-, dent Eisenhower would veto such legislation and that the Democrats j uu iiv. nave ci!vu' ,vivd iu it over a veto. Regardless of what Democratic strategy is adopted, Secretary of Agriculture Benson and his aides express confidence that flexible supports will be a less important issue in the 1956 campaign than over me next ly ycois .., luaua. they were last November. In this The program would provide a latter election, the Republicans lost I good steady market for many prod no normally Republican rural con- nets cement, steel, earth moving gressional districts. I machinery. And new road-building Benson says he believes the worst is over for rarmers in the postwar period of readjustment. But Democratic farm leaders ex press lear that things will grow worse because: (1) farm prices, which declined 25 per cent since 1951 and 6 per cent in 1954, show no immediate signs of improving; jiore than l'i million tons of (2) farm surpluses continue tOi.teei went into highway projects mount: (3) net farm income con- tinues to tall while national income continues upward; and (4) farm operating costs continue near rec ord high levels. Many Democrats predict that the flexible price supports will operate to pull prices and income lower. lhc tlexiDle system, which goes into effect this vcar, is designed to help guide farm production. Un-i der it, price floors would be low in times of surpluses to discourage overproduction and to encourage I greater production and to hold down consumption. Benson agrees that price sup ports this year and next may av erage lower, but he contends ef forts now being made to dispose of surpluses and to cut down surplus production will, by 1956, put agri culture on a firmer fondation. Some aspects of the farm situa tion would appear to give weight to Benson's argument. Perhaps the biggest barrier to improved farm prices and incomes is the price-depressing surpluses which will climb to a record hien of perhaps Vn billion dollars this winter. These surpluses largely re flect overproduction in 1052-5.1 when there were no major produc tion controls. But production controls invoked last year and this on sucn crous as wheat, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, I corn, rice, and sugar croos can be expected to reduce greatly if not stop the flow of surpluses into gov ernment hands. , Meanwhile, broadened programs designed to move surpluses into foreign markets in exchanse for currencies of other countries and into relief uses at home and abroad First Time In Oregon! MICRO-MID THE SMALLEST MAN-OPERATED RACINC CARS IN THE WORLD SATURDAY, JANUARY 22 timsetIrrtals 7:30 P.M. start 8:30 P.M. FAIRGROUNDS - ROSEBURG A SHOW OF UNBELIEVABLE SPEED AND THRILLS! BE THERE! Adm. . Adults. $1.00 Students, 50c Children, 35c tax Incl. MAI CUa,.,;m UnHrls For Inciting Farm Policy are serving to reduce surpluses ac cumulated from past crops. As a consequence, surpluses should be greatly reduced by 1956. Other things being equal, the smaller the surplus of a commodi ty, the better the chances that prices of the commodity will rise. Assuming general economic con ditions continue at or near present levels, it would appear that the big livestock industry with the possible exception of dairying- i around .the blockade to an old should be in i better position in . road. , 1956 than at present. 1 I The woman rancher erected her A big postwar expansion in beet I barrier Dec. 29 to protest what she cattle production has been brought called "an unjust and humiliating to a halt, climaxed by a sharp offer. ' She said the new road cuts drop in cattle prices in 1953. While .her stock off from water, It was supplies of beef are expected to; built and put into use several continue laree. thev will not be in-: months before Mrs. Harris blockej J creasing, creasing. i Many Businessmen Have Eye On $101 Billion Earmarked For Federal Road Program ; By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK tf Many business men have an eye on that 101 billion dollars that may be handed out processes and products are being developed Improved highways will spur au tomobile sales. Steel mills will be busily turning out material for bridges, ramps, guard rails, signs, miles of steel fence and reinforcing materials, 1954. when federal, state and local agencies spent about four bil lion dollars on roads. This year spending is expected to go up by almost one billion more, and steel consumption to approach two mil lion tons ilut if the big spending plan is adopted by the federal and state governments, the American Road Riirfpr' An. stimate hinhwav construction will soar to around U : billion dollars in 1958, where it , W,M ...v ntii 19fiji. This WOud require about 5' million tons of steel yearly. 1 New wrinkles in the use of steel in highway construction are stress ed by engineers of the Truscon Steel Division of Republic Steel. , (I APPLIANCE WON'T WORK? We'll Repair W repair any makt and repair It fa give you good tarvicat Turn yaur ut-of. erdr appliances . . . terns, waffle Irons, sandwich orilli, miiaii, rangas, tors, vacuum . avar ta pandabla rapalr ob. KIER-CR00CH 230 North Stephens . GET Woman On Cuard over Property THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. W-Mrs. Dora Harris, 64-year-old ranch widow, is back at her barricade, prepared for at least 11 days more guard duty. She resumed a 22-day-old 'vigii at her homestead near Lucerne Thursday after Dist Judge D. J. Harkins refused to - recognize a condemnation suit directed at dis lodging her from a barbed wire and log blockade on a new road into the Black Mountain oil field. He set a hearing on -an earlier condemnation move for Jan. 31, The hearing will be on . Mrs. Harris' .appeal from a $450 value placed on right-of-way acrosa her ranch by county commissioners. Meanwhile traffic will be detoured 'the route. ; Expansion cracks Those tar filled ridges over which your car click-clicks at high speed can be eliminated by a process of contin uous" reinforcement, the engineers say. This increases the quantity of steel bars used for reinforce mentbut cuts down on the thick ness of concrete needed. . Kta-sized corrugated tubes are also finding an increased market as culverts. Corrugation gives five to seven times the strength of un corrugated tubes, engineers say, and the big tubes don't craclc un der heavy loads as the old stone and concrete culverts sometimes do. Ridgway Nor To Retire Until Term Has Expired WASHINGTON Iff Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway will not have to retire from the Army before his term as chief of staff expires in I August. Secretary of the Army Stevens announced Thursday he will retain Ridgwav in active service beyond the retirement age of 60, which Ridgway will attain in March. Ridgway became chief of staff on Aug. i5, 1953. He was appoint ed to a two-year term, but would have had to retire 4 '4 months early, on his 60th birthday, had it not been for Stevens' action, ' ap proved by President Eisenhower. It! , rafrigtra for da- PLUMBING COMPANY Dial 3-5377 i RACE!