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4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore. Mon., Feb. 21, 1955 Publishtd Daily Except Sundiy by the News-Review Company, "'Inc. atarai Mean ilui miliar Mar 1030, at iha p.il .tflca tl . ftaaaburf, Orasan, andar .cl .1 March I. 1S7S. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Mambar of the Atiociatad Praia, Oregon Newspaper Publiihere Astoeiation, the Audit Bureau of Circulation! tipnuilK br WIST-HOLUDAY CO., INC., (list! la Naw Ink, Ckleaia, Baa Franelac, L Anfalaa. Saatlla, rartland. Danvar SUBSCRIPTION BATES In Orafao Br Mall Par faar. llt.W; aix atanUia, fft.Mi Ihraa ao.iilha, I J IS. O.lald. Otaian Br Mall rar Xaar, IIS. Ml all mantbi, Sl.aos thra. manlbi, I8.M. Br Naera-Barlaw Carrlar Par Xaar, 111.00 (la .traoca), lhao aoa ar maalb, ll.ts. And She'd Better Show Up PDQ! ..;J3. ! COLUMBUS NOT DISCOVERER? Capital Journal, Salem That Porteuese sailors discovered America 70 years be. fore Columbus, according to the Nautical Chart of 1424, by Armando Cortesao is asserted by Bruce Catton, editor of "American Heritage," the "Magazine of History," a news quarterly magazine sponsored by American historical soel eties and published in New York City. Catton reviews Cortesao's book, "The Nautical Chart of 1424" published by the University of Coimbra in Porti gal. The author asserts flatly that Portuguese sailorB reached at least the island Iringe or the New world, and possibly the mainland itself and there is an authentic carto raphic record of their voyagings. Cation's review says: "Professor Cortcso devotes, his book to an old Venetian chart which came to light recently in the vast collection amassed by Sir Thomas PhiUipps, wealthy English scholar and book collector, who died in 1872 and whose enormous library is still yielding rich finds to modern researchers, This chart appears to have been drawn in 1424 by an Italian cartographer, one Zuane Pizigano, and far west in the Atlantic, beyond the Azores and the Canaries and Ma deria, it shows a large island and three satellites to which arc given the name 'Antilia. ' "Antilia," of course Is the present name for the Antilles, the great islands of the West Indies. II appears in this chart, appar ently, for the first time, and Professor Cortcsao is convinced that it represents neither myth or legend but authentic discovery of Haiti, or Cuba, or Jamaica, or perhaps even of the Florida coast Here, he says, for the first time, is a cartographical representation of the forefront of eastern America, put on parchment nearly sev enty years before Columbus made his first voyage." . Medieval legend is quoted as calling of seven Portu guese bishops, who fleeing from the Moors, took ship and sailed west to settle their people on seven mysterious is lands off beyond the sunset. In 1475 King Alfonso V of Portugal issued letters patent to one venturer, granting these islands to him, if he could rediscover them, and their existence was dimly recognized. But there is good reason the same thing may have hap pened 2000 years earlier for the ancient world was full of legends of fortunate islands beyond the sunset, from Plato and Aristotle to Seneca and Pliney, says Cortesao, who is quoted as saying: ; " 'The Portuguese dared to attack the great ocean sea. They entered it without fear. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new peoples; and furthermore, new skies, and new stars. And they so completely lost their fear of it, that neither the great heat of the torrid zone, nor even the lerrific cold of the extreme southern parts, with which the writers of yore used to frighten,' us, could deter them.' " G.P. THE GREAT HELEN KELLER Albany Democrat-Herald We haven't been hearing so much of Helen Keller late ly; but all old-timers remember her, and the younger ones, of course, have read of her as the girl who, stricken blind and deaf in her tenth month, triumphed over these handi caps to become one of the most useful unci most fain,ous women in the world. Now, at 74, she is about tj under take a world tour; she is still .young in spirit. When we think of Helen Keller we recall also ono of the most wonderful of all teachers, who took churge of the apparently helpless little girl's education in Helen's seventh year and remained as. teacher, friend, companion and sec retary for half a century. This was Anne Sullivan (Mrs. John A. Macy), who should never be forgotten. She taught her to speak, and to read braille. That was the start. The handicapped girl went on to a graduation from Radcliffe at 24, very little older than the average of her classmates. . , Mtich of her life has been dedicated to helping the blind; years back she raised a fund of $1,000,000 by lec tures all over the world and the writing of books and arti cles and procuring gifts to the cause of their education. Miss Keller's help to the handicapped has not been only the money she has raised to further their education but the inspiration she must have been to so mnnv of them through her own victory over two of the most cruel handi caps that can beset a human being. We salute the young-spirited Miss Keller as she under takes her long tour. We know she will "see" and learn more than most people with all their physical senses and will somehow manage to do something for those who face a strange world of which their senses give them not the slightest glimpse. She's a most worthy descendant of the great Adams family of New England. mi m Nervous Anxiety, Buffoonery, Political Nose Counting Mark Week In House Vote On Pay It's lime once more tor your contributions to the annual Heart Fund. These February campaigns play an important part in thu re search, educational and commtin- heart through an arm vein to take blood samples. Some oi Hie most spectacular advances have occurred in heart surgery. Today surgeons can often ity service programs aimed at the I repair damaged heart vaivcs. ror. reel structural heart delects with which some individuals, ay hnrn Heart and blood vessel uilments remove blood vessel clots, or eventual control of the heart di scascs. continue to be far and away the nation's No. 1 killer, accounting for more than half of all deaths and more than the next five lewl ing causes of death combined. But there are heartening things to report: In dealing with high blood pres sure, new and improved drugs are bringing relief to thousands, and in certain selected cases, surgc.-y works well. The use of the antibiotics and the sulfa drugs has been tremen dously effective in preventing or minimizing attacks of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. The drugs cither knock out I lie "strep" infections that often pre cede the initial assault .;f fever, or prevent recurrent attacks. Radioactive iodino is said to be producing beneficial results in treatment of congestive heart fail ure and the painful agina pectoris. Deaths from an infection of the heart lining have been rut te one fifth ot former totala iv prompt treatment with penicillin. ' Important gains are being regis tered in the diagnosis of various heart ailments, including so-called "heart attacks." To assist this work, new tools and techniques have been developed, like heart catholer, graft parts of healthy vessels to replace diseased arteries.. Medical men have devised "heart - lung" machines to lake over the heart's work while sur geons operate inside the heart. They have also turned to "cold storage" methods of lowering body temperature, this slowing bodilv functions and reducing circulation during the period required for heart surgery. All these gains are significant, but thero must be many more over a board front before heart over a broad front before rcasc to be the country's top killer. It is for more new drugs, new techni ques, new tools, and new knowl edge about the heart jnd blood vessels that your money is need ed. Without it, this admirable offon, so well begun, cannot lead to the big strides which alone will final ly bring these dangerous ailments under control; By A. ROBERT SMITH Newt-Review Correspondent WASHINGTON The House of Representatives is seldom the scene of so much nervous anxiety, buttoonery and political nose counting at one time as n was last week when' the lawmakers plunged into the questiun of wheth er to raise their own salaries. They had made it me iNo. i topic of conversation for dayj in the Capitol cloakrooms and rcstua rant, wherever two or more con gressmen were on hand to ask one another how they intended voting on the pay bill and what they thought the reaction would bo in the grass roots. When the big day came, they poured into the chamber to await the verdict on whether they would continue to draw $15,00!) or 522; 500 . and many had even cal culated how much of the raise would be soaked up by income taxes. 1 All awaited the speech they knew was coming from Hep. Ush er tiurnk-k ut-iD), ihe roly- noly, white-haired storyteller who is iincqualcd in ability to turn the enamour into a monkey cage of knee-slapping, guffawing congress men. biirdick said ho was tickled by the congressmen who said they lose $400 per month due to the high cost o living in Washington. D. C, and their present low sa laries. "I've noticed one peculiar thing about these congressmen," said Burdick. "When their terms ex pire, they come right back striv ing for another term in which they can go still further behind." Burdick proposed that since the bill would make the pay raise re troactive to the first ot this year, that it be made retroactive to 1934 when he was first elected. While some solons nearly tum bled into the aisles as Burdick flailed away, others sat stone sober as though chilled at t h c thought ot Bu.ilick's words being used as :umtv,n ammunition by their future challengers for Con gress. Louisiana's Itep. George Long, brother of the late lluoy, matched Burdirk from the opposite point of view by suggesting that I'll those who opposed the pay bill shou'd (1) not accept the increase if it goes through, and (2) go back home and help elect honor men to Congress m their homo districts if they don't think themselves worth the pay increase. In the eiul, as predicted, two o( every three congressmen voted for the increase, which has long been advocated by independent author ities in order to avoid a growing condition in which the only per sens woo can altord to run for Congress arc the well-to-do and the dishonest. Two of Oregon's solons refused to go along with the pay bill, both of them relative newcomers: Reps. Sam Coon, Baker Kepiiblti-an, and rldith (ircrn. I'.M'ila d Democrat. Rep. Walter N'irblad voted (or it. Kcp. Harris Ellsworth was out o( town. Coon: said he probably would have taken a different attitude it the pay increase had been less and if it had not been retroactive. He said he couldn't "in good con science" vote to increase his own salary just three months after be ing elected, when at the time of the election it was thought the pay would be J15.000. Mrs. Green said she would have preferred a more moderate in crease ip salary dMs an expense account, which she said West Coast congressmen needed more badly than others. She opposed the amount of the increase in the hill as passed, but said she hoped the Senate would make the changes she favored. This is a position similar to that taken by Sen. Wayne Morse. In The Day's News (Continued from Page Onol fn the course of time, they will replace it with a new and more modern mill. They know now that it is a PER MANENT enterprise. Why this change? The answer is simple. In the Spokane area as ALL OVER the state of Washington people are beginning to look at trees in terms of FIBER rather than in ternvs of rough boards. In the manufacture of rough boards, only a small part of the tree, rela tively speaking, is utilized. The rest is wasted. In the manufacture of products made of fiber, a very large proportion of the tree is util ized. Rough boards require old, mature trees. Fiber products can use trees of almost any size. Par ticularly, it can use YOUNG trees. In its youth a tree grows more rapidly than in its old age. The result of the use of trees In the form of fiber, rather than in the form of rough boards, has been to extend enormously the life of the timber stands of the area. There have been two interesting developments in Spokane's ne w trees-as-a-source-of-fiber economy. One is the discovery that bug-killed timber makes just as good pulp and paper as healthy trees. You must have noticed that logs cut from bug-killed trees have a bluish ring several inches wide around their outer perimeler. This affects their value for lumber. But it doesn't seem to affect their val ue for pulp. It might almost be said that it increases their pulp 'value as the paper made from ;them is even whiter than paper I made from healthy timber. Per haps the bluish tint works in the same way as bluing put in the wash water. Anyway, these bug-killed trees I are regarded as perfectly good raw ; material for pulp. You sec great i decks of them stacked lip around the mill. U.S. Destroyers Used By Chinese In Red Attacks By FRED HAMPSON KEELUNG lff The smashing victory reported by Chiang Kai shek's navy over the Communist navy off Chekiang Coast Friday was mainly the work of two American-donated destroyer escorts in the hands of courtous, confident and well-train Chinese. The master of one of them, Capt. Kuo Shin Chint, told me about it Saturday as he tidied up his ship and painted over the bullet dents, none of which quite punctured the hull. "We sighted the Red ships at 9,000 yards and we closed as fast as we could," he said, 'At 6,500 yards we opened fire and we were still shooting everything we had as fast as we could at 2,000 yards and keeping an eye on rocks that were all around us. ; "By the time we had sunk or shattered itlic Reds we were in such close water we had to head straight shoreward and make oil turn to the north which put us under Communist shore batteries for 15 minutes. "They missed us but not by much. By the time we had turned got through the rock passages back to sea and safety the Communist radio, which we were monitoring. was called for MIGs to go after us but they never came or if they did they didn t find us. A total of 21 ships was reported sunk by the Chinese Nationalist navy and air force in two actions Friday near the Taisnan islands off the Red China port ot tna cheng. The Communist confusion was so ereat that they permitted a sec ond group of ships to be attacked from the air in the same locality a few hours later without getting a single Red plane for defense. Benson Considers Gift Of Wheat To Russia WASHINGTON W Secretary of Agriculture Benson said Satur day he has talked over with Presi dent Eisenhower the idea of a gift of wheat to Russia and the idea "has not been dropped." Benson made the statement in an airport interview as he was leaving for a Caribbean trip. Meanwhile, it was reported that Nelson Rockefeller, who recently joined the White House staff to advise Eisenhower on international affairs, has been asked to study the wheat gift proposal. One theory behind the idea of a wheat gift is that it might demon strate the friendship of the United States tor the Russian people as distinguished from their govern ment. It also has been suggested the otter would have obvious cold war propaganda value, conironting Soviet leaders with a difficult choice. Russia has been plagued recent jly with food shortages. Major Legislation Status Shown At End Of Past Week WASHINGTON un The status ot major legislation it the end of last week: Foreign Affaire: The President has signed a resolution underscor ing his authority to commit U. S. forces to the defense of the For mosa area. The Senate has rati fied a mutual assistance treaty with Formosa. Military: The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill to extend the draft law four years. Veterani: The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill con tinuing eligibil tinuing eligibility of servicemen for GI educational benefits, if they were in service by Jan. 31. Reciprocal Trade: The House has passed a bill extending the recip rocal trade program, three years and giving the President additional authority to cut tariffs. The sen ate has rt acted. School Construction: Legislation to provide federal aid for school construction is pending in the Sen ate and House Education and La bor committees. Statehood: The House Interior Committee has approved a bill to admit both Alaska and Hawaii to statehood. There has been no House or Senate action. Pay Raises: The House has sent to the Senate a bill raising the pay of congressmen and federal judges, the increase for congress men being $10,000 a year. The House Civil Service Committee has started hearings on bills to raise the pay of postal and civil service employes. . The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill raismg congressional and judicial salaries 50 per cent. Poita Rates: Legislation to in crease postal rates including a one-cent boost in letter-mailing costs, is pending in the House Postoffice Committee. Taxaa: The House ways and Means Committee is expected soon to recommend continuance of war time excise and corporate tax rates due to expire in April. Wages: A bill to Boost tne mini mum wage from 75 cents to 90 cents or more is pending in the House Labor Committee. - Farm Prices: The House Agri culture Committee has started hearings on a bill to restore farm price props to 90 per cent of parity. RESERVISTS TO MEET A movie entitled '"Survival on the Polar Ice" will be shown Wed nesday night in Roseburg at a regular meeting of Air Force re servists. The film and a lecture are on the agenda for a meeting of Flight A, 9415th Air Reserve Squadron, at 901 S. Stephens St. Any Air Force reservist or veter an in Douglas County : Invited to attend the meeting. c ROSEBURG PHARMACY Coon Proposes Another Name For McNary Lake WASHINGTON Wl Rep. Coon! (R-Ore) has proposed a no t h e r I name for the body of water behind the Columbia ' River's McNary : , Your Wolgreen Agency OPEN 'TIL Your Prescription Accurate ly Compounded and Dispensed. Russell Stover Candies 241 N. JACKSON DIAL 3-3415 M. UNITE Dam. tt- ...... .1.1 Jn:nnnA it T nlr. Aldrich to honor the pioneer Pen dleton, Ore., newspaperman and reclamation entnusiasi, e..b. Ala- rich, whose efforts are crediten with playing a large part in build ing McNary Dam. Coon said Aldrich "left in the Northwest monuments as great as the pyramids. Last session Coon had proposed the body of water be called Lake Umatilla in nonor oi tne umaiuia Indians. Washington congressmen, however, proposed Wallula, to com memorate a Washington town in undated by the McNary backwa ter. A stalemate resulted. In droDoinz the Umatilla propo sal, Coon said the tribe already has been "immortalized" by the naming of a community, county and other locations and probably no further tribute is required. At least one Washington mem ber, however, still is standing pat for Lake Wallula. Rep. Holmes (R Wash) has a bill in to so desig nate the McNary backwater as well as name water behind The Dalles Dam as Lake Celillo and that behind John Day Dam as Lake Umatilla. Eugene Man Dies After Scuffle Outside Tavern EUGENE tfl Fred Blevins", 41, Eugene, died after a scuffle out side a tavern near Eugene Friday night. Sgt. Kooert Baker oi tne state police said witnesses told him Blevins was slapped and went to the ground, but Baker said he has not determined whether Blevins fell or was knocked down. Friends put Blevins in a car, and said he was snoring when they went away. When they returned an hour later, they found him dead. Coroner Fred Buell said an autopsy showed a brain hemorr hage, resulting from a skull fracture, caused death. Baker said no arrest has been made. By OCEAN CITY. Md. I - Since eight blocks pf the boardwalk were torn up to make way for a con crete walk, people working with the shovels and sieves have turned ui long. . slcndpr about S300 dropped by vacationers tube painlessly introduced into the during the last 65 years. , 'SLEEPER' HARVEST i Britain To Team With U. S. In Conference LONDON .f Britain intends to team with the United States at the Bangkok conterence In press ing for an unyielding defense set up to guard Southeast Asia against further Communist penetration, British Informants said Friday. The Churchill government was pictured determined to put teeth into the eight-nation security pact signed at Manila last Auvust. Tne British favor both a military and economic aid program to bolster Southeast Asia against either out right invasion by Red China or creeping Communist subversion. I The other new development is ja-Vnc (!od'i "Oo'i. I 1 Until very recently, jackpine was t regarded as a liability rather than .an asset, as it cluttered land that i might otherwise have been devot. Jed to more useful purposes. Jackpine is now regarded as one of the most valuable pulp woods in the West. In Ihe Spokane area, it is pinch-hitting for other woods, now in sharply decreasing supply, as a raw material for pulp, and is proving perfectly satisfactory for all uses. Jackpine is helping to push well into the future the time at which this Spokane paper mill might face declining supplies of raw material. In the back of our minds here in Southern Oregon and Northern California there has alwavs been 'the bugaboo of the time when our timber stands will be cut out and the lumber indtistrv will move on. That has been the historic cycle in timbered areas. It has been a boom and bust cycle. Increasin" f our limber as a source of FIBER cm push that ancient fear out of our picture. Bill Of Rights Would Invoke Big Controversy ST. LOUIS i.fi Were this na tion's Bill of Rights to be voted on today, it would be ratified, bu! nut without nrovoking "rent on troversy. Chief Justice Earl War ren, said Saturday. Me told an - :ene nt the kr. note session of Washington Univer sitv's second rentury convocation that controversy over teaching and ennHnct of our colleges an schools has tended to curb freedom ol speech. Other symptoms, Warren said, have been suspicions attached to lawvers representing unpopular de ffnrlnntt rim iMt about the rights of individuals to invoke their com stitutional privilege against sell-, I incrimination, and invasions of tne i freedom of the press. ! Warren blamed the situation on. ' no one group or person, but "to the entire body politic: to the sus picion, hatred, intolerance and ir-' responsibility that stalk the world today." ! Senator Morse Welcomed Democratic Party WASHINGTON Wl Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democrat lie National Committae, has for mally welcomed Sen. Morse of Ore- ' gon into the Democratic Party. I Morse, who bolted the Republi t can Party in 1952 to become an independent, enrolled as a Demo- crat at Eugene Thursday, j "I am sure your example will have the effect of convincing countless thinking Americans that they can best serve 'their highest hopes for America by active en listment in the Democratic Party." Butler said in a letter to the Ore gon senator. WALLPAPER Laig.it i.I.etien In riia Slot, of Oregon WALLPAPER IN STOCK 50c per S. R. DRAPERIES FULLER PAINTS CONTRACT PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES On any dteoratiri problem, consult an EC C?0 3-609 6TISa 517 So. Srtahani St. CATHOLICS NQN-CATHOLICS CATHOLIC CHURCH INQUIRY CLASSES AT THE NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL ' lit Both Catholics and non-Catholics ore invited to attend these classes, covering the teaching ond practices of the Catholic church. , 8 P.M. Tonight You may choose to listen or you moy osk questions that ore of special interest to you.. Attending these classes ob ligates no one in any way. 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