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4 Th Ntws-Rtviaw, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., Apr. 13, 1955 Published Daily Excapt Sunday by th News-Review Company, (nc. SntaraS u moM tliu matlar Mar 7. I9,'m lha pail (tile l krf. Or.f.n. aadar art at afarck I, 1111. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Mtmbar el the Associated Pratt, Oragon Nawtpapar Publithari Association, the Audit Buraau of Circulations Bapraaaalad 7 WKST-HOLLIDAT CO.. INC., allloai la Naw fork, Cklaafa. Saa Fraaclaea. Laa Aogalaa, Seattle, Paitlaaa, Uaavar -SUBSCRIPTION BATES la Ora(aa Br Mall Par Iar, US UI all maalka, M M! Ibraa maatka, S1.S5. Oalalda Ortfaa Br Hall rar Taar, 1 1 MM; als aaaatka, S? 00; tkraa oiaatba. ts.tt. Br Naara-Baalaw Carrlar Par Xaar. HID (la aOancal. laaa Ikaa ana raar, par uatk, tut, A GREAT VICTORY Charles V. Stanton There is reason 4o believe today that the dread disease poliomyelitis infantile paralysis has been conquered.' Throughout centuries men have fought against epidem ic diseases bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever and others causing periodic decimation of popula tions. One by one these diseases have yielded to scientific research. Diseases which once swept unhindered through out the world, with almost certain death for their victims, are no longer feared. Medical science has discovered the secrets of their virulence, and has rendered them virtual y impotent. ' Amonir the nlaeties of mankind has been infantile pa ralysis. Few diseases have been more feared. Polio has captured imaginations particularly because the greater number of its victims were children. The twisted, tortur ed' bodies of youngsters who survived the original impact of the disease then went out to tace lire hopelessly crip pled, served to promote a constant sense of fear. Con fronted daily with the suffering occasioned by polio, tlin American public for many years has contributed great sums of money to aid in problems ot research, as wen as providing aid for victims. Research Promises Relief ' It now ' annears that the dollars contributed by mil- lions of Americans throughout the years have served their purpose. Reporta on the Salk vaccine indicate a very high decree of success in halting: the ravages of polio. There also is good reason to believe that effectiveness of the vac cine will be improved as its use is studied. With prac tice more will be learned of the most efficient methods or inoculation, the spacing of "shots" and the duration of immunity:1. Also to be expected is an improved vaccine as methods of manufacture are improved. But the need for funds to combat polio has not been ended. Research must continue until results are proven. Money must be furnished to provide aid for those stricken with the disease and requiring long periods of hospitaliza tion, treatment and rehabilitation. ; But we have hope, as a result of the report compiled by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., of the University of Michi gan, following long study of the Salk vaccine, that another dreadful epidemic disease has been whipped. And through the success in polio research we can have confi dence that still other diseases or afflictions will be beaten. Cancer Studies Favorable ; Creating fear, in the same manner as polio, is the af fliction of cancer, an increasing cause of death in this country. And just as long research was necessary to beat polio, exhaustive studies must be made into the se crets of cancer and methods of control. I But in that field as well we have had promising news. Researchers recently have discovered drugs exhibiting a limited measure of success in treatment of cancer. Their discoveries are yet too new to be fully 'measured. They are not presented as cures. Yet thev signify a definite ad vance in the field of control and relief of suffering. They serve to promote confidence that victory eventually will be won against cancer as it has against polio and oth er dread diseases. We spend billions of dollars on military preparations. We maintain defensive forces against the possibility of war through huge appropriations. I!ut ennrer kills more" peo ple than would be lost in a full-scale shooting war. Yet we appropriate little money for research against disease. Money for research, rather, conies from the pockets of generous people. Those people, who throughout the years have boon in vesting their money into the fund-raising campaigns for disease control, should feci grateful tmlav that they have had a part in the humane effort to save life and ease suf "I Have a Little Shadow ; . ,,r ;v , R. L STEVENSON fJss!J ir - : w , SEA Samoa, Inc. Rival Parties Agree Convention Funds Inadequate WASHINGTON W Rival Re publican and Democratic political leaders agreed Tuesday on this: Three million dollars is too Utile to finance a party national com mittee in a presidential election campaign. Democratic Chairman Paul M. Buller said the nresenl sDcndinz ceiling, fixed by a 1939 law, ought lo be raised to at least six mil lion. He suggested, too. that Con gress consider making appropria tions from the U. S. treasury for conduct of campaigns. Republican Chairman Leonard W. Hall did not suggest a specific tigure, but called the present three-million-dollar limit "outmoded and unrealistic" in this day of wide spread use of television and air travel in election battles. The oartv leaders testified be fore a Senate elections subeom- mitte which is considering a bill by Sen. llcnnings (l)-Moj to re vise campaign spending laws. Hcnnings' measure would fiv a ceiling of more than 12 million dollars for spending by a national committee in next year's presi dential campaign. Neither Hall nor Butler commented on this provi sion specifically. Senate Votes $35 Minimum Benefits For Unemployment By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM tfl The omnibus un employment compensation biil, in creasing weekly jobless benefits U) a maximum of $35 and boosting employer payroll taxes by about 50 per cent, was passed 2R-2 by the Oregon Senate Tuesday. It guts to the House. There was no debate, the big argument having occurred last Sat urday when the Senate voted to put the benefit ceiling at $35, rath er than $32 as recommended by the majority of the Labor and In- 'dustries Committee. Meanwhile, the House passed 39 19 and sent to the governor the bill to transfer the Motor Vehicle Department from the secretary of state to the governor. It would transfer about 600 of the secretary of slate's 800 employes. After the lough revenue problem, unemployment compensation has been the most Involved issue of the session. The present ceiling on benefits is $25 a week. The bill also extends coverage lo firms with fewer than four workers and to cooperatives, disqualifies many seasonal work- : : CAIRO, Egypt '1' Egypt is in transition, proud of its mighty past but anxious to cure its old poverty by turning to new ways. . . Abraham Noman is as good a human symbol as any of the slow changes that are bringing fresh hope of better times for this ancient land. , Abraham is a 6-foot, 195-pound, I can learn as much about real lire 29-year-old Bedouin, whose fierce I in a strange country from the guv ancestors once roamed Uie desert who presses vour pants as vou can oome ncnuuins, a piouu ami in-; from one ot its politicians. dependent people, still roam thi desert and, live in tents. Others have compromised with civiliza tion and come to town to live. Abraham is a town Urdouin. "My great grandfather was the last in our family to live In a tent," he said. "The desert Bedou ins have no education. They are ignorant." All of us who jested among our selves at Abraham on sr-'ht, came to admire linn for his kindliness, his dependability in doing Ins duty, his intelligence, and his complete sense of personal dignity. Abraham Noman doc.'Ti't know where his last name roues from. but thinks it probably was face Ahrahnm Nnman'a familu liav 1 lioilslv given to OI1C of his attCCS- done pretty well, aH things eon-l1"" '"' generations back by a stderi-d, since coming to town. British offirrr. In any case, !i? Abraham himself is a servant in ! now lik's it. famous Mena house, an old-fash-j Here is Abraham's self-pot trait kined sprawling ltotel near the in his own words: pyramids at Gua. "My falher and lived the same. .Most of those whose needs Abra- i But my father lives better than ham lends arc tourists, and many his father did. of them have been famous. They "There arc nine of us in my uiicii inuKu ami mane jokcs wnen , lamuy my lamer nml mother, they first see Abraham. He does look odd to them in his small skull cap and long nightgown garb like figure out of the Arabian Nights. Abraham patiently smiles through their laughter. He prob ably thinks tourists look odd. too. but he is too polite and gentle to show it. He likes tourists because, he can learn from them. "I had but nine years of sehnof- ing," he said, "and whenever 1 my wife and myself, my one brother, our three children, nut a servant. The servant is a boy of 12 who does the marketing. He is a poor boy without a family. We took him with us because he had no one to play with. We pay him a small amount earh month. "My falher was u dragoman, an interpreter. I earn 120 pounds a year (about $tt4 1. "But we have houeht a hon , with nine rooms. My falher and near a new word 1 like lo find nut 1 mother rome fn-t in m ir it,,. what it means." j will until mv last day Without ADranam wauea on a numiier ot , tnem 1 would never know liie tu who came here on a preview flight by Trans World Airlines nf its new Super Constellation. He "In some homes the man dou first what his wife savs. before his father and mother, Ithink that is turned out to he about our best ; bad. friend in Ejyp). Somotimcs you I "V'es, I am happy living in WASHINGTON - (NEA) Dur ing Ilaian Prime Minister Mario Scelba's visit (o Washington, ne was photographed kissing the hanj of Clare Boolhc Luce, U. S. Am bassador to Italy. Referring lo this niclure when I ho introduced the Prime Minister for a talk lo Washington newsmen National Press Club President Lu cian Warren observed: "1 think it was unkind of the papers to mention lhat Ihis pic time was taken just after Italy had been granted $15 million in addi tional economic assistance." PUBLICATION of the Yalta pa pers served to take the heat off Atomic Kncrgy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss and t lie highly controversial Dixon Yates contract in the Tennessee Valley Authority area. At AEC headquarters in Wash ington, they now refer to it as the "Dixon-Yalta" contract. WILLIAM WEATHERSB Y, top notch U. S. Public Affairs officer in Cairo, Kgypt, took the trouble to check up on criticisms of the Voice of America programs beam ed to his part of the world, as re vealed in "Billions, Blunders and Baloney," by Eugene W. Castle. On page 9 of this sensational new book, it was charged lhat the "Amid" brothers, who publish a newspaper In Cairo, had told the author that the Voice of America was no good, and lhat the pro gram was received in Cairo early in the morning when nobody was listening. Since Weatheisliy knew that the program came in between 8 and 10 p.m., he set out lo track down ihe "Amid" brothers, and got back this reply: "Dear Mr. Weatliershy: "We were surprised lhat Mr. Egypt. It is my luck lo be. a serv ant. 1 cannot turn it back. 1 do not I get angry working for others. I When I feel sorry, I pray to the ! gods. ! "But t want my children to be better than me. j "My children are all right. They ! arc good. I hope they go to school for a long time ami grow up to he judges or army officers. I wouM ' prefer them to be officers but only if there are no more wars ' Abraham Noman said he thought I life in Egypt was getting better ifor people in his pewit ion. When I , asked him if he had a grudge i against this world, he spread his j big palms wide, smiled, and said: "I am content in myself. What 'now may I do for you?" Eugene Castle in his recently pub lished book claimed he had inter viewed us about the USIA in Cain, lie not only misspelled our names but also misspelled our ideas. The fact is that this gentleman met us for a few minutes before a luncn eon given by Mr. Saba Habaeh in Mena House hotel. All that he at tributed to us is what he said him self. We disagreed with him, bu; he insisted he was right. He said he had come to Cairo and had vis ited many capitals to prove what he actually was convinced of be fore starting off from the States. "Will you please try to use your influence and correct this distor tion of facts? ' "Yours sincerely "MOSTAFA AMIN & ALI AMIN." SPOTLIGHTING THE Upper Colorado River war over the Echo Park dam, David K. Brincear. ex ecutive secretary of the Central I Arizona Project Assn., calls alien ; tion to the fact that Arizona wa ter users are not opposing the proj I cel. as stated recently in this col ' umn.' I "We consider California the vil I l.iiu in this piece," writes Mr. I Bnnegar, "and we believe Cali fornia is endeavoring to frustrate 'the construction of all major works on the river which would allow I development for other slates. . . ' However, because of Ihe loose use by California of the term 'I,oer j Basin.' people are led astrav." I WHILE THE RUSSIANS claim ; In have moved mountains with 'their atomic explosion tests. Amei ! ican scientists can now claim to l have removed whiskers with atom ' ic energy. i This happened miring shake idown tests of the atomic subma rine Nautilus. A Congressman in j specting the ship plugged in his electric razor and shaved during : the trial run. The power of course came from the atomlchoiler that drives the sub. ers, and would take away half of the benefits from those who volun tarily quit work, refuse to accept suitable employment, or are fired for cause, Voting against the bill were Sens. Walter C. Leth, Monmouth, and Lee Ohmart, Salem. Both are Re publicans. One purpose of the bill was to stop the drain on the $54,000,000 unemployment trust fund, which has been dwindling at more than $8,000,000 a year because jobless benefits have exceeded the employ er taxes by that amount. Under the bill, however, the fund still would drop at the rate of more than $3,000,000 a year. Sen. George W. Ulett, Coquille, chairman of the Labor and Indus tries Committee that wrote the bill, said, "We can try it for two years, and then we could increase the employer contributions again." ; The House completed legislative action to double the penny-a-day that is contributed by each worker covered by state industrial acci dent insurance. The extra cent will be used to pay pensions to widows and orphans of men killed in indus Uial accidents. The Joint Ways and Moons Com mittee formally rescinded its vote, taken several weeks ago. to cut stale budgets 10 per cent. It al ready has approved nearly all budgets at the same figure as rec ommended by the governor. Sen. Gene L. Brown. Grants Pass, chairman of the subcommit tee considering the higher educa tion budget, made the motion to revoke the 10 per cent cut. He said he didn't want to be in the posi tion of reducing the budgets for the stale system of higher educa tion while other budgets weren't being cut. The House voted 32-26 to send back to committee the proposed constitutional amendment to give every county one state senator each. The bill, supported by rural counties and opposed by Mult nomah County, will be given a public hearing by the House Elec tions Committee next Monday. It was introduced only eight'days ago, and the Elections Committee approved it 6-5 before any hearing could be held. , Stassen And McClelljn Reach Understanding WASHINGTON t Harold IC. Stassen and Sen. McClellan ( D Arkl announced Tuesday "a thorough understanding" which ap parently ended their row over con gressional investigating powers. The announcement followed a close d-door conference between the two at which Stassen handed over all but 2 of 22 documents Ihe Senate investigations subcommit tee had threatened to subpoena if he refused. McClellan heads the subcommit tee which is looking into com plaints that Die Foreign Opera tions Administration had chosen to negotiate a Pakistan grain stor age contract with a Ixis Angeles firm whose $2,400,000 bid was nearly a million dollars higher than Ihe low bidder. Stassen, EOA administrator, has announced he will reject all bids and call for a new start, lest "the breath of scandal" hurt the project. SPECIAL LEVY ASKED PORTLAND i Multnomah County voters will be asked to ap prove a 4 -i mill levy to raise S3.8iV3.OiN) annually for four vears in the special May 20 election, the county's Board of Commissioners j anmmred Monday. That woukl he a cimtmuancc of the special tax levy which has been l in effect the past five years but I wllieh now is expiring, the com- I misinncrs said. The money would be used for maintaining county services. Mrs. Roosevelt Delighted Over Salk Vaccine Tests HYPE PARK, N.Y Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose hus band suffered polio, said Tuesday she was "delighted" wi'h the out come of the Salk vaccine tesU. "Of course, we will have to go on wnn uie aiarcn oi Dimes lor a long time, because we still have people who had had the disease who must be cared for," the for mer President's widow said. Mrs. Roosevelt made her com ment to newsmen shortly att-r placing a WTeath of lillies on her husband's grave. He died 10 years ago Tuesday. In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) that would stimulate the produc tion in suficient numbers of the! specific antibody that combats the polio virus. , Dr. Salk, after long research, FOUND IT. That is the story in a nutshell. in practice, Dr. Salk says, two shots of the vaccine, spaced two to four weeks apart, "prime" the human body to turn out. the anti-1 body that combats the invading polio virus. A third, or "booster", shot, he adds, should be given not' earlier than seven months after the "priming" shots. This booster shot pulls the trigger of the antibodv nonknnn. A fl 1 Ik. LI J ! iiiciiaiuaill lu 11UVU WV U 1 U U U- stream with the defending antibod ies. The immediate. problem is to se cure as wide immunity as possible against polio. Dr. Salk, on the bas is of new findings, urges today trfat only the two priming shots be given this summer. This would ex pand the available supply to make enough vaccine available for 45 million children which is almost our entire child population under ten years of age. The National Foundation for Invantile Paralysis is prepared IMMEDIATELY to give nine million free inoculations to ALL school children in the. first and second grades in the United States, Alaska and Hawaii. This vaccine will be paid for by March of Dimes funds. I think this knowledge will cause everyone who gave to the March of Dimes fund to feel that his gift was at least one good deed in his life. I'd like to add a word in con clusion a word of commendation for American big business, which over the years is the target for far more brickbats than bouquets. The splendid news that was given to us Tuesday morning was faintly foreshadowed quite some time ago in. the forward-looking minds of competent scientists. They thought the Salk vaccine had a good chance to be successful. So It seemed to them A BIG GAMBLE was warrant ed. They communicated their belief to the big business institutions that produce drugs and medicines. They said, in effect, that if tle Salk vaccine was proved a success LARGE quantities of it would be NEEDED AT ONCE in order to immunize as many American chil dren as possible in as short a space of . time as possible. These big concerns listened to them and TOOK THE GAMBLE. They put millions of dollars into the job of producing the vaccine. The result is that enough of it is ready TO DO THE JOB THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. Shop at Your Local Independent Drug Store FULLERTON DRUGS OPEN THIS p week til 7 l III FOR YOUR LATE EVENING SHOPPINC CONVENIENCE 127 No. Jackson Dial OR 3-741 Pinto Koom f A r f This Here Hombre invites you-all to hunker down by the Fi-ire and tote a mite of MEATBALLS, SPAGHETTI, and GARLIC BREAD on Thursday from Sundown for Only a Buck! Yore Mity Welcome WHEEL 2 Blocks W. of Garden Valley Rd. Jet. Let's put it this way: If they hadn't been big, they couldn't have, done the job. Ours is a big country, with big problems and big opportunities. Bigness is required to meet these problems and realize these big opportunities. Biggest Timber Sale Of Year Slated May 16 The Forest Service at Roseburp I has scheduled the biggest timbe: ! ale of the year for May 16. 1 A total 26 million board feet ol IJmpqua National Forest Timber : is scheduled to he sold, starling at 2 p.m. at the Roseburg Post Of fice Building. The timber is lo cated on Steamboat Creek in the northeast part of the county. The tract contains 22 millio? j hoard fect of Douglas fir apprais- I ed at S15.30 per thousand, 2 mil-' lion feet of sugar pine, ponderosa ! and western white pine aporaiscd' at $32.80 and 2 million feet of : hemlock and other species of saw timber appraised at s.5.50. Total appraised price is $412,600. INTERIM COMMITTEE SALEM (tfl The House passed Tuesday and sent to the Senate a resolution to create an interim committee to study taxation of public and private electric utilities. 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