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4 Th News-Review, Roseburf, Or. Fri., May 13, 1955 Cattlemen Tp Ask Hearing To Create Beef Commission CORVALLIS OF) The Oregon Cattlemen's Assn. will petition the State Department of Agriculture soon to hold hearings, then a ref Published Dally Irapt Sorrier by l(w . , News-Review Company, Inc. latere! u mil ! aaallet Her 1. :, l ike Mil etriee el . ) SaMaerf, Onm later u ef Hen ' j ' CHARLIS V. STANTOM, Idlttr ind Mmmr i Member of Mm Associated Press, Oron N.wsp.par Publishers ,; . Association, Mm Audit iuroiu ef Circulations hHIHllil 7 WIIT-BOLUDAI CO., INC., elMea. la New left, Cklaofe, I lu rraaeleea. La Aofelea. ieellle, rartlaal, Dnm (UBICRUTION KATES la Orates-Br Hell Fee fair. III.Ml el meaiae, M larti ayatkf, IS SI. OatiUa Orefee-f Hall Pat laar, lllMi aaaalka. '-- It Ml three aiaalta. lilt Br Nawa Eaalaw Canlat e taar, HIM (la altaaeal. laaa lee. aaa Mar. ' aar aaaalk. Il ia. BAD NEWS COMING UP . .. , Charles V. Stanton V Robert Aufderheide, former supervisor of the Umpqua National Forest, now residing in Eugene as supervisor of the Willamette Forest, gave Lane County residents some bad news recently. Speaking before the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, Aufderheide told his Lane County audience that the timber industry in that county is starting a decline. Timber has been removed too fast, he said, and a reduction in cut must be accomplished. ' Aufderheide's report, of course, was hot news to his audience. Lane County people have been aware for a long time that their" timber industry was on the downgrade. Business interests have been frightened. Eugene in recent years has claimed to be the "Lum ber Capital of the Nation." Roseburg listed itself as t h e timber capital. Douglas County had more timber, while Lane County was producing more lumber. But Douglas County's lumber production now exceeds that of Lane County. Eugene no longer can claim to be the lumber capital, for the title for both timber and lum ber has passed to Douglas County. Business circles in Lane County naturally are disturb ed by the industrial decline. Some observers are decided ly pessimistic concerning the future. Yet much new busi ness is entering the Eugene area, which would indicate that large investors are not worried. ' Incoma Probably Will Gain ,. Lane County undoubtedly will follow the same pattern as other lumber producing areas of the country It has passed the .peak of its primary manufacturing stage. For a brief time industrial activity will diminish. . But opera tors, now restricted in the amount of raw material avail able, will soon develop methods of secondary maufacture profitably utilizing the limited material supply to which they have access. Primary manufacture is long in profits. Secondary manufacture normally results in less profit to the operator, but creates more jobs. Secondary manufacture is m o r e stable, is less susceptible to market fluctuations, pays high er wages for skilled workers and, in the long run, is more beneficial to the community. ; The State of Washington, for example, lost the lead in lumber production t Oregon in 1927. Washington took a beating for a few years. 'Then it developed secondary man ufacturing processes. Today, although it uses only about one-third as much raw material as is consumed in Oregon, it has a much higher income from its diminished timber resource, because of its higher scale of utilization. Secondary manufacture already has gained consider able headway in Lane County. Under pressure of decreas ing economy, Lan County business leaders will devote more energy to encouraging addition! secondary uses. Within a few years Lane County may be expected to be far ahead of Douglas County in rate.of income from the timber industry, although using much less material. Douglas Hat Opportunity It will not be many years until someone in authority will be breaking the sad news to a Douglas County audi ence that it has passed the peak of primary manufacture. We already have made far too heavy inroads on our pri vate timber supply. We are cutting millions of feet of pri vate timber that has just reached its most productive stage ; timber that should be left to grow for another 40 or 50 years. At the same time mature, overripe and decadent timber, as well as millions of feet of fire-damaged and diseased old-growth timber, is being lost because of inade quate access. ' Douglas County could avoid the slump experienced in the past in nearly all other timber producing areas if it would tackle the problem. It won't. We'll undoubtedly go through the same cycle. ' But if our industrial leaders would get together, set up a perpetual cutting pattern, pool resources to form con cerns of financial strength to achieve utilization, and there by develop secondary manufacture side by side with pri mary manufacture, limited to allownble sustained yield cut, we would escape the slump traditional to the industry. Don't expect it to be done. But the opportunity is present. NEW YORK UP) He sat there the man across the luncheon table small, dark-eyed, polite, talking, with a whip in his mind. The whip is the one with which he lashes mankind and himself for failing to dream as big as people can, and for not attaining the dreams they do have. Asked when he was most happy in his life, William Kaulknor, stu dent of failure and recent Pulitzer I'ricc winner, started off: "Success comes too easy In Ulis country. There r many wys to make money and they all spell success." Faulkner may appear to some as the intellectual's Mickey Spil lane. But- his reverence is for a man like Thomas Wolfe, whom he calls the most magnificent failure of his generation, because "he tried to do more than flesh and blood could do; he tried to reduce the human heart into a para graph." "We measure greatness by the distance between the dream and the failure. We all fail. None of us match the dream." Faulkner, who is a small man with obviously fastidious tastes, grew up with physical and literary giants, such n Wolfe and Heming way. "In our generation we were all failures. Myself, Dos Passos, Hem ingway, Wolfe. Wolfe was the fin est failure." , . , Faulkner, when asked how many books he has written, give a vague answer. n "Somewhere between 11 and 22; prohably 20." When asked how may books he has sold, he says he doesn't know but is going to ask his pub Ushw about those things. Faulkner is an extremely delib erate crafUman. Among other tilings, he has delivered the plot lines for 12 movies. The latest is "Land of the Phamahs," a Warn er Brothers picture. After winning the Nobel Prize for literature, he was given the PuliUer award this year for his novel, "A Fable." This rather sur prised him, since it was published! a year oetore. Faulkner, one of the most suc cessful writers in America, ha!S an outspoken antipathy for the bare bones of success. "I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. 1 had a trench coat then with big pock ets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare and a bottle of whiskey. Then I was hap- fiad ann i wanted nothine and no responsibility." I asked him what makes nennln grow old. He said idleness, bore dom. It kills them. Thev die be cause they don't have enough to do. ViMM Trimming Of School ' Budget Draws Support ROSEBURG I hope that no one, who is honestly interested in School District 4 and the educa tion of its children, will neglect to read the open letter on page 8 of Monday's News Review. I com mend those good citizens who pub lished it, for it is the sentiments many parents would voice if they were able to express them. The past few weeks I have heard youngsters say they had been told that they would be going to school half days next year, and have to go all 12 months in order to get an education. Such things as band, sports, hot lunches, and even bus transportation would be supposedly non-existent, unless the budget passes. This business of using children to spread propagan da is so unlike our American Way. Ia fact we abhor that very thing in the Communistic countries. How can we tolerate it here? No good citizen would object to higher taxes it it were proven ab-J solulely necessary in order to prop erly educate our youth, nut, i agree with the above mentioned letter, there are some things not necessary, and too many highly paid executives could be one of them. 1 have often wondered why the teaching staff of the schools, espe cially the smaller ones, is not plan ned so that each school is provided with at least one teacher who is trained to teach music, one for sports, one for art, etc. Thi3 way each school could provide a com plete program without waiting for the coordinators who sometimes do not appear at the assigned time. We do want our children to be well educated. I am glad the time has come when someone will openly suggest ways of eliminating unnecessary expenditures ot tne money allotted for that purpose. MRS. L. A. MOORHOUS Route 2, Roseburg, Ore. KP Girls Drum Corps Expresses Appreciation ROSEBURG The Knighls of Pythias Girls Drum & Bugle Corps and director wish to express our sincere thanks to everyone for their wonderful support given us at our swiss steak dinner Friday evening, May 6. Your support will assure our par ticipation in the 1955 pie-Festival Parade on June 11 at Portland. You may be sure we will do our best and will be thinking of you in June in hope we will again be able to bring home first place. KP Drum & Bugle Corps girls, Director Bill Black and the Drum Corps Com mittee of Alpha Lodge 47, , Knigbta of Pythias. Air Force Puts Emphasis Upon Defense Tactics WASHINGTON on'- The Air Force has placed new emphasis on tlie buildup of North American air defenses, and has eased up a bit on the further development of its long range striking arm. But an Air Force spokesman deprecated Thursday reports that there is a growing, intense rivalry between the Continental Air De fense Command with headquarters at Colorado Springs, and the Stra tegic Air Command at Omaha. The Defense Department budget does not break down the appro priations for the various Air Force commands. Roger Lewis, Air Force assist ant secretary for materiel, said in recent testimony befoae a House appropriations subcommittee: "As we lake long strides in the provisioning of weapons for our strategic striking forces, we be come ever more conscious of our needs for. improved air defense." One informed source said ADC has been given a proportionately greater share of the budget, in planning for the next two fiscal years, while SAC has, proportion ately, a somewhat reduced share. Aluminum Co. Won't Renew Murrow Contract PITTSBURGH 11 - Aluminum Co. of America announced Wednes day it will not renew a contract with Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem to sponsor Edward R. Mil th row's "See It Now" television pro gram. The final "See It Now" proeram sponsored by Alcoa will be July 5, the company said. Alcoa said a new advertising and sales promotion program prompted the decision. The com pany has no definite television plans, it said. Murrow's program has been sponsored by Alcoa since Decem ber. 1951. "Doing nothimf sitting down and vegetating Is no good un less you can make it an actual occupation. "There are people who can do without a job in this world and slay heallhv, but they have to be iiseo to it. Asked what was his greater pleasure In life now, Faulkner re plied: "Thinking up an Idea for a book before I realize this one really Isn't going to he as good as I want it to be, either. "This time yoil say I'll catch the answer to the whole riddle why man is here put it down in black and white so everyone can see it and understand. Refore you can do this, you break the pencil and throw it away." From the way he talks, von might get the idea his Mississippi farm Is strewn with broken pencils until you take a look at thai book list. WASHINGTON (NEA) Rural Electrification Administration cel ebrates its 20th birthday May 11, at the start of a big fight within the Eisenhower administration to change completely REA a method ot doing business. - There is no argument about REA having done the job it was sup posed to do. Since private power companies were dragging their feet On rural electrification, this New deal agency was created to ipeed up the process. Today 97 per cent of all U.S. farms are electrified and 54 per cent of this was financ ed by REA loans. In addition, under another pro gram authorized in 1949, REA has lent 80 million dollars and author ized loans for another 100 million dollars to 150 local telephone com panies to help bring phone service to a million rural homes. REA OPERATIONS have un questionably helped increase U.S. farm production as well as to bring labor-saving conveniences to farm wives. But this has been done at a price. Over the oast 20 years the U.S. taxpayers have had to pick up the tab for 85 million dollars as the administrative costs of REA. This cost now runs close to eight million dollars a year and it's growing, naturally. v . There is an argument over whether REA has lost or made money, or just broken even. REA is required by law to lend its money interest free for the first five years, then two per cent a year. REA SETS THIS MONEY from the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury pays one and a fraction per cent interest for its short-term money and up to three per cent long term. The average is just under two per cent. On this basis. REA breaks even. But since all of. REA loans are for 20 and 30 years, on this long- In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) timber and some of the best graz ing lands in the West, can hardly fail to be of interest to any citi zen of Oregon. The economy of the entire state will be affected by the success or the lack of it that attends this rather staggering so cial and economic experiment. This is the present situation, la brief: Public Law 587 provided for a CHOICE on the part of the mem bers of the Klamath tribe. They can either take their share in cash and get out, or thev ean stay with the ship. In order to get the money to pay off those who want out, Pub lic Law 587 provides for the SALE under certain prescribed conditions of reservation property. Since the money must be provided rather quickly, it would amount to FORC ED SALES of the more liquid of the reservation assets. The most liquid of the reserva tion's assets is its TIMBER. In order to provide the amount of money needed within the time lim its provided, the timber would have to be sold to the highest bidder. The result of such a procedure would be to throw the reservation limber probably the finest body of Ponderosa pine remaining in the West on the market for IM MEDIATE CUTTING, thus putting an end to the policy of sustained yield management under which this great stand of timber has been administered (or decades. The result of that would be sev eral years of wild boom followed by a BUST. The three ante citizens ot Ore gon who make up the "manage merit specialists group" that i charged with the responsibility fa putting Public Law 587 into effe could not bring themselves to a ucpt such a situation. l So they declined to serve unle their contract was revised in sue a manner at to permit them t. proceed with the job of termina tion of federal supervision in a more orderly manner. They con vinced the fedoral authorities that their position was sound, the con tract was changed. The most important change in the contract was one granting to the management specialists the light to SUBMIT AMENDMENTS TO THE I.AW FOR THE CONSID ERATION OF CONGRESS. Mr. Walters, Mr. Favell and M- Phil lips (the management specialists) believe that if carefully drawn amendments permitting a more orderly handling of the reserva tion's huge assets can ne present ed to the congress at a time that is less hectic than was the case when Public Law 587 was enacted congress was then hastening to reach adjournment in a Presi dential campaign year it will be possible to secure intendment of the law providing for wiser and more orderly liquidation proced ures. That is the long and the short of the present situation. Here is a point we must all keep clear in our minds: THE LIQUIDATION OF FED ERAL SUPERVISION OF THE KLAMATH INDIAN RESERVA TION IS A MATTER THAT IS OF PRIMARY CONCERN TO THE MEMRERS OF THE KLAMATH TRIBE. The Klamath reservation is their heritage. It is all that remains to Ihem of the country that belonged to their ancestors. In l.e process of termination of federal supervis ion it is THEIR WELFARE that must be primarily considered. But - - It seems to the three able and public-spirited men who compose this management specialists group that the welfare of the members of the Klamath tribe and their descendants will be better served by a more orderly process of li- term basis REA gets an interest subsidy of one per cent for its customers. Over 20 years this can be computed as a cost or loss of 500 million dollars or more. It Is on this basts that a task force of ex-President Herbert Hoover's Commission on Govern ment Organization has recom mended that REA be converted into a government corporation and put on a sell-supporting dbsis. This recommendation has run into powerful opposition. As every congressman knows, the REA co op is a potent political force in any rural area. Also, NRECA the National Rural Electric Cooperatives' Assn., whose general manager is ex-un eressman Clvde Ellis of Arkansas is one of the strongest lobbies in Washington. ELLIS RECENTLY WROTE- all congressmen to charge that t h e Hoover report "reeks with false hoods and misstatements and power eompany propaganda." He says the Hoover recommendations would double REA credit costs. He has demanded that Congress deny further funds to the Hoover com mission. Congress obviously won't do any such thins. But there is no assur ance whatever that Congress will go along with all of the Hoover recommendations. There is no question at all about the possibilities lor luture growui of the REA system. A recent sur vey of its co-ops' expansion needs for the next five years indicates 845 million dollars' worth of new construction planned. This will re quire an estimated 635 million dol lars in new loans. The big question as REA starts its 21st year as a big and growing boy is whether Congress will con tinue to support it in the liberal style it was raised, or whether it will be turned loose to make its own way ii the cruel world of pri vate business compet'tion. 149 Polio Cases Reported Over Nation For Week WASHINGTON Ufi The Public. Health Service Thursday reported 149 new polio cases for last week. 2 more than the count for the week before and up by 5 from the number in the corresponding week a year ago. .For the year, up to May 7, the report shows 1,601 cases, com pared to 2,120 in the same part of 1954. The weekly tabulation of com municable diseases lists all cases Of polio reported by state health officers. It is separate from the special listing of polio cases among persons inoculated with the new Salk vaccine this year. The latter list, issued shortly after the weekly report, boosted the total cases among vaccinated persons to 64, up 2 from Wednes day. . Fifty-nine were paralytic. It included a second Pennsylvan ia case. Both the cases from that state, the Health Service said, fol lowed injection of vaccine made by Wyeth Laboratories, Marietta, Pa. A breakdown of the other cases showed 52 after use of the product of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., and 10 after in jection of vaccine made by Eli Lilly Co. of Indianapolis. Five deaths ha,ve occurred among those vaccinated. Three have been in Idaho. McKesseq & Robbins Will Close Struck Plant NEWARK, N. J. lift McKes sen & Robbins, Inc., has decided to shut down its plant here which 'ias been idled by a strike since larch 24. The company said the closedown is caused by demands of AFL 'amsters which "made it innpos ile to operate with the efficiency d economy necessary to render opcr service to the company's stomers." Closing of the plant, a spokes man said, means the loss of jobs for about 200 persons with an an nual payroll of $700,000. The plant here had operated for 60 years. Exploding Rockets Kill 3 Canadian Civilians VALCARTIER. Que. .n Three civilians, including a girl, 16. were killed and another injured Thurs day by explosion of a r,ocket type bomb at this army base 15 miles north of Quebec. They were reported to have been collecting exploded bomb cases at the rear of the army base for resale of the copper when they encountered a live bomb which went off in their hands. The victims were Paul Odillon Daigle. 25. Marie-Claire Daigle. 16. and Adrian Labranche. 21. Mrs. Daigle was severely wounded by the blast, but dragged herself for two miles to obtain help. Dr. Salk Reassures Parents On Vaccine PITTSBURGH I - Dr. Jonas E. Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, reassi ed parents Wednes day that spacing of the second shot is not important provided it is given before the 1955 epidem ic season or before exposure in in dividual cases. The 40-year-old scientist at the University of Pittsburgh warned the work on vaccinations against polio was not designed primarily to control me disease in 1955 but rather to determine the proper conditions for its use. quidalion than Is provided by Pub lic Law 587. This objective of a more order ly procedure. Ihey believe, can only be provided by amendment of the law. Personally, I quite agree with them. erendum, on a proposal to create a beef commission. Delegates to the annual associa tion meeting voted Wednesday for the commission, which would take over promotion and legislative ac tivites for cattlemen. It would- be financed by a tax on each of the million cattle on the state's tax rolls. The maximum tax would be 5 cents a head. At the starj, however, sponsors plan a 2 Vi-ccnt tax. This would raise $25,000 a year for the seven-man commission, to Be appointed by the governor. Any cattle raiser with 10 or more cattle will be eligible to vote in the proposed referendum. There was no debate and only two dissenting votes when the pro posal was passed at the meeting. There also were a number of resolutions passed, only one caus ing debate. That was a proposal for an either-sex deer and elk hunt ing season to cut the numbers of big game. It met defeat, speakers urging cooperation with state au thorities in areas where game ani-' mals become a problem. ! Elected president for the coming year was Garland Meador, Prairie City. George Russell, Vale, was ni-med first vice president. Region-, al vice presidents named were: I Ken Magruder, Clatskanie; Sam Demont, Myrtle Point; Don Hotch kins, Lakeview; Paul Mullcr, Wa mic, and Irvin Mann Jr., Stanfield. Next year's convention will be at Bend. Hagerry Lifts Ban Put On Reporters Visiting Ike WASHINGTON Itfl James C. Hagerty, White House press sec retary, relented Thursday and lifted a day-old ban against re porters visiting President Eisen hower's office. "I apparently blew my top Wednesday," Hagerty said with a grin. "I am entitled to blow 'my top once in a while, but let's forget it." In reply to a question, he added with another grin that the ban was lifted "unless I blow, my top again." Hagerty said Wednesday report ers would he banned from Eisen hower's office because they over heard a conversation there be tween the President and Secretary ot Welt are Hobby. New Treatment Set for Blemishes Gets Unusual Results Now you can do something about the heartache of pimples I In a recent lest, a leading skin doctor treated icens and adults with Ihe new Tussy Medicare Ami-Blemish Set. He rcportg "quick, marked improvement in most cases"! 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