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o 4 Th Nwi-Rvlw, Rouburg, OrWtJ.f Jun 1, 1955 Published Dally ixc.pt Sunday by the News-Review Company. Inc. aUrt4 as latent cU aaatlar May I, IMS, l lee eeit efllee l Reaaaarc, Orates, nlir Ml of kferek 4. ISIS. CHARLES V. STANTON, Idltar and Manager Member of tht Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Buraau af Circulations apreiaBlei WEiT HOLLIDAI CO., INC., effleea la New lark, Caloala, Saa rranclue, Lai Aaielei, Siattla, rartlaaa, Dearer SLBSCRirTION RATES la Or.i.a Br Mall Far Taar, ll.M: all maalki, M M; tktaa raentkl, IS.tl Oalelae Orafaa Br Hall rar Taar, IILMi ila euatki, tl.Mi tkraa raeatka, II M. . Br Niwt-k.Ti.w Carrlir Par Taar, II.M (la aaraaaa), lau Ikaa aaa rear. far raentk, II.SS. LOOK AT THE ROGUE Charles V. Stanton A reader of this column, after I had mentioned criti ru'sm leveled at snorts fishermen bv commercial fishing in terests, called my attention to Point Herald in which sportsmen were thoroughly larrmast ed. Three writers cooled their efforts. Much to my sur prise, one of them was my good friend Laos Leneve, a keen observer and conservationist, who apparently has fall en for the half-truths of the commercial spokesmen. The others were Francis Sell, Riverton, a very voca! spokes man for the commercial industry, and Frank More, secre tary of the Oregon Salmon Conservation League, an organ ization recently created by commercial iisnermen ana parading as a conservation organization. More also has been a lobbyist for the fishing industry at the legislature for a number of years. The nrinciDal argument refrain. "Look at the Rogue!" The Rogue River was closed to gillnetting in 1935. It declined steadily, although it has supported an intense sports fishery. For the past two years it has shown substantial gains. Commercial fishermen point to the decline on the Rogue as proof of their claim that gillnetting is not the major cause of fish depletion. So, let's look at the Rogue. Still Fished Commercially Let's realize first that removal of gillnets did not take the commercial fishery off the Rogue River. Approximate ly one-half the production of any of our coastal streams is taken by offshore trollers. That also is true, of the Ump qua River. Even with gillnets eliminated, the commercial fishery still gets around half the fish. Yet, by removing gillnets in 1935. the Rogue Rier has since managed to support a very large and profitable sports fishery. Keeping these factors in mind, let's branch off for a moment to some figures used by Mr. More as another nf the commercial interests' specious arguments. The Game Commission, says Mr. More, planted only 613,000 salmon during the fiscal years of 1952-53, while the Fish Commission was planting 63.770.000. At the same time the Game Commission planted 245,743 steelh.'ad as . compared with 3,910,092 by the Fish Commission. He also makes much of the fact that the Game Commission cost was $1,345,380, while the Fish Commission spent only $1, 252,583 for a far greater number of fish. That is a most plausible argument, if one doesn't in quire further. Gam Commission Barred ' But salmon and steclhead In all waters in Oregon, ex cept the Umpqua and Rogue Rivers are classified as food fish rather than game fish. It was not until 1947 that the Game Commission was given authority by the legislature to hatch salmon. The two commissions also work on different svstems. The Game Commission holds a large number of salmon to legal size. This is an expensive feeding operation. The Fish Commission releases most of its fish as "swimmer uppers," tiny fish barely freed from the egg s-tr. The. Fish Commission's method has not been effective '.n stop ping the decline in fish populations. But in the two streams managed by the GRme Commission the salmon are showing an upward trend. Now, back to the Rogue. Starting iU surveys in 1942, and getting authority to hatch salmon in 1947, the Game Commission, it would ap pear from records of the past two years, hs done a re markably fine job in only two full cvcles. The Rogue and Umpqua, so far as I have been able to learn, are Hie only two coastal streams, other than the Columbia, showing gains in salmon populations. On the Rogue the Game Commission greatly reduced losses bv a program of screening irrigation dilelip?. Else where throughout the state it has cleared some 285 miles of streambed. despite the presentment by Mr. Sell and Mr. More thnt only the Fish Commission is engaging in stream improvement. ' The Fish Commission and its mouthpieces make a great play about the work of habitat improvement. Habi tat improvement is a fine thing if needed I'ndor exist ing conditions it is only a waste of taxpayer money, be cause there aren't enough salmon left in our streams to occunv fully the spawning beds already available. The commercial fishing interests rely upon the ignor nnce of the average person concerning conservation in their effort to cling to the resource until it is totiily ex hausted. Their arguments sound most plausible unless they are carefully scrutinized. ' But the next'time thev say "Let's look at the Rogue," the suitable reply is "Let's." "J4a( NEW YORK ." Everybody complains about juvenile: delinquency m America. But who is doing anything to re ward earnest teen-age kids who do face up to their respon sibilities? Industrialist W. W. Sebald of Middlctown, 0 fell to brooding over this a year ago. I got tired got tired of hearlw abonU nothing hut dclinqueat kids," be said. "We are living in flush times, and 1 think children ire too used to taking money from their parents too few are de veloping their own initiative and earning their own way. "But it Isn't enough merely to complain. We need to put a focus of attention on the kids who go out nd do things for themselves." Sebald, president of the Armco Steel Co., found his own answer In a series of "Self . reliance awards" for high school seniors in Middlctown and Ashland. Kv. Helped by members of the Junior Chambers of Commerce in the two towns, he has handed out $3,000 from his own pocket in prue mon ey to some 20 students "for doing a recent issue of the Myrtle used In the articles was the old J3ou(e the most they can with the best they have." The prires range from tM to Xrl, and they have uncovered heartening evidence of hundreds of teen-age boys and girls working hard against all kinds of handi caps to win achievement. "We were rather surprised at the amount of self-reliance we did find, admitted Sebald, who is now ready to dig deeper into his pocket' to help the idea of the contests spread to other towns. Examples: One youngster was working 97 hours a week, and still attending school. .An honor student had borrowed money to buy a farm for his father.. .A girl Vis paying all her expenses in school by holding three outside jobs at Marjorie Smith Must Plea June 7 PORTLAND lifl Mrs. Marjorie Smith must plead June 7 to the state's charge that she plotted her husband's death. Her attorneys' mot on thai the indictment a;nunt her be set aside, was turned down Tuesday. Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford said all that was before hi'n was Mrs. Smith's conclusion, with out support, that no evidence was given to the grand jury identifying her with the crime. "This," he said, "is insufficient." Mrs. Smith was linked by Victor Laurence Wolf. 45, to the death of her husband, attorney Kermit Smith. Wolf said he ringed a bomb to kill Smith because he loved Mrs. Smith and she urged him on. He said this in an onen court confes sion and in earlier statements. But Mrs. Smith has domed it II. The slate, after her plea, expects to trv her for first degree murder. Wolf's court confession puts him hefore a judge, rather than a Jury, for a hearine. The state ol.ms this to follow Mrs. Smith's trial. Accidental Discharge Of Pistol Killed Guard BREMERTON. Wash, wi Ma rine Pfc. Raymond Sanborn, 19, was killed Tuesday when his com panion on guard duty nccidontly discharged an automatic pistoj, the Navy reported following an in vestigation. Sanborn was the son of Mr, and Mrs. Wendell A. Sanborn, Batt! Creek, Mich. Major P. W. Morgan, officer in charge of the Kcypnrt Marine barracks where Ihe men were sta tioned, said Sanborn and Cpl. Du ane K. Broome. 20. were on guard at the main gate of the Bremerton annex of the Bangor Naval Am munition Depot. The malar said the investigating group determined that Broome's weapon was discharged uninten tionally when he examined it nrior io a changing of the guard. Sanborn, struck in the heart, wr.s killed outright. Relatives Of Airmen Will Fly To Reunion WASHINGTON Nine rela tives of the four American airmen released by Red China will lly Wednesday toward a reunion in Hawaii. Tile Air Force announced Tues day that one of its Constellation transports will leave Washington Wednesday and make slops at Philadelphia and Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, to pick up the kin folk of the fliers and land them in Honolulu Thursday. the same time... A boy. also wink ing his way through school, still managed to contribute ten percent of his earnings to the church he attended. The $400 prue winner in Middle town this year, Willie Napoleon Clements, a Negro youth, worked 51! hours a week at three jobs. He delivered newspapers, worked in a wholesale produce house and clerked in a grocery store. Yet he also played on the high school football and track teams, took part in school plays, was active in his church, and was elected to the National honor society. Sebald himself is a self-made man. Starting as a MO a month office hov with the stool company 49 years ago, he worked up through the ranks to his present post, which last year paid him $245,000. During his own high school fa rcer he drove a laundry wagon during the day, played in a dance band at night. "It wasn't a matter of neces sity," he recalled, "my family was well envigh off. But they never had to buy clothes after 1 was 13 vears old. I didn't want them too. I wanted to make my own way." Sebald would like to see other individuals and organizations do niore to encourage teen-agers who show a willingness to accept re sponsibility. "Self reliance made this coun try." he said. "It is a basic thing in America, and we have to pre serve it." Any Day Now Hopes Expressed To Start Mentally Retarded Class ROSEBURG - A few days ago one of The News-Review reporters placed in the paper an item for which I wish to express my thanks. From this article we have con tacted a number of people who, like myself, have been meeting the public with smiles that are al most impossible when a broken heart is hiding behind that smile. Many of us havo children who have been mentally retarded from causes ranging anvwhere from birth injuries, careless hospital ac cidents to illness, automobile ac cidents, etc. Some of these chil dren can never be educated. But the majority can be if given a chance. It is no disgrace to have a men ially retarded child in vour home. It is not their fault they suffer from this condition. Wc all have spent, and will continue to spend, every penny we can for their re lief. We pay taxes for schools, but arc not allowed to have education for our children. There are enough parents willing to help support a class for retard ed children, if wc could have a place to hold one and the special education department would tell us what to do. Our children need kind and sym pathizing teachers. X know of boys the doctors said were hopeless but who arc self-supporting and re spected cit'zens, earning $300 and $.150 a month. Why let good little children be come state charges or criminals because people cast them aside as unwanted? They are humans. Wc would like to get in touch with every interested parent in Hosrburg and vicinity as soon as possible. Anyone knowing of fam ilies in which there are retarded children, please tell them to get in touch with Mr. Jack Luoas at the special education office. Phone OR 2 :ti6 or Mis. ,1. Lewis Johnson. Phone OR 3-5115. A meeting of par ents and friends will be called soon. Wntch for future announcements. Wc need all the support we can get. Let's all get in and pitch. One mother can't do it all. ALICE L. JOHNSON Roseburg, Ore. Eisenhower Will Speak At Opening Of UN Meet WASHINGTON .H- President I Eisenhower anounced at his news j conference Tuesday he will speak at the opening ceremony of the loth anniversary meeting of Ihe j I'nitcd Nations in San Francisco 1 June 20. j Eisenhower outlined what he ' called a busy schedule for June. He said he would go to West j Point on June 5 and Pennsylvania j Stale University June 11 to deliv er commencement addresses: lake! part in civil defense test dispersal 1 of key government officials June 15-17; go to San Francisco to the' U N. meeting June 20. and to New I England from June 20-27 10 visit' New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Boy Falls Out Window; Pillow Breaks Tumble SPOKANE i.fi - A 3-year-old hoy fell out of bed Tuesday, went risrht mil an nnen u-inrl,u- im! dropped 15 (cct to the ground. He wasn't hurt, though. He brought! his pillow with him and landed i on it. I That's the story his mother told emergency hospital steward who found that little Billy L. Oliver had only minor bruises on his i face. j Ills brother said they were pljy-j ins in an upstairs bedroom aiid that Billy pushed his bed ajainst a window, climbed in and tVn ' fell out, clutching the pillow Billv was taken to a hospital for ewmi-i nation. ! Reds Get Blame For Agitation Of Cameroons PARIS w A French .spokesman Saturday blamed Communist agi tation for five days of disorder in the Central African trust territory of the Cameroons in which at least nine persons were killed. Reports reaching Pari.-, from the territory, which France adminis ters for the United Nations, said at least 80 persons were wounded in a scries of clashes between demonstrators and police. Many others have been arrested. Authorities imposed a curfew throughout the area, located just below Africa's west coast hump. The disorders began last Sunday in Douala, a port city of some 100.000. A spokesman for th-j Ministry of Overseas France said the Cam eroons Peoples' Union biamed for Ihe troubles was a ','omnuinisl front and that its members were "always agitating." He .-aid he did not know what sparked tne current troubles. The Cameroon disorders came as French officials nvipped new urgent moves to cope wiJi spread ing terrorist activities ir, France's North African possessions. 2148 TOURISTS SIGN SALEM tfi A total of 2,148 tourists signed the register in the Capitol during May, Gene Van denyde, guide, announced Tuesday. There were 2.113 from 28 states and the District of Columbia, and .15 from foreign countries. The total included 1.812 from Oregon. FISH POND LOOTED SAI.EM OR Thclt of a pond full of fish was reported Monday by Wilson Bumps, resident of the Kings Valley area. Bumips had stocked his pond with some out-of-town trout. Bumips said some neighbor boys fished all of them out. WASHINGTON - (NEA) La bor relations experts now fear that the United States may be heading into a season of more strikes. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has pointed out that last year was a record low. Only 3500 strikes were reported -involving 1,500.000 workers. For each of the two years before, Ihe number of strikes was over 5.000, involving 2, 500.000 and 3.500.000 workers. This year is sized up as being more normal meaning that His natural to expect there will be more labor disputes. While the union demands will vary from case 10 case on pay, fringe benefits and working condi tions, two major issues will be found in the background of nearly all collective bargaining. ONE IS THE GUARANTEED annual wage which the auto work ers are demanding in a pioneer ing effort for other unions. The other is the threat of automation the new technology of automatic factory assembly which many un ions fear will reduce the number of jobs and replace men with ma chines. These two factors are in a sense complementary. The em ployes' approach to the problem of automation has so far been to ask for guaranteed annual wage, greater unemployment benefits and higher minimum wage. This is considered insurance against lass of jobs. For the employers' part, their solution so far has been a bland and blanket denial that there is anything In fear from automation. Automat on isn't going to be stopped. The unions admit that. The problem is hof it can be adopted by an increasing number of industries with a minimum dis location of the labor force. No major employer has yet come forward to say in effect: "Yes. automation will cause some em- R loves to lose the jobs they now ave. Bui e are working out a program of job retraining and up grading, so that employes displac- In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) Literature and the Arts, dismisses him with this brief paragraph: "Walt Mason, American numorist, who wrote widely syndicated dog gerel in slang." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow IS one of literature's greats and the idea of the "little green tents" occurred to him. In his poem Dec oration Day, written in his later years, he says: "Your silent tenis oi green We deck with fragran: flowers; Yours has the suffering been, the memory shall be ours." When Longfellow died in 1882 at the age of 75, Walt Mason was a vouth of 20. It .isn't improbable "that he had read Longfellow's lines. At anv rate, he improved on them. The spirit of Memorial Day has never been better sxpressea than in his Little Green lents. The Civil War, out A which Memorial Dav came. WIS' fought to make men free. Let's now quote another great niem that grow out of another great war in the cause of human freedom- World War I. Im referring to Col onel John McCrae's In Flanders Fields, in which he says: "In Flanders Fields iii poppies blow t Between the crosses, row on row. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields." So much for the past. Let's now quote a living Amer ican Vice-President Richard Nixon, who led our nation's offi cial homage to its heroes today with a declaration that there is no greater tribute we could pay to America's war dead tha,n to FIND THE ROAD TO PEACE " As to the Civil War, we know now that if there hid been GREATER TOLERANCE, it there had been more patience if there had been more enlightened effort to find the wav to PEACEFUL AGREEMENT the Civil War could have been avoided and -he slaves could have been freed without the shedding of rivers of olood and the 4oss of millions of lives. As to World War I. in whose grimmest and bloodiest vear Col onel McCrae wrote his immortal in Flanders Fields, in which he urged the living to take from the hands of the tragic dead the torch of liberty and HOLD il HIGH, we know that it settled little, if anything. It was followed by an other even bloodier wai and we can't be certain that a third and vastly MORE tragic wr may not be in the making. The great task of .men today, as Vice-President Nixon savs this morning, IS TO FIND THE ROAD TO PEACE. American-Syrian-Lebanon Clubs Slate Convention PORTLAND liP The Western Federation of American - Syrian Lebanon Clubs will hold its centen nial convention here July 1-4 and it has asked President Eisenhower to give a soeech. The meeting is in observance of the 100th anniversary of the first Syrian-Lebanese to come to this country. Robert A. Bitar. local spokes man, raid the appearance of the President would be "the greatest conciliatory move the U. b. has ever made in the direction of the troubled Arabic Middle East." The President has been named "man of the centennial." don- ed by new machines will get bet ter work at better pav." IT IS BELIEVED THAT an ap proach of this kind might knock much of the wind out of the sails of union leaders who go puffing about on the need of "GAW" guaranteed annual wage. The U.S. Department of Labor is planning studies to see what can be done in retraining workers for higher skills. Mitchell has asked Congress for 4,000 to begin these studies. It is no cxaggera,ion to say this is a second industrial revolution that has to be met. The test of modern society is whether the readjustment can be made with out all the hardships of the first. One important parallel develop ment in today's situation must be noted. This is the great shortage of graduate engineers in Amer ica. The Thomas Alva Edison Foundation has just concluded a meeting in Washington to stimul ate the education of more young sciemisis. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA has made a great point that Soviet Russia is now graduating more i engineers than the U.S. The threat is that Russian technology may 1 eventually beat out Amenta's in dustrial superiority if the trend continues. This presents a challenge to American skilled and semiskilled workers. It is no longer going to bj good enough for them to re-. main in these job classifications. 1 No labor union has vet done anything to meet this new chal- lenge. The old craft unions have their apprentice systems for the tramiBg of journeymen. But no union has yet come forward with any incentives for its members to retrain for the good jobs that are going begiing at the top. The unions and the employers may yet find that they have a Joint responsibility in meeting h.s new demand, instead of just fight irg each other over its aftereffects. President Says Vaccinations Of Children Should All Be Completed Within 20 Days WASHINGTON I President Eisenhower said Tuesday antipol io vaccination of first and second grade students should be completed in 60 days. Eisenhower told his uews con ference that enough Salk vaccine to complete that campaign will be manufactured in the next 30 days. His discussion of the vaccina tion difficulties came as a Sen ate committee considered propos als io give the government re serve authority to contro'. the dis tribution and use of the material. The administration opooses the plan and Eisenhower Tuesday re newed his view that it-is not need ed. The President said some of the difficulties and inescapable snarls of manufacturing and distributing the vaccine now are being sur mounted. He said that after tbi tirst and second graders are vaccinated, ttie program of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralyse will be directed toward completing the in oculation of all children rom S to 9 years of age. In this program, the President continued, the federal government will assume the responsibility for the primary allocation of the vac fine to the states. The states will be responsible for administering the vaccine af ter the allocation is made, he add ed. A couple of hours efter his news conference, the President put out a long prepared stateme.it setting 'Cod's Message' Gunman's Motive In Shooting Spree DAYTON, Ohio W) A gunman who said he received "God's mes sage on Dec. 23," killed three per sons and injured four others Tues day in two downtown Dayton banks before " he was fatally wounded by police. The gunman, identified by police as Richard Meyers, 47, apparently had no interest in robbing the banks. He gave only the in coherent explanation about God's message as a ' motive to police before dying in a hospital almost three hours after he was shot and captured. Meyers was shot down in the Winters Bank after shooting one person there and six others in the Third National Bank next door. Police said Meyers walked into the Third National Bank at about 10 a.m. and began shooting with a .45 caliber pistol. Before racing next door, he killed George Sawaya, 60 a local operator of a small gro cery chain. Also fatally wounded were Jo seph Gavin, University of Dayton football coach Trom 1947 to 1953 and Notre Dame basketball cap tain in 1930-31, and Frieda Cram er, 31, a bank secretary. William Sherman, a vice presi dent of Third National, and two bank customers, William L. Clark, 76, and Helen Burks, 4S, also were hit by the gunman's bullets. Continued Cool Weather Forecast For Northwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cold Arctic air sent tempera tures below feezing in parts of the Pacific Northwest early Tues day and the Weather Bureau fore cast "continued very cool" for the next five days. It was 25 at Redmond, Ore. and Mullan. Idaho and 27 at Burns, Ore. The 34 at Spokane at 4 a.m. was the coldest May ,1 in 60 years. Records for the date, only three weeks from summer, fcil elsewhere, too. Harrington, Wash, checked in with a 29 and Yakima had 31. The 32 at Boise was the lowest reading for the date in 50 years. The cold moved in aiter wind, rain, hail and even some snow ruined Memorial Day in the In land Empire. The Weather Bureau said there is a chance of scattered frost in western Montana an eastern Washington Tuesday night. A five day forecast calls for minimums ranging from 35 to 50. Planes From Carrier Fly In Ahead Of Ship SA.V DIEGO, Calif im - Planes from the carrier Princeton, rtturn ing from seven months in the Western Pacific, flew in ahead of the ship Tuesday. The 31 planes, arriving several hours ahead of the carrier, in cluded Corsairs of Fighter Squad ron VC-3, and Guardians and Sen finals of anti-submarine Squadrons 23 and 37. Aboard the carrier, in addition to its regular complement of about 2.200, arc two squadrons of Ma rine Air Group 33, returning as passengers. Look at tht Features! Comttltuir niii kMllir - EStllllM ValUn ROSEBURC 111 N. Rose SUTHERLIN W. Central OR 3-5574 Ph. 298S fllTl WiUf Heater n x forth formally the views he out lined at the conference. The President noted '.hat more than 5 Vi million children already have been vaccinated. In his statement liiscnhower said Scheele has informed him "that it is hoped to release some vaccine within a few days." The supply has been held up pend.ng adop tion of tighter production stand ards, and a recheck of necine al ready manufactured. "There has been .a deUy in the vaccination program," Eisenhow er said. "But remember we are dealing in this field with the lives of our children and Mir grand children. Because of scientific work that was done during that delay, science has learned new things about the way viruses behave in large scale manufacture and about the way we should make vaccine. "Scientists have been able to de sign testing techniques jf greater sensitivity and producion tech niques which build in a greater factor of safety and additional checks on the final oroduct so from that delay science '-as gained hew knowledge, new safeguards." The President repeated that he does not believe that regulatory legislation is necessary in the polio vaccine field. "We all hope that the diead dis ease of poliomyelitis can be eradi cated from our society," he said. 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