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DEMAND FOR PARKS
Charles V. Stanton
Things happen around a newspaper office that simply
can't happen. And they always happen to us.
for instance:
We had a galley of garbled type matter come off the
machines. We ran a corrected galley. Then someone for
got to dump the bum type and, of course, it got into the
paper while the corrected type went on the time bank.
That was the reason the story appearing in our paper
Friday concerning the Highway Commission's park plans
was practically unreadable.
And, it was an important story, of course, dealing with
a matter of great general interest.
There has been much criticism of the policies of the
State Highway Commission with regard to its parka sys
tem. Organized sportsmen throughout the state have been
, especially critical. At the last session of the State Legis
lature a bill was introduced to separate park management
from the Highway Commission and to organize a State
Parks Department.
Although I am in full sympathy with park expansion
and development, I believe I can understand why the
Highway Commission has been reluctant to give the pro
gram the attention and cooperation it deserves. I am of
the opinion that the commission has now recognized public-demand
and is endeavoring to establish a more satis
factory system. If the Highway Commission will give us a
satisfiictory parks administration, I can see no reason for
creating another agency.
Money Hard To Cer
The Highway Commission's reluctance to spend money
on parks in the past stemmed, I believe, not from lack
of interest in parks, nor from lack of realization of the
importance of parks, but rather from the fact that funds
were limited. The Commission, with not enough dollars to
meet demands for highway improvements, and seeing our
highway facilities steadily outdistanced by the increasing
load of traffic, had to decide whether dollars should go into
road maintenance or park acquisition and improvement.
Faced with that choice, the commission grudgingly put a
very limited amount into parks, while trying to patch up
the deteriorating road system.
Authorization for highway bonds, however, changed
the picture. Bond money .has financed badly needed relo
cation work on principal highways. This' money, though
not nearly enough, has at least relieved some of the pres
sure. The improvement has been ho pronounced, I am
hopeful the people of Oregon will demand continuance of
the development program and will provide adequate funds,
either through more bonds orhigher gasoline taxes.
I believe., too. that the Highway Commission underesti
mated public sentiment favoring extension of the park sys
tem. When it found its policies unpopular it immediately
sot out to" revise its activities, as a good public agency
should do. I believe it should be given an opportunity to
prove its good faith.
Separation Expensive
i Setting up a separate department Would, in my opin-
! ion, be an unnecessary expense. Efficiency also could be
impaired.
The Highway Commission has the administrative and
field personnel to handle park.i jobs. If we had a separate
parks department, much administration and field work
would be duplicated. Duplication is always expensive. It
also is possible for the highway department to coordinate
much of its highway maintenance with park maintenance,
whereas duplication again would be involved if a separate
agency were to be set up.
It is my opinion that we can get better parks at less
cost by keeping the system under the Highway Commis
sion, but only if the Highway Commission adopts and main
tains a favorable policy. If the Commission's new atti
tude towards parks and a parks system is sincere and
I have had no reason to doubt it it is my belief we
should leave the administrative sob-up unchanged and give
the Highway Commission an opportunity to work out a
program to the best of its ability and to the limit of funds
available.
Paul Harvey, in his article which appeared in such
badly garbled form in our Friday paper, questioned con
stitutionality of a separate parks department, inasmuch
as the State Constitution provides that all highway revenue
must be used for highway purposes. So long as parks are
a part of the Highway Commission's program, appropria
tion of revenues for parks purposes is legal. Hut he ques
tions whether a transfer of highway funds to a parks de
partment separate from the Highway Commission would
be leal.
That, question, however, needs little consideration. 1
believe the public wants and will demtind a state parks
program. If it doesn't get it from the Highway Commis
sion, public demand doubtless will force an amendment to
the Constitution.
Hut, if we will show a liltlc patience and tolerance, T
believe the Highway Commission will come up with a good
job on parks.
J4a( &tjfe
NEW YORK (V) The poor man's adventurer:
Jly child, my child!
This world lies before you, the great unknown.
So many boundaries unexplored. The mighty Creeks,
and they did many things, said "know thyself."
The Itomans, boi.stcrous pris-i -
oners of the Crock mind, after ro- , ,,, v ... fc.,
bust centuries .said ... same thing ! VThinle'rinoVaU
The torch of inquiry, handed lnese centuries, the great thinus
down by every wandi-ring Hp have ,.,. endowej wi,h (hr
tribe who held Uic sword of con- ab,llv to Decome . ,,nd ,,
cues! since then, remains both , d if
a question and a commandment. ! J,,,, ourscves.
My child, my child!
I
We work by the back door. Wc weapons,
try to understand nature while ro- The weapons by the grace of
filing to try to admit even UiatiGod-if that is toe word have al
tlus is only a window glimpse into ways lain like dust m the world,
ourselves. The mam tool is the mind of man,
Hut masnifircnt new research if man ij destined to survive on
power can now be massed to take I this crowded csrUi and ulse the
t
Here is our time. Hero are itr
Never Underestimate the Power
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EMERGENCY PRESS HEAD
QUARTERS, OPERATOR ALERT
(NEA) The U.S. Department of
Labor announced that the Am
erican Federation of Labor would
give the government a "no strike"
pledge in case this country were
subjected to a real attack.
The Department of State says
it is likely there will be a meeting
of Big Four foreign ministers in
the week before the heads of
slate meet in Geneva on July 18.
The Treasury says Congross
would be reconvened in special
session in case the U.S. were sub
jected to a real atomic bomib at
tack. Congress would be asked
to increase the debt limit, in case
this aotion had not been taken be
fore adjournment.
The Atomic Energy Commision
announced that it still expected
the Dixon-Yates contract to be ful
filled. In the event it is not carried
out, AEC will still rely oa the at
torney generals opinion that it
will have first call on all power
produced by the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
These four bulletins are not just
handouts fiuiu government agenc
ies prepared in advance as admin
istration propaganda.
THESE FOUR EXCLUSIVE
STATEMENTS, plus a few other
minor news breaks given below,
came as an unexpected bonus out
of the three-day defense test on
how the government would func
tion if it was bombed out of Wash
ington. To find out how news could be
obtained in such an emergency,
this reporter and two colleagues
threw a surprise test into the civil
defence machinery.
We submitted a series of 12
questions to as many government
department heads whose tempory
offices were scattered in a 300-
mile radius west of Washington for
tlie evacuation.
Only two agencies conked out.
Office of Defense Moblilization
was asked if the President would
have authority to freeze prices and
wages in a real emergency of
this kind. No answer came back.
Department of Justice was asked
if it would appeal to the Supreme
Court the dismissal of key indict
ments in the Owen Lattimorc per
jury case. No answer came back.
The FBI was asked what special
security measures it would take
to deal with problems arising in
a real emergency. It answered
promptly, but the answer was tlie
usual "no comment."
Department of Defense was ask
ed how many planes tlie Strategic
Air Command had put in tlie air
in this exercise. SAC sent back the
word promptly that it was part
icipating only in the evacuation
exercise, and not in retaliatory
maneuvers.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
was asked if it would withdraw its
request for auUiorization of tlie
upper Colorado River project in
case of a real emergency. It sent
back word that this wouid depend
hard victory of the mind against
the pull of easy ignorance.
How little we know, after these
centuries. . .and they have been
many suffering centuries.
Man, the divine animal, is a
totem pole, a tall and enduring
monument on which is scratched
both ignorance and discoverv.
Child, child! ,
They reach for what is true.V:'
what really IS. . . is the tremen
dous voyage of man, and man has
but put his foot in a trembling
canoe he created himself and
pushed with a small courage into
a roaring dark.
Who are you? Where can you
go? What can you learn? What
can you really do Cor people, what
can the human race become?
It is more than that. For all that
we know, we remain as a folk a
child, curious, but a-tiptoe, loving
the light behind us and afraid of
carrying a candle forward into the
blackness ahead. I
Child, child!
But hist so you keep on trying
to scratch a match
on whether it could get priorities
for material and manpower.
Department of Health Education
and Welfare was asked what its
assignments were in the simulated
emergency. The reply was that it
was still studying the problem and
would report later. This was
typical runaround, par for normal
government operation.
Department of Agriculture was
asked if it would distribute surplus
foodstuffs and grain to bombed out
areas. The answer was in effect,
"yes" if local surveys showed the
need for it.
The White House was asked what
positive results might be expect
ed trom tlie meeting between Pres
ident Eisenhower and India's V. K.
Krishna Mcnon. Press Secretary
James C. Hagorty fell back on
Ins earlier statement that the two
would meet again.
Editorial
Comment
From Th Oregon Prtsa
Madford Mail-Tribuna
Increasing costs and diminishing
supplies of tlie better grade of
timber together with new tech
niques in building are bringing
some interesting and somewhat
revolutionary changes in Oregon s
lumber industry.
At Dallas, in the Willamette val
ley, it was announced last week
that construction will start there
immediately on a $1,000,000 sheath
ing plant in order to gain greater
recovery from every ounce of tim
ber that is cut in that vicinity.
Sheathing is an industrial grade of
plywood, manufactured from the
less desirable logs.
A sookesman for the comD.inv
which will install the new mill ex
plained that due to the increasing
shortage of logs "some of the val
ley lumber mills are going to have
to go out of business and they will
be replaced with sheathing mills
and tne like.
The same man cited the paper
plant which is to be built soon
near Albany as another example
of greater utilization of timber.
The Dallas mill, he said, will sup
ply wood chips to the Albany pa
per plant.
left over material from lumber
and plywood mills now furnishes 31
per cent of the pulpwood require
ments in the northwest and is the
equivalent of 750,000,000 board feet.
Lew-overs from the same source,
being converted into hardbiard
and soft-board, are estimated at
100.000,000 board feet.
This means 885,000 tons of pulp
and 560,000,000 square feet of
boards are produced without the
falling of a single tree for those
specific uses.
Close on the heels of the Dallas
announcement came the word from
San Francisco that Crown Zeller-
bach corporation, one of the coun
try's largest lumbering concerns,
intends to start construction soon
of a $750,000 green veneer mill in
the Columbia river area near Port
land. When completed the new
mill will he Zcllerbacn's first ply
wood production plan in the Unit
ed States. It is the first step to
ward a full-fledged plywood oper
ation which will eventually run
into several million dollars, accord
ing to the company president. The
Tnove, he said, is a significant de
velopment toward diversification
of operations calculated to bring
maximum utilization of forest re
sources in the Pacific Northwest.
Zellerbach ig presently manu
facturing plywood at a plant own
ed by a subsidiary, n?ar New
Westminister, B.C.
Announcement of plans for the
new up-state plywood nulls came
almost simultaneously with the
word from the Empire Plywood
company here that a new rough
shealing plywood plant is to be
built in the White City industrial
site north of Medford.
The local mill, which will have
an estimated annual pavroll of
Siso.ooo lo $.100,001). Is the third
large plywood plant authorized in
of These Reds
Parade Entry Criticized
As Being Too Risque
ROSEBURG The Rodeo par
ade was for the most part, clean,
decent, and amusing. However,
there was one entry, which I will
not describe, that did not have
enough humor to relieve its in
decency. Any act that oversteps the bound
aries of propriety and good taste
is not amusing. When adults lay
aside their dignity to such an ex
tent, is it any wonder they have
lost the respect of many young
sters today? Entertainment need
not be risque to bring laughs from
children or adults. It would be ex
tremely embarrassing to have a
child attempt to describe that par
ticular part of the parade. We
should not have to be ashamed of
any part of the parade.
This thought comes to mind, if
those fellows tlnnkf they were a
success this year, what will they
dredge up next year for the Doug
las County Rodeo parade?
Evelyn William?
Roseburg, Orgon.
Argentina Frees
Nineteen Leaders
Of Recent Revolt
BUENOS AIRES. Ml ' Argen
tina Monday released 19 leaders of
the Radical Party who had been
detained since the June 16 revolt
against President Peron's regime
Four other party members were
still held.
Simultaneously, police at Eva
Peron, in Buenos Aires Province
in eastern Argentina, announced
the arrest of two persons identified
as Communists and two Radical
Party members on charges of
snreading rumors. The nature of
the rumors was not disclosed.
The Radical Party is the main
opposition group, holding 14 of the
106 seats in the Chamber of Depu
ties, lower house of Congress. AH
the other seat are held by Peron
ists. Among the 19 released is DavV
Michel Torino, former director of
the Salta newspaper El Inlran
sigente. The Peron government
closed that newspaper in 1950, and
Torino was imprisoned for nearly
two years on charges of contempt
of court and fraud. Last year the
Interamerican Press Assn. award
ed him the "Martyr for Freedom
of the Press" medal.
The government Monday lifted
all remaining restrictions on
flights of planes over Argentine
territory imposed after the rewlt.
Censorship of news dispatches also
was ended.
Sunday police furnished protec
tion for thousands of Catholics
thronging churches in Buenos
Aires. The worshipers knelt amid
wreckage before improvised altars
in churches damaged during the
revolt and prayed for victims of
the uprising.
this vicinity in recent months. The
first. Fir-Ply Inc., and the second.
Oregon Veneer company, are now
under construction. A fourth ply
wood operation, Medford Veneer
and Plywood, has been operating
here for some months.
The fact that all the new mills to
he installed in the Willamelte val
ley and in the Medford vicinity will
be turning out products not in very
general use for ouilding ;u.st a few
years ago, indicates the extent to
which the lumber industry is tak
ing on a "new look."
The change is all to the good"
for in making some types of ply
wood poorer grades of timber can
he used and more men can be giv
en employment. E.C.F.
IN THE DAY'S NEWS
By FRANK
(Continued from Page One)
gestures. They finally agreed to a
decent treaty with Austria. They
agreed to a .meeting of heads of
.,,.... .1 1 ll. n:i.j
ic vi nusma, me uiiiiea aiaies,
Britain and France to be held next
month in Geneva. The No. 1 purpose-
of this meeting at the hieh-
est level is obviously to see if pres
ent world tensions can be relaxed
and the possibilities of war re
duced.
United Nations is holding its
tenth anniversary session in San
Francisco, where it was born, and
relaxation of world tensions has
been the theme of this session.
Molotov made a stubborn speech
there the other day, but he made
it in a manner that for him was
mild and conciliatory.
Then
Bang!
Comes another unprovoked at
tack by Russian warplanes on an
American warplane.
About the only conclusion one
can draw from it is that the Rus
sians are an unpredictable lot.
What shall we do about it?
I don't know. I doubt if anyone
knows. But there's one thing I'm
pretty sure of. We mustn't let our
selves fall into the delusion that
we can get together with the Rus
sians and settle everything on a
friendly basis.
Suppose we did get together and
agree to settle everything on a
friendly basis.
How long would such an agree
ment last
We must talk and talk and talk
with the Russians whenever and
wherever they are willing to talk.
We must dicker and dicker and
dicker with them whenever and
wherever they are willing to dick
er. Talking and dickering are
cheaper than shooting.
But always we must keep our
fingers crossed.. And always we
must keep our guns loose in their
holsters.
The news on our domestic front
is more cheerful.
Wholesale food prices as meas-1
ured by Dun & Bradstreet are eas- i
ing downward. At $6.49, the Dun
& Bradstreet wholesale price in
dex compared with $6.51 the week j
before and $7.28 in the same week I
of 1954. j
Local News
Back From San Francisco
Miss Janet Morris has returned !
here, following a week in San ;
Francisco visiting friends. j
Vacationing Miss Darlcne
Hammond, record librarian at
Mercy Hospital, is taking her two
week vacation at this time.
Hare From Coast Mrs. Jack
Snook and daughter, Laura, of
Coos Bay, are in Roseburg visit-1
ing the latter's paternal granjpar-1
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Snook, i
Suffers Fall Ann Linder of
Roseburg suffered a bruised face
Saturday, when she accidentally
fell at the airport. She is able to
be out again.
Go To Sttamboat Mr. and
Mrs- Lawrence L. Burr and son,
Larry, of Roseburg have gone
to Steamboat to spend the sum
mer. Back From Coasa Mr. and
Mrs. B- H. Laird have returned
to Mieir home on Winchester
Street, following a visit with rela
tives in Brewster.
Back From Portland Mrs.
Verner Anderson has returned to
her home in the Oak Hill apart
ments, following a week in Port
land visiting her parents.
Arrival From California Bob
Micelli of Santa Monica, Calif.,
has arrived in Roseburg to vistt
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Micelli.
Visiting In Eugen Leslie and
Susan Longfellow of Roseburg are
spending this week in Eugene vis
iting their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Allen.
Rtturns Hart Vondis Miller.
supervisor of Umpqua Forest, has
returned nere, following a week
at Wolf Creek and up the South
Umpqua on business.
Move To California Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Roberts and sons, Wayne
and Dick, have moved from their
home on Kildeer Place to Red
ding, Calif., where Roberts has
been transferred.
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
PUSAN, Korea ' The U. S.
Army Saturday marked the fifth
anniversary of the start of the
Korean War by returning the huge
port of Pusan to South Korea.
In anniversary ceremonies, the
Army also dedicated its vast
rear area supply lone and the Re
public of Korea took over the task
of supplying South Korean forces
at the front.
L. L "Jim" Powers
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This wholesale index represents
the total cost at wholesale of one
pound each of 31 basic food items.
The federal government report
ed a few days ago that living
costs remained unchanged in May
as compared with April. (The gov
ernment cost of living index is bas
ed upon a set of items considered
typical in an average family budg
et.) At the same time, Labor Sec
retary Mitchell said in announcing
the cost of living figures, worker
take-home pay rose sharply to a
new record high. This, he said,
adds up to overall national sta
bility. It certainly does if we can
KEEP IT THAT WAY.
If living costs can be held even
at the worst and kept going down
at the best, our future will be rosy.
As long as that lasts, we can
earn more dollars and GET MORE
FOR EACH DOLLAR. It's when
prices, begin to rise faster than
incomes that trouble starts.
That's called INFLATION.
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