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4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Of Wd June 29, 1955 ' ' Publlihtd Dally Ixcapt Sunday by Hi ' News-Review Company. Inc. (alirt mill elm miliar M.r 1. I50, "I Ik "I" Koioborf, Ortgoa. o tar oel of Much t. 111. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Mc-mbtr of th Associated Prtss, Orogon Nowipapor PuoHshtrt Association, th Audit Buraau of Circulationa MiaoUd or WEST-HOLLIDAT CO.. INC., olllcri la Now lark, Cblcaio, a fronolioo, Lai Anfalaa. Ilia, Farlland, Urnrtr UBSCHIPTION KATES la Ortfoo Br Mall Par r. IIS Ml all mlnlfca. W M . tfcrao month!, IJ.5S. Oalalda Oraiaa Br Mall-Par Taar, SU.Mi al m.alka 17 Wl thrro naatka, 13. 5. Br Nawa-Rarlaw Carrlar Par raar. SUM lla !'" laaa Ibaa aaa Jtr, par maalb, 11.25. PROSPECTIVE CHAMPS Charles V. Stanton The American Legion Junior baseball program has long had a warm spot in my heart. 1 have been particularly interested in this year's Douglas County team. With any kind of a break, it should take the state championship. It is that kind of a team. Although generally listed as a Roseburg team, it in cludes players from Glide, which is a substantial contribu tor to squad personnel. Without the services of Dick Smith, pitcher, and other of the members from Glide, champion ship prospects would not be nearly as bright.- But Coach Bill Harper has some excellent material this season. He has pitching strength four or five men deep, with above average hurlers in Smith and Jerry Droscher. He has a stout infield. He has plenty of speed in the out field, but could use a little more hitting power in that seg ment of the lineup. Altogether, though, the team has shown fairly good ability at bat, with, several always dangerous power hitters. The only discouraging feature of the program is that so few boys are taking advantage of the training opportunity. Not enough players are being developed for next year. I expect this team to be a strong contender for the champion ship. But with only a few holdovers for next season, and with a small number of boys turning out for training, next season's competition doesn't look too good. Many Stars Developed The American Legin's baseball program has studded the country's baseball diamonds with stars. A large per centage of baseball greats in late years had their start in American Legion ball. We recall the time a good many years ago that Freddie Hutchinson, pitching and playing first base for the Seattle Legion Juniors, clobbered a home run at Finlay Field in Roseburg, bouncing the ball off the schoolhouse flagpole, to win the zone championship for his team. Hutchinson went on to an outstanding record in the majors and now is managing the Seattle team of the Pacific Coast League. It was about that same time that Glen Elliott, a slight, bespectacled youth was throwing benders for Myrtle Creek high sohool. He pitched the Douglas County Legion Juniors into the state semi-finals, went on to set Pacific Coast inter collegiate strike-out records at Oregon State, went from the Paoific Coast League up to the major leagues for a number of years, and still is dishing up dynamite In a relief role for the Portland Beavers. Scores of similar stories could be recited to show how the American Legion's program is contributing to our na tional pastime. It Is surprising, in view of this record, that more boys are not taking advantage of the opportunity to improve their ability. It would seem that a call for players should bring out many times as many prospects as we have working out this season. Pee Wee Program Helps One big help for the American legion squad prospects in the future will be found in the Pee Wee baseball pro gram. Since Al Flegel spearheaded the Pee Wee activity a few years ago, it has become a fixture in the local sports program and is indoctrinating hundreds of boys each year in the fundamentals of baseball. Extension into other com munities of the county in the form of Little league play is commendable. Continued on this basis for a few years, the program will assure plenty of material from which to pick players for American Iegion team competition. It has been a great pleasure to watch the Roselwrg Glide Legion Juniors in action so far this year. The players have shown better than average ability. They have suffer ed only one defeat, and that from a team they had trim med previously. They have two more games to play. Un fortunately for local spectators, both games are away from home Springfiold and Cottage Grove. If the boys play up to their capabilities, I believe they can sew up the district title. It will take a mighty good team to beat them for the state championship. Win, lose or draw, hwever, they deserve praise. JJ &,jL NEW YORK vP Some things an average man finds hard to understand : Why pretty girls wear sunglasses to work' on cloudy days? Do they really think anybody will mistake them for visiting movie stars .' People who stud their baring conversation wiHi the expression, "You know what I mean?" It keeps waking you up. Women who can't stand a dog in the house Uien get themselves pet monkey. Short stout ladies who wear big a sack of marbles now that most playgrounds are paved. People who think television is a waste of time but don't mind spending three evenings a week playing gin rummy. Folks whose ancestors went west in covered wauons hut now think floppy summer hats on crowded life isn't worth living without air U.S. Still Has Better Weapons, Industrialist Says WASHINGTON (A A spokes man for the American aviation in dustry said Tuesday the United States still has better air weapons than Russia has, and "the military industry team will keep it that way." Retired Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsey, president of the Aircraft Indus tries Assn., declared, however, that recent Russian advances "which we have suspected all along" should teach America a series of needed lessons. In an address prepared fr.r the Washington Aero Club. Ramsey said new bomber and fighter types shown over Moscow two momhs ago "mark signal preg'isi." "But w have seen nolhiri! to indicate that they are any better than, or in fact as good as, their opposite numbers in our own a;r services," he continued. Ramsey said he agrees with t'o e mililarv leaders who say that despite Russian superiority in numbers of combat aircraft, and ,ii ir recent jiff in quality. It. S. r weapons t'iil pack a greater P'juh 'The thin? thai lin shocked our P" .pie so badlv apparently, is the real'zation . 'hit our notential eri my can devrlup first-rate air-er.-.lt and is 1 'lually producing Hem," Ramsey sail BRITISH SHIP DUE PORTLAND I The HMS Superb, flagship of Great Britain's American-West Indies squadron, is due in Portland July 22 for a six day goodwill visit. The big cruiser will be a new comer to the city, a familiar har bor to many British warships. Importance Of Ground Observer Post Stressed ROSEBURG An old saying "Nothing Succeeds like Success" has been proven again at the Roseburg Ground Observer Post. I believe many people believe this organization is unnecessary but our ten top people in Roseburg Ground Observer Corps have put in over 10.000 hours of time in or ganizing and operating this Past. Roseburg Ground Observer Corps maintains a 24 hour watch' over this area and, I believe, stands hieh in efficiency at the Portland Filter Center. Last Sunday, June 19, being Ro deo Day and also lots of people out of town, we were short handed, so I spent 12 hours at the Post. Shortly after midnight 'a fire ball was reported, but I could not spot it from the Post. Did anyone else see it? Also in the small morning hours many jets were reported very high near Roseburg. PorUand Filter Center, when unscheduled flights are reported, checks with our Post but 1 could not detect or hear them. Perhaps the enemy was over our peaceful- little city while it slept this early Sunday morning. Surely the person who called in these jets must have been reasonably sure of their repeated reports. However, the clouds made a beautiful formation that looked like many jets had made bails in the sky. As supervisor of the Roseburg Ground Observer Corps, I also serve as a Relay Point to alert all Ground Observer Posts with out direct wire connection to Port land. Tuesday, June 21, at 8:08. Portland Filter Center called a Victoria Case, in her book "The Quiet Life of Mrs. General Lane," makes Douglas county's first citi zen to be something of a free wheeling opportunist, with a flair for the spotlight. That Joe Lane had his faults, few will deny, but for one who aspires to be some thing of a historian, Miss Case flaunts all the sacred rules of thai calling by waxing emotional in her diatribes against the general. We say it is not cricket for any woman to vent her frustrations on a man who long ago passed into the sacred cloister of Ore gon's great. Her most recent dia tribe against the general was a story in the Saturday Evening Post, where she made the general out to he a parrot prating politi cian with a flair for the dramatic. Frances Fuller Victor, .vrote The River of the West, which gives us intimate peeks at the character of the man Lane. Mrs. Victor bv the wav not onlv wrote the River of the West, which has become a Bible of sorts on mat ters of Oregon history, but she is credited with writing most of Ban croft's works on Oregon. As Illustrative of Lane's devotion to duty, Mrs. Victor gives an ex ample in the matter of polluted water the Lane narty exoerienced when the general was on his way to assume the governorship of Oregon. From Hie time the ffroup enter ed Hie great American desert, it became a journev of heart break. Not onlv were their horses and pack animals dvin? every day, but the military escort was deserting in l'ke proportion. When the straggling travelers buses. Sports fans by hearsay guys who know all the statistics in the baseball record books, but never never take the trouble to go and watch live game. Men who root for the Brooklyn Dodgers merely because they think it is a quaint sign of intellectual superiority. Bermuda shorts, (Yes, even in Bermuda), Wives who keep telling a fat husband he looks slimmer in a single-breasted suit, when he knows better. Girls who wear no stockings in the summer, and girls who wear lockings so thin you can't tell foi lire even after looking twice whclhor they are bare-legged. Girls who pa Hit their toenails pearl color. How anyone with sens of fit ness and proportion can eat I hot dog without mustard? How anyone can eat I pig s knuckle at all? Whatever happened to Mi won derful game of marbles? They still nave national tournament, but conditioning. How poison Ivy and the common cold manage to survive in a world in which everyone you meet knows 10 sure ways to cure them? Why, since parking spaces have become so valuable in this civiliza tion, they aren't made hereditary so someone could leave vou one iii his will? Where can a father sell a second hand Davy Crockett hat? (The cat has taken to sleeping in the one in our house.) Cahners who, when you hand them a S5 bill, count oiit chance iot si men pause hoping vou'll walk away and forget the other S4. Whv many movie houses still so on showing double feature pro- grams ner all these years? Hasn't science found a belter way to solve the problem of insomnia? How airplane stewardesses man age to stay looking so owl ami neat during a long flivht, when the passengers alwavs reach Uieir destinations feeling weary and rumpled? Why there are so manv charm schools for women and so few for I It seems incredible, but news from the plane makers and air lines in recent days makes it clear that by I960 we shall be entering the jet age in commercial air transport. We shall then be look ing ahead to atomic-powered planes and rocket aircraft. Most of the forecasters have been saying that U. S. airlines would not be flying jet planes until the mkl-lSMWs. Now we learn thai Douglas Aircraft Company ex pects to be able to deliver a jet powored plane, the DC-8, by 1959. Of course, airlines using big. fast and relatively new pislon-engined planes, like the DC-7 and the ad vanced UKkhced Constellation, iiiav be rcluctunl to switch over while so much life is left in such craft. But obviously the attractions of jet power will be enormously compelling. The planners are talking of .4- hour flights from New York to jas Angeles, 4 hours to Hawaii Irom the West Coast, and New York to Paris in S'-s hours. Moreover, it is aa established fact that jet planes will afford more passenger comfort, since they are quieter and freer of vibration in flight. And the airlines have long looked forward to the cheap er and easier maintenance involv ed in jet engines. As if this were not enough. American Airlines has announced it is buying 63 million dollars worth of so-called turbo-prop planes for use on medium range routes up to L1KKI miles. These planes use a mixture of fuel and compressed air. as do jels, but they operate with a propeller as well as a tur bine. Tne line will begin flying Uiem in late 1958. Tliere is still more. For stune time, the Boejng Airplane Com pany has been testing a jet called the 707, designed originally as an air force tanker but adaptable to commercial use. Boeing has not yet cleared away all the barriers BV WK, PEERV arrived at Cook's wells, some dis tance beyond the Colorado, they found the water was polluted from the decomposing body of a mule that had lost its life in attempting to reach the spring. This was a tragic circumstance for the thirsty party. Nevertheless, Lane boiled some of the water and made cof fee of it, remarking that the "maggots were more easily swal-. lowed cooked than raw." Mrs. Victor continues, "And here the writer, and no doubt the reader too, is compelled to make a reflection. Was the office of Gov ernor of a Territory, at fifteen hundred dollars a year, and Indian agent at fifteen hundred more, worth a journey of over three thousand miles, chiefly by land even allowing that there had been no maggots in the water." In answer to Miss Case's pub lished opinions on General Lane we turn to one of his contempor aries in early Oregon history, Judge George H. Williams. Wil liams was a democrat who broke with Lane over the slavery issue, and swung to the newly organized republican party and held high po sitions both on state and national levels. Williams said of Lane, "I have never known a man in Oregon to whom the Latin maxim, suavilor in modo (gently in manner), fort! tor in re (boldly in deed), could with more propriety be applied. . . He was intensely southern in all his feelings and sympathies. . .It j is due to his memory to say that he had what many shifty politic-1 cians had not, the courage of his j convictions, and he stood by them to the bitter end." to this development, hut under the spur of competition from Douglas and Lockheed, also busy with jet experiments, it may before long. For a time it seemed Uiat the British, with their sleek Comet jets, were really going to steal a march on American plane producers in the jet field. But unfortunate mis haps to several Comet I s took the plane out of the air and slowed up British progress in the long-ha"til field. However, John Bull is a jet jump ahead on the short hauls. The Vickers Viscount, a turbo-prop job, is in regular operation for Trans-Canada airlines. In addition Capital is scrapping their entire fleet of 60 piston eneined planes and replacing them with Viscounts. America's producers, long t h e leaders in commercial aviation with their smartly designed piston engined craft in use the world over, awoke to the chjijlenge and spurred development. Both the makers and Hie air lines are to he congratulated for forward-looking- attitudes which have not only brought America once more to the fore in civil avia tion, but have put us on the thres hold of the atomic-rocket age. practice test alert. I was able with the help of the long distance operators to reach all posts but one in Douglas County. This tele phone was reported disconnected. This alert lasted 24 hours. When the release came I was able to reach all the posts and had a new number for the one reported dis connected, so I knew they were on duty 100 per cent. There is a great deal of satisfaction in know ing a whole county is working to gether so splendidly. During fire season planes are also called in by rangers and forest fire spotters. Soon we will have twenty more regular Posts added to the se quence list. ' The niauitainance of Roseburg Ground Observer Post should be a city responsibility. With people coming and going 24 hours a day, supplies are needed constantly. Equiment wears out and has to be replaced. Paint has, to be re newed and the linoleum on the floor for IS months looks as if it had been used for 15 years. Ob servers are also helping to main tain the Post. I wish some plan could be worked out, whereby we could pay the workers the dollar 'or so an hour they rightly earn. Perhaps with a bit of publicity, industries around Roseburg would be willing to deduct a dollar a week from pay checks, of course with the consent of the workers, to pay for this service. Perhaps we could sell the wonderful view to gether with a bowl of chili, home made pie and coffee, for enough profit to help us pay these people, who cannot afford to work for ever, for free. The picture, "Strategic A i r Command," showing all week at the Indian Theatre will give a clearer concept of what is taking place, and is surely worth the price of admission. Many people say their eye sight and hearing are not good enough to be a plane spotter the solution sponsor a Boy Scout or a Camp Fire girl. Many of them are an ious to earn their wings and can net work without the help of an adult. DOROTHY TEATER, Supervisor Roseburg Ground Observers. Appreciation Expressed For Shriners Assistance ROSEBURG I wish to ex press our thanks and deepest ap preciation to the Roseburg Shrin ers and to all the Shriners of the United States for the great help in the care and healing treatment for our daughter, .Mary Ann. In addition to the great cost of May Ann's hospitalization and constant check-ups, the Roseburg Shriners have contributed to our Federal Employe Security Facing Revision Probe WASHINGTON UWThe Eisen hower administration reportedly has decided to go along with Democratic-sponsored proposal for a bipartisan commission to study the controversial federal employee security program. The measure, sponsored by Sen ators Humphrey (D-Minn) and Stennis (D-Miss), was sche'lu!--' for Senate debate today with all signs pointing to overwhelming passage. The proposed 12-member com mission would make recommenda tions to improve the functioning of the security program. A House committee already has approved a companion measure sponsored by Rep. Walter (D-Pa). The security program oecame a lively issue in last fall s congres sional elections. Some Republicans contended the Eisenhower admin istration had discovered and turned out of office "thousands" of security risks hired by the Dem ocrats. Many of those ousted were alleged to have subversive data in their files. Drunks, sex deviates, blabber-mouths and other unreli ables also may be fired under security regulations. Democrats charged the Repub licans were playing a "numbers game" which they claimed would not stand careful scrutiny. These Democrats demanded, but never got, disclosure of personnel files. Dr. E. W. CARTER Chiropodist Foot Specialist Diseases ot the Foot CARTER BUILDING 217 North Main Roseburg, Oregon ORchard 3-7066 House Approves Funds For Military Works WASHINGTON ifl House pas sage sent to the Senate this week a hill authorizing a $2,368,998,000 military punlic works program for the year starting July 1, , The House approved an amend ment to permit the Army, Navy and Air Force to acquire, when available at reasonable terms, priv ate housing built with government backing on or near defense instal lations. Total spnding authorized was up nearly half a billion dollars over last year. The. Air Force is earmarked for $1,165,453,000; the Armv $551,105, 000; the Navy, $596,140,000, and the Central Intelligence Agency, 56 million to build a headquarters in the vicinity of Washington. need for transportation to and from the hospital at Portland no small amount. Without the Shriners of Ameri ca, Alary Ann, four years ago, would have been a total cripple, her body twisted and deformed j beyond any help. Now she will be : able to walk and enjoy the things ! of .life like the rest of us. We thank God for these wonder- i ful people who have made it pos sible for thousands of crippled children to be well again, and also thousands who have' been restored to usefulness. Without these Shrine hospitals, small income families of America would never be able to help crippled sons and daughters, no matter how much they tried So, I say thanks a million on be half of Mary Ann and all our fam ily. May God bless you all. MRS. ANGELA RUDHE Roseburg, Ore. 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Tuna in th National and Horn Hour Ivory Saturdi 0Uf um- V SALtS AND SfVICf J FARM and TRACTOR COMPANY 80 E. 2nd Ave. West At The Triangle (J3ruce &5ioS5al you rarely see city kids lugging i men? Is the male e just natural ly more charming Whether a lortune couldn't be made if someone fourd a method of making catsup in different colors? At preent all it goes with is I red necktie. Ironworkers Sfrike Inland Empire Jobs by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The ACL Ironworkers local 14 struck Inland Kmpire contractors this week in support of a wage de mand and set up picket lines that stopped constructinn work at Spo kane and .Moses Lake. The union has 900 members In eastern Washington and northern Idaho and the strike was called asainst members of the Kastrrn Washington Builders Chapter of the Associated General Contractors. North Idaho builders belong to the organizalion. The union is seeking a 12-cent hourly wase increase retroactive to June 2, a 10-cent hourly increase next Jan. 1 and an additional 10 rents an hour for hrallh and el fare programs. Members now get i2.fi an hour. 7- . : 'ft. ' B4 JAVr. -;!; "h - ij'i nniMn km . SPECIALS CONTINUE! V!f",';',,l'' A 8 To introduce the new Body w V r'i Vr '-4,, Vfc l Shop and Pointing Depart- x i SA995VM- I SPECIAL LOW PRICES 1 NBEvfU IV ON COMPLETE CAR V o.cotvr. V paintinc l " v, ?uf'S Car I V ASK F0R PRICE U v- e iny 0 S QUOTATION J M Cat of W ,,00 i, 4 I U S,V . Set I DOOR PRIZES! Enjoy the Fourth In a Safe, Dependable Used Car! vq iAIRCUS BEAUTIFUL SHEFFIELD CARVING SETS You con still rtgiiUr I win ont of thts beautiful ttti , . . but com In now . . today! Ont set will b given owoy eoch day thru Wd ncidoy, July 6 which It positively the lait day. No purchase necessary, you need not b present to win. See description of carving sett above t left. 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