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Newspaper Page Text4 The Nawi-Reyiew, Roieburg, Or. Thur., July 21, 1955 Published Dally Kxeept Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc. fal.r.a eii llin m.ll.r Mar 1, al tilt pa.l allloa l , ftaaaaarf, Oraiaa, near set af March S, Itlft, t CHARLES V. ST4NT0N, Iditor and Manager Mambtr f tha Associated Praia, Oregon Newspaper Puolishers AtMslarien, the Audit Buraau of Clreulationa aar.Hal.a kr WlaT-MOLLIDAT CO., INC., alllaaa la Na lark, Ckleafa. aa rraaeUea. Lai Aaralaa, Saattla. Farllana, Dana.r aUBIClirrlON KATES la Or.J.a Br Mall far laar, Slt.M; ! maalha, W.saj tkr.a aa.atka, H.M. Oalilaa Orafaa Br Mall Par laar, ill.Mi all Baalka, l.Hi Ikra aalka, l.M. r Nawi-Barlaw Carrlar Par Yaar, lll.aa (la aa.aaca), lata Ikaa ana rar, far aiaalk; SMS. FAIR TRADE IS NO ROBBERY Charles V. Stanton Three State Senators, including Senator Paul Geddes of Koseburg, have taken up the cudgel on behalf of the public in Southern Oregon. They have demanded intervention by the state's public utilities commission in connection with the announced intention of the Southern Pacific company to discontinue passenger service in this area. There is a legal question whether the Southern Pacific ' has not been in violation of the terms of the Oregon and California land grant since it discontinued through train service many years ago. The grant was made on a pro vision that through passenger service be maintained be tween Portland and San Francisco. The Southern Pacific company holds that its trains by way of the Natron cut-off meet that requirement. There is a technical point as to whether through trains might not be enforced on the line actually built with funds realized from the grant. Hut there is still a question of whether it is worthwhile ; to force the Southern Pacific to retain the Nightcrawler. .' Jt is my opinion that unless the public utilities commis sion will force the Southern Pacific to operate a more mod ern and adequate passenger train service, we might as ; well forget the whole thing. Certainly the Nightcrawler is of little benefit to South ern Oregon. It is my further opinion that the Southern Pacific has deliberately endeavored to kill off passenger travel in this ' end of the state. Passenger trains are costly to operate. . The Southern Pacific company is a part owner of Pacific Greyhound Lines. Busses can be operated at much less cost than trains. Consequently, the Southern Pacific can make more profit from its part ownership of busses than through maintaining train service. So, from the company's viewpoint, it is good business to chase people off the trains and onto busses. Passenger Service Costly The National Association of Railroad and Utilities Com missioners, reporting on the railroad passenger deficit prob lem at ft convention in November 1954, stated that gross revenues for the year 1953 were the highest in history, with net operating income from freight service in that year reaching a record $1,813,000,000. For the same year, the passenger train deficit was $70,574,000, or roughly 39 per cent of the net operating income from freight service. Thus, from freight income, the nation's railroads were forced to subsidize their passenger services to the tune of ,39 per cent. Here in Southern Oregon we hold the opinion that a railroad company owes some responsibility to the area from which it derives itg freight business. Southern Ore gon is one of the brightest spots on the whole S.P. system mcomewise. No one will question that the Nightcrawler is a source of expense, and cannot be justified economically. But could the Southern Pacific company operate bet ter service without dissipating such a large portion of its freight revenue? Would a through service, operated in daylight, utilizing modern equipment and service, reduce the deficit? Could interurban type service be maintained without incurring heavy loss? If it can be found that some form of decent passenger service can be provided at a near break-even figure, then, 1 believe, the Southern Pacific company should be forced to supply that service. But, if passenger service is to cost 30 to 40 per cent of income, thus putting the company at a disadvantage in competition with truck transportation, an enforced service is not justified. Improve Freight Service If, however, the Southern Pacific company is permit ted to discontinue its passenger service, thus saving, by its own estimate around $500,000 annually, steps should be initiated by the public utilities commission to force a bet ter freight rate struoture for this area. While our long haul rate is competitive, Southern Oregon is under a great handicap in shipping through Pacific Coast ports for for eign export. If we had access to coastal and overseas ship ping, our market potential would be materially expanded. It probably would be necessary to go through the Interstate .Commerce Commission to obtain better freight tariffs to Paoific Coast markets and ports, but a program initiated by the public utilities commission doubtless would carry much weight with that federal body. The public utilities commission also could require the Southern Pacific to utilize some of its increased profits for development work, particularly in opening new indus trial site areas, through construction of spur tracks, and making general improvements to its service. If the Southern Pacific company can be made to com pensate the area for its loss of passenger train service by improving the economic structure through more realistic rates and a mpve responsible attitude toward industrial de velopment, we might be better able to absorb the blow to our provincial pride. Horses vs. Nightcrawler J. Scott Milne, Electrical Union Leader, Passes PORTLAND im J. Scolt Milne, 57, who rose from secretary of his electrical worker union local here in 1923 to president of the 625,000 tnember union in 1954, died at his farm home near here early Wed nesday. A heart attack was re sponsible. . i Milne, whose office as head of the AK1. International Brother hood of Electrical Workers is In Washington, D. C, bad been va cationing here. Milne had been the union's pres ident since April 19M succeeding Dan J. Tracy. Tracy retired but died in Washington last March. and member of Ihe executive coon-; run 'rom K"Kene to Ashland Chamber Of Commerce Launches Plan For Race Against Antiquated Train The Koseburg Chamber of Commerce is launching a stunt which it thinks may prove history is moving backwards that is, as far as the Southern Pacific Railroad goes. in an effort to show just how slow the Eugene-to-Rose-burg passenger train runs, the chamber is snowballing a movement to race horses in a pony-express fashion against the much maligned "Nightcrawler." Proiect Manager Alan Knudtson reported Wednesday the race miy gain even greater proportions and be continued the lengih ol the cil of Ihe American Federation of Labor last May.- Milne, born at Vancouver, B. C, lived much of his life at Portland. lie was vice president of the un ion for the West Coast area for many ye'.ra and later became in ternational secretary -treasurer. His wife Doris, and a son. Scott, Jr., were with him in Portland. Anoth er son, Robert, had remained In Washington. Now the chamber is contacting posse and riding groups all along the line to secure enouth horses and riders to make the run. Hors es would be changed at mile inter vals, except in the casjs where distances have to be scaled down because of hills or grades. Knudtson said the Southern Pa cific schedule calls for a three hour passenger train run from Eu gene to Roseburg. Aclually, he jfeter cdon :JJJ 8oL WASHINGTON (NEA) The record of the first session, 84th Congress, on President Eisenhow er's legislative program, still has to he made. Congress just began to roll in June. In the first four months of the session, only 28 acts were pass ed and signed into law by the President. Twenty more were signed in May for a total of 48. BUT 52 NEW LAWS were signed by the President in June to bring the total for the season to an even 100. There is a 50-50 chance the ses sion will run through the first half of August, in the final weeks mils will be raining down faslern than you can keep track of them. President Eisenhower's 14 meas ures on which he wants action aren't exactly a "must" list. Legis lative proposals nowbefore Con gress won't die with the end of this sesion. They'll carry over. This has been one of the factors influencing a slowdown this ses sion. There has been plenty of evi dence in both parties of a desire to wait and make a record in 1950, an election year. J here has also been evidence or foot dragging on the part of con gressmen who aren't overly en thusiastic about some parts of the hisenhower program. THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH reinsurance plan is getting n o place and probably won't. It was first presented to the 83rd Con gress and cold shouldered, then as now. The same thing has happened to tha President's proposal for amend ments to the Taft Hartley labor law. Neither parly Is showing any great fondness for the administra tion's power-partnership policy. This applies to the Cougar and John Day projects in Ihe North west, in particular. They have been taken out of the public works bill, which covers 100 per cent fed erally financed projects. ihe President would like to get Cougar and John Day authorized on the basis of having state and local interests share construction and operating costs. The idea is that if just a couple of these part nership power projects could be started, they would set a pattern for more. There is even some evidence that congressional majorities have deliberately gone out of their way this session to sabotage the Presi dent's program. THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS plan to put over a $20 individual income lax cut for everyone is a prime example. It would have cut government revenues by two bil lion dollars a year, or more. The Senate-led crusade against the President's bond issue plan for highway construction financing, if successful, will increase federal government's direct expenditures for new roads by an estimated 1.7 billion dollars a year. The House Democrats' latest plan to increase social security benefits for the aged is another move in the same direction. All three of these measures would Ihrow the budget further out of balance, increase the public debt and so make the Repubublican fiscal record look bad. Perhaps the most effective wrecking of the President's pro gram has been done on the , mili tary reserves plan which the President considers vital and aid to education and school construc tion. - t Rep. Adam Clayton Powell CO NY) was encouraged to introduce antisegregation amendments for both proposals. These amendments made the legislation unacceptable to Southern Democrats and action was effectively blocked. Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District iNKW YORK VP) Items from the mailbug: Everyone knows what the American wife of today is like. But what about the wife of tomorrow? Well, the chances are she'll be better groomed than her mother, and know more about the technique of understand ing a husband than the technique of running a stove. A test of some 180 000 senior hich school girls by General Mills dis- ciosea mat u per cent were well informed on the art af keeping themselves looking naat and pretty, 71 per cent had studied up on now 10 Keep a husband happy, 64 per cent had i good knowledge of the mechanics of housekeeping, but only 52 per cent had acquired real cooking skills. One surprising result of the sur vey: Only 45 per cent could answer correctly questions on child care. This seems odd In view of the trend toward earlier m image. It seems like everything a person does now from sneenna to buy ing; a greeting card reflects his deep, hidden personality. ciate It with a sallow complexion. The favorite color of men and executives in general is blue. Those who choose green cards often arc stingy and have a sus picious nature. Those who ike to send nerfunied ranis are generally extroverts with a tendency to show off the "life of the party" type. Do you ever pick a 'greeting card featuring a sea scene or a lake view? It may he a sisn that Dri- vaiely you wish Ihe wa'er would wash away Ihe person whom you sena uie card lo. Personally, I'd like to send a card like that to the Dsvchiatrist. Just how complicated do we want lo make lite Dior's Edict Ignored " I have lifted Ihe bosom, and flattened it," christian Dior, French fashion designer, an nounced last summer. His edict aroused considerably concern among men who disliked the idea f American women For ten years the problem of obtaining appropriations for the construction of Federal public works projects has followed the same pattern. This year was no exception except for the ballyhoo, the claims of who got the money and how. The appropriating process starts with the Bureau of the Budget. The annual budget never has and doubtless never will carry monev for ALL of the projects that alt members of Congress want includ ed. Traditionally, the Appropria tions Committee of the House re fuses to add items to the bill that are not in the budget. When the bill goes to the Senate, where each slate is equally represented, there is no such restraint and meritorious projects are added. Then in the conference of Com mittee Members from both House and Senate the bill is gone over (and sometimes fought over) item by item and the final draft is writ ten. The Senate is usually quite liberal in sprinkling additional items over the map of the United States but all concerned realize that the final screening process will take place in the conference. Senators get the credit at home for obtaining Senate approval for net Droiects but. unless there is a determined "follow-up" inside the closed-door conference sessions, many "glowing achievements" fall by the wayside. Good or bad, like it or not, that Is the way the appropriative func tion of Congress works when it comes to appropriating money for public works projects and it has worked that way for a long time. said, the time is about 3 '-4 hours. He said the train averages about 21 miles an hour. He said the Douglas County Mounted Sheriff's Posse had been contacted and had agreed to par ticipate. He said other posses were being contacted, including the Jo sephine County Posse at Grants Pass. He said the Grants Pa?s group had already promised 20 riders if the race is run south of Roseburg. Data To Ba Sat Later Knudtson said the stunt was only in the preliminary planning stage, but work nas already started-in mapping out a course where horses would not have to run on the pavement. This would mean back roads and along the edes of the highway. He said the traf fic problem was also being studied. Although a date has not been set for the big race, Knudtson said he hopes it can be run on the week-J end after next. A definite date will be announced later, he said. He concluded that although it is a stunt for attention, the cham ber feels it will point up the need for more adequate service for pas sengers on the line from Eupene south. "We are not interested in keeping the present type of serv ice," he said. "We want it improved." Moscow Papers Print Impartial News Of Big Four MOSCOW IM Pravda and Iz-j vesta expanded from four to six' pages this week to publich with equal space the speeeches of the Big Four leaders at the open ing of the Geneva Summit con ference. The front pages had a friendly glow. One had to turn to page two to find anti - American remarks These were in the text of a joint statement signed by A. I. Mikoyan, a first deputy premier, and Ho Chi M i n h, president of Communist North Viet Nam, who has just left the U.S.S.R. The Soviet-Viet Nam communi que stated the two countries "res olutely denounce attempts at in cluding South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia in the zone of action of the agressive military bloc in Southeast Asia." The reference was the Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization (SEATO). Otherwise, everything in the So viet press seemed jolly, with all iU organs reporting on the meet ing of President Eisenhower and Soviet defense minister Georgii Zhukov Zin Geneva. The dispatch I from Geneva told "how two old j fighting comrades-in-arms, Presi- dent Eisenhower and Marshal Zhukov, during their friendly chat, mentioned with no little pride that each of them already has several grandchildren." - The main organs of the presa all earried front page editorials call ing for peace in the world as the result of the Geneva conference. John Wm. Unruh, M.D. Physician-Surgeon announces the opening of his office 303 Pacific Bldg. ORchord 2-2414 Practice limited to eye. Adventist Conference To Gain Nine Churches ORGON CITY im The bien nial business meeting of Oregon Seventh -day Adventist churches opened Wednesday and nine churches in Oregon and Southern Washington were to be admitted of ficially to the conference. E. R. Sanders, secretary-treasurer, reported that this will raise to 110 the number of churches in the conference. The meeting was at the nearby Gladstone campgrounds where the church s camp meeting is to open Thursday. Political Use Of Peace Scored By Negro Baptist LONDON un A leading Amer ican Baptist said this week there can never be peace ' as long as one nation of people takes delight in holding another in economic, political and spiritual bondage." The Rev. Joseph H. Jackson, pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church. Chicago, told the jubilee congress of the Baptist World Alliance: "Peace is not a political weapon to be used by one nation to in-1 crease lis power over anuiuer. Peace is a spiritual value and can not be realized without love and a regard for the sacredness of hu-! man personality." j Rev. Jackson is the Negro pres- j ident of the National Baptist Con-I vention of the United States and 1 one of four Baptist ministers who will visit the Soviet Union next monlh as guests of Russian' churchmen. i His address was accompanied j by footstamping and handclapping. j Some ministers in the audience j jumped to their feet and shouted fervent "amens." At times his voice was drowned out as the audience echoed his words We are pleased to announce that Leo F. Young, CP. A. and Marvin E. Walpole, C.P..A. Have Formed The Partnership YOUNG, WALPOLE & CO. Certified Public Accountants with offices to be located at 404 NORTH JACKSON STREET ROSEBURG, OREGON MARKET DAY First Methodist Church FRI., JULY 22-9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. HAM LUNCHEON SERVED 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. 1.00 Per Plate Featuring: ' f) Cooked Foods Hand-Made Articles 0 Garden and Farm Produce PUBLIC INVITED FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Corner Main & Lane Sts. What happened regarding the money for the Talent project is a good example to illustrate the above story. Other than money for rehabilitation of existing dis tricts in the proiect the budget did not provide funds for Talent. By dint of a lot of hard work plus heavy pressure put on the com mittee by the Bureau of the Budg et itself, the House Committee did. contrary to custom, include $150,000 in the bill for that proiect. The Senate then increased the amount to $500,000. In confererce the House majority (Democmt) Members obiected to the increase. The House Republicans were fo! it. The Senate conferees did not insist, so the addition was stricken out of the bill. Had the Senate conferees refused to agree with the majority of the House confer ees and had the Talent item been brought back to the House in dis agreement in ine conicrence re port I would have had a fiahting chance to save the $.150,000. , In 1SM8 an identical situation de veloped regarding $2,000,000 for I the Bonneville transmission lines 1 to the Oregon coast. Senator Cor- don was able to have the item I sent back in disagreement. Where upon I was able to make a motion on the Floor of the House to recede and concur in the Senate amend ment. On a roll call vote the House agreed to make the appropriation. I had no such opportunity on the Talent item. For example, do you always send what happened? Kv"". "l"-,' ",1,a n "Pensive .., .pe o( f headlines, the 8h.yr i l?i,men,2l nviu "rd I excitement, the hullabaloo about , "b'rthday; do you hesitate to r,.un to the form .. send her one in a humorous vein? ; ,ay, Slt,,v executive of .,i n"lftU becal"! ou 1 a rubber fabrics comp.nv. Amer- !!.iT .,rei. nu".ng iuit!"lican women kept right on Olivine against the old girl. I padded bras, which last vear' hit Anyway, this is one of the con-1 an all-time hish in retail sales vol- clusions reached by a Chicaso ume of more than M million dol-is passed next year those dams greeting card firm after a survey ilar. can be completed ouicklr hut if of several hundred thousand cu.i-l The brassiere and swimsuit man-1 the present 'federal money or tomers. ufacturrrs actually botuht more none" oonos:tion is contin ted we Color Indicative than three times as much hrafoam I mav have to continue down this The survey, as interpreted by a padding in the first nine monihslong hard road f seeurinr smill psychiatrist, showed: .atler Diors new style came out as annual MerM annronriations for Children and young women pre-Uhey had in the same preceding those dams. Meanwhile the annus! fer red cards. Most women avoid nerind. rinvi H.m.n w,n .vrmiinn im h I buying yellow cards as they sso-' Everybody feel better? I $:.000,000 or more. As I reported in my letter last week some monev was put in bv the Senate for the three Willa mette Valley flood control dams Cougar, Green Peter and Hills Creek. That is good. There was considerably more monev l TME RUDflF.T for the Cougar and (Ireen Peter Dams If our Oregon Senators had cooperated in secur ing Ihe early passage of my bill to allow non-federal particination in their construction. If that bill THE STYLE SHOP'S FINAL, MONEY-SAVING .ia.aai TREMENDOUS SAVINGS! COME AND SAVE DURING THIS FINAL CLEARANCE! SUITS Linen, rayon and silk and wool. Also some 100 wools. 8.95 to 35.00 COATS Both short and long lengths. 14.95 to 35.00 DRESSES Real values on these racks! You must come and see (or yourself. All our regular stock on sale! 3.95--5.95-8.95--1 0.95--1 4.95 17.95 and 19.95 THE STYLE SHOP Look Smart, Feel Smart, Be Smart . . . Shop and Sore 139 N. 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