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4 Th Nwi-Rview, Roseburg, Oft. Sat., Aug. 6, 1955 Publiihtd Daily Except Sunday by th , News-Review Company, Inc. j (.Ural m MO.od m.tl.r M.r t. isse. l Ikt alflw .' tharf, Orf . nlir .el .1 Hf-rrfc f, lilt. CHARLES V- STANTON, Editor and Manag.r Mambar el the Associated Praia, Oragon Nawipapar Puliohar Association, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations Sltf.M.ltl kr WEST'HOIXIDAY CO., INC., Hle.l I. K Ilk. Chle.ffc rrinilix, L.I AnIUi, III. Ftrll.i.4, l).Y.r UBaCEirTION lAIM-ll Ortl.n-llr Mill ' I,M: ' "i Ihr.. m.nth.. IS.JS. O.liU. Ort.-llr Htll-P T.r, ! ' - S7.MI tana nalhi, 11-11. Br Nwi-.fltw C.rrlir fir I.r, lll.aa (I. ",. ! f" par raialk. 11.11. TOUCH ONE TO LOSE i . Charles V. Stanton . One reHon the game of baseball holds such a fascina tion for spectators was twice demonstrated in the American Legion Junior baseball state championship series. In the second game, after The Dalles apparently had victory safely tucked away, Roseburg's sluggers Jiroke loose with a ninth-inning rally which brought a 7 to 6 win. But The Dalles came back with an identical situation in the game Thursday. With Roseburg leading 2 to 0 in the last inning, it ap peared the series would be forced into a fifth game, in which Roseburg would have had a great advantage, inas much as The Dalles had gambled everything on the Thurs day contest by using its ace pitcher, Denny Peterson. Roseburg was just one pitch away from not only a pos sible but a probable state championship. Two were out and two strikes had been pitched to the batter when the roof fell in. A combination of hits by a desperate home team, and an error by Roseburg, put The Dalles ahead 4 to 2, the final score. That's baseball! The game is never over until the last man is out, is an old saying about the game, and certainly no better proof of that statement was ever furnished than was shown in the Legion series. Taams Well Match. While the Roseburg players and fans were, of course, greatly disappointed by the evident to anyone observing the games that it would be extremely difficult to find two teams more evenly matched. A break of any kind could have tossed the championship into the laps of the Roseburg players. In fact, it is the opinion of many of us who witnessed the games, that just one pitched ball, had it been a strike or an "out" ball, in stead of being rapped for what proved to be the deciding blow of the game, could have given Roseburg the crown. That's just how close it was. .: . So, though we must be content with runner-up honors, we need feel no disgrace in having been beaten by a valiant and deserving team from The Dalles. The Dalles has a wonderful team, and I know I speak for Roseburg fans in hoping that they go all the way to the national championship. They would wear such honors well. In fact, don't be surprised if they do go to the top. One of the officials at Thursday's game officiated last year in the national play-offs. Either The Dalles or Roseburg team, he said, would compare most favorably with last year's national champions. Roseburg Conduct Praised With Dr. E. W. Carter us pilot, in his private plane, Mayor Ernest Barker, Sid Moon, and I flew to The Dalles to see the Thursday night contest. We were the guests of The Dallas' most hospitable mayor, M. A. Davidson. Mayor Davidson was highly complimentary of the Roseburg team and particularly of its conduct both on and off the field. He said the boys had impressed The Dalles residents with their fine show of sportsmanship and, more particularly, in their contacts with the people of The Dal les at their quarters, in eating places and elsewhere. For my part, I'd rather have that kind of a report than a championship by a team with poorer behavior. Incidentally, Mayor Davidson, whose son, playing shortstop for The Dalles team, has been a star performer during the season, and Mayor Barker, sitting side-by-side in the stands, were alternate pictures of elation and dejec tion. Our group of Roseburg rooters, in the midst of a highly partisan home crowd, took quite a ribbing in the early part of the game, but it grew less anil less as Rose burg's two runs loomed bigger and bigger in the closing innings. Mayor Barker was exuding joy and confidence one moment, while Mayor Davidson sat despondent, with bead in hands. Then, almost instantly, the conditions were reversed, Davidson screaming his delight, while Bark er was in dispair, as were the rest of us Roseburg fans, with the good-natured jibes of The Dalles fans falling on our heads. Well, It was a grand series between two good teams, both of which are to be congratulated. Next year is another year, and we expect to be back rapping again on the door of tlte state championship. feeler cLon WASHINGTON (NKAI The U.S. Passport Office is moving into new quarters around Labor Day, but il hopes lo leave its cock roaches behind. Literally. The Passport Office staff has been sweating it out in the old Civil War relic Winder building, on 17th street across from Old State since early World War II. They refer to one section of the file rooms as the cowshed, an other as the hog house. All this within a block of the White 'House. As postwar travel has increas ed. Uie Passport Office has ex panded into two adjacent annex buildings, then into three floors over a restaurant THERE IS A MASTER Indev file in the main building with near-, fication photos in passports and' ly 17 million cards in it. There is i s(.al. a card and a file for everyone I There was an old fashioned hot who ever applied for a passport, glue pot reallv an antique. The I tor the fiscal year ending June girls brushed the hot glue on I 30. the staff turned out a record and dried it with a hot electric 499.M1 passports and revewals. iron. It took a couple more opera This was over four a minute for lions to applv Die seal. ! every working day. j One thing was modern alwut this Gradually, over the years, dead i process. It seems the glue didn't files in cardboard boxes have1 dry if the humiditv was hith. so been crowded into the rellars of one concession was made to mod the old buildings. These cellars ernity. An a.r conditioner was in had served as cells for Confeder-1 stalled ate captives brought lo Washing-1 DIRECTOR KNIGHT' and the ' ton for questioning. ; rest nf the staff of amund Sim em- i The cockroaches in these cellars ployes simplv sweat and sit in it. I are some of the largest and most , The Civil War wood shutters ae aristocratic in Washineton. Their shut on the east and south ex ancestors used to see Mr. Lincoln : poure to keep out the sun. himself walk across the street! They work in semidaikness in from the White House and write the high ceilinsed rooms because; out in longhand his messagea to. that's cooler. There are floor fans outcome of the series, it was be sent by that wonderful new ill vention, the telegraph. WHEN MISS FRANCES Knight took over as director of the Pass port Office on June 1, she called in a management survey team from General Services Administra tion for a cleanup. It found in a spot check that 13 per cent of the papers in those lfi million files were in the wrong place. Rush hour phone calls weic backed up 22 deep wailing. Here was why it took so long lo get a passport, in spite of the fact the staff worked 12 hours, six davs, in the tourist season. There was one room thai in. Incited Miss Knight Cirlt sit in Hi ,., i,l.i In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) from Canberra, the capital of Aus tralia. A patrol into the interior of Pa pua has found a tribe of wig-wear-ing warriors who had NEVKR BEFORE SEEN A WHITE MAN. A report issued by the New Gui nea administration says the tribes men, known as the Duna, wear wigs and long beards which give them a Biblical appearance. But, the report adds: They are FIERCE fighting among themselves with spears and bows and arrows. That throws a fair-sized mon key wrench into the wheels of the theory that the bulk of the hell- raising that has plagued the world since time began has been started by white men. Here s a trine ot natives mai never saw a white man, and yet they go around fighting each other as bitterly and bloodily with spears and bows and arrows as the while men do with guns and bombs. It also puts a. kink in Jean Jacques Rousseau's highly senti mentalized picture of the primitive man, the "natural'' man, the "no ble savage," 'Who according to Rousseau was simple, pure and unhibiled quite superior in every way to so-called "civilized" man. Rousseau's theory which con tributed heavily lo the French Re volution was that private pro- ficrty and the institution of the po itical slate are the primary caus es of inequality and oppression. Therefore, he argued, they should be done away with and man should be permitted to return to his "na tural" and unspoiled state. According to the Canberra dis patch, these natural and unspoil ed primitives in the South Seas jungles have been doing each other just as much dirt as (he white men who have been spoil ed by too much sophistication. One thing I'd like to know about these wig-wearing Duna boys in the New Guinea wilds. Do they wear wigs merely to keep the rain off? Or do they wear era out of pride, to conceal baldness? And If they wear them for the latter reason Do lltey entertain the primitive and unspoiled delusion that NO BODY CAN TELL THEY'RE WEARING A WIG? Pacific Maritime Assn. Increases Pension Funti SAN FRANCISCO The Pa- Vim ,uai iiiuir .Tisnii. iuy r ti jicii SJt-llMUil l ull 1 1 I Oil I Kill uy iVt CtMllS a day in identical throe-year con tracts signed this week with three No wave increases were in- volved. The rnntrart nmviiip fnr annual reviews of wanes, with ar bitration in case of disagreement. Unions rinered are the ClO-Ha- Hin OniM'atrtr tho CIO-U a r i n Knuineers Beneficial Assn. and the at i-Mn.sirrs, .M.nes ana I'liois, Local 90. ( F. May. local 90 president, said the unions represent all of the approximately 5.000 licensed merchant nurme officers on the coast. The increase broujrht total daily welfare ami pension fund, contri butions to $160. for the feet. They can't have over head fans because they miitht blow the passport papers out the unscreened windows. June wasn't so had. but July has been a scorcher. The hotter blonde Miss Knight got. the madder she vol. She went lo Congress for rent money so she could moe. She called in Bureau of Stand ards ami Census Bureau to desim her some new machinery for rec cord handling. She thinks one ma chine could do photo nasting and sealing in one operation. It mav take a couple of years to get these marhtnes. But some day it should he possible to get an American passport in a hurry.: Getting a Little Less PicanliAurAK Criue Riilinnin n: . r, On World Disarmament- WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower said Thursday he does not believe Soviet Premier Bulgan in closed Uie door to a IT. S.-Rus sian disarmament agreement by his rejection of the idea of aerial inspections. hisenhower also told a news con ference he does not think the new nuclear weapons tests bv the Soviet Union announced earlier Thurs day by the Atomic Energy Com missionnecessarily means any change in what he called the more or less conciliatory altitude shown by the Soviets in recent months. The President said the United Stales will have some new dis armament proposals to make in the United Nations before long. He said Ihis country will sympa thetically consider Russian pro posals along the same line with a determination to find a solution (air to both sides. On domestic affairs. Eisenhower described the record of the just adjourned Democratic Congress as commendable in forefign affairs. But he said the session failed to act on at least four measures he regards as vital to the nation's welfare. He said he does not plan at the moment to call a special session later this year to act on his high- Career Fields Open To Women In Air Force Thirty-two of 44 Air Force ca reer fields are now open to women in the Air Force, and there are un limited opportunities for sirls to enter the service during the sev enth anniversary year of the WAF. Information on career fields and qualifications for WAFs was giv en this week by T. Sgt. Florence E. Green of Portland, WAF re cruiter for Oregon and parts of Idaho and Washington. In a trip through southern Ore gon, including a slop at Roseburg. Sgt. Green urged local girls to in vestigate opportunities in the WAF by conlacting T. Sgt. Charles M. Powell, 315 Pacific Building in Roseburg. Sgt. Powell, Douglas Coos recruiter, is in the office each weekday except Thursday. Some of the fields for women are electronics, radar, business ad minislration, photography, radio, tower control operator and med ical service. After initial processing here, pn- listees would be sent to Portland for testing and physical examina tions, then to I.acklind Air Force Rase. San Antnmo, for basic train ing. After 10 weeks of basic train ing, WAFs go lo a technical school or on-lhe-ioh trainim:. Career fields are determined hv antiliide. qualifications, the nerds of the ISAF and the WAFs own de sires. Girls IS to 21 must have parental consent to enlist. The .ne limit is 34. and applicants must be simile with no dependents. Tliev mint also have graduated from hi:h school or pass equivalent tests. Soviet Scientists Take First Look ,At Reactor GENEVA i.fi Soviet scientists took their first look at the Amer ican atomic research reactor hoio Fnd.iv and agreed it was "very beautifully done " Thev promised to give detailed information on Kussian researcn in papers lo be presented to the nations atom-for-peace confere u-e opening Monday. The Russians also expressed hope atomic information would be exchanged in private discussions with American scientists. Twenty three members of the 79 man Soviet delegation spent more than an hour at the American cs hihit. which President Eisenhower visited two weeks ago during the summit conference. Shy Jm t tl way program, No. 1 among his measures the Congress shelvtd. But he added that he is not ruling out the possibility. Eisenhower named school con struction, health and water re sources programs as the other three vital measures. As to his own future political plans: The President said he would hava no excuse to defer a decision on the question of seeking a second term if he were an infallible proph et on world and domestic condi tions and on the state of his own health, as these things might de velop in the next year. But he docs not have that gift of prophecy, he said, and so he will continue to leave the question in abeyance. Eisenhower touched on these other topics: INFLATION He said he does not see any serious threat of it, but the government always must watch for any sign of cither infla tionary or deflationary trends and take precautions lest they go too far. HOUSING Eisenhower said he didn't know at the moment wheth er he would sien (he compromise housing bill passed in the closing hours of Congress. COMMUNIST CHINA - He said his view is unchanged that no rec ognition is possible while Red Chi na coatinues lo be branded by the United Nations as an aggressor. In response to a question, the President said he sees no possibil ity at this time of a "summit" meeting to discuss Asiatic ques tions. Cosmic Rays Nor Too Severe For Moon Explorers By FRANK CAREY COPENHAGEN vn Would-be explorers of I he moon were as sured here that neither their space ship nor the surface of the moon would be too "hot" from cosmic ray bombardment for such a venture. This was the word from an American space scientist. Dr. S. F. Singer of the University of Maryland, one of the world's pioneers in artificial satellite re search. Taking some of the starch out of theories that Ihe barrages of the mysterious ray "bullets'' of the cosmos miiiht make flight impos sible. Singer told the sixth annual i meeting of the International Astro i nautical Federation that: I 1. The particular type of radlo i activity that cosmic ray bombara I ment would "induce" in the hull of a space ship or on the moon's i surface would be too small in I amount to cause any damage to i the human body. J 2. "Primary" cosmic rays tliem I selves midit have serious effects on man. but "shields" containing such materials as kerosene, paraf fin, or even water micht give ef fective protection against them. Dr. Sinaer said studies indicate that shields of such '"hydrogenous" j materials would give 1R times ! more protection than a lead shield j against cosmic rays. Portland Bound Train Rams Freight; 1 Hurt CENTRAI.IA, Wash, ufi A Portland-bound Northern Pacific fremht train rammed the rear of a Union Pacific freight stopped on tracks near here early Friday, de raiting 15 cars and injuring, one trainman. Roy E. Johnson. Tacoma, Wasn., brakeman of the Northern Pacific Freight, was taken to a hospital here (or treatment of a head cut, then he was released. Four other trainmen including two who had left the caboose of the Union Pacific freight only mo ments before the crash escaped unhurt. Congressman Mack Believes Eisenhower Will Call Special Session On Highwy Plan By A. ROBERT SMITH lern Oregon and Washington, vith ., . , four lanes of divided highway Ntws-Rtvuw Corr.spond.nt equipped with overpasses at in- WASHINGTON - A Northwest ac"c,jn-.. tha( , , v... k... il.. is imperative that an ey- thick of the road huildim. oolitical fight in Congress this year feels confident President Eisenhower will recall Ihe lawmakers back into a special session late this fall for the express purpose of passing a highway aid bill. Rep. Russell V. Mack R Wash.), a top GOP member of the House Public Works Committee. has urged both Eisenhower and t ... favor the special session, in the ...I. nf Lin..oa inrAni i..i ...n.i. both Republican and Democratic ....I k,.ii.ii . . uuiiuillg Jl ujil flllia. 11 we don t get a road bill be- r i .... "... , at all." declared Mack. "Thai's why I think the president will call a special session. ' Mack pointed out that next year's session will be supercharg ed with the politics that always flavor an election year session and impede legislative action. He said he thinks it will be worse than this year's session, which he call ed "the most politically-minded session in my experience." Mack has come up with a com promise bill he thinks might unite both parties, who each favor more federal highway aid for roads but differ over how they should be paid for. At stake in tne road lignt, .uacK pointed out, is whether or not U.S. 99 from the Canadian to the Mex ican border is to become a mod ern interstate load through west- Writer Misinformed Says Property Owner ROSEBURG In response to the letter written by Air. Hosford about a misunderstanding at The Forks, we wish to say that if Mr. Hosford really believes what he wrote he is grossly misinformed. In Ihe first place the teenagers had not only seen the signs but had discussed them with th? own er the day before. They were told the signs were posted with the approval of the authorities. They returned Sunday with a larger group including an older woman, baring in on the owner's private picnic and refused to leave upon request and even dared the owner to make them leave. The owner's signs were not aim ed at these particular people. The signs were aimed at anyone who misused the beach, especially with wild parties and beer drink in? sprees. The owners are get ling lired of cleaning up beer cans and trash after Sunday and eve ning picnickers. As for the water skiing, we have yet to see anyone water ski on dry land. The own ers have jurisdiction only to the voter's edge. There are two pub lic beaches at The Forks for land ings boots. As for the juvenile delinquent problem, how can we expect any thing else when tl.oir elders sit hy and encourage them to break the law. We still believe juvenile delinquency starts at home. Yes, there can be something ("one about the attitude Mr. Hos ford inquired about. The owners h.ive never refused anyone, who had the decency to ask. permis sion to use the beach. They have never asked any who beiiaved themselves to leave. Hope this clarifies the situation to all inter ested parties. E. M. Taylor Roseburg, Ore. Talbott Investigation Satisfactorily Resolved j WASHINGTON tm The Senate j investigations subcommittee said this week its inquiry into Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Tal bott's outside business activities "has been satisfactorily resolved" with his resignation. "Therefore, with the issuance of this statement, the aforesaid in vestigation is concluded," said a five paragraph statement winding up the inquiry. Talbott. denying any wrongdoing in his partnership in the New York efficiency firm of Paul B. Mulligan lr Co. told President Ei senhower Monday he nevertheless had decided to resign. The Presi dent accented the resignation, and wrote Talbott. "Your decision was the right one." In public hearings before the Senate subcommittee. Talbott had acknowledged writing letters on Air Force stationery to prospective clients of the Mulligan firm. School Lunch Monday Aimed At NW States WASHINGTON UP Three Pa cific Northwest states and Alaska will receive $1,748,371 of the $67, 100,000 in federal funds to be ap portioned by the Agriculture De partment in 'he 1955-56 school year lo support the school lunch pro gram. The department's announcement this week said Washington will receive $811,604. Oregon $S77.157. Idaho $319,604 and Alaska. S40 .005. Federal funds are apportioned on the basis of the number of children of school age and the need for assistance as indicated, by individual income averages in the stales. Agencies within each state must put up at least three dollars for each dollar contributed by the fed eral " government, under the law setting up the lunch program. W highway program be start ed just as soon as possible. Every day of delay means more persons killed or maimed needlessly," Mack said. "Death on the highway does not wait while Congress pro crastinates. While congressmen va cation, death goes ahead killing an average of 100 persons a day ,"000 a month or 36.000 a year in high way traffic accidents.'' The road fieht reached a dea The road fight reached a dead , ck whe" Den!f al?rdefc,?n f President's plan for j through would r revenue bonds, which would not be included in the na tional debt, and then a Democrat- l, ,lhl anHlhn t 'V.,, V ' !. ! ic bill for financing through in- ""sed gas, oil and tire taxes was licked by a coalition of Republi cans and Democrats. Mack's compromise involves some of both proposals $5 billion in bonds and $7,622,500,000 in new taxes for a 16-year program. The taxes would be raised by increas- irlg the federal tax on gasoline by a half cent, bringing 54,324.000. 000 in 16 years; adding a cent to Ihe lax on diesel fuel, bringing in $118,500,000; four cents per pound on large truck tires for S-100 mil lion; 2 cents on passenger car tires for 51,447,000,000; and a two per! cent increase excise tax on trucks for $475 million. "There must be some ground on which Republicans who want a bonding plan and Democrats who want a lax pian can reconcile their differences," said Mack. "If ,..not " B-,iA lanlr "If Congress is to enact a highway bill, Republicans like myself who have fought for the president's bonding plan must agree to take some taxes as a means of raising some revenue for highways as wanted by the Democrats; and Ihe Democrats who have opposed any bonding must agree to take some bonding as desired by the Republicans." Some observers think Eisenhow er would be smart politically lo call the Democratically-controlled 84th Congress back inlo session te point up its failure to enact any road program this year. Also, a? Mack sums it ip. this would be the best and possibly only opportun ity for passing an acceptable high way aid bill, with political consid erations underlining everv act of the 1956 session that starts next January. (MUTUAL) (OF) (NEW) The Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of N. Announces the Appointment of: WARREN T. ROBINSON as field undcrwrirar for the Roseburg and Dougloi County area. Mr. Robinson will represent rht company for their full lino of lit . . . accident . . . hospitalization . , . and module group plans. Mr. Robinson's office is located at 33S N. MAIN ROSEBURG PHONE OR 3-3412 or OR 3-3031 NOW OPEN HUB "We're Looking Forward To Seeing Our Old Friends" ROSEBURG'S MOST MODERN SHOP - 104 SO. JACKSON - Jack Brackenbury Wm, R. Coon Only 4 More Days! BE SURE TO ATTEND dewberry's GALA GRAND FREE GIFTS FOR ALL COME EARLY-STAY LATE Watch For The Grand Opening Ad--Wed. Aug. 10 J. J. Newberry Co. 117 SOUTH JACKSON ROSEBURG Local News Visitors L't Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Peterson of Sacramen to, Calif., have left for the Gold Cup races in Seattle, following a visit in Roseburg as guests of Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bistak. Back From California Mrs. Edgar Lewis, owner of Mabel's Dress Shop, has returned here fol lowing a trip to San Francisco on a buying trip after which she en joyed a vacation at Lake Tahoe. From Ashland Mrs. David Block and two children of Ashland were visitors at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson King, on Castle Street. The Block family formerly resided in Roseburg. At Hoock Home Mr. and Mrs. John Howard of Corvallis are in Roseburg assisting the former's brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. George E. Houck, make ar rangements for the Houcks to j move to Portland next week. Has Vacation Mrs. Letha Noel, chief cook at Community Hospital, has been on vacation from her work this week. Have Outing Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson and son, Chris, en- : joyed an outing at steamboat Sun- day. Thev returned home by way j of Glendale. Has Vacation Mrs. Evelyn Cyrus and daughter visited recent- iv m lm Angeles. The fomer was 1 ,. .:, on vacation from her work at Mil ler s. Attend Camp Frank and Jim 'Webster and David Montgomery have returned to their homes here, following attending the Episcopal camp at Gearhart. Hera On Business Harry W. Hill, who has been working in the Redding area was at his home here for several days this week attending to business. VA Hospital Dane Stt Local Blue Star mothers will sponsor a dance Monday night at the VA Hospital. Ladies of the community are invited to come as hostesses. Here From Wisconsin Visitors this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Grisse are their ne phew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Divers, and Peggy and Kathy.of Kenosha, Wis. (YORK) Y. OPENING
