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! 4 Tha Niwi-Rtvltw, Ruieburj, Publlihad Daily f xetpt Sunday by lh News-Review Company. Inc. t.f.4 at M.a4 alasi Biatltr Hay 1. lata, al ! Ill al aaiabart. Oraiaa, ot.r aal af March t. Itia. CHARLES V. STANTON, Idirer and Managar Mambar af tha Ataociatad 'ran, Orajon Naw.papar Puaiiihara Aaaaciatian, tha Audit Buriau at Circulalieni E.fi.ala F WEaT.H01.UDT CO.. INC., allien la Htm rara, Ctlaaia. aa rraaeliaa. Lat Aaialai. Saallla, r.rtlaaa. naaar CBICKirTION aATP.a-1. 0,.,..-B M.ll-r.l I..r. Ilt.aa: ala aiaaiaa. II la, Ihraa aiaalha. U.U. oatiiaa Otti.a-B, M.ll-r.r T..r. all.aai Us ...Ik.. Il.aai Ibraa naalha, ts aa. B, N....a.,l. Carrlar-r.r T.ar. Hiaa lla aKaaaal. Ikaa aaa rr. tai aiaalt. al tt. INEQUALITY IN SCHOOLS , i Charles V. Stanton The hearing being held today on the petition of the Sutherlin School District, seeking a slice off the Glide dis trict, serves to point up one of the critical problems con nected with our school system. There is a wide variation in school district valuations. Some have enough valuation that a moderate tax will meet nil administrative needs. An adjoining district may be levying a confiscatory tax and still lack money to operate adequate schools. Too, ve have districts (and Riddle may be cited as an example) where some economic change suddenly brings an unexpected demand. In such districts there is a lack of required facilities. The necessity for capital investment, plus operating costs, can boost taxes until the community's business and economic growth is throttled, for business and industry will avoid such an unhealthy tax atmosphere. Oregon taxpayers have been heavily burdened by mounting school taxes. Yet Oregon people have shown a remarkably tolerant and patriotic spirit in providing for their schools despite the tremendous sacrifices involved. But we have been doing little to correct the wide dis parities, aside from an occasional patch on the old cloth. Equalization Desirable Equalization of district valuations is a desirable objec tive. In the situation before the District Boundary Board today Sutherlin, a "poor" district, is endeavoring to get a slice of valuation off Glide, a "rich" district. The Glide district reached out a few years ago and em braced the Copco Toketee development. This brought in a large valuation with but little additional administrative cost. Glide district ii probably better situated financially than' any district in the county. But Sutherlin, an abutting district, is one of those suffering from rapid growth and inadequate valuation. The problem 'is not to be solved, in my opinion, by one district hijacking another's valuation. While it might work in one instance, it would create complete confusion if ev ery "poor" district started raiding every "rich" district. There is a serious question concerning the present con troversy, inasmuch as the Glide district has outstanding bonds secured by existing valuations. If we start a raid ing situation in the county, it probably would become a difficult process to find a buyer for school bonds. Yet the wide disparity in valuation, as compared with need for school facilities, make some readjustment neces sary. New Plan Proposed Two counties, Lincoln and Crook, met the situation bv adopting the county unit plan. Under this plan the whole county becomes a single school district. -A county board of education, aided by sub-district advisory boards, han dles all policy through an appointed county superintend ent. This plan has its disadvantages as it eliminates local autonomy. It also has a handicap in the matter of com munications. Josephine," Hood River and Klamath Coun ties have adopted the county unit system in part, but in each one or more large districts are outside the county unit. At the last session of the legislature the Association of County School Superintendents submitted a bill which prob ably will be introduced again. It would set up a countywide school taxing district from which no district would be exempt. Each school dis trict would retain its autonomy, would have budget-making and tax-levying powers. But from the central fund money would be appropriated to equalize variations in val uations and costs. , The bill obviously is not the full answer. V would still have rich and poor districts. We possibly would ap proach a better equality in taxation. But we can never have a complete answer until someone comes up with an idea by which all districts can share alike in available valuation and taxes, with flexible controls to meet emer gency situations. :J4J NHW YORK Ml -r- A human skull rolled out on the table, nnrl the duchess cried, "Take your hands off me!" lxst. any mystery arise from the foregninir sentence, let me hasten to explain. 1 wrote it only to please two of my oldest critics. A dozen years ay;o 1 took up that odd kind of mental citrpenteriiiK called newspaper columninif. Over all those years news friend has told me perhaps a thousand times, "The only way to interest readers is to startle them at the start. You should begin every column with Ihe sentence. 'A human skull rolled out on the lable'j-and then go on and wrile about whatever else you have in mind." Another news friend has agreed with him in principle, hut has held out for this opening sentence, "Take your hands off me," the duchess cried. ii nas ine inree mings mat interest people most-sex. money "It has Ihe three things that and high society," he claims. "You could use that sentence day after ,j ' " . v.01 n never i re oi i. i. , ' . " . ,, . ,, , , ,, . . , l "oes a columnist need a good Maybe they wouldn t but 1 1 memory? would. And so let us say goodby i A ,Vi. He needs a bad memory forever to the rolling skull and Otherwise he couldn't wrile the the crying dmhess. same idea 10 times over and still ror some reason manv readers keep a clear conscience are interested in Ihe behind the-1 Q 0 columnists hke each scenes trials and tribulations of other' writing a daily newspaper column.: A sure Mmf w women Today I'd like lo answer some like each other of the questions most olten asked Q Whv are columnists alwavs me during my 12 years of buried selling up straw dummies and l'fe. , knocking them over" Q. Do you own a yachi A. Thev hae found that if Ihev A. !"&')! "tEditori note: He hit real people, the real people ays, "no!") hit ba.k-and that hurls Q. Is it hard getting a new idea Q Do most columnists wrile every day? from an inner need? If so, what A. No harder than it would bens it? to give blood every day. A Hunger. Q. My son, who is in the sthi Q What is the greatest problem Ort. Frt., Oct. 21, 1935 &,jie. grade and says the cutest things, wanls lo be a columnist. What should I do? A Hold his head under cold water: repeat whenever necessary. Q. What ready is the best train ing for a columnist? A. Dilch digging, flagpole sit ting and strip leasing. t). How does a columnist really get most of his ideas? A. t rying himself to sleep. I) Columnists are alwavs cru sading to chante Ihe world' W'hih nr - . , "-,,ur ' J"" proudest A. .My lifelong altemut lo lain I more recognition each year for the strono romn 01 lonni -dp- -taVa-w $5 nice (J3io5A a t It was inevilable that great at tention woulfj he paid to the re leased German war prisoners who could give the first eyewitness ac counts of Adolph Hitler's last days in Berlin. The men who have been freed, one of them Hitler's body servant and another his personal pilot, agree that their leader committed suicide with his longtime friend, Kva Rraun. Roth say the bodies of the two were burned to ashes outside the bombproof bunker in the German chancellery grounds, where Hitler had frantically direct ed the Nazi war eftort in its last phase. The effect of this firsthand tes timony is to confirm one of the most remarkable intelligence per formances recorded in World War II. A Hritish intelligence officer H. It. Trevor-Roper, painstakinRly dug out the final chapter of the Hitler story from captured docu ments, testimony of such witness es as were in Allied bands, and the physical evidence in and around the bunker. As a ma Iter of fact, Heinz IJnge. the Hitler body servant now freed, was one of Trevor Roper's sources. His detailed diary was left behind and came into British possession. la suite of this generally very i convincing report, the legend per sisted from the outset that Hitler had not died but somehow had i made his way out of Germany to j a hiding plact abroad, Lisbon or j Buenos Aires or some such spot. There was do shred of evidence to support this notion. Ihe chief reason it did not per ish was most likely the wish of many Nazi people to believe that Hitler still lived. Ther could cling to only one fact: that utterly no trace was found of Hitler's body Two Planes Sent To Bring Home Three Senators - WASHINGTON i.fl -The Defense Department said Thursday two large passenger planes are being sent on special flights to Europe to bring home three senators and their wives who declined to wait for scheduled flights. Robert Tripp Boss, assistant secretary of defense for legislative and public affairs, said in reply to questions that the planes are be ing sent to bring home certain members of Ihe Senate Appropria tions Committee. The senators, all Democrats, are Mct'lellan l Ark! and Stennis (Missl who will board one plane in Madrid and Chavez (NM) who will be picked up in another at Paris. Hoss said that when the senators told Defense Department Repre sentatives abroad that a proposal lo use a later scheduled govern ment plane was linncceplable, the Pentagon had "no alternative" ex cept the special flights. The defense officials said it tie veloped, when dales lor the three senators' return were picked, lhat no suitable planes on scheduled I missions would be available on the j specific dates. were not acceplable to the mem bers of the committee," the state ment said. A spokesman said the planes will be Constellation-type, four-engined transporls and lhat the cost of sending the planes will be approxi mately $20.0110. Aides of the senators said they knew of no rentiest for spe rial plant's And dcclaretl (he senators, before Iravine. hart advised ihe Air Korce when Ihey would hae lo return. t that mulri fart a columnist? A Having to write a rolumn on a typewriter with a broken "I" key. i). What ia the one thing l rolumnit need mot to become successful'' A A successful employer with a sense of humor. Arms and the Man '';' " ' no ashes, n o bones, nothing. Linge now comes forward to help extinguish that frail spark of hope. He declares that he himself as sisted in reducing Hitler s body to ashes and disposing of them in a manner which assured there would I be no trace left. If the legend persists beyond these disclosures, it will be a Ihing wholly of the imaginations of the men who want to believe. .More realistic men will see fi nality written in the eye-witness confirmation now given to Trevor Roper's story. We who love life and liberty may not readily understand why Hitler could find no course but death. But he had lasted the anguish of pri son before, and even in the unlike ly event he could have escaped to exile, he might have found such self-banishment nearly as painful. He knew his ultimate dalh at Allied hands was a strong probabil ity. Since that was so, he chose to manage the last act according to his own lichts. With Ihe same flair for the ilraiirhlic lhat marked so much of his life, he wrote the closing scene as a sort of modern day, Wagnerian "twilight of the goo Miner saw himself the whole way as a man of destiny, living a life that was a work of art. Such life cannot end without arlislii flourish. .More than ever now, it seems plain he supplied the stun ning conclusion he believed tha grim circumstances called for. Gambling Resort Gets Publicity; Cost Plenty High r .o I.AA Vr.tiAS. lev. (J Thtc gambling resort loves publicity, i more rapidly than Los Angeles When a couple of characters like' A good example of it is to be Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis found in Marin county, which is come to town, it would be sad '. growing like a week. Only a few day indeed if the local press agents ! years ago two traffic lanes were failed to capitalize on thorn. i sufficient to handle the situation Take Wednesday night, for in-! on Highway 101, northward from stance. There was Dean and .lerry, lne Golden Gate bridge. But the lounging around the Sands Hotel. car not too thick, and they built waiting for a plane to return them a four laner. Now the four-laner is to Hollywood after a brief vaca-'wor5e congested than the old two tion. laner used to he. So they're build- According lo Ihe hotel's publicity I '"? " e'Rht-lancr. man, this is what happened: I .'" ,almost ." me at all, the Tk. ran,;.. ... j . i, , I eighl-laner will be worse congested lack M.hT InH llo2 , l)lac-"hn the four-laner now is. Down cuHin i m in nnT "laiv'n-?"'1 i lown San Francisco has reached had edJeH ?,',"' a1,1"ilJl,'',!the peak of its retail trade ca of Newfrk r .n V A " 1 'nke ' Paci,v ,or ,he simP1' rMS01 ""at out card, .kV ! re P'""n ! there is no longer a place to park patrons m0nPy 10 anv n,ore cars " yu can t find a place to park anv more cars. Slore than 100 people gathered, it is obvious that the stores can't And no wonder. The boys were get anv more customers, paying off double, triple and then i That is soinc on in all the some. I hey peeked at players' j Big Towns all over our country. gave lllcm better ones if they needed them. Thev scream ed at those lhat rejected advice. The press agent quoted manager Jack Kntratler as saving Ihe shell nanigans cost the hotel $71 sss h.-. lore ihe funnymen left after half an hour, although how so precise a figure was arrived at was not ex - elaine" i But Ihe loss, said Kntratler. was "nothing compared lo Ihe two mil lion nnnars in goodwill. , the public." Weight No Object. Says Wife In Divorce Action OnCACtO An attempt to reconcile a wife with a husband who contends she's too fat failed Thuesday. Trial of their divorce suit was set for Dec. 8. Mrs Lillian Korzen. 44 refused to report her weight as of Thurs- day Jo Judge Charles S. Dougherty of Circuit Court Weicht has nothing lo do with Jni.. she declared. On Icarmnii elfurts to hrins peace between her and her husband. Michael, 4.1. had failed. Judue Dougherty ' set the trial date. Ihe judue had ordered Mrs Kor- Inert J',,'?'- " "T K'V"'n sued for duoroe. to slim down from 1W pound, to her wedding dav weitht of 127 to see if a recon- cihation could be worked out. NEA Service. Inc. t In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) for a set of dentures, and so on. The best dentist in the kingdom gets no more for each specific case of tooth treatment than the mer est tyro. The result, he concludes, is that Ihe practice of denlistry is reduc ed to a monotonous routine with no rewards for skill, competence, learning or experience. That's socialism for you. It seems to be working out no bet ter in modern Britain than in the early Knglish colonies on the At lantic seaboard of raw and new America, where the colonists tried it out as a way of life, and didn't care much for it. They pooled their efforts and put everything into a common pot, out of which everyone shared alike. 1'he industrious character whn arose at the crack of dawn and lahored in the fields until dark ness drove him home got no more in Ihe final divide-up than the lazy bones who lay in bed until mid morning and called it a day when the sun was still high in the west. The worker with Ihe green thumb, whose corn and beans and pump kins flourished and viehleH Iuim. ; "? gl no more to eat in the : '""K run than the numbskull who ! nnP(' out 'he corn and Ihe beans and the squash plants and left the weeos standing. So, in the course of time, in Plymouth and in Jamestown, thev tossed out socialism and went back to free enterprise. So much for tha British and their dental problem. We have our problems. One of them has to do with all the auto mobiles we are able to make and buy. This problem ii becoming m me ay area of califor- ma. which ia nnw orA.iMnn What to do about it? I wouldn't know. Rut here's one possible solution: More people may have to live in the smaller towns instead of everv- j '""ly ganging TOWNS. up in Ihe BIG ! Austria Will Proresf U, V:-I,a:-. : M ungarlan Violation VIENNA. Austria i. The Aus trian Cabinet voted Thursday lo make an energetic protest to Hun liary against violation of Austrian territory Tuesday by armed Hun Kan.in Communist police. The CihinM tnnt am inn ftur hearing from Interior Minister Os- kar Uelmcr that 18 Hungarian border guards held Austrian wont- n at sunpoint in crossing a quar- ter mile into Austrian territory. Il,e Communists sai they were 'hunting a refugee, WANT BABY COBRA? CHICAGO . If anybody wants i hooded cobra from India the -inroln Park Zoo has more than it wants. Kight 9-inch cobras were hatrhed last week Thev are worth W '" s, 'ach- The 100 maintains . , , ' P,rman-nl cobr Population of Tr"" 'xtrfj ones probably will be traded to other loos. More Votes For Northwest States On Columbia Pact Laid Before Commission SEATTLE 11 A recommend! - tion that the proposed compact among Columbia River watershed states he reopened to give more representation to Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and Montana was laid before the Columbia Interstate Compact Commission Thursday. Each of the four itates should he given three votes, instead of two, a permanent organization committee suggested. Single votes would be allowed Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. Jack V. Rogers, Wenatchee, chairman of the Washington com. pact group, and Ofell Johnson, representing the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, said the planned small representation had been a major influence in preventing the Washington Legislature from rati fying the pact. Ratification has been voted by Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Numerous other points which may require amendment of the proposed compact came before the all-dav meeting. Johnson said that U.S. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell is studying the water provisions to determine if they would interfere with federal water rights. The pro posed agreement gives upstream states preferential rights on the use of water. Jack D. Stevens, Seattle con- PARKING LOTS SLATED SALEM in The severe parking problem around the Capitol will be relieved next month when three state-owned lots will be turned into parking lots for 100 cars. The lots, located within three blocks of the Capitol, will be used by state employes. The city will grade and gravel two of them, while the third will be handled by tke state under pri vate contract. A popular speeil ,in a 2tont rtrf and whit, with all the nictrici, toe. $1895 '53 PACKARD Clipper Ultramatic drive, 2tone lifht rey under black. Motor completely overhauled and in top condition. $1595 '31 WILLYS 4 Ton 4u4 with mud tires all around. Heater and ready for off -thehif h way work. $945 "So what if he didn't moke a touchdown w k he's got an OK Used Carl" ) C You'll score high with the grandstand in your MmIT I OK Used Car. They combine performance 1 M M I with appearance because they're thoroughly .'i inspected and reconditioned. And these de- ' I pendable ground-gainers are dealer-warranted I tcZ I in writing at no extra cost! :, .. JSS ' ' 7 , Sold only by an Authorized Chevrolet Dealer f HANSEN MOTOR CO. W ROSEBURG, OREGON '53 BUICK Hardtop HANSEN USED CAR ROSE AND OAK STS. 1 lulling engineer of the Puget Sound Utilities Council, questioned wheather the compact should go into the power question. In its nresent form, it provides that the commission may recommend that a share of the power in down stream plants be allocated to up stream states on the basis of the storage they provide. Stevens said this might interfere with negotiations with Canada for upstream storage sites in that country. He proposed that power provi sions be eliminated entirely from the compact and suggested that the commission take up such prob lems only when both parties in a dispute asked their mediation. Notice Of Sale The medical equipment, medical supplies, office furniture and furnishing of the late Charles B. Wade, M. D. are for sole. The office will be open October 21 and 22 during the hours of 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., and evenings by appointment. Phone ORchard 3-8357 THIRD FLOOR MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING ROSEBURG, OREGON '55 CHEV Club Coupe lack and whitt. This DcMUy coup hi matching leather up Kolitirinfl, V-8 motor, powor pack ,, powtrglido, radio, htr. Rosily hat ovorythinf and at a bit discount, too. '54 PONTIAC 4-door Dark bluo with radio, hooter, new tirei. One-owner cor that lavet you many dollort. $1895 '54 CHEV 210 2-door 2'tone green with now plastic co vers. Heater and new tirei. Only Dual ronae hydromotic. Radio and heater. $1495 USED TRUCKS AT SENSATIONAL SAVINGS '51 WILLYS Station Wagon 4-whel drive with I teats and windows all around. $1095 Morse Names Mrs. Lewis To Manage Campaign PORTLAND 11 Sen. Wayne Morse said this week his 1956 cam paign wilt be managed by Mrs. Jean L. Lewis. She is currently manager of his Portland office. Mrs. Lewis is an attorney and a member of the state Legislature. I STILL NEED 999'2 TONS SCRAP IRON & METAL Hlghaar ricas paid tor coppar, brass, alamlnum, battariai, ate PH. OR 3-8603 1667 HALL ST. I WILL PICK UP j LOOK AT THESE USED CAR BARGAINS '54 BUICK Special 4 -door, V-8 motor with Dynaflow, radio, heater and a new 2-tono metallic silver over metallic ma roon. It's a real sharp looker. $2395 '34 PLYMOUTH 2-door Vary claan and a light graan avar matallic graan. A vary popular $1495 '32 PONTIAC Carolina A really shorp number. Green over ivory with leather upholstering. $1295 'S3 CHEVROLET Vi Ton 4-ipeod, deluxe, food tiros and sound. $1195 CENTER
