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4 Tti New.-Revlew, Ro.eburf, Or. Frl., June 1, 1956 liUrH a lnf Hut imi Kai T, IIS. M tsi Mil M1KI at liutui, trHM ulv Kt H Mircl u an. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Member tt the Associated Pr.it, Oregon Newspaper Publiihort Association, In. Audit Bureau of Circulations iiiratiiM KiiT-HOLiimr to. inc., iHicn ii rift, ctiuit, su Frucnta, Lh AHilu, sialtlt, Pirtliri, Bmaf Publlthtd Daily Exctpt Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. iuiichiptiwi im-n orim-i mhi- wu, tit.ni hi !, tut, utai jiiui. s u. cutiiti Iiiim if mil th iw, to. Hi in uui, l V H; Uni Hill. IIH; , It mwi ik.i. Citmi-fir tin, IU.N (la Mimh), Iiii um m na. Ml "'. 1 SPINSTERS IN REVOLT By Charles V. Stanton Spinsters are up in arms about a bill now before Con- erpss to eive widows access to social security at aire Why, they ask, should widows be singled out for early benefits? A widow at acre 62. thev Doint out. usually has insur ance monev left by her husband, has ownership or use of the property thev accumulated, and has grown children who. as a last resort, can provide necessities- of life. But, they say, consider the case of the "career girl!" All she has is what she has been able to accumulate after many years of hard work, usually at wages consider : ably lower than paid a man for less work and less respon- s bi itv. She has no property other than what sue nas been able to secure throueh thrift and wise investment. By her labor she has contributed her part to the nation's economic weuare. one nas Deen an imuurutni. ck in uui ness and industry. But Congress proposes to aid widows, who need help less than any other specific class, while neg lecting the poor working girl of advancing years. It's pure demagoguery, they insist, designed only to get votes. But don't forget, they add, that spinsters also vote! Reward Lacking The widow, say the spinsters, has her reward in a home, a family and, in many cases, ample financial security. But what is the reward for the career girl in the upper age bracket? ' She has a busy and responsible life, as stenographer, secretary, private secretary, managerial assistant, etc., until grey hairs can no longer be hidden. Despite all the arts of the modern beauty salon, age ultimately begins to show. Then comes the day when she finds herself "promoted" to assistant manager of the shipping department, while the fool boss hires himself a giddy young blonde to do his secretarial work. That's when the gal who has devoted 40 years of her life to making the boss and the business successful is men tally set to take her social security and set up business in the old rocking chair. But, no, while the flush widow, whose principal job is clipping coupons from the income stock left by her husband, is made eligible for social security bene fits, the career girl must labor along in the shipping depart ment to age 65, before she gets her social security check and a farewell ' gift from her fellow workers. It just ain't right, declare the maiden ladies, to con sider pensions for widows and neglect the poor broken down steno-secretary. She is made to feel, they contend, that it's a crime not to be married. Furthermore, the action contemplated by Congress is pure and unadulterated discrimination, demagoguery and political foolishness. Time For Men To Rise Now, I have some opinions of my own on the subject, In one sense I must Agree that the spinsters have a good argument. Certainly they are entitled to as much con sideration as widows. But, on the other hand, I think the policy of lowering the age limit eligibility for women in the social security program is the wrong approach. If anyone should get a break in lowering social secu rity age, it should be the men. Actuarial statistics show that women live longer than men. It also is established by statistical evidence that women control more money than do men. Why, then, not make men eligible for social security pensions at an earlier age, and let the women, who are going to live a lot longer anyway, do the work? And think what a boon that would be for economy. As It is now, our Congressmen are proposing early pensions for the single group with the highest rale of longevity. Of course, that's to he expected from those members imbued with the spirit of free spending of taxpayer dollars. But, if earlier pensions were provided for men, who haven't much time left before cashing in their chips, while delaying pensions for women, who still can anticipate a good many years, the move would be one in the direction of economy. So, unless these widow-loving congressmen begin to phow a little sense on this matter, they may be sure they'll alienate the vote of we males as well as the spinsters. Mat y. NEW YORK (if) All men who have given up hope of sucess in love because they are miildleaged, paunchy and bald can take heart from Robert Weede. I Weede, Broadway's newest matinee idol, is neither young nor tall nor nam nor handsome, He is stocky and plump-featured, he is admittedly middle- aged, and he has freckles on an indisputably bald head. Far from being defects, these I assclt plus a beguiling smile and a fine voice won In in nvermghl one of the year's greatest sue- cessc. in the theater. handwriting. Tuny hail stirred the sentimental ladies, loo. I asked Weede what he himself though!, offslage, about Mnyand- Manna From Heaven? In The Day's News (Continued From Page One) of the arrested LA drunks are repealers. Hmmmm. it sounds like thev ENJOY being arrested, doesn't it? Wore incidental information: Los Angeles has nearly twice as many arrests lot drunkenness as San Francisco. In the last year of record, the capital of the Southland tossed 80,400 souses into the clink whereas the Big Town of the Bay area incarcerated only 42,307 of them. That raises this question: Do more people get drunk in Los- Angeles than in San Francisco? And if so, why? Do people down there take to liquor as a surcease from the frustrations involved in finding their way from one free way to another? Or is it the smog? OR Does LA just1 ARREST more of cm whon they get lit? You can't gauge the morals of a town, you know, by the number of arrests. 1 he most immoral city the world MIGHT NOT AR REST ANYBODY. Back to politics: President Eisenhower appoints Fred Sealon. who has been a mem ber of the While House staff serv ing as deputy assistant to the Pres ident in charge of administrative affairs and is a former senator from Nebraska, as secretary of the inlerior to succeed Douglas Mc- hay, who resigned from the .cabin ct to become the successful Repub lican candidate for senator from Oregon to oppose Senator Morse November. Oddly enough. Senator Morse ap proves Seaton s appointment. He said in Washington: 1 have always considered Sen- ator Seaton to be a fine public scr vant. Although he and I do not al ways agree on natural resource policies, I have a very high per sonal regard for him." How come? Senator Neuberger lets the eat out of the bag. He says: 1 am very pleased the I'rcsi dent has repudiated the policies of r.xsccretary McKay and nas cone completely outside the discredited I interior department to obtain a new head for that department." He adds: "The naming of Mr. Seaton from entirely outside Ihe interior depart ment is endorsement of the belief that the McKay regime was a failure." u Speech By Chief Justice To Congress On Judiciary Status Urged By Lawyers Portland Waitress, Demos' New Committeewoman, Vies For Major Attention By A. ROBERT SMITH News-Review Correspondent WASHINGTON . The Oregon election winner who seemed to get almost as much attention from the press of the nation's capital as ei ther President Eisenhower or Ad lai Stevenson and more than Sen. Wayne Morse or Douglas Mc Kaywas Ihe state's new Demo cratic national committeewoman. That doesn't mean that Virginia A. Grant has lots of supporters in Washington, D.C., for she was as much an unknown here as in many parts of the state. But the Portland waitress seemed to be a welcome change from the tiresome gallery of politicalfaccs that dot Hie local scene. Mrs. Grant, a 33-year-old bru nette, was introduced to the na tion's capital, where she will have to attend periodic meetings of the Democratic nalional committee, by means of newspaper photos wear ing the prescribed costume for her job serving guests in the Aloha room of Portland's Heathman Ho tela strapless gown and a flower in her hair. A newspaper reporter for the Washington Star called this report er for all the dope of the newly elected committeewoman but got little detailed aid. Undaunted, the reporter said. "Well, I'll have to interview her myself then, for we've got to have a story on her." Most every politician dreams of the day lightning will strike at the right time to give him a jolt up ward in his political career. But Kep. Sam Coon would just as soon shuffle along by his own steam, thank you, having had just about all the lightning he cares to tangle with for awhile. Coon was flying back to Wash ington recently from a congression al junket to Florida arranged by the Pentagon. Before their A i r b..i;. :iS'.,". he re known when he nneni-H a fouil1" " y The politics of it is this: The big reason for voting for McKay as senator from Oregon (outside Ihe accepted fact that he is competent and able and exper ienced) is the fact that he is a de voted supporter of President Eisen hower and Ihe Eisenhower policies and will back them up in the sen ate, whereas Senator Morse is a bit ter enemy of President Kisenhow- and will VOTE AGAINST HIS j POLICIES at every opportunity. .sonienow it must ne mane to ap pear that Ike doesn't like McKay. So Senator Neuberger goes to bat for his colleague. Government May Start Regulating Nation's Drivers SAN FRANCISCO W t'nless highway traffic fatalities can be cut down by slate and community action, there will he no alterna tive but federal intervention in driver regulations, Municipal Judge Williaim J. McGuiness of Oakland, Calif., declared Thurs day. "Today's traffic fatality emer gency calls for drastic meas ures," Judge McGuiness told West ern regional conference delegates of the President's Committee for Traffic Safety. "People who fight against road blocks, against use of radar in traffic control, against automobile inspections and similar enforce ment devices on the grounds that their constitutional rights are be ing intnncd nave some surprises Force Plane with a full load of congressmen had reached the half way point, black storm clouds loomed ahead. Deciding to plunge right into them, the pilot a two star gen eralgave his passengers more ex citement than they had bargained for. A bolt of lightning slammed into the wing of the plane just a few feet beyond the window from which the Baker congressman was watching the storm. The plane lurched, then dropped so suddenly that the ashtrays in the arm rests shot up against the ceiling. A game of checkers was Utterly broken up. The passengers were saved from scalp wounds by meir lasienea seat Dcits. The pilot decided he had had it and turned back for an emergency landing at Ft. Bragg, N.C. While the military made accommoda tions for the solons to stay over until a plane could complete the return trip, Coon and several com panions decided to finish the junk et oy irain. Sen. William (Wild Bill) Lancer. the North Dakota Republican who ueiignts in siamming tne uUr about as much as the Democrats, ambled ud to Sen. Richard I.. Neii. berger the other day and announc ed he was planning to run for president. "I'm older, I'm sicker, and I need more rest," explained the gray-haired veteran with tongue in cheek, taking a subtle crack at his own party leader. Two young sons of a Presbyter ian minister arrived in Washington this past week from Alaska, after a auto trip over the Alcan highway. Out in the middle they discovered a rock had punctured a hole in heir gas tank, so that precious fuel was dripping away as they scratched their heads for a solu tion. John Walkup, 14, auggested Russian Manpower Cut Held To Be Necessity ROSEBURG At times it be comes quite difficult for many of us to understand why we are not informed of the true facts on prob lems that are of vital Interest to every true American ana) why all the secrets. We wonder why Russia suddenly becomes kind hearted "turns tur tle" on the Stalin regime, frees slave labor, wants all nations to cut armed manpower, etc., etc. The facts are that Russia has a problem that can not be corrected in the near future and is forced to do something about it and fast. Her present propaganda is the only way out and she wants the rest of the nations to fall in line and go along. A good "deal" for her if it would work. Lets look at the facts As we all know, 1937 was peace times. Russia's male birth rate at that time added two million, six hundred thousand men to the six teen - year - old bracket in 1953. Three years later (1940) the war machines of all nations started swinging into action, so this year (1956) the male population of Rus sia to arrive in the sixteen - year bracket will drop one half million. Now what happened in 1943- 1944? Every available man and woman was directly in the war machine or working long hours in industry. What are the results? The number of males in Russia that will reach sixteen in 1959 will drop to three hundred thousand with no increase over the two or three years following, at least The fact is that Russia (and all nations) must keep her industry in high gear and she has no place to go for manpower except the army. To quote Research Institute of America, All of Europe except England is being fooled by the arms cut, accepting it as a peace move, proving again Moscow's adeplness in making a necessity look like a virtue. Again, why all the secrets on the many problems that confuse us? It is not the fault of the press but the "powers that be." H. K. Hockclt Roscburg, Oregon SPOKANE I Northwest lawyers were urged Thursday to support a suggestion that the chief justice of the United States give an annual address to a joint ses sion of Congress on the status of the judiciary. Clarence A. Davis, a lawyer and undersecretary of the interior, made the proposal in a speech at a Northwest regional meeting of the American Bar Assn. "It is upon the lawyers we must primarily depend to sustain the position of the judiciary as an in dependent co-equal branch of our government and the ultimate re pository of constitutional liberty," Davis said. For this reason, he said he feels lawyers should give "widespread support to the suggestion of a re port to Congress by the chief justice. E. Smythe Gambrell of Atlanta, i Ga., president of the American ! Bar Assn., told the lawyers the ! biggest threat "to an era of un precedented growth" is "the phil osophy of despondency and de-j spair reflected in the increasing clamor for security." This alien urge for protection from the normal processes of change and development can lead only to stagnation and decay," he said. "Security is the antithesis of growth. Growth is change and change brings dislocation. One; man s growth is another s insecur ity." - Gambrell said the recent White: House conference on federal aid to education "troubles me." "In the long view it poses a se-' rious threat to democracy and , freedom," he said. "While the un equal distribution of wealth! throughout the 48 states might sug-1 gest federal aid, it would be error to expose the direction of the ed ucational systems of the several states to the influence of a fed eral board of education which ul timately would attempt to super vise teachers, prescribe curricula and subject matter. . . , "To allow our fine independent public school systems to become hopelessly addicted to. or depend ent upon, federal aid would be nothing short of a national ca lamity. " Some 600 lawyers from all Ihe Northwest states are registered for the three-day meeting. PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE HORACE C. BERG ; Special Ajant 123 !. Main Si. (With Umpqua ns.. Agency) Oft. OR 3-7491. Rai. OR 3-715 DUST OILING Call Ut For Estimates Roseburg Fuel Oil Service Phone OR 3-8155 FOR RENT FORD TRACTOR with 6' mowing attachmr. Lansing-Oliver 1561 S. E. STEPHENS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Save Old Library Park, ' Suggests Local Resident ROSEBURG In last Friday's News-Review under Reader Opin ion, there appeared a very inter esting letter concerning what is to become of Library Park and the huge maple tree which stands between the Pacific Building and the present City Library. Roseburg definitely does need more parking lots but this area with all buildings and the tree re moved would hardly hold 30 cars. It took a long time, for that bea utiful maple tree to grow. To this writer it seems a serious mistake to even talk about cutting it down, or for that matter destroying Library Park. In addition to the ideas express ed by Mrs. McKanna I would like to suggest to the city fathers and all other interested people that the park remain as it is, and in ad dition that the old band stand be removed and public rest rooms for both men and women be built in its place. To my knowledge there is no other city in the State of Oregon of comparable size that does not have public rest room facilities. If you think the effort "is worth while, let's save the park and add just a little to it. A. W. Bashford Roscburg, Ore. chewing gum and it worked. "We chewed gum like mad from then on until we found a garage 10 miles away, said the boy proudly. 'Peter Idi Son , WASHINGTON (NEA) A "Four Hundred" of industrial rela tions big business tycoons, big la- ! bor barons, big government offi cials and their wives dolled up in formals and threw a whing-ding of a ainner to celebrate the 80th birth here in the audience, then believed that taxes should be lowered with out reference to a balanced budget. . "At the time he was strong-manning it around the coal industry. Quoting the Chinese poet Lin'g Po. I said there is one ernue I day of six-foot, seven-inch Cyrus S. ' want to trample a little wine out Court Rules Postal Department Interferred WASHINGTON I The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday the Post Office Department inter fered with freedom of the press in barring from the mails, with out a hearing, two issues of nudist magazines. Dividing 2-1, the Appellate Court sfrnrlr rinwn n lower court deci sion which upheld the Post Office j Department contention the maga-l zines were unmauanie because they were "obscene, lewd, las civious and indecent.' Involved in the case were the February, 1955, issue of Sunshine & Health Magazine and the January-February, 1955, issue of Sol aire Universale Nudisme Maga zine. The magazines are published at Mays Landing, N". J., and advo cate nudism and the nudist mode of living. The majority decision said "First Amendment considerations are involved" in the case. JIT I.tTIPHThilj fjj Pkctlf. 3-tOJ W c 25 L L and up Per single roll Largest election in Or ego A P E R FULLER PAINTS Custom made Draperies Traverse Rods We give S-H Green Stamps 1 f i. i vV ? KM I Weighs only 34 ea. with battery inside He's wearing Sonotone's Newest Hearing Aid ALL AT THE EAR! SONOTONt"" riMIIKMl ROSE HOTEL Saturday, June 2, 10 A.M. ta 7 P.M. Ching. Ching saw action as former head of the U.S. Mediation and lonriliation Service in many a i battle. I They all paid tribute to the gen- tleness and integrity of this beloved giant. And in return Cy Ching said simply, "1 am the richest man in the world and cannot be taxed for it. For these are my friends." i The highlight of this' tripartite labor - management government love feast, however, was the testi monial of John L. Lewis. Missing weeks ago in Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," hailed by critics as America's finest it vi una as mill-ilia R iiim-m ,..,. ..i . folk opera aince "Porgy and! 'Hh, ..V W ljCSJ ii ' ' jor shape or background. He' played Ihe role of Tony, an hh'n. "TM"i"?Ppyw..1!?" aging bachelor, winegrower who ,'"';ll" , J. l" UM nrrtlv w.ilre. hv rr. Went 0,11 lon8 the Main respondence. She is at first taken i' ..S-L. s. aback by Tony', appearance, hut .," "f she marries him anyway, discov- Thu . , . . , era he ha. a heart of gold who a.ked mil.ll "" falls truly and deeply in love wilhi " ke" "ul,ll him. The fact .he is bearing a! . "hn did Ihey think I've been child by another man bother. Tony j""1" 11 these years in opera?" only briefly. He decides that at his I Weede, a concert star for two age it Is better to have a pretty i decades, has sung with every ma chick with a child than no chick iir opera company in America, at all. j including the Metropolitan. Well, sir. Ihe old gaffer, in the! He is still puzjled that his ap audience, many of whom presum-1 pearance in a .uncle Broadway ably had courted fair young maidslshow has brought him more na with less happy results, darn neartmnal attention' than two decades flooded the theater with tears at of singing operatic arias But the sight of Tony's victory. 1 Weede is a mellow, cheerful artist Soon Weede was measuring hi. I quits content to take fame and an mail with buckets, and most i fortune as they come of the letter, were in feminine! Weede, left fatherles. at 15 i "1 have the same philosophy; ITonv riirl 1linBl InvA an m.u ralcml nml cnlH vekpl.ilile In n:iv up for a lot of differences he- part of his tuition, but says that a """. "ing in.i u may oe neces- use of, and that is George Humphrey. "Mr. Ching said if the strike was not abated, the government would seize the mines. It was too much. I had canvassed the situation and I could not remember any coal mines that the union owned. But if the government seized the mines, George Humphrey's mines would be included. In the middle of these negotai lions, Mr. Ching got a telegram. He held it up to the strong light behind him and I could read the words. It said: "BET TWO DOLLARS ON HOT STL r t FOURTH RACE PIML1- in store jor mem, judge .McGui- ,v, lhe srow o( lhe Vnilfi Mme "" Workers head, now white-haired "There will have to be far great-1 andi6. himself. But his character- er restrictions if the nation's rinv-listic oratorv was never better. It; CO nig record is not improved." he i was a classic that went something i "I thought it was a code mes this: sace. helpful sister, who later became I ry nai siricier stanoarcls be, L0OK BACK on mv veirs of an educator herself, was "the ; imposed by the federal govern-. association with Cyrus ' Ching as . filled with trials and tribulations we would he belter off not of his making. There were a SHOP YOUR INDEPENDENT DRUG STORE OPEN 'TIL TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ?nf? Fullerton Druqs LX-r 635 S.E. Jackson ORchard 3-7413 ! ment. "I think ! mainspring of my career. ! "We're all such self-made peo ple today." he added, "and actual I ly I don't think any of us are self-made. j "We all have a hard time, but ! there are always people who want ito help us. 1 can't even count all 'the people who helped me along : the wav. I "Manv people, of course, do have 1 TOK0 I. Socialists formed !bad luck. But there are others.', human wall and tossed pepper who. if they made a harder effort in Japans Diet (Parliament! cor 'to improve their own gifts, would ridors Thursday in an effort to find it easier to go ahead. block legislation strenqlhenini; 1 if we thought in terms of making 'our highways available only to lhe j competent driver. Socialists Form Human Wall, Pepper Corridors few disputes. "In one of them. Mr. Ching call ed in Col. Clyde Mills and other Ijbor Department practitioners. I came, in line with my traditional policy of going whenever summon ed by mv government. "Mr. thing filled his pipe and "I LEFT THIS MEETING in i great disappointment. But as I j painfully wended my way back to : my office I stopped at .'telephone j and bet $2 on Hot Stuff, j "I had been in Judge Goldsbor ;ough's court recently and didn't ; have much money. I thought M ; would come in handy. But Hot Stuff ! came in third. It was an obvious ' plant. lie has played me like a violin. eventually he got it burning. He 1 1 have been his instrument on his aid (he government needed coal. "I said the government didn't need coal. It had plenty. "Mr. Ching said the government was entitled to as much coal as it 'You must, first of all, prepare ! government control of education. yourself and be ready for the hclp- They were attempting to prevent thought it needed. ing hand when it comes, other-jiioor oenaie on a series of bills must end. wise, no one can neip you. centralizing japans school sys-, "I said there was iio strike Just- Weede believes that, once you iem. ; , perl(M( , bll,nl! in,c,ion. Mr. j "'V.V vice ores dent ninV. .ccept . helping hand, your great- The rolling Liberal - Democratic Ching became so agitated that he for ,Wwrih one oroviso Thev est privilege in ife-as soon as I Party has set final enactment of filled his pipe .gam. u, 'hinge The n.me o The vice you are able-., to extend one of, the measure, as a m.ior tarcet "GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, our pre, den!' a dog from Checker, your own to other.. I tor the .ession ending Sunday. . Secretary o( the Tre.sury .itting ; Chess." vnec.er. 10 march to fame. 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