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4 Tht Newt-Review, Rosaburf, Ore.- Thurs., June 7, 1956 tttiiM n imim urn tur Mn l, im. m "' x tntn m(ii ki ii Mini a. mi. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Member rh AttKiaUd Pr.it, Ortoon Nawtpapar Pubiithert Allocation, the Audit Bureau of Circulitioni - bimraui W wiiT HOiliitr Co. inc.. ttinti u t hi. cuius, m (rm.ici, lii tuiiu, stoma, riniui, iwu Publiihod Doilv Except Sunday by tha News-Review Company, Inc. tUISCIIFtlOK UTI8-II OrlM-lf Miil-Fit tin. ;' UtM HM, it.n. Ollllll Ht-I Wil-fll t. Jll Mi III OMUI. l N: tint iMitti. MM: it mwi i,,t. CMtcii-Pir tin, sun (ii KiMti). mi r". I utl, I1.JI. SOUND DECISION By Charles V. Stanton Much disappointment probably will be felt by many financially hard Dressed school districts throughout the county because of the county budget committee's refusal to divert a portion of O & C revenues to school purposes. Pressure of school" financing has caused many peoople nd groups to favor slicing into the revenue the county re wives from timber sales on Oregon and California grant lands to aid schools. The county has used this money prin eirally for road construction and general administration, although a portion went into the enlargement of the court house. This latter project was made possible by- release of money lonr imnounded in the controverted lands fund. At the time Douglas County's timber industry began to develoD we had virtually no roads ' suitable for heavy traffic. It will be recalled that much controversy resulted. Timber operators were forced to cooperate with the county in providing minimum roads. Farmers were irate about the breakdown of surface on market roads which had been adequate before the logging industry moved in. ' Improvements in timber stumpage rjrices began to in crease materially the county's receipts from sales on pub lic lands. The county court decided that this money should be applied to roads. The philosonhy was that the revenue to the county was being created by timber sales, and that by providing facilities to increase sales the county's in come would be expanded. Road System Developed The county started imnroving its main truck routes. Roads principally used for logging were given foundations capable of sustaining heavy traffic and surfaces were oiled. This work has been continuing each year. The county now has a very fine road system which is being steadily en larged and improved. But much more work remains to be done. As we over cut our private timber lands we are being forced to reach farther and farther for our log supply. Thus we must keep pushing our network of roads into areas in which timber :is available. I do not share the court's optimism that there is any foreseeable end to the demand for road funds. While it is true that Borne of our present logging roads will have only limited commercial use after timber has been removed from the areas they serve, experience in other counties has been that public demand forces continued maintenance. For each mile of road we build the maintenance cost grows in proportion. As roads are the lifelines of the timber industry, we must meet demands for access. These demands will keen us busy building now roads for a long time. Then as we enlarge our road system we will need more money for main tenance. Should Safeguard Funds From 0 & C receipts the county has paid the cost of its administrative work, in addition to financing a large part of the road program. It is only natural that other units of government, and particularly school districts having a hard time keeping pace with community growth, should look with envious eyes upon the large sums of money received each year by the county. It is only natural that they should seek diver sion of a part of the money. It has been proven time and again, however, that when a wedge once is cut from such a financial melon, that wedge keens increasing in size from venr in vour If wo divert money to schools, municipalities probably will want a cut, to be followed by special taxing districts, until little remains for county administration and roads. Every road built, by 0 & C funds contributes to general county economy. We are dependent upon the timber in dustry for our economic welfare. By applying OiC mon ey to roads needed by industry we are securing the finan cial position of all our communities, safeguarding jobs, and maintaining business. Thus, through increasing assessable valuations. In come and property taxes, school districts and municipal ities are receiving indirect benefits from O & (' expendi tures benefits of probably greater lasting effect than would be realized through direct diversion of the 0 & C revenue. a by WILLIAM N. OATIS For Hal Boyle UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. W) In Pakistan, a Moslem may have four wives and Hindu any number. But in Ten nessee a man can get 21 years in prison for having only two. So says a lately published U.N. survey of marriage and divorce laws in 24 countries. Such laws were studied be cause of their effect on population, a concern of the eco nomic and social council. They show great diversity. in Sweden, under ordinary cir 'Jruce (!3ioS5 a I ' cumstancet, no man may marry under 21 years old nor woman un der 18. In Argentina, Hondurat, Panama and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, a boy may marry at 14 and a girl at 12, given pa rential consent. (The lowest min imum ages in the United Statei are 14 and 13, in New Hamp shire). The report states, without elab oration, that in Queensland, Aus tralia, "where either party is un der the age of seven, the marriage is absolutely void." It sets out that in the Netherlands, no per son under 30 may marry without his parents' consent though he may appeal to a justice of the peace if they stand in the way. When a minor marries in Czecho slovakia, as he may do from 16 up with court approval, he immed iately becomes an adult before the law with as many legal rights as any Czechoslovak citizen has. Many countries define in great detail the degrees of relationship within which marriages are pro hibited. India expressly forbids a man to marry his great grandmother. White people are barred from marrying Negroes in over half the states of the United States; Mon golians in II; Malayans jn 6 American Indians in 4. White peo ple may not marry Koreans in South Dakota and Hindus in Ari zona. Sweden allows the marriage of prisoners. Pakistan forbids the marriage of Shia - Moslem pil grims who have entered the sacred territory of Mecca. Pakistan law also says a man who has already divorced his wife nine times may not remarry her. in Ontario, Canada, a clergymen can be fined $500 and jailed for a year if he mamas a man and woman who are drunk. In India, a Hindu or Parsee can get a divorce if his spouse be comes a convert to another re ligion. In Florida, a divorce may be granted for "an ungovernable temper," in Rhode Island for wickedness." France penalizes the sale of con traceptives with prison terms up to three years. Eight states in the United States also forbid their sale. Connecticut forbids their use. But Alabama, Florida, South Car olina and Virginia finance birth- control programs. A woman who aborts her un born child can get three months in jail, or less, in Denmark. A woman who merely tries to do so can get life in prison in England, Wales and Scotland. Twenty-six states of the United Slates enforce sterilization of mental defectives to keep them from passing on their failings to children. Some also sterilize epi leptics, syphilitica, sex perverts and -habitus) criminals. Minn sota and Vermont have laws for voluntary sterilization. In Finland. Denmark and Sweden, dangerous sex fiends may be castrated by court order. The information in the report covers legislation in force in late 1951. The French National Insti tute of Demographic Studies spent years collecting it. Fowler V. Har per, Yale University law profes sor, prepared most of the material on the United States. Japan Will Not Press Land Claim TOKYO on Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama said Wednesday Japan will sidetrack its claim to the South Kurile Islands in an ef fort to work out a peace treaty with Soviet Russia. Hatoyama told a news confer ence he thought it would be "ad vantageous to Japan to wait until world peace comes" to settle the issue of the Southern Kuriles, taken by Russia from Japan after World War II. Japanese pressure for return of the islands caused a breakdown last March in Soviet Japanese peace treaty talks in London. Hatoyama said he wanted a peace treaty soon because "it would be pitiful to have the (Jap anese) war prisoners spend anoth er winter in the Soviet Union. , . after being there 11' years." Japan insists that tens of thous ands of its men still are held in Siberia. Russia says she has only a relative handful of war crim inals. Hatoyama expressed hope that a treaty would be concluded by fall. NOMINATEO FOR JUDGI WASHINGTON l President Eisenhower Tuesday nominated Arthur Kline of Cheyenne, now a Wyoming state judge, to be a member of the Federal Power Commission. STEEN APPOINTED SALEM li State Sen. W. Low ell Steen, Milton-Freewatcr, was appointed by Gov. Elmo Smith Wednesday to the Western Inter state Commission on Higher Edu cation. The term ends Aug. 28. 1957. Steen succeeds A. R. Watzek, Portland, who resigned. PIT U2IUVCMILK ROSEBURG SHRINE CLUB MEETING Second Friday Every Month Civic Room Umpqua Hotel 6:45 pm-Dinner at 7:30 pm Visiting Nobles Welcome PATRON'ZE NFWS-REVI ADVERTISERS In The Day's News (Continued From Page One) in this section, lie carried only TWO of them. . ' In a congratulatory telegram to his successful opponent. Mr. Coun tryman said: "The farmers have shown that they are HAPPY by renominating you." That, of course, isn't true. The farmers aren't happy in Iowa or elsewhere in the United States. Nobody is happy when his busi ness is bad. But the farmers in Iowa, at least are much too sen sible to be kidded into believing that rigid, high price supports, which have built up huge surpluses that hang over the markets of the future like a dark thundercloud, will MAKE THEIR BUSINESS BETTER. j They know that quack remedies : of that sort are apt to KILL the ' patient. It took courage to oppose rigid, ! high subsidies for farm prices in a critical election year when it was the general concensus among pro fessional politicians that loss of the big farm states could (and quite possibly would) mean loss of the election But President Eisenhower has courage. Secretary of Agriculture Benson has courage, senator rlicK- enlooper has courage. Otherwise he wouldn't have supported what looked several months ago like a losing cause. Republican voters in lowa, in cluding decisive numbers of farm ers, proved Monday that they A - D MIKE courage tnat is Dasea on sound principle and sound econom ics. They went to the polls and voted decisively in favor of the HARD way that means ultimate salvation instead of the easy way that means ultimate RUIN. Maybe that will be a lesson to the demagogue politicians whose motto is "'ANYTHING to win the election." Conqress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C. 4th Oregon District The American people, who more and more are becoming world travelers in this air age, nave a considerable stake in the current battle at Cannes, France pver proposals by two U.S. air lines to reduce transoccan fares sharply. The present impressive volume 1 of U.S. air Iravcl abroad is an outgrowth of higher living stand ards, faster and cheaper service, plus a variety of devices for spreading the cost over a period of many months. In the original fight for tourist or air -coach fares in international traffic, Pan American World Air . ways was a leader. Gradually however, under pressures from foreign lines who are members of the International Air Transport As. aociation, those fares were increas ed. Now Pan American and Amer ica's other transatlantic carrier, TWA, has come up with separate plans for new cuts in fares to off set this situation. AS THEY AROUE at Cannes with (he rest of I.A.T.A's 74 mem bers, TWA and Pan Am will have the tinriaroti cnnrwirt nf tho ,;..;! Aeronautics Board. The CAB has informed tho organization that in ternational air fares ought to be lowered without delay. RviHentlv thm fnrictn 1ina many of which consistently resist uuwnwaru inrs revisions, realize that some reductions must be ac cepted.. For the sake of desirable peace among the international car riers, we In America must hope that they show a reasonable at titude in the current negotiations. Any undue stubbornness might lead U.S. lines to go ahead on their own, wuh resulting com petitive warfare that could ulli mately affect U.S. landing riahis, routes, and flight frequency priv ileges on foreign soil. We do not want Inn. but neither do we want to stand on today's Inch rate structure PAN AMERICAN proposes cre ation of a new third clast of air service, about 2.5 per cent lest than present (mirist fares, with consid erable difference in comfort and service for passensert Seating space would be tighter, food would have to be purchased, and to on. TWA would leave the two pres. ent classes of service at thev are hut offer an excursion ticket' for a round trip made within two weeks, good Die whole year. The cost on a New York-Paris round trip would come somewhat below Pan Am i proposed third-class fare. The CAB is said to favor the Pan Am plan, though it has no particular objection to Irving IWA's proposal at a supplement. It is difficult to understand bv what logic foreign airlines can combat sizable tare reductions. Kx perience has shown that America IS the 0rnl air ..I i. and that the lower the faret are "i. me more fully Is that market tapped If cuts are made, millions of would-be travelers will respond. Ihcy should be made. TRUCKER KILLED rt-NDLETON on A truck and Lnion Pacific train collided at a grade crossing Tuesday after noon, killing the truck driver. He was A. T. limn an ih. Wash., I dairy farmer. Tho important pieces of loeisla-' Hon are not only having tough sled ding in this the 84th Congress, but they are being thoroughly mauled it not mangled by the majority. I expect by tins time the President and his White House advisors have discovered the hard way that a Congress controlled by the Demo cratic party does not give much cooperation toward the passage of program proposed by a Republi can President. Yes, this Congress finally, too late to be of much value this vear. has passed a farm bill. But it was not the kind of a farm bill that Secretary Benson and the Presi dent wanted. For most farmers who will receive benefits as the re. suit of the soil bank part of the bill, its provisions will do them no good until Ihey begin planting their winter wheat next fall. At the very beginning of this Con gress last year (January 1955) President Eisenhower proposed a long range expanded highway con struction program. It was kicked around by the committees last year and finally failed of House passage just before the session adjourned. This year after five months a high- i way construction bill has been pass ed oy notn House and Senate and, at this is written, is in a confer ence which will reconcile the dif- , lerences Between the two versions i and there are numerous differ ences. In a way Congressional ac- tion on the highway bill this year is !a repeat performance of the han dling of the farm bill. The final dratt will be written by the con. ferees. But whatever the final draft turns out to be, it will bear little j resemblance to the highway plan 'proposed by the President. Also, the President early last year proposed a federal program I for giving credit assistance to lo !cal school districts in the building ot more school class rooms. Had the Eisenhower program been act ed upon with reasonable prompt ness thousands of new school build ings would be completed and occu pied by this time. Again, the Con gress controlled by the opposition party did not want to give Us bless ing to a proposal advanced by a Republican President. The final re sult ot the bickering on the Demo cratic side of Congress over the school bill is not yet determined. A bill has been reported by commit tee known as the "Kelley Bill." It resembles the Eisenhower plan in most wi but varies in the import ant respect that it provides grants from the Federal Treasury straight across the board to states, without reforenre to need. Even so. it should be passed to help education in those areas where the need sim- Ely cannot be met locally. Will it e acted upon this year? Only the majority leadership can answer that question. The administration has repeat edly requested certain modifica tions and extension ot provisions oi the National Housing Act. Each time the opposition controlled Con gress has added to the request an extension of and an Increase in Federal Public Housing which the President and most Republicans in Congress do not favor. That leg islation remains to be acted upon but it also will be written by a conference committee. The voters of the country will de cide in November whether or not they wish to continue the Eisen hower administration for another four years. If they do re-elect president Eiscnnower i mink tne record of performance clearly shows that a Republican controlled Congress should also be elected. H. D'Autremont Not To Ask Trial On Old Charge PORTLAND I Hugh D'Autre mont will not ask a trial now on a 33-year-old charge of assaulting a mail clerk, his attorney said Wednesday. u Aiiiremom, .it), is unaer in e sentence for murder in a 1923 train robbery attempt in the Siski you tunnel near Ashland. A teen ager at the time he and his older brothers dynamited the train, he has been in prison more than 30 years and has recently sought to clear away other charges so he would be eligible for parole. Hit Portland attorney Philip J.' Roth, failed earlier to win dis missal of the federal assault charge but Judge Gus Solomon said a trial would be given if wauled. However, Roth said Wed nesday, three state murder indict ments also are pending and a de cision will be souuht on them be fore proceeding with the federal charge. 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