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4 The Newa-Review, Rcuburf Oie. Thura., Dec. 13, 1954 CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manoier ADDYI WRIGHT, Asst. ius. Mir. GEORGI CASTILLO. Asst. Iditer Member of the Associated Prm, OrofM Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit ureeu of Circulations iwtHiui to ui iii ce wc . nM w. csitaii, in 1m fnasiua. Im tatiNs. lunx. '"(. Published D'ily lacea Sunday by the j Newj-Review Company, Inc. J tmuiirriM utis-i. int-tf m-ai tm, inn. . rM MUM. 1M MiiM H ' - SMU- It MlnM Cm-M Iiv. Vlst fee MnL bM M J4JK,jL - NEW YORK Of Some day Johnny Mark would like to write a hit aonjr about the 4th of July or maybe even the 291 h of February. "Any day but ChrUtmas," he said. It ! unlikely, however, hn pub-1 1 lie will let him. For belter or j,ut ru ,uarlntea it won t be i worse. Johnny hit become as . good on, - identified with Christmas songs ai , johnny.' who is 47 and looks like 'AT0a,TAhJ!tlm"A' Greenwich Village poet (hes al ballads of the Old South. i actually a Greenwich Village Puttuil the Christmas spirit to landlord), says all bis Christmas music isn't exactly a e h o s e n i songs have been acririrnta H,. career with Harks. It's a kind of 'other hits on this subiect were sw au. ti n. Iimm a news itou mttf T. list st Its I Mi st 1 suns t Wl MfKt It Smut. tm NEED IS DEMONSTRATED By Charles V. Stanton The current iilump in Oregon' lumber industry i stim ulating thought of secondary manufacture. There is no denyinjr the fact that our lumber Industry is in bad shape at present. The condition doubtless is tem porary but it points up the importance of chanifinp; as soon as pnnsible from our one-industry status. The entire state relies upon the timber industry for its economy. Today Oregon is an island of economic recession in a sea of unprecedented prosperity. Because the Federal Reserve Board tightened up mon ey for home construction, the lumtier industry has taken a beatinif. Unfortunately the regulations hit chiefly this one segment of the economy so that Oretron, as the leading lumber producing state, is the most adversely affected. H is anticipated that corrective measures will soon re store prosperity to the lum!er industry, but in the mean time we are sufferinu from what appears to hava been an error in economic planning. Diversification Needed But not all department of the timber industry have been hurt. A (rood friend of mine is very happy with current con ditions. He operates some mills engaged in specialty cut ting. He produces stock for toys, furniture, cabinets and other special uses. He buys his lumber from neighboring sawmills. The drop in cost of his basic supply is giving him very handsome profits on his operations. He is tak ing full advantage of the opportunity by increasing hi pro duction. His experience illustrates the importance of diversify ing our timber industry as rapidly as possible. Too much of our production now is in timber and boards. We should have numerous secondary manufactuf ing plants to cushion our economy when lumber prices are down. We have made progress in that direction. Plywood now uses a considerable percentage of our raw product. Ply wood, however, all too often follows the same pattern as lumber. We have seen some advance in the field of chip board, particle board, handles, crossarms, etc., all of which could be expanded. We could use many small specialty plants, cut-up mills, fabrication units. . Chemical Field Neglected Our big opportunity for diversification, however, lies in the chemical field, in my opinion. Except for lack of competitive transportation, DoukIhs County offers the outstanding opportunity on the Pacific Coast for pulp and paper production. If we had rail com petition, which would bring rail cooperation in opening in dustrial sites suitable for manufacturing purposes, we un doubtedly would soon have a large pulp and paper indus try. Seve-al concerns have looked at our area. Some still are investigating. But, while we have a better material supply than other areas, plenty of water, and all other re quirements for pulp and paper manufacture, we haven't competitive rail transportation, nor do we have good mill sites tributary to the existing rail line. We could, howev er, open many thousands of acres suitable for industrial use if we had a railroad willing to build needed spur tracks. There is every indication that great quantities of wood pulp will go into the manufacture of plastics. The plastics industry is reported to be turning from cotton and other cellulose products to wood pulp for raw material. Various chemicals, adhesive, medicines, sugars, etc., are being produced from wood. Eventually we will be en gaged in manufacturing those things here in Douglas Coun ty. Secondary manufacture will come of its own accord In time. If we are to speed development, however, we must do a lot of promotional work. The current economic slump shows how essential diversification is to our future welfare. stranie doom he tries to escape but can't. In IMS Johnny was a moder ately successful song writer (he has published 75, written about 7501 when he composed a little ditty entitled "Rudolph, the Red- .nea Keindeer. 'The Nisht Refer rhHtimn Song," "When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter," and Everyone's a Child at Christmas." "Last year 1 made up my mind definitely I would never write another one." he recalled. men, last February, while Johnny, who had struggled for L .at JLm. ?"n r Henry as long as two years to get some w,aortn Longfellow, he came of his tongs recorded, had to 'ST" on c,lled' "' the struggle for two months before bV," 0B chr'",m" Day." Gene Autry agreed to gamble on1 '" """-religious theme, the the novelty number. ; victory or hope over despair. That recording ... now sold twSJu STW - pic-i4M.i mm j mm lung as nuaoipn. While making the recording. Bing, noticing that Longfellow was the author, told Johnny drvly: "You had a pretty fair lyric writer en this one." Johnny, who now operates his own publishing firm (by an odd coincidence it's called the St. Nicholas Music Co.), savs: "This is it. I hope I'll never write another Christmas song!" He say it fervently and means it. But alone Tin Pan Allrv "Time after time people have i tnrX ay "' too late. Johnny Little Rudolph, now an estab lished world-wide Christmas clas sic, has earned Johnny better than half a million dollars, will prob ably earn that much again by the time Marks' copyright expires 4 yean from now and the little rein deer gallopi into the public do main. In the first three years after Rudolph appeared on the scene more than 300 imitative Christmas novelty songs appeared, but quick ly iinmea into omivion. tried to get me to write sequels shout Rudolph," said Marks, "but I never will. "It took ine only a week to write the song or a week plus 20 years, if you count the time it took me to learn what to throw away. I still rewrite it now and then in my mind changing a word here and there until it drives my wife craiy. 'The funny thing is that it was only by accident that the song had a Christmas theme. Anybody who sits nown ana says ne II write can i neip nimseu. Christmas is no longer just a holiday for Ru dolph's father, it's a life sentence. Yoncalla PTA Hears Program From Students By MRS. GEORGI EDES A meeting of the Yoncalla PTA Christmas song is welcome to try i ne'' Monday evening in the vuiaua hikii ai-iiuol wiin Al T S. Charles Timmons president presid ing. The high school band played six selections, marches and one overture before the meeting. The band was under the leadership of Don Loftus. music supervisor for Yoncalla schools. The meeting was opened with the flag salute, led by Cub Scout Den 2, Pack 44. The treasurer re ported a balance of S461.M after bills were paid. Motion was made to buy four dozen cups to be kept at the grade school for use in serv ing at PTA meetings. Mrs. Bob Smith volunteered to take care of the Christmas treats for the chil dren of Yoncalla with the assist ance of the grade school mothers Daily Bible Reading Message By Roseburg Ministerial Association TODAY'S TEXT Hebrews 11:1-40 Faith is a remarkable force. The : Mr -'l'n reported that each eleventh Chapter of Hebrews illu-; ?m . n ln cno01 w0"ld strales repeatedly the power of ?.oll " annual Christmas party faith. It begins bv defining faith '"day afternoon, pec. 21. The pro as something which is unseen but : ?rmfon!1,,.d of Y!n ,p'm neverlheless is real and vital. It ,u" A "". ,h' F'm,''r;" is an abiding assurance and an im- "", meeting will be held movable conviction. Throughout 1 ' ,nf r,de cboo 3'n 14,n Wllh Ihis test failh is seen as an active ith' ,flf,h. r"d' molh'r serving, trust in (Jod Refreshments were served at the It was hv failh that men of old cloM of meeting. found Ond s favor. It was by faith also that their lives found mean ing. Moreover, faith was the now er that enabled them to face Ihe trials and temptations of life with confidence. Their active trust in find gave direction to their lives. Without faith life would be only a merry-go-around existence, al ways moving but never getting anyplace. We, as those men of old. need faith to give our lives confid ence, strength and meaning. C.eorge Knox Westside Christian Church In The Day's News (Continued From Page One) (Bruce (BloSSat i Copilot Who Quit Job Missing In West Indies WASHINGTON v The dis appearance of a Eugene, Ore., man who resigned as copilot for a Dominican Republic airline has prompted the State Department to ask for help in locating him. The pilot, Gerald Lester Mur phy, has been missing since Dec. 3. The day before, he advertised household effects for sale in a Ciudad Tmjillo newspaper. The State Department said Murphy's automobile was found abandoned on the outskirts of the Dominican Republic capital. The American consul in the Dominican Republic said police, at the State Department's request, were making an exhaustive j Misinformation Regarding Inspectors Office Cited There seems to be an over abandance of misinformation and , misapprehension as regarda the. lunctiona of ine otuce oi ouuoing inspector of Douglas County, and as to why the office was conceived to start with. ' its conception and eventual in- i ceplion was and ia in keeping with good county government practices throughout these United States. Many atates in which building codes and inspectors for counties are compulsory and others, while ' not compulsory, have a vast ma jority of their respective counties : participating in an active pattern of adherence to a workable code. ' The endeavor of this office has been and will be to establish such i a workable code, being flexible J enough to be applicable to all cases I whether suburban or fringe. How ever, in doing so it should be realized that while codea are de signed as a protection and guid ance for individuals, one cannot discount the protection of a gen eral populace of a given area. The question arises as to how severe are restrictions when there has been only one building inspec tor in the county of 5,062 square miles of area and with a ten mil lion dollar activity. In a more con gested area, this ratio would be appalling considering a like figure would require five active in spectors. Since its start there have been only two cases reviewed by the department's Board of Appeals in regard to refusal of building per mits or condemnation of an exist ing building, and the results were. 1(1) The potential builder did not submit a revised plan as requested by the board and (2) The owner i agreed that his construction was ! unsafe and dismantled an awk i ward unsightly building which was ! in an area of attractive homes. While most grievances have been attributed to the building inspec- tor's office they have, for the most ! part, been because of the require ments of the health department ; concerning waste disposal facilities in a fast growing community. It has recently been recom I mended that the requirements of the health department be severed from the building inspector so that i building permits, though still re quired, may then be granted wheth j er or not inadequacy in sanitary Should we not try to more thoroughly realize the magnitude of this complex problem of build- ; ing soundness into the houses of today so that they will be desir able as homes of tomorrow, that coming generations can be proud of the accomplishments of those who have preceded them? I-et us work together on a com mon project to help make Douglas County a better place in which to live and support legislation that will lend to its soundness and aesthetic beauty. C. H. Boniols, Building Inspector Courthouse, Room 12S Roseburg, Ore. Education Board Chooses Names For Buildings PORTLAND 1 The State board of Higher Education con vened here Tuesday to put its ap proval on business it completed Monday while sitting as a build ing committee. The board chose the name Cord ley Hall for the new agriculture and biological science building al Oregon Slate College, and also settled on Weatherford Hall as the new name of the five-unit men s dormitory at Corvallis. The board said two of the pres ent five unit names Cauthorn and Poling will be given to two new dormitories under construe-1 Uon. Cordley Hall honors the first man to head OSC's agriculture department, the late Dean Arthur Burton Cordley. The board approved a 1957 sum mer session budget of 1532.043. an increase of $46,186 from 1956. About half the increase ia for sal ary adjustments. Trustee Wrecks Irolen Automobile On Highway KLAMATH FALLS ( A Klam ath County jail trusty who wanted to be home for Christmas was held in Bend Wednesday after he wrecked a stolen automobile on Highway 58. 95 miles north of Klamath Falls. The escapee, Gary Lawrence McKercher, 27, who was serving six months here for attempted larceny, disappeared Tuesday aft ernoon from the county law li brary in the courthouse where he was working. Sheriff Murray Britton said he posed aa a prospective buyer at I an automobile agency. He told a salesman he wanted to drive a 1954 sedan around the block to test it. ! A few hours later he was pulled out of the wrecked sedan by state 1 police. He said he was planning to spend Christmas with his wife in Portland. I McKercher will be returned here : to face charges of auto theft and escape. Mrs. Winston Cives Program To Art Assn. Mrs. Ulan Winston presented a program for members of the Rose burg Art Assn. at Us last meeting. She took them on a trip down the Rhine and across counlry thrown villages of Germsny. Switzerland, France. Austria. England and oth er countries with the slides that she had taken. I Mrs. Victoria Ploss was in charge of the program and intro duced the guest speaker. I Two paintings were donated to the association oy Arinur er of Portland who had taught plainting classes for the art group. These have been framed and one will hang in the new county li- Also the librarian inuiea ine members of the association to hang , pictures in the library. One paint-, ine from a member will be hung there for a montn. mis monin Carta Lee Taylor will have a paint ing on exhibition. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Jack West on River side Drive. She was assisted by Mrs. Victoria Ploss and Mrs. Es ther Gillilsnd. The next meeting will be held in January at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Ford. Navy Ordarc Received For Cuided Missiles WASHINGTON t The Navy said Wednesday that Chance Vought Aircraft, Dallas, Tex., has received new Navy orders for guided missiles totaling 26 mil lion dollars. The new orders are for addi tional missiles of the Regulus I and the Kegulus II. The Regulus I is an operational attack missile, launched from ships at targets I several hundred miles away. The ! Regulus II is an advanced ver sion, capable of supersonic speed. j Guinea pigs art not pigs. They are rooenu. Gifts hell reollyoppretiotp M ENDING WITH A FIRING SQUAD BEFORE A BLANK WALL. In Ihe present inflamed state of search for Murphy. The depart public opinion throughout the world I ment said it had no information no one can tell what wholesale I indicating a reason for hia dia butchery of that sort might touch appearance. off. . - . - Cuided Missile Breaks Contact With Plane EDWARDS. Calif, ufl A Navy guided missile somehow broke contact with the jet plane that was guiding it on a test shot Tuesday. It streaked wildly across the des ert and crashed 120 miles away on the edge of Death Valley. The 33-foot Regulus surface-to-surface missile was undergoing a routine test under electronic con trol from Ihe, accompanying plane when it got' away. The jet traced it to its crash site and a crew wit sent to pick up the pieces. The devices are being tested at this Mojave Desert base under the accelerated missile program. Base officiala said the guiding mechanism apparently failed after launching. Tass Says 'Volunteers' No Longer Necessary MOSCOW in Tass announced Saturday that agreement by Brit ain, France and Israel to with draw troops from Egypt has made it unnecessary to send Soviet "volunteers" there. The declaration by the official Cai it nsu.a aoenrv nlseeri an of- ificial stamp on the softer policy liA It, CAi-iet llninn h. Keen following in the Middle East crisis for the last two weeks. I (There was no mention in the Tact ct.tement that there has been a lack of demand on the I part of Egypt for the "volun ! leers." Neither was there men- liiH Ar Vm thai fha Cnuial i I'nion is concentrating heavily on ine Hungarian prooiem anu us 1 ramifications.) - uafy S&c&ia Modal 7v" Aw'&jiyjr only 89.95 the blade is on the LEFT! 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"When you are determined as a Polish students clashed with n. nation not to use force yourself t lice and army units in a mass anti and to oppose its use by others, how Soviet demonstration in the Polish do you control the petty adven- city of Stettin. The Warsaw radio turers who flout law and moral- (communist-dominated! first said Ity and even risk their own inde-1 the riot was touched off by "hooli pendence by inviting help fromigsns." Later it admitted that the Russia, the greatest of all outlaw 1 street brawl turned into a march nations'" 'on Ihe Russian consulate, where The Hrn .ii.,... hundreds of demonstrator imith. vll tki. . i; ... I.. -' a Ivnrh mnh (mm riraua.n nit a ' ed Windows and tried to hreik in j iMiunniH mil lame iuw, r niI ....... u.sa" m . , - uriii-d the belligerents to pull out I m" charged with murder do not lnd comes next after Hun o( Kgpt, and have delayed ship-!'n" h"n free. He still must be r'r ln hatred of the Russian pin( needed oil to Europe on Ihe "''a" 'or fsir trial on the charge. oppressors-and over the centur ground this might be interpreted' Similarly, Nssser does not de- j ln ,n hv "" demon as aid to Britain and France as " obel peace prise for , ",, ,n"r """ngness to die altscking nations. ' prnincstions against the Brit-' "Shtinj oppression. The sad Dart about all Ihis is that n, rrenrn snd Israeli. Somehow while it has Increased our stature ' w mul" 'nd the course which will Competent observers offer the amiins Ih. 1IM.1.I.H . hold him In Srrnnnt fnr the anw am ' OpiOKMI that What IS hanoeninf in has been a blow to Ihe North At-'" h" committed Hungary and to a lesser extent Isnlic alliance and has served poor-' " we can do that we mav belter 10 ,,r ln. Poland marks the be- Iv our practical mtrrests in the ,rrv ur practical concerns "nin of the hresk up of the Rus- Midille East. ncsce in the Middle Fast snd a ,n communist empire OUR renewed support for the ; resiored Western alliance and at Io 'hl mean that the danger Bashdad pact countries Turkev, ,h ame time serve a larger mor- of " worl' w,r ' diminishing? Pakistan. Iran and Iraq has '' hich other wrongs thsn nt """sarily helped a bit toward redressing the 'hooting are dealt wilh resolutely. ! m"" remember the position balance. So has our late in coming . 'ht Kremlin despots Kruschev decision to step up oil supplies to v , . .... , !1,!mpi"!'- 'a,,1"""' S bdl', Europe I Yoncalla Livestock 4-H '"ghtened men All this has hip Hut big dilemmas remsin. and Club Elects Oft.r.r. tTi'v "it'J .T"KIR l"hiPi Ihey are not to be solved bv simply ,UD tl,C" tf K "'' responsible. All saving we are against shooting. Tn, Yoncalla 1 ivestock 4 U Clh tlT . ' ,n'.' resident Nasser of Kevin, a no. Li. LI.'' 4 .H.llu.b '.:. "''"". Krache j . , .. ---r-. - r- , ,-.,-iii,t mK In nume OI ISQ- 10. MII.HT IptiVT TUVVI Such an upset wouldn't mean ui-a ..i.rnu.rcr 01 ine orsi son, ,r ()rv, A, p,u Mli, ssnii gelling away will) murder. ;,ected president; Waneta John .b.i,h either. he '" W - H..J..I linn or ihe nrhi.m f 1 seiretary, hay thurchill dirsce a is the cae in less h7suVEnrML.?. Allen, veil hr m. ' , ,.. ' " iraner. nriresnmenis were served meir cae. it would proha His answer to any kind of real ; pressure on these issues is to threaten to invite Russian "volun at Ihe close of the meeting MOTFST BROADCASTS prohablv mean (riling stood no before a finnr squad They might start a world war as ine lesser of two evils Cornered "T'm L h" '''0b" ' BAUIDAH UP - Iraq Weilnes- despots have done tha before establishment. dav formally protested to Ept in ovn ine nussians ap-.ano .vria mat tnev permitted These are grave davs pear to i have gained their invita-1 "hostile" radia broadcasts from! 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