4 The Newa-Review, Rcuburf Oie. Thura., Dec. 13, 1954
CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manoier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Middle East crisis hss dem
ftnstraled with great force how dif
ficult it is for a nation in this pres
ent age to pursue a course which
is both moral and practical.
From the outset the United States
has opposed the use of military
means by Britain, France and Is
rael, arguing that the only proper
moral position is not to condone
snooting by friend or foe alike.
THI overriding question is: There is new straw in the wind.
"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
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His answer to any kind of real ;
pressure on these issues is to
threaten to invite Russian "volun
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