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4 The) Newe-Review, Roieburg, CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager ADDYI WRIGHT, A. Bui. Mgr. GEORGE CASTILLO, Ant. Editor Member of tht AiioelaUd Pms, Oregon Newspaper Publiihert Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Kpritnlt by WEST-HOLLIDAT CO., INC., fflei la Htw Tark, Chlcaf Ban Fraoetioc, Lt Aofalca, UU, PrtUnd, Dbtf Published Daily Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In OraronBr Hall Par Taar, SlS.Ml ta nantba, If-tO; tbro monthi, fll.SB. OaiiltU Oregon ?r MII Ptr Taar, 113.00; all moot hi, 7.00t threa montht, 18.50, Br NawiBtlaw Carrier Par Taar. 113.00 (In advanea), lota lha ana rTi par menth. tl.fiS. Intarad aa aaoand claas mtltar May T, 1910, l Iha fast afflca at Baiaburfi Ortfen ndar aol af March S, 1871. BARRIER TO SUICIDE By Charles V. Stanton The U.S. Coast Guard was organized to construct and maintain aids for navigation along our coastline. Today, however, it is spending a large portion of its time, money and effort trying to keep pleasure-bent Americans from committing suicide. One of the features of the convention of Oregon Pub lishers at Gearhart last week was a talk by a Coast Guard official on the work of his organization. Readers of this column will recall frequent mentions of the growth of recreational use of our coastal waters. This situation, publishers were told, promises to revolution ize the work of the Coast Guard which is sadly lacking in powers to do the task it has voluntarily assumed. While charged with safety and rescue, the Coast Guard's assignment referred to commercial navigation in years past. The laws and regulations under which the organization operates are directed toward coastwise traf fic, commercial fishing and cargo transportation. Until comparatively late years the recreational use of coastal waters was very limited and offered no problem. Suddenly, however, thousands of people are going to sea in boats. All too many of these people have had no experience on salt waler. All too many are novices with boats and motors. All too many resent advice, disregard ordinary safety precautions, and even refuse to obey in structions. Authority Limited The Coast Guard's authority in regulating recreational craft is extremely limited. It can require that all boats carry safety equipment and can enforce certain rules re quiring that boats be operated in a safe and prudent man ner. There is, however, little the Coast Guard can do to prevent foolish people from courting disaster. It can only hope to be around in time to fish them out of the seas before they drown. Here in the United Stales we have approximately six million pleasure boats one for every 28 persons. Own ers of outboard motors number more than four and one half million. More than one-half million new motors were sold in 19fifi. The U.S. Coast Guard has registered approxi mately 400,000 pleasure boats more than 1G feet in length. This list does not include the thousands of skiffs under 1fi feet for which registration is not required. During 1958 Americans spent more than one and one-quarter billion dol lars on boats, motors, accessories, etc., a gain of 13 ',o per cent over the previous year. Those figures give some idea of the exciting and fab ulous trend toward water sports and recreation spreading over the United States. When one considers that a large percentage of these boats are based along the country's 13,000 miles of tidal shoreline, or are transported to t h e coast on trailers, it is obvious that the Coast Guard is being forced to revolutionize its operations. New Laws Sought The Coast Guard has been pleading for new laws. It needs at least some measure of police .power to prevent foolish people from killing themselves. At Salmon Harbor, for example, I saw two elderly men in a small skiff headed out toward the bar from which even the big boats had fled. 1 was on a large boat, one of the safest on the bay, yet our captain wouldn't venture beyond the inner edge of the bar. However, these two men, without life jackets, headed on out into rough water. The Coast Guard cutter went out and ordered them to turn back. Orders could be given legally because the men did not have prescribed safety equipment. The two turned back, ducked behind a larger vessel, then, as the Coast Guard cutter headed off in another direction, retraced their way into dangerous water. Fortunately they were ob served and were herded back to the dock. Time and again people will overload their boats, will venture out in skiffs lacking adequate power, will deliber ately go into dangerous waters regardless of warnings. One of the chief contributors to accidents and fatalities is the use of alcoholic beverages. Our U.S. Coast Guard is doing its best to provide pro tection for foolish, reckless, careless and ignorant people using coastal waters for recreational purposes. Kach year the work load for the Coast, Guard increases in proportion to the sensational gains in pleasure boating. Great ur gency exists for laws and regulations to control all types of boats in coastal waters. At the same time the organi zation's budget should bo increased to make possible the employment of personnel to meet the growing need. IN THE DAY'S NEWS B FRANK (Conlinucil From Pnto Onp) most ef our lai!KiKo along with us. That would he a record of sorts, for no nalion in the world was ever able to ai'Complih such a hoqira before. We're gelling places. AH' this, of course, raises Ques tions. For example; If we undertook a mass move-; ment of ALL of our people, it would have to be assumed tint we would lie moving them from the I nitcd Stales of America to somewhere else. Like all happy and reasonably contented people, we grouse and grumble more or less coustaullv I about the conditions under which we are compelled to live. Hut- (lelling down lo lied roc k WK'I) ALL OF I S - F.VK.RY MOTIIKH'S SON OK IS - HATH EH LIVF. IN THK VNITKI)! STATUS OK AMKItICA THAN 1 ANYWHERE V.I&V. ON KAKTII. i So why waste time talking about Ore. Fri., June 21, 1957 JENKINS silly IhinR like nus movement of all of our prople rven if wo do have cars enough to got away with it? Electronic 'Brain' Being Readied Af WSC I'l.'I.LMAN, Wash, i.fl - A million dollar electronic "brain" was being readied at Washington Slalo College Thursday for such tasks as calculating fruit prices and sludjmg inheritance factors in cattle The calculator will take over much of the tedious work now dune in the WSC computing center and will also be used lo train students in statistics The compact machine, expected to be in operation early next month, recedes Hs data and in structions on punched cards. It takes loimer to prepare the cards than for the machine to soke the problems, statisticians said The inai'hine. being leased at the reduced educational rale of SI .lino a monlh, can multiply one locligit number bv another lo digit number in something like .01:17 of second. - -Jal NEW YORK lP) Are you to make friends? When at a strike up a conversation? If your answer to these questions is "Yes," by all means go to your dentist, have him pull some of your teeth and put in a new denture. i When word of this gets around, i at their face, pulled out their own you wil be amazed at the change dental hardware, and asked, in your life. Overnight you will "What do you think of mine?" find you have acquired a new and Lifelong enemies, after we have more winning personality. People ' compared dentures, have sudden who overlooked you before will y announced, "Pal, if you're too look up to you now. After all, ! strapped to pay your dentist, I'll now you aro a man with a den-; be glad to lend you any amount lure. You're a somebody! jyou need. 1 have been through it A man whose hair falls out i myself." usually is rewarded with jibes and j Several girls, overcome by mv jeers and small sympathy. But a new dazzling porcelain smile, have man who luses Ins teeth I for I confided that anvtime 1 want to some reasun I still can't figure 1 run awav frum home thev will drop out) is regarded as a kind of hero, i their present iobs and beaux and a wounded veteran in the battle gallop off with me. even though of life; The world is suddenly on it bo but a hut in the woods. Oh. Ins side. j vou there's no limit to how When I had four front teeth ! "ew choppers can change your pulled out for Father's Day last ufl'- week, 1 feared that when I showed I Of course, there are minor draw- up at the office with my new : false choppers I'd be a figure of public ridicule. Well, sir. it was just the other way. 1 couldn't have got a more heart-warming reception if I'd held a winning ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes. It seems the greatest secret so ciety in the world is the society of people who wear false teeth. Once you join this elect group you can never be lonely again. You are henceforth and forever a member of the elite. You belong. You leave the lowly steak mob and join the chicken-a-la-king set a group apart from the gum chewing herd. The password of this elect so ciety is, "You show me your den lure, and I'll show you mine." Playing bridge isn't nearlv as popular an indoor American sport .i i-uiiipjuiiix linages, in me last to Know real adventure, get vour several days at least 50 dignified self a denture. Have vour teeth men have come up to me, inspect- pulled now. My onlv regret is I ed my new teeth, murmured didn't have my own pulled out at "llmmm, not bad," then clawed! 21. :(Lrace No issue in many years has so bewildered the world's ordinary citizens as has the question of con tinued testing of nuclear weapons. The matter has been made more confusing by the fact that it was injected into our l!'.i6 presidential campaign and is at all times but especially now a major item in itussia s propaganda arsenal. If people everywhere are to un derstand Hie issue, responsible leaders must strive harder than they have to separate it into its principal parls. As a preliminary, politics ob viously ought to have nothing to do with the question. To find Demo crat and Republicans lined up on opposite sides of it would he to discover a tragic failure of political responsibility. LEGITIMATELY the matter seems to exist on three levels: Moral, scientific, and military. On the moral plane, some men, including certain scientists, writ ers, philosophers and other mold ers of opinion, believe that regard less of other considerations the l ulled States should exert moral leadership by initiating a total ban on further nuclear tests. H11I the moral argument is not weighing heavily at this moment in history. The big debate comes on the scientific and the military strategic levels. l arge numbers of scientists ar gue that radiation peril from nu clear tests is. or soon will be. so great for present and future gener ations that a total or partial test ban is vital. other scientists, no less eminent, minimize the danger and sav tests can go on for a long period Some who see danger ahead ig nora military considerations. Oth-' "--I Give You a Man Who d3ou(e a lonely? Is it difficult for you party, do you find it hard to backs. At first you feel like you have a mouthful of marbles and you develop a lisp. The lisp then gives way to an unexpected whistle. You try to cure this by saying over and over such sentences as: "Whistle-stop Susie swam slowly through the Mississippi surf sing ing a soft sad song all by her silly simple self." "She sells seashells by the sea shore." "A skunk sat on a stump. The stump said that the skunk slunk, and the skunk said that the stump stunk." The other day I was walking along the street during lunch hour muttering these sentences a n d emitting low whistles. Well. sir. four taxis and three girls stopped to ask if I had summoned them. Take a tip from me. If you want (J3io35at - ers presume to declare we are In a aecure position with the nuclear stockpile we now have. THE ACTUAL safety of America 1 and its free world friends is the ! controlling factor studied at the : military level. In other words, even if the scien tific argument were clearly resolv jed on the side that danger was t great, the men in charge of free world destinies might still declare 1 that the risk would have to be taken in the interest of survival in com petition with a hostile communism. : Such a decision cannot be taken 'by a scientist acting as a scientist. ; nor by a moralist in his capacity : as a moral leader. ' It can only be taken by stales ! men seeking lo balance ail factors but, by the very nature of their high responsibilities, giving prior ! ity to considerations affecting tht protection of free men from at tack. SINCE the scientific question Is not resolved, no such difficult choice must yet be made. In the scientific uncertainty which exists, it should cause little surprise that President F.iscnhower and other key leaders put heavy stress on the free world's need lo secure itself. Some ntav accuse them of giving prime weight to the scientific ar guments which minimize the pos sible peril. But the fact is. those arguments exist and are not to he discredited any more than are op position MlVS W hauler else may be aid. it cannot be thought that the men with whom this awful choice rests have any wish to harm humanity. All the e ulence indicates they want to preserve it but most par ticularly llut part of it which can and does choosa to live in freiSj.im. . , ." Matchmakers Start Rumors On Margaret LONDON ( Would-be match makers have entered a new start er in the romantic stakes for Princess, Margaret's hand in mar riage. Over the teacups Thursday the gossipers had it that a serious affair of the heart is brewing be tween the princess and Lord Pat rick Beresford. He is 23, a lieu tenant in the Klite Brigades of Guards. She is 20. Beresford is shaping up as Mar garet's first regular escort since she broke off with Peter Town send a year and a half ago. Margaret and the tall dark haired lord have been enjoying each other's company since they met at a polo match a month ago. Beresford scored fijiir goals in that match. The story goes that when the princess came over to congratulate him, the young guardsman seized the opportunity of asking her to dinner. Margaret smilingly accepted. Since then they have been seen together in smart restaurants, at the theater, at country house par ties and race meetings. Currently they are members of the royal party at the Ascot Races. Report States Russians Fired Indiscriminately UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Ifl A U.N. committee said Thursday that Soviet troops fired indiscrim- I inately on women, children and j residential buildings in suppres sing the Hungarian uprising last fall. I But the 391-page report by the j five-nation special committee on I Hungary conceded that "the whole 1 population took part in the resist- ance" to the Russians, and "no 1 distinction, therefore, could have I been made between civilian and 1 military population." Molotov cocktails were thrown from apartment windows on upper floors by men, women and chil dren on a wide scale," the com mittee said. The report said the Soviet forces, suffering heavy losses under the rebel harrassment, sortied into Budapest side streets, "killing many noucombatants and destroying many buildings." The committee, which inter viewed 111 post-revolt refugees from Hungary, said it was told the Russians shot "indiscriminate ly at anything, even if it were not a legitimate target." "Examples described to the committee included a bread line of women and children, standing outside a bakery, which was shot at on Nov. 4. On Nov. 7 a Red Cross ambulance was destroyed by machinegun fire; the wounded and the nurses in it. were killed " "The Soviet armored units opened fire on all buildings along avenues and streets and inflicted heavy casualties among noncom batants." 10 Chicken Houses Burn At Milton-Freewiter Mll.TON FREF.W ATF.R Fire destroyed 10 chicken houses and part of mother at the Poultry Producers Inc., operation north of here Wednesday. An estimated 40.000 chickens, in varying stages of development, were lost. Only one chicken house was un scathed. A residence also burned as the flames, believed to have spread from a nearby weed burn ing operation, reached the build ings. Some of the chickens escaped when doors were opened on the doomed buildings. Many of these, hoeer, were lost to the oper ators when spectators got gunny sacks and gathered them in. An insurance adiustor's esti mate put the loss at about fso,. 000. Editorial From The BENEFITS ACCRUE FROM LEGISLATURE Oregon Statesman A lot of money accrues to Marion County and its immediate environs from sessions of the Oregon legis lature, and the 1957 session was no exception. The area stands to benefit tremendously during the next two years. Already, well over $500,000 has been poured out in payroll alone here $108,000 to legislators them selves, $384,000 for clerks and sten ographers, $36,000 for janitors and watchmen, $8,000 for supply clerks. Another $600,000 went for session supplies and services. And under the newly - enacted measure allocating $10,000,000 sal ary increases in the next biennium, it is estimated at least $6,000,000 (at the rate of $3,000,000 a year) will go to persons residing in and near Salem. That makes $6,500,000 in "new" money for this area, excluding the many hundreds of thousands of dol lars which will go to new employes as the state department and serv ices constantly expand. Truly, the state's business is big business for the Willamette Valley. But payroll is far from the total financial picture. There has been appropriated in excess of $5,000. 000 for new construction, almost all of it in this immediate area the new correctional institution for boys, the penitentiary and annex, Fairview Home, the state hospital, MacLaren School, the schools for the deaf and blind, Hilicrest and Cottage Farms. On top of the bills providing for these appropriations are measures adding another $1,000,000 in build ing work the $300,000 youth building at the fairgrounds, a state contribution of $250,000 for the pro jected armory -auditorium; $110, 000 for repairs to the State Office Building. $75,000 to complete the State Finance Building; $60,000 for such items as lights on the capital mall, paint for the statehouse and its gold-leaf pioneer, sidewalks, draperies for the senate and house, etc. The impact of a legislative ses sion is immediate, to be sure. There is little doubt that legisla tors expend their earnings, and in some instances much more, right in this vicinity on rent, food, clothing, entertainment. And on top of the legislative payroll is probably another $150,000 which out-city lobbyists put out during their 128-day stay. But it is over the long haul that major benefits accrue to Salem and its neighbors. State expendi tures are a prime factor in Sa lem's stable economy. HELP TOURISTS STOP AWHILE Coos Bay Times "For everv two people vou get j to go out to that small boat basin to tie into a good big salmon, you 11 have 20 people back the next year." That's the opinion and a good opinion of Dr. Robert A. Klever, president of the North Bend Cham ber of. Commerce, which is inau gurating a training clinic May 23 for the use of all Bay Area people. It will train employers and em ployes alike, and private citizens if they wish, how to answer tourist questions auuui wnere 10 go ana what to do. The program was outlined at a lunch meet F'riday by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Duncan, who drew up plans for the promotion. It is concurred in by officials of the Coos Bay Chamber, who are giv ing every cooperation. For a cost of 50 cents, anybody will be able to attend one or two duplicate three-hour training meet ings on the May 23 date. Three outstanding speakers will instruct how to meet people and how to provide quick answers to their questions. All businesses are being urged to send as many of their employes as possible to one of the sessions. The tourist biiiiness is often over looked. I nlcss you are directly en gaged in a tourist-serving trade or are keeping a sharp eye out. you may not see the cars going through, carrying a mammoth trade poten tial for every person in the area be they in business or just working for a business or an industry. The more we sell the Coos Bay area all of the area as a good place to stop for awhile, or to fish, or to picnic or what-have-you. the more visitor-bearing cars will stop to drop more greenbacks into our economy, and enjoy doing it, too. The tourist clinic deserves the support of each of us. See you at the classroom! f.w. a. RECREATION ON O & C LANDS Oregon Statesman, Sattm Checkerboarded through West ern Oregon are the revested lands 01 the out O & C railroad, totaling over two million acres. All are lo cated in mountainous areas which include many delightful spots suit able for picnicking or camping. The bureau of land management which administers the lands has been so busy selling timber, de vising access roads and trying to crop wilh trees its acreage already 1 harvested, has had neither time, personnel nor money lo devote to developing such tracts. Under the spur of Mission 68 of the national parks service and the related recreational development which the forest service is launch ing BLM is taking first steps to ward making portions of its hold ings available for park purposes. On schedule first is a survey of the O It C lands for the bureau by the parks service. This will list the tracts for which recreation seems the prime use. The BLM will ne gotiate with counties respecting the improvement and administration of these park areas under some co operative arrangement.. This will open a way in many counties for organizing a county park system whose value will in crease as population increases and pressures for enjoyment of wilder ness aress grow. Douglas County has set the pace fo: Western Ore gon, (liters will come along, and this offer of assist from ,!.M will surely proe a f:r. Comment Oregon Presi WE'RE NOT SO FAR BEHIND Albany Democrat-Herald One of the Portland newspapers took a little dig at Albany by in direction this " series of articles depicting eco nomic conditions in Oregon local- "The article quoted a "civic lead er" as stating that Albany resi dents are trading at Salem store because "Albany's business district is the seediest-looking in the state. This calls for two partial nega- tl0Albanv's business district is not the seediest in the state by any means. It must be admitted that some business blocks are seedy looking but where is the town that has no such landmarks? tor the most part the merchants who oc cupy the antiquated structures are themselves progressive enough but those who don't own their build ings can do little about modern izing the exteriors. 'i-i,;,. ; 9 nrnhlm which like wise faces manv Salem merchants, for example. We could point also to manv downright eyesores in downtown Portland and S e a 1 1 1 e. Those towns blame mostly disinter ested or absentee owners. Like any other growing city that is 100 or more years old Albany is structurally behind its popula tion and business requirements. An exception, perhaps, is Astoria but it look a disastrous fire to modern ize Oregon's oldest town. We don't want that. Recently completed and still pro jected face lifting and new con struction on West Second Ave. are evidence that Albany is gaining in its race with obsolescence. This is something to be applaud ed, of course, but in fact it would be good to know that Albany will never catch up with its need for up-to-date store and office build ings. It is probably true that many Albany residents are doing some of their buving in Salem. Tempta tion is offered not so much by a more modern Salem business dis trict as by a wider selection of merchandise. But if anyone thinks he is saving monev bv trading out of town, he had better take a second look. 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OR 2-2636 Lifeguard Rescues Two Fishermen From Death CANNON BEACH I A 19-year-old lifeguard rescued two fish ermen from death on low rocks off Ecola State 1'ark Wednesday ! Lifeguard Paul Clement loaded j two Inejackets, a buoy and a j lifeline on his back and managed : to swim with them throueh unusu. ally rough surf. He reached the outermost rocks before the tide could get high enough to sweep the fishermen away. The fishermen were hesitant about going into the surf, hut when it became clear the tide would get them, they donned the lifejackets and were pulled to safety by the lifeline. The rescued men were Robert Swartz, 25, Portland, and William T. Jones, 48, Dayton, Ohio. 5t .. Call Woodbury! ,j Yef, for those P-' ruth orders of iteeli, htovy hardware or in duirrial lupplioi call Woodbury and Company for fast, dependable service! Direct phone lines to our warehouse Insure fast action! Meet our new area supervisor! 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