4 The) Newe-Review, Roieburg,
CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager
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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.
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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.
We've made comparisons and
found that big-store bargains are
not always what they seem.
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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
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