4 The Newt-Raview, Roseburg Ore. Wed. Aug. 14, 1957
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SCHOOL SACRIFICE
By Charles V. Stanton
Each year The Nervs-Revicw cooperates with mer
chants of the area in the publication of a Back-To-School
edition. We present today our effort for this year, and
commend careful reading of this section to every resident
interested in the school situation.
Merchants have united in offering a very complete
line of merchandise to children, teen-aprers and adults to
whom return to school is an important event. ShoppinK
the advertisements in today's paper, students and parents
will find offered for their selection all the many things
necessary to prepare for the reopening of our local
schools. '
More than one .million dollars will be spent in Doug
las County between today and and the first day of school
through the purchase of clothing and supplies. The ex
penditure could well go over the one and one-half million
dollar mark if we equal or surpass the national average
of $105 per school child.
Release of that much money in the county through
trade channels will provide a very vigorous boost to econ
omy at a time when we can certainly make good use of
it. Every .part -of the county should be aided proportion
ately to its tributary school enrollment.
Opening Plans Made
The news staff of The News-Review, including the
large family of community editors, has been engaged for
weeks in the preparation of information entering into to
day's section. Every school district is represented with in
formation. A vast amount of detail has been collected.
It will be observed that plans for opening of schools
are well in hand; that schools are well staffed, and that
programs for the year have been outlined. Indications
are that enrollment will not show the gains with which
we have been familiar for the past few years, but that it
will compare closely with last year in most schools.
In that connection I believe we have a right to be very
proud of our school situation here in Douglas County.
We have been In a boom area. We will be booming
again in the near future, I believe. Because of our ex
ceptional rate of growth for the past 12 years we have had
a very difficult taRk keeping up with the demand for fa
cilities, equipment and personnel. Many of our districts
still have not caught up with the demand, but I know
of none that has not extended itself to its financial limit
to provide the best educational system it could afford for
its young people.
I believe that people of Douglas County have demon
strated in a most commendable manner their demand for
a good education for their children and their willingness
to make a personal sacrifice to achieve that goal. This
determination has been shown time and again in bond is
sues and budgets that hurt. The division of our tax dol
lar provides the evidence.
Task To Continue
We have some gloom-spreaders who contend that Doug
las County has passed the period of boom growth. The
situation, difficult as it is, is only temporary, in my opin
ion. I anticipate another boom, bigger than we have
ever known, and starling in the comparatively near fu
ture, and continuing for a number of years.
Recent announcements concerning anticipated popula
tion growth in Oregon support such reasoning. The de
mand for school facilities soon will be even greater- than
before, if this next boom materializes as expected, and
we will have still more problems lo meet,
But if we will read carefully of the work now in pro
press in the school districts of our county, we will realize
that Douglas County people are the kind who will face up
to the task, no matter how big, and will do the very best
their financial status will permit.
This spirit of support for our schools goes far deeper
I linn illqf nrlncul innul nTMirti'l n i-i i 1 v T Imlinvn I tliinb Unit
,( 'i ,..,i;.. iiw.i i.:..t.:..'. ...c...,..i .,i,:.... At the present time the antitrust : of communism against him. Its
.. . "'c 1 . . ' """"' nl-,m,c- laws do not cover labor unions, activities must remain continous
mem, ine nigner our level oi education, llie saier we iue,iiul if maUprs ake their possible ly suspect until it clears the slate
as R Nation. Thus We show our patriotism in our sat'l'i- I course in this field, Congress may I and starts with an entirely fresh
NEW YORK liPl Most swimmers who encounter a
shark merely worry how to escape him. A few brave souls,
however, have a wild desire to ride him bareback.
In both cases John Tassos, a
New York advertising executive
and authority on skin diving, has
the answer. He is Ihe author of
"The Underwater World," a guide
for sportsmen who want lo spear
fish, explore wrecks or merely
pick up shells from the floor of
the sea.
How can a swimmer escape if
he encounters a shark or barra
cuda near shore?
"The chances are, If you meet
one of these big fish near shore,
he is well fed and meroly curious
at seeing you," said Tassos.
"The main thing to do is to avoid
irritating him. How do you keep
him calm? liy staying calm your
self. The simplest thing to do is
keep your eyes on him, and swim
toward shore, slowly and easily.
"Remember he is in his home
and you are the stranger and in
truder in his house.
"Above all, don't panic. If you
thresh the water violently trying
to get away, you may excite him
and cause him to attack.
"If a barracuda insists on com-1 he'll
ing loo close, you can turn and
swim toward him and he'll go
away 999,999 times out of a million.
If a shark comes loo close, put
floundering toward shore. The
shark and barracuda are among
the swiftest fish in the sea. You
can't out-swim them you have to
outlhink them."
Tassos also says it is possible to
ride a shark bareback and come
home alive. He is one of a number
of veteran skin divers who enjoy
this hobby, now limitedly popular
in the Bahamas.
"It is a far-fetched sport," he
admitted. "You get a half dozen
spearmen to stand by for protec
tion. Then you go up to a nurse
shark, which is pretty sluggish
but may run from 6 to 14 feet
long and can be as vicious as
any other variety of shark when
aroused.
"You crab him by the dorsal
! fins just aft of his gills, leap on
I his back and lock your legs
around his body in a scissors hold.
You can get a good grip because
his skin is sandpapery, not slimy.
By holding his dorsal fins you
can keep him from turning his
head and biting off your leg. Then
roll over and over in the
water, buck like a Brahma bull,
and try to brush you off against
the rocks.
"After 6 to 10 seconds that's
about as long a ride as you'll
under water and yell want you double up your feel
on his hack, still holding on to the
dorsal fins, and kick him violently
away.
"If he (urns on you. it's up to
your head
loud as you can. "Go away.
you bum! (let lost!' lie can't hear
you, but he can feel the vibra
tions. If he slill comes on. hit him
nn ihn nnsp which is wrv sensitive vour snearmen to get him
because his brain is right behind j "But usually he is so embar
it. Usually, then, he'll leave. If helrassed, he will swim away. After
comes back, hit him on the nose all the shark is the king of the
again. Isea, and he hates to stay around
But don t panic ana start wnere ne s oeen numiuaiea.
"J3mce (J3loS5at-
f ice for our schools.
IN THE DAY'S NEWS
By FRANK JENKINS
leadership free of all Red tinge.
Gangster already have far too
strong a hold on legitimate oper
ations in the United States. The
for presi-1 moiigni oi mem nominating a large
Teamsters . Prl of our transportation system
union, would like lo see a vasi '-n '
transportation combine involving iean would care to contemplate.
his group anil the east and west
consider seriously putting them un-i
der these statutes.
Interest is stirred by reports I
that James lloffa, vice president'
and avowed candidate
dent of the powerlul
Sec. Wilson Cuts
Progress Payments
To Contractors
WASHINGTON, Ufi Secretary
of Defense Wilson Tuesday order
ed reduced progress payments to
military contractors. The cut is
expected to trim spending by
about 266 million dollars in the
next 12 months.
The latest Pentagon economy
ai.iuu win diicii many aeiense
contracts signed starting Sept. 1.
It covers all purchases on which
the contractor is permitted lo
draw part of his money as the
job goes along, in proportion to
what he has done.
In a directive to the military
departments and purchasing agen
cies, Wilson reduced the rate of
such payments by 5 per cent
across the board.
The order puts a limit of 70
per cent of total costs on the
ainounl which makers of military
items may draw while the work
is being done. The previous rate
was 75 per cent.
Other progress payments made
against direct labor and material
costs are reduced from 90 per
cent to 85 per cent.
A Pentagon official said the face
value of military contracts cov
ered by progress payments at the
end of 1956 totaled about 25 billion
dollars. He said there probably
are fewer of such contracts than
of fixed price deals, many of
which do not involve partial pay
ments. The new Pentagon directive re
verses actions taken early in 1954
when the Defense Department
yielded to industry pressure, par
ticularly in the aircraft field, and
made it easier for producers of
military hardware to get more
money often against the total value
of Iheir work
A Pentagon financial official
said the result of Tuesday's or
der would force contractors to
put up a little more of their own
working capital.
The full amount of the contract
is not naid tn mnniifnf hirna itnlil
dered and the government has ac
cepted them as meetinR its specif
ications and requirements.
Balsam Woolly Aphid Said
Damaging Stands Of Fir
rnDUATt IC Tl, tfilcqm iuni.1. . Inriul tVial Mil hl KPPn On the bark
ly aphid, a tiny European insect! The insect over-winters as a tiny ' day
that is threatening the true fir lor- j larva with its mouthparis or luoe
HORSE SHOW SET
CANBY ( The national show
of the Appaloosa Horse Club will
be held here in conjunction with
the Clackamas County Fair which
opened Wednesday.
The horse show will begin Fri-
nd run through Saturday.
esls of Oregon and Washington, is
under study at Oregon State Col
lege in a cooperative research proj
ect with the U. S. Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Forest and
Range Experiment Station, Portland.
The aphid is now in epidemic j
stage in Pacific silver fir and sub-i
alpine firs in Western Oregon and
Washington. Some 356,000 acres of I
trees were infested in 1956. accord
ing to Forest Service estimates. 1
The true firs include silver, sub
alpine, grand, noble, white, Shasta
red fir, and others, but no Doug
las fir. Noble and Shasta red fir
are least affected and appear to
have some degree of resistance to
the aphids.
The OSC research will be fi
nanced by a $5,860 grant from the
Pacific Northwest Forest and
Range Experiment Station. It
will support work by Russell Mit
chell, graduate student, who will 1
work under the direction of Dr.
J. A. Rudinsky, forest entomologist.
Entomologists from the experi
ment station also will serve as ad
visers on the project. Mitchell is on
the Forest Service station staff in
Portland this summer and is as
signed to the aphid problem.
Control Involved
Although the aphid is tiny
only about l-24th of an inch long
the control problem is extremely
complex, Rudinsky says.
No one way has been found to
bring the aphid under complete
control in any of the other areas
Europe, Canada and Eastern U.S.
where it has been found ear
lier. Chemical control is suited
only for small, localized infesta
tions including nurseries. Cost:
and difficulties in application, com
bined with limited effectiveness,
make it largely impractical for
field control.
Use of predators or insects
that feed upon the aphids has
been tried with reasonable success
in other areas and will be tested
under the cooperative Forest Serv-1
ice-OSC research. A shipment ofj
some 10,000 predaceous insects has
been given to the Forest Service
by Canadian officials for the tests. ;
The predaceous insects are not
harmful in any way and have a
"taste" only for the aphids, Rud
insky noted.
Problam In Europe
The predator insects were
brought to Canada from Europe,
where the aphids have been a
problem for decades. No native
predators have been found in Cana
da. Checks will be made as part
of the study to determine whether
there are any "feeders" on the
aphid in this region.
To help control the infestations,
such drastic measures as cutting
and burning have been recom
mended in some parts of Europe
and in Northeastern United States.
Salvage logging is under way in
the Northwest, Rudinsky noted,
but care must be taken to see that
these operations do not help spread
the aphids to healthy areas. Sal
vaging dead trees killed by the
aphids holds no danger, since the
insects died with the trees.
The aphid feeds on the tree with
a feeding tube several times as
long as its body. It inserts the tube
into the living tissue immediately
beneath the bark surface. Salivary
injections at the feeding point af
fect the cell walls and produce
swellings for "gouts" that inhibit
bud grouth and eventually kill the
tree.
Beetles Also Danger
Firs seriously weakened by the
aphid become susceptible to their
bark beetle enemies, also.
The "woolly" part of the name
comes from the fact that eggs and
adults are covered by a woolly ma-
inserted into the bark of the tree.
Early in the spring, it begins to
feed and its development starts.
Adults are formed in warm temp
eratures of April or May.
The aphids are spread mainly
by wind during the crawler stage
of development and also by birds
and other animals.
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(Continued from pag one)
will gain more new population than
ANY OTHER REGION of the Unit
ed States.
A new empire, Ihe magazine
says, is emerging on the 1'aritic
Coast. Western climate, it adds, ! 'u'c-
coast dock unions.
The potentialities in such a setup
for paralyzing the nation's econ
omy are thoroughly plain.
The Teamsters can halt all truck
ing al a signal. The International
Longshoremen's Assn. can throttle
Now for Ihe other side of Ihe pic- all east and gulf coast shipping.
And-
Tlus Western market of more
than 40 million people will insure
rapid development of Western industry.
will be the magnet fur millions, hut
in addition to climate the West
has the pull nf a maturing econo
my with many opportunities and
vast natural resources.
By 11175, the 11 Western stales
will have a population of 42 MIL
LIONS. Where will this population be
concentrated?
The hulk of it will be in Califor
nia, which by 1975 will be Ihe big
gest slate in the Union, with a
population of 2(i'i millions. Ore
gon's population bv then will be
2.8KS.OU0. Washington's will be 4,
IS8,0O(l. Arizona's will he 2.047.000.
The rest of the 42 millions will be
scattered among Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming.
Keep this in mind:
For 10 years, the West has suf
fered because of distance from the
big consuming markets. During
most of this time we have had to
send the bulk of our products
EAST and by Ihe tune they got
thero Ihe transportation cost made
them prohibitively expensive in
competition with Eastern products.
When we have in the WEST a
market of 40-odd million people,!
ill this will be changed. !
When all this comes to
On the Pacific coast. Harry
miss i Ilriducs' International Longshore-
whore in the West will we find 1 men's and Warehousemen's union
STANDING ROOM? can do Ihe same.
INDICATIONS are that both the
I don't think we need to worry
too much about that. According til
U.S. News and World Report's es
timates, approximately HALF of
this 40-odd million Western iiomiln.
lion will be concentrated in Los
Editorial
Comment
From The Oregon Prest
THEY CALL IT MOONLIGHTING
Salem Capital Journal
They call it "moonlighting," and
one man in every 18 does it. It
dock unions are . attracted to the I isn't the old "moonlight flit" of
idea of the combine. There are: depression limes used by those
difficulties. The various union per- who wanted to escape paying their
sonalilies involved are not exact- rent. It's Ihe practice of holding
ly in perfect harmony now, and two jobs to earn more money in
might never be. But Ihe power to good times.
Angeles. San Francisco Portland' "' ,','n,"l(l '1"m s"1'11 "n l,ss0(-1-1 " snme practice which cor
am! Seattle and their' suburbs i"1'"" "0l something these men rently is causing the big contro-
These newcomers who will swell wlM "Rrmy dismiss 110m mind. versy in Maiem a city nail apparent-
the population of the West, Ihe
From the country's standpoint, ly is common in the nation. Moon-
gazine says, will be big city dwell- ""' l"'0,Pl'c' of sll,'h f"ion trans-! lighting holding a second job
ers who will waul to live near the
bright lights.
If that is true, there will be
plenty of standing room for Ihe rest
of us in the areas beyond the
reach of Ihe metropolitan cities.
These big cities will provide MAR
KETS for our industries and our
agriculture.
LINDERMAN HEADS LIST
SPOKANE Bill I.inderman
poll it 1 1 on monopoly is fearsome j at night or
weekends is
enough in Hs basic leatures But practiced by 3.700,000 Americans
it is made far more uninviting by I in Ihe labor force of 66 million or
Ihe character of Ihe unions and so. according to Time Magazine
the leadership involved. 1 which in good Lucean tradition
The Teamsters and lloffa al- conceived the slick-paper name for
readv are in serious strails on it.
charges of racketeering and finan- That it's common doesn't make
cial finagling. If Ihe union elects; it desirable, nor does Ihe fact that
lloffa lo succeed Ihe discredited it increases as the average work
Dave Beck as president, Ihe AFL-iweek goes down cive uniont or
CIO is expected lo expel it from; civil service commissions sanction
Ihe federation's ranks. 1 lo tell a man what he does with
Un flMB ,,..,..(. In h rmin.lwl k,.
of Walla Walla, Ihe 1956 all-around thai Ihe ll.A is still gangster-rid-! But it's a prettv poor commen
cliampion, heads a group of some 'den It was bounced bv Ihe AFL- tarv on the breadth of Hie aver
i0 eowboys into the first round i CIO for thai reason ami never has age American's interest that even
of the Spokane Diamond Spur l(o- cleaned its house. It deserves no Ihe Ingh pa.d are doing it ap
deo here Thursday night. ! place in the roster ol decent unions, parentlv because thev have nothing
vL.Z ,'" ",0 2' !w,5-''"!, As for Budges' II.WU. It never , except the acquisition of good, to
Memorial Stadium continues has had the gumption to oust its 1 occupy them during their "leisure"
through Sunday. . leader despite substantial charges hours.
Girl, 15, Shoots
Father While He
Beats Mother
Rl'SIIVILLE, lnd., I A pret
ty 15-year-old high school girl shot
and killed her father as he scuf
fled with her mother earlv Tues
day in the front yard of their
home in nearby Carthage.
Brown-haired Wanda Whitfield
then ran four hlorks In th hnma
of the town marshal and sobbed:
"1 just shot dad."
Killed was Clarence Whitfield.
5.1, an assistant foreman for a
New York Central railroad sec
tion gang.
He was slruck in the right chest
by a .22 caliber rifle bullet fired
by his young daughter, one of 11
children, as she stood in the door
way of Iheir home.
Town Marshal Hugh Trowbridge
said Ihe girl told him her father
came home intoxicated about 2
a m. and accused her mother of
being unfaithful.
Trowbridge said the girl told
him Whitfield chased his wife into
the front yard and was beating
her when Ihe girl fired Ihe rifle.
The girl was being held in Rush
County jail at Rushville for in
vestigation. No charges were
filed immediately.
Carthage is 15 miles northwest
of here.
Hurricane Detection
Stations To Be Built
MIAMI, Fla. iin Work started
Tuesday on installing equipment
for 10 south Florida hurricane
watch stations which will be part
of a "hurricane belt" network
stretching from North Carolina to
lexas. .
Richard Ilagemeyer of the U.S.
Weather Bureau at Washington
said Ihe installations were expect
ed to be set up in three weeks.
Unpaid volunteers will man them.
The stations will include wind
speed and direction indicators, ba
rometer and rain gauge. Obser
vations will be made daily but
reports will be made only when
a storm is brewing and a special
watch is being kept.
Similar stations already have
been installed along the north
Florida coast.
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NEW YORK Russian Col.
Rudolf Abel. 55, alleged master
spy. won another postponement
Tuesday until Friday to obtain
counsel.
District Judge Matthew T
Abruzio. in Brooklyn federal
court, said he would appoint coun
sel for Abel then unless the Rus
sian had retained somebody of
his own choice. Abel said he was
agreeable.
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