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4 The Newi-Revlew, Roseburg V CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Z'.'.y ADDYI WRIGHT, Au. But. Mr. Z'Z GEORGE CASTILLO, A.it. Editor - Membarof Iht Auoclalid Prtii, Ongon Ntwipoper Publithirt " ".'I AiaoelaHon, Audit Burtou of Circulations BcprHnUd WE8T-HOIAJDAI CO., INC. tMoila Naw Trk, Ckleaa, - flaa franelaaa, Lfli Anialaa, laaltla, Partlant OwlH " Fubliiliid Ooilr Eicopf Sunday bf ho t.T- News-Review Company, Inc. fCBSCBIPTION KATES la Oraaan Br Mall Far laar. tIt.M) all mnlha, M M; ,, .. lliraa monlbi, 13.U. Oata1a Oraiea ?r Mall rar faar, lIMti aim aaaatki, ' 11. Mi tkraa maslba. 11.6a. t,,V- Bt Nawa-Halaw carrur rar Taar. IIS.M l laaa lha aa raw, r- pa nanlk, ll.ta. ' ' ,s .- Inland ai aaoana elaia mallar Mar 1. UM. al Ika ail afllea at Beaabarr, Oraian. andar - SEE YOU AT THE FAIR Sz rV.:.- By Charlei V. Stanton rrrr.'FinJshiriir touches are beine applied today to the back ground -for Douglas County's annual fair.. Starting tomor row', the" fair will run "through Sunday, with tbe most elab orate program yet attempted at this yearly event. .'Contrasting yith the orders by Governor Holmes that the.rOregon State Fair' be made "more agricultural" in its policies, the Douglas County Fair is expanding in all direc tions, and -particularly in its commercial divisions ana in entertainis'ent. This policy, in my opinion, is most com mendable;: v "V.tln the' early days of our national history our expansion-was confined to waterways. Cities were built along theeeacoaBt and .'beside" navigable inland waters. Canals weird constructed to link- markets and manufacturing cen- tejKwith points of material supply. Overland transporta tion was too slow and too cumbersome to influence loca tion -of towns. The interior, untouched by-navigable wa te,'was a,' vast wilderness. Li. ..Then Came the jrailroad. - Construction of railroads freed population from depend ence upon water transportation. Millions upon millions of acres of agricultural lands were opened to settlement Homesteaders spread across the continent. Railroads fought to build competitfve empires. The nation's economy rested on a structure of agriculture, bound together by rail roads. Highways Force Change ...... 'f - Invention of the automobile brought about still another change. The "horseless 'carriage" couldn't . traverse the dirt roads over which horses could drag wagons. The au tomobile forced construction of better roads and highways. Farmers bought trucks- to handle produce and insisted on "market" roads, which brought the federal government intoTthe political aspect of road construction. The federal government's part has slowly expanded until now it is en gaged in an ambitious superhighway program which will liave a most material influence on future economy. "45ut the construction of better roads freed populations fr'onv waterways and railroads and permitted settlements to exist and prosper in areas previously untapped by any fojm of:J;ransporfation. . . . The extension of transportation facilities, making pos Hible the assembling of greater quantities of raw materials, resulted in a change in national ; economy from a base of agriculture to a base of industry. Late years have seen populations shifting from rural to urban areas. Now we are viewing a dispersal of industrial operations and a very pronounced shifting of people from one section to another o the country. ;; . All these changes have had a pronounced effect on the cpunty fair, as it has existed as an Institution for so many years. Emphasis Shifted V'ln earlier days the fair was strictly agricultural. It served not only as entertainment, but it was a school where by farmers, lacking today's facilities for communication, learned through word of mouth the practices of improved agricultural production. Because of the limitations of transportation and communication, the county fair serv ed as a great social event a place where friendships were renewed at annual meetings. A more and more people left agricultural pursuits, and as- transportation abolished isolation, interest waned in purely agricultural fairs. V. .Today's economic emphasis is on industrial rather than agricultural production. Through long tradition our fairs continue to stress agriculture, but more and more the em phasis is shifting toward industrial and commercial exhib its. It would seem to me that, considering our economic history, the trend toward industrial emphasis at county and state fairs is deserving of encouragement rather than disparagement. The Douglas County Fair is expected this year to show a very favorable balance between agriculture, industry and commerce.' In addition it is to have an entertainment pro gram offering something of interest for everyone. It is re plete with color, particularly in the sensational garden dis plays. The western dance festival, drawing dancers from far and near, will be spectacular. ' All in all, this year's fair is something no one should miss. Forget your worries, put aside your cares; go to the fair and have a good time! ;. See you at the fair! (J3mcc (J3iod5at The other day an official of New York City's Youth Hoard de cried what he described as public hysteria ocr a recent flare-up o youthful crimes in the country's biggest city. He said the incidents were "iso lated" in the sense that they bore no direct relation to one another, and indicated thereby that he did not believe they constituted evi dence of a crime wave. lie admitted the public should be mado to grasp the seriousness of youthful criminal offenses killings In these instances hut still felt that the newspapers had carried matters too far. POLICE OFFICIALS in the city then reinforced this view by argu ing that things were better than Ihey had been a year ago, three years ago, and more than a dec ade back. -Whatever may be the truth about his particular Series of crimes, there is nothing "isolat ed" about the statistics which show the almost uninterrupted growth percentagewise of youthful crime in the United States. To luggest that things are Or. Wed. Aug. 21, 1957 ael af Nareh S. 1111. markedly hotter and that the new est New York outburst is an un fortunate departuro from an im proving trend is to cast a distorted light on the crime situation among the nation s youth. Nobody wanta hysteria in deal ing with this problem, and actual ly there has not been any real I sign of it in New York or else j where. Most of the time there has been too much of the opposite commodity public lethargy. A GOOD MANY scientists seem . to feel that what the American 1 people need to demonstrate is a greater capacity for indignation than they customarily show. The ! crime problem has many sides. It 'is deep laid. It will not solve Uself ; And It will not be solved unless ; enough people get stirred up about i'1' , Neither the press nor anybody i else ought to have to apologize 'these days for proposing that I something positive and compre i hcnsive and lastingly effective be I done about juvenile crime in New York and every other corner of i this land. "Go on,. Pick-It' Up YOU 1 DroDnpH T t" ffifr . tvr vr35 z Congress May Not Act On Two Big California Projects WASHINGTON wi Congress may not act this session on ad ditional authorization legislation for the Success and Terminus dams. But iiep. Harlan I lagan (D-Calif) still has hopes of getting federal funds for work on the pro ject's this year. With session time running out. an omnihus public works authori zation bill appears to lie stymied in the House Rules Committee The-bill, which contains additional authorization for the two Califor nia flood control and irrigation projects along with many others, apparently will not be called up for .House consideration this ses sion. Meanwhile, Congress has ap proved and sent to the White House an omnibui public works appropriation bill. This measuro contains appropriations for pro jects, including Success and Ter minus dams. If President Eisenhower signs the appropriations bill and Con gress fails to pass the authoriza tion bill, the question arising will be: Can the money be used? ilagen told a reporter it may be possible for Army Engineers to use some, if not all. ot the Hi million dollars earmarked in the appropriations bill for the Success and Terminus projects even though the authorization bill ap pears to be stymied. "I have been exploring the possi bility of interpreting the language in the appropriations bill to per mit expenditures on the two pro jects," ho said. Nuclear Reactors Included In Bill Passed By Congress WASHINGTON in - Congress Tuesday passed and sent to Pres ident Eisenhower a 352-million-dol-lar atomic energy construction bill with initial funds for a pro gram of government-built nuclear reactors. Included are (wo projects at Hanford Works, in Washington State. The House acted first on a ver sion of the bill worked out in a Senate-House conference after the two branches had passed disagree ing measures. The Senate, by voice vote, quickly followed suit with only brief debate. The action capped a long drive hy Democratic members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Com mittee to get started on a reactor program which they contend is needed to enable this country to win the international rare for atomic power. The drive has been resisted by the Eisenhower administration particularly chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the AKC. i Republicans have argued the Democrats were seeking to put 1 the government into the power business. Actual money for the work nil-1 thorized in the lull passed Tues-1 day must he provided in separate legislation later. Road And Parking Area Slated For Rainier Park WASHINGTON if - A StiOO.000 road building and parking area project for the Paradise area ot Mt. Rainier National Park wa reported here by the National l'ark Service Conrad Wirlh. director, said a two nnlr road cmling &1.V1 on0 will be built from Marmot I'oint to Harn Flat below l."araibe. At the terminus a Sl'.so.Oik) parking area will be constructed. The old parking area will be incorporated mm the ski slope, adding about 600 feet to the run. The new road will bypass a sec tion menaced in the past hy ava lanches and difficult lo maintain Wirth said work will begin in the spring. NEW YORK A strange thing has happened to Raymond Massey. Mmswpv a frirmpi- frnrfnr Siilnni;iii whn sprvprl a n soldier in two world wars, as one 01 me worm s leading He has appeared in 60 motion i pictures and 150 plays. All his life L h .io i nn ih,, hm,i his profession that an actor j XTISi: r he plays, for if he does his per formance will be poorer. So what happens? When avvt - struck strangers meet Massey for the first lime, they half expect his first words of greetings will be "Four score and seven years ago." For to millions Massey is the man who look Abraham Lincoln off the penny and made him a living image again. To them he is Lincoln. "When people ask me if I don't get tired of portraying Lincoln, I net a definite homicidal urge," re marked Massey, pointing out that it is nearly 18 years since he open ed on Broadway in Robert Sher wood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." "Since then i have played him only a few times in radio and television." But next month he will portray the Great Emancipator again dur ing a 72-citv road tour of Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry." the story of the famed Lincoln-Douglas de bates. Massey is happy to return to his most famous role, but for his own reasons. "Actually, I'd kill any one with my bare hands who tried to gel the part away from me,' he said, cheerfully knotting his big fists. "But not because of a mission ary urge, or because it suits my politics although I am so Repub lican it makes my skin crack. It's simply because the role itself is so overwhelming. I'd be glad to play the devil if he gets enough good lines." The public may confuse Massey with Mr. 'L' as the actor refers to him but Massey himself, when Magazine Defense Turning To Public Service Articles LOS ANGELES if The defense in the Confidential magazine crim inal libel trial is turning to what its jittornevs call public service ., Hlcl,,,ni,,..,n,l t n , stones' of the expose type aliovil individual celebrities. Atty. Arthur J. Crowley, for the defense, said he planned to call a member of Ihe Georgia State Legislature. John D. Odom. Crow ley said Odom wrote "public ser vice" tvpe articles for Confiden tial. Biographical material given to newsmen by Odom said he is from Kingsland. G.i., a member of the legislature since 19S4, department slore and mercantile businessman and writer for national magairtc in recent years. It said Odom is currently writing a novel about Ihe occupation of Atlanta in the Civil War Defense testimony yesterday in cluded an account by Gloria Well man. 31. adopted daughter of movie director William Wellman, of how she received SUM for ma terial for three stories for Cond dential. She identified only one of the stories, a tale about a parly sue said occurred at the home of aclor John Carroll in 1947. She said she was one of six girls there and that the guesls included actor Forrest tucker anil ihe late bandleader Jimmy Horsey Miss Wellin .n said on cross ev animation thai her pay came m checks from Hollywood Research, Inc. Ihe prosecution alleges that Hollywood Research and its opera-; tors. Fred and Marjone Meade. all three being trial ilefenilauis. are the movieland material galh enng agency tor Confidential and its sister publication Whisper, a also has achieved recognition actors ,.,.. :,. !, : offstage, enjo.v s playin nobody : ! other than Raymond Massey, aii actor proud of his cratt. I Oyer a plate of cold cuts at the ronliinr r'hilv lliecnu (,.r,L- a fn,.. warm whacks at what he consul- ers wrong with the U. S. enter- 1 tainmcnt world "America an acting, as exempli- c,.j -. n, i,i fied by Mar in tl, umrM hn cM '(,,, t I ! think that some of his imitators !on $187 motorcycle. Then he represent the American theater d'."sed tne motorcycle as a deposit its worst on a car- "e swapped the smaller "I don't believe in the modern ' r .lor more f pensive one. His theory of self-identification in the i flnal steP was ,' swaP ll'e more theater, and never have. I don't expensive car for a cheaper one think vou go W the theater to seejand Pocket the 70 difference for yourself on the stage (vou go to spending money - which got him Ii ontnHnino,!! n,i i ,in't ihint'back into tail for selling mortgag ee actor can 'identify himself m the role he plays. "If he does, he can't be an ac tor. He's a dead duck. An actor portrays emotiens in a role he doesn't feel them. "I think the theater is being be trayed. There used to be a rela tionship between the actor and au dience that is being lost. "Today many of the kids don't care about the audience. They on ly want to have fun themselves. They'd just as soon act in a barn without an audience." Teamsters Newly Elected Secretary Surprise Witness TACOMA, Wash. I William j The Sterns have been accused E. Franklin, newly elected secre-, of being members of a Soviet spy tary-treasurer of the Western Con-1 ring. Mrs. Stern, daughter of the ference of Teamsters, was a sur-,late U.S. amnassador to Germany prise witness Tuesday before a; William E. Dodd, is in Commu fedcral grand jury probing the in-mist Czechoslovakia with her mil- come tax returns of Teamster lionaire husband, Alfred K. Stern, boss Dave Beck. and 12-vear-old son. Franklin, summoned by tele- A State Department spokesman phone, reported to the secret ses- said he could neither confirm or sion without being subpoenaed. 1 deny reports that the Sterns rc His appearance interrupted testi-; nounced their U.S. citizenship in mony being given by Simon Wain- Mexico Citv rnd then acquired pold. Teamster attorney who has Paraguayan' passports handled some of Beck's personal; "We have no information on aff!,irs: , that," the spokesman said. "Wo There was speculation that are looking into it." Franklin would he questioned state Department records show about several accordandsatisfac-! Mrs. Stern obtained her last tion agreements which Beck en-1 American passport in lfl.il. It lered into with the Western Con-icme due for renewal in 1953. but ference of Teamsters and IhCnn renewal rennesi u reennlnrl "'" Council 28 Business Assn The agreements had to do wilh me n-pavim-m oi at icosi j.-oo.-, The records show both applied IKK) which Beck said he borrowed for American passports in Febru from Ihe two groups between 1948 1 arv 1956 at the American Em and 19.'i3. The agreements were ; ba's-sy in Moscow completed early in 1954 atler the j However, officials said, they Internal Revenue Service began :(aiiod tn respond lo a request in us invesiigauon 01 oecu s income tax returns. The agreements sub- sequently were amended and Beck repain ine union &.iiu,uuu. The question as to whether the $370. (KM) constituted a loan, as Beck claims, is a key issue in Ihe government's investigation Beck would not have to report borrowed funds as income in his tax returns. Franklin was elected to his post as secretary-treasurer at a union conference in San Diego last June. He formerly headed the Western Conference Dairv Coun cil. Cranberry Production For Year Estimated WASHINGTON f The Agri culture Department Tuesday es- timaled cranberry production this year at I.WK1.021 barrels The estimate, based on Aug 15 conditions, indicates a crop cent alwve that harvesled 5 peri last year and 9 per cent above the I9tii VS average, Massachusetts 520 000 and 4.".2.- 000 barrels; New Jersey 75.1XK1 anil 7.1.0O0: Wisconsin .11(1.000 and Mo.OOO; Washington 70.000 and 64.700; Oregon 45.000 and 40.0O0. State Hospital Institutes Three-Year Research Plan By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. SALEM, i A three-year re search experiment that 'could change the whole system of treat ing mental illness in the United States is getting under way at the Oregon Slate Hospital. Four state agencies the hos pital, and state departments of Public Welfare, Vocational Reha bilitation and Public Health are joining forces in an unusual dis play of cooperation. They will try to prove they can cure patients faster and cut down the alarm ing rate of discharged patients who return for further treatment. The federal government is pay ing for most of the experiment. Mental health authoiities through out the country will be looking over the shoulders of the research ers. Dr. John James, sociology pro fessor at Portland State College and director of the project, says: "Mental illness is the result of failure in the social relations of the individual, so restoration is achieved by creating situations whereby his social needs are met. We will start thorough studies here at the hospital involving each research patient, and continue af ter his return to 'he community. We are erecting a bridge between the hospital and the community." The study will involve the 400 patients from Lane County. This county was .selected because its local welfare and health facilities are advanced. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued From Page One) a few models so as to find out if the public likes the idea. Anything that adds to highway safety is commendable, and this brilliant paint notion may be a good one. I have an idea, though, that if drivers generally were in less of a hurry to get somewhere (and maybe loaf around for an hour fhg "eluld help Everybody wants to get rich quick without too much work, and '!", wel V' ? acc'"P'lsn- , "'fr- V, ,j r"" :', into jail a while back. He spent l,ls tim,e '"' he pokey figuring out ? wav. t0 .mH? a ?uu-'k buck when I he got out. When he was released j nf got a job and talked his em plover into advancing him Sd6. iic u-.ru iiic muiirv as a lit JuaiL ! ed Properly The moral: If he had used all that energy, salesmanship and initiative HON ESTLY, he would have been much better off in the long run. That's the way it usually works. Reports Say Sterns Have Renounced U. S. Citizenship WASHINGTON dP - The State Department said Tuesday it ,$ looking into reports that Martha Dodd Stern and her husband have I renounced their American citizen- SfllD. Her son was covered bv the 19.il ; passport. ; , Bn affidavits vowing thev had no affiliation with the Communist Party and so were not issued passports. A report from Vienna. Austria. Tuesday said Ihe Sterns were hid ing out in Prague, Czechoslov aki an capital. Property In Oregon Reaches Record High SALEM i.fi The true cash val ue of all properly in Oregon has reached a new huh of S6.192.956. 607, the State Tax Commission reported. The increase of .109 millions over a year ago was caused by reap praisals, improvement in assess ment in assessment practices and normal growth. One effect of the increase is to permit the State Veterans Depart ment to issue another i million dollars worth of bonds to finance purchase of farms and homes bv veterans. The department's bond ing limit is 4 per cent of the state's valuation It had reached the limit a few weeks ago. hut Ihe higher valua tion now will permit the extra i millions in bonds. I The 400 patients will stay to i gether as a unit, in conliast to the present system whereby patients are segregated according to type .of mental illness. The doctors thus I will treat all types of mental ! troubles. j Each of these 400 patients will j become a research project him I self. Complete information will be nhlaini.il from his family, friends land employers. The researchers, who will number in the hundreds, will encourage the local people to maintain contact with the pa tient while he's in the hospital. In the hospital, ihe patients will be fitted into jobs which can help them to be cured. The job empha sis will shift to the therapeutic value of the job, rather than what the hospital can gain from the patient's work. When a patient is ready to be discharged, the way will be payed for the community to accept him. A job will be arranged. His fam ily will get counselling, and his friends will be taught how to treat him. "This will be a demonstration that agencies can cooperate in the rehabilitation of patients," Dr. James said. "Agencies now make less than the full use of their facil ities. I "We are' concerning ourselves with factors relating to the total! personality." I Dr. James says that many fam-j ilies abandon the patients on the assumption they won't come back from the hospital, but he points out that the average patient stays in the hospital only six months. ''Our objective," he said, "is ' to try to keep the family open for the patient. The local agencies will maintain contacts so that the patient is still a part of his fam ily and community." j The project is being carried on in such a way that any state can benefit from the results, the in itiative for the project came from the state, but Uncle Sam was hap py to finance most of it. So far as the rest of the 3.500 patients are concerned, they will get immediate benefits through the job therapy program. Every pa tient job in the hospital is being described and analyzed so that each patient can be placed in the job that will benefit him most. Dr. Dean Brooks, superintendent of the hospital says the project Crawford Door Salei Co. OF ROSEBURG " 1 I 1 'r- -n CERRETSEN Building Supply Co; 538 S. E Oak Ave Phone OR 2-Jtf3lV, '. , .aS, I jj WOOD I SAWDUST -"V j 'y1jap-'7-'"- - y vyMinj-tngri v '" W7 iOr1 i1 BLOWER SERVICE ; IgfJi lrf? f-" i in ' - ; PEELER CORE GREEN SLABS DRY OAK PLANER ENDS' ' 2 V?""?:!' ' I PHONE OS 9-8741 fair iimiiiiei 1 MiiTv JSC JV tvi ROSEBURG Tenners AUTO NOW SAVE MORE on Aiirn mcilPAMCF Save up . .1 nvl SEE CLARENCE DISTRICT 1602 SE Stephens vou can llMt-Aira3A viv'-'w r i ntiijii m r t "might change the whole-face of menial treatment i in. the- United Stales: Mover before have other agencies cooperated so closely." Dr. James says the "hospital, is making extraordinary efforts . lo play its role. Other states - are surprised at this collaboration by four agencies." i ... Dr. James 6ays- that every .pa tient in the project iwill be con sidered a likely prospect for re habilitation. ' " .; -"' 'Every hospital," he said, "has patients who are' considered ' im possible of fehabilftalidn.i "They beepme so adjusted to-'hospital life you can't seiid thehi- away. This is the only p'lace where they feel secure. You can't send'Senre home to a hostile family. "We feel 'confident that many patients in this qlas,sificati6n will be returnable, and that' We 'can send them horn by creating Ihe proper environment, for them.' ' -' "We have hopes ' that 'this, r?rd ject will show us how to reduce the population of the hospital." Running the project is an execu tive committee consisting ,of the heads of the four agencies involv ed. Under this, committee, ate .a liaison committer, hospital reha bilitation board, Lane County,' Re habilitation Committee, research staff, and other committees..: Dr. James can't .estimate yet how many will he involved. .Rut, aside from .the 400 patients' them selves, the number will, .total. in the hundreds. - . i , , . 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