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0 & o G 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thurt. Feb. 13, 1958 CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor ond Manager ADDYI WRIGHT. Asst. Ins. Mt. GEOftGI CASTILLO. At. Miter r Member of the AtwioM4 tint. OngM Nwipopcr Pybliihers Association, rise Audit lumu ( Ciiculetiens BrMflU B WRHT'HOM.InT CO.. INT., afflt't la Naw Tark, Cs '!, Baa fraavlaca. Laa aafalta, ttll. rartlaae, Dtavtr Publiihtd Doilr lacapt Sunday kr the NEWS-REVIEW COMPANY. INC. UBSrVIPTinN UTrH-li Ort ? Mtll Pr fir. fltM: its nlli, MM tbr tnsntht. OaU14 Orf By MiH-Pti Ttn. tlltti altM f7.M. lhri Maalbi, fS.M. Br Ktwi-litltw Carrier rr Tr. llt.M tta thta rt far Mtilk, li t Katr eliM ttter Mir T. M. it. rfl at Eabarf, Ortfa. Ml f March t. Illl. ROLLINC THE CRAVY TRAIN By Charles V. Stanton Economist throtiRhout the country are beeinninjr to pet quite vocal concerning economic condition. Some tell us we're heading headlong into a depression. Others tell us we're simply uroinjr through a period of mild recession while we're readjusting inventories. Others say we've fouled the whole economy by tifrht money processes design ed to halt Inflation. Far be it from me to pose as an expert economist. But readers of this column will recall that many months ago I said the slowdown in home construction eventually would affect the whole economy. It was, and is, my opinion that when people build homes they also buy refrigerators, washing machines, ra dios, televisions, carpets, furniture, bedding, dishes, pots and pans. In other words, they spend monev for THINGS. When people spend money for THINGS they keep the wheels of production -rolling. When peonle are busy manu facturing THINGS, to sell to the people who are buying THINGS, the man working in the manufacturing plant has money so that he, too, can join the people buying THINGS. When people spend money we have prosperity. When people don't spend money we have recession or depression. When people buy or build homes they spend money. Home Building Slow Politicians opposing the present administration are By JACK RL'TLKDGE For HAL BOYLE screaming that administration policies are responsible forj MEXICO C ITY, iP) Bullfighting is at a low ebb in the present economic situation. Although the administra-i Mexico. Tourists are about the only ones who get very tion cautioned against the danger of what at the time ap-1 excited at what's going on in the bull rings nowadays, peared to be an inflationary rise, the tight money nolicy. ! Experts blame the situation mainly on lack of real tal against which everyone rails, was instituted by the Federal ent among the matadors, and the poor quality of the bulls Reserve Board, composed nrincipallv of Democrats and themselves. But there are other factors: Mexico has some G u G"What Do You Hear ?rorrj) the grass Roots?" Health Hazards Possible From Mice Infestation, Oregon Experts Warned -Hal Boyle- controlled only by Congress and not by the administration. But, forgetting the political situation, (if we are per mitted to do so) the fact still remains that the building of homes has been proven to be, more or less, the governor controlling the rate of our production machine. The tight money policy hit the home construction field the building trades first. For a loni? time our lumber economy and the building trades were castaways on the desert island ( on "'e jb of recession In a sea nf nrnsneriiv. Now. howevpr. thp fact .- l. ,e. that people aren't huyinr the things thev would have , Imascr 7",, buildigh.ing just XlMunA v,..i,f l i i, u..:m: j -u....:.. ,.t,.i, ,..! ,i, . a wn.mi,r "d an'e- worm nue p mjitKiii. mr inrtrn uuiiiuiiK nnu uuv uik ii"iur.-s i.-. iniv 11- j " top-notch prize-fighters now who receive the adulation once reserved for the matadors; and it has baseball, soccer, American football, jai alai, and other sports. Back in the 1920s bullfighting " was Ihe major sport. II was a , by strike and rings in smaller week-Ion topic of conyersalion. U cllies have operated onlv spas- Ing up with other areas of production, and the whole na-inmed Armillita came a 4' i. ri; ' :u j ... : ...itu ,ua '" caiicht ire again. Bi ir. .cc.i.., in cvuM.Muit iMniii, mm i- i " 1 1 1 i . " - ni5 pmid of popularity pi pain that we ve been experiencing for the past year andiing gained in favor, football be a half. I came a major sport, and there f . T .. . ... ,. were more and more movies to Economists, as I said earlier, are coming up with allmre the scarce pesos away from kinds of explanations. But, if they want the real explana- the bullring. tion, in my opinion, it is to be found in the slowdown in home construction. It isn't necessary to search far, I be lieve, to find the cause of mounting unemployment through out the country. Better Times Ahead got so Dad tne government nanneu moclicallv. Sometimes they don't bullf.ght talk by employes while have fights once a month. i .if.. i-io So un,i' another Gaona. Mano- Icte or Arruza conies along the hot youngster' ""' 7." . f"- alunu and ' soccer along ana malrh d, ,. . h..llr.no Irifnl'iPhi1 ldo1 aPP'a'S atih them flock K back to the arena! Sawmill Workers Feted By Company For rolling up a 1957 safety rec- . Rtfttorad Intartst The alltime great Manolete. a Spaniard, brought bullfighting ord of no "loss-time accidents back to its almost fanatic enthus-j sawmill departmc.it workers of asm in the 1940s. He fought often Martin Bros. Container and Tim in Mexico, where he was paid as ber Products Corp. at Oakland much as 150.000 pesos ($12.0001 were feted bv company officials Of course, no big-shot economist is going to believe that 'or '" ho"rs work. But he was at a ban'uet last weekend. the econnm.c disease from which we suffer can be so ,"nd ."' ln Spa",lll. ' v. The affair was neld in the Oak- simnlv diatrnosed Thp prnnnmUt mint o-n infn Hie sl-itnsl , Arr"z ,ne n.exl Ind American Legion hall with "5 simpiy niagnosen. i ne economist must go inlo uie status ,palk He w , Mexican, and a W()rk,.rSi Kllcs and o(fK.iai, ,t. ol inventories, credits, savings, national income, debt strtic-1 great niaiadur. He ranked, in the tending. wnn .Manoieie. f-rtft r . "rui A 'UMWTt, AIMIIIt'l 11111- agcr, as master of ceremonies in troduced Ihe speakers: Bill Kit. safety engineer; Ray Martin, plant ' manager, and Dale Williamson. sawmill superintendent. Williamson challenged all North- insulting west sawmills to top his depart- We mav, however, have a lot of officials after a controversial fight ment record and claimed the 19: in Ihe plaa. award would again go to the saw- i t - ... i .n.n.. null riVnarl menl An' having said "I told you so" about the recession, i dora today. The IMaa Mexico , In 19.M5 the pond department won I d like to stick my neck out again and sav that so far as largest hull ring in the world the plaque which was awarded at we're concerned here in this area the worst of our troubles "rn closed for over a year a similar affair. tire nver. ne were tne nrst to Dp nit hy the economic slump. I think we'll be the first to recover. Already there are favorable signs. Our business firms are reporting a pickup in buving a vciy marked improvement. Several of our small mills ... ... have resumed operation, some still on slow bell. but. never- .i, Tlr.u", thelrss. hack in a measure of production. There has been peace John Wells over a .32 cali- some strengthening of the market, even though prices her reoler will apparently be haven't shown much advance. However, wholesale buvers ,rird "i"1" have been hopping around over the area like fleas on a cu T.lSu.M dogs back, indicating that they are probably looking into Tuesday night alter n.ne hours of npiiiii uiiiuies to ntiy cneap and sell high. deliberation Once the lumber price starts up. it should move up Thinking It Over By Robert L. Diaffanbachar, D.D. (Written for NEA Service) Children put most adults to shame with their freedom from complexity. They say what they think without covering up their ; thoughts with unnecessary words. They pray so openly and so sin- j cerely w hen they have been taught j about (lod and His power in the ' universe. A child recently prayed "Thank God for erasers which make mis takes disappear." That thought is so honest and so real that every one should read it and pause. Many adults ought to utter the same prayer. . Most of us do not want to admit that we make mistakes. If we make errors we want to hide them. W'e even hesitate to confess our ! sins to Cod. Yet, a child expects I to make mistakes. The child simply wants io erase the errors and cor 1 rect them. ! God alone can erase the mistakes and sins from our lives. "Thank God for erasers to make our sins disappear." "Please give us clean pages on which to write! PORTLAND un Fleas, ticks, domestic cats and even d u t wafted on the breezes of next spring may pose a tularemia threat to Oregon residents, health experta warned Wednesday. The heavy mouse infestation in Central and Southern Oregon giVes rise to the threat, they taid. On the other hand Oregon might escape the threat, said Frank Prince, chief of the San Francisco field station of the U.S. Public Health Service. "1 can't understand why we haven't had human cases of tula remia. It may not be a problem at all. We just don't know." Prince said after a conference with two other Public Health Service experts and Dr. Harold M. i Erickson, state health officer. Definite Hazard "Although we cannot predict the future of this problem, there ap pears to be a definite hazard to humans, and it seems vital to maintain our surveillance." Erick son said, adding that the state wili seek to have a federal control specialist assigned to maintain a fulltime watch on the mouse infes tation. He said future studies will be limited to Klamath County, where the infestation is the heaviest. Erickson said the federal expert reported these findings: Severe outbreaks of tularemia some times known'as rabbit fever, and other diseases among the mice, plus low winter birth rales and a shortage of food, may re duce last fall-record-breaking in festation as much as 75 per cent by next spring. Mke May Increase The mouse population may in crease rapidly again during the spring and summer months, when the mice resume breeding and the food supply improves. Ground water, including swiftly flowing streams, shows evidence of contamination with tularemia in some areas, posing a potential threat to human and animal health. Two mice have been found infected with bubonic plague, al though this is not currently con sidered a likely health hazard. An unknown virus of rickettsial disease has been found in some mice, and is now under study at the U.S. Rocky Mountain labora tory in Montana. Domestic cats are probably in fected with tularemia from eating mice, and could transit the dis ease to humans or other animals through bites of scratches. Likely methods of disease trans mission to humans include direct contact with carcasses expected to be littering fields next spring, in ' halation of dust containing germs, and the bites of ticks and other ; parasites expected to be infecting the mice and other animals. 1 Regardless of what control measures may be taken by man, the mouse infestation will continue I until nature remedies the situation. East German Air Fore Has 400 MIC Fighter BONN', Germany The Russian-trained air force of commu nist East Germany has 400 Soviet MIG jet fighters, a political party press service said here. Western air force officials de clined to comment in detail on the report from Chancellor Konrad i Adenauer a Christian Democratic Parly. But informed officers said the figures "appeared to be too ' high." 'he press service said the Red 'air force has 11.000 men and a total of 800 planes. Observers said any MIGs involved probably would ibe MIG15s. an obsolete version of the Korean War fighter which i Russia has disposed of in Egypt, Syria and other countries, i The East German peoples' army iof 90.000 men contains two army corps, each of two motorized and I one armored division, plus one I reserve armored division, she re ! port said. ttire. taxes, and mvriad ntbpr furlm-a tn nrriva nt a fimlino" minds of many, with Manolete that gross production is down and that consenuently a lot j KM,!!!" t"w"rid or people aren t working. No one with a degree to his , popularity. But Mexico was now name would ever admit that the whole blasted recession ; baseball mad and American could be eased by such a thing as getting home construe- 'ye fotrall was introduced, tion back on the track. Hut I'll bet my las. nicM that once( ZZt ired a'Domingum wYs" iminuiiK m -i imiiv iimii inun jrear vp won i nsve nnyinanned from .Mexico for irounie with prosperity, trouble with inflation. Jurors Deadlock In Damage Case Veterans' Benefits Exempt From Taxation SALEM Veterans were reminded this week that most of their benefits are exempt from state and federal taxation. The state Veterans Department said taxes don't have to be paid on these benefits: Slate bonuses, all Veterans Administration benefits including educational subsistence, compen sation and pensions Gl insurance dividends, insurance proceeds paid on death, mustcring-out pay. job less benefits, social security bene fits, workmen's compensation and sickness benefits. Taxes must be paid on interest earnings from GI insurance divi dends left on deposit, and retire ment pay for length of service. Portland Council Considers Taking Over Bus Lines PORTLAND . The City Coun cil meets here Thursday and may consider a ballot measure that could put Portland in the mass transportation business. Support for a municipally oper ated transit system apparently has swelled since the councd re cently granted a five-cent fare boost to the Rose City Transit Co. j The increase was granted after the company said it would pull its ! buses off the streets unless per . milted to boost fares 5 cents to 25 cents for a single ride, i The fare increase went into ef , feet Sunday. The council, by a simple major ity vote, could put on the May election ballot a measure calling ; for creation of a City Transit Com mission. In addition, such a measure un der plans discussed recently also i would carry a seven million dol lar bond issue to purchase equip ment and a 10-year, levy to help finance the municipal system. it has been proposed that if a municipal transit system is cre ated, a 20-cent aduit fare be put into effect for at least two years Peter Edson ! i Joe Garske. former Cottane - .I.. .. . , ... . ' resmem. aucKfO during me iwo- ward rapidly, according to most observers. Indications are dav trial Ibat Wells unlawfully that, with better interest rates on housing, we'll see a lot took hu revolver in November, more construction this vear. That will bring nitiek recov- l9,:' Allowing Garske's conviction ery to our area. Hut the rest of the production field, which rondu'""'..." n ll"m1,'rly had a ball while we were tightenine our belts, mav have to '""'iarske' sought J.mmkh) punitive eat the crumbs from our table until the people finish build- damages, claiming Wells had a ing their homes and start buving the thinirs thev need to "malicious intent ' in taking the furnish those homes. The gravy train will soon start rolling again. I be. lieve. How quickly it will gain speed is something we won't know until it gets underway. Personally, I think it will be in hirh gear before we realize it. Airways Modernisation Board To Confer On Site WASHINGTON - The Air- waya .none rnirauon Hoard will said the Orenn rf.i..n... confer here, probably next week, include Pr John Richards, chan wilh Oregon science and education cellor of the state Board of Higher leaders, on the proposal to make Education, and Oregon Stale Col- traff.c control test center ' 'g' Phus and engineering facul In making the announcement weapon. Earlier Tuesdav. Judge Carl Wimberly of Roseinirg ruled that Ihe question of punitive damages could not go to the niry because Garske had failed to establish the contention of malice. 'Ihe jury was hung on the issue of whether Wells had unlawfully laken Garske' gun. Ihe most ih. d . . . . Garske could have collected in a this week. Ren. Norh ad i R.iiri ..i- ..... .- . . I s in Hint- vi-iimi wiMiiu navr nrrii S.4!he market value of weapon plus court costs. A hung jury means the matter of punitive damages can be pur sued by Garske in a second trial. Ernest I.undee, Garvke's attor ney, contended the weapon had not been concealed bv his client and WASHINGTON (NEA) Eco nomic policy discussion is today considered more confused than it has been since the depression 29 years ago Ihe White House and Congress seem to he working at cross pur poses on the subject. Private busi ness does not endor-.e what either is trying to do. .Management and labor spokesmen are at odds as usual, only more so. On the one hand you have Presi dt'iit Eisenhower's messages to Congress recommending cuts in public works and certain social wel fare programs. The purpose is said to be providing moie monev for missiles and higher education, while slill keeping the budget with in a half billion dollars or so of a balance The fact that the administration has asked for a five billion dollar increase in the national debt, to ?su billion, raises real doubts about whether the budget can be bal anced at all. ly members. A definite date be announced later rill CONGRESS GOES along on in. creasing deiense expenditures It may appropriate even more lhan the the administration asks But pres- sine is nuiuung up to oppose tne administration proposed cuts in reclamation projects, public assist ance grants to Ihe stales and all such measures intended to save JTovernmenl monev. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra DAFFODILS SOON CUT Ait early harvest of datfodils and other bulb flowers, a big spe cialty in the area, is reported from the daffodil farms in Ihe Scott. burg and Green Acres commune Norblad said ihe hoard ,u K. that federal and tate conntutions Taft Qensun's proposals to cut farm a .. t . . V . . '' him lh rlht 10 hr 'm' Price support level o a to reduce the L'mpciua River, i made of lold at the meeting of the facilities available at fiie two schools if the lest center is located near Cor-vallis. St the center. Tests would be , TRAIN KILLS MAN ties alon rruua are ueins nrnvi-iini now mr i lmnrnvina aiitmilM . i the big marketa in PortlAM. j , ' ' "' atlle and eastern cities, where an (lt conlro1 Progrnni to offset early crop usually commands pre- traffic congestion. miumiricea. The full Rooming of l ast week Norblad sns the fields within 1 few weA is been told Corvalhs wa exptjied to ittract thousands nf-iisoo possible sues beaa): miilnra Bffatn this VMP r. " tv t h a hAr 'o surpluses and save Ihe government more bitltons get little sepport In the 1 1 if tit nf these Hfi ,l,u,ninl rollTI.AM) .f . t nion there are open charges that Ihe Pacific passenger traia struck and Eisenhower budgets (or this vear killed a man walking along the and nel are rmmiletelv unreal'isiir visitors again this year. vaifous suggestions (or, Hacks in Mocks Bottom, just south if not actually n. leading ui mr iiiiuiei rniranre n eiinexiay. i ne re.im tie hind these cnarges The man waaj not immediately is the lack of willingness to tighten identified belts in Congress linger deficit Company officials said he spending is in ht climbed to the track near a In spue ef IhisnNatumal s,ict- arajll bricUe ana walked into Ue ation of ?anufa.rers anC. l S pam oi iv seaiue nound train. thamser of Commer, which was flelsved 15 nxcutes Orf-nd ma far tax cuts he had one of studied rneim- O O WHITE HOUSE IS optimistic about a business upturn this year. A panel of executive experts be fore the Joint Congressional Eco nomic Committee could find little evidence to support this hope. The only prop seen for the econo my was in increased spending for national defense. Meanwhile. Ihe proposals from economic soothsayers of organized labor unions make the bad busi ness situation seem worse. And it is not just Walter Reuther's new de mands for profit sharing that throw government and manage ment economists into a ti7y. Stanley J. Kuttenberg. director of Ihe AEI. CK) department of re search, is advocating a plan to "cut federal taxes without cutting feder al revenue." This tops the N A M -t' S.C.C. scheme. Ruttenberg'i idea is to increase individual lax exemptions from Moo to $700 a year. He would make up nine billion dollars of the re suiting revenue loss by closing all special privilege tax loopholes granted to business over many years. WHAT MOST BUSINESS leaders have not yet admitted r that large scale unemployment and lavoffs last year have put the heat on un ion officials for remedies that will stabilize income The theory of many labor union economists seems to be that wage increases now being demanded in pile of decreased business would increase purchasing power and so restore prosperity Reuth er s idea is to increase it by re distributing profits. Roth nf these theories htse just neen aiiacsen nere or Benjamin F. EairJess. president of Iron and Steel Institute How much of e labor evmand is sou i-ae and how much of it is a (jmoke screen to isvprnve bargain ing position in forthcoming wage necntttlions n of court debat able, o u Below Normal Citrus Crop Expected In Florida TALLAHASSEE. Fla. A below normal citrus crop can be expected for Florida for the next three seasons because of severe cold, damage to trees, the gover nors treeze damage task fotce committee reports. The mid - December wave of freezing temperatures seriously j damaged wood and foliage on about one-eighth of Florida's bear ing orange trees. Only .10 per cent of the trees escaped with no ap parent damage, the committee said Thursday. The December freeze trimmed the 19:. .i9 citrus crop estimate to 155 million boxes. 27'a mil!ion boxes less lhan the pre-cold wave estimate and more than 20 million boxes less than the I9."i6-S7 crop "As a result of the January freeze this forecast may he furth er reduced," the committee said. Return Visit Promised By Tree Light Snatcher LOITSVILI.E. Ky. Carl L. Whitman is looking for a thought ful thief with a light touch. last December somebody stole a $7 j0 string of Christmas tree lights from his front yard. Whitman found the lights on his front norrh here this week along with this penciled note: "Dear friends: "We are so indeed grateful of the fact that you were kind enough to let us borrow your tree lights this Christmas, bur tree sure sparkled. Sorry we are so late in returning your lights: but just be thankful that you got them bark: signed Grateful" Whitman welcomed return of ihe ligh'i Rut not this postcript: "P S See you again next year." Wholesale Food Prices Move Higher This Week NEW YORK .f Wholesale food price, as measured by the Dun 4 Rradstreet Food Index, moved higher again this week. At S6 52 the index compared with Sfi 47 a week ago and was back at the mi-SS high first es tablished si the week ri Jan. 21. The future is the highest since April liij This week s index is . per cent ahose the U 1.1 for tx similar week a year ago '58 EDIEL mm 'fl, I (Ul aLa.i i -T'aj More Power! More Features! More Style! 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