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9tcwsHetttew Published by Ntws,Revltw Ce. Int., 54S I.I. Main St., KoMburt, Or Charles V. Stanton Editor and Manager George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Business Mnigr Member of the Associated Press, Association, the Audit Bureau ol circulation Entered ai second clasa matter May 7, 1920, at the post office a Roseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 Tha News-Rtview, Roteburg, Ore. Wed., May 13, 1959 ROSEBURG SHOULD HURRY By George Castillo Less than a month from Mowst show In historv. Its Perhaps as many as eight million people will visit Orepron. The state will be one of the major showplaces of the nation. People will come to see a show, not only at the Centennial Exposition and Portland but all over the state. They will expect to become SDirit bv the people who are years of statehood. Many towns of the state are doing ev erything they can think of to set that climate or the centen iiial. Roseburg. so far. has not been one of them. An example of an all-out effort to recapture the theme of the Oregon of 100 years ago is Damascus, a little town of less than 600 people. The town lifted its face with false fronted buildings and stagecoaches. It even built a "saloon" of the old days. Only soft drinks are sold there. The effort has already paid has captured the kind of atmosphere people want. A re lease from the Centennial Commission says 40,000 people have already visited the town. Others Going All Out Other towns, many of them with far fewer resources than Roseburg, are also going all out. Iris Helliwell, chairman of the county Centennial Com mittee, gummed up the situation neatly. She pointed out that Douglas County has taken ties with its building at the serve as a three-dimensional county. But we have to show side the built-in beauties and come to the county. We have thing special for them because we are proud of our history and want them to share In our pride. The Idea of building an Indian village proposed last week should be a drawing card. Many towns are using the false front idea for stores downtown and many others are working on ideas to stop tourists passing through. They all lend to the centennial spirit. These ideas have been accepted as projects by a pro motions siiDcommittee or tne Work needs to begin on them be ready for the centennial. neeaea irom many people. The base of support has to be broadened. It cannot be just a Chamber of Commerce affair. The chamber has stretched its efforts just about to the limit. It borrowed the money to finance a covered wagon In the On-To-Ore- gon Cavalcade and is now and "brothers of the brush" It has laid plans for strong building in l'ortlnnd. Help Needed Immediately The centennial subcommittee appears to be the answer in tne latest project or ' centennializine" the c tv of Rose. burg. It will lead the way, but no doubt businesses, in dustry, city government, clubs and service organizations will be called on to help. The help should be forthcoming jmmraiaiejy, oecause time nas almost run out. Provincial pride has set the stage for manv wnnHi-nin things. It can work miracles resources ano people, noseburg should be second to none in spreading the centennial spirit. The thousands of out-of-state visitors who come to Rose burg will remember the town if it gives them something to remember. Hal Boyle Newspaper Columnist Tired Of Tired Remarks nr-vv i unit (AP) Remarks a newspaper columnist gela tired of hearing or overhearing: "Be careful of what you say or oie -Big Ears' will have it In tha newspapers, the next thing you know." "You mean that's all you do Is write Just one piece a day? How in the world do you spend your spare lime? "I've got a youne neDhew that doesn't know what to do with him self. How can he go about getting a job like yours?" "Personally, I don't have much Senator Urges Forest Research WASHINGTON (AP) New forest research facilities were proposed here by Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss). Stcnnls urged a Senate Appro priations subcommittee to approve 2"i million dollars for the purpose. The additional projects would provide for research in timber in sects and diseases, range and timber management, watershed improvement, recreation and wild life management, shelter belt planting, hardwood and related activities. Stennis proposed $325,000 for a hardwood research laboratory at Stoneville, Miss., $775,000 each for regional insect-d liens labora tories (t Durham-Raleigh, N. C, and Corvallis, Ore., and other ap propriations including: Wcnatchce, Wash., watershed management laboratory, $ioo.ooo; Boise, Idaho, range timber man agement laboratory, 1100,000. TASS REGRETS FETI LONDON (AP) The Soviet News Agency Tass charged today that airlift anniversary celebra tions in Berlin were provocatory and aimed at worsening tha polit ical atmosphere during the Gene va conference. Oregon Newspaper Publisher now, the state launches lis 100-year celebration. International iracie fair in Infected with the centennial showing their pride of 100 off. It is obvious the town the lead over all other coun centennial grounds. It will postcard of the lures of the the visitors something be other attributes when they to show them we did some county Centennial Committee. Immediately so the town will A great deal of support is selling "sisters of the swish" buttons to pay off the debt. promotions at the centennial again in Roseburg. With its time for reading, but my wife says she likes your column very much. What's it about?" "Personally, I don't find much time for reading just the really important things. But my husband says he gets a laugh out of your column. What's it attout?" "If you can't help me get a parking ticket fixed, just what does the power of the press really amount to?" "Where do you get all your Ideas steal 'em?" "What's life like on a free pass? Do you guys ever pay your way in to see anything?" "Well, how's the ole press agents' llfesavcr today?" "It's a really cute idea. We're holding a canary singing contest to introduce a new bird food, and if you'll just asree to nerve as a judge you'll find plenty of really cuio maienai. "What If it is made up? Do you think a thing has to be true to be interesting?" "I been reading that Khrush chev is sick. How sick is he ac tually?" 'Don t tell me a stir in your position doesn't get a reallv good Wall Street tip now and then. How about passing one on, ole palsy walsy?" "Dear sir: You cur. Why are you always picking on women in your column? Are you mad at your mother? (signed) 'Angry Wife." " "Dear sir: You jerk! Why do you always give wives the best of it in your column? Are you a man or a mouse In your own house? (signed) 'Old-fashioned Husband.' " "Sure I know It's a touch 1ob and you could use a raise. But look at it this way: There are at least six guys on 'the copy desk who are tired of writing headlines and would love to nave your problem! and your working hours." In The Days News iy FRANK A woman office worker In i Los Angeles admits she embezzled $12, 000 from her employer over a two year period, but claims she spent most of the money buying liquor to numb her conscience. She tells the judge she drank herself into unconsciousness near ly every night to drown the mem ories of her evil deed. This one's from Texas: There's plenty to shoot with, but nothing to salute with. That's the problem of Lt. Col. James H. Hick erson, officer la charge of the mil itary reception planned for Bel gium's King Badouin at Dallas' Love Field on Armed Forces Day coma May 18. He has put out an urgent call for 21 blank cannon shells. He ex plains that military units have plenty of guns for a royal 21-gun salute but have nothing but leth al ammunition on hand. These modern problems How d'ya reckon we-all stapd up under 'em? What a cinch our ancestors had! Their only worries were fighting Indians and working day and night to get enough to eat. Here's another modern problem: James Marlou) Khrushchev's Prediction Panning Out At Geneva WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviets with help from the West, which let Itself get tangled in childlike tabletalk are turn ing the foreign ministers meeting into the kind of spectacle predict ed by Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The ministers, he said, would eet boeeed in details. He wanted first a summit meeting of the "heavyweights." After they had reached agreements, he said, the ministers could get together to stew over the details. Khrushchev finally consented to a Big Four foreign ministers con ference United States,' Soviet Union, Britain, France because the West insisted. The meeting was to open Monday. So what happened? Before the ministers could even hold their first session they got snarled in an argument over the kind of table to use which for all practical and realistic pur poses was strictly kid stuff. It hardly added, in the eyes of the world, to the dignity and ser iousness of the meeting. The West, allied with West Ger many, refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the East German Communist government, which is a Soviet satellite. But the U.S.S.R. wants exactly this kind of Western recognition for the East Germans. Conference Confused While all this was being hashed over, the Soviets' Andrei Gromy- Suspended NAACP Man Wants To Carry Arms NEW YORK (AP) A sus pended official of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People told reporters here that Southern Negroes should carry arms. Robert F. Williams. 34, Negro and former combat Marine, was suspended by NAACP Executive Secretary Roy W i 1 k e n s last Wednesday for urging Southern NeRroes to "fight violence with violence." Williams had been president of the Union County, N.C., branch of the NAACP. The NAACP's board of directors. with 18 of its 48 members pres ent voted support of Wilkins, maintaining the association has al ways opposed violence. Williams stuck to his stand. . The Cartoonist JENKINS a Rep. Loenard G. Wolf of Iowa and about 30 co-sponsors are plan ning to introduce a bill in the Con gress that would send U.S. agri cultural surpluses to underdevelop ed countries. The 10-year program would fun nel 250 million dollars worth of surplus food and fiber OVERSEAS annually. Hmmmmmmmm. Why not use 'em here at home? The answer is simple: It costs too much to set 'em from where they are in the storage warehouses, in piles of spuds, etc. to WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED. It's actuaUy cheaper to buy 'em in the local supermarkets. Hence this plan to give 2V4 bil lion dollars of 'em away overseas over a ten-year period. One can't help wondering wno will pay tne freight. , Here's a really aimple solution: Quit subsidizing surpluses to be piled up in the warehouses to hsng like a dark thundercloud over the markets of the future. The heck of it is that the politi cians aren't interested in simple solutions. They want to spend mon ey to get votes. ko got the conference further confused. He demanded both West and East Germany be allowed to take part in the Big Four confer ence as full participants. This is exactly what the West didn't want for East Germany, that is for fear that Western permission for East Germany to sit in as a full participant might be interpreted as Western recog nition for East Germany. To avoid such an interpretation, the West had been willing for the two Germanys to sit in the con ference room but with the under standing they would be merely consultants who couldn't speak unless asked a question. A compromise was worked out. The two Germanys couldn't be full participants, but instead of having to wait to speak until spoken to, both could ask permis sion to be heard on any subject. So the first brief meeting of the Big Four was held and finished. Then Gromyko messed things up for the second meeting. This time he demanded that the Soviet sat ellites, Poland and Czechoslovakia be allowed to take part as full participants. Meeting Breaks Up The West objected. So the sec ond meeting, Tuesday, broke up. It, too, was brief. None of Gromyko's demands that the two Germanys, plus Po land and Czechoslovakia take full part in the Big Four conference should have caused any sur prise. Last March, when the Soviet Union agreed to a Big Four meet ing, it demanded the full partic ipation for the two Germanys and Poland and Czechoslovakia. The reason jGromvko was able to snarl up the meeting now with this demand for those countries was that the Big Four foreign ministers hadn't worked out de tails before they met. They are tangled in the details now. But the way Gromyko handled all this can be interpreted as a form of Soviet contempt for the whole idea of a foreign ministers meeting. He could have made all his demands at one time on the first day. Instead, he stretched them out, delaying by that much any effort by the Big Four to get down to the business which brought them to Geneva, the discussion of Germany. Says: The Cruel Sea Reader Opinions Banquet Record Held At County Fairgrounds To The Editor There has been some fuss msde here recently con cerning the largest number of peo ple served at any one banquet in Roseburg. The "record," if such is necessary or fitting is not 507 served at a downtown location, but approximately 1,400 at the Doug las County Fairgrounds. This lat ter number was served at a church convention a few years ago. It seems inappropriate to boast of the quantity that we can serve. We should take steps to insure that regardless of the quantity served, the quality of the service they re ceive is the very best. Only in this way can Roseburg gain the repu tation of being a good convention city. Dick Turley Fairgrounds Manager PO Box 750 Roseburg, Ore. Peter Eiton World's Split Reflected On WASHINGTON (NEA) -News today goes to two extremes. It takes a discerning reader not to be confused or misled by what he finds in his favorite newspaper. There is bad news from many parts of the world. The significant point is tnat most ot it is ot com munist making. In far-off Tibet, Chinese Commu nists overthrow the Dalai Lama kill and imprison unknown thous ands in a ruthless display of force to crush opposition to Peiping's ag gression. In Malaya, the young governor accuses the Chinese Reds of a plot to take over tneir country. In Iraq, the Communists appear to nave seized mucn power in Pre mier Abdul Karim Kassem's rev. olutionary government, subverting it to Moscow direction against the Arabs. And in East Germany, the Rus sians themselves, acting directly, threaten to drive American, Brit ish and French forces out of Berlin to push the iron curtain west. THE NUMBER ONE job of the world's statesmen today is to find some way to curb the growing ma terial ' power of the Communist countries, or to direct it into peace ful channels. For the possibility of war break' ing out in any one of the above- mentioned countries or in other areas like Formosa, Korea or Viet Nam by accident if not by de sign is something real and frightening. Couple this with the still uncer tain news on the rate of strontium 90 fallout from nuclear weapons testing it's enough to make stout hearted men say, "Oh! What's the use!" BUT FORTUNATELY, there is no mass movement of people screaming into the night, leaving home and family for a final fling before it's all over. One reason may be that there's another side of the news these days. It makes any kind of escap ism seem foolish. For the word from scientists and others who are trying to do some thing useful in this world is all to the good. On a hundred or more laboratory fronts researchers probe cause and cure for the killer cancer. Progressive research to improve polio vaccines and develop "four-m-one" shots offer the prospect of healthier generations to come. In a completely different field, the second voyage of the atomic submarine Skate under the polar ice cap is something more than discovery of another site from which to wage missile warfare. It is another chapter in man's exploration of this earth, to learn National Wildlife Federation Opposes Several Dam Projects On Columbia River WASHINGTON (AP) Opposi tion to several dam projects on the Columbia River system be cause of danger to fish spawning grounds has been voiced here by an official of tha National Wild life Federation. Charles H. Callison, conserva tion director for the federation, outlined the group's views regard ing a number of Northwest water projects before a Senate appropri ations subcommittee hearing. He urged appropriations for several projects. He opposed a high Nez Perce Dam, saying it would wipe out major runs on the Salmon River, and urged deletion of a proposed $800,000 appropriation to finance engineering studies for Monument al Dam on the Snake River in Washington. He said Monumental Dam would impede the movement of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout to spawning waters. Callison said fish cannot pass high structures. "We cannot risk further obstruc tion of any of these rivers by the Personality News Wire all he can about the place he lives. DISCOVERIES of the Interna tional Geophysical Year showing that scientists of different nations can co-operate for the common good give new knowledge about the weather. Missile probes and manned flight into outer space will yield even greater knowledge of the uni verse in which this earth is such an infinitesimal part. There is a challenge about this that makes life to scientists and commoner men worth while. The future is not just despair and doom. It is for a richer, fuller life. The greatest enigma in all this is man himself. He can learn all there is to know, from the micro scopic to the cosmic. Still, if he has not learned how to find work for the unemployed, feed the hun gry, provide all these miracles of modern medical cars for those who need them and most im portant of all how to end wars, then man must admit that be is a failure. States Rights Bill Decision Pressed WASHINGTON (AP) - South erners and their allies on the House Judiciary Committee over rode its leadership and approved here a states rights bill aimed at a Supreme Court decision. The bill by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va) would declare that no act of Congress supersedes a state law unless Congress speci fically declares its intention of do ing so, or unless the laws are clearly incompatible. It was inspired by a Supreme Court decision voiding conviction of a Communist under a Pennsyl vania sedition law. The court held that a federal antisubversive law, which also had been introduced by Rep. Smith, had pre-empted the field. The vole at the closed - door committee meeting was reported to be 17-15 to approve the measure. The bill is opposed by the De partment of Justice on the ground it would create confusion in fields such as transportation where both the states and the federal govern ment have legislated. It was opposed in the committee by Chairman Emanuel Celler ID NY) who said there will be "a powerful minority report" asking the House to defeat it. President Requests Pan-American Bank WASHINGTON (AP)-President Eisenhower has asked Congress to approve U.S. participation in establishment of an inter-American development bank. For the United Mates to join, Eisenhower said "will be a most significant step In the history of our economic relations with our Latin-American neighbors. Establishment of the billion-dol lar bank was Recommended by renresentatives f the 21 Ameri can republics after a three-month conference here starting last Jan. 8. The participating nations would provide tne capital. The United States would invest 450 million dollars. The Latin American republics would put up the rest. The President said he is strong ly of the opinion the United States should support creation of the bank because of this country's special relationship with Latin America, and because of "the pressing economic and social problems In the area." Building Costs Seen For PCE SALEM (AP) Portland Gen eral Electric Co., seeking an an nual rate increase of 13.4 per cent, said here its construction costs in the next five years would totsl $18,735,000 a year. The testimony was given at the second day of a hearing before Purine utilities commissioner Jon el Hill. The company is asking an increase of $5,190,000 a year. The company submitted exhibits to show that its proposed con struction costs would cover high voltage lines, distribution systems, substations and generating plants. The company said that if it re ceived the proposed increase, its 1959 earnings per share would be It would climb to $2.34 in 1960, and to $2 41 in 1961. It said its earnings were $1 74 in the U months ended last March proposed dams st Bruces Eddy. Penny Cliffs, Nez Perce, High Mountain Sheen below the Imna ha River, Wenaha, Asotin, Lower Canyon, Freedom Crevice or by other projects," he said. Prelects Opposed Listed by Callison as projects opposed by the federation and most local and regional conserva tion groups were Bruces Eddy and Penny Cliffs in Idaho; Moun tain Sheep on the Idaho-Oregon border, if built below the mouth of Imnaha without adequate fish passage facilities; Wenaha Dam, Oregon, and Long Meadows, Kon tana and Ninemile Prairie Dam in Montana. Other dams, Callison said, would "comparatively speaking" inflict minor losses on wildlife and recre ation resources while satisfying requirements and hydroelectric power production needs by the Northwest. Those projects includ ed: Libby Dam, Montana; Paradise or Knowles Dam, Montana; High Pleasant Valley Dam, Idaho and Oregon; Garden Valley-Scriver Creek, Idaho; Enaville Dam, Ida ho; Gate Creek Dam, Oregon, and Strube re - regulating reservoir, Oregon. He said dams with large flood control storage capacities like Libby, Paradise, High Pleasant Valley or Mountain Sheep if built above the mouth of the Imnaha in Idaho and Oregon are consid ered the best alternatives to the opposed projects. Bumping Lake Okayed Callison endorsed the Bumping Lake project in Washington and requested $450,000 to finance an Army Engineer research program to "help resolve the problems of perpetuating the sport and com mercial fisheries" in the Colum- Bruce Biossat Inflation Vigil You have watched inflation cor rode the dollar in your pocket year after year. Now and then the eating away process tapers off or even stops. In recent months it's been like that. But today the threat of a new inflation hangs over you. New big union wage contratts have to be talked out and agreed upon in the days ahead. If higher wages are the result, and they are followed as so often before by price boosts, then the corrosion will begin again. There s more, it tne leaerai gov ernment, deep in the red this year, should run a sizable deficit next season, big borrowing will be needed. That will add to the money supply, and hence to the inflation ary pressures. ALMOST EVERYBODY recog nizes the painful pointlessness of Murdered Girl's Mother Traveling SPOKANE (AP) Mrs. Elaine Rogers, mother of slain 9-year-old Candy Rogers, plans to return here soon after six weeks in California, relatives said. S.E. Newton, Mrs. Rogers' fa ther, said she and her mother went to California last month to recover from the shock and grief of Candy's death. The child disap peared March S while selling Camp Fire Girl mints and was found strangled in the woods northwest of the city 18 days later. Police said they have found no trace of the killer. Newton said his daughter will take an apartment in a different part of Spokane when sne returns, that "the old neighborhood holds too manv unhaDDV memories for her." He said she hasn't decided whether to try to return to her teaching career. She resigned as a history ana pnysicai education instructor at Mead High School March 24. Mrs. Rogers Is divorced from Candy's father. Candy was their only child. California Governor Denies Veep Candidacy SACRAMENTO. Calif. (AP)- Gov. Edmund G. Brown here re jected talk that he might be a c.naiaaie wr ine uemocrai c vice nracmonlnl nnm mat nn novr ea ' 1 am not considering anything but a four-year term in Sacra mento, he told his news tonfer- ence. A news story from Washington Monday said California's new gov ernor is beginning to get some close attention for the second spot on the Democratic ticket. mm mm rattit honiitter ' SonetMM hkleia la ttredhri kme " Sf f s- smollttt htorinj aid in werid, worn v sntiisff ia tor p ALL AT THE EH NOTHING WORN ON IO0YI NO CORD DOWN NECK NO "BUTTON" IN EARI S0N0T0NE COME IK, PHONE 01 WRITE FUEE DEMONSTRATION -NO OBLIGATION ROSE HOTEL Friday, May 15 1 to 6 P.M. I bia River Basin. He also approved the $250,000 budgeted for river basin studies by the Fish and Wildlile service. Alex Radin, general manager of the American Public Power Assn., also testified and differed with Callison on several projects. . Radin supported the budgeted $800,000 to complete the planning for Monumental Dam and urged an appropriation of an additional $1,700,000 for s t a r t of construc tion. Radin urged an increase of J million dollars in the budget-recommended amount of 20 million for John Day lock and dam in Washington and Oregon. Other budget - recommended funds for which Radin sought ap proval were for Ice Harbor lock and dam, Washington; Hills Creek Reservoir, Oregon; the Lower Co lumbia fish sanctuary program; The Dalles lock and dam, Wash ington and Oregon; Chief Joseph Dam, Washington; Cougar Reser voir, Oregon, and planning funds for Bruces Eddy. Funds Recommended Planning funds not in the budget but recommended by Radin in cluded: Little Goose Dam, Wash ington, $500,000; Lower Granite Dam, Washington, $250,000, and Rampart Dam, Alaska, $100,000. Radin also supported the budget ed amounts for Bonneville Power Administration and asked that funds be provided for a study of a transmission line to connect the Bonneville Power System with the Central Valley project in Califor nia and to begin work on general, ing facilities at the Trinity River Division of Central Valley. Radin's testimony on Pacific Northwest projects was supported by Ken Billington, executive sec retary of the Washington Publio Utility Districts' Assn., Seattle. Advised the wage-price spiral. Samuel Lu bell's newest researches for United Features indicate that most steel workers don't want another pay raise for that very reason. Most of us realize, too, that our pdeketbooks are going to get thin ner if government steadily spends more than it takes in. We understand that a big coun try can't be run by a small gov ernment. You can't power a tractor-trailer with a bicycle motor. We're aware also that as we grow, our needs will go on multiplying. BUT BIGNESS is not and never was an excuse for inefficient, wasteful, duplicating, unnecessary spending of your money. You have a right to demand that every dol lar be well spent and fully account ed for, and to ask that the un needed dollar be left in your pock et. Because essential spending today is so immense, it becomes daily more urgent that the executive agencies of government and the watchdogs in and out of Congress carve from the budget every last unessential penny. If you don't think this job Is be ing done as well as it should, use ! your citizen's privilege and make your voice heard. You can clip out this editorial, and send it to your senators or your representatives, or copies to all three, at their Wash- ington offices. Maybe with some sharp prodding from you, our watchdogs will do more than bark at shadows. May be we'll get the sound, sensible, sizable savings we're entitled to have in this continuing battle with inflation. Alaska Banker Elected NW Trade Assn. Leader ' SEATTLE (AP) E. J. Rusing, Fairbanks banker, was named president of the Pacific Northwest Trade Assn. at a directors' meet ing here. Fairbanks was picked as the site of the fall conference, Sept. 3-5. Other new officers chosen in cluded : E. M. Gunderson, Vancouver, B. C, senior vice president, and Reg T. Elmer, also Vancouver, associate vice president; and re gional vice presidents, Kenneth Sheppard, Anchorage; J. S. Shakespeare. Vancouver, B. C; Norman L. Krey. Spokane: G. M. Henderson, Portland; and N. Hen- Gellert, Seattle. ' ' AtoZ RENTALS & SALES nvalid & Sickroom Supplies frit Delivery Rottbura Arte 358 S. E. Ook Ave. Phont OR 2-3472 r4) - W (J I it kolf-timts $ moetl wr h witty styles r
