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9tw Slews Jiwlew Published by News-Review Co. Inc., 545 Main St., Roseburg, Or. Charles V. Stanton - Editor and Manager I George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Business Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publiihen . Association, tie Audit Bureau of Circulation : Entered ai second elaas matter May T, 1920, at the post olica a ' Roseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Ratea on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE '4 Tha News-Review, Roieburg, SAND DUNE PARK By Charles V. Stanton The proposal to create a national seashore park in the Florence area is causing a trood deal more of a furor, I imagine, than was anticipated. I'm wondering if Sen. Neu berger, who authored the original bill, didn't get "sucker ed in" on a plan that he now regrets. Neuberger's bill as originally proposed would have taken In only the sand dune ! in. and fndudinir. Sea There Isn't much opposition to creation of a sand dune park: that is from the people who reside in tne area. Hut the ink on the suggestion hadn't dried until the Na tional Parks people began pushing out the boundaries to Include Siltcoos, Woahink and other of the lakes. Those lakes now are public playground. They are built up with many residences of both the all-year and sum mer variety. Plans also have been advanced to use the lakes for storage water for industry. It becomes quite evident the National Parks Service doesn't care much for sand dunes, but it surely would like to get its hands on those lakes. Bitter Fight Waged The National Park Service has an affinity for lakes It has been striving for years to get Diamond Lake away from the U.S. Forest Service. It wants to add Diamond Lake to its Crater Lake holdings. Diamond Lake once was the world's largest rainbow trout egg-taking station. The fishing was ruined when anglers dumped trash fish into the water. Now the lake has It is coming back rADidly. reational features. It is open to the public. But put it in the hands of the National Park Service and the public will be limited and restricted. Neuberger, I would guess, was solicited to propose Sand Dunes Park. Then the ' ice really wants, wore added. The people are in revolt. Neuberger, a slick politician, is not, in my opinion, going to run the risk or arousing The lake area of western offers far too much opportunity ment, public recreation and unlimited homesites to be made into a national park which, as I see it,rwill have only one purpose. Much of the land in the area is within the Siuslaw Na tional Forest. It is the policy of the Forest Service to man age lands for multiple uses. The National Park Service, . however, holds lands only for show and recreation. There is every probability that the lakes of the coastal area eventually will serve as gigantic storage basins for paper and chemical industries. But those industries will have little chance if the lakes .National Park Service, I fear. Sentiment Divided ; Sentiment in the area proposed to be turned into a na tional park is almost unanimous against the proposal. On tha outside, however, some people seem to think that a' na tional park would be a nice thing. Doubtless it would bring some tourist travel. Improve ments would be made, I presume, for the entertainment of the public, for display and recreation. It is doubtful, however, if timber resources within the area would be available to industry. It is doubtful if fresh waters from the lakes would be granted for industrial use. ; The lakes today support many fine homes. Some are utilized all year, others at odd times. The plan would be to move out private residences as rapidly as possible. Thus a large residential area would be lost. That wouldn't ,be bad if benefits were sufficient to offset the loss. In my opinion, however, the benefits are few. . 1 1 fear Sen. Neuberger acted with the best possible 'motives, but was used for a stooge by the National Park Service. Saul Pett Aquaholics Anonymous Face Hopeless Situation - NEW YORK (AP)-At first the news seemed reassuring to some of us. We even felt a little smug, But as wo thought about it the whole thing became very disturb ing. " The news came from London. Two doctors there reported that tome people can get plastered, atoned, bombed, potted, crocked, em ba 1 m e d, atiff, inebriated, drunk, and awful silly on just plain water. ; There were nine case histories of people who began with some emotional distress and found them selves reacting to water the way the rest of us react to too much liquor. Tanked up with water, their speech slurred, eyelids drooped, minds became giddy. They got hangovers the next day. ' For us old-fashioned whisky drinkers, the news was strangely pleasing at first. All along, we suspected water drinkers as being too self-righteous; behind all that rampant white virtue there had to lurk aome dark vice. Now we know. Aquaholics Anonymous ; Still, It's unsettling to think about the water addict the Aqua holic, the potential member of Aquaholics Anonymous. Tha bad water drinker could become more of a social problem than the alco holic. There s so much of tha stuff round. 1 How would you get a guy off this cheap sauce? Where would you hide him? Every swimming pool would be suspect So would every bath and shower and no Aquaholic could be allowed to take either alone. The worst possible way to begin a marriage with one would be a honeymoon to Niagara Fills. The office water cooler would Ore Thur., Moy 21, 1959 area nortn oi me oiusiaw iuv Lion Caves. been poisoned and restocked. It is one of Oregon s top ret i lakes, the spots the Park Serv- a lot of adverse sentiment. Douglas and Lane counties for industry, private invest once get in the hands of the take on pathological overtones. The phrase, "Ice water In his veins," would take on a dark meaning and TVA, Grand Coulee Dam and every Irrigation project from Arizona to the Negev would suddenly acquire new fanatical supporters. Water Wagon Out The problems don't end there. Which wagon would the Aquaholic go on after he makes his New Year's resolution? Certainly not the water wagon. How would you bring him back to life on the morning after? Black coffee would be verhoten; it has water in it. Likewise tomato juice. Even 100-proof whisky would be out because it has 50 per cent water. Liquid mercury would be safe except it would kill him. Oil and water, you saT, don't mix. Right! Give him cod liver oil, castor oil. or just crankcase oil. That would sober him up but in the process you'd he getting the water addict well-oiled. Students Protected PANAMA CITY (AP)-The gov ernment has granted safe conduct to Brazil for three students ref uged in the Brazilian Embassy since last month's abortive upris ing. It held up action on a similar appeal by Roberto Arias, accused of leading the revolt. Government Minister Jose D. Baian laid authorities were still studying the case of Arias, for mer ambassador to London and husband of British ballerina Mar- got Fonteyn. Arias baa been In the Brazilian Embassy for three weeks. In The Day's News iBy FRANK Speaking at Brownsville, Texas, to the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast district convention of the Longshoremen's Assn. (Harry Bridges), James Hoffa, boss man of the Teamsters, threatened a na tionwide strike of all transporta tion labor if the Congress "har nesses unions" with antitrust laws. He told his audience that organ ized labor's answer to such legis lation should be to have all its col lective bargaining contracts expire on the same date and then strike. He added: "We can caU a PRIMARY strike sll across the nation that will straighten out tha employers once and for all." Well- It could "straighten out" our COUNTRY once and for all, too. With the economy of our nation completely tied up by a strike such as Hoffa suggests, the Russians could hit us with everything they have and that would be that. That 1 think Is TOO MUCH POWER TO BE HELD IN ONE PAIR OF POWER HUNGRY HANDS. James Marlow Demo Congress Remains Gentle Toward President WASHINGTON (AP)-This Con gress as congresses go is no fireball. Its work for the year so far is about par for tne course: in mid-May a few pieces of major legislation finished, a lot more pending. Congresses usually wind up in a rush in the last few weeks be fore quitting in midsummer. This one can be expected to do tne same. If there's any surprise this year, it's this: Relations between President Ei senhower and the Democratic-run Congress are still pretty gentle. Except for demanding that the Democrats keep down spending to balance his budget, he hasn't tried to use a whip. There were guesses earlier this year after the Democrats got overwhelming control of both houses in the 1953 elections that they would take things into their own hands and romp over Eisen hower. Particularly they complained early that he was asking far too little money to meet what they considered the country's needs. But his repeated demands for economy, which he made a ma jor issue, seem to have chilled them a bit. Rough Stuff Didn't Work The one time they tried to rough him up by hitting him wilh a bill they thought they could pass even over his veto he knocked them flat, vetoed the bill, and made it stick. This was when they tried to take some power away from Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. This was not really a money bill at all. It would have taken from Benson his present power to veto loans by the Rural Electrification Administration. Eisenhower's veto was the 138th Reader Employment Of 'Experts' To The Editor Now that the California "efficiency experts" who re-evaluated the Roseburg School District have taken their "t e n grand" and returned home, there must be numerous questions in the minds of many people as to the why and the what of the recent proceedings. The questions in my mind in clude: "Why did the local school board find it necessary to spend ten thousand tax dollars to have another evaluation study made after a two-year comprehensive study had just been completed lo cally, which included recommend ations for business management?" and, "What did the California firm recommend that could not have been resolved from the reports of the various citizens' committees who worked countless hours for nothing?" The latter question is based on the assumption and the belief that the board members are competent and successful business and professional men who know how the business side of an opera tion should bo run. One cannot help but wonder what the citizens' committee members must he thinking after they do nated their time and effort in serv ice to the community only to have the results of their work replaced by a new $10,000 survey. I believe one of the first reports in your newspaper concerning the employ ment of the John Paul Jones Co. pointed out that Roseburg would be the first school district opera tion to be surveyed by their firm. Another big question might be, "Why did they, with such inexperi ence in school district evaluation, pounce upon the maintenance de partment within a few hours after their arrival, with intent to destroy H?" The question of whether a sub stantial saving ran be made by the elimination of this department is highly debatable and time will: surely tell us beyond any expert's! power to refute, if honest compari-j sons are maintained. After reading your May 14 Issue, my last question is: "If It is not Can Company Struck TORTLAND (AP) - Workers at the Continental Can Co. went on 1 strike Wednesday. An estimated i 225 workers were affected. James Wagoner, shoo steward for the Machinists Union, said local 63 of the Machinists and local 20S of the Teamsters Union joined in the strike alter nesoti- ations failed to reach a settle-1 ment. He said the old contract j expired May IS. I JENKINS: In conclusion I think it should be added here that no one susoects the INDIVID UAL Teamsters of the rank and file of seeking to amass power enough to shut down the whole United States. Individually, they are our neigh bors and friends, individually, iney are good citizens of this and every other community. Individually, thev are the thoushtful and courte ous pilots of the huge trucks who signal to us when it is safe to pass and who whenever possible pull over to one siae 10 lei m inn of us in faster automobiles get by their slower vehicles and be on our way. They are the people to whom we like to show a counter-courtesy by stopping at a left-hand turn to en able them to set around a corner without bringing their huge trucks to a comolete stop and wasting maybe a gallon of fuel in getting them under way again. Individually, they are fine peo ple. ' In this particular situation, they are pawns in a game of power TOO MUCH POWER IN TOO FEW HANDS for the public good. he had made stick since taking office in 1953, without a single up set. It may have forced the Demo crats into more modest notions about pushing him around. But it a too soon to say. The Democrats already are flirt ing with another veto, tnis time on a housing bill. Other tests may lie ahead on airport aid and aid to depressed areas, for which pending bills passed by one or both branches exceed bisennower s proposals. But the current fight is over housing. Housing Programs Differ - Earlier this year Eisenhower proposed a $1,600,000,000 housing program. This was cut-rate stuff to the Democrats. So the Senate passed a $3,600,000,000 biU and sent it to the House. There, after knocking down a Republican attempt Wednesday to get approval for a $1,300,000,000 bill, House Democrats went on to consider a $2,100,000,000 measure. That is 500 million dollars more than Eisenhower asked and 500 millions less than the Senate thought necessary. No matter what kind of bill the House finally passes, if it's dif ferent from the one which got through the Senate, no bill can reach Eisenhower until both houses reconcile their differences and aeree on one bill in all details. . Already the House Republican leader, Rep. Charles A. Halleck ol Indiana, has warned the Demo crats that even if the House bill gets passed in its present form, Eisenhower will veto it. And the Democrats have no rea son to think they can override this veto, either, after what hap pened on the ast one. Opinions In Survey Questioned good business for the district to do its own maintenance and repair, why should it be assumed good business policy to consider chang ing from contracted transportation of students to district operated buses in the near future?" We are very interested In t h e school system because we have one child in school and another who will be soon. I would much rather have policy set by the peo ple of District No. 4 through their duly elected board members than by "imported experts." Lyle F. Glenn 877 NE Nash Roseburg, Ore. Michigan Capital Got Charter 100 Years Ago To The Editor Several times lately I have read in The News Review that Lansing, Mich., was unable to get centennial hats for its birthday celebration. According to my 1954 edition of the American Peoples Encyclope dia, Lansing was settled and made the state capital in 1847. The State of Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837. My question: What 100th birth day are they celebrating? Mrs. LeRoy Seibold 512 W. Chatham Dr. Roseburg, Ore. Editor's Not Lansing was selected In 1147 to succeed De troit as state capital of Michi gan, but did not receive its char tor until 1859 CVS. Author Granted China Passport WASHINGTON fAP) - Vincent Sheean. author and veteran free lance foreign correspondent, has been granted a U.S. passport val id for travel to Red China. He expects to set up a news bureau in Peiping. the Communist capital, for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Sheean, in New Delhi. India, on the way to the new assignment, is reported to expect to start work in Peiping by lata June or early i uiy. He joins 29 other American cor respondenta with valid passports who have been waiting for Red China visas, many of them as long as two years. Word of the issu ance of Sheean's passport ram from the State Department Tues day night. Khrushchev Warns America Group Of Communist 'Bug' MOSCOW (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told a group ot florid a business and profession al men here that the Soviet Union never will launch the first rocket against the United Slates. But he said their irandchildren had better look out the bug of communism win get tnem. Khrushchev, evidentally in a good humor, told them he waa happy to see 45 Florida business men and after a 70-minute inter view took them out into the. Krem lin garden for photographs. Notes on the conversation were given by Ralph A. Renirk. vice president of TV station WTVJ of Miami, president of the Radio-TV News Directors Assn.; and Thom as F. Fleming, president of the First Bank of Boca Raton, Fla. "I can assure you that we will not be the first to use our weap ons against you," Khrushchev said. Later in the talks he said: "Who can guarantee that your grand children years from now will have the same views that you do? We won't start a war. We will not strike first and you will not allow any crazy people to start a war. Therefore there will be no war but you are as afraid of commu nism as of the devil himself. Rod "Bacilli" Danger "The bacilli of communism may enter the brains of your grand children. Therefore take care of the brains of your grandchildren." Khrushchev predicted the Gene va Big Four foreign ministers con ference will be successful "or we would not have participated in the first place." He declared the U.S.S.R. is will ing to go a long way to get re- Rain Water Weight Roof Collapse Cause VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) A roof collapsed over a drug store in a shopping center north of Van couver before the doors opened for business Wednesdny. No one was insiae. The owners, Ken and Matt Zapp, estimated the damage at $50,000. They blamed an accumu lation of rain water on the flat roof. An investigation is under way to pin down the cause. It was the Pay Less Drug Store, one of eight owned by the Zapps in Vancouver and Portland. Water ran onto the floor of the adjoining Pay 'N Takit market. Other busi nesses in the shopping center building were not affected. A 60 - by - 40 - foot area over the drug store collapsed. Two large windows also were broken out, apparently by the force of air. Glass was found as far as 120 feet from the building. No one saw the collapse, but police said they believed it came about 5:50 a.m. A passerby re ported it shortly thereafter. The one-story building in the Hazel Dell Shopping Center on Highway 99 was built in 1956. Blitz-Weinhard Co. Proudly Announces . New Distributor for Blitz Beer, Now Serving Our Many Customers in Douglas County We arc proud to have Howard Chanty take over the distribution and sale of Blits one of the West's finest beers in Douglas County. We know all of our customers and friends will like doing businest with Howards HOWARD CHANEY Distributing Co. will give all accounts consistent, conscientious and courteous service at all times, in keeping with the quality of our fine beer which is backed by 103 years of brewing experience. suits. He repeated what he said earlier that he dislikes the pack age plan proposed by the Western powers. "The Western powers have pro posed a draft which calls for a united Berlin to be set up," he said. "In other words thev 'nro- posed that the government of East Germany should give up its own capital, that of east Berlin. "Is that government aupposed to transfer its capital somewhere else? Is it supposed to transfer it to Alars or Jupiter? No reason able person can hope for a solu tion on that basis. Hydro Projects Good For Years WASHINGTON (AP) Hydro- eieciric projects now under con struction or proposed, including those in the Army Engineers' re cent Columbia River Basin Re view, are expected to meet Pacif ic isortnwest power needs until around 1973. "If your load falls off to the minimum, it may last you until about 1983 . . .." said Col. Allen F. Clark Jr., North Pacific Divi sion engineer, in testimony made public this week by the House Appropriations committee. Present hydroelectric dams in the Basin provide 6,000,000 kil owatts of firm power. Projects under construction and assured, Clark said, will boost this figure to 10,400.000 kilowatts. An addition al 4.000,000 kilowatts would be available in the l'-4 billion dollar dam - building program recently recommended by Clark and under study by Army Engineers. Clark said the recommended program would develop 78 per cent of the Columbia Basin's hydroelec tric potential. In response to a question by Rep. Don Magnuson (D-Wash), Clark said he was mak ing no assumption as to the eco nomic feasibility of the remaining 22 per cent. Remaining Shoe Poor "The remaining sites, of which there are quite a few, some of which may be quite good, are mostly run - of - the - river plants which have no storage in them," he said. "However, the best sites are built or are building and these other sites are more expensive, the power costs more, and it there fore gets 'loser and closer to the cost of thermal power. "In 15 or 20 years from now it may be that atomic power or the techniques of coal fired steam generation may be such that these plants may no longer be economi cally feasible on the basis that we judge them today. Therefore, there is a limit, I feel, to the distance you can forecast what will hap pen." Clark said he believed the com prehensive basin program "should be reviewed again in 10 years, approximately, at least, not longer than that, I should think." Howard HOWARD CHANEY Distributing Co. 338 N.E. Winchester, Roseburg Blilz-Weinhard Company 1133 W. Burnside House Voles Loan Lid On Farm Commodities WASHINGTON (AP) The House has voted a $50,000 lim it on government price support loans on farm commodities. In the past, some loans to big oper ators have ranged over a million dollars. A roll-call vote of 261-165 put the $50,000 limitation in a bill ap propriating $3,939,165,498 to fi nance the Agriculture Department for the fiscal year starting July 1. The bill was then sent to the Senate by voice vote. Across the capitol, the Senate Agriculture Committee decided to make a full-dress investigation of the Commodity Credit Corpora tion the agency which admin isters the farm price support pro- 0ram ' The inquiry wss proposed by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo). It will go into all operations of the agency which has been given 14V billion dollars of authority over a period of years for its price sup port activities. Symington, who has been criti cal of the CCC. will serve as chair man of the special probe. Other members include Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn), William Proxmire (D-Wis), Herman E. Tal madge (D-Ga), Milton R. Young (R-ND) and John J. Williams (R Del). The CCC. which operates under the Agriculture Department, has been in operation under both Dem ocratic and Republican Adminis trations. GOP Spurs Action Republicans initiated the move in the House to put a $50,000 ceil ing on individual price support loans, but drew heavy Democratic support to put it across. Rep. John Taber (R-NY) of fered the intendment. It was sup ported by 147 Republicans and 114 Democrats. Aligned in opposition were 161 Democrats and four Re publicans. Many, but not all, of the Demo crats who backed the limitation were from city districts. The total vote of 426 was one of the heaviest in recent years. Those speaking for the $50,000 limitation contended it would make more funds available for small farmers. Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D NC) of the Agriculture Committee argued the limitation would put out of business farm cooperatives whose price support loans he said normally would be in excess of $50,000. He said it would not help small operators but could hurt them and would "utterly destroy the farm program." Crops are put up as collateral for price support loans. The grower-borrower can elect not to repay the loan and thus forfeit his crop (the collateral) to the government. But if market prices eo uo and it would be profitable to him, he can repay the loan and sell his crop at the market price. Surpluses On Hand In the actual workings of the program, the government nasi Chancy St. .wins ) , I lv i 3j '. 103 YEARS OF BREWING ONE OF THE WEST'S FINEST BEERS . FOUNDED IN 1856 wound up holding billions of dol lars worth of farm commodities. The total funds in the Agricul ture Department appropriations bill are $142,199,365 less than the President had requested. No date has been set for the Senate inquiry into the CCC to begin. The committee authorized hiring of two staff investigators and a clerk for the inquiry. It said no additional funds are needed be cause of vacancies on the com mittee staff. At Wednesday's session, the Ag riculture Committee postponed a decision on a request by Humph rey for revision of a new wheat program previously approved by the group. Chairman Allen J. El lender (D-La) said this would be considered at a meeting Thursday. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt) said he doubts there are enough votes to put the administration's wheat plan through the Senate. Teen-agers Said Poor Parents DENVER, Colo. (AP) - Teen agers need better preparation than they now show if they are to be come mature parents who can raise a generation of future citi zens in whose hands the survival of mankind may depend, the Na tional Congress of Parents and Teachers was told. Evelyn Millis Duval!, authority on family life, said today's teen agers are getting married and having children "in larger num bers and at younger ages than ever before." Yet, she said, a re cent survey showed high school students failing miserably on ques tions about children's develop ment. "Have we any reason to' expect the teen-agers to be prepared for parenthood if they had little or no specific education for it?" she asked. "Far more teen-age marriages." she said, "break up in divorce, annulment and separation than any other age group. Statistically the Ijen years are the riskiest of all for marriage. Force marriages so frequent in the teen years have a high failure rate. So do adolescent rebellion alliances. Marriage requires niaturity it is not, nor has it ever been, child's play." Tractor Upset Fatal CORVALLIS (AP)-John Post ma, 37, Sweet Home, was crushed to death at a logging job four miles east of Kings Valley, Cor oner Joe McHenry reported Tues day. He said a tractor hit a stump and overturned on Postma as he was hauling two logs down a steep slope. Portland 9, Oregon
