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'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