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9t 3lCW$'HCmCW Publithid by Newi-Review Co. Inc., Charles V. Stanton Editor and Manager George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Buslnoss Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher! Association, the Audit Bureau ol Circulation Entered second class matter May 7. 1920. it the post office a Roseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, Wo Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Pago EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Tuei., Oct. 13, 1959 WAYNE PETTIT RETIRES By Charles V. Stanton Wayne Fettit, it hag been announced, has retired as Salem news correspondent for the Oregonmn. Possibly that will not mean much to many readers of this column, but to me it is a most significant item. Some old timers in the Roseburg area will recall the days when Wavne Pettit was the sole reporter for the Eve rting News. While Pettit pounded the news beat for the News, "Louie" Reizenstein, now relief wire editor for The News-Review, was Pettit's rival on the Roseburg Review. In those days Roseburp had two struggling newspapers, each an ardent political orpan. It was while I was still in school that I obtained a job as printer's devil with the Evtning Sews. It' wasn't long before Pettit decided he needed some help. I was assigned to "cover" the "local beat" in the morning hours and worked in the mechanical department in the afternoon. Thus Wayne became my first "schoolmaster" in writing news copy. And I might add that he was a hard taskmaster. Wayne was sent to Salem to serve the Portland news paper in handling news from the state capital. His was a political assignment in the early days, because that was before newspaper consolidation was forced by economic conditions and each town had a newspaper supported by a political party. Was Able Reporter But newspapers were forced into consolidation shortly after the first World War. They became far more objec tive in their news report. The news columns no longer were slanted toward one political party or theory. Opin ion was left to editorial writers. Pettit, one of Oregon's top men from the standpoint of .production, adapted himself easily to the modern svstem. Throughout his lifetime he was an able reporter. He had what is known in the newspaper business as a "nose for news." Newspapers today stress the "right to. know," "freedom of information." Newspapers battle against the suppression of news, particularly by any public body. That wasn't always true. Wayne Pettit many times was faced by antagonistic officials and departments who refused to reveal to him news to which the public was en titled. Wayne was one of those reporters who had an un canny ability to ferret out news that was being withheld from him and to put it into print, often incurring violent out breaks from those who had been trying to hide information from him. He was one of those reporters who knew no hours. He worked whenever there was news. No story was too big, no story too small to demand his time and attention. He is a man who has devoted his entire life to serving the public in gathering and that connection he has been Orcgonian and the press as PLYWOOD PRODUCTION INCREASING Softwood plywood, most of which comes from Oregon, showed an increase in production for 1958, according to fig ures just compiled by the field service of the U.S. Depart ment of Commerce. Plywood production has gone up stead ily since J 948. The 1958 total was 15 per cent ahead of 1957 figures. During 1958 there were 127 softwood plywood plants, as compared with 120 in 1957. Oregon had 71 mills as compared to 31 in Washington, 23 in California and one each in Idaho and Montana. Of the total 1958 production of 6.487 million square feet, on "h inch basis, Oregon produced 4,235 Tnillion square feet or G5 per cent of the total. The softwood plywood industry used 2,884 million board feet of peeler logs in its manufacturing process. Of this amount 40 million board feet went into veneer to. be used in container manufacture, the balance into various forms of plywood. Brace Biossat Labor Apt To Back Demos Despite Reform Bill Aid Top lahor leaders perhaps should not be taken too seriously when they declare themselves some what disenchanted with the Demo crats after the enactment of this year's labor reform bill. They have indicated that here after they may pay less attention to party labels and more to in dividual qualifications. They were frankly stunned that a Democrat ically controlled Congress, con taining many members heavily supported by labor, would approve legislation they consider harsh and restrictive. Yet it must be doubted whether this mood will persist. The labor chiefs have known disenchantment below, but not much significant action has flowed from it. IN 1947 A REPUBLICAN Con gress, the 80th. passed the Taft Hartley act, which lahor dubbed a "slave labor law." It was often overlooked, but presumably not by labor officials, that a majority nf Democrats in both houses backed the bill, and most voted to over ride President Truman's veto. Mr. Truman In 1948 ran un a platform calling for repeal of Taft hartley. The Congress vcted in with him that year was heavilv Democratic in the House, narrow ly so in the Senate. The party was considered commilted to repeal. Repeal Effort Fails Nevertheless the results con founded labor. The Senate, bar ring repeal, voted a long string cf Taft-Hartley amendments whose chief sponsor was not a Democrat but the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, co-author of the criginal. The House went' nowhere wi'h repeal, either. Nor would the Dem ocratic leadership accept the Sen ate's amendments. It seemed to want the whole loaf or nothing. So, with an air of triumph labor found hard to grasp, the House buried the entire issue. From then1 545 5.E. Main St., Rosebura, Or disseminating information. In a power and a credit to the a whole. until now. no major labor proposals have been enacted. SOMEHOW the events of 19-17-49 did not shake labor's faith in the Democratic party. The 1959 reform law, however, appears to nave nan deeper impact. It in volves limitations and requires po licing which the unions see as hos tile interference, threatening their security and stability. Still, how really strong is the prospect that lahor will turn in 19tiO to Republican candidates on more than a very occasional basis? The record of recent decades sug gests the chance is not great. What ever the leaders say in certain moments of heat, most regard the Democratic party as their political home. When the voting test is at hand, they get an uncomfortable feeling of straying if they start to move beyond ils borders. Red-Built Plant Opens In India NEW DEUIf, India (AP) - A Soviet-built plant began steel pro duction at llhilai in central India, marking another step for ward in India's drive toward in dustrialisation. The million ton capacity plant in Madhya I'radesh Stale began pig iron production last February. Full steel production is expected next year. This is the second big, new. government-owned steel plant to go into production. Rourkcla plant in Orissa State, built by West (Germany, began producing steel last June. l'roduction is expected to begin this winter at the third new. mil lion-ton plant, the British - built Durgapur in west Bengal State. The plants are part of the gov ernment's second five-year plan for industrial expansion. In The Day's News .By FRANK President Eisenhower sets in minion the Taft-Hartley l.w ma chinery to end the steel strike for 80 days. Did he do right? Or did he do wrong? To those of us who neither own steel stocks nor belong to unions concerned in the strike, it appears that a settlement would be better for everybody. The employees now out of work would start getting paychecks again. The steel mills would start making steel again. Steel would again become avail able to those who use steel as a raw material and they would start making their products again. These products would again be available in good supply for the merchants to sell and their cus tomers to buy. The steel companies would go on paying dividends to their stock holders who, by the way, out number the workers in the steel industry (for each steel worker there are roughly one and a quar ter owners of steel stocks). But the unions concerned in the. strike can't see it that way. They say the President has intervened on the side of the steel operators which, they say, is wrong. Who Is right? Who is wrong? What should be done about it? In an effort to answer these questions, let's imagine a neigh borhood row. Two or more fam ilies are fighting with each other over some situation that concerns them acutely but doesn't concern the rest of us much. The ruckus William L. Ryan Soviets Leaning Toward Conservative Capitalism The Soviet Union's Communists will make conservative capitalists of themselves yet if they don't watch out. And if the Soviet Marxists turn into old-fashioned Tories, Nikita Khrushchev's gambling will have played a large part in the trans formation. From reading the Soviet pres lately, one gets the idea Khrush chev learned something from his tour of the United States. Indica tions are that he didn't like what he learned. Sinco his return to his own stamping ground, the No. 1 Soviet Communist has been, nagging, badgering, prodding and cajoling his Communists to got on with the job of accomplishing the im probable: Catching up with the over-all U.S. economy. Strange items appear in the So viet newspapers, where nothing is printed by accident. A likely con clusion is that the items are part of a deliberate drive to put pres sure on the Soviet bureaucracy to build a fire under it. Moscow dispatches tell of a let ter to a Communist newspaper from a worker who said he was fed up with Sputniks and air liners and anxious for the regime to come down to earth and pro duce shoes. Other Workers Quoted The newspaper professed to be peeved by the outburst. It said the letter writer's fellow workers were angry with him for it. But then it went on to quote some of them as saying they also wanted better clothing, furniture, shoes and television sets. This example is one of many such popping up since Khrushchev returned from America. He, him self, added steam to the cam paign. In Vladivostok, he cheer fully chided the bureaucrats for rushing goods to the stores in time for his visit. He demanded a more sensible approach to prob lems of supplying the consumer Duhlic. For some time, a key phrase in Khrushchev s program has been "material self-interest." Its obvi The Cartoonist Says: Don't Let Them Down JENKINS; goes on and on. It makes life miserable for the whole neighbor hood. What shall the rest of us do? Shall we stand by and take it ad infinitum? Or shall we CO TO LAW? The chances are that when we get so fed up with the low that we can't take it any longer we'll go to law. The law will then pro ceed to adjudicate the rights that are involved our right to live our lives undisturbed by somebody else's quarrel and the right of the ruckus raisers to go on with their ruckus. In Ihe end, the law will decide it on the basis of the greatest good to the greatest number follow ing the American principle that the rights of each individual or group of individuals are LIMITED BY THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. That's the American way. What about the numbers in volved? Let's put it this way: It is generally slated that about 500.000 steel workers are out on strike. Using the ratio of one and a quarter to one, that would mean about 625,000 owners of steel stocks or a total of 1,125,000. Multiplying that by four (assum ing that each worker and each stockholder have three dependents) gives us a total of four and a half million persons directly concerned in the steel strike. The rest of us number about 170 MILLION. That's where the principle of the greatest good to the greatest num ber comes in. ous appeal to the acquisitive spirit sounds odd for a regime profess ing to be "building communism." Last week Soviets for the first lime began buying consumer goods on the installment plan, something they learned from Americans. Now the papers tell them to learn more from Ameri cans how to produce more goods per man, how to raise food output. Impatience Noticed Possibly such things as materi al self-interest and installment buying are intended to be tempo rary, as stimulants to labor pro ductivity. But in the background is an unmistakable note of im patience. m Khrushchev has seen a number of non-Communist countries, and he has just seen the United States. He would be unlikely to confers it publicly, but there is a good chance he was annoyed . by the obvious superiority of the , Ameri can consumer economy. The Soviet Premier seems Will ing to take on added risks in an attempt to get his own consumer economy show on the. road. Be hind his activity is a persistent public pressure for more consum er goods, by now fairly .obvious to outside observers. In spreading a doctrine of ma terial self-interest, Khrushchev takes a chance of making the So viet consumer more and more property-conscious. For the sake of world peace, this should be all to the good. The better off the Soviet public is. the less it will be inclined to risk its gains for the glory of a ministry doctrine. Historically it has been demonstrated that well fed, well-clothed, property-owning people tend to be conservative, from a desire to keep what they have acquired. SUSPECT ARRESTED PORTLAND (AP) George El mer Butler, wanted in Sdlem on two robbery counts, was arrested here Monday. Bail was set at $3,500. Hal Boyle Bobbies Won't Bear Arms; Danger Seen In Criminals NEW YORK (AP) "I think 1 lies' during the reign of Charles sneak for all my colleagues wh?n:n, came to ne known as feel 1 say we don t want 10 oe armea said Constable Norman Niblo of the City of London. Constable Niblo abo feels, de spite a postwar growth of vio lence, the British public doesn't want ils police to carry gdns as a daily duty. "If we do. every petty little crook will start carrying a gun. People will be hurt," he said. Constable Niblo, a 6-fool-2, heavy-bodied man weight 18 stone or 252 pounds has never used a gun in nearly a quarter century as a British policeman. The big, good-natured, 46-year-old officer is here on a good will visit to the United States. His face and form are familiar to thou sands of tourists who have visited his beat, the ancient, miie-square financial hearl of the British Com monwealth. "The traffic here is fantastic." said Niblo, after a sight of Times Square. The mid-London area he and some 700 other fellow officers patrol has fantastic traffic prob lems of its own. Its residential population at night is about 5,003 its workday population rises to 750,000. A student of the historical lore of his city and his craft, Niblo brought with him number of sou venirs of police work in London a century ago. It was in this period that the police, nicknamed "Char- Porter Raps AF General's Use Of Plane For Sick Son EUGENE (AP) An Air Force nothing when any emergency plane flew to Oregon from Colo rado, picked up a general's ill son and took him back to Denver, Rep. Charles Porter (D-Ore) said Monday. In a letter to Secretary of the Air Force James Douglas, Porter asked for an investigation. The flight was ordered late last month, Porter said, by Maj. Gen. Eugene Mussett, commander of Lowry Air Force Base, Denver. Porter said the four-engine Air Force plane flew to North Bend, Ore., and picked up the general's son, Eugene Mussett Jr., who suf fered a back injury at a prep school in Langlois. Ore. In his letter to Douglas, Porter said: "Of course I sympathized with the general and I understand his anxiety concerning his son's seri ous condition. Plane's Use Criticized "However, it seems to me. ..that the general could have provided for his son's own welfare without sending a 4-engine, VIP, govern ment owned and operated aircraft, complete with a 5-man crew, 2 doctors and a nurse." Porter said he had Teceived a letter from Mussett on the mailer. He quoted the general as saying that authority for such flights is contained in Air Force regula tions. In addition. Porter said, the gen eral told him this: Young Mussett suffered an in jury that paralyzed him from the waist down when he struck the comer of a dressing cabinet. Doc tors said it was a necessity to have the youngster examined by a competent neurologist. After finding that special ar rangements would have to be made for evacuation by commer cial air lines, the Air Force plane was ordered to bring the boy to Denver, where two of the best neuro surgeons in the nation prac tice. Similar Decisions Made Porter said the general also told him: "I have made similar decisions and taken similar actions in tbe pasl for both civilian and military personnel. I would be derelict in the discharge of my responsibili ties were I to stand back and do ers or "Bobbies, after Sir Rob ert Pell, pioneer of modern police systems. Cops Wore Tep Hats The policeman of that time wore a high top hat and looked more like a society figure. He i.ad no whistle. He carried a large wood en ratchet, which he whirred to summon aid. It made an infernal din. He also carried his own gas light, anchored to his belt. Oddly, the truncheon of that day is longer and more slender, but less formidable, than the compact club Niblo carries in his daily duty, but says he has never had to use on a man in 24 years. A mild-speaking man, he has a quiet pride in his ability to handle ordinary police problems with the authority of his voice and hands. By this he means the usual thing trouble at a bar, a minor dis turbance of the peace. Among the constable's rewards for keeping the peace is a boot al lowance of three or four shillings 42 to 56 cents a week. He also has available without cost to him the services of a chiropodist, al though he has never had any ma jor foot trouble himself. "Violence is growing a bit in the metropolitan area, including at tacks on police," he said regret fully when questioned. "Most of the increase is among young people." arises. However, Porter said, "If it had been a true emergency, doctors at Coos Bay could have arranged a mercy flight." Porter said he had not ques tioned the general's authority for the flight, only his judgment. Elkins-Clark Appeal Taken WASHINGTON (AP) James Butler Elkins and Raymond Fred erick Clark, of Portland, Ore., have been- granted a Supreme Court review of their convictions on charses of wire tapping. State officers with a warrant searched Clark's home on May 17, 1956 and seized five tape re cordings, a recording machine, and three spools of recording ma chine wire. On a protest by Clark, a state court ruled the warrant was im properly issued and the items seized could not be used as evi dence. Later Clark and Elkins were tried in federal-court in Portland on wire tap charges and the tape recordings and other items were admitted in evidence. Also, six state and county offi cers were required by the federal trial judge to testify although a state court had ordered them not to do so. Clark and Elkins contended in appealing to the high tribunal that these events in federal court vi olated their rights under the U.S. constitution. Elkins was sentenced in federal court to 20 months and 52,000 fine. Clark in the same court got six months and S50O fine. Elkins' wire recordings touched off the Portland vice investigation three years ago. Goodwin Knight In TV Career HOLLYWOOD (AP) Remem ber Goodwin Knight? He was an attorney, then judge, then California lieutenant gover nor, then governor, then candidate, for U.S. senator. After he lost the senatorial" race last year he became a TV com mentator. He proved so successful he's launching a new career as narrator of a dramatic series, bas ed on legal causes, called "Judge for Yourself." Does this mean he's stepping out of politics? "Not by a long shot," Knight said here. "I'm just as much in politics as I ever was." Wild Rabbit Control Promised Washington SEATTLE (AP) San Juan Is land has been promised technical assistance by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in trying to wipe out its hordes of wild rabbits, Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) said. Magnuson advised from Wash ington the pledge came from A V. Tunison, acting director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Magnuson appealed to the bu reau for aid after the San Juan Island residents formed a pest control district to work out a rid rabbits program. Boeing 707 Carries Millionth Passenger SEATTLE (AP) ' Boeing 707 commercial jet airliners will car ry their millionth passenger this week less than a year after the speedy, Seattle - built planes en tered service, the company said. The first 707 delivered bv Boe ing began Jiving ihe Atlantic last Oct. 26. ThV are now more than 60 serving 25 cities in 10 countries. The company said the 70"s have piled up , more than 25 million miles in 64,000 hours, equivalent to 2 billion 200 million passenger miles, without a serious injury or fatality. Small Investors Cash In Saving Bonds For New Notes NEW YORK (AP) - Just how magic is 5 per cent? And will H become a pattern for U.S. Treas-1 urv borrowing or is it just a one shot deal? ! The Treasury has an answer to the first, if just for the lime be-; ing. Right now investors, big and little, like- 5 per cent. The Treas-1 ury's offering of S per cent notes was oversubscribed 5Va times. I The so-called small investor,! anyone putting up $25,000 or less, got the full amount of his sub-1 scription. Above lhat the investors were apportioned according to1 Iheir status as savers or lenders, j To the second question, the an-! swer undoubtedly is: That de-i pends. The Treasury doubtless will I follow the money market pattern i Drevailing when it needs to bor-! row again. And as much as it would like to place its securities in the hands of individual inves tors, vour chances, if you missed Ihe first offer, of getting 5 per Report Reveals Khrush's Sins WASHINGTON (AP) - Testi mony of nine witnesses on purges, terrorism and man-made famine in the Ukraine during the 1930s and 1940s has been released in a new congressional report ti'.led "The Crimes of Khrushchev." The report, second of a series being released by the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities, contains testimony taken Sept. 9. 10 and 11 prior to the arrival of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush. chev on Sept. IS for his U. S. tour. Nicholoas Prychodko, an engi neer from Toronto, Canada, testi fied he lived in the Ukraine dur ing the 1930-33 famine. Prychodko said most of the Ukrainian food crop was export ed on orders from Moscow be cause ef resistance in the Ukraine to the Communists. He said that at that time Khrushchev was in the Ukraine as "one uf the es teemed executors of Stalin's gen ocide of the Ukrainian popu lation." ' Petro Pavlovych, former editor of a newspaper in the Ukrainian community of Vinnitsa, told of the 1943 discovery there of 95 mass graves of 9.439 bodies victims of a 1937-38 purge when Khrushchev was first secretary of the Central Committee of the Commu nist party in the Ukraine. The former editor said his real name is Apollon Trembow and that he now lives at Orrtanna, Pa. Young, Scout Finds Mother, Uncle Dead ST. LOUIS (AP)-A Boy Scout returned home from a cookie sell ing trip here and found the knife- slashed bodies of his mother and uncle in the basement of a home in suburban Webster Groves. Dead were Mrs. Herman E. Haas and her brother, Cecil W. Giles, 56. Police said each suffered multi ple wounds of the face, heck, ab domen, legs and knees. Their bodies were discovered by Mrs. Haas son, David, 9. The boy ran to the home of a neighbor, who telephoned his fa ther at work, ihe elder Haas re turned home and police were called. i Police said there was no sign of a struggle in the one-story home I or in the basement. Mrs. Haas'l wallet was missing. Police found a paring knife with a three-inch blade in the back yard. The blade was muddied and the handle was covered with a substance believed to be blood. Better Meals Build Better Families fSMV' i v'.TK'I .1. TV ., l.-SHe. I M .'WS1 C LAST YEAR, BABY FOODS WERE SECOND IN UNIT SALES IN SUPERMARKETS, WITH 2.7 BILLION JARS AND CANS PURCHASED. MMSIZE VARIETY' TOOAYS BABIES NOW HAVE THEIR W . CHOICE OF OVER NINETY DIFFERENT STRAINED Af JUNIOR FOODS. THESE FOODS ARE ESPECIALLY PREPARED TO please and nourish. Delivered Daily to Over, cent again sometime in the future is obscure. The appeal of 5 per cent on a government-backed fairly short term loan is obvious at the mo ment. The Treasury raked in near ly one billion from individual in vestors. To its point of view that's all to the good. Savings Bonds Cashed But that many of them rimply switched from other forms of sav ings yielding less isn't an unmixed blessing. A sizable lot turned in U.S. savings bonds to gst up the required cash to back their sub scriptions. This was taking money out of one of the Treasury's pockets to put it in the other. Many of them will have to pay income taxes on the accrued interest on me bonds they sold. But the Treasury will be paying higher interest on that part of the federal debt that was switched. The Treasury may think twice before it makes the same offer again, unless it can tap new sav ings rather than old. One of Ihe results of the Treas ury offering was to strengthen the price of older securities, both gov. eminent and corporate. As their price goes up they conform more closely to the yield lhat the new Treasury issue provides. Some hope that this 30-year high for Treasury rates will become a ceiling and halt the slow and steady rise of interest charges that has plagued would-be borrow, ers wanting to build schools or buy homes. , Interest Hits Record But the immediate effect of the new Treasury issue seems to have been to lift the interest on the Treasury's shortest term offering, the 91-day bills, to a record 4.262 per cent. The Treasury's pressure on the short-term money market will continue this week as it offers two billion dollars of 245-day tax an ticipation bills. After that, the money lenders here expect the pressure to relax for a time and interest rates to be governed by the supply and demand in non government circles. U AW Against Third Party ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. (AP) The United Auto Workers favor a realignment of the nation's po litical forces but not a third party. The UAW convention declared here that both Democratic and Republican parties need an over haul "if the present two-pariy system is to operate more effec tively in the public interest." Although the 1,200,000-mcmber UAW went on record in its po litical action program against for mation of a new major party, a few delegates advocated such a move. But UAW Vice President Leon ard Woodcock urged delegates not to let their "frustration, resent ment and bitterness" over legisla tive defeats in a Democratic-controlled Congress lead them into a third party. The convention urged that the national AFL-CIO "explore with other groups the possibility of calling a national conference of labor, farm and oiher liberal forces in the spring of 1960 prior to the convening of both party conventions." Secretary - treasurer Emil Ma zey joined Woodcock in advising against a movement for a third party. But Mazey's brother Er nest sided with the few who dis sented. "We ought to consider a party of laborers, farmers, Negroes and liberals, "he declared. Paul Silver, member of the res olutions committee, contended a third party would mean victory for the Republicans. ONE IN EVERY TEN.., FOOD SHOPPERS HAVE BABY FOOD ON THEIR LIST FOR THE BEST FOOO BUYS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY SEE THE FOOO PAGES IN TOOAY'S PAPER. 11,000 Douglas County Hornet
