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EDITORIAL PAGE
4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg,
BILLBOARD LEGISLATION
By Charles V. Stanton
An anti-billboard measure will be placed before Oregon
voters at the next election. While I don't like a lot of the
billboards that clutter our highway and spoil the scenery,
nevertheless, there are some things I don't like about any
tn legislate against billboards.
In the first place I certainly don't like the bribery
nno-lp we're getting from the
The federal government is cooperating with the states
in a huge interstate highway system. The plan for the sys
tem is excellent, I believe. It
employment in the country can be balanced, for example,
provided some politicians will quit their boondoggling.
But anti-billboard advocates secured a provision that
any state banning billboards from its highways would have
its percentage of appropriations increased by one-half of
one per cent.
In other words, "Be a good boy and I'll give you a
nickel !"
If that isn't out-and-out bribery I don't know what
bribery is.
And where does the federal government gets its mon
ey? It takes it out of our pockets. So, we're being bribed
with our own money.
Sentimental Appeal
If Oregon, for example, fails to pass the proposed
bill, money taken from Oregon
state payment for letting the
fairs.
Or "we will be sent to bed without dinner," Bill Jenk
ins, asserted in an editorial in the Klamath Falls Herald
& News. He also described
case of top level payola."
The philosophy behind paying a bonus to anv state that
will follow federal dictates is entirely wrong, I believe.
At the same time there is a tremendous sentimental
appeal in anti-billboard legislation.
There isn't anything much worse, in my opinion, than
some of the signs, particularly home-made signs with mis
spelled words, obsolete, weatherbeaten, out-of-date signs
we find everywhere along our highways. Scenery is ob
scured by big billboards. I question that anyone finds them
either beautiful or desirable.
Because billboards aren't liked by a great many peo
ple, the anti-billboard advocate finds the sentimental ap
peal to be extremely valuable and useful.
Newspapers might be expected to oppose billboards,
and to favor anti-billboard legislation, because billboards
compete with newspapers for advertising dollars.
Restrictions Opposed
But newspapers generally oppose restrictions at t h e
federal level when such restrictions are not necessary.
If the federal government can tell us how we must ad
vertise, if it can enforce regulation concerning the method
of advertising, how long will it be before it can declare
that no one may advertise in a newspaper?
We have some people in this country who would like
to eliminate newspapers. Newspapers stand in the way of
dictatorship. But newspapers get a major part of their
revenue from advertising; If people couldn't advertise in
newspapers we would have few, if any, papers, but we
would have dictators.
That's one reason, in my opinion, why we should go
slow very slow in any effort to legislate against bill
boards. Let's express our dislikes in other ways, not by
accepting bribes for placing further restrictions on our
freedoms.
James Marlow
Conventions
For A Couple
Associated Press News Analyst
CHICAGO (AP)-The big politi
cal conventions of 1960 accom
plished two things:
1. They cleared the ring so a
couple of real pros for tho first
time in 12 years could go after
each other.
2. They made both parties sound
a little more liberal, to the dis
gust of the ultra-conservatives in
both, as shown by the effort to
nominate Sen. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona, a leader of the conserva
tives. Otherwise they were simply
cut-and-dried, longwindcd, old
fashioned extravaganzas which
needlessly took up too much of
everyone s time.
Sen. John F. Kennedv, given the
Democrats' presidential nomina
tion two weeks so in Los An
rcIcs. and Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon, whom the Republi
cans named their No. 1 man
Wednesday are political pros in
the strictest sense.
The last time two professionals
squared off for the presidency was
in 1948 when President Truman
ran against and whipped New
York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewev.
The 1952 match between llwirhi
D. Eisenhower and Adlai Steven
son was an amateur contest. Ei
senhower had never run for office
before. Stevenson, although gov
ernor of Illinois, was new in the
business.
By the time they ran against
each other in 1956 Eisenhower had
learned his way around. Steven
son, in the minds of many, was
still amateurish.
It's a lot different with Nixon
and Kennedy.
Both havo been in national
politics since 1946 and when both
were first elected to the House
of Representatives. In later elec
tions both landed in the Senate,
with Nixon going on to the vice
presidency.
It was no wonder Nixon had no
real opposition for the presiden
tial nomination. He had been
working toward that for years:
1. By playing it smart as vice
president, lie stuck cinse to Ei
senhower, got himself identified
Ore. Thur., July 28, 1960
federal government.
affords one way by which
will be given to some other
federal government run af
the matter as a "sort of a
Cleared Ring
Of Real Pros
in the public and Republican mind
with the President s ideas, alti
tudes, and policies, thus making
himself appear the natural suc
cessor. 2. Bv building ud sunnort for
himself around the country for
years both by his campaigns for
ine Republican presidential ticket
and campaigns to help Republi
cans running for office 'n their
states.
Kennedy has been aiming at the
presidency ever since 1956 when,
to the surprise of many, he came
out of relative obscurity and al
most captured the Democrats'
vice presidential nomination.
In the succeeding four years he
traveled the country, surrounded
himself with shrewd politicians
and intellectuals, and ran and won
in the primaries.
While both parties in their civil
rights platform planks were more
liberal than ever before, the fact
is they had to be. Events inevit
ably pushed them in that direc
tion, beginning with the Supreme
Court's 1954 decision outlawing
public school segregation.
But the party platforms don'l
mean much by themselves. There
is a big difference between the
two parties' promises in the mid
dle of a presidential campaign
and what they do about them
later.
The conservatives in both par
ties dominate in Congress, no mat
ter which party wins control of it.
Soviet Ambassador III
With Heart Ailment
VNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)
Soviet Ambassador Arkadv A.
Sobolev was reported ill .if heart
trouble Tuesday in his apartment
at the Soviet I'. N. mission.
A Soviet diplomat said he be
came ill last weekend and bis
doctors ordered him to rest.
Sobolev is permanent lT. N.
representative for the Soviet
Union. The diplomat said Sobolev
was better Tuesday.
In The Days News
iBy FRANK
Throughout the Democratic con-
vention, which now is history, and.sured by increasing the power of
so far in the
Republican conven-Uhe
tion, which
Uiu is written is!
in mid-passage. CIVIL RIGHTS
has been the big platform issue.
Historically, that is interesting.
It is fascinatingly interesting be
cause throughout what we call our
Knglish tradition CIVIL RIGHTS
HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST IS
SUE IN THE WORLD. In the past
half dozen centuries countless tens
of thousands of men have fought
and died for civil rights. It is be
cause of what they fought and died
for that we have the precious thing
we can democratic government.
Withont this centuries-long bat
tle, there could be no United States
of America of today.
At one end of the human scale,
there is Magna Charta, which was
basically a battle between the
nobles and the king. In those days,
the common man didn't count. He
was then only a serf. In Magna
Charta, the nobles won certain
fundamental civil rights from the
king.
A century and a half after Mae
na Charta the COMMON MAN
came into the picture. Wat Tyler's
rebellion was a peasants rebel
lion. Wat lyler, me peasants lead
er, was assassinated by the Lord
Mayor of London in the presence
of the king, who approved the deed
The peasants gained little at the
time . . . but the SPIRIT of Wat
Tyler's rebellion lived on and in
spired other reneuions.
Eventually, in England, this bat
tle for civil rights, resulted in
PARLIAMENT, which limited the
power of tho king by gaining con
trol of the purse strings, thus
achieving the power to LIMIT the
excesses of the king by denying
him the money with which to carry
out his autocratic desires.
We could go on and on. We could
mention the tragedy of Simon de
Montfort, who lost his battle and
eventually lost his life in his strug-
John Griffin
President-Sukarno Losing
The Battle Of The Cha-Cha
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)
President Sukarno is losing the
battle of the cha-cha.
The evidence is as plain as
young Indonesian couples dance to
the bongo bat at a government-run
night spot just half a block from
his downtown palace. ,
Since traditional Indones
ian dances are slow, some sociol
ogists feel the cha-cha provides an
element of nip-swinging abandon
for a youth faced with mbunting
frustrations and limited opportun
ities. A young Indonesian puts It a
simpler way "We like it it's
fun." Sukarno, a staunch nation
alist, went on the attack a year
ago.
In a series of speeches and
statements, he labeled cha-cha
and rock 'n' roll mixed up noises
called music. He called the new
dances the first steps in a foreign
cultural imperialism that could
destroy Indonesia's national
identity.
The Jakarta army garrison out
lawed cha-cha, even in private
Editorial
OUR HEALTH DECLINE
Eugene Register-Guard
It is shocking to realize that Ore
gon, which for many years had
the fewest infant deaths per thou
sand population, has dropped to
30th place in the U.S.
Dr. Richard H. Wilcox, stale
health officer, says that the infant
mortality rate is one of the best
indicators of the general level of
public health in a state. He says
further that our decline in nation
al standing in this important area
is not thai Infant deaths have in
creased so much as it is that other
states have made progress in this
field while Oregon has remained
stationary.
It is not only In this area that
we have declined. In 1959, com
municable diseases totaled 77,000
reported cases. In the same year,
there was a big increase in vener
eal diseases. From the statistics
compiled by the State Board of
Health it is obvious that 1959 was
a sorrv vear for health in Oregon.
And this comes at a time when
medical progress has made tre
mendous advances. Our rates of
diseases per thousand population
should be decreasing not increas
ing. We recall that Dr. Harold Erick-
son, for many years state health I
officer, quit in a huff because ne
said Oregon was not supporting
adequate public health programs.
Certainly this most recent statistic
al release on infant mortality
should have a further explanation
as to its causes and possible rem
edy from the State Board of Health.
We would also expect that the
Oregon State Medical Society would
be interested in investigating the
causes of these sad figures which
Readers
Opinion
Ritzman Thanks
Baseball Fans
To The Editor:
Because 1 do not know personal
ly all who joined in honoring me
at the American Legion baseball
park last July 19. I would like to
use your newspaper to express my
appreciation. 1 would like to thank
everyone who contributed so gen
erously to the gilts and other hon
ors accorded me at Finlay Field.
Kudie Ritzman
U29 Brown Ave.
Roseburg, Ore.
JENKINS i
gle for more civil rights to be in
people
through their parlia
mem.
We could Doint out that the same
struggle went on in France where,
Carlyle tells us, a king of France
was once riding mrouga a vil
lage at the head of a train of his
courtiers. They passed a hovel
where a simple peasant was work
ing on the roof. To pro ride a
laugh, the king called one of his
crossbowmen. "Shoot me that var-
let, he commanded, ine cross
bowman did so. Carlyle relates that
the king and his courtiers, LAUGH
ING MEKKILY, rode on.
It was things such as that which
brought on the French Revolu
tion, during which heads rolled in
the streets of Pans like Dans on
a bowling green, and blood ran
in rivers down the gutters.
Such has been the battle for civil
rights. It has been the most signi
ficant battle in the history of the
world.
Rut
Down through the centuries the
battlers for civil rights have been
UTTERLY SINCERE. It is be
cause of their utter sincerity that
the battle for the common civil
rights of common ordinary men
has been so nearly won in what we
call the free world.
But
In both of these political conven
tions first the Democratic at
Los Angeles and now the Repub
lican at Chicago one could wish
there was MORE SINCERITY in
both parties on this subject of civil
rights, which has dominated the
deliberations of both.
There hasn't been much sincer
ity in either place. On both sides,
the battle has been whopped up by
politicians who are gunning basic
ally for large bodies of votes
based on racial prejudice.
The whole spectacle has been
rather tragic.
homes. Records in stores were de
stroyed, and a fine was ordered
for anyone teaching the banned
steps.
Sukarno stressed even more
that Indonesian folk dances were
the patriotic thing to do. 11c often
keeps Jakarta's diplomatic corps
going for two hours or more
elderly envoys and their wives
from both sides of th- Iron and
Bamboo curtains weaving hand in
hand about in an endless chain
to beat of torn toms and chants
from the Spice Islands. Sukarno
leads the way.
But few of Jakarta's city-bred
youth follow the presidential lead.
At first they went underground.
Teen-agers and college students
had cha-cha parties at private
homes, nenind drawn curtains
Foreigners with cha-cha records
became popular hosts.
Then came a bolder move. En
terprising band leaders took some
of the Indonesian songs Sukarno
likes so much and gave them a
Latin beat.
Now blaring jazz and Latin
music is far out into the open.
Comment
are a black mark on a state which
heretofore has been a leader in
public health. Perhaps our appro
priations have been too meager.
Dr. Erickson thought so. But also
it might be that we need education
al work in public health. There
has been a notable public apathy,
for instance, in the matter of polio
shots. In 1959. Oregon experienced
its worst polio year since 1955.
People know that there are shots
which will help safeguard us
against the dread disease but they
neglect to do anything about it.
This is also true in other areas
where there are known prevent
atives. We need some answers from the
board of health and from the state
medical society, the people best
qualified to let us know what needs
to be done to regain our position
as one of the nation's leaders in
public health.
Oregon Labor Heads
Now Favor Kennedy
PORTLAND (AP)-Two Oregon
labor officials once ardent Hum
phrey supporters have announced
their support for Sen. John F. Ken
nedy, the Democratic Presidential
candidate.
Mrs. Anne Chambers, secretary
of the Retail Clerks Union in Ore
gon City and second vice president
of the Oregon AFL CIO, and Gene
Heiss, international representative
of the Electrical Workers Union,
said they would back the Mas
sachusetts senator.
Both supported Sen. Hubert
Humphrey iD-Minn) for the Dem
ocratic nomination in the Oregon
primary in May.
Gordon Swopc. chairman of the
Oregon Labor for Kennedy Com
mittee, said he was pleased that
Heiss and Mrs. Chambers had
joined the Kennedy ranks.
Mrs. Chambers was executive
director of the Humphrey cam
paign in Oregon.
Korean Students Object
To American Cigarettes
SEOUL. South Korea (API-
Two hundred college students pa
raded through Seoul today, cam
paigning for national austerity
and against smoking of American
cigarettes. U S. tobacco is a tar
get of several student movements
who claim most of it in Korea il
of black market origin.
NLRB Director
Mixes Complaint
SEATTLE AP) Thomas P.
Graham, regional director of the
.National Labor Kelalioni Board,
laid Wednesday he has refused to!
issue a complaint sought Dy ln
American Newspaper Guild j
against two struck Portland news-
papers.
Ihe papers, me uregonian and.shakeup of the British Cabinet ,
Journal, have been struck since;
lereotypers walked off their jobs
several months ago. me papers
have continued to publish.
Ine Guild, in a letter to Graham
June 29, charged the two papers
with refusal to bargain in good
faith.
Graham said he sent his letter
declining to issue a complaint
Tuesday. He said the Guild would
have 10 days from the time of
receipt of the letter in which to
appeal to the General Counsel of
the NLRB in Washington.
NAACP Likes Demo
Rights Plank Best
CHICAGO (AP)-The National
Assn. for the Advancement of
Colored People today praised the
civil rights platform planks of
both political parties but said the
Democratic declaration is strong
er and more comprehensive than
the Republican.
Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive
secretary, said the Democratic
plank does not shrink from the
tough topics of a Federal Em
ployment Practices Commission
and a pledge to press legislation
giving the Justice Department
broad authority to use injunctive
powers to end discrimination in
aU fields.
Okanogan Forest Fire
Believed Controlled
OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) A
500-acre fire in the Okanogan
national roresi was reported
nearly under control Wednesday
morning. The blaze has been
ourning since late Monday.
Rangers said the fire had been
surrounded by a fire line, except
for a few hundred yards on the
north edge. The fire is located
aDout 1 miles northeast of Oa
nogan.
The fire claimed two lives Tues
day when a B25 crashed with a
drop of Iirefighting chemicals.
Killed were George Carey, 35,
Wenatchee, and J. C. Brehm, 28,
Bellevue.
Their bodies were to be brought
out Wednesday.
Soviet Scientist Seeks
Asylum In Finland
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) A
Soviet scientist attending a geo
physics and geodetics congress in
Helsinki asked Monday for politi
cal asylum in Finland. Today he
changed his mind and asked to he
sent home to the Soviet Union.
The name of the scientist was not
disclosed. Police turned him over
to the Soviet Embassy.
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Earl Of Home Gets
Selwyn Lloyd Post
LONDON' CAP) Prime Min-!
ister Harold Macmillan tonight 1
appointed Lord Home as Britain's .
,'oreign secretary to succeed Sel-;"
wyn Lloyd.
Naming of the 14th Earl of
Home, 47, highlighted the biggest
since Macmillan took over from
Sir Anthony Eden in 1957.
It is the first time in 20 years
that a foreign secretary has been
chosen from the House of Lords,
and the idea kicked up a storm in
the House of Commons even be
fore the appointment was made
public.
Conservatives as well as oppo
sition Laborites argued that such
an Important minister should be
in the House of Commons, where
he would be directly answerable
to elected legislators.
State Senator Lauds
Demo Party Platform
BEAVERTON (AP)-State Sen.
Monroe Sweetland believes the
1960 Democratic Party platform
has provided "leadership and in
novation" as opposed to past plat
forms which only sought votes.
In a speech prepared for de
livery to the Kiwanis Club here,
the Democratic candidate for sec
retary of state said the Republi
cans at their convention in Chi
cago were now trying to approxi
mate the Democratic platform.
Sweetland said an important fea
ture of the Democratic platform
was that it outlined means other
than raising taxes for financing
defense, education, medical care,
housing and farm programs.
Oregon To Get Share
Of Forest Road Funds
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oregon is going to get $4,545,904
for forest highways in fiscal 1962,
under an apportionment effective
Aug. 1.
Rep. Walter N'orblad (R-Orc)
reported from his Washington,
D. C, office that in making this
apportionment, the secretary of
Commerce had put Oregon in the
No. 2 spot in total funds to be
used for improvement of highways
in and adjacent to national forests.
The total allocation to all states,
ne said, was 3.1 million dollars.
Oregon's total was nearly 14 per
cent of this.
Gov. Hatfield To Speak
At Industry Banquet
ST. HELENS (AP)-Gov. Mark
Hatfield will be the main speaker
at the salute to industry banquet
here Aug. 3.
The banquet Is part of the Co
lumbia Festival of Progress which
opens next week.
Hatfield's appearance will he his
first speaking engagement follow
ing the Republican National Con
vention.' where-he nominated Rich
ard M. Nixon Wednesday for the
presidency.
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System Permits Early
License Applications
SALEM (AP) An electronic i
data processing system being in-
slalled tne s,a,e Motor Vehicle
Department will make it possible
remina uregon car owners 10
i renew license plates 30 days
fore expiration.
I Vera L. Hill, director of the de-
parimeni, saia me system win oeerce commission Wednesday.
in operation in September. No re
minders are sent now.
Military Spending
Controls Adopted
SALEM (AP) The state De
partment of Finance and Admin
istration has adopted rigid regula
tions to control spending by the
slate Military Department to im
prove its office facilities. Free
man Holmer, director of the de
partment, said today.
His action followed the Legis
lative Fiscal Committee's sharp
criticism of Maj. Gen. Alfred E.
Hinz. state adjutant general, for
spending abgut $39,000 to improve
his headquarters at the Portland
airbase.
Holmer said nothing can be done
about the spending of that money,
because it was spent before he
and the committee heard about it.
But, he added, steps have been
taken to make sure nothing like
that can happen again.
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Department
past year by the state Division of
Audits, a branch of the secretary
of state's office.
Harold Phillippe, deputy secre
tary of state, said no irregularities
have been discovered.
Nixon May Visit
Seattle Seafair
SEATTLE (AP) Vice President
Nixon mav visit Seattle during the
Seafair celebration week, the Se
attle Times said Wednesday.
The Times, in a dispatch from
the Republican National conven
tion in Chicago, said Nixon head
quarters had confirrhed reports
that such a visit was under con
sideration.
Greater Seattle Inc., which
sponsors the Seafair, said invi'a
tions had been extended to both
Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy,
the Democratic presidential nomi
nee, through their state campaign
committees.
Corvallis Postal Clerk
Jailed For Embezzlement
PORTLAND (AP) A former
Corvallis postal clerk, Charles S.
Bennett, Wednesday was sen
tenced to 30 months in federal
prison for postal embezzlement.
Bennett, a veteran of 20 years
in the postal service, was accused
of taking S9.000 by manipulating
a S19.000 postal order.
Bennett asked for leniency be
cause of his long service and his
family of five children.
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Freight Interests
Seek Lower Rates
WASHINGTON" (AP) Peti-
tions by Seattle and Tacoma,
wash , 'highway freight interests
for a lower rate structure man
be-:lne Portland. Ore.Vancouver,
I Wash., area were rejected by a
j 9.1 vote of the Interstate Com-
The Seattle-Tacoma interests
wanted the lower rates on busi
ness moving between the P u g e t
Sound area and so-called "north
ern territory points" in Eastern
Washington, Northern Idaho and
Montana.
Seattle-Tacoma and Portland
Vancouver are generally on the
same rate basis. The petitions
contended Seattle-Tacoma was en
titled to a differential in its favor
in relation to northern territory
because of the shorter distances
involved.
The case involves a five-year
investigation into complaints by
Seattle-Tacoma interests that the
Pacific Northwest motor carrier
rate structure unduly favors the
Columbia River basin ports.
Trucking interests have taken
the position that operations in and
out of Puget Sound are over moun
tainous terrain in contrast to the
more favorable water level routes
available on the approaches to
Portland and Vancouver.
The Seattle-Tacoma interests
argued that railroads had a rate
differential of the type they
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no justification for changing the
northern territory trucking
charges.
State Parks Division
Sets Recreation Study
SALEM (AP) The state Park!
and Recreation Division of the
Highway Commission is making
a $15,000 study of Oregon's park
and recreation needs, state High
way Engineer V. C. Williams said
today. .
The plan would be the basis
for making new policies, including
the development and financing of
park areas.
The study also will cover rec
reational opportunities on federal
lands, and the responsibility of
state, county and federal agencies
in financing recreational areas.
Traffic Banned
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (API
Police todav banned automobile
travel in front of the summer
home of Sen. John F. Kennedy to
prevent traffic accidents.
They said 3.00O cars a day were
passing the house as tourists at
tempted to get a glimpse of the
Democratic presidential nominee.
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