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EDITORIAL PAGE
4 The Newi-Review, Roseburg,
BEHIND THE 8-BALL
By Charlei V. Stanton
In a. lead article entitled, "Fatland Can Smile," the
Oregon Voter in its issue of Sept. 3 puts Douglas County sup
porters of Al Flegel, but disbelievers in the attempted steal
of 0 & C funds, in a tough spot, I fear.
The article appearing on the front page of the magazine,
which is accepted as "gospel" by a good many voters, tells
how former Sen. E. R. Fatland of Condon, when in the Leg
islature from 1935 through 1947, tried to get a slice of 0 & C
money for the have-not counties of which lie was one rep
resentative. The article goes on to slate that the Interim Committee
on Education probably will recommend that 12' ' per cent
of O & C funds given the 18 western Oregon counties be in
cluded to equalize distribution of school funds.
The recommendation is quite certain, the magazine
states, "as Douglas county's Representative. Flegel is will
ing to accept that sum ."
Agreed To Compromise
Many people who like Flegel personally, and who would
normally support his candidacy, as he seeks to advance from
representative to stale senator, may find themselves check
mated by the Voter's statement.
It is made to appear that Al is the voice of Douglas
County. Flegel is a member of the Interim Committee on
Education. The committee wanted to include 25 per cent
of 0 & C receipts in calculating the state equalization fund.
While some committee members piously assert that they're
"not taking any money out of the county," they are plan
ning to put an amount equal to the slice from the O & C
fund into the pot for general distribution, thereby giving
the have-not counties a very liberal share of money belong
ing to the 0 & C counties.
Personally, I believe the action would be unconstitu
tional. I don't believe the Legislature, a state body, has
the right to legislate how any county shall spend its money,
and inasmuch as O & C money is granted to the counties
and not to the stale, I don't believe a state body would have
the legal right to say how the money should be spent. But
that's beside the point.
The point is that Al Flcgel's position isn't the position
of the Douglas County Court. I doubt that it is the position
of the majority of people in Douglas County.
Flcgel's opinion is that a half loaf is better than no loaf
at all. He fears that a hassle in the Legislature would give
Congress a chance to revamp the whole O & C program
and cut back very drastically on the amount of money grant
ed to the counties. Consequently he has expressed himself
as willing to compromise as a
ble.
Fight Demanded '
But if Flegel is elected to the office he seeks, he will
he on record as favoring a cut into the fund a cut which
the County Court, representing the people of the county,
will vigorously oppose.
Because Douglas County gels one-fourth of the 0 Si C
fund, it, of course, is by far the most endangered by the
committee's proposal. The county court, and many others,
would rather fight for their rights and for a principle, even
if it means an eventual loss, than to compromise with an
arbitrary demand.
The declaration by the Oregon Voter would make it ap
pear that the election of Flrgel is tantamount to approval
; of the raid on the O & C fund.
That plainly isn't the case.
Flegel has served as a legislator, and while many dis-
agree with some of his policies, he is a fine personality and
' a hard worker. His opinion concerning 0 & C money is
hut one factor.
He has an able opponent, Elton Jackson, at the forth
coming election. The race should be fought on the qualifi
cations of the two men, I feel. But Flegel has been put
behind the 8-ball, it would seem, as his reelection would
be considered public approval of the division of the 0 & C
fund, in view of what the Oregon Voter says.
The magazine concludes its article by saying:
Then, if the 0 t C proposal succeeds we may look for a
movement to equalise the distribution of get money to the counties,
taking Into eccount thet O A C counties now receive O A C funds
for certain highways and roads and the proposal may be made that
the IV per cent of highway funds that go back to all counties
be equalised by deducting 0 & C highway funds before making
the tax allocation ts those counties.
Hal Boyle
Time Faster For
When Teenager
NEW YORK (API-Things a
columnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
Husbands often complain their
wives get upset over trifles, and
this may be the medical reason:
High blood pressure affects more
than twice as many women as
men.
If you were born in Sentembor.
your birthstone is the sapphire, a
symbol of truth, constancy sin
cerity and good luck. The sap
phire once was believed to cure
insanity and protect the wearer
from poisons. ,
Time really dors go faster as
you grow older. Studies show time
passes five times as swiftly for
a man of 65 as for a teen ager,
except when the man of 65 is
wailing for the teenager to get
olf the telephone.
The good old days: Postage was
high back in 1880. It rost six cents
lo send a one. sheet letter 60
miles. On the other hand, vou
could buy a full course dinner for
12 cents.
Science Is mushrooming at such
a rate that the world's knowledge
now doubles every nine vears.
And 90 per cent of all the trained
scientists who ever lived are alive
right now.
Our quotable notables: "When
man knows how to live danger
ously, be i not afraid lo die."
savs Sunreme Court Jnslir Wit.
liam O. Douglas. "When he is not
afraid In die, he is, strangely,
free to live."
Ore. Mon Sept. 12, 1960
means or preventing a squab
' ,
Aged Except
Uses Telephone
Which are smarter, cats or
dogs? They are rated about equal
in intelligence, but cats score bet
ter on tests involving vision be
cause they have better eyesight
than dogs.
Some dogs can understand up
to 350 words, llv rat responds to
I only three words: here, kilty and
scat!
Memo to Harry S. Truman: Did
you know that if Richard Millions
NiNon is elected, we'll have an
other piano player in the White
House!
Apt definitions: Robert Q. Lew
is defines a bachelor as a man
who ran eat at home any night
he pleases.
The population explosion: In
1900 the world had 10 cities with
a million or more population. Now
there are 61 such cities.
Odd superstitution: In the Brit
lsh Isles it was once thought a
bride and bridegroom could stave
off unhappiness for a year if they
shared a piece of bacon after the
wedding ceremony.
Leprosy, a disease now known
to be less contagious than tuber
culosis, still afflicts 12 million peo
ple throughout the world. In the
Middle Ages its victims were cast
out of society with these dread
words: "Dead to the world hence
forth, now place your hope in
God."
It was Martial who ohserved,
"The good man prolongs his life;
to he able In eninv one'a past ufe
I Is to live twice."
In The Day's News
.By FRANK
From Leopoldville in Africa:
A reported invasion of Katanga
province by Premier Patrice Lu
mumba's troops confronted t h e
United Nations today with ITS
BIGGEST CHALLENGE SINCE
IT BEGAN POLICING THE CON
GO. With the treat of a full scale
civil war hanging over the steam
ing African nation, Lumum
ba, strengthened by the support
of his Congolese parliament, de
manded that United Nations give
up control of airports and the leo
poldville radio station or PULL
ITS 16.000 TROOPS OUT OF THE
COUNTRY (thus permitting Russia
and her stooge Lumumba to take
over.)
What is the challenge?
It is this:
The United Nations is going to
have to choose whether it will per
mit Lumumba, as communism's
stooge, to take over all of Central
Africa or whether it will say to
Russia (and maybe Communist
China) YOU CAN'T 110 THAT.
If jou try it, WE'LL FIGHT!
In other words
The United Nations is facing
another Korea.
It s just that flat.
Who is Lumumba?
The London Times described him
the other day in these words: "Mr.
Lumumba's final accession to pow
er (in the Congo) would not only
face the world with one more un
predictable and virtually MANIA
CAL national leader but also with
one who is clearly becoming a
communist puppet."
I hat is to say:
Lumumba is another Castro.
Both are communist puppets
Both are playing the communist
game.
James Marlow
Khru's Visits Take On Air
Of Real Estate Prospector
WASHINGTON (AP) The
American visits of Premier Nikita
Khrushchev are taking on the air
of a man looking over some valu
able properly he hopes to acquire.
When he first came here a year
ago, he brought his own personal
family along. This time he's bring
ing his Communist relatives, the
top leaders of the Iron Curtain
countries.
The mere thought of his pres
ence seems to have a depressing
effort. The last time he came, the
stock market went down. At the
news of his second coming, it
dipped again.
The last lime the American gov
ernment couldn't have been more
cordial if it had been a real estate
agent. It didn't put up a "for sale"
sign but it did hold open house so
he could wander around.
This time the Slate Department
is making it clear the United
Slates is a restricted neighborhood
where the residents have signed
a covenant against letting Com
munists in.
Over , the weekend the depart
ment said Khrushchev won't be
Edith Nourse Rogers,
Congress Veteran, Dies
BOSTON (AP)-New England's
first woman congressman, Edith
Nourse Rogers, It-Mass., died to
day after an illness of three
weeks which she insisted be kept
secret. She was 79.
She had served 3S years in the
House of Representatives.
Mrs. lingers wenl to Congress
first at the age of 44 to succeed
her husbnnd, John Jacob Rogers
who died in his sixth term.
At that time she said she would
stay in Washington no more than
a few years, but she was re-elected
time and again.
She was to have been unopposed
for renomination in next Tues
day's Republican primary.
The Cartoonist Says:
'"MoveO
JINKINS i
What is the communist game?
let's do a little supposing. Sup
pose United Nation says to Lu
mumba, communism a maniacal
stooge in Alrica: "YOU CAN'T DO
THAT. You can't take over all of
Central Africa. If you try it, we'll
fight."
That, presumably, would mean
another Korean-type war in Afri
ca. let's do some more supposing.
Suppose Castro sets brasher and
brasher. Suppose he invited in Rus
sian troops and-or Russian mis
siles and Russian warplanes. Or
attacks the U.S. naval base al
Guantanamo in Cuba. Or does
something else that will compel
in sell-defense or in compli
ance with our Monroe Doctrine,
to FIGHT HIM.
That would mean another Korean-type
war in the Caribbean.
In that event
That is to say, in the event of
two Korean-type wars at the same
time
Who will do the bulk of fighting?
Who will do the bulk of the pay
ing? You know who. It will be the
old gentleman with the chin whis
ker. In conclusion:
All of that fighting a United
Nations war in AXnca and a war
of our own in the Western Hemi-
shpere, both at the same time
would spread us pretty thin.
Spreading us thin all over the
world would be just what Russia
would want.
This African business is getting
serious. Settling it without war is
indeed going to call for all the
statesmanship United Nations can
muster.
permitted any American traveling
at all. In fact, he 11 be so limited
he can t leave Manhattan Island
even to visit Ihe Soviet lodge on
Long island.
It was done sweetly enough. The
department said in effect it was
making all America off-limits to
him for his own safety.
Khrushchev shouldn t have any
trouble interpreting this as a niece
of diplomatic ut-ior-lat for the
way ha wrecked the summit meet'
ing, insulted President Eisenhow
er, called olf his Russian trio, and
exploited the UZ spy plane epi
sode. From a diplomatic view the
State Department's timing was
practically exquisite.
if it had announced such stern
restrictions on Khrushchev before
he embarked for this country, he
might have exploded before a
hastily summoned mass audience
in Moscow and called off his trip.
Instead, it waited until Khrush
chev and his Communist compan
ions were all boxed-in and out at
sea in the ship that is bringing
them here Sept. 19. one day before
the United Nations General As
sembly opens.
He can't grab a microphone In
Ihe middle of the Baltic or the
Atlantic. If he has a temper-tantrum
no one except his shipmates
will have to put up with it. If he
wants to turn around and go home,
it probably won't bother the de
partment. Our diplomats could say: But
you made President Eisenhower
go home, after traveling all the
way to Paris for nothing, when
you called olf the summit meeting.
So why feel so bad about it?
More likely the department's ac
tion will probably just raise
the temperature in Khrushchev's
built-in furnace.
He has been expected to attack
Ihe United Stales within its own
borders on Ihe U.N. forum in New
York anyway. So anything he adds
to it out of pique will be just for
extra.
THI USES OF GOVERNMENT
Medferd Mail-Tribune
What is government?
Is it a necessary evil, to be tol
erated uneasily, feared, and kept
as small as possible?
Or is it, as one writer put u
recently, "a useful instrument by
which, electea representatives can
wisely rnintge the public's busi
ness?" This Question is pretty basic, ana
probably more than any other is
the dividing line between the "lib
eral" and the "conservative."
We hesitate to use those words,
for they are loaded with many dif
ferent meanings whatever mean
ings the user (or listener) wishes
to place on them.
In this regard, they are like a
lot of other semantically-charged
words words which have come
to have connotations to som-j peo
ple, and connotations which are
not in the dictionary.
"Socialism is such a word.
And it is awfully easy for a "con
servative" to throw charges of
socialism" at those who believe
that government IS a "useiul in
strument" for the management of
the public's business.
socialism, ny aeuniiion, is me
public ownership of the means of
production and distribution.
There may be a few people left
who still advocate such a theory
for employment in the United
States, but they are indeed few and
far between.
So, when the conservative uses
the word to describe the political
philosophy of those who believe
that government is a useful tool,
and should be used as sucn, mey
are both inaccurate and mislead
ing. They are also a little less than
completely honest.
Loss Of Freedom
The conservative." in his fear
of government as such, cites such
horrible examples as Nazi Ger
many, Soviet Russia, and oincr to
talitarian governments.
True these governments were
and are horrible examples. But to
say that all government is evil be
cause of these examples is a little
like saying that all men are crim-
innls hecause a few men are.
Democracy is an experiment in
ffnvernment. and a voung one at
mat, judged in the whole context of
history. We cannot yet say that it
is an unqualified success. But we
should not cut ourselves ou irom
the hope of success by the fears
of those who oppose change simply
because it is change.
The conservative, in arguing
against current liberal and experi
mental trends in government, will
unfailingly cite the "loss of free
dom" which we have suffered in
recent years, specifically since the
beginning of the New Deal.
All riRht. That's fair enough.
But it's also fair enough to ask
for examples of what freedoms
we have lost as a result of the
Reader
Opinions.
Appling Gets Praise
For Impartiality
To The Editor:
There is one thing you can say
for Secretary of State Howell Ap
pling he doesn't care which poli
tical party button you wear when
it comes time to say "no."
According to the newspapers, he
turned down Democrat John Ken
nedy in the orimarv and now Re
publican Elmo Smith when he
didn't think they were complying
with the law. I venture lo say that
by now both political parties know
that when Appling says 5:00 p.m.
on August 29, he doesn't mean a
day or two later.
I say more power to a man who
will enforce the laws impartially,
even when it hurts his friends.
Mrs. Martha E. Bishop
1039D S.W. Cook Lane
Tigard, Oregon
idstorial
growth of the "welfare state."
One "freedom" which all will
agree has been lost is the ability
to spend ALL of our money just
as we'd like. A pretty sizeable
chunk of it is taken by taxes.
But aside from paymg the bill
for services of government (the
biggest of which is the national
defense, by the way), just what
ireeooms nave been lost to us?
The freedom to cheat your neigh
bor through shady stock market
manipulations?
The freedom to starve to death
in old age?
The freedom to live in sub-standard
housing?
The freedom to go hungry when
you lose your job?
The freedom to grow up without
a decent education?
If these are the "freedoms"
which have been lost, good rid
dance! And if it is other freedoms which
the complainers are sorry to have
lost, what are they?
The beauty of alleging the "loss
of freedom" is that -you seldom
have to be specific. And we're
still waiting to hear what they are.
To the contrary, in our view true
freedom has advanced right along
with the expansion of the state's
attention to the welfare of its citi
zens. Certainly the elderly couple, now
managing to "get by" on social se
curity, are far freer today than
they would have been 25 years ago
when they had no choice but to
starve or accept alms.
The same is true in a dozen oth
er fields.
When the instrumentality of gov
ernment is used to protect its peo
ple from crime, from disease,
from destitution, from chicanery,
from foreign enemies, it is fulfill
ing its highest purpose.
And, up to this point, the Amer
ican form of government has been
able to make significant advances
in all these fields without damage
to the basic, individual freedom of
men.
What's so wrong about that?
And what freedom have you lost,
lately? E. A.
VIRTUES THE MODERN WAY
Coos Bay World
Officials of both Prudential
Insurance Co. and Georgia-Pacific
Corn, have suffered some public
discomfiture over the Wall Street
Journal s disclosure that G. P. s
subsidiary. Coos Bay Timber Co.,1
in part financed a personal tax
loophole bonanza for Prudential's
President Carrol shanks, rne
sticker came in the fact that
Prudential finances much of G
P's long term debt and it looked
like the debtor was doing the
debt-holder an unusual service.
Yet there was nothing illegal;
about the deal, nor was any il
legality alleged by the Wall Street
Journal. In fact, it appears that
the transaction was not unusual
either. At any rate it is a sterling
: example of how money is made,
; legally, in today's expense account
and capital gains-jungle corpo
rate life. .
1 But it was embarrassing enough
' for Shanks that he stated he would
never again have private dealings
with a firm with which Prudential
is doing business.
Most people associate the giant
insurance company with the Solid
Virtues and none of the quick
monkey business which charac
terizes the way the rest of us
work and operate. But this is not
the case.
Shanks wanted a deal to help
escape the murderous taxes on his
huge salary. So guided by G-P's
Board Chairman Owen Cheatham
ihe borrowed 88,592,000 for one day
from the Bank of America. With
this he bought 13.000 acres of
Oregon land and timber from Tim
ber Conservation Co. He then turn
ed around and sold the land, not
the timber, to Coos Bay Timber
Co. for S4 4 million. He then put
up $100,000 of his own money and
borrowed another $3.9 million from
Bank of America on a five-year
note. This money he used to pay
off the one-day loan. Coos Bay
Timber Co. then contracted with
Shanks to log the land at a rate
sufficient to pay off the five-year
loan in that period of time. The
Wall street Journal says tne deal
will save Shanks $97,000 a year
in taxes through capital gains and
write offs. and that he'll get his
$100,000 back in the bargain. The
whole transaction required four
hours.
The deal was not novel and it
gave Georgia-Pacific many advan
tages in that it does not tie tip
capital in timber and it runs no
fire or other risks on standing
timber.
What stirred the financial com
munity was the possible conflicts
of interest this represented for
Prudential's President Shanks in
the future. Insurance company
presidents are not generally re
garded as having clay feet. The
fact that they do should be no
surprise, but somehow it was and
is.
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PARKS PAYfG OFF ,
Albany Democrat-Herald
That Oregon isn't standing still)
in administering its state park pro-,
gram is apparent from the altrac- j
lively illustrated annual report of:
Oregon State Parks and Recrea-.
tion division. j
The report reveals that during
1959 $1,027,718.90 was spent in mak-1
ing aurvevs for parks, construction
of camp facilities, roads and car
parking areas and their improve
ment, and acquisition of equip
ment. Operation costs were $953,
545.16, making a total program in
vestment of $1,981,264.06.
Not all of this, however, was net.
Receipts totaled $225,148.34, of
which $181,026.51 was paid by over
night campers, and to some extent,
by lessees of property or facilities.
That the enterprise is bearing
fruit is apparent from the record of
use. Estimated number of persons
visiting the parks was 10,290.061
and overnight campers totaled 517,
061. These plus overnight use by
organized groups indicate a total
patronage of 10,835,665 persons. The
gain in day use was 20.977 over
that in 1959 and overnight camp
ing increased by 101,877 persons,
a 20 per cent increase.
Most popular overnight camping
sites were, in the order named,
Jessie M. Honeyman, Fort Ste
vens and Cape Lookout, all on the
coast, but use of inland parks is
gaining. As before Yaquina Bay
park at Newport leads in total of
day visitors, followed by Fort Ste
vens and Sunset Bay, in Coos
county.
Out of slate cars totaled 56 per
cent of all counted. This is signifi
cant, because occupants of those
cars were mostly tourists who tar
ried long enough in the state to
come. Prevailing estimates are
that every out of state visitor
spends, on Ihe average, about $10
a day for bare necessities food
add considerably to the state's in-
and motor vehicle gas and oil.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY
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That Oregon needs increased di
versification of manufacturing and
job opportunities in general to off
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Starting Monday, Sept. 26
set the ups and downs of the lum
ber trade, is expressed by Senator
Wavne Morse in a letter to Mrs.
Theodore H. Turner of 419 SW H
St.
Having been given a copy of an
editorial bemoaning a slack period
in the plywood industry and the
importation of Japanese plywood,
the senator writes Mrs. Turner
that multi purpose dams are one
of the things that would help our
economic life because they provide
recreation of inexpensive power.
Morse sees little relief to the lum
ber industry through a clamp on
imports as he points out that most
of the plvwood brought in from
Japan as well as the Philip
pines is mahogany which isn't
necessarilv a competitor with Doug
las fir. However, if importation of
such plywood was drastically re
stricted the trade would turn to
even the less decorative Douglas
fir plywoods. But, be that as it
may. the fact remains in Morse's
opinion (and we're incUned to go .
along with that, too) that pas
sage of measures to stimulate
building would create the needed
demand for the supply which is
almost unlimited.
It would seem that right here, in
the heart of Josephine, Jackson
and Douglas county areas, our log
ging and raw lumber and plywood
industry could become more diver
sified; that mills could be establish
ed to make things on the scene
uhere the raw materials are
brought in. Train and truckloads of
plvwood, and lumber move out of
there to other states, even back
east, where many finished items in
home building, furnishings and oth
er things that stimulate our econ
omy are made. Why not keep the
raw material here and make from
it the finished product in many in
stances? Mavbe it would he healthy for
Grants Pass and environs to have
a bit more smoke from mills, even
stench from them.
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